Ep. 604 - Public Health Experts Destroyed Their Own Credibility And Will Never Get It Back
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Public health experts are calling for more lockdowns, while blaming the public for not listening to them and causing a new surge in coronavirus cases. We ll talk about that, plus 5 other headlines including a nurse going on CNN to badmouth her own dying patients, and our daily cancellation.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, public health experts are calling for more lockdowns while blaming the
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public for not listening to them and causing a new surge in coronavirus cases. But maybe these
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people should consider that we aren't listening to them because they demolished their own
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credibility by supporting the BLM riots in the midst of the pandemic. We'll talk about that.
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Also, five headlines, including a nurse going on CNN to badmouth her own dying patients.
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And our daily cancellation, we will, of course, discuss Harry Styles in a dress. You know,
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we have to talk about that on this show. All that coming up. But first, you know,
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podcasts. All right. The lockdown plague is sweeping our country yet again with more and more states
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reverting back to the policies that didn't work the first time. The old cliche about the definition
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of insanity seems to apply here. Of course, the lockdown policies never fully went away in most
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places in the first place, but now they're being ramped up and doubled down on, especially with the
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holiday season upon us. And as we're told, a new surge in cases, Joe Biden was asked yesterday what
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Americans should do about Thanksgiving. And he echoed the entirely arbitrary 10 person limit, a limit that
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somehow remains the same for all dwellings, regardless of size. So here's what Biden had to say.
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And just, uh, following up on that, especially with many states reporting new highs in terms of
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the daily number of cases and a lot of public health officials sounding the alarm over the
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holidays. Would you, what is your message to people who are considering, for example, getting
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together with their families and others for Thanksgiving? Would you consider, would you
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urge people to reconsider their plans? Well, here's what I'd do. Let me tell you what the health
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experts have said to me. Um, and it's not because I'm unique and president elect, it's because my
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family, they strongly urge that if in fact, uh, we're going to have Thanksgiving with anyone that
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we limited to a maximum, maximum, they suggest five people, maximum, 10 people socially distanced
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wearing masks and people who have quarantined. So Jill and I spent this morning, like many of you
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trying to figure out what are we going to do for Thanksgiving? How are we going to do it? And we've
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narrowed down which family members and that they were tested recently tested in 24 hours.
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Now, admittedly, it does seem fun to, you know, sit down with a list and decide which of your in-laws
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are getting voted off the island. But, you know, we don't personally plan on doing any such thing in
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our house. Joe Biden says the experts recommend it, the public health experts so-called. But there's a
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problem with the public health experts and Andrew Cuomo, actually, in a recent speech over the weekend
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The key is to be strong and secure enough to admit your mistakes and admit your shortcomings. Don't
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get defensive. Denying the mistake only assures repeating the mistake. We have made mistakes during
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COVID. I wrote a book on the lessons to be learned from the COVID crisis. I think of COVID as low tide
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for America. Do you know how when you stand on the beach and you look out at the water and the tide
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is high and all you see is the surface of the water and the waves and everything looks nice and
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beautiful. But you stand at the same point at low tide when the water goes out and the sea bottom is
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revealed and you see rocks and you see debris and you see the ugliness that the water was covering.
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COVID was low tide in America and it showed us the ugliness and flaws deep down in our society.
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Now, I have to say I have some conceptual problems with the low tide analogy there that he keeps going
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back to. I'm not sure if I'd call a beach at low tide ugly. Maybe in New York it is because you can
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see more of the trash in the sand. So I think this is one of those things we have to say, speak for
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yourself, Cuomo, and New York. But in any case, Cuomo talks about admitting your mistakes. And he's
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right. That is important. You can't have credibility if you won't admit your mistakes. The problem is that
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Cuomo exempts himself from that criticism. The mistake, for example, of sending infected patients into
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nursing homes, killing thousands of elderly people. That's a huge mistake, but it's not a mistake that
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he's willing to admit or apologize for. So when he says admit your mistakes, he means Trump. Trump
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should admit his mistakes. Doesn't mean himself. And he also doesn't mean the so-called public health
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experts. But the public health experts who are, you know, we're supposed to listen to now as they push
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for lockdowns yet again, have never admitted any mistakes, have never apologized for what they got wrong.
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And I don't just mean the conflicted messaging on masks and other measures or the fact that we're having a
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second wave at all, even after following their guidelines in the first place. It seems that the
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recommendations of public health experts are sort of unfalsifiable because if we follow what they have to say
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and the problem goes away, then it proves they were right. But if we follow it and the problem gets worse, it
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also proves somehow that they were right. They can't be wrong, which is a good sign that maybe
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they are. But they've settled on who is to blame. And it isn't them. It's you. This is all your fault,
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not theirs. Here is public health expert Dr. Jeremy Faust on Twitter a couple days ago. He says,
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scientists and medical experts are not ruining Thanksgiving. Ignoring us is what achieved that.
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And Ellie Murray, another so-called expert, equally smug, says, experts three months ago,
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if you want to have a semi-normal Thanksgiving, follow these simple rules. Public, nah, seems like
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a hassle. Experts now, in-person Thanksgiving is probably not a good idea. Public, what? How could
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you let it get this bad? And this is the message. It's your fault, you dumb rubes, you conspiracy
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theorists, you science-denying hicks. If you had only listened to us, everything would be okay now.
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We'd be living in a paradise. Of course, the issue here is that most people did listen. There were
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lockdowns across the country. Still, there are heavy restrictions in most places. Most people wear
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masks. And I say that anecdotally from what I've noticed, and also according to the polls, most people
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wear them. People did listen to the recommendations and the orders. If it didn't work, maybe that's because
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there was something wrong with the recommendations and the orders. But there's a bigger problem here,
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I think. You know, it's one thing to simply be wrong, especially when dealing with a novel virus.
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It's one thing to adjust to new facts as they come in. Okay, you know, that's understandable.
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It's quite another thing to demonstrate dishonesty. And as a public health official, to reveal yourself
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to be concerned about politics over health. Now, you'd be a fool if you stopped listening to your
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doctor forever because he was wrong about one thing. But you'd also be a fool if you still
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listen to your doctor, even after he's made it obvious that he's dishonest and doesn't really
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care that much about your health. Fallible people can still be trusted. If they couldn't,
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we couldn't trust anybody. But dishonest people cannot be trusted, obviously. Many of the people
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who want us to trust them about COVID and lockdowns fall into that latter category of being dishonest.
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Now, as you may recall, during the summer, pandemic still raging. Many businesses closed down while,
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you know, others dealt with strict capacity limits and other restrictions. At that point,
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thousands of BLM rioters swarmed cities across the country for weeks and weeks on end, mass gatherings
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nationwide. Gatherings that involved, if you remember, lots of shouting and screaming and chanting,
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often done in close quarters or directly in the face of passersby. If going to church is dangerous,
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eating in a restaurant is dangerous, going to the movies is dangerous, visiting your mother on
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Thanksgiving is dangerous, then there is no way that gathering in an unruly mob of 5,000 people
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could possibly be safe. Now, we could debate where on the scale of dangerous to rate it, but it can't be
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actually safe, especially when outdoor protests had already been condemned by public health experts
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back when anti-lockdown activists were participating in them. And yet these same so-called experts
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supported the BLM riots. Remember that 1,200 epidemiologists and disease specialists and other supposed
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experts published a letter during the height of the riots back in, I think it was June, condoning them,
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encouraging them on the absurd basis that white supremacy is a bigger threat than COVID.
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And so it's okay to risk getting COVID in order to combat white supremacy by looting a CVS.
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The letter didn't say that exactly, but that was the gist. In fact, it's worse than that. The signers
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of the letter admitted that there will be more infections because of the protests. They said,
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quote, prepare for an increased number of infections in the days following a protest,
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provide increased access to testing and care for people in the affected communities,
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especially when they or their family members put themselves at risk by attending the protests.
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But this was in the context of encouraging and celebrating the protests. They admitted that
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people are going to get infected. In fact, both of the experts mentioned a moment ago who are
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lecturing the public for not listening to them expressed at the time, at least tentative approval
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of the BLM riots. And so if you're in the public health industry and you're wondering why no one takes
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you seriously now, and then people aren't listening while you call for more lockdowns, this is it.
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You torched your own credibility. You tied it to a stake, set it on fire and danced around the flame.
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Either mass gatherings are not as dangerous as you claim, and that's why you supported the BLM riots,
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or they are as dangerous as you claim, yet you were willing to support such dangerous activities
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for political reasons or perhaps out of sheer moral cowardice. Whatever the case, dishonest cowards
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have no right to expect to be taken seriously. And whether you expect it or not, we don't take
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you seriously. We never will again. And you have only yourself to blame for that. Let's get to our five
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headlines. So a South Dakota ER nurse was on CNN last night making some unflattering claims about her
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dying patients. Let's listen to some of that. Even now, the hospital is being overrun with COVID
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patients. They come in, they're horribly ill, they're gasping for breath, and yet they don't
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believe they have COVID? Yeah, I think the hardest thing to watch is that people are still looking
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for something else, and they want a magic answer, and they don't want to believe that COVID is real.
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And the reason I tweeted what I did is it wasn't one particular patient. It's just a culmination of
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so many people. And their last dying words are, this can't be happening. It's not real. And when they
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should be spending time FaceTiming their families, they're filled with anger and hatred. And it just
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made me really sad the other night. And I just can't believe that those are going to be their last
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thoughts and words. Anger and hatred towards you?
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You know, I think it's just a belief that it's not real. And nursing happens to be on the receiving
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end of that. And that's okay. We can take that. That's what you're there for. It's just in the
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bigger picture when you try to reason with people of, can I call your family, your kids, your wife,
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your friend, your brother, and they say, no, because I'm going to be fine. And you're watching
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their oxygen levels, you know, maxed out on what we call vapotherm at 100%, and their oxygen level
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might be 75. That's not really that compatible with life. And we know where that's going to head.
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And it just makes you sad and mad and frustrated. And then you know that you're just going to come
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back and do it all over again. Now, I don't know if I really buy everything that she just said there,
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to be perfectly honest with you. And this interview went on for like five or six minutes. And I don't
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know if I buy everything that she said there. But either way, and I rarely call for people to be
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fired. But I would say that this woman should be fired. Because if you're an ER nurse, and you're
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going and bad mouthing your dying patients on CNN, there is no excuse for that. I mean, how would
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you if you're in South Dakota, and you have to go to the hospital for whatever reason, and this woman
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walks in? How are you going to feel about that? You know, am I going to be thinking, am I going to be
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someone that she talks about on CNN for her next CNN hit? So that's a problem. Also,
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you know, what she's talking about? And notice that the anchor like this, this smug,
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half smile on her face, we're talking about people dying. And she's just got this, this,
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this smug smile, like, what idiots? These are dying people. But the other thing is,
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what she's talking about, you know, if we trust everything that she's saying, let's just for the
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sake of argument, let's say that that's all true. She's talking about people who are in denial,
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right, about the fact that they're dying. Well, that's, that's common. And I'm not an ER nurse,
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and I haven't been around a lot of dying people. But I have talked, I have, I have nurses in my
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family. This is a question I've actually asked them about, you know, not, not, not dealing, not
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specifically about COVID, but in general, you're dealing with someone who's in their final stages of
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life. And what is that, what is that like to, to, to be around that? And what I've been told is that
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this is a pretty common thing. And it's not surprising to hear that it is. It's pretty
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common that people are in denial. People don't like to face the reality of what's happening.
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It doesn't matter if they're dying of COVID or whatever, the cancer does, whatever it is.
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People often are in denial about it, or they're, they're hoping to the very last moment that
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a miracle will happen. Sometimes it does a lot of, most of the time it doesn't though.
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That's why we call it a miracle. So that's a pretty common thing, I would think. And I would think
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she's been around that before. Yeah. Now here she is to make a point about COVID insulting these
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people on CNN. I just, it's absolutely despicable. Um, and get ready. You know, we thought we were
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past this. So we saw a lot of this kind of thing, these nurses on CNN and MSNBC doing this kind of
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thing, bringing attention to themselves, making dubious claims, um, revealing a real contempt for
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their own patients. So we saw a lot of that back in like May and June. I think we're going to still
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out. No, June's when the BLM riots started. So we, after that, at that point, that's when we stopped
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hearing about it, but April and May, we saw a lot of it. That's going to start up again, which also
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means, and I know now you're thinking, Oh God, does that mean that the dancing is going to start again
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too? I think it is. There's going to be a second wave of dancing nurses. That's the thing I'm really
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terrified of right now. Okay. Number, uh, number two, that the student debt cancellation idea was
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trending online yesterday. I think because of this story, here's CNBC's report, uh, says in a recent
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interview, Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer suggested that president elect Joe Biden, uh,
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should issue significant student loan forgiveness through an executive order describing a possible
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FDR style agenda, uh, during Biden's first 100 days. He said, uh, Schumer said, I have a proposal
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with Elizabeth Warren that the first $50,000 of debt be vanquished, vanquished, vanquished the debt.
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And one way to vanquish debt is to pay it back. I mean, you did sign on the dotted line after all.
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And, uh, we believe that Joe Biden can do that with the pen as opposed to legislation. So you can just
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sign something and get rid of $50,000 of debt. If you have student loan debt, that's gotta be nice.
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Schumer also mentioned policies to address climate change, wealth inequality, immigration reform,
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criminal justice reform. Uh, it's a big, bold agenda. He said, my job is to get as much of that
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passed to get the votes for it, which obviously is not something I can snap my fingers and do.
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Well, he can't snap his fingers and do that, but he can, but Joe Biden can apparently snap his fingers
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and make $50,000 of debt go away, which, which makes you wonder, well, if he could do that with
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student loan debt, what about my mortgage? Uh, what about a car loan payment? Can you do that for us
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too? See, that's, that's one of the many problems with the student debt cancellation idea is that this
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is just one form of debt that people are dealing with. I don't, I don't, I don't really see why this
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should be the focus. You know, if, if you want to help people financially by getting rid of debt,
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you can just make, make the mortgages go away. But here's, here's my real problem with the, with the,
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um, whole student loan cancellation idea. Well, many problems with it, but here's one of them
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that the people who are calling for this, you know, they would respond to what I just said a second
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ago about how, well, you signed on the dotted line. I mean, how can you be a victim of a, an agreement
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that you entered into willingly? And their response would be, well, these kids were taken
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advantage of. This was predatory. Um, you know, these were, these were, these were kids basically.
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I mean, they might, might've been 18 years old, but they're just out of high school and they don't
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understand what they're doing. And they've been lied to. They've been given false hopes and false ideas
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about what the future holds and how easy it's going to be to pay all this back. And they don't really
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understand that they're going to be paying this for two decades or what that means for them
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financially. And so they're, they're entering into this because they think they have no choice.
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And the thing is, I agree. That's, that's true. I'm, I'm very sympathetic to that. I do think it's
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predatory and I do think they're being taken advantage of. And I do think it's a scam.
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And I do think that a lot of these kids are agreeing to this, not really understanding what
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they're doing and they're agreeing to it. They're paying exorbitant amounts of money for an education
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that simply is just not worth it, not worth that kind of money. But the problem is, so I can agree
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with that, but that means we need to be having a conversation about the university system
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fundamentally. And the people calling for loan cancellation, they don't want to talk about that.
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So what they really want to do is they, they, they have, they have identified the beast,
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which is the university system taking advantage of these kids.
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But rather than slay the beast, they want to keep feeding the beast.
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And so I just, I can't take it seriously until we're going to have a conversation about the whole,
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the whole absurd idea that education should be this expensive in the first place.
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And also that every single person in the country needs to have, what, 16 years of formal education
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before they can get started living an adult life. It's ridiculous. It's absolutely ludicrous.
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And until we're, we're, we're ready to talk about that, um, this situation is not going to get any
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better. You, you make, you snap your fingers and make the loans go away.
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Okay. That's not going to cause the universities to charge less for tuition. If anything, it's going
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to have the opposite effect. Okay. Number three, uh, I want to share this with you, a tweet from
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Kamala Harris. It's just, it's utterly terrifying, but she says, know that Joe Biden and I will wake up
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every single day thinking about you and your families.
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This is exactly the problem. This is what the left doesn't understand. I don't, we don't want
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that. I mean, I very much doubt it. First of all, I don't, I don't really believe it. First of all,
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I don't, I don't believe that you're waking up every morning thinking about, uh, what can I do for
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the American people today? But even if you are, that's not what we want. We don't want you waking up
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every day thinking about what you can do for us. We want basically to be left alone as much as
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possible. That's what most Americans want. Um, all right. My producer sent me this, something here
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from pink news, the LGBT rag. So we'll see how far we can get through this. Um, it says
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new call of duty gives players proper non-binary option and the most toxic of gamers are reacting
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exactly as you'd expect. The article says, are you non-binary? Have you always dreamt that one day
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you could serve Ronald Reagan and join the American military industrial complex and carry out war crimes?
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I have dreamt. I'm not non-binary, but I, that is something I've dreamt about. If that sounds pretty
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neat to you, then now's your chance. In call of duty, black ops, cold war players now have the
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option to, in a first for the series, single player mode, choose their gender, which includes a non-binary
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option. It comes after early reveals of video game in August by publisher giant Activision revealed
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that users, uh, were eager to play as imperialist war hungry killers could list their custom characters
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gender as male, female, or classified. The move sparked a grab bag of reaction from LGBT plus gamers
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who, uh, wondered why black ops couldn't just provide a dedicated non-binary option.
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The game's creative director initially sought to clarify during a venture beat round table that,
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okay, I can't go on this. That's as far as I can go. I thought this was going to,
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a whole article, but this, this is what people are worried about in America now.
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Having, having non-binary options for their video games.
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Here's something that's more important. Okay. This, this is news that actually matters.
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A lot of headlines over the last day because it, I mean, many headlines. I saw this all over
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social media. Maybe you saw it too. Because some hunters killed a moose that has pretty colors.
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So huge scandal here, huge outrage. This is the New York post report. It says first nations in Canada
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are mourning the loss of a rare white moose, asking why anyone with a license to hunt would
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choose their ghostly spirit animal. In Ontario, two female moose were found shot and left discarded
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along a service road, bodies intact, including a sacred white cow. The poachers had evidently
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ignored the many signs warning against killing the legally protected creatures.
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The uncommon white moose get their ashen coloring from a recessive gene, are revealed similar to white
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bison, ravens, and grizzly bears. In 2013, three hunters in Nova Scotia were charged with killing
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a white moose and were forced to return the animal's pelt to the tribe, though they kept the
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head as a trophy. Wildlife officials are asking locals to help lead to the killer and Woodhouse and
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others in the area, including animal activists, have pooled $8,000 for anyone who can lead to the
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culprit. So I just have two questions here. Number one, why does, why does the color actually matter?
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I mean, what's the difference between shooting a moose with one kind of fur and a moose with
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white color? I mean, we can make a joke here about white privilege for mooses, I guess.
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But the other interesting thing is that, and you find this a lot on the left,
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you know, what they tell us is that, well, this is a, it's a sacred moose, according to the
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indigenous people. And even in this New York Post report, they actually just refer to it as a sacred
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moose. Not even like they claim it's sacred. It's sacred. It's a sacred moose. That's not really
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sacred. It's just according to that religion it is. So interesting thing on the left where the only
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religion they respect or care about are, you know, indigenous religions. If this was something about
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Christians upset because some sacred thing of theirs was defiled, you know, I don't think the left
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would care. I don't think we would see headlines about that. But the moose, yeah, that matters,
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For today's daily cancellation, we begin with Vogue Magazine's latest issue, which features
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Harry Styles in a dress. The lengthy profile of Styles has many more photos of the man in an array
00:27:40.040
of skirts, dresses, other frilly assortments. We're told by various interview subjects that
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Styles' cross-dressing represents, quote, the image of a new era, of the way that a man can look.
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And that the pop star is, quote, redefining what it can mean to be a man with confidence.
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It is revolutionary, quote-unquote, to see someone who is so, quote, in touch with his feminine side.
00:28:00.960
Now, the actress Olivia Wilde, in the profile, she goes further. She says,
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I hope that this brand of confidence as a male that Harry has, truly devoid of any traces of toxic
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masculinity, is indicative of his generation, therefore the future of the world, she says
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about a guy wearing a blouse. I think he's in many ways championing that, spearheading that.
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It's pretty powerful and kind of extraordinary to see someone in this position redefining what it
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can mean to be a man with confidence. Now, not everyone is a fan of this supposed revolution
00:28:32.720
of men wearing dresses. You can count me in the not everyone camp. Also, Candace Owens,
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whose tweet on the subject sparked a massive online backlash. She wrote in response to the Vogue piece,
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she says, there is no society that can survive without strong men. The East knows this. In the West,
00:28:47.940
the steady feminization of our men, at the same time that Marxism is being taught to our children,
00:28:52.180
is not a coincidence. It is an outright attack. Bring back manly men, she says.
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Now, the counter arguments to Owens, myself, Ben Shapiro, who was also trending yesterday for
00:29:03.720
committing the crime of agreeing with Candace Owens, the counter arguments to us and anyone else
00:29:09.400
who questions whether we should be redefining what it can mean to be a man in this way, mostly have
00:29:15.300
revolved around the theme that we're making too big a deal out of it. And it's weird that we care so
00:29:20.920
much. And seriously, it's just a dude in a dress. What's the big deal? This is the tried and true
00:29:26.740
leftist culture war tactic. And we have to really realize what they're doing because it never changes.
00:29:33.660
We've seen the same play countless times already. They mock the other side for supposedly making a
00:29:39.360
big deal out of the very thing they were just insisting is a big deal. They throw a parade to
00:29:46.820
celebrate some ridiculous thing or another. And then they insist that any random straggler who
00:29:51.920
declines to join them is a hysterical weirdo whose sin somehow is caring too much about it.
00:29:58.220
They're the ones throwing the parade. All we're saying is, you know, I'd rather not.
00:30:02.860
And they say, what do you care so much about? What are you making such a big deal out of this?
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They present one side of the argument and hope to win the dispute by convincing you
00:30:10.500
that only a freakish loser would bother presenting the other side. They try and often succeed in
00:30:16.740
dressing something up as both a revolutionary, world-changing act and a totally banal, normal,
00:30:24.860
everyday occurrence that should barely attract notice. They shout, why are you looking over here?
00:30:30.800
Right after they just shouted, hey, look over here. People who have good arguments don't bother with
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mind games. And these are mind games. In reality, the fact that Harry Styles himself wears dresses
00:30:43.220
is indeed banal and uninteresting. You know, I would not have elected to publish a 5,000-word
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cover story on the subject, but that was Vogue's choice, not mine. There is nothing particularly
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revolutionary or earth-shattering about a pop star dressing in silly outfits. Pop stars have been
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doing that since the dawn of the genre. But the overall attempt by our culture to redefine
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masculinity and feminized men is important, and it is certainly worth fighting against.
00:31:10.200
Different times and places have had slightly different ideas about how men and women ought to
00:31:14.160
look and act, but none have ever declared that men and women are the same and ought to look the same
00:31:21.000
way and do the same things. That is our unique innovation, and the results have already been
00:31:26.520
catastrophic in our culture. A society without a clear idea of what a man is or what a woman is
00:31:31.040
and what a man does is a society that breeds despair individually and decay collectively,
00:31:37.880
and we're witnessing that right now. It's not that one cross-dressing dude can have this effect.
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There have been cross-dressing dudes since time immemorial, as many on the left have
00:31:47.040
correctly pointed out. The difference is that cross-dressing in times past was seen as bizarre,
00:31:55.000
different, usually done for a laugh. Masculinity itself was not threatened by it because society's
00:32:02.620
recognition of masculinity and its respect for its boundaries is what made the spectacle of a guy in
00:32:08.880
a dress funny in the first place. So in the same way, you know, a guy belching at the dinner table
00:32:14.380
might be funny, depending on your sense of humor, but it doesn't threaten to destroy the rules of
00:32:19.600
etiquette unless we all start pretending that there are no rules to destroy in the first place.
00:32:24.700
Then you'll end up with a lot more people burping at the dinner table, and none of it will be funny
00:32:28.140
anymore. The thing that makes it funny is that it violates the rules. The point is that there's a
00:32:33.680
clear difference between merely crossing a boundary, you know, for a laugh, to make a point, to be a jerk,
00:32:38.440
to get attention, whatever, and erasing the boundary entirely. So when the left is not doing its,
00:32:45.500
aw, shucks, what's the big deal, folks, routine, it will freely admit that it is reaching for the
00:32:51.400
latter goal, to erase the boundaries of masculinity and create a post-gender society where the words
00:32:57.500
man and woman have no meaning. Now, it can never actually succeed in this task because it's fighting
00:33:02.600
against biological realities, which can never be fully superseded, but it can settle for making
00:33:07.560
people disoriented, especially children. It can create an environment where boys are made to be
00:33:14.120
more feminine, girls more masculine, and neither has any idea who they really are. Confusion is the
00:33:20.320
ultimate objective, and the left will celebrate anybody who contributes to it in whatever small
00:33:25.900
way. And so Harry Styles is canceled, yes, but more so I'm canceling everyone who wants to
00:33:32.200
revolutionize masculinity and yet refuses to at least be honest about what they're doing.
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And by the way, even if Styles didn't wear a dress at all, I'd still cancel him for this picture
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right here. This was also in the Vogue spread. That's a kilt he's wearing, not a skirt, so that's
00:33:48.620
fine. He gets by on the technicality here, but he's also jumping on a trampoline. Men should never
00:33:54.880
be photographed jumping on trampolines, especially when they're wearing kilts, and especially because
00:34:00.200
they had to bring this trampoline out to this field in order for him to jump on it. They brought
00:34:05.540
a trampoline out into a field of flowers, put him in a kilt, and had him jump on it and took pictures.
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The whole thing is terribly undignified, even more so than the dresses in my view. So that's
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canceled. Everybody's canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks
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