Ep. 639 - The 1776 Report
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One of President Trump s greatest achievements as president came this week, at the very end of his term. His administration s 1776 Report offers a needed corrective to the anti-American brainwashing in schools. Of course, the left is steaming mad about it, as they tend to be. We ll address their criticisms today. Also, including: Katie Couric is wondering how conservatives might be deprogrammed, and Nancy Pelosi discusses the trauma Congress suffered during the riots on January 6th. And we ll cancel some very bad parenting advice on TikTok.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, one of Trump's best achievements as president just came this week at
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the very end. His administration's 1776 report offers a needed corrective to the anti-American
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brainwashing in schools. Of course, the left is steaming mad about it, as they tend to be. We'll
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address their criticisms today. Also, five headlines, including Katie Couric, is wondering
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how conservatives might be deprogrammed. And Nancy Pelosi discusses the, quote, trauma Congress
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suffered during the riots on January 6th. And our daily cancellation, we will cancel some very bad
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parenting advice on TikTok, but probably all parenting advice on TikTok should be canceled.
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All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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A few months ago, President Trump announced that he was forming the 1776 Commission to counter the
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anti-American, anti-truth indoctrination in our schools and other institutions. The focus was
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especially on debunking the noxious lies told to the public, and in particular, our children,
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by proponents of critical race theory and the 1619 Project and similar things. Ultimately,
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the commission's goal was to offer a corrective to leftist historical revisionism and to promote,
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as Trump calls it, patriotic education. Now, to my mind, this is not only a noble endeavor,
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but perhaps one of the most important things Trump has done with his presidency. Any attempt to
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reverse the cultural tide must begin by addressing the fundamental sickness in our education system.
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Entire generations are being trained from the youngest ages to hate their country, and if they're
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white, despise their ancestors and themselves. So this is not simply a matter of kids being
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brainwashed into a lack of patriotism. At a much deeper level, they're being conditioned to believe
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and build their worldview around what is not true. So I would much rather we call the corrective
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truthful education rather than patriotic education. I'm not going to quibble much over those sorts of
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details, but that's really what we're talking about here. Yesterday, the 1776 Commission released its
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report, reaffirming the basic truths of America's founding and offering its critiques of the radical
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leftist version of history. The final product is about 45 pages long. It's well worth the read.
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And if you take the time to read it, you will already be one step ahead of most of the report's
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critics who do not appear to have even skimmed the document before issuing their many denunciations.
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For example, CNN's headline declares, Trump administration issues racist school curriculum
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report on MLK Day. By the way, that's it. That's not an op-ed. That's their news article calling it
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racist. The Washington Post quotes outraged historians who are incensed by the report's
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outright lies. The New York Times also claims that, quote, historians are, quote, deriding it for its
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false narratives. Now, a brief sampling of the Post article gives you an idea as to the general flavor
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of the criticisms. It says, quoting now, I don't know where to begin, said public historian Alexis
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Coe. This report lacks citations or any indication books were consulted, which explains why it's riddled
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in errors, distortions, and outright lies. Callie Nicole Gross, a history professor at Rutgers and
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Emory Universities, and the co-author of A Black Women's History of the United States, said it was
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dusty and dated, and the usual dodge on the long-lasting harmful impacts of settler colonialism,
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enslavement, Jim Crow, the oppression of women, the plight of queer people, as the true threat to
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democracy. This report makes it seem as if slave-holding founding fathers were abolitionists,
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that Americans were the early beacons of the global abolitionist movement, that the demise of
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slavery in the United States was inevitable. Boston University historian Ibram X. Kendi tweeted,
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it's very hard to find anything in here that stands as a historical claim or as the work of a
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historian. Almost everything in it is wrong, just as a matter of fact, said Eric Roachway.
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I may sound a little incoherent when trying to speak of this because the report itself is not
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coherent. It's like historical whack-a-mole. Okay. You'll notice here, as you'll notice in nearly
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all the denunciations of the 1776 report, that little attempt is made to engage with the specific
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and most essential historical claims that it makes. We're simply assured that the report is
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completely false and misguided and silly and racist, but nobody issuing these assurances will
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bother to explain why. That CNN article that called it racist, at no point in the article did
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it defend or justify or explain that characterization. It just said, well, it's racist. You know, of course
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it is. In fact, the critics say, you know, the report isn't just wrong, but incoherent.
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And this causes me to suspect that perhaps these professional historians are having trouble with
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the document because they're illiterate, which would explain quite a lot about how history is
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taught these days and would explain why they, by their own omission, cannot seem to understand a
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report that lays out its case very clearly and cogently. You can agree or disagree with what
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the report says, but any literate person should at least be able to comprehend what is being said.
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These historians can't even do that, they say. They just don't understand it. They're completely
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confused. Mostly it seems that the scholarly community takes great umbrage with the report
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section on slavery. That's the part that's gotten the most attention, which they say dismisses or as
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Huffington Post headline claims, justifies the practice of slavery. That's what they're saying.
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They're saying that the report justifies slavery, defends it. So let's read what it actually says on the
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subject. Hopefully you'll find this at least coherent. I mean, you tell me if you can at a minimum
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understand what's being said. Okay. This is a quote now from the 1776 Commission report.
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The most common charge leveled against the founders, and hence against our country itself,
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is that they were hypocrites who didn't believe in their stated principles, and therefore the
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country they built rests on a lie. This charge is untrue and has done enormous damage, especially
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in recent years, with a devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric. Many Americans
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labor under the illusion that slavery was somehow uniquely American evil.
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It is essential to insist at the outset that the institution be seen in a much broader perspective.
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It is very hard for people brought up in the comforts of modern America,
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at a time in which the media, in which the idea that all human beings have inviolable rights
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and inherent dignity is almost taken for granted, to imagine the cruelties and enormities that were
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endemic in earlier times. But the unfortunate fact is that the institution of slavery has been
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more the rule than the exception throughout history. It was the Western world's repudiation of slavery,
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only just beginning to build at the time of the American Revolution, which marked a dramatic
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sea change in moral sensibilities. The American founders were living on the cusp of this change
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in a manner that straddled two worlds. Okay, did you understand that? It seems coherent,
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isn't it? I had no trouble understanding the point. It goes on to discuss the attitudes that the
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founders had towards slavery. Some were against it, some were for it. Some wrestled with the issue
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throughout their lives. Ultimately, of course, slavery was abolished in this country, and it
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only took America 90 years to do it. America was only a country for 90 years, give or take,
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before slavery was abolished. Compare that to the track record of other nations, some of which have
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been around for millennia, and still to this day have not completely abolished it right now.
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And when you do that, you see that our country is not guiltless, but its guilt is no greater than
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most any other nation on earth, and in many cases, it's quite a bit lesser. Now, it may be hard for
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media people and scholars to understand the simple but crucial point being made here, but that's either
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because they don't want to understand, or they're too stupid to understand, or both. The goal of
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critical race theory, and of the modern left generally, is to saddle white Americans with a
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special and lasting guilt stemming from these historical injustices, and to paint America itself as
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uniquely evil, and almost singularly responsible for atrocities like slavery. This is wrong, and it
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matters that it's wrong. We cannot assess our own history, or the people who comprise it, if we do not
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have an accurate and a complete understanding of the context in which these people lived and acted.
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So we can quite easily and self-assuredly sit here right now from our comfortable position,
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and condemn men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson for not being racially enlightened enough.
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But to thoughtful people, it should make a difference that Washington and Jefferson lived
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at a time when almost nobody on the entire planet was racially enlightened by our standards today.
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Slavery was indeed a foregone conclusion, a normal part of life for nearly everyone everywhere through
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all of human history until the last couple of centuries. We could have an interesting discussion about
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why this was the case. How was this the case? How is it that the whole world could have been so blind
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to a moral truth that we all now see so clearly? And when I say we all, I mean we in the West,
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because in other parts of the world, they still don't see it. But we cannot have that discussion
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if we insist on absolving everyone everywhere of guilt, except for white men in North America.
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America. The discussion becomes absurd at that point and pointless, and whatever conclusions
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you draw will be false and harmful. They'll be the conclusions of the 1619 Project and critical race
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theory, which the 1776 report rightly condemns. Now, the report ends with this passage, which I like.
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It says, to be an American means something noble and good. It means treasuring freedom and embracing
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the vitality of self-government. We are shaped by the beauty, bounty, and wildness of our continent.
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We are united by the glory of our history. We are distinguished by the American virtues of openness,
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honesty, optimism, determination, generosity, confidence, kindness, hard work, courage, and hope.
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Our principles did not create these virtues, but they laid the groundwork for them to grow and spread
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and forge America into the most just and glorious country in all of human history.
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Admittedly, some of that is a matter of opinion. I'm not sure there is any objective, factual measure
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for the gloriousness of a country. But it's good for a person to feel this way about his country.
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And there is good reason to feel this way about our country.
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It's how many other people in many other countries feel about their countries.
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All in all of those countries have their own troubled histories, their own sins, their own guilt,
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many cases much worse than our own. Yet nobody would mock or scold them, the people in those
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countries, for their patriotism. It's only us. We are the only ones, the only ones who are supposed
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to be ashamed of our country and its history and its heroes. We're the only ones who are not supposed
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to be too enthusiastic in our patriotism. You know, we're supposed to issue a thousand apologies
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as a preamble for every good thing we say about our country. At least that's what they tell us.
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At least that's the rules they want to impose. And we should not listen. We should reject that.
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Absolutely. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right. By the way, I just have to, this is more a question I'm asking. I just have to say this
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because I don't know where else to say it. But it's something that's really been, it's been a
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source of great contention in my home and something we've been dealing with. But those robotic vacuums,
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I don't know if you've gotten one of these things, like a Roomba, the robotic vacuum. Seems like a great
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idea, right? You get the Roomba. I think we got a knockoff version. Maybe this is the problem,
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but we just got it. And I was very excited about the, about it. Cause the idea is you just put it
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on the ground and you never have to sweep again or vacuum just does it on its own. You got a robot
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in your house doing a chore. It's everyone's dream come true. They're very excited about it,
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but the thing is useless. It just ambles around on the rug. I was watching it yesterday and it was,
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there was a Cheerio on the ground and it navigated around the Cheerio like three times.
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And I'm just sitting there like, get the Cheerio. I'm not going to bend down and pick it up. I'm
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too busy. For instance, I'm sitting here watching the vacuum cleaner. So what's, do we just, do you
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need a better brand or what's the deal? Do these things actually work? That's my question. Someone
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can answer that for me, please. Maybe more important issues to talk about. Number one,
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Katie Couric and Bill Maher are, well, they're worried about, about, about deprogramming Republicans,
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you know, because that, that's what, that's, that's the, the, the project that we're going to
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have to undertake in the years ahead, um, in this, this, uh, deprogramming because we're all brainwashed
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and, uh, let's listen to that now. It's really bizarre, isn't it? When you think about how AWOL,
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so many of these members of Congress have gotten, but I also think some of them are believing the
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garbage that they are being fed 24 seven on the internet by their constituents. And they bought into
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this big lie. And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who
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have signed up for the cult of Trump? Deprogram. And she talks about the cult of Trump. Uh, of course,
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we know that she's not only referring to that. And when we hear this from the media, they're not,
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they're not, that that's, they, they mean conservatives in general. Now I'd be the first
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to admit, and I've said many times there is among, there has been in some quarters, uh,
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this is a minority of conservatives, but there has been among some, a, a cult like, um, dedication
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and obsession, a personality cult. There's, there's no denying there has been a personality
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cult around Donald Trump. I don't think anyone, I don't think any rational person could possibly
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deny that. And I've talked many times about how, how damaging personality cults are no matter
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where you find them on the political spectrum and you find them on the left and right. Now they
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bother me a lot more on the right because it's, cause that's where I am. And I don't like to see
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that where I am. I don't like to see it so close to home. Uh, but we know about the, the personality
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called around Barack Obama, the, the, the messianic, um, way that he was, that he was celebrated and
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embraced by the media. So that, that is, that is an issue, but that's not what, that's not what
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they're talking about. That's maybe what they're saying. That's not what they really mean.
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And the point is, you know, it's, it's one thing when they talk about conservatives,
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like we're all a bunch of evil, racist bigots, you know, that that's troubling enough, especially
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when these people seize control of the entire government as they're about to. Um, what's
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even worse though, is when they talk about us, like we're sick, that's what you really have
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to look out for. If they're just screaming at you, you're a big meanie, you're a bigot.
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Okay, fine. When they start talking to you and about you, like you're sick, like you need
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to be treated for a disease, like your ideas are a disease. That's, that's, that's the really
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disturbing thing. And that's when things can go, uh, in a very dystopian direction.
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Um, speaking of which, number two, representative Steve Cohen has concerns of his own. Um, and he's
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worried that, you know, basically that the DC right now is militarized. It's under military
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occupation, but he's not worried about that. He's worried instead about the race of some
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of these, uh, national guard guardsmen that are, that are there. Let's listen to this.
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It was certainly raised this morning. I was reading about this on the, on my Twitter account,
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I guess, and people were reminding people of Anwar Sadat and Indira Gandhi who were killed
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by her own, their own people. Um, you know, I was thinking the guard is 90 some odd percent,
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I believe male, um, only about 20% of white males voted for Biden. You got to figure that
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in the guard, which is predominantly more conservative. And I see that on my social
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media and we know it. They're probably not more than 25% of the people that are there protecting
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us who voted for Biden. The other 75% are in the class that would be, uh, the, the large
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class of folks who might want to, uh, do something. Who might want to do something. Just what does
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that mean? I think we all know what it means. Just casually accusing national guard of being
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a bunch of potential assassins. Eh, no big deal. But of course that's what he's focused
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on is the, the racial makeup. Meanwhile, there are real criticisms that you could lob against
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the fact that, that DC is essentially under military occupation at present. Um, you, you remember
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when in the midst of the BLM riots and, uh, finally, finally, after days of it, there was a response
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and, um, a response that almost met the violence coming from the rioters and the media all day
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long was, was complaining about it's militarized. It's, uh, it's, it's overboard yet. They seem to
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have no problem with this. You know, I've, I've friends who are in DC sending me pictures or talking
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about the experience, but it's just eerie. It's like, they've never seen anything like this
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in any American city, least of all Washington DC. So if we're going to be criticizing, I think,
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I think, I think that, I think that would be the issue no matter the race of the people who are doing
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the occupying. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, um, was, was on Hillary Clinton's podcast. And I, I just learned
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that Hillary Hillary Clinton has a podcast. Apparently, I don't know who would sit down and
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listen to a Hillary Clinton podcast of all things, but I guess some people do, at least Nancy Pelosi
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does. And, uh, she was on the podcast, uh, talking about many things, but really focusing on the
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trauma that, uh, people in Congress suffered on January 6th during the riots. Let's listen to that.
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I, as an American, am incredibly grateful for your steadiness and your devotion to our democracy.
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How are you holding up? Well, first, let me just say, I was very much looking forward
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to being with you. Uh, the kind words that you say, I accept on behalf of my House Democratic
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Caucus colleagues, they've been so courageous, so steadfast, so patriotic, so committed to their
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oath of office. And they said at that point that there were storming the Capitol and the security just
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whisked away. But it was stunning. But I know, again, they are protective. And I thought, well,
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okay, yeah, I'll go with you because it's your job to make sure that I do. And I don't want to
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endanger anybody else. And I'm a target, you know? So, so when we got in the car, I said, well, where
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are we going? Like to another room? No, we're going to an undisclosed location.
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You know, when I hear, um, talk of the trauma that, and they haven't stopped talking about how
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traumatic it was for them, this whole experience. But whenever I hear this, my mind, I go back to a
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story that you may have forgotten about, or you may not have heard at all because it wasn't exactly
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something that the mainstream media was eager to report. But just one example, you know, you go back
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to the riots throughout the summer. And, um, so many, just, just, just, you have your pick of the
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litter. You can pick so many examples of traumatic things that, uh, that regular American citizens
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suffered. And the people like Nancy Pelosi never said a word about that, never spoke a word about
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the trauma of people who live in these cities that have been wracked by, by rioting, uh, the businesses
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burned down, family members killed, you know, I don't know the family members of, of David Dorn,
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for example, Nancy Pelosi ever say anything about that, the trauma they're suffering.
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But I go, my mind goes back to one particular incident. Um, the Chicago Ronald McDonald house
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cancer center for children during the rioting in Chicago, which there was writing all throughout
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the summer, right? Uh, during the BLM writing, the cancer center was attacked by rioters. Okay. Yes.
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They attacked a cancer center for children and there were kids inside, there were families inside
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and they were terrified because they're listening to the windows being smashed downstairs. Now,
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just imagine that for a second. I mean, imagine you're a child and you're sick with cancer and
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you're, and, uh, and then you hear this, this commotion outside these, these unruly crowds,
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you hear the windows being smashed in your building. Imagine you're a parent of a child going through
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that. There was one young child and we talked about this at the time. So maybe if you've been
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listening to this show, you heard about this at least, um, one young child, Owen, believe was his
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name, two years old fighting stage four cancer. And he was supposed to go home to sell it for his
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birthday party that day. And he couldn't go home. He missed his birthday party. Now they celebrated it
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later, but he missed his birthday party that day because of the, um, because of the writing outside
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it was, it was unsafe to leave the building. So I, you know, I don't know when I think about trauma
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that people suffered, emotional trauma that they suffered during writing. I am much, much more
00:23:09.640
concerned about those kids and many other children too, affected by it. But even just that one case,
00:23:17.560
I'm more concerned about their emotional trauma. Think about the emotional trauma they are suffering.
00:23:24.460
That's something that they're going to remember in their nightmares, probably for the rest of their
00:23:27.300
lives. I just, I'm a lot more concerned about that than I am about the trauma, the emotional trauma of
00:23:36.220
grown adults, powerful people, politicians in Congress. That's just me. I certainly reject the
00:23:46.820
idea that we're supposed to be more concerned about that, about their trauma, the politicians.
00:23:51.680
And what happened to them was so much worse. It was, it was desecrating sacred ground
00:23:59.060
and sacred people, apparently. I absolutely reject that.
00:24:08.400
All right. Number three from Variety, it says, Walt Disney, Frank Capra, uh, Whitney Houston,
00:24:15.080
Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, and Alex Trebek are among the entertainment industry figures who have been
00:24:19.220
added as a proposed, as proposed honorees in the National Garden of American Heroes monument project
00:24:24.880
unveiled by President Donald Trump in July. As he began his final 40 hours of president, Trump issued
00:24:30.500
an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the planned
00:24:35.560
statue, uh, statuary park. So there's all kinds of, all kinds of names. This is going to be a whole park.
00:24:42.700
It's kind of like a wax museum that he's got planned now. So I guess that these are going to be,
00:24:46.200
you know, these are going to be sculptures, statues. Um, so Kobe Bryant, Humphrey Bogart,
00:24:54.000
Miles Davis, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Stewart,
00:25:00.740
Ray Charles, Nat King Cole. Um, I, I'm pretty sure Christopher Columbus is going to be that George
00:25:07.300
Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson. So we're throwing some of them into Martin Luther King Jr.,
00:25:12.200
Jackie Robinson, Amelia Earhart. So it does seem like kind of a, a random assortment of people,
00:25:19.120
but I like the idea. My, my only, of course, my only issue with, with any
00:25:25.820
statue or monument project being undertaken right now, right before Democrats take over,
00:25:32.560
is that all that stuff is just going to come down.
00:25:34.580
Um, but I'm in favor of just, just keep building the statues. And if this is what it comes to,
00:25:41.660
every time we have a Republican president, just build like a thousand more statues, just keep
00:25:45.600
building them. Um, all right. Number four, I wanted to play this for you just because I thought it was
00:25:53.680
very inspiring. Um, I personally, I was inspired by it. We played yesterday, Kamala Harris talking about
00:26:00.260
her shoes. And that also was pretty inspiring, but, uh, here she is with some invigorating words
00:26:07.260
of encouragement, just for anyone out there. She says she's a, she's kind of a motivational
00:26:11.040
speaker and she's a mentor. And these are her words of encouragement. I thought this was pretty
00:26:14.820
great. Listen, I was raised to understand many people will tell you it is impossible, but don't
00:26:22.480
listen. I mentor a lot of people and I tell them that there will be people who will say,
00:26:28.160
it's not your turn. It's not your time. No one like you has done it. And I'll tell them,
00:26:33.060
and don't you listen. And then I will go on to tell them I eat no for breakfast.
00:26:39.260
So authentic, so authentic. It's the parade of cliches.
00:26:45.860
Throw a bunch of cliches in a blender, you know, blend it up and pour it out. And that's,
00:26:52.200
that's what you have every time. Uh, every, every time Kamala Harris speaks, I eat no for breakfast.
00:26:56.580
Do you really say that? Is that really what you say to people? I hope you don't say that in real
00:27:00.840
life to people in a normal conversation. Hey, listen, I eat no for breakfast. What? Why would
00:27:07.920
you say that? Uh, but you know, on the other hand, I have to credit where it's due. Um, Kamala Harris,
00:27:17.480
early on in her career to establish her political career. It cannot be denied that, you know, she,
00:27:27.340
she, she took a very hands-on approach, hands-on, you know, hands, all kinds of places. I mean,
00:27:34.620
she really took a hands-on approach and she was going to get down and dirty and really make sure
00:27:39.400
that she, uh, that she got her political career going. And I, and I, and I, and that, that much you
00:27:43.440
do have to respect. That's all I'll say. By the way, I just saw that Sarah Fuller, a kicker for
00:27:48.060
Vanderbilt. Remember she was the, you know, the, the, the, the woman they brought in to kick at
00:27:52.280
Vanderbilt. She's going to be at the inauguration apparently, which means there will be a person
00:27:58.700
who won the job because of her gender, despite a mediocre performance. And also Sarah Fuller will
00:28:04.840
be there. So that's going to be great. Number five, Chicago prosecutors say that, uh, this is from
00:28:09.180
Daily Wire. Chicago prosecutors say that 36 year old Adyita Singh lived in the city's O'Hare
00:28:14.440
International Airport for three months to avoid flying home to Los Angeles amid the coronavirus
00:28:20.100
pandemic. This is one of those very strange stories. I've seen it everywhere. And I kind of
00:28:25.060
assume we're going to find out in a couple of weeks that half of this is just wrong. It didn't
00:28:29.740
happen because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Um, CWB Chicago, which regularly covers the city's
00:28:36.480
bond hearings, noticed, uh, Singh's case on Sunday when Singh came up for bond on charges of criminal
00:28:42.100
trespass to a restricted area and petty theft, apparently for continuing to use an airport
00:28:45.780
worker's misplaced credentials. Singh first arrived to Chicago on a flight from Los Angeles on October
00:28:51.540
19th. Um, and then he just decided to stay there and he's been relying on other passengers to provide
00:28:58.620
him with food. Shouldn't that, I mean, the moment you have a panhandler in the airport, so you're
00:29:05.540
telling me this guy was panhandling in the airport and it took him, took people three months to notice
00:29:11.060
an airport of all places with security everywhere. I've, cause I've, I've never seen that. I've never
00:29:18.340
seen you see in Chicago, you see panhandling everywhere. The only place you wouldn't see it
00:29:23.100
is in an airport. So I don't know, I guess people just, they were going through Chicago airport.
00:29:28.100
They figured, well, this is part of the culture here. Um, so he, uh, let's see, he was using the
00:29:33.080
credential and he, I don't know, we don't know where he slept or what he did. My first question
00:29:40.200
is why O'Hare of all places? I can understand spending a few months, you know, in maybe the
00:29:44.180
Minneapolis airport or even Charlotte, but O'Hare, Chicago. The only good thing about O'Hare is that
00:29:51.360
it's the one place in Chicago where you probably won't get shot. But other than that, it doesn't
00:29:55.160
have much to recommend it. Um, as much as I kind of like airports, actually good thing about airports,
00:30:01.740
you can drink at 7am. Nobody judges you. It's like the one place in the world where you can do
00:30:05.420
that, that in a cruise ship, I guess. But that's a strange story. I guess we'll, we'll have to keep
00:30:10.500
our eyes on that to see when they, to see when the update comes next week saying, oh yeah, you know,
00:30:14.680
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Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling someone who dispensed some bad
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parenting advice on TikTok. Really, I suppose we should just cancel all parenting advice that is
00:33:56.020
given on TikTok. Frankly, I'm horrified to discover that parenting advice on TikTok is even a thing,
00:34:01.380
but it is a thing apparently. And very much so our culprit today has a TikTok account with a hundred
00:34:06.040
thousand followers. And the video we're going to play in a moment has 7 million views and 700,000
00:34:11.440
likes. Okay. So the sad reality, as much as we might hate to admit it, is that a great many young
00:34:16.640
people are going to learn about parenting and get their parenting wisdom and advice from TikTok.
00:34:21.460
So it does matter that the advice is so abysmally stupid and also dangerous.
00:34:26.160
So we'll go through this video. It's less than a minute, but here it is. And we'll start here and
00:34:32.960
we'll discuss. Why I don't use a crib for my five-month-old. If you look at a typical American
00:34:38.600
nursery, you will notice that it's set up for the parents' benefit, not the child's. Okay, you're
00:34:43.580
right. That's true. Let's just stop right there. The nursery is for the parents' benefit. In fact,
00:34:47.740
everything in the house is for the parents' benefit in the sense that it's all set up how it's set up
00:34:52.440
because the parents want it that way and know they need it that way. They also know their kids
00:34:57.540
need it that way, even if their kids don't want it that way. You know, if it were up to my kids,
00:35:02.100
we would be living in refrigerator boxes outside, defecating in the yard, eating fast food for every
00:35:08.480
meal. Yes, I'm teeing up for a San Francisco joke here, but it's probably not necessary to spell out
00:35:13.100
the punchline. The point is the nursery, the kitchen, the living room, everything in the house,
00:35:18.820
they're all going to be set up to the parent's specifications for the benefit of both the parent
00:35:23.520
and the child. I cannot imagine what a nursery set up to an infant's specifications would look
00:35:28.360
like because infants don't have specifications because they're infants. Okay, let's get back to
00:35:34.080
the clip. The artwork is usually up high where babies can't even see it. We literally buy these
00:35:39.120
little baby jail cells so that we can just leave our baby in there and walk away.
00:35:42.780
Well, again, yeah, you know, I wouldn't call it a jail cell. That might be a bit dramatic,
00:35:47.880
but it is certainly a huge benefit to be able to put your baby down and walk away. The other option
00:35:51.980
is to what? Never walk away from your child ever? I mean, just 24 hours a day, every day, you're never
00:36:00.100
in a different room? See, this is how you know the young lady here only has one child and only has
00:36:04.860
been a parent for a few months. And it's also why nobody with one kid who is still, and the kid is still a
00:36:10.260
baby, should be giving any parenting advice at all ever to anyone. If you're still at the point
00:36:16.200
where you're scandalized by the idea of a parent putting their child down for a minute and walking
00:36:20.200
away, then you haven't been in this game long enough. You need a few more circles under the
00:36:24.200
eyes, a little more drool and spit up on the shoulder, a little dirt under the fingernails
00:36:28.780
or something under your fingernails. You hope it's dirt. You never know when there are kids in the
00:36:33.720
house. I can tell you, I can't tell you how many times as a parent I've been holding a child or even
00:36:38.080
like sitting in a chair or something. And then I look down and there's some sort of ominous
00:36:41.700
substance on me. And I think, what the hell is this? Is this pudding? Please tell me this is
00:36:46.800
pudding. Who had pudding? Anyway, back to the video. I don't have a crib because I will never
00:36:53.380
enforce my baby to have a bedtime. Babies are people too, and forcing anyone to sleep when they're not
00:36:58.840
tired is inhumane. Imagine if your partner locked you in a container you couldn't get out of and told
00:37:04.120
you you had to sleep even though you weren't tired. That would be abuse, and you'd probably
00:37:08.280
leave them. Kids deserve the right to bodily autonomy just like we do, and that involves sleep.
00:37:14.280
Okay, many problems here. First, your baby is not your partner. That is a very strange way of
00:37:21.300
characterizing it. Your baby is not your partner in any sense at all. Your baby is your baby. And the
00:37:27.600
thing about your baby being your baby is that he's a baby. As such, he has no idea when he's tired.
00:37:33.360
He has no idea when he needs to sleep. Babies cry when they're tired, okay? It's extremely
00:37:38.320
irrational behavior. I have turned to my kids when they're crying because they're tired. And I have
00:37:44.500
said, hey, if you're tired, just go to sleep. You're a baby. Don't you understand that? You could
00:37:49.000
literally just lie on the floor right now and sleep, and nobody would judge you. I can't do that. I wish I
00:37:54.980
could. I can't just pass out on the floor. What are you crying about? I should be the one crying.
00:38:00.840
You've kept me awake for the past nine months. I'm hallucinating. I'm literally going to die.
00:38:06.400
You don't see me crying. I have said this to our babies many times, but it's no use, I've
00:38:11.820
discovered. These are the lessons you learn with parenting. They can't be reasoned with. They
00:38:15.700
don't understand anything. They don't know that they're supposed to sleep when they're tired.
00:38:20.640
You have to teach. Think about that. This is how clueless kids are. This is your job as a parent.
00:38:23.980
You have to teach them that you're supposed to sleep when you're tired. That is not something
00:38:29.460
that comes naturally. You have to give them that structure and guidance. My 14-month-old was
00:38:38.180
fussy and tired the other day, so she literally started, this is what she was doing because she
00:38:42.540
was tired. She was running in circles in the living room, periodically throwing herself on the
00:38:47.420
ground and crying, and at other points, laughing hysterically. This is the behavior of a lunatic,
00:38:53.720
but she gets a pass because she's 14 months old. That's why I had to pick her up, put her in the
00:38:59.820
crib, and say, okay, bedtime. So forcing your child to sleep is one of the best things you can do for
00:39:06.140
them. Give them structure. Get them on a schedule. Make sure they're rested. It's a very good idea.
00:39:11.700
All right, let's finish this, put ourselves out of our misery. One last clip. Let's go.
00:39:15.620
This is our current setup, but we also have a floor bed. The floor bed allows the baby to sleep
00:39:21.240
when the baby is feeling sleepy and get up and move around when the baby's not.
00:39:28.140
My God. Get up and move around whenever he wants? He's five months old. What is he going to do?
00:39:36.780
Walk out to the kitchen and fix himself a sandwich in the middle of the night?
00:39:39.440
Don't mind me, Mom. Just grabbing a midnight snack. By the way, please, and this is all joking aside,
00:39:46.480
and I really mean this, everyone. If you're watching the video, you can see this image of
00:39:51.280
the child. As a parent of four kids, this to me is one of the most terrifying things I've ever
00:39:55.860
looked at in my life, this picture right here. You tell me that's the bed of a five-month-old?
00:39:59.480
Please, do not put your babies in beds with blankets and pillows and stuffed animals,
00:40:06.140
as this woman has apparently done. I am genuinely concerned for the child's welfare.
00:40:11.440
They can easily suffocate at that age with that sort of stuff in their bed. Do not do that.
00:40:16.660
I mean, really, you want to be... I may be a little bit more paranoid about choking and suffocation
00:40:23.520
as a parent than I need to be, but what I would say is you want to be well into their first...
00:40:28.780
into their second year of life. You want to be well past the one-year mark before you start putting
00:40:33.340
them in bed with any kind of blankets or pillows or anything. They don't need it.
00:40:37.060
And at five months, do not do that. Do not do that. They can get that... That stuff gets wrapped
00:40:42.740
around their head, and that's how you get SIDS. That's how kids die in their sleep. Okay, it happens.
00:40:47.140
So put your baby in a crib. Treat your baby like a baby, because he is a baby. That's what you should
00:40:55.760
do. Basically, do the opposite. This is my recommendation. You can take it from the guy
00:40:59.880
with four kids or the woman who's had one kid for five months. What I would say is do the opposite
00:41:05.940
of everything you just heard from our friend in the video. All of that. Take all of that and just do
00:41:11.100
the opposite of it. That's a good way of being. Because for now, she is canceled. And I really
00:41:18.700
hope to God someone talks some sense into her. And soon. And that'll do it for us today. Thanks
00:41:23.660
for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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