Ep. 915 - My Global Journey To Answer The Ultimate Question
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Summary
Over the last year, I ve been on a secret journey spanning the globe, pursuing an answer to the ultimate question, the question that defines a generation. Today, I m finally ready to begin to reveal what I uncovered. Also, the Supreme Court hearings for Kentonji Brown-Jackson continued yesterday with Democrats and Jackson herself lashing out indignantly that anyone would dare question her stellar judicial record of going easy on child sex predators. Plus, Home Depot goes woke, Democrats push to extend the student loan payment freeze, and even though men and women are exactly equal and no different at all, the Army has still lowered its fitness standards to include more women. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, over the last year, I've been on a secret journey spanning the globe,
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pursuing an answer to the ultimate question, the question that defines a generation.
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Today, I'm finally ready to begin to reveal what I uncovered. We'll talk about that.
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Also, the Supreme Court hearings for Kentonji Brown-Jackson continued yesterday with Democrats
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and Jackson herself lashing out indignantly that anyone would dare question her stellar
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judicial record of going easy on child sex predators. Plus, Home Depot goes woke.
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Democrats push to extend the student loan payment freeze, though they can't really explain why.
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And even though men and women are exactly equal and no different at all,
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the Army has still lowered its fitness standards, again, to include more women.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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I think it was about four years ago when I first posed the question, what is a woman?
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I had started focusing on the scourge of gender ideology years before that and argued against it in a million different ways,
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making a million different arguments in a million words or more,
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and somehow over those several years, it never occurred to me to ask the most basic question of all.
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I had heard the phrase, trans women are women, so many times, and yet for so long, I never thought to respond,
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what does that mean? What do you think a woman is? What are you trying to say?
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Four years ago, for whatever reason, it finally dawned on me, I realized I didn't need a million words, only four.
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What is a woman? Now, once I realized that this is the question, really the only question we need to ask,
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the question that pulls down the whole edifice of gender ideology, I started asking it, and asking it more, asking it over and over again.
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I asked it for years on social media, in speeches and interviews.
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It was clear that the proponents of gender ideology, the architects of the current madness, which is gripping our society,
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were not going to answer the question, because they can't, and they had elected instead to simply ignore me,
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So, I reached a point where I realized that either I could keep shouting into the abyss,
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that's definitely an option, I do it all the time,
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or simply give it up and move on with my life, that I can't do, I can't really give anything up,
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And if they wouldn't answer my question, I decided that I would force their hand.
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And so, I hatched an elaborate scheme that, over the past year, has taken me across the globe
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and got me into the room with some of the leading, quote-unquote, experts in the field.
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I talked to politicians, academics, pediatricians, psychiatrists, trans activists, surgeons, and many, many more.
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I went everywhere from San Francisco to the African wilderness.
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And yes, I did all of this essentially because nobody on the left would respond to my tweet.
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But I don't believe in proportional responses, as you've probably noticed by now.
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I've had to keep this project secret for a year.
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We announced it today, and there's still so much that I can't say,
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We'll have a full trailer for it in the coming weeks.
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I have traveled all over the world for the past year asking one simple question.
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I've been asking everybody this, and almost nobody can answer it.
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Now, that congressman very much regretted inviting me to his office for a sit-down.
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He was, you know, not the only interview subject to regret their life decisions.
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But I can't tell you much more than that when it comes to specifics.
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But I can tell you that all I did was ask the most basic questions.
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If gender ideology was going to collapse on camera, and it did in spectacular fashion, I wanted it to collapse under the weight of its own incoherence.
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I wanted the allegedly smart, highly credentialed advocates of this stuff to just bury themselves, and they did too.
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One line in scripture that I return to in my head over and over again as we film this project is Romans 1.22, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
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I watched the wise make fools of themselves over and over again.
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In fact, much of the real wisdom that I did encounter, and I encountered some, you'll see that in the film also, came from simple, normal people.
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The kinds of people that the wise would say are fools.
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So, we ask the question, how did the left get away with propagating these ideas for so long, while somehow never having to answer even the most basic questions about it?
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How did they conquer Western society with an ideology that falls over and shatters into a thousand pieces with a simple flick of a finger?
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It's this enormous, seemingly imposing, totally ubiquitous thing, something that has reshaped our civilization, changed the way people see themselves and their own species, and yet all you have to do is walk up and just poke it, just poke it, and it pops like an overinflated balloon.
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How could something so flimsy, so thin, have so much success?
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The answer is, for one thing, people are scared.
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That was something that became abundantly clear as soon as I set out on my What is a Woman journey, because everywhere we went, almost everybody that we talked to, even the ones who knew the truth and were willing to say it,
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even them, most of them still look kind of from side to side and whispered like they were spies passing state secrets.
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There's a lot of fear out there, because the left is always standing in the middle of the crowd with a bomb strapped to its chest, threatening to hit the red button if anybody dares question them.
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But what you find so often is that it's a dummy bomb strapped to a dummy.
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Now, it's true that the left owns all the institutions, and so they do have the power to punish you.
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I, myself, have already basically accepted that at least some of my social media platforms will not survive the release of this film.
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This movie is somewhat of a kamikaze mission in that way, which is why I wanted to get it right, because it might be my last act.
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At least when it comes to my access to the internet.
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I know there will probably be some steep consequences, especially considering the people who we embarrass in this film and how badly we embarrass them.
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So the fear people have is not entirely imaginary.
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And yet the fear has scared people to such an extent that they think they can't even talk about this at all.
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They treat the subject, the subject of what a woman is, what biological sex is, like it's literally radioactive.
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The fear causes people to fall silent, and the silence only emboldens the ideological terrorists even more.
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The second factor is that the left is very good at making simple things seem complicated.
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What they do is they try to drown you in jargon and buzzwords and caveats and exceptions to the rule and any other ball they need to throw at you to distract you from the topic at hand.
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And soon, before you know it, you're off the path, you're knee-deep in the weeds, can't remember where you were going or why or what you were talking about.
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And then, when you're out there, in the muck, off the trail, confused, they'll come along and say,
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Rest your puny little brain, child, and let us think for you.
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What they don't expect is that you'll take them up on it and actually go talk to those experts and ask them the questions they're supposed to be able to so easily answer.
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By that I mean, don't just sit there and let them talk at you, but ask the questions.
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Apply some skepticism to what they're telling you.
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And the results are tremendous, as you'll see soon enough.
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You'll also enjoy, I mean, I don't know, this is what's going to be hard before we release the full trailer.
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I'm going to want to talk about so much of the stuff in this movie, and I can't.
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But I don't want to steal our own thunder here when the trailer comes out, but you did see one clip there in the teaser, in a sneak peek of me at the Women's March with the sandwich board sign that said, what is a woman?
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And so I will tell you that if you go to the Women's March where people are marching for women and you ask them, what is that exactly?
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So if you want to know how to get kicked out of a Women's March, that's how you do it.
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I admit I also had a bullhorn, you know, so I was, I didn't take the most subtle approach in that particular instance.
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We'll go back to the Supreme Court nomination hearings.
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There's a lot of different clips and stuff I want to play.
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We're just going to kind of go through these, maybe somewhat at random.
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We've been hearing about, of course, the two things that come out of the Supreme Court hearing.
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One, very topical for our, for our purposes, is that Ketanji Brown Jackson wants to be Supreme Court justice
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And in fact, on that subject, Ted Cruz yesterday returned to it and asked her some questions,
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making the point that there are some real consequences, obviously, to having a justice who doesn't know what a woman is.
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The most basic consequence is that she doesn't have, apparently, or at least is pretending not to have,
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And you would think that that's something you would want from your justice, but also,
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it presents some real legal problems if you don't know how to define this word.
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And so Ted Cruz got into that with her, and we'll see how that went.
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You told her that you couldn't define what a woman is, that you were not a biologist,
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which I think you're the only Supreme Court nominee in history who's been unable to answer
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the question, what is a woman, let me ask you, as a judge, how would you determine if a plaintiff
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had Article III standing to challenge a gender-based rule, regulation, policy,
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without being able to determine what a woman was?
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So, Senator, I know that I'm a woman, I know that Senator Blackburn is a woman,
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and the woman who I admire most in the world is in the room today, my mother.
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Let me ask, under the modern leftist sensibilities, if I decide right now that I'm a woman,
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Does that mean that I would have Article III standing to challenge a gender-based restriction?
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Senator, to the extent that you are asking me about who has the ability to bring lawsuits
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based on gender, those kinds of issues are working their way through the courts,
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Now, Ted Cruz had one line of question he was trying to go down and trying to get an answer
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I do wish that he had interjected with a follow-up when she said,
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And that is also a question that comes up in the film that I discovered.
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And then you see the meltdown happen even more.
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I wish he'd asked that question, because there's no...
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And you have to give a biologically-based answer.
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I mean, if you're a woman already, then whatever feelings you're having are the feelings that
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a woman's having, so how can the feelings determine...
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But it does create, of course, all kinds of problems, especially with the way our legal
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system is set up right now, and all of these gender-based laws and everything.
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If you want to have those kinds of laws, then how can you do that if you erase the distinction
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It's just like if you were to declare that race does not exist, and that anyone can decide,
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or rather that it's totally fluid and subjective, and anyone can decide to be whatever race they
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Well, one of the consequences of that is that now all the hate crime laws that you also
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support and have created, how do those work out?
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So she ducks and dodges there, not even very well, but she ducks and dodges, tries to evade
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it, and she does the same when it comes to the question on her sentencing of child sex
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predators, and especially people who have used or consumed or distributed child porn.
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Now, the media and the Democrats continue to be very scandalized that this is coming
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This is unheard of for a Supreme Court justice to be treated this way.
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And again, like we said yesterday, from the Democrats' perspective, it is sort of unheard
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of and shocking to them because these questions are all about her actual judicial record and
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her legal philosophy, her personal philosophies, her worldview, things relevant to the job.
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That's what the Democrats find shocking because they're not used to that.
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All they care about is usually digging into somebody's personal life, looking at their high
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school yearbook, how much beer did they drink in college and so on.
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The question, obviously, about sentencing for child pornography is incredibly relevant because this
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She wants to be someone who we call Justice Jackson, which does actually sound kind of cool.
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That would be the only good thing is just how it sounds, just the name.
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Everything else would not be good having her in the Supreme Court because although she would
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have this name of justice, she doesn't have any concept of, just like she has no concept
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When you think about justice, what is justice to you?
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I think we should know that if you want to be a justice on the Supreme Court.
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Her concept of justice, apparently, is to every occasion when she had the opportunity to give
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a lighter sentence to child porn offenders than the federal guidelines allow on every
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Now, she was asked whether she regrets any of these decisions.
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Federal guidelines call for years and she decides to give somebody a few months, but she regret
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What I regret is that in a hearing about my qualifications to be a justice on the Supreme
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Court, we've spent a lot of time focusing on this small subset of my sentences and I've
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I'm talking about the fact that you're talking about seven very serious cases.
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I regret that you're talking about my judicial record.
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Yeah, it may have been a minority of the cases that she dealt with, but they're very important
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And the reason why you harp on them is because unlike some of the other cases that she may
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have dealt with, this speaks again to her fundamental concept of justice.
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And based on her record, I'm not sure she has any concept of it at all.
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Or if she does, her idea of justice is to, if you have someone who's already victimized
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children, sexually victimized children, and by consuming child porn, by obtaining child pornography,
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you have participated in the abuse of children.
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So her idea of justice is someone is convicted of that, you know, slap on the wrist, basically
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a few months in jail, maybe, and throw them back out into society.
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And I doubt very much that there have been very many cases of somebody convicted of child
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pornography, they spent a couple months in jail, and then go back out into society, and
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that's the last time they ever go near any of that stuff.
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There's a trajectory with these kinds of things.
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When somebody has that in their soul, and they're falling down this pit, it doesn't just stop
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in the middle of the, you know, kind of mid-air, and they end up flying back in the other direction
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Nothing is impossible with God, but it is not common, and it's not likely.
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Usually, somebody starts with child pornography, and then, it doesn't take very long, soon
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they're physically victimizing children in real life.
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Although, even the child pornography, I mean, those are children who are being physically
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victimized in real life, and that the person who is obtaining it is participating again in
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So this all is relevant, but she says that it's not.
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This is a clip we didn't play yesterday, but she also has a habit of light sentences, not
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just for child pornographers and people who have obtained child pornography, but also drug
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Judge Jackson, before you granted this fentanyl kingpin's motion to reduce his sentence, did
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Senator, thank you for allowing me to address Mr. Young's situation.
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Did you contact the victims in his case or not?
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His sentence was reduced, and I did not contact the victims in his case because there were no
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There were no identifiable victims in his case.
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A hundred thousand Americans were killed by overdoses.
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There were no victims of a fentanyl drug kingpin.
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That's an especially peculiar view from someone on the left, although that is basically people
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on the left think, but it doesn't really make any sense because these are also people who
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And so, given that you don't really believe in free will, you of all people should agree
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that a drug lord, someone who's selling drugs, that's not a victimless crime.
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But then going back to yesterday, Cory Booker, after listening to all of this and all of
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these Republicans who would dare, dare ask her questions about the kinds of sentences
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she's passed down and what her judicial record is, her judicial philosophy, he's listened to
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And so we'll play, we got a couple of clips here.
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I got letters from leaders of victims' rights groups, survivors of assault, all saying sort
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You brought together right and left in this calling out of people that will sit up here
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and try to pull out from cases and try to put themselves in a position where they're the
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defenders of our children, to a person who has children, to a person whose family goes
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And what's especially surprising about this is it didn't happen last year.
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You know, he's about to, we've seen this before.
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He especially likes it during the Supreme Court hearings.
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I mean, famously, this is a guy that declared that he was Spartacus.
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So he's getting geared up for another Spartacus moment.
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This is a classic theater kid, you know, situation here.
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He's not a very good performer, like so many theater kids in high school, but he loves it.
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And so he's getting into the, into the motions.
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He's about to really, he's got a, he's got a full monologue.
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But he points out that, well, how could they make these claims about someone who's, who's
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You know, if you're a mother and you have kids, even if you don't have kids, I'm not
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sure I understand how you could go so lenient on a crime as heinous as child pornography.
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You don't need to have kids to see why horror, why that is so horrible.
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But considering that you do have kids, that's all the more reason why you would think you
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would sympathize 100% with the victims who are children and not at all with the.
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With the criminal who's a violent, sexually abusive scumbag.
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And then we get to, this is when he's going for the Oscar here.
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That is the story of how you got to this desk, you and I, and everyone here, generations of
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folk who came here and said, America, I'm Irish.
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You may say no Irish or dogs need to apply, but I'm going to show this country that I can
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I can make this country love me as much as I love it.
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Chinese Americans first forced into near slave labor, building our railroads, connecting
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Saw the ugliest of America, but they were going to build their home here and say, America,
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you may not love me yet, but I'm going to make this nation live up to its promise and hope.
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LGBTQ Americans from Stonewall women to Seneca, hidden figures who didn't even get their play
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until some Hollywood movie finally talked about it.
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I feel so bad for the woman in the background there.
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How is she keeping a straight face through all this?
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And so we've got to, um, he starts with Irish Americans and then we go, we get to, to LGBTQ
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About them and how they were critical for us, defying gravity.
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And so you faced insults here that were shocking to me.
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But you are here because of that kind of love and nobody's taken this away from me.
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And then you can sit back and let us have all the debates.
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And I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a well charted Senate floor because it's not
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They're going to accuse you of this and that heck in honor of your person who shares your
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Because you're here and I know what it's taken for you to sit in that seat.
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Uh, yeah, Cory Booker pretending to be religious is about as believable as what he was pretending
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Um, and we've got, and then Jackson is crying there.
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Remember when, uh, Kavanaugh got emotional during his Supreme court hearing and there might've
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been some tears welling up in the eyes and, and he got angry and a little indignant himself.
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And, and you can recall all of the mockery coming his direction from people on the left.
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Um, so we, yeah, we, we, we made fun of Kavanaugh for getting emotional.
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Meanwhile, he's sitting there, um, on the biggest stage in front of, in front of the
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world being accused of, uh, of being a serial gang rapist.
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And for that, he, he wasn't supposed to get emotional.
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It was, you know, it, it, it showed that he didn't, what was it?
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He didn't have the right temperament to be on the Supreme court.
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Because if you get a little bit upset and perturbed after sitting there for three days
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and being told over and over again, that you're a serial gang rapist, um, then you don't have
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Well, what does it say about, about Jackson that she's getting emotional and crying?
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She got a little bit angry and all they're doing is asking about her judicial record.
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Uh, great performance though, from Cory Booker.
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I mean, by, by, by political standards, I mean, it's, you know, um,
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it's about as good as you get when it, when it comes to the theater.
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There's one of the clip I want to play for you.
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So the media, of course, as well, coming to Jackson's defense on the, um, especially on
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And now in fairness to the media, there's really no non-creepy way of defending lenient sentences
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for child porn distributors and people who use child porn.
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So there's no non-creepy way to do it, but the media is choosing the creepiest possible
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They spent a lot of time on this specific issue of an 18 year old from Washington who
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the, uh, sentencing guidelines would have called for an eight year sentence.
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The prosecutors recommended a two year sentence and judge Jackson imposed a sentence of three
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And so there was some discussion about why she did that.
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Um, I've looked at the records in this case and I think apparently judge Jackson just doesn't
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She had many, many sentencing and something like 500 court decisions.
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But the specifics in this case suggest that, uh, this was a, uh, uh, an 18 year old who
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was curious about this kind of sexual activity that he sought out.
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The court records show that a detective, when he realized that this young man was uploading
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some of this, contacted him and said, how would you like to have real sexual activity with,
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uh, my 12 year old daughter, which was make believe.
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And there was a psychiatrist who evaluated the young man and said, this was basically his
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sort of curiosity about a specific kind of sexual activity.
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He was just sort of curious about this for his own purposes, that he was not a pedophile.
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So those were the kinds of things apparently that judge Jackson took into account in that
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specific case that Senator Hawley spent a lot of time on.
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These people are, are just degenerates, all of them.
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Um, so here's some material from a Home Depot in Canada, um, talking about privilege.
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This was, uh, posted by libs of TikTok, always doing the work.
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You know, this is like what really just tells you the state of, uh, of the media that I would
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say that probably the top journalist in the country right now is the anonymous person who
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This is actual journalism, finding real stories about things that are happening and, and telling
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Um, so here's, here's something that says, uh, Home Depot has gone woke.
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And there's this worksheet that was handed out at a Home Depot in Canada.
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And it says leading practices, unpacking privilege, privilege now in a special benefit or advantage
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And then it goes into, there's two kinds of privilege, social privilege, um, that's a
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special unearned advantage or entitlement used to one's own benefit or to the detriment
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These groups can be advantaged based on social class, age, disability, ethnic, or racial category,
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gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion.
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Uh, and that's certainly, that, that definitely exists.
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I mean, there are people who have, because of their demographic category, they have social
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There are people who have social privileges based on their quote unquote gender identity.
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Um, in fact, the kinds of people who use phrases like gender identity and think that that's
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If you're in the, if you're, if you can claim membership to the LGBT club somehow fit
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your way under that ever expanding umbrella, then you have social privilege, but that's
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not the kind of privilege they're talking about, I assume.
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Um, and then also white privilege, that's societal privilege that benefits white people beyond
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what is commonly experienced by people of color under the same social, political, and economic
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And then it goes into, and then so, so those are the two broad categories.
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And then there's sort of these subcategories and it says what privilege looks like.
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If you're confident that the police exists to protect you, you have white privilege.
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So if you, if you do not believe that you're being hunted down by cops who want to execute
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you while you're just walking down the street, then you have privilege.
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If that's privilege, that's just the privilege of not being paranoid.
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Um, if while growing up college was an expectation of you, not a dream, you have class privilege.
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If you can expect time off from work to celebrate your religious holidays, you have Christian
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If you can use public bathrooms without stairs, fear, or anxiety, you have cisgender privilege.
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Like who, does anyone feel 100% comfortable in public restrooms?
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Like there's always a little bit of anxiety in public restrooms.
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Um, and then also able-bodied privilege and heterosexual privilege.
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And can I also say just a note that on the Christian privilege thing, I, I've always seen
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Like if you're getting off of work and you get off time off of school for someone else's
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religious holidays, how, how, doesn't that mean that you have the privilege?
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It seems like you get the extra privilege there.
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It's not even your holiday and you get to take off.
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If we're, if we're inviting you, we celebrate Christmas and we're saying, we're, you know
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We're going to give you a Christmas gift and you get to take off also.
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Um, no, the, the privilege would be, uh, we're going to take off for Christmas, but, but
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Um, yeah, able-bodied and heterosexual privilege.
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Home Depot said Wednesday that a worksheet about privilege that went viral is an unauthorized
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document from the company's Canada division, an anonymous Twitter account with the handle
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And they said that, um, Home Depot issued a statement saying that while it supports diversity
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at the company, the worksheet was not created or approved by its corporate diversity, equity
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Company said this, this was a resource in our Canada division and not part of any required
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So that's, this has already been labeled online as misinformation and debunked and everything.
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And it's not, this was, this was something that was used at a Home Depot and that was
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handed out to employees, apparently at a Home Depot.
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I mean, eventually it will though, because they, they admit that they have, well, you know,
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we have a corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion department.
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It's just like, that's that particular bit of brainwashing.
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So we have each individual Home Depot could do their own brainwashing.
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We have our, but we have the corporate version and that's not part of it yet, but that's
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I mean, once that, the whole point of having a diversity, equity, and inclusion department
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There's a certain significance to Home Depot starting to go woke because, um, as far as
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I know up until now, they were one of the few companies that had basically stayed neutral.
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Um, they were one of the few companies that up until this point, you know, at least hadn't
00:38:01.340
And that apparently is, uh, that, that was, that was never going to last, I suppose.
00:38:07.260
Finally from the daily wire says a group of congressional Democrats is pushing for president
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Joe Biden to continue the payment freeze on federal student loans, at least through the
00:38:15.840
And a letter to Biden on Monday, a group of 43 house Democrats led by Pennsylvania representative
00:38:19.540
Conor Lamb said the Biden, uh, administration needed to continue the progress made by Democrats
00:38:24.920
in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic by extending the pause or else the rapid transition to repayment,
00:38:30.560
uh, would risk borrowers being delinquent of defaulting on their loans.
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So we know the tactic now they want to get rid of student loans.
00:38:41.620
Um, which just means that of course that somebody else will be forced to pay for them.
00:38:48.640
Uh, you can't actually just snap your fingers and make the loans go away.
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But I think that they've found what they, what they believe to be a way around it.
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So instead of having student loan forgiveness, we'll just have a, a, a pause on student loans
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And everybody else with all of their other debts, uh, they still have to pay back those
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debts, but we're going to make an exception for student loans.
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Of course they can't explain it, but they can't explain anything else.
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Of course, as we've seen, like, what is a woman?
00:39:24.160
If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard.
00:39:32.380
The Chrome to Your Dome says, as a psychology, as a psychology PhD student, uh, I really wish
00:39:42.240
I could, uh, I've chosen a different profession.
00:39:48.320
Yeah, I, I hear this from people, you know, inside the psychiatric industry all the time.
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And I don't even need to hear it because it's quite obvious to me that there's, there's,
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it's not much of a secret, um, that the psychiatric industry is far, far, far left and has been
00:40:10.960
And that, that's a problem that we need to start talking about in a serious way on the
00:40:17.560
Um, we talk about, um, we talk about the bias in the news media.
00:40:25.180
We talk about it in the school system and it matters in all those places.
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Obviously it matters a lot, especially in the school system.
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But at a certain point, we got to talk about therapists, psychiatrists,
00:40:37.160
psychiatrists, uh, because most of these people are dyed in the wool, full blown ideologues,
00:40:45.740
leftists, and they're dealing with very vulnerable people who tend to trust them implicitly.
00:40:56.940
They're dealing with vulnerable people who are children.
00:41:00.180
And so they take advantage of that by indoctrinating, uh, same exact thing is happening all over the
00:41:08.240
Uh, the more that we can talk about that, the better.
00:41:15.120
John says, I've been a loyal subscriber of Matt for a couple of years now.
00:41:18.340
I think his points are really well articulated and he's helped me realize how bad the delusion
00:41:24.140
However, today I found out he pronounces the word crayon, how he pronounces the word crayon.
00:41:28.500
And I'm not sure I can look at him the same anymore.
00:41:31.540
Well, this is, well, because what do you want me to say?
00:41:40.060
I get made fun of all the time for the way I pronounce certain words.
00:41:43.320
Some of the pronunciation is just the fact that I'm stupid.
00:41:46.260
A lot of it is the fact that I'm from Maryland.
00:41:48.140
And in Maryland, if you've ever been there, we, the accent doesn't really make sense.
00:41:54.540
It pops up in these, there, there isn't a, uh, a real pattern to it all the time that
00:42:00.600
But, but the one thing is we, we just pronounce, we have a strange way of pronouncing basic words.
00:42:09.120
Uh, and finally, Vakula says, thank you, Matt, for your kind words of encouragement to those
00:42:15.660
Uh, I suffer from depression and I can attest to the truth of your words.
00:42:19.120
Go outside, play with a pet, talk to another human being.
00:42:22.380
It all helps immensely, even when the pills fail.
00:42:27.080
Well, that's, I appreciate you saying that because, um, yeah, you would think that just
00:42:33.220
pointing out that, Hey, get some exercise, get some sun, think about what you're eating,
00:42:40.660
You'd think that all this would be seen as just sort of helpful encouragement, some, some
00:42:46.560
You don't have to be a genius to know this, but people tend to get really upset when it
00:42:53.620
If you go outside of, of just saying, okay, go to a psychiatrist, uh, get some pills, take
00:42:59.240
If you go anywhere outside of that, then you're accused of being, you know, cruel somehow.
00:43:04.100
Well, of course, exactly the opposite is the case.
00:43:06.240
Well, as you heard right at the top of the show, telling you again, I've been working on
00:43:13.160
And, uh, I believe this could be the most important question and film of 2022.
00:43:19.420
I, I, I actually do believe that, that I think that this is, uh, the most important film that
00:43:26.420
We fearlessly and unflinchingly question the logic of a trans movement that has taken aim
00:43:33.600
It's, it's, it's not just around the fringes here that we're dealing with this issue.
00:43:43.820
What is a woman coming 2022, go to whatisawoman.com.
00:43:47.560
Um, and also as the beloved author of the bestselling children's LGBTQ plus book, Johnny
00:43:53.120
the Walrus, I am now a very important voice in the transgender conversation and I could
00:43:56.620
add, you know, I'm a documentarian now that I can add to children's author.
00:44:00.320
That's why I was invited on to Dr. Phil to discuss these issues, which if you haven't seen
00:44:05.700
Some of that might factor into this movie as well.
00:44:07.620
Maybe even more importantly, if you haven't picked up a copy of my bestselling children's book,
00:44:13.020
It sold out in 48 hours when it was released, but don't worry.
00:44:20.680
You know, every Hollywood action film these days must, it seems by law, feature at least
00:44:30.060
one ass kicking woman who can tussle with men three times her size and knock anyone to
00:44:37.740
Uh, most movies now tend to feature multiple women of this type, all of different races
00:44:41.620
and sexual orientations and all united by the fact that they, they don't need no man to
00:44:45.820
bail them out, fight their battles, rescue them from dragons, open their pickle jars.
00:44:50.960
Now I have in the past confess, confess to a certain annoyance when it comes to this familiar
00:44:56.280
I admit that I can't really take a young, attractive 110 pound actress seriously in the role of
00:45:02.280
an assassin or gunslinger or enforcer or any other sort of ruffian.
00:45:06.520
Now sure, movies are fictional, but, but a woman of this type who can physically dominate
00:45:12.400
strong men is so outside of the realm of actual human experience that, that every film which
00:45:18.120
features such a character automatically becomes kind of a cartoon.
00:45:21.460
If you're going to have Scarlett Johansson slapping dudes around, it might as well be Minnie
00:45:27.520
Of course, I say that I can't take a young, attractive woman seriously in this role, but,
00:45:31.640
but she still rates higher on the believability scale than a middle-aged woman.
00:45:35.540
I mean, Queen Latifah is 50 years old, out of shape, female.
00:45:39.780
And yet she stars as the violent, imposing, rough and tumble protagonist in the CBS show
00:45:45.600
It's like if they took Liam Neeson out of Taken and replaced him with your Aunt Betty.
00:45:55.080
Featuring many scenes where vastly outnumbered and outgunned good guys somehow managed to single-handedly
00:46:03.860
But at least it used to be like Bruce Lee or Bruce Willis doing that.
00:46:08.700
But if they remade Die Hard today, John McClane would be Jane McClane and he'd be played by
00:46:17.460
The psychological ropes suspending disbelief can only carry so much weight.
00:46:22.620
And yet, if I were not such a terrible quote-unquote sexist, and I took Hollywood at its word, and feminists at their word, and the left in general at its word, and believe that there's nothing inherently ridiculous about a woman physically going toe-to-toe with a man,
00:46:39.280
that I'd be all the more confused by the latest news from the U.S. Army.
00:46:44.800
On Wednesday, the U.S. Army revealed its new fitness test called the Army Combat Fitness Test, which has changed requirements so that it boasts different scoring standards for men and women.
00:46:54.980
Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston, the service's top enlisted leader, declared,
00:46:58.760
In most cases, the standards will be lowered, quote, following a congressionally mandated report from RANDCOR, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, that found nearly half of the service's women could not pass earlier standards for the test.
00:47:18.640
Military.com explains some differences in the expectations for men and women.
00:47:32.100
For example, a female soldier between 17 and 21 years old now has to deadlift between 120 and 210 pounds, while a male soldier has to deadlift between 140 and 340 pounds.
00:47:42.520
In that same age group, female soldiers have to run two miles between 23 minutes, 22 seconds, and 15 minutes, 29 seconds.
00:47:49.460
While male soldiers must perform that exercise between 22 and 13 minutes, 22 seconds.
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But they aren't just lowering the standards for each exercise.
00:47:58.760
They're also completely getting rid of any exercise that women have struggled to complete historically.
00:48:06.560
Leg tucks, which were required by the previous standard, have been eliminated to measure core strength.
00:48:14.380
And why are we doing all this, is the question.
00:48:33.360
What's the point of frantically changing and lowering the fitness requirements, especially at this particular moment in history, with the possibility of war, unfortunately, hanging over us?
00:48:44.400
I mean, we are looking at the possibility still of a world war.
00:48:47.740
And so right now is when you decide to lower the fitness test?
00:48:55.980
Well, steam picked up for Army planners to create a new test around the time when combat arms jobs, such as the infantry and cavalry, were opened to women in 2015.
00:49:04.420
The force initially sought to create a gender-neutral test and attempted to juggle dueling goals of creating a more inclusive force while also creating a fitter force.
00:49:13.780
Researchers at RAND found that only 52% of enlisted active-duty women were able to pass the original design for the ACFT, compared to 92% of men in their congressionally mandated study, released Wednesday.
00:49:25.220
Only 42% of women in the National Guard and 41% in the Reserve could pass.
00:49:32.400
Yes, this certain group of people are widely incapable of living up to the traditional fitness requirements for the military.
00:49:42.040
And so obviously what we must do is lower the requirements so that more members of that group could be in the military.
00:49:49.980
Now, this is logically unintelligible on a number of levels, starting with the fact that the very people who advocate for and impose these kinds of changes are also likely to claim in the next breath that men and women are the same.
00:50:02.560
And in fact, to stay on the subject of the day, the entire category of women is essentially non-existent.
00:50:12.020
How can women be equal to men, while at the same time the word woman means nothing, while at the same time, in the name of inclusion, we have to lower the standards for women because these women who are totally equal are also, it turns out, generally much weaker than men.
00:50:30.740
At least if you're looking for, you know, coherence grounded in anything resembling objective reality or truth.
00:50:39.660
When you understand first that leftists are relativists, this means that the truth itself changes depending on the situation.
00:50:45.920
At some level, these people are able to contradict themselves in the same sentence and yet believe both contradictory claims simultaneously.
00:50:58.980
The truth is relative to whatever their needs, feelings, desires, and goals are at any given moment.
00:51:02.780
But also, we must understand that the leftists running our institutions, to include the military, are not only engaged in a war on truth, but also in a war on this country.
00:51:16.400
They want to reduce it to rubble so that they can rebuild something new and hideous from the wreckage, something conceived in their own image.
00:51:24.000
You would not actively work to make your military weaker unless you wanted to destroy your country.
00:51:30.320
So, if it seems like this is deliberate, that's because it is.
00:51:36.240
And that's why today, maybe not the army itself, but the people in charge of deciding these kinds of policies are canceled.
00:52:17.400
Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, Katanji Brown Jackson says she's a neutral arbiter of the law, but also refuses to define the word woman.