Ep. 871 - There Is No Attack On Voting Rights, Unfortunately
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Harris and Biden have gone off to slay the fictional dragon of voter suppression. Meanwhile, as they argue that it s racist to require an ID to vote, more and more Democrat-run cities are requiring IDs to do literally everything else in life. Also, Ted Cruz questions the FBI s role in the January 6th riots. And Alec Baldwin continues to make himself the victim of the fact that he shot and killed a woman. Plus, USA Today runs a piece arguing that we must de-stigmatize pedophilia. We ll discuss that and much more today on The Matt Walther Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Harris and Biden have gone off to slay the fictional dragon of
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voter suppression. Meanwhile, as they argue that it's racist to require an ID to vote,
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more and more Democrat-run cities are requiring IDs to do literally everything else in life.
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Also, Ted Cruz questions the FBI about its role in the January 6th riots.
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Their answer, I would argue, confirms our worst suspicions. And Alec Baldwin continues to make
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himself the victim of the fact that he shot and killed a woman. His case becomes even more
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outrageous when you compare it to another recent accidental shooting. Plus, USA Today runs a
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piece arguing that we must de-stigmatize pedophilia. We'll discuss that and much more today on the Matt
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Well, as you know, this subject is always difficult for me emotionally. Whenever I hear Democrats
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panicking over the attack on voting rights, it hits me right in the heart. It shakes me to the core,
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gets my hopes up because I very much wish that there was an attack on voting rights.
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I think universal voting rights is one of the worst ideas this country has ever had.
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There are few things more worthy of coming under attack than universal voting rights.
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Voting ought to be a privilege reserved for those who are most competent and qualified. It's not a
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natural right. God did not imbue us all with some sort of sacred entitlement to participate in our
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national elections. The Bible certainly makes no mention of any such thing. So if it's not a natural
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right, which it emphatically is not, then it's a privilege that we grant and it would be wise to
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consider a person's basic qualifications before granting it. We are under no moral obligation
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to allow hordes of stupid, bewildered, clueless zombies to flood the voting booth and cast their
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ballots in a state of ignorance and confusion, helping to steer this giant ship of a country
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right into one iceberg after another. So that's my position, which I state often and without
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apology. I'm against voting rights. I don't like them. If it was a position shared by most
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conservatives and by any significant portion of elected Republicans, Democrats would be correct
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in claiming that universal voting rights are under assault, are at risk. But sadly, it is all in the
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left-wing imagination. I am, you know, a lone voice in the wilderness on this issue. And in fact, even
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if elected Republicans agreed with me, still the Democrats would be wildly incorrect about the nature
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of the attack on voting rights. Because nobody anywhere, not even a reactionary maniac like myself,
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who actually is opposed to universal voting rights, seeks to abolish those rights on the basis of race.
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That's not a position held by anybody at all, anywhere in the whole country. Literally not one single
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person has suggested such a thing. And yet President Biden and co-president Kamala Harris went down to
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Georgia yesterday to deliver a speech railing against all of the fictional racists and their
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fictional efforts to prevent minorities and other oppressed groups from voting. Now they began the
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day's festivities by laying a wreath at the crypt of Martin Luther King Jr. MLK could but look on in
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horror from beyond as these two slimy soulless reptiles turn his grave into a campaign platform.
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And then when that was done, co-president Kamala Harris took to the podium to repeat one of the
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left's favorite mantras, this is not normal. Listen. The only normalcy anyone should accept, Dr. King said,
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is the normalcy of justice. And his words resonate today. Over the past few years, we have seen so many
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anti-voter laws that there is a danger of becoming accustomed to these laws, a danger of adjusting to
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these laws as though they are normal, a danger of being complacent, complicit. Anti-voter laws are not new
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in our nation, but we must not be deceived into thinking they are normal. We must not be deceived
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into thinking a law that makes it more difficult for students to vote is normal. And I have met with
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voters in Georgia. I have heard your outrage about the anti-voter law here and how many voters will likely
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be kept from voting? You know, for a party that thinks your four-year-old should go to the library
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to listen to a drag queen, read a book about gender theory, it's kind of jarring to hear these people
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advocate for normalcy. Kamala also frets about how many voters will be kept from voting. See, this is
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another strange thing. We're told about all these voters across the nation who've been kept from voting
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because of the allegedly racist, alleged anti-voter laws allegedly passed by Republicans. And yet they've
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never provided, not ever, not once, even one single real life example of an actual human being who
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wanted to vote and was legally eligible to vote and yet was prevented from doing so because of one of
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these so-called anti-voter laws. I've been asking this for years. Show me the person, just one person,
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who really wanted to vote and yet somehow, some way, was unable to do it. Show me this person. I only want
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one. And if you do find that person, the next thing I'm going to want to know is their IQ. Because voting is
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so unbelievably and unreasonably easy that you would have to have the intelligence quotient of a sea sponge if you
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can't figure out how to navigate the process. Or in fact, you would have to be dumber than that because there are
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plenty of intellectual sea sponges in America and yet still all of them, tragically, unfortunately,
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managed to vote. Next, Joe Biden took the stage. Immediately, he proves yet again what a decent and
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kind old man he is by claiming that all of his political opponents are segregationists and confederates.
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How do you want to be remembered? At consequential moments in history, they present a choice.
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Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John
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Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?
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This is the moment to decide to defend our elections, to defend our democracy.
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Right about to cough there. Cut him off right before he coughed. He always gets in.
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It's like one cough per sentence, this guy. Just dying right in front of us, our president. No big
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deal. Many presidents and politicians have myths that crop up around them. Abe Lincoln couldn't tell a
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lie. George Washington and the cherry tree. Donald Trump and the pee tape. Not all the myths are
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family friendly, but they've all got myths. But out of all these legends, none are more absurd,
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more divorced from reality than the myth that Joe Biden is a decent man. He is, in fact, very indecent.
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He is a nasty, deceitful, cold-blooded hobgoblin who will defame and slander anyone who fails to do
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what he wants. He's also a power-hungry narcissist, so desperate to claim the throne that he ran for
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president even when he knew his mind and body were failing. He was ready to plunge the whole country
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into crisis just for a taste of power. So he's a deeply evil man. And speaking of being deceitful,
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here he is claiming that the Georgia law, the Georgia voting law, makes it illegal for people
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waiting in line to drink water or eat food. Longer lines at the polls. Lines that can last for hours.
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You've seen it with your own eyes. People get tired. They get hungry. When the Bible teaches us to feed
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the hungry and give water to the thirsty, the new Georgia law actually makes it illegal. Think of this.
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I mean, 2020 and now 22 going into that election. It makes it illegal to bring your neighbors,
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your fellow voters, food or water while they wait in line to vote. What in the hell heck are we talking
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about? I don't know. That's a good question, Joe. Think about this. It's 2022 or 2020 going into 20.
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He said it's 2020 going into 2022. So we skipped 2021. It might kind of feel like that. 2020 was
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two years long, but actually it wasn't. Now, what you just said there is, well, it's not true at all.
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First of all, people waiting in line in Georgia can be provided water. The poor deers, they can have
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their water. They're not going to die of thirst. Food can be provided as well, as long as it's not
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within 100 or 150 feet of the building. Which means that people waiting in very long lines
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can still eat. Okay. Because if it's a very long line, if you're waiting, you know, we hear about
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people waiting for hours, supposedly. Well, that means that they're waiting far beyond 150 feet from
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the building and they can have their food. And also you can always just bring your own food
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if you think you might need it. So the entire thing is a non-issue, but this raises the question
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of why we even need to provide full meals to people waiting to vote. Are we really a country
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of such pathetic fat asses that we can't go a couple hours without eating while we're waiting
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to vote? Is this really a problem? Who the hell needs to eat while they're in line to vote of all
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things? You can't just wait till you get home fatty. You know, Americans used to be pioneers taking
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covered wagons across vast expanses of wilderness towards unknown destinations. And now we cry that
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our human rights are violated if we can't eat a donut while we vote. Times have really changed,
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I would say. As for Biden's scriptural reference, to begin with, the exhortation to feed the hungry
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was not meant to refer to overweight people who are feeling a bit peckish in line because they haven't
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had a snack for the past 90 minutes. That's not what we mean. Feed the hungry. That's not what
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we're talking about. All right. But Biden's concern for scripture is, of course, highly selective
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because the Bible also says things like male and female. He created them. Biden doesn't quite endorse
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that sentiment these days. And the Bible forbids murder, especially the murder of babies. But again,
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Biden has different ideas about that. We see again that nothing these people say can be taken
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seriously. And that brings us to one final point. Yesterday, at around the time when Kamala and Joe
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were performing a political tap dance routine on MLK's grave, the mayor of D.C. made an announcement
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joining many other large cities across the nation, like New York and Los Angeles and many others.
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Mayor Bowser tweeted the following. Remember that starting Saturday, you will need these three things
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before heading out. One, proof of vaccination, 12 years plus. Two, proof of vaccination and photo ID,
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18 years plus. Three, a mask. Now think about this for a moment. We've been told repeatedly in panicked
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and highly emotional tones that it's a violation of an individual's human rights to require an ID to vote.
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Why? Because allegedly some Americans, many Americans, they say, are simply unable to obtain an ID.
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Give them four years to do it and they can't figure it out. They're just going to sit there
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helplessly crying for four years. How do I get an ID? Someone help me.
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You know, they don't know. Like they could Google it. They could just call the DMV.
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Google, what's that? I don't know. How do I know what number to call the DMV?
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And so they just sit there panicked for four years. They can't figure out how to get an ID.
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That's what we're told. The requirement is too onerous. To require an ID is tantamount to
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excluding these poor, helpless people from the polls. And yet the same people who make that argument
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are now passing laws and ordinances requiring an ID and a vaccine card to do literally everything in
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life. Your fundamental participation in society on any level is now predicated on your ability to
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produce both a photo identification and a medical card. It does no good to claim that,
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well, this is different because voting is a right while say going to a restaurant is not a right.
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Really? Because the Civil Rights Act says otherwise. The people who make this argument, I mean, I'm going
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to assume they would still say that it's a violation of a person's rights if they're prevented
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from entering a restaurant on the basis of, say, race. And at any rate, the point is that the argument
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against voter ID laws is predicated on the obviously ridiculous idea that it is unreasonable to expect
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people to have IDs because there are people who just can't, they can't get them. Yet again,
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the people who claim this are now ensuring that everyone has to have IDs anyway to do anything,
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anywhere, all the time. Can they not then also present the ID at the voting booth? Is the simple
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act of reaching into your pocket to pull out the ID too much of a burden? Is that what we're talking
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about? Because we can't be talking about the difficulty of obtaining one, considering everyone's
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going to have to obtain these things anyway. So are we concerned that the voters may not have the
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strength to reach into their pockets? Maybe that's too strenuous after waiting for 82 minutes in line
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without a snack. It's ludicrous. I mean, the whole thing, nothing these people say has any bearing on
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Uh, need to eat while you're in line to vote. I just, I'll never, I will never get over that.
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Uh, that will never stop being hilarious to me. All these stories of, uh, you know, that's another
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thing I haven't seen. I want to see a story. Show me the evidence of people starving to death
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while waiting to vote. Okay. Like I want to see the footage of that. It's just a, it's just a bloodbath
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of people lying there outside of the, uh, elementary school gymnasium, right? Waiting to
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vote. And they're just lying there. Their red cages are showing. They've starved to death
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in the span of, uh, of 97 minutes. Anyway. Um, the good news though, aside from that is that I'm,
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I'm back now in my rightful chair. Well, actually the chair I'm sitting in right now is not, uh, is not,
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is not the ex chair. Um, that's in my office, but I have it back anyway. And I thought about having
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someone wheel my chair from my office to the studio and then back to my office every single
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day. Maybe I should still do that. Like we have an intern now, like that's something that she could
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do. But anyway, look, I know that some people have, have mocked me. I saw the comments because
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I complained at length about my missing chair only to discover live on the air that it was sitting
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literally five feet from me in the studio. And my wife complains about this kind of thing all the
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time. I'm dreading when she, she's always a few days behind listening to the shows and, uh,
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how dare she? Apparently she's got other things going on in her life, but eventually she's going
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to hear that segment of me finding my chair that was sitting right next to me. And she's,
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and I'm going to have to, I'm gonna have to deal with all the, I told you so's because she's always
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insisting that this is something that I do where I lose things and I can't find them even though
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they're right in front of my face. Like I'll shout to my wife, Hey, uh, do we have any milk left?
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And she'll say, we have, we have six gallons and you're looking right at them currently right now.
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But you know what? Here's what it is. I'll tell you what it is. I'm a visionary.
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Okay. I don't see what's in front of me. I see beyond. I see what could be. I've tried to explain
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this to my wife. Um, I don't see the milk. I'm not focused on the milk. I don't see the chair.
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I see a deeper truth. Yes. The chair was in the room with me, but, but what is the room when you
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think about it? What is a chair? You know what I mean? I don't know what I mean. I'm just a moron.
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I shouldn't be able to vote either. That's, that's the honest truth of the matter. All right. Um,
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we'll start here. Jill, uh, Jill Sanborn is the FBI executive assistant director.
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She appeared before a Senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday to answer questions about January 6th.
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Um, well, she appeared to be asked questions about January 6th, not necessarily to answer them.
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And, um, Ted Cruz, uh, questioned her and I think thoroughly redeemed himself from the whole
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kerfuffle over January 6th and calling it a terrorist attack. Um, this is actually,
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as we've been talking about the last couple of days and people wanted to throw Ted Cruz overboard
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because of, of what he said and how he characterized January 6th. And as I said, that it's perfectly
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fair to criticize him for that. He deserves to be criticized. We should always be willing and
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eager to criticize any politician when they, when they screw up, but, uh, I'm not ready to abandon the
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guy because he gives us moments like this that are really important. So here he is. We'll go through
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some of these clips, um, sequentially here questioning Jill Sanborn wanting to find out, did the FBI have
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any kind of involvement with January 6th at all? And you would think that if the answer was no,
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it'd be really simple to say no. So let's listen to this.
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I want to turn to the FBI. How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in
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the events of January 6th? Sir, I'm sure you can appreciate that. I can't go into the specifics
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of sources and methods. Uh, did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate
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in the events of January 6th? Yes or no? Sir, I can't, I can't answer that. Did any FBI agents or
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confidential informants commit crimes of violence on January 6th? Sixth. I can't answer that, sir.
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Did any FBI agents or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence on January
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6th? January 6th. Sir, I can't answer that. All right. So she says that she can't answer questions
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about sources and methods, but, uh, the problem is that he didn't ask any questions about sources
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and methods. He asked a very simple question. Were any FBI agents, uh, or FBI informants or anyone
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affiliate with the FBI, were they involved in encouraging inciting acts of, uh, you know,
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rioting and violence or anything on January 6th? And they, of course we get a no comment here, but I
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would say that, um, you know, this is not like a court of law with a civilian where you've got a
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right to remain silent. And, you know, or, or, or maybe you're being, you're being questioned about
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a crime by the police and you're in the interrogation room and maybe you're refusing to
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say anything, even though you're totally innocent because you realize the power dynamics here,
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you're at a disadvantage and you, whatever you say could be twisted against you. And so you're not
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going to say anything until you have your lawyer present. That's just, that's smart,
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but the same logic and rules do not apply in this case with a government, with an agent of the
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government representative of government being asked a question like this, because if this is just a
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crazy, like it's, it's either true or it isn't right. Either the FBI was involved in some way in
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inciting the events of January 6th or they were not. And if they were not, I cannot fathom why they
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would refrain from telling us that. It's only confidential if they were involved, if they
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weren't involved in it, then there's nothing confidential. Yeah, I can pretty much guarantee
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you that if you were to get a NASA spokesperson on record in front of a camera and a microphone
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and ask them, uh, sir, did, did, did, did, did, did NASA fake the moon landing? They're not going to
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say, well, I can't comment on that. Uh, we can't talk about our sources and methods.
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I'll tell you something. That's one conspiracy theory of many that I don't give any credibility
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to. If we got that answer, then I'm going to feel differently. But no, I think what they would
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say is that's crazy. Of course not. What's confidential. It's like, we didn't, we had nothing
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to do with it. There's nothing. So there couldn't have been anything, anything confidential that
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occurred. If this is, um, totally baseless, then the FBI not only would say so, but they would be
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more than eager to say so. They would be saying so in front of everybody because they are vindicating
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themselves. And, um, and also it's all you have to do is deny it. And for a lot of people, that's
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going to count as debunking. That's going to be decisive. Now I'll admit that even if they did
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deny it, that wouldn't necessarily be decisive for me because it's possible they could lie.
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But for most people, and certainly for the media, that would be enough. That's all you have to do
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is just say, no, no, we didn't do it. The fact that they're not willing to say that I think tells
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you something. The only reason I can think is that it's true and she didn't want to perjure herself
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or be the one that gets thrown onto the bus for lying to Congress about it. So instead she's
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going with the, I can't comment on that thing. All right, moving on. Um, same line of questioning.
00:24:38.900
Ted Cruz asks about this guy, Ray Epps, who he'll explain Ray Epps, but he was, uh, this mysterious
00:24:45.180
figure who was very present on January 6th is on tape, breaking the law by encouraging writing and yet
00:24:52.560
has for some reason not been arrested. Who is Ray Epps? I'm aware of the individual, sir. I don't
00:25:05.360
have the specific background to him. Well, there are a lot of people who are understandably very
00:25:10.980
concerned about Mr. Epps. On the night of January 5th, 2021, Epps wandered around the crowd that had
00:25:18.940
gathered and there's video out there of him chanting tomorrow, we need to get into the Capitol,
00:25:24.940
into the Capitol. This was strange behavior. So strange that the crowd began chanting, fed, fed,
00:25:32.160
fed, fed, fed, fed, fed. The Sandborn was Ray Epps a fed.
00:25:39.140
Sir, I cannot answer that question. The next day, the next day on January 6th,
00:25:44.940
Mr. Epps is seen whispering to a person and five seconds later, five seconds after he's whispering
00:25:51.460
to a person, that same person begins to forcibly tear down the barricades. Did Mr. Epps urge them
00:26:07.480
Sir, similar to the other answers, I cannot answer that.
00:26:13.040
Okay, so she says she knows who he is, but refuses to answer any questions about him.
00:26:17.600
Once again, if he's not working with the FBI, if she has nothing to do with this guy, if her agency
00:26:24.380
has nothing to do with the guy, then I cannot possibly understand why she wouldn't just say,
00:26:30.800
I don't know anything about the guy. We have nothing to do with him.
00:26:36.520
Finally, last clip here. There's the question of why this Ray Epps character was listed as wanted by
00:26:43.420
the FBI and then magically taken off the list, though he was never actually arrested.
00:26:50.280
Shortly thereafter, the FBI put out a public post listing, seeking information on individuals
00:26:56.480
connected with violent crimes on January 6th. Among those individuals in the bottom there
00:27:01.480
is Mr. Epps. The FBI publicly asked for information, identifying, offering cash rewards leading to
00:27:08.960
information, for information leading to the arrest. This was posted and then, sometime later,
00:27:17.360
magically, Mr. Epps disappeared from the public posting. According to public records, Mr. Epps has not
00:27:23.920
been charged with anything. No one's explained why a person videoed urging people to go to the Capitol,
00:27:31.200
a person whose conduct was so suspect, the crowd believed he was a Fed, would magically disappear from
00:27:38.240
the list of people the FBI was looking at. Ms. Sandburn, a lot of Americans are concerned
00:27:45.360
that the federal government deliberately encouraged illegal and violent conduct on January 6th. My
00:27:52.320
question to you, and this is not an ordinary law enforcement question, this is a question of public
00:27:57.040
accountability. Did federal agents or those in service of federal agent actively encourage violent and
00:28:15.040
So that's kind of interesting. At the very end, after refusing to answer on seven different occasions,
00:28:20.720
saying, I can't talk about it, I can't talk about it, finally, at the very end, she says,
00:28:24.880
not to my knowledge. So there's this change of tone midway, a slight change in tone midstream.
00:28:31.320
And speaking of changes of tone, we should mention that after all this question about Ray Epps,
00:28:36.280
and she didn't want to talk about him, she knows about him, doesn't want to talk about him,
00:28:38.920
can't say anything about him, even though he was encouraging people to, you know, Ted Cruz says
00:28:43.960
he's encouraged people to go to the Capitol. Just to clarify, he is on video, you can find the video
00:28:48.360
online, explicitly saying, we need to go into the Capitol, shouting to the crowd the night before,
00:28:55.480
we need to go into the Capitol, we need to invade the Capitol, and that's what caused the crowd to
00:29:00.280
all start chanting, fed, fed, fed, and pointing at him. And then, he's there the next day, he's
00:29:07.080
whispering to people, and he's still encouraging, they do what he said, and this guy doesn't end up
00:29:13.880
arrested? You know, you're gonna throw a guy in prison for, like, stealing a lectern, or you find
00:29:21.080
people wandering around taking selfies, and we're gonna arrest them, but not the guy, one of the guys
00:29:27.880
who came up with this idea? Is that not illegal, to explicitly encourage crowds to violence? It is.
00:29:36.440
So, with this one guy, Ray Epps, suddenly, um, the, uh, the powers that be have decided to be a little
00:29:43.980
bit more generous? That doesn't make a lot of sense. And yet, even after this whole exchange, where
00:29:51.000
the FBI doesn't want to talk about it, after the fact, some of the, um, Adam Kinzinger and some of the
00:30:00.320
other people involved with the January 6th committee, they came out a few, few hours later,
00:30:06.300
and said, oh, actually, you know what, we talked to that guy with the committee, and he told us that
00:30:10.880
he's not involved with the FBI. Interesting how that works. I mean, this Ray Epps, dude, he's been
00:30:18.320
known about online, people have been talking about him for months. We never heard anything about the
00:30:23.000
January 6th committee talking to him. We never heard anything about him saying that he wasn't
00:30:28.900
affiliated with the FBI. The FBI representative herself wouldn't talk about it. And then after
00:30:37.560
this clip with Cruz goes viral, then Adam Kinzinger and his fellow hacks come out and say, oh, this is
00:30:44.560
a non-issue. Ah, come on. See, the denial has a lot less credibility when it follows that. When,
00:30:54.760
when there's, when there's silence, silence, silence, and then we get the denial. Now we're asking
00:31:01.220
questions. Uh, some more fireworks. I want to play this clip as well from a different hearing. This is
00:31:07.680
a Rand Paul versus Fauci round eight, I believe. I think they're at eight go rounds now. Rand Paul
00:31:14.940
calls Fauci out for his statement, um, that, that he's, he made it on multiple occasions that disagreeing
00:31:21.080
with him, Fauci is disagreeing with the science. Dr. Fauci, the idea that a government official
00:31:28.760
like yourself would claim unilaterally, unilaterally to represent science, that any criticism of you
00:31:35.380
would be considered a criticism of science itself is quite dangerous. Central planning, whether it be of
00:31:41.540
the economy or of science is risky because of the fallibility of the planner. It would not be so
00:31:46.760
catastrophic. If the planner were simply one physician in Peoria, then the mistakes would
00:31:52.640
only affect that physician's patients, the people who chose that physician. But when the planner is a
00:31:58.500
government official like yourself, who rules by mandate, the errors are compounded and become much
00:32:04.660
more harmful. A planner who believes he is the science leads to an arrogance that justifies in
00:32:11.280
his mind, using government resources to smear and to destroy the reputations of other scientists
00:32:16.880
who disagree with him. In an email exchange with Dr. Collins, you conspire, and I quote here directly
00:32:22.600
from the email, to create a quick and devastating published takedown of three prominent epidemiologists
00:32:29.700
from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford. Apparently there's a lot of fringe epidemiologists at Harvard,
00:32:36.700
Oxford, Oxford, and Stanford. And you quote in the email that they, or from Dr. Collins, and you agree
00:32:43.740
that they are fringe. And immediately there's this takedown effort. A published takedown, though,
00:32:48.920
you know, doesn't exactly conjure up the image of a dispassionate scientist.
00:32:55.280
There's a certain futility to this, although it's good that Rand Paul is holding him accountable because
00:33:00.080
almost nobody else is willing to do it publicly. But there's just a futility to it because
00:33:06.000
this is another huge scandal, the fact that Fauci, as a government employee in charge of the pandemic
00:33:17.260
response that has seen, you know, 800,000 plus people die. I wonder if, by the way, if Fauci's
00:33:25.780
handling of the pandemic has been successful, what does failure look like exactly?
00:33:32.420
How would we know what failure looks like? How would we know, how do we know how to judge his
00:33:38.420
performance? If 800,000 people dying is not failure in a pandemic response, then what is?
00:33:46.940
Eight million? I mean, what's the cutoff? But anyway, him conspiring with someone from the NIH to
00:33:55.620
to put together a devastating takedown of other scientists who are critical of him personally.
00:34:06.040
That's a major scandal. That's one of many major scandals involving Fauci, but it just doesn't
00:34:11.580
amount to anything. No accountability. He'll continue to be the highest paid federal employee in history.
00:34:17.340
But it is nonetheless a shocking scandal. Well, not shocking in terms of surprising, but it is a
00:34:28.440
serious scandal. This is not science. And you know, it's kind of unfortunate that all of these sort of
00:34:34.360
public representatives of science, the people who actually claim to be sole representatives of
00:34:40.920
science. It's unfortunate that all of them are partisan, dishonest, despicable, soulless hacks.
00:34:51.600
Because it does, after a while, it gives people the wrong impression about science in general and
00:34:58.680
what a real scientist is. Fauci is not a real scientist. There are real scientists out there.
00:35:03.740
And it's an admirable field to enter into. And I think that the actual scientific mindset is also
00:35:15.800
an admirable one. I mean, if you talk to a real scientist, they don't do this. They're not going
00:35:20.720
to try to take you down for criticizing them. They actually, and there are scientists like this out
00:35:27.920
there. It's just, they're not on cable news and they don't have jobs in the government.
00:35:33.340
But they encourage it. They want to be challenged. The last thing they would ever do is try to take
00:35:38.160
you down and punish you for criticism. They have their theories and their ideas. And they know that
00:35:44.340
the only way to hone those theories and ideas and to confirm whether they're true or not is to put
00:35:50.340
them up for scrutiny. And so they welcome that. They don't have this hubris and arrogance.
00:35:55.700
Science. That's what real science is, but we're not seeing it. We're just not,
00:36:00.120
we're not seeing it publicly, unfortunately. All right. Here's a hilarious article in the
00:36:04.020
Wall Street Journal by Doug Schoen and Andrew Stein. Unintentionally hilarious. And the headline is
00:36:12.640
Hillary Clinton's 2024 election comeback. It says a perfect storm in the Democratic Party is
00:36:19.720
making a once unfathomable scenario plausible, a political comeback for Hillary Clinton in 2024.
00:36:26.300
Several circumstances have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton
00:36:30.120
viably could fill. She's already in an advantageous position to become the 2024 Democratic nominee.
00:36:36.380
She's an experienced national figure who is younger than Mr. Biden and can offer a different approach
00:36:41.820
from the disorganized and unpopular one the party is currently taking. Here's the funny part.
00:36:47.600
If Democrats lose control of Congress 2022, Mrs. Clinton can use the party's loss as a basis to run for
00:36:53.240
president again, enabling her to claim the title of change candidates. Hillary Clinton will be the
00:37:00.660
change. The, the mummified remains of the Clinton machine will be the change candidate in 2024.
00:37:06.600
Now I, I, it, to me, it's not, it's certainly not unfathomable that she would run again.
00:37:13.520
It's almost unfathomable that she wouldn't, as long as she's still alive, just like, just like
00:37:17.220
Joe Biden. She's desperate for power. She has lived her whole life in pursuit of it.
00:37:23.820
As far as she, the only, it's the only thing she cares about. And as far as she concerned is
00:37:28.760
concerned, her life is a waste if she doesn't eventually obtain power. It's the, you know,
00:37:33.780
and, and, and, in reality, her life is a waste for a lot of reasons, but not for that.
00:37:39.520
Um, so it wouldn't surprise me at all. In fact, I would, I would expect it. I mean, I would,
00:37:44.160
I would give it like an 80% chance that, um, unless she dies before that, but even that might not
00:37:50.660
stop her, she's going to run in 2024. But here's, here's an idea. I mean, there are,
00:37:55.420
there are a lot of reasons to object to Hillary Clinton as president. Certainly, you know, you
00:38:02.180
could probably name, uh, probably about 200 of them off the top of your head, but I've got to,
00:38:07.980
I've got to ride this hobby horse again here that we don't, we shouldn't need to get past. We could,
00:38:13.280
we could talk about all the reasons, but we, we, we shouldn't need to talk about those reasons
00:38:17.320
because the only thing that we should need to point out is that Hillary Clinton is 74 years old
00:38:24.000
currently. And in 2024, she'll be 76. She will turn 80 in office if she were, God forbid, to win.
00:38:32.920
Um, that is too old. That is way too old. Even if she was the greatest potential leader that this
00:38:40.380
country would ever see, which she's very much on the opposite end of that spectrum. But even if she
00:38:44.680
were, she's still too old, that is just too old. There are realities about the human mortal
00:38:51.660
condition. And one of them is that you cannot take on a job like this in your mid to late seventies.
00:38:58.420
We're seeing it happen. We're seeing what happens right now. When we try that,
00:39:02.940
we are watching our president die in front of us. We have a guy running the country who does not have
00:39:10.160
his mental faculties all in place. Yeah. This is how pathetic it is that, that she would run
00:39:19.560
in 2024 as, as the younger option. She's the youth option at 76 because somehow we've decided over the
00:39:29.380
last like eight years that only people in their seventies can run for office or run for president.
00:39:34.180
I don't know why we've decided that. And it's not even like these 70 plus year olds who are running
00:39:41.000
are good. It's like, it's, there's nothing even special about it. It's like, it's too old.
00:39:49.240
I'll tell you this right now. I will not support the nomination. Uh, of course I'm not going to be
00:39:54.160
involved in selecting a nominee for the Democrat party, but in the Republican party, I will not
00:39:58.740
support the nomination of anybody over the age of 75 ever because it is too old and we are mortals.
00:40:04.680
And that's just the reality. So would I apply this to Donald Trump? Yes, absolutely. He's going to
00:40:13.520
be 78 years old. We are seeing what happens when a 78 year old is in office and don't tell me, oh,
00:40:18.820
Trump is different. He's a spry 78 year old. He's not different. He's mortal. He's not different.
00:40:24.200
He's not. Um, especially when it's at least with the Republicans, there is a 44 year old
00:40:35.920
effective, talented, charismatic politician waiting in the wings. How insane would we be
00:40:45.180
to say, oh no, I don't want the, the young charismatic, um, sensational politician. I I'll
00:40:52.420
go with the 78 year old instead. What? Give me one good reason for that.
00:41:00.020
This is crazy guy. This is just totally crazy. Why can't we all agree on this? I mean,
00:41:03.640
this is one thing that should be bipartisan agreement that we're not going to hire very
00:41:09.620
elderly people as president. That's just not a job that you can qualify for over the age of 75.
00:41:16.780
Blows my mind. It just, it just, especially when we're seeing what's happening right now,
00:41:21.160
we've experimented with it. It's not working out. And then there are people saying, well,
00:41:27.060
let's try it again. Let's try it. Let's go from one 78 year old to another and we'll just keep trying.
00:41:33.720
And then if that doesn't work out, we'll just keep going to the nursing homes and pulling people out
00:41:36.540
until we find someone who's, you know, someone who's a pushing 80 years old who can, who can
00:41:42.520
effectively do the job without losing their mind in the process. All right. Uh, one other quick
00:41:48.980
clip I got to play for you. Alec Baldwin is still, I guess, defending himself. I don't know what you
00:41:55.100
call this, but here he is ranting in his car. I don't know what this guy thinks he's doing,
00:41:58.800
ranting in his car. What kind of weirdo does that, um, about the, uh, the shooting. Listen,
00:42:02.760
the best way, the only way we can honor the death of Helena Hutchins is to find out the truth.
00:42:14.580
That's what I'm working toward, insisting on, demanding, um, that the organizations involved
00:42:23.180
in this investigation, uh, do everything in their power, everything in their power to find out
00:42:28.380
what really happened. That's all that matters. The best way to honor the death of Helena Hutchins
00:42:35.280
is to find out the truth. And, um, any suggestion that we're not complying myself and, uh, any lawyers
00:42:44.020
I'm working with or what have you is a lie. That's a lie. We're going to, as soon as we go through this
00:42:48.760
process, then by all means we will comply. But, um, but I have no worries about that. I have no worries
00:42:57.660
about that. That's all going to work itself out because of what they say in these right-wing
00:43:03.380
rag sheets and people who are all about hate. Um, but setting aside all the, the hate, setting
00:43:13.220
aside all the January 6th of it all, there it is.
00:43:18.780
What? Why did he hold up a packet of Splenda? What? I never actually watched this clip, so I'm,
00:43:31.320
I'm, uh, befuddled. So he held up a packet of Splenda in which he had drawn a smiley face.
00:43:37.840
Oh, okay. Uh, well, I guess he's innocent, Your Honor.
00:43:48.600
This, I, you know, if he ever ends up in court, I guess this is what he could present.
00:43:52.740
Your Honor, Your Honor, I present Exhibit A, Splenda. I rest my case.
00:43:58.600
Well, but that would require him to go to court and be charged with a crime, which he has not been.
00:44:02.680
Instead, he's making videos in his car saying, we have to figure out what happened.
00:44:08.640
We got to get to the bottom of this. I mean, the hubris on this guy, the gumption.
00:44:15.200
He, he pointed a gun at someone and shot them and is now saying, oh, what happened? We need to
00:44:21.460
figure out what happened. I am dedicated to getting to the bottom of this. Uh, you, well,
00:44:25.920
you picked up a gun, pointed at someone and shot him in the face. Like that's what happened.
00:44:28.620
That's what happened. I'm pretty sure that's it. It's actually not very complicated,
00:44:33.740
but compare this. Here's the only point I really wanted to make about this. Um,
00:44:42.180
Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed someone, assuming that was accidental, which I'm, you know,
00:44:48.380
we can't even be sure of that, but let's just assume that it was. So he pointed a gun at someone
00:44:52.540
and shot them, has not been charged with any crime at all. Kim Potter, uh, accidentally shot a
00:45:04.660
dangerous, violent criminal in the course of trying to make an arrest and she's going to prison.
00:45:12.380
So what is that? Is that male? Is this an example finally of male privilege? Well, no,
00:45:17.300
it's not male privilege. This is leftist privilege. This is, uh, being a rich, famous celebrity
00:45:23.320
privilege. And those are, you want to know what privilege looks like. Like those are two forms
00:45:28.120
of actual privilege. There's ideological privilege. And then, yeah, there's the good old fashioned,
00:45:33.720
I'm rich and famous privilege. That is real privilege. And that is enduring. We've always had
00:45:41.100
that kind of privilege in America. It's a, that's always existed and it will probably always exist,
00:45:45.760
um, into the future. But this dude is in his car waving around packets of Splenda, a free man,
00:45:53.840
while Kim Potter's, Potter's going to prison for who knows how many years for what we know is an
00:46:00.160
actual accidental shooting where she didn't shoot some, some poor innocent woman who's a cinematographer
00:46:06.180
in Hollywood. She shot a violent danger scumbag whose death is, um, is, is in many ways,
00:46:15.700
a benefit to his community. His community is better off without him because he's a terrible,
00:46:19.340
awful, violent, horrible, horrifically evil person. She goes to prison, not him. Okay.
00:46:37.880
El Perron says, Matt, aren't you sad that your Ravens didn't make the playoffs? Laughing emoji.
00:46:44.580
You know what? I'm not even sad. I don't care. I don't, this, this is the, the, the grief process
00:46:50.320
I go through every year. The Ravens either don't make the playoffs or they get knocked out.
00:46:54.520
And, uh, but then you know what it is? It's a moment of clarity for me when I realized that,
00:46:59.180
uh, football, uh, watching sports is a total waste of time. It's, it's, it's, there's so many
00:47:05.760
better things you can be doing with your time. You know, pick up a book and read it, spend time
00:47:10.880
with your family. And I have this epiphany, this realization, but then the season starts again
00:47:15.640
next year. And, uh, it all, it all goes out the window. All right. Evan says, Matt, you use cults
00:47:21.440
as an analogy for getting pressured into cutting off your family and loved ones. You don't even
00:47:25.260
need to go that far. Every abusive girlfriend and wife has three arrows in her quiver, isolate you
00:47:29.940
from your friends, isolate you from your family and tell you that your hobbies make her uncomfortable.
00:47:34.220
A lot of the bureaucrats in Washington are women who are either single and miserable
00:47:37.420
or else browbeat their passive husbands. You could tell that these women are the people writing
00:47:42.580
the COVID rules because they all seem to come straight out of the crazy ex-girlfriend playbook.
00:47:46.660
Solid analysis there. Also kind of appropriate and timely. We were just talking about Hillary
00:47:51.340
Clinton and that's probably your prime example of that. Um, sweet baby gang for life says, Matt,
00:47:57.600
what happened? You read two ban worthy comments and both escaped unscathed. What was the ban hammer
00:48:03.720
in the shop or something? I've come to expect better from you, our aspiring cult leader. Well,
00:48:07.660
you know what? Then fine. Then you're banned. Sweet baby gang for life. You're, you're revoked.
00:48:12.020
Don't, don't criticize my methods. I make these decisions, not you. Okay. Don't be like,
00:48:18.800
this is like when my, my daughter comes up to me and says, daddy, you need to put, uh, you need to
00:48:23.180
put Luke in timeout. This is what he did. No, you don't decide that I'm the dad. You don't get to
00:48:28.340
put people in time. In fact, sometimes she won't even come to me. She'll just put her brothers in
00:48:31.060
timeout and I'll walk into the room and I'll start finding standing in a corner. So what are you guys
00:48:35.220
doing? But we were putting timeout by who? So yeah, this is an analogy because I, the sweet baby
00:48:42.660
gang, you were all like my, my children, but I'll be very quick to disown you. There's no loyalty
00:48:49.260
here. Unfortunately, the loyalty goes one way. That's how cults work. Right. Um, and finally,
00:48:55.680
Drew says January 6th and Matt's chair getting stolen. One was the most heinous attack on our very
00:49:00.880
way of life. The other was a protest that got out of control. Thank you, Drew. At least someone
00:49:05.680
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00:49:09.920
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So today we cancel USA today for an article published yesterday, originally titled
00:50:21.800
what the public keeps getting wrong about pedophilia. A link to the article was initially posted to
00:50:27.320
Twitter along with a lengthy thread explaining that pedophilia is misunderstood and misrepresented.
00:50:32.760
And, uh, but the, but the actual article was hidden behind a paywall a short time later,
00:50:36.140
the entire thread was deleted and a new tweet was posted explaining quote, a previous thread did
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not include all information. And the story it was written about is behind a paywall. We made the
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decision to delete the thread. They also apparently made the decision to change the headline of the
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article, which is now titled the complicated research behind pedophilia. Now it's impossible to
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know what other edits they may have made, but, uh, they removed the paywall and let's read a little
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bit from the article as it now stands quote. Pedophilia is viewed as among the most horrifying
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social ills, but scientists who study the sexual disorder say it is also among the most misunderstood
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when most of the public thinks of pedophilia. They assume it's synonymous with child sexual abuse,
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a pervasive social problem that has exploded to crisis levels online. Researchers who study pedophilia
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say the term describes an attraction, not an action and using it interchangeably with abuse fuels
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misperceptions. The American psychiatric association's diagnostic and physical manual of mental disorders
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says that pedophilia is, is defined by quote, recurrent intense sexually arousing fantasies,
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sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children.
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Scientists have in recent decades improved their understanding of pedophilia's causes, prenatal and early
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childhood risk factors, as well as how pedophiles can better control impulses. One of the most
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significant findings is that scientists who study this disorder say that pedophilia is determined in
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the womb, though environmental factors may influence whether someone acts on an urge to abuse.
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All right. The article then goes on to favorably reference Alan Walker. You may remember Walker as the
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creepy college professor who advocates for destigmatizing pedophilia. Walker is affiliated with the
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Prostasia Foundation, which we've talked about on the show. He's appeared on their, he or she, I can't
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remember which one, on their YouTube channel and in interviews on their, their site. This is an
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organization that is several levels beyond creepy and which is also concerned with destigmatizing
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pedophilia. In fact, if you go to Prostasia's website right now, the very first thing that pops up is a
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safety guide for, quote, age play. If you're wondering what that is, Prostasia explains that age
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play is, quote, a form of role play in which at least one of the participants adopts the role or
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mindset of someone younger, a teenager, a child, or even a baby. So now you have some idea of what
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we're dealing with. Back to the article in Alan Walker. It says, an academic at Old Dominion University
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in Norfolk, Virginia, who's talked about destigmatizing pedophilia and referred to pedophiles as
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minor attracted people, resigned in November following the outcry over the phrase. Alan
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Walker argued destigmatizing the attraction would allow more people to seek help and ultimately
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prevent child sexual abuse. There is growing support in the field for Walker's point of view.
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While clinical psychologist James Cantor said there is no treatment that can turn a pedophile
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into a non-pedophile, pedophiles can be taught self-control and compensatory strategies, which he
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said is more likely if they're under the care of a professional. He argues that pedophiles need to be
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able to access therapy, which can be difficult since those afflicted may be ashamed to seek help,
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or worried about being reported to the authorities if they do.
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Now, what can we say about all of this after we finish vomiting into the nearest trash can?
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The most generous possible interpretation is that the author and those quoted in the piece
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are drawing a distinction between impulse and action and advocating for strategies to help prevent
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pedophiles from converting those horrific impulses into action. Now, that sentiment alone by itself,
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the idea that we want to stop pedophiles from acting on their desires is, of course, uncontroversial.
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Everyone agrees. It's so obvious that it's not a point that really needs to be made.
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Now, it could be a worthwhile discussion if you're presenting actual tangible prevention strategies,
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but all that the author of this piece, the author's name, by the way, is Aaliyah de Steger, has to offer is therapy.
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That's a rather broad and useless suggestion, especially because it requires us to have faith
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in the psychological industry to handle the issue effectively and appropriately, and I have no such faith.
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That brings us to the larger problem. Although there is a nugget of truth here, that there's a difference
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between desire and action, and we want to prevent the actions. Again, obviously, we want to prevent the actions.
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But the very troubling and ultimately fatal flaw is that the morsel of common sense is couched in a lot of pablum
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about destigmatizing pedophilia. They're treated as a valid community, an oppressed community, a victim class
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in their own right. And much emphasis is placed on the claim that pedophiles are born with this desire.
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Now, that latter point may also be true in some cases. It's possible that something has gone wrong in the brain
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of the pedophile, and that at least in some cases, we can trace the problem back to the womb.
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Now, that entirely removes the moral and spiritual element, once again, medicalizing the problem of human evil,
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which is a problem. But it wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of neurochemical facet to this issue.
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Fine. But the problem is that all of this stuff, it's a community. They're stigmatized. They're oppressed.
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Their desires are natural, quote unquote. They're born with it. All of this has always been the pretense
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for eventually normalizing and then finally celebrating the act itself.
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Now, they're not doing it yet explicitly. Even the nightmarish Prostasia Foundation, with its guide
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for pedophilic sexual roleplay, isn't coming out and explicitly saying that it's normal or good to
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rape children. What we're witnessing now is the groundwork. They're digging the foundation. They're
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laying the bricks for the hideous building that they plan to construct. We've seen this process play
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out enough times to know where it leads. In fact, the idea that people who are born with certain sexual
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desires should repress them, refrain from acting on them, that is fundamentally incompatible with the
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leftist worldview anyway. That's how we know that when it comes to pedophilia normalization,
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the current point that we're at right now is but a stage that they're passing through on their way
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to the ultimate destination. Now, you might hope that this will be different because most of the
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other forms of perversion normalized by the left have involved consenting adults of various numbers
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and combinations. But children cannot consent, obviously. Perhaps the consent issue, you might
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hope, will create a barrier. It will be like Gandalf standing on the bridge, screaming, you shall not
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pass. This is the one boundary that the fiery demon of leftism cannot cross, you might say, you might hope.
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But we know that the left is already hard at work on this issue as well,
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Because they tell us that children, very young children, children as young as two or three,
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make all kinds of decisions, even sexual decisions.
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So you see how another foundation right now is also being formed.
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Eventually, the two construction projects will be connected.
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And within a few years, I give it maybe five years,
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the actual act of pedophilia will be openly and explicitly defended.
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This USA Today article is just one of the opening salvos in that effort.
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And for that reason, USA Today is today canceled.
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