Ep. 651 - AOC Attends The Jussie Smollett School Of Victimology
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Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attend the Jussie Smollett School of Victimology? New revelations cast doubt on her claims of a near-death experience during the January 6th riot. Also, John Kerry explains why he has to travel by private jet to save the planet. And the news media is horrified and scandalized by a grocery store in Florida where people aren t wearing a mask. And in our daily cancellation, we contend with the ACLU s attempt to debunk biological science. Is biology canceled, or is the ACLU canceled? We ll find out today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attend the Jussie Smollett School
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of Victimology? New revelations cast doubt on her claims of a near-death experience during the
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January 6th riot. Also, five headlines, including John Kerry explaining why he has to travel by
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private jet to save the planet. You know, it all works somehow. We'll find out how. And the news
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media is horrified and scandalized by a grocery store in Florida where people aren't wearing a
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mask, if you can imagine. And in our daily cancellation, we will contend with the ACLU's
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attempt to debunk biological science. Is biology canceled or is the ACLU canceled? We'll find out
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today. That and much more on the Matt Wall Show. You know, part of being an adult is being prepared.
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president to be targeted for assassination. As Jackson was leaving a funeral in 1835,
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a man named Richard Lawrence, completely insane as it would turn out, approached the president,
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pulled a pistol from his coat, tried to shoot him. The weapon misfire,
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giving Jackson time to seize Lawrence and begin beating him over the head with his cane,
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his walking cane. During the scuffle, Lawrence actually managed to pull a second pistol,
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which also misfired. Later at trial, Lawrence declared himself to be King Richard III,
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and he was then found not guilty by a reason of insanity. Now, the upshot is that Jackson managed
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to ward off his own assassin, himself armed only with a cane. And he did this in spite of the fact
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that he was 67 years old, injured and sick, and the bullet still embedded in his lung from a duel
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three decades before was the least of his physical maladies. They really don't make politicians like
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that anymore. And it's a shame too, because now we're evicting him from the $20 bill. But at least
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they don't make politicians like that anymore in this country. Now, compare that story,
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that of a sitting U.S. president engaged in hand-to-hand combat with an assassin.
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And that's a real story to a much more recent drama involving another prominent public official,
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Now, to hear her tell it, the incident was quite similar.
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According to AOC herself on January 6th, a mob of lunatics had been, quote, sent
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to the Capitol by Ted Cruz and other Republicans to, quote, have her murdered. She was in her office
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when she heard shouting and loud banging. Her life flashed before her eyes. She was forced to
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lock herself in the bathroom, huddling against the wall, afraid to make a sound. She knew that her
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time was short. It was coming to an end. Let's listen. We played this a couple of days ago. Let's
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listen again just to a quick clip of her describing some of this experience, just to refresh our memories.
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Here she is. Like, I'm here, and the bathroom door starts going like this. Like, the bathroom
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door is behind me, or rather, in front of me. And I'm like this, and the door hinges right here.
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And I just hear, where is she? Where is she? And this was the moment where I thought everything was
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over. Um, and the weird thing about moments like these is that you lose all sense of time. Um,
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in retrospect, um, maybe it was four seconds. Maybe it was five seconds. Maybe it was 10 seconds.
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Maybe it was one second. I don't know. It felt like my brain was able to have so many thoughts
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in that moment, um, between these screams and these yells of, where is she? Where is she?
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And so, I go down, and I just, I mean, I thought I was going to die.
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Now, in retrospect, it's kind of funny when you read some of the comments. Uh, if you're watching
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that video, she was on Instagram Live, and you see the live comments from people that were
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watching her, and all these comments like, oh, oh my gosh, this is unreal. This is unbelievable.
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Unbelievable. Well, yeah. Um, now she tells us that she came to terms with her own impending death
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as the rampaging mob tore through the building. One sort of imagines the scene from Lord of the
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Rings when the orc army is trying to break down the door to the fortress as Pippin and Gandalf
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sit there on the other side, awaiting the end. Death is just another path, Gandalf says calmly.
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AOC's tale is supposed to have a similar sort of feel, right? She says that she, she managed to
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achieve a certain inner resolve and peace as she was facing her demise when she realized that her
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work would be carried on by those who come after her. And yes, she really said that. Then, then a
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Capitol Police officer barrels through the door, but she still wasn't safe. Something wasn't right,
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she tells us. Was he there to protect her, or was he an undercover agent working for the other side?
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His facial expressions, his unpleasant bedside manner made her wonder. So she prepared to fight
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him off if need be. Even now, she still isn't sure if he was one of the good guys or not, even though
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he came to protect her. She's still not sure. Nevertheless, she, uh, she narrowly made it to
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safety. She, she lived to fight another day, though just barely. Uh, and this is the story as it was told
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to us. And then the truth comes out. The Daily Wire has the report, um, quoting now, Republican
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Representative Nancy Mace, whose office is two doors down from Democratic Representative Alexandria
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Cortez, noted that insurrectionists never made it to their hall when the U.S. Capitol building was
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breached on January 6th. Mace made the note while hitting the media for their attempts to, quote, fan
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fictitious, fictitious new flames about the breach. On January 6th, Mace tweeted that she left her office
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in the Cannon building, still inside the Capitol complex, but some distance from the Capitol
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rotunda and the House chambers. She said at the time, just evacuated my office in Cannon due to
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a nearby threat. She wrote, now we're seeing protesters assaulting Capitol police. Red State
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reports, AOC wasn't even in the Capitol building when all of the action was going down. If she was in
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her office, she was in the Cannon building, which is nearby, but a different building. Of course,
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many didn't get the logistics and just assume that she was in the Capitol building. According to
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Representative Nancy Mace, who was in office, in the same office as AOC, two doors away,
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there was never any rioters in their hall, so there was never any physical danger from rioters
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coming in at any point. Ocasio-Cortez made clear she didn't know who was at her door,
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the Republican wrote, capturing a post from Newsweek, breathless attempts by media to fan
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fictitious new flames are dangerous. My office is two doors down, Mace underscored, insurrectionists
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never stormed our hallway. Egregious doesn't even begin to cover it. Is there nothing the MSM
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won't politicize? Well, this is a very different sort of story, isn't it? This version, which appears
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to be the correct version, rather condenses AOC's involvement, if we could put it politely.
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In truth, it would seem, here's what happened. She was in her office, never in any direct danger
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of any kind, and then she was told to evacuate, which she did without incident. The end. That's it.
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That's the story. From this baseline, she has weaved a whole fantasy narrative involving narrow
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escapes, murderous mobs just outside her door, hitmen sent by Republican senators to kill her.
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This is reminiscent of the time when she went down to the border and broke down in tears while
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watching children get locked in cages, only it turned out that she didn't see anybody in any cages.
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In fact, she was weeping while staring into an empty parking lot. Very similar sort of situation.
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Now, AOC has tried a number of tactics to manage the PR crisis caused by her own embellishments.
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Responding to a tweet from Jack Posobiec, who has been doing a lot of the fact-checking on this story
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because the media, the mainstream news media, won't do the fact-checking.
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Um, this is what she said in response to Jack. She said,
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this isn't a fact-check at all. Your arrows aren't accurate. They lie about where the mob stormed and
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place them further away than it was. You also failed to convey multiple areas where people were
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trying to storm. It wasn't just one. You also failed to show tunnels. Poor job all around.
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Now, hold on a second. Tunnels? Is she suggesting that the mob went through the tunnels and made it to
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her building? I don't think she's trying to suggest anything in particular at this point,
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really. This is simply deflection. And of course, if you can't deflect, the other strategy,
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at least if you're a Democrat, is to censor. So Team AOC is apparently now sending out emails
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urging their followers to report anyone who questions AOC's story. The email urges supporters
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to, quote, scan your social media to find posts with this misleading information and then, quote,
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use the built-in report feature to flag them for moderators. So this is what you could do if
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you're a Democrat. Democrats know that big tech is on their side, ready to help. So all they have to
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do is throw up the alley-oop and the big tech will take it from there. You know, they're going to put
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it through the hoop. Along with deflection and censorship, the other strategy is doubling down.
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All right. So those are the three basic strategies. Deflection, censorship, double down.
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AOC is employing all of them. She's going for the trifecta. It was actually reported this
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morning that House members will come together on the floor on Thursday night, tonight, to share
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their personal stories of the January 6th riot. Alexandra Queza-Cortez will, of course, kick off
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the event. She'll be there. This is how they're going to spend their time, our time. We've got a
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pandemic. We've got lockdowns. We've got economic crisis. And they're going to use the House floor
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like a therapy session, group therapy. And they're all going to get up there and tell their stories.
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Now, personally, if we're going to do this, I would much rather hear the stories
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of regular Americans who survived BLM rioting. How about the woman who was beaten with two-by-fours
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in Rochester by BLM rioters? I'd like to hear her story. Still, it will be interesting to see if
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AOC's story has grown any more dramatic in the last few days. You never know. Maybe in the newest
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version, you know, she'll grab a decorative sword from the wall, use it to vanquish a gang of pirates
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or something. You know, they always get carried away with the Hollywood remakes.
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Now, it's easy to laugh at this, and it is pretty hilarious after all, but our laughter shouldn't
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overshadow the very real scandal here. The fact is that a congresswoman told a radically embellished
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story, which included a baseless smear of a Capitol police officer, not to mention her previous
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slander of Ted Cruz, accusing him of attempted murder. And she did all of this for reasons of
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political expedience. And of course, to achieve more victim points. Because AOC, of all people,
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knows that the real privilege in America, forget about white privilege, the real privilege in
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America is victim's privilege. If you are actually an eligible victim, of course, we know that a
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person's race and or political affiliation may preclude them from victim status, no matter what
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happens to them. But if you're eligible for the position, then you can always increase your victim
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status and therefore your social and political capital by making yourself more and more of a victim.
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To have the most victim points is to have the most power. To be the uber victim is to be
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untouchable, unquestionable. AOC knew she had an opportunity here, and she couldn't let it pass.
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For the rest of her political career, whenever she's trying to get some policy through or some agenda
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item, her argument will essentially be, I almost died in a riot, and you would dare deny me? How dare
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you? You don't care about survivors at all. It's a persuasive pitch. I mean, not to me, but to a lot
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of people. So that's the game now. And that's why we've gone from politicians who beat their own
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assassins over the head with canes and then went ahead and carried on with their day like nothing
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happened, to politicians who break down in tears and scream because a police officer frowned at them.
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It's not a matter of being overly sensitive. Let's not mistake this. This is about power.
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For all of AOC's talk about social justice and helping the less fortunate and so on,
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this power is all she really cares about. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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I just saw this tweet from Mayor de Blasio in New York. And I thought this was funny because
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this is his tweet. He's linking to an article. I think it's a Bloomberg article. But his caption
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says, move over Austin because as the song says, if you can make it here, you can make
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it anywhere. And it's easier than ever for young dreamers to make it in the greatest city
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in the world. So he's talking about New York, obviously, and he's encouraging people to come
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to New York. And as the mayor of the city, it's part of his job is to try to get people to come
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move there. But he can't even do that right. This guy is such an incompetent boob that he can't even
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do that right. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's supposed to be a sales pitch
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for the city. Because you can't you invert that and say what you're actually saying is it's harder to
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make it here than anywhere else. That's your pitch. Because I could say that about like
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living inside a volcano. If you can make it inside a volcano, then you can make it anywhere. If you can
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make it in the Amazon rainforest, then you can make it anywhere. That's probably true. But it's not
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gonna be my first choice, though. I'd rather go to the places that are easier to make it.
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Easier because, you know, the local government isn't working against me at every step of the way.
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Easier because they're not taxing me into oblivion. Easier because I can afford to live in more than
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just, you know, a studio apartment with rodents the size of small cats. Like, that's what I would
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prefer personally. But if you're trying to pitch, I guess, in fairness, though, if you're trying to get
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people to move to New York at this point, there's not a lot to work with. So he's doing the best he can.
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All right. John Kerry was asked yesterday about how he squares his private jet habit with his fight
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against climate change. I thought his answer is great because he tries to explain that actually
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he needs the private jet in order to stop climate change. Let's listen.
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On that issue, pollution, I understand that you came here with a private jet.
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Is that an environmental way to travel? If you offset your carbon, it's the only choice for somebody like me
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who is traveling the world to win this battle. I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States.
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I've been involved in this fight for years. I negotiated with President Xi to bring President Xi to the table
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so we could get Paris. And I believe the time it takes me to get somewhere. I can't sail across the
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ocean. I have to fly to meet with people and get things done. But what I'm doing almost full time
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is working to win the battle of climate change. And in the end, if I offset and contribute my life
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to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive. Offset my carbon.
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What's the science behind that? How does that work exactly? What's the exchange rate?
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That you have a chart or something you tacks up on the refrigerator? So one, so you fly in a private
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jet one time and then recycle two milk cartons and plant a tree. And it, and it's that about equals
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we're fair, fair square earth. Okay. Don't be mad at me. Oh, he has to fly around so he can do the
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job. Well, you can't do a zoom meeting like everybody else has been doing. That's not going
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to be enough. You have to actually fly there. And if you do fly there, you can't take commercial.
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Oh, you can't take a boat. Why not? You're the one telling us that it's, this is do or die.
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The whole, the world might end. This is the, we're, we're facing the apocalypse, but then we're
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trying to avert the apocalypse. There, there is nothing that should be too radical in trying to
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address that problem. And in fact, people like John Kerry and Democrats would agree with that.
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Usually they would say there's no Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the green new deal. Nothing is too
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radical for us though. See, there is no sacrifice too radical for us, for you, for me, but for John
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Kerry, he can't even sacrifice, sacrifice his private jet. The rest of us can sacrifice everything.
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But, but not him. That's the way it goes. Now, this is a common complaint. It is so common
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because it's had this happened so often that the people who are environmental champions are
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the ones who are most guilty of by their logic, destroying the environment. But the problem
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is it becomes almost a cliche to bring it up because we're so used to it. And it's, it is
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often viewed as almost a cheap shot to bring up how people like this are flying on private jets,
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but it's not a cheap shot. This is, it's actually very important.
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Any more than it's a cheap shot when you've got a pastor or a priest at your church who's involved
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in a sex scandal. If you go to that church and you care about the sex scandal, that's not a cheap
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shot on your part. It's not irrelevant. Because the fact that the pastor or priest is saying one thing
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in the pulpit, but then living this double life, not even trying to live by the things that he
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preaches and his, his actual, uh, lifestyle so completely contradicts everything he says.
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Well, what that tells you is that he doesn't really believe what he says,
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or at least it's a very good indication of hypocrisy. That's what hypocrisy is. It's saying things you
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don't believe. And you can't have someone leading your church who doesn't believe the doctrines.
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Can you? Climate change is its own religious doctrine. And so it is, it's, it's very interesting
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that all, almost all the high priests and high priestesses of climate change don't appear to
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really believe the doctrine. And when this becomes so common, then you start to realize, then you start
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to think, Hmm, maybe there's a problem with the doctrine that the people who profess to know the
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most about it and are the most focused on it. Don't actually believe it in, in their personal
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life. They take it about as seriously as I do, which is, I don't really take it seriously at all,
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but I'm still not flying on private jets. That is a sacrifice that I have chosen to make,
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not going on private jets. All right. Um, the daily wire has the news on the go gloating
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golden globe, the globe nominations, uh, the golden globe nominations are out. And I, you know,
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if this is, this is also really important. So I figured if you didn't hear about these nominations,
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let's go through some of them, uh, golden globes coming up 78th annual. Okay. Best motion,
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motion picture drama. Here are the nominees, the father, mank, nomad land,
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promising young woman. And the trial of the Chicago seven. I, I, I'm not trying to be funny
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when I tell you, I have no idea what any of these movies are. I didn't know. I didn't even know that
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any of these movies existed with the exception of the trial of the Chicago seven, that movie I knew
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about, uh, uh, the rest of them. What make the father have, um, okay. Best performance by an
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actress in a motion picture. Um, Viola Davis in Ma Rainey's black bottom. What do these movies?
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Is this a joke? Is this some sort of parody article in the daily wire?
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Um, Andra Day in the United States versus Billie Holiday, Vanessa Kirby, pieces of a woman,
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Frances McDormand, nomad land, Carrie Mulligan, promising young woman.
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Best performance by an actor, Riz Ahmed in sound of metal, Chadwick Boseman,
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Ma Rainey's black bottom, Anthony Hopkins, the father, Gary Oldman, mank.
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Uh, I, I have never heard of any of these movies. This is the first time this has actually happened.
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And I actually, I'm a, I wouldn't call myself a movie buff, but I, I, I, I think I generally
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stay up to date on what movies are out. I enjoy movies. Never heard of these.
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Um, number three, the mask cops are now out in force. So watch out for this. This is from reason.
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It says Americans are now required to wear masks in planes, trains, buses, subways, taxes,
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car services, boats, and transportation hubs. Per a new order from the CDC, masks must be of a style
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approved by the federal government must fit properly. Failure to comply will result in being
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prohibited from traveling, booted from the transit in question. Hopefully if you're on a plane,
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you won't be booted mid flight, but who knows? And, uh, potential criminal penalties. The order will
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be enforced by the TSA, of course, and other federal authorities, as well as state and local officials.
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This is what they're going to be focused on is if you're wearing a mask. Now, speaking of masks,
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though, um, I want to play this for you. CNBC had a shocking report, at least they're shocked by it
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about people at a grocery store, not wearing a mask. This is one grocery store down in Florida
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somewhere. People aren't wearing a mask. And this made headline news at CNBC. Let's, uh, let's watch.
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You know, we all fantasize about a time when we won't have to wear the masks anymore. It's not now.
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But some at a supermarket in Florida appear to have decided that the time is now. Look at this.
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This was the scene at Oaks Farm Seed and to Table Market in Naples today. NBC Sam Brock took this video,
00:23:50.820
which went viral. It looks like it was taken pre-pandemic, right? Most customers and employees
00:23:55.820
not wearing masks at all. The store's policy includes mask exemption guidelines. The sign says
00:24:02.760
if you have a medical condition that you don't have to wear a mask and nobody inside will ask
00:24:07.300
about medical conditions. So masks are not enforced. The owner told Sam Brock this when questioned
00:24:12.660
about the policy. Is your position then about medical exemptions or is it about the fact that
00:24:16.980
you don't think masks work and that the virus is not a real thing? I know that the masks don't work
00:24:21.100
and I know that the virus has not, has not killed 400,000 people in this country. That's total hogwash.
00:24:27.700
Florida does not have a mask mandate, but masks do work. The science is crystal clear. In July,
00:24:34.880
the CDC director said the United States could get COVID under control in four to eight weeks
00:24:40.640
if we would only all wear masks. Shocking, horrifying. The only thing that's horrifying is I wish I had a
00:24:49.160
place like that where I live. I wish there was a store like that. I really hate it. So many things
00:24:55.860
to hate about what has happened over the last year or so. But one of the worst is this normalization of
00:25:02.400
snitching. Everyone's just become a bunch of tattletales. And it's especially annoying for me
00:25:09.020
because I spend so much of my time at home dealing with tattletaling because my kids, especially my
00:25:17.440
daughter, are way into the tattletale phase now. And my daughter is just a narc. I mean, she's
00:25:23.240
patrolling the house constantly looking for people to tell on, including me and my wife. Like if she
00:25:30.200
catches one of us doing something she thinks is against the rules, she'll tell on us to the other
00:25:33.240
parent. So I'm constantly telling my kids, we don't, we don't tattletale. We don't tattletale.
00:25:38.780
But the entire country becoming a bunch of tattletales. Look, if there are people at this store,
00:25:44.980
here's the thing. As far as I know, and if I'm wrong about this, then I will correct the record
00:25:51.100
and I will apologize for being wrong. But as far as I know, the guy who runs that grocery store
00:25:57.160
is not sending armed goons out to kidnap people and point guns at them and force them to go shop
00:26:05.880
at his grocery store. Now that would be an interesting business strategy. You know, there might be something
00:26:12.700
to be said for it, but I don't think that's what he's doing. So everybody that's there,
00:26:16.760
they're there because they choose to be, because they want to be. They're not wearing the mask
00:26:21.660
because they don't want to wear it. There's, I can assume there's not one person in that store
00:26:27.180
who is really very concerned about it because if they were, they wouldn't be there.
00:26:31.660
The only person concerned about it is the snitch with the camera filming them. Everybody else,
00:26:38.940
this is a choice they've made. My body, my choice. This is one, it's like the one area
00:26:47.880
where that slogan actually kind of makes some sort of sense.
00:26:54.260
I'll choose, if I want to put the mask over my, over my own body, I will. If I don't, I won't.
00:26:59.920
But of course, the my body, my choice crowd, nowhere to be found on that. Number four,
00:27:05.660
since we're on the subject of potential hoaxes, people attending the Jussie Smollett school of
00:27:13.160
hoaxing, here's another possible ones from more news from the Daily Wire. It says,
00:27:17.340
Evanston, Illinois school board member Elizabeth Lindsay Ryan earlier this month claimed that she
00:27:21.720
was the victim of a misogynistic and homophobic hate crime. The problem, however, is that no one
00:27:26.700
is willing to share the police report she allegedly made of the incident. Lindsay Ryan wrote a statement
00:27:31.580
that was released by the District 65 school board on January 11th, according to the College Fix.
00:27:41.120
This weekend, I was the target of a hate crime. The motive of the perpetrator was clear. My car and
00:27:46.280
personal belongings ransacked, along with a message of homophobic hate language prominently displayed.
00:27:51.960
There's another one of those notes left on the car things.
00:27:55.220
Now, you can't help but notice that, like, every single time, this is a hoax.
00:28:01.980
Has there been, in the last 20 years, one time when there was a hateful note left on someone's car
00:28:08.520
and it was authentic? I would have to assume that it actually has happened a few times,
00:28:15.860
just the law of averages, but I can't think of one. All the ones that come to mind were fake.
00:28:20.420
Anyway, so this is what she says. She says, there was nothing stolen. This wasn't a burglary.
00:28:25.680
It was the intent to terrorize. While this experience was both heartbreaking and terrifying
00:28:28.820
for my family, it's a result of white supremacy colluding with misogyny and homophobia to inflict
00:28:33.200
the most harm possible. While homophobia was utilized in an attempt to silence me, it is not
00:28:37.900
working in isolation. It's part of a greater collaboration to derail my commitment to racial
00:28:41.560
equity. I feel compelled to join board leadership in issuing a message to our community that offers
00:28:45.980
important context for this occurrence. Okay. And they're, you know, they're making hay with this
00:28:50.700
and, um, she's a victim and so on and so forth. Uh, and if it really happened, then, you know,
00:28:55.860
she, she is a victim of, uh, someone being very nasty to her. But, but the interesting thing is that
00:29:02.840
various outlets, including the college fix have, have made multiple attempts. They've contacted her,
00:29:10.100
they've contacted the school board. They've tried to contact her through apparently multiple
00:29:14.100
different ways, emails and messages and so on. Um, just asking if they could see, can we see the
00:29:19.860
police report? Is there any photographic, uh, evidence? Is there anything else you could tell
00:29:24.640
us about this? After all, if there's some bigot out there, you know, on the loose, vandalizing
00:29:31.760
cars, we want to know about it. But so far those attempts to look at the police report have gone,
00:29:38.980
um, unanswered. So we'll see. Could be the same people. We remember, uh, Althea Bernstein.
00:29:47.040
Where was she? She was in Wisconsin and she claimed that some guys in Hawaiian shirts, some white guys
00:29:52.380
accosted her at a, at a, uh, an intersection and doused her with lighter fluid and set her on fire.
00:29:58.980
And, uh, you know, but, but again, there there's the, the police looked at all the security cameras
00:30:04.520
around. There was a security camera at the intersection ever. They could not find this on camera.
00:30:08.680
So either it didn't happen or, or maybe these were, you know, they, they, they could have been
00:30:14.920
invisible, could have had invisibility cloaks or something. We don't know.
00:30:20.460
Maybe it's the same people is what I'm saying. It's possible.
00:30:25.500
Maybe that's the twist ending to all this. There's one group of bigots, highly skilled.
00:30:33.040
They're responsible for Jussie Smollett, Althea Bernstein, Alexander Queza-Cortez,
00:30:40.400
uh, Bubba Wallace. They put the rope in the garage. Who knows? All right. Number five. Finally,
00:30:46.320
this video was making the rounds, uh, this week going viral. It's a 33 year old arthritic,
00:30:52.200
decrepit, flightless, crippled, one-eyed bat named Statler. That's his name. Not to be confused with
00:30:57.900
Stelter, Brian Stelter, who some say is also a crippled one-eyed bat. But, uh, but this bat was
00:31:03.400
the, uh, was the subject of a, of a heartwarming viral video showing how caretakers at some kind
00:31:08.880
of bat conservatory take care of him and even fly him around, around the room because, uh, but he
00:31:15.000
can't fly anymore, but, but he doesn't, he's blind as a bat. So he, he doesn't know any better.
00:31:18.080
Um, and, uh, a lot of people think this video is very heartwarming. So let's, let's check it out.
00:31:29.360
Because of all his injuries and his age, we hold him. We fly him into the kitchen.
00:31:35.840
To the huge bowl of snacks and let him grab the snacks.
00:31:48.080
Maybe he's thinking about his younger years. We hope.
00:31:59.600
Uh, you know, I don't, I don't mean to be too harsh, but I watched that. Am I the only one?
00:32:03.520
I watched that and I think, first of all, disgusting.
00:32:07.240
Is that, if you saw that thing outside your house,
00:32:10.320
this old bat waddling around, trembling, would you, like, would you think, oh, that's cute.
00:32:18.800
But also, and I think this is the most compassionate thing.
00:32:21.300
The first thing I thought when I saw that, aside from disgusting, is we need to put that thing down.
00:32:31.700
You see this a lot of these kinds of videos with, you know, people's pets that are, like, way past their last leg.
00:32:47.240
It's supposed, it's supposed to be, uh, it's so, it's so heartwarming.
00:32:52.280
And you're just keeping it alive for your own sake because you think it's cute.
00:32:55.960
That's the most merciful thing with an animal when it's injured.
00:33:01.140
Basically, when an animal can no longer perform its most crucial function, like a bat that can't fly anymore, you put it down.
00:33:06.680
Because it's an animal and it's in pain, that's the best thing you can do for it.
00:33:11.080
I made this point on Twitter and a bunch of people told me, but he looks happy.
00:33:21.380
Tell me the difference between a happy bat and a sad bat.
00:33:24.660
I'll line, I'll line 10 bats up in front of you.
00:33:27.920
Tell me who's this, who are the sad and happy bats.
00:33:32.120
Now, we have all watched, we've been brainwashed by Disney.
00:33:38.640
We grew up on these Disney movies and Pixar movies with the anthropomorphized, you know, animals.
00:33:45.320
And so now we think we can just assume their emotions.
00:33:50.120
Whether animals, whether a bat even has emotions is a question, you know, in and of itself.
00:33:56.860
But no, the most merciful thing there with that bat is to kill it.
00:34:06.820
We're going to move on to our latest, most exciting segment, I think.
00:34:10.100
The segment that I've dubbed reading the YouTube comments, because this is where I read some of the YouTube comments.
00:34:16.140
And if you, you know, if you want me to read your comment, all you have to do is leave one if you watch the show on YouTube.
00:34:22.040
So we'll read a couple of these from the show yesterday.
00:34:23.920
Someone 99 says, imagine a group of race, gender, and PC-obsessed people.
00:34:30.760
Then imagine these bubble-wrapped children in adult bodies walking on eggshells around everyone all day.
00:34:35.620
Other than being the butt of jokes, nobody would really care what this woke crowd thinks.
00:34:39.480
Unfortunately, this group of virtue-signaling zombies, scared of their own shadow, are in positions of power today.
00:34:47.940
I, very well put, eloquently put, but I also think, I go back to what I said at the beginning of the show.
00:34:55.520
We make a mistake when we assume, you know, the way you're presenting it here is that these are overly sensitive snowflakes, right?
00:35:05.220
And that, that, that may be the case for a lot of people, but someone like AOC, for example, someone in a position of power, no, not overly sensitive at all.
00:35:22.540
So when they pretend to be offended by something that isn't really offensive, they try to cancel someone for some innocuous thing.
00:35:30.440
It's, it's not that they're, that they're actually being sensitive.
00:35:34.280
They know what they're doing, but they're doing, but they're, this is a, this is a, this is a ploy for power.
00:35:41.640
So it's actually a lot worse than how you put it.
00:35:44.760
Because at least if they were actually overly sensitive and just being emotional babies, well, that would be a problem.
00:35:49.960
But at least in that case, they're being sincere.
00:35:55.740
Tomato Joe says, oh dear, now that I know there's a chance Matt will read my comments, I hope I can come up with something insightful to say.
00:36:08.620
It's the last time I read a comment from a guy named Tomato Joe.
00:36:12.760
Micah says, I see your point in regards to Karen.
00:36:15.540
I guess as a white person, the reasonable, the reason why I don't take offense is I don't care for Karens either.
00:36:21.500
This isn't a shot at all white women, but women who behave like this.
00:36:24.680
It represents whites in a bad light, and they need to be called out.
00:36:28.940
Yeah, I discussed yesterday that Karen is a racial slur, and it actually is.
00:36:37.380
And this is the response I've heard from a lot of people that, yeah, I don't have a problem with the Karen thing because the people that are called Karen, I don't like them either.
00:36:46.260
The people who are typically labeled that way, I also, I feel the same way.
00:36:54.260
But that excuse would never work, right, in any other situation.
00:37:03.360
If there was a racial slur towards any other race, you couldn't defend it on the basis of saying, well, yeah, but the people that we use it against are, you know, deserve it.
00:37:15.520
Right, so that's my point, that that excuse for a racial slur would obviously not work in any other situation.
00:37:25.020
Or if you called a non-white person some kind of racial slur and you got called out for it, you wouldn't be able to say in your defense, okay, but that person's a jerk, even if they were being a jerk.
00:37:39.820
Because the response is going to be, okay, but that doesn't excuse using a racial slur.
00:37:45.620
And so all I'm saying is that exact same logic should apply here.
00:37:51.860
Justine says, I knew this would be a problem when hate crimes became a big deal.
00:37:56.640
If the activity was criminal, then fine, it's a crime.
00:37:59.240
But hate itself is not a crime and no one can actually determine if another person hates something.
00:38:06.460
And that's why I said, you know, conservatives made a big mistake by basically going along with the hate crime designation.
00:38:14.440
Oftentimes conservatives will use it themselves.
00:38:16.080
But although most of the things that we call hate crimes are actually crimes, unless it's a hoax like Jussie Smollett, labeling hate on it is to assume that you can read the person's mind and that you know what the motivation was behind it.
00:38:33.940
And as I said yesterday, it also assumes that even if they were motivated by hate, that hatred is the worst possible kind of motivation.
00:38:44.880
And if we can prove that you did it out of racial animus and hatred, then you're going to get the federal crime.
00:38:52.040
Yeah, I mean, as far as I'm concerned, you kill someone, put you in jail forever.
00:38:55.920
But is that really a worse motivation than just killing someone out of pure indifference or killing someone because you want their money?
00:39:06.420
Now, what about you kill someone because you want to steal their shoes or you want to steal $15 from their wallet?
00:39:14.340
It's just that their life means nothing to you one way or another.
00:39:17.780
I would argue that that is at least as bad as hate, if not a lot worse.
00:39:23.700
And again, if you want to chime in, you could always leave a comment on YouTube.
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Today we're canceling the ACLU and not for the first time, I'm sure.
00:42:04.380
But before we talk about the ACLU, what it's done to get itself canceled again, I want to
00:42:11.900
This is not someone from the ACLU, but this is Biden's pick for education secretary.
00:42:18.480
And here he is being questioned recently by Rand Paul about the issue of trans people in
00:42:23.840
What do you think in general about boys running in girls' track meets like they've been doing
00:42:30.580
I think that it's critically important that education systems and educators respect the
00:42:36.580
rights of all students, including students who are transgender, and that they are afforded
00:42:41.420
the opportunities that every other student has to participate in extracurricular activity.
00:42:46.020
Does it bother you that like the top 20% of boys running in track meets beat all of the
00:42:51.380
girls in the state and that it would completely destroy girls' athletics, that girls are being
00:42:58.540
If they don't make the finals in the state meet, they don't get college scholarships, that
00:43:05.080
Do you worry about having boys running girls' track meets?
00:43:08.000
You know, I recognize and appreciate the concerns and the frustrations that are expressed.
00:43:15.600
I've, as commissioner of education, have had conversations with families who have felt
00:43:20.220
the way you just described it and families of students who are transgender.
00:43:26.960
I look forward to working with you and others to communicate.
00:43:29.080
Do you think it's fair to have boys running in the girls' track, mate?
00:43:32.480
I think it's appropriate for, I think it's the legal responsibility of schools to provide
00:43:37.740
opportunities for students to participate in activities, and this includes students who
00:43:44.740
This is the answer of the defense we always hear from public officials who support putting
00:43:54.160
The only possible argument is that it makes the boys feel good to compete against girls,
00:43:58.140
but that's neutralized by the fact that it makes the girls feel not good when boys compete.
00:44:02.200
Now, I would say the girls' feelings outweigh the boys by a considerable margin in this case,
00:44:06.100
but at its worst, at worst, it's kind of a wash.
00:44:09.880
Offsetting penalties, nobody wins on that score, we can't settle the issue based on feelings,
00:44:15.680
we'll have to look at the facts then, the science.
00:44:17.660
And in that realm, there is really no argument to support the left's position.
00:44:26.400
They have helpfully, though unwittingly, proved my point about there being no arguments in
00:44:32.760
In a tweet thread this week, the once-respected Civil Liberties Organization, and those days
00:44:37.680
of being respected were long ago indeed, but they attempted to debunk what they call the
00:44:47.180
They explained, quote, attacks on trans youth in sports are showing up in dozens of state
00:44:53.120
These bans are discriminatory, harmful, and unscientific.
00:44:57.020
And then they go through the myths, one by one, and attempt to debunk them.
00:45:04.660
Myth one, says the ACLU, is that, quote, sex is binary, apparent at birth, and identifiable
00:45:20.060
Women, including women who are transgender, intersex, or disabled, have a range of different
00:45:27.680
There are not set hormone ranges, body parts, or chromosomes that all people of a particular
00:45:35.920
This is just one big twisted pretzel of conflations and misdirections.
00:45:40.080
First of all, notice how sex and gender are used interchangeably.
00:45:47.860
Sex and gender are two different things, and gender is not binary, but sex is different.
00:45:59.780
How do they support the assertion that sex is not binary and not apparent at birth, even
00:46:04.400
though in almost every case ever in history, the sex of a child has been correctly identified
00:46:08.160
right away just by looking at what's between the child's legs?
00:46:10.620
Well, they bring up intersex and disabled people.
00:46:14.240
The point they're trying to make is that in a very small minority of cases, there are
00:46:18.040
people born with mutations or deformities or abnormalities that make it difficult to determine
00:46:23.400
But this does not mean that there is no biological sex or that their sex is something other than
00:46:32.740
And at any rate, this has nothing to do with transgender people.
00:46:35.940
Even if I agree that intersex people are an exception to the sex is binary rule, which
00:46:42.260
I don't, but even if I did, that still would do nothing to help the transgender people who
00:46:48.700
And this is a discussion about trans people, isn't it?
00:46:52.400
So forget about intersex, forget about disabled.
00:46:59.360
If I need to be more specific, non-intersex trans people.
00:47:09.600
Trans athletes' physiological characteristics provide an unfair advantage over cis athletes.
00:47:17.640
Perhaps next they'll debunk the myth that the sun is hot, that the earth is round, or that
00:47:21.960
horses are mammals, or that gasoline is not a beverage.
00:47:28.160
But here are the facts, as told by the science-denying lunatics at the ACLU.
00:47:32.660
They say, trans athletes vary in athletic ability, just like cisgender athletes.
00:47:36.680
In many states, the very same cis girls who have claimed that trans athletes have an unfair
00:47:40.300
advantage have consistently performed as well or better than transgender competitors.
00:47:47.320
That's all they have to prove that boys don't have a biological advantage over girls in sports.
00:47:52.180
Yes, they're debunking the claim that men have physical advantages over women by pointing
00:47:57.460
out that some women sometimes can compete against some men.
00:48:02.560
This is exactly like debunking the claim that humans need to drink water every day by pointing
00:48:08.860
out that some people have lived for a week without drinking water.
00:48:16.480
You're going with the outlier case and trying to extrapolate a general rule based on that.
00:48:25.140
Females, on average, have less muscle mass, smaller fast-twitch muscle fibers, smaller lungs,
00:48:31.980
smaller hearts, shorter legs, much more estrogen, much less testosterone, a lesser capacity to
00:48:36.780
produce oxygen when they exert themselves, and so on.
00:48:39.000
This is but a partial list of biological differences.
00:48:41.660
And that is why, for example, everyone in the NBA can dunk, but no one in the WNBA can dunk.
00:48:47.940
It's why the fastest female high school sprinter in almost every state wouldn't be in the top
00:48:52.440
six among the males of her same age, probably not even in the top 20.
00:48:57.800
It's why no female has ever successfully become a Navy SEAL.
00:49:01.800
It's why, well, it's why our common sense intuition and observation that men and women are different
00:49:10.520
Those are the only two fact-based arguments that the ACLU tries to present.
00:49:15.200
And they're both completely false and delusional and borderline psychotic.
00:49:19.240
The other two debunkings have to do, again, with emotional concerns.
00:49:24.200
As for science and facts, this is all they got, which is to say they got nothing.
00:49:34.220
We're canceled too, all of us in this culture, for allowing this madness to get as far as it
00:49:39.440
has, for failing to take this threat seriously soon enough, which we should have.
00:49:43.420
I mean, there were some of us five, six, seven, eight years ago who were saying, we're going
00:49:48.960
to get to this point, this transgender stuff, this is where we're going.
00:49:53.380
And there were many people, many conservatives who told those of us who were warning of this
00:50:03.540
And even now, the opposition, people on the right, failing to launch a competent defense
00:50:18.780
I mean, the other side are essentially flat earthers.
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On that positive, that typically positive and chipper note, thanks for watching, everyone.
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John Kerry has no choice but to fly around in private jets.
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The DOJ encourages Yale to discriminate against white and Asian students.
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And Marilyn Manson's sex scandal exposes the central political debate of our age.
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Feel free for the information and to fly around in private jets.
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You can tell us they see bigger at the highest price.
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No, those boys have no choice but to fly around at all.
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Dohcja smarter has no choice but to fly around when we look.