Ep. 933 - Paranoid Leftists Hilariously Panic As The Last Mask Mandate Falls
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Passengers rejoice as a judge strikes down the CDC mask mandate. This news has provoked yet more delicious leftist tears, but there s an important lesson we can also take from all of this, we ll talk about that today. Also, Americans have wondered for the past two years who is really running the White House. Now we know it s the Easter Bunny. And a Washington Post reporter cries about being doxed and harassed, and then proceeded to dox and harass the anonymous person behind the TikTok account. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, passengers rejoice as a judge strikes down the CDC mask mandate.
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This news has provoked yet more delicious leftist tears, but there's an important lesson we can also
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take from all this. We'll talk about that today. Also, Americans have wondered for the past two
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years who is really running the White House. Now we know it's the Easter bunny. And a Washington
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Post reporter cried about being doxed and harassed and then proceeded to dox and harass the anonymous
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person behind the libs of TikTok account. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt
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ConsumerAccess.org. For two years, air travelers had to endure an onerous and cumbersome charade of
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pointless safety precautions. Well, actually, air travelers have had to endure an onerous and
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cumbersome charade of pointless safety precautions for two decades, not just two years. Since the
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turn of the century, anyone who committed the sin of trying to board a plane has been treated like a
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suspected terrorist and subjected to a type of scrutiny, screening, and security screening previously
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reserved for inmates at maximum security prisons and that sort of thing. The only change over the
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past two years is that now the millions of suspected terrorists were also all horribly diseased,
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it was decided. Even after the mask mandates were lifted almost everywhere in the country,
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still you had to don a mask to get on a flight, in spite of the fact that the air inside a plane
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is already aggressively filtered. The air is circulated through HEPA filters. It's also pumped
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in from outside the plane, compressed by the engines, and sent into the cabin. So the air you
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breathe in the cabin of a plane is completely replaced every three minutes, every three or four
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minutes. It is, in other words, the cleanest and safest air you'll ever breathe. In other words,
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masking on a plane makes the least sense, and yet we masked on planes for two years and kept masking
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even after masking had ended almost everywhere else. That is until yesterday. U.S. District Judge
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Catherine Kimball Mazzell, whose name shall be honored and revered by frequent flyers for all of
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eternity, ruled that the CDC mask mandate was unlawful because actually, slight little detail here,
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they didn't have the authority to impose mandates. Minor detail as far as the CDC is concerned.
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The CDC decided, of course, that the pandemic gave it the authority to act as legislature,
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executive, and judiciary all at once. But this judge disagreed. Reading from the Daily Wire report,
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it says a federal judge in Florida has voided Democrat President Joe Biden's national mask
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mandate, which is in place at airports and covers travel and airplanes and other forms of
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public transportation. Quote, the decision Monday by U.S. District Judge Catherine Kimball Mazzell in
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Tampa also said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention improperly failed to justify its decision
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and did not follow proper rulemaking, the Associated Press reported. The CDC recently extended the mask
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mandate, which was set to expire on April 18th until May 3rd to allow more time to study the BA2
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Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus that is now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the
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U.S. Mazzell, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, made the ruling in a case that was
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filed by the Health Freedom Defense Fund. Mazzell ruled that the mandate, quote, exceeded the CDC's
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statutory authority improperly invoked the good cause exception to notice and comment rulemaking
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and failed to adequately explain its decisions. The ruling said that the court declared the mandate
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to be unlawful because our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully, even in pursuit of
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desirable ends. Well, we needed a judge to tell us that, that actually, guys, federal government is not
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supposed to act unlawfully, even if you think you have a really good reason. Then something
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interesting happened as soon as this was announced. Within hours, every major airline had chosen to
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get rid of the masking requirement. There was, for about 30 minutes, there was a question of, well,
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what are the airlines going to do? Because this just says that they don't have to require masking,
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but they could still require masking if they wanted to. Well, shortly after that, they all dropped the
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masking. By 9 p.m. last night, American, United, Delta, Southwest, JetBlue, Alaska, Frontier,
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and Spirit had all announced that they would not require masks on planes anymore. And actually,
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it went beyond that. Amtrak dropped their masking requirement. Uber dropped their masking requirement.
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And then video started flooding social media of passengers learning the news about the masking
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requirement being dropped mid-flights and erupting with joy. So here's one from a Delta flight right
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before takeoff when the captain emerged from the cockpit to deliver the good news himself. Watch.
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April 18th, the Biden administration announced that the Transportation Security Administration
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will no longer enforce the federal mandate requiring masks in all U.S. airports and on-board aircraft.
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Effective immediately, masks are optional for all airport employees, crew members, and customers
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So lots of footage like that. There have even been reports of flight attendants
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and airline staff weeping tears of joy over the announcement, which is understandable. You know,
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I'd probably be feeling the same way if I was forced to mask every day at my job. And not only that,
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but your whole job becomes, as has been the case for flight attendants, their whole job for two years
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has just been enforcing the CDC's mandate for masking. That's all it was all of a sudden. It's just,
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it's all about the masking. And that's all they did was become the masking police.
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Though I suspect that some of those tears of joy were not actually joyful at all.
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You know, this is a difficult time for the petty tyrants in the flight attendant community,
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who quite obviously relished the power that the mask mandate gave them over other passengers,
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which is not all the flight attendants, not even a majority, I would suspect, but certainly some of them.
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And it's also a difficult time for these so-called public health experts,
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who rightly see in the dropping of this mandate, the last vestiges of their power and relevance
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slipping away, slipping out of their grasp. Many of them have been on Twitter panicking over the
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judge's ruling. Their hysteria is nearly as sweet and delicious as the panic last week over Elon Musk's
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Twitter bid. It's not, it's not quite that good, but it's still really good. So we'll go through a few
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of these tweets. And once again, we'll have to play some sad music accompaniment to really sort of set
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the mood here. So here's Dr. Jeremy Faust. He says,
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Hi, United. When I bought my tickets for me, my wife who was pregnant and our unvaccinated four-year-old,
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I assumed you would continue to have a mask mandate. Now you cancel it and we'll have to board our return
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flight under your new no mask required policy? The idea of not waiting until vaccine for all,
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including kids under five is pretty much you just saying it's cool if a few kids die so that you
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don't have to enforce this for another month or two. Public health advocate, Dr. Eric Feigel-Ding
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tweeted, I will not be flying Alaska Air until they reinstate public safety measures against COVID-19.
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Alaska Air, don't be an idiot airline and let this happen. American Air, your fellow One World Alliance
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member, you're being warned too. Don't end up like your other UK One World partner, British Airways.
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Then Stanford infectious disease doctor Abrar Karen said, dropping public mask mandates on travel
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where people are literally packed together when they're traveling to different places where they
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may cede more transmission while we're greatly under detecting cases as evidenced by wastewater
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is a costly mistake at this time. And then Maggie Astor, a climate reporter at the New York Times said,
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I can't stop thinking about people who may have chosen a book and board this flight based on a
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personal risk assessment that involved everyone being masked. And then mid flight, when it was
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physically impossible to leave, that element of their risk assessment was upended. Well, first of all,
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it's not physically impossible to leave in the middle of a flight. You can do it. I mean, it's not recommended,
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but you can. But she's right. You know, I can't stop thinking about those people either and laughing at
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them. My only regret is that I wasn't on a plane when this was announced and sitting right next to
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a COVID paranoid person so that I could take my mask off and force them to sit there trembling in fear,
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helplessly staring at my hideous naked face for the duration of the flight. I would have enjoyed that
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so much. I would have relished it. And it's not because I'm a jerk. Well, it's a little bit because
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I'm a jerk. But mostly, it's that the only hope for these people and their long-term psychological
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health and well-being is that they are thrust against their will back into a normal world where
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people go about their business and live their lives unmuzzled. This is a kind of final band-aid
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off moment for these people. And it will either cause a mental break or it will be a wake-up call.
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And this is the fork in the road. It's time to go one way or another. You have a choice. This is
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what I would say to the COVID paranoids out there. You've been living this way for two years.
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You've disgraced yourself in so many ways and humiliated yourself. And some of us will never
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really forget it. But you still have a choice. You don't have to be like this forever. This is your
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choice. Everyone else has returned to normal life a long time ago. Some of us never left it.
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And, but you can come with us and just be a normal person again. You can. It's an option.
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And this is the time of choosing right now. Are you going to be normal or a paranoid,
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mentally broken freak for your entire life? Another interesting thing to note here is that so far,
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while the Biden administration has expressed disappointment over the judge's ruling,
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it has not announced any plan to challenge it so far. And most likely, I would guess the
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administration will simply let this go. I mean, they've seen all the videos of people cheering
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on planes and tearing their masks off. They know that we're headed to the midterms. In fact,
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I'm willing to bet that this is exactly the outcome they were hoping for.
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Because it gets rid of the extremely unpopular mask mandate, but it frees them from the responsibility
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of having to lift it themselves. Now they can point to the judge, blame her for killing your
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grandmother, call her a Nazi or whatever, and then probably move on and pretend that the whole masking
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thing never happened. It's the best possible outcome for them politically. But remember something,
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even if the Biden administration was looking for a way out of this, as I suspect they were,
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the fact remains that out of all of the tyrannical, unjustifiable, and unjustified measures put in
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place ostensibly because of COVID, none of them were lifted, abolished, or rolled back by choice.
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Okay, the people who put these policies in place, all of these policies, the people who put them in
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place never chose to get rid of them. Most of it went away because the courts forced the issue and
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the rest because public backlash had become too much of a political liability for the regime.
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But if the powers that be had their way, and if we'd all been more cooperative, though many of us
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were much more cooperative than we ought to have been, but if it had worked how they wanted,
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we'd still be masking everywhere, and we'd be locked in our homes for most of the day,
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subject to vaccine mandates and contact tracing. That's what they wanted. It's not by their choice
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or their consent that things ultimately worked out differently. Never forget that fact, because this
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is who rules us. They want us controlled, muzzled, tracked, traced, and terrified. They didn't fully get
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Over the weekend on Saturday, my wife went out for a bit and while she was gone, my kids decided
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that they wanted to play a prank on her and they're my kids so they have a, of course, a really morbid
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sense of humor. So the prank that they settled on, this was their idea. It was not mine. Okay,
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I just want to make that clear. I didn't come up with this. They did. And the prank was to pretend
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that my daughter, Julia, had been grievously injured. That's what they wanted to do. And now I
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may have suggested that some ketchup could be used, you know, to simulate blood. That was my only
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suggestion. And I did say to them, I said, kids, I don't approve of this. This is not,
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your mom's not going to like this, but you could use ketchup too. That'll make this a little bit
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more realistic. And so that's all I suggest. That was it. And so they took that and they kind
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of smeared it on Julia's face. And it looked really convincing actually. And then my wife came
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home and my daughter, she did a great acting job for about five seconds, but she broke after about
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five seconds and started laughing. But there was five seconds of, well, my wife was not too amused
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by the whole thing, I don't think. But like I said, it wasn't my idea. And I just, you have to
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understand. So I know you're thinking, well, you're the father, you know, don't you have control of
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this? And usually I do, but this was really, it was more, it was kind of ethical turmoil for me
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because I have, it's just, my principles will not allow me to interfere with a good prank.
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And the way this was shaping up, it's like, it was pretty good. And so I couldn't, I couldn't,
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I could not allow myself to stop them. You have to understand. That's the case I'm making anyway.
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All right, let's see. So Joe Biden had his own fun over the weekend, especially on Sunday with the
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Easter egg roll, which is a tradition at the white house. One of the many dumb traditions that they
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should probably just get rid of, especially when you have a president with dementia and the, the,
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you know, the least we see that the most that we can, we can keep them out of, out of public view,
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I think the better, but he was there and there are a lot of videos that have surfaced and we'll play
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some of them of Joe Biden being kind of shuffled around and verbally prompted, told what to do and
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say by first his wife. So here's the first clip of Jill Biden and Joe Biden reading a book to the kids
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and Jill kind of nudging her husband along. Let's listen to that.
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Just stay. Like a, no big deal. It's the president of the United States.
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The guy's supposed to be running the country and he's being treated literally like a dog.
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And then he was also prompted when to wave to the crowd. Play that.
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Okay. You can hear her say wave, wave. Now here's, here's the one thing I'll say.
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Um, my one slight defense of Joe Biden, and it's not much of a defense. I will say
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that this is kind of what my wife does with me at social functions. Not quite this bad. I don't
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need as much instruction, but she does kind of have to prompt me like this smile. You're supposed
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to smile here. You know, just like basic, basic social things you're supposed to do in social
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situations. Sometimes I need my wife to, to help me along. So this is something that I think wives
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do for husbands. Um, and so if that was all we saw, just those two videos, I could almost let it go.
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Uh, but that's not it because it wasn't just Jill Biden instructing Joe Biden. It was also the Easter
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bunny. So here we have, um, a couple of clips of the Easter bunny. Let's just play these of the
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Easter bunny coming in and, uh, having to kind of give stage directions to Joe Biden. Go ahead and
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Pakistan should not, and Afghanistan should be particularly...
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So Joe, he was babbling something about, uh, about Afghanistan and, and Iraq and the Middle East.
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And, uh, quickly the Easter bunny was over there to intercept him and just point him off in a,
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in a different direction. Just go, yeah, go wander over there, Mr. President. Just go wander over
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there. And then he did wander over there. And then the Easter bunny had to come in again
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and, um, direct him in a different, uh, to go in a different direction. Watch this.
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This is, this is not funny at all. This is not funny at all. This is the president of the United
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States who's being led around, confused, hapless, being led around by the Easter bunny.
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It couldn't even be like, I'd feel a little bit better if it was Santa Claus.
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At least Santa Claus is a person, I think, right?
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You know, but it's the Easter bunny of all the mythical holiday creatures, the worst one.
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Also the creepiest one to have actually running the show.
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Turns out that Easter bunny is it. That's the question we've all had, right? For, uh, the last
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year or two years is, is, uh, who actually is running the country? Who's running the White House?
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Cause we sure as hell know it's not this guy. And it turns out it's the Easter bunny.
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And the other question was, okay, who is the person in the Easter bunny outfit? And it turns out that,
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no, it wasn't some intern or whoever you think probably usually with these events,
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they just take some lowly intern and they put them in the Easter bunny outfit and send them out
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there. But, um, this time they had an actual, a high ranking staffer in the Easter bunny outfit,
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which, um, I don't know for sure, but I greatly suspect is not what they, what the White House
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usually does. But I got to take someone like a staffer who has an actual office in the White House
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this is someone in the, you know, kind of the PR department at the White House. They're not going
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to take them and put them in the Easter bunny outfit. They did that so that the Easter bunny
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could keep, keep tabs on, on the president of the United States because the president of the United
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States has, is senile and has dementia. And that was the case before he even became president.
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When he was running for office, everybody knew it. And still tens of millions of Americans said,
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yeah, you know what? That's the guy. I think we want to put him in charge.
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I don't know how many times I have to say it. I'm going to keep on saying it.
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You know, there is, there is, I have yet to hear, and I've been advocating for this
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for years and no one has explained to me why there is not an upper age limit on the presidency.
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Why do we not cap it at 75? At least, I mean, you could make an argument for capping it at 65 or 70,
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but 75, okay, 35 to 75, you got 40, you got 40 years to become president. How is that not enough
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time? If that's not enough, if you can't do it in 40 years, then it wasn't meant to be,
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go home and be with your grandkids. What's the argument against it?
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Now, I know what the real reason is. I know what the real reason, I know why we don't have an age
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limit on the presidency because the people who would have to put the age limit in place,
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a lot of them, it's, you know, they're the ones who want to leave the possibility open
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for them to become president. So we would need, in order to have an age limit placed on the presidency,
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we would need the people in charge of the country to choose to limit their own power and they're
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never going to do that. And the problem is that each of them individually, they all feel that,
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hey, I could run the president when I'm 90. They all think that they are eminently capable
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and that they alone should be running the show, which is precisely the reason why they shouldn't be.
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So that's the real reason why the age limit will never be put in place. But is there an actual
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argument, a good argument that anyone can articulate as to why there's no upper age limit?
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You know, I said this again on Twitter yesterday and Kira Davis is a managing editor over at Red
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State, which is another conservative publication. And she responded with, I don't think this is a good
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argument, but it's really the only one that I ever hear. She says, Matt Walsh,
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this isn't fair. I think the closer you get to 75, the more you'll see that the potential wisdom of
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a man at that age cannot be replaced by youth. If he's healthy and engaged and alert, age shouldn't
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be an issue. Look at Betty White, worked till 90. So that's the way the argument always goes. And
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there's always some random example of a much older person who was, okay, sometimes Betty White is
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used. A lot of times somebody was like, oh, my great-grandfather, he was spry and sprightly and
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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.
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
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,
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
00:34:56.620
convince them to not be scumbag predators anymore, we, we, we take them and we put them in these
00:35:04.040
facilities called prisons and we keep them there and punish them, segregate them from society. I think
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
00:40:57.380
And, and, and these are all hate crimes, except that's just, that's the number of transgender people
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
00:41:17.140
ever be murdered. Like there's, there's no other reason why a trans person would ever be killed.
00:41:24.200
So we get rid of the hate crime problem and no trans people are, would, would be immune for murder.
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,
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
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.
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
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
00:44:21.200
understand how you could be happier unemployed. Maybe my fellow millennials and zoomers have a lot
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
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
00:46:56.100
deserve to have more legal rights than human babies do? Well, no, they don't. Of course not.
00:47:00.740
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00:47:05.340
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00:47:10.120
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00:47:14.300
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00:47:19.180
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00:47:23.240
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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
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.
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
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an official Democrat talking point, as the pipeline from leftist extremism to leftist mainstream is not
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very long at all. But it can be helpful to get the heads up anyway. So for example,
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Libs of Tik TOK posted this yesterday. It's a video from non-binary activist and all-around creep
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Jeffrey Marsh, giving what will soon become the official answer to the what is a woman question.
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Listen. Here is Madison Cawthorne's definition of a woman. X chromosomes, no tally whacker. And this
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gives me a chance to talk about biological essentialism. First of all, it's not true. People have all kinds
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of chromosomes and all kinds of bodies. Women who've had hysterectomies, people born with certain
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conditions. But that's almost immaterial. Number two, it is a system of oppression. Gender is a hierarchy
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and a system of oppression. And the easier it is to define gender, the easier it is to keep the oppression
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Now, by the way, people do not have all kinds of chromosomes. Women have XX chromosomes. Men have XY
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chromosomes. That's the setup. Now, the fact that a very small number of people suffer from genetic
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abnormalities or deformities, which in those specific cases may make the chromosomal situation
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somewhat more muddled, does not change the fact that in principle, men have XY chromosomes and women
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have XX chromosomes. There was a case in 2006 of a Chinese baby born with a very rare birth defect
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that gave him three arms. But this medical anomaly does not invalidate the principle that human
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beings have two arms. If somebody asked you, how many arms do human beings have, it would be insane
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to act like the question is unanswerable just because the one kid in China had three.
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Okay. But the real point for Marsh is the second thing he mentioned where, you know, and I think
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we're going to start hearing this a lot more. And he says the question itself is oppressive, even
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dangerous, because gender is a system of oppression. The thing about that is, you know, if gender is a
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system of oppression, then why aren't we getting rid of it and just going back to talking about
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sex, male and female? Why isn't he advocating that we see ourselves simply as male and female
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and within those categories, people can dress however they want and be as feminine or masculine
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as they want? Wouldn't that be the way to break down the oppressive gender system?
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Leftist radicals are the ones who invented it anyway. They came up with the idea that gender is
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distinct from sex. Why did they invent it if it's oppressive? And why do men insist on being seen as
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women and women as men if the whole thing is oppressive? None of this makes any sense, of
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course, but it's where leftist discourse is headed. And it's why these videos are important.
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Of course, Libs of TikTok has done more than post TikTok videos online, though. She also has,
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especially in recent months, had a hand in breaking major stories about the grooming and
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indoctrinating going on in our school system. And I suspect it's this last thing, you know,
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revealing what's happening in the school system that especially put her in the sights of the elites
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who've grown tired of being exposed and humiliated by some anonymous account on Twitter. And that's
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why they've now made sure that the account is no longer anonymous. This morning, the Washington
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Post ran a major headline story, which serves no other purpose than to dox the woman behind the
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Libs of TikTok account. Headline says, meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the
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right's outrage machine. A popular Twitter account has morphed into a social media phenomenon
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spreading anti-LGBTQ plus sentiment and shaping public discourse. Now, the article goes on to
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provide the full name of the woman behind the account, the city where she lives, her employment
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history, originally with a link to her employer. And they took the link out, but originally it was
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there. And it attempts, of course, to also link her to January 6th, because why not? The Post
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reporter acknowledges that the owner of the account has taken a number of steps to keep her identity
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private. She obviously wants to be private. She wants to be anonymous. But the Washington Post
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revealed it anyway. And this is where it's important to mention that the reporter who wrote
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this article is none other than Taylor Lorenz. Now, you may remember her from a few weeks ago when she
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was crying on MSNBC about being harassed and doxed. Let's go back and relive that moment again.
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I've had to remove every single social tie. I had severe PTSD from this. I contemplated suicide.
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It got really bad. You feel like any little piece of information that gets out on you will be used
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by the worst people on the internet to destroy your life. And it's so isolating.
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And terrifying. It's horrifying. I'm so sorry. It's overwhelming. It's really hard.
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Yes, it's very bad when information gets out that may be used against you. Said the journalist
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literally a week before she wrote an article doxing an anonymous Twitter account.
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This is exactly why you can't take the tears seriously from these people.
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I doubt that these goblins are even capable of experiencing real human emotion anymore anyway.
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But if they are, I hope that the backlash Lorenz gets for her libs of TikTok expose is severe.
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I hope it makes her cry herself to sleep every night for the next year.
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I hope it ruins her life some more. Because that's justice. It's what she deserves.
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The only good news for her is that the worst people on the internet aren't going to come after her
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because she and her friends are the worst people. So the worst thing that can happen to her is that
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the second worst people go after her. Maybe that'll be some consolation. I don't know.
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But we know why Lorenz wants to make a victim of herself. She believes that her tears give her
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license. That they are her credentials, basically. Which are supposed to confer upon her moral superiority.
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They're supposed to make her untouchable and above criticism. After all, what sort of monster
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would criticize a woman with PTSD? Well, I will. Her trauma doesn't mean anything to me.
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Because it's not real. She deserves it anyway. The more interesting question, then, is why they
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are going after libs of TikTok in the first place. All the account does is simply repost content.
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And it's not like she's digging through dumpsters to find the content.
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Okay? And she's not doing what Taylor Lorenz had to do to find the person behind the libs of TikTok
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account. Had to actually do some digging to find it. She's not doing that. Libs of TikTok,
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she's going to one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. And she's just reposting
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it. She's taking content that other people put on this social media platform because they wanted
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people to see it. And she's amplifying it. You know, people on the left do that with me all the
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time. They take my videos and things that I've said. And, you know, things I've said on the show.
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And they, media matters does it all the time. I don't have a problem with that. I mean, I want
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people to hear what I'm saying. And that's all the libs of TikTok is doing. So why target her?
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Well, that question is also very easy to answer. As the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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And she is helping to shine a light into some pretty dark spaces. Spaces that Taylor Lorenz and
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the Washington Post would prefer to keep out of the mainstream view. They will, in fact, do anything
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to keep it out of view. As Lorenz has clearly demonstrated. And that's why she is today,
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finally, canceled. Again. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for
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