Ep. 647 - The Age Of The Snowflake
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College students get a professor placed on indefinite leave for referring to a racial slur. Also, AOC proves that she wants unity by accusing Ted Cruz of attempted murder. And, in our daily cancellation, I m afraid we do have to talk about COVID anal swabs.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, college students get a professor placed on indefinite leave for
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referring to a racial slur, not using one, referring to it on an exam. That was enough
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to get him on leave. We'll talk about that. Also five headlines, including AOC proving that she
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wants unity by accusing Ted Cruz of attempted murder. And in our daily cancellation, I'm afraid
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we do have to talk about COVID anal swabs. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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So I want to begin today by discussing two stories that may at first seem basically unrelated. First,
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we go to Politico where earlier in the week, over 100 staffers signed a letter and sent it to their
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CEO, further expressing their outrage and grief over the fact that Ben Shapiro wrote a newsletter for
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them that one time weeks ago. Uh, yes, you remember that from weeks ago. They're still talking about it.
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Even though two or three weeks had passed since the offensive newsletter, which was not offensive
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or provocative at all. Still, these staffers have not overcome the trauma that it caused them. They
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demanded an apology from their boss, along with treatment for their PTSD, which they say must include
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a dozen therapeutic bunny rabbits in the office, which they can pick up and cuddle anytime they feel
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scared. Um, that last part is a joke, but only barely in the irony of all ironies. The letter also
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insists upon, I'm not kidding, greater workplace diversity. Yes, they are shouting for more
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diversity while in the very same breath shouting for less diversity. They are upset that somebody
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with different views was allowed to write a newsletter. And the reason they're upset, they
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say, is that they want more diversity. But of course we understand what they mean by diversity.
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For them, the perfect image of diversity, what diversity is, perfect image is a room full of
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dozens of people of different races, ethnicities, genders, and sexual proclivities, all saying the
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exact same thing in unison. It's the kind of diversity that will be best achieved once we're all replaced
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by robots, which frankly, at this point can't happen soon enough. So that's one story. Let's look
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at another. Like I said, these are, these are related and I'll explain why. The daily wire has
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a report about a university of Illinois, Chicago law professor, Jason Kilbourne. The professor has
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been indefinitely suspended after a campus controversy that stems originally from a question
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on an exam. Now in the exam, Kilbourne presented to the students, a hypothetical case dealing with
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race and gender discrimination. Okay. Now I imagine this is the kind of thing that students in law,
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law school, uh, encounter a lot, hypothetical situations and cases that they have to analyze.
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Right? So in this hypothetical case, in an employee quit her job after, um, and now I'm going to read
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directly from the exam text. This is what it says. After she attended a meeting in which other managers
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expressed their anger at plaintiff, calling her an N blank and B blank. That's what it says on the exam.
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N N N B. It does not say the word themselves. It just says N N B with a little blank space next to
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each letter. This was enough to provoke outrage. The black law students association spoke out claiming
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that students were shocked and distracted by the slur on the exam. They couldn't even take the test
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because they were so, they were so upset. Even though again, the slur was not written out.
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One student said she had heart palpitations just from seeing the letter N on the page.
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Let's hope that she never watches Sesame street when they get to, you know, today, today the letter
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is in, um, a petition was, was, was circulated. It gained 400 signatures demanding among other
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things that Kilbourne be forced to take cultural sensitivity training for writing the letter N on an
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exam. Now you might ask how the hell can a law professor even teach his students about racial
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discrimination cases. If he can't so much as refer to a racial slur, if he can't even refer to a racial
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slur, then how can you communicate what to do legally in these situations? What if, what if he
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was, what if this was a, uh, an oral, uh, uh, lecture and he had, he had just said the N word, not the
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actual word, but he had said, quote, the N word. Would that have been shocking and traumatizing too?
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I suppose so. Meanwhile, of course, most of these students listen to music every day where the full
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word is said shouted really over and over again. That causes them no emotional pain, but, but someone
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with the wrong skin pigmentation, even so much as refers to the word, however, indirectly it'll cause
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them to collapse into tears, barely able to breathe. Sure. It's all completely absurd and it only gets
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more absurd. Here's what happened next. Kilbourne in the midst of the great outrage over the letter N
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had a zoom meeting with a member of the black law students association. During the course of that
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conversation, Kilbourne was asked why the Dean of the school had not given Kilbourne the petition
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from the BLSA so that he could read it himself. And to that Kilbourne joked that he hadn't been given
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the letter quote because, uh, is a quote, I suspect she's afraid if I saw the horrible things said about
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me in the letter, I would become homicidal. Obvious joke. But the BLSA member who heard this promptly
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reported that comment to the school's behavioral threat assessment team, at which point Kilbourne
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was placed on indefinite leave for threatening the students. Now, how does this relate back to the
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political situation? Because in the case of Politico, these are alleged adults in the real world behaving
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as though they are so emotionally fragile that they might dissolve into a puddle if you so much as
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give them a funny look. In the case of the law professor controversy, these are college kids with
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the same level of emotional fragility. This yet again demonstrates an important point that I've made
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before and I'll make again. We assumed and declared for years that the so-called snowflakes on college
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campuses would, would, would, would leave the pampered confines of academia, go out into the real world,
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uh, experience a rude awakening. And then after some painful adjustment, become mature and well-adjusted
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adults. That's, that's what, you know, that's what we assumed. Oh, wait, wait, wait till they get out
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into the real world. Oh, they're going to see how it really works. Won't they? But that's not what
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happened. Instead, snowflakes have gone out into society and remade it in their own image. As painful
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as it is for us to acknowledge, they have not gotten the rude awakening that we hoped and that
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they so much deserve. And there's no reason to think they ever will, at least not in the way we
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thought they would. This should have been an easy thing to foresee in hindsight. A lot of things are easy
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to foresee in hindsight. After all, each generation inherits the earth and makes society into what
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they want it to be. If a bunch of emotionally stunted, overgrown babies take over, why would
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we think that they'd all magically become mature adults? And besides, this is not a process that
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happened overnight and it didn't begin with the millennial generation. The boomers, collectively
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speaking, as a generation, as much as they complain about the millennials, largely have been
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incompetent, immature, and selfish themselves. That's why they've ruined every institution they've
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touched and they're leaving the country in a much worse state than it was when they inherited it.
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The point simply is that many of the rules that make up the real world are determined by society.
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Now, physical rules, the laws of physics and so forth, are independent of our whims and attitudes,
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obviously, as much as we these days like to pretend otherwise. But a rule like society rewards
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maturity and self-sufficiency, that kind of rule is certainly not universal or innate.
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You have to build and maintain a society that operates by that rule. If you don't, then it
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won't. Unfortunately, in our case, we increasingly live in a society that rewards and caters to
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the loudest, whiniest, most selfish and immature people. It's not just college campuses anymore
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that work that way. One other point about this as I'm thinking about it, you know, we've probably
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also made a mistake in using phrases like snowflakes, as I have here, to describe the college kids
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crying over a letter they read on an exam or staffers at Politico writing a letter to complain
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about a Ben Shapiro article. We call them snowflakes. Well, this implies that they're merely sensitive,
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right? They're too sensitive. And we've said that many times. But the truth is actually almost the
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opposite of that. Because the sensitivity is performative. What drives this is not sensitivity,
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but rather hatred, resentment, a desire for power. Was the Black Law Students Association
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actually traumatized by the letter N on a piece of paper? Do we really, do we believe that they
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actually, the student who said she had heart palpitations, does anyone really believe that
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she's sincere when she said that? Or did they see it as an opportunity to vindictively assert their
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dominance over and destroy a man they despise and despise, in this case, largely for the color of
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his skin and what they believe that color represents? I would say the latter. The snowflake act is just
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that. It's an act. It's a tool used by these so-called snowflakes to get what they want. It's a power play
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and an extremely effective one, it turns out. So where do we go from here? What do we do with all
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this? What does it mean? Well, all it means is that our problem is how society is fundamentally
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constructed. No big deal. That's it. We just have to reconstruct society from the ground up. We can't
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wait for the real world to solve the problems. The real world has been reshaped by these very same
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people. So we have to reconstruct it from the ground up. That's all. It should only take several
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generations to do. That's the good news. And also the bad news. But there's no time like the present
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to get started. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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Man, I don't know if you guys saw this preview for Godzilla vs. King Kong, that movie. Or maybe
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it's King Kong vs. Godzilla. I can't remember who gets top billing. But it looks completely stupid.
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Really entertaining also. And I put it on for my kids yesterday. I put the preview on.
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And my boys, seven and four, they lost their minds watching it. And I thought back, I wish when I was
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seven years old. When I was seven, it wasn't all that long ago. Well, it was still so long ago, I
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guess. But when I was seven, you know, King Kong, if they made a King Kong movie, it still would have
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been a guy in a suit. What I wouldn't have done to see a movie like this. King Kong vs. Godzilla.
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Can you remember, can you imagine being a seven-year-old boy in a movie like this is coming
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out? But it also brings to mind, because I'm letting them watch this. And I think this is
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something, maybe it's just me, but I actually think that all parents, at least talking to
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parents and thinking about my own parents, all parents really struggle to come up with
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a coherent movie policy for their kids. And I think all parents end up making these weird
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decisions where there are certain movies or shows you won't let your kid watch. And then
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other ones that are definitely inappropriate, you do let them watch. Like my parents, for
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example, you know, there are so many shows they wouldn't let, like cartoons, they wouldn't
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let us, they wouldn't let us watch The Simpsons when I was a kid. But I think I saw The Exorcist
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when I was like nine. And so with my kids, it's kind of a similar thing. I'm very strict
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about certain movies, but I'll put on King Kong vs. Godzilla. I put on the Peter Jackson
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King Kong that came out like in the early 2000s for my son when he was about five. I forgot
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there was a scene in that movie where King Kong literally bites a guy's head off and
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spits it out. Didn't remember that. Put it on. I don't know. As a parent, you just, you
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just, you sort of fumble your way through these things and figure it out as you go along.
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All right. This is number one from the Daily Wire. It says, New York's, New York's death
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toll from the coronavirus, from coronavirus related nursing home deaths may be much higher
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than what was reported by the state, especially in the months after Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a
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mandate requiring facilities to accept COVID positive patients, regardless of whether those
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facilities were equipped to handle them. You've heard a lot about that on this show and other
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shows. A report from New York Attorney General Letitia James. Now, so we knew this was bad,
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but we knew that thousands of elderly people died because of this policy. What we're finding out now
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is that it's even worse than we thought. So Attorney General Letitia James has determined that
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COVID-19 resident deaths associated with nursing homes in New York appear to be undercounted by the
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DOH by approximately 50%. That 50% refers to a narrow slice of data. And it goes on from there,
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getting into specifics about it. But the headline here is that it's worse than we thought. It's a lot
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worse than we thought. And we already knew it was pretty bad. This prompted CNN with their own
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headline, an article today, it says, Andrew Cuomo's COVID-19 performance may have been less stellar
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than it seemed. Oh, you think so, CNN? Yeah, less stellar than it seemed to you and to other deluded
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morons. But to those of us with our eyes open, it was very clear from the beginning that it was not
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stellar at all. Because, yeah, he was giving press conferences and he had his, you know, his whole act
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in the press conference where he pretended to be this straightforward, tough-talking guy. But those of us
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who are not extremely stupid realize that that has nothing to do with what he's actually doing in relation
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to the coronavirus. But especially with CNN, see, you say this now, but during the height of this,
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when this was actually happening, when there were thousands of COVID patients being put into these
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nursing homes and this was going on, CNN, this was known. We talked about it on this show. We talked,
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other shows talked about it. We had articles about it on The Daily Wire. But CNN, rather than reporting on
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that, they had Andrew Cuomo come on the air several times a week with his little brother. And they had these
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cutesy little back and forths. You know, what was it? The one time he brought out a, I think it was a
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propped, a prop Q-tip to make fun of the fact that Andrew Cuomo has big ears. And they had a big laugh
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about that while elderly people were dying in nursing homes due to Andrew Cuomo's policies.
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So nice job, CNN. Number two, a moment of unity. Moment of unity ruined again. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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tweeted yesterday in response to a news about Robinhood locking down their app to stop users
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from buying more GameStop stock. She said, this was her original tweet. She said,
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this is unacceptable. We now need to know more about Robinhood app's decision to block retail
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investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see it.
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As a member of the Financial Services Committee, I'd support a hearing if necessary.
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Okay. That's what she said. And I agree. I think most people, this has been one issue where it seems
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like most people agree, which is pretty impressive. Because prior to this, I wasn't sure if there was
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anything ever again that we could all agree on. But with this issue, most people do. Well, Ted Cruz
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tweeted in agreement. Uh, and all he said was, I agree. I think that was what his tweet was
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and kind of maybe extending a little bit of an olive branch. AOC proceeded to take that olive
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olive branch and throw it in the incinerator. This is what she tweeted in response. She said,
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I'm happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there's common ground,
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but you talking to Ted Cruz almost had me murdered three weeks ago. So you can sit this one out.
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Happy to work with almost any other GOP that aren't trying to get me killed. In the meantime,
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if you want to help, you can resign. That's what she thinks of unity. Now, by the way,
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when she said, well, I'm happy to work with any other GOP who didn't try to get me killed.
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What she fails to mention is that she thinks they all tried to get her killed. She blames all of them
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with very, maybe with the exception of like Mitt Romney, um, and a few others, she, she thinks they
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all did. So what she means is I'm happy to work with any other GOP except for all of the GOP.
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You know, and this is what, there are two things we take away from this. First of all,
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this is the point we've gotten to now where a, a sitting member of Congress accuses another member
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of trying to have her murdered. And it's like, it's barely even news. I mean, even, even 10 years ago,
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this would be unheard of to have a claim like this, completely unsubstantiated.
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There's no basis for this whatsoever. She can't explain it in what way. So you're,
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you're accusing him of attempted murder. And that seems to me to be defamation
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or libel, whichever one it is when you're, when you're saying it, or I guess in this case,
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is a tweet. I'll let the lawyers figure that out. But it seems to me that a claim like this,
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completely baseless, false, smearing somebody, uh, trying to do them damage.
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That doesn't seem legal to me, but we're at the point now where this it's, it's absolutely expected
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and, uh, doesn't even, doesn't even make any waves. Oh yeah, sure. Just a Congresswoman
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accusing a Senator of trying to have her killed. Eh, par for the course. But also it shows again,
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um, what many on the left, especially Democrats, especially Democrats like AOC, what they actually
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think of unity, which is that they have no interest in it whatsoever. So there's really no point,
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even when you agree with them, there's no point in even saying it. There's, there's, there's,
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there's no point in trying to find common ground because you try to stand on the common ground with
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them. They're just going to pull the rug out from under you and kick you while you're down. That's
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what's going to happen. Number three, from the Hill, we knew this was coming. Here it is. Um,
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resident Biden on president Biden. I said resident resident Biden actually works. I kind of like that
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like a nursing home resident. I think I stumbled on the resident Biden. I like that. Let's go with
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that. Resident Biden on Thursday signed two executive actions focused on healthcare, describing
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the directives as a necessary effort to undo the damage done by former president Trump. Um,
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Biden signed an order directing federal agencies to open a special enrollment period for the affordable
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care act. Then he also signed a presidential memorandum rescinding the Mexico city policy,
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preventing federal funds, uh, from going to organizations that fund abortion overseas.
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And this is the great Catholic, the great decent Catholic, Joe Biden, who is now going to force
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taxpayers. He's going to take food out of your kids' mouths to pay for abortions overseas is what's
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going to happen. Now we got, here he is signing this order, uh, but you'll notice something and
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he's kind of explaining why he's signing it, but you'll notice something about this explanation.
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Maybe it'll jump out of you. Listen, the second order I'm going to be signing also changes what
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the president has done, the president, what former president has done. And it, uh, a memorandum
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reversed the, my predecessor's attack on women's health, excuse me, health access. And, um, as we
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continue to battle COVID-19, even more critical Americans have meaningful access to healthcare.
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If we could just move past the irony of him hacking up a lung while he says the word health,
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uh, but moving past that he, he's talking about funding abortions overseas, but he won't say it.
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He won't even say the word abortion said he talks about women's health,
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talks about it in a very roundabout way. And one of the reasons that, that he still comes from that
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old school Democrat mentality, uh, old school, meaning like 20 years ago,
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where radically pro-abortion, but they won't say it. They won't, they won't say the word.
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And I think it's because they still have a little bit, they still have a little bit of shame in them
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and they realize that it's a shameful thing. So they don't want to openly acknowledge it.
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Now the newer Democrats have no problem talking about abortion. They're proud of it.
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In the end, it, it all ends with the same policies and it ends with the same body count of children
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being killed. So it doesn't matter that much, but for him, he won't even just come out and say,
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Oh yeah, this is for, so we're going to fund abortions overseas.
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And that should tell you something when there's a certain policy in the people and many of the
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people who support the policy and the guy who's signing the policy and acting it doesn't want to
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talk about it. Doesn't even want to say the word. Well, that should tell you something.
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You notice that with a interesting dichotomy, right? Between pro-lifers and pro-abortion people
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because with pro-lifers, we don't, we don't use any euphemisms. We speak about this issue directly.
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We are not afraid at all to say what we really think. And to, to, to, to just talk about this issue
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in a direct, straightforward manner. It's always been the pro-abortion side. Many of them anyway,
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though I say not all of them. It's always been many of them that they feel that we need to dance
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around it, to find all these different euphemisms, these different terms, women's health, reproductive
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health. And anytime you see that, even if you don't know anything about the issue, you know nothing
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about the issue, but you don't even know what abortion is. And you hear two sides arguing about it.
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And one side is talking about it directly. And the other side is, is, is doing anything they can to
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not speak about it directly. That's enough right there to tell you who's on the right side.
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All right. Number four, I have to do this. I'm sorry. I have to do it. I take no pleasure in this
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at all. Um, but I got to, I have to play it for you because I was subjected to it. This is Kristen
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Chenoweth. She's a Broadway actress. Uh, and she, she made a song, a Broadway style song about Kamala
00:23:52.320
Harris. And I'm going to play it for you just because here it is. Her name is Kamala. It's
00:24:04.840
someone named Kamala. And truly, since I've begun to learn all she's done, I see she deserved
00:24:11.840
that spot. And also I learned it's no, not Kamala. So think of it like Kamala. Because Kamala,
00:24:19.840
Kamala, she's good for America. And popular as she was, well now, Kamala's popularity will
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grow. Because we know how much she's gonna be helping Joe. After all, there is nobody astuter
00:24:37.840
when she was a prosecutor. Tough but fair. She really found her niche. And then she fought
00:24:46.840
for rights and justice when it came to serving in the Senate. Where I come from, she'd make
00:24:54.120
a very good witch. I agree with the last part. Very good witch. I lost my will to live while
00:25:03.760
watching that. I felt myself plunging into the depths of despair. I can't even, there's something
00:25:11.720
about that that's so horrendously depressing. And they're still trying to do this with,
00:25:20.120
it will never stop being funny to me. This enthusiasm they're trying to generate for this
00:25:26.140
woman that they didn't care at all about. She could have been president. If you care so
00:25:34.220
much about, I mean, you're literally singing songs about her now. You're so excited. But where
00:25:39.500
was this excitement a year ago? Now she's only the pseudo-president. Now she's the president
00:25:44.800
behind the scenes. While senile Joe is there as the figurehead. But she could have been the
00:25:50.180
main person. She could have been the boss. Officially. Top of the ticket. But you guys chose
00:25:57.620
the old 78-year-old white man. And now you want to pretend you're excited about her. Sorry,
00:26:04.420
I don't buy it. I especially don't buy it in that form. All right, number five.
00:26:10.900
This is from the New York Post. It says, two California women claim that Subway's tuna
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sandwich actually contains not a scintilla of the fish that they were duped by the fast food
00:26:20.380
joint's claims. And they're saying this in a $5 million lawsuit. Karen Donawa and Nalima Amen,
00:26:30.020
both of Alameda County, California, say they ordered tuna from the sandwich giant,
00:26:33.980
locations near their home as recently as last year. This is according to the federal lawsuit.
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But independent testing has repeatedly affirmed the products are made from anything but tuna.
00:26:43.640
The filing of the products has no scintilla of tuna at all, the suit claims. In fact,
00:26:47.840
Subway's tuna is made from a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna,
00:26:52.320
that have been blended together by the defendants to imitate the appearance of tuna.
00:26:56.300
This is a kind of a form of, is a cultural, is an appropriation of tuna by this imposter.
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The filing alleges that Subway has done this in an effort to save money since the blended non-tuna
00:27:08.580
product costs less. I'm trying to get to the point in this article where they explain
00:27:13.440
why they deserve $5 million because they got fake tuna. I mean, have they bought $5 million worth of
00:27:21.280
tuna sandwiches? Because if they have, then I would say they, apparently they don't hate the tuna that
00:27:26.360
much. But I'm, I'm okay with this. If, if you're going to file the lawsuit against Subway though,
00:27:32.700
the only thing I'll say, if we're filing a lawsuit against Subway, uh, I would rather,
00:27:38.140
or maybe this is something that would come out in the discovery phase. I don't know, but,
00:27:40.840
but, uh, one way or another, I want to know what the smell is in a Subway sandwich shop.
00:27:46.740
When you walk in, there is a smell. And I've asked this question before. I've asked it in
00:27:52.720
Subways before, uh, what the smell is. You know what I'm talking about? If you've ever been in a
00:27:56.500
Subway, there's a very distinct smell and it's not terribly pleasant. It's this kind of, it's this,
00:28:03.460
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00:28:09.220
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00:28:16.720
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00:28:21.480
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00:28:27.100
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I never thought I had to say this, but today we're going to cancel anal swabs.
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The media has been reporting that China in order to test for COVID is now using both throat and
00:31:55.100
anal swabs, though not on the same person, or at least not with the same swab. One would hope.
00:32:02.120
In any case, the Washington post has this. They say the people of China could be forgiven for thinking
00:32:05.740
they'd seen at all during the coronavirus pandemic, but now they face a new indignity. The addition of
00:32:10.060
anal swabs, Chinese state media outlets introduced the new protocol in recent days, prompting widespread
00:32:14.900
discussion and some outrage, uh, only some outrage apparently in China. Some Chinese doctors say the
00:32:20.480
science is there recovering patients. They say have continued to test positive through samples from
00:32:24.020
the lower digestive tract, uh, days after nasal and throat swabs came back negative yet for many,
00:32:30.500
it seemed a step too far in government intrusion after a year and counting of a dignity eroding pandemic.
00:32:35.740
Everyone involved will be so embarrassed. One user of, um, the Chinese social media app Weibo said,
00:32:41.900
even Chinese doctors who support the new test said the methods inconvenience meant it made sense
00:32:46.080
for use only in select groups, such as at quarantine centers. That's what they say. But it seems the
00:32:52.280
anal swab technique is not only being used on people in quarantine centers, even airline passengers are
00:32:58.920
apparently required to subject themselves to this experience. The Hill reports quote, nose and anal swabs were
00:33:04.720
taken from a group of passengers on a flight from, uh, Changchum, China to Beijing on Monday. Other
00:33:10.380
travelers arriving in Beijing have also been asked to use anal swabs. One woman who was not identified by
00:33:16.040
name, thankfully for her, was asked to use an anal swab in a mandatory hotel quarantine in Beijing
00:33:22.660
alongside several nose and throat tests and a blood test. Again, we hope that they use different
00:33:28.580
equipment for all those different tests. It's not clear to me whether this swabbing is happening in the
00:33:33.100
airport or on the plane in most cases or somewhere else, perhaps they do it while you're waiting in
00:33:37.580
line at the food court, Burger King for efficiency sake, at least the mask will help hydra shame a
00:33:42.240
little bit. Um, there's been a video making the rounds, which appears to be some sort of Chinese
00:33:47.280
official or doctor in an airport demonstrating the anal swab technique. Thankfully he's using a dummy
00:33:53.700
in this case. Um, the good news is that this is all only slightly more invasive than what the TSA already
00:34:01.860
does. I mean, it's hard to believe that a little more than 20 years ago, you could walk into an
00:34:08.820
airport, get right on a plane, carrying a baseball bat and a knife. If you wanted, I mean, literally you
00:34:14.540
could actually bring that stuff on a plane. Now they confiscate your water bottles and, uh, subject you to a
00:34:19.480
rectal probe. We have come a long way in the wrong direction. Now I haven't done any official polling
00:34:28.680
on this, but based on informal conversations, it appears that it appears that most people are rather
00:34:34.140
opposed to the anal swab method. The approval rating for anal swabs is rather low. It's almost as low as
00:34:41.420
the approval rating for Congress. Why is that? I mean, why do people recoil at the idea? Well, I think
00:34:47.920
they recoil at it for a few reasons. One of them though, perhaps the number one is that dignity
00:34:53.940
matters as it turns out. And that's the takeaway here. If there's any lesson to be learned from anal
00:35:00.600
swabs, anal swabs are an extreme example, but why, you know, do most people reject the idea? Because
00:35:06.860
they want to preserve their dignity. Even if that form of testing is more accurate, even if it would make
00:35:12.580
us safer, who knows, maybe it would, I don't know. Doesn't matter. Most of us would say because we have
00:35:18.820
our dignity and we would like to preserve it. Thank you. There have to be limits. Okay. There are things
00:35:24.640
that I will not have, that I will not subject myself to things. I will not cooperate with simply because
00:35:30.420
I'm a human being and I have dignity. Dignity is actually a more important consideration than safety.
00:35:37.700
If there's a choice between staying safe and forfeiting your dignity or keeping your dignity
00:35:44.820
and forfeiting your safety, you should go through door number two every time.
00:35:50.480
So we see that, I think, with extreme and absurd things like anal swabs. I just wish we could see
00:35:55.520
it with things that are only slightly less extreme and absurd, like wearing a mask while walking outside
00:36:01.200
or wearing two masks or three masks or wearing a mask and a visor when you, when you go to Walmart.
00:36:12.180
Maybe you'll be a little safer if you do that. Maybe the person with the mask and the gloves and the
00:36:16.840
visor is a little safer. Maybe you're, maybe if you wear a mask while you go for a jog, you're a little
00:36:20.260
bit safer. I'm not convinced that's true actually, but, but maybe it is for the sake of argument.
00:36:23.820
Let's say it is. You're a little bit safer. So what? I still won't do it because it's undignified.
00:36:28.540
It's ridiculous. It's humiliating. That's my reason. My reason is actually not, oh, it's,
00:36:33.680
it's, it's because of the science. It's actually got nothing to do with science. I just think it's
00:36:37.500
humiliating and ridiculous and it looks stupid and it's undignified. That's why I'm not going to do it.
00:36:43.580
We've been told that that's, that's, that's not a good reason. You need a better reason. No,
00:36:46.700
I think that's the best reason. I think it's the, one of the best reasons you can have for doing or
00:36:51.500
not doing something. Now, if you don't think it's a good reason, dignity isn't a good reason.
00:36:58.680
To not do something. Okay. Well then ask for the anal swab next time you're getting tested.
00:37:05.080
Next time you're at CVS getting the COVID test, ask if they have the anal swab. It'll make you
00:37:09.140
safer. Dignity doesn't matter. Does it? I say it does, which is why anal swabs along with so many
00:37:16.640
other anti-COVID measures are canceled. And incidentally, I have now used the term anal swab
00:37:22.800
more times in the last five minutes than I had through my whole life to this point. These are
00:37:27.080
not the sorts of personal milestones that I set out to achieve, but, uh, what can we do? That's where
00:37:33.140
we are. And we'll leave it there for today. Great notes to end on, um, for the week. Have a great
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