The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 933 - Paranoid Leftists Hilariously Panic As The Last Mask Mandate Falls

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, passengers rejoice as a judge strikes down the CDC mask mandate.

00:00:04.920 This news has provoked yet more delicious leftist tears, but there's an important lesson we can also

00:00:09.120 take from all this. We'll talk about that today. Also, Americans have wondered for the past two

00:00:12.400 years who is really running the White House. Now we know it's the Easter bunny. And a Washington

00:00:16.880 Post reporter cried about being doxed and harassed and then proceeded to dox and harass the anonymous

00:00:21.920 person behind the libs of TikTok account. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt

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00:01:37.180 ConsumerAccess.org. For two years, air travelers had to endure an onerous and cumbersome charade of

00:01:43.960 pointless safety precautions. Well, actually, air travelers have had to endure an onerous and

00:01:49.640 cumbersome charade of pointless safety precautions for two decades, not just two years. Since the

00:01:54.060 turn of the century, anyone who committed the sin of trying to board a plane has been treated like a

00:01:58.000 suspected terrorist and subjected to a type of scrutiny, screening, and security screening previously

00:02:04.060 reserved for inmates at maximum security prisons and that sort of thing. The only change over the

00:02:08.140 past two years is that now the millions of suspected terrorists were also all horribly diseased,

00:02:13.640 it was decided. Even after the mask mandates were lifted almost everywhere in the country,

00:02:17.360 still you had to don a mask to get on a flight, in spite of the fact that the air inside a plane

00:02:21.800 is already aggressively filtered. The air is circulated through HEPA filters. It's also pumped

00:02:26.760 in from outside the plane, compressed by the engines, and sent into the cabin. So the air you

00:02:32.160 breathe in the cabin of a plane is completely replaced every three minutes, every three or four

00:02:36.120 minutes. It is, in other words, the cleanest and safest air you'll ever breathe. In other words,

00:02:43.100 masking on a plane makes the least sense, and yet we masked on planes for two years and kept masking

00:02:48.400 even after masking had ended almost everywhere else. That is until yesterday. U.S. District Judge

00:02:53.300 Catherine Kimball Mazzell, whose name shall be honored and revered by frequent flyers for all of

00:02:58.520 eternity, ruled that the CDC mask mandate was unlawful because actually, slight little detail here,

00:03:05.280 they didn't have the authority to impose mandates. Minor detail as far as the CDC is concerned.

00:03:09.900 The CDC decided, of course, that the pandemic gave it the authority to act as legislature,

00:03:15.320 executive, and judiciary all at once. But this judge disagreed. Reading from the Daily Wire report,

00:03:20.200 it says a federal judge in Florida has voided Democrat President Joe Biden's national mask

00:03:24.140 mandate, which is in place at airports and covers travel and airplanes and other forms of

00:03:27.520 public transportation. Quote, the decision Monday by U.S. District Judge Catherine Kimball Mazzell in

00:03:32.280 Tampa also said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention improperly failed to justify its decision

00:03:37.220 and did not follow proper rulemaking, the Associated Press reported. The CDC recently extended the mask

00:03:42.160 mandate, which was set to expire on April 18th until May 3rd to allow more time to study the BA2

00:03:49.120 Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus that is now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the

00:03:54.420 U.S. Mazzell, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, made the ruling in a case that was

00:03:58.180 filed by the Health Freedom Defense Fund. Mazzell ruled that the mandate, quote, exceeded the CDC's

00:04:03.980 statutory authority improperly invoked the good cause exception to notice and comment rulemaking

00:04:09.340 and failed to adequately explain its decisions. The ruling said that the court declared the mandate

00:04:14.360 to be unlawful because our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully, even in pursuit of

00:04:19.320 desirable ends. Well, we needed a judge to tell us that, that actually, guys, federal government is not

00:04:26.820 supposed to act unlawfully, even if you think you have a really good reason. Then something

00:04:32.920 interesting happened as soon as this was announced. Within hours, every major airline had chosen to

00:04:38.800 get rid of the masking requirement. There was, for about 30 minutes, there was a question of, well,

00:04:43.720 what are the airlines going to do? Because this just says that they don't have to require masking,

00:04:47.780 but they could still require masking if they wanted to. Well, shortly after that, they all dropped the

00:04:53.340 masking. By 9 p.m. last night, American, United, Delta, Southwest, JetBlue, Alaska, Frontier,

00:04:59.200 and Spirit had all announced that they would not require masks on planes anymore. And actually,

00:05:04.800 it went beyond that. Amtrak dropped their masking requirement. Uber dropped their masking requirement.

00:05:10.160 And then video started flooding social media of passengers learning the news about the masking

00:05:14.420 requirement being dropped mid-flights and erupting with joy. So here's one from a Delta flight right

00:05:20.600 before takeoff when the captain emerged from the cockpit to deliver the good news himself. Watch.

00:05:26.040 April 18th, the Biden administration announced that the Transportation Security Administration

00:05:31.460 will no longer enforce the federal mandate requiring masks in all U.S. airports and on-board aircraft.

00:05:43.280 Finally!

00:05:44.160 Effective immediately, masks are optional for all airport employees, crew members, and customers

00:05:48.860 inside U.S. airports and on-board aircraft.

00:05:51.080 So lots of footage like that. There have even been reports of flight attendants

00:05:56.280 and airline staff weeping tears of joy over the announcement, which is understandable. You know,

00:06:03.020 I'd probably be feeling the same way if I was forced to mask every day at my job. And not only that,

00:06:07.420 but your whole job becomes, as has been the case for flight attendants, their whole job for two years

00:06:13.520 has just been enforcing the CDC's mandate for masking. That's all it was all of a sudden. It's just,

00:06:19.300 it's all about the masking. And that's all they did was become the masking police.

00:06:23.300 Though I suspect that some of those tears of joy were not actually joyful at all.

00:06:29.600 You know, this is a difficult time for the petty tyrants in the flight attendant community,

00:06:33.460 who quite obviously relished the power that the mask mandate gave them over other passengers,

00:06:39.140 which is not all the flight attendants, not even a majority, I would suspect, but certainly some of them.

00:06:43.600 And it's also a difficult time for these so-called public health experts,

00:06:47.940 who rightly see in the dropping of this mandate, the last vestiges of their power and relevance

00:06:53.920 slipping away, slipping out of their grasp. Many of them have been on Twitter panicking over the

00:06:59.160 judge's ruling. Their hysteria is nearly as sweet and delicious as the panic last week over Elon Musk's

00:07:05.300 Twitter bid. It's not, it's not quite that good, but it's still really good. So we'll go through a few

00:07:09.740 of these tweets. And once again, we'll have to play some sad music accompaniment to really sort of set

00:07:14.520 the mood here. So here's Dr. Jeremy Faust. He says,

00:07:17.960 Hi, United. When I bought my tickets for me, my wife who was pregnant and our unvaccinated four-year-old,

00:07:23.520 I assumed you would continue to have a mask mandate. Now you cancel it and we'll have to board our return

00:07:29.000 flight under your new no mask required policy? The idea of not waiting until vaccine for all,

00:07:35.680 including kids under five is pretty much you just saying it's cool if a few kids die so that you

00:07:41.280 don't have to enforce this for another month or two. Public health advocate, Dr. Eric Feigel-Ding

00:07:46.840 tweeted, I will not be flying Alaska Air until they reinstate public safety measures against COVID-19. 1.00

00:07:53.400 Alaska Air, don't be an idiot airline and let this happen. American Air, your fellow One World Alliance 0.99

00:07:59.140 member, you're being warned too. Don't end up like your other UK One World partner, British Airways.

00:08:04.560 Then Stanford infectious disease doctor Abrar Karen said, dropping public mask mandates on travel

00:08:11.780 where people are literally packed together when they're traveling to different places where they

00:08:16.000 may cede more transmission while we're greatly under detecting cases as evidenced by wastewater

00:08:20.820 is a costly mistake at this time. And then Maggie Astor, a climate reporter at the New York Times said,

00:08:28.000 I can't stop thinking about people who may have chosen a book and board this flight based on a

00:08:33.280 personal risk assessment that involved everyone being masked. And then mid flight, when it was

00:08:38.680 physically impossible to leave, that element of their risk assessment was upended. Well, first of all,

00:08:45.680 it's not physically impossible to leave in the middle of a flight. You can do it. I mean, it's not recommended,

00:08:51.500 but you can. But she's right. You know, I can't stop thinking about those people either and laughing at

00:08:59.200 them. My only regret is that I wasn't on a plane when this was announced and sitting right next to

00:09:05.160 a COVID paranoid person so that I could take my mask off and force them to sit there trembling in fear,

00:09:11.420 helplessly staring at my hideous naked face for the duration of the flight. I would have enjoyed that

00:09:16.760 so much. I would have relished it. And it's not because I'm a jerk. Well, it's a little bit because

00:09:21.760 I'm a jerk. But mostly, it's that the only hope for these people and their long-term psychological 0.91

00:09:27.740 health and well-being is that they are thrust against their will back into a normal world where

00:09:34.540 people go about their business and live their lives unmuzzled. This is a kind of final band-aid

00:09:40.300 off moment for these people. And it will either cause a mental break or it will be a wake-up call.

00:09:46.480 And this is the fork in the road. It's time to go one way or another. You have a choice. This is

00:09:52.520 what I would say to the COVID paranoids out there. You've been living this way for two years. 0.99

00:09:58.840 You've disgraced yourself in so many ways and humiliated yourself. And some of us will never

00:10:04.160 really forget it. But you still have a choice. You don't have to be like this forever. This is your

00:10:08.180 choice. Everyone else has returned to normal life a long time ago. Some of us never left it.

00:10:14.920 And, but you can come with us and just be a normal person again. You can. It's an option.

00:10:23.200 And this is the time of choosing right now. Are you going to be normal or a paranoid,

00:10:32.060 mentally broken freak for your entire life? Another interesting thing to note here is that so far, 0.93

00:10:39.680 while the Biden administration has expressed disappointment over the judge's ruling,

00:10:43.960 it has not announced any plan to challenge it so far. And most likely, I would guess the

00:10:50.160 administration will simply let this go. I mean, they've seen all the videos of people cheering

00:10:55.180 on planes and tearing their masks off. They know that we're headed to the midterms. In fact,

00:11:00.620 I'm willing to bet that this is exactly the outcome they were hoping for.

00:11:03.360 Because it gets rid of the extremely unpopular mask mandate, but it frees them from the responsibility

00:11:08.840 of having to lift it themselves. Now they can point to the judge, blame her for killing your

00:11:14.720 grandmother, call her a Nazi or whatever, and then probably move on and pretend that the whole masking 0.99

00:11:18.440 thing never happened. It's the best possible outcome for them politically. But remember something,

00:11:25.440 even if the Biden administration was looking for a way out of this, as I suspect they were,

00:11:32.120 the fact remains that out of all of the tyrannical, unjustifiable, and unjustified measures put in

00:11:38.780 place ostensibly because of COVID, none of them were lifted, abolished, or rolled back by choice.

00:11:46.460 Okay, the people who put these policies in place, all of these policies, the people who put them in

00:11:52.800 place never chose to get rid of them. Most of it went away because the courts forced the issue and

00:12:00.120 the rest because public backlash had become too much of a political liability for the regime.

00:12:06.160 But if the powers that be had their way, and if we'd all been more cooperative, though many of us

00:12:13.400 were much more cooperative than we ought to have been, but if it had worked how they wanted,

00:12:18.160 we'd still be masking everywhere, and we'd be locked in our homes for most of the day,

00:12:23.440 subject to vaccine mandates and contact tracing. That's what they wanted. It's not by their choice

00:12:30.620 or their consent that things ultimately worked out differently. Never forget that fact, because this

00:12:37.060 is who rules us. They want us controlled, muzzled, tracked, traced, and terrified. They didn't fully get

00:12:46.180 their way this time, but they'll try again. You can count on that. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:14:18.020 Over the weekend on Saturday, my wife went out for a bit and while she was gone, my kids decided

00:14:24.300 that they wanted to play a prank on her and they're my kids so they have a, of course, a really morbid

00:14:30.820 sense of humor. So the prank that they settled on, this was their idea. It was not mine. Okay,

00:14:36.720 I just want to make that clear. I didn't come up with this. They did. And the prank was to pretend

00:14:42.240 that my daughter, Julia, had been grievously injured. That's what they wanted to do. And now I

00:14:49.240 may have suggested that some ketchup could be used, you know, to simulate blood. That was my only

00:14:57.160 suggestion. And I did say to them, I said, kids, I don't approve of this. This is not,

00:15:02.860 your mom's not going to like this, but you could use ketchup too. That'll make this a little bit

00:15:09.160 more realistic. And so that's all I suggest. That was it. And so they took that and they kind

00:15:14.600 of smeared it on Julia's face. And it looked really convincing actually. And then my wife came

00:15:22.560 home and my daughter, she did a great acting job for about five seconds, but she broke after about 1.00

00:15:28.420 five seconds and started laughing. But there was five seconds of, well, my wife was not too amused 0.56

00:15:33.600 by the whole thing, I don't think. But like I said, it wasn't my idea. And I just, you have to

00:15:38.960 understand. So I know you're thinking, well, you're the father, you know, don't you have control of

00:15:43.280 this? And usually I do, but this was really, it was more, it was kind of ethical turmoil for me

00:15:49.540 because I have, it's just, my principles will not allow me to interfere with a good prank.

00:15:57.320 And the way this was shaping up, it's like, it was pretty good. And so I couldn't, I couldn't,

00:16:03.000 I could not allow myself to stop them. You have to understand. That's the case I'm making anyway.

00:16:08.980 All right, let's see. So Joe Biden had his own fun over the weekend, especially on Sunday with the

00:16:16.420 Easter egg roll, which is a tradition at the white house. One of the many dumb traditions that they 0.95

00:16:22.440 should probably just get rid of, especially when you have a president with dementia and the, the, 0.98

00:16:27.600 you know, the least we see that the most that we can, we can keep them out of, out of public view,

00:16:32.060 I think the better, but he was there and there are a lot of videos that have surfaced and we'll play

00:16:39.000 some of them of Joe Biden being kind of shuffled around and verbally prompted, told what to do and

00:16:48.640 say by first his wife. So here's the first clip of Jill Biden and Joe Biden reading a book to the kids

00:16:56.820 and Jill kind of nudging her husband along. Let's listen to that.

00:17:04.500 Okay. Just stay.

00:17:07.340 She still didn't just sit. Don't move. 0.99

00:17:10.360 She's a teacher.

00:17:10.980 I'm the teacher, you know.

00:17:12.160 She's a teacher.

00:17:13.700 Just stay. Like a, no big deal. It's the president of the United States.

00:17:18.940 The guy's supposed to be running the country and he's being treated literally like a dog.

00:17:23.880 Okay. Just stay, stay, boy. Stay right there.

00:17:28.400 And then he was also prompted when to wave to the crowd. Play that.

00:17:34.340 Thank you. And happy, happy Easter.

00:17:39.100 All right.

00:17:43.660 Hear it there.

00:17:45.800 Okay. You can hear her say wave, wave. Now here's, here's the one thing I'll say.

00:17:49.520 Um, my one slight defense of Joe Biden, and it's not much of a defense. I will say

00:17:57.460 that this is kind of what my wife does with me at social functions. Not quite this bad. I don't

00:18:05.920 need as much instruction, but she does kind of have to prompt me like this smile. You're supposed

00:18:11.460 to smile here. You know, just like basic, basic social things you're supposed to do in social

00:18:15.120 situations. Sometimes I need my wife to, to help me along. So this is something that I think wives 1.00

00:18:19.620 do for husbands. Um, and so if that was all we saw, just those two videos, I could almost let it go.

00:18:29.840 Uh, but that's not it because it wasn't just Jill Biden instructing Joe Biden. It was also the Easter

00:18:38.220 bunny. So here we have, um, a couple of clips of the Easter bunny. Let's just play these of the

00:18:44.320 Easter bunny coming in and, uh, having to kind of give stage directions to Joe Biden. Go ahead and

00:18:49.340 play this.

00:18:52.200 Pakistan should not, and Afghanistan should be particularly... 1.00

00:18:55.540 Oh, the Easter bunny, Mr. President.

00:19:01.900 So Joe, he was babbling something about, uh, about Afghanistan and, and Iraq and the Middle East.

00:19:08.680 And, uh, quickly the Easter bunny was over there to intercept him and just point him off in a,

00:19:14.180 in a different direction. Just go, yeah, go wander over there, Mr. President. Just go wander over

00:19:17.500 there. And then he did wander over there. And then the Easter bunny had to come in again

00:19:21.800 and, um, direct him in a different, uh, to go in a different direction. Watch this.

00:19:26.180 This is, this is not funny at all. This is not funny at all. This is the president of the United

00:19:47.260 States who's being led around, confused, hapless, being led around by the Easter bunny.

00:19:57.180 It couldn't even be like, I'd feel a little bit better if it was Santa Claus.

00:20:01.120 At least Santa Claus is a person, I think, right?

00:20:06.080 You know, but it's the Easter bunny of all the mythical holiday creatures, the worst one.

00:20:09.940 Also the creepiest one to have actually running the show.

00:20:15.900 Turns out that Easter bunny is it. That's the question we've all had, right? For, uh, the last

00:20:20.380 year or two years is, is, uh, who actually is running the country? Who's running the White House?

00:20:26.120 Cause we sure as hell know it's not this guy. And it turns out it's the Easter bunny.

00:20:32.280 And the other question was, okay, who is the person in the Easter bunny outfit? And it turns out that,

00:20:37.380 no, it wasn't some intern or whoever you think probably usually with these events,

00:20:42.520 they just take some lowly intern and they put them in the Easter bunny outfit and send them out

00:20:47.960 there. But, um, this time they had an actual, a high ranking staffer in the Easter bunny outfit,

00:20:55.180 which, um, I don't know for sure, but I greatly suspect is not what they, what the White House

00:21:01.780 usually does. But I got to take someone like a staffer who has an actual office in the White House

00:21:06.940 this is someone in the, you know, kind of the PR department at the White House. They're not going

00:21:12.640 to take them and put them in the Easter bunny outfit. They did that so that the Easter bunny

00:21:17.160 could keep, keep tabs on, on the president of the United States because the president of the United

00:21:23.700 States has, is senile and has dementia. And that was the case before he even became president.

00:21:33.140 When he was running for office, everybody knew it. And still tens of millions of Americans said,

00:21:40.100 yeah, you know what? That's the guy. I think we want to put him in charge.

00:21:44.740 I don't know how many times I have to say it. I'm going to keep on saying it.

00:21:49.180 You know, there is, there is, I have yet to hear, and I've been advocating for this

00:21:54.800 for years and no one has explained to me why there is not an upper age limit on the presidency.

00:22:00.940 Why do we not cap it at 75? At least, I mean, you could make an argument for capping it at 65 or 70,

00:22:06.700 but 75, okay, 35 to 75, you got 40, you got 40 years to become president. How is that not enough

00:22:12.200 time? If that's not enough, if you can't do it in 40 years, then it wasn't meant to be,

00:22:15.940 go home and be with your grandkids. What's the argument against it?

00:22:20.080 Now, I know what the real reason is. I know what the real reason, I know why we don't have an age

00:22:30.040 limit on the presidency because the people who would have to put the age limit in place,

00:22:35.440 a lot of them, it's, you know, they're the ones who want to leave the possibility open

00:22:39.220 for them to become president. So we would need, in order to have an age limit placed on the presidency,

00:22:45.700 we would need the people in charge of the country to choose to limit their own power and they're

00:22:52.200 never going to do that. And the problem is that each of them individually, they all feel that,

00:22:58.040 hey, I could run the president when I'm 90. They all think that they are eminently capable

00:23:03.820 and that they alone should be running the show, which is precisely the reason why they shouldn't be.

00:23:10.640 So that's the real reason why the age limit will never be put in place. But is there an actual

00:23:15.880 argument, a good argument that anyone can articulate as to why there's no upper age limit?

00:23:23.760 You know, I said this again on Twitter yesterday and Kira Davis is a managing editor over at Red

00:23:28.560 State, which is another conservative publication. And she responded with, I don't think this is a good

00:23:36.700 argument, but it's really the only one that I ever hear. She says, Matt Walsh,

00:23:40.360 this isn't fair. I think the closer you get to 75, the more you'll see that the potential wisdom of

00:23:45.520 a man at that age cannot be replaced by youth. If he's healthy and engaged and alert, age shouldn't

00:23:51.400 be an issue. Look at Betty White, worked till 90. So that's the way the argument always goes. And 1.00

00:23:57.160 there's always some random example of a much older person who was, okay, sometimes Betty White is

00:24:02.420 used. A lot of times somebody was like, oh, my great-grandfather, he was spry and sprightly and

00:24:07.880 he was real with it all the way to 95. I'm not denying that, but Betty White was, you know,

00:24:15.560 appearing on TV every once in a while, doing some celebrity appearances. She was working like part-time

00:24:22.440 as an actress, as an entertainer until 90, which is impressive. Don't get me wrong.

00:24:27.060 And she's very much an outlier. I mean, most people don't even live to 90.

00:24:32.160 And the people who do are not going to be as functional as Betty White was.

00:24:37.560 But even Betty White, as an extreme outlier, was just kind of working part-time as an entertainer. 1.00

00:24:43.600 She wasn't running, she wasn't governing the country every single day.

00:24:47.620 That's the thing about being president. It's, it's, um, it is a 24-hour around-the-clock job.

00:24:57.380 Usually. I mean, with Joe Biden, it's not because he goes to bed at about 630. You know, he sleeps

00:25:02.860 for 12 hours. He takes, uh, four different, he takes four vacations a month, it seems like,

00:25:09.760 because he's not physically capable of enduring the, uh, the burden of the office.

00:25:15.340 But normally what it is and what it should be is a 24-hour job. So, at the age of 80,

00:25:25.320 like, is there ever going to be a time when the person best suited to take on what is normally

00:25:35.960 one of the most stressful and difficult jobs on planet Earth? Is there ever going to be a time

00:25:41.800 when the person best suited for that is 80 years old? Well, I'll tell you something. If there is

00:25:48.920 ever a time when the person best suited for the presidency is 80 years old, then it's over. We might

00:25:54.180 as well just pack it in and give up. The country's over. Like, there's nobody under the age of 80 who's

00:26:01.100 qualified and, uh, would be able to do it. Well, then we're screwed. So, we might as well not even 0.93

00:26:07.640 have a president. We don't have one now, in fact. All right. Um, so, yesterday was tax day, which brings

00:26:14.700 us to this article from Reason Magazine. It says, this year, Americans will spend an estimated 6.5

00:26:20.340 billion hours trying to file their taxes, according to a new analysis by the American Action Forum,

00:26:25.800 a non-profit that has been tracking the burden of tax-related paperwork since 2017.

00:26:29.900 The aggregate time it takes for Americans to comply with income tax paperwork, according to AAF's

00:26:34.500 tracker, has fallen a bit in recent years, but the overall cost of compliance has kept on growing.

00:26:39.180 This year, the group estimates Americans will spend more than $200 billion just trying to pay their

00:26:43.400 taxes. Now, to clarify there, that's not that Americans are going to spend collectively $200 billion

00:26:49.520 in taxes. Now, it's more like $2 trillion in taxes, but $200 billion collectively just to pay

00:26:57.540 them, like paying for services and paying for accountants and whatever else and TurboTax to do

00:27:03.020 your taxes for you. Um, that's an insane amount of added expense being put toward no productive

00:27:09.160 ends whatsoever. Much of the complexity and paperwork of paying federal income taxes flows from the federal

00:27:13.760 government's effort to tax income many times. Grover Norquist, President of the Americans for Tax

00:27:18.840 Reform, a physically conservative non-profit that advocates for lower taxes, tells Reason,

00:27:23.120 income is taxed, quote, once you earn it, again, if you invest and receive interest or capital gains,

00:27:27.780 again, if you invest in a company that is subject to the corporate income tax, and again, if you're

00:27:31.540 imprudent enough to die. If they taxed your income one time, when you received it as an income,

00:27:37.120 it would be simpler and it would be less damaging to your privacy. Some of that complexity is the

00:27:41.480 result of, natural result of a tax system that attempts to do a lot more than simply collect the

00:27:45.180 revenue necessary to run the federal government. The tax code attempts to balance fairness and

00:27:50.140 forcibility, efficiency, and other goals that are often in conflict with one another.

00:27:55.260 Um, yeah, we hear, I think this is an interesting angle to analyze here because, uh, we often hear

00:28:04.800 complaints about how much we all have to pay in taxes, and those are very much justified complaints, 0.54

00:28:10.720 but just the, the amount of time, the lost hours spent paying taxes, and the money spent paying

00:28:19.720 taxes because of how complicated it is, that's a travesty in its own right. And yeah, as the article

00:28:27.540 points out, the income taxes themselves are much more complicated than they ought to be or need to be

00:28:34.020 taxed. Um, because your income, you know, one stream of income is being taxed about 50 different

00:28:40.640 ways. Um, and that's part of the problem, but I think the underlying problem is the income tax itself.

00:28:51.840 And this is another thing that, of course, the people in power are not going to talk about

00:28:56.960 because if you get rid of the income tax, then that means less power and control for them.

00:29:03.640 And getting rid of the income tax means you don't need the IRS anymore. And, uh, if you go to a

00:29:07.680 consumption tax model, then you really don't need the IRS. And without the IRS, without the income

00:29:14.440 tax, it's again, the people in power are, if they were to abolish the income tax in the IRS, they would

00:29:19.920 be choosing to significantly limit their own power, which they're not going to do of their own free

00:29:27.220 will and volition. But among we, the people, you know, this should be something that we talk about

00:29:34.240 a lot more than we do. Look, the federal government revenue, I haven't, I didn't, I didn't look it up,

00:29:41.740 but I think in 2021, you can fact check me on this. I think in 2021, um, federal government revenue

00:29:47.840 was about $4 trillion. And that's the amount of money that they collected all told from us for

00:29:59.300 trillion in one year. And then they end up spending even more than that. Um, of that, is that all from

00:30:08.520 income taxes? No, about 40 to 50% is income tax. So let's say 2 trillion, get rid of the income tax

00:30:16.320 completely. And that leaves them $2 trillion a year to run the government. You think is, is it

00:30:22.980 possible at least, do you think to run a government on a paltry $2 trillion? I mean, $2 trillion is,

00:30:32.540 is more, if you were to have that in cash, that's more cash than exists on the entire planet.

00:30:38.520 Is that possible to do? Do you think they could figure out a way? Can you run a government on,

00:30:48.440 uh, on, on just $2 trillion? Well, you certainly can, but they don't need to right now because

00:30:54.960 they have the income tax, which means that they're taking money directly out of our wallets

00:31:01.140 and not just taking directly out of our wallets, but, um, you know, that would be bad enough.

00:31:06.100 I wish it was just that. I wish they were taken out just out of our wallets, but actually they

00:31:10.800 take it directly out of our paychecks. They go in, they reach their grubby hands and they take what

00:31:15.260 they want from our paychecks before we even see it. And then we get the leftovers.

00:31:19.060 Um, let's see. Next, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, David Finkelhor, um, had some

00:31:37.520 thoughts to share recently about pedophilia in a recent talk online. Let's listen to that.

00:31:44.260 Also, if young people are initiating sexual activities with adults or enthusiastically involved,

00:31:51.220 we can't be effective in working with them if we assume that all such relationships start with a

00:31:58.340 predatory or criminally inclined, inclined adult. The, as we've seen in the discussion, young people bridle

00:32:06.500 at being forced into this, uh, box of being seen as being the victim of a predator.

00:32:14.820 And so there are reasons for learning about what the dynamics are and how to talk about them so that we

00:32:22.340 can, um, better help the young people who are in these situations.

00:32:27.620 Now, you heard what he said with your own ears. Um, but as we so often learn, what you, apparently,

00:32:36.020 what you, you didn't hear that. You thought you heard it, but you didn't.

00:32:38.820 Now, um, Finkelhor has, uh, which I, his, his name somehow is just perfect given who this guy is and

00:32:45.520 what he's saying. Uh, Daily Wire has a report of this. It says, Finkelhor told the Daily Wire on Monday

00:32:50.300 morning that his remarks in the libs of TikTok clip were taken out of context and that they were made in a

00:32:55.520 talk he gave on statutory sex crimes against children, noting that he clearly said that all these kinds

00:33:00.660 of crimes are illegal and should be prevented. Well, of course the crimes are illegal. That's why they're

00:33:05.560 crimes. Well, I clearly stipulated that crimes are crimes. Well, yeah, we know that. Um, but that's not

00:33:15.240 really the point, is it? He says, the point that I was making was that we can't identify them if we assume

00:33:21.760 that everybody who was sexually abusing children is identifiable from the kind of predator

00:33:25.460 model where they had prior sexual interest in children and they were forcing themselves on a

00:33:29.840 child. Some pedophilic crimes occur according to Finkelhor because young people and adults are

00:33:35.240 unaware of the statutory sex crime laws and thus professionals should spend more time educating

00:33:39.700 people about why this is a crime, more time discouraging young people from allowing themselves

00:33:43.860 to be seduced by an adult's flattery and interest and more time helping children understand why these

00:33:49.200 kinds of relationships don't work out. This is him defending himself. This is after the fact. Okay.

00:33:57.980 This is like a written statement he gives to the Daily Wire defending himself and claiming that all

00:34:03.420 these, you know, that everything's been taken out of context and he wasn't really justifying, uh,

00:34:08.520 child rape as much as it may seem like that's what he was doing. But even in his own statement,

00:34:13.060 let's listen to the words he's using. First of all, he says that, uh, well, a lot of this stuff,

00:34:18.900 just a simple misunderstanding. Yeah. Adults having sex with kids, they just, they didn't know they

00:34:23.460 weren't supposed to. So we have to educate them about that fact. And if it can get worse than that,

00:34:30.360 it does. When he says that, um, he, first of all, puts the blame on the kids saying that, that we have

00:34:39.900 to teach them not to allow themselves to be seduced by an adult's flattery and interest.

00:34:48.780 Now, how about, how about focusing on the adults, the predators and, and, and rather than trying to 0.85

00:34:56.620 convince them to not be scumbag predators anymore, we, we, we take them and we put them in these 0.97

00:35:04.040 facilities called prisons and we keep them there and punish them, segregate them from society. I think 0.99

00:35:09.600 that's a better, might be a better option. But so he chalks up a lot of child rape to a

00:35:15.780 misunderstanding. He does, well, if the term victim blaming has any mean, means anything whatsoever,

00:35:23.360 then this has to be it. I mean, this is, this is victim blaming. This is the dictionary definition

00:35:30.020 if it has one. And then he says that, um, we have to explain to children why these kinds of

00:35:36.960 relationships don't work out. They're not relationships. First of all, okay. Relationship

00:35:46.400 implies consent. A sexual relationship is something that two willing consenting, um, people choose

00:35:56.980 to engage in. When a child's being raped by an adult, that's not a relationship.

00:36:05.540 That's, um, that's rape. That's abuse. And the problem isn't that they don't work out. 0.96

00:36:12.260 This is, and here's the thing. Um, again, from, from this person, this is his defense of it. But

00:36:26.800 when he says he's being taken out of context, what he, what he really means, and this is what

00:36:29.500 they always mean when they say that, uh, I'll be taken out of context. What they actually mean

00:36:33.420 is that we were not supposed to hear that yet. Like we in the mainstream public, we were not

00:36:41.180 supposed to do that. This was something that he was having with his other creepy, uh, some kind of

00:36:45.420 creepy academic conference thing. And it was supposed to live there. It wasn't, they weren't ready to

00:36:52.240 introduce this to Johnny public just yet. And so the, uh, pedophilia,

00:36:59.780 pedophilia, you know, apologia, that kind of thing, that's something that they're going to,

00:37:07.400 they kind of get it ready in these academic circles and then they filter it down to the public,

00:37:13.940 but they're not ready for us to see it yet. They haven't worked out all the talking points just yet.

00:37:20.320 And so the real complaint is that we saw it before we were supposed to.

00:37:24.640 Thanks in this case to lives of Tik TOK, who by the way, we'll have more on, um,

00:37:29.500 on that in the daily cancellation. One other quick thing. This is a tweet from Ben and Jerry's

00:37:34.580 ice cream. Um, I think by the way, keeping Ben and Jerry's in my daily wire might need to start

00:37:41.500 its own ice cream, uh, company as well. So Ben and Jerry says, we are heartbroken by the loss of

00:37:46.640 our fellow Vermonter Fern Feather. Sadly, she was another transgender person targeted for simply being 0.93

00:37:53.340 herself. This was trending over the weekend because Ben and Jerry's tweeted it and other

00:37:57.980 left-wing accounts which were tweeting it about this, uh, transgender person who was, who was

00:38:03.040 murdered. And the claim being made by Ben and Jerry's and everybody else on the left is that

00:38:07.780 this was, this was a hate crime. This was someone who was killed for being transgender, but yet

00:38:11.400 you read the article that Ben and Jerry's linked to, you actually click on it and read it. This is what

00:38:17.160 you see. A few paragraphs down, uh, you get to this. Uh, well, first at the beginning, it says

00:38:23.780 the killing of a transgender woman in Morristown, uh, drew outrage and condemnation across Vermont

00:38:28.100 on Wednesday. Hinesburg resident Fern Feather 29 was found stabbed to death along a Morristown

00:38:33.380 road on Tuesday morning, according to Vermont state police. Feather's death prompted an outpouring

00:38:38.440 of grief and anger from top state officials and on social media. House speaker representative

00:38:42.360 Jill Krowinski said Feather was tragically taken from this world too soon. Like so many

00:38:47.040 other transgender people who are targeted in bias driven attacks. Krowinski said, we absolutely

00:38:53.300 need to continue to take steps to make Vermont a more equitable place and be clear that hate

00:38:57.660 has no place in our state. Well, yeah, we know, uh, that bigoted right-wing cesspool of 1.00

00:39:05.520 Vermont. And so this is the direct claim that they're making that this person Fern Feather was

00:39:11.600 killed for being transgender. Yet you read a few more paragraphs down. This is what it says. 0.87

00:39:18.160 Prosecutors have charged Seth Brunel, 43, with second degree murder and Feather's death. Brunel,

00:39:22.740 who was not known to have a fixed address, had been spending time with Feather before the killing.

00:39:28.140 Roughly two hours before Feather's body was found, officers with the sheriff's department had

00:39:32.260 encountered the pair in a car together in the parking lot. Um, deputies checked on Feather and Brunel

00:39:37.860 and waited for them to leave the parking lot. Upon his arrest, Brunel told police

00:39:41.140 that he had been defending himself against Feather, who made a sexual advance and attacked him.

00:39:46.220 Investigators observed no injuries or evidence of a struggle or an assault on Brunel.

00:39:50.940 Now, the point is, I have no idea whether this self-defense claim is true or not,

00:39:55.220 whether he's telling the truth. I don't know. But there is nothing in that description of the crime

00:40:00.580 that indicates at all that this was a hate crime. There is right now zero evidence, none, that this

00:40:09.580 person was killed for being transgender. Just that they were killed, that they were a transgender person 1.00

00:40:15.020 who now, uh, sadly is dead. And the way that the left does this now is that, is that the simple fact

00:40:23.240 that a transgender person was killed is itself evidence of a hate crime. And that's why you can 1.00

00:40:29.240 read articles like on, um, when I just had pulled up from PBS, this was at the end of last year.

00:40:36.880 And it said, uh, with nearly two months left, 2021 has shattered the record of transgender homicides

00:40:41.840 in a year with 45 to date, according to the human rights campaign. Last year held the record with 44

00:40:47.260 trans murders. Um, and this was, there were a lot of headlines towards the end of last year by how

00:40:52.420 it was the deadliest, uh, year, quote unquote, the deadliest year on record for transgender people. 1.00

00:40:57.380 And, and, and these are all hate crimes, except that's just, that's the number of transgender people 0.98

00:41:04.200 who are murdered, period, across the, across the entire country for an entire year, 45.

00:41:08.520 And the claim is what, that with, without, without, without hate crimes, no transgender person would 0.98

00:41:17.140 ever be murdered. Like there's, there's no other reason why a trans person would ever be killed. 1.00

00:41:24.200 So we get rid of the hate crime problem and no trans people are, would, would be immune for murder. 0.90

00:41:31.160 Of course, that doesn't make any sense at all.

00:41:33.140 Given that murder is, uh, something that happens in, uh, sadly in every community in America,

00:41:39.780 you take any group of people, any demographic, and in a given year, a certain portion of them

00:41:47.060 are going to be murdered just because they're human beings living in a society where this sort

00:41:54.060 of thing happens. That is not itself evidence of a hate crime. Now, if you were to whittle that down,

00:42:00.300 you take that 45 number and you look at it and you look at each individual case, how many of them

00:42:05.560 out of the 45, how many of them were proven to be actual hate crimes, as in the person was killed

00:42:12.740 for being transgender. And what you find is that it's a vanishingly small number.

00:42:17.660 Vast majority of people murdered for who are transgender, it's, uh, domestics disputes, 1.00

00:42:22.540 drug related, prostitution related. In other words, it's the same reason why most murders occur

00:42:27.520 against most demographics of people. Those are the facts, not that it matters at all,

00:42:33.020 of course, to the left. Let's get now to the comment section.

00:42:35.240 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:42:45.460 Turquoise770 says, um, Matt likes his Christian music and unintelligible, rarefied Latin in dead 0.99

00:42:52.660 cathedrals that no one goes to except as museums. Well, unironically, yes. Uh, Easy Bake Oven says,

00:43:01.780 Jazz Jennings had the same thing happen. No sexual function and not enough growth for the surgery. 1.00

00:43:06.300 Instead of the colon surgery, he had an even more experimental surgery using the lining of his

00:43:10.220 stomach for length. It ended up rupturing and there have been multiple revision surgeries since then.

00:43:16.180 It's horrifying. Yeah. That's the really interesting, but tragic thing about the, about Jazz Jennings is

00:43:24.600 that Jazz Jennings has been paraded around in front of cameras his entire life. I mean, since he was

00:43:32.400 like five or six years old, his parents decided that he's really a girl and started, and started,

00:43:37.760 you know, um, and, and put him on camera and he hasn't been off camera since.

00:43:41.380 Wrote books about him and everything, like consigned him to this fate. Talk about assigned

00:43:48.440 gender. They assigned the female, uh, identity, false identity to him. And, but if you track his 0.87

00:43:57.640 story over the years, especially into adulthood, um, you see what a total disaster it's been for him,

00:44:05.140 especially with all these surgeries and all these complications. And yet he's still traipsed out as

00:44:11.980 a, as a trans success story. It's the exact opposite. Let's see. Megan says, um, I don't 1.00

00:44:21.200 understand how you could be happier unemployed. Maybe my fellow millennials and zoomers have a lot 1.00

00:44:26.160 more savings than I do, but every day that I'm unemployed, my stomach hurts as I watch accounts

00:44:30.820 slowly empty and the bills pile up. Well, I think the, uh, the younger people who we talked about in

00:44:36.500 that poll who said that they'd rather be, they'd rather not have a job and be happy. Um, I don't

00:44:40.540 think it's because they've worked really hard and they have a lot of savings and they're going into

00:44:43.760 early retirement. I think it's because they're not worried about the bills because they have

00:44:47.420 someone who's going to take care of the bills for them, whether it's their parents or it's the

00:44:50.000 taxpayers or some combination of the two. And also it's not that they're happier because you're

00:44:55.140 right. You're not going to be happier. Uh, when you're, you know, when you're not doing anything

00:44:59.240 productive, when you're not performing any, any, any kind of labor in your life at all. Um,

00:45:06.880 especially as a younger person, that's one thing. If you're retired, if you've lived a life and

00:45:11.660 you've worked really hard and, uh, you get to towards the end of it and you retire. I mean,

00:45:15.640 that's one thing, but even, even then a lot of older people find it very difficult in retirement

00:45:20.740 when they've got, when they've sort of got nothing to do and they're looking around for something to do

00:45:23.680 and they have to, you know, if they're going to have a happy retirement, they have to

00:45:28.560 dedicate those energies somewhere, take up a hobby, do something. Um, to try to do that when

00:45:36.060 you're young, kind of drop out of the workforce and dedicate yourself to a life of leisure. It's

00:45:42.860 just, you're not going to have happiness doing that, but you can have numbness. So not going to

00:45:47.660 be happy, but they can be distracted and numb. And I think that's the most people, a lot of people

00:45:55.420 anyway, elect that instead of happiness because it's easier. Micah says, I couldn't help but laugh

00:46:01.560 as Matt said, a dolphin got stabbed. Couldn't help but laugh. You're even worse than me, pretending

00:46:08.760 that my children are injured to prank my wife. Um, also, why do you take a stance of letting pandas

00:46:14.020 be destroyed, but are not okay with a dolphin getting stabbed? Matt, please explain. Well, you know,

00:46:21.000 my, my opinion on pandas is that they're totally useless. And the only reason that they're still alive 0.96

00:46:24.820 is that we've kept them around simply because they're cute. Now, um, according to some people

00:46:29.620 are cute anyway. Dolphins, we do have laws in place and, and, uh, you know, some of them are

00:46:34.980 endangered species, but these are also highly evolved animals that can, you know, for the most

00:46:41.940 part, fend for themselves. They're not dumb and clumsy and with, with, with no defense mechanisms,

00:46:49.060 mechanisms at all, like, like pandas. So I think they, they deserve to be around anyway. Do they 0.96

00:46:56.100 deserve to have more legal rights than human babies do? Well, no, they don't. Of course not. 0.99

00:47:00.740 Sports are not the place for politics or virtue signals. And NBA star Jonathan Isaac is one of the

00:47:05.340 few professionals that knows this well. Isaac faced heavy criticism from the media for not buying into

00:47:10.120 the political theater over the past few years and still stood strong, which is why I'm extremely

00:47:14.300 excited to announce that he's decided to write a book with daily wire called why I stand. Jonathan's

00:47:19.180 book will be about the rise of his basketball career, his journey into faith, and his strength

00:47:23.240 to stand alone in the face of immense pressure. The book is available for pre-order now at Amazon.

00:47:27.360 So reserve your copy today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:34.700 Well, if you've been listening to this show for any length of time, you've almost certainly heard me

00:47:37.880 mention the libs of Tik TOK account on Twitter. I mentioned it because that's where I get like 75% of my

00:47:42.040 show prep, but also because the person running the account is easily among the top three journalists

00:47:46.400 in America. Now, granted, almost all journalists these days are morally bankrupt propagandists,

00:47:50.420 so it's not a very stiff competition. But still, the woman behind the libs of Tik TOK account 1.00

00:47:54.580 performs a valuable journalistic service. Her primary focus, as the Twitter handle suggests,

00:48:00.080 is Tik TOK. She finds insane leftist drivel on that platform and calls attention to it. 0.93

00:48:05.320 And this is important, and I imagine rather emotionally exhausting work, not just because the videos she

00:48:11.220 finds are often morbidly hilarious, though they are, but because Tik TOK is by far the most popular

00:48:15.480 social media app among the younger generations. And by revealing the sorts of things that are posted

00:48:19.940 on Tik TOK, she's pointing the spotlight into the disturbing and often rather baffling environment

00:48:23.940 where millions of kids are being molded and formed. I mean, social media isn't just an app on a phone.

00:48:29.580 It's where people, especially kids, live. It takes priority over what we would call the real world.

00:48:35.120 But to them, Tik TOK is a much realer world than anything they encounter in three-dimensional

00:48:40.920 space, and they care more about it. That's why it's important for us to know what's going on there,

00:48:45.500 I would think. Also, sites like Tik TOK are kind of a far-left staging crowd. If you're plugged into

00:48:51.060 that world, you'll have a jump on the new leftist ideas and talking points before they make their way

00:48:56.100 into the mainstream. And this is an extremely fast process. You'll hear some extravagantly

00:49:00.900 pierced, blue-haired weirdo on Tik TOK spouting the latest insanity. And a week later, it'll be

00:49:06.140 an official Democrat talking point, as the pipeline from leftist extremism to leftist mainstream is not

00:49:12.060 very long at all. But it can be helpful to get the heads up anyway. So for example,

00:49:17.380 Libs of Tik TOK posted this yesterday. It's a video from non-binary activist and all-around creep 1.00

00:49:22.300 Jeffrey Marsh, giving what will soon become the official answer to the what is a woman question.

00:49:27.820 Listen. Here is Madison Cawthorne's definition of a woman. X chromosomes, no tally whacker. And this 0.99

00:49:37.860 gives me a chance to talk about biological essentialism. First of all, it's not true. People have all kinds

00:49:44.960 of chromosomes and all kinds of bodies. Women who've had hysterectomies, people born with certain

00:49:49.440 conditions. But that's almost immaterial. Number two, it is a system of oppression. Gender is a hierarchy 0.98

00:49:58.900 and a system of oppression. And the easier it is to define gender, the easier it is to keep the oppression 0.98

00:50:07.180 going. It's dangerous.

00:50:11.440 Now, by the way, people do not have all kinds of chromosomes. Women have XX chromosomes. Men have XY 0.80

00:50:17.460 chromosomes. That's the setup. Now, the fact that a very small number of people suffer from genetic

00:50:21.820 abnormalities or deformities, which in those specific cases may make the chromosomal situation

00:50:27.020 somewhat more muddled, does not change the fact that in principle, men have XY chromosomes and women

00:50:31.920 have XX chromosomes. There was a case in 2006 of a Chinese baby born with a very rare birth defect

00:50:36.640 that gave him three arms. But this medical anomaly does not invalidate the principle that human

00:50:42.960 beings have two arms. If somebody asked you, how many arms do human beings have, it would be insane

00:50:48.620 to act like the question is unanswerable just because the one kid in China had three.

00:50:53.400 Okay. But the real point for Marsh is the second thing he mentioned where, you know, and I think

00:50:57.700 we're going to start hearing this a lot more. And he says the question itself is oppressive, even

00:51:02.220 dangerous, because gender is a system of oppression. The thing about that is, you know, if gender is a 1.00

00:51:08.120 system of oppression, then why aren't we getting rid of it and just going back to talking about

00:51:13.420 sex, male and female? Why isn't he advocating that we see ourselves simply as male and female

00:51:19.140 and within those categories, people can dress however they want and be as feminine or masculine

00:51:23.620 as they want? Wouldn't that be the way to break down the oppressive gender system? 1.00

00:51:28.860 Leftist radicals are the ones who invented it anyway. They came up with the idea that gender is

00:51:32.100 distinct from sex. Why did they invent it if it's oppressive? And why do men insist on being seen as

00:51:37.820 women and women as men if the whole thing is oppressive? None of this makes any sense, of

00:51:42.200 course, but it's where leftist discourse is headed. And it's why these videos are important.

00:51:46.780 Of course, Libs of TikTok has done more than post TikTok videos online, though. She also has,

00:51:51.940 especially in recent months, had a hand in breaking major stories about the grooming and

00:51:55.600 indoctrinating going on in our school system. And I suspect it's this last thing, you know,

00:52:00.980 revealing what's happening in the school system that especially put her in the sights of the elites

00:52:04.760 who've grown tired of being exposed and humiliated by some anonymous account on Twitter. And that's

00:52:10.360 why they've now made sure that the account is no longer anonymous. This morning, the Washington

00:52:14.380 Post ran a major headline story, which serves no other purpose than to dox the woman behind the 0.96

00:52:19.780 Libs of TikTok account. Headline says, meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the 0.99

00:52:26.180 right's outrage machine. A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon

00:52:31.780 spreading anti-LGBTQ plus sentiment and shaping public discourse. Now, the article goes on to

00:52:39.000 provide the full name of the woman behind the account, the city where she lives, her employment

00:52:44.500 history, originally with a link to her employer. And they took the link out, but originally it was

00:52:51.560 there. And it attempts, of course, to also link her to January 6th, because why not? The Post

00:52:57.440 reporter acknowledges that the owner of the account has taken a number of steps to keep her identity

00:53:01.460 private. She obviously wants to be private. She wants to be anonymous. But the Washington Post

00:53:05.980 revealed it anyway. And this is where it's important to mention that the reporter who wrote

00:53:11.280 this article is none other than Taylor Lorenz. Now, you may remember her from a few weeks ago when she 0.88

00:53:16.640 was crying on MSNBC about being harassed and doxed. Let's go back and relive that moment again.

00:53:23.340 I've had to remove every single social tie. I had severe PTSD from this. I contemplated suicide.

00:53:31.320 It got really bad. You feel like any little piece of information that gets out on you will be used

00:53:38.360 by the worst people on the internet to destroy your life. And it's so isolating.

00:53:43.880 And terrifying. It's horrifying. I'm so sorry. It's overwhelming. It's really hard.

00:53:55.400 Yes, it's very bad when information gets out that may be used against you. Said the journalist

00:54:00.900 literally a week before she wrote an article doxing an anonymous Twitter account.

00:54:05.960 This is exactly why you can't take the tears seriously from these people.

00:54:09.060 I doubt that these goblins are even capable of experiencing real human emotion anymore anyway.

00:54:14.440 But if they are, I hope that the backlash Lorenz gets for her libs of TikTok expose is severe.

00:54:21.260 I hope it makes her cry herself to sleep every night for the next year.

00:54:25.380 I hope it ruins her life some more. Because that's justice. It's what she deserves.

00:54:30.480 The only good news for her is that the worst people on the internet aren't going to come after her

00:54:35.160 because she and her friends are the worst people. So the worst thing that can happen to her is that

00:54:39.820 the second worst people go after her. Maybe that'll be some consolation. I don't know.

00:54:44.340 But we know why Lorenz wants to make a victim of herself. She believes that her tears give her 1.00

00:54:48.240 license. That they are her credentials, basically. Which are supposed to confer upon her moral superiority. 1.00

00:54:54.220 They're supposed to make her untouchable and above criticism. After all, what sort of monster 1.00

00:54:57.520 would criticize a woman with PTSD? Well, I will. Her trauma doesn't mean anything to me. 0.97

00:55:04.420 Because it's not real. She deserves it anyway. The more interesting question, then, is why they

00:55:10.500 are going after libs of TikTok in the first place. All the account does is simply repost content.

00:55:17.160 And it's not like she's digging through dumpsters to find the content.

00:55:22.100 Okay? And she's not doing what Taylor Lorenz had to do to find the person behind the libs of TikTok

00:55:27.760 account. Had to actually do some digging to find it. She's not doing that. Libs of TikTok, 0.57

00:55:33.220 she's going to one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. And she's just reposting 1.00

00:55:39.300 it. She's taking content that other people put on this social media platform because they wanted 0.96

00:55:44.800 people to see it. And she's amplifying it. You know, people on the left do that with me all the

00:55:51.740 time. They take my videos and things that I've said. And, you know, things I've said on the show.

00:55:57.200 And they, media matters does it all the time. I don't have a problem with that. I mean, I want

00:56:05.080 people to hear what I'm saying. And that's all the libs of TikTok is doing. So why target her?

00:56:11.020 Well, that question is also very easy to answer. As the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

00:56:17.180 And she is helping to shine a light into some pretty dark spaces. Spaces that Taylor Lorenz and

00:56:22.420 the Washington Post would prefer to keep out of the mainstream view. They will, in fact, do anything

00:56:27.960 to keep it out of view. As Lorenz has clearly demonstrated. And that's why she is today,

00:56:34.340 finally, canceled. Again. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for

00:56:38.420 listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

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