Ep. 873 - The Vaccine Mandate Goes Down In Flames, Hallelujah
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Today on the Daily Wire, The Daily Wire achieves a resounding victory at the Supreme Court, as Biden s illegal and insane vaccine mandate is blocked and effectively killed. Also, in more good news, college enrollment rates continue to decline across the country, and the top prosecutor in Baltimore is facing a slew of felony charges related to fraud and perjury. Meanwhile, a convicted arsonist that she set free from prison is speaking out to the media. Plus, a study claims to find that people are more attractive when they cover their faces with masks.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Daily Wire achieves a resounding victory at the Supreme
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Court as Biden's illegal and insane vaccine mandate is blocked and effectively killed.
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Also, in more good news, college enrollment rates continue to decline across the country.
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And the top prosecutor in Baltimore is facing a slew of felony charges related to fraud
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Meanwhile, a convicted arsonist that she set free from prison is speaking out to the media.
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He's opposed to his own release, yet he was released anyway.
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Plus, a study claims to find anyway that people are more attractive when they cover their
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The left is upset about my anti-universal voting rights stance for a change of pace.
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I'll deal with that today and much more on the Matt Wall Show.
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You know, I tend to subscribe to the idea that you should expect the worst and hope for the
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best, but then also know that your hopes are foolish and futile and then resign yourself
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This may not be the healthiest psychological approach to life.
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You know, it's not going to make you the most joyful person, but it inoculates you from
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And that is why I didn't expect good news, honestly, to come from the Supreme Court's
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But I have little faith in the court's ability to get anything right.
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And for once, for once, my pessimism was not vindicated.
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As you've heard by now, the court announced on Thursday that it was blocking Biden's vaccine
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mandate for private employers, effectively killing it for good.
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Even if the Sixth Circuit rules in favor of the mandate at some point in the coming months,
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which maybe they will, the Supreme Court has already made its opinion known on the subject,
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which means that this mandate simply has no path forward, it will never see the light
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It might linger on in the court system for a while, but it won't make its way out into
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the workforce where you have to worry about it.
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Well, you can read the opinions, which are actually worth reading, but it all amounts to
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The federal government has no constitutional authority to impose this kind of rule onto the
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Of course, Biden cannot unilaterally declare that a certain medical decision must be a prerequisite
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for employment for every person in the country.
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It was also deeply immoral as it sought to violate the autonomy of the individual in a
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You know, we hear a lot about bodily autonomy as it relates to issues that have nothing to
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But here is one where the phrase is actually useful.
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The president trying to force a needle into your arm for any reason at all must be an
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infringement on your autonomy if you have any autonomy at all.
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If that word means anything, then it must apply here.
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And on top of being illegal and immoral, it's also illogical.
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This point was not featured as prominently in the Supreme Court arguments, but it's important,
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Since the shot does not prevent the spread of the virus anyway, any even potential argument
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justifying the mandate melts away into oblivion.
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If the mandate could be justified at all, which it couldn't, but if it could, that justification
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would have to rest on the vaccine's ability to stop the spread.
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That's the only way you could say that there's any real public health interest going on here.
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But it has no such ability, not a significant enough degree anyway.
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And so the one potential defense of the mandate is rendered moot.
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And now it can't stand at all because it's been shot down.
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Now, I do believe it's necessary to spike the football when you achieve a victory.
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For one thing, because it's just so damn satisfying to do.
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But two, because it's important to acknowledge the wins when they come.
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The Daily Wire was first in line to challenge the mandate in court, soon followed by many
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I mean, most employers were willing to just go along with it and not fight at all.
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But, you know, we've been chanting, do not comply for months.
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It's a battle cry, now a victory cry, and a banner that we're going to continue to march
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Because too many people have grown far too accustomed to simply doing as they're told.
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Going along to get along, cooperate, submit, so they don't make any waves, so they don't
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But if we're going to pull our society back from the brink and rescue ourselves from civilizational
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ruin, we need to rediscover the power of the word no.
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That's what the Daily Wire's mandate challenge was all about.
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Because the tyrants will never stop exploiting COVID in an effort to gain more power for themselves.
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And beyond COVID, we know that there are many more battles to fight.
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If we will not comply has been our battle cry at the Daily Wire for years, you know,
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The battle cry, or rather the cry of surrender among the losers and submissives and bootlickers
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of our culture has been, this isn't the hill to die on.
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You know, they're constantly accusing those of us who are in the fight, the men in the arena,
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And as each successive hill is reached, they always find reasons why it's not important
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Surrendering one hill after another until there are none left to defend.
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So to answer that question, yeah, we will die on this hill.
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And the one after that, if that's what it takes.
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Because we've given up far too much ground culturally.
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And we aren't willing to be a part of the retreat.
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And the great thing we've discovered about being willing to die on the hill is that sometimes
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And you get to pop champagne and celebrate your victory.
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Other times you lose, but you go down swinging.
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And you cause as much damage to your opponent as you can on your way down, setting the stage
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That's why I'm here at the Daily Wire, because it's an attitude shared by the whole company.
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I mean, these days, I think it means everything, really.
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You know, of all the cliches, the cliche that opposites attract is probably the truest in
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my experience and couldn't be more true of me and my wife, certainly.
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So just an example, yesterday I was at, I went to Fox News, I did a Fox News hit, Fox
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Primetime, and I told my wife to meet me at the studio, not here, but the studio where
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we do the Fox News hits in town because we're going to go out to dinner afterwards.
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And, um, so she comes to the studio and she's in the little like waiting room area and I
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go in to do the hit and I'm on camera for maybe like five minutes or less, four minutes
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And I come out and my wife has, has made friends with the makeup artist and she's sitting in
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the makeup chair at the studio, getting her hair and makeup done for no reason, just like
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And then we leave and she's telling me all about the makeup artist who I see all the time
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there, but she's learned more about this woman in five minutes than I have in five months.
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And she somehow established this deep connection and friendship in a span of time that it took
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I mean, I could be around someone for 10 years and not learn anything about them.
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Like I might not even know their names and she'll make a new best friend in 95 seconds.
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I swear sometimes like she'll be, she'll be texting someone and I'll say, Oh, who's that?
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I was like, well, no, Sarah, who are you talking about?
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She said, Oh, you know, she's the woman that I met at the gas pump last Tuesday.
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She was pumping gas across from me and now her best friends.
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But, uh, as I said, I could not be further on the other end of that spectrum.
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Let's, uh, got a couple of clips here to play for you.
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First, the white house reacting to their defeat.
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Uh, Jen Psaki saying, you know, it's, uh, well, she was given a chance to respond and I guess
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I mean, does she offer any kind of explanation as to why the decision was wrong?
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Does she have any kind of constitutional explanation?
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Uh, let's find out the Supreme court's decision on the OSHA mandate essentially means that in
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the pan, this pandemic is up to individual employers to determine whether their workplaces
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will be safe for employees and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers.
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Uh, so president Biden, you'll see this in his statement, uh, will be calling on and
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we'll continue to call on businesses to immediately join those, those who have already stepped up,
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including one third of fortune 100 companies, uh, to institute vaccination requirements,
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to protect their workers, customers, and communities.
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We have to keep working together in order, uh, to, uh, get this done to save more lives.
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Um, I would note that there are a couple of, um, signs, good signs in terms of, uh, without
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this, um, even in, even in spite of the ruling that we would point to one is that 57% according
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to a navigator poll of American support vaccine requirements.
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She has no explanation as to why the decision was actually wrong.
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Instead, she says, well, we're, we're relying on, um, employers to just do it anyway.
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And the thing is lots of them will, but we have to remember that they have no justification
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If your employer still requires vaccines for you, it's not something they have to do.
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And that's one of the reasons we talk about the fight continuing.
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Um, employers that still require the vaccine as a condition of employment, which again,
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You may not have the same kind of constitutional issue because this is not an official government
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mandate anymore because that's been shot down, but it's still, I believe a human rights
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And so that those are, are people who are subject, subjected to these mandates, even on the employer
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Um, I don't think that at this point we simply declare victory on the vaccine mandate and then
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move on to the next thing because there are lots of, uh, people are still going to be
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Um, Biden, here he is yesterday calling for, this is before the, uh, the, the, the decision
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on the mandate came down and here he is calling for censorship of his political opponents.
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You know, we're, we're told that, um, social media censorship is not a first amendment issue
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at all, not a free speech at you because these are a private organizations that are making
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But what happens when the, when, when they're doing it at the behest of the president, let's
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Unfortunately, while our military is stepping up as they always do, there are others sitting
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on the sidelines and we're standing in the way.
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If you haven't gotten vaccinated, do it personal choice impacts us all, our hospitals, our countries.
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I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets.
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Please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that's on your shows.
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COVID-19 is one of the most formidable enemies America has ever faced.
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We've got to work together, not against each other.
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So, um, are we willing to consider the possibility that there might be constitutional issues now,
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first amendment, free speech issues when the president is instructing social media companies
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Oh, but it doesn't count because it's only, it's only misinformation.
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You know, that's, that's one of the problems with even calling, uh, these big tech companies,
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But their relationship to political power certainly blurs those lines and the way that they act as tools of political power or rather one side of the,
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of that, uh, of that, uh, power structure anyway.
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The way they act as, as tools, as vessels of political power certainly continues again to blur those lines.
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Now I think you have a real, you know, if you end up getting banned from social media, allegedly because of misinformation,
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misinformation that, uh, that has been declared misinformation now, but maybe a week from now,
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because Fauci says it or the CDC says it, now it's not misinformation anymore.
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Doesn't mean you're getting your platform back.
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But if it happens after Biden calls for it, instructs that it must happen, I think there are real constitutional issues there.
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Uh, continuing Biden also, we hear again his claim that wearing a mask is your, it's what makes you a good American.
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If you want to prove you're a good American, prove that you love your country, do your patriotic duty, well then cover your face in public, you disgusting, ugly freaks.
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And you're, there, there, there are a lot, you know, lots of different kinds of masks out there.
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And the center for the center for disease control and prevention, the CDC says that wearing a well-fitting mask of, of, of any of them is certainly better than not wearing a mask if it's well-fitting, well over your nose.
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And, but it's about one third, about one third of America's report.
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As I've said in the last two years, please wear a mask.
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If you're in a, you know, I, I think it's part of your patriotic duty.
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It's a pain in the neck, but I've taken every action I can as president to require people to wear masks in federal buildings and on airplanes and trains because they're internet, they cross state lines.
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I've made sure that our doctors and nurses and first responders have the mask they need.
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No matter how many times I hear that, it will never stop being extremely creepy to hear the president say that your patriotic duty is to cover your face in public.
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That's how you do patriotic duty is to cover your face.
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And as always, because we know again, how the missing, the claim of misinformation goes, he's not engaging at all with the actual data and the facts.
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I mean, we've, we've heard from representatives of the airline industry saying that the mask mandates that masking on planes is not necessary.
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It's a, it's a, it's a, just a charade because in terms of, as far as viruses go or really almost any physical threat, the safest place you could be is 35,000 feet in the air in a, in a giant metal tube.
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It doesn't always feel the same, especially for me as someone who experiences a lot of anxiety flying, but it is.
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And you're breathing heavily filtered air that is, you know, and you've got air piped in from outside the plane, which is as clean as it could possibly be.
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But that's, um, that still counts as misinformation, I guess.
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Until, until we, until, until an approved authority figure says it, that's misinformation.
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All right, let's move to this from the daily wire.
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It says colleges, and this is more, so this is a, actually we're doing some good news on the Matt Wall Show for a change.
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Colleges are experiencing an intense drop in the number of students enrolling in classes to receive undergraduate degrees,
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showing a trend that might not taper off with the end of the pandemic.
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New data released on Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse show that U.S. colleges and universities
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experienced a decline of almost 500,000 undergraduate students in the fall of 2021,
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keeping up with a drop that started the fall prior.
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The National Student Clearinghouse data showed that, quote,
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continued enrollment losses in the pandemic represent a total two-year decline of 5%,
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or nearly a million, 938,000, nearly a million students since the fall of 2019.
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It added that undergraduate enrollment fell by 3.1%, or 465,000 students over the last year,
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while graduate enrollment is down less than half a percent.
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There was also a difference in the topics that students are signing up to study.
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It says the report noted enrollment in each of the five largest undergraduate majors
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Liberal arts declined the most, while computer sciences and psychology also grew, rather,
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but whether or not the trend is going to reverse as we get out of COVID,
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if we're ever allowed to be out of COVID in any kind of official capacity,
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And I'm hoping that what happens is that, just like with the public school system,
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you know, we've seen homeschool rates incline precipitously.
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And you might say that, again, if we ever are allowed to be free of COVID,
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But I think what's happened with the public school system and homeschooling
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And they would not have done it otherwise, but they were forced to.
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And because they were forced to do it, they discovered, many of them,
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Not to sit at home on a computer doing remote schooling.
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That's like the worst of all worlds, where they're still in public school,
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I actually like being around my own kids for the majority of the day.
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You know, I like being a full-time parent, not a part-time parent.
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Where more than half of the parenting duties is siphoned off to the school system.
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So that's been a revelatory moment for a lot of parents.
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And I hope that something similar is happening with the university system.
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probably would have shipped their kids off to a four-year institution.
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And maybe you're going to have people discovering that,
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Now, the scare tactics that kids are taught in the school system,
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even though I didn't end up going to a four-year institution.
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And they make it really clear to you that if you don't go to college,
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You're going to end up having a miserable life.
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Whereas if you go to college, then success and happiness await you.
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A utopia, a utopian future awaits if you just go to college.
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And that's what all these kids are going through.
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But maybe some of these kids have realized that that's not exactly true.
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This would be one of the best things for this country, I'm telling you.
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One of the best things for our country and the best things for our culture
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would be this trend here, 5% decline in enrollment,
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is like, how about a 90% decline in college enrollment?
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You take all the kids that are enrolled in college right now,
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maybe 10% of them maybe should actually be there
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because they want to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects.
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They want to be literal rocket scientists or whatever.
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Clearly, you need more formal schooling to go into those lines of work.
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But the vast majority of jobs that you're going to take on
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do not actually require a four-year institution in order to do them.
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Because the vast majority of jobs, almost everything you learn,
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and most of it's going to be in your first week.
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and you're going to learn more in the first week
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relevant to that job than you learned in four years, by far.
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The problem is that although the vast majority of jobs
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don't actually require a four-year institution,
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there's an artificial requirement that these employers have put in place.
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But they're trying to streamline the recruitment process as much as possible,
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and it makes it a lot easier if they can just throw out half of the applicants
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because they don't have a little piece of paper.
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Never mind the fact that many of those applicants,
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That's what it's really about for the employer,
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And even if you're doing it in a way that's unfair and doesn't make any sense,
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you're just whittling it down, making it a lot easier.
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That's why I've been saying for a long time that
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and all of these things related to higher education,
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Obviously, the banks, the government, the school system,
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all these are culprits, but the employers also are
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for putting these artificial requirements in place
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I wish I could say, we talk about college education
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and we say, well, you need to be able to use your college education.
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And when we say use it, what we mean is go and get a job
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So it's, of course, sort of this real utilitarian way
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the most important way that you use your education
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is simply by becoming a more well-rounded, intelligent person.
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In an ideal scenario, it should be worthwhile to go and get an education
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for its own sake, even if you never, quote-unquote, use it at a job.
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It can't be like that because the education is way too expensive for that.
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You can't justify doing it for its own sake because it's so expensive.
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And also, the quality of the education isn't good.
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It's something that you could probably achieve on your own on the internet.
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And oftentimes, the education really just amounts to left-wing brainwashing.
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So we're at a point now with the education, with colleges, the university system,
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You can't justify sending your kids into it unless they are going to use it
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Baltimore State's attorney, Marilyn Mosby, the city's top prosecutor,
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was indicted on Thursday on federal charges of perjury
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related to her purchase of two Florida vacation homes.
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is accused of falsely claiming twice to have suffered
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a work-related financial hardship from COVID-19
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in order to request early withdrawals totaling $90,000
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allowing for emergency distributions of up to $100,000
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from her retirement plan in the event of a furlough, layoff,
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quarantine, reduced work hours, lack of childcare,
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or impact on one's own business caused by COVID-19.
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And prosecutors said that Mosby used the money she received,
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toward down payments on vacation homes in Florida.
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It's not even funny, but what can you do but laugh?
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before we knew that she was corrupt in this way,
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there's a lot of self-interest that goes into this.
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She relates to criminals because that's how she is.
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isn't very enthusiastic about putting criminals in prison.
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Part of it is that she really does relate to these people.
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And it's just kind of a general moral debasement
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That's why when we talked about this last week,
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by using the stereotype of the bleeding heart liberal
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that they should feel on behalf of the victims of crime.
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This is before the news about her getting arrested herself.
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A few days ago, this story about a convicted arsonist
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who attempted to burn down his girlfriend's house
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and yet was released from jail after a few months
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and even he says that he should still be in prison.
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Do you think that you deserve to be out of jail?
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It just seems like it's part of some political game.
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Court records show Trent came back to the scene
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Well, that does not give me a lot of confidence,
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this is an attempt to overturn the moral order,
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A guy that tried to burn out his girlfriend's house