Ep. 874 - Canada Officially Criminalizes Biology
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In Canada, Canada has just effectively criminalized biblical sexual morality and biological science. They call it a ban on conversion therapy. We have laws like this in the US as well in the United States as well, but they re not what they first appear. Also, we ll discuss the jihadist who took hostages at a synagogue in Texas. But the FBI, Biden, and the media are pretending to be puzzled about his motives. And if Glenn Youngkin s first day as governor is an indication, then he s going to have a brilliant tenure. We ll talk about what he did on his first day, and what is an after-school Satan club? We ll find out today, unfortunately.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Canada has just effectively criminalized biblical sexual morality
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and biological science. They call it a ban on conversion therapy. We have laws like this in
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the United States as well, but they're not what they first appear. So we'll look at that today.
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Also, we'll discuss the jihadist who took hostages at a synagogue in Texas, but the FBI,
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Biden, and the media are pretending to be puzzled about his motives. I mean,
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why could he have possibly done this? And if Glenn Youngkin's first day as governor is any
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indication, then he's going to have a brilliant tenure. We'll talk about what he did on his first
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day. And what is an after-school Satan club exactly? We'll find out today, unfortunately,
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cleaning needs today with Naturally It's Clean. So last week, Canada finally enacted its nationwide ban
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on so-called conversion therapy. Our neighbors to the north now join several other countries like
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Germany and Brazil and up to, I think, 20 U.S. states now in banning the alleged practice. Though
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the Canadian law ups the ante considerably. Under the statute, as the New York Times reports, it is a
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crime to, quote, provide or promote services intended to change or repress a person's sexual orientation
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or gender expression. And violators who are found guilty of engaging in this illicit activity will be
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subject to five years in prison. And those who merely don't even engage in it but promote it
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are looking at two years behind bars. Now, this immediately raises a question that most corporate
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media articles on the subject have not really bothered to answer. But a pretty obvious question,
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which is, what is it? What are we talking about? What specifically is conversion therapy? We've all heard
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the phrase before, but what is it? Now, left-wing propaganda about the practice, which often uses
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words like barbaric and violent and brutal to describe it, brings to mind images of homosexuals,
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you know, committed against their will to insane asylums in straight jackets, maybe strapped to gurneys
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and given electric shocks until they change their mind about their sexual orientation. But that sort of
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thing isn't happening in the modern Western world. So what then do these conversion therapy prohibitions
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actually prohibit? Well, for that answer, we should probably turn to the legislation itself. I think it's
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probably the best place to go. Bill C-4, which begins by telling us that, quote, conversion therapy causes
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harm to society because, among other things, it is based on and propagates myths and stereotypes about sexual
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orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, including the myth that heterosexuality, cisgender,
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gender identity, and gender expression that conform to the sex assigned to a person at birth are to be
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preferred over other sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. Now, in one fell swoop
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here, sexual morality, as it is understood by billions of people across the world and throughout history,
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and has been taught by every major world religion for thousands of years, has been legally consigned to
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the status of myth. And the belief that it's better for a person to accept their biological identity
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than to try and reject it in favor of an identity that they can never truly obtain, a belief shared by
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nearly every human being who has ever walked the earth, joins biblical sexual morality under the fairy tale
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umbrella, because that's a myth too. But we still don't know what exactly conversion therapy is, right?
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Now, fortunately, there's a section of the bill which purports to offer a definition. In fact, it says
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definition of conversion therapy. Okay, that's good. Now, here's what it says. Conversion therapy means a
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practice, treatment, or service designed to, A, change a person's sexual orientation to heterosexual,
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change a person's gender identity to cisgender, C, change a person's gender expression so that it
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conforms to the sex assigned to the person at birth, D, repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or
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sexual behavior, E, repress a person's non-cisgender gender identity, or F, repress or reduce a person's
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gender expression that does not conform to the sex assigned to the person at birth. And then it continues
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and says, for greater certainty, this definition does not include a practice, treatment, or service that relates
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to the exploration or development of an integrated personal identity, such as a practice, treatment, or
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service that relates to a person's gender transition, and that is not based on an assumption that a particular
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sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression is to be preferred over another. Now, the wording here is
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still quite vague by design. I mean, this is intentional. But it's clear that conversion therapy
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certainly need not involve straight jackets or electric shocks. So we're way beyond that. Any
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practice, treatment, or service. You think about the word practice. What is a practice? It's just a thing that
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you do. So just anything at all which seeks to, in any way, quote, change or repress a person's, quote,
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non-cisgender identity or non-heterosexual attraction is conversion therapy and could land you in prison for
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half a decade. Now, under this definition, there is no conversion taking place when a young boy is, say,
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chemically castrated in order to make him look more like a girl, or when a young girl is given a double
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mastectomy in order to make her look more like a boy. You know, that's not conversion. Rather, it is
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conversion if they are convinced not to be butchered in this way. If you convince them not to do this,
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if you convince a girl not to go have her breasts chopped off, then you are guilty of conversion
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therapy for convincing her to keep the body she was born with. By encouraging a boy to accept the
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fact that he is a boy or encouraging a girl to accept the fact that she's a girl, you are engaging
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in conversion therapy under this law. It is conversion therapy to explain to a male that he is male
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and to help him embrace his natural identity. If you simply said to a boy, well, you're a biological
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male, that means you're a boy. That's conversion therapy, according to this. Now, does that mean
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that any counselor, therapist, teacher, pastor, or even parent who refuses to encourage a child's gender
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delusion is guilty of violating this law and could end up behind bars for five years? Yeah, that's
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explicitly what it means. Does it mean that any priest or minister who stands at the pulpit on Sunday
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and preaches about sexual morality, not a lot of them doing that in Canada or in the United States,
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but if they do it or even read a passage from the Bible like Romans 126-27, one of the many
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biblical passages which condemns the Homosexual Act, does that mean that anyone who does that is now
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a conversion therapist and liable to a lengthy prison sentence? Yeah, again, that's very clearly what
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it means. Once again, the prohibition includes any practice, treatment, or service, wording that
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encompasses literally anything that anyone in any position might do or say to contradict the radical
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left's harebrained theories about sex and gender. Now, there is ambiguity here. Tyrants love legal
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ambiguity because it gives them free reign to do essentially whatever they want, you know, but there's
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no subtlety. So notice how the bill specifically forbids the repression of non-cisgender and non-heterosexual
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identities, but does not forbid repression the other way. So it is expressly not a crime to impose
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transgenderism on a child or homosexuality on a child. It's only a crime in the reverse, and the law is
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written that way. That's the way the law is written. You cannot, as it says, change a person's gender
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identity to cisgender, but there's nothing forbidding you from changing it to trans. It would have been
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easier, clearer, and less wordy to prohibit all attempts to change or repress a person's sexuality
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or gender, but the bill very conspicuously does not do that. I mean, why doesn't it just say it's a
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crime to change a person's gender identity? Period. No, they specified which direction you're not
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allowed to change it in. That's because the demented leftist despots and child predators who are behind
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these anti-conversion therapy laws, they don't actually have a problem with sexual coercion or
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manipulation. They have a problem with heterosexuality and biological science, and that's
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what this is really about. And they also, of course, have a problem with religion, and this is an effort
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to criminalize religion. I mean, this is, it would not be an exaggeration to say that this is a
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criminalization of every, of all the Abrahamic religions, because one of the most crucial aspects
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of their moral teachings are verboten now, legally so. In fact, if the term conversion therapy means
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anything at all, the only sort of conversion therapy that happens in the Western world is the sort that
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converts people away from heterosexuality and biological sex, not into it. I mean, only an idiot
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or a partisan could look at surveys showing that 40% of Generation Z identify as LGBT and conclude that
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this is some sort of natural evolution. 40%? We're talking 300, 400, 500% increase in a couple of years?
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Now, we can be sure that if this was, if there was a pronounced drop in LGBT identities, if the
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LGBT community's community, if the ranks of the LGBT community were to shrink over the course of a few
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years, rather than have this astronomic rise, the left would conclude without hesitation that there must
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be a conspiracy of repression and eradication at work here. And that is exactly what's happening,
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but going the other way. There has been a many-fold increase in non-straight, non-biological
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identities, a jump unlike anything the world has ever seen, period. And there's nothing accidental
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about it. The LGBT lobby is, as I've been saying for years, running the most successful recruitment
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drive in American history. And it's pretty easy for it to be successful because they have the media,
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the school system, corporate America, and the government on their side. You know, it's easy to win
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converts when you have all of the most powerful institutions in the world working with you.
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And especially when your target audience are children who don't know any better.
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Good example of this. A video went viral over the weekend showing one conversion therapy victim
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kind of go off script unexpectedly. The child's mother put him in front of a camera for a TikTok video,
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for a TikTok live, you know, answering questions. And the idea was he was supposed to deliver LGBT
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talking points, the ones he'd been assigned, because that's all that this child is to this
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mother. He's just a vessel, um, for, for LGBT propaganda. But you know, kids say the darndest
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things sometimes. So here's how that went. White people that aren't like serial killers,
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like Ted Budden. Does your mom say you have to be LGBT? Um, no, I can, she's what I want to be,
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but some, but my mom doesn't matter if I'm up, if I am gay or a lesbian or any of that. She doesn't
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care. All she cares about is that I'm a part of it. And if I'm not a part of it, she'll try to
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convince me to join it. Cause I, what are you saying right now? Facts that I would convince you
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to join what? The LGBT QIA plus. Now, if the child in that video had said that his mother was
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trying to convince him to be straight, you know, the police would have barreled through her door
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and carted her away in handcuffs by now. Instead, he reveals that he's being psychologically conditioned
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to be some version of gay and his abuser will pay no price for it. There'll be no penalty,
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no punishment. This is the approved form of conversion therapy in America.
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And in the Western world, millions of children fall victim to it. It's the only kind of conversion
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therapy that's allowed. And the only kind that exists. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Well, um, uh, as you can see, I'm not in the studio again due to global warming. We had yet
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another snowstorm here in Tennessee, multiple snowstorms in Tennessee in a span of a month. And,
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um, that, that, uh, that does prove global warming, you know, that's, that's proof of
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global warming. Um, actually, no, I'm sorry. It's a, it proves climate change, right? It proves that
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climate change exists because it proves that climates change the climate changes, which,
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uh, if you had any doubt about whether the climate changes, then, uh, then exhibit A is,
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is right outside my window. The great thing about the climate change idea is that, is that literally
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anything that happens is evidence for it. So it's the most unfalsifiable theory of all time.
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Cold? Climate change. Is it hot outside? Climate change. Rain? Climate change. Wind? Climate change.
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Tornadoes? Climate change. Hurricane? Climate change. Is it mild and calm? Well, climate change.
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Volcanic eruption? Climate change. Stubbed your toe? Climate change. Racism? Climate change.
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Um, climate change. I think at this point could be defined as, you know, cause I'm, you know,
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I'm a fan of definitions and I think that you need to know what they are in order to have any kind of
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coherent conversation about anything. So what's the definition of climate change? Well, climate change
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could be defined as that which occurs. That's climate change. All things that occur are climate
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change. And it's brilliant because if you're going to have a doomsday cult, which is what
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environmentalism is, the lesson that other doomsday cults have learned is that you have to be very
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vague about your predictions and your claims because environmentalists for decades made the
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same mistakes that other cults made around the same timeframe, um, where they would make these
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specific predictions about the stuff that would happen in the future. And then the future came and
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none of that stuff was happening. So, you know, as we know, we're all supposed to be frozen to death
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by now, boiled alive, drowned, melted by acid rain. All the trees are supposed to be gone.
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And there's supposed to be no ozone layer left anymore, but none of that happened.
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Um, it was like, it's like the guy who's, who's like a guy that several years ago, Harold Camping,
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right? He was the doomsday prophet. And he said, he said the rapture was going to happen. And, um,
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somehow he convinced a large number of people and he gave a specific date. He said on this day,
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it's going to happen. And people gave away their stuff and their homes and everything. And they were
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waiting for it. And then, uh, the rapture came and it was, it was just another day. It was like another
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Tuesday. It was not what anyone expected the rapture to be. So then Camping said,
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I think what he should have said actually is, um, well, you know what? The rapture came,
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but, uh, we're all a bunch of scumbags. And so no one was chosen. It turns out a little bit,
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a little bit anticlimactic, but instead he said, Oh, it was a spiritual rapture. You see,
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it happened invisibly. You would need to have a special, um, special glasses, you know, that you can buy,
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you could buy for, uh, for 10 payments of 99, 99. And, but that's the only way you can see the
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spiritual rapture. Um, that that's it. And maybe the, maybe the, maybe the, uh, climate change
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proponents should do something similar. They should say, well, you know, we never, we never got acid
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rain, but there's a spiritual acid rain, the acid rain in our hearts. They could do that, but instead
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they've gone another direction and they've just, they've, they've decided that, um, well, we, we
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predict that in the future, uh, climate events will occur. And then the future comes and events
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are happening in the climate. And they're saying, see, we told you brilliant strategy. I mean,
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it's a brilliant strategy. If you're trying to fool a bunch of morons, which unfortunately there
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are a lot of them out there. And, uh, so that's how it worked out. Okay.
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Okay. Let's see here. This is from the AP. It says a man held hostages for more than 10
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hours Saturday at a, at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a live
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stream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying
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to kill us army officers in Afghanistan. One of the four hostages held at a congregation
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Beth Israel in Colleyville was released during the standoff. Three others were rescued when
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authorities entered the building around 9 PM. Uh, the hostage taker was killed and FBI
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special agent in charge, Matt DeSarno said a team would investigate the shooting
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incident. Law enforcement officials who were not authorized to discuss the
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ongoing investigations book, the AP on the condition of anonymity, uh, said that the
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hostage taker demanded the release of, um, Afia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist suspected
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of having ties to Al Qaeda. Now the name of the terrorist in this case is Malik
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Faisal Akram. And, uh, usually we don't like to show you, you know, these terrorists and
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everything and what they look like. And we don't want to put their, their names and faces
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all over the place. But I do want to show you in this case, what he looks like, because
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it's important context. Here's what he looks like. And you have to see that because funny
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enough, all of the corporate media outlets have been describing him for, for days now
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as, um, simply a British man. That's what they're, that's how they, that's the description
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they decided to go with a British man. That's all we need to know about it. He's from Britain.
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In fact, early on, uh, I forget which outlet it was, but one of them actually described him
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as a man with a British accent. And that's how they decided to describe it. Now, if he
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had, um, you know, if he had a Middle Eastern accent, an accent to reflect his, his, uh, ethnic
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background, do you think anyone, any headline would describe him that way? Man with a Middle
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Eastern accent takes hostages. Not going to happen. Now we were also told, even though
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he actually said what his motives were. So we know that this is an Islamic radical. Um,
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he's taking hostages on behalf of a, of a, of another terrorist. And this is one of the,
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there are times when motives are unclear, right? The Las Vegas shooting, um, hundreds of people
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shot. We still haven't been told his motive because as far as we, as we know, he never
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said anything to anybody about it. So the motive is very unclear. Now, many of us have been asking
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for years now, Hey, what was that all about? Remember that guy that shot all those people in
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Las Vegas? Why did that happen? But the FBI and, uh, law enforcement officials, they claim
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that, Oh, you know, who knows? Man, it just happened. So there are, there are times when
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the motive is unclear. There are times when it seems like the powers that be don't want,
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don't want us to know the motive. But this is a case where he actually said what his motive
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was, which is pretty common for hostage takers. There's what, whatever they have, they have
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a reason why they're doing it. They're trying to accomplish something. It's why they're taking
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hostages. And, um, usually they'll tell you what they want. And he did. And, and yet in
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the hours after that, um, FBI, an FBI spokesman got in front of cameras and said, uh, well, you
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know, we, we, we still don't know what, what this was about, but, but he was not targeting
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the Jewish community is what we were told. Listen, uh, we, we, we do believe from our engagement
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with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue. Uh, and it was not specifically
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related to the Jewish community, uh, but we're continuing to work to find motive and we will
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continue on that path. So the FBI is confused and Joe Biden the next day was asked about this
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and, uh, he was also just confounded. I mean, he had no idea why this happened. Listen to Biden.
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Do you know why he targeted that specific synagogue? Well, no, I don't. We, we don't have, I don't
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think there is sufficient information to know about, uh, why he targeted that synagogue, why
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he insisted on the release of someone who's been in prison for over, uh, 10 years, why
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he was engaged, why he was, uh, using anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments. Uh, I, I, we, we
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just don't have enough facts. So let's see. Um, so we got a Muslim guy, sister's a convicted
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terrorist, takes hostage at a synagogue, takes hostages at a synagogue in Texas on a Saturday.
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Um, the Sabbath and, uh, Ed, but now this wasn't targeting Jews had nothing. That's just coincidence.
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Could have been anywhere, right? He could have chosen any location just happens to choose a
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synagogue in Texas because, you know, those are a dime a dozen in Texas. So if you're just walking
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down a street, randomly looking for a place to take hostages in, uh, you, you might, chances are
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you're going to stumble across a synagogue. That's what we're supposed to believe. Of course, it's
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totally absurd. And, um, a day after this, the FBI put another statement out and now they're saying
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this is a terrorism related matter in which the Jewish community was targeted and is being
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investigated by the joint terrorism task force. So the FBI tried to say, ah, this was not anti-Jewish.
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This was not, you know, let's not, let's not jump to any conclusions. Very quickly, they changed
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their, they completely reversed course without any explanation. And the reason is they're just
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being roundly mocked and ridiculed and criticized for it. And so that's why they decided to change.
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That's what we get from the FBI. Um, meanwhile, of course, whenever something like this happens
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and you have a member of an approved victim group who does something terrible, um, we're told
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immediately that the number one concern, the number one priority is to make sure that other members of
00:24:12.400
that group are not, um, blamed for it or not made to feel uncomfortable. That's the number one priority
00:24:19.120
after all this happens. Before we've, if, if people are killed before we even put the bodies in the
00:24:23.720
ground, number one priority is to protect the feelings of the other members of that approved victim
00:24:27.540
group. So the daily beast columnist, Wajahat Ali, um, hours later, here's what he tweeted about.
00:24:33.380
This is what he was thinking immediately after he said, you're about to hear some ugly and vicious
00:24:37.220
Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry this weekend from elected officials, commentators,
00:24:42.100
and even mainstream media. Hope I'm wrong. People will use it to divide Jewish and Muslim communities
00:24:47.060
for their political agenda. Don't fall for it. Um, many of them, yeah, because, right. Because it's the
00:24:55.200
fault of, um, conservative commentators that there's division in the Muslim and Jewish community,
00:25:00.720
right? I mean, historically, it's really, it's really all the fault of, uh, of, uh, of
00:25:06.800
conservative bloggers and radio hosts. Um, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't for us. There'd be
00:25:15.240
nothing but peace and harmony among the, uh, Jewish and, uh, Muslim population globally. He continues,
00:25:21.600
many of them will claim to care about Jewish lives as they openly support and parrot vile
00:25:25.520
anti-Semitic conspiracies. They don't care about our lives or our communities. Muslim is easy
00:25:30.720
synonym for terrorists. And those who downplayed January 6th will now talk a lot about national
00:25:36.080
security. So take a drink. If you're playing the January 6th drinking game, um, maybe that'll be your
00:25:41.160
first drink of the day. Probably not. You're probably already stupefied drunk, but, uh, of course we had
00:25:46.380
the mention of January 6th in there. So what, what we know with the left is that the only thing that
00:25:51.880
matters is, um, the victim narrative, of course, and they have their victim hierarchy and this kind
00:25:58.000
of equation, complicated equation. Well, oftentimes it's, it's pretty simple. You know, um, the, the
00:26:04.380
victim narrative and the, and the equation is simple, but there are times when it becomes a little
00:26:07.260
bit more complicated for them. And that's where they start kind of stepping on their own feet and
00:26:11.080
tripping and stumbling a lot. And, um, that's what we, that's what we have here. And I think in
00:26:16.360
general for the left, for the left's victim narrative, they have a lot of trouble with the
00:26:24.440
Jewish community. They're not, they're, they're, they're not quite sure what to do there because
00:26:30.300
obviously with the Jews, we're talking about a minority, um, and historically oppressed minority,
00:26:37.980
clearly. Uh, but if we're going based on skin pigmentation, especially in the United States,
00:26:44.700
you know, they're white, they look, they look just like any other white person walking down the street.
00:26:49.280
And so that means that they, they, they can't really be included in the victim narrative.
00:26:55.160
You know, they, they, they don't fall into the victim equation. And then when you look at
00:27:01.280
conflicts overseas in the middle East, well, that's where it becomes more simple for them.
00:27:06.380
Whoever has darker skin is the, is the victim. And, um, and the victim is right. You know,
00:27:13.440
the victim group is always right in any conflict. Um, and that's why they just can't, they, they,
00:27:20.660
they cannot admit, um, they can't go outside of the victim narrative.
00:27:26.040
And when anything happens, this is always the first concern. So if there's a Muslim terrorist
00:27:33.420
attack, first concern is making sure that nobody says any mean things to Muslims because of it.
00:27:41.420
When China unleashes a deadly virus on the world and kills 5 million people,
00:27:46.680
what's the first concern there? It's not to hold China accountable. That's for sure.
00:27:50.360
It's just to make sure there's no anti-Asian sentiment. That's the biggest problem.
00:27:57.120
Totally twisted and demented. All right, let's go to the daily wire. This is from, uh, well,
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it's from the daily wire, as I said, new Virginia Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin signed 11
00:28:05.860
executive orders and directives on his first day in office after being sworn in over the weekend.
00:28:10.000
Uh, he says, quote, no matter who you voted for, I pledge to be your advocate, your voice,
00:28:14.320
your governor. We stand here on January 15th, 2022 filled with hope and optimism for the years
00:28:19.480
ahead. This hope and optimism springs from a shared vision for the future. And also from knowing what
00:28:24.780
we have been through. Uh, and then that's not the most important part. Of course, you know,
00:28:29.700
we got to get the political speech and all that about a shared vision, but, but in reality that
00:28:33.820
we don't have any shared vision in this country for where we're going or where we've been or what
00:28:38.840
kind of country we want to be. There's no shared vision at all, but you know, obviously politicians
00:28:42.520
speak this way. I'm more concerned about what he's actually doing. So here's what he actually did.
00:28:46.700
The governor's office released the following list of executive, executive actions that he signed
00:28:51.840
on the very first day. Um, so let's go through them. Executive order number one delivers on his
00:28:56.860
day one promise to restore excellence in education by ending the use of divisive concepts, including
00:29:01.000
critical race theory and public education. So we've got a critical race theory ban on the first day
00:29:04.840
executive order number two. That's his, and that's his first executive order on the first day.
00:29:09.340
Executive order number two delivers on his day one promise to empower Virginia parents in their,
00:29:13.100
in their children's education upbringing by allowing parents to make decisions on whether their
00:29:16.580
child wears a mask in school. So next thing he's doing is abolishing the mask mandates in school.
00:29:21.960
Executive order number three delivers on his day one promise to restore integrity and confidence in
00:29:25.300
the parole board of the Commonwealth of Virginia, addressing law and order. Executive number four
00:29:29.260
delivers on his day one promise to investigate wrongdoing in Loudoun County, the coverup of the
00:29:34.000
horrific rape of multiple girls around Loudoun County. Executive order number five delivers on his day
00:29:38.960
one promise to make government work for Virginians by creating the Commonwealth Chief
00:29:42.720
Transformation Officer. I'm not exactly sure what that means. Executive order number six delivers on
00:29:46.860
his day one promise to declare Virginia open for business. Uh, then number seven delivers a promise
00:29:52.260
to combat and prevent human trafficking. Number eight, uh, establishes a commission to combat
00:29:58.400
antisemitism. Number nine delivers on his day one promise to withdraw from the regional greenhouse gas
00:30:04.380
initiative. Um, and, uh, let's see what else we have promise to jumpstart our economy by cutting job,
00:30:12.280
killing regulations by 25%. And then a day one promise. This is his number. His last one was,
00:30:17.640
uh, to restore individual freedoms and personal privacy by rescinding the vaccine mandate for all
00:30:21.820
state employees. Okay. And apparently this is, I guess this is included in one of the executive orders,
00:30:26.720
but I saw some leftists on Twitter complaining that, um, that he also got rid of on this, on the state's
00:30:34.440
official website. There's no page now for, uh, diversity, the diversity and inclusion office.
00:30:41.460
So he got rid of the page, he got rid of the office, hopefully both. And they're very upset about
00:30:45.000
that. And that's great too. Um, this is, it's only one day, but this is a, shall we say a very good
00:30:53.100
start? And this is exactly what Republicans should be doing. You don't try to ease your way into it.
00:30:59.100
You're not going to be gradual about it. No, you come in right away on offense,
00:31:05.380
using all the power you have at your disposal to, um, put the, this agenda into action.
00:31:15.720
An agenda, which is focused on basic sanity, uh, parental rights, you know, that sort of thing.
00:31:28.080
You use all the power that you have to do it right away without waiting, going on offense.
00:31:37.160
Um, hopefully a lesson to other Republicans. And I'll tell you this, and I, I would, I would not have
00:31:43.900
said this even prior to his first day. I mean, I was happy that he was elected obviously,
00:31:49.700
but, uh, what I'll say now is if, if he continues and can string together a bunch of days like this
00:31:56.380
one, then, uh, I think he's a potentially formidable candidate 2024. We'll see Ralph Northam. He's the
00:32:03.880
guy on the way out in Virginia. And, uh, he did an interview over the weekend reflecting on his time
00:32:08.580
in office and especially on the most interesting event from that time. Listen to this. Well, that
00:32:13.800
was a very, very difficult time for Virginia. And there was a lot of hurt, uh, because of that. And
00:32:20.160
for that, I, I regret, uh, putting Virginia through that. I, I also, Jonathan saw it as an opportunity
00:32:26.440
for me to listen to people. I committed myself and our cabinet secretaries to, to really deal with
00:32:34.480
the inequities that exist and, and to listen, to learn. And as I've said, that the more I know,
00:32:40.940
the more I can do. And we've really been able to turn a lot of what we learned, uh, into action,
00:32:46.320
uh, in a lot of different areas. And so, you know, at the end of the day, uh, it was a hurtful time.
00:32:51.760
I am glad that Virginians stuck with me. I can tell you that I'm a better person. Uh, I certainly
00:32:58.000
understand, uh, racial issues much better than I did prior to that, uh, episode. And I, and I
00:33:04.340
really think Virginia, more importantly, is, is a better Commonwealth, uh, a Commonwealth that is
00:33:09.860
more open, more inclusive. Oh, you see, it was, uh, it was really, it was a good thing for everybody.
00:33:16.040
Virginia, Virginia is a better Commonwealth now because their governor wore blackface and he,
00:33:22.320
he learned an important lesson about not wearing blackface. And, uh, this has been, this has really
00:33:26.420
been, he said, it's not just about me. It's a learning, it's been a learning curve for everybody.
00:33:30.380
You know, nobody knew that you weren't supposed to wear blackface. We all learned it together.
00:33:35.920
No, Ralph, uh, really it was just you could not be happier. I mean, it's, it's hard to deserve,
00:33:45.080
hard to deserve this, this fate more than, more than he does to, to leave finally in disgrace.
00:33:49.860
Um, and this is somebody with, with no political future at all. And that's a very good thing.
00:33:56.320
All right. This is from KY3 in Missouri. It says an Illinois school district released a statement
00:34:00.720
defending a controversial afterschool club after flyer sponsored by the satanic temple
00:34:05.680
surfaced at an elementary school within the district. The afterschool Satan club is set to
00:34:11.840
have its first meeting Thursday. The flyer found within the, uh, Moline Coal Valley school district
00:34:16.660
is advertised for first through fifth graders, regardless of religious background. It asks for
00:34:20.700
permission from parents or guardians or students to attend. Uh, the flyer says the, the, the club is set to
00:34:25.660
meet from 245 to 345 once a month. Dates are provided up until May. So this is a elementary
00:34:33.480
school with an afterschool Satan club. And maybe like you, when I first saw this story, I really
00:34:38.280
thought it was a joke. Um, uh, it was just one of those moments where I, my first initial reaction
00:34:43.900
was that's, Oh, that's a Babylon B thing. A little bit too on the nose, not one of their funnier
00:34:48.740
headlines. Uh, then you read it and no, it's, it's real. This is a very real thing. And the statement,
00:34:53.800
the, the district has put up this statement defending it. Here's what they say. The Moline
00:34:57.680
Coal Valley school district understands that there is a concern and confusion over an upcoming
00:35:01.300
afterschool club at Jane Adams elementary. The district would like to provide information
00:35:06.040
on the situation. The Moline Coal Valley school district and board of education have policies
00:35:10.020
and administrative procedures in place, which allow for community use of its public publicly
00:35:13.880
funded facilities outside the school day. The district does not discriminate against any
00:35:18.120
groups who wish to rent our facilities, including religious affiliated groups. Religiously
00:35:22.600
affiliated groups are among those allowed to rent our facilities for free. The district
00:35:26.680
has in the past approved these types of groups. One example being the good news club, which
00:35:30.260
is an afterschool child evangel evangelism fellowship group. Flyers and promotional materials for these
00:35:35.120
types of groups are approved for lobby postings or display only, and not for mass distribution.
00:35:40.420
Um, and then he talks to, it says, uh, this is about equal ask, equal access and all of that.
00:35:45.460
So they're drawing a direct comparison between a Christian evangelism group, you know, an afterschool,
00:35:52.220
Bible study type of thing and a Satan club. I think what we, there are, there are a few things we,
00:36:00.320
lessons we learned from this, a few takeaways we should say. One is, should be the most obvious,
00:36:07.240
get your kids the hell out of the public school system. Um, every day there's another story which
00:36:12.320
should emphasize that fact to you. But the other is this, um, even on the right, you know, you often hear
00:36:21.620
this clamoring for, uh, we need, um, uh, open dialogue in the school system, freedom of thought, you know,
00:36:30.340
that's what this is all about. And so when quote unquote conservative ideas are excluded or punished
00:36:40.040
or ostracized or marginalized, then, uh, then even people on the right will say, will say that, uh,
00:36:46.500
the real problem is that this is an attack on open dialogue and, uh, free speech and freedom of
00:36:52.540
expression and freedom of thought. But that's not really it, right? The, the focus of education,
00:37:00.600
the point of education, um, the, the foundation of it is truth. That's what matters. That's what you
00:37:11.040
need in the school system. That's what the education should be centered around is teaching children truth,
00:37:18.540
bringing them up in the truth, fortifying them in the truth. That's why the public school education
00:37:25.120
and the university, university system are both basically useless because they don't, not only do
00:37:28.680
they not care about the truth, but they're, they're openly hostile to it. But that's the point.
00:37:35.380
And when, for example, it's a verboten in the school system to talk about biological science as it
00:37:41.260
pertains to sex, the problem there is not that conservatives are being picked on or that,
00:37:48.340
again, this is an attack on open dialogue or whatever. No, it's, it's that the truth,
00:37:53.380
this is not a conservative idea. This isn't a political idea. The truth is being banished from
00:38:01.900
the school system. That's what matters because when you focus only is, ah, we just want open,
00:38:07.940
everything is free and open and open mindedness. Well, then the Satan club can come along and say,
00:38:13.340
Hey, what about us? You said we're, we're open, right? So why can't we have our Satan club in the
00:38:17.740
middle of the elementary school? Why can't we try to indoctrinate children into literal Satanism
00:38:24.580
on school grounds? Because you guys are talking about open dialogue and this is part of the open
00:38:30.140
dialogue. No, Satanism is an assault on truth, which is why it does not belong in the school system.
00:38:37.440
Anything that is true does. To me, it's as simple as that. Let's get now to the comment section.
00:38:54.280
So this is exciting. A little bit of a, of a change here. Uh, well not really change. We're just,
00:39:00.440
we're adding something to the comment section. We, um, now have a feature where if you want to be
00:39:05.960
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00:39:10.600
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00:39:16.140
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00:39:26.860
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00:39:31.680
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00:39:35.740
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00:39:44.420
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00:39:47.460
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00:39:53.120
I appreciate Matt's show. He's a good, strong, ethical man. I thought we had lost this quality of
00:39:57.300
manhood. Good, strong, ethical women like, um, like men like Matt who exude ethics, morals,
00:40:02.440
and common sense. Well, I totally agree with your assessment of me. And, but the one thing you forgot
00:40:06.420
to mention, of course, is my humility. And I appreciate that. Aaron Levitt says, you're absolutely
00:40:10.940
right, Matt. College was oversold to me with the same heavenly promises it was to you. Yeah. It's sold
00:40:15.880
to everybody that way. And then on the flip side of it, you're also promised or rather threatened,
00:40:21.200
warned that if you don't go to college, that your life is going to be a failure. And at least in my
00:40:25.260
experience going to public school for 12 years, 13 years, if you count kindergarten, um, they,
00:40:31.180
they're, they're not subtle. I mean, they're, they're quite aggressive in, in, uh, in sending
00:40:35.000
that message. Mean Bean Comedy says, I like hearing how sweet Matt's wife is and how she helps to
00:40:44.240
balance him out. Like I said, I, it's, it's, it's a cliche. I think at least in my case, it's really,
00:40:51.260
it's really the case that, uh, opposites attract and we could not be more diametrically, uh, opposed.
00:40:59.880
Well, I guess that's a clear, it's actually an important clarification there, um, or, or
00:41:05.880
qualification anyway, which is that I think that personality wise, that's where that's the case.
00:41:14.200
I think probably to try, I can't imagine being married to someone who has the same personality
00:41:19.220
as me. The last thing I would want to do is be around. I have to live in my own body. I don't
00:41:25.060
want to be around another version of myself. That would be horrible. So that's where the opposites
00:41:29.280
come in, but it's important to be similar, if not the same, when it comes to your fundamental,
00:41:37.640
foundational values and principles, that's where it matters. Um, if you're, if you're an opposite,
00:41:43.400
if you're opposites as far as that goes, that's where you could really be in trouble in your
00:41:48.280
relationship. Um, DH says, Matt, you can do an at-home sleep study, which is very accurate
00:41:54.820
at diagnosing sleep apnea and other sleep related issues. And it's infinitely more comfortable
00:41:59.040
and convenient than the lab test that you described. I would highly recommend it. So
00:42:02.140
how does that work? Does my wife have to stay awake at night and just watch me sleep and take
00:42:06.160
notes? If that's the case, maybe I'll do it because forcing her to do that would be very
00:42:10.160
funny. Um, let's see. Amused me says, wow, Matt, I'm so disappointed by, I guess, I guess
00:42:19.540
it's to be expected. I'm an RN fired for not getting vaccinated. I signed your petition and
00:42:24.640
was, was all in with this fight. You could have at least mentioned that the mandate is
00:42:28.340
still in place for healthcare workers. Thanks to Kavanaugh and Roberts, but I guess you got
00:42:32.140
your victory. So to hell with the rest of us. Well, you know, I got to say, I'm, I'm,
00:42:36.240
I'll never understand an attitude like this. Uh, I'm sorry you were fired from your job.
00:42:41.460
That's horrible and wrong and tyrannical. Uh, and, uh, in, in, in infringement on your rights,
00:42:47.440
but you're mad that I talked about one thing and not another thing.
00:42:54.300
You know, we tend to focus on one thing at a time. So this is, it's a, it's a real common
00:43:00.320
criticism of people. You know, if you have a platform and you do a show, you, you, every day
00:43:05.560
you'll get this. Why'd you talk about this and not that over there, this, this subject over here
00:43:10.820
is way more important than that subject. It might be, but I can't talk about every subject on,
00:43:15.840
on every show. You see how that works. The fact that we got this win with private employers is
00:43:21.100
very, very important and it's worth focusing on. And, uh, you know what? Sometimes I, I think it's
00:43:27.960
good to just focus on the victory and even to revel in it a little bit when you have those moments
00:43:33.900
instead of always having to couch everything and saying, yeah, but you know what? It's also
00:43:37.900
a failure for this reason. All right. Elizabeth says, Matt has so many closing lines. Why not
00:43:45.360
add a few more? Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Love you. Have a great day. Enjoy
00:43:49.340
your meal. Godspeed. May the road rise up to meet you. Remember the only thing worth fearing is fear
00:43:52.900
itself. Once a king or queen in Narnia, Narnia, always a king or queen in Narnia. Don't let the bed bugs
00:43:57.240
bite. I guess I do. I kind of take a Peter Jackson approach to endings. Uh, I can't have any qualms
00:44:04.300
with you there. And, uh, finally Walter says, dear Matt, I love your YouTube episodes, except when you
00:44:10.420
attack Trump heavy people and people that may not look like perfect tens for any reason. You're
00:44:15.700
excellent at what you do and please stay on point. Okay. First of all, um, attacking fat people and ugly
00:44:21.220
people is way more offensive than attacking Trump. So I wouldn't put those all together. Trump is a
00:44:25.680
politician. So he's always open to be attacked. And, um, we should always be eager to criticize
00:44:33.820
politicians of all stripes as Americans. That should, that should, uh, that should be one of
00:44:39.420
our fundamental values as Americans is a, is a, is a permanent skepticism towards politicians and an
00:44:45.980
eagerness to hold them accountable and criticize them when they deserve it. And even sometimes when they
00:44:49.560
don't, because it's fun, um, as far as, uh, but as far as overweight people, I don't attack fat people,
00:44:57.660
overweight people, you know, pointing out that obesity is harmful and will kill you and is nothing
00:45:04.140
to be celebrated. That's not an attack. And like so many other things on the show, I wouldn't be
00:45:08.860
talking about it. I wouldn't spend time talking about the fact that obesity is bad unless you had
00:45:15.700
a powerful voice on the other side saying, no, actually it's good. So I have to respond to that
00:45:21.740
in an ideal world, in a sane world, I wouldn't spend any time saying obesity is bad because
00:45:27.940
everybody wouldn't know it. There'd be no reason to say it. But when there's a concerted effort and
00:45:32.900
a campaign to get people to embrace obesity, thereby embracing their own physical destruction,
00:45:38.220
that is necessary to say, no, it's bad. As far as ugly people, you know, whatever I say about ugly
00:45:44.740
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00:45:48.720
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Today, we cancel TikTok influencer Kay Not Bay, who has several hundred thousand followers on this
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site and recently posted a video which has since gone viral across multiple platforms. In the video,
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Ms. Kay Not Bay responds to a commentator, or a commenter rather, who was lamenting the state of
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modern womanhood. And the commenter said, I honestly don't know what modern women bring to a
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relationship. They don't want to work, clean, cook, or raise children, yet complain about everything.
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Now, the comment, of course, does not apply to all modern women. It doesn't apply to my wife,
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for example, but as a general statement, it's quite astute. Kay felt otherwise, though, and she
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responded, and her response echoed, I think echoes a very common sentiment in our culture today,
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which is why it's worth listening to and engaging with. Let's listen.
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We're not bringing nothing to relationships. For centuries, decades, we've seen our grandmothers,
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our mothers, our great aunts get everything and get nothing. So for the first time in history,
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we're saying no. You don't get a free incubator. You don't get a free maid. You don't get a free
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chef. We're saying no, and y'all losing y'all f***ing minds. No, ma'am. And then y'all calling me a
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feminist. If you know me, you know, like, I still want Susan B. Anthony here, so that's not even a
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thing. Y'all just need a label to put on somebody who's telling y'all no. We said step y'all f***ing
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up and y'all make podcasts. That don't seem weird to you. All right, a few points here. First of all,
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what is this we stuff, right? Even if I agreed that, you know, if I, even if I agreed with the
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proposition that women in history were universally oppressed, and as you say, they gave everything
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and got nothing, um, which I don't agree with that, but if I did, what the hell does that have
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to do with you? You know, if it was the case, if that was the case in the past, it wasn't, but if it
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was, it certainly isn't true today. So you have like 300,000 followers on, on TikTok, despite the
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fact that you've never said anything interesting in your life. So you give nothing and get everything.
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Those are your circumstances and the circumstances of so many others in modern culture. When it comes to
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the conversation about alleged historical oppression, sometimes those of us on the rational side of
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the debate, we get so caught up in trying to debunk the historical claim or frame it correctly or lend
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it context or whatever, that we forget to mention just how absolutely ridiculous it is for a privileged
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whiny brat, luxuriating in the comforts of 21st century Western culture, to try to exploit historical
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suffering that she didn't experience. So she approaches this with a sort of, uh, we're tired
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of being treated this way and, uh, and we're not going to take it anymore. But what the hell are you
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tired of? Nothing happened to you. You were born into a country where women have all the same legal
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rights as men. In fact, have more legal rights than men. So please stop acting exhausted by traumas that
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you never suffered as if you inherited them in your bloodstream or something. That's not how suffering
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works. But what about the claim that, um, that women of the past gave everything and got nothing?
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Well, that would be true if a roof over your head and food on the table and clothes on your back and
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everything else you need to survive and thrive and be comfortable. If all of that amounts to nothing,
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then sure. I mean, if everything is nothing, then it's true that women got nothing. But then again,
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it's also true that they gave nothing because, uh, everything is nothing and nothing is anything.
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Now I'm kind of confused, but if words mean something, however, it would be more true to say
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that women in the past gave one thing, you know, they, they had something that they gave
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and men gave something else. And that's how they structured their societies. They each gave,
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they each contributed in different ways, right? Of course, we're just pretending here that women
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started working outside of the house 30 years ago or something, which isn't true.
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That's obviously not the case. Even back in the middle ages, many guilds had women members,
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for example. But that aside, the traditional gender roles she talks about, um, were not at all
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one-sided as they're so often caricatured today. They could not have been one-sided, right? Prior to the
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industrial age, unless you were nobility or royalty or in the ruling class, you, you had to actually
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survive on a daily basis and survival required effort, required work every day. If anyone in your
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house gave nothing, everything would fall apart and everybody would probably die. That's why no one in
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the house gives nothing unless, unless we're talking about infants, but even older children had to
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contribute. They didn't have the luxury to experiment with sending women out into the forest to hunt
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while the men stayed home to nurse the babies. Never occurred to them to do it. They didn't have
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the luxury to do it. The person best fit for the job had to do it. And that's largely why the gender
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roles historically, uh, worked out the way they did. Because men were simply best fit to do these kinds of
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things. And you needed the person best fit to do it, to, to go out and do it so that you could
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survive. Nobody was concerned with equity back then because equity is the kind of thing that people can
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only concern themselves with when they have nothing else to worry about. Men and women contributed
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differently, but they both contributed because there was no other option. Now today, survival does not
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necessitate the same sort of constant and conscious effort. The welfare state has in fact made it
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possible for people to survive without any effort at all. In some cases, aside from whatever minimal
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exertions are necessary to walk from the couch to the refrigerator and then back to the couch again,
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um, to grab another armful of food that, uh, you know, you didn't pay for. And even those of us who,
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who work are still not fighting to survive the way that people in the past did. It's only in the midst of
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this obscene affluence that almost all of us are experiencing that we can start tinkering with gender roles,
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right? Instead of, of men doing one thing and women doing another. Now we say that men and women
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should all do the same things and sex should not factor into how the work is delegated at all.
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But it's hard to argue that this arrangement has been a smashing success as marriages are falling
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apart at a rapid rate. The family unit itself is disintegrating. There's also hostility and resentment
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between the sexes as evidenced by this woman's response and the comment she's responding to.
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Somehow this, uh, this idea of, you know, we'll both do the same thing and contribute in exactly
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the same way. And neither of us will have any pronounced roles at all. This strategy has not
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brought about the results that we were promised. Shocking. And there are many reasons for that,
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but let me focus on just one. This is not the whole case that I could make, but it's just,
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just, just one element here. The fuel that keeps human relationships in general and marriages in
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particular running smoothly is, is gratitude. Okay. That's the fuel. It would not be an exaggeration
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to say that, that probably nearly every failed marriage or most of them, uh, or failed romantic
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relationships of any kind fail because of a terminal lack of gratitude by one or both partners.
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Usually both. Now, if you listen to two divorcees talk about each other, this is one of the first
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things that will jump out at you is that, is that they are not grateful for the other's contributions
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to the marriage. They don't recognize the contributions at all. And they both feel that
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the other was not grateful for their contributions. This is like almost every divorced couple or former
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couple that you come across. Even in cases where the primary cause of the divorce seems to be
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something like infidelity, even then a lack of gratitude lies at the root of it because only a person who
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lacks gratitude for their spouse would cheat on them in the first place. So what does this have
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to do with the gender role question? Well, it's easier to be grateful for your spouse's contributions
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if you know what those contributions are. Okay. If you know what their role is and it's easier to be
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grateful for it instead of these days, both partners looking at each other, like what exactly do you do
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here? Why do I need you? And crucially, if you recognize that they are bringing something unique
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and essential to the table, that they're providing something to your household that you could not
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provide yourself. If you have the attitude that there is no important difference between you and
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your spouse and that you can do everything that they can do and probably do it better, then naturally
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you're not going to be grateful for them. They are a redundancy at best, unnecessary baggage at worst.
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And pretty soon you start seeing it the way our friend Kay sees it. You give everything, they give
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nothing, and whatever little bit maybe they do give, you could give the same and do a better job of it
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than they do. That's why people like Kay will never have a successful relationship or marriage or even
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friendship for that matter. Because a woman like her declares that she is perfect, that she don't need
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no man, that men ought to be grateful for her no matter how little she brings to the table, and that
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she won't be grateful for men no matter how much they bring to the table. And then women like this sit
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back in astonishment and wonder why they're alone. Well, there's no mystery there. There's also no
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mystery to the fact that today she is canceled. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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