The U.S. birth rate is collapsing, and our civilization is going extinct. Some may consider that a minor problem. Others say it s actually a good thing. We ll discuss. Also, Joe Biden finally answers some questions about his Afghanistan evacuation plan, and his answers were more unintelligible than usual. He is falling apart before our eyes, as the world also falls apart.
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00:16:29.140When the Taliban, let me back and put it another way.
00:16:34.840When you had the government of Afghanistan, the leader of that government, getting in a plane and taking off and going to another country.
00:16:44.280When you saw the significant collapse of the Afghan troops we had trained, up to 300,000 of them, just leaving their equipment and taking off.
00:16:56.120That was, you know, I'm not, that's what happened.
00:22:35.160And that's why Joe Biden yesterday gave a speech where he didn't talk about Afghanistan at all, even though it's the only thing that anybody is thinking about right now.
00:22:43.440Instead, he wanted to talk about mask mandates.
00:22:49.420Those are the people who are against mask mandates and specifically the people in Tennessee.
00:22:54.760We are the real enemies here, as Joe Biden explains.
00:22:57.100Unfortunately, as we've seen throughout this pandemic, some politicians are trying to turn public safety measures, that is, children wearing masks in school, into political disputes for their own political gain.
00:23:11.640Some are even trying to take power away from local educators by banning masks in school.
00:23:20.880For example, last week, at a school board meeting in Tennessee, protesters threatened doctors and nurses who were testifying making the case for masking children in schools.
00:23:35.640The intimidation and the threats we're seeing across the country are wrong.
00:23:41.400So this is what the plan here is to redirect and let's talk about people who are against mask mandates and all of them now are villains and they want children to get sick.
00:24:26.840And there were people on either side of it.
00:24:28.920And the so-called public health authorities were on either side of it.
00:24:32.640In fact, there are still some of our blessed, sacred public health authorities who say you shouldn't put masks on kids before the age of, say, five.
00:24:39.860And you could kind of be, it was a debate.
00:24:47.180The only acceptable position is to be in favor of forcing kids to wear masks for eight hours a day as young as three or four years old, you know, preschool age.
00:24:59.560That's, that is always the trajectory.
00:25:03.500So you take a point of view, an opinion that at first nobody agrees with.
00:25:11.520So absurd that we didn't even talk about it.
00:25:13.680And then for, and then for a brief period of time, because once the ruling class, once the elites decide that this is a, this is an opinion we should all have, there's going to be a brief period of time where allegedly it's up for debate.
00:25:28.480And we pretend that we're debating it and we're looking at the science and we're weighing pros and cons, but the outcome has already been decided.
00:25:37.340Because very quickly, we're going to transition through that period to, nope, it's been decided.
00:25:44.020This opinion that nobody agreed with, uh, 18 months ago.
00:25:48.320Now you, you, you have to, and if you don't, then you are a genocidal murderous maniac and you want to kill kids.
00:25:57.700And you are the real enemy says Joe Biden.
00:26:01.780That's what we need to be talking about.
00:26:03.120Our enemies here at home, certainly not the Taliban and our enemies here at home are just people that people like me and you.
00:26:14.020This in fact has been a message that we've, we've heard from the left a lot over the last few days, sometimes disguised as a joke.
00:26:20.400Here's Stephen Colbert, who has yet to make a single funny joke at any point during his late night show, his comedy central show where, where, where all he did was make fun of conservatives was, was actually funny sometimes.
00:26:32.520Um, but I'm not aware, maybe someone could point me to it.
00:26:36.460I'm not aware for the years that he's been doing this thing on CBS.
00:26:39.080I'm not aware of him ever having one funny joke or segment or bit or anything, and he certainly didn't start, he didn't end that streak with this.
00:27:05.680Yeah, the, the way that they're leaning into that comparison, this, this is what the left always does, of course, because they're, they're never on the defense.
00:27:19.660He said, their Taliban, our Taliban, everybody's got a Taliban.
00:27:22.720They're at their best when they confiscate the halls of power.
00:27:25.220And then we've got a picture of the Taliban up there and then a picture of, uh, the guy in the bison suit and the, the, the, the, you know, the horn hat walking through the Capitol.
00:27:36.180You know, you notice some differences though, like the people at the top, at the top there, the Taliban, they all have guns for one thing.
00:27:45.340And then the bottom picture, no guns, no one's armed.
00:27:50.380They're armed with flags and a bullhorn and a hat with horns on it.
00:27:59.440This is a comparison that should embarrass them because for months they've been saying, oh, it's a, it was an insurrection of violent insurrection.
00:28:24.560You've got the president of the country fleeing in a helicopter, the military laying down their arms, surrendering, sometimes, sometimes joining the other side.
00:28:35.460Now you have armed men who have taken control of the government, killing people in the streets, even if the media is not quite highlighting some of that stuff.
00:28:48.200That's what an insurrection looks like.
00:28:50.180What you're seeing in Afghanistan right now, that's what an insurrection looks like.
00:28:53.000Compare that to what happened on Capitol Hill on January 6th, where you had a bunch of unarmed people walking into the Capitol building, which in many cases the doors were opened for them by the Capitol police.
00:29:10.980They walk in, take some selfies, put their feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk, someone steals a lectern, and then they leave.
00:29:18.180That comparison reveals just how vapid and ridiculous the insurrection claim really is.
00:29:29.340But rather than the left being embarrassed by that, they lean into it and they say, yeah, you see, exactly the same.
00:29:36.640And we've seen more of these kinds of comparisons.
00:29:42.100MSNBC just published an editorial which says, over the last few days, the airwaves have been filled with Republicans voicing their deep concern over the rights of the women of Afghanistan.
00:29:53.080House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy put out a statement sounding alarm bells that women will suffer the most from the loss of human rights under the Taliban's rule.
00:29:59.920Representative Stephen Chabot, the self-described dean of Ohio GOP congressional delegation, appeared Sunday on NPR declaring that under Taliban rule, the lives of women and girls are going to be reduced, condemned to slavery.
00:30:12.220And yet the writer goes on, I have to wonder where these voices are when extremists, based on a narrow reading of their religion's beliefs, enacted a law that forces a woman who was raped to carry the fetus of the rapist to term.
00:30:25.540The same law makes it a crime for anyone to assist that woman in trying to abort the rapist's fetus.
00:30:31.100And then it goes on from there, drawing the expected comparison between pro-lifers and the Taliban.
00:30:36.180And Mark Lamont Hill, I'm, it's hard to, this is a, this is a, we had a little bit of a Joe Biden problem here where it's hard to tell what exactly he's trying to say.
00:30:49.880But he had his, he has his show on Black News tonight and he was trying to explain, I think, maybe I'll play this and you tell me what he's trying to say.
00:31:00.980It sounds like he's trying to blame white conservatives for the fact that women in Afghanistan have to wear burqas.
00:31:12.120This is about the way in which the hijab is being used as a political tool, first to demonize Islam, to make Islam look more oppressive and repressive than any other religion or culture in the world.
00:31:27.040It's also being used as a tool to justify American imperialism.
00:31:33.180There has been a consistent narrative from the West, particularly these United States since 9-11, to suggest that the reason we're invading countries, the reason we're plundering, the reason we're bombing, the reason we're exploiting is to save the women.
00:31:49.520Look at what they have to wear on their heads.
00:32:14.160And right now it has an interest in making you believe that their imperial theft and plunder is part of an attempt of white men to save brown women from brown men.
00:34:49.400But he seems to be trying to argue that somehow burqas are a tool of white conservative men to oppress brown women in Afghanistan.
00:35:00.620Either it's a tool of ours, or it's a false narrative.
00:35:08.400Maybe he's claiming that it's not true.
00:35:10.980They don't really have to wear burqas.
00:35:14.200Oh, yeah, they're claiming that women in Afghanistan don't have agency.
00:35:18.540Yeah, we claim that because if they show their hair in public, they'll be stoned to death.
00:35:25.240Silly me, I thought that that was an attack on the agency of a woman.
00:35:27.840So, what you see overall here, a lot of these comparisons, trying to draw these kinds of connections between, you know, conservatives and the Taliban.
00:37:11.760I mean, is our country a safe haven for minorities and oppressed foreigners and non-white people who are being oppressed by other non-white people, by the way?
00:37:25.740If it is a safe haven, then you're going to have to really drop the oppression, systemic racism, American Taliban narrative.
00:37:33.000You're going to have to pick one or the other.
00:37:37.160If it's, if it's, if it's not a safe haven and everything is as bad here as you say, then at the very least, we should all be able to agree that we cannot accept this whole flood of Afghan, Afghan refugees.
00:37:49.620We may have different reasons for coming to that conclusion, but we should be arriving at the same conclusion nonetheless.
00:38:00.900Since we're on the subject and since the left has raised this subject and since they've made this comparison,
00:38:10.480I feel I can ask which side is it exactly that supports the mass slaughter of human beings, in this case, in the womb, the genital mutilation of children, censorship, huge restrictions on basic human freedoms.
00:38:57.220In fact, pro-abortion leftists are responsible for far, for far more bloodshed than the Taliban has ever been responsible for.
00:39:11.980I mean, the abortion industry at all, the abortion industry alone has killed, kills more people in a year than the Taliban could kill in a decade.
00:39:21.900I mean, the Taliban looks at Planned Parenthood and is, they're, they're jealous.
00:39:29.900They say, teach us your ways, oh master.
00:39:38.640So if that's the, if you're looking for the comparison, I'm, I'm saying, I think you may want to look at yourself and fundamentally there is something in common here, I think.
00:39:49.860Between the American left and, and the Taliban and the most fundamental thing in common is that neither group places any inherent value on human life.
00:40:00.400That is why the Taliban laughs at our suggestion, our demand in sternly worded letters that they respect the rights of women and minorities and everything else.
00:40:15.160Because there is no concept of human rights without first day concept of inherent human worth and dignity.
00:40:21.680If you don't have inherent human worth and dignity, then there's no human rights.
00:40:26.760Because that's what the idea is founded on.
00:40:30.400The reason we have human rights is because we are people of fundamental moral worth created by a, a loving, merciful creator, God.
00:40:38.080And because of that, you know, there, there are certain rights and liberties that, that, that we have by our nature.
00:40:48.420You take the, the basis of that away that you don't have the human rights anymore.
00:40:51.920That's why the Taliban laughs about it because they don't think, and they, they don't claim to think that all people are created equal, that all people have inherent moral worth.
00:41:14.000And you, you couldn't celebrate the mass slaughter of a million babies every single year, if you believed in the moral worth and inherent human dignity of all people.
00:41:25.180All right, let's, uh, move on to, I guess we'll go now to reading the comments.
00:41:29.840Actually, one other thing of slightly less importance, uh, the Washington football team, they're now looking for their new name and they've, they've thrown Redskins out the window because that's offensive for whatever reason.
00:41:46.700And so now they've, they've whittled it down to these names.
00:41:51.260So they're, it's going to be one of these and they're, they've put the poll out there.
00:41:54.660They're asking people to vote on it and they've whittled it down to a list of eight names.
00:41:58.560And here are the possible names, the Washington Armada, the Washington Brigade, the Washington Commanders, the Washington Defenders, the Washington Presidents, the Washington Red Hogs, the Washington Red Wolves, or just the Washington football team.
00:42:15.900Which at this point, I hope they, they, they simply go with that, the Washington football team.
00:42:19.180So what you see here is, first of all, now that we're so worried about offending people, you're going to end up with the most boring, innocuous names imaginable.
00:42:30.460Because any name that has a little bit of character to it is going to offend someone.
00:42:36.280But then also, so you go from Redskins and that's offensive, but you're saying, well, we want to, we still want to have something that's red.
00:43:31.700Um, and, uh, he's more compelling rhetorically as well in front of an audience, answering questions.
00:43:42.800I think he's, he's, he's, he's able to string together answers and thoughts that, that to me, I think are more persuasive and compelling than what you normally get from Trump.
00:43:52.560But we could put all that to the side.
00:43:54.320Like that doesn't even really matter because the point is that Trump will be 78.
00:43:57.460So even if you disagree with everything I just said about the comparison between DeSantis and Trump, that's fine.
00:44:03.660But he, but what we cannot get away from is that Trump will be 78 years old.
00:44:07.980And we have seen what happens when you elect a 78 year old president.
00:44:13.880And you can say all you want, well, it's different with Trump.
00:44:15.960No, it's not because Trump is a human being.
00:44:28.020And as you get to that age, approaching your eighties and you're going to turn 80 in office, you jet, you start to significantly lose your mental faculties and your physical faculties.
00:44:42.540It's a sad reality, but it is a reality.
00:44:44.360And so, no, there is, there is not any 78 year old in this country who I would vote to elect, not because I have anything against 78 year old people or anything like that.
00:44:57.720I'm a realist and I understand the realities that come with advanced age, which is also why I wouldn't elect a 22 year old president.
00:45:09.660Nothing against 22 year olds, but there are certain realities that come with, with that age, with being that young.
00:45:17.020Wouldn't want someone like that as a president.
00:45:18.540Shen Shako says, please take the dog that has been there the longest or oldest.
00:45:39.560There's a reason the dog has been there that long.
00:45:41.900That's, uh, that's, uh, that's another unfortunate reality that I think we should deal with.
00:45:48.560Uh, Jess says, Matt explaining the proper way to commit a hate crime on oneself is spectacular.
00:45:53.860It's like he took the time to really think this through with, which just shows how devious his mind could potentially be if he were to use it for evil instead of good.
00:46:14.600They're a rational person who's going to commit a hate crime against themselves.
00:46:17.300Not, not a rational act to begin with, but we could all imagine more effective ways to do it.
00:46:25.600Where you cover yourself a little bit more than what we got from this vaccine official who mailed herself a dog muzzle with her own credit card.
00:46:34.640Um, wider says, Matt, I love your show, man, but let's be real here.
00:46:40.220It's never going to sound very convincing when you're first explaining how our modern Western civilization believes in things like human rights and such, because it was uniquely built upon a Christian worldview framework.
00:46:50.380And a few minutes later, you ask why it should always fall upon us in the modern civilized West to take in refugees of war.
00:46:58.020Didn't you, uh, did you just answer your own question before you even asked it?
00:47:29.660And our government has an obligation to its own people first.
00:47:38.720Um, being Christian does not mean that you can't have a functioning government and a functioning government has to, has an obligation, has to prioritize its own people.
00:47:48.020Yeah, as a Christian, in terms of Christian principles, you love all people across the world.
00:47:55.440You love the downtrodden and, and all of that, of course.
00:47:58.540And you, as an individual Christian, you're, you're welcome to pursue that as far as you want to.
00:48:04.080You can go on a mission trip somewhere.
00:48:05.500You can go anywhere you want and, and, and help the poor, help the downtrodden.
00:48:23.660Um, I'm against the way that it is done now.
00:48:26.120And I don't, and the problem is I don't trust our government because they don't prioritize our own people.
00:48:30.040I don't trust them to bring in this flood of Afghan refugees, many of them, men of fighting age from a country where there is among a certain portion of the population, at the very least, uh, sympathies for the Taliban.
00:48:45.460And I don't trust our government to bring them in and to vet them properly.
00:48:52.180And then upon vetting them to make the right call and the right decision.
00:48:58.920So that's why I'm very skeptical of this plan to bring in all these refugees.
00:49:03.160Uh, and Teresa says, Matt, important question.
00:49:08.760Yeah, I just finished a book called The Last Place on Earth about the race to the South Pole in the early 20th century between, uh, Robert Falcon, Scott, and Roald Amundsen.
00:49:20.620Scott got to the pole, uh, after, behind Amundsen.
00:49:24.840And then Scott's whole team died on the way back.
00:49:27.400After losing the race, then they all die.
00:49:29.020They freeze to death and starve to death slowly.
00:49:31.680Amundsen, though, the winner was overshadowed by, by Scott because Scott became this kind of martyr figure and became a hero in death, even though he was grossly incompetent.
00:49:41.080And he caused the death of, of his entire team because of his incompetence.
00:49:45.200And then Amundsen is a fascinating figure because he was the first person to navigate the Northwest Passage before being the first to the South Pole.
00:49:52.800And he accomplished that to the South Pole.
00:49:54.060So, and then he navigated the Northeast Passage, um, uh, and that took seven years because he got stranded in the ice and then he got attacked by polar bears and it was a whole thing.
00:50:05.820And then he was the first to reach the North Pole by plane and then he went into retirement after conquering the entire globe and accomplishing in one lifetime this thing that entire empires had tried to do for hundreds of years and had failed to do.
00:50:19.700Then he goes into retirement and in his fifties, he comes out of retirement because another explorer is on an Arctic journey, gets trapped in the ice in the, in the Arctic and, uh, and Amundsen decides to get in a plane and try to rescue him.
00:50:31.400Um, and he crashes into the Arctic, Arctic ocean is never, never seen again.
00:50:37.220Um, and most people don't know his name.
00:50:39.200And this is just another one of those guys who, you know, you go to public school, you might never hear his name mentioned, which is a tragedy.
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00:51:55.980Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:52:01.500Today for our cancellation, we must check in again with our trusty healthcare workers.
00:52:05.760Now I should say that I have no ill will towards healthcare workers at all.
00:52:09.880I respect people in that line of work.
00:52:11.280I have family members in that line of work.
00:52:13.240They're great people, and I'm sure they're not alone in their industry in that regard.
00:52:18.580My problem is not with healthcare workers, but with morally deranged narcissists and attention-starved drama queens.
00:52:24.460There are many people of that type living in our country today, but events of the last couple of years have shown a special spotlight on the members of that group who happen to also wear a name tag and scrubs to work.
00:52:34.320So to that end, I have to highlight two men.
00:52:37.720The first is Adam Hill, MD, who has an inexplicably large following on social media and seems to quite enjoy the attention.
00:53:52.100Has anything like that ever crossed your mind?
00:53:54.220It would seem that if it did, you couldn't really have been all that upset to begin with.
00:53:59.100No person who was really sad, who was really grieving, actually wants their grief to be recorded and displayed for public consumption.
00:54:07.320No person except for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of course, who, as we know, was experiencing very real trauma at the site of an empty parking lot in Texas and brought a professional photographer along to record her profoundly sincere emotional breakdown.
00:54:18.700But other than that, this is just not a normal thing.
00:54:59.760It says, in Alabama, where the nation's lowest vaccination rate has helped push the state closer to a record number of hospitalizations, a physician has sent a clear message to his patients.
00:55:09.000Don't come in for medical treatment if you are unvaccinated.
00:55:11.820Jason Valentine, a physician at Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, posted a photo on Facebook this week of him pointing to a sign taped to a door informing patients of his new policy coming October 1st.
00:55:28.820The sign reads, Dr. Valentine will no longer see patients that are not vaccinated against COVID-19.
00:55:35.280Valentine wrote in the post, which has since been made private, but was captured in online images, that there were no conspiracy theories, no excuses stopping anyone from being vaccinated.
00:55:44.080The doctor, who said at least three unvaccinated patients have asked him where they could get a vaccine since he posted the photo, has remained resolute to those who have questioned his decision in recent days.
00:55:54.980Okay, now I have to wonder how many divorces this guy has, given that vows apparently mean nothing to him.
00:56:01.340Doctors may not, may not take the traditional Hippocratic oath anymore, but they do swear to treat the sick and to do no harm.
00:56:08.600I mean, this is the promise doctors make to the public simply by calling themselves doctors.
00:56:16.400A doctor who refuses to treat sick people is like a garbage man who refuses to touch your garbage can if you put trash in it.
00:56:25.380I'm not touching that thing. What'd you put in there? Trash?
00:56:28.920He is fundamentally refusing to do the one single thing that his job requires him to do.
00:56:33.760Now, the scary thing, of course, is that he's not the only one who thinks that unvaccinated people are unworthy of medical treatment.
00:56:41.260You hear this argument a lot, actually, and the justification is that unvaccinated people aren't taking care of their health and don't deserve to be treated when they suffer the consequences of their own reckless decisions, as the argument goes.
00:56:53.620Also, again, as the argument goes, unvaccinated people are a strain on the health care system.
00:56:59.480But even if I were to agree with the framing here, which I don't,
00:57:03.760shouldn't we apply this principle consistently?
00:57:07.300Obesity kills far more people than COVID does.
00:57:10.580And it even helps to kill many of the people who die of COVID.
00:57:13.980So why aren't we refusing medical treatment to fat people who eat fast food and haven't seen the inside of a gym since the Clinton administration?
00:57:43.000Most STDs are contracted through reckless and avoidable behavior.
00:57:47.120What about alcoholics with liver damage or smokers with lung cancer?
00:57:50.440As it turns out, a huge number of the medical problems, from mild to severe, and everything in between, which send people to doctors' offices and hospitals, have a lifestyle component to them.
00:58:01.760If doctors weren't going to treat people whose choices have contributed to their ailments, then they're not going to be treating almost anybody.
00:58:11.020As it turns out, as a doctor, it is your job to treat the sick no matter how they got sick.
00:58:16.160If you aren't prepared to do that job, or if you require constant pity and admiration from the public in order to do it, perhaps you should find another line of work.