Ep. 768 - Tyrannical Biden Administration Abolishes Private Property Rights
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The CDC has extended the eviction moratorium, once again, forbidding property owners from evicting tenants who don t pay their rent. Biden admits that this isn t constitutional, and he has no authority to do what he's doing, and yet he does it anyway. This is what it's like to live in a lawless country, and we'll talk about that. Plus, the NIH director says that parents should wear masks in their homes to protect their children, and later backtracks. And in our Daily Cancellation, we ll talk about the rapper who s in the middle of a PR crisis because of his comments about gay people. Yet this rapper says many more objectionable things in his songs, and few people seem to have a problem with that. We ll discuss that confusing contradiction, and much more, today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the CDC has extended the eviction moratorium, once again,
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forbidding property owners from evicting tenants who don't pay their rent. Biden admits that this
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isn't constitutional and he has no authority to do what he's doing, and yet he does it anyway.
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This is what it's like to live in a lawless country. We'll talk about that. Also, we have
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our five headlines. The New York attorney general releases her report detailing Governor Cuomo's
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serial sexual harassment. But I'm still mostly concerned about the fact that Cuomo killed
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thousands of elderly people. That, to me, seems like the bigger deal. Plus, the NIH director says
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that parents should wear masks in their homes to protect their children and later backtracks.
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And in our Daily Cancellation, we'll talk about the rapper who's in the middle of a PR crisis
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because of his comments that he made about gay people. Yet this rapper says many more objectionable
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things in his songs, and few people seem to have a problem with that. We'll discuss that
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confusing contradiction and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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it's that we live in a fundamentally lawless country. The law is dead in America. We have
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laws, certainly. Lots of them. More laws than any nation has ever had, I'm sure. New bills are all
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like war and peace, both because they're over a thousand pages and because nobody's actually read
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them. Our problem is not then a scarcity of laws. This is not a problem of quantity. The problem is
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there is no foundational underlying law which everyone, including our leaders, recognize and
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abide by. All of these new laws and policies spring forth out of the imagination of politicians
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and unelected bureaucrats. They're not meant to serve any greater purpose except the political and
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ideological needs of the ruling class. And this state of affairs would be quite bad, but not as bad as it
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actually is if these arbitrary edicts were enforced equally, but they're not. Winners and losers are
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chosen by that same ruling class. If they decide they can wave their scepters and excuse certain
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groups of people from the duty to obey even the most basic and universal laws, as we all witnessed
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when bloodthirsty mobs rioted and looted in our cities for months, and few in that crowd have faced any
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legal penalties for it. Of course, I say there is no foundational underlying law which everyone must
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abide by, but I mean that in a practical sense. That law does exist in theory and it's called the
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Constitution, but the Constitution is just a document. It's not a deity. It doesn't possess the supernatural
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ability to enforce itself. Those in power must choose to heed it. If they don't, then it may as well not
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exist. See, we can scream, that's unconstitutional, all we want, but the people in power simply shrug
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their shoulders and respond, yeah, so what? What are you going to do about it? And that's where we are
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now and where we were yesterday when the CDC extended its eviction moratorium for another two months.
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Now, this moratorium was initially put in place last September as the CDC stood upon its mighty perch
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on Mount Olympus and declared that property owners are not allowed to evict tenants from their
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property even if those tenants refuse to pay. The CDC, of course, has absolutely no actual authority
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whatsoever to set housing policy. In fact, if you look at the CDC's website and you read its mission
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statement, here's what it says. CDC works 24-7 to protect America from health, safety, and security
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threats both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad or chronic or acute, curable or
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preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do
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the same. Now, they're clearly doing a very bad job at all of that, but you'll notice that even in
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their own description of themselves and what they do, they don't say anything about housing policy.
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Be that as it may, they made the policy anyway. And it expired over the weekend and the White House
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admitted, after it expired, that the executive branch does not have the authority to extend it. Biden
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said this and then called on the legislator to act, said they're going to have to be the ones to do it.
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We can't do it. And by the way, it's arguable, dubious. In fact, I would say right now, even Congress
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doesn't really have the constitutional authority to declare that all landlords across the entire
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country cannot evict any tenants, tenants. But Congress didn't act. And so Biden said, okay,
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nevermind, we'll go ahead and do the thing that I just admitted we don't have the authority to do.
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And the moratorium was extended on a limited basis, we're told. Oh, it's limited this time,
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except that it still applies to 90% of the population. That's what counts as limited in
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the federal government's eyes. 90%. The extended moratorium also comes with criminal penalties for
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any property owner who dares to kick out a squatter from their property. A reporter from Business
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Insider reports, quote, the new 60-day CDC eviction moratorium carries steep criminal penalties for
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individual landlords who break the law. Potential $100,000 fine and one year in jail if eviction doesn't
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result in death. Up to $250,000 fine and one year in jail if evicted person dies.
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And what do we even mean by that? Like it's eviction that results in death? I mean, if you evict
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someone by throwing them out the 10th story window, then I can see how that's an eviction that results
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in death. But if you evict someone because they're not paying and then later on they die, how is that
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your fault? And how do we even, is it if I evict you and then you die tomorrow, that's my fault? What
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if you die six months from now? And let's back up even further. Breaks the law? What law? No law
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has been passed. Is the CDC now a legislative entity? Apparently we're supposed to believe that it is.
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They're passing laws now. Now Biden, for his part, admitted in a press conference last night
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that the moratorium is probably not constitutional and will probably get struck down in court.
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But the good news, he says, is that it will take a while before that happens. And there's a lot of
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power grabbing we can do in the meantime. Let's listen. The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says
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that it's not likely to pass constitutional muster. Number one. But there are several key scholars
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who think that it may and it's worth the effort. But the present, you could not, the courts already
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ruled on the present eviction moratorium. So I think what you're going to see, and I look, I want to make
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it clear. I told you I would not tell the Justice Department or the medical experts, the scientists
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what they should say or do. So I don't want to get ahead. The CDC has to make this. I asked the CDC
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to go back and consider other options that may be available to them. You're going to hear from them
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what those other options are. I have been informed they're about to make a judgment as the potential
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other options. Whether that option will pass constitutional measure with this administration,
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I can't tell you. I don't know. There are a few scholars who say it will and others who say it's not
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likely to. But at a minimum, by the time it gets litigated, it will probably give some additional time
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while we're getting that $45 billion out to people who are, in fact, behind in the rent and don't have the money.
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Okay, let me just interpret what, translate what Mr. Magoo is saying here.
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The President of the United States is admitting openly that he is engaging in an unconstitutional power grab
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that almost certainly will not pass muster in the courts.
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Only he says, well, by the time the courts can do anything about it, it'll be too late.
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Now, he's far from the first president to engage in an unconstitutional power grab.
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I mean, they all have, going back decades and decades and decades.
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But what is arguably unusual is that he should be so forthright about it.
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Once again, the message is, yeah, this is unconstitutional.
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You know, what are you peons going to do about it?
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Well, we know who isn't going to do anything about it, Republicans.
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As the President of the United States engages in this unprecedented, unconstitutional power grab,
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admitting again that it is unconstitutional, Republicans have very little to say about it.
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The CDC has assumed the power to write legislation and has removed property rights from millions of
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Americans in the process. Property rights. One of the most fundamental rights you can have.
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If you don't have property rights, then you don't have rights. You do not live in a free country.
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There is no such thing as a free country where you don't have property rights.
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And this is happening in our trusty conservatives, quote unquote, in the Republican Party can hardly be
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bothered to vocally object to it, saying almost nothing about it.
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Now, perhaps if this was happening in Cuba or the Middle East, Republicans would be a little bit
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more upset. But the rights of actual Americans seem to not really be a priority of either party.
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Speaking of those actual Americans, you know, the law, the Constitution, our basic property rights
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are all being set on fire for the sake of protecting millions of renters who allegedly can't pay their
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rent, except that those renters live in a country with millions of open jobs and have collectively
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received billions of dollars in assistance already just in the past year. Sorry, not billions,
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trillions. Trillions of dollars in assistance have been passed and is available.
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And the checks have been cut and have been sent to these people.
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And we're supposed to believe that millions of them still can't pay their rent.
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If they haven't paid their rent in a year, it's because they've chosen not to.
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They have decided to steal. And yes, if you've been living in a rented property for a year
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or almost a year now and haven't paid a dime towards it, you're stealing.
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And they're doing it because they know that the federal government will assist them in the
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appropriation of someone else's property. What is happening here is that private property is being
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taken, appropriated, and given to other parties as essentially a form of welfare.
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As for the landlords, though they are painted as some shadowy group of wealthy, evil land barons,
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the fact is that a great number of them are middle-class individual investors.
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They're experiencing real suffering and hardship, which has been caused not by a virus
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or any act of God, but by a combination of the government who believe that they are God
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and greedy, mooching tenants. Many of these people are on the brink or already over it.
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So just as an example, let me share with you a couple of stories.
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A number of property owners with rental properties have messaged me as I've been talking about this
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over the last few days to tell me what they've been going through. And the media isn't going to
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tell you these stories. So let me just read a couple, okay?
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And these are representative. These are not extreme outlying things. This is what thousands
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and thousands of people are going through right now. So let me read a couple. Here's one.
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My wife and I own two houses, our home we live in and a previous home that we decided to rent out.
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We got a tenant in at the end of last year and received the first two months rent. After that,
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he kept giving me excuses for not paying. Then suddenly he changed his phone number and wouldn't
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contact me. I went to the house multiple times over the next month and it appeared abandoned.
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I went through the proper steps, even getting state legislatures looking at loopholes in the
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moratorium. But because the tenant wouldn't make contact with me to confirm he was abandoning the
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property, I wasn't allowed to evict him. The state of Minnesota has a rental assistance program to
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help with this, but because the tenant wasn't communicating, I wasn't eligible for support.
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You see, apparently they would pay him if I wouldn't cooperate on the application, but they won't pay me
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if he doesn't cooperate. Makes sense, right? Shortly after this, the utilities were allowed to be shut
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off. But now that it was summer, I needed the AC to run so that it wouldn't destroy the interior of
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the house. So now we're paying the mortgage and the utilities on a house we don't live in. It's
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been seven months. Now that the moratorium has ended, I was legally required to email the tenant
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who, again, hasn't lived in my house in months to let him know that he was being evicted. But he
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replied that he would like to apply for assistance from the state. And now I am legally required to go
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through that process. We are now waiting on the state to pay me back rent, but there's no guarantee
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we will receive that money. It's tough to pay two mortgages, two utilities, and take care of two
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houses. By the way, the rent slash mortgage are over $1,000 a month. And there's a lot in there
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that's important, but one important point, and I've heard this from many people in this position,
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that if you're hearing, oh, well, the landlords can get rental assistance or there's assistance for
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them, there are a lot of loopholes you have to go through and a lot of contingencies. And one thing
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I'm hearing over and over again is that if you're a landlord and you want to get paid back, your
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tenants have to cooperate with that and help you out. And if they don't, then you're out of luck.
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Here's another. It says, I lost my job when COVID hit. My wife wasn't working as we just had our
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third child. I was not entitled to welfare due to assets, a rental property with a mortgage of $500,000.
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When the tenants sent a letter stating that they had received advice that they did not have to pay rent
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and we could not kick them out. In the meantime, the tenants were now making more money than they were
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when they started renting. I dread the damage I'm up for when we finally get them out in October this
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year, as they have not let the agent inspect since COVID hit. I have felt close to the brink.
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And one more, it says, I'm working all the overtime I can so I can still pay the mortgage on my rental
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property so they can live there for free. I don't think that they lost their jobs either. They're just
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gaming the system. I have a couple of friends in the same situation. There are many, many more stories
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where these come from. Many thousands more. This is real suffering brought on by real tyranny
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from an oppressive government, which recognizes no law outside of itself. No limit, except its own
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imagination. Which brings us back to where we started. There is no law in this country anymore,
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Again, that's The Authoritarian Moment on sale today. So my wife and kids, quick update from the
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homestead. My wife and kids are currently in the midst of a full-on pressure campaign to convince me
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to get a dog. And the thing is, we talked about the dog thing. You know, I'm obviously not a dog
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person, to put it mildly. I think that is a well-established fact, but I could maybe be convinced
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to consider a dog that would be good with the kids and like a good companion for the kids.
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Because the kids, of course, like all kids, they love dogs. But most importantly, a guard dog,
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right? So because I don't really, I'm not a big dog guy, but lots of, I don't really like dogs,
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but lots of people really don't like me. Really, really don't like me. So we have security concerns
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in my family. And I've already put in place plenty of security measures, of course, but having a big
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scary dog that's, you know, protective and all of that, from everything I've heard, that's kind of
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like the second best security thing you can have aside from owning a gun. Might even be in some cases
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better than the gun, though really, you know, there's no reason why you have to choose between
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the two. But in terms of just like dissuading someone from even making an attempt in the first
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place. So I'm thinking about that, I'm considering it. And then my wife ends up going to a shelter
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with the kids yesterday and starts frantically texting me pictures of all of these different
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dogs. And some of them are small and old and lethargic. She was trying at one point to convince
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me to adopt like this 12-year-old miniature corgi looking thing. What the hell is that thing going
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to, what is it going to guard? A Lego house? And, you know, and she says, oh, look at all these dogs.
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They're cute. Well, these cute dogs. Well, okay. Yeah, they're cute. But if I'm going to have a dog in
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the house, it needs to do a lot more than be cute. Okay. It has to serve some purpose other than being
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cute. We already have cute in the house. The kids are cute. We've got the cute quotient covered.
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Like I'm not getting up at five o'clock in the morning or whatever to take this thing for a walk
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and consoling myself by saying, well, at least it's cute. I could maybe console myself by the thought
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that the dog is helping my wife and kids be safe and feel safe. You know, I'm willing to invest in
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that. I'm just not willing to invest in cute. You got to do better than cute. I mean, cute isn't
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even good enough for my kids. My daughter can't get out of doing chores by saying, well, but daddy,
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I'm cute. Okay. Well, yeah, get upstairs and clean your room. Be cute cleaning your room. That's the
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cutest thing you could do right now. So that's, uh, it's my mistake for opening the door in the
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first place. I never should have done that. I never should have entertained the possibility of a dog.
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And, uh, and this is where we are now. Okay. Um, number one, the New York attorney general announced
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yesterday that after an investigation, it has been determined that governor Cuomo is a serial sexual
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harasser, which I think we already kind of knew, but they did a full investigation and, uh, did a
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press conference release the whole report. Here is the attorney general describing some of their
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findings. Let's watch. The independent investigation has concluded that governor Andrew Cuomo sexually
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harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law. Specifically, the investigation
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found that governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed current and former New York state employees
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by engaging in unwelcome and non-consensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive
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and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. The investigators independently
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corroborated and substantiated these facts through interviews and evidence, including contemporaneous
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notes and communications. This evidence will be made available to the public along with the report.
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Okay. He created a, a hostile work environment for, uh, for women. He was, sounds like he's just sort of a,
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a pig and a jerk to women. And there's the whole report was released. You could read the entire
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report if for some reason you want to. Now, governor Cuomo is not apologizing. He is not backing down an
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inch. Uh, people, uh, it seems that, you know, there, there are plenty of conservatives, social media
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that were kind of celebrating and say, Oh, he's going down. He's going down for this. He might, I'm not
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ready to say that he won't, but I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't put all my money on it. Okay. I
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wouldn't, I wouldn't bet my life savings on this actually bringing Andrew Cuomo down because at the
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end of the day, even if, even if everyone seems to be turning on him right now, the media is turning
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on him. His fellow Democrats in New York are, he is still at the end of the day, a Democrat.
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And even for Andrew Cuomo, that, uh, provide, that is a force field that can protect you from almost
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anything. And that's why he's taking this approach rather than apologizing. He, uh, held a, you know,
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he, he, he spoke to the media afterwards, had a televised address, did not apologize,
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basically accused all these women of lying. And then he also explained, uh, he explained much of
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this away by claiming that, well, he gropes and manhandles everyone, not just attractive women.
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And that's supposed to make it all better. Let's listen to some of, uh, Andrew Cuomo here.
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I do it with everyone, black and white, young and old, straight and LGBTQ, powerful people,
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friends, strangers, people who I meet on the street. After the event, the woman told the press
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that she took offense at the gesture. And for that, I apologize. Another woman stated that I kissed
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her on the forehead at our Christmas party. And that I said, ciao Bella. Now I don't remember doing
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it, but I'm sure that I did. I do kiss people on the forehead. I do kiss people on the cheek.
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I do kiss people on the hand. I do embrace people. I do hug people, men and women. I do on occasion
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say, ciao Bella. On occasion, I do slip and say, sweetheart or darling or honey. I do banter with
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people. I do tell jokes, some better than others. I am the same person in public as I am in private.
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Yeah, well, that's part of, that's part of the problem there, uh, Cuomo, because you're a horrible
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person in public. So, Hey guys, I'm horrible in public. What'd you expect? I mean, that is in some
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ways a kind of oddly powerful argument, I suppose, but this, this is, this is his response. And if
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you're just listening to the audio podcast, you might've missed the slideshow that he assembled
00:24:47.060
and put together where he was talking about all the people that he gropes. And then there was a
00:24:51.000
slideshow of him groping, uh, people of all different races, ethnicities, creeds, and so on.
00:24:56.860
Look, I grope everyone. Okay. And no one is safe from me. I'll, I'll, I will, I will grope and touch
00:25:02.720
anyone black, white, young, old, the postman, the cashier at home Depot, the disabled humans,
00:25:11.060
animals. If space aliens landed here, I would grope them too in a heartbeat. It's what I do.
00:25:19.120
That's his defense. Uh, and it was surprisingly not very convincing or compelling to a lot of people,
00:25:24.940
though, again, it doesn't mean that he's actually going to, uh, suffer any real consequence for this
00:25:29.220
whatsoever. And he's obviously not going to step down himself. His, his, uh, he's, he's wagering
00:25:34.920
on the fact that he's a Democrat and he can ride this one out. And he's probably right about that.
00:25:40.420
Now, as far as the accusations themselves, I did read a little bit of the report and, um, at least
00:25:45.280
some of the sort of summary summaries of the, of the findings and some of what he's accused of doing
00:25:50.660
is clearly, clearly goes beyond being merely inappropriate. Uh, he's accused in some cases of
00:26:00.000
grabbing women under, underneath their shirts and so on. There's like sex, that is sexual assault.
00:26:05.640
Um, that goes beyond sexual harassment. That's, that's the accusation anyway, but then it is also
00:26:12.900
odd when, when you have claims like that, okay, that's sexual harassment or rather that's sexual
00:26:19.860
assault. But then in the report, they also include things like, uh, he, he, he has, he referred to
00:26:29.560
some women as single mamas and at another point called them mingle mamas, whatever, whatever that
00:26:36.720
means. Uh, he said at one point he was talking to some female assistant or something. And he said
00:26:41.320
that, uh, he really wants to take a woman on a motorcycle ride into the mountains. I don't know if
00:26:47.600
that's some kind of euphemism or if he actually just literally just wants to go to the mountains
00:26:51.240
on a motorcycle, whatever it is, but those kinds of calling someone a single mama, uh, that's kind
00:26:57.380
of weird. I mean, arguably inappropriate if they're your employee, but it's not illegal. I wouldn't even
00:27:04.640
call that sexual harassment. In fact, I would, I would not call that sexual harassment. So you're
00:27:09.800
kind of lumping that stuff in with what would be if, if it actually happened straight up, straightforward
00:27:18.440
sexual assault. Um, and so that raises some questions though. I don't doubt that the guy's a
00:27:26.340
creep and yet I put all this to the side because all of this pales in comparison to the fact that Andrew
00:27:38.160
Cuomo killed thousands of elderly people and he did kill them. He consigned them to their death.
00:27:46.600
He signed their death warrants. Okay. He locked them in nursing homes with people that he knew to be
00:27:55.180
infected by this virus that primarily kills the elderly in nursing homes. Okay. He, he locked them
00:28:03.180
in a room with a, with a, with a, with a, with a bomb and lit the fuse. So it's, it's hard for me to
00:28:11.720
care about sexual harassment complaints. It's hard for me to muster any real outrage about this
00:28:19.140
given that he, again, killed thousands of elderly people. When I think of, of Andrew Cuomo and the
00:28:27.780
terrible things that he's done, that will, to me, always be the first thing that comes to mind. And I don't
00:28:34.360
really need to think about anything else. So if he does go down for, for this, the sexual harassment,
00:28:41.920
what, what, what will it say about our culture that this is what brings him down?
00:28:48.960
That he could murder thousands of elderly people and suffer no consequence for it. Remember this
00:28:56.300
was known. The nursing home scandal was known when he was still, um, being hailed as a hero across the
00:29:07.760
country, especially by the media. And he got the big book deal and he went on a book tour and you had
00:29:14.440
people in the media, even men like Trevor Noah describing themselves as Cuomo sexuals that
00:29:20.900
happened after we knew about him condemning thousands of elderly people to a horrible death.
00:29:29.080
So he suffered no consequence for that at all. And that might be understating. And in fact,
00:29:32.780
he was celebrated for that. Um, and then it comes out that he made inappropriate comments to women in
00:29:39.520
the workplace and made an uncomfortable workplace environment for women as the attorney general
00:29:44.340
says. And that's the thing that makes people go, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Hang on a second.
00:29:51.780
This crosses a line here. Hold on. Wait a second. Okay. You kill, you kill, uh, thousands of elderly
00:29:58.780
people. That's one thing we can overlook that, but you called a woman, a single mama. No, sir. We can't
00:30:06.500
accept that is totally demented and deranged that this is the thing.
00:30:14.340
Now I know you could say, well, they're both bad and we could be upset about both.
00:30:21.700
Yes, they're both bad, but one is on a totally different plane. When you're talking about mass
00:30:28.740
murder, as opposed to what is mostly inappropriate comments. Now there were again, a few accusations of
00:30:37.040
actual physical contact being made, but most of the accusations are about inappropriate comments.
00:30:42.340
And this is being called a sexual harassment scandal after all, even by the media.
00:30:50.020
So you've got inappropriate comments down here. And then up here, you've got mass murder. Yeah,
00:30:54.240
they're both bad, but, but I can't make equal space in my heart to be equally outraged by both.
00:31:04.340
I'm so outraged by the mass murder that it doesn't, the sexual harassment claim it's, it's,
00:31:12.340
there's, there's no room for that in terms of, of, of my outrage.
00:31:18.200
You know, uh, John Wayne Gacy murdered dozens of young men.
00:31:27.260
And when I think about John Wayne Gacy, that's what comes to mind. That's like all I need to know
00:31:31.500
about him. It may be true. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that he was also rude
00:31:37.220
to his next door neighbor and made inappropriate comments, but it would just seem weird if you said,
00:31:41.940
hey, John Wayne Gacy. Yeah. He, he, uh, he murdered, you know, 30 young men. He also made
00:31:47.660
inappropriate comments to his next door neighbor and we could be upset about both. You know,
00:31:51.900
we can, but how can you even put those two things in the same sentence is my question.
00:32:02.680
All right, let's move on. Here's something good. Something that will cheer you up,
00:32:05.540
really cheer you up. Okay. This is actually good. This is a Tamara Mensah stock. Who's our Olympic gold
00:32:10.540
medal winning women's wrestler. And, uh, after her big win, she was talking to the media and we know
00:32:16.380
what, what we very often get from these Olympic athletes. When they win, they use it as an
00:32:21.280
opportunity to complain about America, to complain about everything. They're, you know, they're,
00:32:24.960
they're, they've won a medal, but they're so upset. Um, but this woman, Tamara has taken a very
00:32:31.240
different approach and just listen to this. Of course I surprised myself. It's by the grace of
00:32:35.680
God, I'm able to even move my feet. Like I just leave it in his hands and I pray that all the
00:32:40.520
practice that the hell that my freaking coaches put me through pays off. And every single time it
00:32:45.680
does. And I get better and better. And it's so weird that there is no cap to the limit that I can
00:32:50.500
do. And I'm, I'm excited to see what, what I have next. Last question for you. That American flag
00:32:56.940
around your shoulders looks pretty good. How does that feel to represent your country like this?
00:33:00.940
It feels amazing. I love representing the U S I freaking love living there. I love it.
00:33:07.600
And I'm so happy I get to represent U S A. Okay. There's an Olympic athlete we could actually
00:33:17.260
root for. We found one, at least there might be a few others. And that's wonderful. You know,
00:33:22.760
that is just gratitude is such an appealing characteristic. Um, and, and humility is such
00:33:30.780
an appealing characteristic. And you think about the women's USA soccer team, Megan Rapinoe.
00:33:38.220
Compare the two. Megan Rapinoe is such an unappealing sort of viscerally disgusting person
00:33:47.440
because she said all the success in the world and she has no gratitude, no humility. All she does is
00:33:54.520
complain. All the money she makes, it's not enough. I don't make as much as the men.
00:33:57.940
Yeah. Well, well, people watch men's soccer. They don't care about women's soccer. Nobody cares
00:34:03.180
about this. They don't watch it. Yeah. I still want the same amount of money. So all she can do is
00:34:07.080
complain. It's just so disgusting and unappealing and no one wants, and you compare that to, um,
00:34:12.580
to this woman again, Tamara Mensah stock. And there's a woman you just, you want to root for her. You want
00:34:19.200
her to succeed. Um, I, I don't, I don't care at all about women's wrestling. I have to admit,
00:34:25.140
but I want her to succeed. This is the one and only women's wrestler that, uh, that I actually
00:34:31.700
care about it. I'm, and I'm happy for her success because of that humility and that gratitude. And,
00:34:36.560
um, and, but it's, it's also sad in another way that, that, um, this is, is now rare,
00:34:45.280
not to take anything away from her at all, but, you know, 10 years ago or 20 years ago
00:34:54.640
to have an athlete saying everything she said there, we would all be happy about it. And we
00:35:00.640
would say, well, that's, that's great. We're very happy for them, but it wouldn't get the kind of
00:35:05.120
attention. At least, you know, this is getting a lot of attention from at least conservatives and
00:35:08.700
just normal people. The media is not paying a lot of attention. They're not going to extol her
00:35:13.400
and praise her the way that they do losers like Megan Rapp, you know, or, you know, uh, or someone
00:35:21.460
like, uh, uh, Simone Biles, but in the public anyway, she's getting a lot of attention, a lot
00:35:27.020
of praise. You go back 20 years or something, or even more recently than that. And, uh, yeah,
00:35:31.340
people would be very happy, but it's, but like most athletes would have responded that way,
00:35:35.020
especially in the Olympic stage. You go back not that long ago. And this is like what every
00:35:40.980
American Olympic athlete was saying. And now it is so rare and so refreshing that it's,
00:35:49.080
you know, it's like you watch that kind of gratitude. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a drink
00:35:52.960
of, of cold water in a desert and it feels very refreshing. So that's the sad part of, but even
00:35:58.880
so, um, great to see that from, uh, Tamara Mensah-Stock. Okay. A couple other things we have
00:36:05.880
to mention, uh, what do we got? So the director of the NIH, Francis Collins claimed yesterday that
00:36:11.160
vaccinated parents must wear masks at home with their kids. That's what he said. Now I'll play
00:36:18.400
this for you. And later on he would backtrack and kind of imply that he didn't really say that, but
00:36:22.120
you listen to this and you tell me if, if, if that's what you're picking up from this. Let's
00:36:26.820
listen. Uh, you have heard those stories coming out of Louisiana pediatric ICUs where there are kids
00:36:34.780
as young as a few months old who are sick from this. That is rare. Certainly younger people are
00:36:39.760
less likely to fall ill, but anybody who tries to tell you, ah, you don't have to worry about it.
00:36:43.980
If you're a young, healthy person, there's many counter examples all around us now. Well, so yeah,
00:36:49.400
you do need to think about it. And that's the reason why the recommendations are for kids under 12,
00:36:55.860
that they avoid being in places where they might get infected, which means recommendations of mask
00:37:01.020
wearing in schools and that at home, uh, parents of unvaccinated kids should be thoughtful about this.
00:37:07.040
And the recommendation is to wear masks there as well. I know that's uncomfortable. I know it seems
00:37:12.420
weird, but it is the best way to protect your kids. Okay. He said at home, the recommendation is to
00:37:20.920
wear masks there as well. I know that's weird. It's uncomfortable. No, no, no. Uh, Francis, it's not
00:37:28.600
weird or uncomfortable. Well, it is, but I would prefer to use a word like psychotic. It is psychotic,
00:37:36.400
uh, to, to suggest that or to do it. Cause what you're saying is, you know, wear the mask in public,
00:37:46.320
wear it at home. So wear the mask all the time, every waking moment. And maybe even,
00:37:52.680
even when you're sleeping, wear the mask all the time. That's what he suggested. Now he went after
00:37:59.880
the backlash to this people reacting the way any rational person should to that kind of suggestion
00:38:05.480
that you should be wearing medical masks all the time, including in your own home. Uh, he came back
00:38:10.020
around and said, well, I, I bungled the messaging a little bit. I didn't really mean that. What do you
00:38:14.120
mean? You didn't mean that. That's exactly what you said. It was not a slip of the tongue.
00:38:19.400
It was a very deliberate statement. And he even acknowledges that it's weird, but yet he said it.
00:38:29.280
So this wasn't, this wasn't an intentional thing.
00:38:33.580
And because the public reacted to it the way they did, um, that's why the NIH backed off of it.
00:38:40.800
If there had not been that reaction, then they would have just stuck with that. Yeah. Wear the mask
00:38:44.400
at home, which only goes to show, you know, we talk about living in a lawless country and we are,
00:38:52.160
but so much of the lawlessness from the government requires the willing participation and cooperation
00:38:59.460
and acquiescence of the public. If the public says, absolutely not, I am just not going to do this.
00:39:07.640
If, if everyone together gets together and says that, what are you going to do? Arrest all of us?
00:39:13.820
You start passing the mask, passing the mask mandates. Um, we're not doing it. It's not going
00:39:18.600
to do it. Put us all in jail. Go ahead. If we all were to say that, or even most of us,
00:39:25.820
then a lot of this stuff goes away because it has to, it requires us to participate and cooperate.
00:39:32.380
All right. Um, I also want to, more COVID news while we're on the subject. This is, here's this
00:39:38.860
from the Hill. It says, New York city will require proof of vaccination for workers and customers who
00:39:42.700
want to participate in indoor activities, including dining in restaurants, working out in gyms
00:39:47.380
and attending theater performance performances, according to mayor Bill de Blasio. Uh, Bill de
00:39:52.040
Blasio, uh, gave a press conference talking about this new measure and let's listen to that.
00:39:57.440
So today I announced a new approach, which we're calling the key to NYC pass the key to New York
00:40:05.620
city. When you hear those words, I want you to imagine the notion that because someone's vaccinated,
00:40:12.440
they can do all the amazing things that are available in this city. This is a miraculous
00:40:18.220
place for literally full of wonders. And if you're vaccinated, all that's going to open up to you.
00:40:23.940
You'll have the key. You can open the door, but if you're unvaccinated, unfortunately you will not
00:40:28.860
be able to participate in many things. That's the point we're trying to get across. It's time for
00:40:32.820
people to see vaccination as literally necessary to living a good and full and healthy life.
00:40:38.380
The key to NYC pass will be a first in the nation approach. It will require vaccination for workers
00:40:46.860
and customers in indoor dining, in indoor fitness facilities, indoor entertainment facilities.
00:40:53.760
This is going to be a requirement. The only way to patronize these establishments indoors will be
00:41:00.320
if you're vaccinated, at least one dose. The same for folks in terms of work. They'll need at least
00:41:06.080
one dose. This is crucial because we know that this will encourage a lot more vaccination. We've seen it
00:41:13.940
already. He really does look like Gumby and Rex Ryan had a baby, doesn't he?
00:41:23.840
And this, the way that they, you want to talk about lawless tyranny and it just makes it all the worse
00:41:32.160
in a lot of ways that it's approach. He's talking to us like he's a preschool teacher and we're his,
00:41:40.400
his, we're his students. And he's saying now you got to follow the rules or you won't be able to go
00:41:46.700
to recess. You want to go to recess. You got to follow the rules.
00:41:57.040
Only the privileges here are just participating in society.
00:42:02.120
Going out in public and participating in society. That is a,
00:42:04.840
that is a privilege that the mayor can just take away from you. Can't do that anymore.
00:42:12.220
And the wording is very revealing because he says that, you know, we want you to see it
00:42:16.880
as if getting a vaccine is a key to living a health, a good and healthy life.
00:42:25.040
Which isn't the same thing as saying that getting the vaccine actually is the key to a good and healthy
00:42:31.500
He's saying that we're, we're going to artificially set it up so that you can't live a good and
00:42:43.760
Which, which is, which is an interesting way of putting it.
00:42:48.760
And none of this stuff is, if mayor Bill de Blasio actually believes himself that the vaccines work,
00:42:55.140
then none of this would be necessary. Putting aside whether he has the authority to do this,
00:42:58.760
which he doesn't because he's not actually a dictator. He's a, he's a mayor. He's not an
00:43:03.660
emperor. Okay. He's not an Egyptian Pharaoh. He's, he's the mayor of a city in, in what's supposed
00:43:09.280
to be a free country. But if he really believed that the vaccine worked, then what's, what is the
00:43:15.020
point of any of this? Then you get the vaccine, you, you're, you know, you'll, you'll be healthy
00:43:20.060
and you'll be relatively safe, at least as far as the COVID goes, no matter what anybody else does.
00:43:24.240
But instead he says, the only way to keep everyone safe is if the unvaccinated people
00:43:30.820
are forced to stay in their homes, locked in there, are cast off into leper colonies.
00:43:39.600
That is an odd approach. If you actually believe in the efficacy of the vaccines. All right,
00:43:42.900
moving now to reading the YouTube comments. This is from John. He says, Hey Matt, just the other day
00:43:46.020
in Savannah, I witnessed a similar panhandle stunt in a parking garage on the back of their car.
00:43:50.140
They had written about to pop the question. Will you buy me a drink? Disgusting. That kind of gives
00:43:55.740
away that you're going to pop the question. Doesn't it? You've written it on the windshield
00:43:58.980
of your car. All right. Gothic serpent says, Matt, dude, you really need to start being a little
00:44:07.540
more diversified, man. I really like you, but you spend way too much time talking about transsexuals
00:44:12.060
and way too much time on individual freaks that at the end of the day, really don't warrant you
00:44:15.160
spending so much over time over analyzing. There's so much important things going on and you
00:44:18.820
literally never address other matters. I'm not saying the stuff that you've been talking about
00:44:22.800
isn't warranted. I really feel like you're selling yourself and your fans a little bit short.
00:44:27.440
And as you are truly incredibly intelligent and well thought out guy, I think we all would be
00:44:30.900
better off if you may be opined about other matters as well. Literally never address other
00:44:36.820
matters. I never do. Well, just off the top of my head this week, we're three days into the week.
00:44:42.180
I've talked about what the eviction moratorium, masks, vaccines, people who panhandle on their cash
00:44:46.760
app accounts, Costco, dogs, COVID in Florida, Andrew Cuomo, the Babylon Bee, cyberbullying me,
00:44:53.460
pushysty, the Olympics, childhood indoctrination, critical race theory, euthanasia, laws governing
00:44:58.380
HIV exposure in Illinois. That's a partial list of all the things I've talked about in three days.
00:45:04.060
I talk about like eight or nine different topics a day. Okay. But yeah, I mean, other than that,
00:45:09.600
other than all of that, I literally have only talked about transsexuals. It's the only thing I've
00:45:13.040
talked about. Now, is it true that I talk about the war on gender a lot? Yeah. I mean, every show
00:45:20.160
you listen to has certain topics that they go back to and return to frequently. For a lot of
00:45:24.340
conservative shows, you're going to hear them talk about Joe Biden every day. For four years among
00:45:28.560
conservatives and liberals, if you listen to a talk show or watch something on cable news,
00:45:33.480
like the only thing they talked about, I mean, literally almost the only thing was Donald Trump
00:45:36.800
for four years. So, um, and some shows, uh, these days are going to talk a lot about CRT or,
00:45:43.780
or socialism. And that's going to be a theme they return to. I talk, I talk about all those things
00:45:48.600
because they're important, but the gender stuff is a persistent theme because I think it's quite
00:45:54.340
possibly the most important and consequential thing happening in our culture today. And most people
00:46:00.460
won't talk about it, or at least won't talk about it as directly as I will.
00:46:06.900
And, um, so that's why I do it. And that's not going to change ever. So you could decide if you
00:46:10.760
want to keep listening or not. That's up to you. Frankly, I don't care that much. Maybe I should,
00:46:15.840
but I don't. Um, Maximilian says Matt balances pride and humility just perfectly. Well, you're right.
00:46:23.620
That is just one of my many talents. Um, and, uh, red copperfield says homeowners make money by sitting
00:46:32.120
on their rent is a money that goes nowhere. Uh, it's not an investment. Well, right. That's, I don't
00:46:41.320
know if this is supposed to be, uh, you know, if you're trying to make a point about landlords and
00:46:45.340
this is supposed to be supportive of landlords or not, but you are correct though, that if you're a
00:46:51.300
homeowner, you, you accrue equity just by owning a home. It's an investment, which is why in most,
00:46:59.140
the vast majority of people renting right now probably should not be renting. If you know that
00:47:05.420
you're going to be in a place very temporarily, then yeah, renting makes sense. But if you're in
00:47:10.940
a place and you, and you are planning to be there for a while, it just doesn't make any sense to rent.
00:47:16.160
You're going to have to, well, right now, I guess you could live there. You could, you know,
00:47:19.900
if you, if you're a moocher and a thief and you don't mind being that, then you could rent somewhere
00:47:23.760
and not even pay. But under normal circumstances, you got to pay either way. The question is,
00:47:29.840
do you want to pay someone else's mortgage or pay off your own? And then you get to have the equity
00:47:37.320
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00:47:41.920
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00:49:04.580
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different people, different babies, I think. DaBaby is the one who's in trouble now because he used
00:49:31.340
anti-gay slurs during a concert in Miami recently. At one point during the show, he called for people
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who don't have HIV to put their cell phone lights up. Now, if you haven't been to a concert since 2005,
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just so you know, the cell phone light has replaced the lighter. So, you know, you put that up like
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people used to put lighters up at concerts. He also called for men who haven't performed certain
00:49:51.900
sexual acts on other men in the parking lot to put their cell phone lights up. It isn't clear why he
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said this or why he brought it up, but it would appear to be some kind of joke that he made.
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And the joke did not land. Quickly, other artists came out and condemned DaBaby. Young artists like
00:50:08.120
Dua Lipa, whoever that is. I don't know. I can't even say these people's names.
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And old artists like Elton John and Madonna also came out. Many others spoke out to chastise DaBaby
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and put him in timeout like so many babies before him. And then the financial penalties really kicked in.
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Lollapalooza dropped him from their lineup. iHeartRadio Festival dropped him. He was dumped
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by Austin City Limits and the Governor's Ball. He was banned from performing at his cousin's birthday
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party. The point is he quickly became persona non grata across the music industry. Now, DaBaby tried
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to satiate the mob by addressing the situation on Instagram in the immediate aftermath. His remarks
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were, and we'll play them for you. I think you'll agree. They're quite eloquent and worth listening to.
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We *** internet *** one time and I'm gonna get back to giving my love to my fans. See
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what I'm saying? Because what me and my fans do at the live show, it don't concern you *** on
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the internet or you *** on the internet. It's not your business. You know what I'm saying?
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Like what I do at a live show is for the audience at the live show. It'll never translate correctly to
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somebody looking at a little five, six second clip from that *** crib on their phone. It just don't work like
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that. Like, you know, because regardless of what you *** talking about out of the internet and
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twisted up my *** word, me and all my fans at the show, the gay ones and the straight ones, we
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turned the *** up. I'm talking about my boy that was at the front of the stage left over there by
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where I jumped at. Ask him. He got clips all on his *** the whole night was recording. We would turn the
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whole night. My boy had the crop top on, front row. Yeah, out there in that jungle, in that water.
00:51:57.580
Yeah, he out there. He's standing on the rail. God damn, I'm cutting up. He knows the words.
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I saw him. I'm, I'm wrapping them *** with him.
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Indeed. It is not your business. And he raises a good point. I mean, there was a guy with a crop
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top in the front row and he was turned. What else do you want? The guy with the crop top was turned. So,
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it's not your business. End of discussion. Except it was not the end of discussion. Shockingly,
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the statement that he released there didn't do anything to quell the outrage. So he tried again
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with a written statement and full apology. I'll read this statement to you. And I don't know,
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it just sounds a little bit different from what we just heard there in Instagram. But I don't know,
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you tell me. He said, this is what was the statement that was published from DaBaby.
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Social media moves so fast that people want to demolish you before you even have the opportunity
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to grow, educate, and learn from your mistakes. As a man who has made his own way from very
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difficult circumstances, having people I know publicly working against me, knowing that what
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I needed was an education on these topics and guidance has been challenging. I appreciate the
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many people who came to me with kindness, who reached out to me privately to offer wisdom,
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education, and resources. That's what I needed. And it was received. I want to apologize to the
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LGBTQ plus community for the hurtful and triggering comments I made. Again,
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I apologize for my misinformed comments about HIV slash AIDS. And I know education on this is
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important. Love to all. God bless. Now, if I know DaBaby, and I don't know him, but still,
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you know, I don't think he wrote that. I'm guessing he is not the one who wrote the phrase,
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I apologize to the LGBTQ plus community for the hurtful and triggering comments.
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But whoever wrote it, it was not enough. DaBaby has crossed a line that you can't cross these
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days, which is interesting because it's not as though those comments about gay people were the
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first objectionable things he's ever said in his life. His songs, you know, the songs that these
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music festivals have hired him to come and perform are each a succession of one objectionable statement
00:54:07.900
after another. In fact, those songs, the songs that again, the music festivals hired him to perform,
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and then banned him from performing, contain statements and ideas that are far more outrageous
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and offensive than anything he said about HIV or gay people. He actively promotes murder, drug dealing,
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violent crime of all sorts, the objectification and murder of women, among other things.
00:54:30.860
Just one verse on one song will likely contain all of these things. For example,
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one of his biggest singles is a song called Suge, which is an homage to Suge Knight, who's the
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murderous former CEO of Death Row Records, who's now serving time in a maximum security prison for
00:54:48.460
running a guy down in his car and killing him. And the song lives up to its namesake. I'll play a quick
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clip just to give you an idea of, uh, of what this guy is all about. Let's, let's play this.
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Packing the mail, it's gone. She like, I smell cologne. I just found a deal, I'm on. Yeah, yeah.
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I go where I want, good. Play if you want, let's do it. I'm a young CEO, Suge. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The first s*** to play on my body is s***. I just checked my balance, I probably pull up to your
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hood and come buy me a s***. No cap. You know that your hoe told you that s*** crazy. Don't think that
00:55:19.840
she lied to your s***. Get caught with your s*** when I'm popping them both. Now they hot just like
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Bobby and Whitney. Say I'm the GOAT. Act like I don't know. S*** and I'm obviously winning. Don't make me go hit the
00:55:27.920
bang. Take out a hundred to show you our pockets is different. I'm out with your s*** and I only
00:55:31.720
want knowledge. She got a little mileage. I'm chilling. You disrespect me and I beat your s*** up all in
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front of your partners and children. I'm the type that let s*** think that I'm broke until I pop out
00:55:39.240
with a million. Take 20k and put that on your head and make one of your partners come kill you. Say
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s*** with me and he gotta grow up. Cause this s*** gotta be kidding. This s*** can't fit in my pocket. I got it.
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Like I hit the lottery. I'm slapping s*** out of s***. No talking. I don't like to argue with s***. Don't. Ain't gonna be no more laughing.
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You see me whip out cause I'm gonna be the shot me and s***. Okay. I don't follow no s*** on IG but all of your
00:55:57.680
s***. They following s***. And that s*** ain't gonna shoot s*** with that gun. He just pulled it out in his
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picture. S***. Truly a masterpiece. And you know the editors love me when I send them stuff like that.
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Here you go guys. Spend the next 15 hours editing this to get all the cuss words out. If you weren't
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able to understand anything there let me run through some of the highlights. Here's what he says.
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The first n-word play. I'm a body in n-word. I just checked my balance. I'll probably pull up to your hood
00:56:27.560
get caught with your a** with and I'm popping them both. You disrespect me and I'll beat your a** up
00:56:32.640
in front of your partners and children. Take 20k and put that on your head and make one of your
00:56:36.900
partners come kill you. Etc. And so forth. Now to review it in just the first verse of one song
00:56:43.680
he's killing someone then killing someone else along with that guy's girlfriend. Then he's
00:56:48.420
assaulting someone in front of their children and then he's putting a hit out on someone else.
00:56:51.460
And later in that song he blows someone's head off, shoots somebody in front of their
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grandmother and has sex with various a** and a**. In his words not mine. He also said that he also
00:57:03.880
seems to brag about having sex with a girl in grade school saying that he pulls up after school to
00:57:09.540
teach her some a**. Now I hope I'm not misinterpreting but I can only assume he's not bragging about giving
00:57:14.960
actual math lessons. Now um DaBaby is is not any different from the average rapper but does that
00:57:21.860
make it okay to openly romanticize death and slaughter and sexual violence? And if you're
00:57:28.000
upset about derogatory comments about LGBT people, which means you're taking what this guy says
00:57:32.680
seriously, you're holding him to a certain standard in his speech, then why wouldn't you be upset about
00:57:37.220
literally everything else he's ever said in any of his songs? Just consider the absolute absurdity of a
00:57:44.120
DaBaby fan singing along as he talks about shooting hoes in the face and then going, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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whoa. Hey, don't be insensitive to LGBT people, DaBaby. Come on, have some class, young man.
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Please understand something. I am not equating his song lyrics with what he said about gay people and
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AIDS. I would never do that. They're not the same. Because the song lyrics are a thousand times worse.
00:58:08.240
They are worse not only in their content, but in their effect. You know, the violent crime problem
00:58:14.400
in our cities is largely driven by young men who grew up without fathers in the home. Those young
00:58:19.480
men look to guys like DaBaby as role models. These rappers are are are the only male role models that
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many of these kids have. So when these role models are standing in front of them and explicitly saying,
00:58:33.480
hey, it's cool to shoot and kill people if you have a beef with them, or even if you don't.
00:58:39.160
That has an impact that resonates. It's not a coincidence that probably close to 100% of the
00:58:45.600
murderers arrested in the city in, you know, in any given city, listen to rap music. I bet we could
00:58:50.920
comb through every penitentiary in the country, in the country and find like two classical music fans,
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if that many. It's not a matter of rap music directly causing violent crime. We're talking
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about influence. The messages that you pump into your eardrums every day will influence you. Of
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course they will. And the messages from guys like DaBaby are not just negative, not just bad,
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but they're almost absurdly evil, cartoonishly cruel. Only the people influenced by them don't see
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them as cartoonish, and the rappers themselves don't see it as cartoonish. Only well-adjusted
00:59:31.900
adults can hear these kinds of songs and find them laughably ridiculous.
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The rap fans who were upset about DaBaby's comments about gay people will probably hear what
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I'm saying right now and scoff, insisting that lyrics are just words and they don't mean anything,
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they don't have any real impact. And yet when it comes to the comments about gay people,
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they certainly do think it matters, and it does mean something, and it does have an impact.
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So for them, some words are violence, and yet words that literally and directly encourage
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violence are harmless. It's completely backwards and incoherent, and lying at the heart of all
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this is a demented and vacuous moral code which excuses nearly all evil, applauds nearly all sin,
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except when it upsets a member of the protected class. It's a kind of elitism,
01:00:19.140
except far more morally vacuous than normal elitism. And for all of those reasons,
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the mob, which is selectively outraged at DaBaby, is today canceled. And DaBaby is canceled too.
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But not even because of what he said about gay people. I'm more concerned, again, about the
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fact that he's going around encouraging people to kill each other. That to me seems like the bigger
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issue. So all those people are canceled today. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for
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watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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