Ep. 808 - Ron DeSantis Is Accused Of Not Being A Tyrant
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A left-wing group puts out the most unintentionally hilarious political attack ad of all time, hitting Ron DeSantis for not being a tyrant. Also, there s another alleged scandal involving Kristi Noem, and Netflix s most popular show right now is gratuitously violent Korean torture porn. What does that tell us, if anything? Plus, YouTube moves to ban all anti-vax content. But then what is anti-veax content exactly? In our daily cancellation, I must cancel dating apps, and I ll explain why. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a left-wing group puts out the most unintentionally hilarious political attack ad of all time,
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Also, there's another alleged scandal involving Kristi Noem,
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and Netflix's most popular show right now is gratuitously violent Korean torture porn.
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Plus, YouTube moves to ban all anti-vax content, but then what is anti-vax content exactly?
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In our daily cancellation, I must cancel dating apps, and I'll explain why.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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So I was on a plane yesterday flying from my home state of Virginia back to my old stomping grounds of Tennessee.
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It's great to be back here, kind of nostalgic, giving a speech.
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I'll be at the Faith Baptist Church Bartlett to give the keynote speech at the Confidential Care Mobile Ministry 25th Anniversary Banquet.
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Anyway, on the plane on the way over, I had the wonderful experience of being lectured three times in the first 30 minutes of the flight for improperly wearing my mask.
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And the first couple of lectures, I had my nose exposed.
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And you don't want to have your nose exposed when you're wearing the mask.
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No one's ever been able to explain why that's the case.
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What does it actually matter to you if my nose is poking out over the mask?
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Do you think that I'm going to infect someone who's wearing a mask, is probably vaccinated, just by breathing through my nostrils?
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At least it doesn't matter to the people who impose these policies.
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The last lecture I got came after I took off my mask to drink the soda that had just been handed to me.
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And I had only taken one sip before she was back, informing me that I can't take my mask off all the way to drink a drink.
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I can pull it down briefly for a sip, but then you have to replace it.
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You've got to have the mask, even if it's not on your mouth.
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And the act of hanging around the ears affords extra protection.
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Now, she pretended to be sort of apologetic about this.
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And she explained, as they always do, that, well, this is just the policy, sir.
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Well, those are irrelevant questions again, apparently.
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And I can tell you that the mask enforcement on airplanes and in airports tends to vary wildly,
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not from airline to airline, but from flight crew to flight crew.
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So these policies have given power to people who normally have little power or authority
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So it's up to the individuals to decide how far they'll go with it, how controlling and
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It's just a matter of whether or not they want to exploit this power.
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So if they want to decide that you have to have the mask hanging around your ears for
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Even just like the guy stocking shelves at the grocery store can yell at you now if there's
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a mask mandate in the store and you aren't wearing yours properly, lots of people have
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So we've learned quite a lot about our fellow Americans through this time.
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And often, unfortunately, what we've learned has not been terribly encouraging because there
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are plenty of people at every level in the public sector and the private who are eager
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to impose themselves on you, excited to capitalize on the power they've been granted, however
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There's a tendency in people you've noticed, of course, before COVID.
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Just the smallest amount of power could go to someone's head.
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The most tyrannical person I've ever known or been around was a shift supervisor that I
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had at a fast food restaurant where I worked when I was like 17.
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This is a person who had very little power in his position as shift supervisor at a fast food
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restaurant, but he was going to milk that for every drop that it was worth.
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So we know about this tendency in people, and I think COVID has really brought that out.
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And that's why those at the top who've been granted the most power are so hesitant to
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Principal among them, of course, is Fauci, who this week has announced that in order to
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be fully vaccinated, I mean fully, fully vaccinated, you need three shots, not two.
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Here's the Post Millennial, says, in an exclusive interview with the Atlantic, Joe Biden's chief
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medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, revealed that COVID-19 booster shots don't keep people
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alive, but can allegedly prevent severe effects from the virus.
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According to Dr. Fauci, booster shots add crucial temporary protection against the virus and will
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He says, quote, it's likely for a real, complete regimen that you would need at least a third dose.
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Fauci continued, quote, I think we should be preventing people from getting sick from COVID,
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Dr. Fauci said at the Atlantic Festival on Tuesday, skeptics of the COVID-19 booster shots believe that
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boosters won't provide significant protection and will only act as a temporary shield to the virus,
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contrary to the vaccines that were designed to prevent hospitalization and death.
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However, Fauci said that he rejects skeptics' notions and insisted it's beneficial to have
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temporary protection rather than no protection.
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So, in summary, bad news for the double-vaxxed, because you're about to find yourself back in
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So you got two shots and now you're back in the unvaxxed.
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You got two shots and you're an anti-vaxxer now.
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That is until it becomes four shots and five shots and six shots and so on.
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As long as they have another shot to push, which they always will, because apparently
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what they're telling us is that this, and this is not me saying this, YouTube, this is what
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they're telling us apparently, that the protection afforded by the vaccine is very, very temporary.
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Or at least the full protection afforded by the vaccine is temporary, which is why they
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recommend you get the booster shot, which would mean that there's always going to be
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And as long as there's always going to be another shot, and we can always be yelling
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at people who have not gotten the latest shot, the pandemic will continue.
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And all they need is the claim in order to have the power.
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And with all these people from flight attendants to public health experts to governors exploiting
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their power and clinging to it like Gollum grasping the ring, it becomes even funnier to
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see how guys like Ron DeSantis, who've declined the additional powers that the pandemic panic
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might have afforded him, are still somehow painted as the dystopian tyrants.
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They've declined the power, and that makes them the tyrants.
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An ad airing in Florida right now, put together by a group called Remove Ron, tries to make
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this point explicit, but it only succeeds in highlighting all of the best things about
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Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of your cabin crew, we'd like to inform you that we have
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Now that we're making our final dissent, please watch this short message from Governor Ron DeSantis
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Thereafter, everyone on board will be required to comply with the state's forever purge.
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We are not doing any vaccine passports in the state of Florida.
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We trust people to make their own decisions in this state.
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We are not going to be bludgeoning people with restrictions and mandates and lockdowns or
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As Governor DeSantis stated, while you're within state lines, you do not have to wear a mask.
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It is against the law for private businesses or schools to mandate masks or vaccines.
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And you have the absolute right to infect whoever you want, whenever and wherever with COVID-19.
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He says students shouldn't be forced to wear masks.
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If you are trying to lock people down, I'm going to stand in your way.
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That's, I honestly, when I saw that last night, I had to do some digging because I wasn't,
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I really wasn't sure if that was actually supposed to be an attack ad or like some kind of hype
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And, uh, and, but no, apparently, yes, this is, this is, we are really supposed to watch
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that and come away with it, come away from it with a, with a lower opinion of Ron DeSantis.
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And it only proves that you actually can't turn anything sinister just by putting creepy
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All the creepy music in the world won't make the phrase, we trust people to make their own
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I mean, you could set the Jaws theme to footage of Mother Teresa walking down the street or
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volunteering at a soup kitchen, but it's not going to make people shake in their boots
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And this ad really is unintentionally the most hilarious political attack ad of all time.
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It has the exact opposite effect from the effect that was intended because I like Ron DeSantis
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I, I mean, I would love that if I landed, if I was flying into a state and I landed there
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and that was the, like the welcome video we watched where they said, Hey, you'll make your
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They're comparing a lack of vaccine mandates and passports and his refusal to shut down
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small businesses to a purge where people are running through the streets, murdering each
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They want us to be afraid of leaders, what few exist, who declined to exploit their authority.
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They want us to be afraid of leaders who value our freedom over their power.
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And to the sane among us, we see that and it's hilarious that it becomes a little bit
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less funny when you realize that for a lot of Americans, that message has actually worked.
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You know, the enforcement in the planes with the masking really varies, like I said, with
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I mean, really everywhere you go in the country.
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And I've done a lot of traveling recently and throughout the whole pandemic.
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And it's always been the case that it's not just city to city, but place to place, wherever
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They've all got their own little version of what they're doing.
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The little measures they've put in place most of the time don't make any sense.
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And so there's just no coherent message at all.
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If you didn't know anything about what was going on with COVID or anything, and you just
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traveled around to different places, and you saw all of the competing, different, conflicting
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safety measures that have been put in place, you would just have no idea what was happening.
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You wouldn't have any clue what they're trying to protect us against.
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In fact, in Reagan Airport in D.C., that's the first airport I've been to in many months
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where they actually enforce the mask mandate at all.
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I mean, usually I just walk around the airport and I don't wear the mask and no one says anything.
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But I got yelled at two or three times at Reagan Airport because the people working there are
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excited for that opportunity to yell at you for not wearing a mask.
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In fact, just at the baggage claim, I was dropping my bags off.
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And as I'm walking away, the woman yells at me, where's your mask?
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Because I just walked away and didn't put it on.
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This has been my general policy, and I've shared with you before.
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And I think this is really important, and it's something we all need to start doing if
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I'm not going to say, I can't say that I simply won't wear the mask at all, because
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if I say that, that means I'm not getting on planes, I'm not traveling to the places
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But what I will say is that, and this has been my policy all along, is I'm not going to
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I'm not going to walk into a place and choose on my own to put it on.
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I'm going to at least make you tell me to put it on.
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And then once you, depending on who you are, I'll decide if I care, you know, if you're
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just some random person with no position of authority at all, I'm just going to ignore
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But if you do have some position of authority in this establishment where I am, then I'll
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Maybe I want to leave because I don't want to wear the mask, or I'll put it on.
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It's been disturbing for me this whole time to see how so many people have just, even if
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they don't like wearing it, they've gotten used to wearing it.
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And now a lot of people do like, actually like wearing the mask.
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It's like the first couple of months when they had the mask mandates in planes and the
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flight attendants were prowling through the plane the whole time, telling people, put the
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mask back on, put the mask back on, yelling at people over the intercom and everything.
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They're always fidgeting with the mask, pulling it down.
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And it was pretty sudden from what I observed a couple months into it where that people
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They just put the mask on over the nose, didn't touch it, didn't fidget with it, and kept
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it on the whole time without any complaint at all.
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I don't understand that mentality, but it's a pretty disturbing mentality that so many people
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So this is from, this is a report from the website American Greatness.
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We had the, we had the, the alleged scandal involving Christy Noem yesterday that we talked
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about where allegedly she used her position of, of authority to get a position, um, for
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her, for her daughter and, you know, kind of nepotism using her influence to get a position
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It says multiple sources have informed American Greatness that South Dakota Governor Christy
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Noem is having an extramarital affair with advisor Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as
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The alleged fling reportedly has continued for months, for months, sources say.
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Lewandowski accompanied Noem across the country as she stumped for Trump's re-election last
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According to South Dakota Republicans, former Noem chief of staff Joshua Shields left in part
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Lewandowski was married with four children, still has the former president's ear, which he reportedly
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American Greatness contacted Noem's office for comment on Tuesday.
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No comment has been received at the time of publication.
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We do have a comment from her now, which I'll get to in a second.
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And Noem is a married mother of three and has been eyed as a possible running mate for
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Then it goes on to say that this is, uh, allegedly one of those open secrets in Washington, D.C.
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Now, Christy Noem responded to, uh, these claims.
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And here's what she said on her official Twitter account, her governor Twitter account.
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She said, these rumors are total garbage and a disgusting lie.
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These old, tired attacks on conservative women are based on a falsehood that we can't achieve
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I'm proud of the God-fearing family we've raised together.
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I, I, I didn't like the nature of Christy Noem's denial yesterday with the nepotism scandal
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where she said that, well, you'd stop attacking my kids, but no one's attacking your kid.
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Your kid who's an adult, they're attacking you and they're saying that you shouldn't have
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Um, and I also don't really like this denial because once again, this is like a reflex for
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her, she did the same thing to me, as you recall, when all I did was criticize her policy choices.
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Um, she, she, she reflexively goes to the sexism charge charge.
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These old, tired attacks on conservative women.
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So conservative women are the only ones who get accused of sex scandals.
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I think for conservative women that they get, that, that, uh, their name gets tossed around
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It's much more common with, uh, male politicians.
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And when it happens, the media makes a big deal of it.
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It's one of the, it's one of the things that, that, that brings both sides of the aisle together.
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So, uh, trying to make it into a, into a gendered thing, into a sexism thing, that's a lame move.
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I don't know if that doesn't mean that it's true, but it's a lame, it's a lame form of denial.
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And meanwhile, as far as the American public goes, although, although everyone seems to share an
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interest in the sex scandal story, we are a bunch of rank hypocrites when it comes to how we respond
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to these sorts of stories, because obviously the, the relevance of an, of an alleged affair
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that's going to be judged entirely based on party affiliation.
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So this is, this is one issue where almost everybody is a total hypocrite.
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You know, you look at party affiliation, do you like the politician?
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And, uh, if, if you do, then, then the response is always, well, who cares?
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And if you don't like them, then all of a sudden it becomes, it becomes an issue.
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That's why the left has jumped on this story and, uh, are going after Christy Nome about
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this, pretending, pretending now to have standards on these issues to, to value, you know, the
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Um, I, I try not to be a hypocrite on issues like this as best I can.
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So I will, I will say, and I think I've been pretty consistent on this, uh, I do think that
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You know, if a, if a politician has an affair, it's, it's not just their, their personal life.
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Yeah, that's not, that's not the only implication here because it can speak to their integrity.
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And you have to wonder, right, if a, if a, if someone is in a position of leadership,
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position of authority, and they're willing to betray their family, betray someone who
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they have made an undying commitment to before God, if they're willing to do that, then you
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have to ask, can I trust them on anything else?
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I mean, if a politician is willing to betray their spouse, their family, their kids, what,
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what hope do we have in the public that they're not going to, that they're going to, what's
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You, you have much less of a, of a moral obligation, even as a politician, you have,
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you're, you have less of a moral obligation to the public than you do to your family.
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Your first and primary and most important moral obligation for all of us is to our own
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And so if we're willing to throw that by the wayside, then it raises questions about
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I don't think we could just say, well, it's, who cares?
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But it is a, it is a subject worthy of public discussion.
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I think this is also something when you pursue that position of power and you get into politics,
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So there's this show on Netflix called Squid Game that is apparently right now, and Netflix
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is not very forthcoming with this sort of information about how many people are actually watching
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I mean, for all we know, you know, their top show has like 10 viewers and we would never
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But they have told us proudly that this show, Squid Game, is their, I think right now, their
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most popular show across the world on streaming.
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Well, here's the story from the Daily Mail, dubbing Squid Game the most twisted series
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It says, a gruesome Netflix horror series about a fictional deadly game show in which poverty
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stricken characters compete battle royale style to win a $27 million cash prize has come
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under fire from viewers over its unnecessary gore and violence.
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Korean made Squid Game, which is the most streamed show in the US and in the UK, features
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grisly scenes of characters being shot in the head and organ harvesting in the latest
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example of shock tactic programming from the streaming giant.
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I don't know if you can call it a cult hit when it's the most widely viewed show on streaming
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With fans of the slasher horror genre who have dubbed the nine-part series Saw meets
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The Hunger Games and reveled in scenes of torture and mass murder.
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But some TV fans have been left repulsed by the excessive violence, with several saying they
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could not even make it through the first episode.
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And others recommending it be banned for viewers under 20 because it's too gory.
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And then it goes into graphic descriptions I probably don't need to read.
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In each episode of Squid Game, characters take part in bloody versions of traditional children's
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games like Grandmother's Footsteps or British Bulldogs.
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With the winners progressing to the next round of the game show, the losers are executed by a
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masked death squad standing by with machine guns.
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But I guess it does add some extra intensity to Jeopardy or to a game show if that's the way
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And then it goes into graphic descriptions of what the show depicts.
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You know, having not watched the show, and I don't plan on watching it,
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it does bring up this conversation about violence in shows and when does it go too far.
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There's a tendency among people, I think on both sides, really, to say that,
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we try to say this about entertainment in general, whether it's sexual content or violent content.
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What, so I'm going to watch Squid Game and then go out and join a death squad and start
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I can remember when I was a teenager, that was a big genre.
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There's a movie called Hostel and other movies where that was the whole attraction.
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You went and you watched people get tortured for 95 minutes and then you left.
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And it seems like those kinds of shows dipped in popularity but are now surging back into popularity.
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And with actual sexual pornography, you hear the same kind of thing.
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Saying, oh, you thought, I'm not, I'm going to watch porn.
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You think I'm going to go out and become a rapist?
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When you, if you want to be reductive about it and try to draw these simplistic dots and
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connect them that directly, then yeah, it seems silly.
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Like no one is suggesting that you're going to watch a show like Squid Game and then go
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That would, that would be an absurd thing to suggest, but no one's suggesting it.
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It's just as absurd to suggest that you're not influenced at all by the images and messages
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and ideas that you sit there passively eating your Doritos and drooling and ingesting.
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We're, we're, we are affected by all of the messages and images that we come in contact
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The advertising industry is, if we're not affected by, by images and messages and ideas,
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And with that, with advertisements, they can influence you in 30 seconds.
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They can influence you with a, with a billboard you see on the highway for three seconds as
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That's how impressionable, how easily influenced we are.
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And so I do worry about that with pornography, of course.
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And I worry about that with, with, with gratuitous violence in films and in shows.
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And when I say gratuitous, that doesn't mean that every single show and movie we watch has
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Some of my favorite films of all time, Saving Private Ryan, one of my favorite films, extremely
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I think what makes it gratuitous is when almost all of the entertainment value is in watching
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people be mutilated and, and killed in all of these gory and graphic ways.
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When, when that is the entertainment, you know, if violence is part of the story, you're watching
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If you're going to take violence out of a, of, of a war story, you might as well not tell
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the story at all, but when the whole story is the violence and the entertainment value
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isn't watching people be ripped open and, uh, and disemboweled, that's when it becomes
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And that's when you have to worry about the kind of influence that has on us.
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And I think the primary influence is not that it's turning people into murderers.
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Uh, it's just, it's just a, it's desensitization, it's moral desensitization, which is also one
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It's not that it causes you to go out and do things, kind of the opposite.
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It just, it just turns you into this sort of blank slate and you become desensitized to
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And even though it's fictional, right, if you're watching someone be disemboweled in Squid
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Game, it's fictional, but if you're sitting there watching it and enjoying it, you do
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have to ask yourself, why do I enjoy watching this?
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Even though it's fictional, what is it about this?
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Because part of enjoying a fictional story when you're watching a show, part of the enjoyment
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If you have in your mind the whole time, oh, this is fictional, this is fictional, then
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So you have, you have to surrender your mind to this story.
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And get into the mentality, sort of pretend that it's not fictional.
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So then you have to ask yourself, what is it about that that I enjoy watching?
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It is feeding a part of me that probably should not be fed.
00:31:12.080
It says, YouTube is banning prominent, this is the headline, YouTube is banning prominent
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anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content.
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All anti-vaccine content is being blocked by YouTube.
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It says YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine
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activists, including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who experts say are partially
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responsible for helping seed the skepticism that's contributed to slowing vaccination rates
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As part of a new set of policies aimed at cutting down on anti-vaccine content on the Google-owned
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site, YouTube will ban any videos that claim that commonly used vaccines approved by health
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The company previously blocked videos that made those claims about coronavirus vaccines,
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but not ones for other vaccines like those for measles or chickenpox.
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So now they're extending it to all vaccines, and you cannot claim that the vaccine is ineffective.
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Of course, the problem there is, well, what do you mean by ineffective?
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Fauci himself, as we talked about in the opening, says that now you need a booster shot, which
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would seem to indicate if you need a third shot six months after you got your first dose, your
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first complete dose of two shots, that would seem really to suggest that there is a certain
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lack of effectiveness in the first complete dose.
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If it's totally effective, then you wouldn't need another one.
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And we're also told all the time that even if you have the vaccine, you should still be
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Why do we need to do that if a vaccine is totally effective?
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Or is it anti-vaccine messaging when they say it, or only if someone like me says it?
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What I'm saying right now, is this anti-vax content?
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We're not supposed to know exactly, because then it frees them up to just decide what voices
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You know what apparently didn't count as anti-vax content?
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Back in November, in October, when, and let's go back through memory lane here, this was not
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anti-vax content, when Democrats were on TV saying stuff like this.
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As you know, President Trump has promised a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year,
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I would trust the word of public health experts and scientists, but not Donald Trump.
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First of all, I don't trust the president on vaccines.
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I think it's going to be a very skeptical American public about taking the vaccine, and it should be.
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And by the way, I will take the vaccine after Ivanka takes it.
00:34:24.960
You would be hesitant to receive the vaccine if it were approved by the end of the year.
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I mean, if doctors and scientists like Dr. Fauci are taking that vaccine, of course I will take the
00:34:42.200
vaccine, but we also know that we can't trust the president and take his word.
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I trust the scientists, but I don't trust Donald Trump.
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And at this moment, the American people can't either.
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I believe all across the country, you're going to need someone other than this FDA and this CDC saying it's safe.
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Every time, I can't say I'm not shocked by it, but in a way, every time I go back and I watch a clip like that,
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you could almost be shocked by how soulless and fraudulent these people are.
00:35:31.180
It is interesting to imagine an alternative history where Donald Trump is still in the White House serving a second term.
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Where would the vaccine conversation be right now?
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You know, we could be in a totally different universe, potentially.
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Because all the way up to Joe Biden, they were making it very clear that as long as Donald Trump is in the White House, they are anti-vax.
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Everything you just, I mean, you heard them saying there, direct quotes, I wouldn't trust the vaccine if Donald Trump is in the White House.
00:36:09.840
And you can't, the stuff they said there, I couldn't, if I said that right now about Joe Biden, I'm done on YouTube.
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So what kind of alternative reality would we be living in if Donald Trump was still in the White House?
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It wouldn't be an entirely alternative universe.
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Because say what you want about the anti-vaxxers on the right.
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And by that, I mean, and here I'm referring to, you know, actual anti-vax.
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I mean, there are people who are actually against vaccines in general.
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And then there are people who are against the COVID vaccine in general.
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You know, I think that both of those, both of those points of view could accurately be described as anti-vax.
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The problem is now we broaden that category to include anyone who is anything less than religious in their fervent, you know, support of vaccination.
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But anyway, the people that might be on the right, who might be accurately described as anti-vax, are consistent in that.
00:37:26.660
Because they were saying that back when Donald Trump was in office.
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And those who are Trump fans, I mean, the fact is that this is one of Trump's great achievements, is that he got this vaccine out there.
00:37:39.020
And yet there are people who are big Trump fans and still take a very skeptical attitude towards the vaccine.
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We can't say that if Donald Trump was still in office, all of the quote-unquote anti-vaxxers on the right would be majorly in favor of the vaccine, while the pro-vaccine people on the left would be against it.
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I think the pro-vaccine people on the left would be against it, but the people on the right would probably still be where they are now.
00:38:06.120
Because they've shown that they're not, they're not coming to these conclusions based on who happens to be in office.
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Here's a, just a headline from, and I got, I got to call this out when I see it.
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I got to call this kind of hate out, this hate and misinformation.
00:38:26.220
It says, right-wing podcaster fakes address just to go on anti-trans rant at school board.
00:38:35.800
It says, the Daily Wire star troll immediately ran to Fox News to brag about, quote, outsmarting the Loudoun County school board.
00:38:45.420
I do appreciate, by the way, I do appreciate there at least being given the title of star troll at the Daily Wire.
00:38:51.060
But I do also have to humbly decline that title because I think we are, we're a crew of trolls, very proudly.
00:38:56.220
And I'm one, I'm but one member of a team of trolls.
00:39:02.880
This, again, my trans-Virginian identity continues to be marginalized by the media.
00:39:09.520
Though I will also mention, since we're on the topic, that, you know, I was talking about it with my wife last night.
00:39:14.380
And I think I'm ready to announce this, that we are considering moving back to Tennessee.
00:39:24.440
It's been, it's been a long journey here in Virginia.
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And I've really come to know and love these people here in Virginia.
00:39:35.360
But I still, I still also feel this, this deep connection to Tennessee.
00:39:39.260
So this is, this is a conversation that's ongoing in my family.
00:39:42.880
You know, I'm saying to my wife, look, I think we should just get all the kids together.
00:39:47.640
We should, we should continue to live in this lady's basement in Loudoun County.
00:39:52.360
And so we're going back and forth on that and maybe more to come on that in the future.
00:39:57.820
This one is, I actually lied because this is not a comment on YouTube.
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This is just a tweet someone sent to me, but I had to read it.
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My son's college music school is doing a full concert honoring a composer who is retiring from the college.
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He can't be vaccinated because of his medical condition.
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So that they're doing the concert for him in his honor and he's not allowed to come?
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We, just as I'm worried about how people have been conditioned to,
00:40:55.380
which is like an objectively unenjoyable experience.
00:41:00.400
you really shouldn't be comfortable wearing that thing across your face all day.
00:41:06.420
But as people have gotten comfortable with that,
00:41:08.260
we've also just gotten used to treating people like garbage.
00:41:48.800
Matt Walsh has an acquired taste to put it mildly.
00:41:52.740
but I find him rarely annoying and simultaneously utterly intriguing.
00:42:00.560
I detest his shallow philosophies and medieval zealotry,
00:42:03.700
but I admire the out of his wrapped conviction and intellectual courage.
00:42:17.300
I'm not sure if you hate my guts or if you think,
00:42:28.060
Matt would be the guy to judge in the judgment free zone at planet fitness,
00:42:41.340
the only thing I'll judge you for at the gym is if you're sitting on the
00:42:49.280
an epidemic in gyms across the country where people,
00:42:52.600
people sit there like they do one set and then,
00:42:55.380
and they sit there and they flip through Instagram for 17 minutes and then
00:43:07.800
and if you don't wipe down the equipment afterwards,
00:43:14.220
I guess I am judging in the judgment free zone.
00:43:20.760
You literally confessed that there's hundreds of them.
00:43:37.920
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I will celebrate my 10th anniversary with my wife.
00:44:35.680
I must give the marriage experience five stars out of five.
00:44:42.900
I had the good fortune of marrying a woman who's careful,
00:44:49.800
she also believes in me and supports me in my ambitions.
00:44:51.960
And that's one of those qualities in a wife that a man kind of takes for granted if he has it until he realizes that lots of men end up in marriages with women who doubt them,
00:45:04.320
I've never had to worry about that with my wife,
00:45:05.960
which is a good thing because as you've noticed,
00:45:07.580
I come up with some pretty weird schemes sometimes and she's almost always game for it.
00:45:11.640
sometimes she's the one suggesting the weird schemes and things I should do.
00:45:18.560
I must say that my wife is actually also really hot,
00:45:24.340
if you're looking at me and wondering how I managed to land somebody with all of those qualities,
00:45:32.540
but it's just one of the reasons why I thank God every day that I am married.
00:45:36.180
And another reason is that being married means I'm not involved in a dating scene today,
00:45:41.740
which is great because that scene is abysmal in every conceivable way.
00:45:47.380
dating was not easy a decade ago when I was still in the game,
00:45:51.200
but it was a walk in the park compared to the situation today.
00:45:55.360
it's probably never been more difficult in modern American history anyway,
00:46:00.140
And that may seem paradoxical because it's also true that single people have never had more choices.
00:46:08.620
a recent article on the website studyfinds.org about dating apps and how people use them.
00:46:14.360
this is important because almost all single people today use dating apps.
00:46:22.720
about 50% of the population consists of single adults,
00:46:25.320
which is a staggeringly high number as marriage rates continue to plummet.
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unfortunately not all of those online daters are actually single,
00:46:37.440
but we can hopefully assume that the vast majority are.
00:46:40.060
So what is the actual experience of using these apps?
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online dating became a way of life for millions of singles during the coronavirus pandemic.
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and OkCupid are responsible for 10% of the long lasting adult relationships.
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Which is actually pretty low considering how many people use these apps.
00:47:00.700
these daters aren't wasting time when it comes to choosing who to swipe right on.
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A recent study shows that users know within a second whether or not to express interest in someone else.
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So what makes someone choose to make the move on a profile?
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Researchers say it comes down to judging the book by its cover.
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The attractiveness of a person is primarily what compels another to swipe right,
00:47:24.360
the user determines whether or not they will accept a date based on appearance and even race.
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Now, there's nothing new or scandalous about people choosing mates based first on appearance.
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Appearance is important, and it's not a small or irrelevant detail.
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Yeah, they say don't judge a book by its cover,
00:47:39.680
but the thing about a book is that you don't have to see the cover while you're reading it.
00:47:45.560
But as for someone you're dating or married to, you have to look at that cover every day.
00:47:52.620
My wife has already outlined, has many wonderful qualities,
00:47:55.040
but I never would have learned about those qualities if I didn't find her attractive.
00:47:58.500
When you first meet someone, you aren't going to know about their deeper, truer selves,
00:48:02.400
and whatever character traits, good or bad, may be lying under the surface,
00:48:08.340
It doesn't take a long time, but it does take time.
00:48:10.680
Initially, you're going to be making more surface-level judgments to decide if it's worth investing that time.
00:48:20.600
and how quickly the dating app user has been conditioned to swipe through them.
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The problem is also the very act of swiping, I think.
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There's something about swiping through just doing this,
00:48:32.120
through a series of human faces that makes the whole exercise somewhat dystopian and dehumanizing.
00:48:43.100
But these days, people are reduced to just a postage stamp-sized picture on a phone,
00:48:48.680
and potential matches will give them all of one second
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before deciding whether to relegate them to the junk folder.
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It's quite degrading, not to mention fruitless,
00:48:58.260
because there are so many people on these apps,
00:49:00.740
and because they're designed in such a way to encourage these split-second decisions,
00:49:04.800
all that means is that you have to browse through an enormous number of potential matches.
00:49:10.740
quoting the editor of a trade publication called Global Dating Insights,
00:49:14.160
says that the average dating site user has to swipe through 7,500 profiles
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Now, that's not 7,500 before finding a girlfriend or boyfriend.
00:49:23.560
That's just the amount of swiping needed to even have a meaningful human interaction with a person.
00:49:27.720
And worst of all, because these apps require almost no effort and no investment and no energy to use,
00:49:35.060
they only encourage more of the sort of meandering unseriousness that has already made the dating scene difficult
00:49:41.160
and had made it difficult when I was single a decade ago.
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Swiping left and swiping right becomes more of a game, an end in and of itself,
00:49:47.720
and the people who are on these apps actually looking for meaningful interactions,
00:49:53.540
have to somehow sort through this sea of people who only want to hook up,
00:49:58.560
Maybe they want to keep swiping and have no real deep interest in human relationships at all.
00:50:02.960
Perhaps because they feel that their porn habit takes care of those needs.
00:50:07.220
It's instructive that even the words boyfriend, girlfriend, and dating aren't as common as they once were.
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However, instead of saying, you know, I'm dating this person,
00:50:16.140
you'll hear people say things like, well, we're talking.
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Someone said to me recently, when referring to the person that we would have once called his girlfriend,
00:50:23.300
he said, yeah, I've been talking to this girl for six months.
00:50:30.700
You haven't even graduated to any kind of actual human relationship yet?
00:50:38.600
at that point I was calling her my fiancé because we were engaged.
00:50:46.460
men who will not take the lead in their relationships,
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All of these have been major problems for years.
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They've been problems increasingly ever since we came up with
00:51:03.520
the idea of dating to supplant the idea of courtship.
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That's really when the train went off the rails.
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though I'm not sure that fire is the right analogy here,
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something that's burning hot with passion and intensity.
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00:52:20.440
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00:52:23.040
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