Ep. 866 - Armed Robbery Is Now A Misdemeanor In New York
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As violent crime surges to record levels across the country, the new DA of Manhattan has decided to pour gasoline on the flames. He s announced this week that he will not prosecute armed robbery, among a slew of other serious crimes. Why are these people doing this? Are they trying to destroy their cities? And if so, why? We ll talk about that today, as Joe Biden addresses the nation about Omnicorn and lies repeatedly. And we re only one day away from the sacred anniversary of January 6th. How will you commemorate the special occasion? Plus, a prominent trans YouTuber apparently does not approve of my bestselling, LGBT children s book, Johnny the Walrus, and recorded a lengthy video explaining why. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, as violent crime surges to record levels across the country,
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the new DA of Manhattan has decided to pour gasoline on the flames. He's announced this
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week that he will not prosecute armed robbery among a slew of other serious crimes. Why are
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these people doing this? Are they trying to destroy their cities? And if so, why? We'll
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talk about that today. Also, Joe Biden addresses the nation about Omnicorn and lies repeatedly.
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What else is new? And we're only one day away from the sacred anniversary of January 6th.
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How will you commemorate the special occasion? Plus, a prominent trans YouTuber apparently
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does not approve of my bestselling LGBT children's book, Johnny the Walrus, and recorded a lengthy
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video explaining why. I'll respond to that today. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, for several years now, billionaire supervillain vampire George Soros has been
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quietly pumping many millions of dollars into local district attorney races all across the country.
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Now, I haven't checked his Wikipedia, but I'm pretty sure that George Soros is about 285 years
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old at this point, old enough to be Joe Biden's uncle, you know, and he's only has about probably
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about a century left to live then. Yet he's decided to dedicate these waning moments of his life to
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building an army of rabidly left-wing DAs who are all singularly committed to not doing the one single
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thing their job requires them to do, which is prosecute crimes. They're prosecutors. That's
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what they're supposed to do. Thanks to Soros, we now have DA Kim Foxx in Chicago, who recently refused
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to prosecute a group of gangbangers who shot each other in the middle of the street. Also, DA George
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Gascon in Los Angeles, who's overseen an enormous spike in crime since taking over a year ago in
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that city. DA Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, who has presided over an historic surge in the homicide
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rate. In fact, a dozen cities in the United States set new murder records this year, largely thanks
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to Soros DAs. But we aren't supposed to notice the Soros connection. And if we do notice that we
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aren't supposed to talk about it because Soros is Jewish and therefore any criticism of him or related
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to him or anything he does is anti-Semitic, according to the media. Now, needless to say, this rule is not
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applied equally across the board. No rule ever is. Because if it was, then any criticism of, say, Ben Shapiro
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or his company, The Daily Wire, or even the beloved children's authors and his employee would also be
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anti-Semitic. But Shapiro doesn't count for whatever reason, perhaps because he actually practices Judaism,
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whereas Soros is a secular atheist. But in any case, the latest Soros creature to be elected to
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the district attorney's office of a major city is Alvin Bragg. He's the new DA of Manhattan.
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And in a memo released to his staff earlier this week, Bragg made it clear that, you know, he's been
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watching all the ways that his fellow Soros goblins have destroyed their respective cities. And he's
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concerned that the work is not being done quickly enough. And that's why Bragg, according to the memo,
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will be stepping back from prosecuting crime, almost all crime, including violent crime.
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Now, New York is one of the cities that's experienced a crime surge, especially in violent
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crime, with 485 murders committed in the city in 2021. That's a jump of well over 50 percent over
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the murder rate just two years ago. But Bragg says that those are rookie numbers. We got to pump them
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up. And here's how he plans to do it, as reported by the New York Post. Listen to this.
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In his first memo to staff on Monday, Alvin Bragg said that his office will not seek a carceral
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sentence that is a prison sentence, except with homicides and a handful of other cases,
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including domestic violence, felonies, some sex crimes and public corruption. Quote,
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this rule may be accepted only in extraordinary circumstances based on a holistic analysis of the
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facts, criminal history, victims input, especially in cases of violence or trauma and any other
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information available. The memo reads, assistant district attorneys must also now keep in mind
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the, quote, impacts of incarceration, including whether it really does increase public safety,
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potential future barriers to convicts include involving housing and employment
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and the financial cost of prison and also the racial disparities over who gets time,
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Bragg instructed. Well, at least they'll still be seeking prison time for some sex crimes,
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only some, you know, just the bad ones, I guess. So far, this all sounds relatively in line with the
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brand of lunacy we've grown accustomed to over the last few years, but it gets worse from the post.
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It says, Bragg's memo also detailed the following instructions for prosecutors to reduce charges
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filed by cops in various cases. Armed robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons to stick up stores
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and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor provided no victims
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were seriously injured and there's no, quote, genuine risk of physical harm to anyone. Armed robbery,
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a class B felony would typically be punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison, while petty larceny
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subjects offenders to up to 364 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. So you heard that right. Armed robbery
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is a misdemeanor in New York now. No prison time. The memo goes on to explain that, of course,
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such trivial crimes as burglary and drug dealing will also be effectively ignored. But the inclusion
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of armed robbery takes this to a to a new level. The rationale seems to be that armed robbery does
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not necessarily create a, quote, genuine risk of physical harm. Now, silly me, I would have thought
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that there's always a genuine risk of physical harm when somebody points a gun at your face.
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But that's not what a risk of physical harm looks like, apparently. You know, a guy who walks to his
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table at Olive Garden without a mask on. Now there's someone who's creating a risk of physical harm.
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But if you were to merely take out a firearm pointed in the direction of somebody's skull
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and politely request that the contents of the person's wallet be emptied into the bag he's holding,
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well, there's no reason to overreact to that. After all, what is it that armed robbers almost
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always say, at least in the movies? They always say, well, give me your money and you won't get
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hurt. Do as I say and you won't get hurt. So really, if you do become physically harmed during
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the course of an armed robbery, it's actually your fault. You should have just done as you were told.
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I mean, he said, do what you're told and you won't get hurt. I wish that everything that I'm saying
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right now was a joke, but it's not. Here is, I think, one important point to take away from all
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this. As much as the people behind these policies talk about systemic racism and the impact of
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incarceration and rehabilitation, all the rest of it, none of that has anything to do with the
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policies themselves. It is not an overabundance of compassion that drives this. This is not a case
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of misplaced sympathies. The bleeding heart liberal stereotype was never accurate and certainly isn't
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today. I'll tell you what actually drives this. Actually, it's two things. Both are cynical and
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calculated. One is more politically practical than the other. So the first is simply that this is an
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attempt to solve the crime problem on paper through reclassification. Because if you stop treating
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crime as crime, then the crime goes away. It's like magic. Sure, there are just as many people
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selling drugs and robbing liquor stores. In fact, quite a bit more people now because you're not
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prosecuting it. But that's only technically a crime problem if you call it a crime. Stop calling it a
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crime and the crime goes away. Leftist political leaders and DAs are, to some extent, sort of adopting
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the rationalization of a cuckolded husband who solves the problem of his wife cheating on him
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by deciding that, well, actually we're in an open marriage. See, it isn't adultery if he approves of
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it, he thinks. We'll just take this thing and we'll recategorize it and problem solved.
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Just as crime isn't crime if the people in charge of prosecuting it are giving it the thumbs up.
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That's the practical and the political motivation. But I think at a deeper level,
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there's something else going on. This is, at bottom, nothing less than an attempt to overturn
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human society, to flip the moral order on its head. The anarchy in the streets is all a part of
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the plan, part of the design. The refusal to prosecute or punish violent criminals who prey upon the weak
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and vulnerable is a direct affront to civilization itself. Because it flies in the face of every
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value we hold dear as human beings. It is anti-human. It's anti-civilization. It's anti-moral,
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amoral. There's the real plan. To tear everything down. Leftism is inherently destructive. It's the only
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thing it knows how to do. Tear everything down. And then build something new, something hideous
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from the wreckage. That's the objective. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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by the way, if you live, you know, around where we live here in Tennessee. They're calling for
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another big winter blast tomorrow. And what they're saying is it could be a little bit of ice and then
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maybe one or two inches of snow. And, you know, maybe even up to three inches of snow. But the thing
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is, from what I learned last year, living in the South for the first time through my first winter in
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the South is what I've learned, is that you really do have to treat that as the apocalypse because
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that's how people respond to it. I don't know what it is around here, but the moment one flake of snow
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just immediately turn their wheels and run into the nearest guardrail. I don't know why.
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Total panic ensues. And the roads are not usable. And the funny thing is that everybody around here
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drives pickup trucks. But then as soon as the weather conditions actually call for a vehicle
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of that type, like now it's game time. You have this pickup truck. I have one too. And as soon as
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the weather, it's like, this is what you have this vehicle for. But everybody freaks out and panics.
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Um, and, uh, so you gotta, you gotta prepare yourself. I was talking to my wife about this
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earlier today and, uh, she was saying, well, do we know, do we need to go get salt or whatever?
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And I said, don't worry about that. The main thing we need are, are sleds. You've got to make sure we
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have sleds, you know, for the kids. And she said, well, we're good. We have four sleds, you know,
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one for each kid. And I said, well, what about me? So she's running out right now to get me a sled as
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well. Um, my wife, she keeps, keeps, keeps trying to convince me as an adult that like, well, why
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don't we take up skiing or some sort of adult hobby? I don't do that. I, but I do like to sled
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just give me one of those cheap $5 saucer things and I'll get on that. And I'll, I'll be out playing
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in the snow for an hour after my kids go in. All right, let's start with this. Uh, Biden addressed
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the nation about, uh, the Omnicorn again yesterday. And he of course blatantly lied over and over again.
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I think this was the most egregious lie that they're sticking with, even though everybody
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knows that this is not true. It's a hundred percent clear that it's not true, but he says
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this, this is still a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Listen, we have in hand all the vaccines we need
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to get every American fully vaccinated, including the booster shot. So there's no excuse, no excuse
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for anyone being unvaccinated. This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So we
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got to make more progress. And for patients who still haven't gotten your kids vaccinated,
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please get them vaccinated. Look out for their interest here. It's the best way to protect
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them. And for parents with kids too young to be vaccinated, surround your kids with people
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who are vaccinated and make sure you're masking in public. So you don't get COVID and give it to
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your kids. Surround your kids with people who are vaccinated. Like, uh, I guess like a force field,
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um, you know, you know, and actually the, the healthiest thing for your kid, in fact,
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is, um, for them to have a bunch of other kids around them that they can play with and socialize with,
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uh, not, not to, not to be surrounded by an army of force field of vaccinated people.
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But what he's saying here is of course, completely wrong. Um, and, and he knows it too.
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And everybody knows it, but this is, this is what they do. They just stick, come up with a lie
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and stick with it and keep saying it and keep saying it until you break down people's defenses
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and, um, kind of, you have your own sort of breakthrough case and then people start believing
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what they, what they originally knew was a lie. Everybody is getting COVID, especially Omnicorn.
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I know that this is, this is anecdotal, but everybody, this is all anyone, anyone has done
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this entire time is talking about their anecdotal experiences. So I'll tell you about my anecdotal
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experience, which I think is a little bit beyond anecdotal because this, when you, when you look
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at the data, it appears to line up with data. So in, in my anecdotal experience over the last two
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weeks, um, almost like everyone I know has gotten COVID and we can assume that it's Omnicorn
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because that's the dominant trance that everybody's getting. And it's so contagious that, you know,
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if you just walk by someone, you're probably going to get it, uh, apparently. And it's, and it's fine
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because it's, it's mild and it's a cold, but, um, everyone around me is getting it. And in my family,
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we'd all been feeling, you know, kind of, kind of special because up to this point, none of us had
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ever gotten in my immediate family and also in the extended family, no one had gotten sick over two
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years and then everyone gets it. But what I can also tell you is that I got a pretty good mix in
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my family of people who are, uh, vaccinated and unvaccinated, not boosted. I don't know. I actually
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do not know a single person who's gotten the booster shot, but we've got vaccinated, unvaccinated
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people. And, um, everyone's experience with Omnicorn was almost exactly the same, regardless
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of vaccination status. I'm not saying that's going to be the case for everybody on YouTube. I'm just
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telling you what my experience was. Everyone's encounter with Omnicorn was exactly the same.
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You know, feel like you're coming down with something mildly to moderately sick.
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For me, it was a little bit, it was worse than a mild, I wouldn't call it a mild cold. I call
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it like a moderate cold for a couple of days. And then you start getting better and you're fine.
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And I look at my own family, people I know it's it. And you, if you were to, to, to look at their
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experience with COVID, you wouldn't be able to guess based on that, whether they're vaccinated or not.
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And then when you take a look at the data that appears to line up, everybody's getting it and
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it's mild for everybody. But then what you all, of course, what you always hear. So it's a self
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fulfilling prophecy because every day, you know, we hear from another person in media or politician
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or some prominent person who says, yeah, I'm, I'm, I got, I've just diagnosed positive for COVID.
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But then what do they always tell you? They say, I'm, I'm vaxxed and, and boosted. And thank God,
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because if I wasn't, it would be way worse. Well, how do you know that? Maybe it would have been
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significantly worse if you didn't have your three shots or your four shots or whatever. But how do
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you know that? That's not based on anything other than your own assumption, your own hope.
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And it's very good reason to think that it would not have been significantly worse
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if you weren't vaccinated, because especially with this variant, it's mild for almost everybody.
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And if you're not in a high risk group and you're, you know, relatively healthy and you're not,
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Most likely this was going to be a mild to moderate situation regardless.
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All right. We've got one more clip from Biden. Some more, more encouraging words for those of us
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who are not vaccinated. He says, again, this is going to be a winter of sickness and death for you.
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Listen, and by the way, we have booster shots for the whole nation. Okay. We can, you can still get
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COVID, but it's highly unlikely, very unlikely that you become seriously ill. And we're seeing COVID-19
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cases among vaccinated in workplaces across America, including here at the White House. But
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if you're vaccinated and boosted, you are highly protected. You know, be concerned about Omicron,
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but don't be alarmed. But if you're unvaccinated, you have some reason to be alarmed. Many of you will,
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you know, you'll experience severe illness in many cases if you get COVID-19, if you're not vaccinated.
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Be concerned, but not alarmed, unless you're not vaccinated, in which case you're going to die.
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But which is it? He just said that the pandemic, this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. And then he
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follows that up by saying, no, I mean, everyone's, everyone's getting it, even if they're vaccinated,
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even here in the White House. Well, then you just say it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Which is it?
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Are we all in this together or not? Because it seems like whether we like it or not, we are.
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At least in terms of being susceptible to contracting COVID.
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All right. In keeping with the theme of the week, the media are discovering truths about COVID that
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many of us have known and have been shouting from the rooftops, or maybe shouting at a brick wall,
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it felt like, for nearly three years now. David Leonhardt over at the New York Times has a piece
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titled, No Way to Grow Up. For the past two years, Americans have accepted more harm to children in
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exchange for less harm to adults. And it's a good piece, and I recommend reading it.
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It also sounds like someone I know, someone in, someone in this very room, in fact, room I'm sitting
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in right now, has been saying for years that the worst thing about our COVID policies, as they pertain
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to children, is that all of it is being done not to protect kids, but to protect adults.
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The New York Times has discovered this three years later. But if you've been listening to this show,
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you've heard it almost every day for three years. Because that has always been apparent.
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You know, it's one thing. I would have a lot more tolerance. I have a lot more tolerance and patience
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for people who go overboard in trying to protect their kids.
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I understand that instinct as a parent. We're all guilty of it to some extent.
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You know, there are at least going to be certain areas in life, certain areas that play on your
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own special anxieties as a parent, where you give your children, where you're much more restrictive
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of your children than you need to be, but just because you're worried about them.
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So I get that. And you know something? If this was, first of all, if this was a virus that specially
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affected children, if it attacked and victimized children in the way that it attacks and victimizes
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elderly people and morbidly obese, then probably my opinion about our response to it would have been
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totally different. In fact, I probably would have been sitting here saying, let's shut society down
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for the sake of the kids. Because at that point, for the sake of protecting kids who cannot protect
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themselves, and as society, I believe that should be our number one priority, is to protect the next
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generation. As parents, for our own kids, that's our number one job. And so then you start thinking,
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well, like any sacrifice I have to make is worth it. But that wasn't the case. Thank God.
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But even if, you know, if COVID was a little bit more dangerous to kids, and so we saw many of these
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policies being put in place out of a concern for the kids themselves, I wouldn't have agreed with it.
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Trying to do remote learning for three years, which is impossible for kids.
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Because they're not going to learn that way. You can't put a six-year-old in front of a computer
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screen for six hours a day and expect them to learn anything. So I wouldn't have agreed with it,
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but I would have been more sympathetic to it. But that's not what's happening.
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We're doing all of this to protect the adults. That's always been the case.
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When you see all of the videos of, you know, three-year-old kids on airplanes
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who are being yelled at to put masks on, and that eventually kicked off the plane
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while they're crying and confused, because they don't want to wear this stupid thing on their face.
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It's impossible to make a kid that young wear anything above their neck.
00:24:19.280
And when you see all of that, these are not, and you see the adults kicking a kid off the plane,
00:24:25.100
they're not doing it out of a desperate concern for the child's safety. They're doing it out of
00:24:29.220
a desperate and selfish concern for their own safety, and not even their own safety. It's not
00:24:33.740
even that they're protecting themselves. That would be bad enough. But they're not protecting
00:24:37.960
themselves physically, because that child presents almost no threat to them physically.
00:24:44.220
It's about protecting the adults' feelings, their sense of security. It's about making them
00:24:51.200
feel better. So we're going to ruin kids' lives. We're going to ruin their social and emotional and
00:24:59.200
psychological development, keep them isolated, deprive them of a real education. Not that they get much
00:25:06.200
of a real education in school anyway. Put masks on them. Do all of this. Scare them to death
00:25:11.800
so that we can feel better. Feel better. So that's a speech. I'm now rehearsing the speech
00:25:21.900
you've heard 10,000 times. And now we're hearing it from the New York Times. So I want to read a
00:25:26.400
little bit of this, because it is actually worth reading, even if it's annoying that it took this
00:25:31.040
long to get to it. But there is a lot of useful information here. So here's what he writes in
00:25:35.920
part. He says, American children are starting 2022 in crisis. I have long been aware that the
00:25:41.020
pandemic was upending children's lives. But until I spent time pulling together data and reading
00:25:44.940
reports, I did not understand just how alarming the situation had become. Well, you might have
00:25:50.020
understood, David, if you'd listened to us when we were trying to tell you.
00:25:52.920
Um, for the past, you know, 36 months or whatever. Children, and then it goes into what the, what the
00:26:01.240
exact toll is. Children fell far behind in school during the first year of the pandemic and have not
00:26:05.380
caught up. Among third through eighth graders, math and reading levels were all lower than normal
00:26:10.360
this fall. According to the NWEA, a research group, um, not to be confused with the NWEA. The shortfalls
00:26:18.700
were largest to black and Hispanic students, as well as students in schools with high poverty rates.
00:26:23.780
Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute says, we haven't seen this kind of academic
00:26:28.940
achievement crisis in living memory. Many children and teenagers are experiencing, uh, mental health
00:26:34.080
problems aggravated by the isolation and disruption of the pandemic. Three medical groups, including the
00:26:38.580
American Academy of Pediatrics, recently declared a national state of emergency in children's mental
00:26:43.420
health. They cited dramatic increases in emergency department visits for all mental health
00:26:48.500
emergencies. Suicide attempts have risen slightly, uh, have risen slightly among adolescent boys and
00:26:53.780
sharply among adolescent girls. The number of ER visits for suspected suicide attempts by 12 to 17
00:26:59.720
year old girls rose by 51% from early 2019 to early 2021. Why would it affect girls even more than
00:27:08.020
boys? I mean, it's affecting both groups, but girls are also more relational by nature. Um, and so they're
00:27:17.300
going to naturally be more affected when you take those relationships away from them. I think that's
00:27:22.340
probably the reason. Gun violence against children has increased as part of a broader nationwide rise
00:27:27.460
in crime. In Chicago, for example, 101 residents under age 20 were murdered last year. Um, and then, um,
00:27:36.320
goes on with some of the more, some more academic problems and then, and then so on. So children are
00:27:41.340
being the victims of, uh, the victims of the victims of violence more than ever suicide attempts. I'm a 51% increase in
00:27:48.220
suicide attempts is it's staggering, catastrophic. Um, and, uh, victims of violence from other people. All of this is
00:27:59.840
happening. Now, leaving aside again, the fact that, that, that we've all been saying this, or many of us have been saying
00:28:09.340
this for a long time, the other problem is that even in these, these articles where members of the media
00:28:14.340
are seeming to finally confront what we've done to kids, it's still not a full confrontation.
00:28:21.200
There's still an ignoring huge pieces of the puzzle. Like for example, he's still not confronting
00:28:28.580
the fact that, um, masking, you know, the psychological toll of forcing kids to wear masks for three years.
00:28:39.340
He's not talking about that. That's a, that's a big part of this, especially again, when we talk
00:28:46.080
about the psychological effects that this has had. No generation in the history of the world has ever
00:28:55.900
had had this. I mean, there are some kids today who are six years old or seven years old, and they
00:29:06.440
don't remember a time when they didn't have to wear a mask when they left their house.
00:29:12.880
That's there. There has never been a generation of kids that's experienced that.
00:29:18.640
Sure. There have been kids who had various points have had to wear medical masks,
00:29:22.180
but as a lifestyle, as an everyday, all day thing for years on end. No.
00:29:29.580
Um, but the media is still not that that's, that is one line that the media is not ready
00:29:36.060
to cross. In fact, as far as that goes, as far as masking kids goes, it's only getting worse.
00:29:40.180
Here's a today show segment from yesterday advocating now N95s for kids.
00:29:45.000
So they go all the way over your head, not the most comfortable, but very, very snug. Not a lot
00:29:52.100
of air is getting in between the sides of my cheeks or the tops of my cheeks.
00:29:55.760
Hey, hey, Vic, the kids are back in the classroom, at least the overwhelming majority of them.
00:30:00.760
Um, what's, what's the recommendation for our youngest learners?
00:30:03.620
Okay. So we talked to Dr. John Torres about this because I actually just sent my kids out the door
00:30:10.340
this morning minutes ago with two masks. He says, obviously the can 95 and 95 are the most effective,
00:30:16.280
but it can be really hard to find them in small kid sizes and also to keep them on your kids all day.
00:30:21.600
They're not the most comfortable. So the second best option is to make sure you have a kid size
00:30:26.700
surgical mask. And by the way, look at what a difference the kid size mask is from the adult size.
00:30:32.060
So you really want to make sure you have one that fits your child's face and you want to layer
00:30:36.540
the cloth mask over that mask. So the surgical mask goes on first and then the cloth mask.
00:30:42.600
If you can't do that surgical mask alone, Dr. Torres says least best, but better than nothing.
00:30:48.500
The two layer cotton mask that fits your child. The best mask certainly is the one that your child
00:30:52.600
will wear and keep on the whole day when they're in the classroom.
00:30:56.120
Yeah, put the N95 because as she says, no air is getting in.
00:30:59.720
And that's, that's great for kids, right? I mean, who, who needs to breathe air?
00:31:06.480
It's a good thing. Our kids are all, um, you know, Marine creatures. They're all,
00:31:10.740
they're all deep sea creatures. They don't need to breathe air.
00:31:15.700
I've got a better recommendation for all your masks is you take all, she's got all the examples
00:31:19.320
of the different masks there. So here's my, here's my, uh, personal recommendation. You take those
00:31:24.340
masks, um, along with, like we talked about yesterday, along with the tests that you have,
00:31:28.680
you've been hoarding, you take all of that and, uh, throw it in the garbage and stop abusing your
00:31:34.940
children. You psychopaths. All right. We are now one day away from the sacred anniversary of January
00:31:42.360
6th. Hopefully you've, you've thought about what you will do to commemorate the day. Um, I can tell
00:31:47.640
you, I've talked about this with my wife a little bit, but, uh, it, and I think what we're going to
00:31:51.600
be doing is we're going to rise early in the morning and then we're going to sit, um, around
00:31:56.580
on, on, on the floor and what we call a cry circle. And you know what a cry circle is. Every
00:32:01.500
family, you guys do this where we sit in a circle. We just cry silently for two hours, um, fully
00:32:06.360
masked, obviously. And then we're going to take turns reciting our favorite passages from, uh,
00:32:12.340
Amanda Gorman poems or from AOC's Instagram live transcripts. You could do either one.
00:32:17.940
And then obviously we'll sacrifice a goat to our idol of St. George Floyd. Um, that's
00:32:23.580
kind of our own tradition, but each family has their own. Um, the New York times and the
00:32:29.240
media, of course, they've got their traditions for January 6th. They have yet another January
00:32:32.800
6th reflection piece. This one titled the Capitol police and the scars of January 6th. For many
00:32:39.380
officers, their bodies, minds, and lives will never be the same after the attack. You read
00:32:46.320
that and you think, well, will we ever see an article like that about the officers who
00:32:49.920
suffered through the BLM riots, for example? What about their bodies and minds and lives?
00:32:58.620
And the thing about the officers who were in the BLM riots is that, uh, not only were those
00:33:02.640
riots far more violent and far more dangerous, but after the fact and during these officers did
00:33:11.140
not have the entire American media supporting them. So they had the, the insult to injury here where
00:33:20.960
they were being portrayed as the villains by the media, at least the Capitol police officers have,
00:33:27.580
you know, are, are being celebrated by the media. Maybe that'll help heal their, their wounds a little
00:33:34.400
bit. Uh, the, the other officers who dealt with BLM riots, quite the opposite. Here's, but all joking aside
00:33:44.000
for a second, when it comes to January 6th, here's what that was. If we need to reflect on it, which I don't
00:33:50.580
think we do because more than enough has been said, but here's what January 6th was in reality. It was very,
00:33:59.060
very stupid. Okay. The rioters were very stupid. They acted emotionally. They had no plan beyond that.
00:34:10.620
That's one of the ways that we know is that, know that this was not, this was not an insurrection.
00:34:14.900
There was no plan in place to overthrow the government. This was very stupid. These were emotional people
00:34:21.780
who were just acting out and doing whatever. And that's why you can, you can look at the, the ample
00:34:28.980
amount of security footage that we've seen from inside the Capitol. And what do you see? You see
00:34:34.220
all these people rush in and then once they get inside, they just kind of start moseying around
00:34:39.680
and then they eventually leave. And a couple of them take some souvenirs with them.
00:34:48.220
It's kind of like a dark night. The Joker talks about, he's like a car, a dog chasing a car. He
00:34:52.680
wouldn't know what to do once he catches it. So these rioters, they got into the Capitol building,
00:34:57.660
didn't know what to do once they got there because there was no plan, but it's very, very stupid
00:35:02.540
and counterproductive in the extreme, let's say, but they were not insurrectionists because again,
00:35:11.900
they never posed the slightest threat to our system of government. They were not going to overthrow the
00:35:19.240
government. How exactly was that going to work? I mean, for everybody in the media tells us our,
00:35:26.060
our system is on the, was on the brink. It was almost toppled over that day. How?
00:35:33.980
Even in your wildest fantasies, what could have happened that would have resulted in our
00:35:40.140
government being overthrown? Now, this is a very stupid event that has provided lots of ammunition
00:35:48.140
from the media. And that's all that really needs to be said about it. In a healthy country,
00:35:52.720
would have long since moved on by now, but the media and the government, the Democrat party,
00:35:58.000
they're not going to allow that to happen. January 6th gave them ammunition that they
00:36:03.940
will never stop using ever. And that's another one of the reasons why this was a very stupid thing.
00:36:10.600
All right. Uh, so I've had this in the, uh, on deck for a few days now, I got to finally mention it.
00:36:19.380
You've probably heard about it by now. This is from the daily wire. The most successful female
00:36:22.520
quote unquote ever to appear on Jeopardy is actually a biological male. Amy Schneider,
00:36:27.700
the show's first transgender contestant became the highest earning contestant who identifies as female
00:36:32.740
after winning for the 18th consecutive time last Friday. Um, I guess his winnings are probably higher
00:36:39.400
now, but Schneider has now won $706,000 on the game show with a chance to win more tonight.
00:36:45.680
Um, yeah, this was a few days old. I'm not sure if Amy Schneider is still kicking ass on Jeopardy or
00:36:50.980
not, but the, the highest earning woman in Jeopardy history is a man. Here's a good morning America
00:36:59.220
a few days ago, gushing over this whole story. We're going to turn to a story that's a little bit
00:37:04.460
more uplifting. Hopefully, uh, Jeopardy champion, Amy Schneider in a league of her own. Now this
00:37:09.520
morning, she won for the 21st straight time on Wednesday, the most by a woman just days after
00:37:14.880
taking the record for highest all time earnings for a woman earlier this near this year. Schneider,
00:37:20.400
she made history as the first transgender contestant to make the tournament of champions.
00:37:24.740
She still has a long way to go though, to catch host Ken Jennings and his 74 game winning streak,
00:37:30.840
but it has been fun to watch. She's well on her way. I just got one question. Who run the world?
00:37:42.700
Do they though? Because the top female Jeopardy contestant is a man and the top female college
00:37:50.940
swimmer is a man. And the first female four-star admiral in the public health service is a man.
00:37:58.980
And some of the top female MMA fighters have been men. And some of the top female track,
00:38:08.440
high school track athletes have all been men. So do girls run the world? Girls don't even run
00:38:15.840
female track anymore. If it wasn't for the fact that our civilization was being fundamentally
00:38:28.960
deconstructed, you would, you would have to, you would have to laugh about this because the
00:38:33.220
patriarchy has won. You know, the patriarchy was, it was on the ropes a little bit for a few
00:38:38.500
decades really. And, uh, and then, and then they, they kind of, you know, regrouped and, and thought
00:38:45.540
about it and then realized that no, if the patriarchy is going to win, it has to be, it has to be,
00:38:52.520
this has to be infiltration. The patriarchy has infiltrated the female ranks and achieved ultimate
00:38:59.100
victory. It's kind of inspiring in a certain way. Let's get now to our, uh, comment section.
00:39:14.580
So Joshua says, usually I agree with you, Matt, on the over-diagnosis of mental disorders, but the
00:39:18.620
Antonio Brown case is different. I recommend you watch the film concussion. There's a trend of NFL
00:39:23.020
players acting irrationally and violently. This is seen in many contact sports where there's
00:39:27.540
consistent brain trauma, like boxing and football, but not in sports like basketball and baseball,
00:39:32.680
where there's little brain injury. CTE is a very real thing, but we can only tell if someone has
00:39:36.640
until after they die. It's very possible that Antonio Brown has CTE. And I think it's fair for his
00:39:40.660
possible mental health issues to be discussed. This case is different from a Simone Biles or Naomi
00:39:44.480
Osaka. Um, okay. Well, there's again, as I said yesterday, and I don't claim to be an expert on
00:39:53.840
this. I don't think you are either. Um, in fact, there's really, nobody is fully an expert on CTE
00:39:59.560
because it's very, very, it's, it's, it's mysterious right now. There's still a lot that
00:40:02.740
is not known about it and whether or not even the basic question of whether or not CTE is directly
00:40:10.380
caused by football injuries, that is far from confirmed. And then once you confirm that to,
00:40:18.760
to explain how a brain injury could cause behavior, um, that is also going to be very difficult to
00:40:26.880
explain. So there are a lot of unknown pieces. And yet with all of these unknowns, people who don't
00:40:33.700
know Antonio Brown have never looked at his brain. I've never looked at a brain scan, haven't been able
00:40:39.180
to open up his head and take a look at it. Because as you said, you can't do that until the person's
00:40:42.460
dead anyway. Yeah. You feel like you can sit back and, and diagnose him, not only diagnose him with
00:40:49.240
this condition, but directly link certain behaviors to that condition that you've, that you assume he
00:40:57.600
has. It's to me, it's so self-evidently absurd. It just seems like you're, you're trying desperately
00:41:05.240
to make excuses for this, for someone who's a total and has been his whole life. His whole career, he's
00:41:12.260
always been this way. And for some reasons, like you, you want to make excuses rather than what, why
00:41:19.720
don't we go when, when you're, when you have a situation and there are several different potential
00:41:25.840
competing explanations. Okay. It's Occam's razor. You go with the simplest explanation, the explanation
00:41:32.020
that requires the fewest number of assumptions. And to blame it on CTE requires an enormous array
00:41:39.740
of assumptions. Whereas you could just say, he's a jerk. He's an entitled jerk, like so many before
00:41:47.260
him, especially in sports. And that's it. Okay. Just Ray says, there's a testing center near where I
00:41:54.160
live and every day it's jam-packed with idiotic sheep, literally impeding traffic on a daily basis.
00:41:59.680
My Lord, I think I've seen some of the same cars parked days on end. Live your lives, people.
00:42:04.980
The only reason this has gone on three years is because you allow it to. Well, no, I mean, look,
00:42:08.760
you've got to wait in line for three hours to find out if you're sick or not. If you wake up with a
00:42:12.780
fever and a cough or something, you're not feeling well. Well, you know, I don't know. I could be sick,
00:42:17.500
but let me go wait in line for three hours to find out. You say sheep. Speaking of which,
00:42:20.780
I almost forgot this. I got to show you this. I mean, as, as you mentioned, you say that these are all
00:42:24.660
sheep. There's a, do we have this from, let's pull the tweet up from CBS. We don't have the tweet.
00:42:34.240
Okay. Well, some farmer, I think it was a farmer in Scotland. I'm just going to assume,
00:42:37.820
you know, making, making a prejudicial assumptions here. I think it's a farmer in Scotland. He wants,
00:42:45.060
I think wants to send a pro vaccine message. So he, can we play this? He got all his sheep
00:42:51.620
together and he had them. And he, I guess he lured them into place with food. He had them all form
00:43:01.300
the shape of a syringe. And this is supposed to be a pro vaccine message. Sheep forming the shape
00:43:09.260
of a syringe. I don't think that sends the message you want it to. It does send a powerful message,
00:43:15.560
perhaps a true one, but not the one you want. All right, let's go back to the comments.
00:43:19.040
Um, thin blue, thin blue pines says a hundred percent. That earring note was planted. You
00:43:26.700
have a daughter mastermind on your hands. I suffer from the same empathetic response to my kiddos
00:43:31.120
silently bummed out about being told no. Uh, yeah, she, I know that my, my daughters has figured these
00:43:39.140
things out. Fortunately, my sons have not. My daughters figured out some of the manipulation
00:43:44.320
techniques. Um, my sons are a little bit slower on the uptake when it comes to those things. I think
00:43:49.300
that's pretty, pretty common with, with boys. And so they still think if they want something from me,
00:43:54.520
they'll just, they'll just whine or yell or whatever. And it's, it's not doing it, fellas,
00:43:58.960
not going to do it. Um, let's see. Sam says, I have to say, well, I don't like the Spider-Man movies
00:44:07.600
plot, which was riddled with plot holes. I don't think you can properly judge an MCU movie. If you
00:44:12.420
have, if you've only seen one, if you want to be a critic of it, find time to actually watch more of
00:44:17.160
the movies, try to understand the broader story. If you haven't seen Dr. Strange's movies, why should
00:44:21.800
you be able to condemn his character? Because it's a very stupid character. That's why, that's how I
00:44:25.980
can condemn it. And it seems like you haven't seen Spider-Man two, the original, because you had,
00:44:30.900
uh, if you had, you might understand how Doc Ock turned good. Really? I would have understood that.
00:44:36.060
So the kid in a, in a laboratory take some scrap metal and a couple of, uh, you know,
00:44:40.800
like a couple of spoons or whatever, and just ties it all together, puts it on the back of his head
00:44:46.360
and he, and he turns good magically. I would have understood that. Um, again, spoilers on this movie,
00:44:54.500
but I just want to highlight, I've given you the warning for this, the Spider-Man movie that
00:44:59.380
everybody's raving about what they do in this film. I was actually, I was expecting it to be bad
00:45:04.660
because all of the Marvel movies are bad. All of them. There has not been a good one.
00:45:08.280
Um, they're not just bad, but they're all an affront to cinema. They are anti-cinema,
00:45:13.640
but this was way worse than I, than I could have ever imagined it would be.
00:45:20.280
Like my, my worst nightmare, but worse than that, because what they did with this movie is that
00:45:25.540
you've got 20 years of Spider-Man villains and, uh, each movie, right? For the last 20 years has been
00:45:32.560
sent sometimes multiple movies centered around one of these villains.
00:45:35.340
And Spider-Man's fighting the villains and trying to defeat them. And then, and then finally at the
00:45:40.660
end, Spider-Man defeats the villain. And then we say, well, that's the, that's the end of that story.
00:45:43.660
Okay. And in this film, because they're just desperate for a story, they say, you know what,
00:45:49.940
let's bring all of those villains back and then have Spider-Man magically make them all
00:45:55.880
not bad anymore. You think, okay, two things. Number one, why didn't he do that to begin with?
00:46:01.960
If that's an option, if it's an option to just make some thing and put it on the guy's neck and
00:46:07.040
make him good, well, we could have, we could have avoided 20 years of bad movies. If you just done
00:46:11.500
that to begin with, but also you've completely erased all of the stories that came before it.
00:46:19.600
You just negated them, which those stories don't mean anything to me. But if I was a fan of Spider-Man,
00:46:26.140
because I'm a 12 year old boy, you're the only ones who should be fans of these movies. Uh,
00:46:30.820
I'd be pretty annoyed by that. And then, and then also one other thing, because we have to move on
00:46:37.500
this, this whole, the whole, the whole, uh, catalyst of the plot is that if I remember correctly,
00:46:44.020
because it's all pretty incomprehensible and incoherent, but, uh, a villain from a previous
00:46:48.780
movie who apparently could have just been turned good, uh, with a, with a couple of spoons and
00:46:54.980
toothpicks, but they never thought to do it. So the villain in the previous movie told the world
00:47:00.280
that, um, Peter Parker is Spider-Man and Peter Parker in this, and that was the end of the last
00:47:07.140
movie. This movie, Peter Parker is upset because it's making his life inconvenient that everyone
00:47:10.760
knows that he's Spider-Man. And so he goes to the wizard, this wizard guy, Benedict Cumberbatch guy,
00:47:16.040
and says, can, can you erase from the entire world's memory, the fact that I'm Spider-Man?
00:47:22.620
And then the wizard says, well, I can, but then I'm going to have to erase the memory of you as
00:47:27.260
Peter Parker. That's the only way that this magic spell works. And then things go wrong and haywire.
00:47:33.420
And then, and then, and then eventually at the end, he ends up erasing everyone's mind anyway.
00:47:37.320
But how about this instead? If this is an option, go to the wizard and have the wizard erase
00:47:44.760
everyone's memory of the bad guy who told people this information to begin with.
00:47:50.140
Why not erase their memory of him instead of you? Well, because that would end the movie in three
00:47:55.660
minutes. Okay. I think that's about enough of that. As you know, the daily wire has led the charge to
00:48:04.900
sue the Biden administration for his vaccine mandates. And now we're taking it all the way to
00:48:09.000
the Supreme court. This Friday, the Supreme court will convene to hear arguments on the legality and
00:48:12.860
constitutionality of the mandate, which means that this week is going to be huge in our fight against
00:48:17.480
medical tyranny. We have over 1 million signatures on our do not comply petition currently, but it's
00:48:22.640
vital that it increases before Friday. So help us send our message aloud and clear and head to
00:48:27.260
dailywire.com slash do not comply right now. We're counting on you to help us put a stop to this
00:48:32.460
absolutely disgusting and tyrannical federal overreach. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:48:37.040
Today, we're going to be canceling Samantha Lux, who is a YouTuber and a quote trans woman. That
00:48:47.480
is a biological male with a YouTube channel, actually a quite popular channel with well over
00:48:51.680
600,000 subscribers. Somehow Sam has many videos promoting transgenderism and quite often responding
00:48:57.180
to perceived instances of transphobia. One of the most recent videos on the channel targets,
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if you can believe it, none other than the leading LGBT children's author on the planet,
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yours truly. Sam stumbled across my children's book, Johnny the Walrus, which is still available
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for pre-order over at johnnythewalrus.com, by the way, and does not approve. Specifically,
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my video where I read the book to a group of children has provoked Sam's ire in a video titled
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Transphobes Are Writing Children's Books, Trans Girl Reacts. This is good. You know, I am sincerely
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interested to hear how a trans girl, quote unquote, reacts to Johnny the Walrus. Perhaps
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this will be a point-by-point rebuttal. Perhaps evidence and science and logic and bulletproof
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moral arguments will all be marshaled. And by the end of the video, I will have completely
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changed my mind, realized the error in my ways, repented of my anti-trans beliefs.
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Maybe even because of this video that we'll watch together, I will become trans myself.
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It's possible. So let's watch some of this and see what our friend Samantha Lux brings
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to the table. Now, if you're familiar with the content that I create here on my channel,
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if you're familiar with the arguments that conservatives love to make about trans people,
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you would be familiar with transphobes' claim that we are indoctrinating their children,
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that we're making their children gay, that we're forcing their young tomboy daughter to
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become a boy. That's not me. Who, me? Who, me? I would never. I love you trans girl. I love
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your tomboy daughter. She is great. What I don't love is a hypocrite. Matt Walsh, if you are not
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familiar with, is like an infamous transphobe on YouTube. This ho- posted a video one week ago
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reading his book, Johnny the Walrus, to a bunch of little kids.
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Okay, so we're off to a rough start here already. A few points. First, I do not believe, Sam,
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that you are forcing any child to do anything or making any child do anything. I am accusing you
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and your fellow propagandists of trying to heavily influence children with falsehoods,
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distortion, lies, and other forms of insanity that they, the children, do not have the mental capacity
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to sort through. So indoctrination does not often involve physical force because you cannot physically
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force someone to believe something. Belief requires mental assent, not physical assent.
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But you can coerce and trick people into believing things. And when they're children,
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that's very easy to do, as you know from experience. Also, by the way, I appreciate being called infamous,
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and I won't take any issue with that label. But I am not an infamous transphobe because I'm not a
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transphobe at all. And when I say I'm not a transphobe, I'm not saying it to gain your approval or to
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convince you that I'm not bigoted. Yeah, I couldn't give it less of a damn if you think that I'm bigoted or
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not. I mean, it doesn't matter to me. I am instead concerned with definitions. And the definition of
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phobia is irrational fear. I'm not afraid of trans people. If I was, I wouldn't spend so much of my
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time saying things that I know will make you angry. My fear, and it is not irrational, is of the effect
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that trans propaganda has on society, and especially on kids. Okay? So we have that clarified. Let's
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continue. We're gonna have to skip around a little bit because Sam's video is long, and it seems like a
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little too self-involved even for me to spend too much time reacting to somebody else reacting to
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one of my videos. But we'll watch enough to get the gist and to discover whether Sam will be able
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to make any arguments that will disprove or undermine my central points. Let's keep going.
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All right. Do you understand the comparison that's going to be happening here? He's like,
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this book is about a little boy who thinks he's a walrus, and his mom, you know, also is convinced
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that he's a real walrus. Do you get the correlation? It's going to be about a little boy that thinks
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he's a girl or something, and the mom is convinced that he's a real girl. How creative. How did you
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ever come up with such a creative, powerful analogy for children who don't understand what
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you're talking about? Yeah, well, you're right. It's not creative. It's not creative at all. I mean,
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the comparison between somebody identifying as a different sex and someone identifying as an animal
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has been done a million times. I'm not the first to do it. South Park did it a decade ago. But the
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problem is that nobody on your side has ever come up with anything approaching an effective response
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to the analogy. You've never been able to explain why it's wrong. All you can do, all you ever do,
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is just scoff that you've heard the point before. Well, we know you've heard it, and you're going to
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keep hearing it over and over again until you answer it. All right, let's continue.
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We don't have to worry about that. We're going to read the book now.
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This man has never met a kid in his whole life. Never interacted with one child. He's like,
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I don't give a shit. Sit down. We're going to read the book. I'm here for half an hour,
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and then I got to go. So sit down so I can film. Okay? Thank you, brat.
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No, I think the problem is that you've never been around a dad before, which maybe I would
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have already guessed. I'm around kids all the time because I have four of them. But I have by now
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developed a critical case of dad syndrome. And that means that I'm just snapping my fingers and I'm
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keeping people on task. That's what I do. I'm dad. You should see me during chore time every night
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in my house. You, get over there, pick up those shoes. You, come over, vacuum the rug. I don't
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even remember anybody's names anymore. That's another symptom of dad syndrome. Okay, skipping ahead.
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But Johnny's mom's phone said it's not just pretend. So she went on her phone and there were people
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telling her that this isn't pretend. He's really a walrus. Only a bigot would say that. How dare you offend?
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What's a bigot? Anybody know? Kids are, I don't even, I don't know how old these kids are. I'm not
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good at estimating age, but they don't know what you're talking about. You don't see their face?
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Did he run this past like an actual children's author and be like read it to a kid and see what
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they thought before he published it? I think he just went for it. Of course they don't know what a
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bigot is. They're four. I mean, it does make sense that he would go for children because you know,
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they have the same capacity for intellectual thought as him. Like babe, if you're going to write a
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children's book, write it for children, write it using words that they understand and that they
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know and that you don't have to explain for them to understand what you're trying to say through your
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book. First of all, don't call me babe. Second, did I run it by an actual children's author? Yes,
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I ran it by myself. And when myself came to myself and said, self, what do you think of this children's
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book idea? Myself responded, self, that's an exceptional idea. So I did get the go ahead from
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an expert in the field of children's literature if that matters to you. Now, Sam also says that
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some of these concepts are above a child's head. Yes, Sam, that's the point. Now you're getting it.
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If a silly story about a kid transitioning into a walrus is inevitably too weird and abstract for
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children, then what happens if we mix sex and gender into it? Does it suddenly become more appropriate
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for children? If a child, as you say, isn't even old enough to understand what a bigot is or to hear
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the word, then is he old enough to be introduced to a concept like transgenderism? If he can't
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understand bigots, can he understand what it means for a boy to have a girl mystically trapped inside
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him? If my book is above his head, what about a choice that will fundamentally change his life and
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alter him physically and biologically forever? Is that above his head too? What do you think?
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Connect the dots, Sam. You can do it. You'll need to eat worms and to put on gray makeup.
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The worms give you whiskers. The gray blends you in, the doctor says. And a simple procedure
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cuts feet into fins. The doctor wants to cut into Johnny and make him into a walrus.
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It's gross eating worms, mom. They're all so dang twitchy. He doesn't want to eat worms.
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Our children's... You see what he's doing here? With the analogies that he's drawing,
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he's arguing that parents are forcing their young children to take medications that they don't want
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to take or to have surgeries that they don't want to take or to transition when they don't want to
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transition. That's not what happens. You know, children have a say in the process. Children are allowed to
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make their own decision. Of course, with the help of medical professionals. Of course,
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of course. But like this whole part that Johnny's like, I don't want to eat worms.
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That would be the end of it. That's the end of it. Johnny doesn't want to eat worms. No worms for
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Johnny. No worms. I will say we got exactly the reaction to the doctor page with the bone saw that
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I had in mind when we included that page. And I fought for that page. Now there was, I will tell
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you a little bit behind the scenes, there was some discussion over here about that particular page
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with the doctor with the bone saw chasing a child. And I fought for that. I said, that's got to be in
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there. And it was. No, Sam, but you say children make their own decisions, but children can't make
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their own decisions. If I'm arguing that a certain course of action is harmful for a child, bad for
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them, damaging to them, it does no good to retort that the child wants to do it. Children who want
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to do harmful things should still be prevented from doing those things. Why? Because they're children.
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They don't understand what they're saying. They don't know what they want. And often they don't
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actually want what they think they want. At Red Robin the other day, my five-year-old told me he
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wanted to order salmon for his dinner. Now I knew damn well that that kid did not want salmon.
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He wanted chicken tenders and fries because that's what he always wants. And it's the only thing he'll
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ever actually eat at a restaurant. So I didn't let him have the meal that he wanted because I knew that
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he didn't really want it because he's a kid. And that's just for something as frivolous as a meal
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at Red Robin. What if your son says he wants to become a girl or a salmon for that matter? Not only
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can you be sure that he doesn't really want that because he doesn't understand what he's saying or
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what it means or what the implications are because he can't because he's just a kid. But also in this
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case, whereas it's at least possible to actually order salmon, it's not possible for him to actually
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become a girl, which is reason enough to not give him what he says he wants. All right, let's skip
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ahead again and see if Sam saves the best rebuttals for the very end. What's the moral of the story?
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What's the lesson here? Aren't children's books supposed to have like a lesson that's, you know,
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clear? Because I don't know what this is trying to say. I don't know what this lesson here is.
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The other lesson is don't listen to the creepy people in your phone. Don't trust medical professionals.
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Walruses are mean? Like, oh my goodness. Maybe take a writing class or something. Ask a kid,
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like, do you know what this book is about? Because none of them did. Like, you could argue that this
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book is made for adults. Write a book for adults. Write a book for adults. Or is it that you have to
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dumb down these analogies and these arguments for children brain because they don't hold any weight
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in actual adult language? But yeah, that is it for this video. What do you guys think? You're going to go get
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Johnny the walrus, the book. Well, since you asked, what do I think? I think you should probably in the
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future have some kind of rebuttal if you're going to make a rebuttal video. You rebutted my points in
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the same way that my dog rebuts the deer that he sees running through the backyard by just barking
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incoherently at them. Yeah, you're right that I did dumb down the arguments and analogies, but
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apparently I wasn't able to make them dumb enough for you to understand. My story about a kid pretending to
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be a walrus was, it would seem, slightly above your reading level. And that's a shame because
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it's a message that you might have really benefited from. And instead, I'm forced to say, finally,
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Samantha Lux, that you are sadly, tragically, canceled. But everybody else can buy my book,
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Johnny the walrus, at johnnythewalrus.com. And we'll leave it there for today.
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