Ep. 760 - Feminists Experience Equality. They Don't Like It.
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We have moved one step closer to signing women up for the draft, yet the people who have clamored for gender equality for so long aren t celebrating the news. Also, we have our 5 headlines, including Nancy Pelosi once again declaring herself a devout Catholic in spite of her rabid defense of child murder, and the mayor of D.C. outlaws flavored tobacco, but I m sure we ll still be ready to throw any cop who tries to enforce that law under the bus. Hunter Biden gets ready to sell some of his art for hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians has chosen a new name, but will the new name also be offensive? We ll try to figure that out today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, we have moved one step closer to signing women up for the draft,
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yet the people who have clamored for gender equality for so long aren't celebrating the
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news. I wonder why. Also, we have our five headlines, including Nancy Pelosi once again
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declaring herself a devout Catholic in spite of her rabid defense of child murder. And the mayor
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of D.C. outlaws flavored tobacco, but I'm sure we'll still be ready to throw any cop who tries
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to enforce that law under the bus. Hunter Biden gets ready to sell some of his art for hundreds
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of thousands of dollars. We'll take a look at his masterpieces today. Are they worth all of that
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money? We'll take a look. And the team formerly known as the Cleveland Indians has chosen a new
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name, but will the new name also be offensive? We'll try to figure that out today. And so much more on
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So let's talk, first of all, about equality, which is perhaps the most destructive myth
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of modern times. And we'll begin at a basic level with children. One of the basic jobs of a parent,
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especially when your kids are young, is to make them understand that not everything is equal. To
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demand complete equality all the time is to be unreasonable and selfish and immature. Now,
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some parents are dumb enough or weak enough to cater to this childish and selfish need for equality,
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fairness, as the kids usually call it. That's not fair. And so they make sure that everyone gets
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exactly the same amount of ice cream and each child gets to play with a toy for exactly the same
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amount of time. And if one child gets to do something, the others can do it too. And on and
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on and on. I've even known a family where the living room had one especially comfortable chair
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with the best angle for TV watching. And the parents had a chart to determine whose turn it was
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to sit in the comfortable chair. Everyone had to have the same amount of time, the same amount of
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sitting time allotted to them. It had to be exactly equal. Parents who feed into the equality demands
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will end up doing many absurd things like this. There's going to be charts and stopwatches and
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various measuring devices to make sure that everything is the same for everyone all the time.
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Now, we don't play that game in my house, I can tell you. Sometimes one kid gets a little more
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ice cream than the others. Sometimes one gets to do a fun thing that the others don't. Sometimes,
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you know, I'm running an errand. I'll take one of my kids with me to run some errands. I'll get them
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a candy bar or something if I'm feeling generous. And then the others find out about the candy bar
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and they demand to know why they didn't get one too. And when they do, I'll say, well, because that's
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the way it worked out this time. And also, I'm dad. Don't speak to me that way. Our kids know that we
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aren't setting timers or making charts or breaking out the measuring cups. If you want to sit in the
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comfortable chair, get there first. Claim your spot. If you're fighting over the chair, I might just
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take it from all of you and sit in it myself. If you're complaining that you didn't get enough ice
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cream, I'll take that away too and eat it myself. If you're whining that one of your siblings has
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better toys than you or more toys, I'll remind you that what you should be saying is, thank you,
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dad, for the toys I have, which you paid for. I'm grateful for however many toys you decide to give
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me. If I had just one toy and that was it, I would still leap for joy and sing songs of gratitude and
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gladness. Daddy. The point of parenting this way is, one, my wife and I, we're not wearing black and
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white striped shirts. We're not referees, okay? We don't have the whistle playing referee the whole
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time. That's not what we're doing. We have better things to do. And also, again, the demand for
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complete equality all the time in all situations is unreasonable, childish, and selfish. It's the
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enemy of gratitude, of generosity, of love. The child who complains about another child's superior
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toy is failing to show gratitude for his own toy while also failing to demonstrate love for the
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other child. He should be happy that his sibling or his friend or whoever has a toy that he enjoys.
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Envy and resentment are not the appropriate response and should not be encouraged.
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He's also being impolite and irrational. All of these reactions are incorrect. They also are
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understandable from a child. I was the same way as a kid. All kids are. Our job as parents is to help
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our kids grow in wisdom, maturity, and virtue. And we don't do that by supporting their delusional
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desire for total fairness and equality. We also want our kids to understand that not only are all things
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not equal, but this is important too, people are not equal either. People are different,
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have different strengths and weaknesses, and that's okay. My son is a naturally gifted athlete.
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He's constantly doing cartwheels and flips and various acrobatic stunts, which will win him well-deserved
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praise and applause, unless he's doing it off the coffee table or something. My daughter has basically
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no athletic ability, but she's a gifted artist, and she's very creative and crafty. But my daughter will
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sometimes get jealous when she hears us complimenting her brother on his athletic ability, and her
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brother will sometimes get jealous when he hears us complimenting his sister on her latest arts and
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crafts project. Again, we have to help them understand that they are different. They have different skills,
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and that's a good thing. Okay, what I'm not going to say to my daughter is, no, no, you're just as good
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of an athlete as your brother. She's not. I'm not going to say to her brother, no, you're just as good
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of an artist. You're different. That's cool. That's good. You want to be better at this thing over here?
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Practice. Spend more time doing it. The problem is that, as is the case with so many other lessons
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we teach our kids. Our culture is constantly sabotaging us, undermining us. We teach our
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children to forget about equality and focus on gratitude and love and hard work, but the culture
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is essentially the exact opposite message. Sadly, we live in a country now utterly obsessed with
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equality and overrun with emotionally stunted, overgrown, post-adolescent children who had parents
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who played referee rather than being actual parents. I know that although I'm teaching my kids that not
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everything is equal and not everyone is equal because everyone is different, they're entering a world
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which has fully invested itself in the equality delusion. They're entering a world which has decided that
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all people are the same, there are no inherent differences, and everyone should have the same
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outcomes in life and have the same responsibilities and privileges. But as already established, this
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obsessive focus on equality is born from immaturity and selfishness, which means that even when equality
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is granted, the people who demanded it still aren't happy. That's the other thing you notice with kids.
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You start feeding into the equality thing, you just end up doing it more and more and more.
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Because they begin to think that it's something they're entitled to.
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And you see that with adults too. The more they're given this artificial equality,
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the more they want it, but the less satisfied they are when they get it.
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And that brings us finally to this. Reported by The Hill, it says,
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The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved language in its annual defense policy bill that
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would require women to register for the draft. The National Defense Authorization Act,
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approved by the committee behind closed doors on Wednesday, amends the Military Service Act to
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require registration of women for selective service, according to a summary released on Thursday.
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Now, a few things we should say right off the bat. First of all, there obviously is no draft right now,
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and it might seem sort of far-fetched that there will ever be another draft again.
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And then again, a war with China, if that's where we're headed ultimately, may well require it.
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Either way, whether the draft is ever reinstated or not, it says something about our country that
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women are forced to sign up for it. And it doesn't say anything good. It is immoral and absurd and a
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disgrace for a nation to draft its daughters into combat. Men are supposed to protect women from things
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like that. That's the job of men. In fact, men go over to fight these battles precisely so that
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the women and children don't have to experience the violence and the horror. That's the whole point.
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If you're going to just send your daughters in anyway, then what's the point?
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Now, my daughters will certainly not be signing up. I would go to prison before I'd ship them off to
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go fight in any war. That's for sure. So that is one law, if it is signed into law, that I will
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happily disobey. And I can take that position without self-contradiction because I don't believe
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that men and women are equal. And I don't believe that they should have all the same roles or
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responsibilities in society. I've been very consistent about that for years. There's nothing
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that could ever make me abandon my stance on that issue. I would rather be dead than ever affirm the
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insane modern notion that there is no fundamental difference between men and women. I would prefer
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death over that. That's how strongly I feel about it. The funny thing, though not surprising,
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is that many of the people who supposedly feel the opposite way about it,
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people who've been clamoring for equality, who've claimed that men and women are indeed the same,
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that the very terms men and women have no meaning, many of those people, if the reaction on the internet is
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any indication, are not happy about this news about the draft. In fact, I haven't seen any feminist
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or any champion of gender fluidity celebrate it. Forcing teenage girls to sign up for the draft
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is one of the most profound endorsements a country can give to the notion of gender equality.
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Those who've been marching under the gender equality banner should be dancing in the streets.
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And yet, for the most part, they're not. As I said, this is no surprise. We have always known that
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the clamoring for equality is selective, just as it is with my kids. My son might complain that his
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sister got a larger piece of cake, but he's never once complained that his sister was given a harder
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chore to do. Likewise, feminists have called for more female CEOs and more representation in Hollywood
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and other posh and fancy industries. But I've never heard any of them worry about the fact that the
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vast majority of roofers and garbage collectors are men. That's because even the people who believe
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in equality really don't believe in it and don't want it. When they cry for equality, what they mean
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always is that there is some particular privilege they want to be granted or benefit they want to be
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given, whether they've earned it or not. The equality advocates never ask to share in suffering,
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to share in duty, to share in sacrifice. It turns out that even the champions of equality
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know that equality is not a desirable or even feasible goal.
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But even so, whether they wanted the form of equality that ends with women getting drafted to
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die on foreign soil far away or not, they now have it. It may not be what they wanted, but it's what
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they asked for. And they have only themselves to thank. So congratulations, feminists. You earned it.
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breaking news just came across my desk. Cleveland's baseball team has changed its name. So I got the
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story here from CNBC. Um, it says Cleveland's major league baseball team is changing its name to
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guardians. Now we know they, they used to be, uh, the Indians and that's, we've decided that's
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offensive. No one's ever explained why that's offensive. Why is it offensive to say Indians?
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Uh, but it is now the I word can't say that anymore. So now they are the guardians. Uh, it says, uh,
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the franchise announced this on Friday, dropping the racially offensive name. It has been known for,
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uh, as for more than a century, the name guardians is a reference to well-known art deco statues located
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on the Lorraine Carnegie bridge, uh, and which connects downtown Cleveland to the city's trendy, Ohio city
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neighborhood. Those statues are known as the guardians of traffic. So you named your team after some
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statues on a bridge of all this time thinking about it. And that's what you go with
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the franchise franchise, which announced the name change in a tweet on Friday morning
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had long faced pressure from activists locally and nationally to ditch the name Indians,
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which critics said was racist. It's been, it's been the baseball's clubs, baseball club's name since
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1915. Um, okay. So the Cleveland guardians, I think a few, a few issues here first being there
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was no reason to change the name to begin with. Um, anyone complaining about it should have been
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simply ignored, but first of all, guardians, before you find out that it's based on some art deco
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statues on a bridge. Guardians sounds, it actually sounds almost too sort of epic and, and almost
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celestial makes you think of guardian angels. You think guardians and then Cleveland guardians
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from Cleveland. There's some, there's a, it's, it, there's an incongruity there that, that kind of
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doesn't make sense. And also the name guardians might still be offensive. I can't think of why,
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but I'm sure, I'm sure someone will think of a reason. Um, I, I mean, right off the top of my head,
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it, it is based on statues. We know that statues, uh, there's a lot of trauma related just to statues.
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Many people in this country have been, have been traumatized by many different statues. Um, and so that
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might, might, might, might bring those to light. I mean, think about it. The guardians based on a
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statue, there are, there were Confederate statues. So in effect, this is basically a Confederate name.
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If you think about it. Um, and also guardians, it's, that's kind of a gruddy thing of, we think of
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guardians. You think of it's aggressive. It's, um, these are people who are armed or guarding. It brings
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to mind war and battle. And then that also is an offensive stereotype of Native Americans,
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that they were a warfaring people, even though they were, but still,
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or we could go the other way and we could say that it's offensive because it erases Native Americans.
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Guardians is a, I think if you follow the etymology of, of that word, it's kind of a French
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Anglo word and, and, and, you know, in its, uh, in its etymology. And so now we're taking Native
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Americans and we're erasing them. It's a, it's a whitewashing. So there are many different angles
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we could take here to figure out why this is offensive. Uh, and it'll just be interesting to
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figure out, you know, the PC mob, what do they go with? I think they got three solid options.
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It's still offensive to Native Americans because it's a stereotype somehow, or it erases Native
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Americans, or it's a, it, it, it is a traumatizing because it's related to statues. I think any of
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those are good. We'll see where they go next. It'll be fun to keep track of. All right. From
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the daily wire, um, all hail Mississippi says the Mississippi attorney general Lynn Fitch asked the
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U S Supreme court on Thursday to defend the right of the people to pass laws that protect life and
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women's health, urging the court to overturn Roe v. Wade. So this is a very important step here
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that Mississippi has taken that someone needed to take asking the court specifically to overturn Roe
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v. Wade. Uh, Fitch wrote in a brief, the court's abortion precedents depart from a sound understanding
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of the constitution. Um, in Roe v. Wade, this court held that abortion is a right specially protected by
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the 14th amendment. And so laws restricting it must withstand heightened scrutiny scrutiny. This court
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should over, overrule Roe and Casey. So what Fritz, uh, Fitch said, the brief stated quote, Roe, Roe and
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Casey are egregiously wrong. The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in
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text, structure, history, or tradition. And that won't shock you to learn. I fully agree with that.
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Uh, and, uh, no matter where you stand on abortion,
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even if you are fully in favor of it, uh, you should still, if you're an honest person,
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I don't know if that's a, that's, that's probably not a type of person that can exist in honest
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pro-abortion advocate, kind of an oxymoron there. But if that oxymoron could exist in reality,
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then that would be a person who would say, I'm in favor of abortion, but Roe v. Wade's is
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ridiculous. It was decided wrongly because clearly there is nothing in the text of the constitution
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that makes any mention of abortion that is related in any way to abortion.
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So it should be overturned. Now the question becomes the court as it is currently
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assembled. Is this a court that would overturn Roe v. Wade? And, uh, I pray that they do,
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but all I'm going to say is do not get your hopes up. We hear in the media that this is a,
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a far right court, conservative majority court. It's certainly not far right. And I don't, I,
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I wouldn't even call it conservative majority. Um, how many justices, how many of all of the
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justices on the Supreme court, how many can you, can we count on? How many do we know would
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absolutely vote correctly to overturn Roe v. Wade? I think two, there's two that we know would
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maybe a third. You could see possibly going that way. I don't see how you get to a majority.
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Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Roberts, you think they're going to come down on, on overturning Roe v. Wade?
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The problem is especially Roberts, Kavanaugh too. They, they have shown, um, putting aside their
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philosophy of law, they have shown that they, they do care about being accepted in polite society
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at the cocktail parties and so on. And if they decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, they would be,
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and anyone, if, if this court decided that anyone on the majority side of that decision would be seen
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as the backlash they would get is, is unimaginable. I think in fact, they would, they would be putting
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their, taking their life into their hands. You got to keep in mind, to the left, abortion is their
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holiest and highest sacrament. To take that away, all this stuff they say, the handmaid's tale,
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you want to take away a woman's right to choose, it's like enslaving women. They really believe that,
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they've convinced themselves of that. And it is, it is hard to fathom, predict fully the reaction
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if Roe v. Wade was overturned. Even though, even upon overturning Roe v. Wade, it wouldn't mean that
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abortion is now illegal across the country. Roe v. Wade is overturned unless there's a constitutional
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amendment, like a personal amendment, which isn't going to happen. Simply overturning Roe v. Wade,
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all that means is that states can now make their own laws, which should have been the case.
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Well, it, it, it, abortion should be illegal across the country. Um, that's not going to happen.
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So in reality, Roe v. Wade is overturned. States make their own laws. And that means places like
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California, New York, many of the states with the highest population centers still going to have
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all the abortion you want. Even so, the reaction will be, um, demonic. We can be sure. So it would
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require some real moral courage and fortitude. There are two justices on the court who I am sure
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have that moral courage and fortitude. The rest, I don't think so. But again, we can, we can pray and
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we should. Speaking of having no courage or moral fortitude, Nancy Pelosi was, uh, once again, given a
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chance to defend her support for tax funded abortion, given the fact that she's quote unquote Catholic.
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And here's what she said. Because it's an issue of health of many women in America, especially those,
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uh, in, uh, lower income situations and in a different States. And, uh, it is something that
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has been a priority for many of us a long time, uh, as a devout Catholic and mother of five and six
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years. Uh, I, uh, feel that God blessed my husband and me with our beautiful family, five children,
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six years, almost to the day, but that may not be what we should. It's not up to me to detect,
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dictate that that's what other people should do. And it's an issue of a fairness and, uh, justice
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for poor women in our country. So we need, we need poor women to be able to kill their kids.
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We don't want more. We don't want more poor people. That's, that's the message here, basically.
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She's saying, yeah, I mean, I can have all these kids, but we don't want all these poor people.
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Uh, and, and she's a devout Catholic, she says. Now those words do have definitions. Uh, the word
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devout, let's just break this down for a second. Devout Catholic who supports abortion. Well, what
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does, what do these words mean? Devout Catholic. Well, devout means totally committed to a cause
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or a belief. Totally committed. Catholic. What does that mean? That means a member of the Catholic
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church. So if you're a devout Catholic, it means that you are totally committed to the church,
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uh, and to the, to the, uh, the beliefs that are a part of being a Catholic.
00:24:59.300
So I'm just wondering, how can you be not only a Catholic, but a devout Catholic
00:25:02.980
while fundamentally rejecting the moral authority of the church, which is what you would need to do
00:25:09.560
to support abortion. This is not a matter of Catholics. Um, in spite of the misunderstanding
00:25:17.620
of many people who are not Catholic, Catholics are not required to agree with everything the Pope
00:25:22.760
says. If that were the case, then I wouldn't be Catholic because I disagree with what the Pope
00:25:26.660
says all the time. But when it comes to the, to the church's fundamental moral authority,
00:25:34.180
official pronouncements from the church, the official position of the church, it's, it's long
00:25:41.760
standing moral teachings going back thousands of years. When it comes to that, well, you're perfectly
00:25:50.900
free in America to disagree with those, but you can't call yourself a devout Catholic while you do it.
00:25:55.140
It doesn't make any sense. That's it. You cannot be a devout Catholic or any kind of Catholic
00:26:03.020
while rejecting the moral authority of the church, because to reject the moral authority and no one
00:26:07.520
ever follows up on this with her. No one ever, there's never a follow-up question. I'd love to hear
00:26:13.600
it. Not that it would matter. She would dance around it or refuse to answer it, but still, I would love
00:26:18.100
to hear someone say, well, hang on, Nancy, you say you're a devout Catholic. The church is a position
00:26:24.840
on abortion has always been that it's intrinsically evil. Never wavering from, from that for centuries
00:26:31.920
upon century. So are you saying that the church is wrong on this fundamental moral issue?
00:26:41.060
Well, yes, you are. Well, then why are you Catholic? If you think the church is fallible when it comes
00:26:47.940
to morals, then you have the same opinion of the church that every non-Catholic has, and you're
00:26:54.460
perfectly entitled to have that opinion, but not to call yourself a Catholic while you do.
00:26:57.640
Just like I can't sit here and say, uh, I'm, uh, I disagree with the Mormons about everything
00:27:07.060
fundamentally, but, uh, sure, I'm a Mormon. That word has a meaning, and this is not the meaning.
00:27:13.900
It's kind of funny, too, that you have people who hate the church, despise it, have no respect for it,
00:27:20.560
and are not Catholic themselves. And yet, if you say that Nancy Pelosi isn't a Catholic,
00:27:26.480
they take it personally. They get offended as if you're insulting Nancy Pelosi.
00:27:33.780
You shouldn't even see that as an insult. You hate the church. You should see it as a compliment
00:27:39.320
So it doesn't make any sense at all. Um, all right. Speaking of not making sense,
00:27:48.620
Mayor Bowser of DC had a big announcement. She signed into law the Flavored Tobacco Prohibition
00:27:53.780
Amendment Act of 2021. Here's her statement posted to Twitter yesterday, um, announcing it. She says,
00:28:01.200
to attack disparities in health outcomes and ensure all Washingtonians, no matter where they live in
00:28:06.100
our city, have the same opportunities to live long, healthy lives, we must think and act broadly.
00:28:11.220
Last week, when we broke ground on Whitman Walker at St. Elizabeth East on the same campus
00:28:15.340
where we are building a new full-service hospital and down the street from, uh, the future DC
00:28:19.500
health headquarters, we could feel how transformative these investments will be for our residents.
00:28:23.860
Um, blah, blah, blah. We know that black residents are disproportionately, yeah, it really said
00:28:28.680
blah, blah, blah. I'm reading, this is a verbatim. I'm reading it. We know that black residents
00:28:32.140
are disproportionately affected by tobacco use and flavored tobacco, including menthol,
00:28:36.100
continues to have a particularly insidious effect on our community. Today, we take a hugely
00:28:39.920
impactful step. I hate that word impactful, uh, step to reducing tobacco initiation and addiction
00:28:48.040
in Washington, DC. Black residents are disproportionately affected by flavored tobacco.
00:28:55.800
Is it, how does that work exactly? Is it, uh, you know, are you saying that a black person walks
00:29:00.440
into a convenience store and a box of, uh, of black and milds just leaps off the shelf and assaults
00:29:06.040
them? What you're saying is that according to you, black residents of your city prefer this kind
00:29:13.400
of tobacco and make the decision to buy it. That's what you're saying, but they shouldn't be allowed
00:29:20.540
to make that decision. You're, you're, you're, you're announcing, uh, very paternalistically.
00:29:26.000
And so you're going to prohibit it. Here's the problem though, among many, um,
00:29:33.420
laws require enforcement. If you're going to have the law, someone has to enforce, enforce it.
00:29:41.760
We have people who do that. They're called law enforcement officers, the same ones that you on
00:29:47.960
the left want to defund. So what this means now, if you're, if you're going to, if you're not going
00:29:54.280
to enforce it, then we might, we might as well not have the law. If you, if you do want to enforce
00:30:01.060
the law, then that means that police officers are going to have to go and start writing citations
00:30:08.200
or arresting people, however the law is written for, for selling or, or, uh, or using this kind
00:30:14.040
of tobacco. Are, are you willing, is this law important enough that you're willing for someone
00:30:21.520
to potentially get shot over it? Now that doesn't mean that the cops are just going to see someone
00:30:27.680
with a black and mild, a flavored, you know, a Philly or something flavored, uh, vanilla flavored,
00:30:32.840
something gross like that. And the cops are going to show up and just shoot the person. No,
00:30:35.600
that's, that's not what happens. But if they show up to enforce the law and the person they're
00:30:41.700
trying to enforce it on resists, what are they supposed to do then? Say, well, okay, nevermind.
00:30:50.000
Hey, we got to write you a citation for this. This is illegal. And they say, no, I'm not, I know I
00:30:55.000
refuse. The cops are supposed to respond. Well, nevermind then. Oh, you don't want us to enforce
00:31:00.680
the law on you. Well, thanks for letting us know. Be on your way. Have a good one.
00:31:07.220
Once again, if that's the interaction you want, then you might as well not have the law at all.
00:31:16.200
Um, if they resist and we're going to have the law, then that means that they had, now they have
00:31:20.840
to use force and then things can spiral from there. So as I saw, we say with these things,
00:31:28.460
you know, if, if it's a law, if you're thinking about passing a law and you wouldn't want anyone
00:31:35.980
potentially getting shot over it, if it's not worth using state force, potentially violent force
00:31:42.820
to enforce it, then the law should not exist. And if you're thinking to yourself, well, that means a
00:31:48.100
whole lot of laws should not exist. Well, yep. If the shoe fits. All right, moving on here. This is
00:31:56.620
from Yahoo. A little bit of celebrity gossip. I don't do this very often, but I wanted to mention
00:32:00.720
this. Nicole Young will be receiving a substantial amount of money from Dr. Dre amid their divorce.
00:32:06.900
The rapper Dr. Dre, not a real doctor, at least as real a doctor as Jill Biden is anyway. A judge
00:32:11.500
ordered the music mogul to pay a young $293,000 per month in spousal support. That's 300 grand per
00:32:20.380
month, more than $3.5 million a year. While it's a good chunk of change for most people,
00:32:24.760
the sum is much less than she requested. Dr. Dre's now ex-wife asked for $2 million a month
00:32:31.080
that he's going to have to pay now. Okay. As far as the specific situation with their marriage and
00:32:39.840
all that, I don't know anything about it. It doesn't matter who's right and wrong. Who's the
00:32:43.800
bad guy? Who's the good guy? Reading one of the articles I saw that apparently allegedly he committed
00:32:49.000
infidelity, but also there was a, there was a prenup and she's saying that the prenup, he tore up the
00:32:53.860
prenup at some point in the marriage and he's saying, no, I didn't. And then back and forth and
00:32:56.480
back and forth. Um, many times in a marriage, and I think anyone who's a marriage counselor could
00:33:02.400
probably attest to this, you know, it's, it's relatively rare in a marriage that there's a,
00:33:07.520
that there's a straightforward, especially 20 years you've been married or more. There's rarely a
00:33:11.940
straightforward good guy, bad guy situation. Even when you mix an infidelity and all these kinds
00:33:17.240
of things, um, normally there's a whole lot of fault to go around for everybody. That's usually
00:33:22.500
the way it goes. There are exceptions, but I will say not knowing the situation, 300 grand a month
00:33:29.400
seems excessive, shall we say. Child support is one thing, but spousal support for a grown woman
00:33:34.940
with no minor children to the tune of $3 million a year seems absurd. You see, the thing is that our
00:33:41.800
divorce laws don't make a lot of sense. Our whole approach to marriage, our view of marriage makes
00:33:48.240
no sense. What most people would say is that these days, if you ask most people, they'll say that
00:33:54.460
marriage is a private affair. It's a private concern and you have the right to get divorced and cut ties
00:34:00.700
with one another. And that's it, right? It's as simple as that. It's what most people think of
00:34:05.060
marriage. Well, the problem is that even in a no fault divorce situation where you can break the
00:34:10.440
contract for literally no reason. And it's the only contract you could do that with, by the way,
00:34:15.760
uh, break it for no reason at all. But even there, you have to do it through the courts. You have to do
00:34:21.220
it through a government institution. And because of alimony, in fact, you can't actually break it all
00:34:26.620
the way. If the man is paying alimony, then he is being told that he must remain responsible for
00:34:33.020
and to his wife after the alleged dissolution of the marriage.
00:34:39.360
It's one thing if there's a, if there's a cash settlement at the end and, and, and he's told
00:34:43.300
by the courts, well, you got to give her $5 million and, uh, and then you guys can go your separate
00:34:47.340
ways. What the courts are saying is in perpetuity until this person dies or marries somebody else,
00:34:54.280
which they probably will never marry someone else. If it means you have to give up 300 grand a month,
00:34:59.020
right? Um, so what the court is saying is that the commitment that was made actually cannot be
00:35:06.280
broken. It's, it's, you cannot break it fully anyway. So my question is just as simply as, which
00:35:13.200
is it? Is marriage a private thing? Nobody else's business can be entered into and ended whenever the
00:35:20.580
partners in that, in that private arrangement decide, or is it also a public institution in
00:35:27.860
which the commitment you make to one another cannot be severed and potentially remains permanent no
00:35:33.920
matter what you want to do? Because right now in our culture, we kind of say, well, both, we try to
00:35:40.120
have our divorce cake and eat it too. We want to say marriage is only private. It's just about two
00:35:46.560
people loving each other. That's all it is. But then also you go get divorced. You ask the courts
00:35:52.900
to, to, uh, you know, bless it and to enforce alimony payments and everything else. I think we
00:35:59.260
have to choose a path. That's all. I mean, which is it? A marriage is a private thing. Nobody else's
00:36:05.700
business or it's a public concern. Courts, governments are involved, alimony, lifetime support,
00:36:12.320
that kind of thing. It can't be both something to think about. I have my answer, but I'll let you
00:36:18.780
come up with your own. All right. Finally, Hunter Biden, um, reading now from the daily wire, Hunter
00:36:23.440
Biden, the son of Democrat president, Joe Biden is reportedly expected to meet with prospective
00:36:27.160
buyers of his high priced art. Um, a development, which comes after the white house claimed that the
00:36:32.440
identities of the buyers would be kept a secret. So this is something we recently learned that Hunter
00:36:36.540
Biden is a, is supposedly an artist. And now he's, he's talking about hundreds of thousands of
00:36:41.300
dollars that he's going to be making on this, uh, on this artwork. And that, that creates all kinds
00:36:46.300
of problems. He's the son of the president. You've got foreign buyers coming in, giving him lots of
00:36:53.040
money. Um, is this just a way for, for, for foreign influences to make payoffs under the guise of paying
00:37:05.300
for artwork? These are the questions. And then you take a look at the art. We have it up on the screen
00:37:09.500
here. Here are three pieces of artwork and you've got one. It looks like a, maybe a stained glass
00:37:15.520
window designed by a first grader and then drop down the steps. Then you got the one in the middle
00:37:22.240
there. It's maybe, maybe that at best is a middle schoolers art project that somebody dropped a hot
00:37:28.260
dog onto, and then it got ketchup and mustard all over the place. And the one on the, on, on the,
00:37:33.920
the right there, that's just, that looks like Hunter was printing out some kind of color document
00:37:37.620
and it got jammed in the printer and he yanked it out and, uh, and the ink smeared.
00:37:44.940
That's the artwork. I think he's looking at $500,000 either for all of that or one of those. I'm not
00:37:50.400
sure. I mean, you tell me, is it, is this a little suspicious? Uh, but then again, what, what do I
00:38:00.540
know? I'm, I'm no artist. All right. We do have one more thing before we get to reading the comments.
00:38:04.900
I, I got to play this. I almost forgot, um, on a Friday. It just seems like a good time for it.
00:38:10.960
You guys obviously know that I'm a big believer in aliens. Um, uh, and, and yet I'm skeptical of
00:38:17.320
the aliens spiritual cousin, which is Bigfoot. I've never heard of a book Bigfoot sighting that
00:38:23.580
sounded especially compelling or persuasive to me, but maybe this will be different. Uh, someone sent
00:38:29.240
this to me, a listener sent this to me. This is a local news report in Mississippi, uh, recent, this
00:38:34.700
is from a couple of days ago and they're reporting on a Bigfoot sighting and let's just, uh, let's
00:38:39.740
take a look. And I saw some trees shaking and then I really looked and I could see the silhouette
00:38:45.060
of him holding trees like that. And then when he realized I saw him, he screamed at me again
00:38:51.220
and that really scared me. Well, we're in the Mississippi River backwater shooting the story,
00:38:56.060
but I wanted to get a place that looked a little bit more Bigfootish. So I stopped by a couple
00:38:59.760
of spots I know on the way home on the Natchez Trace. Now keep in mind, I had just talked to a person
00:39:04.580
who told me that he had seen a Bigfoot and that the Bigfoot screamed at him. And so here's what I
00:39:10.080
heard in the woods. Can you hear it? Way, way back in the distance. There's this, ah, ah, ah, sound.
00:39:26.600
At first I didn't know what it was. I really didn't think it was a Bigfoot, but I couldn't
00:39:30.900
rule it out because it just never had heard a sound like that. Not on the Natchez Trace anyway. But
00:39:35.240
fortunately at the end of one of its last yowls, you can't hear it because it's inaudible to the
00:39:41.800
camera, but it went putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, chainsaw. So that's my Bigfoot
00:39:47.320
experience. Now, had it been a real Bigfoot, I would have turned into a UFO, an unidentified
00:39:52.160
fleeing object. Back to you guys. Oh, okay. Not a lot going down, going on in Mississippi, down there
00:40:01.600
in Mississippi, it appears, that that report made it onto air. Clearly that was a chainsaw.
00:40:08.300
I never heard a sound like that before. Really? You never heard a chainsaw before? It's very
00:40:11.700
obviously a chainsaw. Couldn't rule out a Bigfoot. No, I think you could probably rule out a Bigfoot
00:40:16.200
on that one. And my main problem with the way that they did this report is it's completely
00:40:22.280
overshadowed. I want to hear more from the first guy who was face to face with a Bigfoot
00:40:27.980
and the Bigfoot was screaming at him. And that's the first time I've heard a Bigfoot screaming.
00:40:35.000
And yet we have no, no visual, no video, no audio, except what turns out to be a chainsaw.
00:40:44.020
That's, that's where the skepticism comes in for me. And I want it to be true. I want to believe
00:40:48.960
all this stuff. Bigfoot, aliens, ghosts. I'm into it. I'm ready. I'm willing.
00:40:56.020
Just give me something halfway believable and you got me. And we're not there yet. All right,
00:41:04.000
let's go to reading the YouTube comments. This is from Andrea. She says, Matt, the BTS fans
00:41:09.220
who call you ugly are not only deaf, but blind as well. Well, Andrea, I won't have you speaking
00:41:15.260
about BTS fans that way. Okay. You're not going to speak of the BTS gang. I'm not going to have
00:41:22.200
the SBG gang slandering the BTS gang in that way. You are banned from the show, but thank you for that
00:41:29.100
compliment. Lex says, you're definitely not ugly. Well, look, I'd say I'm, you know, I'd say I'm a,
00:41:37.700
I'm a, I'm a solid six and a half. I would give myself that. I think that's fair. So not actively
00:41:42.700
ugly. It's like, it's not, it's not like I'm trying to prove a point. You see some ugly people and it's
00:41:46.980
almost, you almost want to say, well, okay, calm down. We get it. Um, but also not attractive
00:41:53.820
enough to compensate for my character flaws. And so that's kind of where slightly above average,
00:41:58.820
I think, you know what a six and a half is you're six and a half on the physical attractiveness scale.
00:42:05.020
If you're usually the most attractive person in a DMV, when you go to renew your license,
00:42:12.480
um, that makes you, that, that puts you in the six and a half range. So that's kind of where I'm at.
00:42:19.680
You know, I'm probably gonna be the most, the most handsome guy at the DMV at a mall or something.
00:42:24.380
Maybe I'm 70th percentile walking down the trendy place, a spot in a city and on a Friday night,
00:42:30.480
I'm going to be more like the 40th percentile. So that's kind of where I'm at. And I'm comfortable
00:42:33.500
with that. That's, that's a good range to be in. Um, Haley says, I put a mask on my three-year-old
00:42:40.320
once because he needed to go to a doctor's visit. He kept licking it, touching it, rubbing his nose
00:42:44.440
with it. And he had it on for maybe 15 minutes until we got to the room. How do we expect young
00:42:48.820
kids to wear them all day? More importantly, why? Um, yeah, that's why these masks get incredibly
00:42:54.340
gross. Anyone who has any experience with young kids knows that you put anything near a three-year-old's
00:43:00.460
mouth and it will go in their mouth. So for example, uh, you're trying to wipe your, your three-year-old
00:43:07.520
just had some chocolate ice cream and you're trying to wipe their mouth and they'll do this weird thing
00:43:11.520
where they open their mouth and try to like lick the napkin as you're wiping their mouth off.
00:43:16.200
That's what three-year-olds do. And now just imagine, imagine taking that, that, that gross
00:43:23.700
saliva covered napkin and, and, and putting it over their face for seven hours. That's what we're doing
00:43:29.500
here. Um, and, uh, Lucas says, Matt, do you think demons in a spiritual realm could be the answer to
00:43:38.680
UFOs? I don't, because I don't see why the demons would need to fly around in vehicles of any kind
00:43:46.700
or why they would be doing it. So no, that's, that's not a theory that I find particularly
00:43:51.840
persuasive. And Joshua says way off topic here, but Matt, can you please address the fact that urinals
00:43:57.240
are going extinct? It seems like more and more places are going away from having men's and women's
00:44:01.980
restrooms in favor of all gender restrooms, maybe TMI, but I'm a dude and I don't sit down to pee.
00:44:06.580
Okay. Well, that is a sort of TMI, but yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm fully in favor, as you know, of,
00:44:12.720
of men and women's restrooms. Um, you do know though, and I don't want to get, I don't want to get too
00:44:17.720
graphic or anything, but you do realize that you don't, you don't have to sit down on the regular
00:44:21.900
toilets, toilets. You can also, there is a, there is, you can also use them while standing up just
00:44:27.320
so you know, I don't know if you were aware of that. Um, but while I support, of course, the, the
00:44:32.460
gender segregation of the restrooms, as far as urinals go, I have to disagree with you. I think
00:44:37.520
that that is a change that I would welcome. Um, I think that men in the men's room, we should,
00:44:43.560
we should get the full stalls, the full bathroom stalls like the women have. To me, this is,
00:44:48.660
this is one primitive barbaric thing. It's like we're animals all standing next to each
00:44:54.300
other. No, that's one thing we can leave in the past. I think time to move forward. I,
00:45:02.800
I could use that. Call me, um, call me a diva. I don't know, but I, I can use a slightly more
00:45:10.160
dignified and private restroom experience. That's just, that's my opinion. So if you want to know
00:45:19.260
You know, if I know one woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind, it's a Candace Owens. And while
00:45:24.500
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00:45:28.940
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00:46:39.620
get to our daily cancellation. Over the past week or so, including today, we've discussed, uh, issues
00:46:48.140
relating to abortion a few times, and that's where the new cycle has taken us though. Even apart from
00:46:52.200
the new cycle, uh, it is one of the central issues of our time and has for that reason, always been a
00:46:56.840
central concern of mine. Now the focus on this topic recently has provoked many people to leave
00:47:01.320
all kinds of comments and send me messages, making all sorts of really bad arguments against my
00:47:05.100
position. And I addressed some of those arguments as presented by people on TikTok. Uh, I think that
00:47:09.820
was last week, but there's one argument that I've not addressed recently, and it's perhaps worth
00:47:15.180
devoting some attention to because many people seem to find it persuasive. At least four different
00:47:19.340
people over the last week have brought this up to me. And the argument varies a little bit
00:47:24.100
depending on who is making it, but the theme and the point is always the same. So I'll pull one of
00:47:28.320
these at random in order to respond to it. Here is the argument as articulated by someone
00:47:31.760
in the comments on my show. I think this was yesterday. And he wrote, quote, okay, thought
00:47:37.580
experiment. There's a burning abortion clinic. And due to the very unusual circumstances you find
00:47:42.460
yourself in, you only have time to choose between saving a perfectly healthy baby who's a few weeks old,
00:47:46.520
or you could save a mini fridge containing a thousand implanted eggs at the very earliest stages.
00:47:51.680
Would you actually lose sleep over saving the child instead of these 1,000, quote, children?
00:47:58.160
Now, as I said, this is a popular argument. You've probably heard it before. Sometimes it's a thousand
00:48:02.260
embryos, sometimes it's 10,000, sometimes 500. Sometimes there's a baby or a five-year-old or a
00:48:06.820
kid of some other age. In this case, the commenter says a thousand implanted eggs in an abortion clinic
00:48:12.660
for some reason. We'll assume he meant embryos in an IVF clinic because implantation is when the egg
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attaches to the uterine wall. If there's a thousand of those, then there are a thousand pregnant women.
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And my question is, why are they in a freezer? And also, if I have time to save a thousand pregnant
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women, why can't I save the baby too? But this is semantics, perhaps. We'll just say embryos because
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that's the form the argument usually takes. And the point here is obvious. If you say that the
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born child, if you say that you would save the born child over the embryos, then clearly you must be
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affirming that there is some sort of inherent difference between the born child and the embryo,
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which reveals supposedly a fundamental contradiction in your pro-life position.
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That is, unless you take more than 10 seconds to think about the issue.
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Which I have, so here's how I would break it down.
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Would I save the born baby instead of the embryos?
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Yes, absolutely. No question. Does that prove that my position on abortion is wrong or contradictory
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or logically weak? No, absolutely not. And I'll tell you why. A few things to consider.
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First, we're talking about emotions here. The decision of who to save in a burning building
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is an emotional one that you make more than it is a moral one. The reason we're put in a burning
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building for this hypothetical is to get us to forfeit our moral reasoning and adopt emotional
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reasoning. Emotional reasoning in a burning building is okay. In an abortion clinic, it isn't.
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After all, my personal and emotional connection with my own child would lead me to save him over
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someone else's. Does that mean I don't recognize the value of someone else's child or that it would
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be okay for me to kill someone else's child? Of course not. Second point, there's a really
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important difference between leaving someone in a burning building because you can't save them
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and directly killing them yourself. It is morally permissible to commit a good act, saving a child,
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which may indirectly lead to something bad, the embryos being destroyed. The intention in that case
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is to save the child, not to destroy the embryos. I'm not the one who's destroying the embryos. I
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didn't kill them. I merely failed to prevent them from being killed. And that's obviously a really
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significant distinction. It's why if there are two people trapped in a fire and you run in and save
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only one, you're not going to be prosecuted for murdering the one you didn't save. If anyone's
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prosecuted for murder, it'll be the person who set the fire. See, in abortion, on the other hand,
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the child is being killed in a, quote, fire set by his parents. A choice is made to directly and
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purposefully kill the child. It's a very different thing. Third, this thought experiment, if it measures
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anything at all, it measures how much I personally would value the child over the embryos. But it doesn't
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matter how I value them personally. It's their intrinsic value that matters. I value my family over
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your family, whoever you are. I value my family over yours. But your family has the same intrinsic
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value. See, I'm making the decision based, as I said before, on emotion. I can see the child. I can hear
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him crying. I'm looking him in the eyes. I grab him. It's instinct. There's also some logic to it. I don't
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really know how many of the embryos are still, you know, viable, whether they'll ever be implanted
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and given the chance to develop. I don't know these things. Again, this calculation would not
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justify killing the embryos under any circumstance, but it would justify my decision to save the child
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instead. Maybe I can get the point across with my own thought experiment, okay? You're in a burning
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building. There's an 85-year-old terminally ill cancer patient and a healthy five-year-old boy.
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You can only save one. Who do you choose? Wouldn't everyone save the five-year-old?
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Even the 85-year-old himself would probably tell you to save the five-year-old.
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Is that because the 85-year-old's life has less value? Does the fact that we would all immediately
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choose the five-year-old prove anything at all about the intrinsic value of elderly people?
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No, it speaks only to the terrible and morbid calculations we're forced to make when we're
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put in a dire situation like this. If I had a choice to save my own child or 100 strangers,
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well, I've got bad news for the strangers. And the news is not that they have no moral worth or
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basic rights. It's just that I'm dad and that's my kid and I'm not leaving him to burn under any
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circumstance. So that's how you deal with that argument. But notice something about the pro-abortion
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side. Notice how they almost always rely on these far-fetched hypotheticals. You're in a burning IVF
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clinic. You're attached by tubes to a stranger, et cetera, et cetera. Or they rely on extremely hard
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cases like rape and incest. See, what the pro-abortion side never wants to talk about is the actual reality
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of abortion in almost every case. Because in actual reality, almost every time, there's no fire.
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There hasn't been any rape. There's just the child who was conceived through an intentional act by the
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parents. And he's there now. And so is the mother. And so is the abortionist. And a choice is made
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that doesn't have to be made. That's the reality. So let's talk about that.
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But that's the last thing that anybody on the pro-abortion side actually wants to talk about,
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which is why they are today, yet again, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there for the day and
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the week. And I'll talk to you next week. Have a great weekend. God bless. Godspeed.
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