Ep. 637 - Lockdown Proponents Suddenly Change Their Tune
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As Democrat mayors across the country rush to reopen their cities and restart their economies, the timing of this, we're supposed to believe, is entirely coincidental. Also, five headlines, including an interview with Jacob Blake that unwittingly destroys the narrative in his defense, and in our daily cancellation, we will discuss the major controversy surrounding a traumatizing article in Politico written by Ben Shapiro.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a week before the inauguration and Democrat mayors are
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rushing to reopen their cities and restart their economies, the timing of this, we're
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supposed to believe, is entirely coincidental. Sure. Also, five headlines, including an interview
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with Jacob Blake that unwittingly destroys the narrative in his defense. And in our daily
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cancellation, we will discuss the major controversy, huge controversy surrounding a traumatizing
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article in Politico written by Ben Shapiro. That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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10% off for life. You know, when I was a young lad, one of my dad's most common refrains to me and
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my siblings, whenever we tried to lie to him about something, he would always say, don't insult my
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intelligence. And his point was that, you know, it's bad enough for us to do whatever wrong thing we're
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trying to cover up. And it's even worse for us to lie about it. But then the final indignity is to
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tell lies that are so blatant and so obvious that we are insulting our parents' intelligence by thinking
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they'd be dumb enough to fall for the ruse in the first place. Now, these days I can relate to how
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my parents felt. I can relate as a parent myself, like when my four-year-old looked me in the eye
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and told me that he didn't color in blue crayon on the wall while literally holding the blue crayon
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in his hand and standing right next to the scribble on the wall. But I can also relate as a citizen of
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this country because in this capacity, I, we are lied to all the time, especially in recent months.
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And what makes the lies all the worse is that it's, it's so obvious what they're doing and thus
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insulting. They are insulting our intelligence. For example, as we approach Joe Biden's inauguration
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less than a week away, suddenly we're seeing Democrat mayors across the country. Some of the biggest,
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most ardent proponents of lockdowns now insist that we have to begin to open up the economy again
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as quickly as possible. So they've switched course like this as blatantly as this with,
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with, with timing as convenient as this. And they expect us to not notice. They insult our
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intelligence. Here's the article in Outkick about Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. Here's what she's saying.
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Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago on Thursday, called for bars and restaurants to be open at
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limited capacity as soon as possible and said she would speak to Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker
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about the matter. The second round of shutdowns began in October as COVID-19 spread in the city
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and state. Per Block Club Chicago, Mayor Lightfoot said she is very, very focused on getting bars and
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restaurants open and pointed out that they can be operated more safely for patrons than, than the
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underground parties that have proliferated in the shutdown. If we have people and give them an outlet
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for entertainment, we have much more of an opportunity in my view to be able to regulate
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and control that environment. According to Lightfoot, she said, quote, let's bring it out
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of the shadows. Let's allow them to have some recreation and restaurants and bars where we
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can actually work with responsible owners and managers to regulate and protect people from
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COVID-19. Okay. So we are not mass murderers, apparently, or grandma killers. If we want to open up
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the economy, is that what we're saying? So that's, that's allowed now. We're, we're allowed to make
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that argument without being shouted down and told that we are evil killers. Let me guess, actually,
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let me guess. I bet you now, now we're going to be mass murderers and grandma killers if we don't
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want to open the economy because that's the way it works when the pendulum swings. But again, remember,
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you aren't supposed to notice this. Governor Cuomo's 180 is even more egregious. Here he is in his
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state of the state address, singing a wildly different tune about lockdowns. Listen,
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we must deal with a short term economic crisis, a record $15 billion state deficit that must be
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addressed in the next several weeks. Fourth, we must plan our economic resurgence. We simply cannot
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stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left
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to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.
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We simply cannot stay closed. We just can't. What gets me is, is not just what he's saying,
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but how he's saying it. He says we simply cannot stay closed with a level, level of exasperation
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that seems to suggest that he's been saying this for months and nobody would listen. But in fact,
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of course, we have been saying that for months and he wouldn't listen. So Cuomo is really, he's
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really like that kid in the group project in school who, who, you know, you, you have all the good
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ideas and he keeps taking your ideas and suggesting them as if they're his own. And in fact, in group
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projects in school, I was actually the guy taking the ideas. So he's like that, but on a much larger scale
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and with a lot more at stake, he doesn't even try to reconcile that or explain his shift. He pretends
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it's not a shift. He pretends that the last nine months never happened. And he expects us to do the
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same. We must do the same because as we've learned to bring up the immediate recent past to point out
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hypocrisy and double standards is to engage in what about ism. And we mustn't do that. No, you can never say
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what about, as we've learned, you just have to pretend that, that, that the whole universe was
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born this morning and there were no events that happened before right now. That's what you have
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to pretend. Just let them rewrite history right in front of you. Let them do it. In fact, applaud them,
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applaud them as they do it. That is your role in this. That's what you're expected to do.
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They have this set up so nicely and so predictably, you know, Biden will take office. The economy will
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open up again. At the same time, it's going to get warmer naturally, right? As we get into the spring
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and more people will get vaccinated. And so the virus will recede. And the narrative will be that
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Biden defeated the virus and saved the economy and did it all in his first three months in office.
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Don't be surprised if he's awarded the Nobel prize for his efforts. And I'm not kidding.
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I really think that will happen. I mean, they gave it to Obama for doing quite literally nothing.
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What makes this especially infuriating is, again, we can all see them doing it because they do it
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out in the open and they do it exactly as we knew they would. Meanwhile, Newsweek has just published
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an article with the headline, COVID lockdowns have no clear benefit versus other voluntary measures.
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According to international study, it reads, quote, a new study evaluating COVID-19 responses around
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the world found that mandatory lockdown orders early in the pandemic did not provide significantly
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more benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures such as social
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distancing or travel reduction. It continues. The study compared cases in England, France, Germany,
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Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the US, all countries that implemented mandatory lockdown
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orders and business closures to South Korea and Sweden, which implemented less severe voluntary
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responses. It aimed to analyze the effect that less restrictive or more restrictive measures had
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on changing individuals' behaviors and curbing the transmission of the virus. Using that model,
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the researchers determined that there is no clear significant beneficial effect of more restrictive
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measures on case growth in any country. This is precisely what so many of us have been saying
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for months. Wouldn't you know it? We weren't actually arguing that we want more people to die of the
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virus. We aren't supervillains. We're not sociopaths. Quite the opposite. We argued that, in our opinion,
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the lockdowns were not a good way to deal with the virus. There were better ways to deal with it.
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And in our opinion, more harm than good is done by them in the long run. And it's not as though
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that argument was simply rebuffed or refuted. It's not as though the other side said,
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well, I disagree and here's why. I'd have no problem with that. That's fine. Let's have a
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discussion. No. They said that to make such an argument is evil in itself. We are mass murderers
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and lunatics for making it. And now the very people who said that to us will start saying the same
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things that we said before, but without acknowledgement, without accountability.
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And of course, obviously, without apology. So be it. You know, this is the way the game is played.
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And we would just do well to remember that going forward. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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NFL playoffs this weekend, by the way. I'm getting into the divisional round. I'm pretty excited about
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that. Baltimore Ravens playing the Buffalo Bills on Saturday night. I think that'll be a great game.
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I like the Ravens in the game because I'm a homer, number one, but number two, because of the run game,
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the Buffalo Bills really don't have a run defense or a run offense, and the Ravens have both of those
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things. I mean, they're averaging like 250 yards a game, which is insane. They put up 400 yards a few
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weeks ago, which is unheard of. Teams used to do that in the 1950s on the ground. So I'm looking
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forward to that. And let me also just say defensively here for a moment that I think I mentioned football
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on the show or maybe on Twitter, like two or three times a year, it comes up, right? Of all the things
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that I'm constantly blabbering about, maybe 0.001% of that is football. But anytime I do, there are two
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things that I hear from people. One is, why are you talking about this when there's so many other
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important things happening in the world? What do you think? You think football is the most important
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thing happening? You're talking about this? And then the other thing that I hear is, well, how
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could you watch football? How could you support the NFL with all their political shenanigans and
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everything they've done? How could you support them? So let me say a response to both of those points.
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Number one, yeah, there are a lot of bad things happening in the world. I think it's still okay
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to think about things that aren't those bad things. I think it's okay to have other thoughts on
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occasion. It's even okay to engage in recreation, to have fun. Even I can have fun sometimes. And if I
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can do it, then what's wrong with you? But then the second point, you know, the thing about, well,
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why would you support the NFL? Okay, I can take that criticism. I can. I mean, right. The political
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stuff annoys me. But I certainly hope if you're making that criticism of the NFL and saying, oh,
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well, you shouldn't watch the NFL. I really, really hope that you don't watch Star Wars or any other
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Disney movie. You don't watch anything on Netflix or HBO. You don't watch pretty much any movie or any
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television show that is ever produced, except for Run, Hide, Fight, which we premiered last night,
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which we'll talk more about that a little bit later on. I certainly hope that's the case. So I think
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you're in a position to make that criticism of people who watch the NFL if you do not watch any
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movies or any television at all, period. Because if you do, and you support, let's say, a company like
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Disney, you support a company that does far more damage in the culture and spreads far more filth
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and misleads far more people on a much larger scale than the NFL. Okay, that's all.
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But if you are in that category where you say, I don't watch anything, I don't even have a TV,
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and when I have recreational time, I just read books and I go do gardening or something,
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that I say to you, sir or ma'am, I bow to you because I am very impressed by that. I just
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suspect that 99% of the people who have that criticism of the NFL are not like you, and that's
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my problem. Okay. Number one, from the New York Post, Joe Biden wants to send millions of Americans
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their third stimulus check and give others their first. Says the president-elect's $1.9 trillion
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economic relief plan calls for yet another round of direct payments to help people pay bills
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and support their families during the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal would also expand eligibility
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for the $1,400 checks to some people left out of the first two rounds of relief. One key group is
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adults who can be claimed as dependents on other people's income tax returns, such as college
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students or elderly people being cared for by their adult children. Okay, so adults like college
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students. So what we're being told now, if you're an adult, such as a college student, and you're a
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dependent, you're going to get a COVID relief check? So if you've got a 19-year-old college
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student living at home, no bills to pay, we're going to send them $1,400. Why? For what reason?
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Both previous stimulus bills providing direct payments only allowed taxpayers to collect additional
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money for dependent children younger than 17. Last March's CARES Act gave households $500 for each
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qualifying kid on top of $1,200 per adult, while December's $900 billion relief package offered $600
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checks for children and adults alike. Okay, well look, as I've said all along, I'm in favor of the idea
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of providing relief to people who've been so devastated financially by the COVID lockdowns.
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I think the government has the responsibility to do that. What I have a problem with is just
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constantly handing out checks to everyone without any regard for whether they actually need it or not.
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So call me crazy, but I sort of feel like if we're going to spend billions of dollars handing out
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checks, maybe we should take the time, put the energy and effort into. And when I say we,
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I mean the government, they're the ones that are going to have to do this, into figuring out who
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actually needs it. And then you know what? You can send them not only a check, you can send them
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a larger check. I'd be in favor of $5,000 checks if they're actually going to the people who really
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need it. Say people who've lost their job because of the lockdowns. Business was shut down because of
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the lockdowns. They're teetering on the edge of financial ruin or they're already in financial
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ruin. Yeah. Send them relief. But you know, I happen to know, and I'm sure you know people too,
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or maybe you are someone like this. I know plenty of people who've been getting these checks and don't
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need it. They don't need the assistance. They've been gainfully employed the entire time.
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If you have been gainfully employed throughout the coronavirus pandemic and all the lockdowns,
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as I have been, then you and I, and those of us in that category, we are blessed. We're very
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fortunate. We don't need the checks. We're in the same position financially we were in before. We still
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have a job. There's no reason to send us money. So that's my problem. We are basically, the strategy
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is to throw money into the air and then hope it lands on some of the people who really need it.
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And if we waste billions upon billions, giving it to people who don't need it, no problem.
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Well, it is a problem. I would say. Number two, we know that if you're a conservative,
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guys like Don Lemon on CNN hate you, right? No surprise there. And that's why I almost decided
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not to play this clip. In fact, I saw this clip circulating and people talking about it.
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And I didn't even watch it at first because I thought, well, yeah, I get it by now. It's like
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we talked about yesterday, the hidden camera footage of somebody works for PBS talking about
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how much they hate conservatives and people, some conservatives making a big deal about that.
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My reaction is, well, of course, I know they feel that way. I don't like it, but I already know
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that there's nothing about it that I consider newsworthy. But on the other hand, this from
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Don Lemon is so over the top egregious and said publicly on the airwaves that I think maybe
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it's worth taking a second to reflect on it. So here it is. Listen.
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If you are on that side, you need to think about the side you're on. I am never on the side of the
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Klan. I am not principal people, conservative or liberal, never on the Klan side. Principal
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people, conservative or liberal, never on the Nazi side. Principal people who are conservative
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or liberal, never on the side. That treats their their fellow Americans as less than that says
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that your fellow Americans should not exist. That said you're that says your fellow Americans
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should be in a concentration camp or that sides with slavery.
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What I like about that, I guess, is the incredible irony of he says, well, you shouldn't treat your
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fellow Americans like they're less than. And he says that right after claiming that Trump supporters
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are on the side of the Klan and Nazis. And slave owners? What? No, that's what it means. That's what
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it looks like to treat people like they are less than, like they are less than you. You obviously
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believe that they are less than you morally, and we could presume you believe they're less than you
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Yes, that's what it means to treat people as they are, as if they are inferior.
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When you compare people to Nazis and Klan members and slave owners,
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you are treating them as they, as if they are inferior.
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Now, unless they really are Klan members, in which case, fine.
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But there are like, I don't know, seven Klan members in America. So if you want to take up time
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on your airwaves condemning those seven people, then go ahead and do it.
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But to even say, like, the vast majority of conservatives aren't in the Klan, to even say
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something like that is to play the game. It doesn't even need to be said.
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It's to even say it is to play the game that Don Lemon wants you to play.
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All right, number three from the Daily Wire. It says,
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A mother of a four-year-old child who refuses to disclose whether the child is a biological boy or
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girl and claims she let the child decide their own gender has stated that she's been accused of
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child abuse. The mother, Kyle Myers, PhD, of course, a native of Utah who moved to Australia,
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I've received hundreds of messages and comments on Instagram and emails from people I don't know
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telling me my child should be taken away from me. My partner, Brent, and I do something called
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gender creative parenting. For us, this means we didn't assign a binary girl or boy gender to our
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child. The child's name is Zoomer, by the way. Zoomer. So we've got Kyle, Brent, and Zoomer in the
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family together. We don't disclose Zoomer's genitals to people who don't need to know. We use the gender
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neutral pronouns they, them, they're for Zoomer until they can tell us what pronouns and labels
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fit best. And Zoomer tells about, learns about, and explores gender without stereotypical expectations
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or restrictions. Brent and I are just two among thousands of people doing gender creative parenting
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those people are correct. That is child abuse. That's what child abuse is. So they are exactly
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correct. And I love it when these parents, also because they take this attitude of, well,
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mind your own business. What concern is it of yours? Why are all these people messaging me
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messaging me with, with their opinions of my parenting? Well, it's because you wrote an article
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about it and you published it for the whole world to see. You announced what you said was,
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hey world, look at how I'm parenting. Look at how I'm parenting everyone. Look at my child Zoomer.
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Please, please see everyone. I want you to see it. And then some people say, oh, I see it. And I think
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it's horrible. And your response is, how dare you? How dare you? How dare you intrude in our private
00:24:28.020
lives? You know, if you don't want your child to be stereotyped or to have expectations imposed on
00:24:37.540
them, why are you publicizing this? Why are you putting it out there for everybody?
00:24:43.100
No, the reason why it's abuse, one of the reasons, um, is that it is really, when I, when I called
00:24:54.380
abuse, I don't just mean like it's low level abuse or something like that. Um, no, no, this is,
00:25:00.940
this is really serious abuse because it, it goes to a level, you know, that is, that is,
00:25:09.240
that is really deep in that it, in that it, it deprives the child of an identity. That's what
00:25:16.660
you're doing. So this is psychological abuse, um, on the deepest possible level. When you're
00:25:26.360
depriving your child of his or her identity, I have to say his or her, because I don't, because I
00:25:31.520
don't know, you, you know, you're, you're, you're withholding that information. And it's one thing if
00:25:35.640
you want to withhold that information from the public. Okay, fine. The problem is you're
00:25:40.380
withholding the information from your child too, because the reality is your child, little
00:25:48.020
zoomer is a boy or a girl. He is, he or she is one of those things. And your child has a right to know
00:25:58.300
which one, just like you did growing up. Your child has a right to know who he is one way or
00:26:07.120
another. And you're depriving him of that. And by the way, I say, I say him in the general,
00:26:15.940
because that actually is proper grammar to, to use the word him in a general sense.
00:26:21.880
You're depriving your child of that. It's hard for me to think of a worse form of psychological
00:26:27.140
abuse than that. It's just a basic fact. It's, it's a basic fact of, of his life and
00:26:36.280
his existence, who he is. And you won't tell him. Forcing him to live as this amorphous,
00:26:45.140
ambiguous being. That's a choice he didn't make. If he wants to make that choice later on
00:26:52.840
and do this gender fluid, gender creative stunt later on in life, he can make that choice like
00:26:59.960
you have done. But no, you are imposing that on him. You're forcing him to do it.
00:27:08.340
All right. Number four, Jacob Blake, um, case that we have followed extensively on this show.
00:27:14.460
Of course he was the, the, uh, the wanted felon, violent criminal shot by police in Kenosha,
00:27:23.900
Wisconsin. Uh, one of the cases that, that led to all the writing and everything that we saw.
00:27:28.660
Now we, we haven't heard really anything from him directly until yesterday. Good morning, America
00:27:33.660
had an interview with Jacob Blake and, uh, they, they, um, the thing is it's not as bad as I expected
00:27:44.640
it to be, but it's still utterly disgraceful. Okay. The, the interview could have been even worse
00:27:51.600
than it was and how it, you know, portray in, in portraying Jacob Blake as the victim. And it still
00:27:57.580
does, um, it's not, it doesn't go quite as far as I, as I, as it could have gone, but it's still pretty
00:28:05.420
bad. And meanwhile, um, Jacob Blake, while he's obviously lying through his teeth, he does incriminate
00:28:12.940
himself. And he also refutes unwittingly what his own family had said. His family from the beginning
00:28:20.420
had claimed that he did not have a weapon, that he was unarmed. Well, he actually admits that he did
00:28:25.220
have a weapon that he was armed. He tries to, he tries to dress it up in such a way as to make
00:28:29.320
himself innocent. Uh, and he does it in a really absurd way. So we'll, we'll take a, we'll watch
00:28:34.240
that now. Let's, let's listen. We see you, you walk away from the officers after they try to grab
00:28:40.040
you. I'm rattled. You know, I realized I had dropped my knife, that little pocket knife. So I picked it up
00:28:48.920
after I got off of him because they tased me and I fell on top of him with an open knife in hand
00:28:56.440
that Blake says fell out of his pocket. He walks around the front of the vehicle towards the driver's
00:29:01.660
side door. Now. Okay. So his claim about the knife, if you picked up on it there, uh, he says that,
00:29:10.360
well, he, it was just in his pocket and it happened to fall out and it, and it was open when it fell.
00:29:16.840
So he had, so he had an open pocket knife in his pocket. Can I just tell you, that's not a good
00:29:21.080
place to have an open pocket knife. That's you're asking for trouble. Um, having an open pocket knife
00:29:24.960
in your pocket. There are a lot of things, a lot of things that can happen in that situation that
00:29:31.160
you don't want to have happened, um, have happened. So he claims that he had an open pocket knife in
00:29:35.120
his pocket. It fell out. He picked it up, didn't close it. He had the, and he was holding the open
00:29:38.740
pocket knife. And then he claims that it wasn't in the clip there, but he's, as he continues, um,
00:29:42.960
he says that he, he was, all he was trying to do was take the open knife to his car and just put
00:29:49.960
it, store it safely in his car. And then he would give himself up and surrender. That's all he was
00:29:54.120
trying. That's why he was going to the car. That's why he was going to the car with an open pocket
00:29:58.880
knife while the cops were screaming at him and telling him to stop was just so he could safely
00:30:03.020
stow his pocket knife. You know, Jacob Blake, uh, accused rapist. He's, he's a, he's a good,
00:30:08.160
a good citizen. And he was just really concerned about leaving the pocket knife on the ground and
00:30:12.340
a child might find it. And so, you know, while police were pointing guns at him and screaming
00:30:17.320
at him to stop, he just, he just thought, well, let me just put this pocket knife away. He never
00:30:22.160
said that by the way, he never said, Oh, can I just, uh, please, could I just put my pocket knife
00:30:25.900
away? I'm worried about someone getting cut. Good. He never said that. Of course, if he had said that
00:30:31.080
they would have told him, don't worry about it. We'll take care of the knife. That's evidence.
00:30:34.340
We're taking that with us. That's his claim. And of course, there's no pushback on that
00:30:40.340
at all. Uh, Michael Strahan there, former NFL guy, that's the guy they bring in for this hard
00:30:47.720
hitting interview. He doesn't, there's no pushback on that. Um, also at no point is Jacob Blake asked
00:30:56.400
about the alleged rape. You know, his, his ex-girlfriend, mother of his children, accuses
00:31:03.240
him very credibly of breaking into his house, into her house and raping her and then stealing
00:31:10.100
her credit cards and her car. He was trying to steal her car again there. That's why she called
00:31:15.300
police. He's never asked about that. You know, we've also, we also have not heard from the woman
00:31:21.380
at all this entire time. No, no one has inquired after her, see how she's doing or how she feels
00:31:27.380
about any of this. So never asked about that. The only reason I say it wasn't quite as bad as
00:31:33.200
expected is that, um, they do at least mention that he had a warrant out for his arrest. And
00:31:40.600
later on in the interview, it's like a seven minute interview, Michael Strahan does ask him,
00:31:44.840
you know, well, why did you keep walking away from the cops? Probably the smart thing to do would be to
00:31:50.560
just stop and, and, and give yourself up at that point. So they do say that at least that that's how
00:31:55.280
low the standards are now, that at least that point means that it wasn't as bad as it could
00:32:01.040
have been, but it was still really, really bad, especially because of the way that they are just
00:32:06.500
erasing and ignoring the real victim in this whole thing, which is the woman. She was the one who called
00:32:12.740
police and she continues to be victimized. Um, every, every day she has to turn on TV and see this guy,
00:32:19.780
see the way that he, they make a martyr of him. She continues to be victimized
00:32:25.920
and she has to live now, you know, with, with people blaming her for calling the police in the
00:32:33.040
first place. Jake Blake also claimed that, uh, he, he, he didn't know, like the reason why he was
00:32:43.160
resisting arrest at first and fighting the cops is because he didn't know they were the cops
00:32:47.040
that they grabbed him and he, he just didn't know who it was. And, uh, and so he started fighting
00:32:52.860
without seeing anything. I guess he had his eyes closed and he was just flailing. And then he said
00:32:57.040
that the reason he kept walking away and didn't listen to the officers is because he didn't hear
00:33:01.600
them because his ears were ringing. It was muffled. His ears were ringing because of all the screaming
00:33:05.980
and he just couldn't hear anything. So he couldn't see anything. He couldn't hear anything.
00:33:09.380
He picked up the open knife just to put it in his car.
00:33:15.160
Do you wonder why police officers are sometimes short on patience is because they have to deal
00:33:20.480
with this BS every single day. Just people lying blatantly to their face, making up the most absurd
00:33:27.120
excuses for illegal behavior. This is what police officers deal with every single day.
00:33:33.460
All right. Um, number five, this is one of those stories. That's almost like, it's almost like
00:33:40.380
hearing someone described getting a paper cut and that you just, you just feel it. You feel this
00:33:45.480
story. Only this is a lot worse than a paper cut, uh, from entrepreneur.com. It says Stefan Thomas,
00:33:51.360
a German programmer based in San Francisco, forgot a password that would allow him to access 7,000 Bitcoin,
00:33:57.520
which could be worth $220 million. Uh, according to New York times, the password will allow
00:34:03.160
Thomas to unlock a small hard drive called the iron key, which holds the keys to a digital wallet
00:34:08.840
containing 7,000 Bitcoin. Thomas lost the document where he wrote the key to his, uh, iron key years
00:34:14.080
ago, and he only has two attempts left to gain access. So they don't, I guess, I don't know how
00:34:19.860
many attempts he's made so far, but there are only so many attempts before they lock you out permanently.
00:34:23.660
And he's been trying to guess these passwords got $220 million. Theoretically, um, he's got a
00:34:31.120
theoretical $220 million behind that iron key and he can't get in. And, uh, if he, if he guesses wrong
00:34:38.280
two times and the device will encrypt your content forever, the programmer obtained this amount of
00:34:42.000
cryptocurrency in 2011. We lived in Switzerland after making an animated video explaining what is
00:34:46.480
Bitcoin, uh, requested by a fan of the asset. Thomas is not the only one who has lost his money
00:34:51.360
this way. According to the New York times article, citing chain analysis of the existing 18.5 million
00:34:56.760
Bitcoin around 20%, around 20% currently worth around $140 billion seem to be lost or stranded
00:35:04.440
in wallets. That's pretty bad. Uh, and it just, it makes me feel better about not getting involved
00:35:09.820
with Bitcoin because, you know, I'm terrible with passwords. Basically there are two strategies that
00:35:14.960
I've found with strategy with, with passwords. One is that you have one password that's very memorable
00:35:21.380
and you use it for all of your accounts. And the problem is that if any genius hacker ever thinks
00:35:27.760
to guess like password one, two, three or something, they'll be able to bankrupt you and steal your
00:35:32.940
identity in four and a half minutes because they can access everything. And the other strategy is to
00:35:37.740
use a, and this is what I do. I use a difficult and unique password for everything, but then I forget
00:35:44.040
it immediately. And so anytime I want to access anything that has an account, I have to always go to,
00:35:50.360
to, uh, forgot password, do the whole thing. It's so bad that I'll, I'll, I'll set up an account
00:35:55.240
somewhere. I'll set my password and then I'll go to log into the account I just set up and I've
00:36:00.960
already forgotten it. And I have to go and do, remember, remember password. So that's, that's the
00:36:06.160
problem. I also have to admit that, um, for this reason and others, I don't really see the value,
00:36:14.680
uh, with, with Bitcoin. Admittedly, I know almost nothing about it. So if you're a Bitcoin
00:36:20.000
expert, I'm sure you'll have a chance to post your actually comments, uh, below. So, so you're
00:36:27.040
welcome for that. You can, you can school me in it, but it seems to me, this is what, as someone
00:36:30.840
who's totally, this is just my, my intuitive analysis as someone who knows almost nothing
00:36:34.440
about cryptocurrency. It seems to me that for a currency to really be a currency, it needs to be
00:36:40.900
used like one, right? So you have to use it to buy goods and services. If you're not using it to
00:36:46.040
buy goods and services, if it isn't commonly used for that, it's not really a currency,
00:36:49.300
but Bitcoin's Bitcoin is a zillion dollars. So, uh, and there aren't very many of them and
00:36:54.840
they're hard to obtain and they can be hard to access once you have them. So people don't use
00:37:00.540
them as currency and they just buy and sell Bitcoin with other fans of Bitcoin. So that seems to me to
00:37:08.480
not really be a currency, but more of a collectible. My expert analysis is that Bitcoin is just a
00:37:15.460
glorified form of a Beanie Baby or a Pokemon card. That's all it really is. It's just a high tech,
00:37:23.740
really expensive Pokemon card. There you go. Take that to the bank. That's my financial advice.
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00:37:41.200
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00:37:52.580
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00:40:44.720
dire controversy surrounding Ben Shapiro's article in Politico. If you don't spend a lot of time on
00:40:50.300
social media, then your life is a whole lot more fulfilling and meaningful than those of us who do.
00:40:55.440
But the downside is you miss important news like this. It was trending all over Twitter yesterday.
00:41:00.240
People were very upset that Ben Shapiro wrote an article for Politico's newsletter called the
00:41:04.080
playbook. And Ben's piece was mostly about impeachment and trying to explain, you know,
00:41:09.580
why many Republicans oppose it from his point of view. And his, his argument comes down to this
00:41:14.300
paragraph where he says, quote, opposition to impeachment comes from a deep and abiding
00:41:17.760
conservative belief that members of the opposing political tribe want their destruction, not simply
00:41:21.820
to punish Trump for his behavior. Republicans believe that Democrats and the overwhelmingly liberal
00:41:25.900
media see impeachment as an attempt to cudgel them collectively by lumping them in with capital
00:41:31.000
rioters, thanks to their support of Trump. Okay. Now you might think, well, okay, that seems
00:41:36.340
reasonable. Certainly not in any way offensive or traumatizing or radical, but many in media
00:41:42.040
and many employees at Politico didn't agree. Um, they claim that Politico had acted in a deeply
00:41:46.720
irresponsible fashion by allowing Ben Shapiro to write a newsletter. They pointed out that Ben
00:41:52.220
Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew is also a white supremacist Nazi, a white supremacist Nazi Orthodox Jew. I mean,
00:41:58.120
those exist. I'm told there's at least one of them. They pointed out that he has opinions,
00:42:04.560
many opinions, some of which they, the members of the media don't agree with. And it's simply not
00:42:10.860
acceptable for a person with those sorts of opinions to be allowed in Politico or frankly,
00:42:15.720
anywhere else on earth. Eric Wemple, media critic for the Washington Post was tweeting updates on
00:42:20.940
the controversy throughout the day. There was apparently a revolt among Politico staffers
00:42:24.980
who felt that they all personally should have been consulted before their boss made the decision
00:42:30.920
to let Ben Shapiro write a, write a guest column for them. Wemple tweeted, there are now upwards of
00:42:35.940
225 people on the Politico zoom call convened to hash out the decision to invite Ben Shapiro to
00:42:42.140
guest write in addition to playbook. People are very mad. I am hearing very, very mad.
00:42:48.900
This is the kind of thing you hear about a lot these days. Underlings at companies getting their
00:42:52.440
feelings hurt by decisions that don't personally affect them in any way whatsoever. Then they cry about
00:42:57.260
it publicly and management for some reason takes their temper tantrum seriously and gives them a
00:43:02.840
forum to vent their childish rage. In fairness, you might point out that my company has given me a
00:43:11.640
forum to vent my childish rage also. And it's the very show you're listening to right now, but that's
00:43:15.760
beside the point. This isn't about me. This is about Ben Shapiro and he is the one canceled today.
00:43:21.240
Now, please don't think that I would cancel all the people who've broken down in tears over a
00:43:27.660
completely inoffensive and utterly reasonable article in Politico written by a conservative.
00:43:32.300
No, I understand their feelings. I also wept uncontrollably when I first read it. I could not
00:43:39.000
stand to see the sacred hallowed ground of the political playbook so desecrated. The political
00:43:46.160
playbook is, is deeply important to many people. You see myself included, I have been a huge lifelong
00:43:52.360
fan of the political playbook ever since I first heard about it yesterday afternoon.
00:43:57.660
And at any rate, Ben should know that when you're a conservative, you have no right to make your
00:44:02.860
arguments or express your beliefs in any mainstream forum. You shouldn't even be seen in public without
00:44:09.260
prior warning. I've always, I've always said this, that conservatives ought to wear cowbells around
00:44:13.340
their necks when they leave their homes so that strangers will be warned of their imminent arrival
00:44:18.340
into a room. See, it's bad enough to simply be seen, you know, to force others to endure the spectacle of
00:44:27.940
your existence. As a conservative, merely, merely by your presence in a room, you run the risk of causing
00:44:34.520
fatal emotional wounds to everybody in the vicinity, but to actually speak, to express your beliefs and
00:44:39.980
ideas to make arguments. Well, that's tantamount to terrorism, mass murder. This is a true,
00:44:45.660
this is an absolutely true story. Okay. I promise you. I was at a Thanksgiving dinner once a few years
00:44:49.560
ago. Um, one of the people at the table was a conservative and he was explaining, you know,
00:44:54.460
why he believes in gun rights. He was making his arguments. And I'm not exaggerating when I tell you
00:44:57.980
that four people in the dining room dropped dead on the spot. I mean, they just, they disagreed so
00:45:03.480
strongly with the arguments that their hearts gave out and they perished. It was a bloodbath.
00:45:08.460
So this is what's at stake. Ben, by writing an article for Politico, has shown a reckless
00:45:14.380
disregard for the feelings and therefore the lives of so many Americans. And that's why I move not
00:45:19.660
only to cancel Ben Shapiro, but also to impeach him. I will be drawing up articles of impeachment
00:45:24.580
this afternoon. He is charged with incitement, treason, and other acts of general and unspecified
00:45:30.520
meanness. May God have mercy on his soul and may God comfort the staff at Politico in this trying
00:45:38.260
time. That's going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a
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