Ep. 885 - The Hilarious Leftist Plot To Infiltrate My Speaking Event
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Summary
Leftist protesters are planning a major demonstration at my Texas A&M event tomorrow. Fortunately, they wrote down their whole plan, and I have the document, which I will share with you today. Also, it turns out that some of the people trying to cancel Joe Rogan have said some edgy things themselves in the past. This is what happens when you join the cancel mob. Eventually, it turned around on you. Plus, Toyota puts out an ad hailing Colin Kaepernick and rewriting history at the same time, and Biden s first year in office sees the most police officers killed in the line of duty since 1995. And our daily cancellation, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are in a public feud over their daughter s social media use. Who is right and who is wrong in that dispute? Talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, leftist protesters are planning a major demonstration at my Texas
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A&M event tomorrow. Fortunately, they wrote down their whole plan, and I have the document,
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which I will share with you today. It's pretty great. Also, it turns out that some of the people
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trying to cancel Joe Rogan have said some edgy things themselves in the past. This is what
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happens when you join the cancel mob. Eventually, it turns around on you. Plus, Toyota puts out an
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ad hailing Colin Kaepernick and rewriting history at the same time, and Biden's first year in office
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sees the most police officers killed in the line of duty since 1995. I wonder why that happened.
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And our daily cancellation, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are in a public feud over their
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daughter's social media use. Who is right? Who is wrong in that dispute? Talk about all that
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in your house needs to go to goodranchers.com slash Walsh today. Well, as you all know, I am but a humble
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and shy podcaster. There's nothing I hate more than attention, especially attention from my ideological
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adversaries. I find it quite frightening to be confronted by them. Sure, I may have a funny way of
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showing it sometimes, like at St. Louis University where we went outside to confront a mob of angry
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protesters to their face or at Loudoun County where we rented a woman's basement just so that we could
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go and yell at the local school board. You might see something like that and think that I enjoy this
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kind of thing or even that I thrive on it. But that's a misinterpretation. I am meek and bashful
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on the inside. And that's why I was so distressed to hear that LGBT activists are planning a major
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protest at my event at Texas A&M tomorrow. Now, being such a self-effacing person, I simply I just
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hate it when the left makes a scene at my events bringing more attention to my message and to me
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and putting me in the headlines and so on. It's terrible. I wish they wouldn't do it. I beg them
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to stop, but they just won't listen. And so it was with great horror that I was made aware of the plot
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they have concocted for tomorrow. Some informants over at YAF sent me internal documents where the
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protesters have helpfully laid out their plan point by point and even describe ahead of time
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the disguises they'll be wearing in order to get into the event. Indeed, their plan is to infiltrate
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the event from the inside, disrupt it, shout me down, and generally cause a big scene. And again,
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I hate big scenes. It's the thing I hate the most. Don't be fooled by the fact that I go out of my way
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to put myself in the middle of such scenes, sometimes risking my own physical safety to do so.
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Still, I hate it. And that's why I'm begging the leftist activists not to carry out this plan.
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Please do not bring more publicity to my event and to me and to the message that I have. Please,
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I'm asking for your mercy. Don't do it. Now, referring to the document titled Layout of the
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Walkout, it begins with step one, which is to reserve a ticket to the event, which are free,
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by the way, and anyone can get a ticket. They want to claim as many of the tickets for themselves as
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they can ahead of time in order to prevent people who actually want to listen to the talk from being
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able to do so. And then it continues, quote unquote, step two, show up at MSC Bethancourt Ballroom on
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Wednesday, February 9th at 5 p.m., wearing business casual or business formal clothing.
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Arriving early gives us time to form groups and ensures that our members can reserve as many seats
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as possible before Walsh's supporters. Business casual allows us to blend in with Walsh's supporters
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and should be done in addition to dressing cisgender and heterosexual passing. If you're questioned or
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draw attention due to your voice, appearance, or gender presentation, explain that you're attending the
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talk to earn credit for a political science or philosophy class. Now, I have to say that I'm
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glad these people will be dressing appropriately for once, so that's nice. Though I do find it a
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little bit funny that they think my supporters all walk around in business casual or business formal
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attire. I don't even dress that way to my own events. I'll be there in a flannel. I'm also quite
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interested in this plan to dress cisgender or heterosexual passing. I guess that leaves me, I guess that
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means leave the fishnet and assless chaps at home. All for the best, I suppose. In fact, just because I'm
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a generous person, I will actually try to help these activists. I'm going to help you. If you're planning
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to infiltrate my event and you want to blend in with cisgender and heterosexual passing clothing,
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all you have to do is wear white t-shirts with I'm a heterosexual in big red letters across the front.
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That's the best way to blend in. That's how all, that's how we heterosexuals dress. It's just what
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we do. It's how we identify other members of our tribe. And we oftentimes will go up to someone and
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say, hey bro, you hetero? And then they'll open up their jacket to show the t-shirt and we'll fist bump
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and say, hell yeah, hetero for life. In fact, make sure to do that at the event, exactly that,
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while you're kind of mingling with the crowd. What you could do is just walk up to people and say,
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hey fellas, just doing my cisgender hetero thing. What about you? And when everyone hears that,
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they're going to know that you're one of us. Also, one other quick tip, oftentimes we'll wear
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clown noses, just a big bright red clown noses. So make sure to wear them as well. And a wig also
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wouldn't hurt. Although I suppose the clown wig might be indistinguishable from your usual hairstyle.
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So just the nose will be fine. Glad I can help. Now back to the document, it says,
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if you bring a bag or purse, the bag will be searched. If you're bringing a speaker or flag,
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you must conceal the speaker or flag somewhere on your body. Now pausing here again, and I don't
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want to use my imagination too much here, but I'm not sure I want to know how these people plan to
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conceal a speaker or flag on their body. I don't want to know which crevice or orifice will be used
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for storage in this case. But I guess this is another reason why fishnets and assless chaps are
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out of the question. Continuing, it says, step three, find our chanter and members with portable
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speakers and break into groups of nine. If you're not in the group, find a buddy. We'll have one
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person leading chants and at least two members with portable speakers to announce the start of
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the walkout. Each of these people must be in groups of nine so that their groups can be arranged in
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seats surrounding them for safety like so. And you can see the, uh, the chart they have set up
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there. They got everything in a color coordinated chart, which looks like they're playing battleship
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or something. The document also notes that if they can't get 35 protesters to show up, they'll
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surrender and disband. And it's kind of sad to think of these poor people all showing up in their
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heterosexual outfits and then doing a head count and finding out that there's only 27. So they just
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turn around and walk away awkwardly. If we see a bunch of people in clown noses wandering away
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dejectedly, we'll know what happened. The document goes on with step four, explaining how they'll
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coordinate their seating chart. And then a step five, which says, quote, wait for the recording
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to play, put your mask on, stand up and raise your left fist. After 10 to 20 minutes of Walsh
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speaking enough time for any overflow crowd outside the room to disperse. So they cannot take our place
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when we leave a recording of the star manifesto will be played over the speakers. Star stands for
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street transvestite action revolutionaries and was the group founded by Marsha P. Johnson and
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Sylvia Rivera to support homeless and incarcerated trans people during the gay liberation movement.
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Once the recording plays, if you aren't already wearing a COVID mask, please put one on so that
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your face is unrecognizable. Stand up and raise your left fist. What a shocker here. They plan to wear a
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mask, not because they actually think it will protect them from COVID, but just to conceal their
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identity while they cause a public disruption. If I didn't know any better, I might think that
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all of the shoplifters and looters and blue cities across the country are wearing masks for the same
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reason, which is really a revelation because up until now, I just assumed that they were all very
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health conscious. Any case, we get finally to step six where the chanting begins and protesters are
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encouraged to take a screenshot of the chant lyrics so that they don't forget the words. So they're all
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going to pull out their phones. They're going to have the lyrics there. They're going to start
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chanting. And I might have to put this up on the chalkboard for them in the room just to make it
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easier. But the chant goes as follows. First, you have the leader who will say, when trans people are
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under attack, what do we do? And the crowd responds, stand up, fight back. Then it repeats gay and queer
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in place of trans. I'd say I'm a little disappointed in the chant because it doesn't rhyme. Any good chant
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should always rhyme. Especially in this case, when a very simple edit would solve the problem.
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Far be it for me to offer notes to the people who are trying to shout me down at my own event. But
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why wouldn't the chant be, when trans people are under attack, stand up, fight back.
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What? You don't need what do we do? Just attack and back. It rhymes. Much better. Pithier has a better
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flow. It rhymes. Anyway, if all goes according to plan, they will stage this demonstration about
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10 to 20 minutes into my talk, cause several minutes of disruption, and then walk out.
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And we'll just resume the event as scheduled. And then because they caused a scene and turned the
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speaking event into a news event, I will afterwards be forced to do several local and cable news
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interviews where I talk about the event and also the subject I was there to speak about, thereby
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amplifying the very message they were trying to shut down. And we certainly wouldn't want that.
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You know, it almost might seem as though the truth shines brighter, the more you try to suppress it.
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And you might even think that the better approach for an opponent would be to engage with my message
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intellectually, actually try to debate my points, which they could do during the Q&A.
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In fact, not only can they do it during the Q&A, but if you disagree, you get to go to the front
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of the line. That's how much you are welcome. And you get a microphone or you could say whatever you
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want. And given that I'm just a drooling, stupid, racist, homophobic, fascist bigot,
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it should be really easy to embarrass me. I didn't even go to college. These are all college
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students. They have more education than I do, officially anyway. So why wouldn't you take the
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opportunity to take the microphone and just totally humiliate me, tear me apart? I'll have just
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finished speaking for 30 minutes and you could go point by point, boom, boom, boom, and rip it apart.
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The problem is it's hard to do that if your whole worldview is empty and vacuous and built atop a
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house of cards that collapses under the slightest intellectual scrutiny. I suppose your only choice
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then is to chant and scream and run away, plugging your ears. So good luck with that. I'll see you
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All right. I'm wearing my heterosexual passing clothing today. You know, that's flannels always,
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really that's, I think the t-shirt with the, with I'm a heterosexual is the best way to go,
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but you know, also flannel is always a good, always a good choice as well. This is from the Daily
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Wire. It says, former Democrat presidential candidate, Andrew Yang on Sunday posted tweets
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in support of popular podcast host Joe Rogan, but hours later deleted the posts over left-wing
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backlash and issued a Twitter thread apologizing for hurting people. Um, this has been the story
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with Joe Rogan is that early on there were, you know, a whole slew of prominent people who, uh,
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oftentimes people who have been on Joe Rogan's show, as I believe Andrew Yang has,
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I assume he has, I'm not sure. Um, but prominent people early on came out in support of Joe Rogan.
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And this was back when he was mainly being accused of spreading misinformation or whatever.
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And you have people like Andrew Yang and also Dwayne Johnson, The Rock Dwayne Johnson,
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other prominent people, uh, came out in support of him and said, Hey, you know, we stand for him.
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Um, um, and then when the, when the N word compilation dropped, all of these little
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cowards scurried away, including The Rock is another example of this. Um, but this is what
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Yang posted. He says, uh, I don't think Joe Rogan is a racist. The man interacts with and works with
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black people literally all the time. Do I know black friends of Joe's who would, who would swear by
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him? Yes, I do. He added, that's what he originally said. It says Yang who was, who has appeared on
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Rogan's podcast. Okay. In the past was met with left-wing anger. Um, notably the Democrat national
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committee chair, Jamie Harrison replied to Yang, dude, seriously, you're joking, right? Andrew,
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is that now the new defining line working with folks? Yang quickly deleted the two posts and then
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issued an apology. So he, uh, I don't know how long these tweets stayed up, but he took a stand.
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He took a stand for Joe Rogan and, uh, based on, you know, speaking for his character, based on what
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he knew about, he took a stand for five minutes and that was enough. And then he deleted the tweets
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and he said, I like to believe the best of people, especially if I've met and spent time with that
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person. Sometimes it makes me miss something. I think we should have the capacity to forgive people,
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whether a podcaster or a mayor, if they mess up, maybe it's because I mess up too. Racism is real,
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deep, corrosive, and even lethal. I know that. I made a mistake in an earlier tweet tonight that
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downplayed these realities. I deleted the tweet because it was wrongheaded. It also hurt people,
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which is never my intent. It hurt people. Who did it hurt, Andrew? You sent out a tweet.
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So the first way that you know that nobody was hurt is that it was a tweet
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and nobody has ever been injured from a tweet ever. Um, there's never to my knowledge,
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but anyone who's called 911 and said, I need medical attention. Oh, what happened? What's
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wrong? Uh, there was a tweet that's never happened, but even if a tweet could somehow manifest itself
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physically and assault someone and cause physical harm, um, probably a tweet where you're simply
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saying, Oh, that guy isn't racist. I don't think that would pose any real threat to anybody,
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but he says it hurt people, which is never my intent. I'm sorry. I'm learning. And I appreciate
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those who reached out to express their feelings. I like to believe the work I've done these past
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years had the goal of uplifting everyone, particularly those on the outside looking in
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for any reason, be it poverty or marginalization or race. I've always wanted to help those with the
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least. Uh, I've always wanted to help those with the least, the most. Okay. I've always wanted to,
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I've always most wanted to help those with the least. Okay. Um, I'm going to keep doing all I can
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for a more equitable, fair and just country. That means for everyone, universal basic income,
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income, democracy, reform, and unity are how we get there. Well, you can't have a lot of unity
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Yang. If you're, uh, you know, going to turn on people and throw them under the bus after five
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minutes of pressure, that's not a great way to build unity. One way you build unity is through
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loyalty. Not a lot of loyalty there. Also, unfortunately, Yang never promised to do the
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work. So this doesn't, he's got to reissue the apology because he forgot a couple of the talking
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points. He hit on most of them talking about, Oh, I'm sorry. People that are hurt and marginalized
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communities and all that nonsense, but you got to also prompt. I promise to do the work.
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He forgot to mention that. And he also somehow, this is a big oversight. Uh, he never said anything
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about lived experiences. He forgot to talk about the lived experiences of all those people who are
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hurt by the tweet. Um, this is, uh, why I say that cowardice is the great pandemic in our country.
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The thing, the thing that plagues us most is just an epidemic of total absolute cowardice.
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And it's an important thing to know also, just, just so you know what you're getting into and you
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know what to expect is that when the, when the cancel mob comes for you as it will, you know,
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it's because it comes for everybody eventually. Um, and, uh, you know, it's, it's people that are
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at the top people who are the most visible, like Joe Rogan, who are the most successful in their
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fields, who are, their heads are sticking above the rest. The most, they're going to get cut down
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first, but eventually they get down to everybody. And when it happens, you just have to know
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that most people are cowards. Most people that you think are your friends are also cowards
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and they're all going to scurry away and hide and not say anything in your defense. So it just,
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you just have to know that going in. I mean, Joe Rogan is certainly learning that
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it's an important lesson to learn. You know, you, you, it's, you, you have very few friends.
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If you think you have 50 friends, you actually have maybe like two and all it takes. And if you
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think I'm wrong, yeah, I know my friends, they would all stand by me. It just, all it takes is
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the mob knocking at your door. And then you turn around, you see how many people just ran out the
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back. I got to go. See ya. Almost everybody, except for a couple. But as these people, you
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know, join in this effort to cancel, uh, uh, canceled Joe Rogan, you know, information is coming
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out about some of these cancelers. So this is awesome. The daily wire says best selling author
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Don Winslow has been participating in a pressure campaign to cancel popular podcast host, Joe Rogan,
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honing in on Rogan's use of the N word and past podcast episode, where in the host was often
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quoting others or speaking about the word generally. Um, in fact, it was Winslow's tweet
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to Dwayne Johnson, AKA the rock that seemed to spark the actor to publicly pull his support
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for Rogan because, uh, the rock originally came out as another one, as, as mentioned,
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it came out in support of Joe Rogan. And then Don Winslow sent a tweet to the rocket said, dear the
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rock, you're a hero to many people and using your platform to defend Joe Rogan, a guy that used
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and laughed about using the N word dozens of times is a terrible use of your power. Have you
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actually listened to this man's many racist statements about black people? And then Johnson
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responded, dear Don Winslow, thank you so much for this. I hear you as well as everyone here,
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100%. I was not aware of his N word use prior to my comments, but now I've become educated to his
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complete narrative. Learning moment for me. Um, but then things took a turn for Winslow over the
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weekend when detractors looked through some of the author's own books, which are rife with the N
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word. And then there are people on Twitter going through and pulling out many examples of, uh,
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this guy using the N word in his books. Is that okay? I mean, all things being equal objectively,
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if you're an author and you are telling a story and there's a character in the story who uses the N
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word, maybe you have a racist character or something and he's using the N word, that's,
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that's, there's nothing wrong with that. Or even you're telling a story set in, in history,
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set in a time when this word was used more commonly, uh, whatever the case is, it's a story
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and stories are supposed to reflect life. And this word is part of life. So objectively speaking,
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that should be fine. But if Joe Rogan can't say it when quoting someone or when, as it, as it
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mentions, as it says there, when he's talking about the word, if he can't say it there, then,
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then you can't say it when you're telling a story.
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And now the cancel mobs coming after him too, because this is what happens.
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You know, everyone should know this. You join the mob because someone you don't like is being cut
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down or someone who you're jealous of and you resent because, uh, because you're jealous of
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their success. And I think actually with Joe Rogan, that's a big part of the story for the media.
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Uh, because Joe Rogan, by the way, he's not, and never has been some kind of right-wing,
00:22:51.100
uh, ideologue. He's not some far right guy. Most of his views are pretty left. He's kind of like
00:22:57.820
center left. You know, I think you would, that's where you would put them when you, when you take
00:23:01.740
all of his politics into account. So there's no reason really based on his views, why the left and
00:23:07.540
the media should hate him so much, but they do because number one, he's given voice to, he's given
00:23:13.260
platforms to people who are farther on the right. He also has questioned the COVID narrative. And
00:23:20.360
also though, I mean, we know about that. That's, that's obviously a big part of what motivates
00:23:23.420
this, but also he's very, very successful. And he, he draws a larger audience by far exponentially
00:23:31.880
larger audience than CNN does. And they look at that and they're, they're filled with envy.
00:23:38.220
But what you should know is that when you have the mob going after someone because they're
00:23:45.400
envious or whatever the reason is, and you join them, you know, you're, you're with all
00:23:52.760
of these other hyenas, all these other vultures picking at the carcass. Eventually they're going
00:23:59.460
to pick that carcass clean and they're going to look for another target. They're going to look
00:24:02.280
for some more food and they're going to turn around and look at you. And when that happens,
00:24:07.780
you're not going to have anybody defending you because you don't deserve it. All right,
00:24:13.120
moving on. Here's some irony for you. Justin Trudeau, uh, speaking about the truckers who
00:24:17.640
are taking a stand against tyranny. Here's a, here's what Justin Trudeau has to say about
00:24:22.040
them. Individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy and our fellow citizens
00:24:34.920
daily lives. It has to stop. By the way, Justin Trudeau, I don't know if you've seen some of
00:24:42.640
this stuff online. I don't know if there's any truth to it whatsoever. I've done no research
00:24:46.120
into it at all. But, uh, the meme right now is that Justin Trudeau is the love child of Fidel
00:24:53.160
Castro. And, uh, uh, there are a lot of similarities, just ideologically speaking. So you can see
00:24:58.740
that. But if you look at the, the side-by-side comparisons of Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro,
00:25:04.140
especially Fidel Castro, when he was Justin Trudeau's age and then, and then younger, you
00:25:08.380
know, compare the two when they were both 20, compare them when they were younger. And it
00:25:11.680
is uncanny. I mean, the, the similarity, they are identical. You give Justin Trudeau a long beard
00:25:18.740
and you give him the communist hat and all that kind of stuff and the uniform. He, he not only
00:25:23.640
sounds just like Fidel Castro and all has all the same views, but looks just like him. And this is
00:25:29.620
one of those things that may be misinformation. It may be totally false, but I, I choose to believe
00:25:34.160
it. This is a story that I choose to believe. Um, and anyway, aside from that, yeah, of course the
00:25:39.940
irony here is that he's accusing the Tucker, the, the truckers, the individuals of, um, blockading,
00:25:46.340
you know, preventing people from living their daily lives, uh, blockading the economy, doing
00:25:52.980
all these things, which of course, I don't need to need to say it. That's exactly what he did to his
00:25:59.360
own country. So there might be a little bit more jealousy here where, or basically Trudeau saying,
00:26:04.820
um, Castro jr is saying, no, you're, you're not supposed to do that. I'm supposed to do that.
00:26:12.800
Preventing people from living their daily lives, uh, shutting down the economy.
00:26:17.800
No, that's, that's my job. That's not your job is what Trudeau says Castro jr. All right,
00:26:24.220
moving on. Toyota just, uh, put out a radio ad speaking of communists, hailing Colin Kaepernick.
00:26:31.180
Uh, and this is pretty extraordinary in the, the, the number of falsehoods that they're able to
00:26:38.740
jam in to like a one minute radio ad. Listen to this.
00:26:43.500
Toyota proudly presents in their own words, Colin ran Kaepernick, a two-time Superbowl quarterback
00:26:51.520
and NFL record holder first knelt on one knee during the national anthem in 2016 as a sign of
00:26:58.340
respect to the military and a symbol of protest against police shootings to bring awareness and
00:27:04.360
make people, you know, realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot of things that
00:27:09.400
are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for, and that's something that
00:27:14.420
needs to change. That's something that, you know, this country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for
00:27:20.860
all, and it's not happening for all right now. He changed the world and sparked a peaceful form
00:27:26.520
of protest that continues around the world. In their own words, proudly presented by Toyota,
00:27:38.480
Okay. Uh, where to begin? First of all, Colin Kaepernick was not a two-time Superbowl quarterback.
00:27:47.720
He was in Superbowl one time. So we're starting off right out, right off the bat here with the
00:27:53.180
falsehood where they're, they're spotting him an extra Superbowl. I guess just, this is like an
00:27:58.340
affirmative action thing. And you know, we'll, we'll give him an extra one, even though he wasn't
00:28:01.140
in it. He was in it in spirit. In fact, Colin Kaepernick, his actual career trajectory is that
00:28:05.360
he came into the league and, um, he, he played like a half a season. He was taken over for, I think
00:28:10.860
he was taken over for Alex Smith, if I remember correctly. And, um, and he, he had a, he had a good
00:28:17.140
season. He, he kind of ran out of the gates. He was on fire at a good season and, um, goes to the
00:28:22.960
Superbowl and doesn't have a great game there, but he's, but he's a, it seems to be a pretty good
00:28:27.080
athlete. And after that point, he just, it's, it's a downhill trajectory from there. So he was a
00:28:36.540
shining star that burned out very, very quickly. And, and in fairness to him, certainly not the
00:28:42.100
first one in the history of professional sports or, or in the NFL, it's pretty common. You have these
00:28:46.340
kind of one hit wonders, which is what he was. And by the time he left and decided to go on his,
00:28:52.080
uh, protest, he was, you know, sitting basically a bench rider and having a horrible season and
00:28:57.800
couldn't win any games and all the rest of it. So that's the first problem. Second problem is they
00:29:03.880
claim in the ad that he was taking a knee to honor the troops. What? He, he never even
00:29:14.700
pretended that's what he was doing. So we're protesting the flag and the anthem to honor the
00:29:22.880
troops. But this is what, if you, if you're on the left and you're in the media, your corporation
00:29:32.380
like Toyota, um, you control the narrative, which means that you control history basically,
00:29:40.020
because what is history? You know, history is, is a story that we tell ourselves.
00:29:48.820
That's history. These are things that already happened. And so you can't go see it for yourself
00:29:55.900
anymore. You have to rely on the stories that we hear. And, uh, the, the only interest, we know
00:30:03.600
that history can be rewritten, sort of the story can be rewritten. You, you hope that the story you
00:30:07.960
hear about history, it pretty well reflects what actually happened, but we know that history can
00:30:13.760
be rewritten. And usually the, the, the farther in the past something is, the easier it is to rewrite
00:30:20.620
it. What's interesting these days is we can see how history is rewritten right in front of us.
00:30:26.760
And it doesn't have to be ancient history, very recent history, something that happened yesterday.
00:30:32.680
We will watch as the, the, the historians of yesterday rewrite that story. And that's what
00:30:40.160
they're doing now with Colin Kaepernick. This is one example of that. He's, he was protesting in
00:30:45.520
favor of the troops. All right. Uh, speaking of the NFL, so we know this story, we, we talked
00:30:51.300
yesterday at daily cancellation about Brian Flores. He was the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
00:30:57.800
And, uh, he got fired because he was, was not, not achieving what they wanted to him,
00:31:05.020
wanted him to achieve. And as we talked about yesterday, it's very, very easy to get fired
00:31:08.900
as a head coach in the NFL. I think personally that many times owners are too quick to fire coaches
00:31:14.160
coaches because they're so impatient. They want to win right now. And that's how teams like the
00:31:18.380
Dolphins end up cycling through head coaches because no one is having the success and they're
00:31:21.720
not letting anyone, they're not giving anyone a chance to kind of settle into the role and build
00:31:25.740
the organization or rebuild it as the case may be. Um, but that's not something that afflicts only
00:31:32.920
black coaches, white and black coaches can be fired at the drop of a hat. They can even have a
00:31:38.680
winning season and get fired. So Flores gets fired and, um, he could have went right away to another
00:31:46.540
team and probably got a head coaching job at worst. He goes and becomes an offensive coordinator
00:31:50.960
somewhere for a year and then gets back into the head coaching ranks. That's another very common
00:31:54.980
thing these coaches will do. Uh, but instead of doing that, he decided to sue the NFL and several
00:31:59.880
teams claiming that they're racist against him. There's some sort of systemic racism against black
00:32:04.980
coaches, even though he was himself a black coach. And not only that, but he got his head coaching
00:32:10.900
job at the age of 38, which makes him not the youngest NFL head coach in history. I think the
00:32:16.520
youngest was like 32, which is pretty absurd, but, um, he's certainly on the younger end.
00:32:22.120
I mean, there are many people, including a lot of white coaches who are in the league
00:32:25.460
for decades and they don't get their first head coaching job until they're in their fifties or sixties.
00:32:31.320
And there are plenty who never get that opportunity.
00:32:34.980
So you're in the league for comparatively few years. And at the age of 38, you get your first
00:32:39.560
head coaching gig. And yet there's systemic racism preventing you because of your skin color
00:32:46.580
from getting head coaching gigs. While there are dozens of white coordinators who have had success
00:32:53.200
and they're in their fifties and sixties and have never had that opportunity.
00:32:57.560
Makes no sense at all. But, um, meanwhile, you know, there, there are a bunch of teams right now
00:33:02.080
looking for head coaches. And, um, one of those teams is the Texans. And I think let's,
00:33:08.400
let's put this up clip two here. Um, they just hired a coach, Lovie Smith. It says, uh, breaking news,
00:33:15.300
the Texans are expected to hire former Buccaneers and Bears head coach Lovie Smith as their own head
00:33:20.320
coach. Now, part of the problem with the, uh, the race hustling that's going on right now is that
00:33:31.060
anytime a black coach gets a job in the NFL, there's always going to be the suspicion that
00:33:39.440
they got the job because the owner didn't want to be accused of being racist by hiring a white guy.
00:33:43.920
Um, this is one of the problems with affirmative action, with the Rooney rule in the NFL that
00:33:49.340
requires teams to interview minority candidates, even if they already know they want to hire somebody
00:33:53.640
else. Um, it's the same criticism that we've made, uh, rightfully so about Joe Biden's approach to the
00:34:01.360
Supreme court opening. You say ahead of time, I'm going to hire a black woman specifically.
00:34:07.300
Well, eventually when you nominate whoever that's going to be,
00:34:13.200
it's a reasonable for all of us to wonder whether that person actually deserved that appointment on
00:34:20.020
the merits or whether they got that position because of their demographics. And the same thing
00:34:25.380
is happening in the NFL now. And in this case, you know, Lovie Smith, as it happens, uh, he's had
00:34:31.560
head coaching jobs in a league for, uh, through a large part of the last 20 years. He's, um,
00:34:40.320
his overall head coaching record is at, is at about 500. I mean, he's lost about as many games as he's
00:34:45.860
won. He's only won three playoff games in like 15 years of coaching. And, uh, out of all of the
00:34:54.200
candidates available, he's the one you hire. Make somebody ask questions. Is this a diversity hire
00:35:02.180
or in spite of his mediocrity, did you just decide that, you know, we'll give him another chance
00:35:06.700
anyway? Who knows? But then what about Brian Flores himself? Now he says he's going on this
00:35:13.620
campaign. He's suing the NFL because he wants to give opportunities to minority coaches. And that's
00:35:18.260
what he cares about so much. So is, is he satisfied? I mean, he sees, yeah, he didn't get
00:35:23.140
that job with the, uh, with the Texans, but another black coach did. So you think Brian Flores, at least
00:35:29.340
as a humanitarian, as an activist cares about racial equality, should he just be thrilled by this?
00:35:37.440
Well, here's a statement from his lawyers. Um, Mr. Flores is happy to hear that the Texans have hired a
00:35:43.720
black head coach, Lovie Smith as Mr. Flores, his goal in bringing his case is to provide real
00:35:48.260
opportunities for black and minority head coaches, uh, to be considered for coaching and executive
00:35:52.340
positions within the NFL. However, we would be remiss not to mention that Flores was one of three
00:35:58.840
finalists for the Texans head coach position. And after a great interview and mutual interest is
00:36:04.140
obvious that the only reason Mr. Flores was not selected was his decision to stand up against
00:36:08.840
racial inequality across the NFL. So their message is, yeah, great. You, uh, you hired a black guy,
00:36:15.300
but it was the wrong one. I forgot to mention, I want you to hire, uh, black head coaches, but
00:36:22.580
specifically black head coaches that are me. That's what I'm really concerned about here.
00:36:29.640
What a shock. All right. One other note here is from the New York post. It says more cops were killed
00:36:34.340
in the line of duty during president Biden's first year of office than any other year since
00:36:38.320
1995. And a law enforcement group says the driving force is the growing anti-cop sentiment. According
00:36:43.820
to the new report, 73 officers were intentionally killed in the line of duty in 2021, a nearly 59%
00:36:49.760
increase over 2020 where 46 cops were murdered. We believe it's a combination of the George Floyd
00:36:56.500
protests, uh, riots, if you will, a general feeling of a preference for less law enforcement and less
00:37:02.200
prosecution, less policing. This according to Jason Johnson, president of the law enforcement legal
00:37:06.320
defense fund and a 20 year police veteran. So we've got 73 officers who were killed in the line
00:37:11.320
of duty. And, um, by the way, that far, far outpaces the number of, um, unarmed black men who were killed
00:37:17.940
by police. Um, it's X the, this, the number of, of, uh, officers killed exponentially greater than that.
00:37:26.400
And why does it happen? Well, one, we have the general atmosphere of lawlessness that's being
00:37:33.340
encouraged in cities across the country. And you have these Soros funded DAs who are intentionally
00:37:40.500
putting violent and dangerous people back onto the streets and basically daring them to do something
00:37:47.640
like kill a police officer. Because you can commit armed robbery in New York. Now that's a, uh,
00:37:54.980
essentially, essentially a misdemeanor. You can commit armed robbery. You could commit burglary.
00:37:58.720
You can steal from people. You can assault random people. You can, you can do drugs or you can deal
00:38:03.820
drugs rather, you know, all gang activity, all this kind of stuff, steal cars. And the DAs will just
00:38:10.520
filter you back out into the community, no matter how many crimes you commit. And what they say is
00:38:16.540
until you do something so heinous that I, as a Soros funded DA who is fundamentally and philosophically
00:38:26.140
opposed to law and order until even I am forced to put you in prison. As much as I would like to
00:38:31.140
even still keep you out on the street, even after you kill a police officer, even I am forced to put
00:38:34.720
you in prison. That's what these DAs are saying. And that's a big part of the, uh, big part of the
00:38:43.300
picture here. These police officers go out into the community, um, communities that they're still
00:38:49.380
protecting and serving, even though they're despised by the very communities they're putting
00:38:52.820
themselves on, on their lives on the line for. They find violent, dangerous people,
00:38:59.040
arrest them, ship them off to the court system and say, Hey guys, here you go. Found another one.
00:39:04.980
And the court system says, no, no, thanks. Don't want them. Puts them back on the street.
00:39:09.280
So that's part of the story. And then the other part of the story,
00:39:11.820
of course, is the narrative promoted by the media and by guys like Joe Biden,
00:39:18.220
that there are racist cops prowling the street, looking for black people to kill.
00:39:24.360
So you want to talk about misinformation, like dangerous misinformation that's getting people
00:39:30.040
killed. That is not just an example of that, but that is the prime number one example.
00:39:38.080
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00:39:43.100
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00:40:50.320
Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.
00:40:57.560
All right. You can go to dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments, right? Is that the, I forgot the
00:41:03.880
URL all of a sudden. Um, and you can leave your video comment. We'll start with clip nine here.
00:41:10.740
Hi, Matt. In a recent video, you explained that you don't believe in ghosts because basically you
00:41:15.000
don't see why God would keep the souls of dead people behind on earth to haunt stores in people's
00:41:19.280
homes. But I thought Catholics believe in purgatory and isn't purgatory one of the main
00:41:24.120
justifications given for the existence of ghosts. I've heard that Catholics have had sightings of
00:41:29.980
what they believe to be souls of people in purgatory, uh, that basically appear as ghosts.
00:41:36.680
Uh, so do you believe in purgatory? And if so, doesn't that at least give some plausibility to the
00:41:43.380
idea of ghosts? Yeah, I do believe in purgatory, but there's, there's no, um, version of purgatory
00:41:49.400
that I've ever heard where it's a place on earth where the souls in purgatory just kind of hang out
00:41:57.060
in especially if for some reason, congregate in creepy looking buildings and do random things like
00:42:03.060
slam doors shut and make a silverware fly across the, the kitchen. Right. Um, now I, I certainly
00:42:10.840
believe that people have had visions of, uh, of, of souls in the afterlife. I think they've had visions
00:42:18.360
of souls in heaven and hell and purgatory, but those are not spirits that are physically located
00:42:25.460
on earth and walk sort of kind of walking around and interacting with people and, uh, trying to
00:42:32.340
scare people. That's, that's, that's of course one, one of the big questions about, about ghosts. If
00:42:37.240
they, if they exist, it's like, what, what are they doing exactly? Is that they're just entertaining
00:42:41.280
themselves by trying to freak people out when they stay in a, you know, spooky hotels or an old,
00:42:48.060
uh, old homes? So yeah, I just, I, I, that, that's my primary problem with the idea of ghosts. As I
00:42:56.040
explained in the video where I was, um, debunking the pro ghost propaganda from one Andrew Clavin,
00:43:03.180
yeah, my, my main problem is a theological problem. And I don't see any sort of theological,
00:43:09.680
uh, justification for this idea that God would keep undead people on earth to sort of just walk
00:43:17.400
around and freak people out. Um, now demons are another story, but ghosts is a different subject.
00:43:23.520
And then also there's the kind of practical criticism that if these ghosts are out there
00:43:30.240
and they're so common and people see them all the time, then just like Bigfoot, why have we not yet
00:43:35.440
been given any solid video evidence of anything like that? I've never seen. All right, let's go to
00:43:43.080
number 10. All right, Mr. Walsh. So I have four small children and whenever we come to the store,
00:43:50.000
I seek out shopping carts like that. I park right by them so that I don't have to go far with these
00:43:58.800
little children. And then I don't feel bad leaving it wherever I got it from. So come on,
00:44:07.440
can I get away with not bringing this thing all the way back to, I don't even know where
00:44:15.120
if I got, if I put it back right where I got it from.
00:44:23.240
SPG for life. Okay. First of all, I see, I see the game you're playing here by keeping the camera
00:44:29.740
trained on the cute kid. So you think that's going to get you sympathy points, but it won't. Can we go
00:44:33.700
back to this? First of all, I like how the video comment section has really just become a discussion
00:44:37.020
of shopping carts every single day. But can we, okay, just play this video again. We don't need
00:44:42.300
the audio. I just, cause she said, where do I return it? Can we just, just play the video?
00:44:46.440
Let me see. Where do you return it? Okay. Well, I just spotted one cart corral, which is like 20
00:44:52.160
feet from you. And then how close is she to the actual entrance to the, right there. I can see right
00:44:57.340
there. How, how far, wait, you're at Walmart. How far are you from the entrance of the store?
00:45:03.640
I can, you're maybe like 20 cars away. How long will it take you, ma'am, to traverse that great
00:45:12.480
distance to leave your car at the front of the store? It would take you less than a minute easily.
00:45:20.540
Now that adorable child of yours, he doesn't appear to be very heavy. So here's a strategy.
00:45:25.560
You, you cart your child over to the front of the store, you leave your cart. And then you're saying
00:45:33.240
to yourself, what about my kid? Am I leaving him at Walmart? No, you're picking your kid up and holding
00:45:38.840
him as I'm sure you've done in the past and bringing him back to your car. You could even try this, put the
00:45:46.800
kid in the car, shut the doors, lock them, then return your cart and come back. And I know you're
00:45:53.880
going to say, Oh, isn't it dangerous to leave my kid in the car? What do you think's going to happen?
00:45:58.220
Bring the keys with you, lock the door. You're going to be gone for 10 seconds. You're within
00:46:02.540
sight of the car in that timeframe. What do you think's going to happen? Exactly.
00:46:09.840
You think there's like a kidnapper who's just waiting. It was like a crouch behind the Toyota,
00:46:14.920
you know, three cars away. And as soon as you turn to get a dash into the car and try to steal
00:46:19.120
your whole car full of kids in the whole history of, of parking lots, how many times has that
00:46:25.000
happened? That a car full of kids has been kidnapped in a parking lot because the mother
00:46:29.540
was returning a shopping cart. Like there's millions of, of potential opportunities. How
00:46:35.240
many times has it happened? I ask you, how dare you? How dare you? All right. Uh, let's move
00:46:42.840
to some of these written comments. So no, you do not get an exception. And you are of course
00:46:46.260
banned from the show. Um, let's see. Uh, John Williams says, I have to admit that my wife
00:46:55.120
and I are addicted to 1883. I just really enjoy Taylor Sheridan's body of work, including
00:47:01.500
Yellowstone. Well, I don't know how far you are into the show, but I, I look that's what,
00:47:06.720
that's the tragedy of 1883 is that for the first three episodes, uh, it was, it was actually
00:47:13.560
really good. And I was very excited about it. And I kept, and I kept saying to my wife, like
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finally, they made a show like this. I've been waiting for just a straightforward Western
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series, a la, uh, Lonesome Dove and classic Western. And it was that until it went and fell
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off the woke cliff. I hate to say, um, Justin says, I ordered a bunch of the DW Valentine
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card day cards to send to my liberal family members. Uh, very good, very good usage of
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those, uh, DW Valentine's. I'm not, I'm not sure how else you would use them, but that's
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one way to do it. And the lonely dragon says, we need a, should I exist shirt for baboons?
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Yeah. I, I, that's one thing I discovered in my third world adventure, as I said yesterday,
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is that baboons, and this is well known in these countries, that baboons are absolute jerks.
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And, you know, whereas the, the panda is useless and there's no reason for it to exist. I think
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with baboons, they like they're, they are actively a drain on society. So I think with, with pandas,
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we should just let them slip off, slip from the earth and fade into extinction as they so desperately
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want to, which is why they've stopped mating. We have to coax them into mating, make like candlelight
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dinners and play Marvin Gaye for them in the jungle. So they'll start mating. Um, with pandas,
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just let them, just let them die off with baboons. You can make an argument for actively hunting them
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down and committing a sort of baboon genocide. Uh, and if you think that sounds harsh, we'll go to
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a country where these things are. They are vicious. I'm telling you. If you haven't marked your calendar
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for this Thursday yet, you should. It's not only the world premiere of the Daily Wire's first original
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film shut in, but we will also be releasing the first teaser of our next film during the stream
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called Terror on the Prairie, which is a Western starring Gina Carano. We could be more excited
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to be making good on our promise of bringing you real entertainment. And we seriously hope that
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you tune in. Shut In is a tale of redemption and an intense, suspenseful thriller that delivers
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riveting action without missing a beat. Check out the trailer here.
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Jessica. I can smell the weakness from here. Lady!
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Well, the film premieres this Thursday, February 10th at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m. Central over at Daily Wire YouTube.
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Today, for our Daily Cancellation, we must take a closer look at something that may appear to be nothing but celebrity gossip on the surface.
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are going through a divorce, which is a development that surprises only because it took seven whole years of marriage before it happened.
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I have no opinion on the divorce itself, except that you better enjoy getting divorced if you marry a Kardashian to begin with.
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The issue of relevance today, though, is the public feud between Kanye and Kim pertaining to their eight-year-old daughter North's social media use.
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Now, we'll leave aside the unfortunate fact that these two decided to make their daughter, to name their daughter Northwest.
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At least they named her based on compass directions and not latitude and longitude coordinates.
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Northwest sounds better as a name than like 34 degrees north, 118 degrees west.
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In any case, the eight-year-old recently appeared on TikTok with her own account, and she was posting videos.
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Kanye did not approve, and he said so publicly.
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And this prompted Kim to defend herself by going to TMZ, and the outlet reports, quote,
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Sources close to the former couple tell TMZ North does not have her own TikTok account, nor does she have the app on her own phone any longer.
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Instead, we're told North can only access TikTok through a joint account on Kim's phone and only uses it in her mother's presence.
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Not just that, but our sources say the comments for North and Kim's account are fully disabled.
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We've even spoken to sources at TikTok who tell us North and Kim's account passes the company's terms and conditions for minors.
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Now, here's why Kanye might be in a tiff over this.
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According to another source in the know, we know there was, in fact, an incident recently where North did go live on TikTok from her own phone.
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But our sources say Kim disciplined her over that and made the changes then.
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So what we can take from this is that not only does the eight-year-old have a TikTok account, but she has her own phone with Internet access as well at eight years old.
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Now, I'm not a fan of marital disputes being aired publicly like this, especially when they have children that are directly involved.
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Then again, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have never really known how to speak to each other or to anyone except through TMZ.
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But putting the method of communication aside, does Kanye have a point?
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Is his eight-year-old daughter too young for social media?
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The answer, of course, is yes, obviously, without a question, without any doubt whatsoever.
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Your young children should not be anywhere near social media.
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Now, older children shouldn't really be on social media either, but the situation is even more dire the younger the child is.
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Also, it's much easier to control what a younger child does.
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You know, she may have her own means of income.
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So your ability to control her is not entirely erased, but you have to rely more on influence than control as the child grows older.
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And that's kind of the process of parenting, right?
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Is that when your child is very, very young, you are physically controlling them a lot of the times.
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If you want them to go somewhere, you pick them up and bring them there.
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But as the child grows older, that physical control, you start to rely less on that and more on influence.
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You're trying to influence your child in a certain direction.
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Well, she can't go anywhere unless you take her there.
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Unless you're a fully negligent parent, you should know generally where she is all the time and what she's doing, even if you're not with her every second of the day.
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If your eight-year-old has a phone and the internet and social media, it's because you have not only allowed her to do so, but you have funded and facilitated it.
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That is, you have funded and facilitated the damage that is being done to her.
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All that damage, you are paying for it to happen.
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And this is a good way to clarify a lot of things in life.
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On one side, you can list the negatives of social media use for eight-year-olds.
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What is good about having your eight-year-old daughter on social media?
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Well, this is an easy list to fill out because there's nothing on it.
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The closest thing to a benefit that parents will cite for their young child's social media use is that all her friends are doing it.
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This is exactly the opposite of the sort of advice my parents gave me as a child when they constantly warn me that you should not do things just because your friends are doing them.
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If your friends are jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?
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And of course, the answer to that was, yeah, I totally would and did jump off of bridges and other elevated structures, sometimes into water, sometimes into bushes or piles of leaves.
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I did it because it looked fun or because it seemed funny at the time to hurt or maim myself intentionally.
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But social media is a different kind of bridge entirely.
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And once you jump off of it, you fall eternally into a bottomless pit that eats your soul a little bit at a time.
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The point is that kids may think something is worthwhile because their friends are doing it.
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Because kids are immersed completely in peer culture.
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All they can see is what their friends are doing.
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What matters most to them in the world is acceptance from their peers.
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It's the only thing that matters to them for a lot of these kids.
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It matters so much that these kids these days will potentially kill themselves if that approval and acceptance is withheld.
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And this is exactly why adults need to be adults.
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They need to rescue their children from this immersion.
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They need to see clearly where their children cannot.
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An adult who encourages or allows social media use on the basis that all their friends are doing it
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is an adult who thinks no clearer than the child he's supposed to be in charge of.
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Aside from the peer pressure defense, all the other positives of social media use are really arguments for mitigated negatives.
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Where you have parents arguing for something and making arguments as if they're listing positives,
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but actually they're listing mitigated negatives.
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So when Kim Kardashian, for example, says that she's monitoring her daughter's internet activity,
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she's not presenting an item for the positive column.
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All she's doing is arguing that the bad isn't quite as bad as her husband claims.
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Even if I agree that you can mitigate the bad when it comes to social media use,
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and in fact I think that most of the time you can't,
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but even if I agree that you could, it's still not good.
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It's still objectively better for them just not to be on it at all.
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You can mitigate the risk of driving drunk at 100 miles an hour down the road by wearing a seatbelt.
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I mean, if you're going to do it, it's better to do it with a seatbelt than without.
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But that's not an argument that says that driving 100 miles down the road drunk is good.
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The objectively better, of course, would be to not do that at all.
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Well, we know that social media use rewires our brains in an almost literal way.
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and there's quite a lot of confirmation for, for example, the World Psychiatric Association's findings
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that social media causes our brains to experience effects
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similar to the sort of cognitive decline that comes with age.
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Now, imagine how that works in the developing brain of a child.
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When social media causes cognitive decline and this is happening to a brain that is still developing.
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And imagine how much worse it gets when social media use begins practically at infancy
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You know, when a child's brain, for a lot of us, people in my generation,
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we were kids and we had a real childhood and our brains formed, you know,
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despite maybe some of the brain damage from jumping off of high structures and that sort of thing.
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And then the internet came along and messed us up.
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But at least we had a real childhood first where we did things like go outside and play around.
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We went and ran around in the woods and we got our jeans dirty and holes in the jeans and stuff like that.
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And then the internet came along and robbed us of the rest of our lives and screwed up our brains.
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But imagine when a child's brain forms around the internet because they are immersed in it from birth practically.
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We also know that children are highly susceptible, easily influenced.
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On social media, they're encountering a mechanism designed by multi-billion dollar companies
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with the express purpose of influencing them, of making them addicted.
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Letting your kid use social media, it's like letting them loose in a casino to play on the slot machines.
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Slot machines are expertly designed to put the user into a sort of trance
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where they lose their free will and continue playing even while they bankrupt themselves and soil their pants.
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If you've ever been to a casino, by the way, it's always a little bit like scandalous at first.
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If you've never been to a casino before and everything you learn about casinos, you learn from Martin Scorsese movies or something like that or James Bond.
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And then you go to a casino for the first time and you see that it's this immensely depressing environment
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where it's just a bunch of mostly people who are over the age of 75 sitting there with their oxygen tanks
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just staring at the slot machine, barely awake like zombies.
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They keep pressing this button. They sit there for hours.
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Well, the slot machine is designed to have that effect.
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Social media is meant to induce a similar trance, except it doesn't end when you leave the casino.
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And also, you know, it's not 75-year-olds using it. It's kids.
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Add this to all the sexually charged imagery, the violent imagery and all that,
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that they're going to be exposed to relentlessly, hour by hour, day by day on social media.
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And what you end up with is a picture where social media can do nothing but harm them.
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Okay, there's no scenario where you keep your kid from using social media
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and then they turn 18 years old and you say to yourself,
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oh man, I wish they had spent more time on Instagram.
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at their experience as a parent with their child
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you know, I wish I'd introduced TikTok earlier.
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A lot of parents are going to say and are saying right now,
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His life completely revolves around this screen.
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The question is simply, how much will it harm them?
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And that's why today, I must say that in this dispute,
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