Ep. 761 - Why You Shouldn't Care About Being Called A Bigot
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Summary
A racial equity activist group is apparently calling on wealthy, white liberal families to pledge that they won t send their kids to Ivy League schools. Also, Tucker Carlson gets accosted by a deranged leftist weirdo while out with his family. And AOC offers a defense of critical race theory that contradicts the usual defense of Critical Race Theory.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a racial equity activist group is apparently calling on white
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liberal families to pledge that they won't send their kids to Ivy League schools. And in fact,
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given that white liberals agree that white privilege and systemic racism exists,
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the group actually has a point. Also, we have our five headlines, including Tucker Carlson
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getting accosted by a deranged leftist weirdo while out with his family. The Olympics begins
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and nobody really notices. And AOC offers a defense of critical race theory that contradicts
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the usual defense of critical race theory that we're given and our daily cancellation. I must
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today, once and for all, I am afraid I have to tell you, cancel the Free Britney movement. That
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is canceled today, along with much more on the Matt Wall Show.
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country where half of the people have gone entirely insane is that it's hard to tell what's real and
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what isn't. It's easy to get suckered by trolls and satirists because the troll and the satirist
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can't present a version of reality any more absurd than the one we actually live in. So it's kind of,
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it's anyone's guess what's real and what isn't. And that's why, um, that's why I present the
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following story with some trepidation, relatively sure that it's real, but I can never be completely
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sure. So on Twitter over the weekend, conservative commentator Kathleen McKinley posted a screenshot
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of, um, of a letter that was apparently distributed by, uh, two white families in a wealthy suburb of
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Dallas by some kind of racial activist group. They went around giving this letter to white families
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in this, uh, wealthy liberal neighborhood. The post-millennial has some of the details here.
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It says, Dallas Justice Now, a racial equity advocacy group, has been actively campaigning to
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convince wealthy white liberal families to not send their white children to Ivy league schools or
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other top 50 collegiate institutions so that admission spots are available for people of color
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to quote, correct historical wrongs. An organization purporting to be a racial justice group has been
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sending letters informing white affluent Democrats about the college pledge around Dallas's richest
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neighborhood, richest neighborhoods, such as storied Highland park. And then, uh, and then here's
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some of what the, what the letter actually says. And this again was in a screenshot. Uh, this was left,
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I don't know, put under people's doors or in their mailbox. I'm not sure. And the letter says
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quote, we are writing to you because we understand you are white and live within the Highland park
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independent school district and thus benefit from enormous privilege taken at the expense of
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communities of color. You live in the whitest and wealthiest neighborhood in Dallas, whether you know
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it or not, uh, you earned or inherited your money through oppressing people of color. However, it's also
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our understanding that you're a Democrat and supporter of the black lives matter movement, which makes you
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one of our white allies and puts you in a position to help correct these cruel injustices. We need you
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to step up and back up your words with action and truly sacrifice to make our segregated city more
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just. The letter then asks, uh, rather demands, I should say, that they pledge not to send their
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children to an Ivy league school or any school listed in the top 50 by us news and world report.
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Generously, the group does admit that this is a quote, tough commitment to make, but they point
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out that if you're going to have a black lives matter sign in your yard, you ought to be ready
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to make these kinds of sacrifices. The post-millennial has a little bit more. They say on the group's
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website, white parents can take the pledge online. The pledge form asks users, um, uh, reading,
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it says, will you, uh, will you take the college pledge? There are two options available for users
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to choose. Here are the two options. You can take the college pledge. That's the question.
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Two options. I am a racist hypocrite, or I agree. It says talk is not enough. Commit yourself towards
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taking action and making sacrifices to correct centuries of injustice. The pledges description
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instructs open up spaces for black and Latinx communities by refusing to send your kids to Ivy league
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and us news world report, top 50 schools and encourage friends, neighbors, and family members
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to do the same. Imagine if those hundreds of thousands of spots at these institutions were
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occupied only by marginalized communities. Imagine the opportunities we can achieve true equity
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within our lifetimes, but only if white folks are willing to sacrifice their privileges. Uh,
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and then a little bit of the pledges as a white person with privilege, both from my whiteness
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and my neighborhood, I recognize the need to make sacrifices for the purpose of correcting
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hundreds of years of murder, slavery, discrimination, and lack of educational and economic opportunities
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perpetrated upon people of color. Okay. If this is a, I should say, if this is a, a troll
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job, it's a pretty committed one because I looked at the website myself and it certainly
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appears legitimate. The group also has a very active Twitter presence, which includes this
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video, which I'll play for you from a member, a member of the group named Jamil recorded this
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video. Here she is explaining why they're asking white families to clear the deck and keep their
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kids out of our nation's top schools. Here it is. We are fighting for change. We are fighting for
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equality. We are wanting to bridge gaps and we just want to catch up. I'm a parent myself and I would love
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to be able to send my children to college. I feel that not only sending my children to college
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will not just be a good thing for them, a good thing for us, but also in the future to come. Their kids
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will say, Hey, mom, dad went to college. I'm going to do that too. Therefore I will be creating
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generational wealth in my family. And I believe it's a trickle down effect. The kids in the community,
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the kids that come over and play, the kids that will come and come over and play with my kids,
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kids, they'll all be affected by that because they'll see it. They'll see it. They'll feel it.
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I believe that it is my burden. It is our burden to use our voices, our platforms to spread awareness,
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to offer options and choices on how others can support the cause on how others can make the dream
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become a reality. So again, we're just a nonprofit advocacy group seeking change, seeking quality,
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That's it. That's all they're seeking. Change, equality, justice. And for you to totally debase
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and submit yourselves to them and their authority and their power. That's it. That's all. Is that too
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much to ask? Really? Take opportunities away from your own kids and give those opportunities to their
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kids. Prioritize their kids over your own. That's it. It's pretty reasonable. There is an undeniable
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poetic justice in this. White liberals thought that the Black Lives Matter sign in the yard would be like
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the lamb's blood on the door signaling that the BLM mob should pass them over and go visit the MAGA
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house down the street instead. But that's not what happened. Instead, the mob knocked on their door
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and said, so you're an ally, huh? Well, now prove it. There are a number of important lessons to be
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learned here. One is the familiar lesson that no amount of self-subjugation and self-flagellation
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will ever be enough. They will always come back wanting more. And another lesson related to the
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first is that the left, and this is really important to understand, the left-wing mob has,
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of course, a lot of cultural and institutional power that you can't do anything about directly.
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Right? That's the world, that's the culture we're living in. But beyond that, much of the power it has
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over your life, you know, that power, the direct power it has over your life, the power to control
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and intimidate you, much of that power has to be granted to it by you. Okay? If you allow the labels,
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bigot, racist, homophobe, transphobe, sexist, etc., to bother you, to make you curl into a ball
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in the fetal position, you know, cowering on the floor when someone says that to you,
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then you have given them near unlimited power over your life. If it really, really upsets you
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when someone calls you a bigot, and the worst thing in the world to you is to be called a bigot
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or a racist, then because of that attitude on your part, you have given the left-wing mob
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complete power over you. You've given them everything. You've given them your soul.
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You're just a dog on a leash now, and they're holding the other end of the leash.
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On the flip side of that, if you get to the point where the labels mean nothing at all,
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where it makes no difference what they say to you or about you, then a significant amount of
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their power will be taken from them and given back to you. See, they wouldn't bother leaving
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this letter on my doorstep. One, because I wouldn't send my kids to an Ivy League school anyway.
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I love my kids too much to do that to them. But two, because I don't care what they say or think.
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So if they come to me and say, do this thing that we want, or we'll call you racist,
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racist, I say, well, call me racist then. What do I care? I don't care. Do you agree or are you a
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racist? See, for a lot of liberals, that's, you've beat them. That trick right there, the false
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dichotomy, you beat them. You can do this thing we want, or you could be a racist. Those are the two
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options. You know, a fork in the road. Go left and it's what we want and that's good. Go right and
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you're a racist. See, I meet that fork in the road and I say, well, I'll just go right.
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Oh, you're saying you're a racist? No, I'm saying I don't care what you say.
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It doesn't matter to me. I'm going to make the decision that I want to make. It doesn't matter
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to me what you say. Now, as for these families, these nice white liberal progressive enlightened
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families, they've set the precedent and it's a precedent of self-debasement. In fact, really,
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Dallas justice now has a point. These white liberals, in theory, agree that white privilege
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exists. They agree that systemic racism is real. They agree that white people are historically evil
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and oppressive. They agree that we live on stolen land. If you were to go up to them and ask them,
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do they agree with all of those propositions? They would say, yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely. And they would keep going. So you agree white people are evil. They don't know. Oh,
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yeah. Oh, yeah. We're terrible. White people are the worst. You agree that all the things that you
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have in your life, it's just systemic racism has given this to you? Yeah, sure. Absolutely.
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Well, if you agree with all those propositions, then indeed, you probably should keep your kids out
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of the Ivy League schools. I mean, you should go further than that. You should vacate not only the
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school, but your property, your home. Flee into the wilderness in shame. Exile yourself. You know,
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you could live in the cavity of a hollowed out tree, eating bugs and mushrooms for the rest of your days.
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That's what you would do if you took that worldview seriously. That everything you have
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is in some way the result of racism and privilege and theft that you also in some way are responsible
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for and hold guilt because of. If you really believe that, then that's what you would do.
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But these white liberals, they don't do that because they'd prefer to virtue signal
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How did you hear about us box? So they know that we sent you. This was wonderful. I have to start
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with this. Uh, I got to mention Michael Bennett, Senator Bennett. He tweeted this out over the
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weekend and it's a picture of him. He's a Democrat, obviously picture of him standing, you know,
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in a farm, allegedly a farm, but sitting next to some sort of tractor. And, uh, and the caption
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says, president Biden tracked me down in the North Fork Valley to talk about the child tax credit.
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And so he's posing there on his phone, standing next to a tractor. And I can imagine how that
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conversations go. Hey Joe, I was just out here plowing the fields in my dry cleaned, uh, button
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down shirt, my brand new jeans. Fortunately, my staffer was following me around taking pictures
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because I always bring him with me. He's got the camera ready when I'm, when I'm out in the fields,
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he just follows me everywhere. Even out on the farm. Oh no, no, no. My tractor doesn't leave tire
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marks and there's no dirt on the tires either. It's more of a hovercraft actually. Uh, it's a,
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but anyway, what was that about the child tax credit? I also love tracked me. President Biden
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tracked me down. No, he called your phone that you had in your pocket. You understand how cell phones
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work, don't you? Somebody calls your phone and you pick up. How'd you track me down? How'd you know
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where to find me? Probably the phone you're carrying around. These people are such posers.
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Just if you're a politician, just embrace it. You're a career politician. You've been doing
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this forever. You're, you're not a, you're not one of the normal folk. You don't work on the farm.
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Embrace that. Be real with people because this kind of thing, who exactly is this supposed to appeal to?
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Is my question. Uh, I also have that question about the Olympics, which started on Friday. Uh,
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it's big opening ceremony and ratings are way down. Nobody's really watching it. Of course,
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we're doing the Olympics a year later because of COVID. And now there's, there's no, there's no,
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there's no real audience either for many of these events, uh, which gives it kind of a weird muted tone
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already. Um, and I know something about that because I actually have watched some of the
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Olympics, Olympic events, not really my choice, but my wife is a big, she's a big Olympic fan of
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the Olympics. And so I said on Friday, okay, I'll sit down with the family and I'll watch some of the
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Olympics because I'm a family man and you know, I want to be selfless. And so I'll sit down and watch
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it. And I did, but I spent the whole time complaining about the Olympics and making fun of
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it. And my wife pointed out after the fact that that doesn't really count as quality time. So the
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next day I sat down and said, I'll actually watch them. And I tried to watch them. I tried to endure
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it. Fortunately, I missed this though. We didn't watch the opening ceremony. Um, so I didn't have to
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at least live. I didn't have to endure this. Um, the Olympics began with a performance of the song
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Imagine. And it was performed by John Legend, Keith Urban, um, teamed up for this atrocity.
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And now I'll subject you to some of it. Here it is.
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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Oh no, I hope someday you join us.
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And the world will. And the world will. And the world will. And the world will leave us one.
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And the world will. And the world will. And the world will. And the world will live us one.
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And the world will live us one. And the world will. And the world will.
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Okay. It's become popular to hate this song, Imagine. And I'm not going to be the contrarian
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on that. I hate it too. It's one of the worst songs ever written. And I was saying that before
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it was cool to say that. All right. It's like the last couple of years, everyone hates this song,
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but for most of my life, I've had to endure this song over and over again. It's supposed
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to be this inspirational anthem. And now suddenly people are saying, you know what? It is a pretty
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bad song. And I'm glad we're all on the same page with that. And it's sort of hilariously
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inappropriate, especially for the Olympics, because one of the lyrics is, imagine there
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are no countries. But the Olympics is all about the fact that there are countries competing with
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each other. An Olympics without countries. I wonder how that would work exactly. That's
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the whole point of the Olympics are the fact that there are countries. And then you look
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at all the other, and it's not just the lyrics, which makes the arrangement, the melody, everything
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makes it to this grating, ironically unimaginative song. But the lyrics, especially imagine there
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are no countries. Imagine there's no religion, no heaven. This is a Marxist vision dystopia
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that for years, many people in this country who do not share that worldview have been convinced
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to embrace this song and be inspired by it. Imagine there's no heaven above us. Okay. So we're
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imagining that we die and fade into the ether. We fade into the abyss, into the blackness of
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nothingness. Everyone you've ever known, all of your family, they're gone. They're nothing
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but warm food and nothing more than that. If that's your claim, then okay, fine. I know
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there are plenty of people that believe that, but don't ask me to be inspired by that.
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You can't put that into lyrics and expect me to be inspired. I don't find that inspiring. I find
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that horrifying. So a terrible song. And as I said, the Olympics themselves, the ratings are
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significantly down. And I think that has something to do with the fact that it's the same thing that
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they went through with football and basketball last year, all the pro sports, where you don't
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have any audience. Part of the experience when you're watching it on TV is the excitement. I've
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never felt a lot of excitement about the Olympics, but I imagine the people who do part of that is
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the audience there hearing the crowd cheer. That's a big part of the experience. You take that out
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and you have these people doing gymnastics in a quiet, empty stadium. It's, it's depressing to
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watch. And that's part of the reason why the ratings are down. And I also think in the United
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States anyway, when you've got women's soccer and other Olympic athletes, um, who don't appear to
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have any gratitude or love for their country. And that's not at all the case for every Olympic
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athlete. Many of these people are very patriotic and I feel bad for them that they're, that's one
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of the reasons why, aside from the fact that you're disrespecting your country, whether it's
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Gwen Berry or the, or the women's soccer, any of these other athletes that are doing this
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disrespecting your country, but it's also selfish that you're, you're overshadowing. You're making
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it all about yourself. You're overshadowing these other athletes. Gwen Berry, remember she was,
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uh, she was, she finished third and all the conversation was about her, not the people
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who came before her. So you're overshadowing and you're kind of getting them all lumped in
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with you, which isn't entirely fair, but that's what's happened. Same thing with the NBA and the
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NFL. Not all of these athletes are on in the NBA. It seems like probably 99% of them are, but, uh,
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in the NFL, certainly not all of them are on board with this BLM propaganda and all of that.
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But the ones who've made it political, they've kind of ruined it for everybody else.
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And so what was supposed to be the Olympics, I guess, if you've enjoyed watching them, it's,
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it's supposed to be about national unity. We're all watching and cheering for the same team,
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our team, you know, we're all together as a team.
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That has been ruined in recent years, especially this year. And it's sad to see.
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All right. Next, uh, Tucker Carlson. So Tucker Carlson was, was trending on Twitter over the
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weekend as he, as he often does. Only this case, he was trending not because of anything he said.
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It was a confrontation between him and another guy at a fly fishing shop in Montana. And I say
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confrontation really, he, Tucker Carlson was being accosted. That's not really, he was not,
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this was, this was not him confronting anyone. He was apparently at this fly fishing shop with his
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daughter, presumably getting some fishing gear, going to go out on a fishing trip with his,
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with his kids. And this guy who, uh, his name is Dan Bailey comes up to him. Uh, we,
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you can't hear much. We'll play the clip though. But this was originally shared by the leftist
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account, occupied Democrats on Twitter in a very celebratory way. So let's make this go viral.
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And leftists were cheering this on. They love seeing this. Let's watch the clip first and then
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I want you to, to this state, to the United States, to everything else in this world.
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I don't care that you're not here. What you've done to families, what you have done to everybody
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else. So you can hear him say, you can hear him say there, uh, that you're what you're the worst
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human being known to man. Tucker Carlson in this guy's mind. And a lot of people on the left would
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agree. The worst person on earth is a cable news host who says opinions you don't like.
00:25:39.700
That's their whole beef with Tucker Carlson. They're not, they're not alleging that in,
00:25:45.680
in secret, he's a, he's a serial killer or something. Maybe they'll get to that point
00:25:49.520
eventually, but right now they're not. Uh, their whole beef is that he has opinions they don't
00:25:54.480
like. And that makes him the worst person on earth. You can also hear the guy again, his name
00:26:01.580
is Dan Bailey. Apparently you can hear him say, I don't care if you're with your daughter.
00:26:07.820
Now I gotta say, maybe I take this especially personally because not just as a fan of Tucker
00:26:15.260
Carlson, but also as a, as an angler myself, I can tell you this, this, this is such a breach
00:26:22.440
in fishing protocol to begin with. This is when, yeah, he's not out at the lake yet, but still
00:26:30.540
you're at a fishing shop. You're thinking about fishing. You're with your kid. You're about to
00:26:35.400
go on a fishing trip. The whole, this is a sacred space. Fishing, the whole thing is a sacred space,
00:26:41.640
including the shops too. Go to Bass Pro Shops, sacred, sacred place. You don't bring your personal
00:26:47.700
feuds and rivalries and politics into that. Uh, but that's what he did. I can also tell you
00:26:56.120
another thing. If this guy is, he's according to Occupy Democrats, he's a fly fishing guy, Dan
00:27:00.920
Bailey. That's part of what he does for a job, I guess. I can guarantee you the leftists, vast
00:27:08.780
majority of the leftists who are cheering this on, they're not in the market for a fly fishing
00:27:12.820
guide in Montana. And most of the people who are in a market for the market for a fly
00:27:21.280
fishing guide in Montana, they don't want some deranged leftist weirdo who's going to break
00:27:28.600
them about politics the whole time. So he's probably just destroyed his business by doing
00:27:33.520
this. And for good reason. That's the last thing I would want. If I was ever going to get
00:27:39.560
a fishing guide, which, which I probably wouldn't because a big part of the thing for me is to be
00:27:43.560
out by myself. But, um, the last thing I would want is a guy who's going to be doing that defeats
00:27:51.140
the entire purpose. But when you see, uh, the left is cheering this on when he's out again, out with
00:28:00.480
his kid, minding his own business. You know, I think you see how there is just no respect. This
00:28:10.740
is why I'm always beating this drum about we don't have unity in this country and we're not going to
00:28:19.000
have unity. Okay. Not anytime soon. Some, some, some massive fundamental things would need to change
00:28:27.600
in this country in order for there to be anything like unity. And those changes, if they ever happen,
00:28:33.260
aren't going to happen anytime soon. Um, and this is one of the reasons why you see it here.
00:28:40.120
Why there isn't unity because there's just no respect.
00:28:44.660
That guy accosting Tucker Carlson has no respect for him on any level at all as a man.
00:28:49.380
That's why you go after a guy when he's with his, with his daughter at a fishing shop
00:28:52.900
and all the left is cheering it on. They have no respect for him. None. I'm not saying they don't
00:28:59.860
respect his views. We know that they don't respect him as a person. And it's not just him.
00:29:06.340
If you don't agree with them, if you have opinions that differ from their own, and especially if you
00:29:12.380
make the mistake of saying them out loud, they do not respect you as a person and they don't think
00:29:17.220
you're worthy of respect. And that's been made really clear. Maxine Waters, remember, she said,
00:29:25.700
confront them everywhere you find them, make them, make sure they know they're not welcome.
00:29:30.820
And she was talking ostensibly about people affiliated with the Trump administration,
00:29:34.300
but really she was talking about conservatives. There's no, there, in order for there to be some
00:29:40.240
kind of unity, there has to also be serving as the foundation of that unity. There has to be some
00:29:45.900
kind of elemental, fundamental respect between the two parties. You can't have unity without
00:29:51.360
respect. I don't agree with you, but I, but I respect you as a person.
00:29:57.820
And I have to tell you something, it's not just on their end.
00:30:02.100
I will fully admit, I don't respect them either.
00:30:09.120
would defend a man's right to go into a woman's locker room and expose himself
00:30:16.060
to women and children, someone who, who, who takes that position, I don't respect you.
00:30:22.800
Someone who defend the mutilation and drugging of kids.
00:30:27.680
Someone who defends the, the mass execution of 60 million unborn babies.
00:30:32.000
I don't, I don't respect you. It goes way beyond. I disagree. I do disagree with you,
00:30:36.080
but I also, I just don't respect you as a person anymore because of that.
00:30:46.320
This is a moral flaw, a character flaw on your part that is so profound that I don't know.
00:30:53.080
So it's a, it's a mutual feeling, I think, on both sides and not exactly the foundation for unity there.
00:31:04.240
All right. Uh, moving on here. We got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:31:08.820
I thought this was, was interesting just because of how contradictory it really was.
00:31:12.940
So she was on with Don Lemon last night, I believe,
00:31:17.840
talking about critical race theory in schools and, uh, explaining why,
00:31:22.840
hey, if you don't want critical race theory in schools,
00:31:25.980
it must mean that you, you just, you don't care if people are racist.
00:31:30.220
Why wouldn't you want people to learn how to not be racist? Let's listen.
00:31:35.680
And to that, we should say, why don't you want our schools to teach anti-racism?
00:31:44.660
Why don't Republicans want their kids to know the tradition of anti-racism in the United States?
00:31:54.840
Why are Republicans trying to ban books in this country?
00:32:02.460
Why are they trying to fire certain professors?
00:32:05.140
Why are they attacking the core roots of history in this country that strays anything beyond what we already know?
00:32:14.480
In fact, you have folks like Kevin McCarthy making statements that sound like he's never even read Martin Luther King in his life,
00:32:23.360
trying to ban books that actually talk about the history of the civil rights movement
00:32:31.700
So why don't Republicans want us to learn how to not be racist?
00:32:38.240
Why don't Republicans want us, want kids to know how to not be racist?
00:32:46.100
Yeah, well, um, I don't need, speak for yourself, AOC.
00:32:49.740
That's not a, it's not a skill that I need to learn.
00:32:53.960
If you feel like you need practice, you need to go to how to not be racist lessons, then go ahead and do that.
00:33:04.480
The whole thing doesn't even, doesn't make it learn how to not be racist.
00:33:11.660
Got to keep defining the term because, uh, there's a lot of confusion on this point.
00:33:17.200
Confusion that's being intentionally sowed by people like AOC.
00:33:20.220
If you believe that an entire race of people are inferior to your own race, okay,
00:33:29.380
if you would rank races according to who is inferior or superior, then you're racist.
00:33:41.440
If you don't believe that, then you're not racist.
00:33:53.420
You'd be kind of the person that leaves your, your shopping cart out in the parking lot, doesn't put it away.
00:33:57.460
So that doesn't mean you're a perfect person, but that's what racism is.
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And if you're not that, then you don't need to learn anything about racism.
00:34:09.680
And even if you are that, let's say you do believe that a race of people are inferior to your own.
00:34:14.760
Um, someone like that, we're not going to reach that person by making racism into, into this broad, almost unknowable thing where you have to go to school for years and years in order to potentially break yourself of it or to free yourself from it.
00:34:34.080
That's what, that's what ends up happening here is that, you know, actual racism is a thing that exists in the world and not just the United States and not just among white people.
00:34:47.260
There's, there's, there's no denying the fact that there are people in the world who believe that certain races are inferior to their own.
00:34:58.600
What you end up doing is you let them off the hook.
00:35:00.700
The actual racist, you let completely off the hook by taking this label and applying it to everyone and saying that, you know, white people are inherently racist.
00:35:19.820
That's, you know, actual racist can, uh, shake your hand and thank you for that, for letting them off the hook.
00:35:25.960
But there's another contradiction here because what are we told about critical race theory?
00:35:32.500
We're told two different, two different things by the defenders of it.
00:35:36.960
One is that, oh, it's this esoteric legal thing.
00:35:41.020
And, uh, it's, you're only, it's only in law school and we're not, no one's being taught that in, in, in school.
00:35:47.120
We're not teaching kids that that isn't happening.
00:35:54.540
This has been invented by Fox news and, uh, conservatives and so on.
00:36:01.340
But then also AOC says, oh, no, we, we, we need critical race theory.
00:36:06.060
So if you're, if you're criticizing critical race theory, the problem isn't that you're criticizing something that doesn't exist.
00:36:11.520
No, it's that we need it because there are millions of, of, of inherently racist little kids out there and we have to beat that racism out of them intellectually or perhaps even physically.
00:36:25.240
It's, it's gotta be one or the other, doesn't it?
00:36:33.960
Either it's this abstract esoteric thing that we don't have to worry about and you're not, it's not in school.
00:36:41.560
Or it's deeply, deeply necessary because there's so many racist people and they have to be taught how to not be racist.
00:36:59.260
I, I was, I was hesitant to play it because this would be like the third day of playing Fauci clips.
00:37:03.380
But we do have to start paying attention to Fauci again, unfortunately, um, as we see the push to reinstate mask mandates, uh, as, as that gets more and more serious, here's Fauci on CNN talking about, uh, that possibility.
00:37:18.880
I want to ask you, sources are telling CNN, the top health officials are weighing whether to revise mask guidelines for vaccinated Americans.
00:37:30.680
Do you think masks should be brought back for vaccinated Americans?
00:37:37.460
You know, Jake, this is under active consideration.
00:37:40.100
If you're asking about part of, am I part of the discussion?
00:37:45.700
But I think what you are seeing, even though as of our conversation at this moment, the CDC still says and recommends that if you are vaccinated fully,
00:37:55.200
that you do not need to wear a mask indoors, however, if you look at what's going on locally in the trenches, in places like L.A. County,
00:38:05.480
the local officials have the discretion and the CDC agrees with that ability and discretion capability to say, you know,
00:38:15.740
you're in a situation where we're having a lot of dynamics of infection.
00:38:18.860
So even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask.
00:38:23.180
That's a local decision that's not incompatible with the CDC's overall recommendations that give a lot of discretion to the locals.
00:38:36.000
We're seeing that in New Orleans because the officials there, many of them are saying,
00:38:41.000
even if you're vaccinated, it's prudent to wear a mask indoors.
00:38:46.900
That's a lot of words getting us to the point where, yeah, we're going to see mask mandates.
00:39:01.280
But we talked before about how, you know, the left wing mob, it has a certain amount of the power that it has.
00:39:08.620
It only has that power if you give, if you grant them that power over you.
00:39:14.360
These mask mandates proliferated across the country and they stayed in place for months and months and months, largely because people cooperated with them.
00:39:28.020
To do as they're told, put the cloth on their face, even if they think it's ridiculous and there's no reason to do it.
00:39:33.760
So if we once again decide to cooperate, then, yeah, if we show a willingness to cooperate, then yes.
00:39:45.780
People will be wearing masks across the country yet again and it will never end.
00:39:59.760
Before we get to reading the YouTube comments, it's been a little heavy.
00:40:02.240
Let me let me read at least one story, something a little bit lighter, but also really important.
00:40:07.320
It says, Gen Z's now-stalgia for Y2K fashion is leading to a thrifting explosion.
00:40:14.360
It says, recently, the hottest piece of jewelry among Gen Z's favorite celebrities has nothing to do with precious stones or storied retailers.
00:40:25.640
Olivia Rodrigo and the actor Pete Davidson are donning beaded necklaces reminiscent of homemade friendship jewelry from the early 2000s.
00:40:33.500
It's part of a rising trend of Y2K fashion and what has been called now-stalgia among Gen Z who are reviving or reliving early 2000s fashion trends.
00:40:43.180
They were too young to experience or remember the first time around.
00:40:46.480
So we're seeing a lot of this stuff that I grew up with is now in fashion again, basically, apparently.
00:40:52.660
But I just wish that Gen Z would talk to us millennials before deciding which of our early 90s or, you know, our 90s slash early 2000s fads should come back.
00:41:10.340
Definitely don't bring back the baggy JNCO jeans.
00:41:18.680
If you want to bring back track suits, I'm going to have to say no to that one.
00:41:34.660
If you want to bring back those little finger skateboard things that we all used to have as kids, I'm down with that too.
00:41:42.860
Maybe cargo shorts were never in style, but they've always been in style in my heart anyway.
00:41:53.640
When I see the kids today dressing like we dressed 20 years ago without asking us first, number one, for permission to take our, to appropriate our culture.
00:42:03.080
And number two, weather, you know, a little bit of guidance.
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All right, let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.
00:43:33.180
If the Catholic Church truly had any moral authority, they would prohibit Pelosi, Biden, and their ilk from participating in any Catholic services or sacraments.
00:43:40.760
Well, as a Catholic, I do believe the Catholic Church has moral authority, but you're right.
00:43:43.960
That they should exercise it by prohibiting people like Pelosi, Biden, and their ilk from receiving the sacraments.
00:43:49.880
And this is one of the big problems with the Catholic Church not exercising that authority, or rather the bishops in these dioceses not exercising that authority.
00:44:01.640
Because it looks like you, as the authority figure in the church, you don't take this seriously.
00:44:10.360
If you don't take your own faith seriously, the faith where you're in a leadership position as a shepherd of souls,
00:44:16.560
if you don't take it seriously, why should anyone else take it seriously?
00:44:21.300
We talk about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
00:44:28.720
But if you don't take it seriously yourself, then why should anyone believe it, is the thing.
00:44:36.340
And I think there are a lot of non-believers, a lot of people outside of the church that are looking at that and saying,
00:44:41.300
Well, you know, they don't appear to really take this all that seriously.
00:44:47.200
I mean, look at all these churches for a year that just shut down shop because they were told to, without much resistance.
00:44:52.660
A lot of secular people, non-believers, atheists, who maybe could have been reached before that,
00:45:01.660
they look at that and say, Well, I guess church isn't all that important to you guys.
00:45:14.400
Shock Monkey Radio says, Urinals are the reason there's never a line for the men's room.
00:45:21.200
A lot of urinal defense in the comments, which is kind of weird to me.
00:45:25.400
Some people taking this, the urinal thing, way too personally.
00:45:35.080
I just don't like being treated like an animal.
00:45:39.800
Another question says, Matt, what do you think of the trailer for the new Neil Blomkamp film, Demonic,
00:45:45.620
and the Catholic Church commandos who hunt them?
00:45:49.300
I haven't seen it, but Catholic commandos hunting demons sounds incredible.
00:45:53.380
But again, this is Hollywood, so anything that deals with the Catholic Church, I'm highly skeptical.
00:46:03.440
Well, I guess you didn't like the show on Friday.
00:46:06.400
I thought I was, I felt great about it until I read that comment.
00:46:11.460
This is like when you're out somewhere and you're feeling good about yourself,
00:46:17.320
Nothing more deflating than that, especially as someone who perpetually looks tired like myself.
00:46:24.380
Amy says, My parents always told us life isn't fair.
00:46:30.700
It's one of those cliches that we all heard from our parents that is a cliche for a reason,
00:46:37.960
I think another parenting cliche that's kind of gone out of fashion recently.
00:46:42.540
I don't know if my generation of parents, they don't say this as often, but my parents said it all the time.
00:46:53.740
But that is an important lesson for kids to learn.
00:46:59.640
That even if you don't understand why you're supposed to do something, that doesn't mean you don't have to do it.
00:47:06.400
You still have to respect my authority as a parent.
00:47:14.320
Anytime you say anything to them, they're always going to ask why.
00:47:17.560
And so my policy is, if they're asking why sincerely, like they really want to know, then I'll tell them.
00:47:26.320
Or if the why is an important part of the lesson.
00:47:34.160
But many times the why is just a form of defiance.
00:47:37.420
It's just your way, your kid's way of letting you know that they don't like that you told them to do something.
00:47:42.640
And that's where the because I said so comes in.
00:47:45.940
That's your message that, okay, you might not like it.
00:47:48.140
You might not fully understand it because there are a lot of things about the world you don't understand because you're a kid.
00:47:54.740
And you're going to respect that authority because I said so.
00:47:59.900
And finally, Linus says, this is the first time I've watched Matt from the beginning.
00:48:04.380
The first time I've watched Matt from the beginning.
00:48:11.980
See, you guys are killing me with the veiled insults today.
00:48:15.120
I admit this happens a lot where, you know, I see someone and they go, oh, you're Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire.
00:48:28.740
Which is another way of saying you're horrible.
00:48:36.280
Because if you like the show, you'd probably follow that up with, I saw your show.
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00:50:21.280
Here are a couple of general rules which may not apply all the time but do seem to apply in this case.
00:50:29.560
The first is that bipartisan legislation is the worst kind of legislation.
00:50:33.260
If there's any idea, any proposal that can bring both Republicans and Democrats together and put them on the same page with each other, you know it must be uniquely terrible.
00:50:42.480
The second rule is that when it comes to longstanding personal disputes between people, especially people who are close to each other, especially family members, if you know only one side of the story, then you don't know the story.
00:50:56.380
Your opinion on the subject will be, therefore, basically worthless.
00:51:01.420
Now with that groundwork laid, let's begin with Republican Representative Nancy Mace, who along with Democrat Charlie Crist and their bipartisan gang of legislators are pushing a bill which they have dubbed the Free Britney Act.
00:51:14.840
This obviously stems from the outcry over the conservatorship of Britney Spears, who was denied the right to make legal decisions for herself after the court determined that she's not mentally fit to do so.
00:51:25.020
So this decision was made over a decade ago, I think like 13 or 14 years ago, following a very public mental breakdown, actually a series of mental breakdowns by Britney Spears.
00:51:34.640
And for the past many years, that decision has been repeatedly affirmed by the courts.
00:51:39.420
The courts have said that Britney Spears is mentally unfit and potentially a danger to herself or others.
00:51:45.520
But Britney's fans and now the public at large, after seeing a New York Times documentary on the subject, have decided that the courts got it wrong.
00:51:52.640
They have declared that Britney Spears should be freed from her conservatorship, which had granted decision-making powers to her father instead of herself.
00:52:01.780
Britney herself now is also calling for the arrangement to be terminated.
00:52:05.400
And now our lawmakers, never letting ill-informed hysteria go to waste, have jumped into the fray.
00:52:10.840
Many Republicans have still not said a word in defense of the January 6th rioters who've been locked in prison for months on trespassing charges, even as BLM militants who burned buildings and assaulted police officers go free.
00:52:23.840
And yet, those Republicans still have time to worry about Britney Spears.
00:52:29.020
To that end, here is Nancy Mace making her case on Fox News.
00:52:32.620
Thank you, Arthel, for having me on this afternoon.
00:52:35.840
The Free Act, well, first of all, I want to thank Britney Spears.
00:52:38.760
It took a lot of courage for her to come forward in a very public way as a celebrity and public figure, detailing the abuses of her conservatorship just last month in June.
00:52:52.280
And if it can happen to her, of all people, then it can happen to anyone.
00:52:55.240
And what this piece of legislation would do would allow someone like Britney, who's in a conservatorship, to petition a judge, petition the court for an independent or public guardian, someone that could oversee the conservatorship who doesn't have a conflict of interest, financial or otherwise.
00:53:15.540
And there are 1.3 million people in conservatorships across the country today.
00:53:22.560
So there are two basic questions to be dealt with here.
00:53:24.740
One is whether this legislation is needed or warranted.
00:53:29.160
And the other, more broadly, is whether Britney's fans and Instagram followers and people who saw the New York Times documentary are correct in their legal assessment of the case and their psychological assessment of Britney Spears.
00:53:39.380
So we'll look into both of these questions, beginning with the first.
00:53:45.560
Well, Mace and lots of people in the Free Britney movement have echoed this claim as well.
00:53:52.180
She says that conservatorship abuse is a widespread issue in this country.
00:53:57.180
But she also says that 1.3 million people are under conservatorships.
00:54:01.640
Well, in a country of some 330 million people, that means, if my math is right, and it usually isn't, that, what, 0.3% of all Americans are under conservatorships?
00:54:10.980
Not knowing anything about any of those cases, 0.3% seems like a rather reasonable figure at first glance.
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Is it possible that 0.3% of Americans are mentally unfit to make decisions for themselves?
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If anything, it seems that the number should be significantly higher than it is.
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I'm a little bit upset that it's not larger than that.
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A better question is, is it true that only 0.3% of Americans are unfit to make decisions for themselves?
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Now, Mace says that if it can happen to Britney, it can happen to anyone.
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Now, I'm not arguing that there's no need for conservatorship reform.
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What I'm arguing is that the facts about Britney Spears' case, what little we know,
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and the fact that 1.3 million people are subject to these arrangements,
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don't themselves add up to a need for sweeping reform.
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If a better case can be made, then Mace should make it.
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If there is some real far-reaching serious problem with the way conservatorships are handled in this country,
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But then, if that far-reaching serious problem exists,
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why did you wait for Britney Spears to bring this up?
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Why are you basing this on the Britney Spears case?
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See, there are a lot of people who are today pretending to be experts on conservatorships.
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Oh, you know, this is a major problem in this country.
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Yeah, but you never mentioned a word about that until Britney Spears was in the news.
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If it's a big problem, where was your conservatorship reform movement before this?
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is it true that she's being oppressed and abused by her conservatorship?
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Before we can answer that, if we can answer it,
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It is certainly possible, in principle, for an adult to exhibit behavior
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which would lead to them losing the right to make decisions for themselves.
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The way some people are talking about this case,
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to the very idea that any adult should be deprived of the right to make decisions.
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Are you saying that no one should have their decision-making power taken from them at all?
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then you're arguing for the abolition of all mental asylums and psychiatric hospitals.
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You're arguing that any person, no matter how disturbed,
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should be permitted to continue making choices for themselves,
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even if those choices are almost guaranteed to lead to them harming themselves,
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and not one that any intelligent person should take seriously.
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steps must be taken to bring them under control
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if we can agree that conservatorships exist for a reason,
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then the only question is whether Britney Spears
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I'm not saying anyone who posted topless pictures
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We have a documentary produced by the New York Times
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We know that Spears had multiple psychotic meltdowns
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which is a profound statement in and of itself.