Ep. 766 - I Cannot Trust The Experts Because They've All Gone Insane
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We are told that we must trust the medical and scientific experts, but what if the experts have gone completely insane and abandoned the most basic medical & scientific truths for ideological reasons? What then? Well, we ll talk about that today, including some good news from the Olympics as the women s USA soccer team continues to lose, and the trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard completely flops in embarrassing fashion. Plus, Democrats panic as the eviction moratorium comes to an end, and we re told that Florida is in the middle of a COVID crisis. Is that true? And finally, in our daily cancellation, Francis Fauci, Don Lemon, Ted Lieu, and others all say that you have the right to be free from sickness. They re horribly wrong.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we are told that we must trust the medical and scientific experts,
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but what if the medical and scientific experts have gone completely insane and abandoned the
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most basic medical and scientific truths for ideological reasons? What then? Well,
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we'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines, including some good news from the Olympics as
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the women's USA soccer team continues to lose, which is great, and the trans weightlifter Laurel
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Hubbard completely flops in embarrassing fashion. Plus, Democrats panic as the eviction moratorium
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comes to an end, but should there have ever been an eviction moratorium in the first place?
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And we're also told that Florida is in the middle of a COVID crisis. Is that true? We'll talk about
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the data that the panic pushers don't want us to focus on. And finally, in our daily cancellation,
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Fauci, Don Lemon, Ted Lieu, and others all say that you have the right to be free from sickness.
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They're horribly wrong, of course, and I'll explain why. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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online at charitymobile.com. We are condemned these days for failing to show the appropriate levels
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of deference and obedience to supposed medical and scientific experts. These condemnations could
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be heard loudly and frequently enough even before COVID. It was quite common during a discussion
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about, say, climate change that the skeptic would be shouted down or simply dismissed outright on
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the basis that he isn't a scientist and therefore his opinion has no merit. Of course, very often the
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people doing the shouting and dismissing were not scientists either, and yet they felt qualified to
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tell you that you're not qualified even as they continue to espouse their own views with abandon.
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The standard cliched refrains of, you know, trust the science and listen to the scientists and
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you're not a doctor, what do you know, have been utilized by intellectually lazy people as a means
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of stifling discussion and silence and criticism for a long time. But in the age of COVID, they're
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now chanted like religious incantations. It's now not only a sign of intelligence if you shut up and
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nod your head in agreement with whatever statements a doctor or scientist makes, it's also a sign of
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virtue. Skepticism is now a character defect, a form of heresy. The scientific experts speak
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infallibly from their pulpits and anyone who dares to contradict them or even to ask for clarification
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or even to say something like, oh, wait a minute, you said this before and now you're saying this.
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But if you do that, you're a blasphemer, an apostate. Burn them at the stake, figuratively for now,
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but perhaps literally soon enough. This is a problem because most obviously the alleged medical
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scientific experts have been proven wrong so many times when it comes to COVID. And besides,
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if you agree with what they're saying now, whatever that happens to be, that means you're disagreeing
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with what they said a week ago. And if you disagree with what they're saying now, that only means that
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you still agree with what they said a week ago. It's not actually possible to fully reject the
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scientific and medical authorities on the subject of COVID because whatever opinion you hold has at one
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point been their opinion. And it may become their opinion again in the near future. The question is
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not whether you agree with the experts. It's which version of the experts do you agree with?
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Do you like their recent work or do you prefer their older stuff? Maybe you're more of an oldies guy.
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And so you really love a Fauci classic hit like, there's no reason to be walking around with a mask on,
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which he said way back in March of 2020. But you can't do that, we're told. The other thing about
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trusting the experts and listening to the science is that you have to pretend yesterday never happened.
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Each day is the first day of your life. You are born anew with the sunrise. And all you are meant to do
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is reach out your hand and clasp onto the coattails of the experts and go wherever they lead you.
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Now, some of us aren't willing to live that way. We're not able to pretend that we're the guy from
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Memento with a memory that dates back no further than 47 minutes into the past. We look at the whole
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picture and we see the experts contradicting themselves, going back on their own pronouncements,
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making determinations that are clearly driven by politics. Like when they all declared in unison
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that it's not safe to eat at a restaurant, but it is safe for BLM mobs to gather by the thousands in
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the streets. You can't eat at the restaurant, but you can loot it. That you can do. Now, that alone,
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the fact that public health authorities all made an exception for BLM riots during the height of the
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pandemic was enough for reasonable and intelligent people to permanently lose whatever faith they
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might have had in public health authorities. But it gets worse. The real problem is what they're
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doing now and saying apart from COVID. See, it's one thing to be cowardly partisan hacks as nearly all
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of these people have proven themselves to be. In theory, though, even cowardly partisan hacks can
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still be reliable sources of medical or scientific information some of the time at least. But the
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sickness in the expert community runs much deeper than mere partisanship. The fact is that these
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people, many of them anyway, have abandoned scientific truth completely on the most fundamental
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level. After all, what good is a medical expert who doesn't understand or pretends not to understand
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basic human biology? Now, I shared on the show a few days ago, I think it was Friday or maybe
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Thursday, a disturbing report by Katie Herzog published on Barry Weiss's Substack about the intrusion
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of gender theory into medical school. We already knew that gender theory had infected grade school
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and four-year universities. But now we know that it's made its way into medical school,
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which is no surprise. But this is where, of course, the next generation of doctors are being taught.
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And now they're being taught that biological sex does not exist. So let me read a portion of that
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report again because it's important. So it said, quote, during a recent endocrinology course at a
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top medical school at the University of California system, a professor stopped mid-lecture to apologize
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for something he'd said at the beginning of the class. Quote, I don't want you to think that I am
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in any way trying to imply anything. And if you can summon some generosity to forgive me, I would really
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appreciate it. The physician says in a recording provided by a student in the class whom we'll call
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Lauren. Quote, again, I'm very sorry for that. It was certainly not my intention to offend anyone.
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The worst thing that I can do as a human being is be offensive. His offense using the term pregnant
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women. Quote, I said, I said when a woman is pregnant, which implies that only women can get
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pregnant. And I most sincerely apologize to all of you for that. It wasn't the first time that Lauren
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had heard an instructor apologize for using language that to most Americans would seem utterly
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inoffensive. Words like male and female. Why would medical school professors apologize for referring
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to a patient's biological sex? Because, Lauren explains, in the context of her medical school,
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acknowledging biological sex can be considered transphobic. When sex is acknowledged by her
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instructors, it's sometimes portrayed as a social construct, not a biological reality, she says.
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In a lecture on transgender health, an instructor declared, quote, biological sex, sexual orientation,
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gender are all constructs. These are all constructs that we have created. In other words, some of the
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country's top medical students are being taught that humans are not, like other mammals, a species
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comprising two sexes. The notion of sex they are learning is just a man-made creation. Now, we should
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really stop and contemplate the sheer depth of the cowardice here on display. This is a professor
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at a top medical school. Someone who certainly understands biology, understands that only women
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can get pregnant, understands that there is an innate biological difference between males and females,
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and that this difference is by no means in any way a social construct. Now, he understands that,
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and yet he is too afraid to speak this truth to his own students when it is his job to speak that
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truth for fear of being called transphobic. This is exactly like a math professor who's too afraid to say
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that five plus five equals ten for fear that it might upset those who prefer to live in a world where
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five plus five equals five thousand. It is exactly the same as that in terms of the general insanity and the
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cowardice involved. And it doesn't end with medical school, obviously. Here's the latest headline on this
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front. This is from WebMD. Article just published yesterday. It says, remove sex from public birth
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certificates, AMA says. The article explains, quote, sex should be removed as a legal designation
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on the public part of birth certificates, according to the American Medical Association.
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Requiring it can lead to discrimination, an unnecessary burden on individuals whose current gender identity
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does not align with their designation at birth, namely when they register for schools or sports, adopt,
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get married or request personal records. Sarah May Smith, MD, delegate from California,
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speaking on behalf of the women physician section, said removing the sex designation is important for
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moving towards gender equity. She said, quote, we need to recognize gender is not a binary, but a spectrum
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obligating our patients to jump through numerous administrative hoops to identify as who they are based on a sex
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assigned at birth, primarily on genitalia, is not only unnecessary, but actively deleterious to their
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health. Okay, notice the language that this doctor and a delegate for the American Medical Association
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uses. She says that sex is assigned at birth. That is her medical language. Assigned as if it's given to
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the child by the doctor on an entirely arbitrary basis. Which is like saying when you go in for a physical
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medical school and they do your height and your weight. It's like saying that that's been assigned to you.
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Your height and weight measurements are assigned by whoever does the measurement.
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Well, I've been assigned six foot one. Too bad. I was hoping they'd give me seven feet. There goes my NBA dream.
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This makes no sense, obviously, and neither does the claim that sex is on a spectrum.
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The people making these claims know that it doesn't make sense.
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They are destroying the medical profession from the inside and doing it on purpose.
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And eventually, the really scary thing is they're going to give rise to a generation of scientists and
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doctors who repeat the same madness and yet do not know that it is madness. And I say eventually,
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that that is happening right now as we speak. And we're supposed to sit back and simply trust
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these people. It is accurate to say now that my eight-year-old kids
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understand more about human biology than that medical school professor.
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And many of the doctors who will come out of that system.
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My children know more than they do, are greater experts on biology than they are.
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And that's why we don't trust the experts, because we can't, because they've all gone insane.
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And that was going to be, that was like our family event on Saturday.
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You know, when you're parents and you're married, this is what you do on a Saturday.
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And now that I've been, and I've heard so much about this place, all I can say is that
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They should probably all be shut down forcibly by the government.
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But then again, if I offered to sell you a tuba for $200, that would be a great deal.
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But you're still out to $200 and you didn't need the tuba.
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But you're out to 35 and did you actually need that?
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So anyway, long story short or long story long, long.
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Um, we ended up spending, I think $46,000 and, um, we've already eaten most of the snacks
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or at least the kids have the whole, the whole tub of Jesus is already gone.
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Oh, I love to start Monday on a good, some, some, with some good news.
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Rarely, rarely can we do that, but we can here.
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Um, first of all, the U S women's soccer team lost to Canada.
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So indignity on top of indignity, uh, not only do they lose, but they lost to Canada of all
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And that means they're no longer in contention for the gold.
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Um, also this from the daily wire, it says New Zealand transgender weightlifter, Laurel
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Hubbard competed and failed Monday in women's, um, 87 kilogram weightlifting at the Tokyo
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So I wish these measurements were an American dammit or a kilogram.
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And pretend I didn't say it if I'm wrong in Hubbard's first attempt, the weightlifter
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tried to lift 120 kilograms and failed in the 43 year old second attempt.
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Hubbard lifted a very shaky 125 kilogram as noted by one of the female commentators.
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It was very surprising that the questionable 125 kilogram lift wasn't challenged with an appeal
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on the third attempt, Hubbard could not lift the 125 kilogram, bouncing the weightlifter
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The announcer said, quote, uh, that's the end of Laurel Hubbard as Hubbard waved to the cameras
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Uh, and so now, now, uh, this, this man is gone and that's good because he deserves to be humiliated
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in this fashion fashion because this is cheating.
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I don't, I don't care what, what the insane official rules say.
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You haven't, you have undue inherent biological advantages.
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You know, you have those advantages and you're using those advantages to your benefit.
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Um, and so, so he, so he lost, but of course, what's happening now predictably is that the
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left is saying that this actually proves that men don't have an advantage.
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They say, yeah, see, you'd say there's no advantage.
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Everybody's worried about Laurel Hubbard, a man competing against women and, uh, and she
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And so you see, there's no, you guys are freaking out over nothing.
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Um, yeah, except that this was a 43 year old pudgy out of shape dude.
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Looks like I could, I could probably beat him in arm wrestling.
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And, um, out of shape, mediocre athlete who couldn't come anywhere close to qualifying against
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Then of course, but it's just, it's a coincidence though.
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And then discovers late in life that, oh, actually I'm a woman.
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I mean, we, we couldn't, we could never accuse Laurel Hubbard of having this, um, revelation
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for self-serving reasons, even if it was extremely self-serving.
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But out of, completely out of shape, mediocre athlete, um, of course he loses, but the fact
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that he qualified as an Olympic weightlifter in the first place against women tells you
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I ask you, how many, how many pudgy out of shape 43 year old females are qualifying as
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Well, this dude is competing against like 21 year old women, um, who have, who are, you
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know, talented athletes against their own competition.
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And he waltzes in there and it makes it onto the stage at least.
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Oh, but yeah, the fact that this guy, this 43 year old guy couldn't win the gold medal
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If I, if I just, uh, stumbled into the Olympics myself and, uh, you know, and was accepted
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as a female and I got onto the track against, um, the women in the 100 meter dash, I would
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Well, that was, I guess that proves that men don't have an advantage or it proves that
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I'm just slow and I have no business being there.
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If you really want to know about the advantages, there's a website, um, called boys versus women.com
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And the whole website is dedicated to comparing the world record times.
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Women's world record, um, times and track and field events against high school boys.
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And if you go down the list, so basically you have the best high school boy, um, a child
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And if you go down the list for all the track and field world records, the boy wins, the
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boys win every single one, except for the marathon, all of the others, well over a dozen, close
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So, so for example, 200 meters, just pulling one example at random, 200 meters, the woman,
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the women's world record is 21.34 world record.
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Um, best woman, best woman, female athlete in the world, adult that was beat by a 14 year
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Um, and that's a pretty significant difference by the way, in a 200 meter dash, 1500 meters,
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uh, best female time women's world record is, um, is, uh, three minutes, 50 sec, 50.07.
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And, um, that was beat by about two seconds by a 14 year old boy.
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And you go down the list and you've got 14 year old boys, 15, 16, 17 year old boys beating
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the women's world record times in every single contest, except one.
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Um, oh, but there's, there's, there's, there's no advantage, no advantage at all.
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Um, moving on now, the COVID panic pushers have zeroed in on Florida again.
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Uh, they, I suppose they were never not zeroed in on Florida, but they tell us that Florida
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Uh, there, there's a, there's a crisis, an emergency in Florida.
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And as I read this, pay attention to what you're not told.
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Florida is becoming the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
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And just this week, cases jumped 50% with more than 110,000 new cases reported.
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Case numbers are now back to where they were in January before the vaccine became available.
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Dr. Eileen Marty said there is no higher risk area in the United States than we're seeing here.
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The numbers that we're seeing are unbelievable, just unbelievably frightening.
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According to the Florida health department, the new positivity rate for all of Florida is
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Um, and, uh, going on, I'm just skimming through to see if we get this information I'm looking
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for other hospitals like Memorial healthcare system say they're overwhelmed.
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Uh, this morning we had over 420 patients with COVID and 55 are in ICU and the ICU.
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Um, said a COVID ICU nurse manager named Joanna Maja.
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And skimming through, no, you notice what's missing here.
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What we're not being told, um, how many people are dying?
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And this is the shift that I've been talking about over the last few days.
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Now you go back to the winter, um, and for the year prior to that.
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And that's what, that was the number one thing we were told is how many people are dying?
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The death rate, which, which in a way is fair because that is the, that you would think
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Because we know that a great majority of people get the virus, they recover.
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So that's, that's not the really troubling when we hear, um, unbelievably frightening.
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When I, when I, when someone tells me they have unbelievably frightening statistics about a
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disease, well, then I want to hear about the deaths because that's the unbelievably frightening
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If people are dying left and right, but if millions of people are getting a virus and
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they barely even notice they have it and, uh, they have a headache in the sniffles for a few
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I don't consider that unbelievably frightening, frightening, even if a lot of people haven't.
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Now, if a great portion of those people are dying, that is unbelievably frightening.
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Except in this article, and this is the case in so many of the articles that you're going
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to read about the COVID outbreak in Florida, Florida is the new epicenter.
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So they're not going to say much about the deaths.
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Well, it's because not a lot of people are dying in Florida.
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So as it stands right now, I'm looking at the latest statistics.
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This is the New York times far from a far right rag.
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Um, and they're also not trying to do any favors to Florida, but this is what they say.
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Seven day average for deaths as of August 1st, 2021 is 58.
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That's the, um, seven day daily average of 58 people.
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And just out of curiosity, I don't have to look it up right now because I don't know it
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So in a, in a state with 21 million people on average, 58 in the entire state are dying.
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It's sad when anybody dies, but 58 out of 21 million.
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And, you know, last week we, we kind of broke this down.
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We went through the, the major cities, the most populated cities in the country to look
00:27:27.800
And in a lot of these cities, like in Chicago and other cities, Philadelphia, it's like one
00:27:34.540
Washington DC has not had a death from COVID in at least a week.
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Um, and I will look this up right now, just out of curiosity, live on the air.
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Just as an example, Miami, according to the New York times statistics has not had a death
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So they've gone almost the entire summer in Miami without a single death.
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Um, what is the most populated city in Florida?
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They have not had a death in Jacksonville in the entire city since again, early June,
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Um, you could go, I don't know, Orlando we could look at.
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Let's see, Orlando again, just a, just a, the, the death line on the, on the graph is just
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So some of the biggest, the most populated, most condensely populated cities in Florida
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have not had any deaths at all for almost the entire summer.
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So that's the, that is unbelievably frightening.
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It's true that that is unbelievably frightening.
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If you want the pandemic panic to continue, if you're frightened of the pandemic ending,
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then it is absolutely frightening that so few people are dying, I suppose.
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But to those of us who don't want people to die and who actually love and cherish life.
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To those of us who are not deranged scumbags, this is great news.
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We know that people are going to die every single day in this country.
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But when you can look at some of the most populated cities in Florida or across the country and
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But we can't because it is actually being mourned by, by the COVID panic pushers.
00:30:08.320
Next year, the CDC's eviction moratorium has expired.
00:30:11.860
That was the rule passed down by our overlords of the CDC saying that landlords are not allowed
00:30:20.760
Now, how in the hell does the CDC have the authority to make a policy?
00:30:25.920
How do they have the authority to make any policy, let alone a housing policy?
00:30:33.060
The CDC never explained where they get this authority from, but they found it.
00:30:40.340
They say, oh, you know, that's what do you mean authority?
00:30:46.760
And so that was the policy had been in place for months now.
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And now the socialist wing of the Democrat Party, which is otherwise known as the entire
00:30:58.040
First, here's AOC a few nights ago in the middle of the night saying that she was marching
00:31:03.060
to the Capitol to demand that the moratorium be extended.
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This is kind of an insurrection that she, you might say, that she conducted on her own.
00:31:22.620
And I am walking to the Capitol because Congress is about to allow the national eviction moratorium
00:31:34.780
And they're forcing the moratorium to expire before the emergency rental assistance money
00:31:42.780
has gotten out to renters and mom and pop landlords.
00:31:48.240
And so I'm heading out over there because Sister Cori Bush has called for us to come out there
00:31:57.040
and call on Congress to bring their butts back so that we can vote to extend the moratorium.
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It's not just me and it's not just Representative Bush, but we've done a call and lots of everyday
00:32:10.500
people are starting to show up on the Capitol steps demanding that we extend the eviction
00:32:17.020
moratorium because the alternative is to allow almost 11 million people to be at risk of eviction
00:32:30.880
People storming the Capitol, an insurrection, it's worse than 9-11, honestly.
00:32:38.680
Um, but it's the, the eviction moratorium, she's saying it's, it's coming to an end.
00:32:47.400
And that might actually happen where, where lots of people lose their housing because,
00:32:51.560
um, they've been told for the last many months that they don't have to pay their rent.
00:32:56.760
And, and, and, and that was never going to last forever.
00:33:02.920
And so by giving people, waving your magic wand and giving millions of people the right,
00:33:10.600
quote unquote, to not pay their rent, you have set them up for this AOC.
00:33:20.180
But we should say she was on CNN later after storming the Capitol and, um, and conducting
00:33:28.000
The insurrectionist was on CNN talking about this and she doesn't blame the Republican
00:33:39.520
Nothing aggressive was done by leadership, uh, until just a couple of days ago.
00:33:45.820
Well, you know, I think there's a couple of, of issues here.
00:33:48.340
First of all, you are absolutely correct in that the house and house leadership had the
00:33:55.320
And there were many, and there was frankly a handful of conservative Democrats in the house
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that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote.
00:34:02.820
And we have to, um, really just call a spade a spade.
00:34:06.420
We cannot in good faith blame the Republican party when house Democrats have a majority.
00:34:11.520
Now there is something to be said for the fact that this court order came down on the
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white house a month ago and the white house waited until the day before the house adjourned
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to release a statement asking on Congress to extend the moratorium.
00:34:27.840
That's the funniest thing I've heard in several days.
00:34:36.240
Hey, every single Democrat that you will talk to publicly will say, you know, for example,
00:34:48.640
Uh, but this is a perfect example of the faux compassion that you get from the left.
00:34:55.860
And even a lot of people on the right who, who defend these sorts of policies and eviction
00:35:00.760
If we could put to the side, the fact that the CDC does not have the authority to issue
00:35:08.380
And it's, it's kind of, you know, that's the law.
00:35:11.000
The constitution, it's sort of hard to put that to the side.
00:35:14.180
I would say if we want to be a civilized society, um, under, under any kind of rule of law, then,
00:35:22.920
But if we were to do that and just talk about this thing on the merits,
00:35:26.720
this is horrific, um, counterproductive, stupid, morally deranged, immoral, that you are telling
00:35:42.220
people that they must, that they're required to keep people in their homes, on their property,
00:35:56.720
If you're a landlord, um, and there's someone on your, on your property, in your home,
00:36:03.380
who is refusing to pay you, refusing to compensate you at all, you must continue to pay for them
00:36:16.880
You have to pay their rent for them and allow them to stay on your property.
00:36:28.340
You're being forced by the government to pay someone else's rent for them on your property.
00:36:39.320
And yet millions of idiots will defend it on the basis of compassion.
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You're putting them underwater because a big part of their financial plan here is that,
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you know, they've got to pay the mortgage on this property.
00:37:02.520
And so to help them pay the mortgage, then that's, that's, that's why the renters have
00:37:07.560
It's not, you know, just to be clear, it's not because they're mean landlords are, it's
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not because they're mean that they're making you pay the rent.
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It's because they're providing you with something with a service and you have to pay in exchange,
00:37:23.540
They have to, they have to pay the mortgage on this property.
00:37:25.480
And if you don't chip in, then now they got to pay their own mortgage for their home plus
00:37:31.340
this and however many other properties they own.
00:37:34.440
So you are putting them in a financial crisis by not fulfilling your own obligations.
00:37:43.680
It's compassionate if we pretend that the landlords don't exist, that they're not really
00:37:51.440
Speaking of forced labor and slavery, if we just pretend that they don't count as people,
00:37:59.580
And, and again, the land, yeah, there are mean landlords out there.
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I haven't, I haven't rented in a long time, but with my experience with landlords, I had
00:38:08.540
some good experiences and some bad experiences.
00:38:13.200
There are bad landlords, sure, but it's still their property.
00:38:17.440
They own it and you don't have a right to be there if you're not paying for it.
00:38:21.980
Imagine thinking, imagine thinking that someone else, some stranger is entitled, you are entitled
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to stay on their property without compensating them.
00:38:33.840
Imagine walking into someone else's house, a stranger, you don't know them and saying,
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No, you can't kick me out because that's what you're doing.
00:38:41.560
You're a squatter now and you are trying to defend your right to squat on this property
00:38:52.520
And, and, and just so you know, yeah, there are mean landlords out there.
00:38:56.000
There are bad landlords, but not every landlord is some sort of fat cat, you know, in his,
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in his office, sitting on his leather chair, stroking his, his, his white cat, smoking a cigar,
00:39:09.140
laughing maniacally about all the poor people he's about to evict from his property.
00:39:15.640
That's not how, that's not how all landlords are.
00:39:17.240
In fact, most of them aren't, you know, a lot of landlords, they're just normal people.
00:39:21.860
You want to know a situation that happens a lot.
00:39:23.620
And this is how, you know, a lot of, um, single family homes that are for rent.
00:39:28.220
You can have just a normal family that moves from a house and let's say they're not able to
00:39:34.740
sell it or they decide they don't want to sell it.
00:39:36.580
And so, and they move into a different house and they rent out the house they just moved out of.
00:39:44.920
There are plenty of normal middle-class families, middle-class people who are landlords.
00:39:53.820
And now you're saying, oh, you got to pay two mortgages now.
00:39:58.780
And if you're destitute because of it, that's your problem.
00:40:01.980
And, and, and also I think it, it, it, it's, uh, there's some bearing had, this has some bearing on this thing that employers across the country are begging for employees.
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There is not a crisis of jobs not being available.
00:40:22.360
Employers are begging for people to come work for them.
00:40:25.780
Offer, you can get a signing bonus at McDonald's now.
00:40:28.320
So who exactly are these, uh, these millions of renters who simply cannot pay their rent at all?
00:40:40.340
Don't have the ability, can't get a job, can't do anything.
00:40:43.760
While you've got employers begging saying, please come work for us.
00:40:47.580
But I know you have the, you have the right to say, no, I don't want the job, but I'm just going to stay here and I'm not going to pay for anything.
00:40:55.580
And you have to pay for me to stay here in your house.
00:41:06.120
Chicago under a mayor, Lori Lightfoot has reinstated its mask mandate.
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They're, they're calling it wearing a mask is strongly encouraged for everyone indoors.
00:41:18.360
Although the daily death rate from COVID in Chicago right now is, I think before I said it was, excuse me, it's actually two.
00:41:28.100
So the COVID daily death rate is two in Chicago, two people dying per day, but now they're reinstating the mask thing.
00:41:32.880
Um, and yet Lori Lightfoot, after reinstating the mask guidance, decided to, um, still have Lollapalooza, which is the, uh, you know, the rock festival.
00:41:47.740
Thousands of people showed up and now, now I, I see, and she was getting some criticism for that and she should be.
00:41:53.620
But I see no problem in principle with having Lollapalooza.
00:42:04.020
But when you're doing it while telling people to wear masks and you're not wearing one yourself, that's where the problem comes in.
00:42:11.680
Although it isn't as bad as DC, where they reinstated their mask mandate, full mandate, even though the average daily death rate from COVID in DC, again, is zero.
00:42:22.360
And yet even, even after Mayor Bowser put the mandate in effect, she officiated a wedding without masks on for hundreds of people.
00:42:30.600
And the day before that she had, she threw a birthday party, a maskless birthday party for herself.
00:42:39.660
Other Lollapalooza news that I think is worth mentioning, Limp Bizkit performed.
00:42:46.100
Um, kids, you don't know about Limp Bizkit, probably for the better.
00:42:51.260
Uh, I think, do we have the picture of Fred Durst?
00:42:55.680
So Fred Durst, I didn't even know he was still alive, but he is.
00:43:02.700
That's what Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit looks like now, as he was performing at Lollapalooza.
00:43:06.640
He looks like an LAPD homicide detective in like 1975.
00:43:11.820
Or maybe a, a, a, a track and field coach or something.
00:43:16.740
And everybody calls him Coach Creeper behind his back because of certain rumors that may or may not be true.
00:43:25.040
Um, all right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments.
00:43:30.660
He says, it's hilarious that Matt spouts off all of these scientific facts about masks and vaccines,
00:43:35.500
yet he can't even admit the fundamental scientific truth that trans women are women.
00:43:41.080
See, I sense that you're, you're trolling, Jacob, but I, I can't, I don't know.
00:43:47.860
Um, Moose Chuckle says, Matt, this is day three of me making you regret saying,
00:43:57.160
And pretty bold of you to make fun of my name with a name like Moose Chuckle.
00:44:02.620
Um, Rebecca says, I posted on social media that I was a proud member of the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:44:12.160
Um, and SK says, after your example of how unsafe driving is, I'm scared to ever get into a car again.
00:44:22.700
We were talking about this comparison with driving and wearing masks.
00:44:28.580
And we'll talk more about this in the daily cancellation, come up in a second.
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But you don't, there are, there are so many things you do in your life that aren't really dangerous.
00:44:37.060
But there are risks involved that you don't even stop to think about.
00:44:45.560
I mean, think about how many bridges you have gone over without calculating ahead of time, the probability that this might be a bridge with structural integrity issues.
00:45:01.500
That, that, that's the only way to live and function as a human being.
00:45:04.140
Um, and, um, and finally, Rebecca says, the pornography epidemic terrifies me and the lack of freak out about it is pretty horrifying.
00:45:17.300
Yeah, well, I, I think the, it's, it's not freak out.
00:45:21.140
I don't think we ever want people to freak out about anything because nothing constructive happens about that.
00:45:24.840
But paying attention to it and what it's doing to our children, what pornography is doing to our children.
00:45:29.980
Um, yeah, the fact that we're not paying attention to that, that is horrifying.
00:45:37.140
Because we know on the left, it's all hedonism all the time.
00:45:41.680
But if, if on the right, we can't focus on this issue or see that it's important to protect our children from this, then, I mean, what hope do we have?
00:45:50.980
We've talked plenty today about the tyranny of the CDC and other supposed public health authorities who, uh, are not authorities at all on that subject anymore.
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As we know, Dr. Fauci always has a very busy schedule filled with TV interviews.
00:47:33.020
So it's nice when he could take some time away from his TV interviews to do some more TV interviews.
00:47:37.060
And that was the case this Sunday when he appeared on the show this week on ABC and addressed the skeptics who object to the CDC's new mask mandate.
00:47:44.500
And by the way, skeptics of the CDC's mask mandate include the CDC itself, which, as we've covered, previously said that immune people don't need to wear masks.
00:47:53.140
And now they say they do without ever providing any data to justify the change.
00:47:56.900
In any case, Fauci, who agreed with the CDC when they said one thing about the masks, now agrees with them when they say the opposite.
00:48:03.640
He says that if you disagree, you are infringing on other people's rights.
00:48:07.920
Listen, the fact is there are things that are individual responsibilities that one has, and there are things that have to do with you individually, which also impact others and get the spread of infection that we're seeing now.
00:48:25.040
The surge in cases, John, is impacting everyone in the country.
00:48:30.380
So although you want to respect a person's individual right, when you're dealing with a public health situation, and we are, in fact, in a very serious public health challenge here with a pandemic, with a virus that has an extraordinary capability of spreading rapidly and efficiently from person to person.
00:48:52.400
So a person's individual, individual decision to not wear a mask not only impacts them, because if they get infected, even though they say it's my decision, if I get infected, I'll worry about that.
00:49:07.480
But the fact is, if you get infected, even if you are without symptoms, you very well may infect another person who may be vulnerable, who may get seriously ill.
00:49:18.260
So in essence, you are encroaching on their individual rights because you're making them vulnerable.
00:49:30.800
Dr. Fauci was not content to simply be wrong about literally everything he says about science and medicine.
00:49:34.920
Now he's expanding his horizons to be wrong legally and philosophically, too.
00:49:39.160
He's like a renaissance man of wrongness, a jack of all bulls**t, you might say.
00:49:43.200
And this all may remind you of the ranting and raving done by Don Lemon on CNN a few days prior, which we played on the show, where he called for vaccine passports and claimed that unvaccinated people don't have the right to use public transportation, eat at restaurants, go to their jobs.
00:49:57.780
But he's not trying to infringe on their rights simply by removing their ability to do anything at all.
00:50:02.480
No, he says that they're infringing on everybody else's rights by existing.
00:50:06.760
Now, the idea that you're taking another person's right away by unknowingly getting them sick is total abject nonsense.
00:50:16.800
But it's also the idea that lies at the heart of most of these draconian policies.
00:50:20.780
I doubt whether the people pushing and instating the policies believe it themselves, but it's certainly what they want you to believe.
00:50:27.380
They want you to believe that you have a right to be free from sickness.
00:50:30.640
And anybody who makes you sick, even if they don't mean to, has committed some sort of wrong against you.
00:50:37.540
They want you to believe that it's your right for everyone else to wear a mask.
00:50:41.760
You are entitled to have everyone else wear a mask, they say.
00:50:47.920
Probably the craziest form of this argument came from Congressman Ted Lieu, who tweeted recently, quote,
00:50:52.360
You have no right to spread your respiratory droplets on me, on others, in public, and in businesses.
00:50:59.200
The majority of reasonable Americans are going to fight the tyranny of the minority who insist that they can leave their saliva everywhere, and we will win.
00:51:09.500
Going out in public and breathing is now insisting that you can leave your saliva everywhere.
00:51:16.940
You have no right to breathe around other people.
00:51:19.740
You have a right to be free of other people breathing.
00:51:24.780
This is, that's the kind of statement that, in another time, in another place, that would get you locked in an insane asylum.
00:51:33.060
That's the kind of thing that clinical OCD patients would say.
00:51:41.880
If you are infringing on other people's rights by unknowingly getting them sick, then you have infringed on other people's rights hundreds of times in your life.
00:51:52.180
Every time you leave your house, COVID or no COVID, mask or no mask, you are potentially infringing on other people's rights because you could potentially get them sick with any disease you do or don't have.
00:52:04.240
If you don't have the right to put other people in jeopardy by going about your daily life, then you don't have the right to go about your daily life ever at all, period.
00:52:17.340
When you venture out into the world and encounter other humans in any context, you are putting them in jeopardy theoretically.
00:52:28.480
Driving is an obvious example that we talked about last week.
00:52:31.180
Whenever you drive down the highway, you're putting other people on the highway in jeopardy.
00:52:39.620
There are, of course, undue or unreasonable risks that you might take, which may result in harm coming to another person.
00:52:46.620
Another might be, you know, setting off a pink smoke bomb in the middle of a drought surrounded by dry wood and grass as part of a gender reveal party, leading to a wildfire that torches 20,000 acres and kills someone in the process.
00:53:00.340
The couple in that case face up to 20 years in prison.
00:53:03.020
And that's probably fair because the risk they took was extreme and unnecessary and unreasonable.
00:53:09.340
And their actions, given the context, had a very high likelihood of resulting in disaster.
00:53:15.360
The question then is whether a person with no symptoms, who has no known contagious illness, and no particular reason to think he might have such an illness,
00:53:25.780
and who might even be immune because of prior infection or vaccination, is somehow engaging in extreme, unreasonable, potentially murderous risk-taking by simply walking out of his house and down the street without a mask on his face.
00:53:40.380
If the answer to that question is yes, then, again, it must apply all the time to everyone, whether COVID is a factor or not.
00:53:48.620
There is always a chance that you could get someone else sick with an illness you don't know you have.
00:53:53.200
There is always a chance that this unknown illness could be fatal.
00:53:59.160
If we're not supposed to take those kinds of chances with each other's health, if it's an infringement on their liberty to do so,
00:54:05.340
then we should never see a stranger's face ever again in public.
00:54:10.960
It is not unreasonable for a healthy-seeming person to go about their lives as every other healthy-seeming person in history through all time has gone about their lives.
00:54:24.640
Remember, this idea that you should just wear a mask preemptively everywhere you go,
00:54:29.500
even if you're not at any significant risk of spreading or contracting a virus, is completely new.
00:54:35.440
Humans have never responded to a disease this way.
00:54:37.940
And it's not because there weren't any diseases.
00:54:42.400
And yet, if we don't adopt a radically new approach to living, rejecting the way that everyone everywhere for all time has lived,
00:54:50.100
then we're not only wrong, but somehow we are the extremists, the radicals.
00:54:55.180
The ones who need to defend our own behavior rather than the other way around.
00:55:02.420
And if what I'm saying, what I'm about to say here offends or scandalizes you,
00:55:14.800
Someone else's bare, maskless face can only be considered an infringement on your rights if you possess the positive right to be free from all illnesses.
00:55:29.640
You may as well say you have the right to never die.
00:55:34.800
If the risk of sickness comes hand in hand with your membership in a human society,
00:55:38.900
in fact, even if you separated yourself from human society and all human contact, you're still going to get sick.
00:55:44.560
Because nearly everything you come across in the physical world is a potential transmitter of disease and death.
00:55:53.880
Now, it's not psychologically healthy to view everything that way or to dwell on it, but it's true.
00:56:01.440
To say that you have the right to not get sick is to say that everyone else, the entire world, nature itself,
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has a responsibility to shield you from an inescapable aspect of reality.
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The idea that we have the right to not get sick stems then not only from an overwhelming, suffocating sense of entitlement,
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but also from the utterly deluded notion that a sickness-free, death-free existence is potentially available to us if we just take the right precautions.
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All of these will accompany you through your life, no matter what you do.
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They're always going to be right there, standing right beside you.
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Until they finally consume you and put you in the dirt.
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Again, we may not like to dwell on this fact, but it is a fact, undeniably, unavoidably.
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With all that said, does that mean that a person who is sick with a dangerous illness and knows it
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has no responsibility to take precautions or avoid contact with other people in some circumstances?
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You don't have any universal and inalienable right to never get sick,
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but that doesn't mean that someone can infect you effectively on purpose.
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Just as you don't have a universal inalienable right to never die,
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but that doesn't mean that someone could just walk up and stab you in the heart.
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So here's an example of a form of viral transmission
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that would constitute an infringement and a crime.
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and they have sex with somebody else without telling that person that they're HIV positive.
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But incidentally, in California, it is no longer a felony to do exactly that.
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In that state, a law was passed recently making it so that it is not a felony
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to knowingly expose another person to HIV without their consent.
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To do something with them that you know is very likely to give them HIV and not tell them.
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And of course, that change in the law was celebrated by the left, especially by LGBT activists.
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And as it happens, these are many of the same people who now say that you're infringing other people's rights
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Having sex with someone and exposing them to HIV on purpose is all right.
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But standing by a person with no known illness, you know, in a checkout line for a few minutes without a mask on,
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that makes you effectively a biological terrorist.
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And that is why the mask cultists are once again,
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