Ep. 801 - The Media Spins Its Most Absurd False Narrative Yet
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Summary
The media specializes in spinning false narratives, but the narrative they ve concocted about Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping and lassoing Haitian immigrants is perhaps the most absurd yet. Also, should we be treating the immigrant invasion as a biological terror threat, given that none of them are masked or vaccinated? We treat unvaccinated American citizens that way, after all. Plus, Australia descends further and further into fascism. Is this a preview of things to come in this country? We ll discuss that today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media specializes in spinning false narratives,
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but the narrative they've concocted about Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping and lassoing
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Haitian immigrants is perhaps the most absurd yet. We'll discuss that today. Also, speaking of those
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illegals, shouldn't we be treating the immigrant invasion as a biological terror threat, given that
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none of them are masked or vaccinated? We treat unvaccinated American citizens that way, after
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all. Plus, Australia descends further and further into fascism. Is it a preview of things to come
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in this country? And Facebook conducts its own research and discovers that social media
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is deeply harmful to kids. It then did the responsible and ethical thing and immediately
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swept those findings under the rug. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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border because the border has been in a constant state of crisis for decades, but the overall underlying
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crisis flares up occasionally into what, what may more technically be described as, I don't know,
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a super duper crisis. And that's what we're facing right now, particularly down in Southwest Texas in
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Del Rio, where thousands of illegal immigrants have set up an expansive, bustling, impoverished
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tent city of sorts. This is what the compassionate, quote unquote, immigration policies of the Democrat
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Party get you. They get you shanty towns in the desert. They get you immigrant families living
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under a bridge. They get you a third world invasion, which ultimately harms both the invaded and the
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invaders. They also get you slavery and sex trafficking. They get you kids raped and killed
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by human smugglers. This compassion brings all manner of misery and death and suffering to everyone
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touched by it on both sides of the border, because this compassion is not compassion at all. It is
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total abject indifference. This is why defending the border and defending it vigorously, harshly,
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with force if necessary, is not only the most just and appropriate policy, as it is the basic duty of
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our government to protect its borders and its people, but it's also the most truly compassionate.
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If you're actually concerned with minimizing human suffering to the greatest possible extent,
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and we all should be concerned with that, then you'll make sure that immigrants know that the trek across
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the desert will be fruitless. There's no need to come. Certainly don't send your children.
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Don't risk their lives or your lives for this. It won't work. That's a message of compassion.
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Compassion both to the would-be illegal immigrant,
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or the would-be child who's going to be smuggled across the border,
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and also to your own people who live in a sovereign nation and deserve to have that sovereignty
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preserved and defended. This is a conversation we should be having when it comes to illegal immigration,
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but the media is not interested in that conversation. So instead, as always, they change
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the subject. They are perpetually on the lookout for false narratives to help them do that.
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And yesterday, they found a very convenient one. Images began circulating online of Border Patrol
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agents on horseback, apprehending immigrants as they attempted to storm the border. There is,
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of course, nothing at all strange about this. Border Patrol agents are supposed to patrol and defend
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the border. It's right there in the name, Border Patrol. And considering they're out in the desert,
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it makes quite a lot of sense for them to perform this duty on horseback. You see cops in major
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cities on horseback. And sometimes that, to me, seems a little silly. But on the border,
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in the desert, makes a lot of sense. But the images of white-looking Border Patrol agents on
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horseback, and I say white-looking because, in fact, many of these Border Patrol agents are Hispanic.
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But the image of a white-looking Border Patrol agent on horseback rounding up mostly Black
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Haitian immigrants, and more on the Haitian part of this story in just a minute, presented an
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opportunity to media propagandists that they simply couldn't pass up. So it began with a guy named
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Sawyer Hackett, who providentially actually has the word hack in his name. And he posted two images of
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the mounted Border Patrol agents along with this caption. Caption is,
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And now, pardon the pun, we're off to the races. The news was trending across social media. Border
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agents are using whips against Haitian refugees. Every major media outlet published their own
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headline, These days, a narrative cements and metastasizes within minutes, seconds even.
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That's all it takes. Now, it used to take longer for a false narrative. The media has always
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perpetrated false narratives, perpetuated false narratives. But in the past, it would take some
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effort to get people to believe it. But now, with the internet, it just takes a second.
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All across social media and the news media, people were breathlessly condemning the evil officers who
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are whipping and lassoing Haitians down on the border like some kind of old Western film.
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Comparisons to slavery were made. The White House was asked about the whips. And Jen Psaki,
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though admitting that she doesn't know the context, still said that the images are inappropriate and
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I have seen some of the footage. I don't have the full context. I can't imagine what context
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would make that appropriate. But I don't have additional details. And certainly, I don't have
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additional context. April, I don't think anyone seeing that footage would think it was acceptable
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or appropriate. Thanks so much, Jen. I want to follow up on the question about Haitians and
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specifically these photos that are surfacing on border patrol agents, seemingly using whips.
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I know you said that there's no context that it would be seen as inappropriate. So the question
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really is, why would this be happening under the Biden administration? Is this going to stop?
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What would the problem? I wonder sort of what are going to be the consequences if what we're seeing
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is what we're seeing? I mean, Yamiche, it's all good questions. We just saw this footage.
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It's horrible to watch. I just have to get more information on it.
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Again, April, I don't have more information on it. I've also seen the video. I can't imagine what the
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scenario is where that would be appropriate. I'm certainly not suggesting that. But we've just
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seen the footage earlier this morning. And if I could also ask, I have a photo. I know you said
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that you're still assessing it. But just to add, if this is what we see, is it the president's stance
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or the White House's stance that whoever these border agents are using, what seems to be whips
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on migrants, that they would be fired or at least never be able to do that again?
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Of course, they should never be able to do it again. I don't know what the circumstances would be.
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It's obviously horrific, the footage. I don't have any more information on it. So let me venture
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to do that. And we'll see if there's more to convey. Yes, I have no idea what's actually going
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on, she says. But whatever it is, it's definitely bad. These men down on the border who work for us
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and are doing the job they were hired to do are clearly guilty of horrific atrocities. I don't know
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anything about the situation, but I know enough to throw our own people under the bus. That's for sure.
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The White House showing more of its trademark moral courage with that response. But is it true
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that the Border Patrol agents were using whips? Well, the first answer is that it doesn't matter
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if it's true. The narrative is all that matters. The truth is irrelevant to almost everyone who is
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propagating this narrative. The second answer is that no. Of course, it isn't even remotely true.
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City Boy Sawyer was, perhaps intentionally, misinterpreting the horse reins for a whip.
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That's what those ropes on the horse are. They're reins. And if you've ever seen someone on horseback
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and you've wondered how they managed to steer the horse in the direction that they want the horse to
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go, this is how they do it. And that must have seemed like a pretty weird magic trick if you didn't
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know about horse reins. They don't use animal telepathy, it turns out. They also don't jump
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on the horse and say, all right, Sparky, take me wherever you want to go. Where are we going today?
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No, they use these things called reins to steer the animal in the preferred direction.
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That's what those ropes are. But we know the left has long had trouble dealing with ropes. They're
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very scandalized by really any rope in any form, they're scandalized. First, they thought a garage
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door pull in a NASCAR garage was a noose. I mean, they thought a rope hanging from there for like
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a tire swing in a park was a noose. They thought a cord at a cracker barrel was a noose. And now
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they think horse reins are a whip. They seem to think that every rope is somehow sinister. I can
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only imagine what would happen to these people if they ever went into, I don't know, an indoor rock
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climbing facility. Whips and nooses all over the place. They probably think it was some kind of
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BDSM dungeon. So on second thought, they'd feel right at home, I guess. But all of this talk of
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whips and nooses obscures another more important point. We are told that the immigrant horde being
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whipped, quote unquote, down in Del Rio are Haitians. Now Haitians, I hope I don't have to remind you,
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are from Haiti. Haiti, I also hope I don't have to remind you, is not in Mexico or even near Mexico.
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It is an island nation thousands of miles away across the sea. The media is talking about these
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people as if they're fleeing Haiti itself, which would mean that they got in boats, presumably,
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thousands at a time and sailed up the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds and hundreds of miles,
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docked somewhere on Mexico's coast and then walked through the desert parallel to the U.S. border,
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only to then convene around southwest Texas and try to enter there all at once. That makes no sense at
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all. There would have been many potential ports of entry much closer and easier to access. I mean,
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if you're taking a boat from Haiti and you want to get into the U.S., how do you end up in Del Rio?
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So that doesn't make any sense. But that's the impression we're supposed to have when they talk
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about it. Well, the Haiti, they're fleeing political persecution and so on. The implication
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is that they are fleeing Haiti. But again, that doesn't make any sense. If you're fleeing Haiti,
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you're not going to end up in Del Rio of all places. So why are they there? And why isn't anyone
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in the media asking this? Why are we having to talk about horse reins instead of discussing the origin
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and intentions of this mysterious mass of Haitians hanging out in Del Rio for unknown reasons?
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Now, I don't have all the answers myself. I have the questions, which is why I'm asking them.
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But it does seem pretty clear that many of these people, probably all of them,
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are not coming from Haiti at all. They were, would stand to reason, already in Central America somewhere
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and probably had been there for years. Now, this makes it dubious to refer to them as Haitian refugees
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or Haitian asylum seekers. If a Haitian man moves to Guatemala and lives there for five years
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and then tries to enter the U.S. illegally, is he a Haitian refugee seeking asylum at that point?
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I mean, in one sense, technically, he's still Haitian, of course, but the term gives a misleading
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impression. Also, why would we grant him asylum here when he's already been living in another
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country? He wants asylum from Haiti, right? Well, he was in Guatemala. Why can't he stay there?
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And if he's leaving from there, he's got to cross other countries to get to our country.
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But whatever we call these people, whether Haitian asylum seekers or just illegal immigrants,
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I tend to favor the latter term. The question then becomes, and if they are leaving Central America,
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why are they all leaving Central America and coming here now? Why now? Why all at once? How did they all
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get there? Why at that spot? These are valid questions, I believe. Questions worth asking?
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That, again, should be the first question anyone in the media asks if they're sitting in a press
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conference and being told about a tent city of Haitian immigrants in Del Rio. Everyone should say,
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well, what Haitian immigrants? Why? Nobody even asks it. Nobody.
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Nobody. Well, the media, you know, because they don't want to talk about that.
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That's not a question they want to ask because it's not an answer they want to be given.
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They'd rather talk about imaginary whips and scary guys on horseback.
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They'd rather talk about anything but the real point, as always. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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at 40daysforlife.com. And I also think it's funny, even if those guys on horseback were using WIPs,
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which they 1000% were not. But even if they were, okay, they're using a rope, they're using
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a WIP against people who are trying to illegally invade the country. They are in a place they don't
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belong, doing something that they shouldn't be doing. It's just interesting to me that the idea
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of using a WIP is this horrible atrocity. I mean, you WIP someone, maybe give them a little bit of
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whiplash or something. They have a little bruise there. That's a horrible atrocity.
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And yet the same people calling that a horrible atrocity, even though for the fifth time,
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it's imaginary, it didn't even happen. But the same people saying that
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also cheered joyously with like tears of joy in their eyes when Ashley Babbitt was shot in the
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chest and killed inside the Capitol building, an unarmed woman. In that case, it's lethal force
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being used on an unarmed person. And that's, you know, that's according to the left, that's not
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even sad. They're happy that it happened. And yet the idea of someone of like a, of an illegal
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immigrant trying to invade the country, getting a little bruise on their arm from a WIP, that,
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that horrifies you. The unarmed woman lying dead with a gunshot wound is no problem there.
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Well, of course, here I am trying to make sense and trying to, you know, uh, hold them to their
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own standards and all that. Cause we know how fruitless that is, but I, I did feel it necessary
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to make that point. In any case, um, we're going to get back to some issues dealing with, uh, you know,
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related to the illegal immigrant, illegal immigrants down there at the border in just a second.
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And we have to hear more from Jen Psaki, unfortunately, but before we get there, I think, uh, some, uh,
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congratulations are in order to, uh, Canada because Justin Trudeau was reelected yesterday
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as prime minister, prime minister of Canada. So congratulations Canadians. You got this doofus
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for another term. I can't for the life of me imagine why you wanted that.
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And I, I want to ruthlessly make fun of you for this, that you, what is it? This is his third term,
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right? Am I, am I wrong? I don't pay very close attention to politics up there in Canada. I got
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to be honest with you, but I believe this is his third term. I can't imagine why you would want this
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guy for three terms. What has he shown you? What has he done for you to demonstrate competent
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leadership? I don't know how you could live through that being run by this laughing stock of a man
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and then say, yeah, I need some more of that. And I want to make fun of you so badly for it,
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but then I realized we have a dementia patient running our country. So I can't even do it.
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And that's maybe the worst thing about Biden's presidency. There are a lot of bad things.
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Maybe the worst one is that it deprives me of the ability to make fun of Canada to the extent
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that I really want to, but I can still make fun of Justin Trudeau anyway. And here he is.
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I think this is after he was reelected and he's talking about who knows what he's talking about,
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but this is just funny. Let's play it. I will never apologize for standing up for an
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LGBTQ2 plus kids' rights to not have to undergo conversion therapy.
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Yeah, you can't. LGBT, LGDB, LGD. It is difficult, you know, at this point to memorize the entire
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alphabet soup. So you can't blame him for that very much. What is the actual, I tried to look
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this up. I don't even know what the, the acronym expands every week. They add a new letter to it.
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So I'm not even sure what the full acronym is supposed to be now. And to me, it feels a little
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bit offensive because now they sort of put the plus at the end and that's supposed to cover all of the
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other identities. So now I guess the, the official acronym is LGBTQIA plus. And the plus goes for all
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the rest that we're not listing. Now, how do, but how do they lose out like that? Why don't, why don't
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they get, they, they all have to be lumped together under plus. And meanwhile, you give Q, I, and A
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their own letters. We've already talked about the problem with intersex. So I, the intersex,
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they get their own letter, even if they don't want it, because there's no reason for them to be
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included in LGBT, in the LGBT label at all. They've got nothing to do with it. That's a birth defect.
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And then A is what? A is asexual. Asexual, these are people who allegedly have, have no sexual
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impulses or interests at all. How do they get lumped in with people who define themselves by
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their sexual impulses? This is, this seems like an entirely opposite category of person
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and they get their own letter and, uh, they get singled out. Meanwhile, all of these other identities,
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they all get dismissed with a mere plus. I find that offensive personally.
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All right, let's go back to the border for a moment here. Another question we might, we might
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have when we see these images, whether it's the quote unquote Haitian refugees or any of the other
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immigrants trying to cross the border. And you look at the footage of it. One thing you notice is that
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none of them are wearing masks and we can assume that almost none of them are vaccinated.
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So we're, we are allowing during, as we're reminded, a deadly global pandemic.
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We still have thousands of people unvaccinated, unmasked, untested, streaming across the border.
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Uh, Jen Psaki, going back to her for a moment. Unfortunately, she was asked about this by, uh,
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Peter Doocy, who's the only actual reporter in these briefings. And here's how she dealt with
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A question about what's going on at the border. Is somebody asking the foreign nationals who are
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walking into Del Rio, Texas and setting up camps on this side of the border for proof of vaccination
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or a negative COVID test? Well, first of all, I can re re I can readdress for you or re re talk you
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through what steps we take policy for people who fly into the country. So if somebody walks into the
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country right across the river, does somebody ask them to see their vaccination card? Well, let me
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explain to you again, Peter, how our process works as individuals, as individuals come across the border,
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uh, and, uh, they are, uh, both assessed for whether they have, uh, any symptoms. If they have symptoms,
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they are, the intention is for them to be quarantined. That is our process. They're not
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intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time. I don't think it's the same thing. It's not
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the same thing. These are individuals as we've noted, and as we've been discussed, we are expelling
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individuals based on title 42 specifically because of COVID because we want to prevent a scenario where
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large numbers of people are gathering, posing a threat to the community and also to the migrants
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themselves. So those are the policies that we put in place, um, in large part, because again, the CDC
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continues to recommend title 42 be in place given we're facing a global pandemic. Where's the vice
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president on any of this? Isn't she supposed to be addressing the root causes of migration?
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Absolutely. And she has been addressing the root causes of migration by working with countries in the
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region to ensure they have the assistance they need to reduce the number of people who are coming
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and trying to make those journeys across the border. We've actually seen some reductions in
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some of those numbers. That doesn't change the fact that this is a very challenging situation in
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Del Rio. We're working to implement our policies and we're working to, uh, ensure we are also
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addressing root causes. Okay. Now for a little bit of a fact check there, Fox, let's go to a Fox
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report. Uh, and, and here we'll see some of the images of the, uh, immigrants, the quote unquote
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asylum seekers crossing the river, but also, um, we'll, we'll get an answer to the question of,
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are we actually testing any of these people as they come across the border? And it's a different
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answer than what you might expect. If you believe what Jim Psaki is telling you, let's play that.
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DHS secretary, uh, secretary Mayorkas was here today. This is what the, uh, the message he had
00:25:03.700
for migrants who are considering crossing. Take a listen. The majority of migrants continue to be
00:25:10.620
expelled under CDC is title 42 authority. Those who cannot be expelled under that authority and do
00:25:18.520
not have a legal basis to remain will be placed in expedited removal proceedings.
00:25:26.120
And back out here live. Here's the deal with title 42. Yes. Most of the single adult men in this camp
00:25:31.880
will be removed from the country, sent back to their country of origin, uh, via title 42. That
00:25:37.540
is not true. However, of the women, the children and the family units, the Biden administration has
00:25:42.360
not used title 42 on family units. So a lot of these family units you see in here will have the
00:25:47.240
chance to stay in the U S they will be processed. They will be released into the country. What's called
00:25:51.600
an NTA, a notice to appear in court for a court date, sometimes years down the road,
00:25:56.400
whether or not they show up for it. We got no way of knowing. We'll send it back to you.
00:26:00.620
And no, no COVID testing, uh, going on down there. Right, right, Bill? Nope. Nope. No,
00:26:06.220
no, no vaccine mandates, no COVID test. Just a reminder that the president's going to speak
00:26:10.040
at the UN tomorrow. And one of his signature pieces is how well COVID is being handled in the
00:26:15.280
United States. And the importance of that as his top issue, uh, that his presidency is, is undertaking.
00:26:20.940
So no COVID testing, which, which we already knew that was the case. I mean, this putting all the
00:26:28.640
other issues aside that we talked about at the opening, which you really can't put them aside,
00:26:33.760
but the basic duty of our government to protect our sovereignty, like that's, if you want to list
00:26:39.640
the reasons why we should protect our borders, that that should be the only reason that you need to
00:26:45.200
give. That's the only reason that any other country needs for protecting their own borders.
00:26:50.940
That's kind of the mind blowing thing about this discussion is that
00:26:55.060
this discussion doesn't exist in any non-Western country. Some European countries, it certainly
00:27:05.700
does, but I'm not aware of any non-Western country that feels the need to justify protecting its own
00:27:15.420
borders. And they all do. And many of them use much harsher force than we do.
00:27:24.360
Harsher even than a whip, which is really the reins of a horse. And there's no discussion about it.
00:27:30.400
There's no real debate internally about, you know, gee, should we be doing this? Should we be,
00:27:35.600
we have this border here, but now should we bother stopping people from crossing it?
00:27:41.400
There's no discussion about that. There are no other countries scolding them for doing it.
00:27:47.120
And the reason why every other country on the planet, at least non-Western country,
00:27:56.080
defends their border first and foremost, and the only reason they would give if they were ever asked
00:28:01.740
to give a reason, which they're not, is that this is our country and it's our sovereignty and we have
00:28:06.000
to protect it. It would be a bizarre question to even have to answer. Um, but if we're going down
00:28:17.560
the list of reasons, there are the other reasons that I said as well, that this is the most, this is
00:28:22.360
also the most compassionate thing, even for the immigrants, but on the list is also the issue of
00:28:31.380
COVID. And from the left's perspective, this should be the only reason they need for shutting down the
00:28:39.460
border completely by whatever means necessary, shutting down the border because every single
00:28:48.460
one of these people coming in is a, is a biological hazard by their logic. By their logic, these are
00:28:55.560
essentially biological terrorists coming across the border, ticking time bomb. They're going to spread
00:29:02.480
disease and kill. They're going to, they're going to kill our grandmothers and our children from COVID.
00:29:09.020
That's the left's logic. That is certainly how they talk about American citizens who are not vaccinated
00:29:15.620
and are simply going about their lives. That's even how they talk about children who are unvaccinated.
00:29:25.560
So that should be, that, that should be it. That should be, if they're serious about it,
00:29:29.280
if they really believe all the things they say about COVID
00:29:32.640
and they take seriously all of their own blustery condemnations of unvaccinated Americans,
00:29:39.820
if they took any of that seriously and believed any of it,
00:29:42.640
then it would be the left more than the right, right now who would be standing up saying,
00:29:47.720
shut down the border. We can't have these people coming in.
00:29:50.400
Our grandmothers' lives are not worth it. That's what they would be saying, but none of them are.
00:29:58.880
You may notice. None of them. All right. I don't know. Maybe if some of these immigrants end up,
00:30:06.920
end up vacationing in Florida, then they'll, then they'll fit under the umbrella of, of people that
00:30:15.360
the media feels comfortable condemning. I'm not sure. All right. Late last week, the Pentagon admitted
00:30:21.460
that the drone strike that killed those ISIS operatives in Afghanistan actually didn't kill
00:30:27.340
any ISIS operatives at all and instead incinerated an entire family. Three adults, seven children were
00:30:34.040
killed. Here's Commander General Kenneth McKenzie addressing this and admitting to it and offering
00:30:40.260
an apology. I mean, you tell me if this is enough for you, but let's listen.
00:30:45.760
Having thoroughly reviewed the findings of the investigation and the supporting analysis by
00:30:50.280
interagency partners, I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children,
00:30:56.460
were tragically killed in that strike. Moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and
00:31:03.660
those who died were associated with ISIS-K or were a direct threat to U.S. forces.
00:31:08.240
I offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed. This strike was
00:31:15.380
taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at
00:31:21.300
the airport, but it was a mistake. And I offer my sincere apology. As the combatant commander,
00:31:27.860
I am fully responsible for this strike and this tragic outcome.
00:31:31.780
Well, he's right about that. But he offers his, uh, I offer my sincere apology.
00:31:40.060
And that's all we're going to get. I offer my sincere apology. Oh, sorry about that. Yeah,
00:31:44.160
we killed seven children. My bad. And then they move on and no one is held accountable. There,
00:31:50.920
there have been no resignations over this. Certainly nobody has been fired.
00:31:54.620
And we've already moved on. They can come out and admit now and say, yeah, we did it. We killed seven
00:32:03.380
children. And a few days later, we're not even talking about it anymore. There's, there's really
00:32:11.860
no outcry, no public outcry anyway, to hold anyone accountable. I mean, think, think about
00:32:18.700
what you would have to do at your job to get fired. It kind of depends on what your job is. I mean,
00:32:27.440
if you're a public school teacher, then, then you'd have to do quite a lot to get fired. And
00:32:30.400
probably then you still wouldn't, but that's government. I mean, outside, if you, if you work
00:32:33.980
outside of government, I guess I should stipulate, what would you have to do? What kind of mistake
00:32:38.560
would you have to make on the job to get fired? It probably wouldn't take much.
00:32:42.540
I know for me, I can walk out there right now and get fired. If I wanted to, I could do it in like
00:32:49.720
10 seconds. The sky's the limit. If I decided I want to get fired, I wouldn't have, in fact,
00:32:54.880
I could do it right here on air, get myself fired. And that's the case for anyone who live, who works
00:33:00.500
outside of the government. You wouldn't have to do much to get yourself fired. And I, and you know,
00:33:04.400
you also wouldn't have to kill seven kids. Probably if you killed just like one person, um,
00:33:10.020
in your job outside of government and outside of the pharmaceutical industry, now we have to
00:33:16.300
stipulate as well, you'd get fired. But in the government, you can directly murder 10 people,
00:33:23.620
including seven kids and still have a job at the end of the day. That's the government for you.
00:33:32.000
Um, kind of on the same topic here, moving on and over to Australia, as we know, full on fascism
00:33:37.340
has come to Australia. Here is a footage that's all the footage we see out of Australia is it's
00:33:43.320
just sends chills down your spine. Um, here's a law enforcement official showing up to somebody's
00:33:48.060
house because she allegedly posted on social media that she would be attending a protest
00:33:54.400
potentially. That's the allegation that she posted something on social media about going to a protest.
00:33:59.740
And next thing you know, there are multiple, it looks like there's one on camera, but multiple
00:34:04.740
law enforcement officials at her house talking to her about this. Let's listen to that.
00:34:10.720
Sure. Okay. All right. Is there a reason why you're recording me today?
00:34:15.120
Yes. For my protection. You think I'm going to assault you or something?
00:34:19.200
No. Um, so I don't understand why you're here and
00:34:25.520
I haven't even spoken to you and you think I'm going to do something to you.
00:34:29.500
Well, we have seen a lot of police violence in recent times towards the public. Um, there
00:34:34.900
is a growing, there is a growing mistrust. I, as you can understand, um, you, yeah, not
00:34:42.380
here to do anything like that. All right. Cool.
00:34:44.640
We're here to have a chat to you because we have instructions that, um, you've been posting
00:35:01.200
Okay. That's fine. But what I'm here is to remind you to ensure that you need to stay
00:35:05.780
at home in relation to COVID and, um, stay at home orders. And if there is or is not a
00:35:11.960
protest on Tuesday, regardless, you still can't leave and go to a protest of any sort.
00:35:20.080
And this is what fascist, this is what tyranny looks like when it actually comes to, it comes
00:35:23.700
in the form of a woman in a pantsuit saying she wants to have a chat with you. She's very
00:35:30.080
polite about it. She even said both the, the, the, it was a little hard to hear there, but
00:35:34.880
both of them said to the woman that was filming, Oh, we're not here to assault you. Don't worry
00:35:38.760
about that. You're perfectly safe. You just have to stay home. Just stay in your house. Don't
00:35:44.600
ever leave your house and you'll be fine. Of course, if you leave your house, we might knock
00:35:50.100
you down and, uh, spray bear mace in your face, cart you off to prison. Some of the footage we've
00:35:58.600
seen out of Australia has shown that, but stay in your house and you'll be safe. We'll make sure
00:36:03.900
you're taken care of. We'll make sure you have all you need. Just stay here and never
00:36:08.140
leave. That's all we want to chat about today. But the really worrying thing, I mean, the whole
00:36:15.780
thing is worrying. Um, but you have to wonder how did these, whoever they are, these law enforcement
00:36:25.140
officers, how did they become aware of this alleged social media posts from this, uh, from
00:36:32.440
this woman? And we can be sure the government is monitoring all that stuff and maybe they
00:36:37.640
saw it on their own, but, but more than likely someone else snitched, you know, some other
00:36:43.800
citizen saw, maybe her friend on Facebook or whoever saw the post on Facebook and alerted
00:36:49.720
the authorities and sent the authorities to her house. And the person who snitched knows
00:36:55.540
how that could go. She might end up getting, going to prison. She might, she might end up
00:37:01.080
getting assaulted. We've, we've seen the footage. We know how the Australian authorities are handling
00:37:05.180
this. And that's what worries me the most this entire time. That's what's worried me the
00:37:10.900
most in Australia and also here. It's been the most depressing aspect of all of this, because
00:37:19.340
if this was a simple matter of us against them, you know, the people against the government,
00:37:24.420
we're all in this together as we're constantly told and our, our government, uh, rulers are
00:37:32.060
oppressing us and we're, we're, we're, we're coming together under that oppression to resist
00:37:36.320
it. Like if that was the story, then it would be far less distressing than what's actually
00:37:42.380
happening, which is, you know, the government is oppressing us with the help of our
00:37:49.240
fellow citizens. Who are eager to become little tattletales. Reporting, not just citizens,
00:38:02.520
reporting businesses, even though they're not, you know, the person doing the tattletaling,
00:38:09.360
they're not in any great risk. They could just continue on their day.
00:38:13.280
But they see the opportunity to, through, through the force of government, to kind of use the force
00:38:21.580
of government by proxy to impose themselves on their fellow citizens. There are a lot of tyrants
00:38:29.240
who have come out of the woodwork during COVID and not just in government. A lot of people who
00:38:37.760
have been given this power to impose themselves on others and they, uh, that's a power that they,
00:38:46.440
they can't forego. They can't pass that up. They can't pass the opportunity up. Here's something, uh,
00:38:52.160
funnier than it is enraging. Two people on a plane, very upset and worried that the guy next to them
00:38:58.080
has dared to take his face mask off. Let's play a little bit of this. The guy's, uh, he's sitting on a
00:39:03.100
a plane. I'm not sure which airline this is. Go ahead and play it. He's sitting on a plane and,
00:39:08.060
um, he's eating a candy bar. He's got his face mask turned off. And then you've got these,
00:39:13.220
this older couple sitting next to him and they've got visors and face masks on.
00:39:21.480
And now the woman is huddling in fear, covering her face because this guy's eating a Snickers bar
00:39:27.780
next to him while the husband in the window seat is shouting over, you're putting our lives in
00:39:34.260
danger. They've got visors, face masks. You know, you know, they're vaccinated on top of it.
00:39:41.440
And we go back to this irony of they've got all of that and they don't trust any of it.
00:39:48.480
They have such little faith in the measures that they themselves are taking here that they think
00:39:55.060
they might be killed because a guy next to them is eating a Snickers bar.
00:40:01.360
And yet they're on, this is great. Okay. And yet they're on the plane. That's will continue to
00:40:11.120
be the mind boggling thing to me. Difficult for me to understand psychologically. I can understand
00:40:16.940
the virtue signaling. And some, and when you see people walking around with visors and face masks,
00:40:22.420
oftentimes they're accused of virtue signaling. And we know that virtue signaling is an empty gesture
00:40:27.800
where you're trying to broadcast to everyone how seriously you're taking this. And, and, and I
00:40:34.520
believe that there's, that there's certainly some of that going on, but the people going to that
00:40:39.860
extent with the visor and the face mask, that that's not virtue signaling. They really are terrified.
00:40:43.740
The people driving in their car at night with a mask on, they're, they're, they're not signaling to
00:40:50.980
anyone. This is, their brains are broken. They are that terrified. And that's why they're wearing it.
00:40:58.100
And yet they're still on the plane. If you are that worried, if you're that afraid that you think
00:41:07.940
even with a mask, a visor and a vaccine, you might be killed if somebody takes their mask off next to
00:41:15.060
you to eat a Snickers bar for 45 seconds, if that's how you feel about it, why did you get on the plane?
00:41:25.880
Because I guess I can only use myself as a reference here. And I know that for me,
00:41:29.920
if I really believed that, um, if I walk outside of my house, if I sit next to somebody eating a
00:41:40.500
Snickers bar, even with a mask on, that there's a very good chance that I'll die. If I was that
00:41:47.660
worried about it, I probably would just stay home. I don't think I would leave my house at all.
00:41:53.260
The people walking down the road with a mask on, they think that, that simply
00:41:56.420
walking alone outside without a mask, they might die. That COVID might drift over on the wind
00:42:03.600
and make it into their nostrils and kill them. And again, if I thought that, I, I just wouldn't
00:42:12.020
leave the house at all. Yet they, they, they still leave and they want to participate in society and
00:42:20.540
do all these normal things. And yet they get angry at other people who are trying to live their normal
00:42:26.400
life. So it's all kinds of confused. It doesn't make any sense at all. All right. Let's, um,
00:42:33.140
let's say one other thing here, let's get away from the politics. This is also important for the
00:42:36.840
New York post. It says a Russian MMA fighter dubbed Popeye because of his massive biceps has been warned.
00:42:42.300
There he is there. Look at that. It has been warned that he might die if he doesn't get the lumps of
00:42:48.440
petroleum jelly removed soon. So this guy, his name is Kirill Terashin, 25, former soldier. Um,
00:42:55.560
he injected petroleum jelly into his arms and, uh, made those biceps. And now he has to get the lumps
00:43:02.480
of petroleum jelly taken out of his arms or he might die. And I don't know. It's just a really sad
00:43:08.040
story. I'll tell you what makes it sad. Um, the fact that this man has been pressured into conversion
00:43:15.440
therapy like this, you know, I mean, he identifies as a big muscle person. That's how he identifies.
00:43:20.460
He identifies as Popeye, a big muscle person, a BMP, we call them. That's his truth that he's trying
00:43:26.480
to live. And yet he's being told that he has to go through this medical deconversion. I find it very
00:43:33.300
upsetting personally. Let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments. This is, uh, from someone who
00:43:37.880
says, Matt, if you want to watch a good movie with your wife, then watch The Courier. It's great.
00:43:42.860
You can ban me if you don't like it. Uh, I did actually watch that one and, uh, that's the
00:43:48.240
Benedict Cumberbatch one, right? And yeah, that was, that was pretty good. I don't know
00:43:52.940
if I'd call it great. Oh, wait, we've got, oh, we forgot to play the song. Let's play the
00:43:59.880
This theocratic house's dictatorship is on its way. Daily cancellations are the law and order
00:44:06.600
of the day. Okay, good. I can't believe I, I, I forgot that I was going to, I was going
00:44:17.860
to pass right over the Sweet Baby Gang anthem. I should be canceled for that. Anyway, The Courier
00:44:22.700
is a good movie. It's, I wouldn't call it a great movie though. I haven't seen, um, I
00:44:28.760
don't think a really great movie has been made in several years. I can't remember the
00:44:32.540
last movie I've, I've seen that was made over the last two or three years that was, that
00:44:39.760
would, that truly qualifies as great. And, you know, one thing about what makes it a great
00:44:45.640
movie is that it's great movies are, are rare by definition. That's why they're great. But,
00:44:50.960
uh, even so it's been quite a drought. I've seen a lot of, uh, I've seen, I've seen several
00:44:58.300
B plus B minus movies. There've been a lot of D's, a lot of C's, D's and E's. I haven't
00:45:05.200
seen a great one. Uh, let's see. Another one says, Matt, when the commenter said the
00:45:11.280
divorce of the USA would be the kid's fault, he was comparing it to the founding fathers.
00:45:16.240
Everyone alive today in America would be the kids in this analogy. Oh, that would make sense.
00:45:21.760
You're right. That would make more sense than how I interpreted it. Now I feel stupid.
00:45:25.000
And for making me feel stupid, you are banned from the show. The real Bridget says,
00:45:31.600
you said the mask, that masking kids, uh, the masking, the kid, the kid video gave you
00:45:36.880
ungodly rage. I think the term you're searching for is godly rage. I think you're probably right
00:45:41.320
about that. Um, Matt two says, what's the biggest small mouth you ever caught? I don't know. I don't,
00:45:49.040
I don't fish for a lot of small. It's usually large mouth. And the biggest large mouth I've
00:45:52.820
caught is, uh, seven, eight pounds. I've never gotten up into the double digits. Small mouth.
00:45:59.640
I don't know. Not, not very large. Three pounds. Maybe, um, live cruelty free now says just when
00:46:07.640
Matt says something sensible and seemingly sincere about his personal lack of concern or connection
00:46:12.180
with animal rights, the juvenile, all pandas must die thing comes up again. Why do men who want to
00:46:18.940
come off as macho or overtly masculine? Think it's so cool or impressive to act totally indifferent
00:46:23.980
and flippant about animals? Hint. It's just, it just comes off as juvenile and insensitive. Well,
00:46:28.940
you seem to be under the impression that I'm joking about the panda thing, but I don't tell jokes,
00:46:36.620
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00:46:40.140
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So, you know, my oldest kids, the twins, are eight years old. And more and more, I'm noticing
00:49:01.380
something about them that seems increasingly unique among their peers, but shouldn't be.
00:49:06.980
And that is that my eight-year-olds act like eight-year-olds. They are naive and innocent and
00:49:12.880
energetic. They like to play imaginative games. They like to run around outside. They love books.
00:49:16.940
My son especially loves Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. And, you know, he loves those characters.
00:49:21.740
He'll run around the yard in overalls and bare feet, pretending that he's on some great adventure.
00:49:26.340
A little while ago, all the kids built a raft out of logs so that they could float down the
00:49:30.840
Mississippi River, even though we don't live anywhere near the Mississippi River. But still,
00:49:34.700
they wanted to build the raft. My daughter plays with dolls still. She likes to dress up in
00:49:39.680
costume. She likes to sew and make different kinds of crafts. Last week, she made herself a dress
00:49:44.600
out of an old blanket. Actually, it might have been a new blanket that my wife had just bought,
00:49:48.560
and she cut it up and made it into a dress, but that was fine. Now, none of this information is
00:49:53.480
terribly fascinating or special. I mean, they're just kids being kids, right? Very gender stereotypical
00:49:59.020
kids, too, which I know makes me an extremely unenlightened parent, and I'm fine with that.
00:50:03.480
But I've noticed that a lot of kids their age, not all certainly, but a lot, aren't like this.
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Many kids these days at eight and nine years old don't have the same kind of energy or creative
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drive or the desire to run around outside all day. This isn't just my own anecdotal observation,
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either. Lots of research has shown that many kids today aren't playing the way we did when we were
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kids. They aren't running around outside. They're not reading books. They're not playing physical or
00:50:31.020
imaginative games. And there are many societal factors which may help explain this shift. But the
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biggest one, without question, is that many kids today are living out their childhoods inside a
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digital world. The single greatest factor that explains why my kids seem a bit different from
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some of their peers is that my kids don't play video games. They don't have phones. They don't
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use the internet. We're not living off the grid in the forest either, though I kind of wish we were.
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I mean, nothing wrong with living that way. We're living a pretty normal life, for better or worse,
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except that our kids don't have video games and they don't use the internet. There are plenty of
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parenting decisions that I have made that I later questioned or second guess, but this is definitely
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not one of them. My wife and I decided early on that we would force our kids to have a real
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childhood. We're not going to give them a choice in the matter. You can't give a kid a choice in this
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because if you give them a choice, they're going to choose the TV and the internet and everything
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else. I mean, every kid's going to choose that if you let them choose. So for us, there is no choice.
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A childhood full of imagination and physical play and scraped knees and all the rest of it. That's
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what they're going to have. And so far, they've had that kind of childhood because we're keeping
00:51:40.520
them away from every screen except the one single TV we own, which is in our living room and which
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they're allowed to watch for limited periods of time. And of course, only shows that we
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approve of ahead of time. I thought about this today when I read a report revealing how Facebook,
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which owns Instagram, has for a long time been aware that Instagram is harmful to kids,
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especially girls. The tech giant apparently conducted its own research into the effects
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of social media on the developing minds of kids, and they found that the effects are rather dire.
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Social media, the focus was on Instagram, but this holds true across the spectrum.
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Social media for kids causes anxiety, depression, body image issues, lower life satisfaction,
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and so on and so on and so on. Makes kids lonelier. Makes them more depressed. It makes them
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unhappier. Now, Facebook knows this, and this is the research they did. Again, that's not the only
00:52:31.220
research on this topic. This has been studied again and again and again and again, and almost
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all the research you'll read will tell you this. And Facebook knows it, but they swept its own
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findings, their own findings under the rug, which has drawn comparisons to the big tobacco companies
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that discovered a link between smoking and cancer decades ago and didn't tell anybody about it.
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And I think the comparison is apt, though, if anything, it undersells the problem.
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This is going to sound extreme, and maybe it is, but I would rather my kids smoke cigarettes
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than spend all day on the internet. Because the damage done by the latter is that deep and that
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profound. Our kids are being fundamentally changed. They're being turned into different sorts of people,
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worse sorts of people, because of their overexposure to screens. They're not learning how to be authentic
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people or how to live an authentic human life. Many kids today simply do not know how to find joy or
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happiness or fulfillment outside of the screen, though they can't really find it inside the screen
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either, so they just don't have it at all. And that's why when I hear about what Facebook has
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done to cover up the damage its own product does to the people who use it, I don't blame Facebook
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primarily. I mean, they obviously deserve 100% of the blame for the things that they're doing,
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but there's another 100% portion that can be assigned to parents. Look, I understand that at
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a certain age, it might be difficult to keep your kids away from the internet. It's different when a
00:53:59.520
kid is 16 or 17. But parents today are giving their six, seven, eight-year-olds phones with internet
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access. That's what parents are deciding to do. And they can't use the excuse of, well, I want my kid
00:54:14.300
to have a phone in case he needs me in case of an emergency. Even that is pretty extreme. Like the
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idea that your kid needs to have this constant connection with you all of the time. No kids in
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history had that. I didn't have that when I was a kid. I didn't have a phone where I could call my
00:54:32.860
parents at the drop of a dime. And, you know, I survived. It was okay. But if you do want that for
00:54:39.300
your kid, you can buy them a phone that doesn't do anything but make a phone call. And you can make
00:54:46.360
it so that it only can call two numbers, you know, your house phone and your cell phone, if you
00:54:51.640
actually still have a house phone or whatever. I mean, you can decide. So you can give your kid a
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phone like that. That's one thing. But there are parents who say, you know what? No, no, no. I'm going
00:55:00.500
to give my kid, my eight-year-old, a phone with full and complete internet access. And I'm going
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to let them have it all the time. It just blows my mind. Do you know how you can keep your seven-year-old
00:55:18.660
off the phone? Here's how you do it. Real easy. Don't give him one. It really is that easy for a
00:55:28.140
seven-year-old. For a 17-year-old, it's different. For a seven-year-old, that's all you got to do.
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Because they can't have anything if you don't buy it for them.
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How does your child, your young child, benefit from having the internet in his pocket 24 hours a day?
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What are the advantages? I mean, make a chart and list them. List all of the advantages to your
00:55:49.300
seven or eight-year-old having 24-hour access to the internet. You know, in what ways is his life and
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existence enhanced by spending almost all of it online? And go ahead and write all those
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advantages down. Now go to the other side. List the negatives. In what ways can he be harmed?
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What are the downsides? And then when you look back at the chart, which column has more bullet points?
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And it must be the negative column because I can't actually think of one single genuine advantage
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to an elementary schooler having a smartphone. And yet millions of parents make this choice for
00:56:27.260
their children. And then they blame the social media companies for the harm that they, the parents,
00:56:33.900
have intentionally exposed their children to. Maybe think of it this way. Imagine a parent
00:56:41.680
who keeps their kid away from the screens, doesn't give them a phone, doesn't let them spend five hours
00:56:47.380
a day playing video games and so on. Now imagine that parent sitting at the child's high school
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graduation. Do you think that he, sitting there in the stands, is going to look back on his son's
00:56:59.520
childhood, reflecting, nostalgic, and say, man, I wish I'd let him spend more time staring at screens.
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Do you think any parent who makes that choice will have that regret? We all know the answer.
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And we all also know that many parents will regret and already have regretted allowing the internet
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and the media and video games and everything else to consume their children, shape them, mutate them,
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dominate their lives. And that is why today it is not social media that I'm canceling. It's not Facebook,
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but parents who allow their kids to use social media in the first place. They're the ones who are
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canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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