Ep. 927 - 'We Aren't Grooming Children,' They Cry As They Groom Children
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The left insists that teachers aren t sexually indoctrinating elementary schoolers. Yet, there s video footage of teachers doing precisely that. Also, Pete Buttigieg says that children will die if he and his fellow groomers are not allowed to say whatever they want to our kids. And, Sam Elliott issues the inevitable groveling apology for committing the sin of not liking a gay cowboy movie.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left insists that teachers absolutely aren't sexually
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indoctrinating elementary schoolers, yet there's video footage of teachers doing precisely that.
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Also, Pete Buttigieg says that children will die if he and his fellow groomers are not allowed to
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say whatever they want to our kids. The truth is that gender ideology, as professed by Buttigieg
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and others, is what will kill kids and is killing kids. Also, Donald Trump endorses pro-abortion,
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anti-gun, pro-trans Dr. Oz, and a jury refuses to convict the men entrapped by the FBI in a
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plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Plus, Sam Elliott issues the inevitable groveling apology
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for committing the sin of not liking a gay cowboy movie. In our daily cancellation,
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some libertarians on YouTube tried to debunk me. We'll see how they did. All of that and more today
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to Charity Mobile today. As we have noted, one of the interesting things about the leftist reaction
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to the anti-groomer efforts in Florida and elsewhere is that they tell us the laws are totally
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unnecessary because nobody is trying to sexually indoctrinate young children anyway, and they also
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tell us that the laws are an assault on human rights and will result in millions of gay people
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dying of unspecified causes. The laws will do nothing, and also they will do very horrible things.
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At the exact same time. These claims obviously can't both be true, but let's look at them
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individually. If this is a non-issue and there is no sexual indoctrination of children happening
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anyway, then it's very hard to explain this video just posted by our nation's leading journalist,
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Libs of TikTok. Here we see a first grade teacher at a Boston charter school,
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Brooke Charter School is what it's called, instructing students in grades K through 2
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about transgenderism during what is being called an identity share zoom call. Listen to this.
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All right. So something that's really cool and unique about who I am is that I am transgender.
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So we touched a little bit about that at the beginning of this week in the book that Miss
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Hammond read, but I'm going to give you my explanation about what it means to be transgender
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as well. So when babies are born, the doctor looks at them and they make a guess about whether the baby
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is a boy or a girl based on what they look like. And most of the time that guess is 100% correct.
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There are no issues whatsoever. But sometimes the doctor is wrong. The doctor makes an incorrect
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guess. When the doctor makes a correct guess, that's when a person is called cisgender. When a doctor's
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guess is wrong, that's when they are transgender. So I'm a man. But when I was a baby, the doctors
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told my parents I was a girl. And so my parents gave me a name that girls typically have and bought
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me clothes that girls typically wear. And until I was 18 years old, everyone thought I was a girl.
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And this was super, super uncomfortable for me because I knew that wasn't right. The way I like to
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describe it is like wearing a super itchy sweater. The longer you wear it, the itchier it gets. And
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the only way to make the itching stop is to have everyone see and know the person that you really
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are. So when I was 18, I told my family and my friends that I'm really a boy. And it was like
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this huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders and I had the freedom to be who I truly am. And even
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though this experience is super challenging sometimes, it made me the person I am and I'm super proud to be
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transgender. This person is a disgrace to plaid, first of all. I'm ashamed to be wearing plaid on
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a day like today. Remember, nobody is talking to little kids about transgenderism, even though we
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have seen video after video after video of exactly that, teachers doing exactly that, and openly
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admitting that they've done and will continue to do exactly that. The teacher in the video tells the
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little helpless children that there are two categories of people, transgenders and cisgenders.
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Now, I think it's worth lingering here for just a moment to consider that claim in a little bit
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more depth. That is, after all, something that we can do as reasonably intelligent adults. We can
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analyze claims made by other adults and figure out whether they're credible. Lots of grownups in this
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country aren't even capable of that much. So then what chance do little kids have in that case? How
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are they supposed to sift through the nonsense and decipher truth from propaganda? Again, there are
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millions of adults in this country who will hear what the person in that video said and think,
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yep, makes perfect sense. So if adults can hear all of that blathering gibberish and be duped by it,
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what hope is there for like a seven-year-old? Yet those of us who have maintained our capacity for
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critical thought might notice that the transgender versus cisgender thing is, first of all, simply one
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binary system being substituted for another. Now, these people insist that the gender binary is
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artificial and limiting, and then they turn around and introduce a different system that is also binary.
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And where did they get the cisgender thing from? It's obvious why they find the term useful. It implies
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that normal people who identify as the sex they were born are not actually normal, but are instead just
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one possible variation. It also helps to reframe all human beings in the terms and language of LGBT
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ideology. Calling us cisgender is essentially like, it's like the LGBT version of a vicarious baptism.
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We are all baptized into their worldview, whether we like it or not.
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But where did the cisgender word come from? As it turns out, the term was first coined in 1991 by a
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German sexologist named Volkmar Sigush in a paper titled, Transsexuals and Our Nosomorphic View,
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whatever that means. Now, you'll notice a theme here. Almost every depraved and insane thing in our
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culture today, at least as it relates to sex, can be traced back to 20th century sexologists,
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especially German sexologists. And just like almost all the rest of them, Sigush took a rather
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tolerant view of pedophilia, drawing a distinguishing line between pedophiles and what he called,
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quote, pedosexuals. He said in an interview a few years ago that pedosexuals can be, quote,
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kind-hearted, informed, and enlightened, and that we should not try to cure them of their, quote,
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desires. But instead, we should just try to, you know, keep them from making physical contact with
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children. So the desire is not the problem. It's just the act itself. As mentioned, this accepting
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approach to pedosexuality is, quote, unquote, pedosexuality, as this person calls it, is a
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through line that connects nearly all of the 20th century sexologists and psychology quacks who
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invented gender ideology, John Money and Alfred Kinsey principle among them. So keep all this in
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mind when you hear the claims that critical race theory is just a legal theory and it isn't taught
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in schools. Well, cisgender was coined in a German sexology paper 30 years ago. Now it's being taught
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to kindergarteners. So there is a pipeline that takes radical, obscure, left-wing ideas directly
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into grade school and out into the wider culture. The pipeline in this case is more of a sewage line
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and we're all now living in the filth and muck that dumps out on the other end. There's something else
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worth noting in the video, though. The groomer teacher says that doctors guess about whether a baby is a
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boy or a girl. And I've heard this variation more and more frequently, this idea of, well, it's just a
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guess. And it is a kind of a significant departure from the usual sex assigned at birth narrative that
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we get from these people. Now that narrative is also completely false, of course, but because doctors
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no more assign a child sex than they assign the child species or DNA structure. But at least the assigned
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language pays some moderate deference to the concept of biological sex. The sex is assigned,
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quote unquote, based on the child's reproductive organs. But even that is too much for the trans
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ideologues. By changing the language to guess, the groomers are convincing children that the sex on
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their birth certificate is a completely random, totally arbitrary, haphazard designation. It's all
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a roll of the dice. It's not even an estimation or a theory or a prediction or a construct. It's simply
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a guess. Like, you know, I might guess about whether you're holding a quarter in your right or left hand,
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that kind of guess. The effect, quite intended, of course, is to make the child listening to this
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begin to question whether the doctor guessed correctly in his own case. It is destabilizing
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to the child. He thought he knew himself, but now he's not so sure. This is where the identity crisis
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begins. It is caused. It is imposed. It is started intentionally. And then years later,
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after a childhood full of unnecessary confusion, self-doubt, self-loathing,
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if that child then tragically succumbs to despair and hurts or kills himself,
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the same people who sent him down that path will then turn around and blame those of us who had
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absolutely nothing to do with it. This was illustrated late last week with this exchange
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between Pete Buttigieg and the clucking hens of The View. Listen.
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My state of Florida, with the so-called don't say gay law now, which he says will kill kids.
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Do you agree? And, you know, as a politician, because this strikes you as, you know,
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your husband is a teacher. You are obviously LGBTQ yourself and you are now a parent.
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Yeah. So how do you feel? Yeah, he's right. And I think every law ought to be judged for the effect
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it's going to have on real people in real life. And I get the political reasons why they're doing
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this. By the way, some of those political reasons, they don't have a plan on anything else, right? I
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mean, they don't have a plan on dealing with inflation or dealing with gas prices or dealing
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with the issues. Yes, he says the law will kill kids. If he's not allowed to groom children,
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they will die. Let him and his grooming comrades, all of them, the teachers, like the woman we saw
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in the first video, let them have their way. Let them unfettered access to our children or else our
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kids will die. It is the most insidious and vile form of emotional blackmail imaginable.
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And it's made all the more sinister by the fact that Buttigieg is the one who is getting kids
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killed. Him and the other gender ideologues, they're the ones doing it. They are getting kids
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killed. They are depriving children of identity, of truth, of true self-acceptance. And a great many
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of these kids will die and are dying because of it. And it's their fault. The groomers, it's their fault.
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former President Donald Trump endorsed celebrity doctor, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania's US Senate race
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on Saturday after his initial pick, Sean Parnell dropped out amid a contentious custody battle
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with his estranged wife last fall. Trump said his endorsement of Oz is all about winning elections
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in order to stop the radical left maniacs from destroying our country. Trump said in a statement,
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the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a tremendous opportunity to save America by electing
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the brilliant and well-known Dr. Mehmet Oz for the United States Senate. I have known Dr. Oz for
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many years, as have many others, even if only through his various, through his very successful
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television show. Trump touted the thousands of life-saving heart operations Oz has performed
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throughout his medical career and the eight New York Times bestsellers he authored.
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Trump also pointed to Oz's pro-life views, right, and his strength on the border election fraud in
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the military as reasons for his endorsement. Trump said, Dr. Oz is pro-life, very strong on crime,
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the border election fraud, our great military, and our vets, tax cuts, and will always fight for and
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support our under siege Second Amendment. He will ensure America will become energy independent again.
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Dr. Oz also passionately believes in high quality education and protecting parent involvement
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throughout the process. Okay, none of that, just so you know, none of that is remotely true at all.
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Dr. Oz is and has always been pro-abortion, anti-gun. He's spoken about this publicly many times. Now,
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maybe when he started running for Senate, he experienced a conversion on all of these issues
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all at once. But that's going to make you a little bit skeptical. I mean, somebody, I don't know how old
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Dr. Oz is. He's, let's say he's mid-60s at least. So a guy in his mid-60s has a certain point of view
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for his entire life and then decides to run for office as a Republican and all at once, magically,
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look at that. He's a, he has, it's a, it's a road to Damascus moment. What a coincidence.
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No, Dr. Oz is without a doubt, a full-on leftist, not just, not just like leans liberal establishment
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Republican type. He is a leftist. And I'll play a video in a second that proves this. He is a far
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left leftist. He is actually about as far left as you can be. He's on the cutting edge of leftism
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right now or, or damn near it at least. And I mean, we don't even, there are so many problems
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with Dr. Oz. We don't even need to mention the fact that he's not at all qualified to be Senator.
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The fact that he was a TV doctor for 20 years, I don't see, I don't really see the correlation
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between that and being an effective Senator. But then again, Senators don't really do much anyway.
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So I guess anyone could be qualified for it. So that's not even, that's not my problem with him.
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My problem is that he is a far left leftist. That's my issue that Donald Trump decided to
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endorse. Now I've heard over the weekend, many excuses for Donald Trump because there are people
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on the right, lots of people on the right who are always ready and eager to make excuses for
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Donald Trump because we've decided, and this has been the case for ever since Trump was on the scene
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as a political figure. It's been decided generally speaking by the right that Trump is never
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responsible for anything that he does. It's all like any, any mistake is always somebody else's
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fault. And so the excuse that I'm hearing for Trump is that, oh, it's his advisors. Ah, those,
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those damned advisors again. Well, maybe we should start asking, first of all, if it is his advisor's
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fault, why is he so terrible at hiring advisors? And second of all, is he not capable of analyzing
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these things for himself and seeing that Dr. Oz, I mean, it took me five minutes to discover that Dr.
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Oz is a leftist and I haven't known him for my entire life or I haven't known him for years like
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Trump has. So I don't buy that excuse. I also don't buy the excuse that, um, that, well, the other guy,
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you know, the other people, there, there, there are no good candidates in the race right now for Senate
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on the Republican side in Pennsylvania. And they're all a bunch of establishment milquetoast types.
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And so, uh, you know, there's, there, there is no good option that I can believe. I certainly
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believe that. So, but if that's the case, then either you endorse nobody or if you are going to
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endorse Dr. Oz for some reason, which I don't know why you would, because there's no way he's the best.
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I don't care who the other guys are. There's no way that Dr. Oz is better than them
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because it can't get much worse. But if you are going to do it, then just say that he's the lesser
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of two evils that he like, he's not great. But then again, uh, you know, he's, he's more likely
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to win in the general, whatever your argument is, just be honest about it. Don't try to put him
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forward as a pro-life champion. So if you want to know what Dr. Oz is all about, uh, let's go back
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to one of his, and this is the great thing about a guy who's been on TV forever is that he's,
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you could just go and watch the tape. He's, he has addressed all of these issues extensively
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in interviews and on his own show, and he's made his views very clear.
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So this is from, I believe, several years ago, in fact. So Dr. Oz, before it was
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as popular as it is now on the left to promote trans kids, before that, Dr. Oz, that's why I said
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he was, he's on the cutting edge of leftism. Here he was a few years ago on a show, um,
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singing the praises of childhood transgenderism. Watch.
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What if your son told you he was meant to be a she? She always knew that she is a girl. Would
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you let your child become the opposite sex? Talk to me about why I decided to have a double
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mastectomy at age 14. Inside the lives of transgender kids. This show is going to be
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controversial for a lot of people, challenging your beliefs about what it means to be male
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or female. The word you'll hear today is transgender. Transgender. It describes people whose sex on
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the outside doesn't match who they are on the inside. Now imagine your child is transgender.
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What would you do? Our lives as parents are first defined by the words, it's a girl or it's a boy.
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Could you make a decision to let your child live as the other sex even alter their body? It's an area
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of intense debate. Today you'll meet families coping with this astonishing reality.
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What does it mean to be a boy? What does it mean to be a girl? Those two simple questions
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are infinitely complex and gut-wrenching for parents of children who are born transgender.
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Eight-year-old Josie was born Joseph. Physically, she's a boy, but from the time she could talk,
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Doesn't get any better, by the way. You can see the entire episode if you can stomach it,
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which is on YouTube right now. And lest you try to make any excuses for Dr. Oz and say,
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well, he's just talking about the issue. He's taking an objective view of it. Well,
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even that would be terrible because you can't take an objective view of children being sexually abused,
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which is what this is. There's no, there's no, well, you know, these kids are being sexually
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abused, but let's, let's think of it objectively. That is already terrible,
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but that's not even what he's doing. I mean, it's very clear in the episode that he is promoting this.
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He is, he is legitimizing it, validating it, using his doctor label to validate this stuff.
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And that's very, it's very effective in lots of people's minds. I mean, there are a lot of people
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who for years have been sitting around watching these, these, these kinds of people on, on TV
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and they see this stuff promoted and they think, well, Hey, if Dr. Oz says it's fine or that it's
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valid, then it must be. He says that, well, what does it mean to be a boy? It's, it's infinitely
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complex. It's not complex. Actually, it's not complex at all. It's very simple.
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And you know, you must know that as a medical professional.
00:24:18.080
So you watch that and you think like this guy is running for Senate as a Republican
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and he just got an endorsement from the previous Republican president.
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I think it's the Republican party is in shambles, in shambles right now.
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But when, when, when that, I mean, if that becomes accepted, that becomes fully mainstream
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accepted on the right or among Republicans, then it is over. And I mean, it's, it's done.
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It's over. Um, because that is, that has to be a deal breaker. I don't, we could get into
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his positions on abortion, gun rights. I mean, all of it is bad, but if you're endorsing trans
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children, the concept of their being such a thing as a trans child, um, that has to be
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the, where the line is drawn deal breaker, that's it.
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And if it's not, and if we let that become the standard in the Republican party,
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then it's, it's done. It's over. And then you have Democrats. And then on the other side,
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you have Democrats and that's all that there is. And I know you might say that we're already in
00:25:33.940
that position where you've got the Democrat party and the Democrat light party. I would say that
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we're, we're, we're not there yet. There is a battle within the Republican party right now over,
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you know, it's a kind of a civil war. It really depends on, on who wins that battle
00:25:50.480
because Ron DeSantis is also a Republican and he obviously is not endorsing transgenderism in
00:25:58.120
children. So you've got two sides, the two sides of the Republican party kind of battling it out
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right now. And if the side that wants to mainstream this kind of stuff, gender ideology, if they win,
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then it's done politically it's done. All right, let's go to this from the federalist. It says a jury
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refused on Friday to convict any of the four men standing trial for supposedly plotting to kidnap
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Michigan, Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, after strong evidence that the FBI tricked them
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into the plan. After 20 days of trial, jurors determined that Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta
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were not guilty of felony charges, a conspiracy to unlawfully seize, confined, kidnap, abduct,
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and carry away and hold for ransom and reward or otherwise the governor of the state of Michigan.
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Jurors could not agree on the fates of Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., the other two.
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So those men left the trial with no verdict and with the possibility of being brought to trial
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again. Prosecutors representing the U.S. Department of Justice argue that the group of men were
00:26:54.400
anti-government extremists who schemed to violently take down Whitmer for her role in promoting
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COVID-19 and tyranny in Michigan. But right now, because the defense argues, I think correctly,
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that this was not their plot, okay? The four men, they didn't come up with this. This wasn't
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their plot. The FBI came up with it and recruited them into it. The FBI came up with a plot to kidnap
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the governor of Michigan and then went and suggested it to other people and tried to recruit them into
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it. And so who do you blame for that? You blame the FBI. And that's why this verdict, or in two cases,
00:27:33.880
kind of a non-verdict, as it stands right now, this is the right decision. We'll see what happens if
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there's a retrial or something. Hopefully there isn't. But my point is, if you're really worried
00:27:48.220
about the police state or law enforcement abuses or whatever it is, you should be happy with this result
00:27:57.240
tentatively. You should be happy with it. Because this is, without a doubt, law enforcement abuse. And there's a
00:28:05.000
whole lot of it that happens with the FBI. But you don't find that on the left. I mean, the left is
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very upset that they want all these guys to go to jail forever. And I think this is something that
00:28:18.100
our side gets wrong and that I get wrong. Or at least we talk about this in a way that's imprecise.
00:28:25.320
Because we often say, and I have said, that the left is anti-police. Well, I mean, they aren't,
00:28:35.700
actually. I kind of wish they were. Now, I mean, it's not good to be anti-cop. You shouldn't be.
00:28:42.280
But that would be better than what they actually are. Because at least if you're just anti-cop in
00:28:47.540
general, you're basically an anarchist, then that's a consistent principle, at least. And it would
00:28:53.780
mean that you would be skeptical. You'd be consistently, constantly skeptical, probably
00:28:58.880
overly skeptical of law enforcement. But it would mean that when there's actual law enforcement
00:29:05.540
abuse happening on any side to anybody, you would be there and you'd be very critical of it.
00:29:10.440
If you're just anti-cop across the board. Again, not the right approach, but it's better than
00:29:16.000
what we actually get from the left, which is that their view of law enforcement and of police,
00:29:23.320
it really depends on who's on the other side. Like, who's the person being arrested? Who's the
00:29:31.380
person potentially being abused, exploited, whatever? I mean, when you look at the way they
00:29:41.220
react to, you know, George Floyd or Michael Brown or any of these cases with any of the BLM
00:29:47.720
martyrs, you'd be excused if that's all you saw of the left and of their approach to law enforcement.
00:29:57.340
You'd be excused for thinking that, oh, well, these people just hate the cops. Because like,
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even when the police are trying to arrest a violent criminal, and in the case of Michael Brown,
00:30:07.200
the violent criminal is trying to kill them. And even then, you know, leftists are not tolerant of
00:30:14.600
the police using any kind of lethal force in response. It seems like from their perspective,
00:30:20.800
if a violent criminal is trying to kill a police officer, it's the police officer's ethical duty
00:30:26.340
to just stand there and allow themselves to be killed. So you see that, and it seems like extreme,
00:30:34.120
like an extreme anti-police bias. But then you go over to the other side, and you see a Capitol
00:30:41.360
police officer shooting an unarmed woman in the neck inside the Capitol building, and they're
00:30:45.960
celebrating that. You see the FBI blatantly trying to entrap people into criminal conspiracies,
00:30:54.400
and they're fine with that. So this is not a consistent principle, and that's because on the
00:31:00.760
left, there are no consistent principles, period. This is a relativistic view of the world, and so
00:31:08.340
everything is always relative. And that explains, as Daily Wire reports, leftist MSNBC host Joy Reid
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tweeted her disgust Friday with the Michigan jury that did not convict four men of conspiring to
00:31:20.060
kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Reid, as she often does, focused on the race and political
00:31:25.260
leanings of the accused men, arguing that they were not convicted because they're white right-wing
00:31:29.360
extremists. She tweeted, quote, unreal. So in America, in the year of our Lord 2022,
00:31:34.700
you can plot to kidnap a Democratic woman governor to stage a show trial to hurt her or worse because
00:31:39.920
you don't like COVID restrictions, and then you can walk as long as you're a white right-wing
00:31:43.960
extremist. Holy jury nullification, Batman. Yes, because when you look at the response to January 6th
00:31:51.720
from the federal government, obviously the only conclusion you can draw is that if you're on the
00:31:57.040
right, law enforcement will just leave you alone. Right? That's the obvious conclusion.
00:32:03.440
By the way, Joy Reid, since we're on the subject, she found other things to racialize as well. That
00:32:07.740
should actually be the name of her show. I don't know what the name of her show actually is, but
00:32:11.480
whatever it is, it should be racialized with Joy Reid. I think that's a much better name.
00:32:16.980
And here she is this weekend looking at the racial element of the media's focus on Ukraine. Listen.
00:32:24.860
We haven't witnessed the same type of solidarity for the Yemenis as we do for the Ukrainians.
00:32:30.180
We don't see historic sanctions or global campaigns, corporations like Airbnb and Netflix
00:32:35.300
taking a stand. And this is not to say that we shouldn't care this much for Ukraine. Far from
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it. The point is we should also care this much for refugees and those facing occupation and war
00:32:44.500
in the Middle East and Asia and Africa too. The coverage of Ukraine has revealed a pretty radical
00:32:49.460
disparity in how human Ukrainians look and feel to Western media compared to their browner and
00:32:55.140
blacker counterparts, with some reporters using very telling comparisons in their analyses of the
00:33:00.660
war. It's very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair
00:33:08.320
being killed, children being killed every day with Putin's missiles. The unthinkable has happened to
00:33:14.020
them. And this is not a developing third world nation. This is Europe. This isn't a place with all due
00:33:20.920
respect, you know, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. You know,
00:33:28.680
this is a relatively civilized, relatively European. I have to choose those words carefully to
00:33:34.520
a city where you wouldn't expect that or hope that it's going to happen.
00:33:39.600
Civilized. OK, let's face it. The world is paying attention because this is happening in Europe and
00:33:45.220
this was happening anywhere else. Would we see the same outpouring of support and compassion?
00:33:49.180
But we don't need to ask ourselves if the international response would be the same if
00:33:53.240
Russia unleashed their horror on a country that wasn't white and largely Christian because Russia
00:33:57.880
has already done it in Syria. This is a teachable moment for us in the media. We aren't afraid to
00:34:04.640
call out our own industry. There is a lot of soul searching that we need to do in Western media
00:34:09.180
about why some wars and lives seem to matter more than others.
00:34:12.580
First of all, not to get into semantics, but actually the media, the media did focus.
00:34:26.400
But all of her criticisms about the media, you know, and their focus on Ukraine, like that,
00:34:33.400
you work for MSNBC. That's, you're one of the drivers of this.
00:34:37.560
And I actually agree as I've, as I argued from the beginning
00:34:42.440
that the focus on Ukraine is out of proportion with the way we look at other parts of the world.
00:34:54.320
It's not, it's not, it's not for racial reasons though.
00:34:56.820
And by the way, if you want to make it racial, well, you could easily look at it from the other end.
00:35:08.080
Why is the media focused on Ukraine so much? Well, yeah, you could say that the, the victims in this
00:35:13.760
case have, have it, you know, appear to be white, have lighter, have a lighter skin tone. And so that's
00:35:19.420
why people are focused on, um, okay, well, the, the bad guys, right? People, people on the other
00:35:26.280
side, Putin, you could just as easily argue from the perspective of the, of left-wing media,
00:35:32.140
you know, they prefer this story because they like him as a bad guy. Whereas if you go into other
00:35:38.880
parts of the world, you're going to find that, yes, the victims are not white, but also the bad guys
00:35:43.560
aren't white. So you'd easily look at it that way. If you want to racialize it becomes a double-edged
00:35:51.460
sword, but really the racial narrative either way is it's, it doesn't really explain it. And the fact
00:35:59.280
is that Afghanistan did dominate the headlines for a few months back around the time of the, of the
00:36:06.920
Afghanistan, uh, pull, pull out. It really is up to why, like, why do we focus on this? So that we
00:36:15.720
focused on Afghanistan, it was Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan. And then we just drop
00:36:19.500
it like a hot potato, move on to the next thing. I mean, it's not like everything, it's not like
00:36:26.300
everything is fixed in Afghanistan. It's not like it's better. We just moved on or talking about
00:36:31.200
something else. Why is that? Well, I guess we should, we should ask the media, we should ask Joy
00:36:39.320
Reed, go talk to your bosses about that. They're the ones who are determining this. Um, it's not,
00:36:48.840
it's not a right wing conspiracy. It's a corporate media decision. And the corporate media is not run by
00:36:56.340
white, uh, right wingers. I can tell you that. All right. One other thing I got to play for you.
00:37:02.720
This is, uh, we could call it disappointing. Also not really disappointing because it's, it's totally
00:37:08.540
expected. Sam Elliott's is of course the famous, iconic Hollywood actor. And a couple few weeks ago,
00:37:16.220
we, um, gave him some credit because he was asked about this power of the dog, which is this
00:37:23.000
very artsy Western, terrible, boring movie, dull, very dull movie. That's I defy you to watch that
00:37:29.060
movie and make it through 15 minutes without falling asleep. And it was nominated for a bunch
00:37:32.560
of awards and everything. And it's about a gay cowboy and the critics are hailing it because of
00:37:37.300
the gay themes and everything else. Um, Sam Elliott in a podcast was asked about this movie and he gave
00:37:42.720
an honest answer. He said, he doesn't, he doesn't like it. He doesn't, you know, he just doesn't,
00:37:46.000
he doesn't need those kinds of themes in a Western. He likes the more traditional Westerns.
00:37:49.640
That's his, that was his honest opinion about it. And, um, of course people were very upset
00:37:55.280
about his honest opinions because he was asked about his opinion of the movie.
00:38:00.120
But just because as we've learned, just because you're asked about your opinion of something,
00:38:04.140
that doesn't mean that you're, that you're actually entitled to give your opinion.
00:38:07.560
What they want to hear is you repeat the accepted opinion and pretend like it's your own,
00:38:14.140
whether it is or not. And so people are very upset about that. And, uh,
00:38:18.180
and Sam Elliott was on a panel a couple of days ago, was asked again, and he is now singing a little
00:38:24.980
bit of a different tune. Listen. Yeah. First, don't go do a podcast whose call letters are WTF.
00:38:47.120
And in trying to tell the guy, the WTF guy, how I felt about the film,
00:38:55.140
I wasn't very articulate about it. I didn't articulate it very well. And I said some things
00:39:06.260
that hurt people. And I feel terrible about that. The gay community has been incredible to me
00:39:20.200
my entire career. And I mean my entire career from before I got started when I was in this town.
00:39:31.080
Friends on every level. In every job description.
00:39:36.680
Up until today with my agent, my dear friend, my agent of a number of years.
00:39:43.200
And I'm sorry that I hurt any of those friends and someone that I loved
00:40:00.780
Is he going to cry? It looks like he's about to cry. I couldn't keep listening to the,
00:40:05.600
watching the clips. I don't know where, where it goes. It can't go anywhere good from here.
00:40:09.100
It just goes to show, look, these, these are actors. The characters they portray on screen
00:40:15.820
are fake, of course, and oftentimes do not reflect who they really are at all. So
00:40:19.540
Sam Elliott has made a career playing these kind of gritty, tough, you know, Western badass type
00:40:25.440
figures. And here he is on a panel in Hollywood crying because people were, had their feelings hurt
00:40:32.640
by his opinion about a movie. He's, he's, he's, he's apologizing to the people who he hurts.
00:40:39.680
And those are people who were hurt by Sam Elliott's opinion of power of the dog.
00:40:48.580
They, they were hurt because Sam Elliott had an opinion about a movie that they disagreed with.
00:40:55.780
Hurt. We never get any specifics on how this, like, in what way were they hurt? How could they
00:41:03.980
have been hurt by that? But they were. So Sam Elliott grovels and apologizes. It's just, it's a
00:41:11.180
damn shame. I mean, he's old. He's in his, you know, he's in his seventies. He's obviously rich.
00:41:16.560
He's got plenty of money. Um, and he has everything that he needs to just throw up the middle finger
00:41:23.840
to all of the sensitive cry, cry bullies that not even really sensitive, the pretend sensitive cry
00:41:31.300
bullies and say, you know what? I don't care, but he's not going to do that because he lives in
00:41:36.620
Hollywood and this is how he's been. He himself has been conditioned his whole life and it won't
00:41:42.880
matter either. He is. It doesn't, you've already, it's too late, Sam. You've revealed your actual
00:41:49.400
opinion about something. Cat's out of the bag and everyone knows the secret. Now they know the
00:41:55.740
secret that you actually have your own opinions about things. And, and God forbid you, you, you
00:42:04.200
maybe sometimes enjoy watching movies where, um, uh, there's, there's not, uh, LGBT ideology being,
00:42:12.480
being, uh, shoved in your face every second. Like you sometimes prefer to watch movies without that,
00:42:17.680
God forbid. So you've already revealed that they know it now and you can cry and apologize all you
00:42:23.120
want. It's not going to change it. Could have kept your dignity, decided to give it up and you get
00:42:29.840
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00:43:59.120
Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day. We're the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:44:09.040
All right, some comments from Friday's show. John Williams says,
00:44:12.060
I cannot believe that anyone could listen to what Matt is describing and still be pro-choice. Well,
00:44:16.020
they don't listen, John. That's the trick. They don't, not just to me, they just don't listen.
00:44:22.200
They tune it out as much as they can. And that's how they remain pro-abortion. It's the only way that
00:44:28.580
you can remain pro-abortion, I think, is to be very careful about what you expose yourself to. I think
00:44:37.720
it was C.S. Lewis that said something along the lines of, you know, an atheist can never be too
00:44:42.420
careful in his reading because the point C.S. Lewis was making is that atheism is this kind of this
00:44:48.960
fragile thing and you have to protect it very carefully by making sure you don't expose yourself
00:44:53.800
to anything that could shatter that view into a million pieces. And it's the same thing with
00:45:01.100
being pro-abortion. That's why clinics know this. The abortion mills, they know this for sure.
00:45:08.540
That's why they've conspired with the government. They've got all these special laws.
00:45:15.620
No other, by the way, no other industries, no other private establishments get this kind of law,
00:45:19.700
but there are laws on the books where you're not allowed to get within X number of yards of an
00:45:24.600
abortion mill. Even if you're not on their property, like public property, they still get this radius.
00:45:31.880
No one else gets it. They get it because of this relationship between the abortion industry and
00:45:37.320
government, this kind of incestuous relationship. So they have that. They've got clinic escorts who
00:45:43.640
come out. And when the women are coming in to kill their babies, they send the escorts out. And the
00:45:47.280
escorts' whole job is just to make sure that the women don't look over at any protesters that might be
00:45:52.580
there. They don't receive any of the literature that someone might try to hand to them.
00:45:56.480
It's all about keeping this fragile thing intact.
00:46:06.780
Let's see. Nate says, if you make abortion illegal, there will be an influx of back alley procedures.
00:46:13.800
Well, maybe the mother of the child will reconsider something so dangerous if they themselves could
00:46:17.520
be put in harm's way. Yeah, that's the correct response to this back alley claim that, oh,
00:46:23.500
if we don't have abortions, then you're going to have unsafe and dirty abortions that happen in back
00:46:28.740
alleys. Well, the problem is that every abortion is unsafe by definition. The objective of the abortion
00:46:39.020
is to destroy life, and so there's no safe way to do it. And also, it is a dirty, evil, terrible thing
00:46:50.940
to do in the first place. And in a civilized society, you don't provide a nice, clean,
00:46:58.980
welcoming environment for people to do dirty, evil, destructive, horrible things to their kids,
00:47:05.640
most of all. Let's see. Mike Mart says, this biromantic asexuality nonsense reminds me of the
00:47:15.280
infinite fracturing of musical styles that the punk rock scene spawned back in the 90s. You can no
00:47:20.700
longer talk about your favorite artist without the initiated lecturing you on whether their style
00:47:25.240
was pre-this, post-that, neo-something, or proto-something else. The growing palette of genders
00:47:30.280
and sexualities creates an ever-increasing array of self-branding opportunities for people desperate
00:47:35.000
to stand out in a rather bland culture. I want to say we are reaching peak narcissism,
00:47:39.580
but we could have a long way to go yet before the worship of the self comes into its full flower.
00:47:45.320
Very well put. I don't think I need to add anything to it. James says, Matt, after your
00:47:49.960
take on chain restaurants, I have to say you're banned from the show. Yes, this is another reason
00:47:54.380
why I'm being viciously attacked today, aside from my great style and my sandals and socks.
00:48:01.260
All I said on Twitter yesterday is that actually all sit-down chain restaurants are fine,
00:48:07.380
and some are even good. And in the vast majority of cases, the boutique kind of nice, trendy
00:48:13.660
restaurants aren't enough of an improvement over the chains to justify the price. That's my point.
00:48:20.400
So, for example, I've never been to a nice Italian restaurant that's enough of an upgrade over Olive
00:48:28.280
Garden or Carrabba's to make it worth the premium you pay for it. I know this is being treated like
00:48:32.960
heresy, and I've got all the Italians coming after me. How could you say this? Well, it's,
00:48:37.380
true. I'm not saying, yeah, you could go to the nice Italian place, and the spaghetti is going to
00:48:41.340
be, you know, a little better than Olive Garden. It's not better enough to justify how much more
00:48:45.960
you're paying for it. That's my take, and I'm sticking to it. And look, I've been to nice
00:48:51.200
restaurants all over the country. I've been to the kind of places that are renowned. You know,
00:48:55.140
you hear about, oh, this is famous across the world. It's the best place. And you go in,
00:48:59.240
and they're always good, but they're almost never good enough for the price.
00:49:03.700
And I usually leave there thinking, man, I could have just gone to Red Robin and paid a tenth of
00:49:09.740
the price, and I'd be just as full right now, and the food experience would have been only slightly
00:49:15.980
worse. That's my take. So, that's a hot take that's actually, it's on the positive end of things. I
00:49:21.700
don't do those very often. Usually, my hot takes are, oh, actually, this thing that you think is good
00:49:26.160
is bad. I'm saying this thing that you think is bad is actually good. So, you should just,
00:49:30.320
everyone should appreciate that, for what it is, at least. Let's get to our Daily Cancellation.
00:49:38.580
Today, for our Daily Cancellation, we'll be responding to another YouTube video,
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which endeavors to expose, humiliate, and debunk yours truly. This one was posted by two people
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named Brad Palumbo and Hannah Cox. They don't have a very large following. You'll see why in a moment.
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And perhaps by most standards are not worth my time, but they represent something that I find
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particularly annoying, and so I can't really help myself. They are smug, self-satisfied libertarians.
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Not that there's any other kind of libertarian, of course. And nothing irritates me more than smug,
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self-satisfied libertarians, which is why I feel compelled to speak out and respond.
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Brad and Hannah react to three of my, quote-unquote, controversial opinions. The first is my take on the
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dating scene. The second is my opinion about alleged mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.
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And the third is a tweet that I posted like four or five years ago, where I said that yoga is a
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satanic pagan ritual. I stand by all of those opinions, especially the last one about yoga.
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Yoga is most certainly a depraved, despicable, and blasphemous, and also sacrilegious act.
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But as important as that discussion is, due to time constraints, I'm going to focus today on the
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portion of the video, which covers the first two subjects. There's a little bit more meat on the
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bones there. So let's get into it. Hey guys, I'm Brad Palumbo. This is Hannah Cox. Welcome back
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to Libertarians React. We're the co-founders of Base Politics. And today we're reacting to
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the one and only Matt Walsh. This is going to be really hot take-ish. I think we're going to have
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very strong reactions as much as he has to say. If you don't know Matt Walsh, he's a blogger,
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Christian conservative, extreme traditionalist who really likes to push his way of thinking on other
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people. That's something we don't really stand for as libertarians. So we're going to work
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and break them down. Let us know your thoughts. Make sure to leave your comments as well.
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Okay, a couple of problems here. First of all, turn the music in the background down a few notches.
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Also, I haven't been a blogger for like five years. I'm a podcaster now. Get it right. Podcast is
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blogging in vocal form, but still. Also, these two characters are the co-founders of something called
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based politics, which is like me being the founder of something called vegan feminist
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yoga politics. Actually, that would be far less absurd because I am, after all, a best-selling
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women's studies author. But libertarians, on the other hand, are definitely not based,
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especially not these libertarians. In fact, it's fair to say that the term based could literally be
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defined as the opposite of these two. Speaking of not being based, they accused me of pushing my way
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of thinking on other people. What? How? By expressing my opinions? Isn't that exactly what
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they are doing? If I push my opinions on other people by saying them out loud,
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then aren't they pushing their opinion of me onto me by making an entire video about me?
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When exactly does spoken opinion graduate from being just an opinion to being a form of compulsion?
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I'm assuming that line is crossed the moment you say something that these two don't like.
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Let's continue. So in this first clip, he endorses arranged marriages.
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Let's take a listen. Now, on the complete opposite end of the spectrum are arranged marriages.
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Instead of a boundless, never-ending buffet of options, a young person in a culture that
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practices arranged marriages will be assigned just one, and they don't even make the choice.
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Their families just pair them up and say, here you go. There's far less freedom.
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And far less autonomy in a system of that sort, but it is, without a doubt, superior to our system.
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We would be happier. Every person in the dating scene right now would be happier if they were
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just matched up with someone against their will. Against their will? That's a new dating app, right?
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Against your will. Here you go. You're assigned this person. Go make babies.
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What the heck is wrong with them? I don't know. How is it conservative to be like,
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yeah, it would have a lot less freedom and individual rights, but it'd be better? That's
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like, that's not what conservatism in America has ever been about.
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How bad is your marriage? Is what I want to know. That you think people should just be like,
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assign people like a lottery system. Like, here you go. And that would be just as good as whatever
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you found. It's a little rapey, to be honest. The vibes of like, yeah, women should be assigned
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to me as my wife. No, they should not, sir. They should not.
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This seems like it comes from a very incel kind of mindset of like, I can't get women on my own.
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Yeah. Just a quick tip for any future Libertarians react videos. I would dial down the music,
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but also the shrillness and smugness by about eight or nine points. Because right now you're
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at a full 10 on the smarmy dork scale. And it's frankly a bit overwhelming. As mentioned,
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Libertarians in general have a serious problem with smugness. But here I think we've met like the
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Libertarian smug super spreaders. These are our patient zeros of Libertarian smugness.
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They also have zero in the way of arguments, rebuttals, or clever comebacks.
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They are, of course, being wildly dishonest about my argument. I never said that arranged
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marriages are ideal. I also never said that women should be assigned to me to be married. I also
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never mentioned that women should be the only ones subjected to it. I said that arranged marriages
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are better than our current approach to dating. That's simply because our current approach couldn't
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possibly be any worse. But is there at least some wisdom to the arranged marriage model?
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Yes, there is. And before you continue scoffing and gasping at the very idea that there could be
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anything redeeming in it, consider that many cultures around the world, especially non-Western
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cultures, have had and still have such a system. Are they all just a bunch of idiot troglodytes,
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Brad and Hannah? Are you sure you want to make that argument? If that's the broad brush you want to use
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to paint billions of people and dozens of cultures across the world and throughout history,
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go for it, I guess. Fits with the whole smug theme, I guess. As for me, my preferred system is
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essentially the one we had in this country before the modern dating scene began to form, and certainly
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before hookup culture and dating apps took hold. I favor courtship, where the dating phase is understood
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by all parties concerned to be the path to marriage. Typically, in a courtship culture, families
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may not choose your spouse, but they are heavily involved in selecting potential matches.
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This is far superior to our current arrangement, where a legion of confused, lethargic, hapless
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single people scroll endlessly through avatars on their phones, randomly selecting one after another
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for fleeting temporary flings, where emotion, infatuation, and physical attraction are the
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only driving forces, the only litmus test. You would, in fact, be better off just having your family
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choose your spouse for you than making decisions that way, which is the most superficial, unreliable,
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and chaotic way possible. And ironically, the girl in the video actually makes this point for me
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No. One time my dad tried to set me up with somebody, and I was aghast at who he thought
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I would like. I was actually insulted. I was like, Dad, you know I'm cute, right? Like,
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you know I don't have a problem pulling men, right? Like, no.
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But at least that was a suggestion. It wasn't a...
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It was a suggestion what he would like me to be with, which was like this super Christian guy
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who was in his church and who was slightly balding, but he thought it was a good option
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for me. So he was like a really good guy. And I was like, yeah, I'm going to need a really
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good guy who's not balding. And also who doesn't live in Anderson, South Carolina, because I'm
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for sure as hell not. And like, you know, those kinds of things. So all I'm saying is I would
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never... I love my parents dearly, but I would never want them to pick my mate. They would
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have no clue how to begin to pick who I would actually want.
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Yeah. No, it's just creepy. And it's really crazy. And I just can't relate to that one at all.
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Can someone make a video attacking me that's, like, put some effort into it? I'm looking
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for a good challenge here. This is just... So your dad set you up with someone who you
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admit is a really good guy, but he's losing his hair, so you had no interest in him. And
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you say that you're too attractive to be wasting your time with men who have the audacity to
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possess physical flaws. Now, look, I wouldn't usually say what I'm about to say, but speaking
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to the girl now, you earlier felt comfortable commenting on my marriage inaccurately, of course.
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So you've opened yourself up to some harsh truths. And here it is, cupcake. You may be
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slightly overestimating yourself. You seem to have erroneously given yourself a couple of
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extra points on the 1 to 10 physical attractiveness scale. Just a tip. And even if you hadn't, if
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you're single and making your decisions based on hairlines, you're either going to be lonely
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and miserable, as you are right now, for the rest of your life, or eventually you're going
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to be frivolously marrying some scumbag who isn't a good guy, but at least still has all
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his hair. And a short time later, you're going to file for divorce and try to make yourself
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into the victim of your failed marriage when it's your own vanity and stupidity that put
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you in that position. One of those two results are your destiny, unless you learn to look a
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little deeper in your search for a mate. The fact that you can't look deeper right now
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and that your father seems to have a better view of who would be a good match for you than
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you do only proves my point. You yourself specifically would be better off with an
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arranged marriage. Now, I'm not sure I could say the same for the poor sap who ends up with
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you on the altar, but you would actually be better off with that. So from here, the dynamic
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duo moved to my unorthodox opinions on alleged mental illnesses like anxiety and depression.
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They didn't offer anything that could reasonably be described as an argument against my take on
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dating. Let's see if they might get around to attempting an actual refutation on this topic,
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at least. Let's listen. One of the worst things to happen in modern times is the medicalization
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of the human condition. Now people who experience anxiety think they're sick. They aren't. Anxiety
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is a fundamental fact of human existence. It is not a disease. That's what I wrote. That's
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what I believe. We have set out to medicalize and disease-ify every aspect of the human condition,
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every difficult emotion, every unpleasant personality trait. That's why the DSM now has
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something like 300 mental disorders listed and over 50 million adults in this country have been
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diagnosed with at least one of them. Which one of those applies to trolls who say outlandish things
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for attention? Right. I hate this. Yeah. You hate this too, I'm sure. I do. I'm very bothered by it,
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but it's also just like very objectively wrong. Literally, depression is a chemical imbalance in the brain
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that you can observe in someone. You can look at the brain scan of somebody who's clinically depressed
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for someone else and see the difference. It is not the same as just feeling sad sometimes. And it's
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so harmful when so many people lose their lives to these conditions and die by suicide to be just
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out here on this hill with this completely medically uninformed and unscientific take that's just,
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Ah, just for attention. So I just want attention. What is it that you want when you talk about me?
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The title of this video is Libertarians React to Three Wildest Matt Walsh Trad Contacts,
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parentheses, Matt Walsh Show. They put my name in their title twice and I'm the one begging for
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attention. But this is the kind of free thinking we get from libertarians. If you have an opinion
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that ventures outside of the mainstream, it must be just a ploy for attention. These two literally
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cannot imagine how or why any human being could or would ever formulate an independent thought
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otherwise. They're dumbfounded by the very idea of ideas. Their dumbfoundedness is especially
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embarrassing in this case because anxiety and despair are huge topics, deep and important topics,
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and topics that people have been discussing and debating for thousands of years. As far as these
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two are concerned, though, the debate is over, I guess. The pharmaceutical industry
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has settled the debate. We are all now ethically bound to agree with big pharma or else we're
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harmful malignant trolls just out for attention. Now, Brad smugly assures us that I'm factually
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wrong. Depression is a chemical imbalancement, he says. While the chemical imbalancement theory of
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depression was cutting edge about 75 years ago, in this century, Brad, it's roundly understood by nearly
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every credible scientist and researcher to be a misnomer. The drug companies still talk about
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chemical imbalance. Dumb libertarians on YouTube still talk about it. But the people who understand
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the issue and who want others to understand it have long since moved on from it. There is, in fact,
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no evidence of any simple measurable imbalance that easily explains depression. You cannot diagnose
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depression with a brain scan. Absolutely you cannot. And they don't, by the way.
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If you could diagnose it that way, that's how they diagnose it. But they don't.
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You might want to read some literature on the topic that was written sometime after World War II,
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Brad. Just a tip. Okay, one more clip. Let's watch.
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Anxiety and depression can be normal human experiences if you are experiencing situational
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anxiety or depression. And that can be a small blip that you have to work through. Say,
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you know, and that is not a medical condition, right? You're not having an imbalance. You're
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having a rational reaction to an event. Somebody dies in your life. You're sad. You fall into
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depression. That is situational depression. And while you can still get help for that and should,
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especially things like therapy, I would not say that's a medical condition, right? Same thing with
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anxiety. Like if you're having anxiety because you're really stressed and you have a deadline,
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you don't want to make it. Like it's normal to have anxiety there. But then there are actual medical
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conditions, which are things like generalized anxiety disorders, depressive disorders. And there's many
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kind of many orders underneath those that you can look up in the DSM. But basically,
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they are things like you and I have. I have a generalized anxiety disorder. And what that means
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is that I have anxiety responses that are not normal given the situation, the circumstances.
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You're not just feeling anxious. I'm not just feeling anxious. I'm not responding to a rational
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event. I am making things up in my head and overreacting to them and fixating on them oftentimes to
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a point where if I had not received medical treatment throughout my life, I might fall into things like
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addiction. I might fall into other harmful behaviors to escape it. I might overreact to
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situations in ways that could be harmful. And often these things can lead to suicide. And so to say
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that these are not medical conditions is extremely harmful. It's not based on anything at all. I
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almost think it's like something that could make you liable if something in your audience is
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listening to some of this. Like, good grief. Like, I would feel a responsibility.
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So the libertarians have actually just said that I should be legally liable for my unpopular views
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on mental illness. These are our free speech champions, folks. What's more, I should be legally
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liable if I convince people not to purchase products from the pharmaceutical industry? I mean,
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you'd almost be tempted to think that these two are being paid by Pfizer, but then you realize that
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Pfizer could afford much more persuasive spokesmen. She draws a line between depression or anxiety
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felt due to a life event like a death in the family and pervasive anxiety felt day to day,
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and often for seemingly irrational reasons. She says that the latter is in the DSM and the other
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isn't. But again, she's wrong. In fact, grief disorder, that is grief felt after the death of a loved
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one is now officially in the DSM as a mental illness. I guess that means the free-thinking
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libertarians have to uncritically accept it as a legitimate medical issue. I, however, retain the
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right to be skeptical. As for the pervasive and irrational anxiety she describes, that is also very
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normal. Anxiety is one of the defining elements of the human condition. This is why philosophers have
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puzzled over it for millennia. It's rooted deep in all of our psyches. There is not one person alive
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on earth who is ever totally free of anxiety. Anxiety at its basis level is fear or dread in
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the face of the unknown. Kierkegaard said that anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Now he saw it,
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most thinkers in history have seen it, as an elemental fact of human psychology. Only in modern times have
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we compartmentalized and medicalized it. I'm skeptical of that. I'm skeptical of many popular ideas,
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I confess. This is just one of them. Another one is libertarianism. Though in fairness, I shouldn't
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blame libertarianism for the fact that these two are such mediocre and unimpressive representatives
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of it. And so ultimately, they specifically, if not libertarianism as a whole, are the ones who are
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canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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