Ep. 611 - The Lockdown’s Catastrophic Effects
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The lockdowns are having a catastrophic impact on the economy, mental health, and education. In one country, more people have died by suicide than by COID in all of 2020. Yet, those who push the lockdowns refuse to grapple with or even acknowledge these devastating effects. Also, five headlines including Joe Biden s injury, and another anonymous racist note story.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the lockdowns are having a catastrophic impact on the economy,
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mental health, education. In one country, more people have died by suicide than by COVID.
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Situation across much of the rest of the world is also dire. Yet those who push the lockdowns
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refuse to grapple with or even acknowledge these devastating effects. So we're going to talk about
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that today. Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden's injury and another anonymous racist note
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story that the media is reporting as fact. Even though anonymous racist notes are almost
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always hoaxes. And our daily cancellation, I'm afraid that it is my duty to rain on the parade
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of everyone celebrating a woman's historic kick during a college football game on Saturday.
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All of that and more coming up on the Matt Wall Show.
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Surprisingly enough, you know, CNN ran an important article a few days ago, actually. One that focuses
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on an aspect of the COVID story that's usually ignored. The headline is this.
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In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from COVID in all of 2020.
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And women, it says, have been most impacted. It reads, in part, quote,
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In Japan, government statistics show suicide claim more lives in October than COVID-19 has
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over the entire year to date. The monthly number of Japanese suicides rose to 2,153 in October,
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according to Japan's National Policy Agency. As of Friday, Japan's total COVID-19 toll was 2,087.
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Japan is one of the few major economies to disclose timely suicide data. The most recent
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national data for the U.S., for example, is from 2018. The Japanese data could give other countries
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insights into the impact of pandemic measures on mental health and which groups are the most
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vulnerable. Quote, we didn't even have a lockdown and the impact of COVID is very minimal compared
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to other countries, but still we see this big increase in the number of suicides. That is Michika
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Ueda, an associate professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, expert on suicides. Continuing, that
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suggests other countries might see a similar or even bigger increase in the number of suicides in
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the future. Now, as the article notes, we don't have up-to-date suicide statistics for our own
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country, but there are indications that the situation will prove to be just as dire here,
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if not more so. We've seen glimpses, at least, such as the report out of Los Angeles back in April
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that calls to the suicide hotline had gone up by 8,000%. 8,000%. Meanwhile, Men's Health magazine
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reported earlier this month, quote, University of Glasgow researchers have found that rates of
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suicidal thoughts among young adults rose sharply during the first coronavirus lockdown. Their study
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published in the British journal Psychiatry examined the effect COVID-19 had on different groups at the
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outset of the original coronavirus lockdown. By surveying 3,077 adults three times from March 31st
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to May 11th, they found that the proportion of respondents reporting that on at least one day in
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the previous week they had wanted to end their life increased from 8.2% to 9.2% and then to 9.8%
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over the three waves of the study. These rates were highest in young adults, age 18 to 29,
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rising from 12.5% to 14.4%. Now, these are not small increases, and the problem goes beyond,
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you know, suicidal thoughts. NPR, again, a surprise, published a report this weekend on the mental health
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crisis among children specifically brought on by the pandemic, or that's how they put it. You know,
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really, it's brought on by the government and the media's response to the pandemic. That's my own
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editorializing, not what NPR concluded. The article talks about the increasing rates of depression,
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of anxiety among children, also loneliness, feelings of isolation. This is to say nothing
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of the way that children's educational development has been stunted. Though, as I've said many times,
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I think public school often does more harm than good. Children are certainly not better off just
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sitting at home on their computers all day. But that's what's happened. As our whole society gave up
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on educating children because we're scared that the kids might get us sick. Again, not because we're
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scared that they get sick because we're scared they might get us sick. And so we said, never mind
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with education. Never mind about that. We don't need that for a whole year. The powers that be,
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by the way, are finally noticing that they have destroyed our children and are now pretending
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that that wasn't their idea or their doing. Here's Dr. Fauci just a couple of days ago
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with a surprisingly new take on school closings. Listen.
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Dr. Fauci, New York City public schools shut down again earlier this month. I know your default
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position is that you'd like to see the schools open. But how do you make that happen? And how
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would you advise the incoming Biden administration on getting a sort of unified response?
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Well, you know, Martha, that's a good question. We get asked it all the time. You know, we say it
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not being facetiously as a soundbite or anything, but, you know, close the bars and keep the schools
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open is what we really say. Obviously, you don't have one size fits all. But as I said in the past,
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and as you accurately quoted me, the default position should be to try as best as possible
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within reason to keep the children in school or to get them back to school.
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Yeah. He makes it sound like he's always said that you should keep the bars closed and open
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the schools. He said that this is what we say. That is not what he's always said. That's not what
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he said at all. In fact, until just now. But even Fauci, slow learner that he is, is starting to
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understand that keeping children locked in their homes for months on end in response to an illness
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that for them is no more dangerous than the flu is madness. Not just madness. It's evil. It's an evil
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thing to do to kids. Only don't expect Fauci to take any accountability or responsibility or to
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admit his mistake. Instead, he'll pretend he didn't say what he said in the past and has always said
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what he never really said. And it's not just children being decimated. Continuing the surprises
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of news media outlets actually reporting news. There was a whole flurry over the last few days of
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news media outlets actually reporting news. It's pretty incredible. NBC has on their website a short
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documentary about how the lockdown measures are impacting the elderly. Speaking of being isolated,
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nobody has it worse than the elderly in nursing homes. They've been forced to spend, you know,
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what could be and often is their final months on earth locked in a building, speaking to their
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families through windows or not at all and dying alone with no one there who loves them. So here's a
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little bit of that documentary. Listen. I understand that the current policies are in place because they
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want to do everything right now to protect our seniors and our veterans and loved ones of families
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and nursing homes. But our elders are now dying from failure to thrive. They're giving up. They've
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been alone for seven months. Families need each other.
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I was devastated when they told us we couldn't come in or see him. And my father didn't understand it
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when we explained it to him over the phone. He didn't understand what the virus meant.
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This is my father at 17 when he entered the service. He lied about his age so that he could get into
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the army. And this is my dad in Korea, in the middle of the jungle, during the war.
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So we did Zoom calls and then we graduated to window visits and seeing your parent through a window
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Trying to hear him, trying to see him through the screen, trying to advocate for him was heartbreaking.
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You know, it is heartbreaking. It's tragic. It's infuriating. The elderly, isolated, dying alone,
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children locked in their homes, replacing education with computers, suicides, depression,
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business owners losing everything. And however bad we think all of this is, it's worse. Remember
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that. We won't know the full effect for many years. We can't know. I mean, what are the long-term
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effects of locking kids in their home, making them think strangers are diseased zombies,
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punting their education down the road like it doesn't matter? In what way will this generation
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of children be shaped by this? To what extent? What will that shape be? Nobody knows. No society has
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ever done anything like this. And how many suicides will ultimately happen as a result of the lockdowns.
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Even after we get the 2020 data, that's not going to tell the whole story. A business owner,
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you know, who loses everything overnight may not take his own life the next morning.
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Could happen a year later. Could happen two years later. Could happen 10 years later.
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Many thousands of people have been put on a path of despair and ruin this year. But the end of that
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path, whatever it is and wherever it is, may not come for several years yet. So we know it's bad.
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But we don't know the full extent of how bad it is. For that matter, what are the psychological
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effects of people living their lives without ever seeing a stranger's face in public? How does that
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influence our mental health? Does anyone know? No. Because again, nobody has ever done this before.
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And that's why the flippancy of those who advocate and push the lockdowns really
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enrages me the most. They have not attempted to seriously weigh the pros and cons. They have not
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bothered to so much as wonder about the long-term or short-term negative effects.
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We're doing something no society has ever done, embracing consequences that no society has ever
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willingly embraced. And we're supposed to do this without even discussing it? Without any sense of
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caution or apprehension? Accept the lockdowns or you're a science denier. That's it. That's meant
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to be the end of the debate. Most of all, we're supposed to simply accept the proposition
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that not only will the lockdowns make people safe and extend people's lives, but that making people
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safe and extending their lives is the most important consideration. And all other considerations
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should be subordinated to it. We're supposed to believe unquestioningly that lockdowns will keep the
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most people alive, that there is nothing that could ever be more urgent than keeping the most
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people alive. Anything that must be sacrificed, literally anything to this end is worth it. That's
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what we're supposed to believe. Those are the two propositions that you must believe. You're required
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to believe. Yet both are highly dubious, to say the least. It seems there is a considerable likelihood
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that when all is said and done, looking back on this 10 years from now or 20 years from now, we'll be
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able to say with certainty that many more people died because of the lockdowns than would have died
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without them. But whether that's the case or not, the second proposition that physical safety is the
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highest good is certainly incorrect. Not just dubious, it's wrong. Our country is founded on the proposition
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that some things are more important than safety. Any happy and well-adjusted life is grounded in the
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same belief. For an elderly person with, you know, at best, let's say two or three years left to live,
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what is better? To live those two or three years and be alone and miserable the whole time?
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Or to risk living less than two or three, but to be happy and to be with those you love?
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For a child, what's better? To live in isolation, to avoid the minimal risk of a disease that
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rarely has any serious complications for children? Or to live a normal child's life and to get an
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education and to be with friends and to be outside playing and doing what kids do while accepting the
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mild risks involved? The lockdown advocates and our overlords in government have decided that these
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questions are easily answered and that the answer is to prioritize safety above all, in all circumstances.
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Even if by prioritizing safety, you ultimately make people less safe and depressed and suicidal on
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top of it. They say it's anti-science to question it, but it's not. It is anti-human to do what they are
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began with my daughter vomiting as soon as we got to my sister-in-law's house. She didn't have a virus or
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anything. She wasn't sick, but she gets bad car sickness like I do. And only we didn't realize
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how bad it was this time around. So as soon as we got there after a four-hour car ride, she was in
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the bathroom. Fortunately, she made it to the toilet. Unfortunately, she forgot to lift the lid.
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So that was one of those conversations as a parent that you have to have sometimes you don't want to
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have. But the one where I have to go down to my sister-in-law and say, hey, you know, I know we just
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got to your house, but I need paper towels and bleach. Don't ask any questions. Always an enjoyable time.
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And I know you're really hoping to hear details like this about my daughter vomiting. There you
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go. Other than that, you know, it was a good time other than that. And other than the next day on
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Thanksgiving, when one of the little kids in the house took my car keys, apparently, and threw them
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in the trash. Very helpful. And it took, I was looking for them all day. Found them the next day in
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the garbage. I was rifling through the garbage right before it went to the curb to be picked up. So
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that's what you get when you're kids. You spend Thanksgiving cleaning up vomit and rifling through
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trash bags. I know everybody listening to this. If you don't have kids, you're thinking, I want kids
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now. It is, it is worth it in the end. I'm told. All right. Number one, the Daily Beast ran some
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hard hitting journalism recently reporting on a pet psychics communications with Joe Biden's dogs.
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Now, incidentally, the existence of pet psychics presents for me, maybe the greatest temptation to
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be a socialist. This is the only time I've ever felt a little bit tempted because I mean,
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maybe people do have too much money if they're spending it on sessions with a, with a pet psychic.
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I think maybe the rich people do need to be stopped. I don't know. Maybe because of this,
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but this pet psychic had a communication breakdown. It seems because she had a, she says, this is again,
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the Daily Beast is reporting this just, you know, just this, just reporting it. Why not? And there
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seems to have been a breakdown because she had a mind to mind exchange with Biden's pets
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that didn't include some vital information. So she says, quote, the very first thing I got was that
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they were both very excited about moving to the White House. I had a real connection. I felt that
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excitement of theirs. They showed me that Joe Biden is very bonded to his dogs and have a real connection
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with them. They kept showing me that although he has rescued one of the dogs, the dogs feel in many
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ways that they have rescued him. Ego maniacs. That's the kind of narcissism I would expect from
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a cat. This is why I hate dogs extremely full of themselves, but also desperate and needy at the
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same time, the worst combination. But the point is that she never mentions that the dogs were actually
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plotting to destroy Joe Biden the whole time. Not a day or two after the story was published, Joe Biden
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was in the hospital with a fracture to his foot after injuring himself while playing with his dogs.
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So how did the psychic not see that coming? Why didn't you stop it? Now Joe Biden's going to be
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a walking boot for a while now. Could have been warned about this, but we weren't. This is what
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the Daily Wire report says. Joe Biden reportedly hurt himself over the weekend while playing with one of
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his dogs and was sent to a medical specialist for evaluation. Biden's office said in a statement,
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quote, on Saturday, November 28th, President-elect Biden slipped while playing with his dog,
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a major, and twisted his ankle. Out of an abundance of caution, he'll be examined this
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afternoon by an orthopedist. And so, yeah, they're talking about a fracture, I guess, is what he got.
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Okay. Yeah, I mean, it happens. I guess I can't judge him. I was in a walking boot myself for months
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last year because of an Achilles injury. But it does, you know, it does bring to mind, I mean,
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he's not even in the White House. He's not even technically the president-elect yet, despite what
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the media says. He's certainly not in the White House yet. And he's already, you know, having the
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kinds of injuries that very elderly people have. When you get old, you become fragile, even more fragile
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than, you know, than you were before. And this is what we have to worry about now with a fragile
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old man in the White House who's also, you know, losing his mind and his physical abilities on top
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of it. So we'll see how that goes. Number two, Ilhan Omar has a practical suggestion for navigating
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ourselves out of the current economic crisis. She says, quote, we must put an end to this economic
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crisis with, and then she has bullet points, direct monthly payments to every family. Number one.
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Number two, expanded unemployment benefits. Number three, rent and mortgage cancellation.
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Number four, student debt cancellation. Number five, Medicare for all, including a free COVID-19
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treatment and vaccines. You know, I love this idea. Personally, I would go a step further.
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I say every American should receive $5,000 in gold coins delivered directly to their door every day,
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along with a basket of fruit, a bouquet of flowers, a new pair of slippers. I mean, why not? If we are
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completely disregarding questions of affordability, feasibility, possibility, then why acknowledge any
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limits at all? Of course, the real way to end the economic crisis, and there is an economic crisis,
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so she's right about that part, at least. I agree with her there. The real way to end it is to let
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people go back to work and open their businesses at full capacity and allow people to go about their
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lives. It's an interesting thing. You know, you end up with an economic crisis when you tell everybody
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they can't work. And when you tell businesses that they have to turn away customers, hundreds,
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thousands of customers. So that's what you do. Here's the solution for the government,
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as is very often the case. Stop doing what you're doing now, which is ruining everything.
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Get out of the way. But of course, that's not the solution that Ilhan Omar is interested in. That's
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not the solution that Democrats are interested in, because they see this as an opportunity to exploit.
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They see this as an opportunity for a massive transfer of power from individuals to the
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government, just like we've seen a massive transfer of wealth from small businesses and middle-class
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people to mega corporations. Amazon, Walmart, Target are doing very well. Facebook, you know,
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the big tech companies. So we see this massive transfer of wealth. Also, there's going to be a
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transfer of power, and that's the idea. That's why this is happening. That's why they have the
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lockdowns. That's the whole idea. And they're fine. As long as they get the power and control
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over our lives, sure, they'll toss you a few bucks. That's just more power and control over
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you. Number three, you probably have seen some of the headlines about COVID ravaging the NFL
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with a huge outbreak infecting many players. The Baltimore Ravens, my Baltimore Ravens,
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unfortunately, have been especially hard hit. They've got like, I don't know, 20 players now
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out with COVID or because they were in contact with someone who had COVID. Their Thanksgiving game
00:23:18.940
against the Steelers was postponed mercifully to tomorrow. That game looks like it's going to
00:23:24.740
happen, though the Ravens can hardly field a roster. They've got half of their starters out.
00:23:30.140
Lamar Jackson is out. Meanwhile, the Denver Broncos had to play yesterday without a quarterback.
00:23:35.760
All of their quarterbacks either had COVID or were in contact with someone with COVID.
00:23:40.880
And so they started a practice squad receiver as their quarterback. Of course, they lost by a lot of
00:23:47.240
points against the Saints. No surprise there. But the funny thing is, in all of these stories
00:23:52.820
of a league ravaged by sickness, nobody ever tells us how sick these players actually are. Have you
00:24:02.440
noticed that? I mean, isn't that the first question you ask yourself when you read a story about
00:24:07.020
this or that star NFL player Lamar Jackson diagnosed with COVID? Your question is, how sick is he? I mean,
00:24:15.260
is he in the hospital or is he just at home with the sniffles? Or does he not even have the sniffles?
00:24:19.320
Is he just, is he perfectly fine? They don't tell you that. There's a reason for that. That's a detail
00:24:26.080
they don't include. I have heard specifically about one, I think there was, from what I've read,
00:24:31.740
what the media has reported, there's been, I believe, one player with serious complications from COVID.
00:24:37.520
But there have been a lot more than one who have been diagnosed with it. But that's the interesting
00:24:44.820
thing. That's the only player who the media has gone into detail telling us about their symptoms
00:24:49.440
because they were bad symptoms. All the rest of these players, they don't tell us.
00:24:54.860
And, you know, again, the reason for that is, is quite obvious because in reality, most of these
00:25:00.420
players probably it's, they don't even have a case of the sniffles. They're just at home,
00:25:04.520
you know, playing Madden or something and waiting for when the league tells them they can come back.
00:25:09.080
Not sick at all. Many of these players. Number four, a protest in Utah over the weekend,
00:25:14.060
over the recently passed statewide mask mandate. So Utah was one of the, one of the more recent
00:25:19.700
states to join the mask mandate bandwagon. There was a couple of protests, unfortunately not very
00:25:26.800
large protests. They should be larger than they are. I mentioned this story mainly as an excuse to
00:25:31.120
tell you about my own mask related run-in that, that I had over the weekend. We went,
00:25:37.100
we were, like I said, it was at my sister-in-law's for, for Thanksgiving. We went to an outdoor
00:25:42.600
Christmas lights display at night. I think it was Saturday night. Again, it's outdoors,
00:25:49.560
Christmas lights display. We're, we're outside. A lot of, a lot of nice air circulation when you're
00:25:54.160
outside. And, uh, most people walking around with masks, people, I wasn't wearing, really wearing a
00:26:01.380
mask. Here's, let me tell you what, here's my mask policy. This is my personal policy that I've
00:26:06.320
adopted. Uh, I have the neck gaiter thing, which doesn't do anything, but probably the cloth masks
00:26:11.740
don't do anything either, but I have it. And if I'm going inside somewhere, like inside a business,
00:26:16.300
I will put it on. If they ask me, I'm not going to cause a scene, especially because it's some poor
00:26:21.860
kid, some minimum wage, you know, kid at Walmart or something has to come up and say, sir, will you
00:26:26.620
put the mask on? I'm not going to make his job harder than it has to be, but I'm also not going
00:26:30.800
to volunteer to wear it. So I'm going to walk in without the mask. If someone tells me to wear it,
00:26:34.600
I'll put it on fine outside. I will not wear it. I refuse. I don't care what the, what the mandate
00:26:41.180
is. I don't care who says it. I'm not going to wear a mask outside because that is absurd.
00:26:46.280
So we're walking around outside. Um, I'm not wearing the mask. Most people in my group
00:26:51.700
aren't wearing one. And this woman, you know, uh, gets snippy with us and, and, and says, uh,
00:26:57.140
and, you know, confronts us and says, well, I think, I think masks are mandatory. You're supposed
00:27:00.960
to wear them. Now, the thing is she's holding in her hand, she's got a mask on. She's holding in
00:27:05.700
her hand, as am I, a cup of hot, uh, spiked cider, which was, which was very good with whiskey in it.
00:27:12.800
And so I asked her, I said, are, are you drinking with the mask on? And that was kind of enough to
00:27:19.600
make her back away because of course she's not. So she's walking around. She'll pull the mask
00:27:24.380
down, take some sips, put it back up. It's absurd. It's a charade. Uh, the whole thing is an absolute
00:27:32.320
charade, especially outside. What are the chances? Okay. This is, this is the question I've been asking
00:27:36.920
all along. Haven't gotten an answer to it. What are the chances if you're outside and you're,
00:27:43.460
you just walk by someone more than six feet, even if you're within six feet, let's say you walk by
00:27:49.300
someone and God forbid you pass them, uh, as close as three feet and you're, you're within three feet
00:27:55.920
of them for about a second. What are the chances that you could pass COVID to them? What is it? I
00:28:03.020
mean, you take the average person just walking down the street without a mask. Yeah. We don't
00:28:07.060
know if he has COVID or not. Just, you know, take any average person off the street, walking down the
00:28:11.340
street. What are the chances that that person percentage wise will pass COVID to you as you pass
00:28:16.700
them? It's, I mean, what is, what is it? It's, it's, it's certainly not 1%. It's much smaller than
00:28:23.040
that. Very, very, very, very small percentage chance. Uh, but of course we know wearing the mask
00:28:30.220
is mostly, as I said, a, a charade, something that's done, you know, just for display, like with
00:28:36.560
this woman who was pulling the mask down frequently to drink, but still felt that she was a, because she
00:28:42.580
had it, she had it on, at least she was playing the game. So that entitled her to lecture other
00:28:47.620
people. Uh, five, finally, you can be the judge here. Tell me what you think. Story from the Hill.
00:28:54.140
It says a man in Arkansas received a racist note after putting up an inflatable black Santa in front
00:29:00.720
of his house. Chris Kennedy, who lives in North Little Rock, received an anonymous racist letter
00:29:06.040
condemning the decoration. Uh, Kennedy read the letter during a live stream on Facebook. I looked for the,
00:29:11.620
for this live stream so I could play it for you. I couldn't find it. It looks like it's been taken
00:29:14.860
down, which if it, unless I just couldn't find it, but if it has been taken down, maybe that'll tell
00:29:19.560
you something. Here's the, uh, here's the note as he read it. Please remove your Negro Santa Claus yard
00:29:26.180
decoration. You should not try to deceive children into believing that I am a Negro. I am a Caucasian
00:29:31.860
white man to you and have been for the past 600 years. You're being jealous of my race is no excuse
00:29:38.660
for your dishonesty. Uh, the note continues besides that you're making yourself the lack of laughing
00:29:44.760
stock of the neighborhood. Uh, during the live stream, Kennedy said that he was trying to be as
00:29:49.880
nice as he can be, but he was filled with rage over the note. Um, Kennedy also showed an image of a
00:29:55.740
white Santa with two thumbs up and a label taped to the envelope that the letter came in. And then the,
00:30:02.940
um, the property owners association condemned it. And it says that, um, other neighbors have come
00:30:09.500
out and they're buying their own black Santa inflatables to put in their yard. And they're
00:30:13.680
all rallying behind this guy. Okay. It's just, all I can say is it's good to see Jussie Smollett
00:30:18.740
getting into the Christmas spirit, uh, in his own way. So I won't judge him for that. And maybe that's
00:30:23.840
not fair. Look, I don't know that this is a hoax. I can't say that it's possible that an actual
00:30:30.880
racist person got mad about an inflatable Santa and wrote this note where he pretends to be Santa.
00:30:37.940
The note is written as if Santa Claus himself has written it. Um, and then, I mean, it's possible,
00:30:45.900
right? It's, you know, technically it's possible that Santa Claus actually did write it. It's possible
00:30:51.980
that look, Santa Claus, you know, he's, um, he's an old fashioned guy. He's been around for centuries.
00:30:57.620
So his, his racial views are probably not as enlightened as, as people these days. So it's
00:31:05.900
possible that an actual, that Santa himself wrote it. Um, and then there's a cartoon, you know,
00:31:12.040
it's possible that a racist person be at Santa or not was mad about an inflatable Santa and wrote the
00:31:17.760
note and actually took the time to draw a nice cartoon of Santa with thumbs down and put that
00:31:23.960
on the note. All of that is possible. Okay. It's not impossible, but history and common sense would
00:31:30.640
tell us that it's quite a bit more possible that this is yet again, a made up fake racist note from
00:31:36.880
somebody begging for attention. Um, all I'll say is this, is that every anonymous racist note story in
00:31:44.960
recent memory. I mean, let me know if you can think of one because everyone that comes to mind,
00:31:49.640
all fake, literally all of them fake. When was the last time there was an anonymous racist note
00:31:55.920
left for someone on their porch or on their car or whatever written on a receipt at a restaurant
00:32:02.780
that wasn't fake. So is this the exception? Could be probably isn't yet. It doesn't matter because if you
00:32:13.480
look at the headlines of this, um, just like the headline I just read to you, um, almost all the
00:32:19.820
headlines just report as fact, man receives racist note, not even man says he received racist note or
00:32:28.220
man allegedly receives racist. It's just, he received it. They reported as fact. And then, you know, when,
00:32:34.920
if, and when the time comes two or three days from now, when the police come out sort of quietly,
00:32:40.420
but announced that, yeah, you know, this didn't really happen. Um, then the media, they're not
00:32:45.400
going to print a correction or anything like that. They're just going to, uh, move on as if it never
00:32:50.600
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Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel Vanderbilt University along with everyone
00:34:26.700
in media who is celebrating Vanderbilt University this weekend after it's a winless football team
00:34:31.320
quote made history by dressing and fielding a female player, Sarah Fuller, a goalkeeper or is
00:34:38.760
a goaltender. I'm not sure. I typically prefer sports over soccer. In any case, a female soccer
00:34:43.140
player was enlisted as the Vanderbilt football team's kicker for its game on Saturday against
00:34:46.760
Missouri. All of Vanderbilt's kickers were sent to the COVID quarantine and the team decided to bring
00:34:51.520
Sarah in to substitute. And more importantly, to generate some headlines and attention because they
00:34:55.980
certainly weren't going to generate any headlines and attention just by playing solid football and
00:34:59.640
winning games. So they had to resort to this. Sarah thus became the first woman to ever take
00:35:05.180
the field for a major college football program. And after the game, the media went hysterical with
00:35:10.880
its adulation for Sarah Fuller and her glass ceiling breaking performance, a performance that
00:35:15.820
included five for five on field goals, three of them over 40 yards, three touchbacks, one game-saving
00:35:21.440
tackle. Just kidding, of course. She kicked once. The kick went 30 yards. Vanderbilt lost 41-0 and the
00:35:28.960
coach was fired after the game. That's what happens in reality. Now, I wasn't kidding, though, about the
00:35:34.060
hysterical adulation part, though. That did happen, including from the announcers in the game who had the
00:35:38.940
unenviable task of having to not laugh at the terrible kick and instead pretend that it was some
00:35:44.580
kind of great moment for college football. Listen.
00:35:55.880
And the kick down at the 35-yard line and Sarah Fuller. Happy Thanksgiving. What a day. What a day
00:36:05.420
in college football. What a day. What a day with that 30-yard kick. Now, I should note that the coach
00:36:11.880
claimed after the game, right before he was fired, that the kick there was a design squib kick.
00:36:18.300
And he should be fired if that really was designed. Anyone who knows football knows
00:36:21.580
you don't squib it intentionally at the start of the second half when you're down 21. And even if you
00:36:27.400
do squib it intentionally, you don't want the ball to only go 20 yards in the air and then roll another
00:36:32.020
10. There is no designed kick in all of football that works like that. If this is a design kick,
00:36:39.000
it's a new design. It's a bad design. Not a squib kick. Maybe we can call it a chick kick.
00:36:44.200
Or we could have called it that and laughed before our whole society turned into a bunch
00:36:48.460
of insufferable PC scolds who had pretended it's not incredibly hilarious that everybody hyped up
00:36:53.860
the female football player. And then she went out and did the worst kick anyone's seen all year.
00:36:59.300
I mean, that is funny, right? Anyway, ESPN, of course, interviewed Sarah Fuller about this
00:37:05.680
historic moment after the game. And here's what she had to say.
00:37:10.640
Well, Sarah, you made history today. The first female to ever play in a Power 5 football game.
00:37:17.740
What emotions are you feeling now that you've reached such a milestone?
00:37:21.060
Honestly, it's just so exciting. And the fact that I can represent the little girls out there
00:37:25.800
who wanted to do this or thought about playing football or any sport, really. And it encourages
00:37:31.200
them to be able to step up and do something big like this. So it's awesome. We were all patiently
00:37:36.180
awaiting the entire first half, hoping we'd get to see you take the field. But you come out after
00:37:41.140
halftime, you take the field for the kickoff. What was your mentality in that moment?
00:37:45.640
Honestly, I was just really calm. The SEC championship was more stressful, if I'm going to be honest.
00:37:52.340
But I was really excited to step out on the field and do my thing.
00:37:55.500
So throughout this week, as the story has gained prominence and taken to the headlines,
00:38:01.680
I know you felt a sense of responsibility to use this platform for something bigger than yourself.
00:38:08.120
What message do you hope was conveyed by your involvement today?
00:38:11.340
I mean, I just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to.
00:38:17.240
Yes, do anything except kick a football more than 30 yards, apparently.
00:38:21.220
It's just a good thing that the glass ceiling was closer than 30 yards away.
00:38:26.540
I am being a little harsh, admittedly. I don't mean to be hard on Sarah.
00:38:30.040
That's why I'm not canceling her. I'm canceling everyone else associated with this and everyone
00:38:33.920
who pretended that a bad kick by a losing team was somehow inspirational and history-making
00:38:39.720
because the person who made the kick had XX chromosomes.
00:38:43.600
But I must say that Sarah almost got herself canceled as well when I read an ESPN article about the game.
00:38:50.300
Here's a tidbit from this ESPN article. It says,
00:38:52.160
With Vanderbilt trailing 21-0 at halftime, Fuller decided that she wanted to address the team.
00:39:01.440
I was a little pissed off at how quiet everybody was on the sideline.
00:39:05.860
We made a first down and I was the only one cheering and I was like,
00:39:13.580
She said she compared it to Vanderbilt soccer's SEC tournament winning run
00:39:18.160
when the team was, quote, cheering the entire time.
00:39:21.260
I just went in there and I said exactly what I was thinking.
00:39:23.800
I was like, we need to be cheering each other on.
00:39:27.760
This is how you get better is by calling each other out for stuff.
00:39:37.540
I think this team has struggled and that's been part of it.
00:39:39.800
We really just need to build the team camaraderie where they can all lean on one another.
00:39:44.800
It was an adjustment going from that team mentality where,
00:39:53.720
Okay, on second thought, as I read this, yes, she is canceled too.
00:40:00.440
You're a girl invited to kick the ball one time as a publicity stunt and you shank it.
00:40:06.480
And yet you think you're entitled to give a pep talk to the team?
00:40:09.460
And lecture them about how to be better football players?
00:40:14.260
That's like when I let my five-year-old daughter sit on my lap and park the car,
00:40:18.820
you know, quote unquote, by driving it 10 feet up the driveway.
00:40:23.380
she started shouting driving tips from her booster seat in the back.
00:40:26.720
Daddy, make sure to stop when the light is red.
00:40:35.580
I have to imagine these guys were not as amused
00:40:38.120
when the girl from the women's soccer team was strutting down the sideline,
00:40:42.660
Although given their record and their, you know, general abilities on the field,
00:40:47.160
I can't say they didn't deserve the humiliation.
00:40:49.840
In fact, Vanderbilt sent out a tweet after the bad kick with a picture of Sarah Fuller
00:40:58.760
And the tweet reads, Sarah Fuller, remember the name.
00:41:05.720
Yes, this is a football team adopting play like a girl as a positive motto.
00:41:17.900
They really did play like girls and lost by 41 points because of it.
00:41:24.800
When you're a football team and you play like girls or let girls play, you lose.
00:41:30.700
The reason you lose is that girls can't play football against men.
00:41:37.560
They shouldn't be allowed, but they are allowed.
00:41:44.660
girls cannot do whatever they set their minds to.
00:41:53.060
There are some things you set your mind to that you can't actually do
00:41:58.080
I could set my mind and have set it on being the greatest ballerina on planet Earth.
00:42:03.880
And it probably still will never happen, unfortunately.
00:42:07.740
The results ultimately will be almost as hilarious as a woman playing football.
00:42:11.620
Speaking of which, there will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be a female
00:42:19.280
who actually earns her way onto a major college football program, even as a kicker.
00:42:25.120
Or even a high school program, much less a professional program.
00:42:28.620
Not because football teams are sexist or because women are inferior as human beings
00:42:36.880
A woman on a men's football team will at best embarrass herself, at worst get herself killed.
00:42:43.020
It's good for Sarah Fuller that she didn't kick the ball 50 or 60 yards
00:42:48.620
If she had, and she was the last line of defense trying to make a tackle on a real football player
00:42:54.040
with a head of steam sprinting down the sideline,
00:42:56.660
she'd be in the hospital right now or the morgue.
00:42:58.820
As far as I know, no player for a major college football program has ever been killed
00:43:04.020
by a collision on the football field, and that is one glass ceiling a female player could break.
00:43:12.680
But aside from the safety concerns, the real issue with putting a girl on the field
00:43:16.180
and celebrating her for her terrible play is that along with how generally ridiculous it is,
00:43:24.080
Are women really so unimpressive and bereft of achievement that we have to pretend it's an achievement
00:43:29.960
to be given an opportunity you didn't earn and then botch it?
00:43:34.300
You know, it'd be one thing if she went in there and did hit a 52-yard field goal for the win,
00:43:48.540
You, I don't care who you are, you could kick a football 20 yards in the air if you put it on a tee.
00:43:57.440
Are women so pathetic that we have to call this an achievement?
00:44:01.040
Not just an achievement, but a historic achievement.
00:44:04.400
One that will cause us to remember her name for all of history.
00:44:08.220
A thousand years from now, they'll be singing songs and telling stories about Sarah Fuller
00:44:25.060
That's how sad and unimpressive feminists think women are.
00:44:28.800
Because they themselves, feminists, are sad and unimpressive.
00:44:32.540
It's how sad and unimpressive the media thinks women are, apparently.
00:44:42.780
But she does 50 things in a day that are far more important and impressive than that crappy
00:44:50.500
I mean, she'll do stuff like take four young kids by herself to a museum.
00:45:08.900
Yet we don't celebrate women for doing those sorts of things anymore.
00:45:11.500
We celebrate them for trying to imitate men, even though their imitations always suck
00:45:21.100
We've decided that the best sort of woman is a man.
00:45:24.660
And not coincidentally, we've also decided the best sort of man is a woman.
00:45:28.880
So women are celebrated for dressing up in football uniforms and men are celebrated for
00:45:34.580
And the only people who aren't celebrated are those who act like themselves and carry on
00:45:45.280
And everybody who pretended to be impressed by the most unimpressive kick in football history
00:45:53.760
And Sarah Fuller, again, unfortunately, has to be canceled.
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