Ep. 895 - We Must Defend The Biden Administration’s Perverted Values
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The Biden administration has said that American families will have to bear the cost of defending Ukraine against Russia. Why should we have to defend our values overseas? But whose values and what values do we have? Also, the Supreme Court will decide whether a web designer has the right to refuse to make wedding announcements for a same-sex wedding, and the sponsors of that so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill in Florida have started to buckle under left-wing pressure. Plus, another UFO sighting will deal with the unintentionally hilarious efforts of the Women's March to turn student debt into a women's rights issue.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration has said that American families
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will have to bear the cost of defending Ukraine against Russia. Why should we have to bear that
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cost? Because we have to defend our values overseas, they say. But whose values and what
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values? We'll talk about all that today. Also, the Supreme Court will decide whether a web designer
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has the right to refuse to make wedding announcements for a same-sex wedding.
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And the sponsors of that so-called don't say gay bill in Florida have started to buckle under
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left-wing pressure, unfortunately. Plus another UFO sighting proving once again definitively
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that aliens walk among us in their daily cancellation will deal with the unintentionally
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hilarious efforts of the Women's March to turn student debt into a women's rights issue.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Up until this point, I think it's safe to assume that you had never spent one second of your life
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thinking about Ukraine or worrying about who controls the different regions of it. It's not that
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you're callous or apathetic. It's just that you're a finite being, limited by both time and space,
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and so you're naturally most concerned with the things happening closest to you. Countries are
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fighting all over the globe in various ways. Factions are at war with one another all over the place.
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Land being taken, claimed, reclaimed. Are you supposed to have an opinion about all of those conflicts?
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Are you supposed to take a side? Maybe there are people fighting over something in Botswana
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right now or Zambia or wherever else, but you don't even bother to check because if there is a
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fight happening in those places, it's not your fight. Now, this again is not cruel disregard for
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the suffering of others. It's rather a lack of mental, emotional, and physical resources.
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You can only be so many places at once. You can only care about so many things at once.
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It's also a matter of priorities. You are loyal first and foremost to your family and your community,
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your country. That is your realm of interest, your sphere of influence. That's what's been given to
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you to care for and help protect. But now, in an instant, out of nowhere, the powers that be in
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your country are telling you that you should care very much about Ukraine. It is indeed now your
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responsibility to care about the suffering of the Ukrainian people, you're told. How could you
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abandon them in their time of need? You are tied to them by spiritual bonds that you've just now been
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made aware of and which require you to care about their circumstances, even as you're allowed to
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continue not thinking much at all about the circumstances of people in Botswana or Zambia or
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Bolivia or Uzbekistan or Nigeria or even Afghanistan now. That last country was supposed to matter deeply to
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you for the last 20 years, but now it's not supposed to matter at all. Nobody could quite explain why it
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should have mattered before or why it shouldn't matter now if it did matter before, but you're
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required to stand still and let the conveyor belt take you to the next destination. Don't ask any
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questions because now it's all about Ukraine. You are allowed to spend every second of your life up
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until now not caring about that country, not ever thinking about it ever, but today, today you must care
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deeply. You must be willing to sacrifice anything for its sake. And if you don't, if you commit the
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sin of feeling the same way about Ukraine as you felt yesterday and every day before that, then you're
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a despicable traitor. You're treasonous scum. You should be arrested and shot or maybe just shot.
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Why bother with the arrest? Russia is moving into some regions of Ukraine that you know nothing about.
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You never, you never been there. You don't know what they look like. You don't know anything about
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them, but Putin claims that the people in those regions want him there. Ukraine says that's not
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true. Our government and the media also say that it isn't true. Now you have no way of knowing for
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sure how true it is or isn't, but your patriotic duty allegedly is to simply believe whatever distilled
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version of a complex geopolitical issue you happen to hear on CNN. If you fail to believe it,
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or if you even ask for more information in regards to it, you are again, a traitor.
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I mean, if you ask a simple question, like when, when Putin says, oh, well, they want us there.
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And you say, uh, do they, I mean, do we know that they don't? Even that question makes you a traitor.
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You can't ask it. Who are you to ask questions like that? President Biden spoke to the nation
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yesterday and, uh, managed to be rambling and meandering, even though he only spoke for 10 minutes
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and didn't take any questions of the parts of his speech, which were intelligible amid all of the
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drunken dementia, riddled slurring and stuttering. This perhaps was the most important. Biden said that
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there will be costs that your family will have to bear for the sake of Ukraine. Listen.
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Defending freedom will have cost for us as well. And here at home, we need to be honest about that.
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But as we will do, but as we do this, I'm going to take robust action to make sure the pain of our
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sanctions is targeted at a Russian economy, not ours. Now you might point out the gas prices were
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already high. That's true, but it's a fact that the administration hopes you forget. And most people
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probably will forget it as we're all like the guy in Memento with a memory that resets itself every 45
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minutes. But from here forward, every bad thing happening in our country will be because of the
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Ukraine crisis and thus because of Russia and Putin. CBS News got the memo and published this
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headline this morning. Here's the headline. The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices,
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inflation and supply chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis. Now, sure, we had increased gas prices,
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inflation and supply chain issues last month and the month before that and before that and before that
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and before that and before that. But it turns out that all of those problems were caused by the
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things that Putin is doing right now. He's more dangerous than we thought. Apparently, he has a
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time machine too. But even if the administration plays this game, it's still true that our involvement
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in the Ukraine crisis, which is only really a crisis because we've chosen to treat it as one,
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will come with a cost. And it'll be a cost primarily paid by you and by me and our families,
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not Joe Biden. If this does escalate to a full-scale war, that'll be another cost paid exclusively by
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us and not by the ones who caused the war. This raises another important question. Why should
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we have to pay any cost at all? Why should my family be forced to suffer any consequences
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whatsoever or make any sacrifices whatsoever for Ukraine? Now, I ask this question sincerely,
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by the way. It's not rhetorical. I mean, unlike most pundits and everybody else on social media,
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I'm not pretending to be an expert on the Russia-Ukraine conflict just because it's the
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thing that's happening right now in the news cycle. My focus and interest and area of study
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is our culture, the things happening in our country, the state of our own society. So I admit
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to knowing very little about Ukraine, which puts me in the same boat as almost everybody else
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talking about the topic, even if most of the rest of them won't admit that they don't know
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anything about it. So I'm willing to believe that there might be, theoretically, some valid
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national security reason to involve ourselves in the Ukraine situation. That's the only reason
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why I would ever support our involvement. Our government, I contend, should be exclusively
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focused on serving and protecting our people. Nobody else's. That's their only job. It has no
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other job. But events overseas can, of course, hypothetically affect us in direct and significant
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ways, forcing us to inject ourselves into the middle of something like this. I mean, that's
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possible. And so I ask, not rhetorically, why should we care about this? How does the fate
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of the contested regions in Ukraine directly and personally impact my family and your family?
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How is our security directly at stake here? And as to whatever actions we're taking now or will take
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in the future, how do they make us safer and help us thrive? I don't want to know how they make
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Ukrainians safer or help them thrive. I don't really care about that. I want to know about us
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because that's what matters to me as an American.
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It's a good question and one that the people in charge must answer. If they can't answer it or
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won't answer it, then we have to draw our own conclusions. As it happens, a reporter at the
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White House briefing yesterday did ask this very question. He asked Jen Psaki, why Americans should
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have to bear any cost for the sake of Ukrainian sovereignty? I mean, how do you make that sales pitch?
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How do you tell American families who are already hurting from all of these things that they have
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to hurt more now for Ukrainian sovereignty? What does that have to do with us? Here was the answer.
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Well, I think what hopefully the American people who are tuning into this or have been tuning into
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this will see is that the president of the United States and his entire national security apparatus
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have been rallying the world and standing up against the efforts of Russia to invade and
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take and carve out a chunk of another country for their own. And that is the world is standing
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with the United States against the actions of President Putin. Now, why does that matter? I realize
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that's what you're asking me. Why does that matter to the American people? That should matter because
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that is a fundamental value that we as a country stand up for and we stand up against that type of action.
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That goes back to World War II and we have repeatedly throughout history been leaders in the world
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in rallying support for any efforts to seize territory from another country. When the president
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spoke to the American people last week, it was very important to him to be very direct and clear
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and straightforward with them about what this could mean as we looked to what the impact of an
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invasion could mean and also what the impact of sanctions could mean. And the fact that standing
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up for values is not without cost, including in this case. Well, there you have it. The White House
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doesn't even pretend that American families are somehow at risk because of Putin's actions in Ukraine.
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If they if that was the case and if they could make that case, they would have made it.
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That's the strongest case. They don't even pretend that our involvement is to protect and defend our
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own people. They say that this is about standing up for values, which is the same justification given
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for every bad and disastrous conflict we've involved ourselves in for the last several decades.
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We have to stand for values. But what values? The value that says no country should ever invade
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another country. How is that a value? There are, again, invasions and incursions and conflicts
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all over the globe, everywhere, all the time. Do our values stipulate that we have to play referee
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in all of those disputes? And I have to ask who appointed us referee anyway? What right do we have
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to assume that role, especially since we've been known to do plenty of invading ourselves?
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No, that can't be the value. So what is it? What values are we supposedly fighting for? Is it the
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value of freedom? Well, what is freedom? Our government is run by people who think freedom
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includes the mass slaughter of infants. To them, we have to kill 60 million babies for freedom. That's
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freedom. They think freedom must sometimes involve shutting down thousands of private businesses by
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force, closing up churches, forcing kids to wear muzzles for two years in a row.
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That's their idea of freedom. They believe in the kind of freedom that includes chemically
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castrating 11-year-old boys. Freedom for them might also involve censoring unsafe political opinions.
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They believe in the kind of freedom that has turned our cities into crime-infested wastelands.
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Is that the kind of freedom that we now want to export overseas?
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Is that what we're out there defending so valiantly? See, the we must defend our values thing was always
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foolish, but now it's also foolish, but as well incoherent. Because how can we, quote-unquote,
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defend our, quote-unquote, values when we don't share any values? What's this our values stuff?
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Speak for yourself, Pisaki. I don't have any of your values. We have no values in common at all. None.
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The Biden administration just hired a drag queen BDSM dog fetishist to help run our energy policy.
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Is that another of the values that we have to defend? As far as they're concerned, it is.
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CRT, gender ideology, racism, anti-Christian, anti-tradition, anti-human. These are their values.
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I don't just not share them. I hate those values. I am at war against those values.
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And now they want me and all the rest of us to go to war in defense of values that we detest?
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They call for our loyalty and fidelity after years spent treating us like scum
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and labeling us domestic terrorists? And they expect us to just go along.
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Well, they're in for a rude awakening. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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They're going to be bringing all kinds of exotic diseases into the house and you just, you know,
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it's going to happen and you, uh, and you live with it. There's no other way to function.
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So this latest thing I got from my two-year-old and I know the exact moment that I contracted.
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I know when I got it. Um, because it was the moment that she leaned in to tell me a secret,
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like leaned in directly face to face and then proceeded to cough right in my face, point blank range.
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I could like, I could feel the particles, the cold virus particles going up my nose and infecting
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me right in that moment. And the secret, by the way, wasn't, it wasn't even a good secret and it
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never is with kids because she came over and said, daddy, a secret. And I said, okay, what's your
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secret? And then, and then first thing right in my face. And then I saw a cow in my womb room.
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She saw a cow in her room. That's what, that was the secret, which first of all,
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if there was a cow in your room, why are we keeping it a secret? And second, you're totally
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full of it. I guarantee there was no cow. Fact check on that misleading, more sources needed,
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not worth getting sick over. All right. Let's, um, before we move on from Ukraine, I wanted to check
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in and I think this, this is worthy of being the top headline for us today in the five headlines.
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I want to check in with a voice of reason on the Ukraine subject. Uh, someone who I think we were
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all kind of waiting and like, I've already, I've already said it, you know, I, I don't know a whole
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lot about, about the issue myself and most people don't. And so we're waiting for voices of authority,
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people who know what they're talking about and are very well read and have studied this subject.
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We're waiting for them to kind of, uh, you know, guide us, give us a little bit of guidance.
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And finally yesterday, we got that. Listen to this. The phone is not hacked. It's really me.
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I actually want to say a lot of things, but I'm just going to mind my business because
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sometimes I feel like I have such a big platform that if I say, if I don't say the right things,
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I might get killed, but I'm really not on NATO side. I'm really not in Russian side.
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I'm actually in the citizen side because at the end of the day, the world is having a crisis right now.
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There's inflation, not only in America, but everywhere in the world. It's really hard to
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get, um, the economy back up. There is so much shipments and embarkments backed up. China's
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not really messing with us. So a lot of things are behind. A lot of goods are behind and this
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shit just made it way more complicated. So I'm just really annoyed by this. And I really wish that
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all world leaders right now just really come with a logical conclusion, but whatever.
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I mean, she raises some good points. Uh, as she says, so, so much shipments and embarkments
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backed up. Um, I don't know. I'm not sure if those are even words, but, uh, and China's not
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really messing with us. She points out, I mean, you could say that they are kind of messing with us
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and that they unleashed a virus on the world that killed 5 million people. You know, they kind of
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messed with us that way. But, um, either way, that's, that's her, uh, that's her take. And you
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know what, that is what I'll say about it at least is that it is at least as coherent and meaningful
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as anything we've heard from the Biden administration about this issue. That actually made more, I'm not
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going to say it made a lot of sense, but it made more sense comparatively than, uh, than the clip we
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played of Jen Psaki saying that we have to, we have to get involved for our values.
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So, you know, whose, whose side are you going to take Cardi B or Jen Psaki? Those are the only
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two sides available. I'm afraid. Okay. This is from the wall street journal. It says the Supreme
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court said Tuesday, it would consider whether a Colorado website designer had a first amendment
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right to refuse to produce same sex wedding announcements, which is the latest clash between
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LGBT and religious rights. Since its landmark 2015 decision, extending marriage rights to
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same sex couples, the high court has moved cautiously in carving out constitutional exemptions
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for organizations, business owners opposed to those rights. Last June, the justice decided
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that a Catholic foster service agency receiving city funding was entitled to turn away same sex
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couples, despite local laws prohibiting such discrimination. The decision was based,
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however, on the court's own reading of Philadelphia's fair practices, ordinances, and its contract
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with Catholic social services rather than broad constitutional principles. Um, the court has yet
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to rule squarely as to whose rights the LGBT communities or religious conservatives must
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yield when they directly conflict. The Colorado case granted Tuesday to be argued in the court's
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next term and likely decided by June, 2023, uh, suggest the justice may be ready to address that issue.
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So there's also the masterpiece cake shop case, which is, was also out of Colorado. And there's a reason
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why all these cases are coming out of Colorado because the Colorado, whatever they call it,
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their equal rights or the human rights commission, whatever, or welding and name they give to it,
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but they've been on this campaign for years now to seek out any Christian business owners in their
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state and, and punish them, put them out of business. Um, and it's oftentimes very, oftentimes very
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targeted, very intentional. You know, uh, Jack Phillips over at masterpiece cake shop,
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there's been this targeted effort to take him down. There's, there's, we, we, we know for a fact,
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I mean, there was a, uh, transgender person who went to Jack Phillips in Colorado a couple of years
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ago and said they wanted a, a, um, he wanted a cake to celebrate his gender transition,
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a gender transition cake, because that's a thing now. Well, it's not really a thing, but, but this guy
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invented it because he wanted to entrap Jack Phillips. And so that's the kind of thing going on.
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Um, is that what happened here? I, you know, I don't really know. I'm not sure. Um, but one way
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or another, you know, same sex couple wanted, um, wedding announcements. And this web designer said,
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well, I, you know, I can't do that because that means that I'm in some ways I'm, I am directly
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promoting. I mean, I'm, I'm advertising a same sex wedding and that's against my religion. I can't do
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it. Um, that's why this is very different. Okay. Although these, these sorts of things are always
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conflated. This is not the same thing as, um, as, uh, say a restaurant putting a sign out, out front
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saying no gays allowed. Okay. That's, that's a different sort of refusing of service. Not the same
00:23:34.700
thing. Because in this case, the web designer didn't say, oh, I can't do any work for, for gay
00:23:41.780
people. If you're a gay person, I'm not going to, I can't be involved with you. That's not what was
00:23:45.460
said. Okay. This is not a, um, discrimination quote unquote against individuals. This is just a
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particular sort of service that I cannot provide. I can make announcements for various different things.
00:24:01.600
I, I, but an announcement for a same sex wedding, that's just something that I don't provide. I
00:24:07.240
don't do that. And really her, her reasons for not doing it shouldn't even matter. She's the
00:24:14.420
business owner. Um, if she doesn't want to do this, if she doesn't want to associate herself with
00:24:21.720
that, then that, that should be it. This is, this is not only a matter of free speech, right? It's also
00:24:26.340
a matter of, and also of course, freedom of religion, but it's also a matter of freedom
00:24:30.180
of association, which is the very freedom that the gay rights side has hinged, you know,
00:24:38.940
the right to gay marriage on is freedom of association. Well, does a business owner not
00:24:44.860
also have that same freedom to decide who they're going to associate with and particularly what
00:24:49.980
services they want associated with them and you open up the floodgates and, and, uh, and present
00:24:58.600
a lot of extra questions. If you say, Oh yeah, well we can, we can force you to make wedding
00:25:04.060
announcements for a same sex wedding. What if there's, you know, we could, we could all think
00:25:10.300
of all kinds of different types of events that a person, a business owner might not want to
00:25:16.120
be associated with for one reason or another. Are they not allowed to make those kinds of
00:25:21.260
determinations now? Now in the wall street journal article, it says that this is a case,
00:25:27.540
um, where that the court has to rule on where we're weighing the LGBT community's rights against
00:25:35.260
religious conservatives rights. And as they put it, um, which when these rights directly conflict,
00:25:41.780
which rights have to yield to the other? Well, you know, this leads to the question of just like
00:25:50.540
we asked in the opening, when we talk about freedom, what do you mean by that? And we have
00:25:55.320
to go overseas and defend freedom. Well, I need you to tell me what you mean. What do you mean when
00:26:00.540
you say freedom? Because we are not working with shared definitions when it comes to any of these
00:26:06.640
words. That is very clear by now. So the same question comes with, uh, with rights. What do
00:26:13.020
you mean by rights, human rights? Because if, if the idea of human rights means anything, if it's coherent
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at all, then it would seem to me that they can't really conflict. If there appears to be a conflict
00:26:27.540
where you have one right claim against another right claim and, and one has to supersede the other,
00:26:35.160
one has to yield so the other can be asserted. If that's happening, I think that's a pretty good
00:26:39.960
indication that we have a misconception about what rights are and that one or both of these rights
00:26:46.660
claims are false because our human rights are supposed to be embedded. They're supposed to be
00:26:53.280
natural. They're supposed to be inherent to us as human beings, which means that they should not
00:27:00.760
constantly be bumping into each other and causing all these kinds of conflicts.
00:27:05.480
If there is this sort of conflict, then that would seem to indicate that we're,
00:27:09.520
we have a misapprehension about what rights are.
00:27:14.700
And that misapprehension is pretty obvious here.
00:27:17.740
Is this, uh, the LGBT community's rights up against religious conservatives' rights? No.
00:27:21.840
Because as far as the LGBT community goes, their, their rights are not at stake here.
00:27:29.120
What, what right is at stake exactly? What right is being infringed upon?
00:27:35.480
For the business owner, we know what the rights are. It's pretty clear. Freedom of speech.
00:27:39.600
You know, Kent, uh, making a wedding announcement is a form of speech. So if you, if that speech can be
00:27:46.440
compelled by law, then it's hard to say you have freedom of speech. So your right to freedom of
00:27:51.160
speech is at stake. If you could be compelled by law to do something that directly conflicts with
00:27:56.460
your religious beliefs, then your right to religious liberty is at stake. And if you could
00:28:00.500
be compelled by law to associate with something or with people you don't want to associate with,
00:28:05.260
then, uh, then your right to freedom of association is at stake. So it's very clear on that side where
00:28:11.200
the right claim comes in. But for the LGBT community, what right are we talking about?
00:28:16.440
Your right to wedding announcements. And even if there was a right to wedding announcements,
00:28:21.160
which I don't, you know, I don't see that enumerated anywhere. Um, I don't know where
00:28:25.700
that right comes from. Is that a God given right that God did imbue us all with the inherent natural
00:28:30.480
right to wedding announcements. But even if you have that right somehow, well, by no means is that
00:28:39.880
right being infringed upon or taken away or even significantly interfered with. If one
00:28:46.160
person, one business owner says, Oh, I don't want to make those announcements
00:28:49.480
because there are dozens of other places you can go to get the exact same thing made.
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So if there is some sort of right to wedding announcements, that's, that's not at stake here.
00:29:07.360
And I think that's what a normal and decent person would do.
00:29:13.360
You know, if you want to get announced announcements made for some kind of event and a business owner
00:29:17.280
says, Hey, listen, I, I just, I don't believe in this and I I'm sorry, but I can't make, I can't,
00:29:22.900
I can't be a part of this as a, as a, just a decent adult. The correct response is okay,
00:29:29.800
well, I'll find somewhere else, but then to go to the government and say, no, no, no,
00:29:34.480
I want you to force them. They don't want to be involved, but I want you to force them to be
00:29:39.540
involved. Well, why can't you go to any of these places over here? No, no. Cause I, I want this
00:29:44.360
person. They said they don't want me and now I want them. That makes you a child.
00:29:57.840
So there's no right. What is the right exactly? That's at stake for the LGBT community.
00:30:05.420
If, um, the Supreme court says that, Oh yeah, they, this business owner has the right to
00:30:10.020
not make those wedding announcements. Does that mean that no, um, same sex couple ever again,
00:30:16.340
we'll be able to get wedding announcements made. Are we worried about that happening?
00:30:24.500
I, if that is your concern, then I can just tell you that that is certainly not going to happen.
00:30:30.000
Um, and this is also the, one of the, um, inherent contradictions on the gay rights side, because,
00:30:36.740
um, on, on one hand, they, we, we are constantly told by LGBT activists that the kind of anti-gay
00:30:46.340
marriage side, the, uh, you know, belief in quote unquote traditional marriage, which I don't really
00:30:52.180
like that qualification of traditional. Um, because what you call traditional marriage,
00:30:56.460
I just say that is marriage by definition, but regardless, they would say that, you know,
00:31:01.220
the, the belief in, in quote unquote traditional marriage, um, that is a, it's a, you know, it's,
00:31:07.600
you're, you're like a dinosaur. If you, if you still stand by that, you're far outnumbered,
00:31:13.000
you're way on the fringes, you're a wacky fringe, right wing, whatever. That's what they say.
00:31:19.560
But then at the same time, they say that if the Supreme court doesn't force Christian,
00:31:25.920
Christian business owners to do business with same sex couples for same sex weddings,
00:31:29.140
then, uh, the next thing, you know, uh, no same sex couple will ever be able to do business anywhere
00:31:34.340
ever again. Because although this is, this is a fringe, wacky dinosaur view, apparently all the
00:31:41.140
business owners in America are just waiting for the opportunity there. They're waiting for the
00:31:45.460
Supreme court to give them the go ahead so they could put the, you know, no gaze allowed sign up
00:31:49.760
on the window. Well, which is it? Choose a lane is what I would say. All right. Uh, this is an
00:31:59.260
update from the Washington examiner. I think a rather unfortunate update. It says a Florida lawmaker
00:32:04.780
withdrew a proposed amendment Tuesday that would require schools to notify parents of their children's
00:32:10.500
sexual orientation as part of a larger and highly controversial bill that would bar schools from
00:32:14.300
discussing sexual orientation with students. Well, gender identity and sexual orientation with
00:32:19.220
elementary school students is an important detail to add in there. Um, Joe Harding, a representative
00:32:24.900
in the Florida state house filed the amendment last week, seeking to add it to the so-called don't say
00:32:29.260
gay bill that has garnered significant national attention. Uh, the amendment would have required
00:32:33.860
schools, uh, school officials to inform a student's parents within six weeks. If their child tells the
00:32:38.280
school, they have a non straight sexual orientation, but now it has been a withdrawn.
00:32:44.300
Two lawsuits have been filed in recent months after two separate public schools orchestrated
00:32:49.940
gender transitions for students who express gender dysphoria without notifying the student's
00:32:54.860
parents. And that, by the way, is one of the reasons why this amendment was added. And it's a
00:32:59.520
reason why the amendment should stay in there. My only problem with the amendment, the only thing that
00:33:03.800
makes it outrageous and offensive to me is that the schools were given six weeks to tell the
00:33:08.340
parents. Now I don't want, not six weeks. How about like six minutes? There should be no time,
00:33:16.740
there should be no time elapsing between when the school finds out some intimate detail about my
00:33:23.080
children and they tell me that should be immediate. Like not, not, not, not six days, certainly not six
00:33:31.180
weeks. You tell me right away because it's my right to know because it's my child, not your child. It's
00:33:38.260
mine. Uh, and that's why the amendment should stay in there. So it's, it's quite disappointing that it
00:33:45.580
was, that it was taken out. And, uh, this kind of sends the message that, oh, okay, well actually
00:33:51.060
schools do have the right to keep secrets with kids and not just, not just any secrets, but secrets
00:33:58.720
of a sexual nature. Schools are allowed to, you know, just because the school knows this, uh, really
00:34:08.600
important detail about your child doesn't mean they have to tell you because that's what we're
00:34:14.680
talking about here. Again, this is, this was the amendment never required that schools sit down
00:34:20.680
and, um, start interrogating the kids. Okay. We're not talking about waterboarding or something to
00:34:26.700
find out what their sexual orientation is. No, the whole point of the bill is to say that you should
00:34:32.120
not be having those conversations with elementary school students. It's none of your damn business.
00:34:36.860
It's not appropriate. But if you do happen to find out some important information about a child,
00:34:45.100
their parents ought to know there shouldn't be any information about a child, you know, about like
00:34:52.620
a nine-year-old that all of his friends in school know, and that even the adults in the school know,
00:34:58.840
but the parents don't really, there should be any information like that. Nothing. There should
00:35:05.520
be no details like that, especially when it comes to anything of a sexual nature.
00:35:11.000
But that amendment was taken out, unfortunately. All right. This is from the New York Post. We got to
00:35:16.620
cover this because, you know, I like these stories. Alien hunters were left stunned after a bulging
00:35:21.280
triangle UFO was filmed lurking over a major city for two hours. The unusual object was spotted prowling
00:35:28.120
the skies of Islamabad in broad daylight by an extraterrestrial enthusiast. Um, so it was there for two
00:35:35.080
hours. Let's take a look at the video here. We have the video. It's just sitting there.
00:35:41.000
Do we get, does it zoom in at all? Let's see. Can we get a zoom in? Okay. Well, it kind of,
00:35:51.280
it looks like a, a smudge on the camera. Like, oh, it's moving around a little bit.
00:35:54.520
It's quite, quite amazing, isn't it? I mean, it's definitely, look, it's definitely something. There is
00:36:04.320
something in the sky. There is a, some sort of object. No, I can't see anything at all.
00:36:11.520
I mean, zoom. I should have looked at this footage before we played it on the show.
00:36:19.800
well, I'm convinced. I mean, what else could that be besides?
00:36:27.300
I mean, in fairness, I could think of like 10 other things that could be, but
00:36:30.020
going through the list of options, as I always say, the alien option is,
00:36:36.580
we have to agree at least the most exciting and the most interesting. So it's what I choose to
00:36:40.880
believe. All right. That's enough of that. Does it get any? Okay. I was expecting to zoom in a
00:36:47.480
little bit more. I was expecting it to zoom in and then you see the little green hand poke out the
00:36:51.960
window and wave. That's what I was expecting. Have yet to see footage that compelling, but still pretty,
00:36:56.820
I mean, look, there's an, here's, here's, let's just summarize it. There's an object in the sky.
00:37:03.400
No doubt about that. Nobody knows what the, it's unidentified.
00:37:12.280
Therefore aliens. I rest my case. All right. One other thing. So a couple of days ago,
00:37:17.760
a basketball game between Michigan and Wisconsin got a little bit heated.
00:37:22.160
Michigan was, was losing the game by a large margin, but towards the end, Michigan's coach,
00:37:29.180
Juwan Howard felt that the other team was kind of like running up the score and being unsportsmanlike.
00:37:35.680
I think they called it, you know, they were winning. They're going to win the games only a few seconds
00:37:38.360
left. And then Wisconsin, they called a timeout. And so they're running up the score. And so he was
00:37:46.920
upset about that. And his way of communicating his feelings was to slap one of the other coaches
00:37:51.960
in the face. I mean, it wasn't quite that direct. There was an altercation. There was an exchange of
00:37:57.420
words. And then Howard slapped the guy. So we have the footage. Let's play some of this footage here.
00:38:03.620
You see the one coach who said, you know, they're yelling at each other because he's saying, look,
00:38:08.020
you're being mean to me. I don't like, you're being super mean.
00:38:11.240
And then the other, the other guy jumps into says, no, you're the mean one. You're the mean one.
00:38:17.680
And then slap right in the face. Yeah. These are the coaches, by the way, acting that way. So look
00:38:24.940
after that, Howard, um, the coach who slapped the other coach was suspended just five games and given,
00:38:32.540
I think a $40,000 fine, which is relatively minor, you know, for, for, for these guys, a pretty light
00:38:37.980
penalty. And so I was initially torn on this because on the one hand, you're a grown man,
00:38:43.340
you're a coach, you're supposed to be a role model. And, uh, you're, you're, you know, you're
00:38:47.520
taking care, you, you have your team as kids basically, I mean, college kids. And so you're
00:38:52.580
supposed to be setting a good example. And here you are getting into a slap fight after the game.
00:38:56.140
On the other hand, you know, I actually think we tend to get a little bit too bent out of shape
00:39:00.440
about guys getting rough with each other, especially in the context of sports. Um, this is how dudes
00:39:05.440
settle differences. Sometimes we tend to express our anger in a more physical way.
00:39:09.700
And, uh, I don't think that should be such a big deal. A little tussle, no reason for it to be a
00:39:14.840
breaking news scandal. Ultimately though, I think you have to penalize them because, you know, when
00:39:19.920
you balance everything out, he did get into a physical fight with another coach in the middle
00:39:25.000
of the game. But so that's, that's kind of my take on the whole situation. But then the left-wing
00:39:30.400
media got to work and here was the headline from Deadspin. When it comes to Juwan Howard and
00:39:35.420
Greg Gard, who's the other coach, why is the black coach the only one suspended when the white coach
00:39:40.560
started it? Now, to be clear, the black coach smacked the guy and only was suspended for five
00:39:47.200
games. It's about as light as the penalty could really be. I mean, five games, you could easily
00:39:54.380
make, if you want to take it here, which, which is not where I would take it. It's not my decision
00:39:59.600
to take it in the racial direction. But if you're going to take it there, you could easily make the
00:40:04.560
case that his race helped him, if anything. Because just imagine for a second if the races
00:40:10.300
were reversed. I mean, imagine if the footage is a white coach slapping a black coach across the
00:40:18.600
face. I mean, Brian Flores would file a lawsuit over that. And he's, he doesn't even play, he's not
00:40:26.340
even in basketball. He's in the NFL. There'd be lawsuits over that probably. And, and we'd hear all
00:40:32.160
about the, you know, systemic racism and everything. Imagine the dead spin. I mean, this, they're able
00:40:37.260
to make this kind of headline when it's the black coach slapping the white coach. Now think about
00:40:41.260
what the dead spin headline is. If it's the white coach slapping the back, black coach.
00:40:46.240
But you almost have to admire it. I mean, they, that's the thing about the left is that they
00:40:49.500
always stay on message, no matter what. Black coach slaps a white coach. In reality, race has
00:40:56.180
nothing to do with it whatsoever. These are just two guys who got, who got, you know, are taking the
00:41:00.160
game way too seriously and they started fighting. But on the left, they always stay on message,
00:41:05.540
stay on the narrative. You have to admire it. Maybe not admire it, but respect it a little bit,
00:41:13.360
Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.
00:41:24.860
All right. Uh, deliwire.com slash sweet baby comments. If you want to leave a video comment,
00:41:33.880
we've got a couple of those. Let's, uh, start with clip nine.
00:41:38.620
Hey, what's up? It's your boy gibberish here. Uh, just witnessed a cart fly across the parking lot.
00:41:44.120
Uh, I'm at target right now, but I'm not going to go get it because I'm in Cleveland and, uh,
00:41:49.780
you get robbed like every 10 minutes here if you step out of your car. So yeah, that cart's on its
00:41:54.980
own now. Uh, if it hits someone, not a problem of mine. Uh, I just put one away the other day.
00:42:01.040
I have a video of that, but yeah, that cart's staying where it is. So not in Cleveland, not
00:42:09.660
getting them there. So SPG for life, but I'm sure I'm banned. So thank you.
00:42:13.600
Well, you, you are banned of course. And this is your guilty conscience. Why else would you feel
00:42:20.320
the need to let me know about this? You're trying to justify something you know, isn't right.
00:42:25.560
All that is needed for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. Remember that gibberish.
00:42:30.180
Remember that. Let's play the next one. Hey there, Matt Walsh with the daily wire here.
00:42:36.520
Good to see you. Sweet baby gang for life. I'll see you Monday. Tune in. Okay. So that guy's
00:42:42.660
supposed to look like me, I guess. Is that the idea? He's got a beard and glasses. Like
00:42:46.100
every single person who has a beard and glasses. Now I'm always told, Oh, he looks just like
00:42:49.540
you. There's probably millions of people with beards and glasses. It's not that distinctive
00:42:54.060
of a trait. I mean, I could see the resentment. You know what he looks like? He is, um, try
00:43:00.200
to put my finger on. He's, he's like a combination of me and a Roy from the office. If me and Roy
00:43:07.980
from the office, you know, Pam's boyfriend, if me and Roy from the office had a baby, it would
00:43:12.180
be that guy. So this is the origin story maybe of the sweet baby from the sweet baby gang
00:43:18.140
logo. It's quite a horrifying, gorgeous story. Not a movie you want to see. I guarantee you
00:43:21.760
that. Um, let's see. Scott Allison says, if I had a daughter at a science camp and a biological
00:43:26.560
male identifying as they them shared a room, they would soon identify as patient 457 in ICU
00:43:32.380
ward. Um, well, that's the appropriate response. And as always with these kinds of stories, you
00:43:36.780
have to ask the question of where are the dads, even in the news clip that we played yesterday
00:43:42.660
from this story, uh, parents speaking out about the fact that they're, you know, they sent their
00:43:47.860
10 year old daughters off to a science camp and then they come home and find out that, that adult
00:43:52.660
male counselors were, were, were bunking with them, having slumber parties with these, uh, with
00:43:57.400
these little girls. And yeah, we were told parents are speaking out about it, except that all the
00:44:02.220
parents in the news clip were all the moms. Where are the dads exactly? Very good question.
00:44:10.880
Uh, Danielle says sexuality should not be discussed or taught at any age in school. Now tolerance,
00:44:16.800
acceptance and non-bullying, no matter your sexual preference or gender identity has been and is in
00:44:21.780
force and should be, but that's completely different than actively teaching it. Um, let kids be kids.
00:44:28.460
They should learn that there is much more to personality slash lifestyle than your gender
00:44:31.960
slash sexuality. I'm only going to disagree with you, Danielle, because I don't think that
00:44:37.160
tolerance and acceptance should be taught or enforced either. You know, uh, because then the
00:44:44.740
questions are like, what are we tolerating exactly? Why are we tolerating that? And acceptance is a
00:44:52.740
whole other level. Who decides what we're supposed to accept and why? These are all moral claims and
00:45:00.400
moral judgments. And you as a public school teacher, that's not your job, you know, to moralize
00:45:09.760
and to kind of impose your own moral view of the world onto kids. Now it's not your job. It's not
00:45:17.540
why anybody sends their kids to public school. You know, parents send their kids to public school
00:45:21.240
thinking that they're going to get naively thinking they're going to get just a basic academic
00:45:24.640
education. Uh, so it's not your job. It is also inevitable that the lessons being taught to kids
00:45:32.220
will be wrapped up in a moral worldview. Um, but that doesn't make it. Okay. All right. Let's see
00:45:40.200
what else we got. Joshua says, I think you're wrong on Ukraine. We should be willing for full scale war.
00:45:46.760
We learned in the last two world wars. If you ignore dictators, they'll keep conquering until someone
00:45:51.240
stops them. Either we stop Russia now or we'll have world war three later. You want a world war
00:45:58.020
ignoring this is how you get it. Okay. See, Joshua, I appreciate at least that you're trying to make
00:46:05.240
some kind of national security based argument for why we should get involved. Um, so you're,
00:46:12.680
you're on the right track. You're trying to make the right kind of argument. I just don't find the
00:46:17.540
argument compelling because it's actually not an argument. It's just an assertion. What you're saying
00:46:22.420
is, uh, we, we let Putin take over Ukraine. Next thing you know, world war three. Well, you got to
00:46:27.900
connect those dots for me. Okay. Cause it's like step one, Putin takes over Ukraine. And then down here,
00:46:35.540
like step 10 is world war three, but I need to know steps two through nine. You got to fill in that.
00:46:40.600
How does that work? I mean, are you suggesting that Putin takes over Ukraine and then keeps going?
00:46:47.800
And next thing, you know, he's trying to invade the United States and take us over too. Is,
00:46:52.340
is that your concern? Well, I don't know, but you have to explain that to me because I have,
00:46:58.080
I have heard this from plenty of, at least on, um, you know, as far as the Biden administration,
00:47:03.480
they're still talking about, we have to defend our values and so on and so forth.
00:47:06.380
But when it comes to the peanut gallery online, most of them, you know, you're hearing a lot
00:47:11.200
about, well, it's, it'll be world war three. He's going to take over the world and all this kind
00:47:14.440
of stuff. But you've got to, got to flesh that out a little bit more because I don't find it
00:47:18.760
terribly convincing. Um, Diana says, I don't agree that parents have the right to know their child's
00:47:25.160
sexual orientation. That's creepy. And if the students who are outed do end up being abused or
00:47:30.580
kicked out, that would be horrible. So it's creepy for a parent to know their child. You find that to
00:47:40.880
be, I hope you're not a parent yourself, Diana, with that kind of attitude. That's creepy. You want
00:47:45.940
to, you want to understand and know your child. That's, that's creepy. Now, if you're using some
00:47:51.540
sort of mind reading device to do it, then, uh, maybe I'll agree that that, that might be creepy,
00:47:57.840
but no, in this case, it's just, you know what the mind reading device is? It's, you should
00:48:02.940
be told information about your child that other people already know. So what we're talking
00:48:10.000
about here is a child has quote unquote, come out at school and, um, their friends know it
00:48:16.940
and the teachers know it. Everybody knows it, but should the, should the parents be the one
00:48:23.360
group that does not know this information about the kid. I would say the creepy thing is when
00:48:30.060
everyone has this information about a child's, you know, sexuality and the parents do not. They're
00:48:37.900
the only ones that are cut out of it. There's just, here's a general rule of thumb. There's never
00:48:45.240
a good non-creepy reason for an adult to want to keep these kinds of secrets with a child away from
00:48:55.840
the parents. Uh, let's see. John says, you aren't giving the animal bill of rights comments are a
00:49:03.020
fair shake here. Animals that are in captivity by humans aren't able to freely live. However,
00:49:07.400
suits them best. Non-pets on the streets are owed nothing because they're, they aren't being forced
00:49:12.180
into captivity. Pets you force into your home are owed a life equal to the potential top quality
00:49:17.060
they could achieve on their own. Life on the streets is probably far more miserable than a
00:49:21.260
mediocre pet owner offers their pets, but it's kind of a dumb straw man to make the comparison between
00:49:26.220
the two in the way that you did. Okay. So they, they're owed a life equal to the potential quality
00:49:31.960
they could achieve on their own. So you mean that they should eat once every four days,
00:49:37.140
uh, sleep out in the cold and the rain, be infested with ticks and parasites live about six years and
00:49:44.060
then die miserably when their corpses are consumed by ants and crows because that's the life they would
00:49:50.800
lead on their own. That's the life of a wild animal forced into captivity. That's, that's how you think
00:49:57.400
of domestic domesticated dogs and cats. No, it's not forced into captivity. They're not our slaves.
00:50:03.540
They don't do anything. This is not forced labor. Most of these, they just sit around all day.
00:50:10.180
We have elevated these animals to the status of, of animal royalty, like animal celebrities.
00:50:18.240
So if a dog complains, it's like, that's like when, when Lady Gaga complained about being too famous.
00:50:22.900
It's just, it's not, especially compared to what everyone else is going through, compared to what
00:50:27.080
other animals are going through. You got it easy. You got it made in the shade, literally.
00:50:29.820
And, and this also raises the, the, the question, we go back to the question of rights and we don't
00:50:36.140
have time to get into all of it, but, but although they have the right to do this, they have, where
00:50:40.240
are you, says who, what, where do animals derive their, their rights from exactly? Where are those
00:50:46.280
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Well, I felt like canceling feminists again today, one of my favorite pastimes. And initially,
00:54:44.380
I thought I'd cancel them for this. According to ESPN, quote,
00:54:46.880
players from the United States women's national team have settled their class action equal pay
00:54:52.040
lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation for a total of $24 million. The USSF has also committed
00:54:58.440
to providing an equal rate of pay going forward for the women's and men's national teams in all
00:55:03.220
friendlies and tournaments, including the World Cup. The issue of World Cup bonuses had long been a
00:55:07.600
point of contention for the players. Quote from Megan Rapinoe, she says, there's no real justice in this
00:55:13.840
other than this never happening again. With the settlement of the working conditions and this
00:55:17.620
settlement, which is contingent upon a CBA that will have equal pay going forward, there's no other
00:55:21.980
way to look at it than just a monumental win for women's sports and women's soccer in particular.
00:55:27.740
Okay, so female soccer players will now get equal pay. Something that if they didn't have it before,
00:55:32.740
it was probably because nobody cares about women's soccer. It's a simple economic explanation. It's the
00:55:39.000
same thing that explains why WNBA players make $3 an hour, while NBA players make $3 million an hour.
00:55:45.540
I might be slightly exaggerating the pay scales there, but the point is that the NBA has lots
00:55:49.760
of fans, whether it should or not, while nobody has ever actually seen a WNBA game. Like, nobody has.
00:55:55.580
There's actually a lively philosophical debate about whether or not the WNBA even technically exists,
00:56:01.080
given how little interest there is in it. Women's soccer, for its part, has two strikes against it.
00:56:06.400
One, soccer. Two, women's. Although I suppose I should be grateful that female athletes have
00:56:12.220
finally achieved equal pay right in time for the men to take over. And that really is the greatest
00:56:17.880
absurdity here, because these liberal female athletes are celebrating this great victory for
00:56:22.840
women's sports, even as women's sports has effectively ceased to exist. And that's, I think,
00:56:29.100
worthy of its own cancellation, if not for this. At the 11th hour, the Women's March has swooped in to
00:56:35.120
claim the canceled title for itself, playing the gender card on a different topic, but just as
00:56:40.280
absurdly. The Women's March official account on Twitter tweeted this, quote, women hold $929 billion
00:56:47.260
in student debt, two thirds of the nation's entire $1.7 trillion student debt load. This is a gender
00:56:54.080
justice issue. POTUS cancel student debt and put an end to this crisis. Okay, where to begin?
00:57:02.920
First of all, $929 billion is not two thirds of $1.7 trillion. It's a little more than half,
00:57:11.660
about 55%, give or take, which is considerably less than two thirds. If women are having trouble
00:57:16.940
getting into college, I think we just discovered why. Except, in fact, they aren't having trouble
00:57:21.220
getting into college. Women get into college more often than men. They account for almost 60% of
00:57:26.580
university enrollment. If they also have the lion's share of debt, that would explain why. More women
00:57:32.700
in college equals more women with college debt. Pretty logical. But 60% enrollment against 55% of
00:57:40.300
debt actually means that each individual woman, on average, is carrying less of the debt burden
00:57:45.740
than each individual man. Men are the ones paying more than their fair share, if that's how you want
00:57:51.980
to look at it. Although it's not how you ought to look at it, because the only share that each should
00:57:57.240
pay is the share they agreed to pay when they willingly took out their loans. Does that make
00:58:03.240
it a fair share? Probably not. I mean, not fair in any kind of objectively ethical sense. The fact is
00:58:10.280
that most people agree to pay way too much for an education that's worth way too little. If you spent six
00:58:16.200
figures on a degree in queer art history or whatever, thinking that it would somehow pay itself back in
00:58:21.800
five years, given the overwhelming market demand for queer art historians, I can't say that you paid
00:58:26.700
a fair price. The fair price would have been zero dollars, which is quite a bit less than what you're
00:58:33.120
on the hook for. But it's still your debt. It isn't anybody else's. It's yours. So all this talk about
00:58:41.320
relief and forgiveness, it obscures the point. The government cannot snap its mighty fingers and make
00:58:46.580
the debt go away. That's not going to happen. No plan has been presented that would or could
00:58:51.500
accomplish such a thing. Somebody has to pay your debts. The debt you agreed to while purchasing the
00:58:58.840
product you wanted and will keep has to be paid. The only question is this, who should pay it? You or
00:59:06.400
someone else? I don't see how you could offer any sound argument for the latter. Even if you can convince
00:59:11.780
me that the debt is unfair and predatory and you were taken advantage of, I might agree with all
00:59:18.360
of that, but it still seems clear that the fairest of the unfair remedies is for the person who took
00:59:22.700
out the loan to pay it. Because if it's unfair that you have to pay your loans, it's certainly many
00:59:27.740
times more unfair that I should have to pay your loans or anybody else. Besides, whatever possible
00:59:33.700
argument could be made for loan forgiveness would clearly apply just as much to any other form of
00:59:38.460
debt. Mortgage, car, credit card, etc. If you're struggling with student debt and you're handed a
00:59:43.680
get out of jail free card and I didn't go to college, but I'm struggling to pay my mortgage,
00:59:48.380
should I not be offered the same deal? If your debt is a public emergency, why isn't my debt also
00:59:54.360
a public emergency? Now it's true that I can file for bankruptcy, but bankruptcy isn't free and it ain't
01:00:00.040
fun. And I'm probably going to lose a lot of my stuff in the process. You don't have to declare
01:00:04.700
bankruptcy under any student loan forgiveness plan I've seen. Why should I have to take that step?
01:00:09.720
What makes you special? What happened to equality under the law? In fact, you know, I really can't
01:00:15.500
take any loan forgiveness plan seriously that doesn't require at a minimum the college grad who
01:00:21.020
wants forgiveness must declare bankruptcy and also forfeit their college degree. Nobody can take
01:00:27.800
away what they learned, especially because most of them didn't learn anything, but the degree can be
01:00:31.880
rescinded and that should be a necessary part of so-called forgiveness. You didn't pay for it,
01:00:35.700
you got to give it back. Call it a refund instead of forgiveness. Now I still wouldn't support even
01:00:41.240
that plan, but it's at least a serious plan and makes some attempt at being fair. But this is all
01:00:47.240
academic, pun intended. The feminists over at the Women's March aren't making a case for student loan
01:00:51.720
forgiveness. They're making a case for gender justice, whatever that is. Only because they didn't pay
01:00:56.860
attention in any of their math classes, they don't realize that the gender disparity on this issue,
01:01:01.400
as with most other issues, cuts in their favor. So they're wrong about women being specially victimized
01:01:07.560
by student loans and they're wrong about the student loan issue in general. They're wrong in
01:01:11.860
every way from every angle. Other than that, ladies, great point. Also, you're canceled.
01:01:18.220
And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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