Ep. 788 -Â Leftists Weep And Wail Because Fewer Babies Will Die In Texas
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Kristi Noem wrote an op-ed explaining what she thinks conservatism means and what conservatives should stand for. Her ideas in this regard are pretty standard for Republicans, but they re also wrong. We ll explain why in five headlines, including the Texas abortion bill, effectively banning most abortions in the state.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, our good friend Kristi Noem wrote an op-ed explaining what she
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thinks conservatism means and what conservatives should stand for. Her ideas in this regard are
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pretty standard for Republicans. They're also wrong. I'll explain why in five headlines,
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including the Texas abortion bill, effectively banning most abortions in the state,
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went into effect this morning. It's a wonderful moment and significant progress in the right
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direction. But leftists, as you can imagine, are quite upset that fewer babies will be dying.
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We'll talk about that. Plus, Joe Biden gives another address to the nation to defend his
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catastrophic failures in Afghanistan. Every time he tries to defend himself, he only looks worse.
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And the L.A. Unified School District sent out its COVID guidelines for the school year,
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and they're as deranged as you might expect. In fact, they might be a little bit more deranged
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than you even expect. We'll talk about all that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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every conservative I've ever spoken to has. And the first is what exactly he should do about the fact
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that he lives in a collapsing civilization that is run on every level by people who hate his guts and
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stand opposed to everything he believes in and who wish that he was dead. The second question
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every conservative has is what exactly is a conservative anyway? And it's always seemed
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apparent to me now more than ever that we're not going to be able to come up with a satisfactory
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answer to the first question until we've answered the second. Because any conservative response to our
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cultural decline, any plan of action, any battle strategy must begin with figuring out who's on your
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side, what your side is, and crucially, what exactly you're fighting for. Because following
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the culture war today feels a little bit like you're watching a fight scene in a movie, you know,
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a bad modern action movie. The camera is shaking and moving around quickly. The lighting and the
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outfits tend to blend everything together. And it's impossible to tell who is fighting who and who the
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good guys are. And you leave the film with a headache and little idea about what you just watched or why.
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Disorienting is the word. And it certainly applies to our culture as well. So my dear friend,
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Governor Kristi Noem, just wrote a piece for the Washington Times, which I think puts this problem
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in sharp relief, which is why it's worth talking about. And she represents one form of conservatism,
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a common form, though in a sort of obscure and misshapen form, the wrong form in my view,
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and the form that has presided over the cultural and civilizational decline that I just mentioned.
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It's the form which has achieved nothing, has no victories to its name at all,
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has suffered one defeat after another for decades on end. And she's taken upon herself to become a
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champion for this form of conservatism. And her op-ed in the Times is, I think, almost laughably
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absurd on a number of levels, but it's worth responding to in some detail. So she obviously
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wrote this partially to defend herself from recent criticisms from people like myself, but also to
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promote her vision, her tired, failed vision for the future of conservatism. So let's check it out.
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She writes, quote, you can't be a constitutional conservative only when it suits you. We are now
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seeing a battle in the Republican Party between the populist wing and the traditional limited
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government conservatism. Some so-called conservatives want to regulate businesses to prevent them from
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acquiring a COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment. Still, my beliefs do not allow me to waive
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the constitution because I disagree with the private business. It is human nature to want to wield power,
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and a crisis adds to that impulse. As an emergency unfolds, many will insist that somebody should do
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something, and governments eager to pass laws and hire people with weapons to enforce them step in.
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It's up to pro-liberty conservatives to stand on principle and to stand up to government mandates.
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Now, she's correct that somebody do something, that attitude is dangerous, and I've talked about that
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many times. There are lots of people who, when a crisis hits, they just cling on to the nearest
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government official, and they say, save us, do something, dear God, just do something, anything.
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This is a bad instinct, and she's right to criticize it. So that part is good. But we already detect some
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warning signs that things are about to go off the rails here, intellectually speaking, because she says
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that it's human nature to want to wield power, and maybe she's right about that. But then again,
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if you're the governor of a state, or if you're a legislator, or if you've been elected to the
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government, wielding power is exactly what you should be doing. Now, don't wield power for power's
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sake. Don't wield it for the wrong reasons or in the wrong way or to the wrong ends. But you should
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be wielding power. That's why you're there. That's why you've been put in that position. The problem
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with Republicans is that it's not that they're discerning and restrained and thoughtful in the way
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that they wield power. It's that they don't want to wield it at all. So we'll keep reading to see
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where this goes. She says, to be clear, I don't think businesses should require a COVID-19 vaccine
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as a condition of employment. I also believe that government is too big, and mandates are not a
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conservative tool enforcing the behavior of its citizens. Since when did the Republican Party
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become the party of big government and social engineering, using government power to force behavior?
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Once we, as a people, open the door to increased government power to put mandates on businesses,
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expect a Pandora's box of liberal mandates to hit in the future that touch on faith,
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the right to keep and bear arms, and the expanding list of genders the left has invented.
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William F. Buckley once referred to the growth of government as creeping socialism.
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We're seeing aversion today with both Republicans and Democrats calling on the government to mandate
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behavior they find acceptable. Even if I agree with a new mandate, the mandate limits freedom and
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sets a precedent for even more mandates, taxes, spending, and expansion of government,
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into the daily lives of average Americans who just want to be left alone.
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I'm reminded of a famous Reagan quote. The most terrifying words in the English language are,
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I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Conservatives see that liberals are trying to
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use this crisis to expand the size and scope of government at every level. On everything from
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mandates to spending, the left wants more government. Conservatives must stand on principle
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and oppose big government in all its forms. Now, all of these are pretty standard Republican
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talking points. Nothing shocking or egregious here. And we're used to hearing Republicans say,
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we've heard this for years and years and years. Kind of your basic stump speech. But that's
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precisely the problem, right? More specifically, I think I see three problems here. So let's go
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through them. Number one, she says that if Republicans use power to mandate behavior,
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then we can expect a Pandora's box of liberal mandates that deal with gun rights and gender and
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all that stuff to happen in the future. But this is not a prediction of what will happen in the future.
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This is a description of what is happening right now. Liberals are already doing all of those
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things. They're doing them even though the Republican Party has hardly wielded any power at all,
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even when it owned both houses of Congress and the presidency. They didn't do anything.
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The past a few mild tax cuts, that's all they did.
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And we're constantly warned that if Republicans start playing hardball and actually, you know,
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making laws and trying to put their agenda into action, then Democrats might start doing the same
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as if Democrats are waiting on permission from Republicans to advance their own cause.
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And yet Democrats are already doing that and have been doing it. While Republicans sit on their hands
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and say, oh, you know, we can't cross that line because if we do, Democrats will do the thing they're
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currently doing right now and have always been doing. It doesn't really make any sense.
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Second, she says that conservatives must oppose big government in all its forms.
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Now, it sounds almost like heresy for me as a conservative to
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But I think we should stop and think about this. What does this even mean?
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You know, we're so used to hearing Republicans rail against big government
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that we don't stop to ask what they mean anymore, but we should. So what do they mean?
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No Republican administration in living memory has made any serious effort to actually shrink the
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size of government. None of them have. I mean, Trump certainly didn't. George Bush obviously didn't.
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I mean, you'd have to go back many decades to find a Republican
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who arguably put a plan like that into action or at least tried.
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Most of them have actively expanded it. So Republicans pay lip service to this idea,
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but we never know exactly what they mean because none of them try to put it into action.
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None of them, which is a common theme here. And maybe part of the problem and part of the reason
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why they don't abide by these small government motto is that the motto itself is vague and sort of,
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you know, arbitrary. Is the problem with government that it is simply too big?
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Is there just too much of it to go around? Is it as simple as that?
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Or is the problem that our government points its power in the wrong direction
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and does the wrong things and has the wrong priorities?
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I mean, ask yourself this. If Democrats get their way and manage to push through a law
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that provides federal civil rights protections on the basis of gender identity,
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the equal rights or the equality law is what they're trying to push through.
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And it's in the Senate right now, meaning that all bathrooms and sports teams
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and female facilities across the country must be open to men.
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Will this be an example of a government that is merely too big?
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Or will it be an example of a government that no matter how big or small it is,
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is fundamentally corrupt and run by radical left-wing ideologues?
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I mean, the answer could be both, of course, but the big government thing distracts from the real
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problem and it turns what could be a pointed criticism and a useful criticism into something
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vague and ill-defined. The effect of all this generalized sort of big government talk,
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talk from people who, again, have never done a single thing ever to actually shrink the size of
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government. The effect is that now, if you advocate for the government to do anything,
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if you push for any law or any policy of any kind, you're accused of advancing big government.
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There are even some so-called conservatives, and we'll talk more about this in a minute,
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who will accuse you of big government if you say that we should restrict or ban abortion.
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Third point, finally, Noam says that mandates are not a conservative tool,
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and that we must not put mandates on businesses. On Twitter, when sharing this article, she actually
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said that we should not be in the business of forcing behavior of any kind onto people.
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We should not be in the business of forcing behavior of any kind onto people.
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Wait, what? We shouldn't force any behavior? No mandates at all? Is that why we oppose mask
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mandates simply because they are a mandate? That's not my problem with them. I take issue with the
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substance of the mask mandate and many other mandates, not with the simple fact that it is a
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mandate. So this is all quite incoherent, I think. The fact is that any law of any kind,
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good law or bad law, must necessarily force behavior onto people. Now, I know that I'll be
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told that, well, the good laws are the ones that prohibit behavior rather than mandating behavior.
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Now, I'm not sure why prohibiting is automatically better or more valid than mandating.
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We're expected to sort of just agree with that underlying assumption, but I'm not sure that I do.
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And anyway, the bigger issue is that every prohibition, every single one, is also a mandate.
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For example, if you're prohibited from driving over 75 on the highway, then you're mandated to drive 75
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or lower. If you're prohibited from neglecting your children, then you're mandated to care for them.
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If you're prohibited from murder, you're mandated to not murder. If you're prohibited from driving
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drunk, then you're mandated to drive sober. If as conservatives, we want to prohibit abortion,
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which we do, then we want to mandate that mothers give birth to their children, unless the child dies
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tragically through miscarriage, obviously. These are not semantics. I mean, this is a fundamental
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and essential point about the nature of law and its purpose. So many establishment Republican types
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advocate for, in the way that they speak about these issues, it's like they're advocating for this
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kind of anarcho-libertarianism. Well, we can't force any behavior. We shouldn't mandate anything.
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Even though they're not really anarchists or libertarians. But that's the language that they
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use. It's just lazy. And it confuses conservatives. And it adds to this environment where conservatives
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don't even know what we are or what we stand for. The argument that we shouldn't force any behavior
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of any kind is silly, if not completely insane. And it's obvious that nobody who says such a thing
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really believes it. But they make the argument anyway, because it allows them to sidestep the
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discussion that they're afraid to have. Yes, of course, government should both prohibit and mandate
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certain behavior. What kind of behavior? And why? Well, this is a simple question. It's also
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the central question in this debate. And it's time that we start actually thinking and talking about
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it. And speaking of mandating and prohibiting behavior, we'll have more to talk about with that
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when we discuss the Texas abortion law that just went into effect, which will be next in our five
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All right. Well, we're on the road this week, as you can see. And as you have also seen,
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we've been staying in some very interesting places. I don't know how this room comes across on camera.
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This room is actually a lot better than the one I'm staying in. So this is my producer,
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Sean. This is his room. I'm staying in basically like a dungeon. And it's like the kind of roadside
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motel looking things. It looks like the kind of place where serial killers murder people.
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Maybe they just come by like three times a week and murder people kind of on a schedule.
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Just like cockroaches. There's a bat flying around in the bathroom. All that kind of thing. Ominous
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scratches on the door. No AC in the room at all.
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And the thing is, I'm so naive that we walked in here last night, and I was saying, well,
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I hope they have room service because I'm really hungry. They kind of laughed when I asked about it.
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And then I was told that if you want to get food, you got to go down to the gas station. It's the
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only place around here that has any food. So we went to the gas station and had a delicious dinner.
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You know, and you compare that like when if Ben Shapiro is on the road, he's broadcasting from
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like a five-star resort where they have a concierge that comes and fluffs the pillows.
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Meanwhile, I'm sleeping on like a mattress on the floor covered in bedbugs.
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It's great. It is really wonderful. Okay, so some good news, some more good news to start from
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the New York Post. It says a strict new measure that essentially bans abortion in Texas went into
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effect at midnight despite protests and lawsuits against the harsh mandate. This is the New York
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Post language anyway, a harsh mandate. The law prohibits women from getting an abortion after
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a fetal heartbeat can be detected and give citizens the right to take legal action against doctors
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or anyone else who helps a woman terminate a pregnancy. Most women who get an abortion in
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the Lone Star State are at least six weeks pregnant and will now be unable to receive the procedure
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according to Planned Parenthood and Whole Woman's Health. The Texas bill differs from other similar
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heartbeat laws nationwide because it bars authorities from enforcing the ban and allows anyone else to take
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legal action. Under the measure, anyone who successfully sues a doctor or accomplice would
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be entitled to at least $10,000, which critics claim will flood the courts with opportunistic legal
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cases. And yes, people who are opportunistically trying to stop babies from being killed, very
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opportunistic of them. The wide-ranging provision allows suits against patients, nurses, counselors,
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or even someone who drove a patient to an appointment. So that's the law that went into effect.
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There was a mad dash by the pro-abortion, pro-death, pro-baby-killing side to stop it,
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and they weren't able to. And now the left is absolutely panicking over this. As you can imagine,
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the ACLU, which is supposed to be the Civil Liberties Institute, they're supposed to stand for
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liberty. And you would think the most fundamental and basic liberty is that to live, the right to life.
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Because if you don't have the right to life, the ability to live, then all of your other rights would
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seem to be sort of null and void. But they're very pro-baby-killing. And so they sent out a whole
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series of tweets. They said, the Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block
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Texas's radical new six-week abortion ban. The law now takes effect. Access to almost all abortion
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has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.
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And these are the words I've seen the left using in response to this bill, which is expected.
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Devastating, tragic, unjust, infuriating. Nancy Pelosi called the law a catastrophe.
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A catastrophe. Catastrophic. Because, because fewer babies will be killed. That's what they're upset
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about. It's catastrophic that now we're going to allow more children to live.
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Cori Bush sent out this tweet. She says, I'm thinking about the black, brown, low-income,
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queer, and young folks in Texas, the folks this abortion health care bill, health care ban will
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disproportionately harm. Wealthy white folks will have the means to access abortion. Our communities
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won't. Now, I'm not sure how an abortion ban will disproportionately affect quote-unquote queer folks.
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I don't know how that works exactly. But this is the only tune that Cori Bush knows. And so she just
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hums it every single time. No matter what the issue is, it's always going to be, well, this
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disproportionately impacts these people. Now, does it disproportionately impact the black community?
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In a sense, yeah. But what is the disproportionate impact?
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Because there is a, because a disproportionate number of black children are aborted. That's true.
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And so now the disproportionate impact is that more black people will be allowed to live.
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Okay. There will be more black people in Texas now than there would be without this bill. This bill
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will have the direct and immediate effect of ensuring, among other things, along with saving so many
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other babies. But since she brings up these protected classes, it will also have the immediate effect of
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ensuring that more black people will live in Texas. And Cori Bush, as a black woman, is opposed to that.
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Whichever, if you're opposed to it, then come out and say it. Just come out and say it. I want these black
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children who are going to live now, I think they should be dead. I think that they should not be allowed to
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continue existing. Come out and say it if that's your opinion, because that is your opinion.
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Um, now is, is this law in Texas? Is it in keeping with Roe v. Wade? Supreme Court's going to weigh in on
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that. And I don't have a whole lot of confidence in what their decision is going to be. I have
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confidence in maybe two of the, uh, of the justices on the Supreme Court, Thomas and Alito, when it comes
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to this issue on the rest, I don't, I don't, I don't know. But does it violate Roe v. Wade? My answer
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is who cares? I don't care if it does. Roe is imaginary. Okay. It, it, it, they located the right
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to abortion in invisible ink in the constitution, or they may as well have. The Roe v. Wade decision may
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as well have said, well, a, uh, a, a fairy came into our chambers and sprinkled pixie dust
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on the constitution and invisible words suddenly were made apparent that said, do you have a right
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to an abortion? They, that may as well have been the decision because it is that absurd.
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Has no basis in reality whatsoever. I mean, again, they, they, they located the right to
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abortion constitutionally within the constitutional right to privacy, which is not a constitutional
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right. So there's nothing in the constitution that says right to privacy. And that's what they
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based the right to abortion in. And even that's not in there. So this is the right to abortion is,
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is two degrees removed from the constitution. It's grounded in constitutional language that
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does not exist itself. So it's a horrible decision that even if you're an honest pro-abortion person,
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which is a category of people that I'm not sure actually exists, just as the right to abortion
00:23:55.180
doesn't exist. But if you were, then, then you should, even you should say, yeah, I think that
00:24:00.540
abortion is good or whatever. I'm in favor of it, but, uh, there's no right to it in the constitution.
00:24:08.800
A couple of the points here, as we see the left panicking over this bill in Texas,
00:24:14.680
now that more children will be allowed to live. Um, I've got to make this point again for the
00:24:20.840
millionth time, but it's so important because what we're hearing over and over again, and what
00:24:27.100
you'll continue to hear is that this bill is an attack. It's an assault on reproductive rights.
00:24:34.060
Well, I have to continue to emphasize that it's not an assault on reproductive rights
00:24:38.760
because, because this has nothing to do with reproduction. Abortion has absolutely nothing
00:24:46.500
to do with reproduction. Reproduction is a separate issue. Do I think that women have reproductive rights?
00:24:57.380
Of course. I will say this right now with, without, without any hesitation at all. No woman anywhere
00:25:06.000
on earth should be forced to reproduce. Absolutely not. I mean, the thought is, is atrocious. It's
00:25:14.080
horrifying. The idea that any woman would be forced to reproduce. The good news is that that's not
00:25:19.820
happening in America anywhere. Okay. Now with abortion, what happens is you are killing a human being
00:25:30.520
who has already been produced. Reproduction. Birth is not reproduction. When a woman gives birth to a
00:25:40.860
child, this is basic biology that I know is lost on a lot of people these days, especially on the left.
00:25:45.220
Basic biology. Birth is not the reproductive act. Okay. Reproduction is conception. That is when a
00:25:55.280
separate and distinct entity with its own DNA comes into existence. That is reproduction. This,
00:26:02.260
this being, this entity has been produced in that moment. Now you can call that, uh, this being anything,
00:26:09.920
the correct thing would be human. Baby works also person, all those work, but you can even use a
00:26:17.400
euphemism like fetus. Fetus just means offspring in Latin. So sure it's, it's offspring, whatever label
00:26:24.320
you want to put, whatever, whatever, whatever word you want to use, that being exists and has been
00:26:30.120
produced in that moment. Uh, nobody should be forced to conceive, but once conception has happened,
00:26:38.780
the being now exists, anything you do after that is after reproduction, it is too late to prevent the
00:26:45.980
reproduction of that person. If you are preventing a, an already produced human from being born,
00:26:57.060
you are not preventing that human being from being reproduced.
00:27:00.740
Any more than if I shoot you in the head before you walk out your front door in the morning,
00:27:08.020
I haven't stopped you from being reproduced. I have just stopped you from changing locations.
00:27:14.320
I have stopped you from emerging from one location into another location. I've maybe stopped you from
00:27:20.440
becoming visible to people outside, but I can't shoot you in the head and then say, Hey man,
00:27:27.440
this is my reproductive rights. Uh, one other point real, again, really basic.
00:27:37.540
If the government does not have the authority or the right to pass a law like this,
00:27:43.400
if the state government in Texas doesn't have the authority or the right to pass a law saying
00:27:48.560
that you can't kill, you cannot kill human beings that have heartbeats, then government should not exist.
00:27:55.140
There's no argument that I can think of or that I've ever heard that would explain, you know,
00:28:03.660
why we should have a government at all. And yet not one that will protect the most innocent and
00:28:10.440
vulnerable among us. Like that is the most, if, if, if government has any role, then that would be
00:28:16.320
their most fundamental and basic and primary role to protect the most innocent and vulnerable.
00:28:25.340
People could not protect themselves. People who, uh, if, if, if the government does not step in and
00:28:33.680
pass laws protecting them, then, then there's, then, then that's it. Then they'll be killed.
00:28:40.200
If the government is not in the business of doing that, then it shouldn't be in the business of doing
00:28:45.140
anything. If it doesn't have authority and power in that realm, then I don't see how or why I should
00:28:51.960
have authority or power in any realm. So God bless, uh, Texas and, uh, thank God for all the babies that
00:29:00.060
will now be granted the, I won't even say we'll be granted the gift of, of life because they're,
00:29:06.820
they're already living before the abortion happens. As we discussed, we'll be granted the gift of
00:29:11.220
continuing life and the ability to fully, you know, explore their own potential as human beings.
00:29:17.940
Uh, until a judge comes in and blocks the bill anyway. Okay. So Joe Biden again, addressed the
00:29:24.600
nation yesterday about, I was going to, I was about to say last night about Afghanistan, but he never
00:29:29.740
speaks at night, you know, which is a little bit suspicious as a, not really suspicious at all.
00:29:34.880
In fact, as a, as a man struggling with dementia, very publicly and very obviously, um, he's not,
00:29:39.900
he can't speak past about six o'clock in the evening. So he was supposed to speak, I think
00:29:44.780
around three or four, he was late again. He's always late for a guy who likes to check his watch.
00:29:48.980
He sure is late quite a lot, but, um, here he is starting with this talking about how, uh, this
00:29:55.680
evacuation was actually an enormous success. Let's watch.
00:29:58.540
Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in
00:30:08.140
American history. We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history with more than 120,000 people
00:30:16.220
evacuated to safety. That number is more than double what most experts thought were possible.
00:30:22.220
No nation, no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history. The only, the United States
00:30:30.060
had the capacity and the will and ability to do it. And we did it today. The extraordinary success of
00:30:36.900
this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of the United States
00:30:43.600
military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals for weeks. They risked their lives to get American
00:30:50.980
citizens, Afghans who helped us, citizens of our allies and partners and others on board planes and
00:30:58.580
out of the country. And they did it facing a crush of enormous crowds seeking to leave the country.
00:31:06.000
The guy can't even speak. It's always hard to listen to him, but Joe Biden, he did it in that speech.
00:31:12.360
Um, I mean, that was that, that part right there, that 60 second segment was him bragging about how it
00:31:18.020
was a huge success because they were able to get all these people out. And he doesn't, he doesn't,
00:31:22.260
you know, he's, he doesn't want to dwell on the fact that, yeah, we got a hundred thousand Afghans
00:31:26.820
out, Afghan citizens. There are still Americans being left behind. He talks about the bravery and
00:31:33.580
skill of the people on the ground, our troops on the ground who were doing all of this. And yeah,
00:31:38.780
they had immense bravery. Um, they're not the problem. You don't need to defend their bravery and
00:31:45.360
skill. We, we all acknowledge that the issue is you. Okay. And the brass, the Pentagon and military
00:31:55.460
leaders. Okay. You know, the guys who, before all this were happening, they were talking about how,
00:32:02.640
you know, white privilege is, is the greatest threat that the globe faces and so on.
00:32:07.760
That's who we're, that's who we're criticizing, not the people on the ground, but he, he shifts
00:32:17.260
constantly between saying that this was a great success. It was an enormous success. Uh, this is
00:32:24.620
like Dunkirk. This was a, this was just an incredible feat of human engineering and technical brilliance and
00:32:32.080
so on. And also this is all my predecessor's fault. So his, he, he blames Trump and then also brags that
00:32:40.980
it's a great success. So his point is his argument is this great, enormous, huge success is all the
00:32:49.460
fault of Donald Trump. It doesn't get any more coherent than that. Uh, because next he starts
00:32:55.660
talking about, um, or addressing the criticism from lots of people, myself included. Every, I think
00:33:02.400
everyone has had this criticism, which is why didn't you evacuate the Americans first? And here he tries
00:33:07.700
to explain why I take responsibility for the decision. Now, some say we should have started mass
00:33:16.700
evacuation sooner. And couldn't this have been done in a more orderly manner? I respectfully
00:33:25.080
disagree. Imagine if we've begun evacuations in June or July, bringing in thousands of American
00:33:33.420
troops and evacuating more than 120,000 people in the middle of a civil war.
00:33:41.220
There still would have been a rush to the airport, a breakdown in confidence and control of the
00:33:47.220
government. And it still would have been very difficult and dangerous mission. The bottom line is
00:33:54.340
there is no evacuation evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of
00:34:03.400
complexities, challenges, threats we faced. None. Yeah, man, there's no easy way to do this
00:34:10.520
evacuation. You know, it's a hard thing to do these evacuations. He says, uh, that's really his
00:34:17.580
answer. This is a written speech. Okay. This is not him off the cuff. We know that that goes off the
00:34:21.580
rails very, very easily. This is, but this is a written speech. He's still reading from the
00:34:24.560
teleprompter and he was late showing up there. They were working on the speech at the last minute,
00:34:29.600
trying to get it exactly right. Coming up with some kind of response to the criticism that,
00:34:36.260
Hey, you could have gotten the Americans out first. And his answer to that is, Hey man, I disagree. I
00:34:42.780
mean, if we did it that way, it still could have gone bad. That was his answer. It, yeah,
00:34:50.660
this went terribly, even though it was a great success. Um, but if we had done it the way that
00:34:56.880
seems like it would have made a lot more sense, it still could have not been great.
00:35:03.200
That's really his answer, which is to say he has no answer at all. That should put to rest. If you had
00:35:08.080
any, you know, if somehow you had any notion in your head, maybe there are some things you don't
00:35:13.080
know about. And there's like a reason why they had to do it this way there. They, a good reason.
00:35:18.320
Well, he would have told us what the good reason is. And there wasn't one as it's clear now.
00:35:23.240
Okay. A couple of other things also, a couple of the things from the Biden administration. Uh,
00:35:26.680
I thought this was kind of interesting. This is a warning from the state department.
00:35:29.960
It says Afghanistan travel advisory level four, do not travel to Afghanistan due to civil unrest,
00:35:36.020
armed conflict, crime, terrorism, kidnapping, and COVID-19 travel to all areas of Afghanistan is
00:35:43.120
unsafe. Terry, you can get your head cut off. Um, you could be enslaved, sold into sex slavery,
00:35:51.400
tortured, thrown into prison, uh, for the rest of your life down in a cave somewhere. And also you
00:35:58.560
could get COVID. So this is like, if it was a travel advisory level four, do not launch yourself
00:36:04.040
directly into the sun due to a certain fiery death and a gigantic flaming ball of lethal gas.
00:36:09.720
Also the UV rays will make your skin wrinkly. Travel to all areas of the sun is unsafe. Um,
00:36:17.120
there's also this from the, uh, from the CDC. Okay. Now I don't want to seem like I'm just
00:36:26.960
getting a ticky tack here with my criticisms of the CDC, but this is a tweet from the CDC
00:36:34.760
talking to people who have lost power because of the, of the hurricane says, have you lost power?
00:36:40.300
When in doubt, throw it out, throw away perishable refrigerated foods like meat, seafood, milk,
00:36:45.900
and eggs. If the power is out for more than four hours, learn, learn more food safety tips for power
00:36:51.540
outages. And then there's a link to it. Now I just read that because it just shows how the CDC,
00:36:57.140
they, these idiots really cannot do anything right. They really can't even something basic like food
00:37:05.560
safety tips, which I guess I can see why the CDC would chime in on that. There are illnesses you can
00:37:12.860
get from unsafe food. Okay. So this is sort of within their purview. Fine. They can't even get that
00:37:18.660
right. Throw away your food after four hours, all of your food in your refrigerator. No, please. I
00:37:25.820
beg you, if you lost power, you're probably not listening to this right now if you did, but, um,
00:37:32.220
do not throw away all the food in your refrigerator. Just keep the door shut and the food will last for,
00:37:38.360
for many, many more hours than that. Even days potentially, if you keep the door shut,
00:37:43.960
okay, your food, your, your refrigerator is a cooler. Even without power, it keeps the cool air
00:37:50.380
in. You could even do other things like if you still have ice in your, uh, in your freezer,
00:37:56.120
then you, or if you got some ice before the power went out, you could put bags of ice in the refrigerator.
00:38:02.480
Functions as a cooler, keeps things cold. So please do not do that. The CDC would have people
00:38:08.540
after a couple hours, yeah, got to throw away all the food. And now I'm going to starve, I guess,
00:38:13.320
because I just threw all my food away for no reason. These absolute morons. Speaking of morons,
00:38:20.140
I got to mention this briefly as well. The LA, uh, County Unified School District
00:38:27.040
has put their COVID guidelines into place now that the school year started.
00:38:32.200
And this is, I want to read to you some of an email from an LA school district union representative
00:38:37.120
to teachers. This is an email that somebody sent to me from, uh, an LA, uh, teachers union rep
00:38:45.520
explaining, you know, the guidelines and what they're supposed to do. So let me read some of
00:38:49.300
this. Okay. It says, um, this is why it is so critical to continue safety practices like properly
00:38:57.580
wearing a mask. Please make sure that the mask covers your mouth and nose. I've observed a number
00:39:02.900
of our colleagues ignoring this and walking around with gator masks or face masks that barely
00:39:07.800
cover their mouths, let alone their nose. Even if you're vaccinated, breakthrough cases and the
00:39:12.500
Delta variant are still a risk. While vaccinated individuals reportedly experienced very mild
00:39:16.540
symptoms, they may still act as a carrier for the infection. Wearing masks improperly puts colleagues
00:39:21.420
and students at risk. Further, it indicates to students that they don't have to wear the mask
00:39:25.640
properly either. Now this is not the really crazy part, but it's still crazy.
00:39:28.480
I mean, the claim that a vaccinated person who's wearing a mask, but just has their nose sticking
00:39:37.020
out is a threat to other people. So if you're vaccinated and you're wearing a mask and only
00:39:42.720
your nose is, uh, is, is out. And then there's another person who's wearing a mask also. And let's
00:39:47.560
say they're also vaccinated, or even if they're not, the risk is what? That you just through breathing
00:39:53.720
normally through your nostrils, that the nostril air from the vaccinated person is going to infect
00:40:02.400
someone else who's wearing a mask. Is there any evidence that that has happened? Even once
00:40:12.000
any evidence that that has ever happened? I'd like to know. The email goes on further. Since the mask
00:40:19.800
mandate is a state and district directive, you may be subject to disciplinary action. If you are not
00:40:23.700
wearing the mask appropriately, and since mask wearing is part of the negotiated side letter,
00:40:28.020
you will get no relief from the union. So this is the one thing. I mean, this teacher's unions,
00:40:33.960
they'll defend teachers to the hilt on anything. You could have rapist teachers, teachers who are
00:40:40.300
sexually abusing their students and the teacher's union will come to their defense. But if you're,
00:40:45.640
if you're not wearing your mask appropriately, that's where they're not going to defend you. Hey,
00:40:49.760
you're on your own sucker. Sorry. This is when it really gets crazy. Speaking of students,
00:40:55.340
please insist that students always wear masks and step outside if they need to drink water. Be sure
00:41:00.600
to wash hands often for 20 seconds and sanitize your hands, your hands when you can't wash. Finally,
00:41:05.540
maintain at much, as much distance from students and colleagues as possible and avoid unnecessary
00:41:10.600
gatherings like eating lunch together. Also keep your HVAC system running all day in order to filter the
00:41:17.080
air and leave doors and windows open when possible. Even if there's construction noise outside.
00:41:26.300
First of all, so I guess, I guess we're not worried about climate change anymore.
00:41:29.940
You need to crank the HVAC system with all the doors and windows open.
00:41:35.920
So you're really, you're really taxing that system, churning a lot of CO2 in the air. So we're not
00:41:40.240
worried about that anymore. You got doors open with construction noise and jackhammers outside. Who cares if
00:41:45.260
you're, if the kids can even hear what you're saying. And if, if a kid needs to just take a drink of
00:41:52.280
water, uh, they got to go outside of the classroom to do it. Because a child who is already at a very
00:42:01.860
low risk to contract or spread COVID, if they just take their mask down for 10 seconds to take a swig of
00:42:08.260
water in those 10 seconds while they're swigging water, they could infect the people around them.
00:42:15.980
Again, is there any evidence that that has ever happened or could even, or could reasonably
00:42:23.320
theoretically happen? Any evidence of that? No, none at all. And they're still going with the wash your
00:42:29.440
hands all the time, which, yeah, I mean, washing your hands in a norm, washing hands is just good
00:42:33.380
practice in general, but we're still, you know, wash your hands constantly, sanitize all the surface.
00:42:39.320
Even though we know that COVID is, is airborne, it is not really spread primarily, uh, through,
00:42:47.640
through surface contact. It's very rarely spread that way as far as we know,
00:42:52.400
but that doesn't matter. We're just going to pretend that's not the case.
00:42:56.940
All of the, have you noticed the COVID safety guidelines, they haven't changed in 18 months.
00:43:03.380
No matter what else we learn about the virus, the safety guidelines stay exactly the same.
00:43:09.160
They do not respond to the science at all, but these are the pro science people, of course. All
00:43:14.720
right. Uh, go now to read the YouTube comments. Um, this, uh, says it's a shame Matt show doesn't
00:43:22.060
last longer because he's a perfect white noise machine for my week old baby Mabel. She goes right
00:43:27.080
to sleep when Matt starts talking newest member of SBG and probably the sweetest. Well,
00:43:31.920
she's not paying attention to my show. Uh, so she's banned from the show. So are you.
00:43:39.300
Well, congratulations on the birth of your child. Uh, C Warvold says, Matt, every time I watch a video
00:43:45.740
of yours, I realize how wonderful and gifted an orator you are. Every video so far without fail
00:43:50.460
leads me to feeling like I've experienced an hour's worth of content before you even get to your
00:43:54.400
five headlines. Thank you for sharing your talents with the, with the wider world.
00:43:57.980
But is that a compliment or was that a passive aggressive insult so that the show you're saying
00:44:03.980
every show after 10 minutes feels like it's been an hour. The show drags on is what you're trying
00:44:09.120
to tell me. You, sir, are banned from the show. How dare you? Uh, yo mama's boo says, I don't give a
00:44:16.440
damn if you're in a crappy hotel room. I'd much rather be able to see my sweet daddy Walsh rather than
00:44:20.660
just be able to hear him. Don't ever leave us again. Oh, you thought the hotel room yesterday was
00:44:26.560
crappy. You ain't seen nothing yet. We're just getting worse and worse. Um, and by, by like
00:44:33.600
Friday, I will be in a cave. I'll be in a cave in Afghanistan doing the show. Uh, the other
00:44:38.020
one says day five of asking for Matt's thoughts on pineapple on pizza. Well, I really don't
00:44:43.140
have, I know this is one of those controversies. I don't have strong feelings on it. Part of this
00:44:48.040
just goes to my, my gluttonous instincts. I'll like eat anything. So I'm not crazy about the
00:44:54.020
pineapple on the pizza, but it's pizza. So you put pizza in front of me, I'll eat it.
00:44:57.380
I don't even really care what's on it. It's pizza as far as I'm concerned. Um, and finally,
00:45:03.620
Paul says the irony of people first syntax is that it employs relative clause construction,
00:45:08.920
the function of which is to establish a defining statement by declaring a general category term
00:45:13.900
superordinate, which is then restricted by excluding everything that falls outside of
00:45:18.080
the subordinate predicate phrase. In short, it's exclusive and restrictive.
00:45:24.960
Yeah, I was going to say that myself. Thank you, Paul. That's exactly my point.
00:45:30.380
Whatever the hell you just said, you know, once a month, uh, hosts of the daily wire come together
00:45:35.180
for a backstage for some lighthearted debate and sometimes not so lighthearted debate as you saw
00:45:40.220
at the last debate, but the last up backstage, but it was certainly a really interesting and,
00:45:44.740
uh, a lot of fun for everybody involved. And I'm extremely, extremely excited to tell you that
00:45:49.420
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September 3rd. So mark your calendar and make sure you don't miss out. Now let's get to our daily
00:46:29.820
cancellation. So we've talked rather extensively on this show about the supposed eviction crisis that
00:46:37.960
we've been promised for some time. And it's because of this supposed crisis that Democrats,
00:46:43.620
of course, according to Democrats anyway, the CDC must be allowed to continue forbidding landlords
00:46:48.920
from evicting tenants who don't pay their rent. Nevermind that the CDC doesn't have that authority.
00:46:53.460
Nevermind that the policy deeply infringes on the basic human rights of property owners.
00:46:57.080
We must, they say, allow these people to remain in homes and apartments they aren't paying for.
00:47:01.940
And we must allow this indefinitely, no matter what. Now I confess that I haven't been persuaded
00:47:08.720
by these arguments up until now, because all of that changed with a report just published in
00:47:16.900
The Hill, which I, which I read yesterday. Here's the headline. Nearly half of LGBT renters behind on
00:47:22.360
rent fear eviction in next two months. And this is credited to research, by the way, it says nearly
00:47:28.460
half of LGBT renters behind on rent fear eviction in the next two months, colon research. Well, who could
00:47:33.980
dispute that if research has declared it? The research has spoken. But in any case, I, for one, will
00:47:40.720
completely abandon my views on this issue now that I know that some gay people are impacted. I had no idea.
00:47:47.520
Now, here I was opposing a destructive and insane and oppressive government policy. And then The Hill comes
00:47:53.520
in and says, well, yeah, but the policy will help some gay people. Well, okay, then nevermind. I stand
00:48:00.320
corrected. If gay people will be helped, please take all of my private property rights. Take away the gun
00:48:07.460
rights too, and free speech. Take away my very life if you're, if it will help, if that will be beneficial
00:48:14.280
to some gay people. I submit to the desires of our LGBT masters. Do what you will, my lords. I'm sorry for
00:48:22.860
having defied you. This anyway is the reaction that we're expected to have, I guess. Here's the
00:48:27.820
article. It says about half of LGBT U.S. renters who are behind on their payments fear eviction in
00:48:33.000
the next two months, according to research released by the University of California, Los Angeles's
00:48:36.520
Williams Institute. The Williams Institute compiled a brief examining housing stability during the
00:48:42.480
coronavirus pandemic using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Pulse survey. The research found that
00:48:46.920
19% of LGBT respondents said that they are behind on rent. Of those, 47% said that they fear
00:48:51.960
eviction in the next two months. The findings from the survey come after the Supreme Court last week
00:48:55.940
blocked an eviction freeze put in place by the Biden administration to shield financially vulnerable
00:48:59.660
Americans during the pandemic. Well, did anybody explain this to the Supreme Court? Did anyone present
00:49:05.540
this powerful legal argument that the eviction freeze is good because some gay people might be
00:49:10.600
evicted without it? Was this legal case laid out to the justices? It should be if it hasn't been.
00:49:19.220
William Institute researchers also found that 41% of LGBT respondents rent their homes compared to 25%
00:49:25.300
of their straight cisgender counterparts. About 39% of LGBT people owned a house with a mortgage or a loan
00:49:30.520
compared to almost 48% of non-LGBT people. In addition, more LGBT people of color, 47%,
00:49:37.520
rent their homes compared to 37% of white LGBT respondents. 51% of LGBT people of color said that
00:49:43.760
they feared eviction in the next two months compared to 38% of white LGBT people, 47% of non-LGBT people
00:49:49.980
of color, and 46% of white non-LGBT people. The Williams Institute's brief concluded that a key
00:49:56.000
component of a person's housing stability is whether they own or rent. LGBT people, and specifically those
00:50:01.420
of color, are more likely to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. A study released by the Williams
00:50:06.520
Institute in February found that LGBT people of color were two times more likely to contract COVID-19
00:50:12.420
compared to their straight white counterparts. Well, geez, now I'm against COVID too, on second
00:50:20.540
thought. I mean, now that you've told me that, I'm opposed to COVID. I had no idea that my race and
00:50:26.440
sexual orientation afforded me immunity from the virus. And now, frankly, I feel the ethical
00:50:32.580
responsibility to go out and get infected on purpose and to infect many other straight white people
00:50:38.340
as well, just to kind of even out the score a little bit. Since we're keeping score, apparently.
00:50:45.880
Now, if it seems like I'm just heaping sarcastic scorn here and offering nothing else, you're exactly
00:50:50.500
right. Because this kind of intersectional madness, that's what it deserves. Just our scorn and ridicule
00:50:57.920
and sarcasm. There is no way to engage with it honestly or coherently anyway, because it's not put
00:51:04.060
forward honestly or coherently. Just starting with the first sentence, it says, about half of LGBT
00:51:10.040
people behind on their rent fear eviction. Well, yeah, and? That's not the same thing as saying
00:51:16.740
that half of LGBT people, period, fear eviction. It's to say that half of the people who are behind
00:51:23.660
on their rent fear it. But shouldn't everyone who hasn't paid their rent fear eviction? I mean,
00:51:29.440
shouldn't the number be like 100%? This is like saying that half of LGBT people who are currently
00:51:36.920
speeding down the road without a seatbelt fear a fatal car accident. Well, yeah, but that's good.
00:51:43.940
It's not good that they're speeding down the road, you know, recklessly, but it's at least good that
00:51:50.600
they're aware of the consequences and they're mildly concerned about it. So I have more questions about
00:51:56.400
the other half, really. Also, you could easily flip this around and you could phrase it the other way
00:52:01.860
and you could say nearly 100% of LGBT people who pay their rent do not fear eviction. So that's awesome.
00:52:11.180
Looks like everything is fine after all. But here I am doing exactly what I said I wouldn't do and we
00:52:16.280
shouldn't do, engaging with the argument, because there's nothing really to engage with here. The sexual
00:52:21.960
orientation of people who haven't paid their rent is of absolutely no consequence or relevance at all.
00:52:28.960
There's no reason to even talk about it. The wrongness or rightness of the eviction moratorium would not
00:52:36.000
change one iota if 100% of all LGBT people would be evicted without it. Why should it? I mean, do the
00:52:45.320
moral or legal facts change depending on what identity group the affected people belong to?
00:52:52.900
Well, yes, that's exactly what the people who do this kind of research and blast it out in their
00:52:57.740
headlines want us to think. The point for them is really twofold. One, we're supposed to abandon
00:53:04.840
our position at the behest of a protected class of people. You know, they say, oh, you're, you're,
00:53:11.220
you want to get rid of the eviction moratorium. Well, did you know that if we do that, there might
00:53:16.920
be some LGBT people who are evicted and we're supposed to say, well, nevermind. And two, the main
00:53:24.240
thing here is that this now enables the eviction moratorium advocates to claim that abolishing the
00:53:30.960
eviction moratorium is homophobic and an anti-gay conspiracy. That's the setup. That's actually what
00:53:38.760
they're doing here. So look for that talking point to be rolled out shortly if it hasn't been already.
00:53:44.560
Like clockwork, entirely predictable, but no less insidious, not to mention ridiculous and annoying
00:53:50.220
and insane. And for that reason, the Hill today is, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there
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for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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