Ep. 708 - Electing A Trans Governor To Own The Libs
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Many Republicans Rejoice as Caitlyn Jenner Runs for Governor. They re very excited about the prospect of a Republican transgender governor. But can the right defeat the left by fully embracing and accepting its fundamental claims about gender? Consider me skeptical.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, many Republicans rejoice as Caitlyn Jenner runs for governor.
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They're very excited about the prospect of a Republican transgender governor,
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but can the right defeat the left by fully embracing and accepting its fundamental claims
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about gender? Consider me skeptical. Also, five headlines, including the family of Micaiah
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Bryant calling for police reform. A Democrat representative admits to emotionally abusing
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her daughter and terrorizing her over thoughts of impending doom because of climate change.
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The Oscars announced the winners, but nobody's ever heard of any of them. And a new study reveals
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that the six foot social distancing guideline is totally arbitrary and baseless. They tell us
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now after a year, all of that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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So it was announced on Friday that Caitlyn Jenner would be running as a Republican for governor of
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California. Reading now from a CNN article announcing the big news, it says, quote,
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Jenner, a longtime Republican, filed paperwork in Los Angeles County and announced her intent
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on her website. Again, I'm reading from the article on CNN. This is their language, not mine.
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Her bid is one of the most high profile campaigns by a transgender person in the country.
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California has been my home for nearly 50 years. I came here because I knew that anyone,
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regardless of their background or station in life, could turn their dreams into reality,
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Jenner said in news release. But for the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the golden state
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reduced by one party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people.
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Sacramento needs an honest leader with a clear vision.
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Jenner, who described herself in the announcement as a disruptor and denounced Newsom's impact on the
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golden state, began exploring an entry into politics early this year and has been working
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with a close group of GOP strategists to lay the groundwork for her gubernatorial bid.
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All right. So it goes on to explain that some of some members of Trump's team are now working
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with Jenner. Also, some former Romney advisors are on board. Romney and Trump famously hate each
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other. But it's nice to see that the two sides can come together for the sake of giving America
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its first transgender governor. This is the kind of project that the modern Republican Party can
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work together to achieve. They can't do literally anything else, no matter how much power you give
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them. But this they can do. Well, they can't even do this, actually, because he almost certainly isn't
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going to win. So they're either going to fail at this. As far as qualifications to hold elected
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office, Jenner has none to speak of. He also has almost no qualifications to be considered a
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conservative. We're talking about conservative here only in the sense of supporting tax cuts and
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using phrases like the free market and fiscal responsibility. Enough of the special interests.
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But when you go even just an inch below the surface, Jenner is, of course, nearly as liberal as
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any other liberal in California. The only good thing that can be said about Jenner's run for
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governor is that it doesn't really matter who the governor of California is. The state is a disaster
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zone, a parasitic lump affixing itself to the rest of the country. And that won't change whether the
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governor is an outright left-wing liberal, a Democrat, or a left-wing Democrat masquerading as a
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milquetoast Republican. The result is the same. That's why the real significance of Jenner's run
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is how it's been received by those on the right and what that reception says about contemporary
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conservatism. From what I've seen, many self-professed conservatives have celebrated the
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news, believing apparently that having a prominent trans Republican on the team will enhance our cultural
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credentials. The idea is that we can play the left's own game and beat them at it. It's only days until
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we start hearing Republicans say things like, see, Democrats are the real transphobes. Ha, got you now,
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libs. In the process, many conservatives have fully adopted the language rules of the left,
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making sure, for instance, to use female pronouns when referring to Jenner, who is, by the way, a male.
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One example, a small right-wing account on Twitter put out a tweet with a picture of Nikki Haley
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and Caitlyn Jenner standing next to each other and said that the photo illustrates the downfall of the
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GOP. Dean Cain responded saying that the tweet was funny and he was laughing at it. Nikki Haley
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herself responded to Cain with this. Interesting. I don't find it funny. Caitlyn came to see me at the
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U.N. and I appreciated her conservative views. I will continue to think that the Republican Party is one of
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conservative views by all people, regardless of their demographics. To me, that's not funny. It's
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America. Now, I agree with the last part, at least. This isn't funny. I mean, maybe it's a little funny.
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There's, of course, some delicious irony in the idea that the first female governor of California could be a white
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male Republican. And if Jenner's run was embraced solely in that spirit, in the spirit of trolling,
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I could almost support it. But that's not what's going on here, at least not among prominent people
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on the right, those in positions of power and influence. Nikki Haley isn't trolling anyone.
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The Republican advisers in Jenner's orbit aren't trolling. And that's why I find it necessary to make
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two points here. Two really important points. Putting aside the trolling element of this, because
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again, I know that's going to be the response. Oh, isn't it funny? I get it. Yeah, that's kind of
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funny. But there are two things that are more important. Number one, language matters. The left
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realizes this, and they've always realized it. That's why they spend so much time controlling and
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policing language. We're so dumb that we've always chalked this up to leftists being a bunch of
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over-emotional snowflakes. That's not it. The emotional snowflake stuff is a tactic and an effective
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one. The point is to shape what people think by shaping the words they use, because that's how our
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minds work. Now, when you use the word she, in reference to a man, like Jenner, you are agreeing
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with the proposition that the person you're referencing is a woman. That's what you're saying.
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When you say she, what you're communicating is that the person you're talking about is a woman.
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Now, you may not believe that yourself, but you're saying it. You're lying. You are participating in the
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lie. You are, in fact, participating in the entire lie of left-wing gender theory. You are adopting and
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agreeing with all of it. Through that one simple word, she, you have just conceded the left's entire
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agenda with respect to gender and sex. And by conceding that, you've conceded essentially everything,
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because gender theory rests on the philosophical premise of relativism.
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But, you know, there's no objective truth. Truth is whatever I feel it is, whatever I think it is.
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That's gender theory. If a man feels like he's a woman, thinks he's a woman, then he's a woman.
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That, that can't be true unless relativism is true. Of course, as we know, relativism can't be true
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because the whole point of relativism is that nothing is really true. Yet, if you say relativism is true,
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then you are defeating relativism just simply by saying that. But whatever. The point is,
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relativism serves as the foundation of the left's basic ideas and doctrines, all of them.
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By using the words they tell you to use, you give up the whole game. You give it all up.
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If you think I'm making too much of it, then consider again why they make so much of it.
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Why is it so important to them that you use certain words?
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And we can't even use the, oh, it's polite excuse. Now, I don't think it's actually polite
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to tell a lie, to participate in a lie, to participate in a person's delusion. I don't
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think that that's, that that's polite at all. But most of the time we're talking about occasions
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when you're referring to someone, but they're not there. You're, you're, you're talking about them
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when they're not even around. Polite. There's no, there's no courtesy there.
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But even in that case, especially in that case, the left makes it very clear. This is the word
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you're supposed to use. Why do they care so much? Well, this is why it's not because they're emotional.
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It's because they know that if you can control the words people are using, you control the ideas
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that people have, you control reality. But this has been the, the conservative, this has been
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conservatism MO for a long time. Conservatives think they can concede all of the most fundamental
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points, adopt the left's whole philosophical framework, and yet still win in the long run
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by electing Republicans who will cut taxes and talk about limited government. It doesn't work.
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It's never worked. It cannot ever work. Second point, you can't beat the left at its own game.
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Okay. Leftists aren't thrown for a loop by the fact that there's a trans Republican.
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All these dummy conservatives saying, ah, see, we got them now. What are they going to do this time?
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We got them backed into a corner. We got it. There's a trans Republican.
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They, they, they have no problem simply saying that Jenner doesn't count, that he's a traitor to
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the cause, that he has internalized transphobia or whatever. They've got plenty of things. They've
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got plenty of stock answers in these kinds of situations. Now it might be fun for a while when
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the campaign gets going to accuse Democrats of being transphobic if they criticize gender,
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but Jenner, but that tactic doesn't actually work or achieve anything.
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Now, conservatives often try the same thing with race. Democrats accuse Republicans of being white
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supremacists. And so Republicans ever lacking in imagination respond by saying, no, we aren't.
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You guys are the real white supremacists. It's an easy response, but it achieves nothing.
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And I'll tell you why. Because you cannot beat someone at a game they invented where the rules can be
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changed by the inventors at any time. It's impossible. This is their game. They own it.
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They make the rules. And the number one rule is you can't win. That's the number one rule.
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No matter what you do or say, if you choose to play that game with them, you cannot win.
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So when it comes to anything, but now we're talking about gender theory, the left's ideas about gender.
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If you decide to dive in and say, all right, I'll play this game.
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You've adopted their whole framework. You've agreed with their underlying premise.
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If there is any winning at this point, it's by refusing to play that game.
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And one way to refuse to play the game is by using words in the way that they're supposed to be used.
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All right. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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You know, one of the great pleasures of parenthood is listening to your kids have conversations,
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at least at a certain age. And I mean conversations, not when they're bickering and fighting and that
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sort of thing, because they do a lot of that. But sometimes you'll catch them just having normal
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sort, as normal as they can, conversations, which can be really funny. So on Saturday,
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I had the boys, uh, seven-year-old son, my four-year-old son in the truck with me. We were
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driving to, I don't know where I can't remember now, but they had this long discussion slash debate
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about how it is that, that people who are currently dead can be seen on TV.
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My oldest son had just recently learned, um, because we were watching something and I remember
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what we were watching, but, but he, he, and there was an actor on TV and he was, he was asking me
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about that person. I said, Oh, he's, he's a, that person's dead. And you could just see the wheels
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turning in my son's mind. Cause he's like, wait, dead. I'm looking at him right there.
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So they were debating this. How is it possible? And what they settled on, the answer they settled
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on is that anytime you see a dead person on television, that's a robot. And so the people
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who make movies, they have some sort of laboratory where they go and they create robots of the dead
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people. So the dead people can keep appearing in movies and TV. Good answer. You know, it's a
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working your way through a problem, not coming to the right conclusion, but that's, it's this
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critical thinking in its earliest stages. And this is another one of those times where the kid
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version of reality is so much cooler than the real version. Now I feel kind of bad because one day
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they're going to realize that, no, it's not, it's not quite that cool or nor nearly as cool as that,
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unfortunately. All right. Number one, CNN, um, reports on what exactly led to the altercation
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with Micaiah Bryant, where she tried to, um, stab someone to death.
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And I think this was the, this was the news on, uh, I'm pretty sure we already had this news on
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Friday. We already knew this, but Micaiah Bryant, uh, and two other young women argued over a messy
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house and unmade bed before a fight that ended with the fatal police shooting of the black teenager.
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Um, so the, the story we were getting all of last week, right, was that someone had come,
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she was defending her life. Someone had come to jump her or something like that. And she was defending
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herself. Well, we, we knew from the, from the footage that that wasn't true. Um, and now we know
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it's this, according to people who were there, that, uh, some, some other, some, some former foster
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kids had come and they were getting into an argument. They were accusing Micaiah Bryant of, of, uh,
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not, of not making her bed and of not being neat. And so apparently she grabbed a butcher knife and
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tried to stab them to death for that. And the way that CNN and the media presents this, it's as if
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they think it makes Micaiah Bryant more sympathetic and the police less sympathetic, but I don't think
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that's the case at all. Now, again, as I, as I've said all last week, you know, when a, when a 16 year
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old kid and they are a kid at 16, I believe that's why I don't want to let lower the voting age to 16.
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Unlike the left, you know, whether or not a 16 year old counts as a kid really depends on the situation.
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For me, 16 year old is a kid. So the 16 year old kid is at the point where you accuse them of
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not making their bed properly and they try to stab you to death.
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Well, that says a lot, not just about them, but people around them. A lot of that blame.
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If you've got a 16 year old kid who flies into a homicidal rage over anything, but especially over
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that, uh, that's a statement about their family life, parenting. It's not a statement about the
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cops, but mostly about the parents. And speaking of which ABC news has a story about, um, Bryant's
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family and their calls for, you know, Bryant's family is now coming out and they're calling for
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their, they're weighing legal action, of course. And, uh, I'm sure they're thinking about what
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lawsuits they can, they can file, but also they're calling for reform to the police. That's what
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they're thinking here. But obviously our daughter tried to stab someone to death over an argument
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over a messy room. And that means that the police need to be reformed. So here's a story from ABC
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news tonight, growing cries to reevaluate police use of force policies in the wake of the shooting
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death of Ohio, 16 year old Micaiah Bryant. We've recently had shooting after shooting after shooting.
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So maybe the training's wrong. Protesters hitting the streets again today, the fifth straight day
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since the shooting happened. Bryant's family telling me the police need to change.
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They have the power right now to put some changes in the book, regardless of the situation,
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we have to be able to do better and protecting, uh, life. This week, the Columbus division of police
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released body camera footage of the incident. Get down, get down. Officer Nicholas reared and firing
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four shots as Bryant appears to lunge at the woman in pink with a knife. She had a knife. She just went
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at her. Columbus officers are authorized to fire their weapons. If there's a deadly threat,
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an independent investigation is now underway to determine whether the shooting was justified.
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Fast facts cannot come at the expense of complete accurate facts. But while we push for answers
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and transparency and accountability, we can't lose sight of the history of trauma and pain in our black
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community. Yeah, we actually, with this story, we can lose sight of that. We can. It's got nothing to do
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with anything. So even, even a lot of the people who have the, basically the right perspective on this
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particular case, which of course the right perspective is that the cops did, cop did nothing wrong and is a hero
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for, uh, saving someone's life is about to be stabbed to death. But even the people who are, who are many of the
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people who are basically there, most of them still feel the need to throw in something like you just heard
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there. Yeah, the cop didn't do anything wrong, but we, you know, we can't, we can't lose sight of the
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overall issue of systemic racism and the trauma and pain of the black community.
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Now we could talk about systemic racism and whether that exists, which it doesn't another time, but for
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this issue, we can actually lose sight of all of that because it's got nothing to do with anything.
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This was an isolated circumstance wherein a police officer walked onto a scene and like five seconds
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later, faster than that, probably there was a woman trying to stab people to death. And so he responded.
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He's not stopping to think about the trauma and pain of the black community. He's not thinking about
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systemic racism. He's responding to the situation.
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And as far as trauma and pain goes, having one or two people stabbed to death in the broad daylight
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out in their driveway, I would say there might be some trauma and pain to come from that.
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Meanwhile, just, just to show you how, if you didn't already realize how absurd the,
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the anti-police people in order to make their case,
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most of the time they're not even going to give you the numbers. They're not going to give you the
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statistics at all. Um, it's going to be all emotion all the time, you know, because when you
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look at the numbers, of course, there's, there's no evidence at all that, uh, there's a problem of
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racist cops out there executing black people, but we're told that it doesn't matter if the stats
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don't show it. I, I feel like, you know, black American feels as though this is the reality.
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And so it is. Usually that's how they deal with the statistics is by not looking at them at all.
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But if they do look at the statistics, then they're going to have to take them wildly out of context.
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And, and, uh, so here's an example, Matthew Dowd pundit, uh, tweeted this a couple of days ago over
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the weekend. He says over the last 20 years, the average number of officers killed in the line of
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duty is 65 per year. The average number of civilian killings by officers is 1100 per year.
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So tell me again, who is under greater threat living their lives?
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So, okay, 65 a year versus, uh, versus 1100. So clearly the answer is the civilians are under a
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greater threat. If you're an idiot and you don't stop to think about this for
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even two seconds, maybe that argument is convincing. But then when you do stop and
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think, you think, well, wait a second, huh? Aren't there a lot more civilians than there
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are police officers? Like a lot more. How many civilians do we have in this country? How many,
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how many citizens overall do we have in this country? 330 million or so.
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Are there also 330 million police officers? Is there one police officer for every civilian?
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No, it's, you got 330 million give or take citizens, not counting illegal aliens,
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and then 1100 per year killed by cops. Okay. And then you've got how many police officers?
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I don't have the number in front of me, but it's, I think it's total like 600,000 or something.
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Um, actually I do have the number in front of me. Okay. 700,000, around 700,000 cops total in the
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country. So then you run the numbers on that. And what you have, um, percent killed by cops among
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citizens is 0.0003%. Whereas among cops, it's 0.009%. Small percentage in both, very small percentage
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in both cases, thankfully. But in terms of percentages and the numbers we're dealing with,
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0.009 is significantly higher than 0.0003. So to answer Matthew Dowd's question, who's under a
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greater threat living their lives? Well, the cops. And that of course, isn't even taking into account
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the circumstances around which those 1100 people are killed. When you do look at those circumstances,
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you, you discover that in almost all of those cases, it's a pretty straightforward situation
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where you had a, a, a suspect, a violent criminal trying to kill a police officer,
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most of the time by firing guns at them, shooting at them, and then they get shot in the process.
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But that's how bad that's, that's how, you know, baseless the, the anti-cop position is
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that even if you take context out of it and you pretend for a moment that all 1100 people killed
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by cops in a year, all of them were unarmed and, uh, and totally innocent, which is not even close
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to true. But even if you pretended that was true, the numbers still wouldn't support the kind of
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epidemic that they're, uh, claiming, at least in terms of percentages. All right. Um, number two,
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the Oscars were last night, didn't watch a single second of it. And, uh, if, if you did, I don't know
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why you don't value your own time more than that. If you didn't, then you probably don't care who won,
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but I'll tell you anyway, we'll go through it. We'll go through the list of, uh, at least a few
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of the winners here. Actor in a leading role, Anthony Hopkins, one for the father. Never heard
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of that. I've heard of Anthony Hopkins, never heard of the father. Actor in a supporting role. Um,
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the winner was Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah. I heard about that when it was nominated.
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Don't know anything else about it. Um, actress in a leading role is Francis McDormand for Nomadland.
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I've heard of that. I haven't, nobody has seen it. No one actually knows what happens in that movie
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because nobody's seen it. Actress in a supporting role, Yoo Jung Yoon in a movie called Minari.
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I have no idea. I have no idea what any of that means. Um, animated feature film, Soul,
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one. That's the Pixar movie. I do know that one. Cinematography. The winner was Mank.
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No one has seen any of these. Documentary. Okay. The winner for the documentary was My Octopus
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Teacher, which is a documentary, um, as it sounds there about an octopus. That one I have seen,
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and that is pretty excellent. I have to say a little bit strange. You know, I, I think octopuses
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are, are fascinating creatures and I'm, I'm big into nature documentaries. So especially about marine
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life. So I did enjoy that. The relationship that the guy forms with the octopus is a, is a,
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it's a little intense, you know, it's more intense than you would think a relationship between a man
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and octopus would be. But, but overall, really fascinating. That's the, of all of the, the nominees
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and winners. The only one that I've really heard of and seen is the documentary about the octopus.
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Great. Um, that, you know, the criticism here is that while the Oscars these days,
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they only nominate these kinds of artsy movies that nobody's seen and it's very elitist and,
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you know, they're not nominating the movies that everyone watches and likes.
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And I agree with that criticism to an extent, but we also have to, in fairness to the Oscars,
00:26:17.020
the other problem is that all of the big movies that everybody watches, all of the big tentpole
00:26:21.740
blockbusters, all of them now are franchise films and superhero movies. And almost all of those movies
00:26:28.980
are total garbage and certainly don't deserve to win any awards whatsoever.
00:26:36.000
So the problem is that just a lot of really bad movies are coming out, whether they're the
00:26:39.560
blockbusters or the artsy movies that only five people have seen. All right, number three,
00:26:43.760
this is pretty horrifying. Here's representative Katie Porter talking to a great, a Greta Thunberg.
00:26:49.220
And I'm not sure why she's talking to Greta Thunberg, but she is. And she reveals how she
00:26:53.760
Porter is emotionally and psychologically abusing her own daughter. Let's listen to this.
00:26:59.040
I told my nine-year-old daughter that I was going to be speaking with you. And I said,
00:27:02.680
what do you think about the climate change, climate change? And she said,
00:27:06.480
the earth is on fire and we're all going to die soon. And I asked her how that made her feel. And
00:27:13.940
she said it made her feel angry. What should I tell my daughter and how should I help her and the
00:27:21.660
youngest generation bear the emotional toll of the actions that we're taking, fossil fuel companies
00:27:29.900
are taking to destroy our planet? Well, thank you for a question. That's a big, big question. And I
00:27:41.460
know that there are many young people who feel angry and sad because of all the things that some people
00:27:49.140
are doing. Okay, shut up, Greta. Let me answer that. Can I jump in here? Let me actually answer that
00:27:53.940
question for Representative Porter. What do you tell your daughter when she says she's afraid because
00:28:00.280
the earth is on fire and everyone's going to die? Well, you lunatic, you tell her that that's not true
00:28:08.840
and she's going to be okay. That's what you tell a child when they're afraid, especially when they're
00:28:15.440
afraid of something that legitimately isn't true. There's nothing to think about. It would be like if I
00:28:23.480
went into my daughter's room at night because she's crying and I say, what's wrong? And she tells
00:28:30.800
me, daddy, there's monsters under the bed. What if I were to respond? Oh, there's monsters under your
00:28:36.400
bed? How does that make you feel? It makes me feel really scared. Yeah, it is scary. Well, anyway,
00:28:44.720
I'm going to hit the sack. See you later. Good luck with the monsters. No, what you tell your daughter
00:28:50.180
is? No, there's no monsters. I'll go look. I'll go check. I'll fight the monsters if there's any.
00:28:54.840
Oh, no, there's no monsters. You're okay. Everything will be fine. Daddy's here. You'll be okay.
00:29:03.440
I mean, the fear that the earth is on fire and that we're all going to die of climate change
00:29:07.740
is as ludicrous as the fear that there are monsters under the bed. But you can't blame a child for having
00:29:13.800
ludicrous fears. They're children. And if you've told them this, then what else are they supposed to
00:29:19.000
think? I mean, unfortunately, Katie Porter's parents, or rather children, have Katie Porter as a parent.
00:29:27.280
And sadly, they're going to believe whatever Katie Porter tells them.
00:29:31.580
It's not until they're older and they're out of the house where they can start to realize that
00:29:35.460
their mother was an abusive lunatic, psychologically manipulating them.
00:29:40.760
The earth is on fire. Come on. You know what? I have a lot of fears for my own children,
00:29:49.720
which I talk about all the time. I worry very much about the world that they're going to live in. I
00:29:54.840
worry about the culture they're going to live in. I worry about the country that we're leaving for
00:29:58.600
them. I worry about all of those things. But I am not worried that climate change is going to kill
00:30:05.200
them. Not anywhere on my list of worries. They'll be perfectly fine as far as that goes.
00:30:18.020
But you know what? Even my valid worries and concerns, I'm not telling my kids about that.
00:30:26.520
There are a lot of really real things out there in the world to be worried about.
00:30:33.660
You know, there are a lot of things out there in the world that could harm my kids, could kill them,
00:30:38.680
God forbid, could corrupt them, could all kinds of things, could ruin their lives. I mean,
00:30:45.500
there's a lot of terrible things that could happen to them. That's the reality.
00:30:48.880
I'm not telling them that. They don't know about almost any of it because they don't need to know
00:30:57.940
right now. They're with me and my wife. We're there to protect them.
00:31:06.640
Eventually, we won't be. So over time, you start to introduce them to some of these realities. But
00:31:10.600
at the age of six, seven, eight, no need. You can protect them from those realities. And you can
00:31:19.620
protect them from the realities as a parent. And you can especially protect them from things that
00:31:24.060
are not a reality. Such as the concern that climate change is going to destroy the earth because it's
00:31:30.080
not. All right. Speaking of things that are not a reality, this is from the New York Post. It says
00:31:37.440
social distancing inside at 60 feet is no safer than at six feet. And exposure time indoors is
00:31:44.980
actually far more important, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
00:31:49.160
in a report that challenges widely accepted COVID-19 prevention guidelines. Researchers say
00:31:53.860
there's little benefit to health officials' six-foot rule, especially when wearing masks inside.
00:32:00.120
MIT engineering professor Martin Bazant said the distancing isn't helping you that much,
00:32:05.420
and it's also giving you a false sense of security because you're as safe at six feet as you are at
00:32:09.500
60 feet if you're indoors. Everyone in that space is at roughly the same risk, actually.
00:32:16.440
During the study, researchers calculated exposure risk to the virus based on factors such as amount
00:32:21.940
of time spent inside, air filtration and circulation, according to the study. They also looked at factors
00:32:27.820
such as mask use, immunization, and respiratory activities such as breathing, eating, and speaking.
00:32:32.540
And it's an interesting article. You could go and read the whole thing.
00:32:38.760
So what they're saying, six foot, that's not based on anything. You're six feet away from someone
00:32:46.720
or 60 feet, basically the same thing. And I think that was obvious to a lot of us from the beginning
00:32:55.300
because they just pulled the six foot rule out of thin air. And so why did they decide on six feet?
00:33:03.480
Well, because that was as far as they felt they could enforce.
00:33:10.080
That's all it was. It was an enforcement calculation.
00:33:14.040
Now, whether there was any good reason to be enforcing anything at all, that wasn't considered.
00:33:21.460
It was just decided that, OK, we need to separate people and let's come up with a distance that we
00:33:29.760
And of course, for them, reasonable includes shutting down the whole economy, destroying
00:33:38.160
thousands of businesses in one fell swoop. For them, that's a reasonable thing that they can do,
00:33:46.460
But of course they did. Of course there was no science behind it.
00:33:49.000
They came up with this rule on the spot early on. I mean, what kind of studies did anyone think
00:34:03.900
You know, the irony here is, as it says in the article, the real kicker is exposure time.
00:34:11.000
It's how much time are you spending inside with someone who's infected?
00:34:19.640
So if you have an infected person in your family and you're in your home and you're inside with
00:34:25.960
them all hours of the day, then there's a really good chance you're going to get sick, no matter
00:34:29.500
how close you are to them. And what that means is that rather than all of these cities and states
00:34:38.760
shutting down their parks, shutting down their playgrounds,
00:34:41.560
you know, telling you that if you want to go walk the dog, you can only be out for seven and a half
00:34:47.860
minutes and you got to go back inside. Rather than doing that, they should have been telling
00:34:53.260
people, no, get outside as much as possible. Go out to the park, open up the parks, build more parks
00:34:58.280
for people, if anything. That's what should have been done. But instead they forced everyone to stay
00:35:06.040
inside, which increased exposure time and then people got each other sick. Brilliant, brilliant
00:35:11.320
strategy. All right. Finally, this is a tweet from Senator Schumer. He says, excited to be watching
00:35:18.480
the Oscars with an ice cold plant-based beer. Thanks, Joe Biden. Now, I'm not sure what this is referring
00:35:24.760
to. This must be some kind of attempt at a joke referencing some dumb thing or another. I don't know.
00:35:29.620
Obviously, all beer is plant-based, first of all. A meat-based beer sounds kind of interesting, but
00:35:35.200
not the kind of thing you'd probably want to, you know, maybe you'd try that one, a bacon-based beer.
00:35:40.180
I don't know if that exists. I'd try it. Not your everyday sipper kind of beer. But my problem is,
00:35:45.460
look at this picture here. He's in a wooden chair, sitting two feet from the screen,
00:35:52.540
holding the beer like it's the first time he's ever held a beer in his life.
00:35:54.800
This is what happens. And he's watching the Oscars, of all things. Who sits in a chair like
00:36:01.500
that? You're lounging at night. You're watching TV. You're sitting in a wooden chair right next to
00:36:06.160
the screen. This is what happens when these half-humanoid automatons that we've elected to
00:36:13.400
office, when they try to act like real people, this is what you end up with, is this.
00:36:21.020
Well done. I guess he thinks he's dunking on conservatives there. I'm not sure how or why,
00:36:26.620
but there it is. Well done, Chuck Schumer. All right, let's move on to reading the YouTube
00:36:30.980
comments. This is from Eugene, says, love you, brother. This black American is all about personal
00:36:35.400
accountability. Yeah, if we're going to talk about LeBron James is out there shouting,
00:36:40.920
accountability, accountability. I think accountability is a great idea. I think we need more of that.
00:36:46.120
I agree with you, Eugene. Personal accountability, first and foremost. Well, personal accountability
00:36:52.100
and another P word, parental accountability. Those are the two forms of accountability that we need.
00:37:00.120
Another comment says, I actually saw an arrest playing out today. The one being arrested appeared
00:37:04.040
to be a black man. He didn't resist, answered all the cops' questions, and what do you know? He
00:37:08.140
wasn't shot. It's crazy how it almost always works out that way. You're being arrested because you
00:37:17.820
committed a crime or you're suspected of committing a crime. You don't resist arrest. You fight the
00:37:24.560
charge in court. You'll live to tell the tale in almost every case, black or white. Another comment,
00:37:32.660
we live in an era of narcissistic nature. We've emboldened this idea of me first, and now we have
00:37:37.660
multiple generations that believe the lie that they are uniquely important. That young girl was never
00:37:42.680
taught that you have to respect authority, whether you like it or not. Yeah, Micaiah Bryant, obviously not
00:37:49.100
taught to respect authority, but the greater problem is that it doesn't seem like Micaiah Bryant was taught
00:37:54.980
anything at all from a parenting perspective. It doesn't seem like there was really any parental
00:37:59.020
influence. She was in foster care, after all, and her mother is living and apparently lives down the
00:38:03.860
street. So she wasn't taught how to respect authority. She wasn't taught anything, and that's
00:38:10.120
how you end up with a 16-year-old trying to stab someone to death over a fight over, you know, who
00:38:14.180
makes the bed. Another says, we have grown to love the polka dot shirt, Matt. Well, then that means I
00:38:22.900
have to stop wearing it. You're not supposed to love it. You're supposed to grow to hate it more
00:38:28.880
and more with each passing week. That's the punishment.
00:38:37.140
This is kind of like, I'm going through what I go through with my kids
00:38:39.840
now, where your kids get to a certain age where sending them to their room isn't really a punishment
00:38:45.340
anymore, because it just gives them a break and kind of gives them some time to themselves and
00:38:49.380
they can play with their toys. I'm thinking of different punishment, I guess. But no, I'm still
00:38:54.900
going to wear the polka dot shirt. I said a year and I'm going to do it. Finally, another comment
00:38:59.420
says, hey, Matt, I'm a travel nurse on assignment in Austin, Texas right now. I came to UT to hear you
00:39:04.680
speak and unfortunately was one of the many with a ticket who couldn't get in due to the COVID
00:39:08.240
restrictions. I was upset but ultimately laughed at the irony of not being let in to hear you speak
00:39:13.280
due to COVID. I wasn't nearly as upset as the guy in front of me who drove from Houston to hear you.
00:39:17.260
So looking forward to hopefully catching you speak in the future. Yeah, I feel terrible about
00:39:22.180
that. I heard a lot of these stories after I was done. You know, I was speaking at UT Austin last
00:39:27.800
week and I'm giving my speech blissfully unaware of what's going out in the hallway. And apparently
00:39:34.360
there were lots of people that were that came out, had tickets, were turned away by the university
00:39:41.040
because of COVID restrictions. And just because what the university decided is that speaking of
00:39:47.200
arbitrary guidelines, you know, we know six feet is arbitrary. They also decided that only 99 people
00:39:52.560
could be a part of the event. 99 was the cap. Couldn't go beyond 99 people. Because we all know,
00:39:59.000
right? As long as you don't get into triple digits, once you get the triple digits, that's when COVID
00:40:03.500
activates and everyone's going to get sick. But to give you an idea of how ridiculous this was, 99
00:40:13.020
people. And what that meant was you could only have 99 people participate in the event, no matter where
00:40:21.300
they were on the campus. So for example, we had a really big open room right next to us where we could
00:40:30.660
have had some overflow capacity, but that would count against the 99. So if you had, if there were 99
00:40:37.680
people in the room and one person sitting in a 300 person room next door, watching it on a TV screen
00:40:46.520
or listening to it, that would be above the limit, according to the university, even though they're
00:40:51.780
in the next room. So those were the rules. I apologize to all the people that got turned away.
00:40:57.660
They really do. I hope we can get to a point soon enough where we can just do events and not have to
00:41:03.200
worry about this anymore. Quick word now from Charity Mobile. We're about to talk about, in the daily
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00:41:19.100
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00:41:23.540
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00:41:52.440
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00:42:16.300
Well, another high-energy episode of Candace is coming at you this Friday. This week,
00:42:19.800
Candace hosts political commentator and interviewer Dave Rubin, where they'll, of course,
00:42:24.660
going to have a lot to discuss, including the recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom
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Candace at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:42:47.000
Today for our daily cancellation, we turn to a viral article in the Orlando Sentinel. The piece
00:42:51.880
is written by guest contributor Jonathan Van Boskirk with the headline, I love Disney World,
00:42:57.760
but wokeness is ruining the experience. And it begins this way. He says, my family and I have
00:43:03.080
been loyal Disney customers for decades. We vacation at Disney World every year. We take a Disney cruise
00:43:07.300
every year or two. Consequently, we spend way too much money in Orlando. Unfortunately, I'm strongly
00:43:12.180
rethinking our commitment to Disney and thus Orlando. The more Disney moves away from the values and vision
00:43:17.280
of Walt Disney, the less Disney World means to me. Disney is forgetting that guest immersion is at
00:43:21.720
the core of its business model. When I stand in Galaxy's Edge or Fantasyland, I know I'm in a theme
00:43:28.260
park, but through immersion and my willingness to set the real world aside, something magical happens.
00:43:33.240
That spell is broken when the immersive experience is shattered by the real world.
00:43:36.660
And boy, has Disney been breaking the immersion. Okay, now already we have a problem because
00:43:43.000
a grown man is describing Disney World as magical. It's arguable whether a grown man ought to be
00:43:49.480
calling anything magical, unless the thing is literally magical, like if you stumble across a lamp with
00:43:53.900
an actual genie inside it or something, then you could call that magical. But certainly, that sort of
00:43:58.820
sentiment should not be applied to a theme park. I've been to plenty of theme parks, and at this point
00:44:04.380
in my life, they do not put me under any sort of spell. If I'm immersed in anything, it's the
00:44:09.540
thought of how much damned money I'm spending for the privilege of standing in a series of long lines
00:44:13.860
while listening to kids, to kids, other people's and my own, whine about the line, the heat, they want
00:44:19.640
a snack, et cetera, et cetera. As I said, this article went viral, and most people are criticizing the
00:44:25.020
writer, but not for the reason that I'm criticizing him. I take issue with Mr. Van Boskirk primarily
00:44:31.640
because adult men shouldn't like Disney World so much, or at all. And I've made this point before, and I've been
00:44:38.240
told by other adult men that I'm nothing but a curmudgeon for saying this because Disney World is the
00:44:43.840
happiest place on earth. And how could I hate the happiest place on earth? Now, I am indeed a curmudgeon,
00:44:48.980
but even so, a place that trademarks itself as the happiest place on earth and charges you hundreds of dollars
00:44:55.460
to experience that happiness is certain to be anything but the happiest place on earth.
00:45:01.340
For me, it's not like I don't have any happy place. For me, the happiest place on earth for me
00:45:06.180
is a quiet lake at 6 a.m. with a coffee mug and a fishing rod. Second happiest is the same lake 12
00:45:13.900
hours later with a beer instead of a coffee. For me, that's the happiest. It's quiet, it's free,
00:45:18.380
it's peaceful. The idea of trading that in for a theme park is repugnant to me on a deep and visceral
00:45:26.040
level. No way. That's my problem with this article. That's my problem with it. Everyone
00:45:32.280
else seems to be taking issue with this part where he writes, quote, recently Disney announced that
00:45:37.900
cast members are now permitted to display tattoos, wear inclusive uniforms, and display inclusive
00:45:43.220
haircuts. Disney did all of this in the name of allowing cast members to express themselves.
00:45:48.960
The problem is I'm not traveling across the country and paying thousands of dollars to watch
00:45:52.880
someone I don't know express themselves. I am there for the immersion and the fantasy,
00:45:58.880
not the reality of a stranger's self-expression. I do not begrudge these people their individuality,
00:46:03.980
and I wish them well in their personal lives, but I don't get to express my individuality at my
00:46:08.360
place of business. What's next? Is Disney going to end the rule barring onstage cell phone use by
00:46:13.700
cast members as an infringement on self-expression? Now, people are mocking the writer for this passage,
00:46:19.640
but he's actually 100% correct about this part of it. I personally have no stake in the uniform
00:46:24.640
requirements for Disney princesses, but as a neutral third party, I can say, yes, this is stupid.
00:46:31.880
If your job is to pretend to be the Little Mermaid or whoever, then that's your job.
00:46:37.060
Nobody cares about your self-expression. Nobody goes to Disney and pays all that money to see,
00:46:42.080
you know, Sarah Johnson from Lakeland, Florida express herself. They're not going for that.
00:46:47.780
They want to see the Little Mermaid. That's why they're there.
00:46:52.120
Why they go to see the Little Mermaid is a different question. Why grown men go to see the Little
00:46:56.580
Mermaid is definitely a whole separate question, but that's what they're doing. That's what they want.
00:47:01.660
And your job is to give them what they want. It'd be like if I worked at McDonald's and I decided that
00:47:06.120
I was going to personally change the recipe of the Big Mac in order to express myself.
00:47:11.300
If I said, you know, I just, I'm giving out these Big Macs all day and I just can't,
00:47:15.300
I can't communicate my inner feelings through this Big Mac recipe. I'm going to change it.
00:47:21.200
See, the problem is that the people in the drive-thru line, they're not there to get
00:47:24.760
Matt Walsh's twist on the Big Mac. They're there for the Big Mac, the same Big Mac they've always had.
00:47:31.300
And my job is to give them that. Again, there's the same question as to why anyone would want that
00:47:35.960
product. But if you work there, it's not your place to be asking those questions.
00:47:41.340
It is not to reason why, it is but to do and die. That wisdom from the Charge of the Light Brigade
00:47:47.220
applies both to military units and Disney World employees, in my mind. So on this point, I agree
00:47:52.980
with Mr. Van Boskirk. He continues, more broadly, like many corporations, Disney has been politicizing
00:48:00.960
its business. Disney is in the process of taking the woke scalpel to the jungle cruise. Traitor Sam
00:48:06.460
is out because he might offend certain people. Every grown-up in the room realizes that Traitor Sam
00:48:11.620
is not a representation of reality and is meant as a funny and silly caricature. It's no more based
00:48:16.840
in racism than every Disney caricature of an out-of-touch white American dad.
00:48:20.660
Side note, no, grown-ups don't know who Traitor Sam is. That's the grown-up perspective on this. But
00:48:26.980
anyway, the next time I ride Jungle Cruise, I will not be thinking about the gloriously entertaining
00:48:32.740
puns of the skippers. I will be thinking about Disney's political agenda. That's a mood killer.
00:48:38.420
Disney proclaims that Splash Mountain must change because of its association with Song of the South.
00:48:44.120
Disney owns Splash Mountain, so it can do what it wants. But if Disney screams at the top of its
00:48:48.800
corporate voice, which is pretty loud, that it's changing it to appease a certain political point
00:48:53.080
of view, now every time I look at that ride, I am thinking about politics. The same with Pirates of
00:48:57.640
the Caribbean. Disney has made significant changes to Pirates of the Caribbean over the years. Whether
00:49:02.040
Disney caved to political pressure or really thought the alterations were necessary is irrelevant.
00:49:09.260
Disney World is going to lose us as customers if it continues down this path.
00:49:12.680
I don't want to have Disney World taken away from us because Disney cares more about politics than
00:49:17.480
happy guests. Disney, please return to the values and vision of Walt. The customer experience should
00:49:23.260
be the core of your business model. Immersion should not be sacrificed on the altar of political
00:49:27.600
correctness and appeasing the Twitter mob. Okay. Now, I join the writer in opposing the
00:49:36.360
wokeification and PCification of pop culture. I agree with the general sentiment, though again,
00:49:42.280
you wouldn't have this problem if you were out on the lake like a man. But this man and every other
00:49:49.220
conservative needs to understand something. Disney, like so many other companies, hates your guts.
00:49:57.860
That is not going to change. Disney hates you, despises you. It will gladly take your money.
00:50:07.560
If you insist on pushing your money into its hand, if you continue to empty your wallet right into
00:50:12.420
Disney's grubby paws, it'll be happy to oblige. They'll put their hands out and say, go ahead,
00:50:17.060
give me all your money. But it hates you. And giving Disney your money begrudgingly,
00:50:23.220
scowling and complaining while you do it, that doesn't accomplish anything. Money is money.
00:50:29.100
You don't achieve anything by saying, gosh darn it, Disney, I'm not happy with you. I'm really
00:50:33.900
miffed about this. Oh, how much was that? $646? Okay, here you go. Anyway, I am so displeased with
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you, Disney. That message just lacks a certain weight, I guess. The only thing that will make a
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difference, make a dent, is if you withhold your money completely. Again, Disney hates the majority
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of its customers. If all of those customers said, okay, we'll screw you too then, and took their money
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elsewhere, things would change. But if you aren't willing to do that, then there's no point in
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complaining. So we have to make a decision. Okay, it's decision time. Either we can shut up and be
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good and cooperative little consumers, and open our mouths, and consume whatever they serve to us,
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whatever heaping pile of toxic sludge they put in front of our faces. We can just dive right in.
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Or we can be discerning and intentional in how we spend our money.
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You know, those are the choices. If we choose the former, then we might as well stop whining and go
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with the flow. Whichever the case, it's time to choose. Door one or door two.
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The writer of this article seems to want to have it both ways, and so he is canceled.
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Also, a lot of his critics are canceled for disagreeing with his correct points.
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They disagreed with him for the wrong reasons, and so they're canceled. And Disney is canceled too.
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And the Disney princesses with tattoos also canceled. Everyone is canceled, as it should be.
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