Ep. 620 - Execute Criminals, Not Babies
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The left is in mourning over the execution of a convicted murderer. They accused pro-lifers of being hypocrites. But today we ll talk about why their position, that the death penalty is okay for babies but not for criminals, is really deranged and incoherent. Also, five headlines, including Rush Limbaugh, causing waves by bringing up the possibility of secession, I think that secession would be not a terrible idea, and I ll explain why. Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on The Matt Wray Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left is in mourning over the execution of a convicted
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murderer by the federal government last night. They accused pro-lifers of being hypocrites
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because some of us support the death penalty. But today we'll talk about why their position,
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that the death penalty is okay for babies but not for criminals, is really deranged and
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incoherent. Also, five headlines, including Rush Limbaugh, causing waves by bringing up
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the possibility of secession. I think that secession would be not a terrible idea,
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and I'll explain why, plus our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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were stricken by grief, mourning the death of a man named Bernard, Brandon Bernard. He was,
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as is so often the case with those the left choose to mourn, a convicted criminal. One of five federal
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executions scheduled to be carried out between this week and inauguration. If all of these executions
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are performed, it will make 13 total since July. And Donald Trump will be, as the BBC has labeled him,
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the quote, most prolific execution president in more than a century. The Huffington Post was
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slightly less reserved accusing Trump of going on an end of office killing spree. Now, it remains to be
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seen whether all of these executions in the coming weeks will provoke the same level of performative
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outrage and sorrow. In Bernard's case, if you happen to check Twitter on the night of his lethal injection,
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you might be forgiven for thinking that a Nobel winning human rights champion or war hero had met
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his demise. Kim Kardashian, especially broken up about it all, called Bernard amazing, hopeful,
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positive, and quote, selfless as always. As always. Elsewhere, we were urged to say his name and
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remember his name, to mark down the day of his death and remember it as a historical outrage and
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atrocity. Many news outlets published articles decrying the execution. Now, if you're wondering
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what Brandon Bernard actually did to earn this punishment, you'll have to read quite far down
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into these articles to find the crime described in any great detail, if it's described at all.
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But here's an account of Bernard's crime from the DOJ website. Here's what they say.
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It says, Brandon Bernard and his accomplices brutally murdered two youth ministers, Todd and Stacey Bagley,
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on a military reservation in 1999. After Todd Bagley agreed to give a ride to several of Bernard's
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accomplices, they pointed a gun at him, forced him and Stacey into the trunk of their car,
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and drove the couple around for hours while attempting to steal their money and pawn Stacey's
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wedding ring. While locked in the trunk, the couple spoke with their abductors about God,
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pleaded for their lives. The abductors eventually parked on the Fort Hood military reservation where
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Bernard and another accomplice doused the car with lighter fluid as the couple, still locked in the
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trunk, sang and prayed. After Stacey said, Jesus loves you and Jesus take care of us, one of the
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accomplices shot both Todd and Stacey in the head, killing Todd and knocking Stacey unconscious.
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Bernard then lit the car on fire, killing Stacey through smoke inhalation.
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Now, Bernard's many defenders cried that he made a mistake, did a bad thing, quote,
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made poor choices, to use Kim Kardashian's phrasing. But, you know, we shouldn't execute him
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now because of it, they say. Yes, but kidnapping two people, driving them around in the trunk of
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their car while they beg for their lives, then murdering them in cold blood and burning their
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bodies is not merely a poor choice. It is vile, unspeakable, unthinkable, shocking evil. It's the
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kind of choice that once you make it, you have forfeited your right to live in a civilized society.
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In our country, you know, we don't execute people for stealing a loaf of bread or voicing an offensive
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opinion or criticizing the government. We don't even execute people for much more serious crimes
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like sexual assault and child abuse. In order to earn the death penalty, you have to really earn it.
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You must act with a level of cruelty and depravity and indifference that just sends shivers down the
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spine of any person with a conscience. Brandon Bernard acted in that way and received the
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punishment he deserved because of it. Now, speaking of depraved indifference and cruelty,
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the next person in line for a federal execution set to be carried out today, I believe, in fact,
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is Alfred Bergeau. Now, already some on the left are rallying to his defense. Bergeau was convicted
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in 2002 of killing his two-year-old daughter. He beat her to death by bashing her head against the
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windshield and dashboard of his truck. This was his final act of savagery towards the child who he
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had already molested and tortured, whipped her, burned her. The others on deck are Lisa Montgomery
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strangled a pregnant woman to death, cut her open and kidnapped her baby, Corey Johnson convicted of
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murdering seven people, and Dustin John Higgs found guilty in the murder and kidnapping of three women.
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Now, surveying this collection of bloodthirsty monsters, I find no reason to shed any tears except
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for their victims whose stories are not told and whose names are not put on the poster boards or made
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into hashtags. But with that said, you know, I don't begrudge those who take a principled and
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consistent stand against the death penalty in all cases. I used to hold that view myself. It's not
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unreasonable to argue that the government simply shouldn't execute anybody, no matter how monstrous
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they may be. I've come to find that argument flawed, but it's a perfectly valid and cogent
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argument all the same. The problem is that a great many of the people rushing to defend
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men like Brandon Bernard and Alfred Bergeau are not making valid and cogent arguments.
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The anti-death penalty argument is primarily advanced by those who do not have the intellectual or moral
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credibility to defend it. Their answer to the question, who do we have the right to kill,
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is so impossibly deranged that you wonder how a person can hold such a view and still manage to
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sleep at night or look themselves in the mirror. So let's never forget that when someone on the left
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speaks out against capital punishment, insisting as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley did last
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night that we abolish the death penalty. They do not actually want to abolish the death penalty in all
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cases. Rather, they wish to abolish the death penalty for convicted criminals while still giving the death
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penalty to children. The pro-abortion slash anti-death penalty position suggests that a man who tortures and
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rapes a toddler before crushing her skull against the windshield of his car has the right to live,
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but a child in the womb doesn't. Greater moral standing is given to the mass murderers and child
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killers than unborn infants. Much greater because the infant has absolutely no moral standing at all
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by this way of thinking. I mean, remember that. The pro-abortion people, they believe that the child
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in the womb has zero moral standing. None. I can understand the argument that both the baby and
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the criminal have the right to life. I don't agree with it, but it's coherent. I can even understand
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the nihilistic argument that neither have the right to life. Nobody has a right to life. Again,
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I certainly don't agree with that, but it's coherent. But the argument that only the criminal
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has the right to life and the child has no right to life is completely incoherent morally and
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intellectually. It doesn't even rise to the level of nihilism. It's something even more debased and a
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whole lot more confused. But the irony is that the people who advocate for executing children,
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but not child killers, will often make the hypocrisy charge against those who take the opposite view.
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We hear this over and over again. We heard it a lot last night. They insist that somehow it's
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inconsistent and convoluted to be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty. But there is nothing
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illogical or strange about this position at all. I mean, even some pro-lifers will make this same
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case that somehow there's an inconsistency here. No. We who hold this position believe that it is
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always wrong to intentionally kill a defenseless and innocent person. Those are the three qualifiers,
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intentionally kill, defenseless, innocent. We do not believe that it is always wrong to kill anyone
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at all under any circumstance. Almost nobody believes that, save Quakers and the rare libertarian
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who actually takes his rhetoric to its logical conclusion. Everybody else accepts that sometimes
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it's okay to kill a person. Now, we, who hold this view, suggest that sometimes includes self-defense,
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war, and executing convicted murderers. The left would say that sometimes means perhaps self-defense
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and war and also babies in the womb. That's their position. That is the inconsistent position.
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That is what makes no sense whatsoever. No moral sense anyway. So this is not ground that we concede
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to them and, and, and, and pretend that there's some sort of inconsistency in being pro-life and
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pro-death penalty. I'll say it again one more time, just, just to be very clear about this.
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Our position is that it's wrong to execute babies, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to execute a man who,
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for example, beats his two-year-old daughter to death against the windshield. That's the position.
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Their position is utterly deranged, completely incoherent. And we should remember that, especially
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in the days ahead when they are lamenting, uh, these executions carried out against people who
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absolutely deserved it, deserve it, and have earned it. And it's as simple as that. Now let's get to our
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gotten a lot of attention this week. Media Matters highlighted it because I guess we're supposed to
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be disturbed or offended or something by it, by this clip from Rush Limbaugh. Um, but, but, you know,
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I know that when Media Matters highlights my supposedly offensive moments, the clips that
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they pull are always my best stuff. They always pull stuff where I'm like, yeah, I, that's,
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that's pretty good. That's you guys did a good job. Thank you for the promotion. Um, and they do the
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same thing here with Rush because this clip, which is supposed to be extremist and offensive, I find to
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be quite insightful and correct as is often the case with Rush Limbaugh. Uh, take a listen.
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I actually think, and I've referenced this, I've alluded to this a couple of times,
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because I've seen others alluded to this. I actually think that we're trending toward
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secession. I see more and more people asking what in the world do we have in common with
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the people who live in say New York? What is there that makes us believe that there is enough
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of us there to even have a chance at winning New York, especially if you're talking about votes?
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I see a lot of bloggers. I can't think of names right now. A lot of bloggers have written
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extensively about how distant and separated and how much more separated our culture is becoming
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politically. And that it can't go on this way. There cannot be a peaceful coexistence
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of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage
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our affairs. We can't be in this dire a conflict
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without something giving somewhere along the way.
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Yeah. Um, and I, I think I'm one of those bloggers that's, uh, that's written extensively
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about this myself. And I think that's exactly right. Any, any, any, any, and, uh, I think the way
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he summarizes it there is, is, uh, well put, uh, that, that is the problem, you know, in order to,
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and I've made this point so many times, but this, this is, this is the reality that we have to deal
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with in order to have a country, um, in order to be a country, in order to be a people, we have to be
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united by something. It's right there in the name, United States of America. Okay. So we're united.
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Great. But around what? So unity just for the sake of unity is not enough. You got to be united
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around something, by something, for something. If somebody walks up to you on the street and says,
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Hey, let's unite. Your, your question is, is your, your immediate response is going to be,
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what, what do you mean for why? What are we doing? I'm not just going to clasp hands with you and,
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and, uh, run off into the sunset. I got to know what the point is here.
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So in America, what are we united by, um, around for through what is it? Is it, is it merely
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geography and that's it? Is that the only thing that holds us together as a country? Is that all
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it is now to be American is just to live here? And we know even there, the problem is that, that, uh,
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those distinctions are being erased because we have such porous borders, but even putting that aside,
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you know, pretending that our border was, was actually protected and, and, uh, and we had
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these clear geographic boundaries that, that were, that were defended. Um, still, I would say that's
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not quite enough. There's gotta be something else. Now you look at, uh, other countries around the
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world, they have a lot of commonality. You know, they've got a shared heritage. Um, they've got shared
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traditions. Um, a lot of times they have a shared religion. You know, they have, they have,
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they have many things in common. Um, we don't have that. I mean, we don't even have a shared
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language. Now you might say that, well, America has never quite been united in that way to the
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same degree as other countries, especially not religion. You know, we've never been a
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country where everybody has the same religion. Fine. Yeah. Well then what, what did it used
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to be? It used to be where we were united around the ideas, beliefs. We all had the same,
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the same basic conviction and belief in the dignity of the human person, uh, the belief
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in God, belief in liberty, these things. Now we never, we never, um, brought these ideas
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fully to fruition. We were always inconsistent in our application of them. There's, there's
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of course always been conflict around them, but at least there was some, at, at, at some
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basic level, really fundamental level, there was something there, something in common.
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And we just don't have that anymore. Uh, we don't, you know, you get, you get a bunch
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of random people in a room from all across the country and you find what can they agree
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on? Can you get agreement among these people, even a majority of these people on anything
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at all? Anything? No, they won't even be able to be able to agree on like what, uh, what's
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a, can men get pregnant? Even a question like that, but no agreement. These are people living
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in different realities is the problem. So it's not just that it's like we're living in different
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countries already. It is that, but it's like we're living in different universes, different
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realities, different, um, it's like we're living in parallel universes. We just talked about
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it in the opening monologue. I mean, someone, someone who believes, for example, that it's
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okay to execute a baby, but not a criminal. It's, it's, that's not just a difference of
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opinion with me. Okay. If that's your view, I don't even, I, I cannot understand anything
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about you. You might as well be from Mars. That is how completely deranged and incoherent
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that view is to me. I cannot relate to you on any level if that's your view.
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And so that's, that's the situation we're in now. Um, and it's not really sustainable.
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The question is, what can we do about it? Um, well, here's one, here's one. Now this was
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proposed. I think it was supposed to be sort of a joke against conservatives, but this leftist
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on Twitter, Amy Siskind, and I don't know who she is or what she does because she has me blocked.
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So I can't look at her bio, but she proposed this, um, and then deleted the tweet. She,
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she proposed it because she was trying to make fun of conservatives and then all the conservatives
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saw it. And we all said, that looks great. I love it. And so she took it down, but here's
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her suggestion. She has a proposed map of how we break things up, how we, uh, how we achieve an
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amicable divorce. And here's her map. Um, basically her idea is that the, the blue States
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will be subsumed by Canada. And so we'll form a United States of Canada. And so then, you
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know, the, the Northeast, California, the West coast, uh, all the blue States, they're
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going to go up and they're going to be part of the United States of Canada. And then the
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rest, the red States are Jesus land. And she even gave us a, we got a flag here. It's an
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American flag, but with a cross on it, pretty great flag. I like it. And, uh, and that's how,
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that's how she suggests that we break things up. I look at that. I review this proposal
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and I have to say to Mrs. Siskind, I I've reviewed your proposal and I accept your
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terms. I like it. A couple of problems. Um, now G I'll take Jesus land too. I'd like to
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still have America in the name, but, uh, I would go with Jesus land. I like the flag. I
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love the flag. Um, my only issue is here's, you know, she's got Pennsylvania going up to
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the United States of Canada. I would say, I think we keep Pennsylvania and maybe that's
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cause I just moved from Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania is mostly culturally red except
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for like Philadelphia. So what I would say is here's my suggestion. Philadelphia can, can
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be, can be taken by New Jersey. You know, New Jersey can carve out Philadelphia and then
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the rest of Pennsylvania comes to us. And in exchange, I will give Arizona to the United
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States of Canada. The only problem with this plan really is that this means that, um, that
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we in Jesus land would have no ports on the Pacific, you know? And so then there's, so
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my suggestion would be, okay, we have this, we have this divorce. Then we could very easily,
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I think, um, invade and occupy the California territory. Um, and then anyone who resists,
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we deport them up to Canada proper and we could take over those ports. That would, that'd be
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one way. We could talk about this on our own time. I don't think we should be discussing
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this publicly, but that's one way of doing, of, uh, of going about it. All right.
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Let's move on. Number two, as if to make, continue to make the point here, here's a
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talking head on MSNBC yesterday. Um, talking about how we, you know, we, we can't, we simply
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can't get along and we're living in different universes here. He is accusing Republicans
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of being mass murderers. Listen, and I understand. I mean, the real blame here is Mitch McConnell
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is the Republicans as the president is a party that does not want to help people that is working
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on one side to actually make sure the pandemic kills as many people as possible. That seems to
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be the logical consequence of their policy. And then to make sure that all the people who
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managed to survive it, despite their policy, uh, suffer economically and beyond.
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Yeah. We, we want to make sure the pandemic kills as many people as possible.
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Do you really believe that? I don't know. I'm not even sure who this guy is, but you really think
00:23:57.720
that you actually think that Republicans, tens of millions of Republicans, we actually just want
00:24:03.860
people to die. Is that really what you believe? See, either you don't believe it, but you're willing
00:24:11.660
to accuse your political rivals of something like that, um, of all being a bunch of psychopathic
00:24:16.860
killers, which is a problem, or you really do believe that about us. But either way, it goes
00:24:22.060
back to the first point. It goes back to Russia's point. How do we continue to live? If you really,
00:24:27.140
how, how could you, how could we be, how could I be in the same country with someone who thinks
00:24:30.500
I'm a mass murderer who wants people to die of a disease? Number three, uh, the time person of the
00:24:39.020
year was unveiled and you know, who cares really? But the winner for person of the year was Joe Biden
00:24:45.380
and Kamala Harris. They're Siamese twins now, I guess. They're both the person of the year,
00:24:50.580
not people of the year, person of the year. Um, they had to put Kamala Harris on the cover. I
00:24:54.980
think this is, I believe this is the first time they've done that. Now the winner of presidential
00:24:58.960
election oftentimes gets president person of the year. I don't, they don't usually put the VP in
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there too, but we got to, you know, Kamala Harris gets on the cover. What again, not that it
00:25:10.340
matters. Um, and of course it's ridiculous to put Joe Biden on there also, uh, many more impressive
00:25:16.020
people in the country this year or any other year, but what has Kamala Harris done? She embarrassed
00:25:23.620
herself in the primaries, uh, lost horribly. I think she actually, she dropped out before the,
00:25:29.980
before the voting even started, I believe, right? Because she was doing so poorly in the polls.
00:25:34.140
Um, and then she got chosen for the VP spot because of her gender and skin tone. And I'm not
00:25:40.840
saying that as any accusation, that's Joe Biden announced ahead of time that that's what he was
00:25:45.120
going to do. So what's the accomplishment here? But sure, she's person of the year. Number four from
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the daily wire, it says on Tuesday evening, uh, a doctor who reportedly takes care of COVID-19 patients
00:25:58.140
posted a tweet with a picture of herself in which she claimed one of her patients hosted a
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Thanksgiving dinner for 22 people and all 22 people subsequently developed COVID-19 symptoms.
00:26:09.140
She concluded, we are so tired. This is what she wrote, Rebecca carb. Um, she says last night,
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one of my many patients with COVID told me she had a large Thanksgiving dinner with family, 22 people
00:26:20.380
the day after one family member tested positive. Since then, according to my patient,
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all 22 people have developed symptoms, some severe. We are so tired.
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You know, this is just the latest. I think she, she proceeded to take that down. I believe that
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post, but this is just the latest one. We've been seeing this all throughout for the last several
00:26:41.420
months with these doctors and nurses, they're going on social media, they're going on Tik TOK
00:26:46.740
whenever they stopped dancing or they're, they're on CNN or MSNBC. And they're just sharing all these
00:26:53.040
personal details about their patients. If we can actually believe it, I don't know that I really buy
00:26:57.100
that there was a Thanksgiving dinner and everyone there got sick. In fact, I say, I don't buy that.
00:27:03.040
Let me just be clear. I don't buy that, but let's, let's assume for a minute. It's true.
00:27:08.720
What, what happened to HIPAA? I mean, is this, is this not a thing anymore? Doctors and nurses can
00:27:13.660
go in front of the world and talk about their patients, reveal personal details. Yeah. You could say,
00:27:20.160
well, they're not, they're not giving out names. So what? And these are patients that they're
00:27:24.800
currently treating. How does the patient feel? I mean, do they get permission from the patient
00:27:30.800
first? At least did she go to that patient and say, Hey, uh, I want to talk about your family
00:27:35.480
getting sick on, on Twitter and complain about it. Are you okay with that? I'm, I doubt she did.
00:27:43.140
I just find it to be gross attention seeking behavior. Uh, five. Finally, um, I'm, um, let's do a
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little, something a little positive right now. Cause it's been a little bit heavy, I think so far on the
00:27:54.400
show. Uh, I am honored today to find out that I am in fact, the hero. Uh, that's the good news for
00:28:02.920
today. If you're looking for some good news, I am a hero. I already knew I was a hero for many reasons,
00:28:08.100
but here's another one to add to the list. I am a hero for wearing glasses. I never knew it.
00:28:14.580
Uh, but I am at least that that's how it seems because a news anchor for ABC is being celebrated
00:28:20.860
for her courage in wearing glasses on air and pointing it out. And, uh, the, the segment is
00:28:29.600
pretty inspiring. So I'll play that for you now. It's a pretty inspiring, inspiring segment. Watch.
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I just want to say thanks to the many of you who've reached out this week to say
00:28:37.040
that you've liked seeing me in glasses. And some of you have also asked why I'm wearing them.
00:28:42.160
Here's the story. I learned last week that one of my daughters was not wearing hers because she was
00:28:47.180
afraid of what people in her class would say or think about her. So in a gesture of solidarity,
00:28:52.300
I've been wearing mine all week to make this point. Whatever people say or think about you
00:28:57.520
is none of your business. Just be yourself authentically and unapologetically. The rest
00:29:03.520
will work itself out. We'll leave you now with these pictures of some celebrities who wear their specs
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proudly. I hope you will share your kids' pictures with me on social media. I will only be too happy
00:29:15.020
to tell them how beautiful they look. Incredible courage. Incredible courage wearing the glasses.
00:29:25.360
You know, I have, uh, I've been wearing glasses for like 15 years. Nobody has ever cared or said
00:29:32.900
anything about it ever to me. So the idea that she was getting all, she's getting all these emails.
00:29:39.020
What's with the glasses? Why are you wearing glasses? Didn't people, really people asked you that?
00:29:42.520
They asked you why you were wearing glasses. No one has ever come up to me and said, Hey,
00:29:46.460
why are you wearing glasses? Uh, because they helped me see that's why I'm wearing them.
00:29:52.980
End of mystery. So I'm not sure I quite believe that everyone was, uh, was, was emailing her,
00:29:59.080
but in fact, I don't believe it. This was just, she was looking for an excuse to, uh, look, uh, yeah,
00:30:03.880
it's, it's, if the story about the daughter is true, you know, I'm, I'm so cynical. I don't believe
00:30:07.360
anything anymore, but if the story about the daughter is true and she really was wearing
00:30:11.400
the glasses to make the daughter feel better, then, you know, that's nice, but you don't need
00:30:15.760
to announce it on air and pat yourself on the back. That's when you lose all credit. Being a good
00:30:22.420
parent, you're wearing glasses. I guess what, those are glasses that have no prescription so that
00:30:26.480
she doesn't need them, I guess. Doing that for your kid's sake is great. But when you go on TV and
00:30:33.780
say, let me tell you a story about a nice thing I did for my own child, that's when you lose all
00:30:39.500
credit. It all goes out the window because you, you insisted on patting yourself on the back.
00:30:46.940
Um, but maybe I should just, you know, maybe I should just accept the fact that
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Today for our daily cancellation, we are canceling the dreaded, the stupid, the pointless pay it
00:33:50.560
forward drive-through chains. Now, if you aren't familiar with this thoroughly first world phenomenon,
00:33:56.040
here's a story about the latest one to pop up from CNN, uh, is a bunch of stories about this
00:34:00.940
yesterday, but this, the CNN says, what started as a random act of kindness from one man paying,
00:34:06.100
paying for the car behind him in a Dairy Queen drive-through resulted in over 900 cars also
00:34:11.220
taking part in the pay it forward chain at a drive-through in Brainerd, Minnesota, over a
00:34:15.600
hundred miles North of Minneapolis. People stepped up in a small way to show one another that they
00:34:19.620
care. Tina Jensen, the store manager at one of the two Dairy Queens in town told CNN, a man came by
00:34:24.600
the drive-through window on Thursday and asked if he could pay for his meal and for the car behind
00:34:28.420
him. Jensen told her cashier, this tends to happen once in a while, but at most it lasts for 15 or
00:34:32.460
20 cars, cars and fizzles out. This time the chain continued for two and a half days with over 900
00:34:38.040
cars participating, raking in $10,000 in sales. When the next customer came to the fast food chain's
00:34:43.000
window, Jensen explained what the man in front of them had done and the act of kindness continued
00:34:46.960
to multiply. Jensen said, there's all different types of ways to help people. I think this touched
00:34:51.480
a lot of people that we didn't even know it touched deeper than we know. And you don't know what's
00:34:56.420
going on in a person's life. When the chain closed for the night on Thursday, one car left $10 to
00:35:01.500
begin the chain back up on Friday morning. And then the same thing happened on Friday night.
00:35:05.380
And it began on Saturday morning. Okay. So that's how it works. Somebody pays for the meal
00:35:10.320
of the person behind them in line. Then that person pays for the person behind them and on
00:35:14.180
and on it goes. But do you know who the real hero in this story is? Not the first person
00:35:19.280
to pay for the next person. No, the real hero is whoever broke the chain and simply accepted
00:35:24.280
the charity from the person in front and drove away, leaving the person behind them to pay for
00:35:29.320
their own damned fudge sundae. All of the people in between the first guy who may have been well
00:35:35.760
intentioned, but should have thought more about the consequences of his actions. And the last guy
00:35:39.900
who had the courage to end the whole charade, everybody else, these were just sheep. They
00:35:44.980
weren't performing acts of kindness. This wasn't charity. They did it because they were too embarrassed
00:35:49.160
and felt too much social pressure not to do it. If it's charity at all, it's coerced charity and not
00:35:54.780
for a meaningful cause either. The people in the drive-thru line have disposable income that they
00:35:59.640
were already planning to spend on the same kind of junk that you're buying. They don't need your
00:36:04.180
money. Really this kind of charity, if it is charity at all, again, is similar to the sort of charity that
00:36:10.380
you perform when you're checking out at the grocery store and the cashier asks if you want to round up
00:36:16.840
and donate your change to, you know, orphaned sea otters or whatever. The only reason you say yes
00:36:23.120
is because you'd feel like a cheap ass refusing to give your 27 cents to the sea otters. It's not
00:36:28.160
something that comes from the kindness of your heart. If you wanted to help the sea otters on your own
00:36:32.700
time, you would. Right now, all you want to do is pay for your carton of eggs and your package of paper
00:36:37.500
towels and leave. The grocery store is taking advantage of your sense of shame to bilk another few cents out
00:36:44.200
of you. Another few cents of which they will surely take a cut, by the way. But while the grocery store
00:36:49.080
charity gambit is a calculated ploy to take advantage of people who don't have the spine to say
00:36:53.180
no, the pay it forward chain is more of a case of collective insanity. Everyone is doing it, but
00:36:59.580
nobody knows why. If you want to understand how crazy it is, imagine how it would come across if you
00:37:05.040
took, you know, take the fast food and the cars out of the equation. Okay. Now imagine you're standing
00:37:12.580
in a long line of people waiting for something and the guy in front turns to you, gives you $5 out of
00:37:19.920
his wallet and then suggests that you turn around and give the person behind you some money out of
00:37:25.060
your wallet and on and on and on. Now you're all just passing money backwards for absolutely no reason.
00:37:31.880
Nobody wants to be doing it or knows why they're doing it, but it continues until some free thinker
00:37:37.080
accepts the cash from the person in front and says, Hey, thanks for the money, puts it in their pocket
00:37:42.040
and gives nothing to the person behind. That person again is the admirable character in this
00:37:47.460
strange saga. Now, if I sound like I'm speaking from a place of personal trauma, when I talk about
00:37:52.680
this, that's because I am. I used to live near a Starbucks where this would happen frequently.
00:37:58.520
I was duped by it. I'm ashamed to admit one time and one time only I pulled up to the window to pay
00:38:04.540
for my one single coffee for two 65. And the girl at the window told me that the bill had been paid by the
00:38:10.220
guy in front. Then she informed me that they were doing this pay it forward thing where each person
00:38:15.360
pays for the one behind. And she asked me if I wanted to participate and told me that, you know,
00:38:18.920
they'd kept the chain going for 50 cars so far or however many it was. So I said, uh, yeah, okay,
00:38:26.000
sure. And then she said, okay, that'll be 43 50. I had just traded in my $2 coffee for a whole SUV load
00:38:36.620
of lattes and frappuccinos. And God only knows what else. It was the worst deal in history,
00:38:41.760
as Trump might've said, if he had saw it. So I drove away broken, confused, my coffee now tinged
00:38:50.620
with a taste of betrayal. And I resolved then to never allow myself to be shamed into empty gestures
00:38:56.540
of pointless charity. And from then on, whenever someone in front paid for my drink, I said, oh,
00:39:01.400
great. I accepted the free coffee, drove away with no remorse. In fact, proud that I'd saved others
00:39:08.400
from this farce. And even, and you know, when the cashier asks me now about the sea otters, I say,
00:39:13.860
no, thank you. I don't want to help them. In fact, the sea otters can go to hell. And I walk away
00:39:18.740
feeling fine. Though wondering if I was a little harsher towards the sea otters than necessary.
00:39:24.380
Anyway, this is why the pay it forward drive-through lines are canceled forever and always.
00:39:31.400
By the way, I must also acknowledge my own debt for the cancellation today. This was inspired by
00:39:35.340
Amanda Prestigiacomo, a writer for the Daily Wire, who spoke out against this yesterday. The pay it
00:39:39.740
forward lines on Twitter got me thinking about this. So she is the opposite of canceled, but everybody
00:39:44.920
else in that 900 person chain in Minnesota is unfortunately canceled today. And we'll leave it
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there for today. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.
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