Ep. 758 - An Epidemic Of Virtue Signaling
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Perverse wokeness has reached epidemic levels in this country, and it was on full display yesterday. Also, we have our five headlines of course, including some updates on that weird story of a supposed right-wing plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, it appears that this was more of an FBI plot, and Prince Harry is once again showing how much he desires privacy by writing an explosive memoir about the royal family, while AOC shows how much she hates capitalism by investing heavily in her online merchandise store. In our Daily Cancellation, we ll talk about the ladies of the U.S. Women s Soccer team who showed how much they hate their own country by kneeling before their match last night, and then they lost, which is hilarious.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, performative wokeness has reached epidemic levels in this country,
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and it was on full display yesterday. I'll explain. Also, we have our five headlines,
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of course, including some updates on that weird story of the supposed right-wing plot to kidnap
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the governor of Michigan. It appears that this was more of an FBI plot, which the FBI then foiled,
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which was nice of them. And Prince Harry is once again showing how much he desires privacy
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by writing an explosive memoir about the royal family, while AOC shows how much she hates
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capitalism by investing heavily in her online merchandise store. In our Daily Cancellation,
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we'll talk about the ladies of the U.S. women's soccer team who showed how much they hate their
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own country by kneeling before their match last night, and then they lost badly, which is hilarious.
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All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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You may have noticed that we live in a country, a culture, where almost everyone wants to fashion
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themselves as heroes and fighters for truth and justice. And yet their form of fighting seems
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usually to require little effort, and it always amounts to nothing in the end. This is one of the
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reasons why I'm not worried about a civil war breaking out anytime soon. Many people seem to be
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worried about this, and we hear, oh, there's going to be a civil war. We're headed towards a civil war.
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Civil war, yes, we are more divided than we've been since 1860, I think. You could make an argument
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that we're even more divided than we were then in the lead up to the civil war on a more fundamental
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level. But there will be no civil war because fighting a civil war requires us to leave our
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homes and put down our video game controllers and maybe even skip a meal or two. This is more commitment
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than we're willing to invest in the enterprise. So instead, our society will come apart more slowly,
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decaying like an old Halloween pumpkin left out in the sun rather than exploding all at once
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like fireworks. So that's the good news. The perfect mascots for this modern form of lazy bravery are,
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of course, the Texas Democrats who fled the state in order to temporarily avoid voting on some
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legislation they disagree with. But in the midst of their boozy vacation in D.C., at least six of
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the absconded legislators have tested positive for COVID now. What was initially political theater
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and an excuse for them to abandon their kids and their loveless marriages for a month has now turned
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into a super spreader event, which is what I think they call it, right? You could argue that they're
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biological terrorists at this point and should be charged as such and thrown in federal prison.
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You could argue that at least. But even as they drink Miller Lite, take selfies and spread their
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viral loads all over our nation's capital like so much confetti, they still wish to be hailed for
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their bravery. And they're quite explicit about this. Here's a tweet yesterday from Representative
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Michelle Beckley. She says, my name is Michelle Beckley. I'm one of the brave Texas Democrats who
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came to D.C. to fight for voting rights in my state. Now I'm fighting to flip a seat held by an
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anti-democracy Republican. I have 28,500. Can you help us get to 50,000 followers?
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Not only is she begging for followers, which is lame enough, but she also calls herself brave.
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Perhaps the number one way that you can identify a person who is not brave is if they have to tell
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you that they are. Hi, nice to meet you. I am extremely brave. Yes, deeply courageous and heroic.
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No, please don't shake my hand. I'm afraid of COVID. We can fist bump. But we're accustomed to this
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kind of performative virtue signaling from our politicians, especially from Democrats. After all,
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Democrats were the ones who put on traditional African garb a few months ago and knelt in silence in the
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U.S. Capitol in order to pay their respects to Blessed Floyd, patron saint of armed robbers.
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Beckley's tweet was nothing compared to that as far as theater goes and virtue signaling goes.
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But it's not just politicians who do this. We citizens are guilty ourselves,
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especially when it comes to the big corporations that most of us pretend to despise.
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Let's take the events of yesterday, for example. As we covered on the show, Jeff Bezos launched
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himself into space on a rocket ship that he built with his own money. He returned to Earth a short
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time later, much to the chagrin of many people on social media who were actively and vocally hoping
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that he'd make it out of Earth orbit and float off into a black hole or something. The whole spectacle
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served as an occasion for many people to once again voice their hatred for Bezos and for Amazon and to
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lament the fact that he has enough money to build rocket ships in the first place. Now, as I said
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yesterday, I personally think that it's a great thing for these obscenely wealthy billionaires to spend
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their money on this. That's my hot take. That's my controversial position. It is good for billionaires to be
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building rocket ships. If it's a choice between building space technology or, you know, a 19 bedroom
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mansion for their poodles, I'll take the space technology. In fact, I wish Bezos had gotten back
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to Earth and immediately started building another rocket rather than do what he actually did, which
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was to immediately announce that he was giving a hundred million dollars to Van Jones. Why give a hundred
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million dollars to Van Jones? Maybe the lack of oxygen in space caused brain damage and that's why he's
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doing it. Or maybe the left hates Bezos even as he tries to buy them off. He is in the end a woke
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leftist himself, like nearly all of the other tech oligarchs in his orbit, literally and figuratively in
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his orbit now. That doesn't stop most leftists from hating him and his company, just as many on the
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right hate him as well. The message seems to be that Bezos and Amazon shouldn't have all this money.
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It's not fair. It's not right. It's bad. How do you get all this money anyway? It must be a policy
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failure, right? Yes. Billionaires are a policy failure, we're told by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria
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K. Zercotez. Yes, government policy caused this. We need better policies. That's what made all this
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happen. Okay, it could be that. Or it could be this. Headline from marketwatch.com says,
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Amazon Prime member total reaches $142 million in the U.S. with more shoppers opting in for a full
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year, data shows. Interestingly enough, even as most people seem to hate Amazon and wish that it
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didn't have all this money to throw around, most people are also choosing to pay the company a monthly
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subscription fee. In fact, two thirds of American adults are Amazon Prime members, which is an insane
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figure. And those are just the members of the service. That doesn't count all the people who
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aren't members and yet still order from Amazon. I wonder if a single person complaining about Amazon
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and Bezos actually isn't one of their retail customers. Maybe there are a few, but there can't
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be many. So how did he get all that money? Well, I don't know how to tell you this, but you gave it
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to him. That's how he got it. He actually said this himself when he got back to earth. Let's play that
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clip. I also, I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for
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all this. So seriously for every Amazon customer out there and every Amazon employee, thank you from
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the bottom of my heart very much. People were very upset about that. Um, and it does come off as sort
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of a sarcastic and rubbing it in everybody's face, but it's true though. That is actually true. We, as,
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as Amazon customers, you paid for it. Now we should acknowledge a few things. First, Amazon was
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given a huge boost by the government this past year. Talk about policy failures when many other,
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when many other stores were arbitrarily shut down for reasons that could never be scientifically or
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morally justified. But this just adds to the contradiction as most of the leftist Amazon haters
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were advocates for those very policies. And they accused you of wanting to kill their
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grandmothers. If you suggested that, Hey, you know, maybe we shouldn't just allow Amazon and Walmart
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and target to be the ones serving customers. And at any rate, Amazon had over a hundred million
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subscribers a year before the lockdowns even started. I doubt there were very, very many people
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who ordered from Amazon for the first time ever during the lockdowns, maybe a few, but probably not
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many. The lockdowns gave Amazon an enormously unfair advantage, but they didn't turn Amazon into the
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ubiquitous force. It is today, obviously. Also, we should know that Amazon makes money other ways
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through other services, like it's Amazon web services, for instance, but memberships and retail
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sales account for the lion's share of its revenue. And that is revenue. People choose to give to it.
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All kinds of excuses can be offered to get around this. I've heard them all. People profess to hate the
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company and think that it shouldn't have all this money and yet choose to themselves to give it their
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own money. They can try to rationalize it all they want. They can claim Amazon is effectively a monopoly
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in the online sales space. They can say that Amazon offers services. Other companies don't. They can say
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that, uh, you know, they'd have to pay more or wait longer to buy stuff another way. None of this gets
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around the, the fact or rather around the choice that they're making and do not have to make.
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Nobody needs Amazon. Amazon is not a necessity. Indeed, you could never order another thing from
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Amazon ever again. And that sacrifice would have almost no material impact on your life when all
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is said and done. It would require from you only the smallest of efforts, only the most minimal of
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investments. It would create only the most minor of inconveniences. And yet that's more than most people
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are willing to give. They would prefer to continue actively funding this company while complaining
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that the company should not have the money that they are choosing to give to it. Maybe they really
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do oppose some of Amazon's business practices, the way it treats its workers, the favors it gets from the
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government and so on. And they should, they should hate those things, but they like convenient next day
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delivery more than they hate those things. And that's the issue. The other thing I've heard
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talking about rationalizations, as I was talking about this on, on Twitter, I heard over and over
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again, this, this same line, and it comes from a meme that you've probably seen, but the line is,
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well, yeah, just because I'm a critic of capitalism or Amazon, that doesn't mean that I, that I, that I
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can't participate in society. Of course I have to participate in society. That phrase participating in
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society. Well, yeah, you're going to participate in society, but are you telling me that you,
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you need to use Amazon in order to participate in society? You cannot participate in society
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without being an Amazon prime member. Is that really what you're telling me?
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None of what I'm saying amounts to a defense of Amazon and certainly not of Jeff Bezos. I'm also
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not claiming to be innocent of the charge that I'm leveling at others. I am guilty of choosing to fund
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companies that I detest and doing it simply for the sake of convenience and maybe to save a buck or
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two. I've drawn certain lines and I've tried to avoid drawing others. This is a, the game we all
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play. We are consumers so conditioned in our consumerism that so many of us would actually
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claim as people have claimed to me that ordering junk from Amazon is a need like water and shelter are
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needs. But it's not a need. It's a want. And we are very bad at distinguishing between the two.
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And that ultimately, I think is the problem. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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All right, you know, first of all, you guys know that I don't like to air my dirty laundry on this
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show. It's too dark and cold in the studio anyway, so we get mildew. That was a dad joke. I apologize
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for that. Anyway, the point is, I don't like to talk about my personal problems, except when I talk
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about them all the time. But I do have to say, I'm disturbed by my wife's bigotry towards me as a
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disabled American, especially when she publicizes it, as she often does on Twitter.
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And this is what she tweeted last night when I was sitting right across the room from her,
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by the way, a couple of nights ago, she tweeted this. I'm concerned about Matt Walsh's outfit
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tomorrow. He said, well, she tagged my user. She wasn't calling me by my full name. That'd be weird.
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I'm concerned about Matt's outfit tomorrow. He said, what's wrong with red pants and a green top?
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Well, one, that combo would make him look like an elf. And two, he's colorblind and the pants are
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brown and the polo is a lighter green, making him look like Peter Pan or a tree. Now, first of all,
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to clarify, the only reason we were talking about my outfit is that I asked her to iron my clothes for
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me. And the only reason I asked her to do that is because I'm bad at ironing. And I've explained
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there are a lot of household chores I'm just not good at. And I need other people to do them for me.
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Um, but then she starts mocking my choices, calling me a tree and Peter Pan and everything.
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When in fact, I really am colorblind. And this is a, this is an important point. I want you all to
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know. I am actually colorblind. Um, in fact, I am, I am a member of the, the color vision deficiency
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community. That's the, that is, that is the real thing we're going by now. CVD color vision deficiency.
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And this is a real victim group that I belong to. I am an actual victim. I suffer from a disability.
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Which means that it's hate speech to be criticized, to be mocking me for it.
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And, and also I, I, I cling to this identity jealously. It's the only victim group I have
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as a, as a, as a white male. None others are recognized in the mainstream culture, but this
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one I have. And I want all of you to know that. Before you think about criticizing me at all,
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realize I'm a victim. I am colorblind. I have no idea. So it, it, it, that's another thing I am,
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I am often mocked on my own show by my own audience for the things that I choose to wear on this show.
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Maybe you'll mock me. I don't know what color this is. I don't know, even know what I'm wearing right
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now. But before you start criticizing me, just know I have no idea. This is, this is part of my
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disability. All right. Uh, we'll start with this. The Daily Mail actually was, uh, Buzzfeed
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originally. Buzzfeed doing some real reporting, which they, they, they've, they've done a little bit
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of that recently. I don't know if I, I don't want to get ahead of my, get over my skis here, but, but
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it seems like they, they're kind of dipping their toes in real reporting. And so they're doing some
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real reporting here. Um, and it's, uh, information about that supposed right-wing plot to cup, to
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kidnap Governor Whitmer of Michigan. You may remember that. And this was Governor Whitmer was, was,
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was one of the primary, one of the worst, most oppressive, pettiest, most arbitrary tyrants
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during the COVID lockdowns. She went insane with power, couldn't handle. She, she thought originally
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she was just going to be governor of Michigan. That'd be enough power. But then she was given
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the powers of an empress and, um, uh, uh, uh, you know, a dictator and she couldn't handle
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it. Having that much power, she fell in love with it. Speaking of clinging desperately to
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things, clinging desperately to that power and getting, getting a lot of, uh, pushback
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for that had become pretty unpopular. And then in the midst of that, we find out that, uh,
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there were these dastardly right-wingers who were planning to kidnap her. Um, and, and, and then,
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and then that kind of made it so, okay, well now you're not allowed to criticize her anymore
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because all of this criticism, like I just was calling her a dictator. Well, your feet is this
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hate speech and you're encouraging violence. Look at what you've done. That's the kind of the way this
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was, this was a spun. But now this, and I'm reading from, uh, the Daily Mail says the FBI has been
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accused of encouraging and, and assisting a Michigan militia with their alleged plot to
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kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer with court documents showing the remarkable depth of
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involvement of multiple informants. Okay. So listen to this. 14 people have been charged so far
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after an October, 2020 sting operation on the Wolverine Watchman militia. Many of those were
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arrested at a warehouse of Michigan where they had met, uh, to hand over cash for the purchase of
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explosives, which they alleged allegedly planned to use in the kidnapping plot. In December, one key
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player in the case, Ty Garbin entered a guilty plea to kidnap conspiracy charges and faces up to life
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in prison. A trial date for the rest has been set for October 12th, but their lawyers are arguing that
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the FBI informants, at least 12 of them, according to a Buzzfeed investigation, went way beyond simply
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listening and infiltrating and instead actively recruited others to the plot, funded and directed
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it. They have claimed that without the FBI informant's involvement, there would have been no plot at all.
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Okay. So 14 people, if I'm, if I'm getting my numbers right here, if I, if I'm reading this correctly,
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14 people have so far been charged, um, as being involved in this scheme, 12 people were FBI informants
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the whole time. And it makes you wonder as, as more and more of this comes out is, were any of them
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not FBI informants? Was it just like one, maybe this, this Ty Garbin guy? Was he the only, was it one
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guy? Was it 13 FBI informants ganging up to just get this one guy? I don't know.
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And it's, it's not as though based on the claim here, allegedly based on this report from Buzzfeed,
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it would seem that, um, that it's, it's, it's not as though they had come up with this plot and the FBI
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got wind of it. And then they sent in some informants to try to stop it. The informants,
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again, according to the Buzzfeed investigation, the informants themselves were the ones who recruited
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people into it, funded it, directed it. So what? It was their plot. What I'm getting from this is that
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this kidnapping plot was the FBI's plot. They are the ones who, who, who organized it,
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put it all together, and then they stopped it. So I guess in the end we should, uh, we should
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congratulate the FBI and thank the FBI for putting a stop to the dastardly plot that they came up with.
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Kind of easy to stop a plot that is your own plot, but I'm, but I'm grateful that they did stop it.
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And it makes you wonder too. And we know this is something that the FBI does. Um,
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not just sending people in undercover, not just having informants, but
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towing the line of entrapment or, or outright committing outright entrapment, which is what
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this seems to be. We know the FBI has a habit of that. Um, historically, uh, you start to wonder
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about the events of January 6th that we're going to find, we're going to find out similar. There
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are going to be similar revelations a year from now or so about what happened on January 6th,
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the ringleaders of that, the people who put all that together. I guess we'll see, or maybe we
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never will see. Next, a report from Reuters. Um, this is kind of some real journalism also. So
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I'm, I'm continue to be shocked. Uh, this is a, maybe a good day for mainstream journalists. They
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don't have very many, but here's one. Uh, some Reuters reports, U S representative Alexandria
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Quezio Cortez became one of America's most prominent progressive Democrats with her calls
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to tax the wealthy and spend heavily to fight climate change. Now she is investing heavily
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in her online store, selling t-shirts, sweatshirts, and other merchandise with her name, AOC initials
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or slogans, including tax the rich and fight for our future efforts aimed at both fundraising
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and building the second term lawmakers profile nationally. Uh, her campaign paid political
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merchandise firm financial innovations, which operates her online store and supplies merchandise
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more than $1.4 million in the first six months of 2021. According to campaign disclosures to the
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FEC late last week, that's more than many lawmakers spent on their entire reelection effort during
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that period and nearly double her payments made over the prior two years to financial innovations.
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Um, a Cranston Rhode Island firm that specializes in political merchandise for Democrats, political
00:24:43.680
t-shirts as campaign swag were once again, uh, okay. So I think we get the idea there. She's
00:24:49.680
spending $1.5 million investing in merchandise that she's then going to sell, including merchandise
00:24:55.440
that ironically says tax the rich. Now, Sean Spicer pointed this out, former White House
00:25:02.520
spokesman, now a Newsmax host, pointed this out on Twitter and AOC responded and pointed out the
00:25:09.120
hypocrisy here that you're a critic of capitalism. You're a socialist, validly so. And here you are
00:25:17.620
engaging in capitalism. What do you know? Turns out you actually like making money. You just don't
00:25:24.520
like it when other people make it. You want to be the one who makes it. AOC responded to the criticism
00:25:30.280
though and said, not sure if you know this, Sean, but transactions aren't capitalism. Capitalism is a
00:25:36.840
system that prioritizes profit at any and all human slash environmental cost. But for what it's worth,
00:25:43.620
our shop is unionized, doesn't operate for profit and funds projects like free tutoring,
00:25:48.580
food programs, and local organizing. Okay. So, so, so that's what it is.
00:25:56.380
Yeah. I would have thought that if you're in, in the free market, making a transaction with somebody
00:26:01.540
else, offering them a good or service in exchange for money, that's a transaction. I would have thought,
00:26:05.960
no, that's exactly what capitalism is actually. That's at the most basic level. That's free market
00:26:12.320
capitalism. I have a go to good or service. I offer it to you. You choose to buy it with your
00:26:17.320
own money. I take your money. I have it now that I'm no economist, but when I think of, of at the
00:26:25.380
most basic level, what a free market capitalism is, that's, that's what it is. But she says, no,
00:26:30.880
no, no, no, no, no. So you can do that. And it's not capitalism because capitalism is a system
00:26:36.440
sort of like that, but it prioritizes profit at any and all human and environmental cost.
00:26:43.220
So she's saying, I am, I am making a profit, but it, but it's, it's, I'm not prioritizing that
00:26:49.160
over everything else. It's only if you prioritize it over everything else that it counts as capitalism,
00:26:53.820
which is just a long way of saying, it all goes back to, um, I can do this, but I don't think
00:27:02.160
other people should. I can trust myself with money, my own money, your money,
00:27:09.740
which I should be given, whether it's because you're buying a t-shirt or I just take it from you.
00:27:16.860
I'm a good person. I can be trusted with money, not the rest of you because you're bad people.
00:27:23.720
Uh, next number three here, page six reports that Prince Harry is writing an explosive memoir
00:27:29.580
memoir about his life and, uh, the Royal family. Uh, so he's got another, he's got, is this,
00:27:37.100
I guess this is, maybe this is his first memoir that he's written. And this is so sad. You know,
00:27:43.100
he's writing this, this big memoir. It's got a big book deal. He's got, he's going to have the book
00:27:47.060
coming out, talking about his life, talking about the expose about the Royal family. Um, he's going
00:27:52.000
to be doing the book tour, doing more and more interviews. And it is so, so sad. Um,
00:27:56.520
because this poor man and his wife, they just want privacy. That's all they want. Will you people
00:28:04.080
leave them alone and let them have their private life? Please. That's all they want. That's why he's
00:28:12.280
putting the book out and he does the Oprah interview and they got the Netflix deal.
00:28:18.280
This, this is their way of, of living a private life.
00:28:28.080
I guess by not buying the book, that's maybe the best thing you can do. I think that's the best
00:28:32.900
thing you could do in general. Why would you want this damn book? Why would you want to read it?
00:28:40.400
But, uh, I, I think out of, out of pure respect for the wishes that have been
00:28:46.540
repeatedly articulated by Prince Harry and Megan in many, in many, many interviews,
00:28:56.000
um, for privacy and to be left alone out of respect for that, you should not buy any of the,
00:29:03.780
these books, not watch any of these stupid interviews, um, not watch any show that they
00:29:09.780
produce. Cause this is what they want. I guess they want, what they want is the, is, is, is they
00:29:17.220
want to write the books and not have anyone read it. They want to do the Netflix show and not have
00:29:21.320
anyone watch it. They want to do the Oprah interviews and not have anyone watch that either
00:29:26.340
or hear about it. And I, for one will respect their wishes on that front. And I hope they'll do the
00:29:32.220
same. Uh, we also got to play this Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci were, uh, had another, had another
00:29:41.060
sparring match. And these are always fun to watch. It's fun to watch Fauci. This is the only time.
00:29:48.120
It's why you get so upset when this happens. It's, it's the only time when Fauci is backed into a
00:29:54.380
corner, forced to answer real questions, held accountable. It's the only time because everywhere
00:29:59.020
else he goes, people are worshiping the ground. He walks on, he does a CNN interviews, CNN interviews,
00:30:04.200
he does the MSNBC interviews, and they are head over heels in love with him, practically making out
00:30:10.820
with him on screen. Um, and, uh, the one time where that doesn't happen is when he's facing Congress
00:30:21.700
and only because Rand Paul is there. It wasn't for Rand Paul, you know, these would also be make-out
00:30:27.580
sessions. But, uh, let's, let's watch how this went. If the point that you are making is that the,
00:30:34.800
the, the grant that was funded as a sub award from EcoHealth to Wuhan created SARS-CoV-2,
00:30:43.140
that's where you are getting. Let me finish. We don't know. Well, wait a minute. I can,
00:30:48.040
but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab and there will be responsibility for those
00:30:53.200
who funded the lab, including yourself. I totally resent. This committee will allow the witness to
00:30:58.620
respond. I totally resent the lie that you are now propagating, Senator, because if you look at the
00:31:06.340
viruses that were used in the experiments that were given in the annual reports that were published in
00:31:15.160
the literature, it is molecularly impossible. No one's saying those virus caused it. It is
00:31:21.720
molecularly those virus caused the pandemic. What we're alleging is that gain of function research
00:31:26.960
was going on in that lab and NIH funded it. That is not away from it. It meets your definition and
00:31:33.000
you are obfuscating the truth. And you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of
00:31:40.220
individual. I totally resent that. And if anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you.
00:31:48.440
I resent that. I resent it. What he's saying is, is he is lying. Fauci, that is. This is,
00:31:56.500
this all goes back to the issue of did the NIH fund gain of function research in Wuhan? And, and it did.
00:32:03.400
And that's a fact. And it did. And Fauci totally resents that he's being asked about this, that
00:32:11.900
he's being held to account for it. Totally resents it. Now, when this is a big scandal, this is like a
00:32:18.420
big deal. They're funding this kind of research in this lab, which was almost certainly the,
00:32:26.960
the origin of this global pandemic that killed so many people, but he doesn't, he shouldn't have
00:32:33.120
to talk about it. And he knows you got to almost feel for the guy, I guess that yeah, he, everywhere
00:32:38.040
else he goes, everyone is, uh, is, is bowing down before him. And it's this one guy who won't do
00:32:47.120
that. Rand Paul, I guess you don't have to feel for him at all. Um, Rand Paul though, a lot of credits
00:32:53.860
Rand Paul, I mean, if Rand Paul wasn't there, he's, he's seriously, he's the, he's the one
00:32:59.680
lawmaker holding Fauci accountable to his face.
00:33:06.860
All right. Uh, I've had this story for a few days now. I keep meaning to mention it
00:33:11.480
because it's so important. It's from the daily wire. It says after being called out for her
00:33:15.860
inconsistent Spanish accent that apparently misleading the public about her Spanish heritage,
00:33:20.220
Hilaria or Hillary more accurately, Baldwin now says she identifies as culturally fluid,
00:33:27.220
seemingly arguing that she could be culturally fluid if others can be sexually religious and
00:33:31.260
politically fluid too. She posted to Instagram recently, when you are multi, it can feel very
00:33:36.920
hard to belong. You're constantly going back and forth, trying to be more of this or more of that.
00:33:42.460
You feel you have to explain why you are the way you are trying to fit into a world of labels where
00:33:47.740
there might not be one that perfectly defines you. You will never quite fit in because other parts of
00:33:52.920
you shape and influence all of your parts. We need to normalize the fact that we are all unique.
00:33:58.320
Our language, culture, sexual orientations, religions, political beliefs are allowed to be fluid.
00:34:03.840
No two of us are completely alike. And, uh, this is not good enough for lots of people, especially on the
00:34:11.060
left who are kind of mocking this idea of being culturally fluid. When of course,
00:34:19.440
if anything can be fluid, that actually makes some kind of sense.
00:34:27.920
There, there certainly doesn't make some kind of sense. It makes sense. Uh, there is a fluidity to
00:34:33.900
culture. There's no denying that. Cultures change over time. Um, our culture has changed quite a bit
00:34:40.840
and not for the better. Cultures change over time. They influence each other. Uh, one culture kind of
00:34:46.140
bleeds into another. They blend, they mix. If the word fluid has any meaning outside of, outside of the
00:34:55.240
the physical sense of, of, of liquid fluid, um, then this would have to apply. Cultures are fluid.
00:35:05.220
They're not immutable. They don't, they don't stay the same forever. They're not inherent. Um,
00:35:16.360
they're human constructs. All of that is true of culture.
00:35:21.140
Now, and I don't, I don't mean that to suggest that, uh, that, that, you know, we shouldn't want to
00:35:31.260
protect our culture and defend it and try to make it a certain thing and protect it from other kinds
00:35:39.880
of influences. But I'm just talking about the nature of, of culture as opposed to, uh, your sex,
00:35:49.960
which is not fluid at all, which is inherent, which is not a, which is not a human construct,
00:35:54.940
which you don't determine, which does not blend with anything else. It's just, you are what you are.
00:36:02.900
So in our own extremely stupid culture, the one thing that is fluid, you're not allowed to say
00:36:08.840
is fluid. And then all these other things, of course, those are the things we're going to pretend
00:36:12.220
are fluid. Speaking of which, um, here's a, here's a video I want to play for you before we get to
00:36:17.900
reading the YouTube comments. You know, my, my famous question that I'm asking you all the time
00:36:23.100
related to what we were just talking about, uh, which is what is a woman? And for years I've been
00:36:27.060
asking that question, have never received an answer to it. Well, what will play for you now
00:36:32.140
is, is not an answer. It's a non-answer, but at least she knows that she's giving a non-answer.
00:36:40.860
And so I feel like there's a little bit of progress just based on that alone. Let's listen.
00:36:44.580
Okay, can someone help me out with this? Cause I'm confusion. I am a woman. I identify as a
00:36:49.080
woman. I feel comfortable in being a woman. I feel like, what the f*** a woman? Like if someone
00:36:53.520
asked me, what does being a woman mean to you? I wouldn't have an answer. Don't even try to tell
00:36:57.300
me that, well, being a woman is being empathetic and kind and compassionate because that could
00:37:00.860
be anybody. Anybody could be those things. Don't even bother being transphobic in my comments
00:37:04.760
saying that, oh, well, being a woman is having a uterus and having kids because no, no, don't even
00:37:09.740
bother saying that being a woman means having bitties and having a vagine because no, also
00:37:15.180
no, wrong. So I'll ask the question again, what is a woman? Like, I feel so comfortable
00:37:19.540
identifying as a woman, but is that only because that's just what I've always been? That's
00:37:24.020
what people always told me that I was. So I just went with it. And the thing that's frustrating
00:37:27.660
with this question is that everyone's answer is always, well, it depends on the person.
00:37:31.240
And I get that. I know, but I'm trying to figure it out for myself and I don't know. And
00:37:34.580
I mean, I'm a gender abolitionist. So like abolish gender, you know, but some people feel
00:37:38.280
very validated in their labels and in their gender. So I'm strictly speaking for myself.
00:37:42.220
I don't know what being a woman means to me. Anyone else?
00:37:46.260
Uh, yeah. Well, that's the question, isn't it? What the F is a woman? As she, as she phrases,
00:37:55.360
not how I phrase it. That's how, that's how she phrases it. Can anyone answer the question?
00:37:59.420
Well, I can. The woman is an adult human female. I have no trouble answering it, but she, at
00:38:08.300
least she has no answer, but she's one of the only people that I've seen so far that will
00:38:14.940
acknowledge that they don't have an answer and that this is a problem. So she knows that
00:38:22.980
at least is maybe that if I want to be optimistic, maybe that'll plant a seed in her head. It's like,
00:38:33.580
at least you're thinking about it. And that's step one. And that's, that's, that's more of a step
00:38:42.380
than lots of people are willing to take in general. Not that most people aren't willing to think of
00:38:46.000
about anything really. But she realizes there's a problem here. She says, I'm a woman. Uh,
00:38:54.780
I know who and what I am. And yet I have this ideology and my, and my, and my politics, which
00:39:02.120
would say that, uh, that my womanhood has nothing to do with my body. It also has nothing to do with
00:39:10.700
any of my preferences or personality traits. Because if you say that being a woman is determined
00:39:18.060
by my body, that's transphobic. Don't be transphobic. But if you say that it all has to
00:39:22.820
do with being feminine and being, uh, you know, acting in a quote unquote womanly way, well, that's
00:39:27.080
anti-feminist and we can't be anti-feminist. So we're left with no, no definition at all.
00:39:33.640
Well, this is a big problem. She realizes that it's a big problem. She's saying that I, that
00:39:40.500
I'm a, I'm a woman, but I don't even, I can't tell you, I don't know what that is.
00:39:47.660
You're right. It is a problem. And I have to tell you something, young lady, uh, there is,
00:39:54.400
there is no way around it. If you're insisting on clinging on to your self-contradictory,
00:40:01.740
delusional ideological and political beliefs, which are really more like religious beliefs.
00:40:06.740
As long as you hang on to that doctrine, there is, there's no way around this conflict.
00:40:11.300
You're going to be doomed to live this life with an identity that you can't define
00:40:17.780
with an identity that, that, that according to you doesn't exist.
00:40:25.860
The only way is to let go of that doctrine, which you can let go of. And it's, it's freedom
00:40:35.600
because rather than having all of these, uh, different contradictory balls that you're
00:40:42.940
trying to juggle in the air, an unfortunate metaphor there for a number of reasons, but
00:40:48.660
still, rather than trying to juggle all of these, these balls, what you can do is you
00:40:53.080
can drop them. This is, this is getting more and more unfortunate as we talk about, uh, but
00:40:59.000
you can, you can drop them and say, I don't, I don't need to do this. I don't need to make
00:41:03.240
this work with that. How do I be, uh, you know, feminist, but also not trans. Forget about
00:41:08.140
that. You can embrace who you are. You're a woman at, at, and when it comes down to a deep
00:41:15.380
down, I think you, you, you actually do know what that means because you know who you are
00:41:19.080
and that's a good thing. Let go of the delusion, let go of the doctrine,
00:41:26.500
let go of those balls and just be who you are. All right. Read the YouTube comments now. Uh,
00:41:34.840
and as we do, if you're wondering what reading through, uh, if you're watching through the
00:41:38.080
bicep cam, that is, uh, our little astronaut here is wearing the sweet baby gang t-shirt.
00:41:44.060
So we got one for the miniature astronaut. We don't have one yet for you. Although the
00:41:49.820
sweet baby gang petition is now up to 1200, 1219. So over 1200 signatures, we got, you know,
00:41:57.740
almost, we got 281 to go before the next threshold. That's when we'll be at 1500 signatures on the
00:42:02.760
change.org petition to get these sweet baby gang t-shirts on sale. I don't know what's supposed
00:42:07.300
to happen at 1500, but let's get there anyway in this grassroots movement. All right. Um,
00:42:15.880
username, mostly peaceful says talking about my opening monologue yesterday. This was impressively
00:42:21.420
stupid. This country has thousands of immoral and tyrannical laws. This is what counts as
00:42:27.020
conservative these days. Someone who thinks the government should force us to do what they think
00:42:31.480
is moral sounds like a leftist. Well, mostly peaceful. It sounds like you, uh, speaking of
00:42:40.520
stupid, it sounds like you were not paying attention to anything I said. You were paying attention enough
00:42:50.480
to pick up on a few words and phrases here and there. But my basic argument, you completely missed
00:42:57.960
somehow, which I don't know how you managed to miss an argument that I make because I repeat myself
00:43:02.960
so much. I'm sure you've noticed because I want it to be understood. I'll keep repeating it and repeating
00:43:08.480
it. My point, when I talk about how all laws are moral laws, every law that's ever been written is a
00:43:17.580
moral law. You cannot have a law that is not a moral law, or at least to try to imagine a non-moral law
00:43:26.980
is an absurdity. It would be, it would be, what you would end up with is a totally arbitrary law
00:43:32.320
that has no reason to exist. So maybe you can imagine one, but you, but, uh, you certainly
00:43:39.040
wouldn't want a law like that to actually be passed. Um, but when I say that all laws are moral laws,
00:43:44.980
it doesn't mean that they're the correct morals. It doesn't mean I agree. Okay. You can make a moral
00:43:51.740
argument for something. Somebody can make a moral argument. Like I said yesterday, somebody can make
00:43:56.880
a moral argument for, for abortion. You can make a moral argument for abortion. It doesn't mean it's
00:44:02.300
a good argument and it's not a good argument, but all it means, all that means is that you are using,
00:44:09.680
you're trying to use morals. You're, you're, you're using a moral appeal. You're appealing to our
00:44:15.640
moral sense in order to advocate for abortion in that case. To acknowledge that that's what you're
00:44:22.200
doing is not to agree with the argument you're making. And so every law at base is, is a moral
00:44:31.220
law. It doesn't mean they're good. Yes. Oftentimes they're tyrannical. They're immoral. They're evil,
00:44:38.280
evil, but still there is a moral argument at the bottom. And the, whoever introduced that law,
00:44:47.320
advocated it, legislated it, imposed it, whatever, whatever person or group is responsible for that
00:44:55.200
law, it's guaranteed that they were making a moral argument to justify it. Might've been a bad
00:45:04.220
argument, might've been a horrific argument, but it was a moral argument. Is that, is that enough?
00:45:14.540
It, that seems to me in my own ears to be, uh, understandable and coherent. So hopefully now
00:45:19.240
you get what I was saying. Uh, resident wiseacre says 25 years ago, someone who spent all day in
00:45:25.520
the library was called a scholar. Today they're called homeless. Well, that is, that is, I suppose,
00:45:32.060
that was a correct observation, which is a shame. I used to be a big fan of libraries,
00:45:36.800
but the other thing is that libraries are, everything is, it's, it sounds silly to even
00:45:40.400
say what I'm going to say, but I have to, libraries are politicized. Everything is politicized. Now
00:45:45.440
libraries too, where they're bringing in, you know, drag queen story hours and everything.
00:45:52.960
Um, Abby Taylor says, if Matt reads this comment on the show, I'll pre-order Ben's book. And in my
00:45:59.800
question, I'll ask if Matt can sign it instead of Ben and address it to the sweet baby gang.
00:46:04.520
Well, I read your comment, so get to work. This is a win-win for everybody. I helped sell another
00:46:09.780
copy of Ben's book and, uh, maybe he promotes the sweet baby gang. I, I, I doubt that that will
00:46:16.960
happen, but let's give it a shot. It's worth a shot. Um, Bob says, wow, Matt, any more obvious
00:46:26.000
you're trying to get a ticket for Bezos's next trip, maybe on his lap. Aha, ban me. I'll just
00:46:31.240
keep watching. Uh, well, you are banned of course, but no, I, that's actually the last thing I would
00:46:37.340
want. I don't want to get in the rocket ship. I'm fascinated by space, by the idea of it. Uh,
00:46:42.840
as I've been saying, I, I, I love the idea of people building rocket ships and going up into
00:46:46.500
space. I think all that's great. I don't want to do it. I would be way too terrified to actually do it.
00:46:51.680
I don't like getting on an airplane, you know, and flying from Nashville to Baltimore, right? On a
00:46:58.700
two, two hour plane trip. So going 50 miles in the sky or higher is not, uh, not my cup of tea.
00:47:06.520
Although that's, that's not as bad. I, I read a story yesterday as we're all these different
00:47:12.860
companies are getting in, trying to get into the burgeoning space tourism industry, which of
00:47:18.020
course burgeoning among multimillionaires and billionaires, only ones are going to
00:47:21.660
afford it right now. But there's one company they're looking at, at, uh, at doing these space
00:47:25.940
trips in a space balloon, which is like a, a massive high tech hot air balloon, the size of a
00:47:33.620
football field. And you would drift up into space on one of those. That to me is it, that fills me
00:47:38.540
with so much existential dread to even think of doing something like that. So no, thank you, but I'm glad
00:47:44.500
people are doing it. Just like I'm, I'm not going to be on the trip, getting on a, on a, on a ship
00:47:49.160
to go to Mars. But I like the idea of people doing that, especially certain people. If I
00:47:56.600
could select the people and send them to Mars, it'd be even better. I got a lot of people in
00:47:59.700
mind who I would like to send. Um, and AOC Zabuelo says, let there be a competition for the best
00:48:06.860
sweet baby gang song. I think that's an excellent idea. Make your own sweet baby gang song, post
00:48:13.120
it to YouTube and, uh, I'll play them on the show. Let's, and if you can, if you do, and you already
00:48:19.180
know, if you do one with a banjo, you get, you get extra credit. You know, while some people see
00:48:25.580
NPR's latest smear campaign, that's been waged against the daily wire as an attempt at bringing
00:48:29.920
the thought police to our doorstep doorstep. I think there's another way you could look at it as
00:48:34.140
well. The entire article talks about our success as a news organization and was published the same day
00:48:39.020
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Today for our daily cancellation, we begin with some good news for a change. The Philadelphia
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Inquirer has the story. It says the U.S. women's soccer team opened the Olympics in disastrous fashion,
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losing 3-0 to longtime rival Sweden. It was the program's worst defeat at a major tournament since
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2007 and manager Vlatko Andinovsky's first loss since taking the helm in October 2019. And it was
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no fluke. It was an honest to goodness beating. For all the talk of the U.S. being the tournament's
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heavy favorite, Sweden was on the front foot from the start and rarely let up. I don't really know
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what that means. They outshot the Americans by 16 to 13 in the game, including by 10 to 3 in the
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first half. An American team loaded with past medals, but also the oldest squad in this tournament,
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looked the latter more than the former. Now, from what I'm hearing, this was almost as embarrassing
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as the time when they lost to a bunch of adolescent boys. It's almost, it's also almost as hilarious
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and wonderful, but not quite. I'm not ashamed to tell you that I am actively rooting against
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U.S. women's soccer. I want them to lose. I want them to be embarrassed badly on the global stage
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because they have so thoroughly and intentionally embarrassed us. The Daily Mail reports, quote,
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The U.S. and Team GB women's football teams were among those who took the knee ahead of their
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opening matches in the Olympics today. All 22 players took part in the gesture prior to kickoff
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between four-time Olympics champion the U.S. and Sweden and Tokyo, an hour after Team GB and Chile did
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likewise in Sapporo. The IOC recently relaxed the rules for protests at the game, softening a
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longstanding ban on political protests at the global sporting event. Athletes will now be allowed to
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take a knee before play begins to highlight racial injustice, speak to the media and post online about
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their views, or wear clothing with a protest slogan at a press conference. So U.S. women's soccer
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took the knee. As always, none of them can explain why they're kneeling. None of these people have ever
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been able to offer any cogent explanation as to what exactly they're protesting. And that's because
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they aren't protesting any particular thing so much as expressing a general disdain for their country.
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And this stunt comes as no surprise either. These are the same ladies who wore BLM shirts while also
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taking a knee during the anthem before a game last year. Led by political activist Megan Rapinoe,
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they have consistently put their politics front and center and declined to display patriotism in
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favor of this sort of woke virtue signaling, all while repeatedly declaring their allegiance with an
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organization, BLM, that is among the most destructive, evil, and depraved to exist in this country in
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modern history. These women are not interested in representing the United States. They want to
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represent their own ideological interests. They've shown no pride in their country, no allegiance to it.
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And so I have no pride in them. I want them to lose. That's what they deserve.
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It's true, of course, that the other women from the other teams knelt also. One set of kneelers
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losing just means another set wins, unfortunately. But those other women are not supposed to be
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representing our country. It's not our country that they make a mockery of. If some morons from Sweden
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want to kneel, that's Sweden's concern. If morons from the U.S. kneel, it's ours.
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This is where we are now, and it's not where I want to be. Even though I'm only vaguely interested
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in the Olympics and I'm not at all interested in soccer, I still want to root for our teams and
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our players. But if you won't stand and show pride in your country, if patriotism is too much to ask
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for, if this country has blessed you beyond measure and still you put your allegiance to
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violent Marxist organizations like BLM over your allegiance to the flag, then I am ashamed to share a
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country with you. And I don't think you deserve to represent us in front of the globe.
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You know, there's a lot of gaslighting that's gone on with this issue, of course.
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Those of us who feel this way about it, those of us who are sick to death of the political statements,
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the kneeling and so on, we're accused of being the ones to politicize sports.
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And if we celebrate the defeat of athletes who carry on this way, we're accused of being disloyal.
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But we're not the ones who chose to make sports into an ideological battlefield.
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And what we're asking for is not much. It really isn't. All we want is for these people to conduct
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themselves with a little dignity and to display just the faintest hint of gratitude for the country
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that they live in and represent and which has given them so much. If that's too much to ask for,
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then it's too much to ask us to root for you. I hope you fail. And I'm glad when you do.
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And also you're canceled. I will leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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