Ep. 614 - Standing Up Against Tyranny
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The mayor of Austin, Texas, Steve Adler, had an urgent message for the residents of his city via a Facebook video a few weeks ago. He said that everyone needs to stay home, and that this is not a time to relax.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a video of a business owner in Michigan is going viral. He is
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defying his state's shutdown order and paying a hefty price for it, but his message is inspiring
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and worth listening to, so we'll play that today and talk about it. Also, five headlines,
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including supposed conservatives urging Republican voters in Georgia to stay home
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and hand the Senate to Democrats. And also another anonymous racist note. We've got another one.
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These things are everywhere. It's just that they always turn out to be fake.
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Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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off your mattress order. So the mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, had an urgent message for the residents of
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his city a few weeks ago via Facebook video. He said that everyone needs to stay home and that
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this is, this is not a time to relax. Here's a little bit of that message. This is very important
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stuff that you need to take very seriously. Watch the thrust of the most important messages trying
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to get out to the community right now is that our numbers are increasing and everybody has to be aware
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of that. And then we need to, you know, stay home. If you can do everything you can to try to keep the
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numbers down. This is not the time to relax. We're going to be looking really closely. Yes, everyone
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needs to stay home. Except we've learned that when a Democrat mayor or governor says everyone, it can
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roughly be translated to everyone except me. As it turns out, Adler delivered that message telling
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everyone to stay home from his vacation home in Mexico. He traveled there with a number of friends
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and family on a private jet. He made this trip only a day after hosting a wedding reception for his
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daughter with 20 guests at a hotel in the city. So he gathered with 20 people and then traveled to
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another, to a foreign country and then came back here. Adler now joins the likes of DC mayor Bowser,
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who traveled to Delaware, a so-called high risk state to attend Joe Biden's victory speech. That was
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essential travel though. You understand, of course, essential. Also Nancy Pelosi, who went to get her
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hair did at a salon that was supposed to be closed. Same for Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, violating
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her stay at home order for the same reason. Mayor of Philadelphia, who was, who banned indoor dining,
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but traveled to Maryland to dine indoors anyway. And of course, Gavin Newsom and his infamous indoor
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dinner party and New York mayor, Bill de Blasio, who went to the gym, uh, as the pandemic raged
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and Governor Blackface of Virginia, who was spotted maskless at a beach. Governor Cuomo,
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who invited his elderly mother for Thanksgiving, even after telling everyone else not to be around
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their families on Thanksgiving. And the mayor of Denver, who told everyone to avoid travel
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right before getting on a plane to travel. And Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuhl, who we,
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uh, you heard about a few days ago, who dined outdoors hours after voting to ban outdoor dining.
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And the list goes on. Mary Margaret Olhan, uh, with the daily caller has a comprehensive list
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on their website that you should, you should go check out. It's even worse than you think. I mean,
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those are just a few of the, the lowlights. There's, uh, many more that have been caught,
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but somehow Steve Adler manages to rise to the top of this heap of hypocrites. He was on vacation in a
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foreign country while telling everyone else to not so much as leave their homes. This is hypocrisy
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so blatant as to almost be cliched. And it brings to mind again, and this is a fact we cannot forget,
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that the people behind these restrictions are not impacted by them. Also the people cheering them on
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in media are not impacted by them. When the talking heads on CNN night after night lecture Americans for
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not obeying, for not following the stay-at-home orders, for opposing the restrictions,
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they deliver the lecture from a television studio in which they are paid to work.
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I'm paid to work in this studio. Even if Nashville gets shut down again,
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I could still go to work. Somehow my job is considered essential. You know, um, who am I then
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to earn a paycheck at my essential job, quote unquote, while telling you that you should sit
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home and let your children go hungry. Now I'm not the most empathetic guy in the world, but that would
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be cruelty and selfishness beyond even my capabilities, if you can believe it. And the thing is, um, my job
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is essential. You know, that's true. My job is absolutely essential to me. I doubt it's very essential to
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your life, but it's essential to my life and my family. It's how I earn a living. It's how I put food on
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the table. It's how I pay for the bill at the doctors when I, when my children are sick. So it's
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very essential to me. Your job is essential to you. All jobs are essential. That's not a bumper
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sticker slogan. They might put that on the poster boards at the protests, but it's also true. It's
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more than a slogan. All jobs are essential because someone depends on it for survival. It might be only
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one person depending on it. It could be a house full of people. It could be more than that, depending on what
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the job is, but someone does. Someone depends on it. And that makes it, it makes it essential by any
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reasonable measure, by any reasonable definition of the term. But don't take it from me. I want to
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play for you what is perhaps, I think the most compelling piece of video to come out of this
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crisis. This is from Michigan where a ban on indoor dining is in effect, um, which is of course decimating
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the restaurant industry in the state and financially destroying thousands of people. Now outdoor dining
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is still allowed, but it's 40 degrees right now in Detroit. Last I checked, you know, people aren't
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eating outside in 40 degree temperatures. Also not every restaurant has the space to set up outdoor
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dining. You hear people sometimes say, well, just, you just do outdoor dining. Well, that assumes first
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of all, that you, you have space outside that you own as a restaurant where you could put tables. A lot
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of restaurants don't have that. And also the state of Michigan has very specific rules about what
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qualifies as outdoors and what doesn't. And we know anytime the government gets involved,
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you're going to, even simple things become complicated. And now we need pages and pages
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of rules to just tell us what outdoors is. And, uh, and a lot of things that seem like they're
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outdoors actually aren't, it turns out, for example, a brewery in the state, this is from an article in
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eater.com. A brewery spent all summer setting up an outdoor area with heaters and, and, uh, and, uh,
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kind of like a large sort of barn like structure, uh, protection from the elements, a lot of air
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circulation, the whole nine yards. But when the state passed its indoor dining bin, the owner of
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the restaurant discovered that according to their definition, his outdoor space is actually
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indoors. So he wasted all that time and money for something he can't use. And they didn't tell him
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he couldn't use it until the very last minute. He spent all that time making it. And then they come
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and say, Oh, you know what? You can't, this, this doesn't count. The article says that he's
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quote, disappointed. Something tells me that that's probably an understatement. If it were me,
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I think I'd be less disappointed and more burning with the fiery rage of a thousand suns.
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Oh, but by the way, um, it does count as outdoors. If you put the diners in plastic domes.
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Okay. So those, those, uh, small, you know, those, the, maybe you've seen them, the plus small
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plastic, claustrophobic bubble domes, those that's fine. You can do that. That counts as outdoors.
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The virus can easily be spread. Somehow this is considered safer than just having people sit
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inside a building and somehow a plastic dome outside a plastic dome is considered outside,
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but a large physical structure with airflow and heating that is not outside. It's all arbitrary
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and outrageous, of course, and people's lives are being ruined because of it, which brings us then
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to the video. I mentioned Dave Morris, the owner of DNR daily grind restaurant in Michigan has decided
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to keep his restaurant open for indoor dining. Uh, he's not shutting down. He's been fined a thousand
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dollars a day since the new order went into effect. I think he's up to a $6,000 now in counting,
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but he has no plans of backing down. And when a local news station showed up to report on the story,
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Dave appeared suddenly on camera and, uh, here's what he had to say.
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Is everything okay? Okay. Our government leaders have abandoned me. Are you, are you the owner?
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$4 trillion of stimulus money and gave it to who? Special interest groups and campaign donors. I'm
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Dave Morris. I own the place. So what's going on? What's going on? You know what's going on. Tell me,
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you tell me, Hey, we've got a government that has taken the stimulus money. They gave it to special
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campaign donors. They gave it to special interest. They abandoned me and they have put me in a
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position where I have to fight back. Okay. So do you feel that this is the right thing to do?
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Absolutely. I feel everybody needs to stand up. Hey, listen, there was enough money to give every
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family, every family in this country, $20,000 to go home for two months. They chose to give it to
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special interest and campaign donors, the Kennedy space center. And they abandoned us. So you could
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have given me money. I'd gladly walk away for 60 days and let this virus settle down. I'm not going
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to do it alone. Okay. Are you going to continue to violate the state's orders and stay open state
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order? This isn't an order. This is a conspiracy. This is a tyranny. What do you want to tell other
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restaurant owners who wake up, stand up? This is America. Be free. I got patriots coming out,
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supporting me. That is a great stuff. And everything he said there's correct. His math
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is correct too, by the way, $3 trillion divided between all the families in America, all the
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households, about 110, 120 million or so would work out to 20 or $25,000 for everybody. Now I'm
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normally the last person to advocate for government handouts, but this is not a handout. So I'm still
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not advocating for a handout. The government is telling people they can't go to work and earn
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money. The government is shutting down entire industries. You can't do that and then give
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people a couple thousand bucks and expect it to last for months or longer. The government is
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stealing from the American people, telling you that you can't work and then giving you nothing
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in compensation. That's stealing. We're not talking about welfare here or debt forgiveness for student
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loans or anything like that. We're talking about the state depriving its citizens of the ability to
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work and earn a living. The state then has an obligation to compensate for lost wages.
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That's the point that Dave Morris is making and it's a good one. And that's what I like about this
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video too. Dave is not an activist. He's not someone showboating, you know, or strutting for the cameras.
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He doesn't have a poster board. Uh, there are no slogans here. You can tell he's not looking to be
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famous. He's not looking for attention. And actually he's perfectly willing to cooperate with the
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stay at home orders and the dining ban and all that, but he can't do it if he's not compensated.
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He can't just sit at home with no money and no business. He's not willing to do that. And he
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shouldn't be. Nobody should be willing to cooperate with this scam. That's why we need more Dave
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Morris's in the world, a lot more. The government has seized power that it will not relinquish easily
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in New York, just to show you how bad it's gotten. They're now doing sting operations and arresting
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restaurant owners who serve food inside. Yes. Sting operations. They're sending an undercover
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police to order like a hamburger. And if they get the hamburger, then person's going to jail.
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The powers that be are desperate to retain the control they've gained over our lives.
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Men like Dave Morris are desperate just to survive. The clash between these two groups is coming.
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And I know whose side I'll be on. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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So there was a rally down in Georgia yesterday with Lynn Wood, supposed Trump supporting attorney
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and Sidney Powell and some others. And they were urging Republicans to potentially not vote
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in the Georgia runoff. Here's the report from Daily Wire. It says Georgia based attorney Lynn
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Wood, an alleged Trump supporter, urged Trump supporters on Tuesday evening in the state to
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quote, not vote in the Senate runoff unless the two Republican Senate candidates publicly demanded
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that Georgia Republican governor Brian Kemp call an emergency session in the legislator to
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investigate alleged voter fraud. However, news reports that surfaced late on Tuesday evening
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appeared to show that Wood has a history of voting for and donating to Democrats.
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Eric Erickson, he's a conservative commentator, highlighted alleged political contributions that
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Wood has made to Democrats. And so he lists a bunch. March 2008, Wood contributed to Barack Obama,
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allegedly, and then a bunch of contributions to Obama, John Edwards. And it goes on from there. So
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this has been, this has been the, you know, the news people are arguing about right now that this
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attorney who's telling people to Republicans potentially to stay home and not vote is, you know,
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has supported Democrats. Now for me, that's not, I don't really care about that. That's not the point
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for me. I mean, there's a lot of people who 10 years ago, 12 years ago, 14 years ago, or whatever,
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supported Democrats and don't anymore. That's, that's, that's relatively common. And there's
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good reason for that. And the Democrat party has just gotten crazier and crazier with each passing
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day. And so there are more and more people leaving as they should. So that for me is not the point.
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Yeah. I really don't care who he's voted for in the past. The point though, forget about what he's done
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in the past. Let's look at right now. Anyone, I don't care who they are and what their name is.
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If they are at all, even entertaining the idea that Republicans should stay home and not vote in
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Georgia, whoever does that is a con artist and a scam artist. You, you are, you are handing the,
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the Senate and control the government, the entire government to the Democrats. I mean, we, it is
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hard to even imagine how bad it could be if the Democrats control everything. Now I've been the
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first to say in the past that, you know, some of the, some of the apocalyptic sort of hand wringing
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we do over elections is overplayed because, you know, you win some, you lose some Democrats win,
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Republicans win. Uh, it's not going to be the end of the world just because the wrong party is in
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there. But with that said, this would still be very, very, very bad news for the Democrats to
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control everything. You know, the Democrats are out for revenge. They're out for blood.
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We know what they want to do. They've already made it clear. They want to defund the police.
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They want to pack the court. You know, they want to add Senate seats, statehood for, you know,
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DC, Puerto Rico. They want to do things to, to, to make it so that they never lose again.
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And that's just to start with. So yes, keeping, keeping the Senate out of their hands, out of
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their control is priority number one right now. And I'll tell you what's going to happen.
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You've got some of these con artists telling Republicans to stay home in Georgia. And so what's
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going to happen is that Democrats will win. That that's, that's what happens. If your voters stay
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home, the other team wins. So the scam artists are saying, stay home and don't vote. And then
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Democrats win. And then the scam artists will say, you see, they cheated. That's why they won. No,
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they cheated because you told everyone to stay home. You were working for the other side and
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pretending that you're working on our side. And then they're going to say, you'll see, they cheated.
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Now just donate some more money to me personally, put my name, make it out to me personally and I'll
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help save the Republic. It is such an obvious transparent scam. And I don't know how anyone
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could fail to see it. There is no defending this whatsoever. If you're telling people to stay home
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in Georgia, telling Republicans to stay home in Georgia, you are handing the Senate to Democrats
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and everything that happens after this is on you. It's your fault. Socialism comes to America.
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You can't turn around and complain about it and try to fundraise off of it. Donate to me. I'll help
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fight socialism. You put socialism in there. It's absolutely infuriating. All right, let's go to
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number two, uh, article in the Houston Chronicle about the upstart conservative social media app
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Parler. I don't know if you've been on this, this site yet Parler. Uh, I recently started an account,
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but things are not going terribly well, I suppose. Um, Houston Chronicle says anyone falling,
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following the hashtag sexy Trump girl hashtag on Twitter on Parler, a social media site,
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increasingly popular with conservatives got an eyeful, uh, one recent Thursday evening as images
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of topless women and links to hardcore pornography websites appeared at a rapid fire rates,
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often more than one per minute. I kind of feel like if you're clicking on that hashtag,
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that's probably what you were looking for. So I probably not a surprise, but anyway, it goes into
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how, um, pornographers allegedly, supposedly are taken over the site. Now you have to,
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there's always a grain of salt when you see media articles about Parler because it's known as a
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conservative social media app and the media doesn't like it for that reason. And so they've got a,
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they've got a, they've got a, they have a reason to make it sound worse than it actually is.
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I will say, I don't know about the pornography aspect of it. I haven't seen that.
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For me, the problem with Parler is, um, well, it's got two, two big problems.
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Number one, there's, there's no innovation with the function of the site. So you look at all the,
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the social media sites that have, that have taken off and managed to seize a size of the market,
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you know, a portion of the market, there's something about them. That's a little bit different
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functionally. There's some sort of functional innovation with Parler. There isn't, it's just
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sort of a Twitter knockoff. And the other problem too, is that, is that it's kind of a,
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an echo chamber right now. If you go there, everybody is conservative, just talking. We're
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all just talking to each other about how right we are, which is kind of nice every once in a while,
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but it's not nearly as fun. So that's, um, that's a real problem. Then the third problem
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Parler runs into is that, uh, they don't have billions and billions. This is the main problem.
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They don't have billions and billions of dollars, which I think is what you really need in order to
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have a chance to, um, to make a dent in Twitter or Facebook. But, um, I think they're worth
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supporting because I support the, I support the idea. I like what they're trying to do at least.
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All right. Um, so we've got it. We got ourselves number three here, another anonymous racist notes.
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This one was allegedly left under the door of a woman in an apartment complex in Boston.
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Um, also MAGA country in Boston, just like Chicago. She, she posted the screenshot of the letter
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typed up very nicely. Uh, it's a typed letter that someone supposedly left for her. And, uh, and she
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also, and you know, I'm not saying you could draw any conclusions from this at all, but she also,
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uh, included along with the screenshot of the racist letter in the Twitter thread, she included a link
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to her business. That's it. So she was, she's basically saying, Hey, I was a victim of a racist
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hate crime. And also, also by the way, buy my stuff while you're here. Anyway. So the note says that,
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you seem to have no respect for others, huh? You seem to think you can move into a new building
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without abiding by the rules of morality or have any concern for anyone else, but yourself
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who uses a blender at 10 AM. That does. I mean, using a blender at maybe 6 AM, I think might violate
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the rules of morality, depending on how thin your walls are 10 AM. I think you're in blender territory.
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Um, you're playing rap music. So early in the morning, please put away the N word music. Only
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N words. Listen to N word music. Can you listen to something more peaceful, more calming? It's very
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rude. It's entirely rude. Please learn to have some respect and please stop having sexual relations.
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So that way, hold on. Actually, it says what it's supposed to say is please stop having sexual
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relations. So loud. I promise you, it's not that good, sweetie. You don't need to wake everybody up.
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Learn to have manners and be respectful. What it actually says though, is please stop having
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sexual rations. So loud, sexual rations. That's, um, I mean, that's one way of putting it. You know,
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you go to your spouse, Hey honey, I'd, um, like to get one of my sexual rations this evening.
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Uh, another weird thing though, is that she has pronouns in her bio and she identifies herself as
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quote, queer earthy Afro Latina. So I tell you what the weird thing about that is that it's,
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I don't know if you've noticed this. It's always the most liberal left-wing far left people who get
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these racist notes. Have you noticed that? It's always like left-wing activists, people with
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pronouns in the bio. They have the worst luck. They're always the ones who happen to stumble across
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these incredibly racist people that none of us are meeting. The rest of us, we never meet these
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people. It's only them. It's only the, the far left pronouns in bio people who meet the, the most
00:23:03.160
racist ones. It's really bad luck, I guess, or it's just a total scam. I'm thinking more of the
00:23:10.800
latter. Number four, Barack Obama had something to say about the defund the police slogan. Uh, and what
00:23:16.420
he had to say about it has upset a lot of people on the left anyway, who are now sort of turning on
00:23:20.780
him and saying, what does he know? Um, and, uh, here's what he had to say. It's no different in
00:23:27.160
terms of ideas. If you believe as, as I do, that we should be able to reform the criminal justice
00:23:32.800
system so that it's not biased and treats everybody fairly, I guess you can use a snappy
00:23:39.780
slogan like defund the police, but you know, you've lost a big audience the minute you say it,
00:23:45.700
which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done.
00:23:49.120
But if you instead say, let's reform the police department so that everybody's being treated
00:23:54.320
fairly, you know, divert young people from getting into crime. And if there's a homeless
00:23:59.360
guy, can maybe we send a mental health worker there instead of an armed unit that could end
00:24:05.400
up resulting in a tragedy. Suddenly a whole bunch of folks who might not otherwise listen
00:24:10.440
to you are listening to you. So the key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done or
00:24:15.740
do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with? And if you want to get
00:24:19.900
something done in a democracy, in a country as big and diverse as ours, then you, you've
00:24:25.100
got to be able to meet people where they are and play a game of addition and not subtraction.
00:24:30.640
Yeah. So he's, uh, the left's very upset about that. Uh, the squad, they're very upset about it.
00:24:36.820
And yeah, like I said, they're, they're saying, what, what does this guy know about, about how
00:24:41.060
to succeed politically? I mean, he's, he's only the most successful Democrat politician in the last
00:24:46.680
several decades, which maybe isn't saying much, but, uh, but now they're, they're, they've decided
00:24:52.760
he doesn't know what he's talking about. And you know, I have no dog in his fight really, but I will
00:24:57.020
say that just to be, to be clear about this, Barack Obama is not saying that we shouldn't defund the
00:25:04.500
police. What he's saying is we shouldn't say we're defunding the police. So what he's trying
00:25:10.320
to say to the crazy leftist is listen, you want to be crazy. That's fine. Just don't be so obvious
00:25:16.160
about it. So I, he, he, he's, he's, he's giving them advice on how to brand this. Um, but they're
00:25:24.500
not going to listen to it, which is good. I'm glad they don't listen to him. I would encourage them to
00:25:28.980
not listen to him, uh, because defund the police as a slogan is a total loser. The idea itself is
00:25:37.520
also a loser, of course, but, uh, the only chance they have of, of actually, of actually enacting
00:25:43.440
this idea is to come up with a different word for it, a different phrase. And usually the left,
00:25:47.220
they're very good at this. This is one thing the left is very good at normally with euphemisms
00:25:51.680
coming up with different words that mean something, you know, to, to, to cloak the, the horrible
00:25:56.940
things that they're doing with abortion, you know, is the number one prime example of this.
00:26:02.160
Think of all the euphemisms that they have covered this subject in reproductive rights,
00:26:07.340
you know, which, which is, which is one big euphemism because as I've said many times,
00:26:12.960
abortion has nothing to do with reproductive rights because the abortion happens after reproduction
00:26:18.240
has already occurred. So normally the left, they do that and they have a lot of success in this case.
00:26:23.840
The mistake they're making really is they're just being honest.
00:26:26.940
And, and Obama is saying, stop being honest guys. They're not interested in that five. Finally,
00:26:33.520
um, this isn't really a headline per se, but I mentioned this because I, I believe that it's
00:26:39.440
important to be a man of your word. If you say you're going to do something, do it. You know,
00:26:45.100
if you make a deal, follow through, that's what I believe. But Tyler Conway of bleacher report,
00:26:51.160
it seems is not a man of his word. Um, he's a reporter for bleacher report. He tweeted to me a
00:26:58.020
couple of days ago during the discussion about Sarah Fuller, you know, the girl who did that
00:27:02.460
hilariously bad kick for Vanderbilt and then proceeded to win. You know, she kicked it 20 yards.
00:27:07.620
She won sec specialty player of the week and everyone's hailing what a great kick it was when,
00:27:12.380
of course it was a horrible kick. But, um, and I've made that point and, uh, and Tyler Conway wanted to
00:27:18.580
white knight for Sarah, be her knight in shining armor, defend her. So he issued a challenge to me.
00:27:23.920
He said, he said that I should kick a football, film it for Twitter. And if I do, he will donate
00:27:32.200
to a charity of my choice. Now I'm not one to back away from a challenge. So I did as was requested.
00:27:40.300
So kick a football, put it on Twitter. And I did, I think we have the video. It's a, it's, this is,
00:27:44.940
you want to see real athleticism. Here it is right here. Let's play this.
00:27:51.780
That's it. Now, if you're listening and you couldn't see the kick, you missed out
00:27:55.800
because I, in my slippers in my kitchen, nudged the ball with my foot. I sent it sailing
00:28:03.560
three, four feet easily. Um, incredible kick. At least it was as good as Sarah Fuller's kick.
00:28:12.340
But the main point is I kicked the football. I, I held up my, that's all he said. He didn't say
00:28:16.280
do it on a football field. He didn't say has to, you know, go through the uprights or anything.
00:28:20.340
That was the challenge. But of course, uh, he, he backed away. And, um, and I, I, I, I, I did that
00:28:26.780
kick and I said, okay, you can donate to the, to the national right to life committee. Um, big pro-life
00:28:32.640
organization. And in order to, uh, uh, I guess his way of dunking on me was to instead donate to
00:28:41.300
Planned Parenthood. You donate a hundred dollars to Planned Parenthood. And that's how it ended up.
00:28:44.460
So he's not following through on what he said, but also I just thought this was interesting because
00:28:49.400
your, your version of a dunk here is to burn your own money. Essentially is to waste a hundred dollars
00:28:55.660
of your own money, sending it to a billion dollar corporation that by the way, already gets your
00:29:01.020
money. They, they already get $500 million a year from us. You're going to give them a hundred
00:29:06.260
dollars more. They don't really need it. So essentially what he's saying is, oh yeah,
00:29:10.880
I'll show you. Pulls out a hundred dollars, sets it on fire. How do you like that?
00:29:17.020
But, um, anyway, there was my kick. That's my athleticism. Maybe I should kick for Vanderbilt
00:29:22.840
next. They are right down the street. We're in Nashville now. So, you know, I'm a big believer
00:29:26.460
that, uh, we have to continue learning and, and, you know, even, even if, after you get
00:29:32.400
out of school, whether you go to college or you don't, I didn't go to college, it doesn't
00:29:35.320
matter. You have to continue learning. And that means reading. Uh, you have to be, you
00:29:39.160
have to read in order to learn and to be just an interesting and well-adjusted, intelligent
00:29:44.080
person. The problem though, is finding the time to read. And I can say that, uh, that, uh,
00:29:48.400
you know, I'm usually a pretty big reader, but ever since I, I relocated to Nashville, uh, just
00:29:53.660
the whole process of moving and everything, it's eaten up a whole lot of my time. I haven't
00:29:56.620
had the same amount of time that I usually do to sit down with a book. And that's why
00:29:59.820
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00:30:18.340
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00:30:22.900
Jordan Peterson's book, of course, whatever it is. And I'll, you know, many, many books
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Today, we're going to have to cancel Harry Styles again, or perhaps it's not so much Harry
00:33:06.380
Styles were canceling as the legions of cult-like plebs who pretend that everything he does is
00:33:11.500
brilliant and beautiful. You probably recall the ruckus last week when Styles appeared in a magazine
00:33:16.420
in women's clothes and Candace Owens, who will soon be having a show here on the daily wire,
00:33:22.320
dared to suggest that men should not be wearing skirts and dresses and should instead be masculine
00:33:27.680
as God and nature intended. Well, the story sort of died down until yesterday when Styles issued a
00:33:33.580
clap back to Owens. Now I use the term clap back because that is the term used by literally
00:33:39.000
dozens of news outlets in their headlines about the story. Just Google Harry Styles clap back and
00:33:44.620
then, you know, hit the news button. Dozens of these headlines. Harry Styles claps back at Candace
00:33:51.040
Owens. They use that term because we live in an exceedingly stupid society where once self-respecting
00:33:57.140
news outlets use teenage lingo in their headlines. But in any case, here is Harry Styles and his
00:34:02.760
clap back, his, I'm told, devastating, brilliant, genius, incredible, life-changing, historic
00:34:08.740
clap back, possibly the cleverest comeback in the history of comebacks. And here it is. It's an
00:34:13.820
Instagram post of Harry Styles in what appears to be Seinfeld's puffy shirt, or there might be a blouse
00:34:20.040
stitched together from his grandmother's tablecloth. I'm not sure. And he's eating a banana and the caption
00:34:25.620
says, bring, bring back manly men, which is what Candace Owens had said. So that's a clap back.
00:34:34.040
Now, a few things here. First of all, are we really going to pretend that this man doesn't look stupid
00:34:40.420
as hell in that ridiculous outfit? The problem here is not that it's womanly. I've never seen a woman
00:34:46.220
dressed like that or any human. If my wife walked into the room wearing that, I would immediately
00:34:52.520
stage an intervention, assuming that she's high on heroin. Second, I want you to imagine something
00:34:58.680
for a moment. Just imagine what would happen if a white conservative male celebrity, what few exist,
00:35:07.660
were to issue a clap back to a black liberal woman with a picture of himself eating a banana.
00:35:14.880
Imagine how that would be received. Imagine what assumptions would be made.
00:35:19.140
You know, we're at a point right now where you can simply move your fingers a certain way. You can
00:35:24.540
make a circle with your index and thumb like this, and you'll be accused of sending racist messages.
00:35:30.300
Right now, I'm sending a racist message, supposedly. Almost anything is a racist dog whistle these days.
00:35:37.500
So how is this picture of a guy eating a banana meant as a diss to a black woman, not a racist dog
00:35:43.240
whistle? Now, to be clear, I don't actually think that Harry Styles meant it that way.
00:35:47.300
Um, I don't really want to speculate on what he's doing with that banana on camera,
00:35:51.620
much less what he'll do with it off camera. But we all know damn well what kinds of speculation
00:35:57.420
the media would be doing if the politics were reversed here. The explosions of outrage would
00:36:02.160
be nuclear. The offender would have already issued multiple tearful apologies, which would not be
00:36:08.060
enough to stop him from getting dropped from every project and partnership he's a part of.
00:36:11.380
That's how it would go. But because Candace is a conservative, none of that applies.
00:36:16.440
In fact, Harry Styles, he could probably actually come out and say that he meant it in a racist way,
00:36:20.900
and it still wouldn't bother anyone on the left or in the media. Because they believe that if you're
00:36:25.420
a conservative, you don't deserve basic human decency. So no treatment towards you can be out of
00:36:32.120
bounds. You could be shot dead, as we've seen, by some Antifa radical in the street,
00:36:38.620
and they still won't say that you didn't deserve it. So this goes for racist treatment too, of
00:36:43.760
course. And this is double true for female conservatives and black conservatives and
00:36:49.040
doubly, doubly true for black female conservatives, because they're not only horrible people for being
00:36:53.980
conservative, but they're also traitors, as the logic goes. Third point, um, you know, I'm talking
00:37:00.080
about conservatives here, but Candace's original point is not really a conservative point. It's not a
00:37:06.720
political point. It's just a normal, natural, human, healthy observation. She's saying that she
00:37:15.760
wants men to be masculine. She wants men to live up to their masculine potential. That's what she wants
00:37:21.820
from men as a woman. And I got news for you. That's what almost all women who have ever lived on earth
00:37:28.340
have wanted from men. That's not to say that all women have the same taste in men, but generally
00:37:34.280
speaking, almost all women, the vast, vast majority, since the dawn of human civilization have desired
00:37:40.360
that men be masculine, strong, protectors, providers, more stoic and rational than emotional
00:37:47.880
and sensitive. There are varying degrees. There are different tastes and priorities, of course,
00:37:52.060
but there are also general statements we can make about what most women have wanted in men throughout
00:37:58.360
history. Just as there are general statements we can make about what most men have wanted in women.
00:38:02.620
Again, since the dawn of time, most men have wanted women who are affectionate, maternal,
00:38:06.980
feminine, empathetic, caretakers, et cetera. Now we can't, I suppose, discuss whether these ideals are
00:38:12.820
good or right or whatever. I would say they absolutely are good and right. And that societies
00:38:17.600
which produce feminine women and masculine men tend to thrive. In fact, societies cannot thrive unless
00:38:23.300
there is some kind of general idea about what roles men and women are supposed to play within it.
00:38:28.240
But my point, even before we get to the discussion about whether these traditional gender role
00:38:34.240
ideas are right, is simply that they are entirely normal and natural and human. Candace Owens,
00:38:42.800
in saying that she finds it ridiculous and off-putting when men prance around in women's clothes,
00:38:49.320
is expressing the view of literally billions of women on earth, past and present. The left reacts to this
00:38:57.020
normal expression, this normal view, not just by calling it wrong, but by acting as though it's insane,
00:39:04.700
irrational, bizarre, crazy. You aren't just incorrect for thinking that men shouldn't cross-dress.
00:39:10.940
You're a freak, a weirdo, a nut job. This is the game they play. They do the same thing with drag queen
00:39:17.200
story hour, with children being given hormone pills, people declaring themselves to be genderqueer,
00:39:22.540
pansexual aliens, or whatever. They are the ones introducing this bizarre and disturbing thing,
00:39:28.760
but they act like you are the eccentric wacko if you don't immediately accept it.
00:39:34.020
They want to make normalcy seem abnormal. They seek to make what is natural seem perverse and what
00:39:40.280
is perverse seem natural. It is a massive game of overcompensation, you could say. And as a tactic,
00:39:46.260
it's extremely effective. You know, they do something weird, like have a drag queens dressed
00:39:53.160
like Tim Burton character show up to the library to read LGBT propaganda to four-year-olds. And if you
00:39:58.700
say, yeah, you know, I don't think I really am in favor of this. I don't, I don't like it. They go,
00:40:05.420
what? You have a problem with this? You don't like this? What? What are you, some kind of degenerate?
00:40:10.860
And it works. Lots of people, upon receiving that reaction, throw up their hands and say,
00:40:18.080
okay, okay, never mind. Do what you want. Jeez. All right. I forget I said anything.
00:40:23.500
That's, that is essentially what, what most of America says to the left. It's that they don't
00:40:27.520
agree with them. They just say, all right, just fine. Do what you want. Comparatively few people
00:40:33.300
have the gumption and the guts to be met with that onslaught and to say, yes, I do have a problem
00:40:38.500
with it. Now stop being hysterical. You're the degenerates, not me. Get this crap out of the
00:40:44.920
library. Very few will do that. Even though the vast majority of people think it's weird and creepy,
00:40:51.360
few will say it out loud. And even fewer will keep saying it, even when the pitchfork mob shows up at
00:40:56.700
their door. And so the left gets away with making what is normal abnormal and what is abnormal normal.
00:41:02.100
They are trying to cancel normalcy in effect, but today they are canceled instead for what it's
00:41:10.960
worth, which admittedly probably is not much, but there it is. And we'll leave it there for today.
00:41:16.820
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