Ep. 628 - And All The People Said 'Awomen'
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On today's show: Congress is back in session, and Democrats have started the new year on an especially stupid note. Also, the mayor of Portland has decided that actually, he doesn't want lawless hooligans to rule his city anymore, and in our daily cancellation, we will cancel Cosmo for claiming that obesity is not just beautiful, but healthy.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Congress is back in session and Democrats have started the new year
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on an especially stupid note, which we'll have to discuss today. Also, five headlines,
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including the squad, the entire squad bending the knee to Nancy Pelosi. And the mayor of Portland
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apparently has decided that actually he doesn't want lawless hooligans to rule his city anymore.
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It might be too little too late for that. And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel Cosmo for
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claiming that obesity is not just beautiful, but healthy. All of that and more coming up today on
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the 117th Congress was open yesterday with much ceremony and fanfare. This Congress, I'm sure,
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promises to be about as productive as the 116 that came before it. Might be a little unfair. There were a
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couple of good ones in there. But credit to the Democrats for coming out boldly to start the new
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session and the new year and declaring at the outset their intention to take their lunacy and
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stupidity to new and unfathomable heights. Setting the bar for us was a Democrat representative and
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ordained Methodist minister who delivered a prayer, a prayer which started out okay and was mostly fine
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throughout until it got to the end. And here's what that sounded like. We ask it in the name of the
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monotheistic God, Brahma, and God known by many names by many different faiths. A man and a woman.
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That, by the way, was Representative Emmanuel Cleaver or Representative E-woman-ul Cleaver, as he no doubt
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calls himself or should call himself now. And as you just heard, in an attempt to be inclusive and
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politically correct, Cleaver addresses the prayer to the monotheistic God and also Brahma, the Hindu
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God, randomly. Then he closes it with a hearty a man and a woman. And there are many problems here,
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but let's focus on just two of them. First of all, I'm skeptical in general of ecumenical approaches to
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prayer and worship, even among just Christians. But certainly there is no way to apply that philosophy
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to all of the world religions together. You know, with all due respect to the coexist bumper sticker,
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praying to the monotheistic God and Brahma is like writing a love letter to your wife and addressing it
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to whom it may concern. Your attempt to cover all the bases and be as generalized and vague as possible
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defeats the whole purpose of the exercise. Worse, it only insults and degrades the person, in this case,
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the deity you're supposed to be expressing your devotion to. You know, God, Brahma, Vishnu, Zeus,
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whatever your name is, you're better off not praying if that's how you're going to pray. But of
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course, this wasn't really a prayer at all and not intended to be. Rather than being an expression of
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humble submission before the Almighty, which is what prayer is meant to be, it was intended as a
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symbolic and self-aggrandizing display of enlightenment to the world. So rather than saying,
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God, we adore you, the prayer was really saying, hey world, don't you adore us? Get a load of us.
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Look how enlightened we are. And it fails even on its own terms anyway. After all, if you're going
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to be inclusive by naming random gods in your prayer, then you really have to name them all,
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don't you? Cleaver prays to Brahma and the monotheistic God, which I suppose is supposed to
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cover Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. But he failed to mention, for example, the Zoroastrian
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god, Ahura Mazda, the Aztec sun god, Hutzlapachtali, or any of the hundreds of other gods featured in
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the religions of the world. Inclusiveness is almost always a losing game because once you start trying
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to be inclusive, you have to be completely inclusive or else you've only made the exclusion
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of certain groups all the more obvious and pronounced. So Ahura Mazda might feel excluded if
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you just pray to the Lord Jesus Christ. But think of how he must feel now if you start mentioning other
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random deities yet still fail to acknowledge him. It's kind of like in school. You know, if one of the
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kids in your class was invited to a birthday party and you weren't, it was only mildly upsetting.
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But if 15 kids were invited and you still weren't, it was a tragedy. And this is what inclusiveness
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gets you. But we haven't yet, of course, discussed the dumbest aspect of this prayer,
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which is a man and a woman. Now, a man is originally a Hebrew word and it passed through
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Greek and Latin before entering English. Through all of these languages, beginning with its biblical
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Hebrew origins, it has meant so be it or let it be so or truthfully. Its meaning has varied
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slightly. In modern usage, it's come to also mean something like I agree when shouted from the church
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pews during the minister's sermon. But it does not now have and has never at any point had a gendered
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meaning. Yes, it has the word men in it, but that is purely incidental. Again, this comes from the
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Hebrew. And in scripture, when Jesus says, amen, I say to you, he's not saying, hey, dudes, I'm saying
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to you. And when a prayer ends with amen, it doesn't mean dudes rock or bro power or whatever the
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Democrats apparently imagine it to mean. It was already an entirely inclusive and neutral word.
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The Democrats here have added gender to a genderless word, even while trying to remove gender
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from gendered words. So the same people who gave us Latinx because they don't like the gendered
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connotation of Latino and Latina have now given us a woman to infuse gender into a word that
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where it didn't previously exist. In fact, the Democrats just this weekend, this is how absurd it
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is. Just this weekend, they also introduced new rules to strip away all official mentions of gender
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specific words. So words like man, woman, mother, son, all would be banned under the new rules.
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The office of the whistleblower ombudsman would become the office of the whistleblower ombuds.
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Campaign manager would be campaign personager. I made that last one up, but don't put it past them.
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I'm sure that's what's coming next. The point is, as I have observed many times, when it comes to
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gender, as with so many other things, leftism is totally incoherent. It can't keep its own agenda
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straight. It can't help but contradict itself at every turn. One minute, they're making things
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genderless. The next minute, they're making them gendered. One minute, they're telling us that the
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word woman doesn't really mean anything anyway. The next minute, they're asking us to applaud women
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simply for existing. And we'll have more on that in the five headlines in just a second.
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In a word, the left is confused and they seek to spread that confusion. They want us to join them
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in their intellectual and moral fog. They extend the invitation and wish to make its acceptance
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mandatory. And that is all the more reason to resist. Let's go to our five headlines.
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All right. I'm in, I am enjoying this, this, I have to say just quick note on football. If you're
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not a football fan, bear with me, but I'm enjoying this controversy with, uh, with the New York Giants
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who are very upset. Their fans are very upset, uh, because they're missing the playoffs because the
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Eagles played the team formerly known as the Redskins last night. And, um, Eagles are four and 11,
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you know, going, or I guess we're four and 10 going into the game at a playoff contention.
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And, uh, they lost. And so now the team formerly knows the Redskins is going to enter the playoffs
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at seven and nine. So they've, they've, they've lost more games than they won. Um, and the claim
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is that the Eagles, uh, basically forfeited the game or through the game because they figure,
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well, what's the point of winning? I'd rather, we'd rather lose one more game and, and, and get
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better draft position. I don't know if it's true if they threw the game or not. And even if they did,
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I'm not sure I could blame them. Like, what is the point of winning at the end of the season?
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If you're going to, you know, sacrifice three or four positions in the draft, it might make
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probably throwing the game makes more sense. And it's probably happened more often. It's probably
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what I would do if I was in charge of a team. Um, but anyway, the Giants are upset because,
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because of, of the team formerly known as the Redskins win. Now the Giants don't make it into
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the playoffs. And so they're blaming the, the, the Eagles for, for, for throwing the game.
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Well, the Giants are six and 10, they lost 10 games. It's true. They, they could have made the
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playoffs if the, if the game against the, uh, with the Giants and the, uh, the Redskins and the,
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and the Eagles had gone differently, but talk about entitlement. You're six and 10 and upset that
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you didn't make the playoffs and blaming someone else, blaming another team for not getting you into
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the playoffs at six and 10. It's absurd. This is why I think we need to get rid of divisions in the NFL,
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uh, because having even a seven and nine team make the playoffs is a, is just a joke and a disgrace,
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but let's move on. Uh, Nancy Pelosi, speaking of jokes and disgraces was elected to serve once again
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as speaker of the house. And this makes, I believe her, I think it's her 2000th term. She's actually
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the only member of Congress who started her career, um, on the Senate in ancient Rome. And now she's
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going to return. And here she is, uh, addressing the house. Here's what she had to say.
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It gives me great pride to serve as speaker of the most diverse house of representatives in the history
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of our country with a record shattering 122 women, 122 women. You can applaud that. 122 women,
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100 years after women won the right to vote. Yes. Applaud. Just like we talked about in the
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opening. So applaud women just for existing. So applauding women and notice, see, here's the
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thing. Everybody in the chamber there stood for this. It was a standing ovation. If you weren't
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watching, if you're listening, it was a standing ovation to women, just, just because they're women,
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just why not a standing ovation for all women. Um, and everyone in the chamber, of course,
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not surprisingly stood for the standing ovation. I'm at the point where, where, and of course,
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Republicans too, presumably, you know, there were some Republicans there. They stood also.
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I'm at the point where I, like my only litmus test is for a Republican is, um, will you stand
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for something like that? I'm at, I'm at the point where I almost don't even care what your other
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positions are. If you will just simply not applaud in a situation like that, I think I would,
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I would vote to make you president. I don't even care anything else about you because I think that
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tells me everything I need to know. At least you're better than all the rest of these clowns.
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Now, if you're in the room and so it's, oh, let's stand and applaud women. No, just,
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just keep sitting. Not because you have anything against women, but because that's completely silly
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and patronizing. And so you should just sit there and roll your eyes. I will vote. I will, I will
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vote for president. The first Republican in a, in a situation like that, who rather than stand and
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applaud just sits and rolls their eyes because that is the appropriate response. Um, but by the way,
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speaking of Nancy Pelosi, as the daily wire notes, all six members of the congressional squad
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did vote to make her speaker of the house. Um, six members. Now, wait a second. How are there? I
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thought there were six. I thought there were four. Where did the six come from? Um, okay. Congresswoman
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Ilhan Omar. We know about her. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. We know about
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her. You know, she's kind of like the blue power ranger. The note, the one nobody really likes that
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much. Um, and Congresswoman, uh, AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So they all voted for Pelosi as
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they did back in the 2019 speaker election. Where do we get the other squad members? Now I'm just
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distracted by this. Uh, Congresswoman Cori Bush and Congressman Jamal Bowman are the two newest squad
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members. So there's a dude in the squad now. You just, you can't do this. Going back to the power
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rangers analogy. It's like adding a purple and orange power ranger. You can't do it. We've already,
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the squad is set. I feel upset about this. Actually. I don't like this. It's like, I like
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the original squad. It has certain symmetry to it. You knew the role of each one. Now you just
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start adding more in. I mean, next thing you know, there's going to be 50 people on the squad. It
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just doesn't work. Uh, too many cooks boiling the broth, you might say, but in any case, they all,
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this, this, these are the radical new young revolutionary, uh, leftists, the socialists, the Marxists,
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and they're all lining up, bowing down, kissing the ring. No big surprise there. Number two,
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representative Don Young, a Republican had, um, had some supposedly inspiring words to share
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as Congress opened its new session. Uh, this is, this was being shared a lot on, on, on Twitter
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and making the rounds online. A lot of people liked it because it was very bipartisan and unifying.
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Um, I kind of have a problem with it. Maybe that won't surprise you to learn, but here it is.
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Madam Speaker, before I issue the oath, I'd like to take privilege of the floor as the Dean.
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I've been in this house longer than anybody else. I've served with you longer than anybody else has
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served with you. I love this institution. I will be honest. I do not like what I see.
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It's time we hold hands and talk to one another. And Madam Speaker, I say this with all sincerity,
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you will be the Speaker of the House, not of a party. Now, it may hurt some of you.
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The job of our nation is for the House of Representatives to govern this nation.
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It was never meant to be the executive branch. It was never meant to be the judicial branch.
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It's this House that raises the money and dedicates how it shall spend. And we are representing the
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people as we're elected. And I say this with all sincerity, Madam Speaker, that when you do have
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a problem or there's something so contentious, let's sit down and have a drink.
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Well, and Nancy Pelosi would certainly have no problem sitting down for a drink, I'm sure.
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But, and also, by the way, the executive branch is supposed to govern. That's literally what the
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executive branch is supposed to do. But as far as holding hands and talking to each other,
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I'm not into that. I have to tell you. Now, Don Young, you can do that. And I think that there's
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no shortage of Republicans in Congress who are willing to hold hands and talk. Be led by the hand.
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That's the thing. When you hold hands and you talk to the left, they're leading you in a direction.
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You're not just standing there. They're going to guide you. They'd be perfectly fine holding hands
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with you and bringing you right over the cliff. So I'm not going to do that. Now, holding hands in
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general, I don't want to hold anyone's hand if they're not my wife or my child, even in church.
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Or sometimes you go and you're sitting around the table. Some families are more touchy-feely and they do
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the thing where you say grace before and everyone's supposed to hold hands while saying grace.
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I'm not into that. So I won't even hold hands in those circumstances. I certainly am not going to
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hold hands with someone on the left who despises me and everything I believe and everything I stand
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for. So putting aside any concerns about personal space, that's the real issue here. What are we going
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to talk about? The idea of bipartisanship or unity or all of us getting along? The idea of everybody
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getting along sounds good to me. I like the idea of it. If I could just snap my fingers and make
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everyone get along, I probably would. Maybe I wouldn't because it'd be kind of boring, but
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I'd at least consider it. The problem though is that we're dealing with people who that's not what
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they're interested in. Again, if you're a conservative, they despise you and everything
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you believe and everything you stand for. They hate fundamentally. So what is there to talk
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about? No, I'm not interested in holding hands with somebody like that. I'm not really interested
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in talking to them. I'll fight for my position, for my stance, for my beliefs, but just sitting
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down and having a friendly chat. I don't see how we do that. But I know Republicans are more than
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happy to do it. And it doesn't surprise me. Don Young says he's been there longer than anybody
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else. I'll be honest. I don't know anything about him. But that doesn't surprise me to learn
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anything. The Republicans that have been there that long, what have they done? What have they
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done in terms of actually resisting and standing up to the Democrats? Not much. Now, there's one
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example of cowardly Republicans. Let's go to the other side here. This is from a few days ago over
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the break, but I wanted to play it in case you missed it because I think it helps to build my case
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for Ron DeSantis 2024. Here's what Ron DeSantis said. There's a clear change in tone here from what
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most lawmakers have said about the vaccine to what Ron DeSantis had to say. Here he is. Listen.
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What I've said is I'm willing to take it, but I am not the priority. They're the priority. I'm under
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45. And so the people under 45 are not going to be first in line for this. And so when it's my turn,
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I will take it. But this is who I want to be vaccinated. I want my parents, our grandparents to be able
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to get it. And, you know, granted, I mean, I'm an elected official, but whoop-dee-doo. At the end of
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the day, let's focus where the risk is. I love that. I'm an elected official, but whoop-dee-doo.
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Exactly right. That's why right now, Ron DeSantis, my personal favorite right now for 2024. And look,
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a lot can happen in the meantime. So it's, and especially with politicians, they can find many
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ways to beclown themselves in the span of four minutes, let alone four years. I'm not saying
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that Ron DeSantis will do that, but I also don't know that he won't. That's why, you know, I've
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always preached, you never get too attached to politicians. You never, we hear this among
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conservatives now. We hear a lot, and it's kind of disturbing to me, this idea of loyalty.
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Now you have to be loyal, loyal to the president, loyal. No, we're not supposed to be loyal to
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politicians. They're supposed to be loyal to us. We don't have to be loyal to them. That's loyalty really
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with politicians. It's supposed to be a one-way street. Them to us, not the other way around.
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So there's no loyalty here, but right now with how it stands, if he keeps this up, then I love
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Ron DeSantis for 2024, exactly for things like that. Now, number four, the mayor of Portland,
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Ted Wheeler, could take some leadership lessons from Ron DeSantis. He has finally, after six months
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of lawlessness, he has finally decided that maybe it would be better if insane criminals
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weren't running amok in the streets of his city. But it might be a little too late. Too little and
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too late, I think, for this, but here it is. My good faith efforts at de-escalation have been met
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with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists. In response, it will be
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necessary to use additional tools and to push the limits of the tools we already have to bring
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the criminal destruction and violence to an end. Lawlessness and anarchy come at great expense
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and with great risk to the future of our community. It's time to push back harder
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against those who are set on destroying our community and to take more risks in fighting
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lawlessness. In closing, once again, I condemn anyone who engages in violence or criminal destruction,
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no matter what their ideology. You know what gets me about that? Here's what jumps out of me when I
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watched that. He looks like he's about to cry. Now, granted, Ted Wheeler is the kind of man who
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just always looks like he's about to break down in tears or maybe just was. He always looks like
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the guy who just was weeping in the bathroom and just came out and is about to run back in and cry
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again. But it's never more obvious than right now. He really seems like he's on the verge of tears
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because he's really upset and he's hurt. His feelings are hurt. And he's kind of right in a
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way because what he's saying is, look, I've done everything for these people. I've tried to give
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them everything they want and they still hate my guts. They chase me out of my apartment. They're
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protesting me at my house. I have bent over backwards for these people to give them everything they want
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and it's still not enough. And he's very upset about that. And on that end of it, he's actually
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right. He has given them everything they want. He has let them run through the streets and he's let
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them do literally anything they want. And we could put it like that. Anything they want to include
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burning down buildings, killing people, looting. And he's let them do it for months on end.
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And it's still not enough. It is never enough. And the thing is, eventually everyone learns this.
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Even a doltish, useless, incompetent buffoon like this clown, he eventually learned it. It took him
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six months to learn it, but eventually he did. That when it comes to these leftist radicals,
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it will never be, there is nothing you can do. There is nothing you can give them. There is no
00:24:06.960
concession you can make that will ever satisfy them ever. And so for that reason alone, you might as
00:24:16.240
well just stand up and say no. Because whether you say no now, or you finally say no six months from now,
00:24:22.860
or a year from now, when you're fed up with it, the response is going to be the same.
00:24:26.860
So you might as well preserve your dignity. Ted Wheeler, I mean, let this be a lesson. This is a
00:24:32.300
tragic lesson for us all. This is a man who has completely forfeited his dignity and his honor as a
00:24:39.540
man. And now he stands before us weeping and broken and hated by everybody. That's what you get. Ted,
00:24:50.400
that's what you get. Don't mean to victim blame, but there it is. Number five, here's a report from
00:24:56.200
New York Post. This is from, this, this happened back right before the new year, but I've had it
00:25:00.860
saved here because I wanted to mention it when we got back on the air. Uh, New York Post reports
00:25:05.680
a sculpture honoring police shooting victim, Brianna Taylor was smashed by vandals over the weekend,
00:25:12.740
prompting a probe by Oakland police. According to two reports, the memorial installed, uh, two weeks
00:25:18.220
ago in downtown, uh, Latham square was smashed in several places sometime on Saturday. This was a
00:25:24.200
couple Saturdays ago. The bust includes a plaque that reads, say her name, Brianna Taylor. Um,
00:25:31.280
the artist, Leo Carson says at first I was stunned and shocked and hurt and angry,
00:25:35.860
just a whole bunch of emotions. It felt like I was personally attacked. And also they attacked
00:25:40.120
Brianna Taylor and the BLM movement. Oakland police said in a statement that a report had been filed,
00:25:45.840
uh, in the vandalism of the Taylor bust and that police were investigating the incident.
00:25:49.760
Um, and there was a, there was a GoFundMe now and there was a reward put out. I'm not sure what the
00:25:55.220
latest is on this actually. I don't know if they found the, the vandal, but two points about this.
00:26:01.480
Um, number one, why was there a statue of Brianna Taylor in the first place? I'm sort of asking that
00:26:07.640
rhetorically because I know, but what, what did Brianna Taylor do with her life to earn a statue or
00:26:16.660
a monument? I mean, generally what we do is, is we, or at least in the past, we've built statues and
00:26:22.880
monuments for people who accomplish great things. All of these statues that are being torn down
00:26:28.560
in most cases, these are people who earn those statues because they did great consequential things
00:26:37.020
because they reshaped human history. You know, because, because our lives are different today
00:26:44.120
and better because they existed. That's the kind of thing that earns you a statue. And that's why I'm
00:26:51.980
opposed to statues being torn down. With Brianna Taylor though, uh, it's, it's not clear to me exactly
00:26:57.100
what she did to, to earn it other than the fact that she was killed in a police shooting.
00:27:03.180
You see, I don't know if that's really enough or should be enough to earn a statue, but the second
00:27:06.860
point is, look, these are the new rules now, right? These are the rules. If you don't like a statue,
00:27:12.640
you can just destroy it. Are we supposed to be outraged and offended by this? I'm sorry. I got
00:27:18.380
to tell you, I'm not. I have to tell you, I don't care at all that they smashed the Brianna Taylor
00:27:24.380
statue. I don't care at all because the rules now, I didn't make these rules. The left has made the
00:27:29.900
rules. And the rule is, if you don't like a statue, you can just destroy it. Now I know they intend for
00:27:35.640
that rule only to apply to them, but no. See, that game is over. That's a, that's a new year's
00:27:41.260
resolution we can all make for 2021. That game is over. You don't get to have your own rules. You
00:27:45.480
don't get to make exceptions for yourself. If you're saying this is the way it's going to be
00:27:49.140
now for you, it's going to be this way for everybody. If you're allowed to tear down the
00:27:52.920
statues you don't like, anybody else can. I don't know who tore down the statue, who destroyed it,
00:27:57.460
but they're allowed to now. According to you, the logic that you have applied, it's going to go
00:28:04.220
across the board. If you don't like that, I mean, and you know, I, that this isn't the world that I
00:28:11.260
want to live in. I don't want to live in a world where you can just destroy whatever property you
00:28:14.900
want. Um, but this wasn't my idea. And if you're on the left, this was your idea. This is what you
00:28:22.220
wanted. So embrace it. This is all on you. All right, we're going to get to our daily cancellation
00:28:28.680
just a second, but a quick bonus item here, um, before we get to our daily cancellation, I wanted to
00:28:32.900
play this for you also. Um, because I thought it'd be great to start the year with, uh, well, just with
00:28:38.640
beauty and grace for a change. Cause it's going to be a rough year, I think. Um, but we want to try
00:28:44.980
to begin on the right foot, so to speak. So here is, uh, speaking of beauty and grace and grace, here's a
00:28:50.300
video of, of, of myself. My wife took this video and posted it online to try to embarrass me, uh, to shame
00:28:58.300
me publicly, but the joke's on her because this is a video that she took this past weekend when we went
00:29:04.940
with the family, uh, to a spot in the city to do some ice skating. Now I have never ice skated before
00:29:10.920
in my life. Okay. First time ever, never done it. So my wife was filming, hoping that I would fall.
00:29:18.500
Okay. This, she, that's what she was praying for the fall and that she could get that on, on tape and
00:29:23.280
then put it on Twitter, but it didn't work out. Instead, let's just take a look at this. Let's play the
00:29:27.660
clip here. I want everyone to see this. Go ahead and play it. Um, and if you're just listening to
00:29:33.660
the audio, you're going to look at this, look at the gracefulness. Have you ever seen that? Again,
00:29:39.720
I've never ice skated before. Total grace. You know, I could be a figure skater. I could be a hockey
00:29:47.620
player. You would never know if I showed you that video and I said, Oh, there's a, there's an Olympic
00:29:52.340
figure skater in his little recreational time with the family. You would believe it. Wouldn't you?
00:29:57.660
Incredible. Absolutely incredible. And I, I went like that for 30, 40 seconds. Um,
00:30:07.220
really great stuff. I thought that would inspire you as well. The, the, the not inspiring part of
00:30:11.620
the video is you see everybody else on the ice. They're all wearing masks. It was just, that was
00:30:16.380
a rather absurd site. We're outside. We're on the ice. People are, you know, spread apart
00:30:21.800
and everybody's in masks and they had a mask patrol. I didn't have my mask. I had it on,
00:30:26.780
but I had it down, which is how I generally wear my mask. I wear it around my neck because that way,
00:30:31.600
at least I'm protecting my neck from COVID. But, um, I got yelled at like three times in the span of
00:30:36.460
the 30 or 40 seconds that I was doing that. The, the, the mask patrol would just skate up,
00:30:43.040
sir, put the mask on. And as I pointed out, I did have it on. Just didn't have it all the way up.
00:30:47.980
That's all. All right. Here's another good news, news resolution for you. How about, uh,
00:30:52.240
stop wasting your own time. Time is money. As they say, think of, think about all the time you
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00:32:17.440
Uh, also want to tell you about this. It's pretty exciting there. You know, there's,
00:32:20.280
there's a reason millions of people believe lies about conservatives. We all deal with this,
00:32:25.280
right? And that's because they've been trained to believe those lies by content creators,
00:32:29.560
uh, entertainers who despise us. And they always say politics is downstream from culture.
00:32:36.620
We as a culture are starving for content that's edgy and entertaining and awesome,
00:32:41.620
but that doesn't mock conservative values. You know, that's, that's not, that doesn't,
00:32:46.060
doesn't have it in for us. It isn't trying to spread a message that's opposed to our values.
00:32:50.220
Uh, I think we need to give people options. So the daily wire is aiming to do just that.
00:32:54.480
What you're about to watch right now is daily wire's first motion picture film. It's called
00:32:58.680
run, hide, fight. This is not your stereotypical conservative film. I can tell you that. In fact,
00:33:03.040
it's not particularly political at all. And, you know, I think that's another thing we all probably
00:33:07.380
would like to see more of in movies, which is less politics. Um, it's not a family friendly film
00:33:12.680
either. It's intense, it's violent, and it has a powerful message to go with it. The movie follows
00:33:16.940
a high school siege by a quartet of school shooters. When one young girl, 17 year old Zoe Hall
00:33:22.240
uses her wits and her survival skills to fight back. Uh, let's take a look at that now.
00:33:26.440
In between breaths, take a shot. You've done really good out there, kid. The size of that deer,
00:33:38.900
we're going to be eating venison all summer. Well, in a day's work. I think we need to see
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somebody again. And by we, you mean me? No, I mean us. Hey, that look in your eye. Guy's in my
00:33:49.100
unit at that local. Maybe there's a grocery you can hand me so I can go?
00:33:56.440
Is that Chris Jellick over there? Is he doing something completely weird? Senior prank day.
00:34:05.020
But we'll see all kinds of dumb stuff today. Swim captain will have Thai food delivered to
00:34:08.960
class, and Becky Vaughn will set up her homemade slip and slide. This is high school. Nothing
00:34:21.980
Okay, we are in charge now, so please pull out whichever app you use to do
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live streaming video. Get them up and running and point it at me. Now!
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Get back to your homeroom and stay put until...
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Very disturbing news out of Vernon Central High School.
00:35:20.420
Is it safe to say that this might be our guardian angel? Do you want more people to die?
00:35:29.740
That's the last thing I want. I'm gonna kill one person in this room every five minutes.
00:35:46.520
Isn't it ironic that after all your hard work, people aren't going to remember you?
00:36:06.100
And one thing I can tell you, I've seen the movie, and this is... I know it's a concern,
00:36:11.440
right? Anytime if you hear conservatives are involved in a movie or, you know, people that
00:36:16.920
have a lot of experience watching like Christian movies. This is not a Christian movie. But
00:36:22.740
one thing, if you have experience with that, you know that a lot of times the acting is not
00:36:27.560
great. The script is not great. It's sort of like a low quality affair. That is not an
00:36:33.840
issue here. The acting is very good. The lead performance, I thought, was spectacular. And
00:36:39.220
the script is very good. It engages you right from the very first frame to the end. And
00:36:46.300
that's why we're excited to show you this film and bring you something that's never been
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done before in conservative media. Run, Hide, Fight will be available to watch on Friday,
00:36:52.960
January 15th at dailywire.com. And we'll be doing a special live stream premiere.
00:36:57.560
The night before on Thursday, January 14th on the Daily Wire YouTube channel. Let's kick
00:37:02.060
off 2021 by fighting back on culture and creating our own content. Let's get now to our daily
00:37:08.040
cancellation. Now, today we're canceling, not for the first time, probably not the last,
00:37:15.840
Cosmopolitan magazine. In fairness, they could be canceled for literally everything that's ever
00:37:20.960
been printed in the pages of their godforsaken publication. But this month's issue, I think
00:37:25.620
warrants a special mention. On the cover is featured an obese woman smiling proudly with
00:37:31.840
the words, this is healthy, printed across. Now, notice, I want you to notice this, how
00:37:39.000
the body positivity movement has slid inexorably down the predictable slippery slope. Because
00:37:45.340
five years ago, this cover would have looked similar and had a similar message. But instead,
00:37:50.640
it would have said something like, this is beautiful. Now, it was wrong to call obesity
00:37:57.120
beautiful. But at least you could argue, wrongly in my view, but at least plausibly, that beauty
00:38:02.020
is subjective. You know, and so, you know, you can call anything beautiful. And the benefit
00:38:07.360
for those promoting the message five years ago was that most people were too afraid to object,
00:38:12.840
thinking that if they argue that obesity isn't beautiful, it would be the same as saying that
00:38:17.580
all fat people are ugly. Of course, it's not the same. It is possible to make the case that
00:38:23.360
obesity isn't beautiful, which it isn't, without calling all fat people ugly in the same way that
00:38:29.920
you can make the case that alcoholism isn't beautiful, which it isn't, without calling all
00:38:34.260
alcoholics ugly. It's not the same thing. Saying alcoholism isn't beautiful is not the same thing as
00:38:39.440
saying you're ugly because you're an alcoholic. Two different things. But we've graduated beyond
00:38:45.340
potentially subjective words like beautiful. And now we're being told that obesity is actually
00:38:50.380
healthy. And this is the way it always goes. This is always the trajectory. You know, the slippery
00:38:57.060
slope is real, and we're on about a thousand different ones in this culture. So we start by,
00:39:02.640
you know, the left starts by demanding that you accept a false but relatively innocuous or seemingly
00:39:08.160
well-intentioned premise like obesity is beautiful. And once your mind has been properly conditioned,
00:39:13.400
they move to the radical and dangerous conclusion that was always embedded in the original premise,
00:39:19.940
which now is obesity is healthy. So let's read a little bit from this Cosmo article. It says,
00:39:25.480
it says, influencer Callie Thorpe is one of social media's best known advocates of self-love. In 2016,
00:39:33.720
she launched the community page called the Confidence Corner on Instagram to spread positivity to her 250,000
00:39:39.700
followers. But it really all started with a diet blog in 2012. Quote, I thought if I made myself
00:39:45.780
accountable to strangers, I'd lose weight. It made me feel worse than ever. She adds, I had a really
00:39:51.160
terrible relationship with my body growing up. I always struggled with the fact that it was
00:39:55.380
different to my friends. I tried every single diet. By the way, sidebar here. Most of the time when
00:40:03.020
people say they tried every diet, the problem is precisely that they're just trying the diet.
00:40:07.920
They do it for a few days or a few weeks and they quit. They're dipping their toes into different
00:40:12.840
diet fads, but they give up as soon as it becomes difficult. The fact is that almost everyone who says
00:40:18.520
they've tried really hard to lose weight, but haven't, haven't been able to, in almost all cases,
00:40:26.680
they actually haven't tried hard at all. They may have tried momentarily, but not long enough and not
00:40:31.960
consistent enough. That's a simple reality. The idea that it somehow doesn't work to eat healthy,
00:40:38.480
you know, that lots of people would still be morbidly obese even after radically altering
00:40:43.080
their diet and lifestyle to make it more healthy is just absurd. But getting back to the article,
00:40:47.660
it says, these days, Cali adheres to the body neutrality movement, which focuses on what your body
00:40:53.560
can do rather than how it looks. Plus size people often feel like they can't be part of the wellness
00:40:59.400
space. We're trolled for being fat. Um, then, then can feel excluded from exercise because our
00:41:05.720
bodies don't fit the narrative. First of all, you're not being, nobody can be excluded from
00:41:11.460
exercise. You want to just lay down on your, on your, uh, carpet and do some crunches. You can't
00:41:18.880
be excluded from doing that. But I mean, that's one excuse to not exercise, I guess. Oh, you know,
00:41:25.240
I was going to go jogging today, but I've been, they excluded me. I got excluded from jogging. I
00:41:29.820
can't. And from there, the article goes on to chronicle the stories of various other women,
00:41:36.020
some of whom are in fine shape, others who are also morbidly obese. The message is that they've
00:41:41.300
all learned to love their bodies and that all of their body types are healthy. Not surprisingly,
00:41:46.660
no attempt is made to scientifically or logically defend the proposition that obesity is healthy.
00:41:51.900
It's merely asserted with an exclamation point. And we're meant to accept it at face value.
00:41:58.660
The only defense is as always an emotional one. The argument seems to be that obesity is healthy
00:42:04.580
because it makes fat people feel bad. When you say obesity is not healthy, this is similar to the
00:42:11.260
argument that a man is a woman because it makes him feel bad. When you say he's not a woman,
00:42:14.740
the irony is that the phrase body acceptance is used in this article, uh, referring to a woman named
00:42:21.220
Jessamyn Stanley, also obese. It says, quote, the journey to body acceptance is something that
00:42:26.820
has taken her a long time. That being Jessamyn quote, body shaming was one of the first things
00:42:31.980
I learned to do. I grew up in a community where all of my physical attributes, wide nose, big belly,
00:42:36.800
big ass, big lips, dark skin were deemed ugly. Now, first of all, these things are not all the same.
00:42:43.280
Okay. Um, one of these things is not like the others, right? The size of your nose, your lip.
00:42:48.880
So the color of your skin, these cannot be naturally changed and they shouldn't be unnaturally changed
00:42:54.260
either, in my opinion, but the size of your belly can be changed. And given that an overly bulbous belly
00:43:01.300
is hazardous to your physical wellbeing, you should change it just because there are some things about
00:43:07.900
yourself that you should proudly embrace, like your skin color, your nose size. That doesn't mean that
00:43:12.640
all things about you should be proudly embraced. But going back to the body acceptance phrase,
00:43:19.100
it strikes me that this is exactly what the body acceptance movement is not doing.
00:43:24.480
Body acceptance is what they are opposing, not what they're promoting. You haven't accepted something
00:43:31.280
if you refuse to acknowledge the full reality of it. An addict hasn't reached the stage of acceptance
00:43:37.260
if he's still claiming that he doesn't have, that he doesn't have a problem. You aren't accepting
00:43:41.120
your obese body if you're insisting that it's healthy and wonderful. You know, that's denial,
00:43:46.340
not acceptance. It's the opposite. Yes, obese people should accept that they are obese and then
00:43:55.300
they should work to change it because it could very likely kill them if they don't. That's what
00:44:00.860
acceptance looks like. And this obesity is healthy stuff takes on an even more sinister tone when you
00:44:06.520
consider the timing. COVID is still surging out there and it's well known that the obese are
00:44:11.840
especially vulnerable to it. So you're already more likely to die of heart disease and dozens of other
00:44:16.740
complications due to obesity. And COVID adds just yet another danger on top of that. Cosmo wants you to
00:44:24.160
embrace that danger. Cosmo wants you to be a martyr for body acceptance. He wants you to love your
00:44:30.620
obesity so much that you allow it to kill you. And that's insane. And for that, Cosmo is canceled.
00:44:41.160
Cosmo has the honor of being the first cancellation of the new year. Many more to come. But for now,
00:44:48.280
that'll do it for us. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
00:44:52.340
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