Ep. 797 -Â It's Time For Me To Go To Another School Board Meeting
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Is it white supremacy to tell kids in school to be quiet and behave themselves? One teacher thinks so, and he shared his thoughts on TikTok. Also, the Recall of Governor Newsom fails miserably. What can we as conservatives learn from that? Plus, I have a few thoughts on the tragic death of Norm McDonald, and the story of General Milley going directly to the Chinese government to circumvent Trump. Isn t that treason?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, I have found the next school board that I'll be visiting,
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but I'm not going alone this time. I'll tell you about that today. Also,
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the recall of Governor Newsom in California fails miserably. What can we as conservatives
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learn from that, if anything? Plus, I have a few thoughts on the tragic death of Norm
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McDonald. And what about the story of General Milley going directly to the Chinese government
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to circumvent Trump? Isn't that treason? Finally, in our daily cancellation, we'll deal with this
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question. Is it white supremacy to tell kids in school to be quiet and behave themselves?
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One teacher thinks so, and he shared his thoughts on TikTok. We'll talk about that today and much
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more on the Matt Wall Show. Last month, the far left school board in Loudoun County, Virginia,
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passed one of the most far reaching and radical trans policies in the country. Under the new rules,
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male students who identify as female will be able to use female restrooms and locker rooms. Of course,
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females who identify as males will be able to do the reverse. But you notice that there are never
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as many girls wanting to access the boys' locker room as there are boys wanting to access the girls'
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locker room. Same for sports teams. A strange coincidence, isn't it? But the policy goes beyond
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sports teams and locker rooms. It also requires teachers to use the preferred pronouns of their
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students. Now, magnanimously, teachers will not be punished if they have an unintentional slip
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and accidentally utter an incorrect, read-correct pronoun. But any teacher who intentionally and with
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malice aforethought dares to use proper grammar in their classroom will be in violation and, you know,
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suffer the so far vaguely outlined consequences. This part of the policy is particularly odious. I mean,
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it's all odious, but this presents special complications because gender-confused kids
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can quite literally change their pronouns on a daily or hourly basis. That's part of what it means to
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be fluid. I mean, it doesn't really mean anything to be fluid, but if it means anything, it means that
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it can change. By the second, maybe. And they might invent new pronouns on the spot. They might demand that
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their teachers speak an absolute gibberish. And the teacher will be expected to remember which gibberish
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and then change to different gibberish if they're instructed to do so. All in all, teachers are being
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made to affirm falsehoods, to speak untruths, to babble incoherently, to reject the rules of grammar
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and the English language, and ultimately to abandon their role as educator in favor of becoming high
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priests of the leftist religion. Now, many teachers in the county and across the country seem more than
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happy to fill this role. We're already filling it, many of them. But some have resigned in protest
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or filed lawsuits to challenge the new rules. One teacher, Tanner Cross, an elementary physical
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education instructor in the district, was fired after speaking out against the policy during a
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meeting, a school board meeting a few months ago. Let's listen to his remarks again because they were,
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it's very brief, but powerful and true. Here he is.
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My name is Tanner Cross, and I'm speaking out of love for those who suffer with gender dysphoria.
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60 Minutes this past Sunday interviewed over 30 young people who transitioned, but they felt led
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astray because lack of pushback or how easy it was to make physical changes to their bodies in just
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three months. They are now detransitioning. It's not my intention to hurt anyone, but there are certain
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truths that we must face when ready. We condemn school policies like 8040 and 8035 because it will
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damage children, defile the holy image of God. I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them
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regardless of the consequences. I'm a teacher, but I serve God first, and I will not affirm that a
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biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it's against my religion. It's lying to a child. It's
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abuse to a child, and it's sinning against our God.
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Now, Cross was, as I said, fired for that. He was fired for disagreeing with the school board.
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That, they decided, is an offense worthy of termination. Fortunately, a judge stepped in
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and reinstated Cross to his position, clarifying that school boards cannot, in fact, fire teachers
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for disagreeing with them. It's public comments. You're supposed to stand up there and give your
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opinion, and they fired him for giving an opinion they don't like. Tanner is one teacher taking a brave
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stance against sinister lunacy. There are others, and there are parents too, but they're outnumbered,
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and so I would like to help change that. That's why I will personally be coming to Loudoun County,
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Virginia on September 28th, which is the date of their next school board meeting, to help lead a
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rally against all of this madness. The rally will be at 5 p.m. on September 28th at 21,000 Education
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Court in Ashburn. Now, some of us will also try to speak during the meeting itself, but the board has
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changed the rules in recent months to make it harder to do that. They won't allow crowds inside
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the building during public comments. They can set the time limit for public comments down to one
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minute if they decide. These are obviously tactics meant to mute voices of dissent, which is why I want
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to show up with hundreds and hundreds of those voices and set up shop right outside the building.
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And I'm asking anyone in the vicinity to come and make your voice heard as well. Now, I can tell you
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for my part that, you know, I don't want to just hang out on the sidelines and complain into a camera
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anymore. I mean, I'm still going to complain to the camera, but my efforts will go beyond that.
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Those who push evil and insanity must be confronted directly in person. Schools that harm children have
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to be confronted. We can all sit around lamenting the disintegration of our culture, saying, oh man,
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isn't it too bad that they're mutilating the minds and souls and bodies of a generation of children?
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Gee, what a shame. Oh, well, let's see what else is on TV. Or we can get up, get out,
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and do something about it. There's power in numbers, but those numbers have to be mobilized
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and brought together in one place. Numbers don't mean anything. All the stuff about being
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a silent majority. I hate that phrase, silent majority. I don't think it's true. I don't know
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if it's true. I doubt that it's true. I almost hope that it isn't because shame on us if we're in the
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majority still and silent. It doesn't mean anything. It's not anything to be proud of. We're in the
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majority and we're too afraid to say anything. Yay, go us. Numbers don't mean anything if we are
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silent and fractured and disorganized and too afraid to speak above a whisper, content to voice
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our disapproval through sad-faced emojis on social media. Now, I announced this rally on Twitter a
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couple days ago, and already I've heard from the opposition in Loudoun County. They are, to say the
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least, not happy that we're coming. More than one person has threatened violence against me. These
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are people who are so determined to rob young girls of their privacy and their identity that they will
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threaten to assault or kill you if you try to prevent it. They believe so strongly that boys
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should be in the girls' bathroom that they will, they say, commit violent felonies to ensure that
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it happens. Now, that makes me afraid. Not for myself. I'm still coming. You're not going to scare me
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away. But for the kids whose minds and bodies, these slobbering maniacs, these predator freaks are
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trying to destroy. Another criticism I've heard is that I'm not from Loudoun County. I'm an outside
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agitator, they say. This is none of my business. Well, even if that's true, I'm making it my business.
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Protecting children is everybody's business. Opposing child abuse is everybody's business.
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I don't care where kids are being harmed. It doesn't make any, it doesn't become any less
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outrageous or any less of a concern if it's happening in a different zip code. Your zip code
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is different. Go away and let us brainwash these kids in peace. Sorry, I don't find that argument
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terribly compelling. And besides, outside forces, national advocacy groups, Hollywood media,
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politicians routinely inject themselves into these issues to ensure that schools and towns and states
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are run as they prefer. I can guarantee that if a school board passed a rule forbidding biological
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males from entering the female restroom, Hollywood celebrities and the human rights campaign and CNN
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and all the rest of them would be chiming in on the issue, calling for boycotts, everything else.
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And none of the people telling me to butt out and mind my business would be saying the same to them.
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So this is a one-way street. When they need reinforcements from national figures,
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they're not shy about going out and getting them. But if the other side does the same,
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suddenly they become firm proponents of the principles of subsidiarity.
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I'm not going to abide by rules that change depending on whose side they benefit.
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Not going to happen. So complain all you want. Tell me I don't belong. Tell me this is none of my
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concern. Threaten to kill me. I'm still going to be there. One other point. Tanner Cross in his brief,
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but really great speech was correct that this is a religious rights issue.
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It's also correct to argue, as I just have, that this is a privacy and safety issue.
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Okay. All of that is true. And those are the, those, those seem to be the main points that,
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that, that we on this side, the sane side, uh, make that, you know, this religious liberty,
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it, it infringes on privacy of girls in locker rooms. And it's also unsafe. Like those are,
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that's all true. Those are all good points, but this is also, we have to keep insisting
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something bigger and broader than that. More than anything else, more importantly,
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than religious rights or even safety is truth. This is about truth. Truth is the most important
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thing. Truth is more important than liberty. It's more important than, than life itself. There could,
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there could be no liberty without truth. There could be no life, at least not a life worth living
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without truth. All of the good things in life, love, freedom, you name it, all of it,
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they're all predicated on truth. They all exist within truth. The trans agenda is more than anything
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an attack on truth. It is an attempt to build a society which fundamentally rejects and does not
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recognize truth. They want us all to live outside of truth. They want our kids to be educated in lies,
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in darkness, not in truth, not in light. That's the battle we're fighting first and foremost.
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And it will certainly take more than a rally at a school board to win that fight,
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but you have to start somewhere. And so I hope you'll join us. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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You know, they, AOC's fans have been desperate to come up with a defense for her showing up to the
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Met Gala to drink cocktails with rich people, supposedly in an attempt to, you know, this was
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her dunking on the rich people by showing up to their party, right, and hanging out with them and
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taking pictures with them. But I thought this was, it's a really hard thing to defend. So in fairness
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to people on that side, to AOC's fans, to her groupies, it's pretty indefensible. So when you're
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trying to come up with a defense, there's not a lot available to you. There isn't a good argument
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available to you. But I thought this from Isaac Saul, who's the founder of something called Tangle
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News. He said, he said, this is, this is all about envy and jealousy, really all the people who are
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accusing AOC of having a double standard, being a hypocrite. He says, every single person on this
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website tweeting about AOC would cut off one of their own fingers to go to the Met Gala and interact
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with the people they spend all day tweeting about. Is that you, do you really think that Isaac,
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you actually think that? You as a man, you think that most people, including men, are dying to go to
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the Met Gala? We would just cut off our fingers to go there and hang out with celebrities? That's
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actually my nightmare. I would cut off my, I cut off my hands to not go. If I was given a choice
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between going to the Met, only two choices, go to the Met Gala or cut off your hand. I'm saying,
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hand me the butcher knife. That's not even a tough choice to make. Already, like going to any event
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of that sort is already my nightmare. You take away all the left-wing crazies and all the degenerate,
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you know, celebrities that are there. It's already a nightmare for me. Everyone's in formal attire and
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you're just kind of like, there's nothing to do. You're just sort of hanging around. There's no,
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there's no central activity for everyone to do. You're not watching anything. Okay. So you're all,
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what do you do? You just, you hang around, you make small talk the entire time. Absolute nightmare.
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Um, and I, I've been involved in certainly not the Met Gala, but go to fundraising banquets.
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I've been to a lot of fundraising banquets in my, in my day. And that's what the Met Gala is.
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Uh, supposedly been, been to a lot of fundraising banquets. I've, I've spoken at a lot of fundraising
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banquets and I can tell you for sure, but getting up in front of everybody and speaking for me is
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much less nerve wracking than having to filter around the crowd and talk to people. And then you,
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and then you, then you factor in the people that are there. It makes it, it makes it hell. So
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this, this is why, again, we can't, I can't share a country with these people. This is why the country
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needs to break apart. I don't, I don't know how to share a country with the kind of man who thinks
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that most men are dying to go to the Met Gala. He's living in a different universe. I don't know.
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I don't know who this person is or where they're coming from. Speaking of a different universe,
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California. Um, this is from CNN. Now California's democratic governor, Gavin Newsom has defeated
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the effort to remove him from office. According to a projection from the CNN decision desk,
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cabbing off a recall effort that was born in partisan anger over his pandemic response,
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but ended with a vote of confidence in his strategy to combat it. Um, he gave a speech and
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said a bunch of stuff. We're not going to play any of those clips because who cares? Uh,
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the, you know, the final tally here appears to be not very close, but what I was really interested in
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some of this exit polling data. Uh, so it says about 45% of the electorate say that Newsom's
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policies on the pandemic have been, have been about right with about one third calling his policies
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too strict and the remainder saying they're not strict enough. According to a California exit poll
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conducted by CNN or for CNN, um, there's broad support for COVID mitigation measure measures
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in the state with more than six in 10 saying that getting vaccinated is more of a public health
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responsibility than it is a personal choice. The pandemic remains at the top of voters' minds with
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about one third, the highest share of any issue saying it's the biggest issue for the state,
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according to the exit poll. Uh, so you have a majority of voters who either are in favor of
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the pandemic response, which has decimated civil liberties in the state, decimated small businesses.
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A majority are either in favor of it, say this, this is just right, or they want more. California has
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not gone far enough. They're hungry for more restrictions on their Liberty. They're going to
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the government and saying, I am still too free. And there, there are, there are still some small
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businesses that have survived and I don't think they should take away everything else.
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Come to my house, put a padlock on my front door and lock me in my home.
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You could chain me to my couch. How about it's as long as you keep the TV on
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and, um, and put a straw in my mouth and just start feeding me the entire time, like a gerbil.
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That's what they want. But put me in a, just put me in a glass case, like a gerbil, put a,
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put some feeders there. And as long as I have a TV, I'll be good. That's the attitude of many of
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these voters in California. I think the effort to recall Newsom was admirable. I think it was
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the right thing to do to, to hold him accountable, at least to some extent, or at least, or attempt
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to hold him accountable. Uh, I, Larry Elder put in a great effort. He'd certainly be a much better
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governor than Gavin Newsom. That's not saying much. I mean, I think Larry Elder would be a good
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governor, uh, on his own merits, but you know, an actual gerbil would be a better governor than,
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than Gavin Newsom. So all of that is good, you know, worth the effort and everything. But
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I can tell you that I, I never had any hope in this effort at all.
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You know, I, I, I never really entertained the possibility
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that voters would come out and vote for a Republican, especially a, uh, you know, an actual
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conservative Republican, not a celebrity like Schwarzenegger who says that he's a Republican,
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especially liberal. There's very little chance of it, really no chance of that happening
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because this is California. And as hard as it is for us to understand, for many of us to
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understand, this is what many of the people there want. You know, I go to California as I was just in
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California recently, you know, and you go to Los Angeles or San Francisco or many of the cities in
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California. And it's a dystopian wasteland. It was already trending in that direction before COVID,
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but this has been the nail in the coffin. And so someone like me, I could, I could wander around
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Los Angeles in, in disgusted and thinking, how can anyone want to live like this?
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And that's bad enough, but it's worse to realize that in fact, lots of people do want to live like
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that. You know, we live, California is the way that California is because of the people of
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California. That is the sad, stark reality that we need to start confronting. It's easy enough to
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blame the elites and the ruling class and the government and the media, Hollywood, academia. I mean,
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we could place the blame all in, in all of those places, you know, all of the rich, powerful people
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and they deserve an immense amount of the blame. I spend plenty of time blaming them and pointing
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fingers at them and we should, but the rot goes deeper than that. It goes into the population.
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And when it comes down to it, California is the way that California is because of the people of
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California, because that's the state, that's the culture that they want. Many of them may want it
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because they've been brainwashed into wanting it. They've been convinced of it. They've been
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conjoled into it, but it's still, it's what they want. And the responsibility lies with them.
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Ultimately, our country is in the state that it's in because many of the people in this country want
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it that way. This is maybe one of the reasons why I can never fully carry the mantle of populism.
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And maybe populism doesn't need to be this way, but very often people call themselves populists.
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All they ever do is point to the people at the top of the food chain, the rich and powerful.
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But I think we need to start looking amongst ourselves and realizing that the problem is also
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the people. And that's a, that's a, that's a much harder problem to fix because then you realize
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that even if you, even if it succeeded, I mean, it would have been great if, if the recall election
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had succeeded, you kick Governor Newsom out. At a minimum, you've penalized him for being an,
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being incompetent and also being a tyrant, being a horrible man and a horrible governor, horrible leader.
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So you've held him accountable and you've punished him. But that's probably the only benefit.
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That's the only good that would have come of it. Because you get a Republican governor in there
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for a few years, that doesn't do anything to change the cultural rot.
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And if we're not willing to confront the fact that the rot goes all the way down into the population,
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into the people, into our homes and in our communities, that we're going to continue with
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this idea that we can solve all of our problems just by electing the right people.
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And yet elections come and go, and sometimes they work in our favor, sometimes they don't.
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But you notice the cultural decay continues apace, no matter who is in charge.
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Culturally, societally speaking, what good did it actually do?
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Can anyone say that we're in a better spot today culturally than we would have been?
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But now we're just talking about degrees of badness.
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Yeah, it's bad, but it would have been like one degree more bad.
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And that's what happens when all we ever do is focus on the people at the top.
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It says, Norm MacDonald has died after a long and private battle with cancer,
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The highly influential stand-up comedian and former anchor of Weekend Update and Saturday Night Live was 61.
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He was scheduled to perform at the New York Comedy Festival this November.
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He had reportedly been sick with an undisclosed form of cancer for nine years,
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As many people have said, I'm not one to be affected by celebrity deaths.
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There might have been a few others, but right now is the only one I can think of
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Norm MacDonald was a brilliant comedian, one of the last real comedians that we had in this country.
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There are a lot of very genuine and emotional and touching tributes that people have been doing to Norm MacDonald,
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But another way, it feels wrong because Norm MacDonald himself never would have engaged in that.
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If Norm MacDonald was around, he'd be making fun of his own death, right?
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Because he never, you know, he always stayed on message.
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And for him, the message was the comedy, was the joke.
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But when I think about this, and we would talk about his career and everything and eulogize him that way.
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But this, the long and private battle with cancer.
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He had cancer for nine years and never told anyone, certainly never made it public.
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I'm going, I assume that some people in his family knew.
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I don't know that, but I think we could assume it.
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But it seems that nobody, even his friends and fellow comedians, no one knew about it.
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It's obviously very sad, but there's something actually inspiring about that.
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And the word inspiring has been horribly cheapened in our culture when we call everything inspiring.
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But, you know, TikTok videos are supposed to be inspiring.
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That he was dying of cancer and chose to carry that burden himself.
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And not just carry it himself and not tell anybody, but he was still out there telling jokes and making people laugh.
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You know, in a society where we, most of us are inclined to whine and complain publicly about every pain we have, every misfortune, we stub our toe.
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And then next thing you know, there's a, there's a 10 tweet thread we're doing about it.
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And the, you know, the larger implications of our stubbed toe and everything we've learned from this tragedy of stubbing our toe.
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And now we've got to go to therapy for the stubbed toe.
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You know, in this society where, where, where we tend to operate that way, uh, to see this, I think is a, is a nice corrective.
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Someone who chose to live with dignity didn't need to go out there and, um, fish for, for pity from people.
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And that seems foreign to a lot of us because for a lot of people in this culture, there's this instinctive need for pity.
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Where even if there's no reason for anyone to pity you, you feel like you have to come up with a reason.
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We talk about all the time, the, the, the victimhood competition, everyone wrestling with each other that who's going to be the Uber victim.
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And then of course, in that kind of environment where everybody wants to be a victim, if something actually bad happens to you, well, then of course you're going to be, you're going to be spreading that everywhere.
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Hey, everybody, listen to this really bad thing that's happening to me.
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He, he had a terrible thing that he was going through and he chose to suffer, suffer it privately and, uh, still go about his life, make people laugh.
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I find that extremely admirable, uh, and, uh, and very rare.
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The only other example I can think of Chadwick, uh, Bozeman, Black Panther actor.
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It was the same thing when he died of cancer came as a shock to everyone.
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He hadn't told anybody and he was acting and never made it public.
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So on a rare occasion, you see this and I find it incredibly admirable and inspiring.
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And, you know, we, we could all take a, take a couple of pages from that book.
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I'm going to, but this makes Norm Macdonald's death, Eve, all the, all the more sad.
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You go from Norm Macdonald, brilliant comedian, a real comedian to Jimmy Kimmel, who is the
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I don't like his politics, although I don't like his politics, but I've never heard Jimmy
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I think he's had, he's had, he's had some funny bits that he does, uh, and skits and
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things, but I've, I've never, he does these monologues every single night.
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Thousands and thousands of jokes that he's told his monologues.
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I'm not sure, but this one certainly is not the first funny one.
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It is ridiculous, but this is an interesting statistic.
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COVID deaths have proven to be much higher in states that voted for Trump.
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Basically, if your state has more GEDs than PhDs, stay indoors.
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Of the 54,000 Americans who died from COVID since the start of the summer, almost one of
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five, one in five of them died in Florida, which my God, all those orphaned ferrets.
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So it is making fun of everyone that died in Florida because everyone who, if you died
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in Florida, then, uh, then your, your death is, is mockable.
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Many of the people who died of COVID in Florida, I mean, I got news for Jimmy Kimmel.
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Not, not everyone in Florida is, is a Republican.
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So in fact, some of those people were even Democrats who died may surprise you to learn
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It is, it is true to say that they wish death on us.
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That's not being overly dramatic because there's no, there's no real joke there.
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You could tell jokes about things that don't seem to be funny at all.
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He's, he's told, he told jokes about 9-11 and they were funny.
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So it's not like there's anything that's off limits for jokes, but there's no joke here.
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It's simply, he hates these people and he's just snickering.
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This is, this is just going up to someone's funeral and pointing at, at the headstone and laughing.
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Because it turns out, you can't really be a funny comedian when you're filled with hate and contempt.
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And you certainly, you can't tell funny jokes about someone if you hate them.
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That was one of the secrets of, for Norm Macdonald, I think.
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He told jokes about people dying, but he didn't, he didn't hate anyone.
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When you're filled with hate and contempt, there's, there, there can't, there's not going to be any humor in that.
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But, with all that said, I'm not angry to hear Jimmy Kimmel making jokes like that.
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Everyone in red states, they all have GEDs, not PhDs.
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Of course, that's not true, but I don't even consider that an insult.
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Personally, I would rather be around a bunch of GEDs than a bunch of PhDs.
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And very often, the GEDs are going to be smarter.
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You know, the PhDs have educated themselves into a coma.
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But, it doesn't bother me for him to come out and say, in fact, I'm glad that he says it.
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The more that these people expose themselves and take the mask off and expose themselves for who they are.
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And make their, their true feelings known, I think, the better.
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Because this is, this is the country we live in now.
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And there are lots of people, especially the ones that you see on TV all the time, who really hate you and want you to die.
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And it's important for you to, for you to understand that.
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It says, in their new book, Peril, journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa claim that General Mark Milley,
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the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was so concerned that then-President Donald Trump would go rogue and spark a war with China,
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that he made a pair of secret phone calls to his counterpart point in China, per the Washington Post.
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It says, according to a CNN write-up, Woodward and Costa write that after January 6th,
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Milley felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump,
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and believed it was his job as the senior military officer to think the unthinkable and take any and all necessary precautions,
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Milley was so fearful of Trump attacking China that he appears to have undermined the Trump administration
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and communicated directly with Chinese officials.
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It says, in a pair of secret phone calls, General Mark Milley, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff,
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assured his Chinese counterpart of the People's Liberation Army that the United States would not strike.
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One call took place on October 30th, 2020, four days before the election,
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one that unseated President Trump, and the other on January 8th, 2021, two days after the Capitol siege.
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Shockingly, according to Woodward and Costa, it seems Milley communicated sensitive information
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to a Chinese general and suggested that he would warn China ahead of time
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if he discovered that Trump planned to attack them.
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We heard for years and years that Trump was committing treason, that he was a traitor.
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He was, two unsuccessful attempts at impeaching him were based on that idea.
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They never could provide any evidence for it whatsoever.
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They could never provide any evidence for that charge other than, well, basically their evidence was
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that Trump, to them, seems like the kind of guy who would be a traitor, who would commit treason.
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And so we're going to spend four years trying to find evidence to support this assumption
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that we made at the very beginning based on nothing.
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I mean, if the word treason means anything legally, then it would have to mean this.
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You have the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff going behind the President's back,