Ep. 754 - When The Left Eats Itself
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Summary
The left continues to eat itself as a gay rights organization that had been around for 50 years voluntarily dissolves and disbands after BLM criticized it. This is a convoluted but also instructive, not to mention hilarious story. Also: Olivia RodrÃguez s trip to the White House, raising the question for many people, who is Olivia Rodrigo? And, speaking of BLM, they have finally spoken out about the situation in Cuba in order to defend the Cuban government. And, a state representative in Minnesota says that he was racially profiled during a traffic stop, but the body cam footage shows something else entirely.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left continues to eat itself as a gay rights organization that
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had been around for 50 years voluntarily dissolves and disbands after BLM criticized it.
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This is a convoluted but also instructive, not to mention hilarious story, and we'll talk about it
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today. Also, five headlines, including Olivia Rodrigo's trip to the White House to promote
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vaccines, raising the question for many people, who is Olivia Rodrigo? And speaking of BLM,
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they have finally spoken out about the situation in Cuba in order to defend the Cuban government,
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of course. And a state representative in Minnesota says that he was racially profiled
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during a traffic stop, but the body cam footage shows something else entirely.
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And in our daily cancellation, we will wade into the murky, confused, and toxic waters
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of abortion TikTok. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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satisfaction from, somewhat sick satisfaction perhaps, but satisfaction nonetheless, are stories
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of the left turning on itself and its adherents devouring each other as they are prone to do.
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We've seen this phenomenon many times, and I think it might be interesting and useful to try and figure
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out why this happens exactly. But before we do that, let's look at the latest example. And it's a,
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it's a rather glorious example, I must say. Boston Pride is the group that organizes the city's Pride
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Parade and other gay activities in the city. It's important to note that this organization has been
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around and active for 50 years. Okay. They, so presumably one of the oldest, you know, gay rights
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organizations, I would assume, in the country. They've been major significant players in the gay
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rights world. And yet recently they'd had come under fire from within their own ranks. A growing
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number of LGBT activists decided that Boston Pride is racist because there are too many white people
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running the organization and too many white people attending the events. Now I have no interest in at
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all in defending Boston Pride, but I do feel compelled to point out that Boston Pride would naturally tend to
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be white simply because Boston, the city is predominantly white. Unlike many other cities
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today, like say Baltimore, which is a 62% black in Boston, the majority of residents are white.
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Just so happens. Making it not so shocking or scandalous that a majority of Boston Pride attendees
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are white. There are many other scandalous things that happen at those events, no doubt,
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but that isn't one of them. Nonetheless, you can't have too many white people, as we have learned,
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or too many, quote, cisgender people, which was another problem apparently. And that's why local
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activists this past year, after attacking Boston Pride as racist and even transphobic,
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decided to boycott the traditional event, the traditional Pride event that had been going on
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for 50 years, and hold their own. So this past month on June 12th, 12th, and you may have missed
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this, I'm sorry if you did, but they had their first annual trans resistance march and vigil,
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led by, they said, queer and trans people of color. An article posted to boston.com last month
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explains the reasoning for this competing event. It says, queer, trans, and black indigenous people
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of color, BIPOC activists, have been calling on Boston Pride to make changes since at least 2015,
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when Black Lives Matter demanded the organization diversify the board, allow BIPOC activists control
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of black and Latino Pride events, and re-examine corporate sponsorships, among other things. Last summer,
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numerous Boston Pride volunteers resigned after the organization allegedly removed a statement
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supporting Black Lives Matter from a newsletter and called for all board members to step down in
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place of more representative leadership. According to the Boston Globe, Boston Pride's six members
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board has no black members, two Latino members, and one transgender member. Quote, my experience in
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working with the board is they experience community voices as antagonistic, as opposed to thinking
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these are our people. This according to Joe Triglio, who resigned from the Boston Pride communications
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team, telling the Globe, quote, they treat that as some sort of attack as opposed to what it is,
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people asking them to serve their needs and interests. Only one transgender board member out of six?
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Outrageous. Now, we know, of course, that trans people comprise far less than one percent of the
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population, but they must, in any case, comprise at least 50 percent of every organization, board, committee,
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panel, and television show cast. How can that even be possible? I mean, how can you take so few trans
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people and spread them so widely and visibly? Well, that's your problem. Figure it out. You have to be like
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Jesus, multiplying the loaves and fishes. Multiply the trans. You got to figure out a way to do it.
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Whatever you need to do, get it done. The point is simply that this tiny fraction of the population
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must be seen everywhere all the time without exception. And Boston Pride, they failed in that
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regard, just as they failed by allowing too many white people to participate. And that's what ultimately
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led to this. As NBC reports today, after 50 years, Boston Pride is disbanding and dissolving itself
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in shame for the sin of being too white and also too not trans. This, according to NBC, it says,
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quote, Boston Pride, the organization that has organized the city's Pride celebrations for 50
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years, has announced it is shutting down. The dissolution, announced Friday afternoon in a
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statement on the group's website, comes after the reportedly all-white board of directors has faced
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ongoing accusations of ignoring racial minorities and transgender people. It is clear to us that our
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community needs and wants change without the involvement of Boston Pride, the board said in its
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statement. We have heard the concerns of the QTBIBOC community and others, the QTBIPOC community and others.
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The statement continued, referring to queer and transgender people of color. We care too much to stand in the
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way. Therefore, Boston Pride is dissolving. There will be no further events or programming planned, and the board is
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taking steps to close down the organization. The board said the decision, quote, was made with a heavy heart
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out of love and hope for a better future. Now, you might be thinking, this is hilarious and great.
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Bunch of left-wing gay activists just nuked their own organization for no reason at all. What's not to love?
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And you're right. It is indeed hilarious and great. But aside from pointing and laughing, it might, as I said,
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be instructive to talk about why this sort of thing happens. Because it happens a lot. And to that end,
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I think there are three factors to consider. The first is this, very simply. BLM exercises complete and
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total power on the left, and they know it. Nobody on that side of the ideological divide will oppose them
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or whisper the slightest objection, even as BLM swoops in and eviscerates its own allies for no
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discernible reason. Leftists have already set the precedent that opposing Black Lives Matter,
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the organization, means opposing Black Lives Matter, the concept. Now, usually, the left can violate its
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own precedents at will. One standard for us, another standard for them. But this is one that even they
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have to abide by. Even they can't get away with violating this standard. Two, there's the victim
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hierarchy. Now, as we know by now, victimhood is power on the left, which means that there is a
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constant struggle within its own ranks to claim the status of uber-victim. That's why the top spot on
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the victim pyramid has changed hands several times over the years, especially in recent years, as one group
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and then another plants its flag there. As it stands right now, the coveted territory belongs
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to BIPOC, as they now call themselves, Black and Indigenous people of color. But it's not enough
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to be just Black or Indigenous. The top of the top, the ultimate power spot, belongs to those who can
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add additional identities, especially sexualized identities, which has given rise to now QTBIPOC,
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or Queer and Trans Black Indigenous People of Color. Boston Pride was a mere LGBT organization.
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They didn't make a move to innovate and become a QTBIPOC, LGBT organization, and as such,
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have been left in the dust. A tragic tale as old as time. Three, I think most importantly,
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and the most fundamental reason why you see the left eat itself in this way so often,
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is that the entire ideology is intensely and almost solely self-focused. There cannot be any true
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community. As much as they talk about community, and they have so many different communities,
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and they talk about things like being an ally or allyship, that can't exist. Camaraderie, loyalty,
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none of that exists. Because they're all looking constantly back within themselves. I mean,
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to be a member of a real community, to have real camaraderie and loyalty, you have to look
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outward. You have to be concerned about something other than just yourself. But they aren't. That's
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the defining feature of leftism. It's an ideology, a religion of the self. That is what it is at its
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core, at its base. And it's how they come up with all these new self-identities, and why they believe
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the whole world should cooperate with and affirm whatever new identities they invent. It's how we
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end up with, here's the latest, it's how we end up with nonsense like this. Watch.
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So, I'm not an expert or an authority on what neuroqueer means, but to simplify it and make it
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easier for you to understand, it's essentially, on a base level, it's kind of where your neurodivergent
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identity and your queer identity, how they interact and intersect. This also extends to your other
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identities, such as your race, your socioeconomic class, your ethnicity, etc. And how those things
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also interact and intersect with your neurodivergence and your queerness. And some ways that some people
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may practice being neuroqueer can range from theoretical thought experiments to social justice
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work methods. A good example may be something like deciding to represent your gender identity
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in an intentionally queer way as a way to subvert hegemonic ideas of gender performance. It is a
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fairly new term, so it is very fluid and the possibilities are endless. Oh, well, okay. Subvert
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hegemonic ideas of gender performance, she says, with piercings in her cheek. Now, indeed, though,
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the possibilities are endless, as she says. Neuroqueer, why not? Just another identity to add to the list?
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Nothing you just heard there. There was not a coherent sentence uttered throughout that whole 56 seconds.
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Um, this, though, is what happens. This is another identity invented by someone who spends almost all
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of her time staring back into the abyss of her own ego. According to her religion, the leftist religion,
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which is also our state religion, by the way, nothing matters so much as how you feel. And it's not just
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how you feel. It's not the thing that I think people on the right get wrong. The left, they're always,
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they're so sensitive, they're focused on their feelings. Well, let's be more specific. It's not
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how you feel. It's about how you feel about yourself, your feelings about yourself. Everything
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comes back to yourself. Now, in a weird way, this is what makes leftism alluring and powerful,
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especially when it comes to kids and teenagers. It's one of the reasons why so many kids and teenagers
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gravitate in that direction, because they tend already to be self-focused. Everyone has that,
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that capacity, that inclination, that instinct towards, uh, egotism and narcissism. But it's
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also what makes leftism dysfunctional and volatile and prone to self-sabotage. And although all of this
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All right. So first of all, Olivia Rodrigo was, um, at the white house yesterday. And, uh, one
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question I've seen a lot in relation to this, and she was there to talk about vaccines. We'll play
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the clip in a second. If you're wondering what Olivia Rodrigo's opinion is on vaccines.
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Um, but one question that's popped up a lot in relation to this is, uh, is who the hell is Olivia
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Rodrigo? And I'm, I'm, you know, usually I'm like everyone else. And this is how, one of the ways
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I know that I'm old. I mean, I've been old since I was born, really. I was born this way. Um, but
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one of the ways I know that I'm old is that I don't know so many famous people that I, that I have no
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idea who they are anymore. Uh, Olivia Rodrigo, I do know who she is because we did a YouTube video
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about her reviewing one of her, um, one of her great, one of her great songs. I mean, I use the word
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great very loosely here. Um, so I know that she's a pop star. I can tell you that this is how in
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touch I am with the youth. This one, I know she's a pop star. I think she originated with a, was a
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TikTok or like an Instagram or something. And then she made, or was that, was that somebody else
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I'm thinking of, or was she at Disney? She came either Disney or TikTok. That's, that's kind of the
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farm team for the pop stars these days. And, um, anyway, so she was at the white house and first,
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can we just show the clip here? She is walking in. I just want to show you this picture of her
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walking into the white house in those, uh, shoes there. I don't, I don't even know how you move
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in those shoes. I also didn't realize that those shoes were, were back in style, these platform
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shoes. I thought that was like, so that's back in style now, I guess. It's also been reported. Um,
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Jack Posobiec reported on Twitter that Jill Biden, there's a little bit of contention now in the
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white house because Jill Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, I should say, excuse me, thought apparently,
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according to anonymous sources, thought that Olivia Rodrigo's shoes were not appropriate for the
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event. And I just think if she did say that rushing to the defense of Olivia Rodrigo here as a big fan of
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hers, I mean that coming from Jill Biden of all people, who are you to talk? Might I remind you of
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that dress that she wore a few weeks ago? Looked like it was stitched together from various like
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drapery around, around the white house. They just tore, they just tore curtains down in drapes
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around the white house and just stitched it together. Some schizophrenic person stitched it
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together and put it on her. And she has the audacity to accuse people of lacking a fashion sense.
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Anyway, that's not really the important part. The important part is Olivia Rodrigo was there
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to tell us about vaccines. And here she is. It's important to have conversations with friends
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and family members, encouraging all communities to get vaccinated and actually get to a vaccination
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site, which you can do more easily than ever before, given how many sites we have and how easy
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it is to find them at vaccines.gov. Well, there it is. Olivia Rodrigo has spoken. So
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they're going door to door. They're bribing you. They're, they're beating you over the head, perhaps
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literally in some cases, um, doing everything they can. And if you're still not convinced, well, here's
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Olivia Rodrigo, pop star. And if that doesn't convince you, I don't know what will. They had
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juvenile, vaxxed that ass up. I mean, what else do they have to do to get you to put this substance
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into your body? All right. Next, uh, black lives matter. Speaking of which they put out a statement
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finally on the situation down in Cuba and they had been, uh, basically silent about it until now.
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And the statement is rather lengthy. I'm not going to read the entire thing, but it will shock you to,
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to, to learn that, uh, black lives matter. They've looked at what's happening down in Cuba.
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People protesting the tyranny of the communist government and black lives matter has decided
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they know who's at fault. Uh, America is at fault. It's our fault. It's our government, not theirs.
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So this is their statement in part. It says black lives matter condemns the U S federal government's
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inhumane treatment of Cubans and, uh, not the, not the Cuban government.
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According to reports, I mean, they're, they're right now killing protesters.
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Black lives matter speaking up and saying we condemn the inhumane treatment of these protesters
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by the U S federal government. Uh, this cruel and inhumane policy instituted with the explicit
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intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubans right to choose their own
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government is at the heart of Cuba's current crisis. Since 1962, this United States has forced
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pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine, and supplies, costing the
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tiny Island nation an estimated $130 billion. Without that money, it is harder for Cuba to acquire
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medical equipment needed to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines and equipment for food production.
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This comes in spite of the country's strong medical care and history of lending doctors and nurses
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to disasters around the world. The people of Cuba are being punished by the U S government
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being murdered by their own government. But, but no, the real punishment is from us because the
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country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination. This is, uh, not just attacking
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the United States. This is a full throated defense of the communist Cuban government. Nevermind that
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much of what's being said here is just factually wrong. Simply not true much of it, but it's a
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defense of, of the Cuban. And of course it is. What else are they going to say? They're a communist
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organization, avowedly so. And they also have no problem. They don't have any problem with violence.
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Clearly doesn't bother them that people are being killed. They certainly don't value human life.
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All they care is about the, the, is about power, their own power number first and foremost,
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and the end ideological goal. That's all they care about. Now I have noticed, um,
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there's, there's been a lot of criticism of black lives matter for this statement, which is good.
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They deserve to be criticized for it. I've even noticed some conservatives, conservative commentators
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and so on, uh, coming out pretty strong against black lives matter for this again, well-deserved
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fine. But some of those, some of those commentators, as far as I could tell, this is the first time
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they've come out strong against black lives matter. You know, I'm old enough to remember like,
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I don't know, nine months ago, up to nine months ago, or even more recently, where if you criticize
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black lives matter and call them what they are, an extremist communist organization, a terrorist
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organization, many different, many descriptions would fit the bill here, but you, you'd be attacked
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as racist, not just by the left, but even by some people on the right.
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You know, this is what frustrates me. It's one of the reasons why black lives matter got to this
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point of being as powerful as they are because for years, they've, they've been doing this for a
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while now, going back to Ferguson and even slightly before that. And for years, people on the right,
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many of them either kept silent, refused to criticize them or would actively defend them.
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No, they're just concerned with racial justice. Meanwhile, BLM from its inception, this is why
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there is no excuse for people that were that oblivious. In fact, I don't believe that they
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were that oblivious. I think they were just cowardly. But from their inception, this has been a,
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an organization drenched in blood and violence and deception. Violence and deception has been their
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MO from, from the beginning. And it took, uh, it took years for, for it to be sort of a mainstream
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thing on, on, among conservatives to openly criticize BLM. And that's pathetic. And now,
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finally, this appears to be the last straw for, for a lot of people, which great. Why did it take
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you so long? Let's move here. So the freedom fighters, as they're being called now are still
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in DC. Those are the Texas Democrats who fled the state. Uh, and now they're being branded anyway,
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by Amy Klobuchar as freedom fighters. And she said this almost with a straight face. She almost
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accomplished saying it with a straight face. Here's, uh, Klobuchar.
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We stand here, uh, with these, uh, people of courage, uh, with, uh, freedom fighters, uh, who
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came to Washington DC, uh, to seek salvation because they are not going to be able to get back
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governor of Texas, uh, to protect the voting rights of the people of Texas. We know that. Uh,
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in fact, instead of trying to make it easier for people to vote, uh, the governor and the
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Republicans in the legislature has done everything to make it harder, including, uh, threatening these
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legislators over and over again. And they are standing their ground just as we are standing our
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ground. Freedom fighters seeking salvation. Uh, of course that's nauseating. And, and I, you know,
00:25:12.620
I, I said when there's, when all this first started a few days ago, that, uh, it's hard for me to even
00:25:18.800
be angry at the Texas Democrats for doing this because they're doing the kind of thing that I wish
00:25:27.660
Republicans would do far more often, which is playing hard ball and, uh, and, and using the
00:25:36.040
power that you have and also absolutely refusing to give the other side anything. That's the thing
00:25:43.460
about Democrats. They are not going to give you an inch. They will not give you anything at all.
00:25:52.080
Um, and that's, what's happening here with these, with these Democrats. It doesn't make them heroes
00:25:56.700
at all. Of course. Right. They went there. They're taking a, you know, a vacation paid for by the
00:26:03.780
taxpayers. They got their Miller light and they're on this little jaunt in DC and they're being
00:26:08.860
celebrated and hailed as heroes everywhere they go, which means they're not heroes, but I, it's hard
00:26:16.940
for me to be mad at them for doing it for that reason. I know that most conservatives are pretty upset
00:26:21.000
about it. And I'm saying to myself, all right, I get the play. I understand the play. It's a smart
00:26:27.460
play, I guess, but they, they do have the advantage of course that they've got the whole media on their
00:26:36.180
side. They have the whole establishment on their side. They've got all of our cultural institutions
00:26:41.600
on their side and you have to remember that as well. So I, I am constantly criticizing Republicans
00:26:49.220
and I'll continue to criticize them for compromising way too much. And by compromising, it's not even
00:26:55.440
really a compromise usually when Republicans do it, because a compromise means, uh, I give up some
00:26:59.940
of the stuff that I, that I want and you give up some of the stuff that you want. And then we meet in
00:27:03.340
the middle. But with the, with the Republicans, the compromise is I'll give up everything and get
00:27:08.480
nothing and just let you do whatever you want. But you also have to keep in mind not to excuse
00:27:14.560
Republicans at all. Um, they don't have all of our cultural institutions on their side the way
00:27:19.740
the Democrats do. So it's a lot easier for the Democrats to do this kind of thing.
00:27:25.600
And all that to say, it doesn't make any of this any less nauseating to hear them hailed as freedom
00:27:32.020
fighters seeking salvation. And speaking of nauseating, I, I, I, I cannot let you escape having
00:27:40.480
to listen to this. Uh, this was a couple of days ago, all those same Texas Democrats were out in
00:27:46.480
front of the Capitol and they, uh, spontaneously broke out into song and it's, it's way worse than
00:27:52.420
you even could imagine that it would be. Let's listen. I turn it back over to you for the questions
00:27:58.900
and, uh, thank you very much for all that you and all of your colleagues are doing here today.
00:28:04.860
Thank you. Thank you, Ms. T. Thank you, members of Congress. Uh, we'll take a few questions.
00:28:34.840
Oh my gosh. They sound like a bucket of cats falling over a waterfall or something.
00:28:46.700
That is one of the worst musical performances I've ever heard. I feel kind of bad for the two
00:28:53.380
guys in the front there because they didn't know that was going to happen. You could tell they didn't
00:28:56.780
know that was going to happen. And now they're stuck having to sing and they're, and they're the
00:29:00.360
ones right in front of the microphone. And you can tell they're doing the lip sync thing a little
00:29:05.180
bit. Um, but this is, they, they, they, well, they're, they're freedom fighters singing. We shall
00:29:12.620
overcome. It's a, it's a very awkward performance. Let's just say that they're putting in here
00:29:19.280
playing the part of quote freedom fighters, but they don't have to play it convincingly because again,
00:29:25.300
they got the media on their side. All right, next state representative John Thompson of Minnesota
00:29:30.900
was, um, pulled over a couple of weeks ago, um, in St. Paul and surprise, surprise. He immediately
00:29:42.220
decided that he was, uh, racially profiled. And I don't know how well we can hear this, but here he
00:29:48.340
is at, he was at, he was, uh, he was pulled over. This was on, I don't know, July 5th or 6th. And,
00:29:53.340
uh, and then a few days later he attended a memorial for Philando Castile. And that is where I think he
00:29:58.500
first shared his, his harrowing tale of being racially profiled supposedly by the police. Let's
00:30:05.080
It should be a profile for me too. Uh, in fact, I was just pulled over Saturday,
00:30:08.700
you know, pretext will stop it. You know, you don't have a front license plate. Yeah. I got a
00:30:14.360
ticket for my license. Anyway, I thought we weren't doing pretext with stops here in this state.
00:30:20.420
Listen, but we are, just so we clear. You're getting driving while black tickets here in this
00:30:26.180
state, mess back in St. Paul. Um, you know, so let's just call it what it is. That's right.
00:30:31.360
Yeah. But they turned deadly. You know, these, these traffic stops turned deadly, you know,
00:30:36.640
cause I'm in my car with this baseball hat, you know, and you can't tell I'm the state representative
00:30:41.660
of John Thompson. Neither should I have to, to, to change my clothes. That's right. That part.
00:30:46.180
Listen. Yo, I'm a, I'm a Minnesota state representative. I'm a lawmaker here. I can wear what I want to
00:30:52.000
wear. That's right. I don't have to be profiled. That part. Ridiculous. Yo. And it was, by the way,
00:30:56.880
there's a sergeant here in St. Paul. Wait. Okay. So he was pulled over, um, as you heard him
00:31:04.060
described there, uh, saying it was a pretextual stop and, uh, basically racially profiled. They're
00:31:12.100
just looking for an excuse because they saw, according to him, they saw a black man in a car
00:31:15.240
with a hat on and they said, uh, let's, let's pull him over. I guess his, his claim, what's being
00:31:21.560
claimed here is that what cops, every time they see a black guy in a car, they just automatically pull
00:31:25.920
him over. Cause there's, there's a problem there because, you know, if, if that's how
00:31:34.260
you operated as a police officer in St. Paul, you'd never be able to do anything else aside
00:31:39.980
from just pull over black drivers. It's, it's just kind of an absurd claim. Now he got pulled
00:31:46.640
over because he didn't have a front license plate. You're supposed to have a front license
00:31:50.560
plate. Um, you could say it's a ticky tack thing to get pulled over for that. Okay.
00:31:55.920
Maybe it is. We see, we could have a conversation about cops pulling people over on ticky tack
00:32:03.160
things. You know, you get pulled over given a ticket cause your, you know, headlight is
00:32:09.980
out or something. There's an argument for that as well, because that's a safety issue, but
00:32:14.040
we could talk about that. We, police officers spending far too much time on this kind of
00:32:19.440
thing. Are there more important things they could be doing? Are there other things that
00:32:23.900
they themselves would probably prefer to be doing? So that's a, that's a perfectly reasonable
00:32:30.220
conversation. The problem is that the, that conversation gets totally drowned out by all
00:32:37.740
of the racial rhetoric because it has to become a racial issue. Nevermind the fact that I myself
00:32:45.700
have gotten pulled over because if I've gotten pulled over for that exact reason, actually not
00:32:50.960
having a front license plate, depending on the state you're in, um, you know, in, in Tennessee,
00:32:56.700
you don't have to have front license plate, but depending on the state you're in, that's,
00:32:59.820
you're supposed to have one. I've been pulled over for that. And yeah, it was kind of annoying.
00:33:04.480
Why are you bothering me about this? Does it really matter? Who even cares if I have a front
00:33:08.920
license plate, but it's the law, the cops enforcing it. I was respectful. That was it. It was,
00:33:16.820
the interaction was over in, in five minutes and I went about my day.
00:33:22.760
I didn't try to escalate it into something else because I didn't want it to turn into anything
00:33:27.800
else. I just wanted to get back to my day. That's it. I didn't want this to be a thing,
00:33:32.120
but representative John Thompson decided to make it into a thing. And, uh, and then there was a big
00:33:39.000
controversy around this. And finally, St. Paul police chief, Todd Axtell, uh, he decided to fight back.
00:33:45.800
And, you know, he said, he said he was going to look into it and he did. And then he came out and
00:33:50.880
said that this, the whole stop was by the books. It was completely fine. Nothing inappropriate
00:33:56.280
happened at all. And he was pulled over because he didn't have the front license plate. And then
00:34:00.200
they found out that he was driving on a suspended license as well. Um, and then they also, and the
00:34:07.220
police chief not only explained this, but he demand, he is now demanding an apology from the state
00:34:12.840
representative, which is exactly, see going on the offense. That is the, that's the right approach.
00:34:20.120
It's one thing to be defensive and say, Hey, gee, we looked into it. And no, I don't think that the,
00:34:24.060
uh, our officer did anything wrong. That's one thing you got to go a step further and say, no,
00:34:30.060
nothing wrong. There was nothing bad that happened here. You know, it, okay. You're defaming this
00:34:35.560
person. You need to apologize. You're the bad guy here. That's what the police chief is doing to
00:34:40.840
his credit. He also released the body cam footage and, uh, the whole thing, it's, it's raw footage,
00:34:45.780
like 15 minutes long. Nothing of note happens except for at the very end when representative,
00:34:52.820
um, Thompson starts claiming to the police officer that he's being racially profiled. Here's what
00:34:59.120
What did you pull me over again, man? No front plate. And then the way you took off from the light
00:35:04.420
back there. I'm too old to run from the police, man. You profiled me because you looked me dead in
00:35:08.840
the face and I got a ticket for driving while black. You pulled me over because you saw a black face in
00:35:13.080
this car, brother. And you, I know, there's no way in here I'm taking off with you behind me.
00:35:17.660
You looked at me in this car. You looked in this car and busted, you turned and got behind my car.
00:35:22.040
And that's the reason why you, I know, I know. But what, what I'm saying is what you're doing is wrong
00:35:26.480
to black men and you need to stop that. Thank you so much. But this ticket means nothing to me. No,
00:35:30.980
no, no, no. I'm going to, I'm going to always have a great day. What I'm saying to you is stop racially
00:35:34.800
profiling black men in their cars, sir. Stop doing that. Yes, you were. Yes, you were. Yes,
00:35:39.740
you were. You saw a black man driving in this car. It don't make no difference. You pulled me over
00:35:45.880
because you're profiling me. There's no way he could be convinced otherwise, because what we're
00:35:51.120
told now is, this is where we're at. According to BLM and guys like Representative Thompson there,
00:35:59.600
anytime a police officer pulls over a black person, it's racial profiling. Doesn't matter
00:36:05.580
the reason. Every single time. You know, it's, it's an unfalsifiable claim. He's waving the ticket
00:36:13.520
around saying, see, you're taking me for, for driving while black. No, I did. I, the ticket is
00:36:17.360
for not having a front license plate. I've given out a lot of tickets for that, the white and black
00:36:21.280
people. You don't like that law or that rule. Take it up with your legislator. You are a legislator.
00:36:27.420
Maybe you should pass a law or something. If you don't like that rule.
00:36:31.800
That's, that's the great irony here that I almost missed until just right now.
00:36:37.180
A lot of times the problem that you think you have with the police, it's not with the police.
00:36:42.100
It's with the people making these laws. If you don't want the police enforcing these laws,
00:36:47.120
take it up with the people who made them. Cops are not, are not lawmakers. They're law enforcers.
00:36:57.540
And so if you don't think that there's ever an appropriate time for a police officer to pull
00:37:02.000
a black man over on a, on a, on a charge like that, and that charge shouldn't exist.
00:37:08.080
All right. Finally, I wanted to mention this very briefly. Um, if we have time USA today story here,
00:37:19.000
uh, I don't think there's ever been a time when lots of people in media have been freaking out
00:37:23.760
about some gun related thing. And I find myself agreeing with them, but today is the exception
00:37:28.740
and I'm not freaking out, I should say. So it's not full agreement, but I agree with the criticism.
00:37:32.460
I have to say there's, so there's first time for everything. So here's, here's the, um, the thing
00:37:36.100
that has prompted the backlash, much of it from the anti-gun crowd. And it's a gun. It's a real
00:37:41.700
gun. You can see the picture there, a real functional gun made to look like a Lego toy.
00:37:46.880
So here's a story from USA today. They say a Utah based gun company faces backlash this week
00:37:51.020
after selling a Glock handgun, a handgun casing that transforms the weapon to look like a children's
00:37:56.700
Lego toy. The gun company Culper Precision agreed to remove the product from its website and not make
00:38:01.520
or sell anything like this in the future. After Lego reached out, according to a statement from
00:38:05.240
Lego to USA Today, the Block 19 kick, which, uh, borrows from Lego's characteristic red, blue,
00:38:10.940
and yellow brick design debuted last week with a website set website page touting it as a, as super
00:38:16.720
fun. The site said, quote, this is just one small way to break the rhetoric from anti-gun folks and
00:38:22.120
draw attention to the fact that the shooting sports, that the shooting sport is super fun. Um, here's
00:38:29.940
the thing. Guns are fun. Shooting is fun. 30 rounds full auto is fun. And, uh, this was supposed
00:38:38.620
to, this was supposed to what break the rhetoric from the anti-gun crowd. No, you've just given
00:38:43.940
them ammunition, so to speak in an almost literal way. This, this, this, this will really show the
00:38:51.560
anti-gun crowd. What's what? And then a few days later, you're taking the thing off in shame. Yeah,
00:38:59.200
this is a stupid and horrible idea. Um, and I don't need to give you the whole disclaimer about
00:39:04.420
how I'm a gun owner and a second amendment absolutist and all of that because I am, and you already know
00:39:09.620
that, but it's in part because I'm a gun owner and I take this stuff seriously that I hate this so
00:39:13.960
much. First of all, guns are not toys. Okay. Yeah. It's fun to go shoot. Shooting is a fun hobby.
00:39:20.820
Collecting guns is fun. All that stuff is fun. Nothing wrong with that stuff being fun. It's
00:39:24.760
still not a toy though. Um, it's a weapon and yes, it's up to you to practice good gun safety,
00:39:31.380
keep your weapons locked up and all of that out of reach of children, but to go out of your way to
00:39:36.180
intentionally make a gun enticing to small children, to intentionally purposefully make it
00:39:41.600
look like a toy to kids. That's inexcusable. And there's no reason to do it. The only reason to
00:39:46.640
do it is, is, um, it looks cool. And it doesn't, by the way, it looks gaudy and hideous, but looking
00:39:52.800
cool doesn't outweigh the downside, which is pretty severe. And by the way, speaking of police officers,
00:39:58.960
if gun, if gun companies were to go in this direction and start making guns that look like this,
00:40:04.020
now you've just made a cop's job a thousand times harder.
00:40:07.580
And now you've put them in an even more impossible situation and you put a lot of
00:40:14.780
potentially innocent people in danger, including kids. So horrible idea. And I'm glad they took it
00:40:18.780
down. All right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments. Um,
00:40:23.580
let's see. Uh, go here first. Free T spirit says, uh, referring to the, he's referring to the video of
00:40:34.040
the man trying to breastfeed, which we played yesterday. So this is a thousand percent disgusting
00:40:38.000
and child abuse. I've just thrown up in my own mouth. It is disgusting and child abuse, but I have
00:40:43.780
to say, um, not to play semantics here, but I'm interested in your use of the word own. I've just
00:40:50.860
thrown up in my own mouth. In who, in who else's mouth would you throw up in? I guess is my question.
00:40:58.280
Don't answer that. Rod Royal says IPAs are for the pretentious Miller light actually tastes great.
00:41:06.660
It doesn't taste like anything. What do you mean? It tastes great. I don't get this. This thing you
00:41:11.480
hear from people. I it's a pretentious to drink an IPA. So flavor is pretentious. Beer is supposed
00:41:17.600
to have flavor. That's why it exists. So it's pretentious for a thing to actually perform its
00:41:22.400
intended function. You're saying, is it pretentious for a car to start when you turn the ignition?
00:41:29.920
Do you get mad when your car starts and you say, man, this thing is so pretentious.
00:41:34.820
Calm down car. What are you trying to prove here?
00:41:38.760
That's why beer exists. At least it's one of the reasons. That's why I drink it. Cause it tastes
00:41:42.760
great. Miller light. It's not even that it tastes bad. It has no taste at all.
00:41:46.320
Um, Spencer says small families are not happier in any way. I was an only child. My parents were
00:41:55.300
not happy and I was pretty lonely. I have made it one of my most important life goals to have at
00:41:59.080
least three kids. I have one already and we'll have another two if possible. Megan and Harry can
00:42:02.820
go to hell. Uh, yeah, I, I, I look any size family can be happy, but the idea that you maximize
00:42:10.620
happiness in a family by having fewer kids, uh, is absurd. And finally, Scott says day 100 of begging
00:42:20.440
Matt to play the banjo for us. Well, Scott, I know I did promise. I do. I remember my promises
00:42:26.280
and I know I promised, and you've been putting this in the comments for a hundred days. And I promised
00:42:30.500
a while ago that if you keep this going for a hundred days, I will play the banjo.
00:42:35.120
And I am a man of my word. I have a few moments. We are running a little bit behind, but, um,
00:42:42.600
I have a few moments. So I can now play you a little ditty on the banjo as an avid banjo player
00:42:51.040
myself. I do this all the time that all the offices here are constantly filled with the noise of me,
00:42:56.560
the beautiful sounds of me playing the banjo because I'm such an avid banjo player. Um,
00:43:01.040
but before I play, I just got to make sure I get this thing tuned. Like I said, we only have a
00:43:07.000
couple of a moment or two, but I'll just, let me get this thing tuned and then I'll play something
00:43:10.080
for you. Just got to make sure. I obviously know how to tune a banjo because I play banjo so often.
00:43:17.080
Okay. I think that's tuned. Um, and then you just want to, you want to tap on it,
00:43:22.180
make sure there's nothing inside it, like any small animals. No. Okay.
00:43:27.220
Okay. Just give it a sniff, make sure it's still good. You know, it hasn't been left out in the sun
00:43:34.620
or anything. And, uh, let me just get it tuned real quick again. Just gonna make sure I tune it.
00:43:41.620
Um, cause I, look, I made a promise. I'm going to, I'm going to keep my promise. Okay. I think it's tuned.
00:43:58.940
All right. And, uh, uh, well, yeah, actually it's, we, we just ran out of time. I'm sorry. I, uh,
00:44:06.080
I only had a few moments and we just ran out of time. I got to move on to the next segment. I really,
00:44:10.600
I really wanted to play it. I was going to play it. Uh, it was my plan, but we just ran out of time.
00:44:16.000
Um, I think that qualifies though, as keeping my promises, which I always do. You know, if Candace
00:44:22.500
frequents anything, it's the trending sidebar on Twitter and her own show, uh, which is good that
00:44:28.260
she frequents her own show. You know, I've, I've found generally, you want to make sure that you're
00:44:31.760
frequenting your shows. I'm just reading the copy. That's what they told me to say. And I'm saying it.
00:44:35.820
I'm a parrot. I just read what's put in front of me, whether she's calling Donald Trump, uh, or joking
00:44:40.100
with Adam Carolla or sitting down with MMA fighter Benil Darish to discuss the Marxist ideology his family
00:44:45.200
is fleeing from. You can be sure any time spent watching Candace is time well spent. She will be
00:44:50.460
there. She'll be frequenting, but she'll also be offering her opinions, which are always very
00:44:53.580
interesting. Her latest episode dropped this week. So if you haven't tuned in yet, I highly recommend
00:44:57.580
that you do. You can watch Candace live every day or rather every Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m.
00:45:02.280
Central only on dailywire.com slash Candace. Uh, I don't know about you, but, uh, I for one love
00:45:08.620
my freedom, even though I'm an authoritarian theocratic fascist, I enjoy my own freedom.
00:45:14.740
At least, uh, I in no way intend to allow an authoritarian dictator to take it from me and
00:45:19.260
to replace it with baseless lockdown measures or the indoctrination of my children into a leftist
00:45:23.220
cult and neither should you. And that's why Ben Shapiro wrote the authoritarian moment, because
00:45:27.880
if we want to shut down this ideology that, that, uh, precedes an authoritarian government,
00:45:33.700
we need to help every American understand as much as they can about how we reach this point.
00:45:38.640
And then really importantly, how we can actually fight back. What can we do going forward? So unless
00:45:43.540
you want to live under an authoritarian regime intent on decreasing your freedom and increasing
00:45:47.500
their power, it's time to start fighting back, get the authoritarian moment. Uh, and you can do that
00:45:52.100
by pre-ordering on Amazon now or Barnes and Noble or at any other major bookseller, uh, to get your copy.
00:46:03.700
You know, we have on the show reviewed many different types of TikTok videos, which, uh,
00:46:07.380
I'm sure you've noticed and are grateful for, but the one genre we haven't spent much time on
00:46:11.960
is abortion TikTok. It's mostly for my own sanity and emotional health that I've avoided
00:46:15.960
wading into these waters. And yet I find that I can no longer avoid it, especially as I so often
00:46:20.740
see these videos posted on Twitter or Facebook by people who sincerely believe that some sort of
00:46:25.500
brilliant and unanswerable argument has been presented. So for our daily cancellation today,
00:46:30.580
we're going to play some of these clips and respond to them. Now, there are many abortion
00:46:35.460
related videos on the platform where women simply brag about their own abortions and pretend to think
00:46:40.940
that it's funny that they've just murdered their own child. Those are horrifying and sad and
00:46:45.840
infuriating and evil, but there isn't much else to say about them and certainly no reason to play them.
00:46:51.240
It's no mystery why a woman might react that way to her abortion. It's a rationalization.
00:46:55.960
It's a defense mechanism. These are women who've done a horrible thing and they know they've done
00:47:00.980
a horrible thing at some level. They know it. And now they're overcompensating because people who
00:47:05.400
are happy about the decisions they make don't have to make videos convincing strangers that they're
00:47:10.680
happy about their decisions as a general rule. Now, it may be true that some of these women have
00:47:15.020
successfully deluded themselves, but that only lasts so long. The fact is, despite what lies the
00:47:19.480
abortion industry tells, abortion is not the undoing of a pregnancy. It's not a reset or reverse button
00:47:27.040
allowing you to go back to being a happy, carefree, childless person. In pregnancy, you become a mother.
00:47:34.380
In abortion, you become the mother of a dead child. So there's a loss. There's an absence.
00:47:40.640
And you will feel it eventually. That's a fact.
00:47:43.080
So all of the videos you see, I'm so happy about it. These are people who have deluded
00:47:51.460
themselves and that's all that is. Let's move on to the actual arguments. We're going to play a few
00:47:56.300
videos here of people on TikTok presenting their best arguments for abortion. And let's start with
00:48:03.640
this one. If a 16 year old wanted to adopt a child, the government wouldn't allow it. She isn't done with
00:48:11.320
her education. She isn't financially stable yet. And she isn't a legal adult. But if she gets pregnant,
00:48:19.980
the government can ban her from getting an abortion. How is that logical?
00:48:26.940
A few issues here. First of all, 16 year olds are not banned from getting abortions. So the whole
00:48:34.280
premise of this argument is wrong. They're not. 16 year olds can get abortions, unfortunately.
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They can get abortions. Though in some states they need parental consent. In other states,
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they don't need parental consent at all. They can just walk in and get the abortion.
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So no need to worry, ma'am. Your dreams have come true. Teenage girls can kill their babies
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and are killing their babies. So your utopia is a reality. Congratulations.
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Let's pretend that you're correct for a moment. Let's pretend that 16 year olds can't adopt,
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which they can't, and also can't get abortions. And you think there's some kind of conflict between
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these two propositions. You ask how this would be logical. Well, let me tell you. Because the common
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thread is one of mental competence, maturity. A 16 year old isn't mentally competent enough to adopt.
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She also isn't mentally competent enough to make the decision to take someone's life.
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That's a bit of a misnomer because nobody should be able to do that. There's no level of mental
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competence that should permit you to kill a baby. Even so, abortion is a choice which has a profound
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impact on two lives, at least. Her own as the mother and the life of her child, which she is ending.
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I would call that a profound impact. Is a 16 year old old enough to analyze those ramifications and
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make a properly informed choice? No. But then if she doesn't have the abortion, she'll be a mother,
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you say. So what about that? No, you're wrong. She's already a mother, as we have previously
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established. She's a mother at conception. The human has been conceived. That's done. That part is over,
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completed, fulfilled. The question is what to do about this child or with this child.
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You say she isn't old enough to care for the child. So what? She's old enough to kill it?
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I say that's insane and morally grotesque and evil and also illogical.
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Instead, we could try to find someone who can care for the child if she can't.
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And by the way, we hear about the kids who are up for adoption and they can't find anyone to adopt
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them. And okay, well, it sounds so easy. You put the child up for adoption, put the baby up for
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adoption. Then they're just going to be in the system forever and no one's going to adopt them.
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That's not true. Okay. Now it is true, sadly and tragically, that older kids who end up in the
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system, oftentimes it's very difficult to find a family that will take them in. That's a terrible
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thing. That is not the case for babies. There is a waiting list, a million miles long of families
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waiting to adopt babies. So a 16 year old can't, has a baby, can't care for the baby. You put that
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child up for adoption and he will be adopted by a loving family very quickly. One other thought
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though, you don't think 16 year olds are old enough to be parents. Okay. Are they old enough
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to choose their gender? What do you think about that? I think I already know your answer. Let's
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watch another and see if these arguments get any better. Let's talk about abortion and specifically
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the heartbeat bill. When someone gets in an accident and they're considered brain dead, no one considers
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it morally wrong to pull that person's plug or end their life. Because although that person has a
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beating heart, they aren't a conscious being. They have no brain activity. Here's another example.
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Why do most people not consider it morally wrong to kill an insect, but do consider it morally wrong
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to kill a cat or a dog? They both have beating hearts. The difference between the two is level
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of consciousness. A dog is very aware of its existence and creates relationships with the
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things around them. Whereas an insect just lives off of instinct. They aren't aware that they exist.
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They just do. The thing I'm really confused about is why all of a sudden when it comes to abortion,
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we allow a beating heart to signify life. When in all other aspects of our life,
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a beating heart doesn't mean anything. What matters is level of consciousness. And a fetus
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in the first trimester does not have consciousness. I don't know where to begin here. She's built a
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tower of false assumptions and baseless assertions, all resting on a false premise taped up with red
00:52:50.740
herrings and non sequiturs. So let's run through some things very quickly. Number one, you have no idea
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how much consciousness a quote fetus possesses. Number two, you have no idea if a dog is aware of its
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existence. I doubt that it is personally. Does a dog have an eye concept? Is it aware of itself
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as an eye, a self? Can a dog think to itself and can it think, oh, I am doing this? I am doing that?
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I doubt it. We could debate that, but nobody really knows. Number three, you say heartbeat doesn't matter
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in any other area of life. Really? So it's all about consciousness? So you're arguing that it should
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be considered morally permissible to kill anything that is not conscious or that we assume isn't
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conscious? Okay, then, well, how would you feel if I went and chopped down a hundred trees for no
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reason? Let's start with that. What if I captured a thousand eagles and shot them all and threw their
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bodies in a dumpster? How would that rub you? Are eagles more conscious than unborn children? I don't
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think so. Four, if consciousness is the measure of worth, then what about levels of consciousness
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among and within born humans? Consciousness is not one set thing. There are degrees of it.
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A one-year-old is conscious, but certainly is less aware than a 10-year-old. Does a 10-year-old then
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possess more moral worth? What about a 30-year-old as compared to an 85-year-old dementia patient?
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So you've created this scale of worth, this way of measuring things, and I don't think you've
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thought about where it leads, or maybe you have, which is even worse. Number five, here's a big one,
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important point. Even if I agreed with your whole premise and all of your assertions, which I don't,
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you've got a major problem. The unborn child, unlike the brain-dead person or the insect,
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is only in this limited conscious state temporarily. We know that he will soon have more consciousness.
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He is headed towards that point with every passing second, inevitably, if you leave him to his own
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devices. So what if we knew, take the brain-dead person, what if we knew that person would wake up
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in three weeks? Still okay to kill them? See, that's the real analogy here. A person with limited
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mental functioning who we know, for a fact, will soon have full mental functioning. In any other
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context, would you say that it's okay to exploit that limited window of reduced consciousness and kill
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the person? Hey, he's not conscious right now. Let's kill him. But that's bad news for anyone
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who's ever, I don't know, gone to sleep. Let's try one more video.
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Do conservatives realize that by banning abortion, their taxes are going to go up by a lot?
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Rich women will always have access to abortion, no matter what the law is. They will always be able
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to get it. So forcing poor women to have children that they cannot afford, even in the cases of rape
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and incest, means the state has to pay for it, meaning your tax dollars. Romania's welfare system
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completely collapsed when they banned abortion in the 70s. And at that time, their population was
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about 20 million. Texas has a population of 29 million.
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Wow. Mic drop. Mind blown. Taxes will go up? Do I realize that taxes will go up if abortion is
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banned? Here's a better question. Do I give a damn? See, I'm not sure if your assumptions are
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actually true or not, that taxes will go up. But if they are, who cares? Do you realize that the whole
00:56:24.940
point of the pro-life cause, the whole argument we're making is that human life has objective
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and inherent value? Our point is that a human's value is not contingent on how convenient that
00:56:33.420
life is to those around it. If we believe that, we'd be pro-abortion like you, but we don't. So we're
00:56:38.740
not. So if taxes go up because abortion is banned, okay, I don't like paying taxes, but I'm not going to
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support mass slaughter and genocide just to avoid it. I mean, we could also reduce our taxes by just
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killing everybody on welfare right now. How does that strike you? See, I'm not a murderous sociopath
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who reduces human life down to a matter of mere dollars and cents. That's not my gig. That's not my
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stance. It's yours, remember? So speak for yourself. Or better yet, stop speaking because you and the rest
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of abortion TikTok are today absolutely canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for
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watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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