Ep. 909 - The Never Ending Cycle Of Mass Hysteria
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Mass hysteria has gripped hold of our nation. People are so hysterical that many are now begging for nuclear war. But closer to home, on a smaller scale, we see the hysteria and the proliferation of racism hoaxes, especially in our schools.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, mass hysteria has gripped hold of our nation. People are so hysterical
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that many are now begging for nuclear war. But closer to home, on a smaller scale, we see the
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hysteria and the proliferation of racism hoaxes, especially in our schools. Speaking of which,
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there have been three in our schools in just the past week or two. We'll talk about that. Plus,
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Ukrainian President Zelensky addresses Congress and asks for a no-fly zone, which would lead
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directly to World War III. Small little detail. And a funny thing, when most Americans are told
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what's actually in the so-called don't say gay bill, they support it. Plus, lawmakers want to
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hold social media companies responsible for making our children addicted to the internet.
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And in our daily cancellation, lawmakers also now plan to make daylight savings permanent.
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I'll explain why that's a bad idea and might, in fact, bring about the end of human civilization.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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claims paying ability of the insurer. You know, people as a group, when taking the shape of a mob,
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have always been susceptible to mass hysteria. History provides, of course, many examples,
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but recent history provides many more examples. A new example each day, it seems, because modern media
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and modern methods of communication are the perfect delivery system for the sorts of psychological
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contagions which lead to hysteria. Now, we're seeing this play out with respect to the war
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in Ukraine. Many Americans who couldn't point to Ukraine on a map three weeks ago and probably still
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can't, nonetheless, now have Ukrainian flags in their bios and appear to feel greater patriotic
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pride for this foreign country that they've never been to and know nothing about than for their own
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country. That it's hysteria. It's not rational thought. And now the latest Pew Research poll shows that
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35% of Americans, nearly a third, favor taking direct military action against Russia, even if it means
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risking nuclear war. That was written in the question. If it meant risking nuclear war, would you still
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want to get involved to protect Ukraine? 35% of Americans said yes. Now, these people, who again,
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know almost nothing about this conflict or the countries involved, would risk their own children's
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lives for the sake of Ukraine. They would risk global death on an unimaginable scale for Ukraine.
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They don't know why they feel this way. They can't explain it. But they do. It's mass hysteria.
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Now, we'll get back to Ukraine later. But as I said, our capacity for mass hysteria extends far beyond
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the current conflict overseas. It invades every aspect of our lives. We see it on every level
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everywhere. And this is where all the racist hate hoaxes also come from. Now, they're both,
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they're, they are born from a sort of hysteria, an obsession with being the victim, a need for
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attention. And the hoaxes also take advantage of that same proclivity towards hysteria in the
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general public. So here's, here's an example, closer to home, smaller scale, actually three
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examples. So we'll start with this. A student at Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women in
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Rochester, which is a grade six through 12 school, claimed last week to have discovered racist graffiti
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in the bathroom. Of course, protests followed, you know, kids were protesting, lots of media
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coverage. You know how this works. And you also know where it's going. But before we get there,
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here's a local media reporting on the conclusion of this case while leaving something important out.
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But first, a breaking update to a local story that's gotten a lot of traction. Our Lady of
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Mercy school officials say they know who was behind racist graffiti in one of the bathrooms,
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a fellow student. The message said the all-girls school is filled with a bunch of, quote,
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N-words. Administrators discovered it earlier this week. Brighton police immediately begin
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investigating the case as a hate crime. This afternoon, school leaders tell us one of their
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students confessed to writing that message. They say the maximum disciplinary action has already
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been taken. Also in their statement, the school says Mercy will work to help heal the wounds caused by
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this incident as well as help heal deep-rooted related feelings this incident has brought to the
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surface. Brighton police have not charged the students. So the investigation concluded they
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found the culprit. Raises the question as to, you know, first of all, why they were investigating
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scribblings on a middle school bathroom stall as a federal crime. So they were investigating it as a
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hate crime, which means a federal crime because some kid supposedly wrote something in marker on a
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bathroom stall. Now, of course, we don't really need to ask the question as to why they're doing
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that. We already know. It's part of the mass hysteria. And it's that same hysteria that somehow
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prevents people from seeing that this was obviously a hoax from the beginning. These things in recent
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history are literally always hoaxes. I mean, always. Though in this case, the authorities
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involved refused to come out and say so. Here's the post-millennial. Says Brighton police chief
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David Catholdi said, quote, we have shared the results of our investigation with OLM. They have
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decided to handle the matter internally and not pursue criminal charges. Several students at the
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school shared the offending message to at primetime 585, which is the Twitter handle of Karen
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Iglesias, a local woman who chronicles Section 5 sports and has developed a close relationship
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with many high school athletes. At the beginning of the week, Iglesias posted an image of the racist
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graffiti on Twitter. She said, quote, my inbox was flooded today from OLM high school girls,
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the Twitter account. This note was written in the bathroom and they had issues on how the
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administration dealt with it. They, many athletes, all white, begged me to post it because they were
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so upset at how trivial the school made it. Iglesias wrote on Monday afternoon, Rochester area radio
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talk show host, Bob Lansbury tweeted that four sources, including two in government said the
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culprit was an African-American student. Quote, not true. She's Hispanic, a Hispanic, not considered
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African-American in no way, Iglesias responded on Twitter in a quote tweet replying to Lansbury.
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So you got two people on the ground there, both confirming they're, they're debating whether
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African-American or Hispanic, but confirming it was not a white student. So it's what we've seen
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many times, a cycle from which we cannot escape somebody, often a child commits an obvious hoax.
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Everyone loses their minds. And then, and then we simply move on after it's proven to be a hoax,
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having not learned any lesson at all. Nobody ever retracts anything they said. There's never any kind
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of apology. This was made clear over in Minnesota recently as well. Listen to this story from WCCO in
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Minneapolis. Says quote, the superintendent of New Prague area schools says allegations of a racist
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chant at a girl's basketball game last month could not be substantiated by the school's
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investigations. Robbinsdale area schools released a statement after the February 15th game between
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Cooper high school and New Prague saying quote, according to several accounts, some spectators
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made monkey sounds directed at the Cooper team. Many of the Cooper players are black. He said about
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20 people who were at the game were interviewed and none reported hearing monkey noises. The
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superintendent also said no one reported hearing any noises on the night of the game. And the
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district only learned of the allegation via social media after the fact. So after the game on social
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media, a few accounts claimed they heard quote monkey sounds, whatever that means. And they extrapolated
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from this ambiguous sound that they allegedly heard that white people in the stands were being racist
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towards black players on the court. Now, um, call me crazy, but I would say really that the racism comes
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in when if you hear a sound and it vaguely sounds like a monkey sound, and then you immediately assume
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that it's directed at black people. I would think that that makes you the racist, if anything.
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You know, if it were me and I heard something like that, I heard a sound like, what was that?
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I wouldn't draw that connection immediately. But anyway, the school district investigated,
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interviewed 20 people, discovered that nobody in the room heard these sounds, and also that nobody
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who was present for the event reported anything of the sort. Does that mean we can move forward now,
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relieved that yet another allegedly racist act was a figment of somebody's imagination? No,
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of course not. Because the report continues. In a message to families, new Prague superintendent,
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Tim Dittburner, somehow just a perfect last name for this guy, I don't know why, said,
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while the investigation found the allegations of the racist chant could not be substantiated,
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the findings of this investigation neither negate the lived experiences of Robinsdale Cooper student
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athletes and staff, nor does it absolve the new Prague area schools of its responsibility to create a
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culture that does not tolerate inappropriate behavior. Dittburner reiterated a three-step plan
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to address the school culture so these incidents do not happen in the future.
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That plan includes creating a school climate task force, professional development, and resources
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for staff, and also working with student leaders. Okay, so the racist chant doesn't appear to have
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happened, because of course it didn't happen, because it's just beyond belief that a bunch of parents at
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a girl's basketball game would start making monkey sounds at black players. But even though it didn't
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happen, we still must respect the lived experience of people who think it did happen. What's more,
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the superintendent, Dittburner, felt the need to reiterate that he won't tolerate the kind of
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behavior that didn't actually occur. And he's putting in place policies and plans to address
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this non-existent activity and ensure that the stuff that isn't happening continues to not happen.
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But wait, there's more. The superintendent made reference to incidents, plural, at the school.
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Later in his statement, he said that, well, even if this racist thing didn't happen,
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other racist stuff has happened recently. Well, what racist events was he referring to? Well,
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according to a local NBC affiliate, a few students in the stands during a hockey match,
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also recently, flashed a, quote, white supremacist hand symbol. Now, the symbol was the OK sign,
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which is not actually a racist symbol, and which we know for a fact was only connected to racism
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because of a 4chan hoax a few years ago. I mean, you can go back and look at the posts
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where they came up with this and said, hey, wouldn't it be funny if we pretended that this was a racist
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symbol? So we know that it's all a hoax. And yet, continually, people get in trouble for,
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you know, doing this with their hands. The offenders, in this case, explained afterwards
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that they had no idea that the symbol had any connection to racism at all. No clue.
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But of course, you know, of course they didn't know that because it doesn't have any connection.
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And also, the only way they'd even know that the symbol supposedly is connected to racism
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is if they spend a lot of time on Twitter, because that's the only place you'll see this.
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But most kids their age don't use Twitter as their social media poison of choice.
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So, three fake racist incidents in our schools in the span of a couple weeks.
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Mass hysteria. And when I say hysteria, of course, this is not hysteria from the people
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amplifying all of this, encouraging it. They're not being hysterical. They're being quite intentional
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in their actions. But the plan is to make everybody else hysterical. Because when we are
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in the throes of mass hysteria, we can be manipulated. We're at their mercy. And that,
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so much going on in the world. It's hard to fit it all into five headlines. Not that in the five
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headlines segment, I actually only do five headlines. I mean, sometimes it's like two
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headlines. Sometimes it's 12. So five headlines, you know, we'll change the name of the segment
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to five headlines, give or take. So we'll start here. Zelensky, president of Ukraine, addressed
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Congress today. And he's kind of doing the world tour here all through Zoom, but he's talked
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to, you know, he was, he addressed Canadian lawmakers, I think a few days ago. So he's
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kind of going around and in addressing Congress here in the United States, he evoked 9-11, evoked
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Pearl Harbor, and also the, I had a dream speech. So he's kind of greatest hits here, throwing it all
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in there. And as to the latter, we have that clip. Let's listen to that.
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I have a dream. These words are known to each of you today. I can say, I have a need. I need
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to protect our sky. I need your decision, your help, which means exactly the same, the same
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you feel when you hear the words, I have a dream. Ladies and gentlemen, friends, Ukraine
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is grateful to the United States for its overwhelming support for everything that your government
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and your people have done for us, for weapons and ammunition, for training, for finances,
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for leadership in the free world, which helps us to pressure the aggressor economically. I'm
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grateful to President Biden for his personal involvement, for his sincere commitment to the defense
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of Ukraine and democracy all over the world. I am grateful to you for the resolution which
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recognizes all those who commit crimes against Ukraine, against the Ukrainian people as war
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criminals. However, now it is true in the darkest time for our country, for the whole Europe,
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I call on you to do more. New packages of sanctions are needed constantly every week.
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So he has a dream. He wants us to protect the skies. He wants us to do more. And when he talks
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about protecting the skies, of course, what he means is what he wants most of all is a no-fly
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zone. And that's what he's been asking for talking to the UK, Canada, United States have been asking
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for a no-fly zone. That's what he wants. Now, as I've been saying all along about this and about
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Zelensky, I understand why he would want a no-fly zone. I understand why he would want
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the United States to get involved directly and militarily in this conflict. So I get why he
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wants that. Okay, because he's worried about Ukraine. It's his job to be worried about Ukraine.
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He's not worried about the United States, though. That's not on his list of concerns.
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He's not concerned about how many American deaths would follow if we got into a direct
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conflict with Russia because that's what a no-fly zone would mean. I feel like this is something
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that needs to be explained to people because I'm not sure if everyone really understands. When you
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hear no-fly zone, I think what people imagine, I don't know, but just based on the way they talk
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about it, how casually it's discussed by some people, especially on social media, they appear
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to think that a no-fly zone is like a force field that we can magically put over Ukraine to make sure
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that no planes fly over it and drop any bombs. And by the way, if that was an option, if we had a
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magical force field and we could set it up over Ukraine, then I would say, yeah, let's definitely
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set up the force field. But that's not what it is. And also, what a no-fly zone is, it's also not
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like a gun-free zone where you just post signs all around. You know, that's also not what we're
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doing. We're not just posting signs saying, no flying here, Russia. No, it means shooting down
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Russian planes. Okay. It means active, direct military engagement with Russia. It means getting
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involved in a war with Russia. That's what it means. And that's what he would like to see happen,
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which would result, you know, now that we're, now we're in a war with another major power,
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a nuclear power. We're risking nuclear war, which apparently, according to Pew, a third of Americans
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are okay with. They're not really okay with it. But again, they're in, they're in the throes of
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hysteria. They don't really know what they're saying. If they stop to think for a minute about
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what that would actually mean. Okay. Think about, because this is what you're saying. Now you're
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saying that you'd be okay with nuclear war potentially to protect Ukraine. Okay. Well just
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stop for a second and imagine what it would mean for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on a major
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American city. Okay. Just think about that. You're really okay with that potentially, the risk of
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that for Ukraine, the country you don't know a damn thing about. A country that three weeks ago,
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you never thought about. Up until three weeks ago, you never thought once about it in your life,
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ever. Never thought about Ukraine. And now you're willing to risk the nuclear destruction of American
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cities for its sake. That's not thinking. That's not clear thinking. It's just not.
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Now there are, I'm not saying that this is an overly simple situation. War never is. And there
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are different points of view people can have. The level of involvement of the United States,
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what we do to help, do we help at all? I mean, there's, you know, there's varying degrees,
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different opinions people can have as intelligent people. But to purposefully get involved in a
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military conflict with Russia, which would lead to a world war. I'm not saying it would definitely
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lead to nuclear annihilation, although that's on the table when you get into a world war and
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everybody has nuclear weapons. But it would certainly lead, I think, to a world war.
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You have to think about what that means. And that's what Zelensky wants for his sake and for
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the sake of Ukraine. Fine. I understand why he wants it. But this is why the fawning treatment of
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this guy, I just find it is very disturbing to me. Because when you're fawning over somebody and
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treating them like a god. In fact, I just saw there was a, I forget who it is, but a band,
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a singer just put out, and he was getting a lot of praise for this. And, you know, he was doing the
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rounds on cable news, performing this song that he wrote as a tribute to Zelensky. And the name of the
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song is, Can One Man Save the World? Maybe I'll find that. We'll play it for you tomorrow, play a clip
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of it. And people were loving this song. And it's all about Zelensky and about how he's taken a stand
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to save the world. Talking about him literally like a Christ figure. And the problem with doing
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that is, first of all, it's sacrilegious to talk about anybody that way. But especially in a situation
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like this. Because when you're talking about a guy like he's a Hollywood hero or something more than
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that, an actual savior of humanity, a messianic figure, then you're not thinking rationally.
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And you're not thinking about what he is actually trying to get us involved in and what that would
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mean for us and our families and our children. Also, I'll tell you this right now. Zelensky,
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shoes on the other foot, you know? You think Zelensky is getting involved? He's sending Ukraine,
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Ukrainian troops to defend America? You think he's doing that? Do you think, shoes on the other foot,
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do you think that Zelensky would risk thousands of Ukrainian lives for the sake of us? You think
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he'd do that? We all know he wouldn't. We all know he wouldn't. Yet another one of our great
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allies who we all know would never do this for us, ever. And yet we think we're obligated to do it
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for them. It's crazy to me. All right. This is from the Daily Wire. It says, nearly two-thirds of
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Americans support the key features of Florida's HB 1557 parental rights and education proposal.
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So we've got one terrible thing that a third of Americans supposedly support, but then we've got
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two-thirds who support something good. This is according to a new poll released on Monday by
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the Daily Wire. The national poll of U.S. adults was conducted over the weekend by market research
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technology platform Lucid on behalf of the Daily Wire. The survey is a thousand-person sample,
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was 37% Democrat, 32% Republican, 31% Independent. Unlike other surveys that have relied on a summary
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of the legislation written by pollsters, the Daily Wire's researchers presented the respondents
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in its study with the actual language from the Florida's bill, and it's the most criticized
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passage, and then asked them to react to it. Who would have thought? What do you know? When you
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actually tell people what's in the bill itself and you don't say, yeah, if you ask people,
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should there be a bill where if you say the word gay, you're sent to Gitmo? What do you know?
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If you ask people that, most of them are going to say, no, no, no, I don't think I support that bill.
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Seems a little bit, seems a little overboard. You tell them what the bill actually says and how
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limited it is, far too limited in my opinion. We're not going to teach sexuality, sexual orientation,
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gender identity to kids in grades six through three, or K through three. You tell them that and most
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Americans support it. More than six in 10 Americans, 64%, support the Florida bill's ban on classroom
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instructions on sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K through three.
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21% said they opposed the bill. The Florida measure is backed by 69% of Republicans, 62% of Democrats,
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and 57% of independents. There was also no notable differences among whites, blacks, and Latinos.
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They're all in the 60% range. Actually, black respondents had the highest in favor of the bill,
00:24:48.080
66%, 63% for white people, Latinos, 62%. And that's what happens when you actually tell them what
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the bill says. Most Americans, when you, when you, when you ask them, do you think that seven-year-olds
00:25:04.540
should be taught about transgenderism in school? Most Americans say no. Now that's the glass half full.
00:25:12.640
That's the, you know, that's the, the optimistic way of reading this. That's the majority of Americans
00:25:17.140
are opposed to this. If you want to look at it from the more pessimistic end, then you, you might say
00:25:23.500
only 62% are opposed to teaching that kind of stuff to, to seven-year-olds. That's the other way you
00:25:33.060
might look at this, that, you know, 62% is still, or 64% rather, 64%, that's good. It's, it's a majority.
00:25:40.040
And so you make the point. Majority of Americans are actually in favor of this bill that the left
00:25:46.740
is treating like, um, like it's like Armageddon. And they're in favor of it when you tell them the
00:25:53.220
actual language. But the, the negative side of that, which, you know, I, I like to always take a
00:26:01.060
gander at the negative side of the coin as well, because I like to be a realist. Um, and that tells
00:26:07.300
you that, okay, 64% say we shouldn't teach transgenderism to seven-year-olds. You know,
00:26:12.800
that leaves pretty sizable number of Americans who, um, are, do not have that opinion or either
00:26:19.120
in favor of teaching it or don't care either way, which to me is somehow the most disturbing.
00:26:27.760
If you have no opinion, you can't be bothered to care.
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And the thing is, if you were to ask the same exact question 10 years ago, you know,
00:26:38.420
you put this bill on the table 10 years ago, uh, I think the first reaction from everybody would be,
00:26:44.620
well, why would you need this? I mean, no, no one would ever, we don't need this bill. No one would
00:26:49.220
ever even conceive of teaching this stuff to little kids. But almost everyone would agree that yes,
00:26:57.280
we should not be teaching it. It would, but it would seem like a conversation that doesn't need
00:27:01.600
to be had in the first place. Now you have a certain preponderance of Americans who are
00:27:07.060
actually actively in favor of teaching this stuff to kids. It shows you the kind of soul rot and the
00:27:14.460
mental rot that afflicts our country. Speaking of soul rot and mental rot, the Surgeon General,
00:27:20.980
Dr. Vivek Murthy has chimed in on the Florida bill. And this is what he says.
00:27:26.700
Florida's recent law restricting discussions about gender identity in school has understandably
00:27:30.920
raised serious concern. The law concerns me too. Let me explain why. Learning that people are
00:27:36.820
different and that not all families look the same. These are important lessons that start early in
00:27:41.340
life, including in school. They help create a society based on understanding and respect.
00:27:46.260
They help children know they belong, even if they're different. I grew up in Florida and I'm a proud
00:27:51.100
graduate of the public school system. As a kid who often felt I didn't belong, it helped tremendously
00:27:55.580
when teachers openly discussed our different backgrounds. This built understanding and
00:27:59.800
reduced shame. LGBTQ youth also deserve such proactive support, preventing or criminalizing
00:28:06.320
efforts to foster such understanding hurts kids and families. It shuts down dialogue instead of
00:28:11.840
nurturing healthy conversation. And it sends a signal to LGBTQ youth that they're not fully accepted.
00:28:17.220
So he's finding a more wordy way to do it. And he's being, um, a little bit more subtle,
00:28:22.620
but he's still hammering on this for this propaganda, this false narrative that this is a bill that
00:28:32.440
forbids people from saying the word gay. He doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't mention the don't say gay bill.
00:28:37.500
Um, but this is what he's basically claiming that the bill would somehow prevent classrooms and
00:28:47.960
students and teachers from acknowledging the existence of various different kinds of people.
00:28:53.340
That's not what the bill does. And also, by the way, kids in a modern classroom,
00:28:59.660
you don't need to have lessons teaching them that there are different, but what was he saying?
00:29:07.140
Learning that, that people are different and not all families look the same.
00:29:11.540
You actually, at no point even need to sit kids down and tell them that because they can see it for
00:29:17.180
themselves. They can look around them in a modern public school classroom, especially in a place like
00:29:23.840
Florida, and they can look around and see that, oh yeah, people all look different.
00:29:29.660
You don't need to talk about it at all. They can see that. That's the world they live in.
00:29:33.380
Talk about lived experience. That is their, that is their lived experience.
00:29:38.200
So you don't need to talk about it. It's not a discussion that needs to be had,
00:29:41.500
but that's also not what the bill does. It's got nothing to do with that.
00:29:48.600
Despite that, um, that piece of propaganda, that ridiculous commercial that we played last week,
00:29:59.660
mommies mentions both of her mommies in class, an alarm will sound and the teacher will be
00:30:04.620
immediately fired. Uh, it's actually not what the bill does. All it does is it says that we're not
00:30:09.280
going to have lesson plans about gender identity and sexuality. Okay. You're not going to talk to a
00:30:16.100
seven-year-old about that. All right. Let's, um, move to this from the wall street journal. A pair of
00:30:23.900
California lawmakers introduced a bill that aims to hold technology companies liable for social media
00:30:28.700
addictions that may affect children. The bill would let parents and guardians sue platforms that
00:30:33.400
they believe addicted children in their care, um, through advertising push notifications and design
00:30:39.960
features that promote compulsive behavior, particularly the continual consumption of harmful
00:30:44.080
content on issues such as eating disorders and suicide. It would hold companies accountable
00:30:48.900
regardless of whether they deliberately design their products to be addictive. The bill called
00:30:53.120
the social media platform duty to, to children act was introduced Tuesday by state assembly members,
00:30:59.460
Jordan Cunningham and Buffy Wicks. One's Democrat, one's Republican. Um, the bills were written to
00:31:05.540
improve children's experiences online from two different angles. Uh, so that's what this is about. It's
00:31:12.720
about improving their experiences and holding these tech companies responsible for making kids
00:31:18.720
addicted to the content. I think it tells you something that this is supposed to be a bill protecting
00:31:26.160
children and protecting them when they're online. And if you want to do that, then the very first thing that
00:31:32.440
you should be doing is everything possible to restrict pornographic content. Because the worst thing that's
00:31:42.020
happening to kids online is that ages as young as seven or eight or even younger, they're being exposed to
00:31:48.260
hardcore pornography. They're being exposed to the kinds of sexual images that most people through
00:31:54.360
history never in their lives would have ever been exposed to even as adults. And now we've got eight
00:31:59.520
year olds whose minds are marinating in this kind of filth and who, um, go through their formative years
00:32:08.420
marinating in it and suffer the consequences for a lifetime. So if you really want to protect kids,
00:32:15.100
that should be the first thing your bill accomplishes. As far as I can tell with this bill, it doesn't even
00:32:19.880
touch on that. Instead, they're concerned with push notifications. That's kind of the fact that it makes
00:32:26.980
kids addicted. Now I'm all about holding the big tech companies responsible. I'm certainly all about
00:32:34.100
protecting kids. Um, and that's why I say when it comes to the kind of content that these companies allow to
00:32:44.540
proliferate on their platforms, the fact that there, there's, there are no barriers put in place at
00:32:50.900
all. Kid can go online and within two seconds, he can access anything. Um, that to me is crazy and
00:32:59.660
anything done to address that issue is a, is a positive step. But also we have to acknowledge
00:33:07.020
that if your kid is addicted to the internet, if he's addicted to social media, yeah, it's true that
00:33:16.300
social media companies, they want that they're doing everything they can to, to make it, to, to form this
00:33:22.940
into a compulsion. And that's not good. That's, that's evil in fact. But also if you're, if your child, if
00:33:32.520
your nine-year-old has a compulsive need to use social media, that's primarily your own fault.
00:33:41.540
So we, we have to always turn the mirror around so the parents can see themselves.
00:33:47.640
That's on you. As I've said a million times, especially younger kids, your ability to control,
00:33:56.680
you, you have a profound ability to control their access to the internet, how much time they spend on
00:34:03.400
it. Now you might not be able to completely control it, especially if they're going to school and
00:34:09.780
they've got friends who have phones and that kind of thing. So you can't completely control it, but
00:34:14.500
whether or not your own child has a phone, that's a big one. Your nine-year-old's not going out and
00:34:19.040
buying his own phone. If he has a phone, it's because you bought it for him. Just don't buy it.
00:34:24.400
That one decision, don't buy the phone for him. Or if you do buy the phone, don't buy a phone that
00:34:30.260
has internet capacity at all. Buy a dumb phone, buy a phone that only makes, it can only call two
00:34:35.160
people. It can call, you know, call his parents. It can call 911. Give him that phone. Then you've
00:34:40.820
got, then you could keep track of him. Uh, any safety concerns are taken care of. No problem. You can do
00:34:47.340
that. You give him a phone that has access to the entire, entire, you know, wild west of the internet,
00:34:54.760
then that's on you. And his internet addiction and his compulsion, which he will develop. And so
00:35:02.740
many kids have developed. I mean, almost every kid you see now has a compulsive need, uh, to look at
00:35:10.800
their phone every 10 seconds, but that's, that's a decision that you made as a parent, I think.
00:35:15.540
All right. So here's another, uh, I wanted to play this for you. Cause this is, this was a lot of fun
00:35:20.840
as well. You know, of course, Georgia tech two nights ago, um, speaking out about the, the male
00:35:28.780
invasion of sports. And as we saw, you know, protesters came out and, uh, they were very upset,
00:35:35.040
but, but many of them couldn't actually explain why they were there, what they were upset about.
00:35:40.340
I think this kind of ties into the whole mass hysteria theme of this show. So campus reform,
00:35:44.720
they were also on the scene and here's another fun interview with, uh, with a protester. He's got,
00:35:49.160
he's, you know, he's come out, he's got all the protesters behind him. They've got the trans flag,
00:35:52.180
they got all the signs. And, um, can he explain why he's there and what he's so upset about? Let's see.
00:35:58.460
Tell us why you're out here today. I'm standing for trans rights.
00:36:01.540
Do you think there's a biological difference between men and women?
00:36:15.780
I was standing for lesbian, gay, um, LGBT, bisexual, and trans community.
00:36:25.780
Why are you guys out here yelling instead of maybe going inside? I mean, there's a Q&A,
00:36:29.420
you guys have the opportunity to go in at Moscow. It's a question. Don't you think that would be
00:36:32.840
more productive? When it comes to Republicans, Republicans are more argumentative. More
00:36:43.460
Don't you think this might be my way or the highway here?
00:36:47.300
F*** these fascists! F*** these fascists! F*** these fascists!
00:36:51.540
You couldn't have scripted that any better. That was great. He, he, they were, they were literally
00:36:58.040
chanting in the background. Hey, hey, ho, ho. Uh, what was it? Matt Walsh has to go, or this fascist
00:37:03.620
has to go, whatever it was. They're, they're, that's what they're chanting in the background.
00:37:07.420
While the guy in the front claims that Republicans are the ones who are the, it's my way or the highway.
00:37:13.780
Anyway, um, he couldn't, he couldn't have scripted that any better. That was great.
00:37:18.960
But of course, he, you know, he couldn't really explain why he was there. I'm here for trans rights.
00:37:24.420
Are men and women different biologically? Oh, what do you mean biologically? I'm not even sure.
00:37:28.180
I'm a college student. I don't know what the word biologically means.
00:37:32.440
So they didn't, they didn't know why they were there. But this is, again, for them, it's, it's a,
00:37:37.620
it's hysteria. They're not, they're not, they, they, they don't really know why they're there,
00:37:41.960
what they're doing. But, um, pulling the strings, the people who are encouraging this,
00:37:48.100
you know, there's that, that's a very intentional choice.
00:37:51.400
All right. I want to play one other thing for you quickly. Herschel Walker is running for,
00:37:55.800
for Senate and, um, he was trending online yesterday. And one thing, you know, general rule of thumb,
00:38:03.020
if you're a Republican candidate for office and you're trending online, it's, it's never for
00:38:09.000
anything good. Right. So he was, uh, he was trending because he was recently at, it looks
00:38:13.580
like a church and he was giving his views on things. He started to riff on evolution and is
00:38:18.680
now being mocked ruthlessly for what he said about it. Let's listen. So when the light was created
00:38:26.240
here, that means somebody up there had to say, let there be light that the earth started. And then he
00:38:31.460
had to put someone there on earth. Cause remember, Adam was there. Remember Adam came there. Then
00:38:36.480
Eve came. So somebody had to start it out. So that means there had to be a God. Cause it didn't just
00:38:42.620
some bomb blew up and it started out. And then I tell you something else I heard. And I think about
00:38:46.700
this because at one time science said man came from apes. Did it not? That's when you go to the science.
00:38:55.100
Every time I read or hear that, I think to myself, you just didn't read the same Bible I did.
00:38:59.180
Well, what this was interesting though, if that is true, why are there still apes?
00:39:05.500
Think about it. You know, now you're getting too smart for it. No, no, no, no. Think about this.
00:39:09.240
We have an evolution that is, we've gotten so intelligent that if that is true, why are there
00:39:14.480
still apes? Yeah. No, I see. I, I struggle with this and I get kind of frustrated because I mean,
00:39:20.120
I appreciate someone running for office, sharing their faith. I think it's a wonderful thing.
00:39:24.080
Um, but I don't like it when Christians go out and say things that reinforce the stereotype,
00:39:32.260
which says that Christianity is not compatible with science and that one must choose science or
00:39:37.140
Christianity. And the reason I don't like it, it's not because I care when people are making fun of
00:39:41.660
us. Um, the reason that I care is because it's, it's not true. First of all, it's just not true
00:39:47.840
that Christianity and science aren't compatible or that Christians in general are ignorant of science.
00:39:52.640
It's not true at all. And very often the truth goes the other way around where, where, what we find
00:39:58.400
is that people in the secular leftist religion are truly the anti-science ones who believe that men
00:40:03.840
could get pregnant and so on and so forth. So that's the truth. And I care about people knowing
00:40:07.420
the truth, but also this is a, this is a line, a false narrative that I think is persuasive to people
00:40:16.140
who are not religious, but are sort of considering it. And the people who could be reached, who could be
00:40:20.900
saved? Uh, I think when they're told that, well, you know, that Christianity, that's anti-science and
00:40:28.780
it's, you, you gotta, I think for many people in that camp, that, that becomes a persuasive argument
00:40:33.900
for them. And then, uh, people that could be reached ultimately are not because of that.
00:40:39.800
And that's why scientific ignorance when it's displayed in a Christian context can be harmful,
00:40:48.280
I think. And also another thing that makes it frustrating is that it's such an unforced error.
00:40:52.580
There's just no reason to do it. So here's what I'm saying. Um, if you, if you don't, if you don't
00:40:58.840
know much about evolution, that's fine. That's okay. No big deal. Um, you're running for office.
00:41:06.180
Doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter how you feel about evolution. Doesn't, you know,
00:41:09.280
doesn't, doesn't make a difference. And so just don't, don't talk about it. Don't go on stage
00:41:12.760
talking about it. The problem here for Herschel Walker is that he doesn't understand the theory.
00:41:17.740
Um, the theory does not say that humans came from apes. That's not the theory. That's, that's just
00:41:23.080
not it. Um, the theory states that apes and humans have a common ancestor. Okay. And that's not
00:41:30.100
semantics that we're not splitting hairs here. It's just a very different sort of thing. So in other
00:41:36.220
words, the point is that it's not that apes are our great grandparents. It's that in this analogy,
00:41:41.020
there are our cousins, um, according to the theory of evolution. Now think what you want
00:41:45.720
about it, say what you want about it, but that is the theory common descent as they call
00:41:50.900
it. So if you want to try to debunk it or whatever, or express your disagreement, that's
00:41:55.800
what you're disagreeing with. And so you say that and it just opens up the floodgates and
00:42:01.280
it's again, it's a, it's an unforced error. There's no reason to do that. Um, but if you,
00:42:06.480
if you do want to go down, I mean, I would say if you're running for office as a Christian,
00:42:09.860
there's really no reason to go down this path at all, but if you're going to do it,
00:42:13.560
at least know what it is first so that you don't open yourself up to this.
00:42:20.060
All right. One other thing quickly, this was interesting. Apparently an asteroid hit earth
00:42:23.660
a few days ago. Um, sadly it didn't do much damage burned up in the, in the atmosphere.
00:42:27.660
Once again, we were so close to all of our problems being solved, but yet so far, the bigger
00:42:32.520
issue is the headline from the daily mail and the headline says asteroid half the size of
00:42:37.500
a giraffe strikes earth off the coast of Iceland. Now I know the media sometimes struggles to
00:42:44.300
describe things like asteroids on a scale that will make sense to the average viewer.
00:42:49.000
And so that's why they come up with this, but I'm not sure that you're helping matters by using
00:42:54.200
giraffes as a measuring unit, not even a whole giraffe. Like if you said, Oh, it's an asteroid,
00:43:00.740
the size of a giraffe. It's like, okay, well that I can conceive of that a little bit,
00:43:04.380
but now I'm sort of imagining an asteroid in the shape of a giraffe. Uh, but okay.
00:43:09.320
The size of a giraffe fine, but half giraffes, that's the measuring unit is by half, which half
00:43:17.480
of the giraffe are we talking about? How are we splitting it? We splitting it down the middle
00:43:21.060
and is it a male or a female giraffe? Cause they're different sizes. So, so many questions
00:43:27.440
are raised. And also how do you convert this unit of measurement into a, let's say otters?
00:43:32.540
I think it's 57. So an asteroid, the size of 57 otters hit the earth, or maybe we can say an
00:43:38.040
asteroid, the size of 114 half sized otters hit the earth. I guess we'd have a lot of fun with this
00:43:45.080
measuring skill. Let's get now to the comment section.
00:43:47.340
Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.
00:44:00.200
All right, dailywire.com slash sweet baby comments. Let's check clip number eight.
00:44:05.380
Hey man, out here just returning my cart. Um, unfortunately I just learned
00:44:12.420
that my own father is a member of the cult that leaves their carts out in the street. As he just
00:44:20.120
told me to leave mine by the side of the car. Naturally, of course, I instantly disowned him.
00:44:27.380
Um, and now I will be taking you, adopting you as my, uh, sweet new daddy. So sweet daddy Walsh,
00:44:35.900
you have a new son, sweet little John boy. So sweet baby gang for your life. And, uh, we'll see you at home.
00:44:42.420
Is your dad in the car with you when you're saying all of this? Well, but look, you, you did the right
00:44:49.460
thing. And I, I appreciate that. My son, you, uh, you saw something and you said something. That's
00:44:55.780
what, that's what we need. And it doesn't matter. Familial units and bonds, I think are very important
00:45:02.900
to me. I'm a, you know, I'm a big advocate of the family and I think fathers are very important,
00:45:07.500
but there are limits and those bonds can be dissolved. I think over something like a shopping
00:45:13.560
card. It's serious enough for that. Rob Green says, wow, Matt, those protesters really found
00:45:18.260
your kryptonite that you can't swim. How will you possibly recover? I mean, it would be my kryptonite
00:45:23.180
if they threw me into the ocean or something. So in a literal sense, but I still don't know what it
00:45:26.500
had to do with what we were talking about. Uh, Jonathan Richter says, Matt, society needs more men.
00:45:32.140
Also Matt, doggy paddles. Well, look, I admit it's, it's hard to look manly when you're doggy
00:45:41.780
paddling, but the only reason I would ever be in that position in the first place is if I'm,
00:45:46.280
is if I did get thrown out into the ocean or something like that and I'm drowning so that
00:45:49.900
I'm probably not gonna be worried too much about style points. I just, yeah, I never really,
00:45:53.220
I never learned the proper form for swimming, but I, because it's just, it's not something that ever
00:45:57.080
comes up in my life. You know, when, when I see a body of water, rarely do I think that I want to
00:46:03.220
be inside it. Like I like to go over top it in a kayak or a boat or something so I can go fishing.
00:46:09.460
That's fun. But I rarely have the experience of, I see a big lake. It's like, I want to be in the
00:46:14.820
water. I just, I don't, I don't have that instinct. Um, let's see. Evie says, Matt, if you can manage
00:46:26.240
without a microwave in your home, then you should see if you can manage without a television.
00:46:30.600
Then you don't have to put so much effort into censoring what your kids are watching.
00:46:34.760
Uh, Hey, I got nothing but respect for people that go without televisions in the home.
00:46:40.320
I don't, for me though, see a phone, phone and television, those are two different things
00:46:45.420
when it comes to with kids. Um, I think there's just no circumstance as I've said, where you give
00:46:51.320
your say nine-year-old a phone. Um, and also because once you give them the phone with internet
00:46:59.080
access, one of the big problems is that it's just not going to be possible for you to monitor all
00:47:03.340
the times when they're using it. You're just not going to be able to do that. TV is very different.
00:47:07.620
So our policy with a TV, we have one TV in the house. So that is our, that's our one. That's the,
00:47:13.580
that's the, the one rejection of modern society when it comes to the TV for us is that we only have one,
00:47:18.360
which even that that's how bad it's gotten that that seems shocking to people. Most people have,
00:47:22.560
I think, in fact, the house that we live in right now, when we moved in,
00:47:25.740
they had a TV in literally every room of the house. I mean, the kitchen, the bathroom everywhere.
00:47:33.500
So I guess they would put a show on and then so, and then they could just move from room to room
00:47:39.080
and watch the show and never miss a second of any show. Um, that that's crazy to me. So we have one TV
00:47:47.800
it's in a public area of the house. You know, we don't do TVs in bedrooms. We certainly would never
00:47:53.700
do TV in a kid's bedroom, asking for problems there. One TV public area. And, um, and we can
00:48:00.720
easily control when they watch the TV, what they watch. Not a lot of effort actually has to go into
00:48:07.340
it. It's, it's pretty, it's pretty low effort thing with kids. This is when you're allowed to
00:48:11.080
watch TV. No, you're not allowed to watch that. You are allowed to watch that pretty low effort.
00:48:16.280
Jesse says, Matt, the problem with your NBA versus WNBA player criticism analogy regarding Westbrook
00:48:22.200
is that in order for taunting to occur, there must first be fans to watch the game. Well,
00:48:27.840
I guess that is the one thing that protects the WNBA from taunting. You're right. I mean,
00:48:31.440
there's no fans in the stands, although really that makes the taunting even worse in the WNBA,
00:48:37.680
because if there are fans in the stands, it's only going to be family members. And so if you're
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The second worst thing the government does are the things that Democrats do by themselves. The third
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worst are the things Republicans do by themselves, but the worst of all are the things that the two
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sides agree to do together, the bipartisan things. So one example, which we may tragically see again
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in the near future, are all of the disastrous military conflicts we've been involved in over
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recent decades. Those were all bipartisan things. Here's another example, perhaps slightly less serious,
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but maybe not. And it happened yesterday when the Senate passed by unanimous consent,
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the so-called Sunshine Protection Act. I haven't heard of a bill this misleadingly named since
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the, you know, don't say gay bill, even though that wasn't really the name of the bill. The Sunshine
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Protection Act. This bill, greeted with much applause and fanfare by many in the public, would make
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daylight savings time permanent. Now, that's not to say that it would abolish daylight savings. No,
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it would keep us stuck in daylight savings eternally. The hour that we lost when we jumped ahead a few
00:53:18.660
days ago will never be recovered. It's gone forever. It's banished to purgatory, never to be seen again.
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Now, the idea behind this proposal is, for one thing, to end the silly ritual where we switch our clocks
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back and forth arbitrarily. That's the part that most everybody can agree with, and I agree with. You know,
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we've been switching our clocks back and forth for decades. Nobody knew why. Nobody wanted to do it.
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Yet the daylight savings tradition continued, lingering on, hanging there uselessly like
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some kind of vestigial limb, and it was time to end it. That's good. But the question is whether we
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end the tradition by making daylight savings permanent or by reverting back to standard time
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and just leaving the clocks there. Out of these two options, Congress, of course, has chosen the worst
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one, electing to turn daylight savings into a chronic condition. Two of the senators behind this ploy,
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Marco Rubio and Edward Markey, wrote an op-ed for CNN congratulating themselves and extolling the
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brilliance of their plan. They wrote, quote, we can't always get bipartisan agreement in Congress
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these days, but here's one thing we can agree on. We could all use a bit more sunshine. That's why
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we're working together in the U.S. Senate to make sure we end the practice of spring forward and fall
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back by making daylight savings time permanent. Yes, they say the Sunshine Protection Act will literally
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protect the sunshine by giving us more of it. Now, I find it necessary to point out that no matter what
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the clocks say, there will be exactly the same amount of sunshine regardless. Now, Congress may
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imagine itself to be powerful enough to literally control the sun itself, but it's not. We're not
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giving ourselves more sunshine this way. We're not giving ourselves anything. We're merely agreeing by
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legislative decree to permanently pretend that it's an hour later than it really is. But why?
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Why are we doing this? Where did this come from? What the hell's going on? Well, let's go through a
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brief history of this madness. And I think most of what I'm about to say is basically true, but I
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didn't care enough to look it up. So we'll just, we'll go with it. Daylight savings was first proposed
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by, I believe, Benjamin Franklin as a joke 250 years ago. He told it to his buddies at a bar and
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everybody laughed and said, ah, there's old Benny again with his wild schemes. And for the next 100
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years, people continued to laugh at the joke. And then in the 1890s, a weirdo bug collector named
00:55:33.660
George something or other decided that he wanted more time after work to stare at crickets and
00:55:38.420
beetles. This, this megalomaniac actually wanted to shift time itself just to accommodate his pointless
00:55:45.800
hobby. One hobby that I enjoy is night fishing. Okay. I like to go out fishing at night, but you don't
00:55:52.960
see me suggesting that we blow up the sun so I can do it more often. That's essentially what George
00:55:58.460
wanted to do. Slightly less drastic, but still a significant change. Now, fast forward to 1918 when
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daylight savings time was officially instated here in the USA. Our lawmakers at the time, they didn't
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say they were doing this so that a guy named George could look at beetles. Instead, they said that we
00:56:13.100
were doing it for a few reasons, most importantly, to save energy. Now, how could changing the numbers on a
00:56:19.200
clock, save energy? How could it achieve anything at all? Who knows? But we did it. And since then,
00:56:25.080
studies have proven that this policy, like almost all government policies you can name, utterly failed
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to achieve whatever it was supposed to achieve. It didn't save energy. It didn't force the sun to give
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us more daylight. It didn't usher in an era of utopia. It didn't do anything except annoy everybody.
00:56:41.200
And now after a hundred years of this failed government policy, the government's decided to do what
00:56:47.000
it always does when a policy fails, which is make it permanent. If it didn't work, do it more. That's
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the motto of our elected leaders. But many people in the public are celebrating this policy. As I
00:56:58.020
mentioned, they insist that this will now give us more sunlight during waking hours. Of course, what
00:57:02.940
they apparently don't realize is that there's another way to have more sunlight during waking
00:57:06.820
hours. Wake up earlier. But no, people don't want to wake up earlier. They don't want to adjust
00:57:12.680
their schedules. Instead, they prefer to manipulate time itself or try to manipulate. I mean, you could
00:57:18.280
either adjust your schedule or adjust time itself. Which one should we do? Oh, I know. We'll adjust
00:57:25.600
time. This is how lazy we've become as a society. Nevermind the fact that your extra hour of daylight
00:57:32.340
after work now means that school children are going to be walking to the bus stop in the pitch black
00:57:37.500
for several months out of the year. Maybe some safety hazards there. You think that'd be enough
00:57:42.740
reason not to do this? But who cares about safety if it means that you can have more sunlight after
00:57:47.700
work? Sunlight that you're going to squander anyway by just sitting on your couch and watching
00:57:51.940
Netflix. I like all these people pretending that I want more sunlight when I get home from work so I
00:57:55.520
can go for a jog. You're not jogging. You're going to sit on your couch on your phone is what you're
00:58:00.900
going to do. Stop pretending otherwise. What we should be doing, it's obvious, is abolish daylight
00:58:08.400
savings entirely and revert back to standard time. Now, standard time is a human construct in the
00:58:14.160
sense that any method of measuring time will inevitably be a human construct, but it was far
00:58:18.400
less arbitrary. Standard time was more closely aligned with the body's circadian rhythm and with
00:58:24.360
the rising and setting of the sun. That's why standard time was devised. That's where it comes from.
00:58:29.920
In fact, it's more important for your body and your mind to have sunlight in the morning than at
00:58:36.300
night. It's not natural to have sunlight that late at night. Your body wants to wake up with the sun.
00:58:44.820
That's how we're designed. Daylight savings is unnatural. It's an attack on nature and creation itself.
00:58:52.740
We will have to answer for this come judgment day. One other point, not to make too much of this.
00:58:57.540
Too late, I guess. But there's another serious problem. As I was discussing this on Twitter
00:59:03.260
yesterday, many people insisted that, well, we can and should make daylight savings permanent because
00:59:08.780
time is an illusion. It's a construct and we can do with it whatever we please. This, of course,
00:59:14.740
is completely false. Our method of measuring and keeping time is a construct, but time itself is
00:59:19.500
real. Time is simply the progression of reality from one moment to the next. Time ensures that everything
00:59:24.760
won't happen all at once. Time is what keeps you from getting eaten by a T-Rex. Time is the movement
00:59:29.740
and flow of existence. Yet these claims from the anti-time agitators only show how Congress,
00:59:36.500
by making daylight savings permanent, has undermined faith and confidence in the reality of time itself.
00:59:42.760
The United States Senate has caused many people to question the very meaning and existence of time.
00:59:47.640
They've created a mass existential crisis, one which threatens the foundations of human society.
00:59:53.940
Recklessly, the Senate passed this bill without even grappling with these questions and implications,
00:59:58.720
without even first establishing what time is, where it comes from, or if it exists at all.
01:00:04.620
Are the past and future but illusions? Are we trapped forever in an eternal now? Legislation raises
01:00:12.220
these questions, doesn't answer them. And now we're lost. Mass anarchy, madness, and despair will be
01:00:18.960
the result. So not much of a change on second thought, I guess. Even so, for all these reasons,
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I hereby declare that as far as I'm concerned, daylight savings is canceled. And we'll leave it
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