Ep. 645 - The Homicide Epidemic
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A massive spike in homicides all across the country isn t getting the media attention it deserves. We ll look at the numbers and talk about why this might be happening. Also, five headlines including Joe Biden continuing his spree of executive orders, his latest order seeks to end racism, and in our daily cancellation, we ll track the evolution in masking guidance from don t wear a mask to wear 3 masks.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a massive spike in homicides all across the country
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isn't getting the media attention it deserves. We'll look at the numbers and talk about why
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this might be happening. Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden continuing his spree of
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executive orders. His latest order seeks to end racism. Will it work? And in our daily
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cancellation, we'll track the evolution in masking guidance from don't wear a mask to
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wear three masks. We've come a long way. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Perhaps you've heard that there's an epidemic sweeping through our country, affecting
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especially the most populated areas. Thousands have died as a result in the last year. The
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worst epidemic of its kind in American history. And I'm referring, of course, to the homicide
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epidemic. You've heard plenty about the other epidemic, but probably not nearly as much or
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maybe at all about this one. Yet it seems to me to be a rather, I don't know, rather big
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deal. If more Americans are killing each other than ever before, that would seem like the
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kind of thing we should pay attention to and talk about, try to diagnose. Indeed, it would
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see, you know, I would say that this epidemic is in some ways more troubling than a viral
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epidemic because the, you might say, disease causing it infects us at a much deeper level.
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It's not found in the respiratory tract, but in our nature, in our soul. This makes it all
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the more newsworthy, I would think. Still, not a whole lot of attention has been paid
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to this report in the Wall Street Journal from Heather McDonald. Headline is taking stock
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of a most violent year. McDonald writes, in part, the year 2020 likely saw the largest
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percentage increase in homicides in American history. Murder was up nearly 37% in a sample
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of 57 large and medium-sized cities. Based on preliminary estimates, at least 2,000 more
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Americans, most of them black, were killed in 2020 than in 2019. That's what the article
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says. Now, this is an op-ed, and McDonald gives her opinion on what's causing this, which
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we'll talk about in a moment. But the information, the stats, as they're reported, are accurate.
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And there have been articles and other mainstream outlets reporting on the rise. They really have
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no choice but to at least acknowledge it. But the problem has not gotten anything like
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the attention it deserves. Here's a little bit more information of the Christian Science
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Monitor. This is from an article back in December. They say, to be sure, overall crime
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has dropped dramatically in the U.S. since the late 1990s, but the 2020 homicide rate now exceeds
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the rates of the late 80s and 90s before the big drops, as Richard Rosenfeld, lead author of
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Pandemic, Social Unrest, and Crime in U.S. Cities, a new report, says, quote, this round of crime
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increases unprecedented. This year, 51 cities of various sizes across the U.S. saw an average 35%
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jump in murder from 2019 to 2020, a historically awful development. He says, a different study looking at
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21 U.S. cities found 610 more murders in those jurisdictions this year over last year. And those
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cities' gun assaults also increased by 10% over 2019. Now, this, as I say, is an extremely big deal.
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Why is it happening? Well, the media seems to want to blame the pandemic because that's, I guess,
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the safest place to point the finger. And they're probably right, at least to an extent. This is
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something, in fact, that critics of the lockdown policies warned about early on. If you attempt to
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shut down society all at once, take away millions of people's jobs, take millions of kids out of
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school, and try to bring our whole civilization to a halt, there's going to be enormous prices to pay.
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Some of us said that the result of this policy, this panic really, would be unrest, rioting, chaos,
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violence, murder, poverty, unemployment on a scale unknown to modern America. And then what happened?
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Well, exactly that. We had unrest, rioting, chaos, violence, murder, poverty, unemployment,
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all at record levels. This result is horrifying, though not at all shocking to anyone who understands
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human nature. You simply cannot tell 330 million people to stay in their homes for a year.
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Maybe in some sort of ideal fantasy world, pandemics can be dealt with that way.
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People are getting sick. You just say, oh, everyone just stay home until it stops.
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Maybe in an ideal world, a plan like that is something you'd think about. But we don't live
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in that world. We live in the actual world. And when you're making policies in the actual world,
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you have to account for things like human nature. This is the problem with almost every policy advocated
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by people on the left. They don't understand human nature or acknowledge it or account for it.
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They imagine how they think a policy should work. And then they implement it with little regard for
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how it will work in reality. All of that to say the critics of the lockdowns were 100% correct
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in every way across the board. I don't think we've ever seen dire predictions pan out so perfectly,
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so quickly or so terribly. Now, does this mean that the critics of the lockdowns are given credit
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for being right? Are those who called us anti-science accusing us of trying to kill
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their grandmothers? Are they lining up to apologize and say, hey, you know, you guys were right about
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everything? Well, of course not. Somehow we're still anti-science, even as our point is proven
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correct. Speaking of proving points, there is there's more lying behind this homicide epidemic than
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the catastrophic policies ostensibly put in place to fight a viral epidemic. We've also seen this year
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and in recent years leading up to it, a surge of anti-police sentiments and policies, making it
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harder, if not impossible in some cases, for cops to do their jobs. Surprisingly, Vox, in their article
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on the homicide spike, they actually acknowledge this as a potential cause. Though, of course, they try to
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put the blame back on the police. They blame the police for being the ones to pull back. But it's good
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that they acknowledge it at least. Here's what they say. In response to the 2014-2015 waves of Black
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Lives Matter protests against police brutality, officers in some cities pulled back, either out
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of fear that any act of aggressive policing would get them in trouble or in a counter-protest against
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BLM. While protesters have challenged the crime-fighting effectiveness of police, there is a sizable body of
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evidence that more and certain kinds of policing do lead to less crime. Imagine that. Given that, some
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experts said that de-policing in response to protests could have led to more violence, what some in years
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past called the Ferguson effect after the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police
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shooting of Michael Brown, and also seen in Baltimore after the 2015 killing of Freddie Gray. Now, it's good
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at least that they admit that there's a connection between de-policing and increased crime, which means
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defund the police. If we do that on a nationwide scale, eventually we're going to be looking back on
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2020 wistfully as a peaceful time, a near utopic time, when really we had the homicide problem under
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control by comparison. But you can't blame, you can't blame the police for being the ones to pull
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back because, number one, oftentimes these are policies forcing them. They're being forced to by
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the higher-ups, by the people who are running, who are always Democrats, by the way, who are running
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these cities. And on top of that, if you're a police officer and you know that if your life is
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in jeopardy and you have to make a choice to save your life, you can go to jail for the rest of your
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life for doing it. Yeah, I think that is going very reasonably. It's going to make you pull back a
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little bit. Cops are in a position now where, you know, they're, of course, it's all, it's all on a
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racial basis. If they're dealing with a white suspect, then this, this pressure isn't there
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because the media doesn't care when white suspects die, even if they die unjustly. But if you're dealing
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with a black suspect, especially if you're a white cop, although even if you're not really,
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and you get to a point where you feel like he's trying to possibly kill you, it's an ultimate
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lose-lose situation. No matter what you do in response, you lose. It is at that point.
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If you're in a situation like that, the cops were in in Atlanta with Rayshard Brooks,
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for example, stole the taser, was using it against them. You're in a position now, you lose,
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whatever you do, you lose. You don't fight back, you can be killed. You do fight back,
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you go to jail. Yeah, that's going to have an effect. What this all adds up to is a perfect storm,
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right? Lock everyone down, take away jobs, take away school, take away police,
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villainize the police. While you're at it, romanticize rioting, excuse violent crime as
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nothing but hungry people trying to get bread, in AOC's words. And with all that together,
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you're going to get exactly what we got. Some of us saw it coming and said so. Many others saw it
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coming and did not say so because they were afraid. And still many more were too deluded by
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their ideology to see anything at all. So looking back on this and looking forward to what could be
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ahead, those of us in the first group who saw it coming and said so, we take no pleasure in saying,
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we told you so. But we did. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Quick, quick little fitness tip for you, a little bit of fitness inspiration. I like to inspire you.
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I don't know if you knew this on the show. I consider myself a motivational, inspirational
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speaker in many ways. So yesterday I was coming home from the gym, stopped at the gym on the way
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from home from work. And, um, you know, I've been going to the gym pretty regularly feeling good
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about that. But the problem is that my diet isn't great. I just, I eat crap all the time. Just a lot
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of junk food. That's, that's the truth. And they say you can't outrun a bad diet. You know, you can't
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work out enough to compensate for the bad diet. You're always going to be like a net. It's always
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going to be a net negative, um, in the end. So on my way home, I was thinking about this and I
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realizing if I only had a good diet, I'd be doing well. If it was just for the diet part. And I
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resolved in that moment, I had this like moment in the car driving home and I resolved, I said,
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I'm going to start eating healthy from this moment on. It's going to happen. Not eating junk food.
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I'm not going to, I'm going to, whatever you're going to cut back on carbs, all that stuff.
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And I was resolved to do it. I felt, I just was, I felt so motivated. And then I walked in my home
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and the first thing my wife said to me was, Hey, we made brownies. And so I ate half the pan.
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Immediately. And that's when I realized I had a second epiphany. And I realized as I was eating
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my third brownie, I realized, you know, you can't outrun a bad diet. That's true, but you can go for
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the tie. And, uh, you know, that's bad. I think that's good enough, right? Just kind of maintaining
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where you're at. That's what I'm going for. All right. Number one, Joe Biden, um, continued signing
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executive orders yesterday. He's signed. I think, what is it? I think he's up to 5,000 executive
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orders so far. Just, he wakes up in the morning and whatever thought he happens to think that day,
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he'll convert it into a executive order. I think he'll be signing an executive order today to declare
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that chipmunks are the cutest forest animals. Anything at all, any thought he happens to think
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let's make it into an executive order. Uh, but remember of course, Trump was the, the, the dictator
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the fascist, um, Biden will beat Trump's executive order total in like a few months. That's, that's,
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that's the rate he's on now. Um, and so on that end yesterday, he signed, he signed a racial equity
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executive order. And of course he tied it to George Floyd. Here he is explaining why he's
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signing the order. But what many Americans didn't see or had simply refused to see couldn't be ignored
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any longer. Those, uh, eight minutes and 46 seconds that took George Floyd's life opened the eyes of
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millions of Americans and millions of people around all over the world. It was the knee on the neck of
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justice and it wouldn't be forgotten. It stirred the conscious and of tens of millions of Americans.
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And in my view, it marked a turning point in this country's attitude toward racial justice.
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Yeah. Eyeopening moment. I, you know, I thought it was pretty eyeopening when we got the toxicology
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report back and, uh, we were told that he had lethal levels of fentanyl in a system. I thought
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that was pretty eyeopening too. Um, that, that, that, that to me was pretty enlightening as well.
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Now, Joe Biden also, uh, we, we talked last week about the 1776 commission, uh, that president Trump
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formed and they released their report, which we, we went through a little bit of it, uh, worth reading,
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except that you can't read it because one of the first things that Biden did when he took office is
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he deleted it. He took it down. And, uh, now he announced part of this, part of this racial equity
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plan is to do away with the 1776 commission. Here he is explaining that. Look in the weeks ahead,
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I'll be, uh, reaffirming the federal government's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
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and accessibility, building on the work we started in the Obama Biden administration.
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That's why I'm rescinding the previous administration's harmful ban on diversity
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and sensitivity training and abolish the offensive counterfactual 1776 commission unity and healing
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must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies. Today, I'm also issuing an
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executive order and that will ultimately end the justice department's use of private prisoners,
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private prisons, an industry that houses pre-tiled trainees and detainees and federal prisoners.
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The executive order directs the attorney general to decline to renew contracts with privately operated
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criminal facilities, a step we started to take at the end of the Obama administration
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and was reversed under the previous administration. Yeah. So he talks about their abolishing the, uh,
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the 1776 commission, you know, and he, he also says, he also says it's, it's count counterfactual
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is the 1776. What part of it is counterfactual? The, the, the, the report lays out basic facts of
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American history. And as soon as it was released, we were told by the media and the left that, oh,
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it's a, it's an assault on truth and on, this is not history at all. What part of it isn't history?
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You know, they, they never explained that, did they? They never told us exactly what part of it is
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false. Of course, the, the only part that they really, the primary part that they disagree with
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is just the point that the 1776 commission made, which is that slavery, awful, evil thing. Nobody
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didn't, literally nobody, at least nobody in the West denies it. Um, some parts of the world where
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they still have slavery, maybe they do deny it, but certainly in the West, nobody denies that,
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but it's also not a crime or a sin, uh, unique to Western society. The white man didn't invent
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slavery. That does matter. You know, that matters because when we're going back and we're looking at
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our, um, the heroes of our history, we have to understand them within context. And if there's a
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certain evil thing that someone in history, uh, took part in, or at least did not object to,
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and then you, and then you, and then you take, and then you take a step back and you take a wider
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view of it and you see that pretty much everyone in history up until that point also was not objecting
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to it, then yeah, that, that matters not, I don't know how many times I have to explain this. That
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matters not in judging the objective, um, morality of the act itself. Now we know that slavery is a
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horrible evil, always has been, always will be. And you can make statements like that when you
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believe in objective morality. The, the irony here is that the left, they're moral relativists. So they
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have even less standing to judge anyone to what 200 years ago who practiced slavery or believed in
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it. Cause according to them, morality is relative. And 200 years ago, 250 years ago, 300 years ago,
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all throughout history, the, the, the relative morality of that time was that slavery was okay.
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And if you're a moral relativist, you have no basis upon which to criticize that. Now,
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if you believe in objective morality, as I do, then I can say 250 years ago, if you practice slavery or,
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or, uh, or even failed to protest against it, then that is an evil act. But when judging the moral
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culpability of any individual who engaged in it, that's when you have to take into account context,
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the context of the time, um, and that's the difference. But again, as a moral relativist,
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that is just the, the incredible irony here. It's the moral relativists who are the ones going back
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through history and holding, you know, our historical figures to the standards of today.
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I think that's stupid to do on any philosophical grounds. You especially can't do it as a relativist.
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Makes no sense. All right. One other clip I wanted to play because he, because, uh, Biden has one other
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thing to say here that I thought was, was, was interesting, but not for the reason he intended.
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Let's take a listen. We've never fully lived up to the founding principles of this nation to state
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the obvious, that all people are created equal and have a right to be treated equally throughout
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their lives. And it's time to act now, not only because it's the right thing to do, but because if
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we do, we'll all be better off for it. For too long, we've allowed a narrow, cramped view of the
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promise of this nation to fester. You know, we've, uh, we've bought the view that America is a zero
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sum game in many cases. If you succeed, I fail. If you get ahead, I fall behind. If you get the job,
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I lose mine. Maybe worst of all, if I hold you down, I lift myself up. Yeah, I actually agree with him
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there. I agree with what he just said. Um, but I don't think he understands what he's saying.
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And I think that's a problem. It's only going to get worse as time goes on, but he's saying we've,
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we've bought this incorrect view that America is a, is a zero sum game. And you know, if I succeed,
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it means you fail. You're right. That is, that is an incorrect view. It is a view that a lot of
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people have bought into. It is wrong. We do need to push back against it, but that's the view that
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is being propagated by your side, dude. That's, that's you. That's you and your side. That's what
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you're saying. We here over here as conservatives, we, but we have been the ones saying what you just
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said. That's not the way it works. That's why you don't have to look with resentment on someone
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who's wealthy and successful just because someone's wealthy and successful. It doesn't mean they're
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taking something away from you. You don't have to take from, from someone in order for other people
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to be successful. If you want to help the less successful be more successful, it doesn't mean you have to
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take away from the ones who are successful because it's not a zero sum game. That is an incorrect
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view. But again, Biden, it's your view, not ours. All right. Number two, I wanted to read this to you
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just as a really perfect example of fake news. I saw someone, someone shared this. This is from a,
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it's from a recent article in Washington post actually from a couple of weeks ago, but I saw this
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being shared. So it's an article in Washington post about, um, about Biden's transgender policies,
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right? And listen, this is one paragraph in the article. Listen, listen to the framing of this
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paragraph. Transgender rights have become a lightning rod in the relentless culture war that has come to
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dominate American politics, pitting conservative Christians who want their religious views to be
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accommodated against liberal and secular Americans who think some of those views trample on minority
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groups is rights. You see that? See, this is fake news. This is how fake news works. It is, it is not
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usually a matter of inventing a story out of whole cloth. And sometimes fake news does that too. Most of
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the time though, and it's the most insidious and damaging form. It's this, it is in taking something
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and framing it in a certain way. And so the framing here, what do they say? Conservative Christians who want
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their religious views to be accommodated. So now look, look at what they've done here. Uh, it's,
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it's almost brilliant. Um, they've taken an issue of a small minority of biological men who want access
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to female locker rooms. Uh, but now if you object to that and you simply want things to continue as
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they always have been forever, which is that you've got men and women locker rooms and bathrooms,
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and we just stick with that, then now you are the one asking to be accommodated. It's not the handful,
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the smattering of biological men who want to go into the, to the women's bathroom. They're not the
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ones asking to be accommodated. No, you're asking to be accommodated when you say, no, I don't want that.
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So by objecting to the accommodations that this minority is asking for, you in effect now are the
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one asking for an accommodation. Brilliant, devious, but brilliant because maybe not so brilliant,
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but if people fall for it anyway, I don't know if the framing is brilliant or people are just stupid
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or if it's one or the other, but it works. Number three from the blaze, a woman who criticized white
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privilege on social media was charged with the child abuse murder of her three-year-old foster child
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who was white. The disturbing story unfolded in Simpsonville, South Carolina. Police alleged that
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Ariel Robinson, 29, and her husband, Jerry Robinson, 34, inflicted a series of blunt force injuries on
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their adopted child, Victoria Rose Smith. The parents called 911 on January 15th to report that the child
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was unresponsive. When medical professionals arrived, they immediately suspected child abuse,
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according to the heavily redacted police report. Um, the, uh, and, and I read the police report,
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by the way, we talk about it's heavily redacted as an understatement. Almost every single word is
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blocked out except for a few. So there's a whole lot in that police report that they don't want the
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public to see. Why is that? Well, we don't know. That's why it's redacted, but it does raise
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certainly a lot of questions. Uh, as Ariel Robinson, she was also on a food network show called
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Worst Cooks in America. And she won that show apparently. Um, but the most relevant fact
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about her, about her background anyway, possibly is, um, that she would frequently post on social
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media decrying things like white privilege. So she, she posted very recently. This was on January 6th.
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The murder happened on, um, January 11th, I believe. So less than a week before she says
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in my house, my black children get treated the same as my white children. And my white children
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get treated the same as my black children. It's a shame that when they go out into the real world,
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uh, that won't be the case. Adding hashtags for white privilege and black lives matter.
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So this is a black woman who complained about white privilege and, you know, advocated for black
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lives matter shortly before allegedly beating her white adoptive daughter to death.
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I, I, it, it goes without saying now at this point, but I'm going to say it anyway,
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because all I do is point, point out the obvious anymore, but someone has to do it reverse the
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races on this story. And this is headline news everywhere. I mean, can you imagine a case where
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a white adoptive mother of a black child, let's say criticized the BLM and then shortly after that
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beat her black child to death. If that were to happen, that would be news everywhere.
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Headline news everywhere. And we'd be linking it to systemic racism and all this kind of stuff.
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This happens and not a lot of attention at all. The story only gets worse. Um,
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cause you start asking a question, you know, how did this woman
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manage to adopt a child? Like how, how could they not? I know you can't read someone's mind and
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there's only so much you can do when someone's coming in to adopt a child. There's only so much
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you can do to screen out the, uh, the, the, the psychopaths, but did they, could they really
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not tell if she is indeed guilty of doing this? The kind of woman who would beat a child to death?
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You, you, you, you can't tell that there were, there were no red flags. It's harder to believe
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that there are no red flags. When you consider, we'll play this video for you. This, um, this was,
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I think first found by TMZ and they posted it online. This is from a couple of years ago,
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I believe here is Ariel Robinson performing a quote unquote standup act where she jokes about
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abusing her children and locking them in a cage. Listen.
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So we're trying to adopt a baby girl and the social worker, you know, they have to come
00:25:40.680
over and, you know, see that you're not too crazy to adopt. And so the hallway, she's coming
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over, I'm thinking, I'm telling my husband, I said, you know what? We should have locked
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the other two up in cages because if she meet them two, ain't no way they're going to give
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us enough. She gets there, it's too late. They upstairs, hollering, screaming. Where
00:25:57.440
the mom's at? Where the mom's at? Okay. Yep. Y'all don't like y'all kids either. So they
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upstairs, hollering and screaming going on. You know, you get to that mommy level and you
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like, you ain't had it. So I'm getting this woman is in my face. So I turn around, we'll
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yell upstairs, shut up, I come over there and punch you in your throat. Turn back around and
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she's looking at me to say, what y'all do? It's a game. We got approved. We don't have
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Hey, listen to those cackling hyenas in the audience. Isn't that hilarious? She's talking
00:26:40.060
about abusing her children. And, and according to that story, I don't know, it might've been
00:26:45.500
a little hard to hear what she was saying because of the audio quality there. But according
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to the story that she tells in this quote unquote comedy act, she says that she threatened
00:26:53.420
to punch her children in the throat, screamed it at them in front of an official from the
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adoption agency. Now, did she make this story up? We don't know, but either way here she
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out, she is in public joking about abusing her children. So she's the kind of woman who
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publicly jokes about abusing her children and then allegedly actually beat her child to
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death shortly after adopting the girl. She was adopted a year or two earlier. And there
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were no red flags at all. You couldn't see that anything was amiss. Really? There are
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a lot of questions here. There are a lot of questions we should be asking. Was this a racially
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motivated hate crime against, against her own adopted daughter? That's a fair question.
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And again, if you reverse the races, it will be a question everyone would ask. And so
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I'm going to ask that question. We deserve to know. Why did they redact the police report
00:27:48.060
so heavily? Was there an indication of that? I don't know. And how is it that a woman, and
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you take the race out of it, how is it that a woman like that was able to adopt a child?
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I mean, serious accountability, but the problem is there needs to be accountability. There probably
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won't be because the media is not going to touch the story with a 10 foot pole. At least
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they're not going to touch the racial aspects of it, certainly. And you know, that story
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she told, did that actually happen where there was some sort of official there and witnessed
00:28:22.720
that? Because if it did, then that official who witnessed it should go to jail too. And as
00:28:29.360
far as this woman, if she's guilty, this is why I'm at a point now where you couldn't possibly,
00:28:36.180
even though in the past I've been against the death penalty, I'm at a point now because of
00:28:40.000
things like this, you couldn't possibly convince me to go back to those days. This is what we need
00:28:44.840
the death penalty for, are people like this. You beat a child to death. We just, we don't need you
00:28:50.060
on earth. We don't need you on earth. We need you gone from the earth as quickly as possible.
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All right. Number five. Um, actually I think it's number four, but I'm skipping ahead, I guess,
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uh, from the Hill. It says it may be a man's world in Hollywood, but Keira Knightley will no
00:29:08.260
longer perform sex scenes under a male director. So she's getting a lot of, she's getting a lot of
00:29:12.200
credit. She's getting praised for this. While the actor has done nude and sex scenes in the past,
00:29:16.680
she now has a no nudity clause in her contract that only someone has to do with how her body has
00:29:21.280
changed after having two children. She says it's partly vanity, but also the male gaze.
00:29:27.260
So she says she doesn't want, uh, she's, she's not interested in the male gaze anymore. And so she
00:29:31.840
said, she's not going to do nude scenes with a male director. She'll still do them. So she's getting,
00:29:37.260
she's getting credit for this as a great feminist statement. She'll still do them. It's just that she
00:29:41.480
won't do it with a male director because she's worried about the male gaze. You do have to ask,
00:29:46.760
uh, what about the male gaze of the people in the audience? Uh, what about crew members, producers?
00:29:56.280
Just more, more absolutely hollow, um, me too-esque virtue signaling from feminists in Hollywood.
00:30:05.740
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Let us for a moment, follow the science. In fact, let's follow the science back all the way back to
00:33:07.820
ancient times, the days of old, the days of yore, March of 2020. Back then we were told that
00:33:14.060
we were anti-scientific morons. If we wear a mask out in public, the, uh, surgeon general screamed at
00:33:20.740
us back in, I think it was February. He said in all caps, stop buying masks and said explicitly that
00:33:27.620
masks are quote, not effective in preventing and the general public from catching the coronavirus.
00:33:33.080
The beloved Dr. Fauci had a similar message at the time. This is what he said back in March. Let's
00:33:38.200
listen. There's a lot of confusion among people and misinformation surrounding face masks. Can you
00:33:44.740
discuss that? The masks are important for someone who's infected to prevent them from infecting someone
00:33:51.900
else? Now, when you see people and look at the films in China and South Korea, whatever,
00:33:57.420
everybody's wearing a mask. Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with
00:34:03.820
masks. You're sure of it because people are listening really closely to this. Right now,
00:34:08.920
people should not be, there's no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you're in the middle
00:34:14.200
of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block
00:34:21.020
a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And
00:34:27.860
often there are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching
00:34:33.600
their face. And can you get some schmutz sort of staying inside there? Of course, of course.
00:34:39.040
Huh. But, you know, when one follows the science, one will be taken down a twisty, windy road.
00:34:46.520
Soon after these, soon after these public officials told us not to wear masks, they were
00:34:51.680
telling us not only that actually we should wear masks, but that not wearing masks, that is believing
00:34:55.920
what they said 12 seconds ago, as opposed to what they're saying now, makes us anti-science.
00:35:01.120
It was anti-science to wear a mask in March. In May, it was anti-science not to wear a mask.
00:35:07.080
And now we're rapidly approaching a point where it's anti-science to only wear one mask rather
00:35:12.220
than two. Here's what Fauci is saying about that today.
00:35:16.220
A lot of folks are hearing now about double masking, wearing two masks or trying to get
00:35:22.580
one of those N95 medical grade masks. Do you believe that that's advisable and makes a difference?
00:35:28.080
You know, it likely does, because, I mean, this is a physical covering to prevent droplets
00:35:37.580
and virus to get in. So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer
00:35:43.580
on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective. And that's the reason
00:35:48.120
why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.
00:35:52.940
Huh. So it was common sense that we shouldn't wear a mask before. Now it's common sense to
00:36:01.320
wear two. And now we're in sort of an arms race from no mask to one mask, two masks. A
00:36:07.160
pattern seems to be emerging. And the real scientific visionaries are trying to stay one step ahead
00:36:12.400
of the game. That's why a segment on CNBC this week upped the ante even further. Listen to this.
00:36:17.420
The experts keep telling us that wearing masks is really about protecting ourselves, protecting
00:36:23.480
others from ourselves in the event that we are contagious. But you know, if other people aren't
00:36:27.800
wearing their masks or they're wearing them improperly, we need to protect ourselves. So
00:36:32.520
experts say you can double up with a tight weave fabric mask for added protection. Now, Virginia
00:36:39.740
tech researchers found that doubling up these cloth masks increases the efficacy from 50 to 75%.
00:36:46.300
A three layer mask could block up to 90% of the particles.
00:36:52.780
Yes, three masks. So from don't wear masks to wear three masks in less than a year.
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Now, a number of questions may arise in your mind. You may think, wait a second, medical masks have
00:37:05.000
been around for centuries. There isn't much we know about masks now today that we didn't know 10 months
00:37:09.200
ago. Sure, this particular type of coronavirus might be novel, but the basic science behind masking is not
00:37:15.000
novel. Something isn't right here, you might think. You might continue by thinking, it almost seems as
00:37:20.460
though the public messaging on masks has little to do with science and has had little to do with
00:37:25.980
science in the beginning, you might think. And you might even continue to think, in addition,
00:37:30.980
I mean, whether masks are effective or not, isn't there very good evidence here that our public
00:37:35.240
officials were either lying to us in March or are lying now? And when you consider that the change in
00:37:40.460
the mask recommendations happen in the span of a month from March to April, not 10 months,
00:37:45.160
does that make it all the more suspicious? Again, you might think, you don't have to be
00:37:49.680
anti-mask to be disturbed by this. In fact, if you're pro-mask and you believe what you're being
00:37:53.820
told now, then doesn't that mean that officials like Fauci are responsible for the deaths of thousands
00:37:58.400
of people for telling people not to wear them early on precisely when there was the best chance for
00:38:02.340
containing the virus? If Fauci thought that masks were effective and said otherwise,
00:38:06.240
no matter his reason, is that not a major scandal and by the pro-mask way of thinking, perhaps one
00:38:12.920
of the most lethal lies ever told by our government? You might think all of this if you hate science.
00:38:20.660
But those of us who are respecters of science, believers of science, lovers of science, in love
00:38:26.500
with science, those of us who love science so much that we're practically romantically involved with it,
00:38:31.320
we know that science means not asking questions. There is no room for skepticism in science.
00:38:39.920
I mean, do you hear the word skepticism in science? I don't. They don't call it psi-skeptimism-ists,
00:38:46.760
do they? It's science. Science is all about dogmatically accepting the prevailing notions of
00:38:52.420
the day, even if those notions seem to change every 30 minutes. That is what science is all about.
00:38:58.840
If you really believe in science, you will just keep putting stuff on your face whenever you're
00:39:04.280
told to do so. Personally, the equation that I've worked out scientifically is that every mask you
00:39:09.620
wear represents 10% love for your fellow man. Okay, now it gets very complicated, but follow with me
00:39:16.460
here. If you wear no mask, you have no love. One mask means you have only 10% love. Three masks makes
00:39:23.900
a mere 30%, better than zero, better than 10. Not as good as it could be. That's why I wear 11 masks,
00:39:30.120
because I always give 110%. And this means that my love is perfect and pure, better than perfect and
00:39:36.140
pure. I have 10 masks worth of love. I look with pity on you one in two maskers. Pathetic. You will never
00:39:47.160
respect science the way that I do, or care for humanity the way that I do. I even wear masks
00:39:52.320
around my ears to make sure that no virus enters or escapes through those passageways. I wear a mask
00:39:56.980
over my eyes so that no one's infected when, you know, my love for science and humanity moves me to
00:40:02.800
tears, as it so often does. Only problem is that I can't see anything and I've already been hit by cars
00:40:08.320
three times. But this is a price worth paying for science, for the world, for you. And so anyone who
00:40:19.140
does not follow the science and continue putting layers of masks on until they cannot speak or breathe
00:40:23.560
is canceled. And we'll end it there on a little bit of a science lesson.
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I hope you learned something. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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Today on the Ben Shapiro show, after the media spent four years warning of incipient dictatorship,
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