Ep. 693 - The System Hates You
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Megacorporations are boycotting the state of Georgia as punishment for a law that protects the integrity and safety of elections in that state. This is just the latest example of the wealthiest and most powerful institutions acting on the left's behalf, even as leftists pretend to be the counterculture resistance. Also, 5 headlines including an attack on Capitol Police officers that is already being memory-held for obvious reasons, Arkansas moves to ban the general mutilation of children, and a pastor in Canada shows us how to deal with agents of the state who infringe on our rights. And finally, in our daily cancellation, the CDC has given me yet another example or another reason to cancel them.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, megacorporations are now condemning and boycotting the state of
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Georgia as punishment for a law that protects the integrity and safety of elections in that state.
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This is just the latest example of the wealthiest and most powerful institutions acting on the left's
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behalf, even as leftists pretend to be the counterculture resistance. We'll talk about
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that. Also, five headlines, including an attack on Capitol Police officers that is already being
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memory-holded for obvious reasons. Arkansas moves to ban the general mutilation of children,
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and a pastor in Canada shows us how to deal with agents of the state who infringe on our rights.
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And finally, in our daily cancellation, speaking of agents of the states infringing on our rights,
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the CDC has given me yet another example or another reason to cancel them. So we'll do that,
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talk about all that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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This is something we'll be talking about today plenty, so it's good that it comes up now.
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online at charitymobile.com. It was announced late last week that Major League Baseball would be
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moving the All-Star game and the draft out of Atlanta in protest of Georgia's new law meant to
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ensure safe and free elections in the state. The league commissioner explained the move saying,
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quote, I've decided that the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating
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this year's All-Star game and MLB draft. Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights
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for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box. Now, this move will cost Georgia
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$100 million. When I say cost Georgia $100 million, I mean cost its people, the citizens, $100 million.
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Kemp, the governor, isn't going to feel any personal financial impact. Neither will any of the
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state legislators probably who voted for the bill. All of the pain will be felt by the people who own
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or work in the restaurants, hotels, retail outlets, and so on around where the game was to be held.
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And you can imagine that these establishments had been relying on and looking forward to
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having the All-Star game so they can start recouping a lot of the losses that they suffered over the past
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year. They're the ones who are going to lose money and will suffer the pain. This raises the question,
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why punish working people for the alleged sins of political leaders? Well, you might be able to
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answer that question when you consider why BLM militants would burn down a local convenience store
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for the alleged sins of the police. It's the same kind of strategy. There are other questions,
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more pertinent questions to be asked. Like, why does Major League Baseball have values as a sport?
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And what does that mean exactly? And if a sport can have values, why would its values have anything
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to do with the election law in Georgia? Why does baseball have an opinion on Georgia election law?
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And if, quote, Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all, then why do they
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have a problem with the Georgia law? Despite the propaganda from the Democrat Party and its media
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mouthpieces, the Georgia law will not prevent a single person from voting. I'll say it again.
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The Georgia law will not prevent a single person from voting. Rather, it puts in place—I guess I
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should clarify—it will not prevent a single legal voter from voting. It rather puts in place some
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very minimal restrictions and requirements to ensure election integrity, including some new ID
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requirements for absentee voting. It doesn't ban minorities from voting or in any way interfere with
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anyone's ability to vote. It doesn't make voting hard or confusing for anyone but the most incompetent
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and befuddled. And if those sorts of people don't end up voting, well, no loss there. I saw, for example,
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somebody on Twitter complaining—and I'm not making this up—complaining that the ID requirement for
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absentee voting may be confusing for people because they might not know where to find their driver's
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license number on their driver's license, and they're going to need that in order to submit
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their ID for absentee voting. It's very confusing. Where do you find the driver's license number on
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your driver's license? Well, you know, if you can't crack the code of your driver's license and can't
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be bothered to Google the question and solve your confusion that way, then we're definitely better
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off without your input. If that stops you from voting, then I am very glad that you have been
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stopped from voting because you are so stupid that you have really no business voting or acting in
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society as an adult at all. I mean, I'm worried about the fact that you drive a car. I'm worried
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about all the other things you're doing, if you're that dumb. But other than the sort of fantastic
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idiots who cannot decipher his own photo ID, everyone else will still be able to vote in
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Georgia without a problem. We're also going to leave aside for the moment the much-remarked-upon
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fact that the people protesting the ID requirements for voting are the same people, almost to a man,
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the same people, who want vaccine passport requirements for everything else in life.
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We don't want to have an ID to vote once every two years, if that. But a vaccine passport to do
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everything else every day, that's fine. That's not onerous. In fact, putting that and everything
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already mentioned to the side, the question I'd really like to focus on today is this. How can the
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people who have major corporations like MLB taking their side still consider themselves to be
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radicals and rebels, members of the cultural resistance? MLB is not the only company to
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publicly take the left side on the issue. Coca-Cola, a company which, as Fox News points out in an article
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on its site, still requires ID to attend its shareholder meetings. They issued a statement
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condemning those same sort of requirements for voting. It said, quote, voting is a foundational
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right in America, and we have long champion efforts to make it easier to vote. We want to
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be crystal clear and state unambiguously that we are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia
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voting legislation. Well, Coca-Cola is disappointed. If that doesn't change your mind, I don't know what
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will. Delta also joined the corporate outrage brigade, along with Apple, Microsoft, Google,
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Citibank, and many others. Of course, most of the major media outlets are part of this crew. CBS
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published a news article, big air quotes around news there, pushing more companies to help, quote,
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fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law. That's a news article. But the most effective thing that
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these outlets can do in the media, as noted, is simply lie about what's in the bill, and they've
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been doing that with reckless abandon ever since it was signed. Once again, with the voter ID issue,
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as with nearly every other issue you can name, to include especially race and LGBT issues,
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the left has on its side, as dedicated advocates for its cause, all of the biggest and most powerful
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corporations in the world to go along with the media, academia, Hollywood, the government.
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Whatever else this means, it certainly means that if you are on the left, you are not a counterculture
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warrior seeking to tear down the system. You are the system. You are the status quo. You are the
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beneficiaries of all of the systemic privilege that society has to offer. It all goes to you.
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You are not oppressed. Every institution with the power to oppress people is on your side,
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and they oppress your opposition at your behest. You are the privileged elite. You are the defenders
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of the rich and powerful. You are everything you claim to oppose. Everything. You represent everything
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you hate. Now, you might say that I'm just a sore loser here, and maybe so. You know, I am, I admit,
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kind of sore about the fact that we live in a culture run by maniacs like yourselves. I'm sore about that,
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yes. But be that as it may, the point remains that you cannot have it both ways. You cannot
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cosplay as a radical in your black Antifa ninja uniform while also having Citibank and Microsoft
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out there doing your bidding. I mean, you can, but you're not going to be taken seriously if you do
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that. What about the rest of us? I mean, what about those of us who actually stand in opposition
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to the political and cultural agenda of the richest and most powerful people and institutions in the
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world? What about those of us who are actual critics of the system? Those of us who face real systemic
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disadvantage and even oppression? What should we do besides complain? I mean, we got that covered. I
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have that covered. So we're doing that. Great. What else can we do? One thing we can do is realize
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how numerous we still are. Now I don't buy the silent majority line. I don't think we are in
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the majority. And if we are, and we've been silent, then that's all the more embarrassing for us. I sort
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of hope we're not in the majority. If we're in the majority and we let all of this happen and have
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been silent the whole time, you know, it always, it always confuses me when conservatives say that
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proudly. We're the silent majority. Well, what are you doing being silent? You cowards? That doesn't make
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me feel better. But even if we're not in the majority, we are still millions and millions strong.
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There's no doubt about that. There is power that comes with those numbers, but we have to use the
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power. We can't be squeamish about it. And this should begin at the most basic level with refusing to
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give our money and brand loyalty to companies that openly hate us. Coca-Cola on the heels of telling its
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employees to be less white. Remember that is now openly fighting to make our elections less safe
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and less secure. We have to ask ourselves, is their products so important to our lives?
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So important that we're going to continue to purchase it, continue to collectively put millions
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of dollars into their coffers, even as they use the wealth and influence we give them to work
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against us and undermine us in the culture. Is that 20 ounce Coke you're drinking with your lunch
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that crucial to you? Would it be a major sacrifice to drink a different brand or better yet drinks of
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water out of the tap? The answer is that it would be really no sacrifice. I mean, you could cut Coke
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out of your life completely and not feel the loss at all, except the weight loss maybe. And if we all did
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that, however many million of millions of us, if we all did that, which again, we could all do that
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with no effort, Coke would be a major brand, a billion dollar transnational corporation that would
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actually feel the consequence of its own wokeness. It would feel it in a real way. They would lose
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millions of dollars, if not billions. Again, we could make this happen while virtually sacrificing
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nothing and making no significant change to our daily life. You could cut Coke out of your life
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without any effort. Your life would be better for it. In fact, Coca-Cola is a bad product that makes
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you fat, unhealthy, and ugly. Also, the company that sells it hates your guts. I mean, how much more
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convincing do we need? We should never give them our money again. We could do the same with these other
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companies. And in most, but not all cases, the sacrifice would be made with similar ease.
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Now, some of these companies are so ingrained in our lives that it would require a little more
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effort than others to extricate them from our homes and our lifestyles. Still, it can be done.
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What's the argument for not doing it? I don't think there is one. Not a good one anyway. Not anymore.
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There may have been a time when we thought we could afford to take the high road on boycotts and
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similar tactics. I myself was under that delusion for a time, but no more. We have the power, some
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Well, I hope you had a blessed and happy Easter. We had a lot of fun in my house. Started the day with
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a 6 a.m. Easter egg hunt outside before church. We had to get it in before church and it wasn't going to
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work to hold the kids off on the Easter egg hunt until after church. We figured we'd do it before.
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So I apologize to our neighbors for that because we were outside doing an Easter egg hunt at like
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6 a.m. Fortunately, my kids are, you know, they're only about as loud as a busload of coked up spider
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monkeys. So it probably wasn't that much of a disturbance. I have to say though, Easter egg hunts
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have become, they've kind of gone downhill for me in terms of how fun they are. Ever since I got fired
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from the job of filling the eggs, um, before the Easter egg hunt. So now I'm the guy, my job is to
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go hide them, but I don't get to fill them. And the reason I got fired from that job is a few years
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ago, you know, I had the idea to fill because my wife, you know, made the mistake of, of giving the
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job to me. And she, like, she, she left me unattended and gave, gave me all the empty eggs and said,
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yeah, fill these and we're gonna do the Easter egg hunt. And so I filled half of the eggs with things
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that no kid would ever want, you know, like olives. Some of them just had rocks and grass and
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stuff. And then I also put real raw eggs in some of the eggs. And I thought it'd be hilarious. And
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it was, um, until one of the kids opened one of the eggs with an egg inside and dropped it and it
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splattered all over the place and got on his shoes and everything. And, um, and then it was a big scene
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and my wife gave me that look that said, you know, you're, you're banned from doing this again.
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But I still think, I believe the game, it lent the game some necessary intensity when the eggs
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contain both good and bad surprises. That's my feeling on it. Now you, you might, there are,
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there are those who theorize that filling the eggs is a tedious task. And so I did that on purpose so
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that I would be banned from it forever in the future. And I would never have to do it again.
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Um, that's also a theory. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to speculate on whether that's true or
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not. Okay. Uh, number one, moving on here from the daily wire, it says the deceased assailant who
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rammed two U S Capitol police officers Friday and emerged from his car, wielding a knife
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before, before police shot him has been identified as a 25 year old African-American man from Indiana
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who believed Louis Farrakhan is an incarnation of Jesus Christ. Um, NBC's Pete Williams reported Friday
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that Capitol police identified the suspect as a 25 year old man from Indiana, uh, who may have lived
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in Virginia on his Facebook page. He notes that he's a follower of the nation of Islam, according
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to MSNBC, Jesse, Jesse Rodriguez, uh, and he's now dead. Now that Facebook page apparently was deleted
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like within seconds. So some enterprising journalists, and by that, I don't mean mainstream media journalists,
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but some other journalists on, on, uh, Twitter went to Facebook and pulled a lot of this stuff
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and posted it before Facebook took it down. And they, they, it's, it's creepy how fast Facebook
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acted to take the page down and why take the page down at all. I mean, I know why they did it. I know
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the real reason why they did it, but, um, what would even be the stated reason? Yeah. The guy did a
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horrible thing. So now we, now we take the page down. What, why? I mean, it, it, it might tell us,
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it, it, it tells us something about his motives, why he did it. This is, this is all pertinent
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information. And of course, again, that, but that's, that's why they take the page downs because
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they don't want us to know. And, uh, that happened, what was that? That happened on Friday.
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And here we are on Monday, only a few days later. And, uh, already, of course, the media has moved
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on and we don't have to get into, you know, we, we could start, I could start pulling the tweets
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and everything from, from people on the left to when, when we heard about the attack, there was
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something going on at the Capitol and we knew that, that at least one police officer had been hurt or
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killed. And of course they were speculating immediately. It's just stating that it might,
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it must be a white male. That wasn't the case at all. Um, we don't have to get into that.
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We know that's the way it goes, but already right down the memory hole.
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We know that's the way it goes too. The, the culprit is, is not who they need it to be
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You know, that, that mass shooting by the Syrian immigrant,
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that was that 10 people were killed. And we stopped talking about that. It's like never
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happened. That's the power of the media has to move the conversation as I suppose they would put
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it. Um, number two, Arkansas passed a bill banning the genital mutilation of children. And I believe
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that, uh, well, the bill was passed by the Arkansas Senate. Hasn't been signed by the governor yet,
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I believe, but the daily wire reports, the Arkansas Senate passed the Arkansas save
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adolescents from experimentation act or safe act on Monday. Now it heads to Republican governor
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Asa Hutchinson's desk for him to sign into law. The state government has a compelling interest in
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protecting the health and safety of its citizens, especially vulnerable children. House bill 1570
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says, uh, let's go to what the bill bans. Here's the list. Uh, the bill bans a physician or other
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healthcare professional from providing gender transition procedures to any individual under 18
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years of age. Okay. A physician or other healthcare professional from referring any individual under 18
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years of age to any healthcare professional for gender transition procedures. It also bans public
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funds from being directly or indirectly used, granted, paid, or distributed to any entity organization
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or individual that provides gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age.
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There's a little more to it than that, but that's, that's the basic thing there. It is specifically
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about protecting kids under 18 minors from having these things done to them that cannot be fully reversed
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and that they cannot consent to because they're minors. And supposedly we all agree in, in most other
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contexts, that minors cannot consent. They don't have the full capacity of consent because they
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don't, their brains are not fully developed yet. The brains will not be fully developed, especially
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the parts of their brain that are involved in discernment, involved in long-term thinking and
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planning. Those parts of their brain won't be fully developed until 25. So they're far away from
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that. Which, which means it's incoherent to say, oh, well, we want to do this procedure on this 16 year
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old because they, this is what they want and it's best for them. That's incoherent. They don't really
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know what they want and they have no idea what's best for them. They can't choose it.
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In effect, if you are doing a procedure, you know, to use the euphemistic phrase,
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if you're doing a procedure, if you are mutilating the genitals of a 16 year old,
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you are doing it against their will, period. Because they cannot choose it. It's the same
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thing we would say if there was a six, if there was a, uh, you know, a 40 year old man having sex
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with a 16 year old child, we would say that was against that child's will.
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Even if they verbally consented, it's against their will because they can't,
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they cannot actually consent. They cannot psychologically consent to this.
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So that's really the way to phrase this. This, this bans doctors from performing these procedures
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on people against their will. And if they're doing it to kids, it's against their will.
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Now, MSNBC and the rest of the media responded to this about the way you'd expect.
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Uh, but I thought this segment was, it almost managed to stand out for how incredibly dishonest
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Arkansas governor Asa Hutchison has already signed a law banning women and girls from competing on
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sports teams consistent with their gender identity. Now the state legislature has sent
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another anti-trans bill to his desk. One that would ban minors from receiving gender affirming
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healthcare. Unfortunately, Arkansas is not an outlier. According to the ACLU's latest account,
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legislators in more than half the states have introduced or passed some type of anti-trans
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legislation. What is motivating this other than hate?
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Yes, Jonathan, we are seeing a terrible wave of anti-transgender bills across the country.
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And, you know, this is nothing new for the LGBTQ community. Over the years, we have seen all
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different types and ways of trying to exclude LGBTQ people from daily life. But these attacks are
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particularly egregious. We're seeing attacks on young people, on their ability to participate in
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school, in school sports, and we're seeing attacks on the ability to access life-saving,
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gender-affirming healthcare. And so the nastiness and the, in the message from all of these is we do
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not want you here. We do not want trans youth in our schools. We do not include you. And we,
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we wish to keep you out of our daily life. So terrible.
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ACLU trans justice campaign strategist. I cannot think of a more useless collection of words. Is
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there a more useless title than that? The whole thing is, is what they're talking about, again,
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what they're defending here is the genital mutilation of children and, and the, um,
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the chemical castration of children, because those are the kinds of drugs that they're using on these
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kids, chemically castrating them. These are bills that ban the chemical castration of children.
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And what you have, there are, you know, leftists on a major media outlet openly defending it.
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Defending it, you know, here's the thing, defending it not as, uh, they're, they're not approaching this
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as though they're defending a very controversial stance. Okay. Uh, they're defending it like this
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is obvious. How could anyone, how could anyone be against chemically castrating a 14 year old boy?
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What is, this is unbelievable. This is absurd. The only reason that you could be against it is hate.
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Well, yeah, you're right. Actually, you're, you're right about that. I am against it for hate. I,
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I hate the idea of doing that to a kid. I do. I personally, I really hate the idea of chemically
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castrating kids of, uh, of generally mutilating them. I hate that idea. So you're right.
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But notice that the euphemism again, now it's, um, and it keeps, it keeps changing.
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Once upon a time, we used to call this a sex change surgery. And even that, so it's, it's,
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it's euphemism on top of the euphemism on top of euphemism. Even the term sex change surgery
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was ridiculous because you, you cannot actually do that. Okay. You, you, you mutilate a man's penis.
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You have not changed his sex at all. You haven't even come close to doing it. You can't do it.
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It'll never happen. But the, at least there you had the word change and surgery. Okay. So that it
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was the sex part, sex change. That's where the euphemism and that's how it became misleading,
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but at least you had change and surgery. So you knew that, okay, this is surgery. It's something
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a little more serious. Surgery is a serious thing. And we're changing something. We're making a change,
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but the left can't, they, even that little bit of honesty, they cannot allow. And so we went from,
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uh, sex change surgery to gender reassignment surgery, which now we're, now we're going way
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into the weeds of delusion here. Going sex. Now it's gender doesn't make any sense because they say
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that gender, okay, the gender has nothing to do with sex. A guy with a penis can still be a woman
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in terms of his gender. And so, so why, what do you mean you're jet? If gender is a social construct,
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how can you reassign it through surgery? If gender has nothing to do with your body,
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how can you reassign someone's gender with surgery? It doesn't make any sense.
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Of course, nothing these, these, these maniacs say makes any sense. Um, so it was, so this was
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sex change surgery, gender reassignment surgery. Um, and now even more of a euphemism because we got
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gender reassignment. Oh, we're just reassigning as if it was a sign to begin with. Cause that's
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what the doctors do, right? They just assign. All they do is they look at the baby and they come up with,
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with a label, like slapping a sticker on it, assigning it. Um, but then that's, even that was
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too, too honest. And so now we're at, uh, gender affirmation healthcare. We're not changing. It's,
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uh, we're not changing anything. We're just, we're affirming by chemically castrating a 14 year old
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where we're affirming something. Affirming him in his confusion. I suppose so. Yeah.
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And it's healthcare. I mean, you're using the healthcare. Now you're using these drugs off
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label. These drugs were not made or developed to be used by physically healthy kids.
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Euphemism on top of euphemism on top of euphemism. That's, and that's how they get away with this.
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That's how they change. You know, they, they change public perception and it's quite brilliant.
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It's quite evil, quite twisted, but it's quite brilliant on top of it.
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They're cut there. They're, they're, they never constantly changing the language. They never let,
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they can never let it be because once people start to realize and they get wise to the game,
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then the left says, okay, we got to change the language again.
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It's, it, there's, it's a, it's a, they're innovators. It's a process of innovation.
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Now it's innovation, um, for, in order to deceive,
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it's innovation for the sake of deception, but it is, it's innovation.
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Um, all right, let's move on. Number three, a pastor in Canada had the cop show up to his church
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and, um, this happened, uh, on good Friday, I believe. And I think he, he gave us a,
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this is how you deal with it. Okay. This right here, I think is how you deal with the police
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showing up at his church without a warrant, trying to shut him down. And here's how he
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handled the problem. Let's listen. Please get out, get out of this property immediately. Get out,
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get out of this property immediately out. I don't want to hear anything out of this property
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immediately. I don't want to hear a word out, out, out of this property immediately until you come back
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out, out, out of this property immediately out. I don't care what you have to say out, out, out of this property, you Nazis.
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Gestapo is not allowed here. Immediately, Gestapo is not allowed.
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All right. So there you go. I like how I just like I was not letting this lady get some bureaucrat there along with the police.
00:31:22.880
And she's trying to give her a line about, say whatever. We can't even hear what she's saying.
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He's not going to he's not going to have the conversation with with her.
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He's saying, just get the hell out. We're not talking about this. I'm not I'm not going to explain to you why I have the right in my church to to to worship, you know, with with with my flock.
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I'm not going to explain it to you. We're not going to we're not going to discuss it. I'm not going to debate it with you.
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You just need to get the hell out. And so he's screaming at her. And I love that.
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Happy Easter to that pastor. We need about a million more of him. That's what we need.
00:31:56.980
We had a million more of that guy. We'd be in good shape.
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A million more of those that guy running churches.
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And and, you know, Christian communities across across the world.
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As exactly how to do it now, normally, you know, throw in Nazi and Gestapo out there.
00:32:15.240
Normally, I'm not a fan of that, but his idea here is just to heap contempt on on these people.
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You know, and you follow that order, then you deserve the contempt.
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You deserve that treatment. One hundred percent.
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And yes, the Nazis did also teach us this as well.
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We learned that from the Nazis and from many other historical examples.
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Yeah, we need you to go shut down this church on Good Friday.
00:33:23.560
Not really related, but on the subject of Easter and pastors.
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But Senator Warnock of Georgia, fake Christian, fake pastor.
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So we got a good good pastor there looking out for his flock.
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Here we have a fake one and someone trying to lead his flock astray.
00:33:48.380
But he tweeted, the meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Not even the meaning of Easter is something other than.
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Then he continues, whether you're Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others, we are able to save ourselves.
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The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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I don't think I have to explain why this is heresy.
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You're not calling it heresy in some sort of colloquial way.
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In fact, the meaning of Easter is only the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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So you have heresy here, which is really the main problem.
00:35:04.800
But also, on top of the heresy, you have this dull kind of nothing sort of message.
00:35:17.440
What he's saying, what is, to him, what is more transcendent than Jesus Christ rising from the grave?
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We have Christ rising from the grave to redeem mankind.
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Would seem to me to be the most transcendent thing ever in the history of reality.
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What does he say is more transcendent than that?
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This dry HR manager type lingo is what he wants to replace the resurrection of Jesus with.
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Whether you're Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others, we're able to save ourselves.
00:36:09.140
Again, leaving aside the heresy of it, if we can do that, what does that mean?
00:36:16.560
See, you're not helping your flock when you spew heresy at them, number one.
00:36:22.840
And number two, when you say something like, well, we should help others, okay?
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I don't think anyone is against helping, in principle.
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But it really depends on what are we helping people do, and how are we helping them do it?
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See, I would think that, as Christians, we should be helping others live holy and godly lives as best we can.
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That's the sort of help we should be giving people.
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You know, Thomas Aquinas said, to love someone is to will the good of the other.
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And so, to the extent that we can, we can will the good of others.
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Just as we would hope that they would do for us.
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Not when you package it with heresy, but it's a worthwhile message.
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But that's not, of course, what Raphael Warnock is saying.
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What he means is, and when he says helping, really the people doing the helping would be the government.
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And that's what he, so helping is through things like policy and law.
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It's by ceding all of your power to these government officials who will then point you in the right direction by compelling you there.
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And by creating a policy that will, you know, instate a utopia.
00:38:26.600
It says, Amazon has apologized to a U.S. politician for falsely denying that drivers are at times forced to urinate in plastic bottles.
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Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin, referenced Amazon making, quote, workers urinate in water bottles in a tweet.
00:38:41.900
The official Amazon Twitter account then replied, if that were true, nobody would work for us.
00:38:46.400
The company has now apologized after evidence emerged of drivers having to urinate in bottles.
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It did not contemplate our larger driver population and instead wrongly focused only on our fulfillment centers.
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It added that fulfillment centers all have dozens of toilets that employees can use at any time.
00:39:06.460
Okay, I do not have the, I have no interest really in defending Amazon here at all.
00:39:12.640
That's, that's not a job that I'm going to take on for myself.
00:39:15.560
But I will say it, I don't quite understand how it's Amazon's fault if a driver has to urinate in a bottle.
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Which, can I say, who among us, who among us has not had to come up with creative urination solutions while on long road trips?
00:39:34.080
But in any case, what, what is Amazon supposed to do?
00:39:37.000
They've got drivers, they've got to drive across the country.
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Are they themselves supposed to build, you know, rest stops every, every three miles everywhere in the country?
00:39:49.620
And if you're a man peeing in a bottle, which I would assume you'd probably be a man if you're doing that, that, that's, that's, that's really your own fault.
00:39:57.700
Because you, what, you can't find a tree anywhere?
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If you're reduced to that, I, I don't see how we can blame Amazon for that.
00:40:03.880
That, that is the one little defense of Amazon I will give.
00:40:05.740
Okay, moving on to reading the comments, this is from Jackson Brinton, who says,
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Matt, I'm 16 and I still believe in the Easter Bunny, thank you for letting me know he isn't real.
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Well, Jackson, plenty of 16-year-olds believe in dumber things than the Easter Bunny, so you're not too far behind them.
00:40:20.560
Another comment says, the concept of the Easter Bunny being six feet tall is an entirely new concept to me.
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When I was a kid, I was told he was the size of an ordinary rabbit.
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You thought the Easter Bunny was the size of an ordinary rabbit?
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How, then, how did you think, how was he bringing you the Easter basket?
00:40:43.900
I always, I guess I, well, that was my point last week, is that we, we never had any agreement on who the Easter Bunny is or what he does or anything.
00:40:51.040
Um, and I guess I was never specifically told that the Easter Bunny is six feet tall.
00:40:57.000
If he's bringing all this stuff, how else would he drag it in the house?
00:41:02.600
Um, Emery says, my dad always wanted a son and ended up with two daughters.
00:41:07.460
He'd jokingly call us little men and he tried to, uh, get, get us into things he understood, fishing, hunting, motorcycles, etc.
00:41:13.360
Granted, I was a total tomboy as a child, but still it's mind-boggling to me that parents actually try to change their kids' identities because they aren't happy with the sex they were created as.
00:41:24.160
It is, what it is for parents, there is, uh, a diagnosis for it, in fact.
00:41:28.560
Um, even though these parents will never be diagnosed with this now, but this is, uh, Munchausen by proxy.
00:41:36.760
Um, and Munchausen by proxy is when parents, usually it's a mother.
00:41:40.380
And oftentimes with the trans kids, you find that it's a mother, especially when it's a boy becoming a girl.
00:41:45.740
Oftentimes, coincidentally, you find that there's a mother, a mother very, very involved in this process.
00:41:50.720
Um, and, uh, with Munchausen by proxy, it's oftentimes a mother who, um, makes her child believe that he is sick.
00:42:00.780
She fabricates sickness for the child and sometimes causes the child to be sick by poisoning the child or something.
00:42:07.080
Uh, and she does this, number one, because she's mentally ill, and number two, because it's attention for her and sympathy for her.
00:42:17.320
It is, uh, is Munchausen by proxy, only it has been normalized and, uh, romanticized.
00:42:22.340
And now we're supposed to, we're supposed to accept it.
00:42:29.880
Uh, Gerard says, I consider Matt an authority on pull-ups.
00:42:33.860
The understanding of momentum and form aside, just look at those guns wanting to pop out of that non-polka-dot shirt.
00:42:39.360
Well, Gerard, I'm going to let the polka-dot comment slide for the time being.
00:42:42.940
And the fact that you're a guy talking about things popping out of my shirt, uh, I'm, I'm a little disturbed by that.
00:42:50.440
I don't know if I'm the authority on, um, pull-ups, but, but just in the sense that I know how to do them properly.
00:42:56.000
And, and, and, and I mean, generally, if you're doing muscle building exercises, if you want to build muscle mass, there shouldn't really be momentum in your exercises because it's all about form and control.
00:43:08.820
A lot of guys I see at the gym are, are, they're going way too fast.
00:43:11.880
They don't have enough control over their movement.
00:43:14.040
Uh, they're using weight, more weight than they can handle because, you know, they, because it looks better to use the heavier weights.
00:43:20.080
The other great thing about doing the exercises properly is that, um, because the other thing you see at the gym is you see people on the ab machines and all, like all kinds of different ab things people are doing.
00:43:30.700
Um, all of that is unnecessary because number one, if you've got gut, if you've got fat on your gut, you can do all the ab exercises in the world.
00:43:39.740
It's not going to really do anything about that gut fat, uh, cause you got to diet and you got to do a lot of cardio for that.
00:43:43.900
But number two, if you're doing muscle building exercises correctly with the proper form and your core is engaged and tight, then every exercise is a, is an ab exercise too.
00:43:58.540
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Now, as we return from Easter and Passover, it's important to reflect on the impact that these holidays have on our faith and the impact that Judeo-Christian values have on our culture.
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The CDC is by far my most canceled government agency.
00:46:21.520
It provides me with so many reasons to cancel it so often that sometimes the most pertinent cancellation opportunities get lost in the shuffle.
00:46:32.300
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have extended the national ban on evictions through the end of June.
00:46:41.180
Quote, the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a historic threat to the nation's public health.
00:46:45.680
That's according to the CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
00:46:50.060
Keeping people in their homes and out of crowded or congregated settings like homeless shelters by preventing evictions is a key step in helping to stop the spread of COVID-19.
00:46:58.080
The eviction ban was scheduled to expire in two days and advocates warned of a spike in evictions without an extension.
00:47:04.660
Around 20 percent of adult renters said they didn't pay last month's rent.
00:47:07.920
According to a survey published in March by the Census Bureau, closer to 33 percent of black renters reported the same.
00:47:15.160
Now, as to that last line, I must ask, so why do you need to tell us the statistic for black renters specifically?
00:47:22.320
Are you also going to tell us that the percentage for Asian renters, French American renters, renters of Pacific Island descent and so on?
00:47:31.040
But still, for whatever reason, we need that specific information on black renters.
00:47:36.640
How in God's holy name does the CDC have the power to issue a ban on evictions?
00:47:46.660
The CDC, last I checked, is the Center for Disease Control.
00:47:50.480
Did they become the Center for Disease Control and housing at some point recently?
00:47:54.780
Did CDC and HUD morph into some kind of federal megazord and we weren't informed?
00:48:04.020
And yet they've claimed this authority for themselves without any concern for the legality of it.
00:48:09.020
As for the legality question, multiple federal judges have ruled that, no, they don't have this power.
00:48:17.580
U.S. District Judge Philip Calabrese, sitting in Cleveland, ruled Wednesday that the CDC went beyond what the Federal Public Health Service Act allows it to do in ordering a halt on evictions.
00:48:28.740
But wait for the kicker here because it continues.
00:48:31.680
However, he did not grant an injunction that would have stopped the agency from enforcing the moratorium.
00:48:37.540
Yes, the federal judges are ruling that this is not constitutional because they have no choice but to rule that way.
00:48:44.400
Because even they lack the legal creativity to conjure this constitutional authority out of thin air.
00:48:49.060
Yet they still aren't willing to do anything about it.
00:48:51.700
Instead, they're standing off at a distance and symbolically shaking their fists.
00:49:00.940
I guess when you shake your fist, it's more like this, right?
00:49:06.080
The federal government has no interest in curbing its own power.
00:49:10.820
Many federal agencies, along with governmental institutions at the state and local levels, have used COVID as an opportunity to claim unprecedented power for themselves.
00:49:19.260
They've been like sugar-mad children at a birthday party clawing over each other to grab the candy that fell out of the piñata.
00:49:28.780
And government agencies have been in a mosh pit brawl fighting with each other to scoop up every little bit of it that they can.
00:49:34.860
The CDC, I think, has played this game perhaps better than any of the rest of them.
00:49:39.320
And this is how it finds itself now waving its royal scepter and decreeing that landlords may not evict tenants, even if those tenants refuse to pay their rent.
00:49:49.940
Now, we should not let the question of authority obscure the perhaps more important point, or at least as important point.
00:49:58.280
This is also a really terrible idea on the merits, no matter who is enforcing this.
00:50:04.620
Landlords, contrary to popular belief, are not all a bunch of Scrooge McDucks swimming in their vats of gold coins.
00:50:11.720
To be a landlord, you only need the capital to make a down payment on a property.
00:50:17.040
That's all you need. You don't need to be a millionaire for that.
00:50:20.140
The whole point of renting out the property is that the renters will pay, or significantly help with, the rest of the expenses.
00:50:27.240
And there are many expenses, to include the obvious stuff like mortgage and utilities.
00:50:33.000
If renters are not paying their fair share, then landlords, who again are for the most part not wealthy fat cats, they have to reach into their own pockets.
00:50:42.720
Now, they're bankrupting themselves so that someone else can live for free.
00:50:46.720
Now, yes, that other person may be struggling because of COVID, but so is the landlord.
00:50:50.700
So, one struggling guy gets to live for free, the other has to pay for himself and the other guy.
00:51:07.060
So, you choose to help one at the expense of the other?
00:51:12.580
Never mind the fact that only a certain portion of renters actually did lose the ability to pay their rent because of COVID.
00:51:17.820
We seem to have forgotten this in general, that not everyone lost income during, a lot of people did, not everyone.
00:51:30.560
The unemployment rate got really high, but it never got anywhere near above 50%.
00:51:35.420
So, the vast majority of people are basically in the same financial situation now that they were a year ago.
00:51:43.980
The majority still have a job, didn't lose any significant income last year.
00:51:50.020
The eviction moratorium excuses even employed renters with plenty of money in the bank from paying their bills.
00:51:56.440
It puts all that extra burden on the landlord for literally no reason.
00:52:01.320
The eviction ban could have at least said that unemployed renters are excused, but instead it excuses everyone.
00:52:11.740
For the majority of renters, there is no reason why they can't or shouldn't pay their rent.
00:52:18.660
Then what happens when the landlords can no longer afford the properties that the renters are living in?
00:52:32.240
Yeah, yeah, the little guy really benefits here if by the little guy we mean the banks.
00:52:38.880
In the long run, the effect is that there will be fewer landlords renting out fewer properties,
00:52:43.900
which means fewer living options for people who cannot afford to buy or don't want to buy.
00:52:49.400
This, while even more power and wealth is transferred to the banks.
00:52:53.340
And that's what the lockdowns have really wrought.
00:52:55.200
And that's why the lockdowns were really put in place in the first place.
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So that the wealthy and powerful could become more wealthy and more powerful.
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And I don't mean landlords when I say wealthy and powerful.
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But as we covered at the beginning, the left is on the side of the wealthy and powerful.
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So it's no surprise to see them cheering along again in this case.
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And that is why, once again, and I hope it sticks this time, but I have my doubts.
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Also, be sure to check out the other Daily Wire podcasts, including the Ben Shapiro show, Michael Knowles show, the Andrew Klavan show.
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The Matt Walsh show is produced by Sean Hampton, executive producer Jeremy Boring.
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Our supervising producers are Mathis Glover and Robert Sterling.
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And our production coordinator is McKenna Waters.
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