Ep. 643 - Children Made To Suffer So That Adults Can Feel Safe
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Biden admits that nothing we can do to stop the spread of the Ebola virus, so then why does he wear a mask for 100 days? Plus, an MSNBC analyst tries to make a profound point by invoking a Nicki Minaj lyric, and in our daily cancellation, yet another TikTok parent is on the slate to be canceled. That and much more, coming up today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we will talk about the incredible toll the lockdowns have taken on
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our children, at least as at least one school district is rushing to reopen in response to a
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surge in childhood suicides. Also, five headlines, including Biden admitting that nothing we do will
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change the trajectory of the virus. So then why does he want to wear a mask for 100 days if it's
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not going to change anything? Plus, an MSNBC analyst tries to make a profound point by extensively
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quoting a Nicki Minaj lyric. And in our daily cancellation, yet another TikTok parent is on
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the slate to be canceled. That and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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them online at charitymobile.com. Much of the conversation about the lockdowns over the past
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10 months has focused on the question of whether they are actually the best way to slow the spread
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of the virus. That's been the be-all and end-all of the conversation, but this has always
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overshadowed and obscured the more important question, which is whether slowing the spread
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of the virus should be the overarching number one priority of our entire society, relegating all
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other concerns to secondary status. Is stopping people from getting the virus, in fact, so important
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that any other cost they might have to bear as a result of our measures will be worth it?
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That is and has always been the real question, and it's not a scientific question. That's the
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thing. It's more of a philosophical question. It's a question of priority, of importance,
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of risk versus reward, cost and benefit. See, this transcends statistics. It's not something you can
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figure out by looking at a spreadsheet. It's not something that a guy like Anthony Fauci
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will necessarily have anything useful to say about. And that's why the powers that be did not
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want the issue framed this way. They only wanted us to ever consider the first question, which is,
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will the lockdowns stop people from getting sick? All other considerations be damned. All other
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questions are moot, they claimed. And they are, and we're always wrong about that. Which brings us to
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a rare event. Over the weekend, the New York Times published some actual journalism for a change.
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The story by Erica Green reports on the decision to get schools in Clark County, Nevada, Las Vegas,
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opened again as soon as possible. And what's prompted this urgent rush to reopen schools is a
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surge in suicides among children in the area. Let's read now from the piece a little bit. It says,
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since schools shut their doors in March, an early warning system that monitors students' mental
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health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about
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suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm, or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their
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own lives. The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district,
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the nation's fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible. This month,
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the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and
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groups of struggling students, even as greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of
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coronavirus death cases. Superintendents across the nation are weighing the benefit of in-person
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education against the cost of public health, watching teachers and staff become sick and in
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some cases die, but also seeing the psychological and academic toll that school closings are having
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on children nearly a year in. The risk of student suicides has quietly stirred many district leaders,
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leading some, like the state superintendent in Arizona, to cite that fear and public pleas to help
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mitigate the virus's spread. Now, the piece continues by looking at the larger suicide trend, which it
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admits is hard to quantify because we don't have national data on suicides in the year 2020 yet.
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Even so, it says, quote, one study from the CDC shows that the percentage of youth emergency room
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visits that were for mental health reasons had risen during the pandemic. The actual number of those
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visits fell. The researchers noted that many people were avoiding hospitals that were dealing with the
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crush of coronavirus patients. And in a compilation of emergency calls in more than 40 states among all
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age groups showed increased numbers related to mental health. In Clark County, 18 suicides over
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nine months of closure is double the nine the district had the entire previous year. Six students
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died by suicide between March 16th and June 30th. Twelve students died by suicide between July 1st and
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December 31st. One student left a note saying he had nothing to look forward to. The youngest student
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Dr. Jara has lost to suicide was nine. Okay. Nine years old. So think about that. My oldest kids,
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the twins are seven, seven and a half, really. Not that far from that age. A child so young committing
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suicide is it's literally unthinkable. You can't wrap your head around it. And of course, we can't know
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specifically what drove any of these kids to this point. It would seem safe to assume that many of these
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children, whether in Clark County or elsewhere, had other things going on in their lives in addition
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to the lockdowns, which may have contributed, though again, we can't know. But anytime a nine-year-old
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kills themselves, that should be an occasion for the whole country to stop in its tracks and ask,
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what the hell is going on? How could there be children so young and yet in such a desperate
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psychological state? Now, you could point out here that suicide rates among children have been rising
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across the country before the lockdowns were imposed, before COVID-19 existed, way before.
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A report from PBS in 2019 had these findings that said, between 2000 and 2007, the suicide rate among
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youth ages 10 to 24 hovered around 6.8 deaths per 100,000 people. Then the rate curved upward,
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reaching a rate of 10.6 deaths per 100,000 by 2017, a 56% increase in less than two decades.
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It says by the year 2017, suicide was the second leading cause of death among Americans aged 15 to
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24. To put that in context, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among Americans in general,
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of all ages. So this is clearly a problem that predates the lockdowns, but that only further proves
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why the lockdowns were a disastrous mistake, especially with respect to schools. Whatever the
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reasons, and the reasons are various and complex, there was already a crisis of despair and hopelessness
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among children. They were already vulnerable. And now you lock them in their homes for months on end,
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rip them out of their routines, take away their friends, take away their social gatherings,
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instill in them a deep fear over a virus that poses very little risk to them personally,
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force them to be muzzled when they go out in public, deprive them of the chance to even see
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the faces of strangers when they're out in public. I mean, how do you think that's going to end?
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What other result could it possibly have but this? And this is why I say the spreadsheets and the
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statistics and the bar graphs miss the point. This is why lockdown critics are not denying the
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science. We're accused of, well, you're denying the science. Our point is that the most important
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questions don't have anything to do with the science. The science is beside the point.
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And if you disagree, if that scandalizes you to hear someone say the science is beside the point,
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okay, well then tell me, scientifically, what is the reduction in cases, the exact number
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that makes even one childhood suicide worth the cost? If you're telling me this is a scientific
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question, well then go ahead, Spock, make it scientific. Tell me how. Spell it out for me.
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Take just the child who said that he, uh, who killed himself before that said that he, he, you know,
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he missed his friends and he missed how things were before. How many alleged lives saved from the
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lockdowns make that worth the cost? What is the scientific answer to that question? There isn't one
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because this is a moral question. As I said, a philosophical one. And my moral and philosophical
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answer is that there is no reduction in cases, no slowing of the spread that can make one child
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suicide worth it. That's my answer. What we're doing to our children right now, the damage we are doing,
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nothing can make that worth it. Nothing. And you could disagree if you want, but save me the crap
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about I'm following the science. This has not a damn thing to do with the science. It's about priorities.
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I believe our priority as a society should always be, always be protecting our children. That should
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always be our number one priority as a society. Is that what the science says? No, the science
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doesn't say a damn thing about what our priorities should be as a society. That's what human beings
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are supposed to say. And that's what makes this all the more disgraceful. You know, we have seen a
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total inversion of priorities. This virus was never a great threat to children. So we have done all of
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this to protect ourselves. We have asked or demanded really that our kids, our kids, our kids make the
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sacrifices, even, even bear the brunt of the sacrifices so that we can be safe. This is exactly
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the opposite of what we are meant to do. You know, societies can be judged by how they treat their
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children. I believe that. And we were already failing enormously by that measure. 60 million kids
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killed since Roe v. Wade. So we were already a failure in that regard. But now after this,
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I mean, what will future generations say about a people that drove their own kids to suicide in
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order to protect themselves from a virus? They won't say anything good. We can assume that.
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The judgment on us by history will be incredibly harsh. And we will deserve all of it.
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So, you know, they say honesty is the best policy, but sometimes in marriage, you know, I do tend to
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doubt that a little bit. I have to be honest with you. I'll be honest about that. Sometimes I doubt
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a little bit. I sometimes doubt the honest, the value of honesty in marriage. And I'll just explain
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why. Like, for example, yesterday, I got home from traveling. I was traveling over the weekend.
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I was in Austin. And for a pro-life event, actually, because they do have those in Austin,
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it turns out. And it was a great event. Anyway, I came home. A few hours, I thought everything was
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fine. A few, everything looked, you know, everything looked normal and the same to me when I got home
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as it did when I left, because I only left the day before. And a few hours after I got home, my wife said to me,
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And I said, and this is where the honesty kicked in.
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Okay, this is where I was going to be honest. And I said, what about your hair?
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And she said, you know, it's brown now. It was blonde before.
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And then I realized I should stop saying things in that moment. But here's my point.
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I was honest for the whole conversation. I was completely honest.
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Now, do you really want to tell me that was the best policy?
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And then actually, in my defense, I actually went, because I never know when to drop it.
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So a little bit later on, I went back to try to prove my point.
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I pulled up her profile picture from Twitter, which is from before she allegedly dyed her hair.
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And I showed it to her and I said, no, your hair was brown before. It looks the same.
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I was trying to mansplain her own hair color to her.
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I was bringing facts and evidence and destroying her with it.
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But it didn't matter. She said I was colorblind.
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I don't know. Maybe I am. Anyway, so keep that in mind.
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Number one, President Biden last week had an interesting, well, interesting admission, I guess we could say.
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If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on.
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Because there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.
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There's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.
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Obviously, if we had if we got a media interested in the actual news, this would be like headline news everywhere.
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This is a stunning thing for him to say, considering what his new administration is in the process of doing.
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Everyone wear the mask for 100 days, even though people have already been wearing the mask for 100 days, more than that.
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And as far as I know, this question has not been asked by anybody in the media, but it's like, OK, well, if we can't change the trajectory.
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Which, by the way, I'm not necessarily I'm not saying I disagree with that, actually.
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What is the point of it exactly if it's not to change the trajectory?
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She says, I've obtained an email from the California Restaurant Association that says Gavin Newsom will be lifting the stay at home order for all regions across the state tomorrow.
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And she continues, I'm not sure if this means the region will fall back into the tier system, but no matter what, it would mean less restrictions.
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The CRA says it was informed of the lift today by Newsom's administration, but the formal announcement won't be until tomorrow.
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So the formal announcement will come today or has already come.
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But this is just another strange coincidence, isn't it?
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Like as soon as Biden gets into office, he says, well, there's nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the virus.
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They're lifting those stay at home restrictions, opening up the restaurants.
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And we've seen this really strange coincidence in in states and regions across the country.
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And the thing that makes it even more coincidental, I know this is all because I don't want to get into conspiracy theorists, theories, right?
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I'll be if you connect too many dots, you're automatically a conspiracy theorist.
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But so I'll just say it's a it's a weird coincidence that not only do we have these areas opening up as soon as Biden is inaugurated president.
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The other strange thing is that all the areas doing this are run by Democrats.
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Number two from The Daily Wire, it says in the past week, the Montana House Judiciary Committee passed a bill which would create the Save Women's Sports Act, an act that would bar biological boys from teams or in sports designated for women or girls.
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By passing the bill, the committee set up a floor hearing in the Montana House.
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The sponsor of House Bill 112 told the Montana Free Press that he wanted to protect the 1972 Title IX permitting biological boys to compete against biological girls would be just wrong, he said.
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You know, this is exactly what states have to do.
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You know, it's what been one of my themes of the last week is let's let's let's let's localize our focus.
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As we have sometimes neglected to do as conservatives.
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Now, I also wanted to as we're talking about because we know the executive order from Biden is we as we're talking about.
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Putting boys into girl sports or into girl locker rooms just to demonstrate.
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You probably don't need a demonstration, but I'll give it to you anyway, because it's good to have it's good to have the numbers just in front of you.
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So to demonstrate why it's insane to allow males to compete against girls in sports and why you need bills like the one they're passing in Montana.
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Kind of a famous example of boys competing against girls.
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That's in Connecticut where you had Andrea Yearwood and Terry Miller.
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But for a couple of years, you know, they both guys and they but they they identified as as girls and they started running against girls in track and field.
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OK, so here are the results from the 2019 Connecticut State Championships.
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For the state championships, they both came in first and second again in the girls meet.
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And then third, quote unquote, third place, which is Chelsea Mitchell, who really was first place because she's the she is the she was the best sprint best the best female sprinter in the state.
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In high school, it was Chelsea Mitchell, but she came in third place and she had a seven point two three, which is significantly behind a six point nine five in a sprint.
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You go over to the same year, 2019, the men's varsity 55 meter dash.
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Now, this is the field that Miller and Yearwood should have been competing against.
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And Miller came in in first place against the girls at six point nine five.
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First place for the men's was six point five one.
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He probably wouldn't even qualified for the finals against the men with his times.
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This is a mediocre at best male athlete, male runner who against females dominates.
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But if you look at the other, it's even more pronounced like the 300 meter dash.
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Terry Miller had a 40 point one three enough to beat.
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Um, but against men, the number one time was 35 point 11 12th was 37 point six five.
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Again, wouldn't have even made it on the track with those times.
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So you just, you cannot look at that and deny the biological.
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First of all, the biological difference between, between men and women.
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And also the fact that just the simple fact of being a guy affords you enormous inherent
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advantages that are very, very difficult for a woman to overcome, that a mediocre male athlete
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or even a bad male athlete could just waltz into a women's sport and take over casually
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Number three, the New York times, um, had this.
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President Biden is perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century.
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A different, more liberal Christianity grounds his life and his policies, right?
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It's, it's, it would be like a headline that said Arby's is perhaps the healthiest restaurant
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A different, more liberal view of nutrition grounds their recipes and menu.
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So when you start phrasing things like that, it does, you know, makes you feel better about
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eating at fast food anyway, but this is obviously ridiculous.
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Now, leaving aside the fact that as we talked about last week, Joe Biden's version of Catholicism
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He belongs to the, the religion of self really.
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But even putting that aside for a minute, yeah, he does go to church and all that.
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So at most you could make an argument that he's the most religiously observant president
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of the last three we had only because Obama and, uh, and, and, and Donald Trump were probably
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George Bush was condemned repeatedly by the left for being like a theocratic fascist like
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There's no possible way he's more religious than George Bush.
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But of course we know during the Bush era, being religious was a bad thing.
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Now that Biden's in office, all of a sudden it's okay again.
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Only don't get too excited because you have to be the right kind of religious,
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which is in the end, we find out not really religious at all.
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Number four, um, this MSNBC clip I want to play for you.
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So the entire case is not about removing him, but whether to convict and disqualify him
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from holding any office like the presidency forever.
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This is huge and has never actually happened before.
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The United States Senate deciding something that can shape history, sanction Trump and ensure
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he never has power again and do so on that basis that you see right there for life.
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There's no more significant amount of time than for life.
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That's why Nicki Minaj famously saying for life, for life.
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And if the work is vindicated, best believe when it's done, it will be syndicated for life, for life.
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And just as Nicki declared herself in this very moment, a king, the question here is if the speaker
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will ultimately slay Goliath with a constitutional sling.
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And personally, I mean, don't we all quote that all the time?
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Personally, though, the one that I find myself quoting often is from her great song.
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But I always find myself saying this in just situations throughout life.
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She says, I love this so much because of how deeply it resonates with me in my life.
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She says, it's time to make hits and it's time to diss.
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So that, you know, for me, so the guy on MSNBC, you know, we, we just, we all have different Minaj lyrics that we, we love to quote.
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It's, it's, there's nothing weird about that at all.
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I mean, this guy, he wanted to make a point about the fact that for life is a long time.
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And he wanted a quote about, I don't know, life being long.
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Who, who among us, who among us wouldn't have done the same in that exact same situation?
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I know I do a lot of canceling myself on this show and I'll be canceling someone coming up in just a moment, but also based on a viral video.
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But, you know, I, I don't believe in, in unfair cancellations.
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And I think there's an unfair cancellation happening here.
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But it's a woman giving her recipe for how to class up a bowl of SpaghettiOs.
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This is, people are, she is getting, let's, let's, let's just take a look at this video.
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And then she takes, she takes some bread and butters it down real nice.
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And she's just, she's tons of garlic powder all over the bread.
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Now, this is the one part here that I, that maybe is a little bit hard to stomach.
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She actually smashes the bread down with her arms and her hands.
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She's, she's, she's never heard of a rolling pin, I guess.
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Doesn't look, her hands, her arms don't look too hairy.
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And now she's got the, she's got the smashed down garlic bread.
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And then she puts some mozzarella cheese on the SpaghettiOs in the pie crust.
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And that's the expensive mozzarella cheese too.
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So she's not, you know, no, no, no, uh, spare no expense here.
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Or she's, she's using like an $8 bag of cheese.
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And now she's going to put, and she mixes it together.
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Oh, and then she puts more SpaghettiOs on top of it.
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And then she puts the bread on top of the SpaghettiOs, the garlic bread, and bakes it.
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And I think there's a follow-up video where she actually cuts the, the pie and then like
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Um, people are saying this looks like a, just a big bowl of vomit.
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And it's, it's the most, it's the most horrific video they've ever seen on the internet.
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And there's been a lot of disturbing videos on the internet.
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I just want to say you, we both know that actually looks kind of good.
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First of all, there's not much you can do with SpaghettiOs.
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So can you think of a better way to class up some SpaghettiOs?
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Today for our daily cancellation, we have another parent on TikTok to cancel.
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I've selected this one as a representative of a larger problem.
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It's not that she individually is deserving of cancellation.
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I mean, she is, and richly so, but the issue is the greater cultural phenomenon on display, which we will discuss.
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This is from a woman who goes by the handle catmightbefunny.
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And she is funny, I can report, though, perhaps not in the way she intended.
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And along with the video is a caption that reads, this level of vulnerability is not comfy for me.
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Yes, we're at the point where people put hashtag mental health to accompany videos of their own mental breakdowns.
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I've just been yelling in my car for 30 minutes because parenting is hard.
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If, if I want my son to be a better person or to grow up and just be a good f***ing human.
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So if I have a f***ing bad attitude, he's going to have a f***ing bad attitude.
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Dude, if I say f***ing, of course he's going to say f***ing.
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I was waiting for the camera to pan back and her kid is sitting in the backseat.
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Who's watching your kid while she yells in her car for 30 minutes?
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I just, maybe she hires a babysitter for such occasions.
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It's possible she calls up the sitter like, Hey, um, can you come over for an hour or so?
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What we really have to consider are two things, right?
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And I mean, this is what, this is what I factor in anytime I'm deciding on a cancellation.
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This is, this is the pro this is, I'm bringing you into my process right now.
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And in this case, it's the context, not the content that gets her canceled.
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So on that end, the context here is that she is filming and posting the video of herself
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crying and screaming about how hard it is to be a parent.
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And this has become a very common genre of internet videos.
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In fact, you know, if internet videos were distributed old school at like a blockbuster
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video and you had to go into the store to browse and rent the video you want, the genre
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of women crying in their cars would take up like five entire rows.
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It would be like what it used to be at blockbuster.
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When you go in the, uh, the, uh, the action and adventure section, which is the best section.
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And that, but now it would be women crying in their cars, but why would you do this?
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If you're having a desperate personal moment where a crushing existential realization has
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come rushing in and you are reduced to screams and tears because of it happens to the best
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of us, but why would you want to film it and turn it into a spectacle for strangers like
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The answer is that you do it because you lack the capacity for a true inner life.
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It's a little bit too simple to say, oh, they want attention.
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I mean, they do want attention, but I think the problem is deeper than that because in
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the modern age, many people have outsourced their inner life, their internal dialogue
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I'm convinced this is why we spend so much time on the internet in the first place.
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It's why when you're in the checkout line or waiting for an oil change or an elevator
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or anywhere else, everyone around you is just on their phone the whole time, never looking
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They can't stand to have a moment of stillness, a moment of inactivity, a moment of silence
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because then they start to think, think their own thoughts for a change, and that becomes
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So they retreat to cyberspace again to escape themselves, to escape their own minds.
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So this woman is in the midst of what could have been, had she not involved the entire
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world in it, a really profound and painful and important episode in her life.
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It's a confrontation with harsh realities, an occasion to feel, to really feel guilt and
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All of these emotions that are heavy to bear, but could also be invigorating and motivating
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and clarifying, could have been a very human moment.
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And she was in it, experiencing it, but she pulled back, retreated, and decided to use it
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as content instead, decided to reduce it to spectacle.
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And once it's a spectacle, it immediately loses the meaning it could have had and the
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There's something quite beautiful and human about having a moment of great emotional impact,
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And then I think that the kids would call it a red pill.
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And then, and then not telling a single soul about it, just keeping it within, letting
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There should be many thoughts that we think and never tell anyone.
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Many emotions we feel and never announce to anyone.
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Nothing is left for the individual to hold within and ponder.
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All is just spewed out into the public as empty distraction for strangers who don't really
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What could have been an occasion for growth has instead become an occasion to attract attention
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and not even meaningful attention, but the cheapest and most pointless kind of it.
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And that's why all women crying in their cars and filming it are canceled.
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And it's why all of us on the internet are canceled for being a part of this problem to
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All that said, I do also have to acknowledge that the content was actually correct.
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One of the hardest realizations for a parent is that you're really being pretty ridiculous
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I mean, you have to realize at a certain point as a parent, you almost never have any legitimate
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It's hard to justify anger at your child when you consider three facts about them.
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One, they have significant neurological limitations, nothing you or they can do about that.
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Number two, they are acting exactly as you did at their age.
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And number three, this is the hardest of all, and this is what she's dealing with.
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So if you're impatient and prone to shouting, your kid will be the same.
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If you're disorganized and messy, your kid will be the same.
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If you use bad language, as she mentioned, your kid will do the same.
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You really have no right to be mad at them for doing and behaving exactly as you do.
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If anything, they should be mad at you for setting such a bad example.
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And then for having the gall to expect more of your child than you expect of yourself,
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If you are, again, let's say, to use an example that hits very close to home for me,
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an impatient person, and then you get mad at your kid for being impatient,
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then you are quite literally expecting your, whatever, nine-year-old to be a better person than you.
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And when you think about it like that, it, well, it makes you feel even worse.
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And that's when the parenting guilt spiral begins, and you start falling down it,
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and you start thinking to yourself, my God, I'm a failure.
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And you start crying in your car, which again, all that's fine.
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The good news is, I guess if we can call it that,
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is that every parent is guilty of getting mad at their kids for doing stuff that they themselves did and still do.
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Because while your child has limitations by virtue of being a child,
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you also have limitations by virtue of being human.
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but it does mean that you might as well skip over the self-pity and guilt trip
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and just get back to trying to be a better person, a better example, a better parent than you have been.
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Because we're all trying to scratch and crawl our way through this, mostly blind.
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That's another realization you have as a parent.
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You start thinking back to your own parents when you were your kid's age and you realize,
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oh, they had no idea what the hell they were doing either.
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That's why there are a billion parenting books on the market.
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And they all sell a million copies each because all parents,
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if they have any self-awareness or intelligence,
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will reach a point where they say, holy crap, I have no idea what I'm doing.
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And that's when they run out looking for the how-to manual.
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Like someone give me, someone tell me how to do this.
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But we're wasting our money when we buy those books
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because the real parenting how-to, the real guide, is what we already know.
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It's just we have trouble implementing it because it's hard.
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Basically, just be a better person, be more patient, be more kind, have more discipline.
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And at that point comes yet another epiphany, which is this.
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The problem is that I want to be a parent and raise good kids, well-behaved kids,
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well-adjusted kids, without making the prerequisite changes to myself and my own behavior and lifestyle.
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That's where all of my problems are coming from as a parent.
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It sounds like the woman in the video was arriving at this conclusion.
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But she's still canceled because she filmed it.
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And on that note, a little bit of a bittersweet.
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And our production coordinator is McKenna Waters.
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Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, the media pushed President Biden as the most normal,
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normal person who has ever normaled in the history of normalcy.