Ep. 842 - More Outrage Theater From Democrats
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1 hour and 1 minute
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Summary
Kyle Rittenhouse has been on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Amanda Brown, who was shot to death in front of her own home in 2011. The defense team argues that he acted in self-defense, but could a reasonable doubt be enough to convict him?
Transcript
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, Democrats spend a day in Congress censoring and condemning a Republican for posting an offensive cartoon meme to his Twitter page.
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AOC says that anyone who doesn't share in their outrage is a nihilist.
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Also, The Daily Wire scores a major victory as OSHA suspends the Biden-vax mandate.
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And huge record numbers of people are dying of drug overdoses.
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Plus, an MSNBC host wants to warn us about the scourge of, quote-unquote, white tears.
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What does that mean, besides that she's racist?
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And a doctor says that he still can't take his three-year-old to the grocery store without feeling like he's risking her life.
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How can people, especially doctors, still be that deluded?
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We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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As it stands right now, we continue to wait for the Rittenhouse verdict.
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It's extremely troubling that it's taken so long.
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Troubling because we have to remember something really basic here.
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The standard is supposed to be a reasonable doubt, and it can be easy to forget this.
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It can be easy to forget as we watch a trial that's been rigged in every way against the defendant.
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It's easy to forget that, in fact, trials are supposed to be, in a way, you might say, rigged in favor of the defendant.
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Rigged is not really the right word here, of course.
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The point is just that the defendant is supposed to be given a head start.
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There are certain advantages that are meant to be built into the system.
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And one advantage is that the prosecution needs to prove its case while all the defense needs to do is establish that there is maybe a reasonable doubt about what the prosecution has claimed.
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And that is, it's supposed to be anyway, a pretty low standard.
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The defense doesn't need to prove that the defendant is innocent.
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All they need to demonstrate is that it's reasonable to doubt whether he is guilty.
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And they don't even actually need to demonstrate it.
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The prosecution has to demonstrate that it is not reasonable to doubt the defendant's guilt.
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If they fail to meet that purposefully high bar, then that's supposed to be game over.
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So we've gotten into the weeds quite a bit in this case.
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We've talked about, you know, the specifics and all the things surrounding it.
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But questions like, should he have been there or not?
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And, you know, I've said, I think he had not only had every right to be there, but it was good that some people showed up to actually defend the property if the government had decided that it was not going to fulfill that role, which it had decided that.
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Could a reasonable person have at least some doubt about whether Kyle Rittenhouse is guilty of murder?
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Could a reasonable person entertain the possibility, at least, that Kyle Rittenhouse acted in self-defense?
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It would be unreasonable to say that it is unreasonable to have doubts about this case.
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I think there's a lot more than reasonable doubt in this case.
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I think rather than guilty beyond reasonable doubt, in fact, he is innocent beyond reasonable doubt.
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That's not the burden that he's supposed to have to carry as a defendant.
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But while we wait for this verdict, something else happened yesterday worth discussing right here in the opening, I think, from Yahoo News.
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They report, quote, the House voted Wednesday to censure Representative Paul Gosar after the Arizona Republican posted a violent cartoon video that depicted him killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden.
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The resolution passed 223 to 207 with two Republicans, Representative Liz Cheney and Adam Kissinger, of course, joining all 221 Democrats voting in favor of Gosar's censure.
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Representative Dave Joyce, who sits on the House Ethics Committee, voted present.
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The measure stripped Gosar of his committee assignments, including a seat on the House Oversight Committee, a panel on which he had served alongside Ocasio-Cortez.
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Okay, so this is what the House of Representatives concerned itself with yesterday.
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And many Democrats took turns giving impassioned speeches, discussing in somber and firm tones the inexcusable, violent, threatening, dangerous, terrible meme that Paul Gosar retweeted.
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Before we go any further, we should probably play that meme for you, just so you understand what we're talking about.
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It is a jokey video, apparently made as a parody based on some kind of anime show.
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And it shows Gosar as some kind of, I don't know, action hero, ninja or something.
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And at one point in the cartoon, well, rather, at one point, a cartoon with Gosar's face attached hits another cartoon with AOC's face attached with a sword.
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Parental advisory stickers all over this thing.
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That's the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
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So while inflation skyrockets, cargo ships remain jammed in our ports, drug epidemic kills 100,000 Americans a year, dozens of other very real crises grip our nation, Congress spent the day talking about this cartoon.
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And Nancy Pelosi kicked things off, shaking her head, saying that this is a sad day.
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It is a very sad day for Congress, but not for the reason she thinks.
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And she continued by drawing a connection to, what do you think she connected this to?
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She said, quote, depictions of violence can foment actual violence and jeopardize the safety of elected officials as witnessed in this chamber on January 6th, 2021.
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It is inconceivable that a member of our community would wish to repeat the violence of that dark day.
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Now, we're not going to test our intestinal fortitude by playing too many clips of these Democrats sobbing over a meme cartoon on Twitter.
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But we do have to play at least, I think we have to at least suffer through a little bit of AOC's remarks.
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Because she, after all, was the victim, the quote unquote victim of this cartoon.
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And that is an utter that she is always eager to milk.
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I've been serving in this body just under three years.
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But in response to the Republican leader's remarks, when he says that this action is unprecedented.
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What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body.
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It is a sad day in which a member who leads a political party in the United States of America cannot bring themselves to say that issuing a depiction of murdering a member of Congress is wrong.
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And instead decides to venture off into a tangent about gas prices and inflation.
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What is so hard about saying that this is wrong?
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But this is about what we are willing to accept.
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As I use the word me and I 72 times in my 10-minute speech about me.
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On second thought, we should not be playing clips of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when we are broadcasting from, you know, the sixth floor of a hotel room when I'm right next to a window.
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Because the urge to jump out is sometimes overwhelming when I'm listening to this person.
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Democrats, of course, are not satisfied to call the cartoon merely inappropriate or crass or vulgar.
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They have to pretend that Gosar was actually threatening himself.
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He was himself threatening to stab AOC with a sword or encouraging other sword-wielding assailants.
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This meme was actually a message to Gosar's team of secret ninjas calling on them to finally launch their long-planned attack.
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And when most Republicans, aside from the usual suspects, Cheney, Kinzinger, refused to join the censure, that sent them into even more furious spasms of outrage.
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AOC accused Republicans of nihilism for not being angry enough about the Twitter meme.
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And all the Democrats were very upset, pretending to be very upset anyway, that Republicans would not join them in being that upset.
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But Republicans were right, of course, to not go along with this.
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I mean, is it because congressmen ought to be s*** posting with anime memes?
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You know, is that a thing ideally that we'd be doing?
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But in a perfect world, it would not be unreasonable to say, yeah, you know, that's a little inappropriate.
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So, yet in this world, which is far from perfect, even if you feel that way about the meme, you can't say it when Democrats demand that you say.
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You can't bark on command like a trained puppy, because then you are willfully participating in a charade.
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AOC called it nihilism, that Republicans will not condemn inappropriate behavior.
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It's more that they are refusing to be a part of the Democrats' nihilism.
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If the Democrats in Congress actually cared about incitements of violence and about crass and inappropriate behavior by its members,
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and they condemned every such example, and they were so stringent about it, so respectful of the rules of decorum and decency,
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that they even made time to condemn memes and cartoons, right?
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If this was all in the context of them being very consistent on this issue, then maybe you might give them a little bit of what they want.
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You might say, sure, yeah, you shouldn't oppose to that.
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Their message is not that members of Congress should not incite violence.
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Not that Paul Gosar did incite violence, but that's not their message.
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Their message, the point they want Republicans to agree with, as they all clasp hands together,
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is that the rules should be applied based on their ideological and political needs of the moment.
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Which is why, for example, when Maxine Waters has repeatedly and explicitly called for violence against her political enemies,
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or squad members repeatedly and explicitly justify and foment BLM rioting, there's no condemnation there.
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Certainly no censure, because the rules are different for them.
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And anyone who will not agree that the rules are different is a nihilist, they say.
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It's all quite grotesque and outrageous, which is why Republicans need to do a lot more than simply refuse to go along with it.
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Um, because I think if this exact same situation had occurred like five years ago,
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uh, there probably would have been, you know, 30 Republicans joining at least.
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But they should also be on the, on the offense, using the bully pulpit to call attention to behavior on the other side
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Just the latest example, Representative Cori Bush, like we talked about on this show,
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this week called a defendant in a murder trial, a white supremacist without any evidence.
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She's of course, not the only one to have done that.
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And also without evidence claim that white supremacists shot at her in, uh, in the streets of Ferguson,
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Why are Republicans moving to censure Cori Bush for that?
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They don't have the votes, but they can call for it anyway.
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By the way, I wanted to mention just a quick shout-out to the member of the Sweet Baby Gang that I encountered at a deli here in Nashville.
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And I went to a couple days ago, I went to a deli, got a sandwich, and he handed me the sandwich back.
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He handed me the sandwich back, and he had written on the wrapper the sandwich Sweet Baby Gang.
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He didn't say anything to me, never acknowledged it, even knew who I was.
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Now, the thing is, he handed that to me, and I didn't notice what was written on it initially, because I don't notice anything.
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I mean, she could, you know, she always makes changes in the house when I come home, and I don't notice it.
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Like, she could replace all of our furniture with balloon animals or something, and I wouldn't notice.
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She could set, I could be sitting on the couch, and she could set it on fire while I'm sitting on it, and I probably wouldn't notice.
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Um, so I didn't notice that, but I went in to go pay for it at the cashier, and that's when I noticed it, because he called attention to it.
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We both kind of noticed it together, and he had no idea what that meant, and he was very, very confused and a little bit disturbed, and he read it, and he said,
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And then there was a little bit of an awkward pause, and he said, Do you mind if I ask what that means?
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And then I just leaned in, and I kind of whispered.
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And I left it at that, and it was even more awkward for the rest.
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We finished the check out in total silence, and I walked out, and it was great.
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Okay, I want to talk about this OSHA thing, but before we do that, one other point, going back to the opening,
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because I don't want to neglect to play this clip.
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I talked about Republicans going on the offense.
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Well, credit where it's due, Lauren Boebert, she actually did that, okay?
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So, she's giving a little bit of a blueprint here for what that might look like.
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She got up to talk during this discussion, this debate over censoring Paul Gosar,
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I don't think you're going to see any Republican doing this, but she did, and it's great.
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Democrat policies are so pathetic and have done so poorly that the left has nothing else to do
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but troll the Internet looking for ways to get offended and then try to target members
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But since the Speaker has designated the floor to discuss members' inappropriate actions, shall we?
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The Jihad Squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband, and not her brother-husband, the other one,
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This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists.
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A Democrat chairwoman incited further violence in the streets outside of a courthouse.
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My colleague and three-month presidential candidate from California who is on the Intelligence Committee
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A member of Congress who receives classified briefings was sleeping with the enemy.
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This is unacceptable, and this would never be—
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That—as the kids say online, where's the lie?
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Now, the one point I will make here, okay, in fairness to Swalwell, she says,
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cherry on top, we have no evidence and no reason to believe that he was on top.
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And, in fact, there's a lot of reasons to think it probably wasn't.
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He did, in fact, sleep with a Chinese spy, and it's not actually funny.
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It's just one of those things all you can—all you can do is laugh about it because we have
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a member of Congress who was in a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy named Feng Feng, and it's
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Well, it's just a member of Congress in a sexual relationship with a foreign—with a foreign
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Ilhan Omar, speaking of foreign adversaries, Ilhan Omar was—she responded to this, and
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I mean, she, you know, had—she was married to her brother, allegedly.
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I'm not sure if we still have to put allegedly on that or not.
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Um, Bobart says she's part of—part of the Jihad squad.
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Otherwise, I might have gone to the floor to talk about this insurrectionist who sleeps
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I am grateful I was raised to be a decent human and not a depraved person who shamefully
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defecates and defiles the House of Representatives.
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Okay, well, first of all, the people who are defecating, you know, this—as far as defecating
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in, uh, in, in, you know, important places, I think that obviously goes to Joe Biden.
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There's no evidence that Lauren Boebert has ever done that.
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As far as her dad raising her rights, you know, I will say, Ilhan, um, I guess your, your
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Uh, imagine the, the arrogance of this person, of Ilhan Omar and the bubble that she's in,
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that she would actually go down this road of talking about criticizing someone else for
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I'm not even sure what she's referring to with Boebert there, but you're, you are going
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It says, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, is abiding by a court
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order and suspending enforcement of the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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In a statement shared to OSHA's website, the agency said the court ordered that OSHA take
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steps, take no steps rather to implement or enforce, um, the mandate until further court
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The agency said that it remains confident in its authority to protect workers in emergencies,
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but as it stands right now, uh, it has been suspended.
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So any employer who is enforcing this mandate, they have no excuse to enforce it.
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They don't have to, no one has, no one has to do anything.
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No one is under any obligation to do anything legally because it has been suspended.
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Um, and this happens after the Daily Wire filed a lawsuit.
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So we are, we're fighting back and we're getting results.
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When you're filing a lawsuit, uh, in federal court, not, not the sexiest form of fighting
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back, but, uh, it's an effective form and it matters.
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You know, and we, we talk about this phrase fighting back and we hear it so often and often
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in reference to things that are to, you know, just people tweeting and doing totally impotent
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things that's kind of lost its meaning, but this is real fighting.
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And the thing is, you know, I still talk to some people on occasion who say that their
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problem with the Daily Wire is that, uh, we don't fight.
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You know, that's an impression that among some people, I think the minority, but it still
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seems to linger a little bit with some people anyway.
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And I, and I find that kind of an amazing because what conservative outlet, and I know
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that I'm biased for obvious reasons, but what conservative outlet is doing more than us?
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Can, can you name one, any conservative outlet out there that's doing more than we're doing?
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Um, lots of other outlets out there that I respect and I like, and I support, and you
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should support too, but nobody's doing what we're doing.
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We've already, we've made a huge impact as far as that goes.
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And, uh, I really believe that by the way, I wouldn't say it if I didn't believe it.
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I might, I might say, yeah, this isn't a promo spot.
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I might say things in promo spots that I don't believe.
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Well, theoretically, I mean, everything I say in promo spots, I mean, but theoretically,
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And I'll tell you why, because we actually care about the mission.
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And that's, you, you can't always take that for granted.
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I'm not going to say any names or anything really, because I can't say names.
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I can't see it inside anybody's head or inside their heart and soul.
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But just because there are people in front of cameras saying a lot of conservative sounding
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things and, uh, building an audience of conservatives, that doesn't mean that they really believe what
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And putting our money where our mouth is in a very literal sense.
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Next, Joy Reid continues to put her anti-white bigotry on full display.
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I know we're used to it by now, right, with this woman.
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But this is really, even, even by her standards, this is over the top.
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So this Kyle Rittenhouse trial, it reminded a lot of people of something, something, I
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Oh, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, in which Brett Kavanaugh, who had been accused by a high school
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friend of committing sexual abuse of her, cried his way through the hearings to make him
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a permanent member and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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And his tears turned out to be more powerful than the tears of Christine Blasey Ford, which
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But in America, there's a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly
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Really white tears in general, because that's what Karens are, right?
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They Karens out, and then as soon as they get caught, it's like, bring waterworks.
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Even as the right tries to politicize the idea that masculinity is being robbed from American
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men by multiculturalism and wokeism, they still want to be able to have their tears.
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Those damned white people, they want to have their tears.
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And it was on full display in the Kavanaugh hearing, as she brought up, also with Rittenhouse.
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Because the Catch-22 is that if you're a man and you're accused of something, be it rape
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or murder, and you get up there, and you are calm and collected, and you address the charges
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against you, and you deny them, and you show very little emotion, then you'll be accused
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And we're going to hear a lot about toxic masculinity.
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So if you get up there, you're accused, and you're not emotional about it, then that is
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But if you get up there and you're emotional, then it's white male tears.
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So no matter what you do, no matter what your response is, and it's designed this way, of
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course, no matter how you respond, you are somehow proving that the allegations against
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you are correct, and you are only demonstrating your moral failings.
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And that, of course, is because to people like Joy Reid, it doesn't, the moment you've
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And in fact, let me back it up one step further.
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You have to understand, in Joy Reid's world, every white male is effectively a rapist and
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Whether they've done it themselves or not, they are part of a system that is guilty of these
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And even if they haven't done it, then they're always a risk to do it.
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So as far as Joy Reid's concerned, you throw Kyle Rittenhouse in prison, even if he's not
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And probably at some point in the future, he's going to harm someone.
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Now, Kavanaugh, you know, again, same kind of thing.
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He's, as far as Joy Reid's concerned, he's basically guilty, even if not with Christine
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At some point, I'm sure he's done this or he will do it.
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And so let's, he should be held accountable for it regardless.
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No matter how you respond, you're guilty because you're guilty before you respond.
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And therefore, however you respond, well, that's how a guilty person would respond, because
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But I also want you to understand how, and I probably don't need to point this out to you,
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but really reflect on how racist this white tears thing is.
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I mean, it's the most dehumanizing thing I can imagine.
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She is suggesting, essentially, that as white people, we don't have human emotions.
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Because if you saw white people as human, then Kyle Rittenhouse's response, even if you
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think he's guilty, his response makes a lot of sense.
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Even if you're a guilty person and you killed someone and you murdered them, and now you're
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facing life in prison, any normal person, guilty or not, would have an emotional breakdown
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at at least some point during that process, if not multiple emotional breakdowns the whole
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What kind of person would see, this is an 18-year-old kid accused of murder, facing
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This is the reality, that as he sits right now waiting for the verdict, there is a distinct
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possibility that for the rest of his life, which could last 60, he could spend 70 years
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Once again, guilty or not, who would not have an emotional breakdown, a panic attack, cry
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And yet Joy Reid sees that, and she's suspicious.
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And she doesn't think that white males or even white people in general have emotions.
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It is, I mean, she, lots of people in positions of influence in this country today and power
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really, truly hate white people, truly hate them.
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And I'll tell you this, there is no one, and I really mean no one, in a position of power
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or influence in this country today who truly hates black people in the way that Joy Reid
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And we know that because those kinds of people, those kinds of racists, have been driven out.
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There's a very intentional campaign to find the racists and drive them out.
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But racists like Joy Reid, you know, that's fine.
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We, you know, there's not going to be any segment.
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I don't care, anyone on the left, you think Fox News is racist, which it isn't.
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But you think you're ever going to see a segment on Fox News?
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Is there going to be someone on Fox News talking about the problem of black tears?
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And that's because this kind of out and out, this is dangerous.
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I mean, when you've got people in positions of influence, Joy Reid should have no influence
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And when you have this kind of totally dehumanizing racism against, you know, this effort to dehumanize
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an entire race of people, it is very dangerous.
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And it's, it's, it's not going, well, it's going in the same, to the same place and heading
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in the same direction that these sorts of things always do throughout history.
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It says, new government data confirms what many have suspected.
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The pandemic has prompted a record number of drug overdose deaths with more than 100,000
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Americans succumbing to addiction as COVID-19 raged across the country.
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That figure is almost 30 times higher than the previous year when 78,000 overdose deaths
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were reported, according to provisional figures from the U.S. Center for Disease Control.
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Lead researcher on, on this says the 12 month period ending in April, 2021 is the first time
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we've seen over a hundred thousand estimated deaths due to drug overdose.
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Drug overdose deaths continue to rise at least through April, 2021.
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So this past spring, and that's this past spring, we haven't seen any indication that
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And as he said, there's no reason to think that it's gotten better.
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A hundred thousand people dying of a drug overdose in one year, a hundred thousand.
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Okay, you don't have to go back that far to what a point when the number would have been
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something like 30 or 40,000 or 50,000, which was still a lot.
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It's doubled now and in a short period of time.
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Well, this is something we could spend a lot more time on and maybe we will on a different
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First of all, as many of us said the entire time, lockdowns, okay, the lockdown is not
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It's not just a matter of, well, better safe than sorry.
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And, you know, even if we're inconveniencing people, at least we're preventing people from
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The lockdown is something that you're doing and it will itself cause deaths and it has.
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It's not a coincidence that this, even the CDC is not denying that there's a connection
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between the lockdowns and drug overdose deaths.
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We know about suicide and, you know, the rapidly dramatic increase in suicide deaths and suicide
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attempts, especially among kids that happened during the lockdown.
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So this was a, this was a calculation that was made saying that let's lock everybody down
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and we're going to do that in order to theoretically save the lives of this group over here.
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But in so doing, we're going to ensure that this group over here dies.
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So it was kind of, it was a trade, a trade-off and not a trade-off worth making.
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Also, another point is that it's really unfortunate that criticizing the pharmaceutical industry
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I mean, this used to be something where you would find some common ground.
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This was an issue where there was some amount of common ground between the left and right.
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That we could talk about the pharmaceutical industry and abuses in the pharmaceutical industry
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and the way that the pharmaceutical industry has very intentionally gotten millions of people
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And we could talk about that and, you know, you could find agreement on the left and right.
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But now, after COVID and the vaccine, it's been decided that in order to protect and defend
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the honor of the vaccine, that means we also have to protect and defend the honor of the pharmaceutical industry.
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And so criticizing the pharmaceutical industry now has become, it's now a partisan thing.
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And if you do that, it's sort of an anti-science conspiracy theory, which is really a shame.
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Because when we talk about 100,000 overdose deaths, and it's not going to get better on its own,
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Big part of the blame, yeah, we have lockdowns.
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As I said, the pharmaceutical industry has very intentionally gotten millions of people hooked on drugs.
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And this is all part of the, as I said, this is a much bigger conversation
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But this is all part of a problem I've talked about on the show,
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which is the medicalizing of the human condition.
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Every uncomfortable feeling that you feel, go get a drug for it.
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Every pain that you experience, every physical pain, go get a drug for it.
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And there's, of course, you can't watch TV without seeing these advertisements for drugs,
00:37:15.940
And what they're doing, they're not simply saying, you know,
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they aren't, in these advertisements, they are not just selling the drug,
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well, are you experiencing this and this symptom?
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Well, then you might have this disease, and hey, by the way, here's the drug for it.
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That's not the way that this really should work.
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I mean, historically, traditionally, you go to the doctor,
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and they diagnose you and tell you what the disease might be,
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and if there's a need for a drug, they'll give it to you.
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But now, people have the pharmaceutical industry selling them the disease,
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and then they go to their doctors with the disease already in mind,
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with the diagnosis that they got from an advertisement or from WebMD,
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and they bring that to the doctor, and they say,
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this is the disease that I have, here are my symptoms,
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And quite often, they find doctors who are lacking in scruples
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and have conflicts of interest financially and are willing to do it.
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and that's where all the fentanyl is coming from,
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and we've got an even deeper problem in our culture
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So all these things all together contribute to this problem.
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with seven other people that I've never met before.
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One of my goals is to step outside my comfort zone.
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This experience is going to help me grow my wings.
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just the first 20 minutes, and I'll tell you why.
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And these reality shows were bad enough on their own.
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they're having a difficult conversation about race.
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But at least they're getting outside of their comfort zones,
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who all have the same values and opinions as them.
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Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.
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I think it's, I think it's a great use for monkeys.
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maybe we've talked about this on the show before.
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This sounds like the kind of thing we would talk about.
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and there's not a lot of money to pay someone to do it
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And a lot of people, some people do, of course,
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with the idea of barnyard animals who are enslaved.
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this is the greatest purpose that you can give an animal
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This is why I think some people don't like zoos.
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They're bringing joy and happiness to human beings.
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Isn't that a great purpose for an animal to serve?
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You can feel sorry for the elephant in the zoo,
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And, you know, they're just kind of wandering around.
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is a, is a great and wonderful purpose for animals.
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Matt, if Britney Spears was really such a potential threat
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I don't know Britney Spears' psychological state.
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but I do know that just because you can perform on stage,
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Yeah, you can dance around on stage and sing a song.
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the decision of the court should be taken at face value
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where's the evidence of Britney Spears' sanity?
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but if you're going to be involved in that movement,
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saying she needs to be freed from her conservatorship,
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then I, I would assume you must have some evidence
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but do you have any reason to think they shouldn't?
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And I said, hey, Bernice was put under a conservatorship
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Bernice shouldn't be under that conservatorship.
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Of course, the difference here is that people think
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Hollywood, the music industry, the record industry,
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they create the illusion that you know these people
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I think I expected to be a much better parent than I am,