Ep. 796 - AOC Takes Brave Stand Against Rich Elites By Partying With Them
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As the ruling class got together at the Met Gala last night to celebrate their wealth, AOC was on the scene in a Tax the Rich dress. Was it a courageous and rebellious display by the congresswoman, or was it rank shameless hypocrisy? Also, a new poll shows that an increasing number of vaccinated Americans are cutting off ties with unvaccinated friends. Plus, a male MMA fighter enters the ring with a female fighter and proceeds to beat her into submission.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the ruling class got together at the Met Gala last night to
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celebrate their wealth. AOC was on the scene in a tax the rich dress. Was it a courageous
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and rebellious display by the congresswoman or was it rank shameless hypocrisy? We'll discuss.
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Also, a new poll shows that an increasing number of vaccinated Americans are cutting off ties
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with unvaccinated friends. Plus, Secretary of State Blinken admits that many of those
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SIV applicant Afghans were admitting it to the country are not actually SIV applicants at all.
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And a male MMA fighter enters the ring with a female fighter and then proceeds to beat her
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into submission. This is being celebrated as a brave and beautiful moment in sports history.
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But I have a different take, as you might expect. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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and use our promo code Walsh for 20% off. AOC's abuela, as far as we know, is still languishing in her
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unfurnished Puerto Rican shack with water pouring from the ceiling and collecting in tin buckets strewn across
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the floor. Infamously, the congresswoman would not allow me to step in and rescue the poor woman from
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her dire situation. And I can tell you that I am still personally haunted by that. I still wake up
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at some nights in a cold sweat shouting, abuela, I'm sorry, I tried abuela. AOC, one can assume, has
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slept like a baby this entire time, on the other hand. Now, I bring this up again because I thought
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about abuela last night when I saw the picture circulating online of her negligent granddaughter cavorting
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with her fellow rich people at the Met Gala in New York. Tickets for the opulent event cost
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somewhere around $30,000 a piece. And if you want to buy a table inside the hall to advertise your
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brand, something to keep in mind for next year, if you're thinking about this for your business,
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it'll run you about a quarter of a million dollars. So it is a garish extravaganza, the ostensible
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purpose of which is to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But in actuality, the point is to
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celebrate and revel in the ostentatious wealth of the Hollywood government and media elites in
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attendance. Now, it may seem rather hypocritical for AOC to show up at this carnival of affluence.
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But don't worry, the expensive designer dress she donned for the occasion, which appears to have
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been inspired by a Chick-fil-A takeout bag, had the words tax the rich scrawled across it.
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Those words change everything we're supposed to believe. Normally, it would be hypocritical for a
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woman who constantly rants about rich people to attend a lavish ball with rich people so that she
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could rub elbows with those same rich people. But in this case, we're told her attendance is a bold
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and brave and rebellious statement, all because of those words on her dress. Here she is explaining
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My God, tax the rich. What a model, AOC. I didn't know you model as well.
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Damn. When Aurora and I were first kind of partnered, we really started having a conversation about what
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it means to be working class women of color at the Met. And we said, you know, we can't just
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play along, but we need to break the fourth wall and challenge some of the institutions.
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And, you know, while the Met is known for its spectacle, we should have a conversation about
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Ah. Yeah, have a conversation. Now, here's a general rule. Anytime somebody justifies a particular action
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that they've taken by claiming that they've done it because they want to start a conversation,
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it means 100% of the time that they're full of s**t. That's what it means. Case in point,
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later that night on Twitter, AOC further defended her attendance saying, quote,
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proud to work with Aurora James as a sustainable focused black woman immigrant designer who went
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from starting her dream at a flea market in Brooklyn to winning the CFDA against all odds
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and then work together to kick the doors open at the Met. The time is now for child care,
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health care and climate action for all. Tax the rich. Quick, quick fact check on some of this.
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Aurora James, the immigrant woman in AOC's phrase is from Ontario. Now, she may technically
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be an immigrant, but a fashion designer moving a few hundred miles from Canada to New York
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isn't exactly the picture that AOC wants us to have in mind when she uses the phrase
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black immigrant woman. Also, when she says kick the doors open at the Met, what she means is that
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she took pictures on the red carpet and then drank cocktails with her rich friends. That's kicking
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the doors open. Not exactly Jesus overturning the tables and driving the money changers away
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with a whip. If she had done that, totally different story. And when she says child care
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and health care, keep in mind that health care for children, as far as the Congresswoman is concerned,
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can often include crushing their skulls and throwing them into a medical waste dumpster.
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So other than those minor details, I'd say that her description was pretty accurate.
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Now, with that established, I think there are a few other more general points to be made here. First,
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the problem, let's talk about this tax the rich slogan for a second. The problem is that the
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slogan is, you know, it seems to suggest that the rich right now are not taxed. That's why you say
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tax the rich, because according to you, they're not. If they were being taxed, then the slogan
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wouldn't make sense. It'd be redundant. But that's not true. The rich pay taxes. They pay lots
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of taxes. They pay the most taxes. They pay the vast majority of taxes. Tax the rich? Sure, I agree.
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Of course we should tax the rich. Now, I don't think there are very many people saying that we
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shouldn't tax the rich at all. So here's the good news. We do. A lot. That's a fact. If you hear that
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the rich don't pay taxes and you believe it, that must mean that you, first of all, don't read very
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much and aren't in the habit of researching claims made by partisans before deciding to believe them.
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It also means, presumably, that you don't make much money yourself, because if you'd ever had the
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experience of making a small amount of money and then managing to climb up the ladder a ways,
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I'm not talking about all the way up to Elon Musk level. I just mean you made a little bit of money
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and then you had some more success and you made some more money. If you've ever done that
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and achieved greater financial success relative to where you began, you'll have noticed that as
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you earn more money, the government takes more money from you. It's a pretty inescapable thing.
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It's pretty obvious. And at a certain point, you'll observe with alarm, they begin to take so
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much of your income that you question whether the climb was worth it to begin with. That's the case
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right now. This may come as a shock to anybody who previously believed that the government rewards
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higher income earners by politely declining to harvest their income, but that's not the case.
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That's not even close to the case. As it turns out, the government quite enjoys taking people's money.
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And the more money you have, the more it will want to stick its greasy hands into your pockets.
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And when Joe Biden is running the government, the hand may even linger there in your pocket for an
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uncomfortable and unnecessary length of time. So considering that the rich pay most of the
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taxes, vast, vast majority of the taxes are paid by the rich. Where did this idea come from that
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they pay no taxes? Well, here's a good example of how the propaganda works. This is a CBS news
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headline from back in June. It says, quote, is it, it's just the headline says richest 25 Americans
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have a true tax rate of almost nothing. Wow. Almost nothing. Almost nothing. What? That doesn't
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sound fair. Jeff Bezos doesn't, he pays almost nothing. I mean, what is that all about? Well,
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let's read on. It says the U S tax system is designed to be progressive, meaning that the
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wealthiest citizens pay a greater share of their income than the less fortunate, but a new pro-publical
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analysis of tax data on some of the nation's richest Americans comes to the conclusion that the
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richest 25 people in the U S have a true tax rate of almost nothing. The pro-publical report focuses
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on what it calls the true tax rate, which it defines as how much in taxes were paid by the
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wealthiest Americans annually versus the estimated growth in their wealth during that time. For
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instance, Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos paid $1.4 billion in personal federal taxes between 2006 and 2018
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on 6.5 billion that he reported in income, while his wealth increased by 127 billion during that
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same period. By pro-publica's calculation, that reflects a true tax rate of 1.1%. But some,
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continuing, but some tax experts noted that the analysis compares what they say are apples to
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oranges, income versus wealth. The IRS collects taxes on earned income and income received through
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stock sales dividends and other income provided by investments. It doesn't levy taxes on unrealized
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gains or the paper value of a person's assets. Ah, okay. There it is. When they say that Jeff Bezos
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pays almost nothing, what they mean is that he paid $1.4 billion. Nothing? 1.4 billion is almost
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nothing. They justify this claim through a little sleight of hand trick where they equate net worth
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with income. Those two things are not the same. And it's a damn good thing that the federal government
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doesn't tax your net worth like it taxes your income, because that would be a disaster for anyone
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who has any kind of net worth at all. Can you imagine that if that's what you were doing at the
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come tax time? You had to assess not only your income for the year, but your entire net worth
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and pay on that? Of course, many of the people in the peanut gallery, not to be confused with the
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elites like AOC, who shout tax the rich, don't have any net worth, have never owned anything. And so these
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are distinctions and points that go over their head. Now I say all this, but it's not because I care
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deeply about protecting Jeff Bezos from higher tax rates. Frankly, I don't care if his taxes go up a
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little bit. It doesn't bother me. My main problem with raising taxes on anyone is that the government
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already rakes in $3 or $4 trillion a year in tax revenue and squanders almost all of it.
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Now, I think it's like it's $3.5 trillion, I think they're up to, or maybe more,
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that they bring in tax revenue every single year. And yet there are people saying they need more
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to do what with? What problem can the government solve potentially that they can't already solve
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with $3 trillion a year? There is no problem that can be solved by giving even more money to this
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giant, lumbering, corrupt, wasteful behemoth. Raises taxes if you want, whatever, but just know that
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it will solve nothing and that the policy is being pushed based on lies and bad faith arguments. And
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it's being believed by idiots who don't understand the first thing about how the economy works and
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don't even understand the distinction between income and net worth. Second point, why do you think
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that the rich love AOC? Why do they love the tax the rich slogan? You know, showing up to the Met Gala
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in a tax the rich dress, that's not like if I showed up to a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in a
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t-shirt that said, imprison abortionists, which actually sounds like a great thing to do. Maybe I'll do
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that. But AOC, you know, she was embraced and applauded. If I did that, I'd be assaulted by security
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and thrown out into the street. The rich are fine with the tax the rich stuff because many of them
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really don't mind paying a bit more in taxes. That's not because they're generous. I mean,
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if they were generous, they'd be forgoing, they'd forgo the $200,000 designer outfit and the expensive
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costume ball and donate that extra wealth to the poor. If you wondered that, I mean, all these rich
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people say, oh yeah, tax us, we should be paying more. They say while wearing an outfit that costs
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more than your house. They could just give up one outfit in their wardrobe and they could put,
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you know, a family of five in a home and they choose not to do that.
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No, they go along with the tax the rich stuff and they call for higher taxes themselves because for
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one thing, it's an easy and relatively cheap way to virtue signal. And more importantly,
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it gets them closer to the levers of power. So what are the, what do all of the people at the
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Met Gala have in common? They're all in the ruling class. AOC, the other politicians in attendance,
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the Hollywood degenerates who are there, all of them are in the ruling class together. They have a
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shared interest. They have shared goals. And that is mainly to maintain and extend their own
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influence. Sure. They'll pay a little more in taxes. What do they care? They know those taxes
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are being spent by their comrades to advance their own ideological interests anyway, and their own
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financial interests. So for them, for the people at the Met Gala or the people who were at the VMAs the
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night before, big, big week for, for Hollywood degenerates, by the way, they could bring it, break out
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all their ugly costumes. But for those people paying taxes, that's an investment for them.
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They get something in return for it. I mean, they get an entire system, an entire political system
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that works at their behest. That's what they get in return. That's why our objective shouldn't be
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simply to tax the rich, but rather to dethrone the ruling class. You'll notice AOC, she didn't put that
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on her dress because that's the last thing she wants to do. Third point, finally, the rich also
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aren't too worried about AOC's tax the rich sloganeering because they know it isn't serious
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anyway. She wasn't the only one who showed up last night with bumper sticker jargon emblazoned on her
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outfit. There were plenty of, you know, celebrities wearing gaudy, but basically non-political outfits
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like Lil Nas X was there. He could be seen here dressed like a C-3PO's gay cousin. But there was also
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Cara Delevingne, whoever that is, wearing what looks to be a fake bulletproof vest with
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Peg the Patriarchy written on it. And then Carolyn B. Maloney, whoever that is, with equal rights
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for women printed on a robe that looks like something that a lesbian Episcopal bishop might
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wear. And then Megan Rapinoe with a handbag featuring the words, in gay we trust. You know,
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the other thing you see in all these pictures are the wide-eyed starstruck reporters in the background
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wearing face masks and hungrily snapping pictures.
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Now the celebrities, they're not wearing face masks.
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That's actually the greatest hypocrisy on display in this entire thing.
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None of them are wearing face masks. Why aren't they wearing face masks? Because that would ruin their
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And it's true. You look ridiculous in a face mask. Everybody does.
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It's one of the many reasons why I don't wear them.
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But all the reporters. So the, you know, the servants are all wearing masks.
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And the reporters, who are also servants for the ruling class, they're all in masks.
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This is really the whole thing in a nutshell, isn't it?
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Because truly, nothing says modern leftism like a gaggle of rich elitists at a $30,000 per ticket gala
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walking around in hideous designer dresses with shallow political slogans emblazoned across them
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while an adoring press looks on drooling into their muzzles.
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They're all just cosplaying as political revolutionaries.
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None of them believe in anything but their own power and their own influence.
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I think about Abuela regularly, and I wonder how she's doing.
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However she's doing, she's not doing nearly as well as her granddaughter.
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Secretary of State Blinken testified before Congress
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about the efforts to get Americans out of Afghanistan
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because right now everything is kind of on its head, right?
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We're bringing Afghans to America while leaving Americans there.
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Everything is upside down and backwards and topsy-turvy.
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But here is, we'll start with a couple of clips here.
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This is Secretary of State Blinken during his testimony
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when he was asked how many of the Afghans that we brought here
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do not meet the requirements for special immigrant visas
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because we've been told that these are all SIV applicants,
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special immigrant visas, and many of them are translators.
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We apparently had a lot of translators in Afghanistan.
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You know, there's only, we had 2,500 troops there
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had a whole team of translators just surrounding him
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And Blinken was asked about this and here's what he said.
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How many Afghans not meeting the qualifications of SIV
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have been brought to the United States prior to,
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I want to know how many Afghan citizens came to the United States
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that had not met the qualifications for special immigrant visa?
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we will have brought a total of approximately 60,000.
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some of those will have been through the SIV process.
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will have gone through rigorous security checks
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first at the transit point outside of the United States.
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It'd be nice if that was done before we brought these people
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and he's not going to say how many of them actually meet the requirements
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And the actual answer that he won't give is, well, we don't care.
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You know, if we make them citizens, well, they vote Democrat.
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He says he's very focused, Alan, on the fate of the LGBT community.
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As you know, Mr. Secretary, the LGBTQI community in Afghanistan
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is extremely vulnerable to punitive actions from the Taliban.
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It's important, in my view, that we take steps to ensure that those
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because of their sexual orientation or gender identity are safe.
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The Council for Global Equality, the Human Rights Campaign,
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released a 10-point plan to protect Afghan LGBTQI refugees.
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And if so, is the administration prepared to implement it?
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And is it consistent with the presidential memorandum of early 2021
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that speaks of the responsibility to help Afghan refugees
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that may get to neighboring states, as outlined in that memorandum?
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Well, thank you for rightly putting the spotlight on concerns
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and the particular threat that they may find themselves under.
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I have not personally seen the report that you referred to.
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But I'll take a look at that myself, and I thank you for sending it to us.
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I mean, there is no point to anything that this empty-headed moron says
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But LGBTQI plus, you know, he has to get the whole acronym.
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So, you know, part of the concern is we're focused on the fate of intersex people in Afghanistan.
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Is that, like, a major concern of the U.S. government, intersex people in Afghanistan?
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The fact that the I gets included at all, but it has nothing to do.
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You know, being intersex, it's a medical condition
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that has to do with the appearance of your genitals.
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And the way that we put them in, the LGBT, it's got nothing to do with it at all.
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You know, I often wonder how intersex people feel about being
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included, of course, you don't hear from them very often
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This is a very, very, thankfully, a very, very rare condition.
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I'm not sure I'd be a fan of just being appropriated in this way.
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Talk about appropriation and being lumped in with some group that,
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Well, the answer is the reason why I'm asking all this rhetorically.
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The answer is that intersex people are useful to trans people.
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And like we talked about yesterday, trans people,
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the top of the victimhood pyramid and whatever they say goes.
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And so if you're intersex and trans people say,
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I'm not, I'm just, this is a medical condition.
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Because of the, of this false equivalency that they can draw.
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You know, they got to go all the way to the rare cases
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So you talk to anyone on the left about transgenderism
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they're going to be bringing up intersex people,
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with a biological male who identifies as a woman.
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and you say to me, well, how can you be a woman?
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They have a genetic, they have a medical condition.