Ep. 711 - Daddy Government Wants Your Child
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Biden delivers a long, rambling, at times barely intelligible speech to Congress last night. But if you could stay awake and decipher it, there was plenty to be concerned about, especially the part where Biden unveils his plan for universal preschool. Plus, is the no fly list being politically weaponized by the Biden administration? And finally, in our daily cancellation, we ll talk about the outrage over Steve Harvey's comments that men and women cannot be platonic friends.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Biden delivers a long, rambling, at times, barely
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intelligible speech to Congress last night. But if you could stay awake and decipher it,
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there was plenty to be concerned about, especially the part where Biden unveils his plan for
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universal preschool. I'll explain why that's a horrible, dystopian idea. Also, five headlines,
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including the parents who are volunteering their babies for COVID vaccine trials. What sort of
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parent would do that? And a track runner, an organ, collapses on the track after being forced
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to run with a mask. Plus, is the no-fly list being politically weaponized by the Biden
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administration? We'll deal with that. And finally, in our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the
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outrage over comments made by Steve Harvey, claiming that men and women cannot be platonic
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friends. Is he wrong or is he exactly 100% correct? All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You know, the problem with State of the Union addresses or speeches to a joint session of
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Congress, which is the same thing, is that they're always dull and pointless and forgotten by everyone
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35 minutes after they conclude. They make no difference, they leave no lasting mark, and they
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achieve nothing. It is an occasion for our political elites to engage in empty, self-congratulatory
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pageantry, sort of like the Oscars, but for presidents. Not incidentally, they also tend to
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be as boring as the Oscars and degenerate about the same level of viewer enthusiasm. Enthusiasm which
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hovers somewhere in between dazed, confused, and catatonic. And of course, that also happens to
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describe the general demeanor of our president. Credit where it's due, though. Biden's speech did at
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least manage to up the ante and be even more grotesque and depressing than the average speech of this
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sort. Last night, Biden delivered his address to a half-empty room of socially distanced, fully
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vaccinated politicians in masks. It all looked quite creepy and dystopian, like a masquerade ball from hell
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or something. Now, if congressional Republicans had any sense or backbone, they would have refused to
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participate in the farce. Instead, they sat there, masked and obedient, clapping on cue. Now, imagine if
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Republicans had refused to wear the masks on the reasonable ground that they're all vaccinated and
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the masks serve, therefore, no effective purpose. Would they have been kicked out of the room? Would
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they have been arrested? Or would they have been allowed to sit there maskless and free as men and
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women of dignity? Whatever the case, it would have been a major political win. There would have been
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no way to lose politically had the Republicans refused to take part in the masking sham. The only way to
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lose was to do exactly what the Democrats told them to do. And as always, Republicans surveyed the
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options and quickly chose the one where they gain nothing, lose everything, and the other side wins.
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They're nothing if not consistent. Now, the speech itself was lengthy and drawn out, but also moved
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quickly from one topic to the next in a mostly disjointed fashion. Listening to it was like being
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stuck in some sort of disorienting time warp. It felt like it was moving quickly, but also not moving at
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all. Biden kicked things off by claiming that the January 6th riot was the worst attack on our
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democracy since the Civil War. Now, some might say that 9-11 was at least slightly worse than a crowd
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of people briefly trespassing in the Capitol. In one case, 3,000 people were slaughtered. In the other,
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only one person was directly killed in the melee, and that was one of the people in the crowd who was
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shot dead while unarmed by a still unnamed Capitol Police officer. Indeed, some might say that there
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have been countless attacks and tragedies between 1865 and 2021 that were far worse in scope, scale,
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and body count than January 6th. Even the BLM riots before and after that event were worse by all of
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those measures, and it's not even close. But Biden's speech was based in a reality that is not the one that
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we all live in. Case in point, he also pledged to cure cancer and promised to devote trillions of dollars
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to an infinite array of programs and causes. This is just not a serious man. It was not a serious speech,
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though his agenda or the agenda of his handlers does pose a serious threat. But the most frightening part of
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Biden's rambling, half-whispered diatribe came at the very beginning when he unveiled his $1.8 trillion
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American Families Plan, because he's got a plan for you, for your family, which is supposed to
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guarantee paid leave, free community college, free daycare, free waffles for every man, woman,
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and child in the country. It also includes an item long on the leftist wish list, which is universal
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The great universities in this country have conducted studies over the last 10 years.
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It shows that adding two years of universal high-quality preschool for every three-year-old
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and four-year-old, no matter what background they come from, puts them in the position to
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be able to compete all the way through 12 years and increases exponentially their prospect of
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graduating and going on beyond graduation. The research shows when a young child goes to
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school, not daycare, they're far more likely to graduate from high school and go to college
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or something after high school. When you add two years of free community college on top of that,
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Yes, send your three-year-old to school, not daycare, you irresponsible parents.
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Now, in fact, as publications from The Atlantic to The Washington Post to The Heritage Foundation have
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all argued, universal preschool does not live up to the promises that Biden makes for it.
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In the long run, studies show that it can do more academic harm than good.
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But the real problem with the universal preschool plan is deeper and more fundamental than that.
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Biden says that if we get children into the government education system, starting at the age of three,
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they'll be able to better compete and ultimately their prospects of going to college will improve.
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Now, this is an idea rooted in a materialistic, utilitarian view of the human person.
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People are not people so much as cogs to be molded into the correct shape and fit into their appointed
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place in the machine. The strategy doesn't even really achieve that desired end, but that's almost
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beside the point. What sort of parent is worried about their three-year-old competing?
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Competing. Competing against who? My youngest son is four, and I've never once given even a moment's
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thought to whether I'm currently equipping him with all the tools he needs to compete in the global
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marketplace. He's a child. His job now is to be a child. My job is to see to his basic needs while
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attending also to his moral, spiritual, and emotional formation. At no point have I even considered what
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his college application might look like one day or how his professional resume is coming together.
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I am concerned with teaching him, yeah, but for children at his age, preschool age we call it now,
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the best way for them to learn is not by sitting in a classroom, but by playing and exploring.
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You know, playing for a young child, that's serious business. That's where they do most of their
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learning and developing. It's ultimately harmful to a child's development to place competitive pressure
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on them that early. Young children should feel only the mild pressure to, you know, clean up their toys
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and finish their broccoli. They should be thinking about their future SAT scores, for God's sake.
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But then again, I'm approaching this, right, from the standpoint of a parent.
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That is, I love my children, and I want them to be happy, and I want them to grow into good and
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well-adjusted human beings. That's my desire for them as a parent. The government, for all of its
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nanny state talk, for all of its talk where it makes itself sound like it's a parent, it doesn't
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actually love my children or yours and doesn't care about spiritual and emotional and moral growth
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development or anything else. The government sees your child as property to be owned and used. That's
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why Joe Biden there says, no, no, no, your three-year-old doesn't belong in daycare. Your three-year-old
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belongs with us. Give him to me. Now, the government's objective is to ensure that your child becomes the
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sort of person that it needs him to be and thinks he ought to be. The brainwashing has to start early.
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Now, that, of course, is not just a matter of fitting them into the global marketplace, but it is about
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turning, making sure from the government's perspective that your child has the correct, quote-unquote,
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values and beliefs. And we've got a pretty good idea of what those values and beliefs are. You get
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them in there at three, you start them on the gender indoctrination, you start them on critical
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race theory, you get that in very, very early. So early that the child stands no chance of resisting
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it. Three-year-old has no critical thinking skills almost at all. So whatever you tell them, they'll
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believe. And the government knows that that objective is better served and can more effectively
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be fulfilled if the children are sent into its clutches at the youngest possible age.
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Children once began school in kindergarten, you know, and then we added pre-K and then pre-pre-K
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and soon pre-pre-pre-K and then, you know, then you get pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-K and it just goes on and
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on and on. This cannot be best for your child. It's not. What's best for him is to be at home with
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you, not sent into government buildings almost immediately after birth. But the government is not
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concerned about what's best for him. They're concerned about how they can use him and how they
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can best turn him into the sort of person they think he should be. And that is why preschool is
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canceled. Oh, wait, no, that's, that's a segment at the end of the show. But either way, uh, universal
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preschool is a terrible idea. Now let's get to our five headlines. You know, I did have to, uh, by the
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way, mentioned the top of the monologue, uh, specify that, uh, talk about the state of the union
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addresses, state of the union address, or a joint speech to Congress speech to a joint session of
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Congress. It's really important to, um, stipulate that because of all the pedantic a-holes out there
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in internet land, which is the one thing I think I hate most about the internet and we all do.
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So like, for example, I, I, I tweeted yesterday, uh, last night, uh, about exactly what I said,
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that every state of the union address is, is pointless and is forgotten by everyone the next
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day, which is true. I mean, can you remember anything that a president said in any state of
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the union address in the past? Uh, I certainly don't. And, but the comments under that tweet,
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it was just nothing, but one comment after another, this was not a state of the union address. It was an
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annual message. State of the union will be in January, Matt. This was an address to Congress,
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just FYI, not a state of the union. Then what, this wasn't a state of the union address. One
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comment, what state of the union address? This wasn't that LOL. This wasn't a state of the union
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speech genius. And it's like, no, it is, it is. It's exactly the same thing. It's just a different
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name. Sometimes presidents in their, and this, this started somewhat recently, the last few presidents,
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their first state of the union address, uh, they choose to call it something else for political
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reasons. Mostly. I don't know what exactly those political reasons are probably has a lot to do
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with, well, I just got here. So usually stay the union address. I'm going to look back on the past
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year and say what a great job I did, but I just got here. And I don't want to say the last guy did a
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great job. So this is going to be a slightly different thing politically people. This is how you
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could tell, uh, is a good IQ test when people, they have nothing of value to add to a conversation.
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So all they can do is leap in with a pedantic, useless, uh, redundant correction. That's how you
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could tell everyone that does that their sub 100 IQs. All right. Um, but thank you for, for, to everyone
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who's felt the need to correct me on that point. Senator Tim Scott gave his rebuttal to Biden's
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speech last night. It was, it was fine. Uh, mostly it was a decent speech. Tim Scott seems to be a
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decent guy. Uh, he talked about how America isn't racist, which is, which is a good thing to talk
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about. And he was attacked for that and called racial slurs by the left, ironically. Um, but that
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of course also was expected. Let's, uh, let's listen to that part of here. He is explaining how
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America is not a racist country. Here's Tim Scott. A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught
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the color of their skin was their most important characteristic. And if they looked a certain way,
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they were inferior today. Cues are being taught that the color of their skin defines them again.
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And if they look a certain way, they're an oppressor from colleges to corporations, to our
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culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress
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at all by doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal. You know, this stuff is
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wrong. Hear me clearly. America is not a racist country. It's backwards to fight discrimination
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with different types of discrimination. And it's wrong to try to use our painful past to dishonestly
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shut down debates in the present. Fine. Good. Nope. No problem there. But, um, we as conservatives,
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we're so desperate, you know, for Republicans who are not milquetoast cowards that we're very,
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very easy to impress. And so we hear something like that. And everybody, a lot of conservatives
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yesterday were, uh, on their feet cheering. Yes, finally, someone said it. America is not a racist
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country. Well, yeah, of course I would hope he would at least say that. That's, that's that bar.
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The bar is not even off the ground yet in terms of the standard. Are we really at a point now where
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we're impressed when a, when a Republican simply says America is not a racist country?
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That's a sad statement. And I get it. It's a statement about the, the, the, the Republican
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party generally that we're impressed by something like that, but it's not actually impressive.
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Yeah. I think, I think we need to expect more than that.
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Uh, and unfortunately a lot of the good stuff was undermined. And the reason why I can't give Tim
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Scott anything close to an A plus grade, um, is because for one, you know, the, the GOP needs
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someone out front in the lead who is to my mind, aggressive, fiery, someone who goes on the offense.
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But most of Scott's speech was defensive and that's not just him as Republicans. Again, in general,
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it's a defensive speech. Well, you just heard there about America's not racist. True. Good thing to
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point out, but also a defensive statement. But then worst of all, um, there was this where he starts
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to talk about the need for police reform. Let's listen. Believe me. I know firsthand our healing
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is not finished. In 2015, after the shooting of Walter Scott, I wrote a bill to fund body cameras.
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Last year, after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, I built an even bigger police reform
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proposal, but my democratic colleagues blocked it. I extended an olive branch. I offered amendments,
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but Democrats used a filibuster to block the debate from even happening. My friends across the aisle
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seem to want the issue more than they wanted a solution, but I'm still working. I'm hopeful that
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this will be different. Yeah. And that's another, uh, thing tried and true from the Republican playbook
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is to rather than taking issue on a, on a fundamental like principle-based level with what the left is
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trying to do. Instead, you agree with the fundamental principle. And then you say, oh, no, we, we agree
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with the left that this, that this or that thing needs to happen, but we're the ones who are better
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at making that thing happen. So the argument essentially is, um, we're, we are a more effective
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version of leftists. We're a more, we're leftists too, but we're effective leftists. That's the selling
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point we get from the Republican party. That's a, that's a selling point we get from supposed
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conservatives. That's what you just heard there. He's saying, Hey, I want to, I'm, I, I think there
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needs to be federal police reform to police reform on the federal level. But, uh, we, we're the one
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we we're trying harder than them to reform the police. No, what we need to hear is here's what we need
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to hear. The push for police reform is based on a fantasy is based on a falsehood. It is based on a
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myth. It is based entirely this, this push right now for police reform is based entirely on the idea
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that there is an epidemic of race-based police brutality. That's what, that's why we're talking
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about police reform. Everyone knows that. Well, that is false. It's not real. It's made up. It's
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not a real epidemic. The facts don't line up with that. That's a false narrative. That's what we need
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to hear. I would love to hear someone like Tim Scott, Tim Scott, any, any Republican given that
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kind of stage, stand up there and give the statistics, tell people the truth about what's really going on.
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Talk about the number of police shootings compared to the number of arrests. How many of them are
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unarmed? The fact that the vast, vast, vast majority of police shootings are, are straightforwardly
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valid and legitimate because you've got a violent perp trying to murder a police officer, usually,
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usually shooting at them. And that's, and then they get shot back. That's like the majority of
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police shootings. Talk about that. How about defend specifically, you know, some of these specific
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officers, the officer in the Micaiah Bryant, um, shooting, for example. But that's what the push
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for police reform is based on. No, we, that's, that's not the problem right now in our cities is
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not that we have police, uh, precincts and police departments that are unreformed. That's not what we
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need. We don't need police reform. We don't need criminal justice reform in the way that the Democrats
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talk about it and the way the Republicans do. What we need are, are better ways to get violent
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criminals off the street and keep them off. Because as the, that's the kind of reform we need
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when a criminal justice reform, that's it. Because there are hundreds, thousands of violent criminals
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walking around our cities right now who are known to the system, have already been through the system,
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have already been arrested a bunch of times, are known to be violent threats. They filter through,
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they're put back out into the community. They keep committing crimes. They go back in
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until finally they do something so heinous that there's no choice, but to put them away for good.
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Enforcing the law, getting dangerous people out of society, better protecting society,
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society. I'd love to hear that from the Republicans.
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Instead, we get police reform, which again is a Democrat idea. Democrats are the ones who told
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us we need police reform. And then Tim Scott and others say, all right, great idea. I'll do a better
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job than you. All right. Number two, if you want to feel your skin crawl, always a fun sensation.
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Let me play some clips from an ABC report about parents who've offered their kids up to be lab rats
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in vaccine trials. So as it stands right now, of course, kids are not eligible for the vaccine,
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but they've got to, you know, do, do trials on kids. And so there are parents out there
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willingly offering their kids up and saying, sure, try, try this, uh, inject this substance into my
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child. We'll, we'll see what happens. Let's watch a little bit of this report.
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Today, kids as young as six months old are taking part in trials for both Moderna and Pfizer's COVID-19
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vaccines with their parents' consent. Dr. Zina Good enrolled both her sons in Stanford Hospital's
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Pfizer trial. So we thought participating is a really good way to protect our kids. And so far,
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because this vaccine has been tested in a lot of teenagers and so many adults, and it was shown
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very safe. We felt pretty comfortable to participate. Seven-month-old Soren, one of the youngest in the
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trial, received his first shot last week. Mom says he's doing well. His older brother, three-year-old
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Ando, also got the shot. Did he experience any side effects from the vaccine? He had a sore arm for
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like for a day and was a little bit low in energy for like a day, but that's not much. We're not sure
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it's even side effects. He might've just, you know, been tired that morning. Okay. Well, you know,
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what, what makes this to me so heinous is that this is, uh, an illness that doesn't affect kids anyway.
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Now, if this was an illness that affected kids, uh, I, I still probably wouldn't be putting my kids
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up in line to be, to be first. Uh, but at least you could say, you know, there, there's a, there's
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a potential advantage to your child that this is an illness that affects kids and you're worried
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about your kid's health. And so you want to get them the vaccine as quickly as possible. Uh, and,
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and the risks are low and all of that. So maybe you could make an argument there, but in this case,
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it's, it's, it's not a, your, your child, these children, a baby are at almost no risk already.
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So you're introducing a risk for no reason. Um, offering them up to be, to be experimented on,
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to be lab rats in a vaccine trial for a virus that wouldn't really affect them anyway. Most of the time,
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here's another parent and I want you to listen to her reasoning. I thought it was pretty telling
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here. She is. I think it's a three-year-old child explaining why she put her three-year-old up to
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be, um, experimented on with the vaccine. Here it is. Dr. Angela LaCour's three-year-old daughter
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is also in the trial. She says she feels strongly that doing this isn't just about keeping her child
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safe. We were just so lucky that we have a healthy child. Um, and so grateful that she's able to be
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part of this. But I think knowing that there are so many other parents out there whose children are
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vulnerable and, and maybe struggling and they're really waiting for the vaccine to become a reality,
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her being able to be part of this and make that as a reality for other families. And as a mom,
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I can't imagine what that fear must be like for them. We're just so proud of her outside of
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a fever, a rash at the injection site. Did they talk to you about any potential side effects?
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I know that in very extreme and rare circumstances, like they couldn't even give us a rate for this.
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There's the risk of anaphylaxis. Um, and again, she hasn't had any kind of reaction to other vaccines.
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So not something I was very concerned about, but it also brought us a lot of comfort that we were
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doing this across the street from the hospital. Yeah. Uh, so she says, we're grateful that we have a
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healthy child. And so we're going to offer her up here, um, because of other kids and we're looking
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out for other kids, but that may seem magnanimous and generous, but the problem is it's, it's your
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kids. If you were offering yourself up your own body as a, as a, as a, um, you know, a vessel for
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experimentation with the vaccine, then I could say, okay, very brave of you. I can appreciate that,
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but it's not you though. It's your child. And they didn't consent to this. They can't have
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consented. She's only three years old. There's no way she could have consented. You might've told
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her, Oh honey, we're going to bring you in and give you a shot. And, uh, and then you'll get a
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sticker. We'll take out for ice cream. And I'm sure the kid will say, Oh, sounds great. Yeah,
00:25:43.820
let's do it, mommy. But they have no idea what they're doing or what the potential side effects are.
00:25:52.880
Nobody really knows exactly what the side effects are in kids. That's why we're doing trials right now.
00:25:55.980
So they didn't consent, can't consent. And you're offering them up for the sake of other children.
00:26:02.120
That is totally disordered and backwards, upside down, topsy-turvy. Okay. That's not as, as a,
00:26:08.160
as a parent, your first priority is your own child's safety. Always. You never put your own child's
00:26:17.600
safety below, you know, the, the, uh, the welfare of other children. It's good to be concerned
00:26:25.900
about the welfare of all children. But your first concern is the child that God gave to you
00:26:31.420
and to potentially sacrifice that welfare or to put it on the line for the sake of the welfare
00:26:38.960
of someone else's child is completely disordered. Um, speaking of disordered things, number three
00:26:46.780
here, the state of Oregon is revising. Now it's outdoor mask mandate after a runner collapsed on the
00:26:54.600
track from lack of oxygen. So they're running track and they have to wear a face mask. Face masks
00:27:03.080
said again, we're, we're, we're not made to be run while sprint to be, to be worn while sprinting.
00:27:08.220
Um, but, um, here's what led to the, to the revision of these mask mandates in Oregon.
00:27:14.860
Good afternoon. I'm Lee Anderson, a runner from summit high school collapsed during competition.
00:27:20.240
Now the Oregon health authorities updating its mask policy for outdoor sports.
00:27:28.780
Maggie Williams, just seconds away from setting the summit school record in the 800 meter,
00:27:33.480
a moment of glory overshadowed by this moment of concern. Williams finished in two minutes and
00:27:40.940
eight seconds collapsing as she crossed the finish line. I felt like I just wasn't being able to get
00:27:46.560
a full breath and multiple times of that happening, not being able to get enough air. It just, I just
00:27:51.760
felt super dizzy and then eventually passed out. Williams blames her lack of oxygen on the mask
00:27:57.380
she's required to wear during competition. Clearly in the past, this has never happened. And then this
00:28:02.720
race that I was wearing a mask, it did happen, which I don't think is a coincidence. Her coach
00:28:07.380
echoing that belief saying this was not a conditioning issue. It was a mask issue. It was a
00:28:12.720
different response than I've seen for kids that have collapsed to the track just because they were
00:28:16.620
exhausted. She wasn't sure where she was. Yeah. Well, yeah, of course not. We don't, we don't need
00:28:22.320
to be those of us who are, who are sane individuals. We don't need to be convinced that she collapsed
00:28:29.000
because of a lack of oxygen. Obviously she did. She had a piece of cloth over her mouth while she's
00:28:33.820
running at full speed. Um, I ran track in high school, but I don't think you need to run track,
00:28:39.720
have that experience to, to understand how this might work. It's restricting your oxygen flow.
00:28:46.660
You're breathing in more of the air that you have just exhaled and less of the fresh air from
00:28:51.540
outside. But as always, we were, we, we've been told all along, don't, don't trust your own common
00:28:58.180
sense instincts. We have to wait for the studies to tell you. And so that's why we've been told all
00:29:04.220
along that no, no, no, no. Masks don't restrict airflow at all. What? I, I don't need to look at a
00:29:10.900
study to know that they do. There is a, there is a, a blockage. There is something over your face.
00:29:16.240
Obviously, if that thing was not over your face, you'd be able to breathe better. Clearly
00:29:22.660
the fact that we've got kids who are almost no risk already outside running on a track,
00:29:34.320
you know, spread out, they're racing and they're wearing masks. This is the kind of thing future
00:29:41.520
generations. We'll look back on this and they will never stop mocking us. We are going to be a
00:29:48.320
laughingstock of history because of this kind of thing and we'll deserve it. All right, next, uh,
00:29:54.140
Nick Fuentes says that he tried to board a plane this week only to discover that he was on the no
00:30:00.220
fly list. And later he published a video of himself talking to a Southwest agent. I think it was Southwest
00:30:05.820
who tells him in the video that he can't fly with them and he needs to talk to TSA about it,
00:30:11.640
which seems to confirm, or at least provide good evidence that he is indeed on some kind of no fly
00:30:16.800
list. And it's not just a matter of one airline saying you can't board for this or that reason.
00:30:21.760
Um, now anyone who, who has listened to this show for a while knows that Nick Fuentes and I
00:30:27.880
have not seen eye to eye to put it mildly, but here's the thing. You don't have to see eye to eye with
00:30:32.960
a person. You don't have to agree with them about everything or anything at all in order to be
00:30:36.720
very, very troubled at the prospect, the possibility that people are being put on a no fly list because
00:30:42.100
of their political viewpoints or ideological viewpoints. I mean, no matter how, it doesn't
00:30:49.040
matter how you feel about those views. Nick Fuentes hasn't been, uh, convicted of any crime. He hasn't
00:30:54.940
been charged with any crime. He was at the Capitol on January 6th, but he says he was never in the
00:31:01.240
building, never entered the building, hasn't been charged with entering it. Now the thing about the
00:31:05.220
no fly list is that, um, you aren't going to know exactly why you're on it. So you could say, well,
00:31:12.800
maybe there's a good reason. Well, so what? We're supposed to just trust the government when they
00:31:18.300
say that, that's the problem. They don't tell you why you're on it. They don't even tell you that
00:31:24.220
you're on it. You have to go and try to fly. Like what happened in this case, you have to try to get
00:31:30.580
on a plane and that's when you find out. And even then they won't tell you everything.
00:31:36.780
So for me, this is kind of easy. Um, I, I don't think, I don't think the no fly list should exist
00:31:44.300
at all. I don't think anyone should be on it. If the government can prove that you're a dangerous
00:31:49.900
criminal, they should convict you, um, of, of, of that crime and, and punish you for it.
00:31:57.160
But if they can't prove it, if they can't even muster enough evidence to charge you with a crime,
00:32:03.520
okay, again, this is a punishment. No fly list is a punishment imposed on people, not only before
00:32:09.420
they've been convicted of a crime, but before they've even been charged with any crime or accused
00:32:15.820
of any crime. The government can still say you're not allowed to fly. We're not going to tell you why
00:32:22.260
we're not going to necessarily give you any process to get off of it. With the no filists,
00:32:28.680
they can restrict your movement without any burden of proof just by, they can just bypass the bill
00:32:33.300
of rights entirely. That's a problem. And it's a power begging to be abused. It's an abusive power
00:32:38.820
by its own nature. And it, and it, and it can be abused further and wielded as a political weapon,
00:32:45.160
which perhaps now this is exactly what this administration is doing. And it could happen to anybody.
00:32:50.040
If it happened to Nick Fuentes, it could happen to anybody.
00:32:55.560
And if you're on the right, which you also have to keep in mind, um, is that the powers that be
00:33:02.660
Democrats and leftists, they don't draw any distinction between anybody on the right.
00:33:10.660
They've got the category of the right and everyone is the same. They don't draw any distinction between
00:33:15.940
any of them. So anything you see happening to one person in that category can happen to everybody,
00:33:22.840
whether they're being de-platformed, kicked off a social media, put on no fly list,
00:33:28.440
that can happen to everybody. I mean, just think about, think about if there was a,
00:33:35.000
what if there was a no drive list? Think about that. Cause I, one of the excuses I've heard this
00:33:41.460
in, in relation to the Nick Fuentes thing. Um, even, even, uh, even conservatives I've heard say,
00:33:47.400
uh, that, well, flying, flying isn't a right. Yeah. It's not a constitutionally guaranteed right,
00:33:55.220
but that doesn't mean that the government can take it away without any justification at all.
00:34:02.420
Is that what we're saying? If a right is not guaranteed and listed in the bill of rights
00:34:07.040
specifically, then the government can, can take it away for any reason without any justification,
00:34:10.420
without any, uh, uh, accountability, transparency. Is that really the road we want to go down?
00:34:17.780
And as far as going down roads, yeah. Imagine a no drive list. Driving also is not a guaranteed
00:34:22.040
right in the constitution. Um, but what if you got pulled over cause your light, your license plate
00:34:29.680
was flagged and the cop told you, Oh, sorry, you're on a no drive list. You're not allowed to drive.
00:34:33.740
You haven't been convicted. You know, you haven't been convicted of a crime. You haven't been accused
00:34:38.080
of a crime. You weren't drunk driving, nothing like that. You just, you got on a list somehow,
00:34:42.520
maybe because of your political views you've been, you've been deemed a threat for reasons that are
00:34:47.340
unclear. And now they say you can't drive. And not only can you not drive, you can't even be a
00:34:51.800
passenger on the road. We know that there are people who get their licenses taken away, but that's
00:34:58.540
for a reason. There's a reason for it. And you have a process through the court system to rectify
00:35:04.260
it. If a mistake was made, or if you believe you're innocent or whatever, would anyone accept
00:35:09.900
that? A no drive list that functions that way? Then why do we accept it with a no fly list?
00:35:17.400
And you can't say that, Oh, flying is more dangerous. So it's a different kind of thing.
00:35:20.880
It's not. Driving is a hell of a lot more dangerous and a hell of a lot more people die
00:35:26.040
doing it. So they could do with the planes. They can do it with the cars, do with any vehicle. Why not?
00:35:37.320
All right. Moving on. Finally, let's lighten the mood a little bit here. I don't know if this is
00:35:44.820
going to lighten the mood or just send you plunging finally into the abyss of depression. It'll do one or
00:35:50.460
the other, but, um, you know, I got to play this for you and I'm not even going to go to intro it,
00:35:56.440
but, but here it is from our friends at TikTok. Here it is. Hiya, Pfizer. Hi, Ben. You got any extra
00:36:02.500
shots? Sure, Ben. Sleeves up. I'm a Pfizer girl in a COVID world. I'm the classic MRNA tactic. 95%.
00:36:14.420
There's no argument. Got no contagion with my vaccination. Come on, Pfizer. Let's go,
00:36:21.740
buddy. With a fast gun. Come on, Pfizer. Let's go travel. Only if essential. Oh, we're having so
00:36:29.640
much fun. We'll have to do this again for my second shot. Oh, I love you, Ben.
00:36:34.720
You know that, you know, um, you know, these, uh, super volcanoes that are across the, across the
00:36:44.780
earth and, uh, scientists say that a super volcano could go off anytime and spew so much molten ash
00:36:51.840
into the air, sends us into an eternal night, kills all life on, on the planet. And it sounded
00:36:59.240
kind of good right about now. I got to play one more. I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm doing this,
00:37:07.540
Censoring me, uh, who was just censoring, giving that.
00:37:11.240
She came in like a stocky bomb. Yeah, she's nothing like that robot bond. Or a huckabee or dancing charm.
00:37:23.260
She handles questions. Refreshingly. She's our press secretary.
00:37:32.660
This may be hard to believe. We don't spend a lot of time talking about or thinking about
00:37:36.180
President Trump here. Former President Trump, uh, to, to be very clear.
00:37:40.380
Is that the same woman? I think it's, is it the same woman who did both of those things?
00:37:44.660
She's a, she is a terrorist. That is someone, you know what? I amend everything I just said before.
00:37:49.300
There should be a no fly list and she should be the only person on it.
00:37:54.500
All right. Let's get now to our, uh, and a no posting list. How about that? Forget about no
00:37:58.000
fly list. There should be a no posting list, which, which already is with big tech. I guess
00:38:02.600
I'm not innovating anything new, but she needs to be on it. All right. Um, let's go to reading
00:38:08.580
the YouTube comments. This is from Magnum. He says, you're such a cancer on society, Walsh.
00:38:13.620
Thank you, sir. Uh, another one says, Hey Matt, I'm in high school wrestling. We aren't allowed
00:38:20.140
to shake hands before or after our match, but we're allowed to wrestle thoughts on this.
00:38:27.980
Uh, so yeah, just for the sake of hygiene and not spreading germs around, you don't want to touch
00:38:34.680
your hands, but then you're going to be draped all over each other in the act of wrestling.
00:38:38.500
Uh, you know, makes a lot of sense. I have to try with the trust the powers that be that it
00:38:45.620
makes sense. We can't make sense of it because we are, our, our, our puny, puny mortal minds
00:38:50.780
can't quite process it. Um, another comment says, Matt, which of these three options seem the most
00:38:58.420
likely a reconciliation between the right and left B civil war C subjugation of the right by the left.
00:39:04.980
I know you didn't, you didn't, you didn't offer a D subjugation of the left by the right,
00:39:10.540
because I guess we, we realized that ain't happening. So, uh, between the two, you know,
00:39:15.060
it, it, it definitely, it isn't a, I think we know that. Um, another one says, maybe I'll take my
00:39:22.940
mask off, but I'll be damned if I'm losing my anti-lightning sombrero. Look, you can never be too
00:39:29.920
careful. Frankly, I think anyone who discourages the use of an anti-lightning sombrero is, is, is,
00:39:39.320
is actually murdering people. You know, you are responsible when someone gets hit by lightning.
00:39:46.300
So very good, very good, uh, point there. And let's see, there's one other I want to read. Um,
00:39:53.300
okay. Jillian says, Matt, yesterday you said you'll wear a mask in certain stores and tell your kids
00:39:57.620
it's supposed it's because you have to, I was very surprised to hear that. I just recently decided I
00:40:01.460
won't wear a mask anywhere. This decision was after recent experience where my, they told me my eight
00:40:05.420
month old had to wear a mask to enter. I refuse to give them any leeway. Like you said, it'll never
00:40:09.680
end unless we simply stop obeying these arbitrary mandates. If we continue to comply, they will
00:40:13.820
continue to enforce even more insane rules. Well, yeah, uh, never put a mask on a baby period. It's,
00:40:18.620
it's, it's dangerous. Eight, I don't know who told you to put a mask on an eight, eight month old.
00:40:23.080
They should be in jail because that could kill your eight month old. In fact, um, you don't put
00:40:27.260
things at a child that age, you don't put things over their mouth. That is, you know, you're not
00:40:31.980
even supposed to put a kid in bed with a blanket at that age. So yeah, you don't put a mask on a
00:40:37.920
baby. I'm not going to put a mask on, on little children. Um, I don't, you know, we don't, I never
00:40:44.180
volunteer for masking. We don't wear masks outside. We don't wear masks on the playground. Uh, the only
00:40:48.760
scenario in the past has been my two, the oldest, the seven year olds. If we have to run into a store
00:40:54.640
real quick and they're with me and it's required to have a mask on, then I'll give them the mask.
00:41:00.180
And I explained to them, we got to just do this stupid thing and we got to run in really quick.
00:41:03.980
Um, but most of the time, you know, we'll go in without the mask. If no one tells us to put on,
00:41:09.320
we won't. If someone who's not a position of authority in that store tells us, we won't put it
00:41:13.500
on. But if someone who works there says, can you put the mask on? Then we'll do it, uh, just so we can
00:41:18.920
get the stuff and leave. Because the only other option is to get into an argument with this employee
00:41:24.960
who has, who's unfortunately has to enforce this rule. Um, and then what we get kicked out of the
00:41:31.060
grocery store or something like that. And that to me doesn't seem like there's any real point to it.
00:41:35.740
Um, but generally, yeah, I think we have to get to the point. We should certainly all be at the point
00:41:39.860
now where number one, again, wearing a mask outside, putting mask on your kid outside is crazy.
00:41:44.120
You don't do it. Um, we shouldn't be volunteering to wear the mask, but if you're in a private
00:41:50.260
establishment and someone who owns that establishment says you need to wear the mask or don't come in,
00:41:55.800
then, you know, it is their rules. Well, you know, mother's day is right around the corner.
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If you didn't know that now, you know, I just say, I just saved your butt and I told, I reminded you.
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00:43:51.220
our daily cancellation. As we know, people on the internet feel a deep need to constantly be
00:43:58.240
outraged about things. There's a certain amount of outrage, a certain quantity of outrage that's
00:44:01.680
required to satiate this need. As people develop outrage tolerance, though, they'll find that they
00:44:07.780
need more and more outrage to get their fix. Now, this shouldn't be a problem. There's no shortage of
00:44:12.300
outrageous things happening in the world all the time. You can no more run out of outrage than you
00:44:16.920
can run out of sand on the beach. But what happens, the problem is what happens when the people who most
00:44:23.380
need to feel outrage have also, for political reasons, committed themselves to being not outraged
00:44:29.920
about the most outrageous things? What happens when someone deeply needs to be outraged, but their
00:44:34.940
ideology precludes them from being outraged about, for example, the murder of babies and the general
00:44:39.480
mutilation of children? Well, this is like looking for sand and you live right next to a beach,
00:44:45.180
but you need to find sand everywhere but the beach and even sandboxes. Now you've just made what should
00:44:50.500
be the easiest thing incredibly difficult. And that's why in the age of cancel culture, people are
00:44:55.900
forced to go back in time to find things to satiate their outrage desires. They got to go back in a
00:45:04.220
time machine, like back to the future to find something to be pissed off about. Every day, there's
00:45:08.420
another video from years ago that people are randomly upset about for no reason, other than the fact that
00:45:12.900
they need to feel upset about something. And this week, that video, or one of them, that fills the
00:45:18.960
need is this. It's an interview with Steve Harvey from, I don't know, several years ago, I think like 10
00:45:23.780
years ago. And in it, he gives his opinion about whether men and women can be friends, platonic
00:45:28.980
friends. He says no, and people are upset. So let's listen first to the, as they say, resurfaced
00:45:35.800
clip. My friends are men. I don't have female friends. I don't. I'm incapable of that. Why?
00:45:44.100
What do you mean? Well, because, you know, come on. Because you have a wife. Well, I have a wife and I
00:45:49.180
don't, I don't really have female friends because look, okay, let's get rid of this.
00:45:55.380
Okay. I'm going to tell you this. Let's get rid of this right there. That you're an attractive
00:45:59.260
woman. There are some guys somewhere saying, yeah, I'm, we're friends. No, that's not true.
00:46:04.600
He's your friend only because you have made it absolutely clear that nothing else is happening
00:46:11.760
except this friendship we have. We remain your friends in hopes that one day there'll be a crack in
00:46:18.660
the door, a chink in the armor and trust and believe that guy that you think is just your
00:46:23.460
buddy. He will slide in that crack the moment he gets the opportunity. Cause we're guys.
00:46:34.960
Very upsetting stuff there. Uh, people are, we're, we're upset about it. Also correct.
00:46:39.980
Of course, it's obviously true that men and women can't really be platonic friends. There
00:46:43.700
are exceptions. Of course, there are exceptions to most general principles. Okay. But it's
00:46:49.280
impossible to talk about anything if we're not able to make reasonable generalizations and we
00:46:54.620
can't, that's why we can't talk about anything because people are always obsessed with the
00:46:57.980
exceptions. That's another one of the pedantic things people do online that annoys me. You're
00:47:02.440
talking about general principles and someone always says, no, I'm aware of an exception. I
00:47:06.360
personally am aware anecdotally of an exception. Let me tell you all about the exception I know
00:47:10.760
about. No, this is a reasonable generalization and it's true. Men and women can't be friends.
00:47:17.420
That doesn't mean they can't work together. It doesn't mean they can't function around each
00:47:19.860
other. It just means that they can't, they can't be buds. They can't be pals in the same
00:47:24.380
way that men can be pals with each other or women with each other. Now, when talking about
00:47:31.000
this subject, the first thing we have to say is, and don't take this the wrong way, ladies,
00:47:34.080
but, um, your opinion doesn't count. Okay. Your opinion doesn't matter here. Doesn't matter
00:47:39.260
what you say. And I'll tell you why. I know that a lot of you think men and women can be
00:47:45.820
friends, but it takes two to tango. And sadly, men, much of the time have an entirely different
00:47:50.580
dance in mind. As for men who claim that they have many dear friends who are women, some
00:47:56.860
of those guys are gay and the rest are lying. Don't shoot the messenger here. I'm just, this
00:48:01.840
is just the truth. Now, if you're the sort of person who needs a study to confirm your own
00:48:06.360
common sense, well, luckily we have those. According to an article in the scientific
00:48:10.360
American researchers recently conducted an experiment to find out how males and females
00:48:15.600
in a quote friendship actually felt about each other. So here's how that went reading out says
00:48:19.800
in order to investigate the viability of truly platonic opposite sex friendships, a topic that
00:48:24.960
has been explored more on the silver screen than in science lab researchers brought 88 pairs of
00:48:29.880
undergraduate opposite sex friends into a science lab in order to ensure honest responses.
00:48:34.160
The researchers not only followed standard protocols regarding anonymity and confidentiality,
00:48:39.420
but also required both friends to agree verbally and in front of each other to refrain from
00:48:43.340
discussing the study even after they had left the testing facility. These friendships, friendship
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pairs were then separated and each member of each pair was asked a series of questions relating
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to his or her romantic feelings or lack thereof toward the friend with whom they were taking
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the study. The results suggest large gender differences and how men and women experience
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opposite sex friendships. Men were much more attracted to their female friends than vice versa.
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Men were also more likely than women to think that their opposite sex friends were attracted to
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them, a clearly misguided belief. In fact, men's estimates of how attractive they were to their
00:49:17.460
female friends had virtually nothing to do with how these women actually felt and almost everything to do
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with how the men themselves felt. Basically males assumed that any romantic attraction they
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experienced was mutual and were blind to the actual level of romantic interest felt by their female
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friends. Women, too, were blind to the mindsets of their opposite sex friends. Because females
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generally were not attracted to their male friends, they assumed that this lack of attraction was
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mutual. As a result, men consistently overestimated the level of attraction felt by their female
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friends and women consistently underestimated the level of attraction felt by their male friends.
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What a shock. And by that, I mean not a shock at all. Common sense wins again. This is so thoroughly
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confirmed by common sense and the nearly universal experience of all mankind that it isn't interesting
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to talk about whether or not it's true. It simply is. What is more interesting to talk about is why
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it's true. And the reason for that is also a matter of common sense, though perhaps not so common anymore.
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It's this. Men and women are different. Men and women, no matter what they might say for political and
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ideological purposes, all basically know that they're different. They see each other as different
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and they see each other differently. You know, heterosexual men are perfectly capable of bonding with
00:50:30.000
women, but their desire is to bond in a different sort of way. And I don't just mean sexually. A man's
00:50:35.180
attraction to women is hopefully not merely sexual. His desire for companionship with a woman has a
00:50:40.980
prominent sexual element, of course, but there's more to it than that. Yet it all tends towards
00:50:47.040
eros, towards romantic love. One of the problems I think we have in society is that we only have one
00:50:52.880
word for love rather than in other languages like Greek, where they have multiple words for different
00:50:57.160
kinds of love. A man's affection for a woman is going to be different in kind from the feeling that
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he has about his male friends. He's going to want something different out of the relationship.
00:51:07.520
That's not his fault. It's just not a flaw or a weakness. It's perfectly natural. He's a man,
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and as a man, he relates to women in a certain way. Now notice something. Women who think they
00:51:18.080
have male friends will often say that they're, you know, what they'll say is, I'm just one of the
00:51:22.520
guys. And they'll brag about how they can throw down beers and spit and cuss with the best of them,
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right? Most of the time, that's a lot of silly nonsense. But even if it's true, you see how a woman
00:51:32.060
who wants to be just friends with a guy will have to try to imitate the relationship between two men.
00:51:38.460
She'll have to try to blend in with the guys. She'll have to try and fit herself into the category
00:51:44.180
of a male-male friendship, you know, basically become a man by default for the purposes of the
00:51:50.300
friendship. Why is that? Well, it's because there is no authentic category of a close male-female
00:51:56.580
heterosexual platonic friendship. That category doesn't really exist. The ones that work, if they work at
00:52:03.140
all, work because the woman is basically pretending to be a guy and is seen as a guy by the other guys.
00:52:10.900
But usually from the guy's perspective, if they want to hang out with guys, they'd rather the guys
00:52:15.340
be actual guys. So if a guy is letting a woman into that fold, if he is putting up with that charade,
00:52:21.480
it is usually for a reason. And it's not the reason that the woman has in mind.
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Now, the male-female friendships that really work are the ones that are mediated and contained and
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centered around some other larger thing. Men and women can get along at work, even be friends in
00:52:38.200
the context of work. Married couples can be friends with other married couples. In these contexts,
00:52:43.860
the friendship can function and remain just a friendship, but they can't be close friends
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just with each other without that mediation and context. Married couples can be friends,
00:52:54.980
but if the husband from one couple starts hanging out alone with the wife from the other couple,
00:53:01.500
problems arise. As a wife, if your husband is out late having some beers with his guy friend,
00:53:08.500
you might be annoyed that he's out late, but it's not going to be a crisis in your marriage.
00:53:12.380
If you find out that he's out late having some drinks with a female friend,
00:53:16.060
quote unquote, there are going to be sirens blaring and red flags waving all over the place.
00:53:20.340
In fact, even if he didn't have any kind of physical or sexual contact with that woman at
00:53:26.800
all, you're probably already going to feel cheated on because he should not be having that kind of
00:53:34.120
intimate companionship with a woman who is not you. Guys have a need for female companionship,
00:53:41.040
but it's a different kind of companionship. And so his need for female companionship is supposed to
00:53:47.000
be filled by you. He shouldn't need more close female companionship. If he does, that's a major
00:53:54.040
problem. And almost every wife on the planet sees it that way. Even if for whatever reason,
00:54:01.320
they would disagree with Steve Harvey on the point he made. There's no need to talk about whether things
00:54:06.300
should be this way. Things just simply are this way. Men and women are different. They relate to each
00:54:09.480
other differently. They bond differently. And that's fine. You know, the reality only becomes
00:54:15.920
a problem. This is a general lesson for everybody in all things. Reality only really becomes a problem
00:54:24.460
when you are set on denying it. And that's especially the case with things with human nature.
00:54:31.020
And we are set on denying so much about human nature. And that's why everything is falling apart.
00:54:37.020
And all of these things that should work basically fine don't work anymore.
00:54:41.360
Because we're set on denying what is obviously true right in front of our face.
00:54:47.800
And that is why I don't need to cancel male-female friendships because they don't really exist.
00:54:52.880
Instead, I'm just going to cancel the people upset about Steve Harvey, especially because that was
00:54:57.120
something from 10 years ago. Anyway, so let's keep, when we're looking for outrage, can we at least
00:55:01.740
keep it within the last, I don't know, there should be a 30-day cutoff. Can we agree to that?
00:55:05.080
All right. We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great
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