Ep. 812 - The Most Far Reaching Censorship Campaign In American History
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Summary
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Senate held a hearing with the so-called "Facebook Whistleblower" yesterday, setting the stage for what will be the most far-reaching censorship campaign in American history. Also, an ESPN anchor has pulled off the air after criticizing vaccine mandates, and Dave Chappelle has a new comedy special out that the media insists is incendiary and bigoted. And finally, Ray Spader preaches his version of the gospel, and it is as heretical as you might expect.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Senate held a hearing with the Facebook whistleblower, so-called, yesterday,
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setting the stage for what will be the most far-reaching censorship campaign in American history.
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Also, an ESPN anchor has pulled off the air after criticizing vaccine mandates,
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and Dave Chappelle has a new comedy special out.
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The media insists that it is incendiary and bigoted, so you know it must be good.
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And finally, Ray Spader Ibram X. Kendi preaches his version of the gospel message,
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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One thing we heard over and over again after the January 6th riots is that the U.S. Capitol is a sacred place
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where the solemn duty of governing is performed.
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January 6th was a desecration of this holy ground.
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That's why the Capitol riot was so much worse than all of the BLM riots put together,
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and so much worse than all of the tragedies of American history put together.
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And, you know, because when it comes to the BLM riots,
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BLM merely destroyed and incinerated small businesses and homes where people and where poor and middle-class people live,
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and maybe a police station or two were thrown in there.
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But that pales in comparison to breaking a few windows and overturning some desks inside the Capitol building
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because the Capitol building is a hallowed temple.
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Now, I personally would have a problem with this attitude no matter who was in Congress.
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There's nothing even all that special about it, frankly.
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There's certainly nothing venerable or saintly about the people who work in government.
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They're supposed to be public servants doing a job that we elect them to do.
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But all this talk about the blessed, sanctified ground of the Capitol becomes even more absurd
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when you consider the many ways in which the people who work in the Capitol
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If it were possible to desecrate it, then nobody could possibly desecrate it more than our elected representatives themselves.
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They've turned Congress into nothing more than a stage upon which they can perform their elaborate puppet shows.
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Case in point, yesterday, speaking of puppets, the so-called Facebook whistleblower,
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Francis Haugen, was brought before a Senate committee to testify.
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Now, as I've already revealed on this show over the last couple of days,
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Haugen is a far-left activist with a history of donating to far-left politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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She's also being represented by a Democrat PR firm.
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And she has an obvious agenda to push greater censorship of conservative content on social media.
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She has revealed nothing new, nothing of value about Facebook.
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All of this is nothing but a pageant, a theater performance,
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with the goal of justifying a far-reaching crackdown on content that criticizes the Democrat regime.
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The totally farcical nature of this whole whistleblower routine became immediately obvious
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at the beginning of Haugen's opening statement.
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Yesterday, we saw Facebook get taken off the Internet.
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I don't know why it went down, but I know that for more than five hours,
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Facebook wasn't used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies,
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and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies.
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I mean, make women feel bad about their bodies?
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And we needed congressional testimony about that?
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We're supposed to believe that the self-esteem problems of Internet-addicted women
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justifies, at least partially, a nationally televised Senate hearing?
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Now, listen, ladies, I'm sorry if you feel bad about yourselves when you use Instagram.
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I think probably the best solution would be to stop using Instagram if that's the case.
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If you're scrolling through Instagram and saying,
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maybe connect the dots here, put the phone down.
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As for your daughters having their self-image destroyed by social media,
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I've already argued stridently many times that the only solution there
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is to refrain from buying your child a smartphone in the first place.
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So when you've got, you know, I'm just imagining this image of grown women
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scrolling Instagram and feeling so bad about themselves,
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sitting next to their daughters also scrolling Instagram,
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and worrying, oh, is this making her feel bad about herself too?
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And besides, if we're worried about websites that cause psychological damage to people,
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then why aren't we hearing Senate testimony about the porn sites
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that expose millions of elementary schoolers to hardcore smut every single day?
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Okay, there are sites where middle schoolers can be exposed to rape porn and there is nothing standing in the way.
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There's no kind of filter system put in place to stop that from happening.
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And the body image nonsense is only a smokescreen.
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The real agenda is political, which became all the more clear during questioning,
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We've seen the same kind of content in the political world.
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You brought up other countries and what's been happening there.
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On 60 Minutes, you said that Facebook implemented safeguards
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to reduce misinformation ahead of the 2020 election,
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but turned off those safeguards right after the election.
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And you know that the insurrection occurred January 6th.
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Do you think that Facebook turned off the safeguards
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because they were costing the company money, because it was reducing profits?
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They've said the safeguards that were in place before the election implicated free speech.
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The choices that were happening on the platform were really about how reactive and twitchy was the platform, right?
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And Facebook changed those safety defaults in the run-up to the election
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they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election,
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Yes, we need safeguards to protect our democracy.
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And by protect our democracy, they mean protect the vice grip hold
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that the left has on our democracy, our system.
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and the FBI going after parents who criticize school board members,
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what we've seen here is a full court press panic by the ruling class
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to shut down not only criticism, but all avenues for criticism.
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And they feel morally justified in doing so because it's what's best for us.
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to arrive at our own conclusions or form our own opinions
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They must ensure that we adopt the conclusions and opinions
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And that's why Haugen is being hailed as a courageous hero by the media.
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brought Monica Lewinsky on camera to sing Haugen's praises
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and I think it's worth mentioning that Frances Haugen in testifying
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how brave she was because in part what our doc is looking at
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And women and people from marginalized communities
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So to come forward as a whistleblower in that sense is very brave.
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And I think that what she was also talking about
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you know, where the doc comes into all of this too
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is that if you think about the stonings that happened way back when,
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is usually and often is public humiliation and shame.
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and say exactly what those in power want to hear
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and to withstand their universal applause and acclaim
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and to ensure that you'll get a million-dollar book deal
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Of course, the word brave here can be translated roughly as useful.
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because they only approve of actions that are useful to their agenda.
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whatever they're saying, what they really mean is useful.
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because they've set the stage now for a censorship campaign
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unlike anything we've ever seen in this country.
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They can't compete with the other side intellectually.
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by not allowing anybody else into the arena to begin with.
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when you're just sitting in a random hotel room.
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I did the show from my house for so long and from a car.
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Probably where the show sucked so much back then
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And I think it's the right decision for our family.
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Like, for example, I don't want to live in some woman's basement
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you know, I've been gone for like almost a week and a half.
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And saw me as kind of an intruder in my own house.
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you can't talk about filling out a census form.
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I think that's fascinating considering his black dad
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Just pointing out a fact that Barack Obama was,
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He was raised by his white mother and grandparents,
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but didn't identify with that side of him at all.
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one of their main anchors for expressing her point of view.
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but they're only doing it because they embrace,
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We embrace different points of view dialogue and discussion make this place.
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we expect that those points of view be expressed respectfully in a manner consistent with our values and in line with our internal policies.
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We're having direct conversations with Sage and those conversations will remain private.
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So you can have different points of view as long as those points of view are in keeping with our values,
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which is another way of saying that you can't have different points of view at all.
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there's no indication that she's a Republican or a conservative,
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I would assume that she at least leans heavily liberal only because I don't know how you would survive for this long at ESPN if you didn't.
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there's no reason why that has to be a conservative right wing talking point.
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standing up in favor of choice when it comes to the drugs you put in your body,
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protesters showed up at the house of a school board member in Sarasota.
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protesters upset about what's happening in their school system,
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upset about critical race theory and other things.
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We want you to come out for a redress of grievances.
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We have some questions and we have some demands that need to be met.
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it's like mostly kids that are there and they're holding some signs and
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they've got an American flag and then we have the bullhorn.
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especially if you're on the left and you don't,
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angry parents showing up at the homes of school board members.
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we pretend that what about ism you're never allowed to say,
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If someone is criticizing something that they themselves do,
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a strategy that they themselves have been employing and supporting and defending for years,
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Because what we're finding out for a long time,
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the left has been doing this exact thing for years and years.
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they only choose the most powerful people to do.
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They go after media personalities at their homes.
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They go into neighborhoods where there isn't even anyone in particular there who they have a grievance against.
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Except they just hate everybody in the neighborhood because they assume they're all white middle class people.
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They'll go into a white middle upper class neighborhood with bullhorns in the middle of the night.
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there's no one there in particular they have a special grievance against.
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So they've been pulling this move for years and years.
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We're not going to respect some code of decorum that you aren't respecting.
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stand behind this imaginary line while you run around and do whatever you want.
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We're not going to play a game with you where you've rigged the rules ahead of time to give yourself every advantage.
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That's what a lot of people on the right are saying.
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when the left started doing this kind of thing,
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Even when they're burning down buildings and looting and looting,
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it says a trillion dollar platinum coin could be minted within hours of the treasury secretary's decision to do some, do so, uh, according to the former director of the United States.
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Mint congressional solutions to the debt ceiling problem could take weeks to implement, especially if the reconciliation, reconciliation process is used and time is running out.
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a trillion dollar coin could be deployed to bridge any gap between the money running out and the debt ceiling being used.
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just print a coin that says a trillion dollars.
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that there would be significant consequences to it and ramifications.
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the most serious ramification to something like this,
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especially when we're dealing with figures like a trillion.
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It's this break the fourth wall type of moment.
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And we all kind of agree that we're going to pretend that this stuff has value
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I can't spell out exactly what the consequences are for that,
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The Biden administration has been pushing this plan to have the IRS monitor
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or a bank account that has had $600 worth of transactions over the course of a year,
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17 year old kid who works at the McDonald's has everybody else.
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which means that they're putting us all under a permanent audit.
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There's an enormous tax gap in the United States estimated at $7 trillion over the next 10 years in terms of a shortfall of tax collections to what we believe are owed.
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And that that's not coming from people failing to report wage income or dividend income where there's good information.
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It comes from places where the information on income is opaque and can be hidden.
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but every time I see one of these people on TV,
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our entire government is being run by people who are 80 plus.
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but they're talking about permanently erasing economic freedom out the window.
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this isn't simply an attack on our financial freedom and on our privacy.
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by the IRS of all of us permanently all the time.
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where they have direct access to your bank accounts.
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without any kind of policy or law like this in place,
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but there's a process they have to follow on an individual basis to do that.
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I think part of that is because the assaults on our,
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on our basic fundamental liberties from the Biden administration are coming from 50,
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it's like playing one against 50 and dodge ball.
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And you've got all these balls flying at you at one,
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They're not going to get on TV cackling maniacally.
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They were like rubbing their hands together and talking about their evil plot to take over the world.
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tyrannical ideas and they propose them and they,
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Dave Chappelle has a new comedy special out and I haven't seen it yet.
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I guess it just came out yesterday or the day before,
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but I already know that I'm going to like it based on the fact that the media is having a hissy fit about it.
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they're saying all of the things that you should certainly want these kinds of people to say.
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At one point he says that gender is a fact and he makes a point that,
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if I want to split hairs here and it's not really splitting hairs,
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that gender theory proponents and members of the gender cult have invented.
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DaBaby who got into a lot of trouble recently when he,
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was being criticized for these comments he made about gay people.
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you listen to any of his songs and he's openly promoting and encouraging people to kill each other,
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brings something up about DaBaby that I didn't even know.
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A lot of the LBGTQ community doesn't know DaBaby's history.
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but you better not hurt a gay person's feelings.
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They always accuse him and are accusing him again of,
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he's this wealthy privileged guy talking about the LGBT community.
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this is him punching down and comedians should never punch down.
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And so they should just be punching wherever is the funniest to punch.
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And that also depends on where you fall in the intersectional scale.
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but not LGBT because they're higher up on the victim ladder than he is.
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faux victimhood is power or formative victimhood is power.
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That makes the LGBT lobby the most powerful in the country.
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So I'm not going to accuse Dave Chappelle of listening to my podcast and
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I'll be introducing a bill inspired by representative Kelly Cassidy that
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require requires all inseminators to undergo vasectomies within six,
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six weeks of having their third child or 40th birthday,
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my forthcoming bill will codify the definition of wrongful conception to
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include when a person has demonstrated negligence toward preventing
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This legislation will allow Pennsylvanians to take a civil action against
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inseminators for unwanted pregnancies who wrongfully conceive a child with
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this bill will empower Pennsylvanians to enforce this perspective law by
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offering a $10,000 reward for reporting the proper authorities,
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those scoff laws who have not complied with the statute within the allotted
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he's going to introduce a bill that would require all men in seminators,
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to get a vasectomy after they have three kids or after they reach their 40th
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And he's trying to make some kind of point about,
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And the interesting thing is that what you have here with this bill,
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he's actually undermined his own case because this is a great example of what an attack on reproductive rights would actually look like.
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this has any chance of becoming a law in Pennsylvania,
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but this is what an attack on reproductive rights actually looks like.
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you would be telling men that they're not allowed to reproduce anymore beyond a certain,
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you're setting a threshold and saying they can't reproduce beyond that threshold.
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That's what an attack on reproductive rights looks like.
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When you are trying to prevent or control reproduction itself,
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Where women are certainly not being prevented from reproducing,
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there are no controls being put on reproduction whatsoever.
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All of the laws are governing what happens to the offspring that have already been reproduced.
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but here we find an interesting contrast that this guy has provided to us.
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he's actually demonstrated why his criticisms of those policies are not valid.
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Who's rocking polka dot and flannel shirts without shame?
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Why can't politicians speak with the blunt truth Matt Walsh uses?
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The main reason why politicians don't speak blunt truth,
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They don't believe the things they pretend to believe.
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Even I kind of make the mistake of talking about Republicans
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as if their main problem is that they're a bunch of cowards,
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Well, you're obviously banned from the show for that.
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I've only watched one and a half seasons of The Sopranos.
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I watched it for the first time like two years ago.
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I completely missed it when it first aired on HBO.
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And never felt like going back and watching it.
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and watch five episodes of a series in one night.
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So it takes me a long time to get through an entire,
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Because proponents of gender theory on the left,
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has anyone started a GoFundMe for the Sonic manager?
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who's the victim of public shaming and bullying
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Matt, do you think that Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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Or do you think that the objective of corporate media
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is merely to just enforce the same rules on social media?
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Or, yeah, the narrative of Facebook and Twitter
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And that's exactly why they're pushing this right now.
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why do you have a guy in a diaper on your shirt?