Ep. 911 - The Ridiculous Lia Thomas Charade Reaches Its Inevitable Conclusion
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Last night, we were finally treated to the grotesque spectacle of the man, Leah Thomas, competing against the women in the NCAA Championships, which he won handily. Also, we ll talk about that, also, as the New York Times finally confirms that the Hunter Biden laptop story was true, plus, Nancy Pelosi is the latest liberal to try to defeat Putin with a poem, and a few Republicans vote against a bill leveling more sanctions on Russia. And in our daily cancellation, a film critic is accused of racism for failing to enjoy a cartoon about an Asian girl. Did he bow to the mob and apologize?
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, last night we were finally treated to the grotesque spectacle of the
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man, Leah Thomas, competing against the women in the NCAA championships, which he won handily,
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of course. Also, we'll talk about that. Also, misinformation transforms into information once
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again as the New York Times finally confirms that the Hunter Biden laptop story was true,
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of course. Plus, Nancy Pelosi is the latest liberal to try to defeat Putin with a poem.
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We'll see if she succeeded. And a few Republicans vote against a bill leveling more sanctions on
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Russia. Is it because they're stooges of Putin, or might there be another reason? And in our
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daily cancellation, a film critic is accused of racism for failing to enjoy a cartoon about an
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Asian girl. Did he bow to the mob and apologize? I think you already know, but we'll find out.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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The Leah Thomas story has reached its conclusion, for now anyway. In the not-too-distant future,
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we'll start hearing, I'm sure, about Leah Thomas, the Olympian, crushing his female competitors on
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the global stage. But as for his college career, it concluded at the NCAA Women's Swipping Championship
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last night. Thomas competed in the 500-yard freestyle race. We can't really use the word
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compete or race. It was not a sporting event so much as a masquerade, a minstrel show. Thomas was
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wearing his woman face, ever a bit as degrading and appropriative as blackface. Much like a
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professional wrestling match, the conclusion of this fake contest was decided ahead of time,
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just a matter of inaugurating the predetermined winner. And that happened four minutes and 33
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seconds later when Thomas finished in a comfortable first place, setting a program record in the
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process. Now, I wish I could say that the room fell quiet or that booze rained down upon Thomas when
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he completed the process of stealing the gold medal. That's what should have happened, but that's not
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what happened. The crowd cheered while the announcers, of course, made sure to, as always, respect his
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She's having a great race here, and she's going to get second. That will give her a lot of confidence.
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Leah Thomas pulling away over the final 150 meters. Had to work for it. She was pushed over the first
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350 meters. Thomas wins the NCAA championship, ended up very close for second, with Wyatt taking it ahead
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There's your top two. Thomas on the right. Wyatt scoring an important 17 points for Virginia.
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Yeah, there's some talk online, some of these videos circulating, and people are comforting
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themselves by saying, well, listen to the crowd. They're all silent and not cheering for Thomas.
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Also, there's some video of the ceremony, the medal ceremony, where they're standing on the podium,
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and that's the claim anyway, is that, well, you can really notice how the crowd is more quiet for
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Thomas. Maybe I'm deaf or something, but that's not what I hear. All these videos, it seems to me,
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yeah, you can hear a very small smattering of boos, maybe two or three people, but for the most part,
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it seems to me that the crowd is clapping along. By the way, Emma Wyant, as you heard there,
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was second place, so she's really first place. The actual winner of the match was Emma Wyant,
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University of Virginia, and she's the winner, you know, in reality. But in this fake world here,
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Leah Thomas is the winner. And afterwards, ESPN interviewed the pseudo-winner, Thomas,
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the interview is only interesting because the person conducting it is an actual woman.
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If the full absurdity of this situation hadn't yet sunken in for you, the contrast of Thomas in his
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one-piece bathing suit standing next to an actual female should really do the trick. Watch.
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Leah, how did that performance measure up to your expectations coming into this meet tonight?
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I didn't have a whole lot of expectations for this meet. I was just happy to be here trying to race
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and compete as best as I could. You've undoubtedly been under the spotlight over the past few months.
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How have you been dealing with that and reasoning with everything? I try to ignore it as much as I
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can. I try to focus on my swimming, what I need to do to get ready for my races, and just try to block
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out everything else. What did that race mean to you? It means the world to be here, be with two of my
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best friends and teammates, and be able to compete. Thank you for stopping by. Thank you so much.
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Now, not that it makes a difference, really, but you can't help but see a certain added arrogance in
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the fact that Thomas isn't even making any effort at all to sound or appear womanly. He's simply just
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a man who looks and sounds exactly like a man standing there accepted as a woman because he
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declared himself to be so. No additional steps required. Yeah, I think I've made the comparison
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before. It really reminds me of that scene in The Office when Michael Scott realizes he doesn't have
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any money, and he's told that he needs to declare bankruptcy. And so he just walks outside of his office
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and goes, I declare bankruptcy. And of course, they have to explain to him, that's not, you can't just
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say it. That's not how it works. And that's sort of how it works for Leah Thomas. He's just, I declare
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I'm a woman. Well, okay, you're a woman then. Now, I hesitate to make that point only because I don't
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want to give the impression that the added steps of hormone surgery, whatever, actually bring a man
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any closer to being a woman. They don't. But even so, the lack of effort here just underscores the
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absurdity. Meanwhile, outside, a group of protesters were on the scene to
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represent sanity and common sense and basic moral decency. One of them was a female swimmer
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with a say no to males competing against females sticker on her sweater. And she was not afraid
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to call this what it is. There were a few others as well that were interviewed. So credit where
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it's due. There have not been nearly enough female athletes speaking out against this, but here were
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two female athletes who would. And this is someone with the courage to speak out and put her name
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and face on it as well. All the more reason to listen to what she has to say. Here it is.
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You're a Virginia Tech swimmer. What did you think about Leah Thomas competing today as a
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swimmer in this competition? What are you feeling? What are other athletes feeling?
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It's a common conception that we are all very disappointed and frustrated with someone who
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has capabilities more than us women have to be able to compete at this level and take
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opportunities away from other women. Like I have a teammate who did not make finals today because she
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was just bumped out of finals. And it's heartbreaking to see someone who went through puberty as a male
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and has the body of a male be able to absolutely blow away the competition. And you go into with a
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mindset that you are, you don't have a chance, if that makes sense. Like it's hard to compete against
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someone with the aerobic capacity, the muscle development, the body of a man. It's hard. It's hard to
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think about it like that. And staying positive, I bet, for other swimmers who are in that heat is
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probably overwhelming. I'm not sure. I can't speak for them. But it's disappointing to see and
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frustrating, definitely. And you said that one of your teammates was crying today because she didn't
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make the finals. You said that she was 17th. Yes. And there were 16 spots. Yes. So Leah Thomas took one
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of those spots. Talk to us about what your teammate was going through and that experience. She was very
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emotional and it's hard to see because it's her last NCAAs. And she really loves that race. And it
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was just heartbreaking to see that she put all her effort into it today and when the best time that
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she's went in a morning session before and still not make it back. It's hard to see someone who works
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every day, every night, still not be able to compete against someone like that.
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Now, there is no counter argument to what that woman had to say, but it shows you the power of the
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left wields in our culture that they have been able to bring this kind of madness to fruition
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without having to provide any arguments in favor of it. I mean, talk about not making an effort.
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They barely even attempt to justify any of this. Why should males be allowed to compete against
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females? Well, the left's answer is, in essence, because we said so. Anytime they try to go beyond
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that, try to mount an actual defense of the practice, it quickly devolves into incoherence and gibberish.
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For example, the Washington Post yesterday published a defense of Leah Thomas written
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by sports columnist Sally Jenkins. And this is what she came up with. At the start of the article,
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first paragraph, she says, hate to tell you, but in a way, everyone is trans. As writer T. Cooper
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observed, all of us in life's competitive arena are on the way to becoming someone profoundly different
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than we were. And keeping score is just a way to track the arc of a person from youth to prime
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to past it. If you subtract the aim of becomingness from competition just because you're afraid of a
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Leah Thomas and make it strictly about the chance to win a prize, then you might as well go back to
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an amusement park and shoot a squirt gun at a clown face because it will have about as much meaning.
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Now, we're barely through the first paragraph, and already, Jenkins has had to resort to abstract
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philosophical pablum about the aim of becomingness.
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One side has a simple, logical, straight-to-the-point argument. Males are not females and can never be
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females. They're different. Like, that's the argument, right? The other side has the aim of
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becomingness. So Jenkins has no argument, nothing to offer, nothing to say. So instead, she'll try to
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convince you to be as confused as she is. And hopefully along the way, she'll also convince you
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that she's smart because she uses phrases like the aim of becomingness. But, you know, you don't have to be
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a smart person to realize that this is something that stupid people do. When they don't have
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anything to say, they try to hide behind nonsense because they're stupid. She continues,
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The debate over whether Thomas, a transgender collegiate swimmer, has some sort of immutable
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biological edge over the field in this week's NCAA Women's Swimming Championships, will swamp
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whatever she does in the water. We look to facts to rescue us when a subject becomes heated,
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but here the science remains unsettled. No one arguing the issue really wants to admit it.
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When is the last time you heard a doctor or any other expert say the words, I don't know,
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but we don't know? Therefore, to exclude trans athletes from elite competition out of our own
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constricting fears and uncertainty is wrong, harmfully so. The science remains unsettled,
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she says. No, her brain is unsettled. At least it isn't settled anywhere in her head. Her brain is
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off vacationing in Fiji, and she's writing her columns without it, obviously. No, there's nothing
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unsettled here. In fact, the biological distinction between male and female is just about the most
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settled scientific fact in existence. This is settled. Thomas is not a female. It will never be
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one. He's a man, a male. XY chromosomes, a male anatomy, as the women who've seen him in the locker
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room have attested. Male gametes. And there's a lot more to that. There's a lot more to being a male
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than just that. The physical difference between men and women are not confined to the reproductive
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system. They can be found in every bodily system. Leah Thomas, like any male, is male right down to
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his bones, down to his cells, down to his DNA. As I explained in my speech at Georgia Tech earlier
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in the week, when Thomas dies and is buried beneath a giant monument celebrating him as history's
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greatest female athlete, 100 years hence, he could be excavated and his bones analyzed, and scientists
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will be very shocked to discover that the greatest female athlete is a male, because his bones will
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attest to the biological reality. They won't declare his pronouns or affirm his self-perception,
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because there will be no self. The self is gone, but the man remains. It also just so happens that
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many of these biological differences give him a distinct advantage over women in sports, especially
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swimming. I mean, we can start with height. He is over six feet tall. I think he's 6'1", at least.
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6'2", looks even taller than that. Do you know how many women in America are just over six feet,
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let alone 6'1", 6'2"? It's like 0.5% of women are that tall. It's almost no women. Almost no women
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in the world are as tall as Leah Thomas, and he's not all that tall for a man. He's a little bit
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above average for a man. So he's got that going for him. When he was in the pool, he was swimming
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against people with 20% less muscle mass on average, 40% less upper body strength, 33% less lower body
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strength, smaller fast twitch muscle fiber, smaller lungs, smaller hearts, shorter legs,
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more estrogen, less testosterone, a lower capacity to produce oxygen when they exert themselves.
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The list goes on and on and on and on and on some more. The side of sanity, the side opposite Leah
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Thomas and Sally Jenkins could not be more firmly planted in reality, could not be more vindicated by
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the evidence. Well, on second thought, that's not true because the more we learn about the body,
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the more we discover differences between men and women. So that in fact, with each passing day,
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our side is more and more vindicated by the evidence. Every day you think we couldn't be
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more vindicated and then more discovery is only vindicated more. We just keep adding evidence to
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our plate while the other side makes do with the aim of becoming this. And yet that side is currently
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winning. Why? Well, because they own the culture, they own the institutions. Also because on this
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particular issue, our side waited too long to get engaged. I mean, on this issue and like every other
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issue, but especially this one. Now, I was fighting gender ideology eight years ago when there was only
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a handful of us on the right who cared about it. And most other conservatives were still offering breezy
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assurances that the whole thing is a sideshow, a fad, nothing to worry about. You really want to die on
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this hill? They used to ask me. Some of them still do. The answer was and is still yes.
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I've been on this hill. I'm not leaving it. In fact, I would literally die in a physical sense
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before abandoning this, this fundamental fact of reality. I'd rather be dead
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than claim that I don't recognize it. Then go around prattling off nonsense
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because that's what's being demanded of me. Like rather than debase myself that way,
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I would rather, I'd rather have a bullet in the head. That's how important it is to me.
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But many conservatives, they abandoned the hill back at the first sign of serious pushback,
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back when Jenner was being crowned woman of the year. Others never took the hill to begin with.
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And now many of them are starting to realize, as some of us have been saying for a decade,
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that this hill is the hill. It's the central battleground of the culture war.
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It took so long for the right to clue in that now the battle for the hill is an uphill battle.
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They got to climb up the hill first so they can defend it. Some of us have been up here
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like outnumbered for a long time. And now we got all these other people at the base of the hill say,
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all right, I guess I'll join you. Eight years later. That doesn't mean it isn't winnable.
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I believe we can actually win this. We can. We can defeat gender ideology. I really believe that.
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I'm not an optimist. You know that. But I think this is one we can win.
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We're late to the game. A lot of us are anyway. But we're not so late that we can't win it.
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But it will require focus and a united front and also moral courage.
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All things that we've been lacking as a movement, at least in recent history.
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If we can rediscover those qualities or discover them to begin with, this is a fight we can win.
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And we must. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Happy St. Patrick's Day and me as a man of Irish descent. How could I not mention it? Well,
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I'd say why. Because this is my, okay, this is our people. This is our holiday. And I'm tired of our
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identity being appropriated in this way. But I got home and, you know, my wife wanted to have some
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St. Patty's Day fun and she wanted to do, you know, arts and crafts time with the kids, which I was
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required to be present for. And they're all making like cut out three-leaf clovers and, you know,
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drawing leprechauns and whatever. So I said, okay, I'll join. And I drew a leprechaun, which I'll
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show you here. This is the leprechaun I drew. And my wife was so horrified by it she put it on
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Twitter. But that's it right there. So I just decided to draw an evil leprechaun holding a
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dagger, or maybe that's an ice pick, I don't know, with blood and scars all over his face and sharp
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teeth. And then my boys thought that that was the coolest thing ever. So then the whole arts and
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crafts time took a turn and they're all drawing these evil, disturbing leprechauns and all this
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like demonic St. Patrick's Day imagery. And my wife was really annoyed and it was great.
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She's like, I just wanted to have a nice arts and crafts time. And this is what you had to do.
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What did you think was going to happen when you asked me to take part in something like this?
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By the way, Summer, can we put that image back up there again? I don't know why you would just
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go away from it so quickly. This is fine art. First of all, I think we need to admire
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my artistic ability to begin with. Because I think that that's, you know, I'm not saying that I'm
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the greatest artist in the world or anything like that. But I think I'm in the top 100 anyway.
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But I also think that there are some saying that my evil leprechaun looks a little bit like Chicago
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mayor, Lori Lightfoot, which I can kind of see that. And there are other people wondering if I
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will sell that image as an NFT, which is not a bad idea as soon as I figure out what an NFT is.
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All right, let's go to this, if I can find it. Okay, from the New York Post, it says a comprehensive
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report about the ongoing federal probe into Hunter Biden's tax filings published by the New York Times
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on Wednesday, confirmed the existence of the first son's infamous laptop. In October 2020,
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the Post exclusively reported on the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop that he ditched at a
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Delaware repair shop in April 2019. The laptop's hard drive contained a trove of emails, text messages,
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photos, and financial documents between Hunter Biden. We never did. The one thing we never,
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I don't think we ever figured out is who could be so stupid as to just leave your laptop
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at a repair shop and never come back for it. Who does that? How do you forget about a laptop?
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Who's dumped? Well, Hunter Biden is stupid enough for that. So I guess we did answer that question.
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And the email is detailing how the president's son used political leverage in his overseas business
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dealings. The repair shop owner reported the laptop to the FBI, which seized the device and its
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hard drive. The laptop confirmation was included in the Times report that also revealed how Hunter
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Biden paid off a tax liability of over a million dollars a year after he announced he was under
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investigation for defrauding the IRS. So this is something that the New York Times, they didn't
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try to make it into a big deal. It's not like it was a big headline. Hey, all of us on the left were
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wrong about this. Of course, they didn't do that, but they just kind of squeezed it in and tried to
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move past it in an article. Oh yeah, by the way. So it turns out that was right.
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And of course, this was, I don't have to remind you, this was at the time when this story was
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reported, it was misinformation. It was disinformation, mis and disinformation. This was
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all, this was all a plot by, by Putin and by Russia. And not only that, and of course you're,
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you're a, you were a moron and a conspiracy theorist. If you would ever believe, you know,
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that Hunter Biden could have material like this on his laptop. Um, and, and not only that, but of
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course, if you weren't allowed to talk about this on social media or you would be banned, you know,
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the New York post, a media outlet suspended on Twitter for publishing a news article. First time
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that's ever happened in the history of social media. It hasn't happened since then. You weren't
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allowed to talk about it. Now, you know, when we talk about, um, rigging the election and voter
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fraud and all that, here's one example of election rigging that there's, there's no, there's no dispute.
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You know, this is, this is right out in the open. This is a form of rigging the election. When you
00:22:58.840
have sensitive information, damning information about Joe Biden's family and Joe Biden himself and
00:23:05.160
his son, and there is a conspiracy, yes, by the big tech companies and by the media to erase this stuff
00:23:13.540
from existence. They're not going to let you publish it. They're not going to let you talk about it.
00:23:20.240
It's, it's not just that they've got their competing narrative saying that it's all false. It's like,
00:23:24.160
you're not allowed to post it or they will take it down. And this was during the campaign.
00:23:31.140
And why were they doing this? Well, obviously just because it would be harmful to Joe Biden
00:23:36.380
potentially. And they were terrified. They, they, the idea of having another email scandal
00:23:42.440
in the general election that partially results in, uh, Donald Trump getting elected again.
00:23:49.840
They, they couldn't handle that. They, they couldn't let it happen this time.
00:23:56.200
They let it happen the first time they weren't going to let it happen again.
00:24:00.520
So was the election rigged? Yeah. Right there. We don't really have to go beyond that.
00:24:05.820
And that's, that's serious rigging there. When you've got the most powerful institutions in the
00:24:11.380
country that are conspiring to make sure that that, that true, true information about Joe Biden's
00:24:19.420
family is not allowed to be shared because it will be harmful to Joe Biden's election chances.
00:24:25.820
All right. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Democrat party, um, Nancy Pelosi yesterday made a somewhat
00:24:30.980
bizarre announcement earlier in the day where she was at a press conference and she said that, uh,
00:24:35.620
oh, by the way, a little bit later, I'll be reading a poem written by Bono about Putin. And there was
00:24:43.480
never, there was never any other explanation as far as I know. It's like, why, who, why is Bono sending
00:24:50.340
Nancy Pelosi poems? Is there something going on between those two we need to know about? And, uh,
00:24:56.280
what's happening exactly? None of that's explained, but then a little bit later, Nancy Pelosi gets up
00:25:00.040
and this was all documented by C-SPAN. She gets up in front of a, you know, the, the, the, the select
00:25:05.740
crowd and reads this poem that Bono wrote about Putin, um, hoping that this would cancel world war
00:25:13.720
three. Let's find out if it was successful. Before I introduced them, I want to, I got this message
00:25:20.540
this morning from Bono. And most of us, we're always, whether we're in Ireland or here or whatever it is,
00:25:28.740
Bono has been a very Irish part of our lives. And he said this, he said, Oh, St. Patrick,
00:25:39.480
he drove out the snakes with his prayers, but that's not all it, that's not all it takes.
00:25:46.060
Where the smoke symbolizes an evil that arises and hides in your heart as it breaks. And the evil from,
00:25:54.180
risen from friends from the darkness that lives in some men, but in sorrow and fear, that's when saints
00:26:01.260
can appear to drive out those old snakes once again. And they struggle for us to be free from
00:26:10.140
the psycho in this human family. Ireland's sorrow and pain is now the Ukraine and St. Patrick's name
00:26:19.180
is now Zelensky. Well, that did it. World War three is canceled. The war's over. From what I
00:26:29.580
understand, Putin packed up, went, took, took all, sent all the troops home. And that was it. That was
00:26:34.640
the end of it. Um, that poem, I mean, first of all, Nancy Pelosi, uh, that was a, that was a terrible,
00:26:41.920
I don't know if we can blame, I don't know who to blame primarily for this. Do we blame Bono or do
00:26:46.140
blame Nancy Pelosi? Because it was a terrible rendition. She did an awful job. I mean, Bono
00:26:51.900
sent you a poem for some reason, and you're going to, you're going to, you're going to recite
00:26:55.780
it on camera. Did you not practice it ahead of time a little bit? Try to do Bono some favors
00:27:02.280
here. Make it sound a little bit better, but so it was a terrible rendition. The poem itself
00:27:06.780
was, was, was, was awful. Uh, and, and, and, and, in the, in the poem, uh, Zelensky is now a saint
00:27:14.460
and he's a St. Patrick specifically. So between the song we played yesterday for you and this poem,
00:27:24.100
as, as on this show, we were just assaulting your eardrums with the cringiest material imaginable.
00:27:30.140
And it's going to get worse from here, by the way, I got to tell you, we have a few more things to play
00:27:33.440
in a second. And you're going to really hate me by the end of it. Um, but between those two things,
00:27:38.780
Zelensky is Superman, Jesus Christ, a saint, a man who's going to save the world and St. Patrick's,
00:27:47.320
St. Patrick. My God, we're just losing our minds. We're losing our minds. Now this, so, so, but the,
00:27:57.880
but the real question we have, I think, and I'm sure you thought this when you're listening to that,
00:28:01.920
which poem was better. Was it this one? Was it Bono's poem for Putin? Or was it the, whatever,
00:28:09.980
that CW actress who wrote the poem for Putin about how, if she was Putin's mother. And if you don't
00:28:14.860
remember that poem, then let's listen to it again. Dear President Vladimir Putin, I'm so sorry that I
00:28:23.900
was not your mother. If I was your mother, you would have been so loved, held in the arms of joyous light,
00:28:30.980
never would this story's plight, the world unfurled before our eyes, a pure demise of nations sitting
00:28:38.200
peaceful under a night sky. If I was your mother, the world would have been warm, so much laughter
00:28:44.900
and joy and nothing would harm. I can't imagine the stain, the soul stealing pain that the little
00:28:51.280
boy, you must've seen and believed formulation of thought quickly. That's it. I can't do it. I can't do
00:28:57.120
it. That one's worse. That one is still, that one is still worse. I mean, listen, that's it. That's
00:29:03.180
an achievement in its own right. It's hard to out cringe Bono. You know, Bono is kind of like
00:29:09.080
is and has been forever. Cringe made manifest. The cringe became man and it was Bono. Um, so it's,
00:29:18.600
it's hard. It's, and given the, the field you're playing on here, cringy poetry, that's Bono's deal.
00:29:26.320
That's what he does. And somehow that chick was able to outdo him. So you got to some, some respect
00:29:33.540
there. And we just want to gloss right over the fact that Pelosi said that Bono is a very Irish part
00:29:41.720
of our lives. What, what does that mean? This is what happens when we have a bunch of 97 year olds
00:29:50.540
running the world at a moment like this. All right. Um, we do have one more extremely cringy
00:29:56.580
piece of, uh, of audio and video to play for you, but I, we got to break it up a little bit. So we'll,
00:30:01.160
we'll save that. I just, I can't, I'm afraid if people are listening to this in the car right now,
00:30:05.780
while you're driving, uh, I don't want to be responsible for people, you know, steering their
00:30:09.740
cars off of bridges and so, so, so forth. So we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll break it up. One other
00:30:13.560
story and then we'll get back to the cringe. Um, here's the article from Insider. It says,
00:30:19.700
if I can find it, the House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to suspend normal trade
00:30:23.760
relations with both Russia and Belarus amid the war in Ukraine. The suspending, the suspending
00:30:28.620
normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus act, which passed by a 42, uh, 424 to eight margin
00:30:34.820
allows president Joe Biden to increase tariffs on products coming from the two countries and requires
00:30:39.080
the U S trade representative to, uh, seek suspension of Russia's participation in the world trade
00:30:44.200
organization. Um, but there were eight members of Congress who voted against it. And of course,
00:30:52.400
they're being condemned by the media and by the left and by people on the right as being stooges for
00:30:58.340
Putin and all the rest of it. They're secret Russian agents, I guess, not so secret. Well, Thomas
00:31:03.020
Massey, as you know, I believe one of the very few good ones left in Congress, he, uh, and you can,
00:31:10.080
you can almost always rely on him to, um, to actually be the adult in the room in Congress.
00:31:18.800
Biden was supposed to be the adult in the room. Turns out, no, he's just, he's the, he's the, uh,
00:31:23.180
the vegetable in the room. He's a, he's the head of head of lettuce in the room. Thomas Massey is the
00:31:28.080
actual adult in the room. And he was with this as well. He explained why he voted against the bill
00:31:32.760
on, on his Twitter account. He says, this was slipped into the Russian sanctions bill on pages
00:31:36.520
19, 20, 21. It gives the president broad authority to sanction virtually anyone, anywhere in the world,
00:31:42.260
whether they're connected to Russia or not. Interventionists at the state department are
00:31:46.520
doing their happy dance now. Uh, and then he has the actual, he comes with the receipts as the kids
00:31:52.280
would say. It says, um, reading from it, uh, the president may impose the sanctions described
00:31:58.480
in subsection B with respect to any foreign person, the president determines based on credible
00:32:03.380
information. Uh, so can, he can impose these sanctions based on, against anyone based on
00:32:10.300
credible information. Um, and then actually the section is quite long as we can't read the entire
00:32:15.180
thing, but you can go and read it for yourself on Thomas Massey's, uh, Twitter account. So this is,
00:32:20.860
this is a bill that again would give the president, the authority, not just to issue these sanctions
00:32:28.160
against Russia, but to sanction anybody. And this is what always happens. This is why, um, neocons
00:32:37.340
exist. This, this in fact is why there's so much enthusiasm for war on both sides of the aisle.
00:32:45.480
If you didn't know any better, if you're a more naive sort of person and, uh, you, you got to look
00:32:51.720
at the political scene in America and you saw how divided everything is and how, you know, arguing
00:32:56.940
about everything, we can't agree on anything. And you might think that a subject like war would
00:33:02.620
certainly be the most divisive of all of them, given what we're talking about and how serious it is.
00:33:08.620
Uh, but that's not the case. You've got two sides that seemingly, seemingly can't agree on anything,
00:33:17.200
but when it comes to war, they're on the same page and war and daylight savings are the two things
00:33:24.700
on the same page. And that should make you pretty suspicious. Then you realize, well, why do they,
00:33:30.800
they like war so much? Cause war is a jobs program for one thing, for the government.
00:33:36.960
It means more money for the government. It's a fundraising program for the government.
00:33:41.840
And most of all, it means it's an opportunity for them to claim more power for themselves.
00:33:47.000
This always happens in any war. That's why the, through the course of the last 20 years and all
00:33:53.360
the pointless wars we've been fighting, uh, we also find that especially the executive branch during
00:33:57.360
that time has become ever more powerful because you can always hide behind the war and the conflict
00:34:03.280
to seize more power for yourself. And that's what they're doing here. And there were eight people
00:34:07.920
in Congress who noticed it and had the, uh, the gumption to stand against it. All right.
00:34:15.720
Back to the cringe. Stacey Abrams appeared on an episode of Star Trek. Um, Star Trek is apparently
00:34:23.400
still on the air. I don't know, I don't know where, where it's being aired or what channel it's on,
00:34:29.040
but Star Trek, there's still some sort of series of Star Trek out there. And, um, I haven't watched
00:34:34.220
any Star Trek at all, but of course, you know, it doesn't surprise me at all to, to, to find out
00:34:39.940
from this clip that Star Trek is massively uber woke. Of course it is. And in this episode, they
00:34:45.600
actually had Stacey Abrams guest starring as president of the United Earth. Now we know
00:34:51.620
Stacey Abrams, um, thinks that she's the actual governor of Georgia. She thinks she should be
00:34:58.740
president. Uh, she's a lot, there's a lot of hype behind her. Nobody can really figure out why no
00:35:05.280
one's been able to figure out why Stacey Abrams is a thing. What's what, what exactly is compelling
00:35:09.320
about her? There's nothing interesting about her. Her resume is not impressive. She's not even a
00:35:14.580
charismatic person. When we know Barack Obama, uh, had almost no resume to speak up before becoming
00:35:21.580
president, but at the very least he was a pretty good public speaker and he had charisma. And so
00:35:27.800
that's what carried him to the white house. Uh, uh, Stacey Abrams doesn't have any of that,
00:35:33.480
but she, she believes that she should, uh, she should run Georgia and really run the, the, the country.
00:35:41.140
And if she can't do it in reality, then she'll do it on Star Trek. So let's watch this scene.
00:35:57.800
Madam president, Madam president. Welcome. I am so pleased that you've come. We are eager to begin
00:36:04.000
diplomatic discussions, nothing to discuss. United Earth is ready right now to rejoin the Federation
00:36:11.520
and nothing could make me happier than to say those words. Thank you. Thank you all what you
00:36:19.440
have accomplished here. We were lucky to have each other, ma'am. We couldn't have succeeded
00:36:25.040
otherwise. General, I'm glad to see you've recovered. Yes. I haven't had that close a call in quite a
00:36:31.920
while. I would consider it a personal favor if that were your last close call. I may have been at your
00:36:38.180
service, Madam president. Captain, may I have a word? Of course.
00:36:48.980
Uh, I'm, you know, this is the future. Why is there not a polyamorous trans furry as the United
00:36:57.880
President of the United World? That's my question. She, uh, Stacey Abrams is as good. Am I even on,
00:37:05.440
am I in frame right now for the camera? Just barely. Okay. I'm being told in my ear. We'll
00:37:10.620
just stay here. Uh, Stacey Abrams is as good an actress as she is a politician. I'm just watching
00:37:17.800
that. I, I, it's, it, to me, it's the greatest mystery in life right now is why, like I get it.
00:37:23.900
I know you'll say, well, right. The left has chosen her as to be their thing because she's a black
00:37:30.180
female. Okay. I understand that part of it, but they're like literally any other black female in
00:37:37.100
the country would at least be slightly more impressive than, than Stacey Abrams. You can
00:37:42.680
point, you pick out anybody at random. She's not charismatic. She's not a good public speaker.
00:37:50.120
She has nothing to say, obviously. Um, she's not like physically appealing. She's not, she's not an
00:37:55.660
attractive person. She doesn't have that going for either. She's got nothing. And they've just,
00:38:00.640
they've, they've settled on her and they say, no, it's going to be Stacey Abrams. It's going to be
00:38:04.340
her because we insist. All right. I want to mention this briefly from the sun. Uh, cause I always,
00:38:10.800
you know, I always like these space stories. We went from, uh, the fictional space to reality here
00:38:16.300
or what may soon be reality. Elon Musk, uh, from the sun says, Elon Musk, Elon Musk expects to see
00:38:22.660
another giant leap for mankind, not just in this lifetime, lifetime, but in this decade. He says
00:38:26.180
within seven years, he expects that we'll be landing on Mars. The SpaceX starship, a 400 foot
00:38:32.300
reusable rocket equipped with one of the most powerful engines ever built will be the vessel
00:38:36.860
that brings humans to the red planet. Since 2020 iterations of the starship have completed four
00:38:41.340
test launches and landings, reaching heights of over 10 kilometers on each trip. Plans to take a
00:38:46.180
crewed mission on a trip around the moon and the starship are slated for 2023. And, uh, anyway,
00:38:52.900
now he's talking about 20, you know, within, within before 2030 is when he expects that we're actually
00:38:59.280
going to be landing on Mars. And you know how I feel about this. I mean, it's yes, I would never
00:39:05.280
want to go to Mars. Mars is like, whatever it is, 500 degrees below, uh, zero. And there's these
00:39:12.920
massive storms that rage for months on end. And as there's, you know, there's no atmosphere,
00:39:19.340
oxygen. It's just, it's a death trap of a planet and you're traveling millions of miles to get to
00:39:26.220
it. So it's not something that I would ever want to do. And it's hard for me to see in a practical
00:39:31.660
way, how Mars could ever be a good substitute for earth. I know people are talking about, well,
00:39:36.780
if we ever need, if we ever need to abandon earth, things ever get too bad here, we can go to Mars.
00:39:40.380
Do you realize how bad it would have to be on earth for Mars to be a better option?
00:39:49.200
Um, I mean, if, if it's that bad, then we might as well just direct our ships right into the sun
00:39:54.960
and fly right into the sun and be done with it. If things have gotten that bad, but all that said,
00:40:00.620
uh, I still think, you know, I don't agree with the practical sort of justifications being given
00:40:08.260
for this, but I think that's almost a cover story. What's the real reason that we want to do this?
00:40:13.120
What's the real reason that, that Elon Musk wants to do it? It's you do it to do it because it's
00:40:17.120
discovery because you're reaching out to the beyond, to the unknown. That's why you're doing it.
00:40:24.820
Um, you know, that's, that's when, when, when we went through the age of discovery here on earth,
00:40:31.260
it's, it's not as though these, these efforts were always very, very, you know, justifiable from a
00:40:37.380
practical perspective. But the reason that you're doing it is because this is what humanity is
00:40:41.540
supposed to do. I think if you give up on discovery, if we say, well, we've, we've discovered
00:40:46.660
everything we want to discover and there's no point going anywhere else because it's too much
00:40:50.460
hassle and it's dangerous. Once you say that you've kind of given up as a species, as an,
00:40:56.000
and as a civilization. And we don't want to do that. All right. Time for the comment section.
00:41:26.000
We're not going to talk about that. We're not going to talk about that. I don't know what that
00:41:48.340
is. That's not me. First of all, get that off the screen. I don't want to see that. What is that?
00:41:53.180
Who, what, what, what it, we're not going to talk about that. That's not, I don't know who that is.
00:41:58.400
That's definitely not me. Uh, different glasses for one thing. And I've got a better beard and I
00:42:03.040
have to say, you know, at least a slightly better physique than that. Give me some credit. What the
00:42:08.680
hell? Why, why did I ever agree to that? Why did this was, was this my idea to do this video
00:42:13.160
comment section thing? It was my idea. What did I think was going to happen?
00:42:19.540
I just regret my whole life. I regret everything. All right. I just want to stop the show.
00:42:30.600
I don't even want to go on with the show anymore.
00:42:34.180
This is from Life Tutor. He says, I love how not subtle Matt is about being spoken to through his
00:42:38.880
earpiece. We just established sometimes mid talking, he just goes, wait, what? Well, okay. What did you
00:42:44.400
expect? This is obviously not a professional thing that we're doing here. Okay. It's me. I'm just
00:42:48.440
like, I'm sitting in front of a, of a bedroom sheet with my old studio imprinted on it.
00:42:56.180
Um, Jonathan says, I agree with Matt on putting these people in prison, but I have to say,
00:43:02.080
who are we talking about putting in prison? McKenna? I'm on board for that. I have to say,
00:43:09.460
there are numerous cases where someone has put on, Oh, he's talking about sex offenders. No. Um,
00:43:14.780
I have to say there are numerous cases where someone has put on the registry unjustly. That
00:43:18.600
would be nice to have fixed if possible. Uh, yeah, well, no, that is true. Well, that's why I say
00:43:22.780
with the sex offender registry, my point is that if somebody actually deserves to be on the registry,
00:43:28.160
then that's someone who should just be in prison, you know, because the reason you're on the registry,
00:43:33.860
the reason it exists is because these are people who are supposed to be threats to society. Right.
00:43:40.460
Um, and that's why they go on the registry. Now, if we're talking about, you know, you hear cases,
00:43:43.620
I don't know how real these cases are, but you hear cases of, uh, someone who's like,
00:43:49.180
they had to pee and there was no bathroom available. So they go behind a dumpster in a back alley
00:43:53.560
and, uh, someone walks by and the next thing you know, they're on the sex offender registry,
00:43:57.340
stuff like that, or a case where cases I have heard, maybe someone, you know, a high school
00:44:01.680
senior is dating a, uh, someone in 10th grade. And then the high school senior has a birthday
00:44:07.200
and all of a sudden now it's a sex offender. So cases like that, yeah, they don't belong
00:44:10.720
in the registry, but that's just, that's, these are people who are, who, you know, don't belong
00:44:15.520
in the registry, don't belong in prisons. That's a different category. If they actually belong
00:44:18.680
on the registry, then, uh, then really they should be in prison and that should be it.
00:44:24.400
Um, Eli says, isn't tucking what the psycho and silence of the lambs did?
00:44:31.680
Yeah, that's actually exactly right. There's quite a lot that we see about gender ideology
00:44:36.840
and the gender ideologues that, that I think will often recall, uh, Buffalo Bill from silence
00:44:43.980
of the lambs. Sean says Zelensky is the new George Floyd. Well, that's not fair because
00:44:48.440
Zelensky, I mean, George Floyd did nothing in his life at all, uh, of value. I did a lot
00:44:55.960
of bad things and then he died. And the only reason why anyone remembers him is because
00:44:59.540
how he died. Uh, Zelensky is, you know, is a, is a, the leader of Ukraine. He's actually
00:45:04.600
doing something. He is, he is trying to defend his country. So all of that is, all that is
00:45:09.040
good. It's good that he's doing that. Um, my issue is simply with, and if, and if, if you
00:45:14.960
want to point out simply that Zelensky is admirable for defending his country and not, and not doing
00:45:21.920
the unspeakably cowardly thing of abandoning his country and fleeing to some other country, uh,
00:45:27.420
and if you want to point that out and say that you admire, fine. I mean, so do I, it's
00:45:30.440
great. But when we go beyond that and turned them into a, some sort of literal savior figure,
00:45:36.940
now we've gone several steps too far. Um, green machine says, okay, if we're going to continue
00:45:45.140
doing these agonizing video comments, they have to be short, like 10 to 15 seconds. I could
00:45:49.420
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sales pitch? Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Well, Pixar's latest film, Turning Red, has generated
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some pushback from parents who say that the story, which is apparently some kind of weird metaphor for
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puberty, isn't appropriate for young children. Also, as we've previously discussed, some parents
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say that the protagonist's child is bratty and disrespectful and rude. This behavior, you know,
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is encouraged, is not discouraged by the film, but is encouraged. And there are elements of
00:49:26.120
wokeness sprinkled throughout. Now this again is what I've heard from parents. I haven't seen the
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movie for myself and neither have my kids and it will stay that way. I'm quite happy to take their
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word for it. Now I usually believe in investigating issues for yourself before drawing conclusions, but
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when the issue is whether this stupid Disney film is merely stupid or stupid and also malignant,
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I feel no need to look closer. I'd rather just save the brain cells for something a little bit
00:49:50.720
more important. But as we've discovered, in our society, full of overgrown children stuck in
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perpetual adolescence, it's very offensive to have a critical opinion about a piece of entertainment,
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especially Disney entertainment. For many people, especially in my generation, Disney and Disney
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branded products are a crucial part of their identity because they have no real identity.
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And then you add to this the fact that the film stars an Asian cartoon character,
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a cartoon character of Asian descent, CCAD, and now it's all the more offensive to criticize it.
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That's what brings us to the latest fake racism controversy. This is from NBC. It says,
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quote, Turning Red cast members spoke up in support of the new Pixar film and its universality
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following a controversial review for the animated movie that was published by CinemaBlend.
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The review was pulled offline after being called sexist, racist, and more by members of the press.
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CinemaBlend managing director Sean O'Connell wrote the review saying that the film's appeal was
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limited because it's set in the Asian community of Toronto. Quote,
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quote, I recognize the humor in the film but connected with none of it. By rooting Turning Red
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very specifically in the Asian community of Toronto, the film legitimately feels like it was
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made for director Domi Shi's friends and immediate family members, O'Connell wrote in the
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since-polled review, which is fine but also a tad limiting in its scope. O'Connell doubled down on
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his opinion of the film in a since-deleted tweet that accompanied his review. The post read,
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quote, Some Pixar films are made for universal audiences. Turning Red is not. The target audience for
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this one feels very specific and very narrow. If you're in it, this might work very well for you.
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I am not in it. This was exhausting. Now, from here, we have the whole routine where the media,
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people on the left, cast members, people in Hollywood, etc., react with horror that some
00:51:29.100
white man dared to not enjoy a cartoon about an Asian kid. Probably don't need to go through all
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those examples. You've heard this tune many times before. No need for me to hum it for you now. But
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we should note a couple of things about O'Connell's opinion. First, it's his opinion, right? He's paid
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to give his opinion on movies. That's his job. In a sane world, that would be enough. No need to say
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anything further. There are no wrong opinions about a movie. Well, that's not true. There are wrong
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opinions. Like if you like Star Wars, that's a wrong opinion. There are a lot of wrong opinions. But
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either way, it's your job to give your opinion if you're a movie critic. But we don't live in a sane
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world. So that brings us to the second point. O'Connell's point, essentially, was that he wasn't
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represented by the film. He didn't connect with it. He didn't speak to his lived experience. Which
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is to be expected, given that he's a white man in America writing film reviews, and the movie is
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about an Asian girl in Toronto having her first period. Now, these days, of course, there's no reason
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why a white man can't also be a menstruating Asian girl, if that's how he identifies. But regardless,
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this comment about lacking connection with the film is an extremely common criticism of movies.
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This is the whole reason why every movie now has to include a representative from every identity
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group and sexuality, so that every viewer can feel represented by the story. Given this obsession
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with representation, why can't O'Connell make a similar comment about this movie? That's a rhetorical
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question, of course. I know the reason. He's a white man, and white men are not entitled to have the
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kinds of opinions that other identity groups are allowed to have. Now, I would go on defending O'Connell
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from the absurd racism charge, but unfortunately, he's made that impossible.
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After the publication pulled the review, they actually did pull a review because some readers
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didn't agree with it. This is a movie review site, and somebody wrote a movie review, and the readers
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didn't agree with it, and so they took it down. But after that, O'Connell went on Twitter and did
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exactly what you already knew he would do. He tweeted,
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I'm genuinely sorry for my turning red review. Thank you to everyone who has reached out with
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criticism, no matter how harsh. It's clear that I didn't engage nearly enough with the movie,
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nor did I explain my point of view well at all. I really appreciate your feedback.
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There it is. The grovel, the submission, the surrender, the apology.
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Think about the phrasing, too. It's clear that I didn't engage enough with the movie.
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He's apologizing for not feeling engaged with a film. He's not just apologizing for how he expressed
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himself. That would be bad enough. He's apologizing for the actual opinion that he formed about the
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movie. He's saying, I'm sorry for thinking these thoughts about a cartoon. He's apologizing for not
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liking it more. It's a Pixar cartoon about a teenage girl going through puberty, and O'Connell now admits
00:54:14.420
that it's his moral obligation to connect with the story somehow and enjoy it somehow. He's admitted
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guilt. What's he guilty of exactly? Who knows? But he's admitted it, and he's confessed to whatever
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racism he's been accused of. You know, there's a scene at the end of Mystic River where Sean Penn's
00:54:33.260
character has a gun to the head of Tim Robbins' character. He's trying to get Robbins to admit that
00:54:39.620
he killed Penn's daughter. Now, Robbins didn't actually kill the daughter. He was innocent, but Penn's
00:54:47.080
character told him that he'd be allowed to live if he simply admitted to his crime. And finally,
00:54:51.820
Robbins breaks down and says, yeah, I did it. I did it. And then Penn proceeds to stab him to death
00:54:57.380
on the spot and dump his body in the river. Now, a similar scene plays out with cancel culture over and
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over and over again. The canceled person with a metaphorical gun to the head thinks that he can escape
00:55:08.200
the wrath of the mob by admitting to a crime he didn't commit. The mob puts the gun to the head
00:55:12.860
and says, admit what you did. Admit what you did. And then he admits it, and he's gutted anyway and
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dumped in the river. Now, he was probably going to die either way. Now he dies a guilty man.
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Now he dies without his dignity. There's no benefit to apologizing and accepting the racist label.
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The apology isn't even self-serving. It's self-destructive. Yet that won't stop these
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people so overwhelmed by their cowardly fear from continuing to make this fatal error again and
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again and again. So good riddance. You know, I can't help these people even if I wanted to.
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Sean O'Connell is not a racist, but he admitted to it and apologized. So I guess he is.
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And he had the right opinion about this dumb Disney cartoon, but he apologized for that too,
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so I guess it was the wrong opinion. He bowed to the mob. And so today, he is the one who is
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sadly canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thank God. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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