The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 649 - AOC Finds The One Rioting Victim She Cares About

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, AOC tearfully describes the trauma she suffered during the

00:00:04.380 Capitol Hill riot. But how much sympathy should we have and feel for a woman who encouraged and 0.85

00:00:09.120 applauded this kind of rioting until it arrived on her front door? Also, five headlines, including

00:00:12.640 Chicago teacher still bravely refusing to return to work. Dr. Fauci reverses himself on masks again,

00:00:19.660 and Kamala Harris's stepdaughter is hailed as a style icon. And in our daily cancellation,

00:00:24.160 we'll discuss HBO's new documentary, Celebrating Open Relationships. We know that's got to be good.

00:00:30.120 All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:39.100 So to a certain degree, this is a flaw we all share. You know, all of us will take a thing

00:00:43.440 more seriously, care more about it when we or someone close to us is involved in it.

00:00:47.940 None of us are capable of absolute altruism or perfect empathy. But if we have absolutely no

00:00:54.960 concern for the tragedies that befall others, even while demanding vocal and unending sympathy

00:00:59.820 whenever we are the ones suffering misfortune, then we've gone far beyond the universal flaw of

00:01:05.060 fallen humans everywhere. In that case, we're sociopaths. We're even worse than sociopaths if 0.94

00:01:10.280 we outwardly applaud and encourage bad things when they happen to others while still pulling the woe is

00:01:15.200 me card. Should we ever get a taste of our own medicine? Many of our politicians in DC quite

00:01:21.580 clearly fall into this second category. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has

00:01:26.280 especially provided an illustration of what happens when that naturally imperfect capacity for empathy

00:01:33.800 gives way to full-on sociopathy. AOC was talking to her fans on Instagram, Instagram Live last night. 0.98

00:01:40.960 And the fact that she has fans to talk to on Instagram is a problem in and of itself. But 0.92

00:01:45.580 she began describing in dramatic and tearful terms, the trauma that she suffered during the Capitol Hill

00:01:52.380 riots. The description was replete with visual demonstrations, plenty of cinematic, dramatic

00:01:59.440 pauses and all the rest of it. Let's listen to some of this.

00:02:02.800 Like I'm here and the bathroom door starts going like this, like the bathroom doors behind me or rather

00:02:10.340 in front of me. And I'm like this and the door hinges right here. And I just hear, where is she?

00:02:16.280 Where is she? And, um, this was the moment where I thought everything was over.

00:02:28.520 Um, and the weird thing about moments like these is that you lose all sense of time. Um,

00:02:41.160 in retrospect, um, maybe it was four seconds, maybe it was five seconds, maybe it was 10 seconds,

00:02:51.380 maybe it was one second. I don't know. It felt like my brain was able to have so many thoughts

00:03:00.260 in that moment, um, between these screams and these yells of where is she, where is she?

00:03:07.060 And so I go down and I just, I mean, I thought I was going to die.

00:03:17.240 And it gets even more dramatic from here. Next, she began to describe

00:03:20.600 what and who she was thinking about as she confronted her own mortality. It turns out she

00:03:26.200 was thinking about the American people and comforted by the knowledge that her work would be

00:03:30.120 continued by those who come after her. Let's listen to that.

00:03:33.640 And I had a lot of thoughts. You have a lot of thoughts. I think when you're in a situation

00:03:40.060 like that, um, and like, also one of those thoughts that I had was, you know, I just happened

00:03:46.320 to, you know, be a spiritual person and be raised in that context. And I really just felt like,

00:03:54.160 you know, if this is the plan for me, um, then people will be able to take it from here.

00:04:08.480 Um, I had a lot of thoughts, but that was the thought that I had about you all. Um,

00:04:18.440 um, I felt that, um, if this was the journey that my life was taking, that I felt that things were

00:04:32.640 going to be okay. Um,

00:04:36.500 Now, she also said that she simply cannot move on from this trauma and anyone who demands that we

00:04:42.200 move on is acting like an abuser. She said that she has been sexually assaulted before in her life.

00:04:46.460 And she compared, uh, those who, who wished to move past the Capitol Hill riots to her own sexual

00:04:52.200 abuser. And if all that wasn't enough for one Instagram live chat, AOC also, also threw the

00:04:57.520 Capitol police under the bus, the very people who put themselves on the line to protect her.

00:05:02.020 She tells us about one of the police officers who came to take her to safety. And she said that she

00:05:05.920 was scared of him because he was being mean about it. And he was yelling. Yes, he was yelling.

00:05:10.420 It's almost like, you know, there was a mob of people this guy was trying to deal with,

00:05:13.140 and he didn't have time for pleasantries. Seems understandable to me, but AOC thought and still

00:05:17.880 thinks that it's quite suspicious. And it was happy to tell us about that. The media, of course,

00:05:23.720 ate all this up, insisting that her description of the riot was emotional and compelling and

00:05:27.440 demanding, uh, and that it was demanding of our attention and affirmation. And under normal

00:05:32.860 circumstances, I would have little problem with anything that she said, aside from the part where

00:05:36.920 she've smeared the men who have, who were protecting her. I have a problem with that, but the rest,

00:05:40.640 under normal circumstances, I would say, okay, well, if that's how she felt, that's how she felt.

00:05:47.180 But her description of the fear she felt and so on, um, you know, it would provoke no protest for me,

00:05:53.220 if not for the fact that this same woman had spent the last several months ignoring, excusing, 0.99

00:05:59.440 and romanticizing the very same kind of chaos that she in turn fell victim to. Now I've played this

00:06:06.060 before, but let's remind ourselves, I think it could be helpful too. Let's remind ourselves what

00:06:11.400 AOC said about BLM rioting back in May. Let's listen to that. If you're trying to call for the

00:06:18.060 end of unrest, but you don't believe healthcare is a human right, if you're afraid to say black lives

00:06:24.060 matter, if you don't, if you're too scared to call out police brutality, then you aren't asking for an

00:06:32.340 end of unrest. You are asking for injustice to continue and for your people to continue to endure

00:06:38.840 the violence of poverty, the violence of a lack of housing access, the violence of police brutality, 0.69

00:06:45.400 and not say a damn thing. That's what you're asking for. So if you're out here calling for the end of 0.80

00:06:52.740 unrest, then you better be calling for healthcare as a human, right? You better be calling for

00:06:59.540 accountability in our policing. You better be supporting community review boards. You better

00:07:05.300 be supporting, uh, you know, the end of housing discrimination. You better be standing up to

00:07:12.560 for-profit real estate developers that are intimidating people and trying to evict them

00:07:16.920 from their homes. That's what you better be calling for. Because if you don't call for those things

00:07:21.880 and you're asking for the end of unrest, all you're asking for is the continuation of quiet

00:07:27.520 oppression. Oh, okay. Yeah. If you want rioting to end, it means that you just want oppression

00:07:32.240 to continue. You want quiet oppression to continue. And you have no right to call for the end of

00:07:36.760 unrest, uh, uh, unless you want, unless you call out real estate developers, the whole list of, of

00:07:43.560 demands. So, so, but what, what she's doing here, of course, is she's, she's completely ignoring

00:07:48.380 and erasing the people in these communities, actual human beings who are affected by this,

00:07:56.300 injured by it, damaged by it, killed by the unrest, as you call it. But for her, it's all academic.

00:08:03.320 So, sure, we could, we could get around to caring about that. But first, I've got a whole list of

00:08:06.820 issues we need to, uh, discuss first. Note that she said all of that only two days after a police

00:08:13.320 precinct was invaded and burned to the ground. And on the same day that she recorded that video,

00:08:19.500 she also shared an image on her Instagram, giving people advice on how to protest safely. And this

00:08:25.340 advice, advice included things like wear nondescript solid colored, solid, solid colored clothing,

00:08:32.340 uh, cover identifying tattoos. She exhorted protesters to put their phone on airplane mode and not to

00:08:38.600 bring anything they don't want to be arrested with. The point of this advice quite explicitly

00:08:43.500 was to help people commit crimes and to engage in mob violence without getting caught or while at

00:08:49.580 least limiting their legal liability if they are caught. And this is the stance she had towards

00:08:54.560 riding all through the summer, $2 billion in damage, 25 people killed. The only people she condemned

00:08:59.360 throughout all of that were those who wanted the violence to end. Those who wanted to be safe in

00:09:03.880 their own communities again. But the shoe ends up on the other foot and she comes face to face with

00:09:09.320 the kind of anarchy that she fomented and encouraged. And she responds by crying and pointing fingers and

00:09:13.600 demanding sympathy and understanding from the whole world. What happened to her is the greatest crime

00:09:18.720 in history, a staggering tragedy because it happened to her. As for the violence, death, and destruction

00:09:24.200 visited upon average Americans, the convenience store owners who saw their businesses incinerated,

00:09:28.680 the retail employees whose places of work were ransacked, the neighbors who were too afraid to leave

00:09:33.180 their homes because of the mayhem outside, the cancer stricken children huddling in fear in their

00:09:37.520 cancer centers while BLM rioters smashed the windows downstairs, the woman in Rochester who was beaten 0.82

00:09:44.240 by two by fours while trying to stop looters from destroying her business, the retired police captain shot

00:09:49.420 dead, left to bleed out in the street, random pedestrians harassed and assaulted and so on. As for all of

00:09:55.200 them, AOC has no concern, doesn't care, never said a word about them ever, still has not, never even

00:10:01.160 acknowledged them. In fact, she applauds their victimization. She sits back at a distance and

00:10:07.220 pontificates about their suffering and declares that their suffering is worth it because it's all

00:10:12.680 in service to a good cause because we're sticking it to those real estate developers. Yeah, I mean,

00:10:19.460 so they burned down apartment complexes. That'll really show the real estate developers. No,

00:10:25.960 well, the problem is that there are people who are going to live in those homes, actual regular

00:10:29.820 people. AOC doesn't care about them. She doesn't give a damn about them. You know, it's all for a 1.00

00:10:37.840 good cause. What is that cause exactly? And how does, how does this advance it? Well, she can't say

00:10:42.380 precisely. Nobody ever could. All she was sure of is that $2 billion of property damage and 25 people

00:10:47.620 dead wasn't enough to earn condemnation. Indeed, anyone who condemned it was racist. And then one day she gets

00:10:55.500 an up close and personal look at what rioting is and what it feels like on the ground. And she sees

00:11:00.260 that it's not just unrest. It's terrifying. She was fortunate enough to get that look, have that

00:11:06.580 experience as a heavily protected public figure with cops around to whisk her to safety, which they

00:11:11.060 did. Not that she has any gratitude for those people who protected her, of course. But the fact

00:11:16.320 remains that she had that protection. You know who didn't have that protection? How about the elderly man

00:11:20.240 in Kenosha who went to stop the BLM riders from looting his mattress store only to be attacked, bashed over

00:11:25.920 the head and left lying on the sidewalk with a broken jaw? He had no protection. He had no defense after the

00:11:32.020 fact either from people like AOC. She didn't give a damn about him or anyone else, any of the thousands

00:11:37.960 of others victimized in similar ways over the summer. Quite the contrary. She romanticized the sort of

00:11:44.240 violence that he fell victim to while her Democrat pals helped to bail out the rioters and put them

00:11:50.480 back on the street to do it all again the next day. She wants us now to forget all that and focus on

00:11:57.280 her and her own alleged trauma. That really is the motto she lives by, isn't it? Forget all that and

00:12:03.160 focus on me. Hey guys, I feel like we're not talking about me enough here. But sorry, AOC, a lot of us are

00:12:10.660 just not going to play that game. We're not. We have no doubt that what you experienced was quite

00:12:16.740 unpleasant. Not as unpleasant as being beaten or brutalized or shot dead as so many Americans were 0.89

00:12:22.580 during the BLM riots, but unpleasant all the same. Maybe if you admitted your role in normalizing and

00:12:28.980 encouraging this sort of violence and apologized for it and held yourself to account, then we could

00:12:34.560 make some progress. We could get somewhere. But you won't do that. You aren't capable.

00:12:41.320 And so you just can't get the sympathy you desire.

00:12:47.260 Let's get now to our five headlines.

00:12:54.740 Well, I won't even count this as a headline because it's not worthy of it. But I do have to

00:12:59.180 mention that today is February 2nd, which means that's Groundhog Day. And that's when we pull the

00:13:07.880 Groundhog out, of course, and we see if it saw its shadow. I still don't know, but we got the footage

00:13:12.820 here. And for some reason, I'm going to play this. We'll play some of it anyway. They pulled out

00:13:17.380 Punxsutawney Phil to see what's going on. Are we going to have more winter or not? And let's play

00:13:22.460 the footage. Let's find out what Phil has to say. Come round. Hi. What do you think? Wait a minute. Let me...

00:13:35.120 This one? Is it this one? Okay. Okay.

00:13:44.780 He's talking to the Groundhog right now, by the way. You look beautiful today. All right.

00:13:50.020 He's whispering sweet nothings in the Groundhog's ear. We think we have a prediction.

00:13:56.620 Shingle shaker. Can you read the prognostication? I've never seen this before. I didn't know how 1.00

00:14:00.920 this actually worked. Okay. Here's the prediction. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. Now, this second day of

00:14:11.120 February 2021, the 135th annual trek of Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of

00:14:22.220 seers, the prognosticator of all prognosticators, was awakened from his burrow at 725 a.m. Can we get

00:14:28.280 to the point? Is there going to be more winter or not? By his handler and friend on this quiet morning

00:14:34.700 where few can attend. Yes, we get it. In Groundhog he's, Phil directed the precedent

00:14:40.160 and the inner circle to his prediction scroll that reads,

00:14:45.200 it's a beautiful morning. This I can see. Okay. I give up. I've listened to enough. You know what?

00:14:51.080 We're not, we're just not going to know. We're not going to know if there's going to be more winter

00:14:53.700 or not. We never got the prediction. I mean, I get, see, I understand you have to drag it out

00:15:00.340 because you've made this tradition out of talking to a groundhog. And so you've got to figure out

00:15:05.780 ways to add pageantry to it, but just get to the point. I have to, I have to, I've actually never

00:15:11.940 watched that before. I think my only, um, experience with Groundhog Day, like everybody else is the Bill

00:15:17.280 Murray movie. And, uh, but I've never actually watched it live like that. I've never, I've never

00:15:22.100 seen the real thing and it's even dumber than I ever expected it would be. It's kind of embarrassing 0.85

00:15:28.180 to watch. Are we, can we be done with the whole Groundhog Day thing? I get it. It's a,

00:15:33.400 you know, it's a quaint tradition. I understand, but is it, look, I'm not trying to be a hater.

00:15:38.900 I, well, I guess I am, but isn't it a little bit too stupid? It's a, it's a little bit too stupid, 1.00

00:15:45.080 right? Um, okay. I did just look it up and it turns out we're going to have six more weeks of winter. 1.00

00:15:53.240 So just bad news. All we ever get is bad news anymore. Now the, even the Groundhog,

00:15:58.180 couldn't even do us a favor by, by giving us spring early. All right. Um, okay. Let's move

00:16:03.760 on to real news. A Chicago teachers union member was on CNN yesterday to, um, talk about what it

00:16:11.000 would take to get her back to work. And here's what she said. Your union says that agreements 0.99

00:16:16.340 were reached on some serious issues like health and safety protocols, ventilation, contact tracing,

00:16:23.100 and safety committees. Um, what is outstanding? What are your concerns that remain?

00:16:28.480 Well, my concerns that remain, um, the number one concern I have is that COVID is still spreading

00:16:37.740 in Chicago. Many of the communities in which we teach COVID is well above, uh, 10%, uh, community

00:16:46.760 spread. And I don't believe that we've reached, um, an agreement on the question of how are vaccines

00:16:55.000 going to be distributed to the people who work in the schools, uh, let alone people in those hardest

00:17:01.740 hit communities. We really have not reached agreement on the question of accommodations

00:17:07.540 for people like myself. I live with, um, in a multi-generational household with, um, my public

00:17:14.840 school student, as well as my elderly parents. My mother has very serious health, um, concerns

00:17:22.780 and disabilities come so far in COVID. We see the vaccine, it's like a light at the end of the 1.00

00:17:31.500 tunnel. And the idea of exposing her now to this virus is terrifying. So, um, really big issue.

00:17:43.740 Sorry. I was still just thinking about the groundhog. Actually, I was thinking about

00:17:46.220 groundhog state. Those, these people, they put on a suit and top hat to go talk to a groundhog.

00:17:51.240 And the thing about it is that there's no, it doesn't appear to be any, it's not like tongue

00:17:55.660 in cheek. They don't, they don't appear to be in on the joke. It was like, they're really

00:17:58.360 taking it seriously. It seems like, yeah, I say it's run its course. Uh, they've been

00:18:03.780 doing groundhog's day for like a hundred, over a century, well over a century. This

00:18:08.580 of all the traditions, all traditions are getting torn down all around us. This is the one we

00:18:13.740 keep doing talking to the groundhog. I guess I should take the opposite approach because

00:18:19.960 we're getting rid of all the other traditions. Let's cling on to any that we still have.

00:18:23.660 And groundhog day is one of them. So anyway, uh, yeah, the teacher was just, uh, speaking

00:18:28.180 there. I did tune her out a little bit because you know what? I'm tired of the excuses. And

00:18:31.940 uh, what, what's her, she, she was asked, you know, what's it going to take to get back

00:18:36.240 in the schools? And you notice she didn't say, well, I want to get back in the school, but

00:18:40.960 to, to, you know, be there for the kids and educate the kids. This is never about the kids.

00:18:45.040 You notice that with these teachers that are refusing to go back to work. It's not about

00:18:48.880 the kids. The kids are just, just disregarded. It's not even that they're worried, um, about

00:18:54.560 the kids getting sick. It's not about the kids at all. The kids are disregarded, are

00:18:59.720 not a concern whatsoever. It's all about them. And so she said, me, me, me, this is how I

00:19:04.460 feel. This is what's going to make me feel like. And so she says, what's going to take

00:19:08.340 to get her back in the school is if there's no more community spread, which is another 1.00

00:19:12.300 way of saying she's never going back because coronavirus is going to be here. It's going

00:19:17.060 to be with us probably forever to some degree or another. And if it ever completely goes

00:19:23.120 away, it could be years down the line. I mean, literally years. It's already been one

00:19:27.520 year. So that's the standard she set. Here's the great thing though. You got to look at it

00:19:34.680 from the, from the other way. Look at the kind of silver lining that the teachers at this

00:19:40.760 point who are still refusing to go back to work are all of the worst teachers anyway.

00:19:47.420 These are all the worst ones. These are all the ones that you don't want teaching your

00:19:51.940 kid. So fire all of them, that lady, fire her, take her job away, fire the rest of 1.00

00:19:58.180 them. If that means you're firing thousands of teachers all at once. Fantastic. These

00:20:02.560 are all the terrible ones. The good ones want to go back. And you know what you separate?

00:20:07.840 Here's the main way you separate the good teachers from the bad ones. Okay. Um, it, this

00:20:14.760 is not the only thing, but this is a big part of it. The good teachers care about their

00:20:19.820 students and they actually want to educate their students and it matters to them. The

00:20:26.380 bad ones don't care. And as I can tell you from experience being in the public school

00:20:31.980 system for 13 years, as I was growing up, you can tell when you're in the classroom with

00:20:37.720 a teacher who doesn't care about you and doesn't care about the education and doesn't care about

00:20:41.520 anything. And it's just there because it's a, because you know, she wants to sit on her butt 1.00

00:20:46.680 at the, at the desk, hand out busy work and make a paycheck. You know, as the students 0.89

00:20:53.360 aren't stupid, they can tell the difference. This is a great opportunity really, because 0.98

00:20:59.240 all of the sit on the button, hand out busy work type teachers, they're all, they're all

00:21:03.880 identifying themselves. So what we should be doing is saying, awesome. You're all fired.

00:21:08.080 Thank God. Literally nothing is lost. All right. Number two from Vanity Fair. It says in the past,

00:21:18.840 actor and activist, Evan Rachel Wood has spoken about the alleged abuse she was subjected to by 0.95

00:21:23.520 an unnamed ex. In an Instagram post early Monday morning, she put a name to the allegations.

00:21:28.420 She wrote, quote, the name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson.

00:21:33.360 He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed

00:21:37.100 and manipulated into submission. I'm done living in fear of retaliation, slander, blackmail.

00:21:42.720 I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him

00:21:47.100 before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent.

00:21:51.280 And apparently, so this has started a sort of a me too thing with Marilyn Manson. Other women have 1.00

00:21:57.780 come forward and said he was abusive to them. Now, you know, innocent till proven guilty and all that

00:22:03.940 kind of stuff. So we can't declare what is actually true and what isn't. I will say that

00:22:11.360 I find his accusations to be very credible, considering it's Marilyn Manson we're talking

00:22:18.920 about. There's nothing shocking here at all. I mean, this is a guy, like if you go back,

00:22:26.400 apparently he's still making music, which that's the only surprising thing to find out. He was dropped

00:22:31.420 by his record label. The only surprising thing about that is that he had a record label still.

00:22:35.160 So he's still making music, but at least going back to the nineties, all the 90 kids, 90s kids know

00:22:39.300 Marilyn Manson. He used to, he would get arrested for committing sexual assault on stage.

00:22:48.160 And if my memory serves me correctly, this happened more than once where he would commit sexual assault

00:22:54.840 for everyone to see on stage and he would get arrested for it. And then he would just be back

00:22:58.040 out doing it again. So, um, yeah, no, not a surprise there. And although it does make you wonder like

00:23:04.940 why. So Evan Rachel would apparently got, got mixed up in this when she was a teenager. Um, so,

00:23:11.780 you know, there was a grooming that went on. She was a kid. And so you can not, you'd understand that.

00:23:18.780 Right. A lot of other women are coming forward. I don't know. Um, it's, it's, you do wonder how a guy

00:23:24.660 like this managed to have any women interested in him at all. Um, or why anyone would come anywhere

00:23:31.260 near this freak in the first place. But that's, uh, one of the mysteries. Um, then again, you know,

00:23:39.140 there are serial killers in prison who, you know, end up in, end up getting married. So

00:23:43.200 it's not surprising after all. Number three, we played the clip for you last week of Dr. Fauci saying

00:23:48.940 that it's common sense, um, to wear two masks, to double mask. He said, that's common sense. Let's

00:23:56.600 play that clip again. Again, this is him. He was asked about, about wearing two masks. He said,

00:24:00.240 he said common sense, but let's play it. So if you have a physical covering with one layer,

00:24:05.280 you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.

00:24:10.340 And that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.

00:24:17.220 Okay. So he says, uh, common sense where to mask. There you go.

00:24:21.580 Couple days later, this is, I don't know, three, four days later. Uh, he, the, the subject of double

00:24:28.220 masking is broached again. And this is what he says this time. There are many people who feel,

00:24:33.620 you know, if you really want to have an extra little, uh, bit of protection,

00:24:37.560 maybe I should put two masks on. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's no data that indicates

00:24:44.240 that that is going to make a difference. Okay. Okay. So it's common sense to do it, but there's

00:24:51.960 no reason to think it'll make any difference. Probably won't make any difference. There's

00:24:56.020 nothing wrong with it, but it's common sense to do it. I guess there's a way you could make all of

00:25:04.980 that make sense together. Uh, I mean, I guess there could be things that seem like common sense,

00:25:10.920 even though there's no data supporting doing it. I guess you could say that. Um, but that's,

00:25:19.640 that doesn't appear to be his. And here's, here's the problem that we get these, these messages that

00:25:25.300 contradict or seem to contradict. And it's never explained. He doesn't, he doesn't say in that

00:25:32.840 interview. Oh, you know, I know I said this before about a double masking. Let me clarify.

00:25:37.120 Here's what I meant to say. Let me give you the whole deal. Well, they just say one thing one day,

00:25:41.900 something else three days later, and it's up to you to interpret and to figure it out.

00:25:47.540 A lot of people a long time ago threw their hands up and said, forget this. I just don't trust these

00:25:53.120 people. They're telling me different things. They're contradicting themselves. I don't care what

00:25:56.680 they say. It's hard to blame people for taking that attitude when you consider this. And you consider

00:26:02.460 the fact that we're a year into this and we're still getting contradictory information. So you

00:26:06.480 can't even use the excuse anymore that it's early on and they're confused and they don't really know

00:26:11.140 themselves. They're trying to, they're trying to feel their way through it. Um, that excuse,

00:26:16.940 I wasn't convinced by that excuse back last March. Certainly not convinced by it now.

00:26:22.600 Number four, this is from the daily wire. It says the news website of a Christian organization

00:26:26.220 was suspended from its Twitter account last week for saying that Dr. Rachel Levine,

00:26:29.920 the assistant secretary for health at the department of, um, health and human services

00:26:34.120 and the former health department secretary of Pennsylvania is a biological male. So they were

00:26:40.240 suspended for saying that Rachel Levine is a biological male. The daily citizen, which is a

00:26:45.040 part of focus on the family engaged in hateful rhetoric, supposedly according to the social media

00:26:50.260 platform when they tweeted January 19th, this is what they tweeted. On Tuesday, president-elect Joe

00:26:55.840 Biden announced that he had chosen Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant secretary for health

00:26:59.920 at the department of human of, of HHS. Dr. Levine is a transgender woman. That is a man who believes

00:27:05.640 he is a woman. Twitter suspended the account for that. Now they did apparently, um, after, I don't know,

00:27:14.040 a couple of days or several hours, they did reverse the suspension without explanation and put after a

00:27:20.000 little bit of a timeout in the corner, they just, they let the account go back up again. Never

00:27:24.120 explained anything. They never explained how this is hateful rhetoric. And it's not. What was said

00:27:30.160 there, there was no value judgment. There was no insult. Um, nothing like that. They correctly observed

00:27:40.120 that it's a biological male who believes he's a woman. That's what it is. It's what, that's what,

00:27:48.260 that's what it is to be a, it's what the trans woman, that's what it means. Now I realize that people

00:27:53.540 on the left, they don't like that definition, but once again, the same problem we always go back to,

00:28:00.980 they don't like that definition, but they've never given their own. Just like they don't like the

00:28:05.500 definition of woman, but they never told us what they think the definition should be because they

00:28:11.520 just want everything hazy and, and obscure and, and, and undefined. And the great thing about that is

00:28:18.620 if a word and a term, if a concept is hazy, obscure, and undefined, then they can use it however

00:28:22.860 they want. And you can't criticize them because it doesn't really mean anything anyway.

00:28:28.060 Now, although Twitter reversed the suspension, this is, you know, this to me is kind of,

00:28:33.020 this wouldn't become sort of the final straw. Um, and I, we are heading to this point.

00:28:39.080 We're not quite there yet. I think Twitter and the social media companies, they're experimenting.

00:28:44.960 They're kind of treading lightly and seeing what they can get away with. But, um, this is when it's

00:28:50.520 sort of game over when you're at the point where you cannot even speak accurately about biological

00:28:57.920 sex without being banned from the platforms. As it stands right now, most of the time you can.

00:29:04.160 So for Twitter, the rule is, as far as I can tell, and it's not that they ever explained these

00:29:09.960 things, but as far as I can tell, most of the time, if you go out and say, for example, this,

00:29:16.820 a trans woman is a man who believes he's a woman, uh, most of the time you'll be fine. You could talk

00:29:21.100 about, you know, you can even criticize the concept of transgenderism. What they won't let you do is say

00:29:27.000 this directly to a trans person. You do that, you're gone. You quote unquote misgender a 0.98

00:29:34.140 trans person. You're gone. But as far as speaking in general abstract terms, they'll let you do that. 1.00

00:29:42.040 Not for long. Eventually you won't be able to do that anymore. And when that happens,

00:29:45.400 it's just game over. There's at that point, it's there's, there's, they've made it so that you

00:29:50.580 cannot engage honestly, um, on these social media platforms. And in order to be on the platform,

00:29:56.940 you have to, you have to buy into and affirm a lie in order to even be there.

00:30:01.860 And that's when real decisions I think have to be made by conservatives on these platforms.

00:30:06.660 Not there yet, but that's where we're headed. Uh, all right. This is from Yahoo says a week after

00:30:11.640 turning heads at the inauguration in support of her stepmother, vice president Kamala Harris,

00:30:15.500 um, which her stepmother is vice president Kamala Harris. Of course, Ella Emhoff has landed a lucrative

00:30:21.680 modeling contract. So this is the 21 year old stepdaughter of Kamala Harris, uh, the daughter of

00:30:29.860 second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff. She signed on with a, with a modeling agency and we're told that

00:30:37.240 she's the new style icon. She's a modeling sensation. I think we have a few, do we have 0.99

00:30:45.160 some of the pictures, do we have some of the pictures of her, of her modeling, of her, uh,

00:30:50.640 modeling stuff. I don't know if we could play this pictures. Um, I don't know. I, I look at the,

00:30:56.040 I look at the images and okay, there's one. Here we go. So we got the armpit hair. We've got like

00:31:03.020 the, looks like a knitted pink eyebrows. It's like blue and pink knitted sweater.

00:31:12.200 Kind of a weird perm thing going on with the hair. I don't know. I don't know what this,

00:31:15.380 what this is here. Black and white striped hat with little like dog ears and a bright,

00:31:22.100 what is that? Orange or red. I'm colorblind also. That's the other problem. I don't know. I,

00:31:26.440 once again, I have the same problem. It's the same problem I had with the slam poet.

00:31:31.920 You know, I'm not a poetry expert to me. I hear that poetry and I think that's not real poetry.

00:31:37.740 I think anyone could do that. And I look at these pictures and I think, again, not a look at me.

00:31:43.780 I'm not a style. What do I know? I'm wearing my whole style is I wear gray, blue, and plaid.

00:31:47.440 If you haven't noticed, that's all I have. If you go into my, into my closet, I'm like a cartoon

00:31:52.360 character, which is just like the same outfit. I just have 50 of the same outfit. Um, so I'm not

00:31:58.960 a style expert, but I look at some of those pictures and I think, is that really? Cause I

00:32:03.480 could do that. It looks like you just were, you know, you, you didn't have anything clean that day.

00:32:09.860 You're just rifling through your dirty laundry and doing the smell test and grabbing whatever is

00:32:16.120 not completely pungent and throwing it on. And now we're told that's a style icon.

00:32:22.720 Well, all right. What do I know? That's style. Now, if you want to be stylish,

00:32:28.260 that's how you have to look. Before we get to our daily cancellation, a quick word from

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00:34:59.820 to our daily cancellation. Today, we're going to cancel open relationships, open relationships,

00:35:08.560 polyamory, whatever you want to call it. All of that is canceled. Now the catalyst for this

00:35:13.140 cancellation is a new documentary soon to be released on HBO max called there is no I in threesome.

00:35:18.460 Hopefully someone in the film points out that there's no I, but there is a me.

00:35:23.920 And that's sort of the point. A review of the film on the website, uh, the rap describes it this way.

00:35:28.980 It says after a few years of dating his actress, girlfriend, Zoe, New Zealand based filmmaker,

00:35:33.500 Ali Lux decided to document the year leading up to their marriage, but they aren't focused on

00:35:38.540 invitations and flower arrangements. There is no I in threesome tracks their attempt to open their 0.96

00:35:42.860 relationship to others. The likably awkward Ali feels that he missed out sexually during his twenties,

00:35:48.460 and he sees the next 12 months as his last chance to explore before committing to one person forever.

00:35:53.580 Zoe, a beguiling extrovert is game is game. So they establish a monogam ish manifesto and set out to 0.93

00:36:00.540 make the most of our bodies while they're still stretchy. Okay. So the plan is to prepare themselves

00:36:07.200 for marriage by whoring themselves out to random strangers. I'm no Nostradamus, but I can safely

00:36:13.840 prophesy that this probably will not end well. And based on what I've read, it doesn't. And when I

00:36:18.680 say based on what I've read, I don't mean what I've read about this documentary. I mean about open

00:36:22.260 relationships in general, it seems here's a shock. Very often they fall apart due to jealousy and

00:36:27.820 resentment. Who could have guessed it? Yes. It turns out that when you love someone, it can be quite

00:36:33.500 difficult to watch them become romantically involved with a third party. And if it's not difficult,

00:36:38.780 then you probably don't love them. And there's the rub pun sort of intended. Now I wish I could,

00:36:45.820 I could say that this topic is limited to a weird HBO documentary or to a small group of,

00:36:50.640 of swingers and other assorted weirdos. But surveys tell us that monogamy is increasingly

00:36:57.040 unpopular among the younger generations. You take these results with a certain grain of salt, but,

00:37:01.920 but almost all the polls on the subject show an unmistakable trend. So for example,

00:37:06.280 YouGov just last year had these, had a, did a poll on this and here are the findings. They said,

00:37:12.400 quote, a January poll of more than 1300 U.S. adults find those, finds that about one third,

00:37:17.760 32% of U.S. adults say that their ideal relationship is non-monogamous to some degree.

00:37:23.960 Millennials, 43% are particularly likely to say that their ideal relationship is non-monogamous,

00:37:28.880 although an equal percentage, 43% of this generation says that their ideal relationship is completely

00:37:33.620 monogamous. According to this poll, the number of Americans who desire monogamous relationships has

00:37:38.960 dropped by 5% in the last five years. And that's pretty steep decline in five years. And this is

00:37:45.160 actually a very serious problem. Monogamous relationships form the foundation of the family

00:37:50.880 and the family is the foundation of human civilization. You can't build anything of significance

00:37:55.580 without a proper foundation. And so again, this is a real problem. I know we like to say that our

00:38:00.700 consensual relationships are of no concern to anyone and can't harm anyone else. This is my

00:38:05.040 business, not yours. I'm not hurting you. That's not true, actually. For one thing, if you have

00:38:11.420 children, then your sexual relationship with a person who is not your spouse, even if it's consensual, 0.97

00:38:16.580 even if your spouse is dumb or deluded enough to agree to it, will definitely harm your children 0.99

00:38:21.840 who are now being deprived of the stable private home they need and deserve. Also, if lots of people in 0.99

00:38:28.700 society give up on monogamy and thus choose to stop reinforcing and stop strengthening that societal

00:38:35.620 foundation that's so essential, then it's going to affect everyone. I have to live in this civilization

00:38:41.560 that you are helping to ruin by giving up on the family. I would say the ruination of society has a

00:38:48.020 very real impact on me. It does affect me, just as it affects everybody else. Now, all of that said,

00:38:54.140 it's not hard to see why our culture finds the concept of open relationships so appealing.

00:38:59.220 The reason for the appeal is that, first of all, we, and I'm going to use the term we in a general

00:39:03.780 sense here, we are perhaps the most self-centered society to ever exist. We are self-centered both

00:39:11.380 in practice and theory. We are self-centered philosophically. We have elevated self-centeredness

00:39:16.380 to our highest ideal. We're conditioned to think of everything and to judge everything in terms of

00:39:22.620 how it makes us feel. And this attitude is reinforced and encouraged everywhere we go,

00:39:28.100 in pop songs, in advertisements, in school, even in church oftentimes. And this is how we then approach

00:39:33.920 relationships. The whole concept of an open relationship becomes immediately absurd when

00:39:39.700 you approach your relationship as an opportunity to love and serve the other. Thomas Aquinas said that

00:39:45.340 to love is to will the good of the other. If that's your philosophy, then obviously you're not

00:39:49.900 going to be even tempted towards open relationships. It's clear that you're not willing the good of

00:39:55.560 your spouse or your partner by sleeping with somebody else, right? But these days, people tend to think

00:40:01.420 that love is about willing the good of myself. And so it starts to make sense. The other reason why

00:40:08.300 open relationships hold a certain attraction to so many is that we are materialists in this culture.

00:40:14.040 So we see our bodies as just our bodies. There's no deeper significance. Our only job is to wring

00:40:21.900 out of our physical frames all of the pleasure that we can before we die. So relationships are all about

00:40:27.260 me. My body is nothing but a physical vessel empty of any deeper meaning or significance. And with all

00:40:34.460 that in mind, sure, I might as well go out and have sex with everybody in the neighborhood. You know, 1.00

00:40:38.340 that's the attitude. But it doesn't work. The open relationship inevitably gives way to envy,

00:40:45.440 jealousy, anger, and all the other things you expect. Unless, you know, speaking of sociopaths,

00:40:51.160 as we were earlier, if you're a sociopath, well, the only people who can really manage to have a

00:40:56.680 successful open relationship are those who have little capacity for normal human emotions anyway.

00:41:01.440 We used to recognize such people as sick and get them treatment. Now we call them polyamorous and 0.99

00:41:07.280 they have their own pride flag they can wave. For everybody else, though, the experiment fails.

00:41:12.420 Why is that? Well, because open relationships are a contradiction. There is a fundamental tension

00:41:18.580 that you can't escape. The whole point of a human romantic relationship is for it to be closed.

00:41:24.220 The closing of it, the exclusivity, the intimacy is the point. And that's because the relationship has

00:41:32.000 two basic functions or purposes. One, as I already covered, is to ultimately serve as the context

00:41:37.100 through which and in which families are formed. The other purpose of the relationship is to experience

00:41:42.460 love, commitment, closeness with another human being in a unique and intimate way. And to experience

00:41:51.480 this for its own sake, to love another person for their own sake, the ability to do this and to have

00:42:00.740 relationships that are defined this way is literally what separates us from the animals.

00:42:06.080 This is what makes your relationship with your spouse different from the relationship between,

00:42:11.420 say, a male rat and a female rat. They're just bodies to be used by each other as a means to an end.

00:42:17.220 As humans, we strive for something deeper, something more, something more meaningful.

00:42:23.860 Why do we strive for it? Because we can. Because it's a depth and beauty available to us to experience.

00:42:31.440 Because it makes us better people. Because it makes life more worthwhile.

00:42:36.820 Now, people these days who reject monogamy, they want to free themselves from meaning and beauty

00:42:43.520 by behaving more like rodents. And they think they'll find happiness there. But they don't.

00:42:50.780 They won't. At most, they find a fleeting good time, followed by heartbreak, followed by intense

00:42:58.340 loneliness. Especially as they get older, and now they're left alone, and their bodies aren't so

00:43:04.340 stretchy anymore. And they can't, they don't have the same opportunities for those fleeting good times

00:43:09.560 anymore. But by then, unfortunately, it's too late. It's too late to find, as they, as they get older now,

00:43:16.400 and they're alone, and they start to see the value and meaning in that, in that close, intimate,

00:43:22.280 monogamous, exclusive, committed relationship, for a lot of them, they find it's too late to form one.

00:43:27.960 And so they die alone, and there's no one there to mourn them.

00:43:31.320 If you want to avoid that fate, then don't take the advice of this HBO documentary.

00:43:38.720 Especially because open relationships are officially canceled. And that'll do it for us

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Ep. 649 - AOC Finds The One Rioting Victim She Cares About

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