The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 779 - To Save Our Civilization, Get Married And Have Lots of Babies

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the U.S. birth rate is collapsing. Our civilization is going extinct.

00:00:05.220 Some may consider that a minor problem. Others say it's actually a good thing. We'll discuss.

00:00:09.280 Also, Joe Biden finally answers some questions about his Afghanistan evacuation plan,

00:00:14.060 and his answers were more unintelligible than usual. He is falling apart before our eyes,

00:00:19.400 as the world also falls apart. Great stuff. Meanwhile, the left continues to argue that

00:00:23.940 the Taliban in Afghanistan really aren't any worse than conservatives here in America.

00:00:28.520 This line of argument raises a few questions, which I will ask today. A doctor in Alabama

00:00:32.840 announces that he will not see any patients who haven't been vaccinated, while another doctor

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00:02:10.940 So this may or may not seem like a big deal to you, but it's probably at least worth mentioning

00:02:16.300 that we are going extinct as a civilization. It is, you might say, a minor problem. U.S. birth

00:02:22.420 rates are dropping like a rock and have been for some time. A report a few months ago found that

00:02:27.000 the birth rate in the United States fell again in 2020, a 4% decline from 2019. And 2019 had been

00:02:32.900 a decline from the year before that and so on. As it stands right now, the fertility rate is 56 births

00:02:39.380 per 1,000 women. That's the general fertility rate, which is the lowest we've ever seen in a given

00:02:46.240 year. The completed fertility rate or total fertility rate, which tells us how many children

00:02:51.260 a woman will have in her lifetime, is now at 1.6, also the lowest ever and well below replacement 0.99

00:02:57.700 level. In fact, we haven't had a fertility rate above replacement level since the early 70s,

00:03:02.740 at least. After years of hysteria over the mythological beast known as overpopulation,

00:03:08.920 we're now being told that our problem is exactly the opposite. A headline on CNBC

00:03:12.500 says that researchers are now warning of underpopulation. Instead of having so many

00:03:18.460 people packed onto the earth that islands are capsizing on themselves, as a Democrat congressman

00:03:23.560 once famously worried about out loud, now instead we face the much more real problems of living in a

00:03:29.380 society where families aren't producing enough children to replace themselves. The average number

00:03:34.580 of children per family is now under two. People still talk about it like it's the standard 2.5

00:03:40.980 kids per family. It's actually like 1.7 now, and it's been under two for a long time. Much is being

00:03:48.180 written about why this is happening, but the reasons should be clear enough. Yes, we are experiencing

00:03:56.620 record levels of infertility. That's one reason. A great boon for the IVF industry, but not so great

00:04:04.560 in any other sense. Why all of the infertility? Well, it could have something to do with the chemicals

00:04:09.180 we're consuming. There could be plenty of diet and environmental factors. I'm sure that weighs in

00:04:15.260 here. That's part of the problem. And it's also a fact that women are choosing to wait until they are 1.00

00:04:21.220 past their peak fertility years to start having kids. The average age for having a first child and

00:04:27.180 only child much of the time is now 26 or 27 for women and around 30 for men or older. 26 is still

00:04:35.260 within peak fertility range, but to get to that average, you know, not too long ago, it was like

00:04:40.040 20 or 21, a few decades ago. So to get to the 26 average, there have to be, of course, millions of

00:04:46.220 women waiting until they're well into their thirties to even start. In fact, in many other 0.96

00:04:50.920 countries across the West, in Europe, the average age, the average age for women to start families

00:04:56.560 is 30, meaning that women are on average waiting until their fertility starts to wane to even start 1.00

00:05:03.660 a family or try. Now, this again is great news for IVF clinics, bad news for everybody else.

00:05:10.120 Or is it bad news? If you listen to the media, well, you're not going to hear a whole lot about this

00:05:15.200 issue at all, but when you do hear about it, very often you'll be told that the collapse of the

00:05:19.460 American birth rate and our plummeting fertility levels are not a big deal at all. An article this

00:05:23.880 past weekend in The Atlantic, written by Elizabeth Brunig, says that the population decline narrative

00:05:28.260 is nothing but a right-wing trope. Now, it's just something that right-wingers talk about.

00:05:32.560 She says that most women do end up having kids eventually, so why does it matter? A piece recently

00:05:38.440 published in Popular Science goes a step further, explaining that our march towards extinction

00:05:43.540 is good, actually. The writer argues that this is all a reflection of shifting gender roles and the 1.00

00:05:49.820 fact that more women are working, and so it's something to celebrate. Besides, kids are expensive. 1.00

00:05:55.340 And also, the article says, we could just bring immigrants in to replace us and pick up the slack. 0.94

00:06:00.340 Only don't call it replacement, because as we've seen, that makes you a white supremacist.

00:06:04.320 Unless you're writing for Popular Science, in which case, you know, you can acknowledge the

00:06:08.660 replacement as long as you think it's good. That's the rule. Somehow, though, even after

00:06:14.640 reflecting on these compelling arguments, I still can't see our population decline as anything but

00:06:20.940 bad news. I mean, very, very bad news. Crisis-level bad news. And two reasons are worth considering here.

00:06:30.520 The first is the rather obvious but crucial point that the human race requires humans in order to exist.

00:06:38.660 And I, for one, consider existence to be a superior state to non-existence. I prefer existence. I don't

00:06:44.780 know about you. I prefer a future over no future. These are just my own preferences, admittedly, but

00:06:50.360 even so, I mean, we can look historically and see that a rapid decline in birth rates has never been a

00:06:56.780 good sign for any civilization. This is always something that precedes collapse. No civilization has

00:07:02.880 given up on future generations and seen the birth rate plummet and then went on to flourish

00:07:08.380 because of it. That's never happened, and we're not going to be the exception.

00:07:14.260 But, you know, there's something else, too. It's a different problem but related.

00:07:18.900 The other issue with our birth rate decline is that it reveals a dramatic and ultimately

00:07:25.060 cataclysmic shift in our priorities as a people. As much as we may want to blame external factors,

00:07:32.400 we can't afford kids, they're expensive, it's not feasible, whatever. The fact is that we are having

00:07:38.280 fewer kids or no kids because we have prioritized our time and money in other ways. It should already

00:07:46.320 be obvious that the money excuse is pretty lame, considering the fact that the average American

00:07:51.600 family 200 years ago was exponentially larger than ours was exponentially larger than ours and exponentially

00:07:55.800 poorer. No, it can't be a lack of money or resources, but rather how we choose to expend them.

00:08:02.520 In fact, it's hard to say that our choice to forgo parenthood is a matter of prudent financial planning

00:08:07.480 when we're spending almost $100 billion a year on our pets. That's billion with a B.

00:08:14.540 B. Go look it up. Over the course of this decade, if the rates stay the same and don't increase,

00:08:21.020 which they will, but pretending they don't, we will have spent a trillion dollars taking care of

00:08:27.760 our favorite four-legged creatures. A trillion. While complaining that we just don't, we don't have

00:08:33.120 the money for kids right now. And that's to say nothing of all the money we spend on consumer

00:08:38.080 electronics and other luxuries. We have the funds to start families, we just don't have the priorities.

00:08:42.780 A civilization that gives up on the future is an inherently self-centered and shallow civilization.

00:08:53.360 And that's maybe the worst consequence of our declining birth rates.

00:08:57.000 Though you might say that it's both the cause and the consequences, both the chicken and the egg.

00:09:03.000 As we forfeit family life, we begin to live lives that are increasingly focused only on the here and

00:09:09.720 now and only on finding personal comfort and enjoyment in the here and now. A civilization

00:09:14.100 that produces lots of children and large families also produces better people, less selfish people,

00:09:20.580 people who feel called to dedicate themselves to a cause bigger than their own entertainment.

00:09:26.280 They care more about their country, more about the civilization they are a part of.

00:09:31.520 This is also part of the story when we see the decline in patriotism.

00:09:36.640 Why are people less patriotic now? Well, because they're less invested in their country.

00:09:42.680 They care less about it. They're less connected to it.

00:09:48.740 You know, when you have a family, it's a different story.

00:09:50.580 Also, when you're having kids and you have a family, you know, you're happier and more joyful.

00:09:57.200 I mean, ultimately, living in a country which has chosen population decline,

00:10:01.620 embraced it as a lifestyle choice, chosen it.

00:10:05.800 The worst thing about it is the despair.

00:10:08.700 Now, people may be entertained. They may be satiated.

00:10:11.280 They may be comfortable. They may be well-fed and fat.

00:10:13.500 And we are certainly all of those things.

00:10:15.720 And we may have more funds available for vacations and to buy the newest iPhone when it releases.

00:10:21.220 But we're also going to be in despair because we see no deeper purpose in life.

00:10:26.600 And we're not concerned about the future.

00:10:29.320 A declining civilization is a despairing civilization.

00:10:32.940 You wonder why everybody's depressed and anxious and they're going to their therapists and psychiatrists

00:10:37.760 asking for pills to solve the problem.

00:10:40.800 And yet they find more often than not that the pill doesn't solve the problem.

00:10:47.760 To give up on having babies is to give up on having hope.

00:10:50.960 It's to give up on purpose.

00:10:53.800 And, you know, there are some people, a small minority, who have embraced this truth.

00:10:58.400 They call themselves antinatalists.

00:11:00.460 And they will openly profess that the human race has a net negative value,

00:11:04.220 that life itself is meaningless and without purpose,

00:11:06.680 and our ultimate hope and destiny is in our own collective oblivion.

00:11:10.800 Most people who choose childlessness and childishness have not thought about it on a philosophical level like that.

00:11:18.240 And so they don't really identify themselves with the antinatalist movement.

00:11:22.000 But this is their view, whether they fully acknowledge it or not,

00:11:24.820 or even whether they fully realize it or not.

00:11:27.740 One of the early philosophers of the antinatalist movement was a guy named Peter Wessel Zapfa,

00:11:32.740 who you've never heard of because almost nobody has heard of him, especially in America.

00:11:35.840 He wrote an essay.

00:11:37.260 I think he only wrote one thing that was ever translated into English.

00:11:40.080 And it's an essay that was very influential in certain circles.

00:11:43.560 It was called The Last Messiah.

00:11:45.540 And in it, he unveils his vision of a society that finally chooses to embrace its own extinction.

00:11:52.320 He believed that life is meaningless, that the future is meaningless,

00:11:55.680 that the existence of human beings was nothing but a tragic accident,

00:11:59.840 that it is morally wrong to have kids and to bring them into this, into this meaningless, purposeless life.

00:12:07.160 And at the end of this thoroughly depressing essay, which I did read,

00:12:11.060 he imagines the last Messiah, the true Messiah,

00:12:15.200 showing up to preach his saving gospel of extinction.

00:12:18.380 Here's what he writes.

00:12:18.920 He says,

00:12:48.920 The life of the world is a roaring river, but earth's is a pond and a backwater.

00:12:54.160 The sign of doom is written on your brows.

00:12:56.540 How long will ye kick against the pinpricks?

00:12:59.000 But there is one conquest and one crown, one redemption and one solution.

00:13:04.100 Know yourselves, be infertile, and let the earth be silent after you. 1.00

00:13:10.240 Now, this is, in fact, the conquest and crown that our civilization has chosen.

00:13:14.840 Chosen infertility, to let the earth be silent after us. 1.00

00:13:20.620 If it sounds awful and depressing and appalling, well, then the good news is you're still sane.

00:13:26.800 What should you do about it?

00:13:29.040 Well, get married.

00:13:30.400 Have babies.

00:13:32.040 Pretty simple, really.

00:13:33.160 Have lots of babies.

00:13:34.660 Be fruitful and multiply.

00:13:36.200 The very first command God gives us in Scripture.

00:13:40.200 And there's a reason why it was first, as it turns out.

00:13:44.220 Let's get now to our five headlines.

00:13:45.560 We've talked about it a lot on this show.

00:13:53.760 There are a lot of jobs available right now, which should be good news for everybody.

00:13:58.880 But unfortunately, a lot of employers are having some serious trouble finding people, finding the right candidates for the job.

00:14:05.160 But according to Forbes, gyms, nail salons, hotels, mom-and-pop stores, and more are set to go on an epic hiring spree in the coming months to meet the pent-up demand for all of these services.

00:14:14.020 All these businesses reopening means that millions of jobs will need to be filled and do need to be filled right now.

00:14:18.580 So where do these businesses turn to fill those roles?

00:14:21.360 Well, they go to ZipRecruiter, or they should, if they know it's good for them.

00:14:24.180 Right now, you can try it for free at ZipRecruiter.com slash Walsh.

00:14:26.780 When you post a job on ZipRecruiter, they send your job to over 100 top job sites, giving you access to their network of millions of job seekers.

00:14:33.640 ZipRecruiter's matching technology scans resumes to find qualified candidates for your open roles and proactively presents them to you.

00:14:41.660 So this is a proactive thing.

00:14:42.960 It's not a passive thing where you're just putting it out there and waiting for the result.

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00:15:08.440 All right, Afghanistan.

00:15:10.180 Let's talk about Afghanistan.

00:15:11.560 I hope you'll forgive me for not beginning the show with Afghanistan.

00:15:14.840 There are other things in the world that are happening that are important, like, again, the extinction of our civilization.

00:15:20.940 Kind of an important thing.

00:15:22.780 But Afghanistan is also happening.

00:15:24.420 So we're going to go through some of this.

00:15:25.620 This isn't even going to really be five headlines.

00:15:27.300 This is just a jumble.

00:15:29.060 This is a ball of headlines is what it's really going to be.

00:15:31.500 So I've got a bunch of things to cover here.

00:15:33.080 We'll start, I guess, with Joe Biden.

00:15:35.440 You've probably seen some of these clips, but worth playing again.

00:15:38.360 He was interviewed by George Snuffleupagus on ABC.

00:15:43.400 And this is the first time that Joe Biden has taken any questions on Afghanistan.

00:15:48.640 These are the only questions.

00:15:49.600 He has not given a single press conference about it.

00:15:51.440 Or he's given things that look like press conferences, but then he shuffles away before, you know, answering any questions about it.

00:15:59.180 So he sits down here to allegedly answer some questions.

00:16:04.860 But what he has to say is we are used to hearing unintelligible things from this man.

00:16:11.760 But this is far worse than you would even expect.

00:16:16.100 Let's listen.

00:16:17.820 When you look at what's happened over the last week, was it a failure of intelligence, planning, execution, or judgment?

00:16:26.120 Look, I don't think it was a failure.

00:16:27.740 Look, it was a simple choice, George.

00:16:29.140 When the Taliban, let me back and put it another way. 0.97

00:16:34.840 When you had the government of Afghanistan, the leader of that government, getting in a plane and taking off and going to another country.

00:16:44.280 When 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.

00:16:56.120 That was, you know, I'm not, that's what happened.

00:17:00.560 That's simply what happened.

00:17:01.720 But we've all seen the pictures.

00:17:03.120 We've seen those hundreds of people packed into a C-17.

00:17:06.360 We've seen Afghans falling. 0.51

00:17:08.320 That was four days ago, five days ago.

00:17:10.800 What did you think when you first saw those pictures?

00:17:12.860 What I thought was we have to gain control of this.

00:17:15.920 We have to move this more quickly.

00:17:18.200 We have to move in a way in which we can take control of that airport.

00:17:22.300 And we did.

00:17:23.580 So you don't think this could have been handled?

00:17:25.080 This actually could have been handled better in any way?

00:17:28.160 No mistakes?

00:17:29.640 No, I don't think it could have been handled in a way that there, we're going to go back in hindsight and look.

00:17:36.480 But the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing.

00:17:42.220 I don't know how that happens.

00:17:44.280 I don't know how that happened.

00:17:45.640 So for you, that was always priced into the decision?

00:17:48.220 Yes.

00:17:48.640 The only thing that was honest and made sense of all those clips you just heard is where he said, I don't know how that happened.

00:18:00.360 I believe him on that.

00:18:01.460 He doesn't know how anything happened.

00:18:02.460 The process by which he ended up sitting in that chair talking to the ABC reporter, he doesn't know how that happened either.

00:18:11.860 It is not an exaggeration to say this man literally cannot complete a sentence.

00:18:18.000 I mean, am I wrong?

00:18:20.540 Was there one full sentence uttered?

00:18:24.600 He starts to begin a sentence and then kind of trails off and cuts himself off and then goes off in another direction.

00:18:30.580 Some of this is that he's scrambling to come up with excuses and he's panicking.

00:18:38.480 But then a lot of it is also that he's 78 years old and he has dementia.

00:18:43.160 Turns out that having a dementia addled Alzheimer's patient for a president is not a good idea.

00:18:51.840 Who would have thought?

00:18:53.560 Turns out it's not a good idea.

00:18:56.440 Can we agree to not ever do this again?

00:18:58.360 The thing is, we can't agree. 1.00

00:18:59.620 Even after this experience, we as a people are so collectively stupid that we can't even agree. 0.99

00:19:08.020 Like, can we agree that we're never going to have another 78-year-old president ever again? 0.99

00:19:12.120 We're not going to try this experiment again?

00:19:16.980 We can't.

00:19:20.980 He says, it's hard to really analyze what he said because, again, there was almost nothing coherent there,

00:19:27.160 except when he confessed that he has no idea what's going on.

00:19:31.580 The bit about how it was four or five days ago when people were falling off of airplanes,

00:19:37.000 I'm not sure what he was actually going for there.

00:19:40.460 What point was he trying to make?

00:19:43.820 And, of course, he's got his friend interviewing him, so he's not going to follow up.

00:19:47.380 He's doing everything.

00:19:48.700 The reporter, George's Snuffleupagus, whatever his name is, he's doing everything he can to help Joe Biden.

00:19:58.780 He's asking questions, but he's doing everything.

00:20:00.080 He's not going to follow up on a question where the answer was that embarrassing.

00:20:04.020 That was four or five days ago.

00:20:06.440 Yeah.

00:20:06.820 And what's your point?

00:20:08.020 First of all, it wasn't four or five days ago when he gave that answer.

00:20:15.420 I can't imagine Joe Biden, if he was ever accused of murder, and he's sitting down during the interrogation.

00:20:23.460 Did you murder that person? 1.00

00:20:25.080 Fuck, that was four or five days ago. 1.00

00:20:27.340 What does it matter? 1.00

00:20:31.080 There are points you could make about the fact that people were falling off of the airplane, right?

00:20:38.020 Now, I understand that the visual is obviously very upsetting for anybody.

00:20:44.700 And politically, of course, it's also disastrous for the Biden administration.

00:20:49.420 And for good reason, because, as everyone agrees, this whole thing has been handled disastrously.

00:20:56.040 But also, you could point out that people chose to sit on the outside of an airplane that was about to take off into the sky.

00:21:05.820 And it's also very likely that the person flying the plane didn't know that.

00:21:12.060 You don't exactly have rear view mirrors that are going to show you that.

00:21:15.220 So the person flying the plane, let's not put the blame on them for this.

00:21:20.960 They're trying to get out, and they're being swamped by a mob of people.

00:21:25.840 And so they're worried that this mob is going to stop everybody from getting out.

00:21:31.200 They've got like 600 people inside that plane, most of them young men.

00:21:37.380 So they're trying to get out.

00:21:38.880 They didn't realize that there was anyone sitting on the outside of the plane.

00:21:41.900 I think it would have been reasonable for them to assume that nobody would do that because that's suicidal.

00:21:46.480 There's like zero chance of that resulting in anything but your immediate death.

00:21:51.700 So, you know, I think that's a point that Joe Biden, if he was cognizant, could make.

00:22:01.060 He could say, listen, it's a horrible thing.

00:22:03.400 It's very, very sad.

00:22:04.520 We can't blame the people on the ground for that.

00:22:08.180 That would be fine.

00:22:08.920 But he's not capable of saying that.

00:22:10.140 Instead, the move from Biden and Biden's administration, his handlers, is to try to change the subject.

00:22:17.900 Let's not talk about the Taliban.

00:22:20.960 Let's not talk about what's happening in Afghanistan.

00:22:22.560 Let us redirect and find enemies here at home.

00:22:27.040 Find someone else to be angry about.

00:22:29.160 Because if Americans are angry about the Taliban, then that means that they're going to be putting it on the administration.

00:22:33.980 So let's try to switch this up.

00:22:35.160 And 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.

00:22:43.440 Instead, he wanted to talk about mask mandates.

00:22:46.520 And he found a new enemy.

00:22:49.420 Those are the people who are against mask mandates and specifically the people in Tennessee.

00:22:54.760 We are the real enemies here, as Joe Biden explains.

00:22:57.100 Unfortunately, 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.

00:23:11.640 Some are even trying to take power away from local educators by banning masks in school.

00:23:18.560 They're setting a dangerous tone.

00:23:20.880 For 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.

00:23:35.640 The intimidation and the threats we're seeing across the country are wrong.

00:23:40.420 They're unacceptable.

00:23:41.400 So 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.

00:23:56.980 We see this same method as always.

00:23:59.420 Remember, it wasn't all that long ago.

00:24:03.460 Well, it wasn't all that long ago when, of course, nobody was masking kids.

00:24:08.060 No one was even considering masking kids.

00:24:09.860 Once again, flu season, much more dangerous to kids.

00:24:14.580 Nobody considered it.

00:24:15.560 It wasn't put on the table.

00:24:16.540 It was not even something that was discussed by anybody.

00:24:20.780 And then with COVID, it becomes for a while a live issue.

00:24:25.240 Should we mask kids?

00:24:26.840 And there were people on either side of it.

00:24:28.920 And the so-called public health authorities were on either side of it.

00:24:32.640 In 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.

00:24:39.860 And you could kind of be, it was a debate.

00:24:43.400 You could be on either side of it.

00:24:45.340 And now debate is over.

00:24:47.180 The 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.

00:24:59.560 That's, that is always the trajectory.

00:25:03.500 So you take a point of view, an opinion that at first nobody agrees with.

00:25:09.360 Everyone would say is absurd.

00:25:11.520 So absurd that we didn't even talk about it.

00:25:13.680 And 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.

00:25:28.480 And 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.

00:25:37.340 Because very quickly, we're going to transition through that period to, nope, it's been decided.

00:25:41.760 Debate is over.

00:25:42.620 You have to agree with us on this.

00:25:44.020 This opinion that nobody agreed with, uh, 18 months ago. 1.00

00:25:48.320 Now you, you, you have to, and if you don't, then you are a genocidal murderous maniac and you want to kill kids. 1.00

00:25:57.700 And you are the real enemy says Joe Biden. 1.00

00:26:01.780 That's what we need to be talking about.

00:26:03.120 Our enemies here at home, certainly not the Taliban and our enemies here at home are just people that people like me and you.

00:26:14.020 This 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.

00:26:20.400 Here'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.

00:26:32.520 Um, but I'm not aware, maybe someone could point me to it.

00:26:36.460 I'm not aware for the years that he's been doing this thing on CBS.

00:26:39.080 I'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.

00:26:47.100 Let's listen.

00:26:48.080 We've had troops there for 20 years.

00:26:50.500 They fought.

00:26:51.560 They sacrificed.

00:26:52.820 Their families sacrificed so that we wouldn't have a terrorist attack in America planned in a foreign country.

00:27:00.160 Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan?

00:27:03.980 We've got our own on Capitol Hill.

00:27:05.680 Yeah, 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.

00:27:16.400 They're just going to lean into it.

00:27:17.600 Michael Moore had the same thing.

00:27:19.660 He said, their Taliban, our Taliban, everybody's got a Taliban.

00:27:22.720 They're at their best when they confiscate the halls of power.

00:27:25.220 And 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.

00:27:36.180 You 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.

00:27:44.760 They're armed.

00:27:45.340 And then the bottom picture, no guns, no one's armed.

00:27:50.380 They're armed with flags and a bullhorn and a hat with horns on it.

00:27:59.440 This 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.

00:28:08.260 Our way of life was threatened.

00:28:11.760 And now with the Taliban, you see what a violent insurrection actually is.

00:28:16.500 You see what it, what it really means, what it really entails when a violent group of extremists take over the government.

00:28:23.960 Okay.

00:28:24.560 You've got the president of the country fleeing in a helicopter, the military laying down their arms, surrendering, sometimes, sometimes joining the other side.

00:28:35.460 Now 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.

00:28:48.200 That's what an insurrection looks like.

00:28:50.180 What you're seeing in Afghanistan right now, that's what an insurrection looks like.

00:28:53.000 Compare 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.

00:29:10.980 They walk in, take some selfies, put their feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk, someone steals a lectern, and then they leave. 0.93

00:29:18.180 That comparison reveals just how vapid and ridiculous the insurrection claim really is.

00:29:29.340 But rather than the left being embarrassed by that, they lean into it and they say, yeah, you see, exactly the same. 0.92

00:29:36.640 And we've seen more of these kinds of comparisons.

00:29:42.100 MSNBC 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.

00:29:53.080 House 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.

00:29:59.920 Representative 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.

00:30:12.220 And 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.

00:30:25.540 The same law makes it a crime for anyone to assist that woman in trying to abort the rapist's fetus.

00:30:31.100 And then it goes on from there, drawing the expected comparison between pro-lifers and the Taliban.

00:30:36.180 And 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.

00:30:49.880 But 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.

00:31:00.980 It sounds like he's trying to blame white conservatives for the fact that women in Afghanistan have to wear burqas.

00:31:10.460 I don't know, let's listen.

00:31:12.120 This 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. 0.67

00:31:27.040 It's also being used as a tool to justify American imperialism.

00:31:33.180 There 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.

00:31:49.520 Look at what they have to wear on their heads.

00:31:50.820 They have no agency.

00:31:52.220 They have no freedom.

00:31:53.360 And we're going to fix that right now.

00:31:55.720 One, it's dishonest and disingenuous because there are women in Saudi Arabia who are being exploited. 1.00

00:32:00.460 There are women in Saudi Arabia who are being denied human rights and we say nothing.

00:32:03.440 Why?

00:32:03.860 Because we want oil and weapons.

00:32:05.320 But somehow when it comes to Afghanistan, we suddenly get outraged.

00:32:09.920 We suddenly have morals and ethics.

00:32:11.960 America doesn't have feelings. 1.00

00:32:13.320 It has interests.

00:32:14.160 And 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. 0.95

00:32:24.720 And it's all a complete lie. 0.86

00:32:28.540 Do not buy into the theatrics of hijab and burqas and khimars and all of that stuff. 1.00

00:32:35.020 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:32:36.140 This is about good old-fashioned colonialism.

00:32:41.240 Once again, I can pick out one coherent statement there, which is actually true.

00:32:45.560 America doesn't have feelings. 1.00

00:32:46.900 It has interests.

00:32:48.180 That's exactly right.

00:32:49.500 You're right, Mark.

00:32:50.880 Because, yeah, countries don't have feelings.

00:32:52.780 America's not alone in that.

00:32:53.580 What country do you think has a feeling?

00:32:55.560 Tell me a country on earth right now that has a feeling.

00:32:57.780 What are they feeling right now?

00:32:58.860 Yeah, countries have interests.

00:33:04.580 Individual people that make up the country have feelings.

00:33:10.100 But the country as a whole shouldn't operate by those feelings.

00:33:13.420 It should operate by interests.

00:33:16.840 Those interests are not always purely political or economic.

00:33:22.080 Those are parts of the...

00:33:23.000 Those are interests as well.

00:33:24.900 But, yeah, every country is worried about its own interests.

00:33:34.660 The problem with America, actually, is not that we're motivated by our interests, but that we're not motivated by our interests enough.

00:33:42.440 That we are taking the interests of other people and other countries into consideration more than we should.

00:33:51.800 More than any other country does.

00:33:54.900 Because with most countries, there's no controversy.

00:33:59.400 They're worried about their own interests and the interests and the well-being of their own people.

00:34:04.080 And that is all they are worried about.

00:34:06.360 And they don't pretend to worry about anything else.

00:34:11.580 Only with us, only with America and broadly more... 0.88

00:34:14.800 Western countries broadly, is it suddenly controversial for a country to be self-interested in that sense.

00:34:20.840 But all the rest of it, yes, the burqa is a tool of white conservatives. 0.94

00:34:31.520 Somehow, I was waiting there.

00:34:33.280 That's why I played the whole clip.

00:34:34.640 Because I'm waiting for him to try to draw...

00:34:37.260 He has taken a lot of...

00:34:38.620 He's strewn a lot of dots across the table here, pretty haphazardly.

00:34:42.560 And I'm waiting for him to connect them, to see what sort of picture comes together.

00:34:46.980 And he doesn't really.

00:34:49.400 But he seems to be trying to argue that somehow burqas are a tool of white conservative men to oppress brown women in Afghanistan.

00:35:00.620 Either it's a tool of ours, or it's a false narrative.

00:35:08.400 Maybe he's claiming that it's not true.

00:35:10.980 They don't really have to wear burqas.

00:35:14.200 Oh, yeah, they're claiming that women in Afghanistan don't have agency. 0.95

00:35:18.540 Yeah, we claim that because if they show their hair in public, they'll be stoned to death. 0.56

00:35:25.240 Silly me, I thought that that was an attack on the agency of a woman.

00:35:27.840 So, what you see overall here, a lot of these comparisons, trying to draw these kinds of connections between, you know, conservatives and the Taliban.

00:35:40.940 We are the American Taliban.

00:35:42.940 And we've heard this for years.

00:35:44.120 Going back 20 years, we've heard this from the left.

00:35:46.700 And this, to me, raises a couple of questions.

00:35:52.000 The first one is, as I asked yesterday, and I'll ask again, because I think it's a good question.

00:35:57.840 Why do you want, if you're on the left, and you believe that we have our own Taliban in this country, and it's powerful and numerous.

00:36:08.220 Why do you want refugees to come here in the first place? 1.00

00:36:12.980 If you think that this country is overrun by its own Taliban, isn't that a horrible injustice? 0.99

00:36:17.580 Isn't that horribly unfair to them?

00:36:19.200 I mean, from the frying pan into the fire type of thing?

00:36:25.740 They escape one Taliban and end up at the mercy of another, according to you? 0.99

00:36:31.940 Let's pretend that you're correct for a second.

00:36:34.640 Yeah, we're all in the Taliban. 0.93

00:36:36.440 America's a systemically racist country, very, very oppressive. 0.98

00:36:39.300 You know, we've got law enforcement officers that are prowling in the streets, hunting black men, murdering them for no reason. 0.98

00:36:49.680 It's such a big problem that we have to have riots about it across the country.

00:36:55.320 Why do you want to bring refugees into this? 1.00

00:36:57.080 This is not a refuge for them.

00:36:58.260 This is not safe for them.

00:36:59.740 For their own good, for their own safety, they should go.

00:37:02.720 Into the, into the tolerant and loving arms of another Muslim country in the Middle East.

00:37:09.240 Right?

00:37:11.760 I 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?

00:37:23.640 Is it a safe haven for them or not?

00:37:25.740 If it is a safe haven, then you're going to have to really drop the oppression, systemic racism, American Taliban narrative.

00:37:33.000 You're going to have to pick one or the other.

00:37:37.160 If 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. 1.00

00:37:49.620 We may have different reasons for coming to that conclusion, but we should be arriving at the same conclusion nonetheless.

00:37:57.700 And then another question.

00:38:00.900 Since we're on the subject and since the left has raised this subject and since they've made this comparison,

00:38:10.480 I 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.

00:38:33.160 Which side is that?

00:38:35.800 I don't think it's conservatives.

00:38:37.060 So if there is a, an analogous situation here, if we have our own version of the Taliban, seems to me, that's the left.

00:38:49.280 So if you're on the left and you're, you're the one looking for a Taliban here in America, I guess what I would say is look in the mirror. 0.82

00:38:56.140 That's where you're going to find it.

00:38:57.220 In fact, pro-abortion leftists are responsible for far, for far more bloodshed than the Taliban has ever been responsible for.

00:39:11.980 I 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.

00:39:21.900 I mean, the Taliban looks at Planned Parenthood and is, they're, they're jealous.

00:39:29.900 They say, teach us your ways, oh master.

00:39:32.720 How do you guys do it? 1.00

00:39:36.840 Killing all these baby infidels. 1.00

00:39:38.640 So 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. 0.96

00:39:49.860 Between 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. 0.56

00:40:00.400 That 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.

00:40:15.160 Because there is no concept of human rights without first day concept of inherent human worth and dignity.

00:40:21.680 If you don't have inherent human worth and dignity, then there's no human rights.

00:40:26.760 Because that's what the idea is founded on.

00:40:30.400 The reason we have human rights is because we are people of fundamental moral worth created by a, a loving, merciful creator, God.

00:40:38.080 And because of that, you know, there, there are certain rights and liberties that, that, that we have by our nature.

00:40:48.420 You take the, the basis of that away that you don't have the human rights anymore.

00:40:51.920 That'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.

00:41:02.280 They don't believe that.

00:41:03.460 They don't pretend to believe it.

00:41:07.200 The American left, they don't believe it either.

00:41:08.840 The only difference is that sometimes they pretend to believe it.

00:41:11.780 But they clearly don't.

00:41:14.000 And 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.

00:41:25.180 All right, let's, uh, move on to, I guess we'll go now to reading the comments.

00:41:29.840 Actually, 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.

00:41:46.700 And so now they've, they've whittled it down to these names.

00:41:51.260 So they're, it's going to be one of these and they're, they've put the poll out there.

00:41:54.660 They're asking people to vote on it and they've whittled it down to a list of eight names.

00:41:58.560 And 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.

00:42:15.900 Which at this point, I hope they, they, they simply go with that, the Washington football team.

00:42:19.180 So 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.

00:42:30.460 Because any name that has a little bit of character to it is going to offend someone.

00:42:36.280 But 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.

00:42:45.320 So, well, let's go with Red Hogs. 1.00

00:42:46.980 Let's go, let's go from Redskins to Red Pigs. 0.96

00:42:49.280 Is that not only silly and a terrible name, but I, but I don't know, that, that also seems offensive to me. 0.80

00:43:00.200 All right, let's move now to reading the comments. 0.78

00:43:03.560 Joe says, yo, Matt, if Trump was younger in 2024, would you still prefer DeSantis?

00:43:08.440 Well, first of all, I understand it's a hypothetical question, but he's not younger in 2024.

00:43:14.220 And that, and that is, that's really the point.

00:43:19.400 Now, to answer your question, yeah, I would still prefer DeSantis because I think that he's a better executive.

00:43:27.520 He's better at governing.

00:43:30.000 He's more interested in governing.

00:43:31.700 Um, and, uh, he's more compelling rhetorically as well in front of an audience, answering questions.

00:43:42.800 I 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.

00:43:52.560 But we could put all that to the side.

00:43:54.320 Like that doesn't even really matter because the point is that Trump will be 78.

00:43:57.460 So even if you disagree with everything I just said about the comparison between DeSantis and Trump, that's fine.

00:44:03.660 But he, but what we cannot get away from is that Trump will be 78 years old.

00:44:07.980 And we have seen what happens when you elect a 78 year old president.

00:44:13.880 And you can say all you want, well, it's different with Trump.

00:44:15.960 No, it's not because Trump is a human being.

00:44:19.000 He is a mortal creature.

00:44:22.320 He is subject to the laws of nature, just like any other person is.

00:44:26.180 He is not a God.

00:44:28.020 And 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.

00:44:39.720 It happens to everyone.

00:44:41.460 It's a sad thing.

00:44:42.540 It's a sad reality, but it is a reality.

00:44:44.360 And 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.

00:44:57.720 I'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.

00:45:09.660 Nothing against 22 year olds, but there are certain realities that come with, with that age, with being that young.

00:45:17.020 Wouldn't want someone like that as a president. 0.93

00:45:18.540 Shen Shako says, please take the dog that has been there the longest or oldest.

00:45:27.520 You're talking about at the shelter?

00:45:29.680 No way.

00:45:30.360 You want me to take the oldest dog that's been there the longest at the animal shelter?

00:45:35.940 I think I'm sorry for the dog, but that's not happening.

00:45:38.180 I wouldn't recommend anyone do that.

00:45:39.560 There's a reason the dog has been there that long.

00:45:41.900 That's, uh, that's, uh, that's another unfortunate reality that I think we should deal with.

00:45:48.560 Uh, Jess says, Matt explaining the proper way to commit a hate crime on oneself is spectacular.

00:45:53.860 It'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.

00:46:01.840 Well, you give me too much credit.

00:46:03.640 Um, I, I, I think any, any, any rational person, if you're going to commit a hate crime against yourself, which probably,

00:46:10.920 probably is an oxymoron.

00:46:14.600 They're a rational person who's going to commit a hate crime against themselves.

00:46:17.300 Not, not a rational act to begin with, but we could all imagine more effective ways to do it.

00:46:25.600 Where 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.

00:46:34.640 Um, wider says, Matt, I love your show, man, but let's be real here.

00:46:40.220 It'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.

00:46:50.380 And a few minutes later, you ask why it should always fall upon us in the modern civilized West to take in refugees of war. 1.00

00:46:58.020 Didn't you, uh, did you just answer your own question before you even asked it?

00:47:02.780 No, I don't think I did at all.

00:47:04.160 Yeah, we are a civilization built on a Christian framework.

00:47:08.280 There's no, no question about that.

00:47:10.780 Uh, we're a nation built upon that, which is not to say we're a theocracy.

00:47:16.640 Unfortunately, as you know, if it were up to me, we would be a theocratic fascist dictatorship.

00:47:21.100 Uh, but we are built upon that, that Christian worldview philosophically, but we're still a country.

00:47:29.100 Okay.

00:47:29.660 And our government has an obligation to its own people first.

00:47:38.720 Um, 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.

00:47:48.020 Yeah, as a Christian, in terms of Christian principles, you love all people across the world.

00:47:55.440 You love the downtrodden and, and all of that, of course.

00:47:58.540 And you, as an individual Christian, you're, you're welcome to pursue that as far as you want to.

00:48:04.080 You can go on a mission trip somewhere.

00:48:05.500 You can go anywhere you want and, and, and help the poor, help the downtrodden.

00:48:08.300 It's a wonderful thing to do.

00:48:10.480 But the government has a responsibility first and foremost to its own people.

00:48:14.480 I'm not saying that we never take in any refugees at all.

00:48:18.060 I'm not saying that.

00:48:19.300 I'm not against the concept.

00:48:23.660 Um, I'm against the way that it is done now.

00:48:26.120 And I don't, and the problem is I don't trust our government because they don't prioritize our own people.

00:48:30.040 I 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. 1.00

00:48:45.460 And I don't trust our government to bring them in and to vet them properly.

00:48:52.180 And then upon vetting them to make the right call and the right decision.

00:48:58.920 So that's why I'm very skeptical of this plan to bring in all these refugees. 1.00

00:49:03.160 Uh, and Teresa says, Matt, important question.

00:49:07.380 Have you read any good books lately?

00:49:08.760 Yeah, 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.

00:49:18.180 Amundsen is the Norwegian.

00:49:19.380 He won the race.

00:49:20.620 Scott got to the pole, uh, after, behind Amundsen.

00:49:24.840 And then Scott's whole team died on the way back.

00:49:27.400 After losing the race, then they all die.

00:49:29.020 They freeze to death and starve to death slowly.

00:49:31.680 Amundsen, 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.

00:49:41.080 And he caused the death of, of his entire team because of his incompetence.

00:49:45.200 And 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.

00:49:52.800 And he accomplished that to the South Pole.

00:49:54.060 So, 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.

00:50:05.820 And 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.

00:50:19.700 Then 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.

00:50:31.400 Um, and he crashes into the Arctic, Arctic ocean is never, never seen again.

00:50:34.880 So fascinating figure.

00:50:37.220 Um, and most people don't know his name.

00:50:39.200 And 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.

00:50:47.520 So that's the book.

00:50:48.440 Pick up that book.

00:50:49.320 Very interesting.

00:50:50.820 Well, tragically, as much as I love doing the ads and I love, especially telling you about all the great daily wire promos, I only have one.

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00:52:01.500 Today for our cancellation, we must check in again with our trusty healthcare workers.

00:52:05.760 Now I should say that I have no ill will towards healthcare workers at all.

00:52:09.880 I respect people in that line of work.

00:52:11.280 I have family members in that line of work.

00:52:13.240 They're great people, and I'm sure they're not alone in their industry in that regard.

00:52:18.580 My problem is not with healthcare workers, but with morally deranged narcissists and attention-starved drama queens. 1.00

00:52:24.460 There 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.

00:52:34.320 So to that end, I have to highlight two men.

00:52:37.720 The first is Adam Hill, MD, who has an inexplicably large following on social media and seems to quite enjoy the attention.

00:52:44.600 He posted this.

00:52:45.300 He said, hi, I'm a healthcare worker crying at the hospital.

00:52:48.480 It's important to show more of this.

00:52:50.960 And then there's a selfie of him with a single tear rolling down his cheek.

00:52:55.780 Now, we've already spent enough time, arguably a lot more than enough time, discussing the issue of men crying.

00:53:01.400 As you know, there are only six acceptable reasons for a man to cry.

00:53:04.320 Does this fall into one of those categories?

00:53:06.260 Maybe.

00:53:06.700 You know, I don't know what he just experienced.

00:53:08.260 Maybe something really traumatic happened to him.

00:53:10.500 It's quite possible.

00:53:11.500 The issue, of course, is that he took out his phone and documented it and posted it to social media.

00:53:19.520 How does that work exactly?

00:53:21.700 I mean, think about any time when you were sincerely distraught over something.

00:53:25.920 A time when you were suffering emotionally.

00:53:27.900 A time when life saddled you with a burden that was too heavy to carry.

00:53:31.760 Maybe a loved one died.

00:53:32.800 Maybe they ran out of guacamole at Chipotle.

00:53:35.140 Whatever the case may be, would it have ever occurred to you, as you were crying, to pull out your phone and take a picture of the event?

00:53:44.520 Have you ever said to yourself, my God, I'm so upset.

00:53:46.760 This is terrible.

00:53:47.540 I'm devastated.

00:53:48.800 You know what?

00:53:49.220 This would make a great selfie.

00:53:50.300 Let me get my phone.

00:53:52.100 Has anything like that ever crossed your mind?

00:53:54.220 It would seem that if it did, you couldn't really have been all that upset to begin with.

00:53:59.100 No person who was really sad, who was really grieving, actually wants their grief to be recorded and displayed for public consumption.

00:54:07.320 No 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.

00:54:18.700 But other than that, this is just not a normal thing.

00:54:23.600 Here's what it comes down to.

00:54:26.080 Your suffering becomes trivial and meaningless when you use it for attention and pity.

00:54:32.880 I'm not the one saying that your suffering is trivial.

00:54:35.460 You are saying that.

00:54:36.880 You're communicating that.

00:54:38.580 When you seek to cash it in for retweets, you have chosen to trivialize it.

00:54:43.040 You have made it into mere content.

00:54:45.800 And that was your choice.

00:54:46.720 I can't take your suffering seriously because you don't take it seriously, clearly.

00:54:53.180 So, so much for Adam Hill, MD.

00:54:55.240 Now for Dr. Jason Valentine in Alabama.

00:54:58.420 The Washington Post has this story.

00:54:59.760 It 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.

00:55:09.000 Don't come in for medical treatment if you are unvaccinated.

00:55:11.820 Jason 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.

00:55:28.820 The sign reads, Dr. Valentine will no longer see patients that are not vaccinated against COVID-19.

00:55:35.280 Valentine 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.

00:55:44.080 The 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.

00:55:54.980 Okay, now I have to wonder how many divorces this guy has, given that vows apparently mean nothing to him.

00:56:01.340 Doctors may not, may not take the traditional Hippocratic oath anymore, but they do swear to treat the sick and to do no harm.

00:56:08.600 I mean, this is the promise doctors make to the public simply by calling themselves doctors.

00:56:14.060 It is implied. 0.99

00:56:16.400 A 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. 0.98

00:56:25.380 I'm not touching that thing. What'd you put in there? Trash? 0.98

00:56:28.920 He is fundamentally refusing to do the one single thing that his job requires him to do.

00:56:33.760 Now, the scary thing, of course, is that he's not the only one who thinks that unvaccinated people are unworthy of medical treatment.

00:56:41.260 You 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.

00:56:53.620 Also, again, as the argument goes, unvaccinated people are a strain on the health care system. 0.92

00:56:59.480 But even if I were to agree with the framing here, which I don't,

00:57:03.760 shouldn't we apply this principle consistently?

00:57:07.300 Obesity kills far more people than COVID does.

00:57:10.580 And it even helps to kill many of the people who die of COVID.

00:57:13.980 So 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?

00:57:22.300 They're behaving recklessly.

00:57:23.660 They're not taking care of their health.

00:57:25.020 They're not taking the vaccine, as it were, the vaccine here being broccoli and sit-ups.

00:57:30.720 They're also a strain on the health care system.

00:57:32.480 Obesity costs us billions of dollars a year.

00:57:36.020 And I'm not just talking about our tab at Cinnabon.

00:57:38.540 And it's not just obesity.

00:57:40.040 What about people who get STDs?

00:57:43.000 Most STDs are contracted through reckless and avoidable behavior.

00:57:47.120 What about alcoholics with liver damage or smokers with lung cancer?

00:57:50.440 As 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.

00:58:01.760 If doctors weren't going to treat people whose choices have contributed to their ailments, then they're not going to be treating almost anybody.

00:58:11.020 As it turns out, as a doctor, it is your job to treat the sick no matter how they got sick.

00:58:16.160 If 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.

00:58:24.800 Go work at Starbucks or something.

00:58:26.740 They actually, from what I understand, will promote you if you cry on the job over there.

00:58:30.360 So try that instead.

00:58:31.180 But for now, these particular healthcare workers, and the rest like them, are, of course, canceled.

00:58:38.720 And we'll leave it there for today.

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Ep. 779 - To Save Our Civilization, Get Married And Have Lots of Babies

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