Ep. 794 - The Decaying Old Tyrant Must Be Defied
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Biden attempts one of the most tyrannical power grabs in the history of the presidency, while the left comes to the defense of a death row inmate. Plus, a woman says she s the victim of fatophobia and racism because she was kicked off a plane for not wearing a shirt.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Biden attempts one of the most tyrannical power grabs
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in the history of the presidency, issuing a vaccine mandate that affects 100 million Americans
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potentially. I'll have plenty to say about that today. Also, on the same day that the president
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tried to force 100 million Americans to inject a substance into their body, Kamala Harris got
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in front of cameras to speak about the need for bodily autonomy. So there seems to be a bit of
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a disconnect there. And the left comes to the defense of a death row inmates claiming that
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pro-lifers are hypocrites if they don't do the same. Is it true that pro-lifers have an obligation
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to oppose the death penalty? We'll talk about that. Plus, a woman says that she's the victim
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of fat phobia and racism because she was kicked off a plane for not wearing a shirt. We'll try
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to sort through that important controversy today, along with much more on the Matt Wall Show.
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you. You know, for four years, we were warned incessantly that President Donald Trump was a
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vicious, power-mad tyrant, a fascist dictator. He was Hitler incarnate, an authoritarian megalomaniac,
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et cetera. You know, we heard this over and over and over again for four years. Meanwhile, in reality,
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Trump was, you could argue, among the least tyrannical presidents we've ever had.
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And whether you like him or you don't like him, you should be able to agree with that.
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Because in fact, one of his greatest flaws, in my opinion, was his reluctance to use the
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legitimate authority of his office in order to enact his agenda. So his flaw was on the other end
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of that spectrum entirely. Trump was no autocrat at all. He was something close to the opposite of that.
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Uh, no. We had to elect Joe Biden, this frail, decrepit, old Mr. Magoo with a moldy cantaloupe
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for a brain, to see what autocracy really looks like. This is what it looks like. So at around 5pm
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yesterday, only an hour before his bedtime, Biden stood in front of cameras and unveiled his plan
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to defeat COVID. Now, I should say he unveiled his latest plan to defeat COVID. He's already
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implemented several other plans, which apparently came to nothing. You may recall when he first
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entered office and he said that he was going to vanquish the virus in 100 days. Originally,
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it was supposed to be 15 days. And, and, you know, then a year later, we were still in the 15 day
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period. And he said, well, nevermind. It's going to be a hundred days and a hundred days. We're going
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to be through this. We're going to be, we're going to defeat it. July 4th is the, is the time.
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But a hundred days, 15 days came and went a hundred days came and went the virus is still
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with us. And that is because the virus will always be with us. We live in a world where COVID-19
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exists and will likely always exist. And all we can do is learn how to live alongside it.
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That's the reality, but it's a reality that nobody in a position of authority will publicly
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admit. There's too much power, too much power to be gained in the, the promise of eradicating the
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virus, even if it's a false promise. And that promise creates for the tyrant, this kind of
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perfect mixture of false hope and also fear, which is a very potent recipe, a recipe that's far too
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alluring for a guy like Joe Biden. That's what brings us to his latest COVID action plan. The
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president began last night by expressing his frustration with the Americans who have chosen
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not to get the vaccine. Listen, even as the Delta variant 19 has COVID-19 has been hitting this
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country hard, we have the tools to combat the virus. If we can come together as a country and use those
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tools, if we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking, expanded testing
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and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.
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It'll take a lot of hard work. It's going to take some time. Many of us are frustrated with the
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nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe,
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He's a very angry man, Joe Biden is. That's always been an underrated aspect of Joe Biden,
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just how angry he is. And not only because of his old age and dementia, but he's always been like
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this, actually. And that really, it's coming through more and more, just how angry he is at everybody,
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and especially at Americans. Or he says frustrated. He's frustrated with us. Why is he frustrated?
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Well, because he says, unvaccinated Americans, the unclean, the lepers, are posing a threat to
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The bottom line, we're going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers.
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We're going to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by increasing the share of the workforce that is
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vaccinated in businesses all across America. My plan will extend the vaccination requirements
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that I previously issued in the health care field.
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Now, we're going to circle back, as his White House likes to say, we're going to circle back
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to that point in just a moment. We're going to circle back to all of this stuff. But I want to
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run through some of these clips. First, let's listen as Supreme Leader Biden explains exactly how he
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plans to force this drug into 100 million arms.
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We must increase vaccinations among the unvaccinated with new vaccination requirements.
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Of the nearly 80 million eligible Americans who have not gotten vaccinated,
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many said they were waiting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.
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Well, last month, the FDA granted that approval.
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So the time for waiting is over. This summer, we made progress through the combination of vaccine
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requirements and incentives, as well as the FDA approval. Four million more people got their first
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shot in August than they did in July. But we need to do more. This is not about freedom or personal
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choice. It's about protecting yourself and those around you, the people you work with, the people
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you care about, the people you love. My job as president is to protect all Americans. So tonight,
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I'm announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers
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with 100 or more employees that together employ over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces
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are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week.
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And then finally, what about governors who believe in, you know, silly things like
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states' rights and may attempt to defy Biden's royal edicts? Well, he says
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he's simply going to get them out of the way. Listen, if they'll not help, if these governors
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won't help us beat the pandemic, I'll use my power as president to get them out of the way.
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Doesn't explain how he's going to get them out of the way. He's just going to get them out of the
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way because they don't matter. States' rights, that doesn't matter to him at all. Now, the president
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also called for more kids to get vaccinated, and he said he was going to double the fines for
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travelers on airplanes who don't wear masks. Initially, again, he said we'd have to mask for
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100 days of his presidency, but we're way past 100 days now, and he's not only not taking the masks
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away, but he's doubling the fines for people who don't wear them. If it's not obvious by now that
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the time frames these people give us mean nothing at all, and that they only give us the time frames
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because they still refuse to come out and say, it's going to be like this forever, get used to it,
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then I don't know what else to say if that's not obvious by now. Well, I can think of a few
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additional things to say about all of this. So let's go through them. Let's go through all these
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points. Number one, all of this makes no sense if the vaccine works, right? Biden says that the
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unvaccinated are putting the vaccinated in harm's way. His message seems to be the vaccines work
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and you should trust them, but if you don't get the vaccine, then vaccinated people will get sick
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and die, and it will be your fault. So get the vaccine because it works and because other people
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are vaccinated, and they'll die if you don't get vaccinated too, even though the vaccine works
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and is effective. And that's why you should get it. So you don't kill other people who are vaccinated.
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The messaging seems a little bit confused, to say the least. Now, you can't make this any less
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confused by simply saying that, well, the vaccine isn't 100% effective. We know that it's not 100%
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effective. No vaccine is 100% effective. But if the unvaccinated still pose such a significant
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threat to the vaccinated that these kinds of sweeping, unheard of, unprecedented, economy-crushing
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policies are necessary, then that would seem to indicate that the vaccine isn't just imperfect.
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It's not just not 100%, but it's in fact nearly worthless. I'm not saying it's worthless.
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I'm saying that the Biden administration is sending the message that the vaccines are worthless.
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The fact is this. If the vaccine provides significant protection to the vaccinated,
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then you can't justify mandates in the name of protecting the vaccinated because they're
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already protected. But if the vaccine does not provide significant protection, or if we don't
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know whether it provides significant protection, then you also can't justify the mandates because
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you're mandating a significantly ineffective drug. There's no way around this problem.
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So Biden just ignores it. That's his way around it. He also ignores something else.
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My second point is he's ignoring, continuing to ignore, natural immunity. We're not taking that
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into account at all. The people in charge of containing the virus have remained committed
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to pretending that natural immunity doesn't exist, that it's some kind of conspiracy theory.
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The research shows very clearly that prior infection brings robust immunity, maybe more robust than the
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vaccine, which means that millions of unvaccinated people are potentially more immune and therefore
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less of a public health threat, quote unquote, than vaccinated people. This is not a small point.
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You know, if you're a vaccinated person and you're feeling high and mighty and looking at the
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unvaccinated people and saying, oh, you're causing all these problems, you're a danger.
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For millions of the people in that unvaccinated category, there's a very good chance you are a
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greater threat than them if they have natural immunity. Again, it's not a small point. This
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mandate forces the vaccine on millions of people who, according to the best available science,
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don't need it. That's not to say all of the unvaccinated people have natural immunity.
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But logic would tell us that millions of them do. It is forcing an unnecessary drug, therefore,
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into the bodies of people who, again, don't need it according to the science. If anyone still has any
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doubt about, you know, all of this being really just a plot to control people and not about protecting
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people, this point right here should cure you of any doubts. There is no reason to ignore natural
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immunity, no good public health reason, other than the fact that, from the government's perspective,
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there's no control, there's no power to be gained from natural immunity, and that's why they ignore it.
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Also, the unvaccinated slash vaccinated dynamic, the simple separation of the two groups with no
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further nuances or considerations creates the perfect kind of tribalistic villainization for
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our leaders to exploit. Joe Biden last night, if you watched that speech, and you saw some of it in
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the clips that we played there, he showed more anger and disgust towards the unvaccinated than he ever
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showed towards the Taliban. Listen to these people talk about the Taliban. We played the Secretary of
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State yesterday saying, yeah, their background is a little bit troubling, or they have a challenging
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background. We want them to be more inclusive. Compare that to what they're saying about unvaccinated
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people, because he has set the unvaccinated up as the fall guys. Everything's their fault.
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They're to blame for everything. He's not the first tyrant to do this. This is a tactic
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common to all tyrants throughout history, which brings us to the third and most important point,
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I think. Number three, Biden does not have the authority to do almost any of this. Despite what
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his actions imply, he is not king. He's not a holy emperor. He's a politician, and this is still the
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United States of America. He knows he doesn't have the authority, just as he knew he didn't have the
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authority when he extended the eviction moratorium. He said he didn't have the authority, but he did
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it anyway. Everyone's asking, what's his legal justification? What's his constitutional
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justification for doing this? Well, I'll tell you what his legal and constitutional justification is.
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It's that he can do it because he wants to do it, and he can do it, and he will do it,
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and what are you going to do about it? That's his legal argument. That's the justification,
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and it's important to understand that. It's important to understand that because the only
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remedy here is defiance. Americans have to look back at these petty despots and say, no,
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we won't comply. Arrest us all. Send the army in and shut down all these businesses that are not
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enforcing your vaccine mandate. We're calling your bluff. This is a time to choose. This is a time
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for drawing lines. It's a time to say no. The word no has left our vocabulary in this culture in recent
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years. We have to reintroduce it now. Civil disobedience, refusal, say no. That's the only
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way forward. For too long, we've been waiting for permission to be free people in a free country.
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We've been sitting back and waiting for our rulers to tell us, okay, you can be free now.
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But it doesn't work that way. If you want to have a free country, you grant your own permission.
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it right. Well, I'll start with this just to show you how little respect these people have for our
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intelligence. Mere hours before Biden announced his vaccine mandate, forcing a drug into the bodies of
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100 million people all at once. Here's what Kamala Harris was saying. Listen to this.
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The president and I are unequivocal in our support of Roe v. Wade and the constitutionality
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of Roe v. Wade and the right of women to make decisions for themselves with whomever they choose
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about their own bodies. And needless to say, the right of women to make decisions about their own
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bodies is their decision. It is their body. These people are totally shameless. This was
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the same day. This was a couple of hours before Joe Biden got up there and said,
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you have to take the vaccine or we're going to take your job away from you. We're going to take
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everything from you. She's saying, uh, and, and as always very eloquent from Kamala Harris,
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by the way, she says the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is not negotiable.
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The right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is their decision. It's their body.
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Okay. The right to make a decision is their decision. That clarifies that, but you have
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the right to make decisions with your own body. They are advancing that at the same time.
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You know, it's, it's not even like there's a separation here of, um, well, we talked about
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the abortion thing last month and now we're talking about vaccine mandates and forget about
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what we said a month ago. We're used to seeing that from Democrats and from the left, but in
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this case, they're doing it at the same time. You have the right to make decisions with your,
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about your own body. Uh, but here's this drug, even if you don't need it, put it into your body.
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There is no way to make that not a, a blatant contradiction,
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especially because the right to make decisions with your own body,
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that is an argument that, that only applies to, to the vaccine issue and not the abortion issue.
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Because as I've said a million times with abortion, the point is you're not, it's, it's,
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it's not your body. You're making a decision about
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you're making a decision to destroy, to directly intentionally destroy someone else's body.
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This is a, you are acting upon someone else's body and destroying it. So it's not about your body.
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But with the vaccine, it is, it's the only body directly affected is your own.
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So that applies, that logic actually applies. The bodily autonomy argument
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is a bad argument in many of the contexts that the left uses it, especially abortion. It just doesn't
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apply at all to abortion. But here's one area, probably the, the, the primary area where it
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actually does apply, just to vaccines. And I know what the response is. I know the response is,
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yeah, but if you don't get the vaccine, then, uh, then you know, you could get someone else sick.
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Well, even if, even if that's true, like if we're again, pretending, or if we're
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just ignoring the issue of national, natural immunity.
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And if we're doing this weird thing where we want to force the vaccine, but at the same time,
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we're acting like the vaccine doesn't work at all. So that you're, you still pose a threat to
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vaccinated people. Even putting all of that craziness aside, it's still indirect. Okay. By,
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by not getting a vaccine, you are not directly murdering anybody.
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I know that that's the way that people in power have been talking about this issue for a year and
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a half now, that to not get the vaccine or to walk out of your side without, outside without a mask on,
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it's tantamount to directly killing someone, but it's not. Okay. You're not directly harming anyone.
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That's not your intention in doing it. You know, even if someone is harmed, it there's,
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there's many degrees of separation as opposed to abortion where it is a direct act upon someone else's
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body to destroy it. That difference is not insignificant. It really matters.
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All right. Let's, uh, move to, since we're on the pro-life issue, a death row inmate named,
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um, John Ramirez had his execution halted by the Supreme court on Wednesday night because
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he claimed that his religious freedom was violated. If his pastor was not able to lay hands on him as he
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was being executed, which apparently is not something that they allow in Texas. I think
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they allow, I don't know what the rule is exactly, but they allow the pastor in there, but no one is
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allowed to make physical contact with the, uh, with the condemned as they are being executed.
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But he said, this is a violation of his religious liberty. So the Supreme court came in and they
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halted it and this is going to go through the courts again. And then, you know, um, uh, but before the
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halt was announced, lots of Democrats on social media were once again, claiming that pro-lifers
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are not really pro-life if they won't stick up for guys like John Ramirez. So here's one example.
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This is a tweet from a guy named Dan green, who is a, he's the, he's the national communications
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director for something called Democrats for life. These are Democrats who actually consider
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themselves to be pro-life and yet they remain in the Democrat party, which is, which is it's like
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calling yourself a Satanist for Jesus. It doesn't make any sense at all, but, um, this apparently is
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a group that exists and probably has about five people in it. Here's what he tweeted. He said
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within a week of an abortion ban in Texas going into effect, governor Abbott is killing John Ramirez
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on death row tonight. The last request of John for his pastor to hold him as he dies. That request
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was denied. None of this makes sense. We need a consistent life ethic. Uh, I, I agree. We need
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a consistent life ethic. Let me tell you what the consistent ethic is. And it's actually very simple.
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It is always wrong, always immoral and should always be illegal to directly and intentionally destroy
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innocent human life. You need all of those qualifications. All of those qualifications are
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important. Uh, I mean, obviously we can't say it's always wrong to destroy human life, period.
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Because that would mean that you can't even self-defense is wrong. You can't shoot. If someone
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breaks in your house, tries to shoot you in the head, you can't defend yourself. That would mean
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that all, all war, all war is bad. Every single war that's ever been fought on every side was, was
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wrong. Um, and that doesn't make any sense. So that's why you need these kinds of qualifications.
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You also directly and intentionally is an, is an important part of this too. Um,
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you know, every time you get into a vehicle, there's the chance that you could in indirectly
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and unintentionally kill someone. Even being sober, you could still just by driving down the road,
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someone could run out in front of your car and you kill them. You're driving down the road. Someone
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runs in front of your car. You accidentally kill them. Are you a murderer now? Should you go to jail?
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Of course not. So that's why the pro-life ethic needs all of those qualifications. They're very
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important. What about John Ramirez? Well, what did he do to get himself on death row? He stabbed a
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convenience store clerk to death 29 times, stabbed him 29 times and killed him and stole a dollar and
00:27:25.640
25 cents. So this is, this is a man who, who butchered another man, stabbed him 29 times for less than
00:27:34.120
$2. Now, what I would say to, uh, Dan Green and any other Democrat who advances this talking point,
00:27:44.840
but I thought you're pro-life, but you're, you're in favor of capital punishment.
00:27:49.180
If you can find an unborn baby who's guilty of stabbing someone 29 times and killing them,
00:27:57.160
then maybe this comparison will begin to make sense.
00:28:02.160
But I don't think you're going to find that because all unborn babies are by definition,
00:28:08.620
innocent. They've done nothing. They haven't harmed anyone.
00:28:12.180
They are the most innocent human beings on the planet. They haven't had the opportunity
00:28:21.420
to, to make any bad choices or to intentionally harm anybody.
00:28:29.380
You know, this comparison, like acting like you can't, like you don't see any substantive difference
00:28:40.020
between a baby and a murderer who stabbed someone to death 29 times.
00:28:48.540
I'm not sure I even believe it. I'm not sure that I believe that you don't see the difference.
00:28:52.260
And this is another example where it actually works the other way, just like the bodily autonomy
00:28:59.740
argument. You know, that, that works for vaccines. It doesn't work. It actually works against the
00:29:06.380
pro-abortion side because what about the bodily autonomy of the unborn baby who you're destroying?
00:29:13.940
So with this, when the Democrats raise the, you know, the, the supposed pro-life hypocrisy on
00:29:19.900
capital punishment, the hypocrisy goes the other way. They're the ones who have a contradiction that
00:29:26.000
they need to explain. You know, it doesn't trouble me at all to say that I am not in favor of executing
00:29:36.280
babies in the womb, but I am in favor of executing convicted murderers. That's my position for a lot of
00:29:44.320
pro-life people. Not all that's our position, but for most Democrats, uh, their position is the only
00:29:54.540
people that they're in favor of executing are unborn babies. They're saying don't execute the criminal,
00:30:02.260
but execute the unborn baby. So who, whose position is more inconsistent, which, which position needs,
00:30:11.100
uh, needs further justification and explanation? The position that we should only execute convicted murderers
00:30:19.480
or the position that we should only execute unborn babies? All right. Uh, this is from the New York Post.
00:30:27.400
It says a woman who claims she was booted from a plane because her stomach was showing says that she was
00:30:32.380
actually discriminated against for being a fat tattooed mixed-raced woman. Uh, Fairbanks, Alaska resident,
00:30:38.900
Ray Lynn Howard, 33, alleges she was harassed by Alaska airline staffers on Friday. In turn,
00:30:44.120
she did what people do these days to state her case. She took to TikTok to post a now viral video
00:30:48.500
originally shared via her fat trophy wife account on Friday. The clip has, um, speaking of a
00:30:55.980
contradiction in terms, the clip has since racked up 1.3 million views and more than 180,000 likes as
00:31:01.920
of Monday morning. In the footage, Howard can be seen getting escorted off of a flight by police officers
00:31:05.820
who proceeded to question her about the incident. Uh, she said, quote, throughout my life as a fat
00:31:10.940
person, I've had to deal with fat phobia, especially growing up in the Midwest, but not to this degree.
00:31:16.620
Um, she said, I felt like I was being discriminated against for being a fat tattooed mixed-raced woman,
00:31:21.560
which in turn left me full of emotions like anger, disappointment, helplessness, humiliation,
00:31:27.260
confusion. Okay. Now she recorded her conversation with, I think it was the TSA officer, which
00:31:34.240
apparently that, that, that, that's something they'll let you do. Well, they let her do it
00:31:38.180
anyway. She pulled out her phone. She's sitting in the room, just talking to the TSA officer,
00:31:43.380
pulls out her phone, starts recording. And, um, here's how that conversation went.
00:31:47.480
So, so what happened on the, on the flight? I was harassed about my outfit. Okay. I put my shirt
00:31:55.480
back on. Okay. So you did have it off? Yeah. At one point. I had this on. Sports bra. They asked
00:32:01.440
me to put my shirt on. Okay. Put the shirt back on. And then they approached me again. Okay. Saying
00:32:07.520
that I can't wear this. My stomach is showing and it's inappropriate. Okay. And I said, I'm covered
00:32:14.680
up. I'm fine. And she just kept going. And I said, if you're going to kick me off, like
00:32:20.120
then kick me off. I've done what you've asked me to do. I want you to leave me alone. That
00:32:25.840
was the third time they approached me about my outfit, about wearing this outfit. Yeah.
00:32:32.900
Okay. So she was, she was wearing her, her bra on the plane, just her bra. She, she, she
00:32:39.140
boarded the plane in her underwear and then was shocked when they asked her to get off
00:32:46.760
of the plane. Get off the plane. Why? I'm just sitting here in my underwear. This is, this
00:32:52.840
is a fat phobia. She says, can we go back? I mean, we've got all these rules on the plane
00:33:00.320
already. Um, and you have to wear the damn mask and everything else. Here's one rule
00:33:08.840
that I would actually be in favor of. Let's, let us, let's, let us take the stupid masks
00:33:12.920
off. But, um, a rule that I'd be in favor of if, if the airlines chose to impose it would
00:33:19.360
be a, a much stricter. I mean, they have dress codes, but how many, a much stricter one. If
00:33:24.440
I was in favor, if I was running an airline, I think I'd go back, you know, you think about
00:33:29.980
like the 1960s and seventies, they used to dress, they used to wear their Sundays best
00:33:35.420
to get on an airplane, which kind of makes sense because it's a, it's an event, right?
00:33:40.720
You're, you're flying through the sky. This is, this is a, you know, should be a great event
00:33:45.400
in your life, no matter how often you do it. You're able to travel, you know, 35,000 feet
00:33:53.740
in the sky. And we, we, we become so jaded and, and, you know, cynical about it. We're
00:33:59.420
so used to it that we don't stop to think of how incredible it is. So it actually makes
00:34:04.640
sense. And the other reason it makes sense to, to, to dress more formally on a plane
00:34:10.000
is because you're, you're locked in this metal tube with other people. And so you should make
00:34:18.840
even more of an effort to be presentable. Yeah, it's probably true. No one else on the
00:34:26.440
plane wants to look at you in your underwear. You can, you can, you can call that fat phobia
00:34:29.540
all you want, call what you want, but they shouldn't have to be locked in a plane with
00:34:35.260
you for three and a half hours in this small condensed area. So let's go back to that for
00:34:42.100
doing all the rules. Anyway, how about you have to dress for certainly no, no sports bras,
00:34:47.640
um, but also no pajamas. Okay. No flip-flops. I shouldn't have to sit here on the plane with
00:34:59.040
you an inch from me. And I got to stare at your hairy feet the entire time. That's not
00:35:03.700
okay either. No flip-flops, you know, make formal, formal attire is what should be required
00:35:09.700
on the plans in my opinion. All right. CNN is very upset about the voter ID law in Texas
00:35:15.720
that just went into effect this week. And here is a CNN. They say, Justin, Texas Republican
00:35:23.520
governor, Greg Abbott has signed into law a bill that bans 24 hour and drive-through voting
00:35:27.740
imposes new hurdles on mail-in ballots and empowers partisan poll watchers. And then they, they list
00:35:33.740
again, what the bill does. And so here's in this, we're supposed to be upset about this. They're
00:35:40.300
listing it because this, this is supposed to be something that we find outrageous. Um, okay.
00:35:45.480
Again, bans 24 hour and drive-through voting, new vote by mail ID mandates, bans officials from
00:35:53.580
mailing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications, empowers poll watchers, new requirements for assisting
00:36:01.800
voters, monthly voter roll checks. All of that makes a lot of sense to me. What, what part of
00:36:12.400
that is a problem? And when it comes to the ID, once again, we've got to go back to the contradictions
00:36:22.020
here. It's, it's supposed to be some kind of oppressive, impossible requirement to tell people
00:36:33.700
that they have to get an ID to vote, you know, once every four years or once every two years of
00:36:41.400
the vote in the midterms to tell someone that, Hey, if you want to vote in the next presidential
00:36:45.920
election, you got four years, three years at this point, you have, you have three years to, to get an
00:36:52.680
ID and figure that out. And, um, and here on the day of voting, here are the rules that we're putting in
00:36:58.640
place. Pretty, very, very simple and easy rules. And that's supposed to be impossible for people.
00:37:10.020
We're actually excluding people from voting just by putting those rules in place.
00:37:15.920
And yet it's not oppressive. It's not, um, onerous to tell people that they have to go to,
00:37:24.920
if they make an appointment, go to Walgreens, get a drug injected into them
00:37:29.080
in order to even have a job. And Hey, by the way, do you, do you need, uh, an ID
00:37:39.260
to get the vaccine? I'm pretty sure you do. Especially if they're going to, if they're
00:37:46.600
giving you a vaccine card and you're getting the vaccine passport, they need to know who you are
00:37:51.140
and you're going to have to be able to verify who you are. So you can require an ID for the vaccine
00:38:00.020
and then require the vaccine just to, just to go to your job every day.
00:38:05.920
Or you have to get tested once a week to go to your job.
00:38:08.440
But if you have to have that same exact ID to go vote three years from now, that's a problem.
00:38:20.240
Obviously it makes no sense at all. Okay. One other clip I want to play before we get, uh,
00:38:23.980
before we move on to reading the YouTube comments, this is a, you know, you know,
00:38:28.360
we love playing the TikTok videos here. And this is a fun one. Um, because we have, you know,
00:38:35.660
the crazy TikTok videos, the rant videos, people in their car. This is another fun category of
00:38:42.000
TikTok video because this is the fictional storytelling genre of TikTok videos. Let's
00:38:47.340
listen. You guys, we just got home from the park. You're not going to believe what happened as I was
00:38:51.440
about to leave. So Everly's playing in the mulch pit. While she's playing in there, she made friends
00:38:55.400
with a little boy. He's black. Who cares? They're happy. I'm not thinking anything of it. This other mom
00:39:00.580
comes and sits down on the bench next to me. The mom is white. She says to me, oh my gosh,
00:39:04.980
is that your daughter? She's so cute. I said, yep. She then leans in closer to me and goes,
00:39:09.300
you know, she's playing with a black boy. I was like, and, and then she was like, oh, no reason.
00:39:17.440
There's just a lot of kids here. And I'm surprised that's who she's playing with.
00:39:20.720
Why is that surprising to you? It gets worse. I was like, she can play with whoever she wants.
00:39:25.740
We're not racist. She says, I'm not racist either. She says her biggest hope is one day her
00:39:30.320
grandchildren grow up to look kind of like her. That's your biggest hope for your daughter?
00:39:34.600
I, you know what? Of all of the things that have happened in the world, that one
00:39:41.340
certainly is in the category of things that happen. I, I, I believe that. I believe every
00:39:47.720
part of that story. Okay. I know I started by saying this is a fictional storytelling genre.
00:39:52.080
I should not have said that. That story sounded very credible to me. I don't know about you.
00:39:59.720
Haven't we all had these experiences on playgrounds?
00:40:03.340
Are you just sitting there and some racist white person comes up? Says, what are all these black
00:40:08.140
children doing on the playground? Get out of here. Haven't we all experienced that?
00:40:14.320
Oh no. I mean, literally none of us ever have. It just never happens at all.
00:40:18.240
Uh, can you at least put, put some effort into your, into your fake stories, you know, sit
00:40:27.420
down, do a little storyboarding, give a little, a little bit of nuance and character and flavor
00:40:34.820
to these, to these, uh, to these fake racists that you're making up. Give them a little bit
00:40:39.160
of a backstory. I don't know if you want us to believe it, but this just goes to show once
00:40:45.660
again, when we get these, these racism hoax hoaxes, which this certainly is, um, the, the good
00:40:52.900
thing, the good sign is that these people are making up these stories have never met a racist
00:40:58.580
person. So they have no idea what a racist person sounds like, or what would, what's, what's a,
00:41:04.260
what's a, what's a credible story you could tell about a racist person. They've never met one.
00:41:09.060
So they have no idea. And they're, they're getting this all from, from movies, but that's,
00:41:12.320
that's a good thing. It shows how uncommon racism actually is in this country. Much to
00:41:20.120
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from Jabari says, you guys ever wonder what Matt's wife thinks of the Sweet Daddy Walsh
00:42:43.660
title? I mean, on the one hand, it's weird, but on the other, his wife likes ridiculing
00:42:48.960
him. Well, she does, but I can tell you right now, she is, I think I've already shared with
00:42:55.900
you the very distressing and troubling fact that my wife is not a member of the Sweet
00:43:01.420
Baby Gang. I've invited her into the gang. I've said, hey, honey, come be a part of the
00:43:09.420
gang. And she does. She just, she just laughs at me. And she says, here's the word that she's
00:43:15.880
used so many times with the Sweet Baby Gang. Creepy. If you can believe it. If you can believe
00:43:24.020
it, my wife thinks that it's creepy for strangers to be calling me Sweet Daddy. I don't understand
00:43:30.200
it. Women. I mean, it's, it's impossible to understand. Nathan says, Matt, I was very
00:43:36.320
disappointed when I tried the discount code SBG and Sweet Baby Gang and still had to pay
00:43:42.620
$40 for this t-shirt. You filthy, greedy cabos. Is it really $40? Is that how much it costs?
00:43:48.280
Well, hey, is it actually $40? Look, it, it, it, we're starting a cult here. Okay. And this
00:43:57.920
is part of, it's, it's expensive on the ground floor. You think it's going to be, that's, that's
00:44:03.460
cheap compared to Scientology. You think you can walk into the Scientology building and get
00:44:09.460
to square one of becoming a Scientologist for just 40 bucks? I think that's a deep discount
00:44:16.020
when you think about it. Let's see. William says, Robert E. Lee was a highly respected
00:44:25.860
military officer before, during, and after the war by both cultures of North and South. He was
00:44:30.180
not a secessionist. In fact, when he offered a position of general over all armies in the North
00:44:34.400
by Lincoln, Lee's daughter reported how distressed and sleepless Lee was in making the decision over
00:44:40.260
the period of two weeks. Lee also expressed his desire to see an end to slavery, yet it has become
00:44:45.660
his face that is the poster of slavery in America. The absolute hubris and ignorance of these people
00:44:51.620
tearing down statues is astounding. Yeah, that's like what we talked about yesterday, especially
00:44:57.500
when it comes to somebody like Robert E. Lee. People refuse to view that, to view him or anyone
00:45:07.640
at that period, within the context of their time. I mean, you have to keep in mind, it's the mid-19th
00:45:18.160
century, which means that nobody on the planet has racial views that would be acceptable to us today.
00:45:30.820
Nobody. Nobody. That goes for the abolitionists. That goes for Abraham Lincoln, who famously was in
00:45:39.340
favor of shipping all the slaves back to Africa, who famously said that he's not in favor of racial
00:45:46.840
equality between the races. It's not just white people in America either. You go across the entire
00:45:54.220
world. Nobody at that period of time would have had racial views that would seem acceptable to us
00:46:03.840
today in the year 2021. Never mind their views on so many other topics, like gender, for example.
00:46:13.560
So that's one part of the context, important context. Again, the point of the context is not to say
00:46:22.720
that objectively evil things were not evil. This is not moral relativism. Slavery was still a great
00:46:29.460
evil. It was a great evil in America. It was a great evil across the globe, and as it was practiced
00:46:35.360
across the globe for thousands of years, it was always evil. That's not the point. The point is about
00:46:40.380
understanding context, and also if we're trying to, and this is really impossible to do, and this is up to
00:46:49.840
God to do, but if we're trying to, after the fact, assess the personal moral culpability of any
00:46:56.380
individual, that's when things like historical context come into play. So that's part of the
00:47:02.960
context. The other part of the context, as you point out, William, is that he was from Virginia.
00:47:10.060
That was his home. Again, hard for us to understand this or see it this way as modern Americans,
00:47:16.320
but back in those days, especially in the South, they thought of, you know, their country was their
00:47:22.880
state. They considered, if you were from Virginia, consider yourself a Virginian first. That's not a
00:47:29.660
wrong way of looking at it. It's just a different way of looking at it. That's how they saw it.
00:47:34.760
So this was his home. This is where his family lived. It's where his sons lived.
00:47:39.120
He was given the opportunity to, you know, lead the armies, to lead the army in the North,
00:47:47.800
but he knew that he would be marching against his own home and taking up arms against his own family
00:47:56.000
and probably his own sons. Maybe we can at least understand how that's like an agonizing decision
00:48:02.020
for a person to make. And then when you put them squarely within the context of mid-19th century
00:48:09.700
America, is it really that hard to understand how a person would make the decision to fight
00:48:16.340
alongside their families rather than against them?
00:48:22.360
But no, historical context is not allowed at all, as we've discovered.
00:48:27.280
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your t-shirt today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:51:16.900
You know, I had this experience this past week, and perhaps you can relate. I had the house to
00:51:20.600
myself because my wife and kids were out of town for a couple days. And I had deliberated over it
00:51:27.240
for a little while and decided exactly how I wanted to spend my free time that night. And my plan,
00:51:33.540
it was an exciting plan. It was this. I was going to pour a glass of whiskey. I was going to sit in our
00:51:37.940
comfortable leather chair, and I was going to read a book. And that's what I was going to do with my
00:51:41.260
time. That was my whole plan. And for dinner, I was feeling a little bit adventurous. So I decided
00:51:46.120
instead of ordering my customary General Tso's chicken from the local Chinese place, I was going
00:51:51.400
to order another dish from the local Chinese place along with the General Tso's. But then when it came
00:51:56.460
time to order, I kind of chickened out and I ended up just getting two of the General Tso's chickens,
00:51:59.940
which was way too much food, by the way, for one person to eat. Anyway, that was about all the
00:52:05.060
excitement that I thought I could handle. So after eating way too much food and reading and
00:52:08.680
drinking whiskey, I figured I'd get to bed at a reasonable hour, say 1030. That again was the
00:52:12.780
plan. Now, I realized that for younger people, everything I'm saying right now sounds horrifically
00:52:18.880
depressing. You can't believe that you'll ever be as boring as me. Like I have a night to myself,
00:52:24.460
and this is what I wanted to do. But everybody in their mid-30s or older hears my agenda for the
00:52:29.200
night and thinks, wow, that does sound like a lovely evening. And it would have indeed been lovely
00:52:33.000
if I had stuck to the plan. But instead, after I ordered my food, I got to looking at my phone.
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And after my phone had cannibalized, you know, you pick up your phone, you start looking at it.
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And next thing you know, it's an hour and a half later. After it cannibalized the portion of the
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night, I decided that, well, I'm too tired to read, so I better just watch something instead.
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But then I started browsing through the options and there are way too many options. And I just wasted
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another portion of my time trying to find something to watch. Finally, I decided to watch,
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you know, the same episode of The Office that I've already seen 95 times that I watched a couple more
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episodes and I went to bed. What could have been a relaxing but mentally and spiritually enriching
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night had been, in the end, like so many nights before it, sacrificed on the altar of the glowing
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screen. What did I get in exchange for this trade? Did I get an enjoyable night? Well, that would be
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something. But it's hard to say that aimlessly scrolling your phone or mindlessly flipping
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through the options on Netflix is enjoyable. You know, it's hard to say that there's real joy
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to be found in watching some kind of content simply because it is content. I certainly didn't
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gain edification or enrichment of any kind. I'm not even sure that I could say that I gained
00:53:49.780
relaxation. Relaxation was the night that I had already planned, but then abandoned.
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So, I say all this as kind of a way to lead up to this study in The Sun, which was just released,
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finding that the average adult will spend 100 days of their life deciding what TV show or movie to
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watch. That's 100 days cumulatively will be spent, you know, just clicking through the options on
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Netflix. That's the cumulative amount of time. It doesn't count all the thousands of hours spent
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actually watching whatever you eventually select. Now, I'm always a little bit skeptical
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of studies that purport to tell you ahead of time how many hours you'll spend of your life doing this
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or that. But 100 days in this case seems about right because there are other statistics too.
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Some of them are a little bit more familiar to us and they kind of put the problem into greater
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perspective. According to some of the most recent tabulations that I've read, Americans spend about
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two and a half hours a day just on social media. The average time spent watching TV is about four or
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five hours. Overall, then you've got to factor in video games, movies, porn for a lot of people.
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American adults stare at screens for 10 hours a day. 10 hours. Which does not sound like an
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exaggeration. It sounds, anything may be an underestimate. For kids under 12, it's about
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four to six hours a day. Again, sounds like an underestimate, if anything. When you consider that
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the average adult sleeps for seven or eight hours a night, that leaves only about six hours of waking
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time not spent staring at screens. Our lives have become completely consumed by these devices. The
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entirety of our existence, just about, has been condensed down into these little boxes like the
00:55:29.920
one that I'm looking at right now and that you're looking at. Now, people have been sounding the
00:55:35.100
alarm about exorbitant screen time for years, for decades, really. Before the internet existed,
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there were people warning that our lives have become dominated by screens, by TV screens in that
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case. And we're so used to hearing these warnings that we tend to shrug them off. In fact, oftentimes,
00:55:50.320
we look at the people who were panicking over TV decades ago and we laugh at them like they were
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chicken littles. So we say, see, what were you guys so worried about? Everything turned out fine.
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But it didn't turn out fine. And we do the same thing with people like in the fifties who were
00:56:05.160
warning about pop culture and pop music and rock music and where that would lead. And now we look
00:56:11.440
at them and we say, look at this, this is so quaint and ridiculous. They were worried about Elvis.
00:56:17.540
Well, no, but they were right. Look at pop culture today. They were exactly right.
00:56:23.520
With TV, it's the same thing. You know, it didn't turn out fine. They were right.
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More right than they knew. They saw the pattern, but probably didn't expect that within just a few
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years, the average American would spend nearly every waking hour of every day looking at a screen.
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And the physical effects of this are significant. All of this screen time leads to obesity,
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neck and back problems, sleep problems, inability to focus, depression, anxiety, on and on and on.
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We live in a world of fat, misshapen hunchbacks, thanks largely to screens. And yet,
00:56:54.960
the physical ramifications are not the most disturbing aspect of this. Not even the depression
00:57:02.940
or the anxiety that comes from a life lived inside this box. The most disturbing thing is what drives
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us to constantly stare at the box in the first place. As I said at the beginning, it's not really
00:57:14.860
enjoyment or edification. I mean, that might be the reason why you watch one particular thing,
00:57:21.020
like this show, for example. That's a good thing to watch. But what is it that drives us to stare
00:57:27.280
constantly at screens as a default, even when there's nothing worth staring at? Even when we're
00:57:33.640
not really enjoying it? What drives you to sit there in front of your TV and like search desperately
00:57:40.340
for something? There's not even anything you feel like watching. You're trying to find something,
00:57:44.700
anything to watch. Why would we spend all that time searching desperately for just some kind of
00:57:51.120
content to consume? It's one thing if there's a particular piece of content you know you want and
00:57:55.700
you want it for a particular reason and you seek it out and you watch it. But why are we always
00:57:59.500
seeking content? Why is there this overriding impulse to keep looking? I think the main thing people seek
00:58:06.100
from the screen is stupefaction. It's sort of a mental numbing agent, an escape from thought.
00:58:17.720
We become reliant on the screens because for us it's too taxing to think and to reflect and to
00:58:24.100
develop a real and authentic interior life. The internet and the screens have become a replacement
00:58:29.920
for our interior life. That's why people reflexively just put all of their lives on the internet. All of
00:58:36.580
their thoughts and pictures and everything. They just throw it all out there on the internet.
00:58:40.840
Whereas in the past they would have stored many of those things inside themselves because their
00:58:45.480
interior life was located within their minds. But now it's all on the internet. We become reliant on
00:58:52.840
the screens because it's better than it's a replacement for that. And maybe it's too scary
00:59:00.800
also to think. That's why we've become a nation of zombies. I think it's one of the reasons why
00:59:06.220
COVID has hit us so hard psychologically. We have been hiding behind the screens for so long,
00:59:12.420
shrinking away from difficult thoughts, not reflecting on anything really, especially not thoughts about
00:59:18.580
mortality until something rushed onto the scene that our screens wouldn't hide us from. So what am I
00:59:26.600
canceling? I guess I'm canceling your phone and your TV and all of your screens and all of you and also
00:59:34.420
me. Except this show. That's not canceled. This is a good thing to watch. Or any Daily Wire content,
00:59:42.220
of course. That's all different. So we will end this on that inspiring note of blatant and self-serving
00:59:50.400
hypocrisy. There's another reason why I am also canceled in this particular cancellation. We'll
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leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Go out this weekend and do
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something other than look at your screens. Godspeed.
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