The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 871 - There Is No Attack On Voting Rights, Unfortunately

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Harris and Biden have gone off to slay the fictional dragon of

00:00:04.460 voter suppression. Meanwhile, as they argue that it's racist to require an ID to vote,

00:00:08.320 more and more Democrat-run cities are requiring IDs to do literally everything else in life.

00:00:13.380 Also, Ted Cruz questions the FBI about its role in the January 6th riots.

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00:02:00.800 Well, as you know, this subject is always difficult for me emotionally. Whenever I hear Democrats

00:02:06.220 panicking over the attack on voting rights, it hits me right in the heart. It shakes me to the core,

00:02:11.680 gets my hopes up because I very much wish that there was an attack on voting rights.

00:02:16.640 I think universal voting rights is one of the worst ideas this country has ever had.

00:02:21.440 There are few things more worthy of coming under attack than universal voting rights.

00:02:26.560 Voting ought to be a privilege reserved for those who are most competent and qualified. It's not a

00:02:30.780 natural right. God did not imbue us all with some sort of sacred entitlement to participate in our

00:02:36.540 national elections. The Bible certainly makes no mention of any such thing. So if it's not a natural

00:02:41.820 right, which it emphatically is not, then it's a privilege that we grant and it would be wise to

00:02:47.720 consider a person's basic qualifications before granting it. We are under no moral obligation

00:02:53.280 to allow hordes of stupid, bewildered, clueless zombies to flood the voting booth and cast their 1.00

00:03:00.960 ballots in a state of ignorance and confusion, helping to steer this giant ship of a country 1.00

00:03:06.360 right into one iceberg after another. So that's my position, which I state often and without

00:03:11.660 apology. I'm against voting rights. I don't like them. If it was a position shared by most

00:03:19.660 conservatives and by any significant portion of elected Republicans, Democrats would be correct 0.97

00:03:25.680 in claiming that universal voting rights are under assault, are at risk. But sadly, it is all in the

00:03:32.240 left-wing imagination. I am, you know, a lone voice in the wilderness on this issue. And in fact, even

00:03:38.680 if elected Republicans agreed with me, still the Democrats would be wildly incorrect about the nature

00:03:44.260 of the attack on voting rights. Because nobody anywhere, not even a reactionary maniac like myself,

00:03:49.940 who actually is opposed to universal voting rights, seeks to abolish those rights on the basis of race.

00:03:55.740 That's not a position held by anybody at all, anywhere in the whole country. Literally not one single

00:04:02.020 person has suggested such a thing. And yet President Biden and co-president Kamala Harris went down to

00:04:07.920 Georgia yesterday to deliver a speech railing against all of the fictional racists and their

00:04:13.580 fictional efforts to prevent minorities and other oppressed groups from voting. Now they began the

00:04:18.280 day's festivities by laying a wreath at the crypt of Martin Luther King Jr. MLK could but look on in

00:04:25.580 horror from beyond as these two slimy soulless reptiles turn his grave into a campaign platform.

00:04:32.660 And then when that was done, co-president Kamala Harris took to the podium to repeat one of the 0.92

00:04:37.100 left's favorite mantras, this is not normal. Listen. The only normalcy anyone should accept, Dr. King said,

00:04:44.400 is the normalcy of justice. And his words resonate today. Over the past few years, we have seen so many

00:04:54.720 anti-voter laws that there is a danger of becoming accustomed to these laws, a danger of adjusting to

00:05:05.920 these laws as though they are normal, a danger of being complacent, complicit. Anti-voter laws are not new

00:05:18.740 in our nation, but we must not be deceived into thinking they are normal. We must not be deceived

00:05:27.460 into thinking a law that makes it more difficult for students to vote is normal. And I have met with

00:05:35.620 voters in Georgia. I have heard your outrage about the anti-voter law here and how many voters will likely

00:05:45.220 be kept from voting? You know, for a party that thinks your four-year-old should go to the library

00:05:51.580 to listen to a drag queen, read a book about gender theory, it's kind of jarring to hear these people 1.00

00:05:56.060 advocate for normalcy. Kamala also frets about how many voters will be kept from voting. See, this is

00:06:03.780 another strange thing. We're told about all these voters across the nation who've been kept from voting

00:06:08.960 because of the allegedly racist, alleged anti-voter laws allegedly passed by Republicans. And yet they've

00:06:15.020 never provided, not ever, not once, even one single real life example of an actual human being who

00:06:24.160 wanted to vote and was legally eligible to vote and yet was prevented from doing so because of one of

00:06:30.620 these so-called anti-voter laws. I've been asking this for years. Show me the person, just one person,

00:06:37.380 who really wanted to vote and yet somehow, some way, was unable to do it. Show me this person. I only want

00:06:45.880 one. And if you do find that person, the next thing I'm going to want to know is their IQ. Because voting is

00:06:52.680 so unbelievably and unreasonably easy that you would have to have the intelligence quotient of a sea sponge if you

00:06:59.560 can't figure out how to navigate the process. Or in fact, you would have to be dumber than that because there are 0.99

00:07:05.500 plenty of intellectual sea sponges in America and yet still all of them, tragically, unfortunately, 0.98

00:07:11.800 managed to vote. Next, Joe Biden took the stage. Immediately, he proves yet again what a decent and

00:07:19.740 kind old man he is by claiming that all of his political opponents are segregationists and confederates.

00:07:24.940 How do you want to be remembered? At consequential moments in history, they present a choice.

00:07:34.380 Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John

00:07:41.820 Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?

00:07:48.280 This is the moment to decide to defend our elections, to defend our democracy.

00:07:57.260 Right about to cough there. Cut him off right before he coughed. He always gets in.

00:08:01.500 It's like one cough per sentence, this guy. Just dying right in front of us, our president. No big

00:08:07.100 deal. Many presidents and politicians have myths that crop up around them. Abe Lincoln couldn't tell a

00:08:13.540 lie. George Washington and the cherry tree. Donald Trump and the pee tape. Not all the myths are

00:08:19.360 family friendly, but they've all got myths. But out of all these legends, none are more absurd,

00:08:24.860 more divorced from reality than the myth that Joe Biden is a decent man. He is, in fact, very indecent. 0.62

00:08:32.420 He is a nasty, deceitful, cold-blooded hobgoblin who will defame and slander anyone who fails to do 0.99

00:08:38.520 what he wants. He's also a power-hungry narcissist, so desperate to claim the throne that he ran for 1.00

00:08:45.160 president even when he knew his mind and body were failing. He was ready to plunge the whole country

00:08:50.340 into crisis just for a taste of power. So he's a deeply evil man. And speaking of being deceitful, 0.94

00:08:57.600 here he is claiming that the Georgia law, the Georgia voting law, makes it illegal for people

00:09:02.980 waiting in line to drink water or eat food. Longer lines at the polls. Lines that can last for hours.

00:09:13.900 You've seen it with your own eyes. People get tired. They get hungry. When the Bible teaches us to feed

00:09:21.640 the hungry and give water to the thirsty, the new Georgia law actually makes it illegal. Think of this.

00:09:28.320 I mean, 2020 and now 22 going into that election. It makes it illegal to bring your neighbors, 1.00

00:09:40.040 your fellow voters, food or water while they wait in line to vote. What in the hell heck are we talking

00:09:46.320 about? I don't know. That's a good question, Joe. Think about this. It's 2022 or 2020 going into 20. 0.95

00:09:56.020 He said it's 2020 going into 2022. So we skipped 2021. It might kind of feel like that. 2020 was

00:10:02.300 two years long, but actually it wasn't. Now, what you just said there is, well, it's not true at all.

00:10:06.640 First of all, people waiting in line in Georgia can be provided water. The poor deers, they can have

00:10:13.060 their water. They're not going to die of thirst. Food can be provided as well, as long as it's not

00:10:17.660 within 100 or 150 feet of the building. Which means that people waiting in very long lines

00:10:24.160 can still eat. Okay. Because if it's a very long line, if you're waiting, you know, we hear about

00:10:29.340 people waiting for hours, supposedly. Well, that means that they're waiting far beyond 150 feet from

00:10:35.120 the building and they can have their food. And also you can always just bring your own food

00:10:40.960 if you think you might need it. So the entire thing is a non-issue, but this raises the question

00:10:47.280 of why we even need to provide full meals to people waiting to vote. Are we really a country

00:10:54.780 of such pathetic fat asses that we can't go a couple hours without eating while we're waiting 1.00

00:11:00.620 to vote? Is this really a problem? Who the hell needs to eat while they're in line to vote of all 1.00

00:11:08.860 things? You can't just wait till you get home fatty. You know, Americans used to be pioneers taking 0.98

00:11:16.320 covered wagons across vast expanses of wilderness towards unknown destinations. And now we cry that

00:11:23.400 our human rights are violated if we can't eat a donut while we vote. Times have really changed,

00:11:29.560 I would say. As for Biden's scriptural reference, to begin with, the exhortation to feed the hungry

00:11:36.240 was not meant to refer to overweight people who are feeling a bit peckish in line because they haven't

00:11:41.540 had a snack for the past 90 minutes. That's not what we mean. Feed the hungry. That's not what

00:11:47.100 we're talking about. All right. But Biden's concern for scripture is, of course, highly selective

00:11:52.500 because the Bible also says things like male and female. He created them. Biden doesn't quite endorse

00:11:58.260 that sentiment these days. And the Bible forbids murder, especially the murder of babies. But again,

00:12:02.160 Biden has different ideas about that. We see again that nothing these people say can be taken

00:12:06.900 seriously. And that brings us to one final point. Yesterday, at around the time when Kamala and Joe

00:12:13.760 were performing a political tap dance routine on MLK's grave, the mayor of D.C. made an announcement

00:12:19.960 joining many other large cities across the nation, like New York and Los Angeles and many others.

00:12:25.360 Mayor Bowser tweeted the following. Remember that starting Saturday, you will need these three things

00:12:30.920 before heading out. One, proof of vaccination, 12 years plus. Two, proof of vaccination and photo ID,

00:12:37.820 18 years plus. Three, a mask. Now think about this for a moment. We've been told repeatedly in panicked

00:12:45.820 and highly emotional tones that it's a violation of an individual's human rights to require an ID to vote.

00:12:52.360 Why? Because allegedly some Americans, many Americans, they say, are simply unable to obtain an ID.

00:12:58.200 Give them four years to do it and they can't figure it out. They're just going to sit there

00:13:04.540 helplessly crying for four years. How do I get an ID? Someone help me.

00:13:11.120 You know, they don't know. Like they could Google it. They could just call the DMV.

00:13:16.480 Google, what's that? I don't know. How do I know what number to call the DMV?

00:13:21.520 And so they just sit there panicked for four years. They can't figure out how to get an ID.

00:13:24.500 That's what we're told. The requirement is too onerous. To require an ID is tantamount to

00:13:30.460 excluding these poor, helpless people from the polls. And yet the same people who make that argument

00:13:36.440 are now passing laws and ordinances requiring an ID and a vaccine card to do literally everything in

00:13:43.540 life. Your fundamental participation in society on any level is now predicated on your ability to

00:13:50.720 produce both a photo identification and a medical card. It does no good to claim that,

00:13:56.260 well, this is different because voting is a right while say going to a restaurant is not a right.

00:14:01.640 Really? Because the Civil Rights Act says otherwise. The people who make this argument, I mean, I'm going

00:14:07.700 to assume they would still say that it's a violation of a person's rights if they're prevented

00:14:11.800 from entering a restaurant on the basis of, say, race. And at any rate, the point is that the argument

00:14:20.020 against voter ID laws is predicated on the obviously ridiculous idea that it is unreasonable to expect

00:14:26.000 people to have IDs because there are people who just can't, they can't get them. Yet again,

00:14:31.840 the people who claim this are now ensuring that everyone has to have IDs anyway to do anything,

00:14:37.240 anywhere, all the time. Can they not then also present the ID at the voting booth? Is the simple

00:14:44.300 act of reaching into your pocket to pull out the ID too much of a burden? Is that what we're talking

00:14:51.500 about? Because we can't be talking about the difficulty of obtaining one, considering everyone's

00:14:58.200 going to have to obtain these things anyway. So are we concerned that the voters may not have the

00:15:04.600 strength to reach into their pockets? Maybe that's too strenuous after waiting for 82 minutes in line

00:15:10.120 without a snack. It's ludicrous. I mean, the whole thing, nothing these people say has any bearing on 0.94

00:15:18.040 reality at all. There is no attack on voting rights at all, unfortunately. Now let's get to our five

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00:16:47.120 Uh, need to eat while you're in line to vote. I just, I'll never, I will never get over that.

00:16:53.540 Uh, that will never stop being hilarious to me. All these stories of, uh, you know, that's another

00:16:58.900 thing I haven't seen. I want to see a story. Show me the evidence of people starving to death

00:17:05.540 while waiting to vote. Okay. Like I want to see the footage of that. It's just a, it's just a bloodbath

00:17:12.900 of people lying there outside of the, uh, elementary school gymnasium, right? Waiting to

00:17:18.600 vote. And they're just lying there. Their red cages are showing. They've starved to death

00:17:22.740 in the span of, uh, of 97 minutes. Anyway. Um, the good news though, aside from that is that I'm,

00:17:31.800 I'm back now in my rightful chair. Well, actually the chair I'm sitting in right now is not, uh, is not,

00:17:36.320 is not the ex chair. Um, that's in my office, but I have it back anyway. And I thought about having

00:17:42.380 someone wheel my chair from my office to the studio and then back to my office every single

00:17:48.960 day. Maybe I should still do that. Like we have an intern now, like that's something that she could 0.68

00:17:52.300 do. But anyway, look, I know that some people have, have mocked me. I saw the comments because

00:17:58.940 I complained at length about my missing chair only to discover live on the air that it was sitting

00:18:03.680 literally five feet from me in the studio. And my wife complains about this kind of thing all the 1.00

00:18:09.940 time. I'm dreading when she, she's always a few days behind listening to the shows and, uh,

00:18:15.360 how dare she? Apparently she's got other things going on in her life, but eventually she's going

00:18:18.940 to hear that segment of me finding my chair that was sitting right next to me. And she's,

00:18:23.060 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 0.73

00:18:26.800 insisting that this is something that I do where I lose things and I can't find them even though

00:18:31.860 they're right in front of my face. Like I'll shout to my wife, Hey, uh, do we have any milk left?

00:18:36.320 And she'll say, we have, we have six gallons and you're looking right at them currently right now.

00:18:43.580 But you know what? Here's what it is. I'll tell you what it is. I'm a visionary.

00:18:48.040 Okay. I don't see what's in front of me. I see beyond. I see what could be. I've tried to explain

00:18:54.800 this to my wife. Um, I don't see the milk. I'm not focused on the milk. I don't see the chair.

00:19:00.700 I see a deeper truth. Yes. The chair was in the room with me, but, but what is the room when you

00:19:07.320 think about it? What is a chair? You know what I mean? I don't know what I mean. I'm just a moron.

00:19:14.040 I shouldn't be able to vote either. That's, that's the honest truth of the matter. All right. Um, 1.00

00:19:17.960 we'll start here. Jill, uh, Jill Sanborn is the FBI executive assistant director.

00:19:22.300 She appeared before a Senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday to answer questions about January 6th.

00:19:27.380 Um, well, she appeared to be asked questions about January 6th, not necessarily to answer them.

00:19:35.220 And, um, Ted Cruz, uh, questioned her and I think thoroughly redeemed himself from the whole

00:19:43.040 kerfuffle over January 6th and calling it a terrorist attack. Um, this is actually,

00:19:47.840 as we've been talking about the last couple of days and people wanted to throw Ted Cruz overboard

00:19:51.120 because of, of what he said and how he characterized January 6th. And as I said, that it's perfectly

00:19:55.740 fair to criticize him for that. He deserves to be criticized. We should always be willing and

00:20:00.540 eager to criticize any politician when they, when they screw up, but, uh, I'm not ready to abandon the

00:20:06.000 guy because he gives us moments like this that are really important. So here he is. We'll go through

00:20:11.320 some of these clips, um, sequentially here questioning Jill Sanborn wanting to find out, did the FBI have

00:20:22.700 any kind of involvement with January 6th at all? And you would think that if the answer was no,

00:20:29.040 it'd be really simple to say no. So let's listen to this.

00:20:32.700 I want to turn to the FBI. How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in

00:20:41.700 the events of January 6th? Sir, I'm sure you can appreciate that. I can't go into the specifics

00:20:50.120 of sources and methods. Uh, did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate

00:20:56.920 in the events of January 6th? Yes or no? Sir, I can't, I can't answer that. Did any FBI agents or

00:21:04.000 confidential informants commit crimes of violence on January 6th? Sixth. I can't answer that, sir.

00:21:10.740 Did any FBI agents or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence on January

00:21:19.220 6th? January 6th. Sir, I can't answer that. All right. So she says that she can't answer questions

00:21:25.520 about sources and methods, but, uh, the problem is that he didn't ask any questions about sources

00:21:29.320 and methods. He asked a very simple question. Were any FBI agents, uh, or FBI informants or anyone

00:21:36.900 affiliate with the FBI, were they involved in encouraging inciting acts of, uh, you know,

00:21:43.200 rioting and violence or anything on January 6th? And they, of course we get a no comment here, but I

00:21:50.540 would say that, um, you know, this is not like a court of law with a civilian where you've got a 0.51

00:21:58.260 right to remain silent. And, you know, or, or, or maybe you're being, you're being questioned about

00:22:02.520 a crime by the police and you're in the interrogation room and maybe you're refusing to

00:22:07.180 say anything, even though you're totally innocent because you realize the power dynamics here,

00:22:12.840 you're at a disadvantage and you, whatever you say could be twisted against you. And so you're not

00:22:16.920 going to say anything until you have your lawyer present. That's just, that's smart,

00:22:19.160 but the same logic and rules do not apply in this case with a government, with an agent of the

00:22:26.760 government representative of government being asked a question like this, because if this is just a

00:22:33.600 crazy, like it's, it's either true or it isn't right. Either the FBI was involved in some way in

00:22:38.900 inciting the events of January 6th or they were not. And if they were not, I cannot fathom why they

00:22:47.120 would refrain from telling us that. It's only confidential if they were involved, if they

00:22:54.200 weren't involved in it, then there's nothing confidential. Yeah, I can pretty much guarantee

00:22:58.180 you that if you were to get a NASA spokesperson on record in front of a camera and a microphone

00:23:06.880 and ask them, uh, sir, did, did, did, did, did, did NASA fake the moon landing? They're not going to

00:23:14.660 say, well, I can't comment on that. Uh, we can't talk about our sources and methods.

00:23:18.600 I'll tell you something. That's one conspiracy theory of many that I don't give any credibility

00:23:22.400 to. If we got that answer, then I'm going to feel differently. But no, I think what they would

00:23:27.680 say is that's crazy. Of course not. What's confidential. It's like, we didn't, we had nothing

00:23:32.400 to do with it. There's nothing. So there couldn't have been anything, anything confidential that

00:23:35.420 occurred. If this is, um, totally baseless, then the FBI not only would say so, but they would be

00:23:44.060 more than eager to say so. They would be saying so in front of everybody because they are vindicating

00:23:51.500 themselves. And, um, and also it's all you have to do is deny it. And for a lot of people, that's

00:24:01.140 going to count as debunking. That's going to be decisive. Now I'll admit that even if they did

00:24:06.420 deny it, that wouldn't necessarily be decisive for me because it's possible they could lie.

00:24:14.720 But for most people, and certainly for the media, that would be enough. That's all you have to do

00:24:18.220 is just say, no, no, we didn't do it. The fact that they're not willing to say that I think tells

00:24:22.960 you something. The only reason I can think is that it's true and she didn't want to perjure herself

00:24:28.480 or be the one that gets thrown onto the bus for lying to Congress about it. So instead she's

00:24:32.440 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. 0.56

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

00:25:58.960 to tear down the barricades?

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

00:28:04.720 criminal conduct on January 6th?

00:28:12.320 Not to my knowledge, sir.

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. 0.97

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. 0.94

00:36:26.300 Several circumstances have created a leadership vacuum in the party, which Mrs. Clinton 0.99

00:36:30.120 viably could fill. She's already in an advantageous position to become the 2024 Democratic nominee. 1.00

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 1.00

00:36:53.240 president again, enabling her to claim the title of change candidates. Hillary Clinton will be the 0.93

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. 0.99

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, 1.00

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. 0.98

00:38:32.920 Um, that is too old. That is way too old. Even if she was the greatest potential leader that this 0.98

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 0.84

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, 0.94

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, 0.93

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. 0.82

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. 0.98

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 0.98

00:46:00.160 actual accidental shooting where she didn't shoot some, some poor innocent woman who's a cinematographer 1.00

00:46:06.180 in Hollywood. She shot a violent danger scumbag whose death is, um, is, is in many ways, 0.98

00:46:15.700 a benefit to his community. His community is better off without him because he's a terrible, 1.00

00:46:19.340 awful, violent, horrible, horrifically evil person. She goes to prison, not him. Okay. 0.99

00:46:26.220 Let's get to the comment section.

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 1.00

00:47:29.940 from your friends, isolate you from your family and tell you that your hobbies make her uncomfortable. 0.93

00:47:34.220 A lot of the bureaucrats in Washington are women who are either single and miserable 1.00

00:47:37.420 or else browbeat their passive husbands. You could tell that these women are the people writing 0.96

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 1.00

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 around here understands the severity of the issue and what I went through emotionally. I appreciate

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00:50:12.680 Now let's get to our daily cancellations.

00:50:18.020 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

00:50:41.240 not include all information. And the story it was written about is behind a paywall. We made the

00:50:45.500 decision to delete the thread. They also apparently made the decision to change the headline of the

00:50:49.940 article, which is now titled the complicated research behind pedophilia. Now it's impossible to

00:50:55.540 know what other edits they may have made, but, uh, they removed the paywall and let's read a little

00:51:00.220 bit from the article as it now stands quote. Pedophilia is viewed as among the most horrifying

00:51:05.940 social ills, but scientists who study the sexual disorder say it is also among the most misunderstood

00:51:11.320 when most of the public thinks of pedophilia. They assume it's synonymous with child sexual abuse,

00:51:16.820 a pervasive social problem that has exploded to crisis levels online. Researchers who study pedophilia

00:51:21.880 say the term describes an attraction, not an action and using it interchangeably with abuse fuels

00:51:26.980 misperceptions. The American psychiatric association's diagnostic and physical manual of mental disorders

00:51:31.620 says that pedophilia is, is defined by quote, recurrent intense sexually arousing fantasies,

00:51:37.720 sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children.

00:51:43.660 Scientists have in recent decades improved their understanding of pedophilia's causes, prenatal and early

00:51:48.040 childhood risk factors, as well as how pedophiles can better control impulses. One of the most

00:51:52.080 significant findings is that scientists who study this disorder say that pedophilia is determined in

00:51:56.020 the womb, though environmental factors may influence whether someone acts on an urge to abuse.

00:52:01.500 All right. The article then goes on to favorably reference Alan Walker. You may remember Walker as the

00:52:06.520 creepy college professor who advocates for destigmatizing pedophilia. Walker is affiliated with the

00:52:12.080 Prostasia Foundation, which we've talked about on the show. He's appeared on their, he or she, I can't

00:52:18.560 remember which one, on their YouTube channel and in interviews on their, their site. This is an

00:52:23.680 organization that is several levels beyond creepy and which is also concerned with destigmatizing

00:52:29.800 pedophilia. In fact, if you go to Prostasia's website right now, the very first thing that pops up is a

00:52:36.160 safety guide for, quote, age play. If you're wondering what that is, Prostasia explains that age

00:52:43.400 play is, quote, a form of role play in which at least one of the participants adopts the role or

00:52:48.340 mindset of someone younger, a teenager, a child, or even a baby. So now you have some idea of what

00:52:55.060 we're dealing with. Back to the article in Alan Walker. It says, an academic at Old Dominion University

00:53:00.140 in Norfolk, Virginia, who's talked about destigmatizing pedophilia and referred to pedophiles as

00:53:04.320 minor attracted people, resigned in November following the outcry over the phrase. Alan

00:53:09.720 Walker argued destigmatizing the attraction would allow more people to seek help and ultimately

00:53:13.480 prevent child sexual abuse. There is growing support in the field for Walker's point of view.

00:53:18.020 While clinical psychologist James Cantor said there is no treatment that can turn a pedophile

00:53:21.680 into a non-pedophile, pedophiles can be taught self-control and compensatory strategies, which he

00:53:26.420 said is more likely if they're under the care of a professional. He argues that pedophiles need to be

00:53:30.560 able to access therapy, which can be difficult since those afflicted may be ashamed to seek help,

00:53:34.320 or worried about being reported to the authorities if they do.

00:53:38.460 Now, what can we say about all of this after we finish vomiting into the nearest trash can?

00:53:43.240 The most generous possible interpretation is that the author and those quoted in the piece

00:53:47.940 are drawing a distinction between impulse and action and advocating for strategies to help prevent

00:53:54.080 pedophiles from converting those horrific impulses into action. Now, that sentiment alone by itself,

00:54:00.140 the idea that we want to stop pedophiles from acting on their desires is, of course, uncontroversial.

00:54:05.320 Everyone agrees. It's so obvious that it's not a point that really needs to be made.

00:54:09.920 Now, it could be a worthwhile discussion if you're presenting actual tangible prevention strategies,

00:54:14.480 but all that the author of this piece, the author's name, by the way, is Aaliyah de Steger, has to offer is therapy.

00:54:22.820 That's a rather broad and useless suggestion, especially because it requires us to have faith

00:54:26.240 in the psychological industry to handle the issue effectively and appropriately, and I have no such faith.

00:54:30.900 That brings us to the larger problem. Although there is a nugget of truth here, that there's a difference

00:54:37.440 between desire and action, and we want to prevent the actions. Again, obviously, we want to prevent the actions.

00:54:45.080 But the very troubling and ultimately fatal flaw is that the morsel of common sense is couched in a lot of pablum

00:54:51.380 about destigmatizing pedophilia. They're treated as a valid community, an oppressed community, a victim class

00:54:58.540 in their own right. And much emphasis is placed on the claim that pedophiles are born with this desire.

00:55:06.820 Now, that latter point may also be true in some cases. It's possible that something has gone wrong in the brain

00:55:13.020 of the pedophile, and that at least in some cases, we can trace the problem back to the womb.

00:55:17.640 Now, that entirely removes the moral and spiritual element, once again, medicalizing the problem of human evil,

00:55:23.500 which is a problem. But it wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of neurochemical facet to this issue.

00:55:30.040 Fine. But the problem is that all of this stuff, it's a community. They're stigmatized. They're oppressed.

00:55:39.020 Their desires are natural, quote unquote. They're born with it. All of this has always been the pretense

00:55:45.520 for eventually normalizing and then finally celebrating the act itself.

00:55:50.300 Now, they're not doing it yet explicitly. Even the nightmarish Prostasia Foundation, with its guide 1.00

00:55:56.140 for pedophilic sexual roleplay, isn't coming out and explicitly saying that it's normal or good to 0.99

00:56:03.060 rape children. What we're witnessing now is the groundwork. They're digging the foundation. They're 0.99

00:56:09.040 laying the bricks for the hideous building that they plan to construct. We've seen this process play

00:56:14.560 out enough times to know where it leads. In fact, the idea that people who are born with certain sexual

00:56:18.540 desires should repress them, refrain from acting on them, that is fundamentally incompatible with the

00:56:24.000 leftist worldview anyway. That's how we know that when it comes to pedophilia normalization, 0.96

00:56:29.100 the current point that we're at right now is but a stage that they're passing through on their way

00:56:33.760 to the ultimate destination. Now, you might hope that this will be different because most of the

00:56:38.580 other forms of perversion normalized by the left have involved consenting adults of various numbers

00:56:43.760 and combinations. But children cannot consent, obviously. Perhaps the consent issue, you might

00:56:49.480 hope, will create a barrier. It will be like Gandalf standing on the bridge, screaming, you shall not

00:56:55.140 pass. This is the one boundary that the fiery demon of leftism cannot cross, you might say, you might hope.

00:57:02.420 But we know that the left is already hard at work on this issue as well,

00:57:06.600 on breaking down the idea of consent.

00:57:11.520 Because they tell us that children, very young children, children as young as two or three,

00:57:16.180 can consent to all sorts of things,

00:57:18.320 make all kinds of decisions, even sexual decisions.

00:57:21.660 They can consent to change their gender.

00:57:25.400 So you see how another foundation right now is also being formed.

00:57:28.400 More bricks are being laid.

00:57:31.480 Eventually, the two construction projects will be connected.

00:57:34.600 And within a few years, I give it maybe five years,

00:57:38.320 the actual act of pedophilia will be openly and explicitly defended.

00:57:44.160 This USA Today article is just one of the opening salvos in that effort.

00:57:49.940 And for that reason, USA Today is today canceled.

00:57:54.580 And we'll leave it there.

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