Ep. 805 - The power of victimhood
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Bullying used to be done in the schoolyard, but now it's done in office and in the boardroom. How have things changed since the days of bullying in public school, when the bully was the bully and the victim was the victim?
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, cancel culture claims another victim, this time a random woman
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at a dog park, has her whole life destroyed after an out-of-context video goes viral. Also,
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Liz Cheney comes out for trans rights, Biden tells blatant lies about Border Patrol,
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and the media wonders why so many people with COVID symptoms are testing negative for the
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virus. I have a theory about that. Plus, the Loudoun County School Board tried to stop me
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from speaking at their next meeting by changing the rules, but I may have found a workaround.
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And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel the female James Bond before she even exists.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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that we have. Okay. I can remember, speaking of being in high school, the bullies that I went to
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school with, you know, the real life schoolyard bully was never quite as one-dimensional and
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cartoonishly villainous as he was portrayed in shows and movies that we watched back then.
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But he was still a jerk, right? And as I recall, bullies were pretty straightforward. They would
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impose themselves on those who are weaker and taunt and belittle them because it gave them, the
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bullies, personal satisfaction. And probably because they were trying to assuage their own damaged
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egos and enhance their own sense of self-worth and so on. But the message from the bully was,
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I'm strong, you're weak, and that makes me better than you. The bully would try to hurt his victim's
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feelings or hurt him physically. And if he succeeded, then he won, at least in his mind. That's why the
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best response to a bully back then was to try to beat him at his own game, to cause him the exact sort
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of hurt that he wanted to cause you. If you succeeded, then the bully was vanquished, at least for a time.
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If you punched the bully in the nose and made him run off crying, then you won because you had asserted
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your dominance over him. He had made a fool of himself and cried in front of everybody. And this was
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a source of shame. That's the way that it used to work. It wasn't great. It wasn't a great position
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to be in. Bullying is never a good thing. It was a little bit messy at times. But I have to say, lately I've
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been pining for the simplicity and the coherence of those days, how bullying used to work. Because
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now things are flipped on their head. The bullies are all, you know, sort of modeling themselves after
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that scene in Fight Club where Edward Norton gets revenge on his boss by beating the hell out of
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himself in the boss's office. So the bully now asserts his dominance, assuages his ego, enhances his own
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self-worth by manufacturing ways in which he has been hurt by his victim. Bullying today is far more
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passive-aggressive, manipulative, and psychologically twisted than the simple days of, you know, calling
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somebody a name, shoving them into a locker to let them know that you're more powerful than them.
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Now the bullies assert their power by pretending that their victim is asserting power over them.
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They gain power by affecting powerlessness. When I was younger, it would have been embarrassing for
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anyone, especially a guy, to admit that he had his feelings hurt. Now there's a contest over who had
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their feelings hurt the most. You know, it used to be if you said, I got my feelings hurt, everybody would
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point and laugh at you. It's like, you got your feelings hurt, you loser. Now instead of responding
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that way, everybody says, no, no, no, I have my feelings hurt even more than you.
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Neither response is great, but what we're doing now is worse. This is how modern cancer culture
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works, of course. We saw a perfect example of this over the weekend when a guy by the name of
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Frederick Joseph, who's a black man and also an author, and I'll tell you more about his book in a
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moment because it is relevant here. He sent out a string of tweets claiming that he had been accosted
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by a white woman in a dog park in Brooklyn. He tweeted, quote, at the dog park in Brooklyn with
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my fiance and this white woman was threatening to call police and told us to stay in our hood
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because she had our dog confused with another dog who had been barking loudly. So I started recording
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and she tried to slap the phone out of my hand. He then posted the video, of course, but naturally the
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video cuts on right after all of this allegedly happened. Let's watch it here. Check it out.
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Stay in our hood. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to invite everyone. Stay in our
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hood. Stay in our hood. That's what I'm sorry. What? Stay in our hood. Stay in our hood.
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You just told us to leave the dog park and stay in our hood. Oh my God. Did you just say that's
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me? That's funny. I'm sorry. You were right here. Watch this entire thing. Did she just not
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stand here? Tell us to stay in our hood. She did. She just told you just told us. So what do we know
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from that video? Um, well, nothing at all. We don't know the context. We don't know what was said
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before the video cuts on. We don't know what precipitated the interaction or even what the
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interaction was. We don't know if she said what he claims she said or why she said it. If she did,
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if she did in fact say anything, we don't know anything. We have only this out of context video
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featuring a group of people that none of us have ever heard of. And we have the word of Mr.
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Frederick Joseph, a word which must be taken with a rather large portion of salt, given that Frederick
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Joseph is the author of a book called the black friend on being a better white person on being a
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better white person. Now I don't need to read the book to know that it's a racist screed for the same
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reason that Frederick Joseph wouldn't have to read a book by me about being a better black
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person to declare that it's racist. So this guy's a professional race baiter who's in the business
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of telling white people how to be better. And he just so happens to find himself in this situation
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with an allegedly racist white woman. I mean, you might almost think that this anti white race
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baiting bigot may have engineered this situation to play out exactly as it did. Who knows? But Joseph
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wasn't satisfied to simply put the video up and leave it at that. Of course, he then proceeds to
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dig up this woman's name and other pictures of her and post them online. Also, he even posts the name
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of her dog. For some reason, he posts the town where she lives and then he finds out where she works
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or worked, I should say. And he posts that information. And then he personally contacts her boss
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by the name of Derek Anderson at a company called Bevy to try and get her fired. And obviously he
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succeeds. So within hours of the original out of context 15 second video being posted, the woman has
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lost her job, lost her reputation, her privacy, probably most of her friends given where she lives.
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Uh, Bevy has zero tolerance for discriminatory behavior of any kind. Yesterday, an employee engaged
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in behavior contrary to our values and has been terminated. We apologize deeply to all involved.
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Now, how does he know what sort of behavior she engaged in? There couldn't have been enough time to
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actually investigate the situation thoroughly. I mean, we don't know, but that doesn't matter. All he knows
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is that Frederick Joseph says that his feelings were hurt and that's all the information he needs.
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Now, for his part, for his part, uh, after randomly ruining the stranger's life for no reason,
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Frederick Joseph posted a follow-up video encouraging everybody, white people namely,
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to, uh, learn the right lessons from this incident. Watch this.
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So I was just told, um, that Bevy has terminated Emma Sarli after her racist attack against my fiance and I
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in the dog park. And while it's unfortunate, um, that she had to lose her job, um, I do think that
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this brings up an important conversation about, uh, accountability, um, especially in a country
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where, um, black and brown people, um, marginalized people as a whole have seen so little of it,
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um, oftentimes, right. Um, you know, having to bear the burden of racism, sexism, homophobia,
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et cetera. Um, I think that it's important that people know that there are consequences,
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consequences, uh, for their actions. Right. And I don't think that it's, um, up to victims to have
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to coddle, um, you know, people who are engaging in abuse. Um, you know, when I woke up yesterday
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morning, um, I didn't expect to have to be a part of this, um, conversation. Um, I didn't expect to go
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to the dog park as a black person, um, and have to receive, um, you know, racism. Uh, you know,
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so while again, it is unfortunate what happened, I hope that, you know, Emma learns from this. I hope
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that, um, other people learn from this who engage in abusive, racist, um, and destructive behavior,
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because ultimately, um, whether Emma lost her job or not, doesn't take away the trauma that my
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fiance and I have, it doesn't take away, um, the feeling of, um, feeling like anything, um, racist
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can happen anywhere. So, uh, I don't think that people should be coddled. Um, and I do think that
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consequences are important. So hopefully this is a learning lesson for everybody. A learning lesson.
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So the rule maintains here, the rule I've told you about anytime someone says they've done or said
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something in order to start a conversation, they're always full of it. 100% of the time.
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And here yet again, well, it brings up an important conversation. It's unfortunate. She had to lose
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her job. She had to lose her job. It's unfortunate after I have deliberately made sure that she loses
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her job after I spent my weekend trying to make sure that this woman lost her job. It's unfortunate
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that it happened. It had to happen. It's just how the stars aligned. You know, it's fate. What could I do
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about it? Well, it turns out I could do a lot to make sure she loses her job because that's what I
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spent my weekend doing. He says he was traumatized. He's traumatized by this little white woman at a
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dog park. When, when I was a kid, you know, if a guy had, had claimed to have been traumatized
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by, by, by, by words that someone else had said, much less words that a girl has said to you,
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you'd be mocked ruthlessly. Then you're going to suffer real trauma. That that's, that's the kind of
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social sin in going around saying, I was traumatized by those words you said to me.
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That would stay with you forever. You know, if you said that in third grade,
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10 years later, people would still be talking about it and making fun of you for it.
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But this is how bullying works now. This is the, this is the, the power of victimhood.
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The bully asserts his power by affecting powerlessness,
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by claiming that he is the one who is traumatized while he at least tries to cause trauma to other
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people. I would say that's, that's real trauma when you, when you have the, the internet lynch
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mob coming after you, you lose your job and everything else. And I say all this knowing by
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the way, that this, this woman, um, I'm going to assume a pretty good chance that she is
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a leftist herself given where just based on where she lives alone.
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And, and you, so you might say, this is another example of the left eating its own.
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Perhaps so, but it's still a problem because it's yet again, the bully asserting the power
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of victimhood. It's just not possible to have a functioning society this way.
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You know, it was one thing when the strong used to subjugate the weak by imposing their strength.
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Now they subjugate the weak by pretending to be weaker.
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Which in the end we find out is a much worse situation. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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this, uh, Loudoun County rally we've got coming up on September 28th. That's, uh, tomorrow. We're
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going to be in, in Loudoun County, uh, at, uh, 4 PM in Ashburn, Virginia, right outside of the,
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uh, the school board building. And, you know, I shared with you how they changed the rules at
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the last minute. I'm sure it was entirely coincidental. I had announced my plans to come
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speak at the, I'm going to speak at the rally. They can't stop that from happening. That's all
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that was always going to happen. Um, but also I was going to go to go in and speak and deliver
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some thoughts to the actual school board. And they started changing, they started changing things.
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They, uh, they shortened the speaking time to a minute. So they did that. They also moved up the
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speaking time. We, you know, so that it, so that it would, so that it would overlap with the rally.
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So we had to push the rally back to four o'clock instead of doing five o'clock. Uh, so they did all
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that that was expected. And then at the very last minute, they say, Oh, you know what? We've, uh,
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we've just decided a new rule here where you have to be a resident of Loudoun County in order to speak
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at the Loudoun County school board meeting. Uh, and you have to prove your residence with an ID or a
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lease agreement or, you know, mortgage statement or utility bill or something. Um, now we, we know why
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they made this change, but you have to think about it. They're trying to exclude me. Okay. It's,
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that's pretty clear. Unless it's all, this is one big coincidence. We think about who else they've
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excluded, by the way, you know, with a rule like this, this means that, um, if you're a grandparent,
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uncle, aunt, you know, relative of a, of a child in the school district, and you want to speak on
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their behalf, because as a family member, you're concerned about what's happening. You can't speak.
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You're excluded. Not to mention, as we reviewed last week, all of these schools get federal funding,
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which means that all of us in the country are funding, are personally funding every single school.
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Uh, we all have a stake in it. All of our money is attending all of these schools,
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which means that we should have a say. So anyway, as they made this, um, this coincidental change to
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require for this meeting, people to be residents. I also, and this is really incidental and just,
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it's really is a coincidence. And I, and I, I'd actually been thinking about this for a while that,
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um, I would love to have a place in Loudoun County. I've been thinking about this and I finally decided
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to pull the trigger last week, you know, right after Loudoun County made their announcement.
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And so now I'm going to be leasing, um, a home in Loudoun County. I did find, um, a, a homeowner
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there, property owner who was willing to give me a very competitive rate. And so I'm very excited
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that now I, and I'll, and I'll have the lease agreement, which I will present, um, while I'm
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walking into the school board meeting tomorrow. So I'm very excited about that. I am a Virginia
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resident. I'm really excited. I'm a proud Virginian. Um, and I couldn't be happier about
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that. So I'll see you at the school board meeting tomorrow. All right, let's start with this.
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Liz Cheney was, uh, she of course is the Democrats and the media's favorite Republican. And we'll see
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why here. She was being interviewed on 60 minutes and they, they got into the issue, uh, you know,
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into social issues, cultural issues. And here's what Liz Cheney had to say.
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Your sister's gay. She's married. She has children. And in 2013, you came out against same-sex marriage
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while your father went the other way. And it was looked upon as courageous when he did that.
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How do you defend what you did? I was wrong. Um, I was wrong. Uh, I love my sister very much.
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Uh, I, uh, uh, uh, love, uh, her family very much. Uh, and, uh, and, and I was wrong. It's a,
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it's a very personal issue and very personal for my family. I, uh, believe that my dad was right.
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And my sister and I have had that conversation. Wow. I was not expecting that.
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You know, this, this, this is an issue that, um, we have to recognize, uh, you know, as, as human beings,
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that we need to work against discrimination, uh, of all kinds, uh, in our country, in our state.
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We were at, at an event a few nights ago and, and, uh, there was a young woman who said she doesn't feel
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safe, uh, sometimes, uh, because she's transgender and nobody should feel unsafe. Freedom means freedom
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for everybody. Okay. None of that meant anything at all. Uh, it did sound like she said human beings,
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like a green bean. That's beside the point, but, uh, none of that. That's just, that's just a far
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left claptrap is all, all that is. I just don't believe it's starting with the issue of, of same
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sex marriage. You know, you'll notice she wasn't, she says, Oh, I was wrong about that. I've changed
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my mind. There's this follow-up question that amazingly you never hear in the media,
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but you think it'd be any normal person's follow-up, which is, Oh, why? Why did you change your mind
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about this? Why did you initially believe that marriage is between a man and a woman and what
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made you change your mind? And what do you think marriage is now? So you believed marriage is a,
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is an institution, which by definition, because that was always the argument for the advocates of
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quote unquote, traditional marriage. The argument was never that, uh, it should be illegal for gay
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men to get married or for lesbians to get married. That was never the argument. The argument is that
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marriage is a particular thing. It has a definition. It serves a certain function in society. And that is
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the function that the function is supposed to be to serve as the basis for, uh, the family and the
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family itself is the, is the cornerstone of society of, of, of human civilization of the
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civilization of all human beings. Um, that was the argument. You know, it's not that gay people
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should be prevented from getting married. It's that they can't because marriage isn't that. That's not
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a marriage is. Marriage is, it has a few defining features. One of them is that it is a fundamentally
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in principle procreative union. Okay. There are couples who can't conceive because of, because of
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illness or, or birth defect or whatever, but that does not change what marriage is in principle.
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And it just doesn't change the fact that the heterosexual union is in principle, um, a procreative
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union. So that was the argument. Um, and you know, I, I think it was a pretty good argument.
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I still stand by that argument personally. And, you know, unlike people like Liz Cheney and so,
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and so many other alleged conservatives and Republicans, I feel better. I feel even more
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sure of the arguments I made defending quote unquote traditional marriage years ago today than I did
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even then. What we've seen happen in the intervening years has only reinforced my belief
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in what marriage actually is. And part of that is because we've seen exactly the slippery slope that
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we predicted has played out by what would happen in society, especially with the institution of
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marriage, when you get rid of this, of this definition. So that has reinforced my views,
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but also because here we are years later when the pro-gay marriage side has, has won the argument.
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I mean, they've certainly won the argument, um, in society anyway, there's no doubt about that.
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They've won it culturally, but years later, they still haven't told us what marriage is now.
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All they said was, Oh no, it's not a procreative union between man and woman.
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And so we've been waiting around to find out, okay, uh, what, then what is it now? What is it
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exactly? What is marriage? Why do we have it? Why do we need it? And, and so who, who should be
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included in it? Well, you know, you think gay couples, anybody else. And if we are now limiting
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this to, you know, um, heterosexual adult single couples, you know, two people and now, and we've
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expanded it also to be gay couples. Can we expand it beyond that? If not, why not? What is it?
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They've never come up with an answer because there isn't one. If marriage is not the foundation for
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the family, if it's not a procreative union between, between man and woman, then it's,
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then it's not anything. Then there's no reason to redefine it. It's just nothing.
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Then it's just people that have decided that they want to live with each other. Okay.
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There's no reason to call that anything special. There's no reason to treat it specially.
00:25:00.540
There's no reason to put any limitations on it whatsoever.
00:25:06.160
You know, that's the, that's what we had been saying back before gay marriage became the law of
00:25:13.180
the land. And that argument has been proven correct. So that's what I would say about it.
00:25:21.740
I would love to hear from Liz Cheney or any of these other Republicans that have had a change of
00:25:25.220
heart, why they had the change of heart. They thought marriage was a particular thing 10 years ago.
00:25:32.140
They don't think it's that thing anymore. Why? And what would they say it is now?
00:25:35.640
We don't get that answer. And then she also throws in the, uh, the transgender bit as well.
00:25:43.600
And why is this really happening? I mean, what's the real answer? If you were to get her real answer,
00:25:48.360
if you were to ask and get the real answer, real answer is that she never had any opinion about
00:25:53.100
marriage. She doesn't care about that. She doesn't care about any of these issues. She's a politician
00:25:59.140
saying what she thinks she needs to say. That of course is the real and sort of boring answer,
00:26:03.180
but that's the fact. And so she'll adopt the most far left positions that she needs to. And now
00:26:10.820
she's also doing it with, uh, transgenderism as well. Wasn't even asked about that. Throws that in
00:26:16.080
also. Um, and if you want to understand how, how deep the rot goes in the Republican party. So that's
00:26:26.740
Liz Cheney for you, who is a leftist. And that's my issue with her. A lot of Republicans,
00:26:33.080
a lot of conservatives don't like her because she doesn't like Trump. I don't really care about
00:26:36.700
that. I don't think people are defined based on their opinion of a guy. I don't care who the guy
00:26:42.940
is. And that includes Donald Trump. I'm not defining anyone or making any sweeping judgments about them
00:26:50.460
based on their opinion of a guy, especially a politician. I mean, I'm sympathetic to anyone
00:26:55.760
who hates a politician. I don't care who the politician is. There are good reasons to hate
00:27:00.120
every single one of them. So that's not my problem. My problem is that she's a leftist.
00:27:06.160
My problem is what you just heard in that one minute clip there.
00:27:11.480
So she's, she's a persona non grata in the Republican party. Uh, she gets kicked out of
00:27:17.700
her position of leadership and in her place goes Elise Stefanik, who has the endorsement of Donald
00:27:25.240
Trump. And is Elise Stefanik any better? No, Stefanik voted for the Equality Act two years ago.
00:27:34.560
The Equality Act, which would impose among other things, the trans agenda on a federal level across
00:27:40.200
the entire country. I mean, open up every single bathroom, sports team, locker room, all of it across
00:27:45.840
the country, federally. It would erase religious liberty. It would be the final erasure of that's
00:27:52.920
out the window, not to mention basic truth, biology, common sense, all of that's out the window from
00:27:58.180
the Equality Act. I mean, this is, uh, I think it would be an exaggeration to say the most radically
00:28:03.620
far left piece of legislation ever written is the Equality Act. And Elise Stefanik voted for it.
00:28:09.740
And she has the endorsement of Donald Trump and she, and she's the one who replaces Liz Cheney.
00:28:18.060
The conservatives are sat, there's plenty of conservatives. So good, good. We got Stefanik
00:28:21.840
in there instead of that dastardly Liz Cheney. She's worse. The only difference is that she
00:28:27.140
pretends to like Trump. That another reason why we can't let, you know, when we're deciding who the
00:28:36.080
leaders of the conservative movement are going to be, who the leaders of the Republican party are
00:28:40.300
going to be. We can't let Donald Trump be the centerpiece of that. It can't be that we're
00:28:48.460
deciding it based on what, what these people say about this guy, Donald Trump. Because if you decide
00:28:54.500
it based on that, you end up with a person in leadership who voted for the Equality Act, but just
00:28:59.500
so happens to say nice things about Trump. It's a total disaster. I mean, the, the rot is, is goes
00:29:06.860
all the way to the core, goes down to the roots of the Republican party. I don't think there's any
00:29:11.580
salvaging it probably. All right. Um, let's move on some clips over on CNN that we got to play.
00:29:18.460
Uh, I'm look, I'm no economics expert. You know that. So maybe I'm the one who's clueless here. It's
00:29:23.540
possible, but I want you to listen to this Washington post reporter on CNN with Brian Stelter.
00:29:28.380
And you tell me if this makes, um, any sense at all. But in fact, the bill itself will not cost
00:29:35.480
$3.5 trillion in the sense that it will be entirely, or at least partly paid for. So the
00:29:40.440
actual cost in terms of deficits will be smaller than that, perhaps even zero. Although I think
00:29:44.980
that's unlikely and it's not even, um, you know, fully spending. It's not really right to call it a
00:29:49.640
$3.5 trillion spending bill because there's probably about a trillion dollars of tax cuts in it too.
00:29:54.300
Uh, what? So she's talking about the $3.5 trillion spending bill.
00:30:03.240
And she says that it's not really spending because it won't be paid with debt. It's going to be,
00:30:09.920
it's all going to be paid for. That's not actually true, but let's leave that totally to the side.
00:30:15.080
Her argument is that if you, if you buy something and pay for it up front, it's free. That's what
00:30:24.820
she just said. This is a Washington post reporter on CNN. Of course, there's no follow-up on that.
00:30:29.400
She wasn't challenged. Stelter didn't, didn't stop and say, well, wait a second. What?
00:30:34.860
So what she's saying is that if you go to Costco and you buy one of their TVs for a drastically reduced
00:30:44.960
price, you know, and you, and you pay with cash up or you pay with a debit card up front, then it's
00:30:51.140
free. Um, I bought this TV on my debit card for $600. Therefore the TV was free.
00:30:59.260
Um, what can you say about that? It makes, that's just not, I don't, I don't even have to be an,
00:31:09.680
at an economics 101 level to know that's, this isn't, this isn't economics at all. This is basic
00:31:15.180
logic here. That's not how it works. If you paid for it, then you're paying for it. If it's a $3.5
00:31:21.920
trillion spending bill, then that's how much money it costs. Even if it doesn't add to the, uh,
00:31:27.880
to the deficit at all, which of course it will. Let's play a little bit more from Brian Stelter
00:31:34.040
because why not? He also had Nicole Hannah Jones on, um, and, uh, he asks her, you know, he's
00:31:40.360
throwing some real hard balls at her, asking her some tough questions. Let's listen to that.
00:31:45.320
But is this just the white lash in another form, Nicole? Just, you know, some white Americans afraid
00:31:50.660
to deal with the reality. So they don't want to hear it. So they try to ban it. And then someday
00:31:54.700
their kids are going to laugh it off. I mean, I don't know. I think that this is a, a particularly
00:32:01.300
dangerous moment because there's one thing to, um, have right-wing media saying they don't just,
00:32:07.340
they don't like the 1619 project. They don't agree with the 1619 project, but it's quite something
00:32:11.800
else to have, uh, politicians from state legislators down to school boards actually making, uh, prohibitions
00:32:18.840
against teaching a work of American journalism or really any of these other texts. The fact that we are
00:32:24.560
all talking about, uh, this, this fake controversy called critical race theory really speaks to how
00:32:30.440
successful, uh, the, the public, uh, propaganda campaign has been. I don't think it's just about,
00:32:37.260
you know, scared white parents. It's about a politician savvy, savvily stoking racial resentment
00:32:44.580
in response, I think, to the global protest last year, um, in order to divide Americans from each other.
00:32:50.360
Uh, first of all, pet, pet peeve here. I hate it when we change words like this in a, in a, in a
00:32:58.300
totally unnecessary way. So he says, is this a white lash against the 1619 project?
00:33:03.940
What do you need? Why, why do you have to put white in there? Do you think the real,
00:33:08.480
the original word is black lash? White is not the opposite of it's backlash and white is not the
00:33:14.460
opposite of back. Why can't it just be a backlash from white people? White lash. So you've got white
00:33:22.600
lash and black lash is what's going on, I guess. Um, and then, and then of course, everything she
00:33:29.400
said about the 1619 project is, is nonsense, but this is a good example of, uh, of what the left
00:33:34.860
does. And they're, it's very effective where they take something that at the very least you'd think
00:33:41.580
they'd have to admit is controversial. They're trying to take CRT, critical race theory. Um,
00:33:47.260
these radical ideas of race, um, about race idea, you know, they, they say that these ideas,
00:33:55.360
oh, they're only in the higher academic and this, these are just theories that people are batting
00:34:00.200
around in law school and all that kind of stuff. Um, and that used to be the case.
00:34:05.760
These used to be ideas and theories that, uh, you had to go into university and find them
00:34:15.640
and involve yourself in these subjects in order to encounter them. That used to be true,
00:34:20.940
but it's not anymore because it's filtering on down into not just grade school, but into every
00:34:27.120
facet of society. And this is a, an intentional, this is not organic. This is an intentional thing
00:34:34.800
that is happening. It's being engineered. There are people advocating for it saying,
00:34:39.700
let's take these ideas about race and let's inject them into every corner of society, especially into
00:34:46.560
grade schools. Now, at the very least you would think that the people who are advocating this
00:34:52.260
would have to admit that this, look, this is a radical change we're doing. We know that this is,
00:34:58.060
this is a dramatic shift. We understand that it's controversial, but here's our argument for it.
00:35:02.860
Here's why we want to do it. We know it might be a little bit startling, but here's why we want to
00:35:07.960
do it. They're not doing that. They make the radical shift. They impose it on us. They don't
00:35:16.180
really give a choice. And then as soon as it's done, they act like you're the crazy one. You're
00:35:22.340
the radical one for, for objecting. They're not going to admit that their radicalism is radicalism at
00:35:30.100
all. It's always the people objecting who are the radicals. One other clip to play. This is Joe
00:35:38.100
Biden on Friday keeping the whip gate going, but he actually takes it one step further. We heard the
00:35:47.980
lie about how border patrol agents were whipping people, whipping Haitian immigrants. That was a
00:35:53.080
total lie. It didn't happen. It never happened. He goes further than that. Even let's listen to what
00:35:58.020
he says. You said on the campaign trail that you were going to restore the moral standing of the
00:36:03.200
U.S., that you were going to immediately end Trump's assault on the dignity of immigrant communities.
00:36:09.000
Given what we saw at the border this week, have you failed in that promise? And this is happening
00:36:13.640
under your watch. Do you take responsibility for the chaos that's unfolding? Of course I take
00:36:18.140
responsibility. I'm president, but it was horrible what to see, as you saw. To see people treated like
00:36:23.580
they did. Horses barely running them over, people being strapped. It's outrageous. I promise you,
00:36:29.500
those people will pay. They will be an investigation underway now, and there will be consequences.
00:36:35.940
There will be consequences. It's an embarrassment, but it's beyond an embarrassment. It's dangerous.
00:36:41.760
It's wrong. It sends the wrong message around the world. It sends the wrong message at home.
00:36:46.760
It's simply not who we are. Yeah, you're right. That's not who we are, because that didn't happen.
00:36:53.020
I don't know what being strapped means. People being strapped. Is that an expression from his
00:36:58.280
childhood in 1832? I don't know. But horses running people over, that wasn't even a part of
00:37:05.280
the original talking point. He added that one in. So the Border Patrol agents are down there running the
00:37:12.260
Haitian immigrants over with their horses, galloping through, running them down, trampling them into
00:37:17.580
the dust. That's what he's telling us now. He just added that in there. And once again, no follow-up
00:37:25.160
from the media. Nobody's saying, wait, they ran them over with horses, you say. Where did that happen?
00:37:30.460
That's an interesting detail. It doesn't matter. I think it's simply make things up. Makes no difference.
00:37:37.920
The Border Patrol agents are down there running them over with horses. There was one guy,
00:37:41.380
jumped off the horse. He picked up a Haitian immigrant, body slammed him. This is not who we
00:37:47.640
are. No relation to the truth whatsoever and no concern with the truth. Finally, here's a headline
00:37:58.300
from the Daily Mail that I thought was interesting. It says, why are so many suffering dreadful COVID
00:38:02.800
symptoms but still testing negative? Sarah Vine was convinced she had it, but countless tests said
00:38:07.920
otherwise. And she's far from alone. So what is going on? Now reading a little bit here, I don't
00:38:14.540
know who Sarah Vine is. Maybe we'll find out. A nasty dry cough, sniffles, and a thumping headache,
00:38:20.660
burning muscle pain. And if you didn't feel miserable enough, everything you eat tastes like dust.
00:38:25.440
It's a list of symptoms that the British public have become all too familiar with over the past 18
00:38:29.900
months. Classic COVID or is it? A fortnight ago, Mail on Sunday columnist Sarah Vine, this is what I
00:38:36.580
love about British media, by the way. They use terms like fortnight. They just drop that in there
00:38:41.120
with no explanation. Of course, every American reader goes, what's a fortnight again? How many
00:38:47.080
nights ago is that? Four? I don't think so. A fortnight ago, Mail on Sunday columnist Sarah Vine wrote
00:38:53.580
about how she had been battling exactly this combination of ailments, but multiple tests, both the gold
00:38:58.740
standard PCR and rapid lateral flows, had come back negative. Speaking on our medical minefield
00:39:04.500
podcast, the 54-year-old mother of two described the phenomenon as spooky. She said, quote, it's so
00:39:11.100
very weird. I don't really get ill. And when I do, it doesn't tend to stop me doing things. But this
00:39:15.980
really stopped me in my tracks. And it seems Sarah isn't alone. Her original revelation triggered a
00:39:20.520
deluge of letters from readers suffering in the same way and equally desperate for answers about their
00:39:25.660
mystery illness. Some, like 23-year-old Molly Whitaker, have been suffering, like Sarah, with
00:39:31.300
lingering symptoms. It started with a continuous cough, loss of taste and smell, and a slight
00:39:35.400
temperature. I've done multiple COVID tests, PCR, all negative. I'm now three weeks later on a course
00:39:42.420
of antibiotics, but they're not helping. Another reader, Marie Morgan, wrote, I've never felt so ill
00:39:47.740
in my life. For three weeks, I experienced high temperatures, prolonged bouts of deep cold and
00:39:51.660
shivering. But at night, the sweats were so bad, I completely soaked two or three times.
00:39:55.800
And then on and on and on. Okay. All of these people, mostly women, complaining of these symptoms.
00:40:02.720
And they're saying it's spooky. It's weird. They have these COVID symptoms, but the tests come back
00:40:08.180
negative. What we're meant to take from this is that the COVID is far more widespread than we're even
00:40:14.980
being told. And even if the tests come back negative, you probably still have it. I think
00:40:21.760
that's the implication here. At least that's what we're supposed to take away from. I have another
00:40:28.080
theory, though. Let me see if I can clear this up. This spooky mystery. Here it is. That COVID symptoms
00:40:37.820
are also the symptoms for the common cold. And for the flu. And for literally dozens of other viruses.
00:40:47.900
I mean, probably any virus you can name, actually, causes at least some of the COVID symptoms.
00:40:57.300
That's because COVID symptoms are extremely broad. Okay. So when you get a headache and you have a
00:41:06.580
stuffy nose, or you have a cough, those aren't COVID symptoms. Those are just illness symptoms.
00:41:17.300
Not, maybe I simplify it and summarize it. And I'll do it this way. Not everything is COVID.
00:41:25.960
May shock you to learn that. There are still lots of other illnesses out there, and it's not all COVID.
00:41:32.000
We now live for a world where we're trying to get rid of binaries, at least in some areas. It's
00:41:41.260
interesting that now we live in this binary where, you know, if you're sick, you either have COVID or
00:41:49.500
you have COVID-like symptoms. And those are the only two options. It's kind of amazing. This is an
00:41:57.800
entire article in a major publication talking about how people with the cold, how it's spooky that some
00:42:05.280
women have a cold. Ooh, spooky. All right. Let's move on now to reading the comments.
00:42:14.020
Who's rockin' polka dot and flannel shirts without shame? Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.
00:42:34.280
On the subject of culture, I agree with Matt on everything except for one thing. A culture can only
00:42:40.300
be destroyed when the people are either killed off or completely forget it. The destroyed monuments
00:42:44.800
and textbooks that tell us our history are certainly important in preserving our past,
00:42:48.780
which is an important component of any culture, but it won't outright kill it. The only way to do
00:42:53.040
that is to kill slash brainwash the people, which the far left is trying like hell to do, especially
00:42:57.500
the latter. Uh, yeah, destroying the monuments doesn't, that's not what, what, um, kills the
00:43:04.080
culture that in and of itself doesn't erase history. Um, that is speaking of symptoms. That's a,
00:43:11.180
that's a symptom of the culture being destroyed and being replaced by not a new culture, but an
00:43:18.180
anti-culture. That's also brings us back to the issue of marriage. Get rid of the definition of
00:43:27.020
marriage, but don't replace it with a new one. It's not like we have now a new idea about marriage.
00:43:32.420
Instead, we just, marriage is nothing. We don't have any ideas about it. Um, Vanessa says the public
00:43:40.300
school is becoming a brave new world education. Yeah, I, I think that's the right, more, more than a
00:43:47.280
1984 Orwellian thing. I think the public school and our culture in general more closely resembles
00:43:54.180
a brave new world. Um, I've always thought that Huxley got nailed it a little bit better than
00:43:59.980
Orwell did. Uh, Mike says, pretty sure I saw Matt screaming and running out of an auto parts store
00:44:05.280
the other day. Couldn't catch him to get an autograph. Sweet daddy Walsh is fast. It's true.
00:44:09.740
This happens to me all the time, which is why I always have my phone on me so I can go to rockauto.com.
00:44:17.560
Uh, Lone Star Carl says, I'd forgive Matt for leaving a shopping cart out, but I will burn my
00:44:21.800
SBG shirt if I catch him jogging outside with a mask on. Well, you would never see that, but if you
00:44:27.020
did, but you have my permission to walk up to me and smack me right in the face. In fact, you have
00:44:33.220
my permission to do that to anyone wearing a mask while jogging outside. Just kidding.
00:44:40.020
Sort of. Helena says, yesterday was my sister's birthday and she, who's not a member of SBG said to
00:44:45.640
me, you have to explain the sweet baby gang to me because it's my birthday. So I tried and it didn't go
00:44:51.520
so well. And this is why I keep, I hear, I hear this from people all the time. They tell me about
00:44:57.240
the awkward situations they've been put in because they tried to explain the sweet baby gang. We don't
00:45:01.760
explain it. We don't talk about it. It just is. And we leave it be. That's all. Um, and Don Smith says
00:45:10.000
in my school, Bethesda high school in Maryland, I'm sometimes the only one who stands for the pledge
00:45:14.880
of allegiance. It's terrible. Uh, yeah, I, I, I hear this a lot from kids now. I mean, this is a,
00:45:21.600
this is another difference between now when I, now I can remember going to school and the pledge
00:45:25.440
in some classes, there'd be a couple of kids who didn't stand for it. And usually it was an issue
00:45:30.500
because the teachers would say, you got to stand for the pledge. And there's, there'd be this tension.
00:45:35.400
But now from what I'm hearing increasingly, it's, it's completely flipped.
00:45:40.080
And you've got a couple that made me stand for the pledge and everybody else sits,
00:45:44.740
which is obviously not a good sign about our culture. And I say that even though,
00:45:49.360
you know, I'm an, I'm an advocate for the pledge because of what it represents
00:45:55.120
and having kids being in a country where most kids won't even stand for it. That's not a good sign.
00:46:04.980
But in a perfect world, I wish that we could have a conversation about the pledge and the words
00:46:09.020
that it actually contains because, you know, I, I have been, and it seems almost academic now,
00:46:14.180
but I'm sort of, I've been a critic of, of the way that the pledge is written only because
00:46:18.600
there's the one word in the pledge, um, indivisible, right? The, the, the idea that this,
00:46:26.520
that the country is indivisible, that's actually not true. And it's important to note that it's not
00:46:32.420
true. The country is divisible. The states are not bound together forever, eternally.
00:46:37.080
Um, they are supposed to, we are supposed to have state's rights. And I believe you should have
00:46:44.240
the right in a union. If it's a real union, you should have the right to terminate it if you want
00:46:48.920
to. And if the people of the state choose that. So I'm not a fan of the indivisible line there,
00:46:55.120
but we're not at a point where we can even have a conversation like that. Um, when most people won't
00:47:00.200
stand in, you know, I think the kids who aren't standing, it's not because they're advocates of
00:47:03.740
states' rights. I think I could probably assume that. The good news is that this new text, this
00:47:08.980
new, uh, Texas law banning abortion after six weeks will save a lot of lives. It's also driving
00:47:14.640
the left insane, which is kind of fun to watch. But, um, the other part of this, the bad news
00:47:19.980
sometimes is that, uh, for, for some people, when this topic of abortion comes up, even people who
00:47:24.400
are pro-life, they're not always prepared to engage with it and engage with the arguments
00:47:28.880
and represent their side. Well, which is why, uh, the new book, what to say when the complete
00:47:34.560
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00:47:38.500
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00:47:42.020
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00:47:46.080
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00:47:54.480
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00:47:59.060
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00:48:02.640
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00:48:06.320
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00:48:51.000
time to abandon ship. I mean, the problem with Hollywood franchises is, first of all, almost
00:48:56.300
all of them are lifeless and redundant as they exist only to perpetuate and profit off of the
00:49:00.900
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00:49:05.020
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you know, we need to wring another 90 minutes out of this. Anyone got any ideas? As far as I'm
00:49:27.700
concerned, that's reason enough to stop watching these glorified cash grabs. The other is that every
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single one of them has gone or will go woke. In fact, at this point, somewhat incredibly,
00:49:40.400
woke-ification comes before profitability on a studio's list of concerns. The films exist to keep the
00:49:46.420
brand relevant and make money off of them, yes. That's the motivation which spurs them into being.
00:49:50.800
That's why they're conceived. But the first priority upon conception is to make sure that the script is
00:49:55.200
orthodox and in keeping with the prevailing doctrines of the day. They'll actually sacrifice
00:49:59.960
some of the profits in order to do this. So in summary, before you sit down to watch any new
00:50:04.220
installment in any Hollywood franchise, you know from the start that it will be cynical left-wing
00:50:08.500
agitprop, which was made only to increase the studio's profits and brand awareness and to
00:50:13.220
propagate deranged leftist values. Any entertainment value outside of all that will
00:50:18.460
be an accidental byproduct. And of course, if you wish to be entertained, you must first assume the
00:50:24.460
mentality of a person with room temperature IQ and no standards or self-respect. And this mental
00:50:30.300
maneuver proves to be pretty easy for some people, probably because they don't have to assume that
00:50:34.820
mentality so much as they already have it going in. But these are all just things to keep in mind as
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the new James Bond movie is set to release next week. I have no specific information confirming
00:50:44.100
this, but I can already guarantee that it will be the wokest James Bond film in the history of the
00:50:50.100
franchise. It couldn't exist in the year 2021 if it weren't. There have been some indications,
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though, like the actress who plays the new Bond girl announced that her character will be the most
00:51:00.560
badass Bond girl in history. Of course, nobody watches James Bond hoping to see a badass Bond girl.
00:51:07.180
They want James Bond to be badass. The Bond girl is supposed to be pretty. That's really her only
00:51:12.000
job. At least it was her only job back before wokeness became the overriding priority. Indeed,
00:51:17.440
the push now is to turn the entire Bond franchise into a girl power vehicle. Lately, the cries have
00:51:24.840
been deafening from the media anyway, not so much from the movie going public, for a female James Bond.
00:51:31.280
With Daniel Craig leaving the role after this next film, it seems inevitable that the character will
00:51:36.920
finally undergo this gender transition. And many outlets have been publishing articles listing
00:51:41.520
helpful suggestions for which actress might be suitable to fill James Bond's shoes. Vogue,
00:51:47.160
for example, says that Cate Blanchett, Victoria Beckham, or Emily Blunt might be perfect for the
00:51:54.600
role. Yes, because when I think of someone who might be credibly portrayed as a kick-ass action hero who
00:52:00.720
can beat up a room full of bad guys and then drive away in their fancy sports car and make it to the
00:52:05.300
villain's lair just in time to vanquish him and foil his dastardly plot, when I think about that,
00:52:10.900
my mind immediately turns to Cate Blanchett. But this is the problem with female action heroes in
00:52:18.600
general. For all I know, Daniel Craig and Keanu Reeves and The Rock and even Liam Neeson might be big
00:52:25.840
softies who punch like girls in real life, but they have at least a screen presence and an aura
00:52:32.200
that makes them seem like the kinds of guys you wouldn't want to mess with.
00:52:37.120
Does any female actress really have that quality? Charlize Theron played an elite spy and assassin in
00:52:44.260
the movie Atomic Blonde a few years ago. Would anyone actually be worried if Charlize Theron was mad at
00:52:51.520
them in real life? Is anyone going to run away and say, I hope Charlize Theron doesn't beat me up?
00:52:56.500
Does Charlize Theron have any natural intimidation factor? Does Gal Gadot? Does Brie Larson?
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See, this is the problem. Most female action movies come with this natural silliness factor.
00:53:12.880
And there's a certain silliness to all action films, but the ones that Reeves and Neeson and
00:53:16.820
Craig star in tend to also reach, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, for a certain dark
00:53:21.980
and gritty and serious tone. But you can't often do that with the female-led films. They all have to
00:53:27.940
be cartoons in the end, because when it comes down to it, you're still watching a hot 100-pound
00:53:32.840
supermodel do her best Jason Statham impression. And it's just kind of funny. Daniel Craig was asked
00:53:39.600
this question about whether there should be a female James Bond, and he said no. But he made sure to
00:53:44.600
qualify his answer by saying that there ought to be new franchises just as good as James Bond,
00:53:49.220
and similar to James Bond, built around female action stars. He argues that women deserve their
00:53:54.220
own heroes, rather than constantly appropriating already existing male heroes. And he's on the
00:53:59.600
right track with that answer, but he's missing something. And even if he's not missing this,
00:54:04.560
he would never say it out loud anyway. And it's this. Yes, there should be films about female heroes.
00:54:11.140
Yes, they should have their own films, rather than simply taking male characters and giving them
00:54:15.540
sex reassignments. But these women heroes should also be heroic in womanly ways.
00:54:24.600
Okay, rather than having female protagonists who are heroically masculine, why not female
00:54:30.300
protagonists who are heroically feminine? Not all heroism involves beating people up and driving
00:54:36.800
cars really fast. In fact, in real life, the vast majority of heroic acts don't include any of
00:54:42.860
that, unfortunately. I have known many heroic women in my life, and none of them, so far as I know,
00:54:50.320
have ever thrown a punch at all, which is good because they probably break their wrists if they did.
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Physical courage is but one type. There's also moral courage, emotional courage, intellectual courage,
00:55:03.140
and all of these types of courage come wrapped up in what I would call maternal courage.
00:55:07.480
A good mother, like my wife, for example, shows courage every day, even though she may go her
00:55:12.980
whole life and never have to dropkick any assassin or defuse any bomb. Now, I realize that it's harder
00:55:19.700
to make a compelling film that showcases the quieter, less physical forms of courage, but these are the
00:55:27.180
very kinds of courage that society looks to women to exhibit and provide. Which means that if we really
00:55:33.700
want women represented on screen as female heroes, and not merely as female heroes pretending to be
00:55:40.740
male heroes, then it might be time to start investing in scripts and stories that have a little more
00:55:46.920
depth and a little more nuance. And that's why before she even exists, I have to today cancel
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the female James Bond or Jane Bond or whatever we're going to call her.
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