Ep. 776 - There Are No More Rainbow Flags In Afghanistan
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Biden goes into hiding as his Afghan withdrawal plan falls apart. The American Academy of Pediatrics gaslights the critics of masking children, while the Surgeon General declares that you do not have the right to share opinions that he deems misinformation. Plus, Tim Tebow made his NFL debut over the weekend, which is proof of racism, according to many people in the sports media. And our daily cancellation.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Biden goes into hiding as his Afghan withdrawal plan falls apart.
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And by the end, if I've done my job, I will probably have ticked off everyone on all sides of the issue, which is always fun.
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Also, the American Academy of Pediatrics gaslights the critics of masking children,
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while the Surgeon General declares that you do not have the right, don't have the right to share opinions that he deems misinformation.
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Plus, Tim Tebow made his NFL debut over the weekend, which is proof of racism, according to many people in the sports media.
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And our daily cancellation, I'll respond to my critics who say that I am a white supremacist conspiracy theorist because of something that I said on my show on Friday.
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So nothing new there, I suppose. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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If you've listened to this show for any length of time, you know that I prefer to focus almost 100% of the time on things happening in this country and to this country,
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especially those things which may most immediately impact your family and your children.
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Those kinds of issues serve as the nucleus of this show, and it's not because events across the world are unimportant in the grand scheme.
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It's just that we can only focus our attention on a limited number of things and solve a limited number of problems.
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And so I choose those things and problems which are closest to us.
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As it happens, our own society is in the grip of several crises all at once.
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Cataclysms, which are only accelerating the fall and decay of our once great civilization.
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I don't think we have the luxury to spend very much time trying to fix the world's problems,
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even if it would be otherwise wise and noble to try, which it isn't in my view.
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Our attention is urgently needed in our own communities and households.
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We can't afford to take the eye off of that ball.
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We can't wander off into the wilderness searching for far-off dragons to slay because we have more than enough of them here.
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Though they may take different forms from what you find elsewhere on Earth.
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All of that is a long way of saying that the situation in Afghanistan is not the sort of thing I would normally talk about on this show.
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As you've heard, I'm sure Biden moved to finally withdraw our troops from Afghanistan,
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but apparently had no real plan for evacuating everybody safely.
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The Taliban moved in, took over the country in about two days while the Afghan army and government fled into the night like real heroes.
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Now, Afghanistan is back in the spot it was in 20 years ago, only it's worse really because the Taliban claims possession of all of the munitions and artillery that we left behind.
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So with all of that going on, I'm going to make an exception to my normal rule, at least for today, and offer a few comments about all of this.
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I'm not an expert on Afghanistan, but then again, the experts on Afghanistan, much like the public health experts here in the U.S.,
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have largely created the very problems that they're supposed to be the experts on solving.
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So it once again falls to rational people to use common sense to sort through all of this.
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On that end, three primary points I think need to be made.
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First of all, there's no question that Biden's withdrawal has been handled so poorly that to use a word like poorly is to pay Biden an undue compliment.
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The president of the United States, who may or may not be conscious and cognizant right now, who knows,
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is hunkered down in Camp David and refusing to address the American people or explain his strategy.
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I mean, last night it was announced that even Biden's press secretary, Psaki, will be MIA for the next week.
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You know, the people that try to send her an email got a got a form response saying, I'll be back in about a week.
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The Biden regime is literally in hiding as the U.S. installed Afghan regime surrenders the country to the Taliban and Americans in the country are left stranded.
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So the only real question now is whether Biden knew that it would go this way and lied.
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Or if he's really so clueless and mentally degraded at this point that he believed the nonsense he spewed at a press conference just a month ago.
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Here's what he said about leaving Afghanistan and how he expected it would go.
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Is the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
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Because you have the Afghan troops have 300,000 well equipped, as well as equipped as any army in the world and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban.
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Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.
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Can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not?
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So what is the level of confidence that they have that it will not collapse?
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The Afghan government and leadership has to come together.
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They clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place.
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Well, the Afghan government did collapse and the Afghan military didn't even so much as put up a fight.
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They came together on the road as they were getting their asses out of there.
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I'm not sure if a single shot was actually fired in defense of Kabul.
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It was always clear to all intelligent people that the withdrawal from Afghanistan would play out this way.
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Biden should have built a plan which accounts for that.
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But instead, he denied the obvious facts on the ground and planned for a leisurely, peaceful exit.
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One where, I guess, the Afghan government and military waves goodbye to our troops as they leave and shouts,
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The Taliban look on from their caves, decide that it would be rude to move in and undo all of America's hard work over the past two decades.
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That's what Biden imagined, or at least wanted us to imagine.
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I'm willing to believe that he himself actually did imagine that,
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given that his brain is operating at 40% capacity at best and was never terribly powerful,
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But the people actually running the administration, those who are really in charge of our government,
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and we don't know exactly who those people are by design,
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knew that it would be a bloodbath on the way out, and we're apparently okay with that.
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For this reason, much of the criticism that Biden is sustaining right now is completely justified and 100% warranted.
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There are even calls for him to resign, which are also warranted,
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though we should always keep in mind that, you know,
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what's waiting in the wings will not be, by any stretch of the imagination, an improvement.
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many of the people on the right and on the left who are complaining about the exit from Afghanistan
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are upset, apparently, that we are exiting from Afghanistan at all.
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For these people, the issue is not just the manner of the exit, but the fact of the exit.
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They believe that even after 20 years, America still owes a debt to Afghanistan and must remain there indefinitely.
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And from what I've noticed, by the way, there are a lot of people on this side of the debate
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who, like, up until a month ago, were claiming to be non-interventionist.
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There are many Republicans right now, and again, we're leaving it.
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there are many so-called or alleged non-interventionist conservatives
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You know, Trump made it cool to be a non-interventionist conservative,
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and so a lot of conservatives, especially in the Republican Party
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and prominent ones in media, kind of pretended to be that.
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And now many of them are fully back on board with,
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I mean, let's literally stay there forever, yes.
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And many of the people on this side of the debate like to point out
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that America still has bases in countries like Japan and Germany.
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I mean, why can't we maintain a presence in Afghanistan as well?
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Well, these people are incredibly wrong for these reasons.
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Leaving aside for a moment the way that the withdrawal was handled again,
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it is inarguably true that there needed to be a withdrawal.
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You could make a very compelling argument that we shouldn't have them there either,
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especially as those countries are more than capable of defending themselves.
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But there's also a significant difference here.
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Japan and Germany are countries, actual real nations.
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Afghanistan is a medieval third world hell pit with no will to exist on its own accord.
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We armed and equipped the Afghan military for 20 years.
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That figure is probably false like everything else, Biden says.
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It was a large army, much larger than the Taliban forces.
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And yet the Afghan army, after 20 years of training, folded in two days to a gang of 7th century terrorists who they outnumbered three to one.
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The army and the government surrendered, gave up, abandoned ship immediately without even a symbolic attempt at fighting back.
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It tells us that Afghanistan is a country that we built, but we built it like a deck of cards.
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It needs our constant presence, our sacrifice and blood and treasure simply to exist.
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The whole country is like the highway system in Afghanistan that we spent billions constructing.
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Did you know that you spent billions on building highways in Afghanistan?
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And then the Afghan government and the Afghan people, they let it fall immediately into disrepair.
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It's now crumbled and largely unusable because the people we built it for refused to maintain it.
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Forcing this country on people who don't want it, have no interest in it.
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Here's a point that few people will make, but I will, even if it sounds harsh.
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I want you to look at this footage from the Kabul airport.
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You've got fleeing Afghans trying to climb onto the evacuation plane as it speeds down the runway, which, by the way, is not a good plan of action.
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Apparently, some of them actually, you can see them.
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You can see them holding to the side of the plane while it was taking off and then fell to their deaths as the plane took off, which, of course, that's how that was going to work out.
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Now, it's a tragic scene, surely, but it's tragic in more than just the obvious way.
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Because what else do you notice about this crowd?
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And you can look at any of the footage of these, you know, stampeding hordes of people trying to get out of Afghanistan.
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And you're going to see predominantly, almost exclusively men, mostly of fighting age from the looks of it.
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I mean, these aren't elderly men sprinting down the airport runway.
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So mostly young men scrambling to leave just as the army left.
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First, can I ask the impolite question, why aren't these men fighting for their country?
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We're not going to be guilted now into accepting thousands of them as refugees, not concerned that there could easily be Taliban hiding in their midst.
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But more to the point, men of Afghanistan do not seem willing to fight to protect the families of Afghanistan.
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Our young men should die on Afghanistan soil to do what Afghan men will not do?
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The Afghan army and the Afghan men, they were not defeated.
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We cannot hold into existence a country which does not want to exist.
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We cannot task ourselves with the responsibility of sustaining nations which lack the willpower to sustain themselves.
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We especially can't do that while our own nation struggles in its own way to exist.
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Maybe you remember this tweet from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul just two months ago.
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The month of June is recognized as LGBTI Pride Month.
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The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTI people and celebrates their contributions to the society.
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We remain committed to supporting civil rights of minorities, including LGBTI persons.
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This is what they want to export out into the world.
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When they're not at home chasing down, you know, other terror threats like anti-maskers and old ladies who trespassed in the capital.
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And when they're not on TV preaching about racial diversity and cultural sensitivity.
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I mean, one seriously wonders whether our military left copies of White Fragility and, you know, I am jazz at the embassy for the Taliban when they took over.
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The point is that even if you're a fan of nation building and colonization, and that's what we did in Afghanistan.
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If you support what we did in Afghanistan and you want to see more of it, you are by definition a colonizer.
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But even if you like the idea, in theory, the fact is that our government and our military, as it is currently run and constructed, is not capable of building and sustaining a global empire.
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A government waving rainbow flags and a military indoctrinated into LGBT and critical race theory propaganda cannot be an imperial force, even if it wants to be.
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Most of the people defending American imperialism abroad seem to want to pretend that we're still the country we were a hundred years ago.
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Just as if we don't fight for our own country, so will it.
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Before we get back to the arguably more important stuff, can I just get your opinion on something real quick?
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Yet again, I am being attacked and persecuted for the crime of being a fashion innovator.
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So I walked out of our bedroom on Friday night getting ready to go on Tucker Carlson's show.
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I've got the, um, uh, I'm looking fly as the kids would say.
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Um, I've got the tan shirt, tan pants, a little bit of the Kim Jong-un aesthetic going on.
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Maybe a little, maybe like a park ranger chasing down Yogi Bear.
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Um, but my wife said I look like an Oompa Loompa.
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And she just starts laughing hysterically and takes a picture and post it online to shame me.
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Apparently wearing tan and tan is the ultimate fashion crime.
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And this is, this is cyber bullying and it's not a joke.
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That's why I throw myself at the mercy of the court.
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That is, who's, we had this whole discussion about matching.
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Oh, it doesn't, it, it, you're supposed to match your clothes, right?
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Um, there has perhaps not been, as we move on here, we talked about the experts and how
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the experts in every area are, can be discarded, um, can be, can be disregarded and discarded.
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But there's perhaps not been any public health organization, which has beclowned itself more
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in the past few years than the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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And I know you might say, well, what about the, uh, the CDC?
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What about, you know, uh, the NIH or the, or, or who, or, you know, literally all of them.
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I mean, they've all done a terrible job and that's true, but so there's a lot of competition
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for this title, but the AAP, the American Academy of Pediatrics, they stand apart, I
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think, because they deal specifically with kids and they've done so much harm to kids,
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not just in regards to COVID, although that also, but also with endorsing trans affirming
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healthcare and all that kind of stuff over the last few years.
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So here's the latest, um, from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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They tweeted this out a few days ago, talking about masking and it's a whole long thread.
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This is a, this is like a masterclass in gaslighting.
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If you're wondering what gaslighting looks like, this is it.
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They say school is starting and masks can be especially important for children younger
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than age 12 who are not eligible for the COVID vaccines.
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Here's some real talk about masks as kids are hashtag back together this fall.
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Research shows that schools where children or adults are consistently masked are effective
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COVID remains a serious threat to children's health.
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Universal masking can help make in-person learning safe this fall.
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We want our children back to school in person, but many students will not yet be eligible
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Carbondioxide molecules are very tiny, even smaller than respiratory droplets.
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They cannot be trapped by breathable materials like cloth or disposable masks.
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Babies and young children study faces, so you may worry that having masked caregivers would
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Young children will use other clues like gestures and tone of voice.
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So, like I said, gaslighting dictionary definition here.
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First of all, they say that research shows that schools where children and adults are
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consistently masked are effective in preventing the transmission of COVID-19.
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So, their claim is that, oh, well, you know, we can look at schools where they masked last
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year and there wasn't a lot of COVID spread, and so that proves that the masks work.
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What about when you compare that to the schools that didn't wear them?
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Because we know that kids are very unlikely to contract or spread COVID-19, much less to
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So, the fact that they're kids, that's already doing a large part of the work here.
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All they're going to show you is, here's a school that had masks on.
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They're not going to show you the other school over here in a different state that didn't
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have masks and also didn't have much viral spread.
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But that is nothing compared to the final claim, which is that, well, you may be worried
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that you're depriving young children of the ability to see the faces of their teachers
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and caregivers, and that's going to hurt language development.
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I made it in my school board speech, and I've made it before, and others have made it.
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And they say, oh, no, no, don't worry about that.
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Because prior to right now, nobody would have even considered studying that.
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Prior to right now, nobody would have thought, well, let's do a study to see if children can
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Let's put masks on all the kids and see if they can still learn to read.
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No one's done it because no one was crazy enough to try it until right now.
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It wasn't an issue that was anywhere on the radar for anyone.
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Even though there were, as I've said so many times now, and will continue saying, even though
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there were transmissible diseases out there, like the flu, which is a greater danger to kids
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So anytime you hear, well, there are no studies to support this, all that tells you, if it's
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true, which I wouldn't believe anything these people say on the surface.
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But pretending that it is true, in this case, I believe there are no studies, but that is
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only because there was no cause to do a study like that.
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It's so obvious that of course it will affect language development, that that's yet another
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Now we're going to get the real world study because we're using our kids.
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We're going to see what happens when you put kids in masks for some of these kids.
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This will now be their second year of being masked.
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You know, take kids in there at the young age when they're really starting to read at like
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Take thousands of kids at the age of five, put them in masks until they're seven or eight
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and put their teachers in masks too and see how well they learn to read and compare that
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to kids in the past who didn't have that hurdle to get over.
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I guarantee you we're going to discover that it causes serious, severe problems in terms
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of language development guaranteed because the AAP, they even acknowledge that young children
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use faces and they say, well, but they can use other cues.
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They have other cues when they have the face to go on.
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It's it, it doesn't, it doesn't come automatically to kids.
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So we want to give them all of the tools in the toolbox.
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You're taking one of the most essential tools out of the equation and saying, yeah, they'll
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They might, that doesn't mean they're not going to be harmed in the process.
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But we can know for sure the American Academy of Pediatrics, they're never going to come
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back around and say, Hey, uh, we really got that one wrong.
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When you, when you, when you put everyone in masks for years and then expect kids to learn
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how to read and enunciate words when they can't see the teacher, uh, actually enunciating
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the words, it turns out that causes real problems.
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If you contradict them or disagree with them, you're spreading misinformation.
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And then when they change their mind and start saying the opposite of what they were saying
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before, uh, you're still spreading misinformation.
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And you don't have the right to do that as the surgeon general who was on cable news over
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the weekend explained, he said he was on CNN and he said, you, you simply do not have the
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right to propagate anything that he considers to be misinformation.
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Journalists and the media have an incredibly important role and responsibility in preventing
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And while we all have the right to make our own choices, we don't have the right to irresponsibly
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And look, I believe in my conversations with, uh, media outlets that this doesn't have to
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I've had many conversations with folks across the political spectrum in terms of journalists
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who absolutely want to do the right thing in terms of getting accurate information out
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So this doesn't have to be partisan, but what we do need, uh, journalists and media organizations
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We need them first of all, to make sure, uh, that they are putting forward credible sources,
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uh, when they do their interviews and when they push out coverage, we need them to make
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sure that they are providing context also, not just for example, reporting on a side effect,
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but making sure people understand that that side effect might be incredibly rare.
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Uh, did you notice two quick points to make here?
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I don't know if you noticed, uh, when he was talking about credible sources, he says, we
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got, we, we, we have to make sure that the credible sources are being used.
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And then CNN flashes up on the screen, some headlines, examples of, uh, of, of good, good
00:29:27.500
And what's the one thing that all of those quote unquote credible sources have in common?
00:29:32.120
They're government sources, the CDC and the white house.
00:29:34.600
Here's an example of a credible source, the government, that that's, that's what the
00:29:43.180
Anything outside of us is not a credible source.
00:29:48.120
And they're at the point now of saying, uh, not just that you're being irresponsible and
00:29:54.600
you're being a very bad person and all of these other things.
00:29:57.420
If you, uh, you know, articulate positions that they disagree with that he, he is now
00:30:06.720
You don't have the right to spread misinformation.
00:30:17.760
I have the constitutional right to spread what you consider to be misinformation.
00:30:28.880
What you consider to be, if you're in the government, the surgeon general, what he considers
00:30:35.820
I have the right to say that and to spread it far and wide.
00:30:40.160
This is, uh, this is convincing to a lot of people, I think.
00:30:53.540
The government could say, well, of course you have free speech rights.
00:30:59.180
But, but of course, to say things that are incorrect, well, that's, that's irresponsible.
00:31:03.560
And, and how do you know what's correct and incorrect?
00:31:08.760
So you have the right to say whatever you want.
00:31:16.040
But, but obviously only if you're saying correct things.
00:31:22.500
Don't worry about trying to figure out if what you're saying is correct or incorrect.
00:31:27.100
We'll give you the approved list of things that are, that are correct, that you can say
00:31:30.880
on any given subject and you can say those things.
00:31:37.520
When it comes to COVID, here's a list of five things that you can say.
00:31:41.600
And we're so generous that you, you could say those five things a hundred times each
00:31:49.380
You have the right to say everything on that page, on that list of five things.
00:31:56.180
But anything outside of that, that doesn't, that doesn't even count as speech.
00:31:58.600
That's just, that's really a terrorist attack, if anything.
00:32:00.880
As always, it doesn't even disturb me all that much to hear this kind of nonsense from
00:32:12.280
bureaucrats and government officials, because I expect it from them.
00:32:17.340
Of course, people in government are going to try to pull this, these sorts of stunts.
00:32:23.640
I know that they're always going to be looking for ways to increase their power and authority
00:32:33.500
I realized that because I understand the mentality of the sorts of people who get into this line
00:32:39.700
Most of the people who are in government, in these positions of authority, whether elected
00:32:45.920
or in the bureaucracy, the reason that they're there is because of their psychotic, sociopathic
00:32:54.200
It's not the case for all of them, but most of them.
00:33:01.960
That most of the people who desire to do these kinds of jobs, it's for reasons that are less
00:33:10.280
Doesn't mean they're all, they all go into this to become supervillains, but it's just,
00:33:16.260
They believe that they should be in control of other people.
00:33:18.920
They, they know how you should live your life and they want to be in a position to guide
00:33:26.140
you down that path against your will, if necessary, for your own sake.
00:33:35.900
And if you allow them, they'll, they'll, this is what they'll do.
00:33:40.320
What disturbs me are all the normal people who fall for this.
00:33:45.700
Who hear a government official say, yeah, you have the right to say everything unless
00:33:48.800
we call it misinformation, in which case you can't say it, obviously, because that's
00:33:51.480
a terrorist attack and that's, you're, you're hurting people.
00:33:54.440
What disturbs me are all the people that hear that and think, well, it makes sense.
00:34:05.120
Tim Tebow made his in-game debut for the Jags during their preseason game, played a few
00:34:14.300
But then the leftists in sports media came rushing in with more of this.
00:34:21.220
Chuck Mody says, Tim Tebow is playing in the NFL.
00:34:25.060
Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills are blackballed from the NFL.
00:34:28.540
Tell me again how black lives matter, Roger Goodell, who's the commissioner of the, of
00:34:33.300
Now, personally, I, by the way, I have no problem with people attacking Roger Goodell.
00:34:41.100
It's the same story, you know, over and over again.
00:34:43.900
He's done all he can to appease the woke mob and they still hate his guts.
00:34:48.740
So he deserves to be eaten alive by them as he is.
00:34:55.140
I root for, this is what, this is what's hard for me, especially as a football fan and a
00:35:01.420
He's easy to root for because he's a, he, he works hard.
00:35:16.520
I don't think it's likely, but if Tim Tebow could go out at the age of 33, playing a position
00:35:20.740
he's never played before and have a decent year, you know, catch 40 balls or something
00:35:25.380
and score four or five touchdowns, that would be, that'd be an amazing story.
00:35:34.660
And it also, it'll piss off the right people, which is also fun.
00:35:39.660
But then we're going to have to hear stuff like this incessantly throughout the entire
00:35:46.120
Every time Tim Tebow is seen on camera doing anything, you're going to get people in media
00:35:55.320
Why isn't, why isn't Colin Kaepernick out there?
00:35:57.420
Do you know why Colin Kaepernick is not playing tight end for the Jacksonville Jaguars for
00:36:03.260
a veteran minimum salary, which is what Tim Tebow is doing, trying out in training camp
00:36:09.080
with no guarantee that he'll even make the team.
00:36:11.380
Do you know why Colin Kaepernick isn't doing that?
00:36:18.160
Tim Tebow, this goes back to his humility and what makes him easy to root for.
00:36:25.860
That's another thing that we like to see from our athletes and we rarely do these days.
00:36:30.320
But he is trying out in training camp, knowing that he could get cut from the team.
00:36:39.320
He's going to get paid the minimum salary, which is still a nice salary, but it's not
00:36:43.080
the, you know, tens of millions that other players are getting.
00:36:51.020
He's trying to fit in at any other position because he knows he's not going to make the
00:36:54.640
team as a quarterback because he's not good enough and he's not.
00:37:02.300
Colin Kaepernick, even at this point, wants to be a starting quarterback
00:37:06.740
for an NFL franchise and get paid starting quarterback money.
00:37:14.000
He wants to waltz onto the field, be given the starting job, get paid a bunch of money.
00:37:20.240
And if you're, if you're the coach of a team and he's on your squad and you don't give him
00:37:25.440
that position, you know, he's going to call, he's going to accuse you of racism and start
00:37:29.300
protesting on the sidelines and turn half of your locker room against you.
00:37:38.240
He wasn't good when he left five or six years ago.
00:37:41.300
He's not going to be better now, older and having not played for half a decade.
00:37:47.860
So just so you know, if you don't follow football and you see this kind of thing,
00:37:54.380
That's why Kaepernick is not out there doing what Tebow is doing because he doesn't want
00:38:00.120
He's making hundreds of millions just sitting on his butt complaining.
00:38:08.380
He's, he's a bigger star now and is far wealthier than he ever was as a, as an athlete.
00:38:17.240
He would be taking a significant pay cut if he were to go and do what Tim Tebow is doing
00:38:25.760
Yeah, I want to root for Tebow, but then it's, I'm going to be seriously annoyed by
00:38:36.120
I think Tebow still, we have to, we have to root for him.
00:38:38.460
So, uh, but I, I, I don't necessarily like his chances of making the team just because
00:38:43.020
he is a 33 year old man playing a position that he's never played before.
00:38:46.080
But, all right, let's, uh, move on now to reading the YouTube comments.
00:38:53.140
Um, Mike says as a registered nurse, I'm sick of the nurses are heroes BS.
00:38:59.080
If as a nurse, you need that level of validation, I question your ability to do the job competently.
00:39:04.560
A lot of, uh, comments like this and messages I've gotten from nurses who are saying the same
00:39:08.940
thing that they're tired of this also of the constant over the top praise of nurses and
00:39:17.360
And I can see how people who are nurses would get tired of that because number one thing,
00:39:22.020
number one, it's annoying and infantilizing and patronizing, but also if you're a nurse,
00:39:28.280
then you work with other nurses and you know better than anyone that it's just like any other
00:39:34.320
And you work with plenty of people who are terrible at their job and don't deserve this
00:39:39.300
kind of praise that they're automatically getting because we're giving it to everybody.
00:39:47.620
Great name says Matt's ads are the best by far.
00:39:50.960
I know he hates doing them, which makes it hilarious.
00:39:57.600
There is nothing I enjoy more than reading the ads.
00:40:00.780
And I don't know why you would accuse me of that.
00:40:04.020
It's my greatest joy and passion in life is reading the ads.
00:40:07.700
It's what gets me up in the morning, knowing that I can get in here and tell you about all
00:40:21.360
Needless to say, lightweight jive says, uh, he's talking about young people with no ambition.
00:40:25.800
He says they don't have the desire coupled with overbearing helicopter parents that try to live
00:40:30.460
their life for them and would never let them take risks, uh, et cetera.
00:40:37.000
You know, the, the taking risks thing I think is a, is a big part of this.
00:40:40.380
As we talk about, um, this, this lack of ambition in a lot of young people, they don't
00:40:46.300
have the desire to get out there and, you know, live their own lives and be independent.
00:40:50.040
Um, and yeah, big, that, that, that's, that's something that parents should do and specifically
00:41:00.540
It's not that mothers can't do it, but this is a thing that fathers are especially equipped
00:41:07.320
And that is to, um, help their kids take safe and reasonable risks.
00:41:14.920
You know, of different types, because there are different kinds of risks.
00:41:20.440
There are physical risks, you know, go climb the tree and yeah, you could fall out.
00:41:24.180
And I mean, you know, you, you could even seriously hurt yourself, but it's a, it's a
00:41:27.960
reasonable risk, especially as the kid is younger, I'm here, you know, and if you do fall, I'll
00:41:32.060
catch you and we're not going to let you, you know, I'll point you to the right tree to
00:41:35.200
Don't climb that one because the branches are too thin, that kind of thing.
00:41:39.520
Um, especially as kids get older, there's kind of the intellectual risks, the moral risks
00:41:47.760
to go out and defend your principles, to express your point of view, knowing they might get
00:42:00.240
And, um, again, mothers can do that too, but I think that fathers are especially useful
00:42:07.080
in this regard, teaching their kids how to take risks, encouraging them to take risks.
00:42:14.080
Um, and a lot of kids grow up without any fathers in the house at all.
00:42:19.500
And, uh, even many of the fathers who are physically present, aren't really present in
00:42:30.300
And then what you end up with is either, cause it could go either way or it could be a combination.
00:42:34.700
Well, you end up either with kids who are terrified of taking any risks at all and want to stay
00:42:42.520
in their homes and not leave, staying on their, on their phones and playing video games, doing
00:42:48.400
low risk activities, uh, conforming themselves entirely with their peer culture, doing and
00:43:00.240
And you also have kids who are so desperate to take risks, but have never been taught how
00:43:05.680
And so they go out and, and, and, and take the wrong kinds of risks.
00:43:10.300
Like the kind of risk that a, you know, 17 year old teenage boy might take when he's driving
00:43:16.960
down the road at two o'clock in the morning at 95 miles an hour, hits a tree and dies like
00:43:27.340
We end up with a lot of, uh, a lot of young people who are allergic to all sorts of risks.
00:43:33.040
Then you have others that are, that are taking reckless, very unsafe, the wrong kinds of risks,
00:43:40.580
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You know, if you listen to the show on Friday, you would have heard a brief segment about halfway
00:45:17.440
in where we discussed a recent census report, which shows that the white population in this
00:45:21.820
country has declined for the first time in American history.
00:45:24.640
Whites have dipped below 60% of the overall population, another first.
00:45:29.000
And among young Americans, racial minorities are now the majority.
00:45:31.980
Um, now I say we discussed the report, but really we discussed more so the reaction to
00:45:36.940
the report, which was positively rapturous on the left.
00:45:39.940
The most blatant example was Jennifer Rubin with the Washington Post who exclaimed that the
00:45:48.140
And elsewhere, the celebration was couched in more sanitized language, but was nonetheless apparent.
00:45:52.860
So take this article from a guy named Peniel Joseph with CNN who scolded the white people
00:46:01.040
who are worried about the census data, labeling them all white supremacists to include Tucker
00:46:06.240
And Joseph then wrote, and yet America's changing demographics tell a different, more inspiring
00:46:11.840
Rather than a narrative of white decline, what if we saw in this data, the increasing numbers
00:46:16.380
of racially blended families and mixed race children and understood, and understood them
00:46:20.100
as signs of a more racially diverse, economically just, and culturally rich future.
00:46:25.180
Now it is, he says, inspiring for there to be fewer white people around.
00:46:29.120
It is more just and more culturally rich, he says, which is obviously to say that a whiter
00:46:34.900
country would be culturally impoverished and less just.
00:46:41.980
To be a less white country, by their telling, is to be a manifestly better country.
00:46:48.000
That's why they celebrate the decline of the white population.
00:46:50.620
It's why they actively seek to facilitate that decline in terms of percentages by inviting
00:46:56.640
unchecked immigration across the southern border.
00:46:59.300
It's why they're very concerned about making sure that white people have less institutional
00:47:07.500
They put policies like affirmative action into place to achieve that end.
00:47:10.800
Now I said on Friday that although this is all obviously true, and they don't make any
00:47:15.640
attempt to hide it, even so you're not allowed to point out that any of this is happening.
00:47:20.000
If you do, you'll be accused of engaging in the allegedly white supremacist replacement
00:47:26.700
I also predicted during that segment that Media Matters would post that same segment and
00:47:31.700
accuse me of advancing white supremacist conspiracy theories.
00:47:34.000
Well, like a prophet of old, I had correctly predicted the future once again.
00:47:37.880
So later that day, after that segment aired, Media Matters published this.
00:47:41.720
They say, on YouTube, Daily Wire host embraces white nationalist conspiracy theory.
00:47:46.080
Now, our friends at Media Matters are nothing if not predictable, but it wasn't just them.
00:47:51.940
A woman named Robin Panashia over at the Wonkette blog posted an article titled,
00:47:56.920
Matt Walsh Scared We Are Secretly Trying to Replace Him and All Other White People.
00:48:02.660
Many years ago, when we were all so much more innocent, the only people who believed in the
00:48:09.280
And when you tell normal people about this, even normal people who were themselves kind of
00:48:13.360
racist, they would be pretty surprised that it was a thing, mostly because of how it sounds
00:48:21.460
But Matt Walsh doesn't think that only rabid white supremacists should be able to indulge
00:48:25.080
themselves in absurd racist fantasies in which they are the truest victims.
00:48:29.160
He wants tactful suit-wearing white supremacists to have that opportunity as well.
00:48:34.960
Now, I'll take a quick step to the side here to say that I'm not worried about this lady or
00:48:40.560
media matters calling me a white supremacist. That term has no meaning.
00:48:45.320
I'm sure Robin would call the barista at Starbucks a white supremacist if he misspelled her name on
00:48:49.900
her cup, which, by the way, they probably do all the time, incidentally, because her parents
00:48:53.860
injected an unnecessary Y into her name, a move that doomed her to a life of writing whiny,
00:48:59.340
poorly constructed blog posts like this one. The point is that these people find white supremacy
00:49:03.760
around every corner and in every crack and crevice of the earth. To them, I'm a white supremacist
00:49:08.300
because I exist and I'm white and I lapse sometimes into the nasty habit of expressing my own opinions
00:49:15.020
rather than their opinions. So the label could not be more irrelevant to me. With that said,
00:49:20.400
I do take exception to the claim that I am tactful and wear suits. Those latter accusations are
00:49:26.060
entirely without basis, I assure you. In any case, reading a bit more here, after extensively quoting
00:49:31.280
me, Robin writes, quote, whenever anyone says you can't talk about this, they rarely mean that
00:49:36.940
no one can talk about it. They just mean that if they talk about it in the way they're talking
00:49:40.080
about it, people will think they're super racist, which is a very fair conclusion to reach almost
00:49:44.080
any time Matt Walsh's mouth is open and he's not just saying things about women. We're letting
00:49:48.920
people into America to escape bad conditions in their home countries. It's not for the purpose of
00:49:53.600
replacing white people. No white people are being murdered in the process of immigration happening.
00:49:58.800
Well, that's kind of news to me. As far as universities and positions of power go,
00:50:03.020
no, these can't all be for white people. That's not white genocide. That's just sharing.
00:50:07.940
White people are not entitled to have all of the positions of power. It's not replacement.
00:50:11.780
It is making things more fair. If one does think that white people do have that intrinsic right,
00:50:17.480
then they are in fact white supremacists. Oppressors have always seen those they sought to oppress as
00:50:23.100
a threat. This is nothing new. The best way to preserve an unjust hierarchy is by convincing those at
00:50:27.500
the top and the middle that if those on the bottom get any power, they'll turn around and do some
00:50:31.680
oppressing themselves if only as an act of revenge. Now, so it's a review in case you're lost at this
00:50:38.420
point. It is a racist conspiracy theory to say that white people are being replaced. That's not
00:50:44.480
happening at all. It's completely false. How dare you? At the same time, there is a racial hierarchy
00:50:50.620
in this country and white people are at the top of it and are by their nature oppressive. And it's
00:50:55.000
therefore important to, well, replace them with non-white people. Indeed, the people complaining
00:51:00.360
about being replaced are racist for not wanting to be replaced and also for claiming that they are
00:51:05.060
being replaced because they're totally aren't being replaced, even though they are and it's good
00:51:08.640
and they should like it, but it's not happening. Make sense? No? Well, of course not. Because the
00:51:14.440
incoherence is entirely by design. Now, back in realityville, there is no racial hierarchy. That's
00:51:20.780
not what this is about. The hierarchy exists in the imagination of women with unnecessary whys in their
00:51:26.520
names. The point, the real point, is simply that, at least partly as a result of deliberate policy
00:51:33.580
choices and the actions of our most powerful cultural institutions, the overall percentage of
00:51:39.420
white people in the country and of white people admitted into universities and placed in positions
00:51:43.020
of power and so on, is being reduced. And non-white people are being placed into those vacated areas.
00:51:50.420
I think you could really call that replacement, but if you don't like replacement, that's fine.
00:51:56.400
Let's put that to the side. How about a different R word? How about reduction? Can I call it white
00:52:02.620
reduction? Nobody can deny that there is a significant amount of white reduction taking place, both in the
00:52:09.180
population and especially institutionally. Now, so we're talking about white reduction.
00:52:15.760
The question, is it good to celebrate this? And to answer that question, all we need to do is imagine how
00:52:27.960
it would sound for someone to celebrate the reduction of any other race of people. What if I was to react to
00:52:35.600
news about a reduction in the black population by describing it as fabulous? Now, you'll argue that it's different
00:52:42.980
because black people are in the minority, but why should that make it different? The point is that
00:52:47.360
minority or majority, we should not treat any race as a pestilence that needs to be cured.
00:52:54.440
You know, to treat any race as a problem to be solved, a plague to be contained, is unimaginably,
00:53:01.560
unspeakably racist. And if you're really getting hung up on the minority aspect of this, then fine.
00:53:06.700
Imagine that I were to celebrate the reduction of the majority race in any non-white foreign country.
00:53:13.920
So let's take any non-white foreign country where non-white people hold all of the systemic power.
00:53:20.120
And then imagine that I were to tell you that this majority race is being supplanted by a minority
00:53:24.620
race and that this is great news. Now, you would surmise that I'm obviously racist against the
00:53:31.960
majority race. You would ask me questions like, well, why are you celebrating that exactly? I mean,
00:53:36.640
what's wrong with that race being the majority? Why have you decided that it shouldn't be? Why is
00:53:40.400
it a problem? What are you so excited about? What don't you like about these people?
00:53:45.720
And if I responded that the majority race is naturally oppressive and inherently bigoted,
00:53:50.400
and that's why there needs to be less of them, you would only become firmer in your conclusion
00:53:55.560
that I am nothing but a ranting, raving, drooling bigot. And you would be right in that case.
00:54:01.960
And that's the point. Okay. White people are not entitled to positions of power. That's true.
00:54:09.660
And nobody is saying they are. That's not the point. Here's what I'm saying about white people.
00:54:16.000
Here's my radical statement. And Media Matters, here's the part that I want you to clip.
00:54:21.860
Because you're basically my PR team at this point. I tell you to clip something and post it and you do,
00:54:25.900
which is great. So clip this one. Here's what I'm saying about white people. This is my
00:54:31.580
extreme, extreme claim. White people have the same moral worth as anyone else and are therefore
00:54:40.680
entitled to the same respect. So any language that would sound horrifically racist when applied to
00:54:46.580
other races is just as horrifically racist when applied to whites. That's what I'm saying.
00:54:52.820
I am the one advocating for equality here. Treating all races the same. With moral worth.
00:55:03.700
And we don't talk about them like they're diseases to be reduced and contained.
00:55:08.460
Robin and Media Matters, they're the ones who want to treat white people as a special case,
00:55:12.960
if only for negative reasons. And that is why they are today, certainly,
00:55:17.600
canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day,
00:55:25.620
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