Ep. 777 -Â A More Diverse And Inclusive Taliban
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Joe Biden makes his excuses in a speech yesterday, and is roundly panned for the speech, and for good reason. And the Governor of Tennessee tells the state s public schools that they cannot mandate masks in public schools. Plus, we'll talk about Lizzo's claims that her critics are fatphobic, sexist, and racist.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, it could be a Babylon Bee headline, but it's tragically real.
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The State Department issued a statement yesterday calling for the Taliban to be inclusive and
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representative. Our country is run by people who are completely out of touch with all semblance
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of reality. We can't hope to solve Afghanistan's problems if we can't solve that problem. We'll
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talk about that. Also, Joe Biden makes his excuses in a speech yesterday. He's been roundly panned
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for the speech and for good reason. But was he actually right about some of what he said? We'll
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discuss. And the governor of Tennessee tells the state's public schools that they cannot issue mask
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mandates. Then Nashville schools say, hey, we're going to do it anyway. And in our daily
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cancellation, we'll talk about Lizzo's claims that her critics are fatphobic, sexist, and
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racist. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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We begin today with some good news, a job opportunity in an up-and-coming sector. The job search site
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Daybook has this Help Wanted ad posted by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
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Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women for short. In what appears to be a very real listing,
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UN Women is calling for a partnership specialist to advance gender equality and women's empowerment
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in Kabul, Afghanistan. It says that the length of the initial contract will be one year,
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which conveniently is also the life expectancy of whoever takes the job. There's no information on
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how the position became available. We can use our imagination. And also, we're not told anything
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about the dress code, which at this point we can assume is probably restrictive. But it does say
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that the key traits needed for this job are respect for diversity, integrity, professionalism,
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and of course, a death wish. I trust that a whole flock of pink-haired Antifa feminists will be
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applying for this job at once. I mean, why wouldn't they? There's plenty of misogyny to fight in
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Afghanistan, plenty of fascism to fight. I'm sure they'll be on the first plane over there if they can
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find a flight that goes in. Now, in fairness, we can maybe assume, maybe, maybe, that this listing
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was posted before the events of the last few days. That would make it slightly less crazy.
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That assumption, though, may be giving too much credit to the brain-dead bureaucrats who are
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currently running the entire Western world. After all, it was just yesterday that a spokesman for
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the State Department, a man appropriately named Ned, got up in front of cameras and said this.
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Additionally, the UN Security Council issued a joint press statement earlier today calling for
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a new government that is united, inclusive, and representative, including with the full
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and meaningful participation of women. The Council spoke with one voice to underscore that Afghanistan
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must abide by its international obligations, including to international humanitarian law,
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and ensure the safety and security of all Afghans and international citizens.
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Well, Ned has spoken, ladies and gentlemen. Not just Ned from the State Department, but all of the
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Neds of the UN Security Council. They have all spoken in one voice. The Taliban must, must we say,
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must be representative and inclusive. We not only demand that the 7th century barbarian horde
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currently running Afghanistan must tolerate women, but that they must, in fact, include women
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in their government. Now, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. You're
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thinking, this is outrageous. This is stupid. This is embarrassing. This is insane. I mean,
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how could they tell the Taliban to respect women and not mention that they should also represent and
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include members of the LGBT community? You know, how has the State Department, to this point,
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not so much as suggested that the Taliban consider appointing a trans woman as a warlord
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of some village somewhere, at a minimum? Well, don't worry. They'll get around to that,
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I'm sure. For now, the focus is on insisting that men who literally cover their women in burlap sacks
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must magically leave those old ways behind and embrace Western egalitarian principles.
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What if they don't? Well, I'll tell you what happens if they don't. The State Department will monitor
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the situation, and they stand ready at a moment's notice to meet with the UN Security Council
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and form a resolution to be voted on by the General Assembly to issue a written condemnation
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using the strongest language to scold the Taliban for their inappropriate and, frankly, unpleasant
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and, dare I say, unacceptable conduct. What else do you want? Well, perhaps you want instead a minimal
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amount of sanity and competence from those who lead us. On that score, you're out of luck. These are,
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after all, the same people who flew pride flags in Kabul, who tell us that the greatest terror threat
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we face are parents complaining to their school boards about masking mandates and a guy who stole
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a lectern from the Capitol building. These people who've been working diligently to instill cultural
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sensitivity in our military. The people who issue military recruitment ads that look like Disney
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princess films. This is what we get. This is what we get specifically from a ruling class that is
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itself immersed in leftist ideology. They are immersed in it the way that a man might be immersed in lava
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after being thrown into a volcano. There's no rescue. There's no hope. They are consumed by this
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lethal substance melting into it and becoming eventually indistinguishable from the substance
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itself. The lesson here, if you hadn't learned it by now, is that the prevailing religion of the day
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in this country and across the West, the religion of leftism, is by its nature entirely detached from
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and hostile to reality. This is why our leaders are incapable of leading. They are incapable of doing
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anything at all, of running a city or a federal government, much less a global imperial empire.
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They're limited, ironically, much the same way that the Taliban is limited. The Taliban is frozen
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1,300 years in the past, doomed to live like savages in misery and filth, and to drag whatever
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nation or province they run down with them. Their beliefs will not allow for peace or advancement or
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flourishing. Won't allow it. Which means, by the way, if you hear, because in response to the
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State Department saying they need to include women, there are actually some people, at least if social media
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is any indication, who are hopeful for this because the Taliban has said, and I just saw an Al Jazeera
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headline that was just published. The Taliban has said that, oh yeah, we'll include women in the
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government. Sure, we'll do that. We're not going to kill anybody. We've turned a new leaf.
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And there are people taking this seriously. Well, let's give them a chance. Who knows?
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It's not possible. If you're dumb enough to believe it, it's not possible. It's not just
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that it's probably not true. It can't be. It won't be. Their belief system will not allow it. They
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would have to renounce their belief system first. Now, our ruling class, constricted by their own
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religion, driven into madness by a worldview which militates against truth and common sense every step
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of the way, they cannot recognize this reality about the Taliban because they cannot recognize
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any reality at all. They are frozen in their own way, incapacitated, useless, paralyzed by their own
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lunacy. Now, it hasn't led them to the same sort of barbarism that we see from the Taliban, but it does
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cause different kinds of barbarism and not all that dissimilar in some cases. For example, radical
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Islam supports female genital mutilation, which is a terrible thing. Leftism supports the genital
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mutilation of both males and females, except for the purpose of turning males into females and vice
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versa. In fact, the type of genital mutilation endorsed by the left is even more barbaric and
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insane if such a thing is possible. The point is that we need to see this sort of madness from the
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State Department calling for inclusivity and representation among the Taliban in the greater
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context of a government suffocated by its own ideology, presiding over a country which is
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collectively choking to death from the same cause. This is all the more reason, as I argued yesterday,
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why we should put our colonial dreams to rest. I mean, we're run by men who can barely tie their own
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shoes. How do you expect them to rule an empire? Now, let's get to our five headlines.
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So I got to mention this. This is sad. I mean, this is really sad. This makes me sad
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in the same way that, you know, you felt sad seeing the kid who sat alone at the lunch table
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in the cafeteria in school, that kind of a pitiful kind of sadness. Um, and it really ruins your lunch,
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honestly, to see what a loser he is. So some woman named, uh, Donna Proventure, who, uh,
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I guess apparently is a journalist and writes for the Washington Post or has written for them.
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Um, she tweeted this and she tagged me. Um, she tagged, she wanted me to see this. So I feel,
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you know, I, to call it to your attention and publicly mock her. I feel that, uh, I am doing
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what she wanted me to do. So this is what she tweeted. She says, literally the greatest birthday
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gift I've ever been given honoring my favorite hobby, undermining everything Matt Walsh stands for.
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And it's a picture of her holding a sweatshirt that says, not now, sweetie, mommy's cyber bullying
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Matt Walsh. And then there's a, a middle finger, I guess. I don't know the middle fingers. She given
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the middle finger to her kid because she's talking to her kid in the sweater. I don't know.
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The point is, you know, I, I have never heard of this person. I don't know who she is.
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And yet I am her favorite hobby. How sad is that? And she wears my name on her body. Now
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I will forget about her existence shortly after we finished talking about this and she'll go on
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stewing over me, imagining that she's cyber bullying me. So this is worse than the kid at
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the lunch table. This is the kid at the lunch table is sitting there alone, telling himself
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that he's the most popular kid in school. It's just, it's, it's very sad. She spent probably
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countless hours, apparently tweeting at me. And I never even noticed it while she brags to
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the people around her. Look at me, cyber bullying this guy. By the way, can we just acknowledge
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the elephant in the room here? Like, um, that shirt would be pathetic no matter whose name
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is on it. Okay. But it's worse when you put me on it because I'm not famous enough to justify
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that. So it makes it even worse because a good number of people who will see that they
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have no idea who I am. So you'll have to explain me to them. You'll have to like give my biography
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to them, actively tell people about me and promote me all to get back around to the sweatshirt,
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which after you explain it will seem even lamer and weirder to the person you're talking
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to than it did before you explained it. If she walks around wearing that, how many times
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is she going to be stopped and say by people saying, who's, who's Matt Walsh? Oh, he's
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this guy on the internet and I don't like him. I tweet mean comments to him a lot. And so
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I put it on a sweater and the person will just slowly back away. Okay. All right. Good.
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Good job. By the way, she deleted the tweet after I responded. So that tweet has now been
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deleted, but, um, the sweater is out there somewhere. I don't know if it's available for
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sale, but it's out there. Okay. So Joe Biden, uh, addressed the public yesterday and, uh, gave
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a pretty short speech about the situation in Afghanistan. Took no questions, hurried off the
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stage. Well, hurried as much as he can possibly hurry, kind of shuffled off the stage afterwards.
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Took no questions from the press. Uh, we know that if this was, if this was Trump in a similar
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situation and giving a speech, even people who hate Trump would have to acknowledge that
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he would have sat there for an hour or stood there rather taking questions from the press.
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Every single question hostile to him, but he would have, he would have stood there reveling
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in it, taking the questions, but Joe Biden can't take any hostile questions. He's off
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the stage. Um, the speech itself has been roundly panned by really everyone on all sides.
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And that's pretty rare that a speech given by a politician is going to be panned by both
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sides, especially when it's a Democrat politician. The media hated it for the most part, some exceptions,
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uh, certainly everyone on the right hated it. Let's play a quick clip of, uh, the speech just
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to get the kind of the flavor of it. Here it is. I've argued for many years that our mission should
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be narrowly focused on counter-terrorism, not counter-insurgency or nation building. So what's
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happened? Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed
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sometime without trying to fight. If anything, the developments of the past week reinforced that
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ending U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan now was the right decision. American troops cannot
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and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for
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themselves. Uh, I have to tell you, I feel dirty listening to a Biden speech and agreeing with
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anything he says, but, uh, I did in fact agree with those clips there. I did. I agreed with pretty
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much all of that. Now that doesn't make it a good speech. Okay. Because for one thing, in terms of
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delivery, you could tell that he could barely, he barely knows what he's saying. Uh, you could see it in
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his eyes. You could tell in the way he's delivering it. He's, he's reading the words and it's not
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registering in his brain. So that's, that's a pretty big problem. Um, and also it was an excuse
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making speech and it, it did not deal with the real issue and the thing that has caused, uh, and,
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and precipitated most of the criticism, which is the, the way that the, the, the withdrawal was
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handled, the way that the pullout was handled. He didn't, he just glossed right over that common
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political technique, also pretty smart political technique to talk about the thing. You know,
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you're going to talk about the thing that you want to talk about. You're going to frame it the way
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you want to frame it. You're not going to talk about what your critics are talking about, but,
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um, we can't really call it. So it was, it, it, it may or may not have been a politically smart
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speech. I guess we can't even call it that because it was panned by everybody. Um, there's probably
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no speech he could have given that would have changed much of anything for him politically.
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But he did avoid talking about the main thing, which is how the pullout was handled and why it
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was handled that way. Instead, he's talking about why we needed to leave. As far as that goes,
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the reasons that he gives putting the, the pullout to the side, the reasons that he gives for leaving
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that I agree with. And you know what, if he had given that exact speech six months ago, and in fact,
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he did give almost that exact speech six months ago when he was laying out why we had to leave.
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And that's, I agree with it. The problem is that he's giving it again now when that's not really
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the issue. The issue is the manner, the manner of leaving. But even with that acknowledged, um,
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he, he is, it is true that the Afghan military gave up the entire Afghan government fled the country.
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He should have known that that was going to happen. I think he did know, or at least the people really
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running our government knew that it was going to happen. Should have planned for that. Should
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have taken that into consideration, made sure that we could evacuate all of our people beforehand,
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before all of that happened, but there's no getting, but there's no getting around the fact
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that they did in fact flee the country and the Afghan military gave up. And I, I don't see how
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they could put all the blame on, on, on Biden that you want fine by me. Um, but I don't see how
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the Afghan military escapes all blame. The way people are talking about them, it's like,
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they're a bunch of infants, like they're toddlers. Oh, poor Afghan military. We can't expect anything
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from them. Really? We can't 300, 300,000 of them supposedly trained and equipped for 20 years.
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We abandoned them. We have been 20 years later. We abandoned them 20 years later.
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That's what you call abandonment. When you're left to defend your own country after 20 years abandoned.
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Now, if you want to talk about abandoning our own people on the ground and not having a, uh, a, a plan
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in place to get them out. Yeah, there's abandonment. Heads should roll over that. There should be
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resignations over that. There should be, there should be prison sentences over that. But if you're going
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to sit here and tell me that the Afghan military was abandoned, it's their country. What do you mean
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abandoned to their own country? If you're a military and you can't defend your own nation after 20 years
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of being trained, then whose fault is that? And I don't want to hear anything about, oh, well,
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they, they didn't have air support. Yeah, that's the point. We're leaving. Take care of yourself now.
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Did the Taliban have air support? Well, they didn't have the intelligence on the ground. How much
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intelligence does the Taliban have? These, this, this gang of seventh century savage scumbags?
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Are they flying in there with jets and you got, you got, you got a quarter million of you and you
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just leave? You don't even try. Even if I were to say that they're, they're put in a difficult
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situation because the, our military isn't there to guide them and help them. Fine. It's a difficult
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spot. So you don't even try then you don't even try is what we're being told. That's what, so if
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you're, if you're in the military and you're put in a tough spot, don't even try. Give in to forces
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that you outnumber three or four to one. Can we play this here? Here's the Taliban, by the way,
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after they took over the presidential palace, let's play this. Here's them. Uh, they're,
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they're in a gym checking out some of the gym equipment. There they are. So these are the guys
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that just conquered Afghanistan. Take a look at this. How much are these guys benching?
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40 pounds, maybe at most. Look at that dude. He's trying to, he has no idea. Well, he's never
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used a, any kind of, of a gym equipment in his life, clearly. All right. That guy was bicep
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curling about, uh, about 15 pounds. And these, these are the dudes. There was a, there was
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another video of them taking over an amusement park and they're like playing on the bumper
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cars. And these people just conquered Afghanistan in two days. Can't even say they conquered
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because there was no, there was no fight. It wasn't even a surrender. It was just like,
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yeah, all right. You can have it. There you go. Country's yours. I don't, I don't buy that.
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I don't, I don't buy absolving you. You are duty bound to defend your own country. That's
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why you're in the military. Absolving them of blame. Give me a break. Come on. Um, a little
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more Afghanistan stuff here. So, uh, well here, this is related. MSNBC had a, an interesting
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way of talking about the Taliban's takeover. They said it was a peaceful takeover, much
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like the BLM riots with buildings burning in the background was actually mostly peaceful.
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The takeover by the Taliban was also peaceful. Let's play that from MSNBC.
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Hi Matthew. Well, the country is essentially now in the hands of the Taliban for all intents
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and purposes. Uh, they've taken over Kabul, the president, or should I now say the former
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president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani has fled the country. The Taliban have taken over the
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presidential palace. They've renamed the country, the Islamic Emirates taken down the Afghan flag and
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hoisted up, uh, their own colors. Uh, and it's been a relatively, um, peaceful, if you like a process.
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They haven't had to fire a lot of shots. There hasn't been a lot of bloodshed in Kabul. It was a
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pretty straightforward takeover for them. Uh, they've also taken over the airport. Uh, there've
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been reports of shots fired at the airport and Taliban fighters, uh, are all over the place.
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Uh, but they're not in any sort of clashes with us personnel, although commercial flights have so
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far been suspended. Military evacuation flights are still taking place. And I, from what we understand
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right now, most of the U S personnel are at the airport now trying to get onto various, uh, evacuation
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flights out of the country with a very few security personnel left at the embassy burning what's left
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of sensitive paperwork. Yeah. Everyone's kind of dunking on this, uh, on that report from MSABC saying
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that it was a peaceful takeover, but actually it, it, it was, it doesn't mean that the Taliban is
00:24:23.420
peaceful. It doesn't mean that, that, that, uh, what's about to follow isn't going to be brutal
00:24:28.340
and horrible, isn't already brutal and horrible, but it is inarguably the case that the takeover of
00:24:35.400
the country was peaceful. Why? As you said, there wasn't, nobody fired a shot. The country was handed
00:24:41.460
over to these people. It, it, it would have been non-peaceful if the Afghan military and government
00:24:48.640
had had any interest whatsoever in defending their own nation, then it would have been non-peaceful.
00:24:54.720
I mean, the Taliban was perfectly willing to go in there and kill lots of people, but they didn't
00:24:58.940
have to. So yeah, that's actually true. That's, that's look at me. I'm defending Biden and MSNBC
00:25:06.700
that right there. Well, you just heard there mostly an accurate reflection of what actually happened.
00:25:12.120
If it's, if it sounds outrageous to you, well, it is outrageous.
00:25:18.640
And you can't put all the blame on, uh, he says, the only thing I take issue with is that he says,
00:25:24.140
well, there's, there's no, uh, conflicts with the U S military. The military is not firing at them,
00:25:33.260
The issue is where's the Afghan military nowhere to be found.
00:25:38.700
They ran away, but you know, that's all, again, it's all our fault, right?
00:25:43.140
No, no, no attempt at all to defend their own people in their own country.
00:25:46.500
No attempt, zero attempt. And that's our fault. Okay. Sure. All right, let's move on. Bill de
00:25:53.620
Blasio has continued making his hostage demands, hoping to, uh, browbeat New Yorkers into getting
00:26:00.680
vaccinated. And here's the latest from him. Much as you want to celebrate the city's return,
00:26:06.040
how concerned are you that we're at a very precarious point on the Delta research?
00:26:10.560
Well, it's a very important question, Andrew, and I thank you. Uh, and we're always looking for that
00:26:15.320
balance. I'll tell you something. This is absolutely strategic to say to people to fully
00:26:23.100
participate in the life of the city and to love and enjoy this city, go get vaccinated. Uh, we believe
00:26:29.880
it's going to make a huge impact. We're obviously seeing a real uptick in vaccinations already.
00:26:35.640
We made a decision weeks and weeks ago, the whole ball game is vaccination. And once you make that kind
00:26:43.940
of profound strategic decision, you throw everything you got at it, uh, we are not interested in half
00:26:48.380
measures. We're interested in vaccination. So making vaccination something that allows you to enjoy all
00:26:54.720
that's good in life and knowing that that first dose provides protection to begin with, but much
00:27:00.460
more importantly, gets you on the road to the second dose. And that's what we see overwhelmingly that
00:27:04.540
people go back and get that second dose. Um, that's how we built this strategy. So we're watching
00:27:10.260
every day, uh, for any, uh, areas of concern, but the key is always to move vaccination as aggressively
00:27:18.300
as possible. Vaccination is what allows you to enjoy all that is good in life. That's an, that's
00:27:28.360
interesting because there are plenty of unvaccinated people out in the country right now who are perfect,
00:27:33.960
we're enjoying life quite a bit, uh, having no problem enjoying all that's good in life.
00:27:41.040
So no, it's not vaccination that enables you to enjoy all that's good in life. Vaccination really
00:27:46.820
has nothing to do with it one way or another. Um, it's, it's more so to say Bill de Blasio is
00:27:54.640
declaring that if you don't get vaccinated, he has, he has created this arbitrary standard now.
00:28:00.080
And if you don't get vaccinated, he will actively try to prevent you from enjoying all that's good
00:28:06.520
in life. So that's what he should be saying. If he was being honest, if you don't get vaccinated,
00:28:11.600
I will try to prevent you from enjoying your life. That is what he's saying. I mean, it's,
00:28:18.800
it's not quite phrasing it that way, but almost, if you don't get, if you don't inject this substance
00:28:25.980
into your body, I will prevent you from enjoying life. That's what we're being told from the mayor
00:28:35.000
of the largest city in the United States of America, allegedly a free country, inject this
00:28:40.620
into your body right now. Don't ask questions about it. Don't question it, put it in your body
00:28:46.780
or I will prevent you from enjoying life. I will take everything from you. If you don't put this in
00:28:50.500
your body right now, by the way, bodily autonomy is really important. My body, my choice.
00:29:00.180
In addition, unrelated to that, put this in your body right now, or I will, or I will strip your
00:29:05.120
life of all meaning. That's what's happening in the United States of America. And it's being allowed.
00:29:11.420
It's being tolerated. Speaking of tolerance. Here's something on the positive end though. Governor Bill
00:29:19.120
Lee here in Tennessee, we like Bill Lee here. And he just signed an executive order. He said,
00:29:25.520
no one cares more about health and wellbeing of a child than a parent. I'm signing an EO today that
00:29:30.260
allows parents to opt their children out of a school mask mandate. If either a school board or health
00:29:34.720
board enacts one over a district. Now here's an example of something that a governor actually has
00:29:42.760
the authority to do, because we're talking about public schools. Those are government institutions
00:29:47.140
run by the state. Bill Lee is the governor of the state. So he can do this. And he's putting an
00:29:55.380
executive order into place saying, hey, you can, at school, if you want to have a, if you want to
00:29:59.280
have a mask policy, that's fine. But you got to allow children and families to opt out of it. You're
00:30:04.500
going to let them make a decision. Now that's called good leadership. That's called a discernment,
00:30:12.340
which is something we rarely get from our leaders. But then this from WKRN here in town says the
00:30:17.260
director of Metro Nashville public schools announced the district will continue to enforce its mask
00:30:23.300
policy, despite Governor Bill Lee's executive order, allowing parents to opt out of mask mandates.
00:30:28.520
Director of schools, Dr. Adrian Battle said school districts were not notified before the executive
00:30:34.140
order was released. I don't know why that makes a difference. He said the governor's executive
00:30:38.480
order was released without prior notice to school districts for review or comment.
00:30:43.000
As such, Metro schools will continue to require face masks pursuant to the rules adopted by the board
00:30:48.380
as we further review this order and explore all the options available to the district to best protect
00:30:53.320
the health of our students, teachers, and staff. Well, they need to further review the order.
00:30:57.140
Okay. What is there to review? It's pretty short. It's like one paragraph.
00:31:02.600
And all it says is you can't force people to wear masks. They can opt out. That's it. There's not a lot
00:31:08.460
to review. The Nashville school board says, well, we got to, we had to take a moment here, really study
00:31:14.760
this thing. We need about, we need about five, six, seven weeks. Got to go through this line by line.
00:31:20.200
It's very, it's very complex. Oh, really what they're saying is, oh, I don't care what you say,
00:31:27.000
governor. We're a public school. We're run by the state. You're the governor of the state,
00:31:31.760
but I don't give a damn what you say. We're going to do what we want. Try and stop us. What are you
00:31:36.000
going to do? Send the state police in? Start cart, cart the school board off to jail? Sounds good to me
00:31:43.860
personally. I doubt that's going to happen. See, this is how, um, this is how Democrats operate.
00:31:54.740
Assuming that the people running Nashville public schools are all Democrats, which I'd say is a
00:31:58.920
pretty safe assumption. At least 98% Democrat, we could assume. This is, this is how they operate.
00:32:03.340
They say, no, we don't, we don't care about the law. We don't care about authority. We don't care
00:32:07.840
about anything. We don't care about any of that. Chain of command doesn't matter. We're going to do
00:32:13.760
what we want to do. Try and stop us. An attitude, an approach that I wish Republicans would consider
00:32:21.700
adopting every once in a while. And finally, one other thing on, uh, on masking and schools and
00:32:27.980
everything else. Eric Feigel Ding, who's an epidemiologist and a trusted, one of those trusted
00:32:34.180
experts of the expert class posted this video of a teacher crying about going back to school.
00:32:40.260
And, uh, if this sounds like something that you may have heard last year, well, yeah, it is exactly
00:32:47.520
like last year, but this is this year. Now the teachers are still crying and saying they shouldn't
00:32:50.700
have to go back to school. Um, they, they want two years now of schools being shut down and, uh,
00:32:56.200
she's crying about going much like a child might cry about going back to school. So is this teacher.
00:33:00.780
Here's what she has to say. I have had my regular back to school anxieties, things like, am I going
00:33:07.900
to have enough time? Am I going to get my lessons done? Are the students going to be okay? But this
00:33:13.520
year there is this overshadowing apprehension that's clouding my normal back to school thoughts.
00:33:22.160
And it's with, it's with, it's with thoughts like, if I die, who's going to take care of my children?
00:33:35.440
And if I end up in the hospital, how am I going to pay those bills?
00:33:39.240
And if I give COVID to my students or my own children and they die, how am I going to live
00:33:50.620
with that? And I want you to ask any teacher how they feel this year. And I'm sure that they will
00:33:58.940
tell you that they have never experienced anxiety like this. Never experienced anxiety like this,
00:34:04.880
except for last year. Right. Because the teachers love talking about their anxiety. This is never,
00:34:10.520
no one has ever suffered like we are suffering. We're being, we're being told to go to go to work.
00:34:16.520
You want us to do our jobs? This is unimaginable. Meanwhile, almost the rest, the rest of society
00:34:25.040
has been going to work and doing their jobs. For some people, the, this, the entire time never stopped.
00:34:32.540
Almost everyone else now is back on the job, working around people, doing, you know, doing what
00:34:41.060
they're supposed to do. Um, and except the teachers, they, they refuse, no, it's to send them back is a,
00:34:50.460
is a horrible oppression. You know what? I see a video like that and it does upset me. It does upset
00:35:00.200
and it does distress me to see her tears because I am upset to think and to realize once again
00:35:06.420
that our T that our kids are being taught by such self-serving, selfish, narcissistic morons.
00:35:17.160
That is what is upsetting to me to see an idiot like this.
00:35:21.320
And that, that is the, uh, the, the amount of contempt at this point that we should heap on teachers
00:35:29.400
who are still crying about having to do their jobs. Get another job, lady. If you still, do you,
00:35:36.540
was that what you really want? You want two years of the kids not in school
00:35:39.280
because of your unreasonable, paranoid, psychotic, delusional fear.
00:35:49.260
Get another job, please. There's 10 million of them available. You could go do anything else.
00:35:56.120
We're also told all the time that teachers are underpaid. They don't get paid a lot. So
00:35:59.500
you should be able to go out and find a better paying job.
00:36:02.100
Leave the kids alone, please. You don't want to go back to the job to work. We don't want you back
00:36:10.640
at work. All right. Before we get to reading the comments here, uh, we also want to play this for
00:36:18.120
you. This is, this is another football related item. We had one yesterday, uh, about Tim Tebow,
00:36:23.660
who, by the way, I just saw before we started shooting, Tim Tebow, uh, is, had, was cut by the
00:36:28.300
Jacksonville Jaguars. So there was a lot of controversy that we talked about yesterday,
00:36:32.280
Tim Tebow and his first preseason game. The fact that he was on the field at all was very upsetting
00:36:36.880
for people in sports media. They said, well, what about Colin Kaepernick? Uh, and now he's been cut
00:36:41.640
from the team. And I, but I'm sure that will not stop the claims of racism. All the people who said
00:36:47.080
that it's racist, that Tim Tebow has given this opportunity, Colin Kaepernick wasn't, are they going
00:36:52.140
to go back around and apologize and say, Oh, well, I guess this wasn't a racist conspiracy. I mean,
00:36:55.460
they cut him after all. I guess they were just given a chance to try out. He wasn't good enough.
00:36:58.300
They let him go. I doubt they'll apologize. Um, another football related item. The NFL has added
00:37:05.000
a new point of emphasis for refs this year. Uh, taunting is a point of emphasis. That's always
00:37:09.700
been against the rules, but now it's a point of emphasis, which means that they're going to be
00:37:12.640
throwing a lot of flags for it. Uh, players who taunt will get a 15 yard penalty. And we saw what
00:37:17.560
this will look like during the Colts preseason game on Sunday. Go ahead and play this, this clip
00:37:21.020
here. This is the Colts preseason game. Um, you see a great run here.
00:37:28.300
The lag's going still against the Panthers. He's this, this guy's dragging the, uh, county
00:37:33.400
tractor pull right there. There's the taunt and he gets the 15 yard penalty. First of all,
00:37:39.300
he drags like 10 guys, about 10 yards. It's a great run. And he's excited. He's pumped
00:37:43.940
up. He gets up and he just flexes for like a second and kind of, and says something to
00:37:50.520
the guy on the ground and they throw a 15 yard penalty. That's a flag. And this is, this is
00:37:55.580
evidence of two things, which, which is a problem in football. First of all, the people who work in
00:37:59.700
football are constantly trying to convince themselves that football is more serious than
00:38:03.740
it is. They want to convince themselves because they've given their life to this. And so they want
00:38:07.900
to convince themselves that it's more than just a child's game, which is what it is. Why shouldn't
00:38:12.360
you taunt? It's a game. They're playing a game. That's all they're, they're on a, they're on a grassy
00:38:17.740
field trying to get the ball across a line. It's a game. It's a fun game. I like watching it,
00:38:23.520
but it is a game, but we can't have any of that in football. This is, this is, we need
00:38:28.580
professionalism. Do we in a game? Why? And also you see the same issue that you find with
00:38:35.940
any bureaucracy and the NFL is a bureaucracy, you know, a non-governmental bureaucracy where
00:38:44.520
you have a bunch of people constantly trying to justify their jobs because in any bureaucracy,
00:38:49.780
whether it's in the NFL or the federal bureaucracy, bureaucracy at any level, um, you know, like 80%
00:38:55.360
of the people there shouldn't have jobs at all. They really have nothing to do.
00:39:01.880
So what they're always trying to do, their, their real job, whatever their, whatever their job,
00:39:06.380
their official job title is, doesn't matter. Their real job is to constantly justify the fact
00:39:11.440
that they have a job. And so they're always looking for problems to solve, for things to do.
00:39:16.500
And that's the NFL. So this year, here's a problem. Guys saying mean things to other guys on the NFL
00:39:25.480
field. That's a problem. You know, that'll, that'll justify our jobs for another year and we'll find a
00:39:31.700
new problem next year. That's the way bureaucracies function. All right, moving on now to reading the
00:39:37.220
comments. This is from Mark says, hilarious and pathetic that Matt, who was prime age to serve after 9-11,
00:39:43.020
but didn't. Accursing the Afghans of being cowards. I guess he means accusing. Maybe a cursing would
00:39:49.400
work too. Accusing the Afghans of being cowards. I served in Afghanistan as well as Iraq and had the
00:39:53.740
honor of serving alongside many, many brave and honorable Afghan soldiers and prosecutors. They risked
00:39:58.020
their lives fighting Al-Qaeda and its allies, unlike Matt. Also, we weren't fighting in Afghanistan
00:40:01.980
because it was noble. We were there because it was in the U.S.'s interest. Well, Mark, I thank you for your
00:40:07.760
service. First of all, I mean that sincerely. Um, I will say that I was 15 on 9-11. So a little
00:40:13.920
young to serve at that point. By the time I was of age, we had been mired in Iraq for no justifiable
00:40:20.900
reason. And thousands of young men were dying because of lies told by our intelligence agencies.
00:40:25.800
Um, and, uh, we had at that point, by the time I graduated, I guess we'd been in Iraq for about a
00:40:29.980
year. Um, and no, I, I didn't really want to get involved in that. I admit I respect everyone who did
00:40:36.940
join. I admire you grateful for you. Um, but no, I never, I never, I never felt that I was duty bound
00:40:47.740
to go fight in Iraq, um, or Afghanistan. And if our country is ever invaded and my family and my
00:40:58.120
community is threatened, then yes, I will be duty bound to defend them. Um, I feel confident that I
00:41:06.040
would defend them because simply for the fact that I'd rather be dead than allow harm to come to my
00:41:10.440
family. And that's not a close call for me. But if I did slink away like a coward, which is kind of
00:41:16.020
what you're insinuating here. If I did, if I were to run and abandon those who need me in this time of
00:41:23.000
need, abandon my country to the barbarian hordes at the gate, then yes, I would not only be a coward,
00:41:30.960
but a hypocrite and no man at all. That would be absolutely true. Maybe you're right that I am
00:41:37.560
that. I don't think I am, but okay, whatever. None of that changes the facts as far as Afghanistan
00:41:44.820
goes. None of that changes the facts. What my, my personal character does not change the facts.
00:41:53.160
So I'm going to allow you to make any assumptions about that, that you want.
00:41:58.600
Doesn't it change the facts on the ground? And especially doesn't change the most basic fact
00:42:03.900
that a nation must be able to sustain and defend itself. And the army of a particular nation
00:42:13.540
has the foremost responsibility to defend that nation.
00:42:17.860
The foremost responsibility for defending a nation cannot fall on the army of a different
00:42:24.040
country, superseding the responsibility of the army of that country. That's my basic point.
00:42:33.840
It's certainly not an anti-US military point, quite the opposite.
00:42:39.620
I'm saying, I don't want to, I don't want to see any more of our young men, some of our best
00:42:49.060
sent over to that God forsaken desert to defend a country that has no interest in existing.
00:43:00.020
Okay. Let's see. Evan says, Matt, if every single job involves working with incompetent workers,
00:43:07.000
as you claimed, would you mind giving us a list of the incompetent people who work at the Daily Wire?
00:43:13.880
Well, look, um, all I'm going to say, and this is true, is that last week I asked for an espresso
00:43:22.140
to be made and brought to my desk. And five minutes later, it had not been brought. And I had to ask
00:43:28.200
twice. So first of all, do never claim that I don't suffer. And that's all I'm going to say about
00:43:36.320
that. Um, let's see. Tony says for, for someone that doesn't do foreign coverage, Matt, you're spot
00:43:42.040
on. So many good points. I hadn't even thought about maybe you should do more of this. I hope
00:43:47.580
not. I mean, right now we sort of have no choice, but to talk about these kinds of issues because
00:43:50.960
it's, it's the only thing that anybody is talking about. But, um, as I said, as I began the show
00:43:55.600
talking about yesterday, um, my focus is on what's happening in this country and the things, especially
00:44:01.300
that, that affect American families. And I think that's what all of our focus should be.
00:44:05.600
Um, another comment says, dress your truth, Matt, be stunning and brave with your wardrobe. So some,
00:44:10.480
some, some, uh, supportive comments for my tan on tan look, which I was being cyber bullied for.
00:44:16.180
I guess, I guess I get cyber bullied a lot. Maybe my, you know, who should, who should be wearing
00:44:21.060
that sweater I showed you before? My wife. She is the one who does all the cyber bullying.
00:44:25.560
She is my most dedicated cyber bully. And I tell you, if I got her that sweater for her,
00:44:33.640
it really would be the greatest gift ever. Uh, let's see. Blake says my two-year-old son
00:44:40.920
is in speech therapy and I worry that he won't succeed as well, uh, due to the masks. His therapist
00:44:45.700
even said it's harder to teach speaking skills with most of their face covered. And I hate to hear
00:44:51.120
that. And of course that is absolutely true though. Um, especially, I mean, in speech therapy,
00:44:58.780
they're making him wear the mask. I shouldn't be surprised. I kind of am that it's almost impossible
00:45:06.020
to do when you're, you're taking the visual cues away. We don't think about it. We don't, we, we as
00:45:13.700
adults who have fully developed language skills, some of us anyway, uh, we don't really think
00:45:18.660
about the visual cues that are involved in verbal communication, but they're there. And, and early
00:45:24.400
on in the learning stage, especially for a child who has some, some developmental struggles to take
00:45:29.900
that away is really unthinkable. And finally, another comment says AF is internet shorthand for as
00:45:35.780
foretold your wife is well within her rights to cyber bully you. Well, I don't know about that. Um,
00:45:41.880
so AF is as foretold I'm skeptical. I mean, you could be right. You could be, but I don't know if the
00:45:47.680
kids really use the phrase as foretold enough to need a shorthand for it. Maybe they're big fans of
00:45:54.080
biblical prophetic literature. I don't know. I'll try dropping that at church on Sunday and I'll let
00:45:58.420
you know how it goes. Well, I don't have to fake excitement about this one. Not that I fake it about
00:46:02.840
anything else. Cause I'm always excited about reading all the ads. As you know, this one though
00:46:06.480
is a totally different deal. Okay. This is an ad you need to listen to. Um, the sweet baby gang. I
00:46:12.920
don't have to tell you about it. You know about it. I don't have to explain it to you because I can't even
00:46:16.200
really explain it to be honest with you. Uh, the sweet baby gang, we are in the need in need of an
00:46:20.480
anthem. We need a song that encapsulates everything that the sweet baby gang is, which first you have
00:46:27.020
to figure out what it is in order to encapsulate in a song. So it's a pretty big project. Uh, and
00:46:31.560
that's why right now we are accepting official submissions for the sweet baby gang anthem.
00:46:36.520
All submissions should be in the form of a YouTube video, uh, on a link, and it will be judged by
00:46:41.000
American, uh, it'd be judged sort of American idol style by myself and other daily wire hosts who have
00:46:45.960
been roped into this thing to take part in it. Um, and, and also you, the winner will you,
00:46:51.620
the viewer will ultimately decide who the winner is. So to enter, go to dailywire.com slash SBG
00:46:57.580
dailywire.com slash SBG. Again, you got to do a YouTube video. You have to have the link,
00:47:02.040
submit the link and submissions end on August 25th. And I think all the other, we're forcing the other
00:47:07.760
hosts to read this and talk about the sweet baby gang, which is maybe the best part about this,
00:47:11.880
that they have to, to read it. And, um, which is great. All right. Also not as exciting,
00:47:18.980
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Well, with all the major world events currently unfolding, you may have missed this story,
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even though it has been dutifully reported by all of our major media outlets. As NBC tells us,
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the singer Lizzo has tearfully called out fat phobic and racist hate directed towards her Newsweek,
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the Huffington Post, the LA Times, Daily Beast. Many other sources have issued their own reports
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on this subject. Apparently in a recent Instagram live video, Lizzo began crying about the internet
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trolls who are mean to her, accused them of racism and fat phobia and complained about the deep impact
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that these, that these random anonymous accounts have had on her self-esteem. Now I'm sure you already
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agree that this was of course a newsworthy event, but, uh, here's a little bit of that video just so
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you can fully appreciate the scope and implication of this issue. Here it is.
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And for the most part, it doesn't hurt my feelings. I don't care. I just think when
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I'm working this hard, my, my tolerance gets lower.
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My patience is lower. I'm more sensitive and it gets to me.
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You know, we're meant to feel quite bad for Lizzo. In fact, we've been sternly instructed to feel bad
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for her. A post on Jezebel says that her tears are so pure, her heartache is so deep and profound
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that we quote, don't deserve Lizzo's tears. I don't really know what that means, but I'm sure it meant
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something to the person who wrote it. A writer for Refinery29 explains that quote, Lizzo's joy,
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her steadfast belief in her right to exist and fully occupies spaces, upsets people who bought
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into the white supremacist lie that these things, black bodies and radical beliefs must shrink.
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Lizzo is beautiful, well-resourced and has millions of fans listening to her reclaim her space.
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Once again, that doesn't appear to really mean anything. Is there a white supremacist conspiracy
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to shrink black bodies? Has Rick Moranis turned into a neo-Nazi and begun using his powers for evil?
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I'm not sure, but the point we're supposed to take away from this is that, yes, that was a
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids reference, kids. You're too young for that. Lizzo is a victim. That's the
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point. She is an injured, precious flower, and this is all a major problem for the world.
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Actually, her tearful complaints about mean internet comments are sort of interesting when you compare
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them to the song she just released called Rumors. Now, in the video for that song, she twerks
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in a skin-tight suit while boasting that her body is goals, meaning that her body is so beautiful
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that other people want to look just like her. You know, they have a goal to look just like her.
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And she brags about walking around with, quote, her ass hanging out. Now, I know that you're hoping
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desperately that I will let you see and hear all of this for yourself, and you're in luck because
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They hated on me since school, yeah. I never thought I was cool, yeah. Now, me and Cardi,
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we cool, yeah. I love hoes on foes, yeah. I am body goals, yeah. This s*** from my soul,
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yeah. Black people may rock and roll, yeah. Why are you spending all your time trying to break
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a woman down? Real as s*** is going on, baby. Take a look around. If you thought that I was
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ratchet with my s*** hanging out, just wait until the summer when they let me out the house.
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So there you go. Unironically, I will say that the song is powerful. And I don't mean powerful
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in the sense that the odor from an overflowing garbage can baking in the sun is powerful,
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though it is powerful in that sense as well. And there's no doubt that it is a powerfully awful
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garbage song and part of the music industry's increasingly successful plot to make everybody
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dumber. But when I say powerful, I mean really that there are some important lessons we can learn
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from all of this. The first is that if you don't want people making comments about your body,
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don't run around half naked while insisting that everybody look at your body, okay? It's
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a fact of life that if you purposefully put an intimate aspect of yourself on display to the
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world, you are going to hear the world's opinions about it. Don't want the world's opinions?
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Keep it to yourself. You might say that the world should have better manners, you know, and maybe
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it should, but it doesn't. And at a certain point, you need to start operating within reality as it is
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actually constructed. Also, manners run both ways. It is bad manners to walk around with your,
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quote, ass hanging out in Lizzo's words. And in fact, when you do that and you call attention to
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it and you say, hey, everybody, look, my ass is hanging out. The people who have been subjected
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to that site are, I would say, not only within their rights, but within the bounds of proper
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etiquette to say something like, wow, gross, can you please stop that? The idea that people have today
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is that they should have the right to flaunt themselves, their bodies, their personal lives,
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every personal detail about them, revealing every crack and crevice of themselves to the public,
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if you'll pardon the phrase, and that they should also get to determine how the public reacts to
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that ghastly spectacle. But it doesn't work that way. And again, this is not only about showing off
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your body. These days, people like to show off many other things, all of the most personally intimate
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details about them, and then become deeply traumatized when strangers honestly react to it.
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They want us to know their business, but also to stay out of their business. It is schizophrenic
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and ridiculous. Also, there's something else. Note how Lizzo fronts as this confident, body-positive,
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boisterous, bold, self-esteem warrior, and yet in reality, breaks down in tears because a few random
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people on the internet insulted her. I mean, Lizzo is roundly praised almost everywhere, by almost
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everyone. She's rich and famous, beloved, highly acclaimed. She's won awards. She's won,
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she's won commendations of all kinds. The entire media is ready to print headlines congratulating
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her or consoling her, whatever she needs. She lives in this echo chamber of adulation and yet
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crumbles if the slightest criticism leaks through the cracks. Now, some of us, like yours truly,
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are also very harshly judged and criticized on the internet, and yet are certainly not engulfed in
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flattery nearly to the same extent. And we don't cry over mean comments. Least of all would we cry
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publicly live streaming it for the world to see? So what's going on here? Well, this is more evidence
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of what should already be obvious. The body positivity stuff, the self-esteem on steroids
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stuff, the look at me, I'm so beautiful and awesome posturing that you get from pop stars and from
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normal people also in this culture these days, that's all an act. That's all a form of overcompensation,
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a way to disguise their crippling insecurities. People don't go around showing off their bodies,
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flaunting themselves, talking about how great and amazing and beautiful they are, if they are
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actually confident in themselves. Confident people wear normal clothing and go about their day.
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They are body positive in the sense that they don't spend an exorbitant amount of time thinking
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about their bodies. They are not immersed in thoughts about their own bodies, and they certainly
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don't need you to think about their bodies. So what we call body positivity is actually body
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affirmation. The people who constantly announce to the world that they're body positive are actually
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saying that they need affirmation. They need you to notice them and then notice their bodies and
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respond in a certain way. They say they don't care about anybody's opinion, but literally the exact
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opposite is true. There is nothing they value more than everybody's opinion. They live for your
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approval. They need it, like they need air and water. But putting Lizzo's specific case aside for a
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moment. I think it's interesting to think about how we got to this point where so many people are
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so totally dependent upon public affirmation and approval. We've talked about that problem quite a
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bit. How did we get here? Why is it like this? I think one obvious culprit is the internet. You know,
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as most kids grow up on the internet, are raised by the internet in many ways, they become conditioned
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to this environment where everything you do and say is a public spectacle and you receive an immediate
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judgment from your audience. You do something, say something, post something, and your audience
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responds right away with either applause or affirmation, jeers or disapproval, thumbs up or
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thumbs down, nice comments or mean comments. Jerry Seinfeld once said that when he's on the stage, he gets a
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performance review every 30 seconds because the crowd laughs at the joke or not. And so it's different
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from other kinds of jobs where you get a performance review every month or whatever. And when you're on
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the stage, it's like it's an immediate thing. The feedback is also blunt, right? Well, now everybody
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is on a stage of sorts. Our kids grow up on one where they receive those rapid fire performance reviews
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every hour of every day. They become conditioned to depend on those reviews, always seeking the dopamine
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hit that comes with a positive evaluation. And because they live for positive feedback, their greatest fear
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is criticism, negative feedback. Criticism starts to feel almost like a, almost like a physical danger,
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something that threatens to undermine their very existence. Now, if this sounds like a horrible way
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to condition children and like a recipe for a society full of fragile, non-functioning crybabies,
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well, welcome to America circa 2021. Lizzo is the poster child for everything that has just been
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described, which explains her popularity, but also explains why she is today finally canceled. Again, I think,
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I think this is like the third time. Hasn't set in yet. We'll keep going. And that'll do it for us
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today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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