The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 934 - The Real Reason Why The Media Wants To Destroy Libs Of TikTok

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the leftist media tries its best to defend the Washington Post

00:00:04.020 doxing the creator of the Libs of TikTok account. We'll talk about that and also try to answer this

00:00:07.980 question. Why are they bothering to go after Libs of TikTok at all? Also, cable news pundits are now

00:00:13.220 shipping themselves off to go fight in Ukraine. A win-win for everybody, perhaps. Elon Musk exposes

00:00:18.360 the overpopulation hoax. A Democrat lawmaker earns props from the left for his theatrical,

00:00:23.320 tearful speech protesting a bill to protect women's sports. And as airline passengers tear

00:00:27.680 off their muzzles and celebrate their freedom, the Biden administration fights to muzzle them 0.99

00:00:31.920 once again. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:01.520 wherever you live. Well, if you thought there would be any accountability for the parasitic sociopath 0.97

00:02:07.460 named Taylor Lorenz, who docks the woman behind the libs of TikTok account, I envy your naivete and 0.88

00:02:12.760 innocence, you sweet summer child. The regime will always defend its own. And so it has dug its trenches

00:02:17.800 around Lorenz and will protect her, of course. Now, before we get to the latest on the story and some

00:02:22.680 important points that I think need to be made about it, let's back up quickly and review for anyone who

00:02:27.340 gave themselves a day off from the news cycle yesterday. You should probably just keep that going. Go back

00:02:31.460 into whatever cave you were hiding in and don't emerge. There's nothing up here for you. Well, Lorenz,

00:02:37.360 a Washington Post reporter who gins up outrage mobs against people for a living, basically, that's what she 1.00

00:02:41.940 does, while simultaneously crying about all of the online harassment she supposedly endorsed, wrote,

00:02:47.580 an article about the previously anonymous woman who runs the libs of TikTok account on Twitter.

00:02:52.980 She published the woman's name, the city where she lives, and her employment history.

00:02:57.120 She also tracked down the woman's family and went to their homes. Not only that, but the article in

00:03:02.980 WashingtonPost.com originally included a link, which, if you clicked on it, would give you the

00:03:07.960 woman's current home address. Now, the link was taken down after backlash, but the proverbial cat

00:03:13.400 is already out of the bag, by design, of course. I mean, you don't have to keep the link up. It only

00:03:18.000 needs to be up for five minutes, and leftist internet trolls will take it and run with it, 1.00

00:03:22.760 ensuring that the information is enshrined forever online. And so that was the strategy there.

00:03:27.960 Now, the doxing is the big news here and the most vile thing about the piece, but let's not

00:03:33.100 let it distract us completely from the fact that the article is also, along with the doxing,

00:03:37.900 incredibly dishonest. Lorenz accuses the Libs of TikTok creator of using, quote,

00:03:43.740 QAnon-related language, but doesn't explain what that means or provide any examples or evidence.

00:03:49.100 The left has previously decided that any outrage expressed over pedophilia or child grooming,

00:03:54.240 or if you say something like, we have to save the children or protect the children,

00:03:57.860 that that is QAnon language. We can only assume that Lorenz is referring to that.

00:04:01.980 Lorenz starts the article with this sentence. This is what it says.

00:04:04.740 On March 8th, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching 0.64

00:04:09.480 sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a predator,

00:04:13.860 which she doesn't mention. Now, what she doesn't mention, though, what Lorenz doesn't mention,

00:04:17.500 is that the sex educator is running a, the quote-unquote sex educator, anyway,

00:04:22.900 is running a sexy summer camp for kids, and that's what she calls it. And in the video in question,

00:04:28.580 where she's, well, she's just teaching sex ed to kids, is what Lorenz says in the article. 0.87

00:04:33.140 Well, in reality, she's talking about how she, she recommends masturbation to very young children, 0.96

00:04:39.880 and she brags in the video that her nephews were masturbating, quote, as soon as they can talk. 0.95

00:04:45.520 We've played that video on the show. You might remember it. I'm not going to make you sit 0.89

00:04:48.760 through it again. Lorenz doesn't mention any of that in her article because she's a dishonest, 1.00

00:04:54.020 soulless hack. Speaking of which, the piece also contains this passage. It says,

00:04:58.940 Tyler Wren, a former English teacher in Oklahoma, posted a video telling LGBTQ kids shunned by

00:05:05.800 their parents that Wren was proud of them and loved them. It was featured on Libs of TikTok last

00:05:10.980 week. Since being featured on the page, Wren has been barraged with harassment and death threats.

00:05:16.600 Quote, I've always seen myself as the type of teacher to stand up for marginalized voices,

00:05:20.680 Wren said. I see fellow teachers on TikTok speak out for our disenfranchised students,

00:05:25.000 and they're getting the same sort of harassment too. Oh, poor Tyler Wren. He's being harassed because

00:05:31.740 of the mean woman behind the Libs of TikTok account. Hey, just curious. I mean, not that it

00:05:36.820 matters, of course, but what exactly does the teacher say in the video? I mean, does he really

00:05:41.420 just say that he's proud of his LGBT students? That's all he says, huh? He just says, hey, I'm proud

00:05:46.920 of all my students, including the LGBT students. I'm proud of you all. And that's what ended up on

00:05:51.360 Libs of TikTok. He's getting death threats over that. Well, that's some terrible homophobia.

00:05:58.160 If that's all he said, but let's go to the tape and find out.

00:06:02.020 Hey, if your parents don't love and accept you for who you are this Christmas, 1.00

00:06:05.640 f*** them. I'm your parents now. I'm proud of you. Drink some water. I love you. Bye. 1.00

00:06:12.520 Ah, okay. So he does say that he's proud of his students. It's just that Lorenz,

00:06:16.960 quite accidentally, I'm sure, left out the part where he says, F your parents. I'm your parents

00:06:22.840 now. He says this and chooses to post it to a public platform. Libs of TikTok, that's another

00:06:29.740 important point here. She's not sneaking into these people's homes with a camera and surreptitiously 0.92

00:06:36.180 recording them. She's taking the videos they record of themselves and post themselves,

00:06:42.920 and she's reposting it to another platform. Lorenz calls this anti-LGBT harassment,

00:06:49.800 which is absurd because you can't harass someone by simply calling attention to something they chose

00:06:54.920 to post, but also because she's lumping all LGBT people into the groomer camp. She's doing that. 1.00

00:07:01.220 Lorenz is doing it. She is labeling all LGBT people groomers. Libs of TikTok's not doing that. 0.97

00:07:07.180 After all, you know, I don't think, and Libs of TikTok doesn't think, that every gay person, 0.83

00:07:14.020 or even most, believe that we should teach masturbation to toddlers or agree that teachers 0.98

00:07:20.400 should tell students, F your parents, I'm your parents now. I don't see that as the official 0.66

00:07:25.720 gay position on these topics. Lorenz apparently does, and that's her issue. That's on her. 0.91

00:07:33.060 But the media wagons have circled around Lorenz. Many of her peers have come to her defense claiming

00:07:40.040 that her tracking down the name, address, and family members of an anonymous Twitter account

00:07:44.820 is just good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting. The Post itself has taken this stance. As The Hill

00:07:51.240 reports, quote, The Washington Post is standing behind the reporting of one of its top columnists

00:07:55.780 after a story published Tuesday sparked pushback from supporters of a popular conservative Twitter

00:08:00.320 account. Quote, Taylor Lorenz is a diligent and accomplished journalist whose reporting methods

00:08:06.300 comport entirely with The Washington Post professional standards. Cameron Barr, senior

00:08:10.320 managing editor at The Post, said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the report, quote, did not

00:08:14.780 publish or link to any details about the creator's personal life. Now, that's simply a lie. It did,

00:08:20.700 in fact, include personal details. Some were later removed, and some remain. One of the personal

00:08:27.400 details that remains is the most basic of all, her name. Now, of course, the Lorenz defenders say that

00:08:33.920 it's not doxing to publish the woman's name because names are publicly available information.

00:08:39.620 That's the narrative now. Well, it's publicly available. Well, if that's the standard for doxing,

00:08:46.180 then I've got bad news. We're all in trouble because in the information age, literally everything

00:08:51.760 is publicly available to any member of the public with the knowledge and wherewithal to track it down.

00:08:56.540 I mean, your name is publicly available, your date of birth, your address, your employer.

00:09:04.120 Even things that are allegedly private can still be accessed by someone who knows what they're doing.

00:09:09.440 Besides, do you know who is on the record as stating that it's doxing to publish someone's

00:09:14.720 name without consent? There is one person who's made this point in the past, and I thought it did so

00:09:19.180 very well, and that would be Taylor Lorenz. Here she is just a few months ago complaining about the 1.00

00:09:24.680 doxing campaign against a guy dubbed West Elm Caleb. Some women on TikTok were complaining

00:09:30.760 about this guy for ghosting them, and it went viral for some reason, and it was a viral trending

00:09:34.700 thing. And pretty soon this guy's name was everywhere. And here's Lorenz's thoughts about

00:09:41.540 that. Listen.

00:09:42.060 A bunch of people are asking if I'm going to write about the West Elm Caleb story. No,

00:09:46.580 I'm on book leave. I can't keep writing pieces for the New York Times. I literally do have a lot

00:09:51.040 of deadlines. But journalists who are writing about it, please speak to people with experience

00:09:56.000 in online harassment. I'm not going to lie, I've been pretty horrified by a lot of the media coverage

00:10:00.860 of this. A lot of people are just aggregating some of the cruelest commentary online and whipping

00:10:06.120 it all up into a news story with absolutely no comment from Caleb or nuance about the situation.

00:10:10.500 The top story on Google yesterday was literally this House Beautiful story that doxes Caleb,

00:10:15.340 puts his full name in the story, zero comment from this man. After this whole article gleefully

00:10:20.900 encourages this online harassment and doxing campaign, they literally use him to sell West

00:10:25.960 Elm furniture through affiliate links. Once again, commercializing a harassment and doxing campaign.

00:10:32.880 I think the media needs a total wake up call on the way that they cover online harassment. And this

00:10:37.020 is just the latest example of it. And reporters should be adding nuance, not just piling on.

00:10:41.780 Yeah, you don't want to pile on. You want to have nuance. The media needs a wake up call. I agree

00:10:47.940 with, I agree actually with everything she said in that, in that one minute clip there. I agree with

00:10:53.500 the entire thing. The problem is that she does not agree with it. She says that a, a, a news story

00:11:00.100 doxes Caleb puts his full name in the story. That's a direct quote from her. Doxes Caleb puts his full

00:11:06.440 name in the story. Now, whether publishing somebody's name is doxing or not, it's very

00:11:12.100 clear that the person who published libs of TikTok's name thinks that it is. Now, how can she

00:11:17.440 justify this double standard? Well, first by having no soul as covered, but second, because as always

00:11:24.200 with the left, whatever they're decrying, whatever, and especially when they're decrying the way that

00:11:28.760 somebody is treated, there is always an asterisk. And the asterisk says, unless they deserve it.

00:11:35.600 Okay. That's always the exception. That's, that's always the catch. So hatred and intolerance

00:11:42.380 are bad unless they deserve it. Violence is bad unless they deserve it. Human rights violations

00:11:48.860 are bad unless they deserve it. Doxing is bad unless they deserve it. And libs of TikTok deserved it. 1.00

00:11:57.080 She had it coming for one reason above all others. And here's what you have to understand.

00:12:01.500 So this may be the most important point of all here. If this woman had started a Twitter account 0.68

00:12:08.960 called libs of Twitter, and it was dedicated to the libs of Twitter, her name and address would

00:12:14.920 still probably be private right now. If she had made a libs of Facebook account, exposing the liberal 1.00

00:12:20.840 wine moms who populate that platform, she'd be at home safe and sound rather than having to hide in a 1.00

00:12:25.780 safe house right now. The great crime committed by libs of TikTok was focusing her energy on TikTok 0.99

00:12:31.940 specifically. And as I said yesterday, but bears repeating the reason that this is such an infraction

00:12:39.760 in the eyes of the left, the reason why that pokes the bear so much is that our kids are on TikTok.

00:12:46.140 Not my kids. My kids won't ever even have cell phones because I love them, but lots of people,

00:12:50.880 people's kids are on TikTok. The common thread here, the theme is that the left does not want us

00:12:57.760 to see what our kids, our kids are seeing on TikTok. They don't want you to see what your kids are

00:13:06.240 seeing. That platform, along with the public school system, together act as a social contagion

00:13:12.460 factory. They're like petri dishes where the viruses are grown and cultivated and the hosts are

00:13:19.120 infected. Now the boomers on Facebook are getting infected by their own mind viruses, as are the 0.90

00:13:24.880 millennials on Twitter. But it's most important, as far as the left is concerned, to keep what is

00:13:30.700 happening to our kids in the dark. That's why they cry harassment when you simply point and say,

00:13:37.760 hey, look what's happening over there. They don't want you to look while they're still sowing.

00:13:44.520 They just want you to accept whatever grows from the seed without asking questions.

00:13:51.420 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:15:10.480 Let's see. So we'll start here. American cable news pundit, Malcolm Nance, has decided to go to

00:15:18.280 Ukraine, allegedly to fight the Russians. And he put up a tweet and he's posing there with his,

00:15:26.140 you know, he's got his gun. He's got the fatigues on and everything. And he captions it, says,

00:15:31.520 I'm done talking, is what he said. And while he's been there, he's been doing a lot of

00:15:38.580 cable news hits and things and doing interviews and talking about why he decided to go fight in

00:15:44.120 Ukraine. And here he is on Joy Reid. Now, remember something. Just last week, Joy Reid was complaining

00:15:52.360 about the focus on Ukraine and saying that it was racist to talk so much about Ukraine. Yet here she

00:15:57.520 is. And here's Malcolm Nance. And let's watch that. Well, as you know, I spent quite a bit of time

00:16:02.440 here in the pre-war period. And when the invasion happened, I had friends who were in Donetsk, who

00:16:08.060 were in the Ukrainian army, who were writing to us and telling us, we're not going to survive tonight.

00:16:12.540 We've been hit 500 times. You know, these are graduates of Defense Language Institute. These

00:16:17.200 are my friends. And, you know, as the more I saw of the war going on, the more I thought,

00:16:22.320 I'm done talking. All right. It's time to take action here. So about a month ago, I joined the

00:16:28.400 International Legion here in Ukraine. And I am here to help this country fight, you know, what

00:16:36.280 essentially is a war of extermination. This is an existential war. And Russia has bought it to these 0.95

00:16:45.040 people. And they are mass murdering civilians. And there are people here like me who are here to do

00:16:50.260 something about it. He's actually he's done quite a few interviews while he's been supposedly on the

00:16:57.220 battlefield. And it's just a different kind of war, I guess, where you can stop and do interviews.

00:17:01.820 He's been tweeting a lot to prolifically tweeting while on the battlefield. Now, listen, I did say at

00:17:09.260 the start of this thing that if you really think America should get involved in this war, then why

00:17:14.080 don't you go to Ukraine yourself and fight? I did say that. Nance is taking me up on it.

00:17:18.620 Apparently, it was sort of rhetorical. I don't actually think you should do it.

00:17:24.200 I don't think you should go and risk your life potentially to protect someone else's country.

00:17:30.700 It's not something I would do. And that's why when I've when I've brought this up and I've been

00:17:36.700 asking questions about this Malcolm Nance thing, some people on Twitter say, well, what are you?

00:17:39.840 You're just sitting in the safety of your home criticizing. Well, yeah, you're damn right. 0.87

00:17:43.240 It's I'm not going to put my life on the line for someone else's country. I'm not going to do that.

00:17:52.100 And, you know, there are some who say, well, at least we give him some credit for putting his

00:17:55.600 money where his mouth is. It's just hard for me to give him credit, though. I got to be totally

00:18:00.220 honest with you, because I can't imagine that the Ukrainian military needs or wants help from an

00:18:07.960 out of shape, 60 year old cable news pundit who's tweeting and doing interviews from the alleged

00:18:13.960 battlefield and can't even speak the language as far as I know. But he shows up there and immediately

00:18:21.260 he changes his Twitter profile of him posing with with, you know, with the fatigues and everything.

00:18:26.580 And he's got the cameras falling around. He's doing interviews.

00:18:32.360 Is that and I admit I have no experience on the battlefield myself, but maybe someone who does

00:18:38.340 have experience, you can tell me if like if you would find that helpful when you've been.

00:18:42.660 And again, if you're a combat veteran, then I'm soliciting your opinions on this.

00:18:49.260 And I'd be very interested to hear this.

00:18:50.540 First, when you were in a firefight, did you ever find yourself in a position

00:18:56.300 where you were thinking to yourself, what we really need right now on the scene here

00:19:01.560 is a 60 year old out of shape cable news pundit with a camera crew following him

00:19:05.400 who's going to tweet? Like, did you ever think that? Was there ever a situation where you were

00:19:09.420 thinking that's what we need? Probably not.

00:19:13.440 But this has become kind of a LARPing opportunity for for people in cable news to show up there and

00:19:21.420 get some camera time. And I I just I fail to see how it could help. But maybe maybe some

00:19:28.860 military analysts can can kind of spell it out for me. I'll be very interested to hear that.

00:19:35.080 This is from Fox Business. It says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is willing to invest up to 15 billion

00:19:39.560 dollars of his own cash to take Twitter private and will make a bid within 10 days,

00:19:42.760 according to Tuesday reports. The New York Post reported Tuesday that Musk with a 9.1 percent

00:19:47.400 stake in the social media company has tapped Morgan Stanley to help raise an additional 10

00:19:50.760 billion. Musk's massive 43 billion dollar bid to purchase the company may require borrowing

00:19:56.540 against both the company and his stock in addition to raising money from private equity

00:20:00.760 investors. The estimated 10 to 15 billion dollars Musk is reportedly willing to invest is well above

00:20:05.340 his roughly 3.4 billion dollar stake in the company. Sources told the Post that the co-investors

00:20:09.760 will collectively have more equity in Twitter, but Musk will remain the single largest shareholder.

00:20:14.660 So to summarize, the story isn't over yet. The board is trying to shut it down. The corrupt

00:20:20.400 Twitter board, who again have almost no once Jack Dorsey is gone. Jack Dorsey, who, by the

00:20:26.860 way, it's a whole other story. He's lighting the place on fire on his way out the door.

00:20:29.760 And once he's gone, he's got, I think, 2 percent of the company. And once he's off the board,

00:20:35.520 then they're not even going to have 2 percent collectively, all the rest of them.

00:20:38.900 So this isn't over yet. Elon Musk isn't giving up. But this, I think, is the,

00:20:43.600 that's all great. But here's the Elon Musk news that I really appreciate. This is a video that's

00:20:48.700 gone viral today. This is Musk in a recent interview. I'm not sure when this was.

00:20:52.860 talking about the overpopulation scam, which is what it is, and kind of debunking it. Let's listen

00:20:59.840 to this. Yeah. So most people in the world are operating under the false impression that there

00:21:07.200 are too many people. This is not true. Earth could maintain a population many times at the current

00:21:12.740 level. And the birth rate has been dropping like crazy. So unfortunately, like we have these like

00:21:29.700 ridiculous population estimates from the UN that need to be updated because they're just don't make

00:21:36.740 any sense. Really, you can just look at, say, what was the birth rate last year? How many kids were 0.69

00:21:43.620 born? Multiply that by the life expectancy and say, OK, that's how many people will be alive,

00:21:50.820 you know, in the future. And then say, is the trend for birth rate positive or negative? It's negative.

00:21:58.500 So that's the best case, unless something changes with the birth rate.

00:22:01.300 Yeah, he's exactly right there. This is a really important thing to bring up. The overpopulation

00:22:09.140 myth. I mean, this is one of the most insidious, in a literal sense, anti-human myths that the left

00:22:17.020 has ever concocted. And of course, you always notice with the overpopulation myth, the people that are

00:22:25.220 out there promoting it say, oh, there are too many people. There's over. We have population and then

00:22:30.220 overpopulation and we're full. We're above capacity right now. Well, the people saying that, they never

00:22:39.020 consider themselves to be in the over camp, right? They are just population. And then there are these

00:22:45.420 other people and then they often don't specify who, but sometimes they do. But whoever it is, there are

00:22:51.340 other people who, uh, they're, you know, they, they are the extras, the people that we don't need.

00:22:58.760 And that's already a problem to talk about people in that way. Like we're nothing but

00:23:03.000 just sort of resources. Like we're objects that you can have too many of.

00:23:11.240 And the other point is that actually it's not that we have overpopulation.

00:23:14.980 That's not the crisis that we're facing. You know, we're not going to, there's, there's no

00:23:21.120 scenario where we are going to reach the carrying capacity of the earth. This is one of the great

00:23:28.060 ironies I think about, uh, the environmentalist movement and over the overpopulation myth is very

00:23:34.760 much tied to the environmentalist anti-human movement. But the people who call themselves

00:23:39.440 environmentalists and they pretend to respect and love nature so much to the point of almost

00:23:43.700 worshiping it. They also underestimate it quite a bit. So they kind of worship the earth, but they,

00:23:51.560 at the same time, weirdly have no respect for it. They, they see the earth as this tiny little

00:23:59.580 fragile thing that can be, um, that can be destroyed and broken quite easily. Who was that Democrat

00:24:08.920 lawmaker famously years ago was worried that an Island would, uh, would tip over because there

00:24:15.320 are too many people on it. I can't remember the guy's name. I'm sure people in the comments will

00:24:18.900 remind me. So it's that kind of mentality that you find in the entire environmentalist movement.

00:24:25.780 Maybe not to that absurd level, but it's, it is, it is in fact, actually just as absurd

00:24:30.600 to say that there are too many people on earth. You realize how enormous the earth is

00:24:35.660 now, sure. When you compare it to other celestial bodies like Jupiter or the sun or something,

00:24:41.360 um, it's small compared to that, but compared to us, it's almost, it might as well be eternally

00:24:50.280 vast. That's how big it is. You could take the earth is so big that, uh, okay. It's being put up

00:24:56.640 in the screen. Hank Johnson, who was okay. That was the guy. That was the brilliant guy. We thought an

00:25:01.240 Island would tip over because there were too many people on it. Um, good old Hank Johnson,

00:25:05.820 but you could take everybody on earth and put them in the state of Texas and you'd have about

00:25:12.640 the population density of Manhattan. I wouldn't recommend it. It wouldn't be the best way to live,

00:25:16.860 but a lot of people do choose to live that way in Manhattan. So the entire population of the earth

00:25:21.780 could fit into Texas and that would leave all of the rest of the earth empty. And in fact,

00:25:28.240 right now, as we speak, most of the land on earth is empty. And I'm not just talking about Antarctica,

00:25:34.660 places where nobody could live. I'm talking about, uh, places where people, people could

00:25:38.200 potentially live. Those, those places are empty too. So we are nowhere. And if the earth has a

00:25:43.920 carrying capacity, we're nowhere near it. We are not going to fill up the earth. Just like you,

00:25:51.700 you, you, you puny little mortal with your SUV and your electricity. Um, you're not going to destroy

00:25:56.960 the climate, the climate that has, um, been around for billions of years, an earth that has withstood

00:26:05.260 super volcanic eruptions and com, you know, uh, asteroids and comets.

00:26:14.680 It's withstood all of that. And then we come along with the industrial revolution and, uh,

00:26:19.560 shortly thereafter, we've destroyed the entire earth.

00:26:26.160 It could endure the super volcanoes and the comets and all that, but not our SUVs,

00:26:29.460 not our highways. It's ridiculous. Um, so we're not anywhere near carrying capacity. The problem 0.92

00:26:35.240 is actually on the opposite end. It's, it's not overpopulation. It's depopulation is the problem.

00:26:40.200 Um, yes, the population is still growing, but the rate of growth is slowing dramatically.

00:26:50.360 And in fact, catastrophically. And in many places, especially in the Western world,

00:26:55.960 we're below replacement rate. And then what happens then? What you end up with is a top heavy

00:27:01.620 population where there are a lot of older people and there's not enough young people.

00:27:06.460 Then you have this kind of inverted pyramid sort of structure to the population.

00:27:11.420 A lot of old older people who need to be cared for. And there's, there's no one around to take 1.00

00:27:15.980 care of them. We were experiencing that right now. It's going to get a lot worse in the next 50 years.

00:27:22.240 That's the crisis we ought to be worried about, not have fewer kids. We need to have a lot more of

00:27:26.080 them. Actually, many of the things people worry about with the environment. I mean, it's, it's true

00:27:32.180 that we've got, you know, you can go and you can look at, um, images and see pollution and you can

00:27:38.800 see rivers that are flowing with garbage, especially in places like Asia. That's not a

00:27:43.180 problem with too much population. That's just the people who are in these areas choosing to do things

00:27:48.460 that they shouldn't do. Yeah, you should have respect for nature. You should just throw your

00:27:52.480 garbage into rivers like they do in many parts of the world. The answer there is not to have fewer

00:27:57.300 people. It's just to teach the people not to do those sorts of things. And maybe rather than

00:28:03.240 packing ourselves in like sardines in the cities, we could spread out a little bit more. That's a

00:28:06.480 choice we could make. All right, let's go to this. This is from the Daily Mail. It says a gay 0.99

00:28:11.720 Democratic lawmaker in Missouri challenged a Republican representative over their state's 0.90

00:28:15.780 transgender athlete bill. Ian Mackey, 35, slammed Chuck Pazai, 63, for supporting the Save Women's Sports

00:28:23.640 bill, a transgender athlete bill that would remove trans female athletes from women's sports. 0.74

00:28:30.360 Trans, notice they're saying trans female now, not trans woman, but otherwise known as men. It

00:28:36.120 would remove men from women's sports. During a debate on the bill in the state house chamber

00:28:39.940 Thursday night, the representative largely focused on, uh, besides family, specifically his gay brother

00:28:46.200 Scott, who was afraid to tell his brother over fear that it would be held against him. So this is the,

00:28:51.460 um, the lawmaker, the gay Democratic lawmaker going after the Republican over this bill that would

00:28:58.580 simply remove men from women's sports. So we're ensured that men cannot enter into women's sports 0.96

00:29:02.920 and destroy women's sports. And we'll play some of this. We might pause it midway through, but let's, 1.00

00:29:07.260 let's, uh, why this is gone. This one went massively viral and the left loved it and calling this guy a

00:29:12.060 hero and everything. And I'm sure he's going to run for president eventually. Let's listen.

00:29:15.440 Um, do you remember your remarks on the floor last year when you brought this up?

00:29:22.020 Um, it would, you'd have to give me a specific, I mean, I made a lot of remarks last year.

00:29:26.020 So I recall a story you told about your brother. Okay. And I remember you said that your brother

00:29:33.400 called or that your mother called you, I believe to tell you that your brother had some news that he

00:29:39.140 was afraid to tell you. Okay. And your brother wanted to tell you that he was gay, didn't he?

00:29:47.480 Um, he was, uh, expressing that to the family and he thought that, uh, that we would hold that

00:29:53.960 against him and not let my children be around him. Why do you think he thought that?

00:30:00.140 I don't know. I, it, uh, it never would have happened. I'll tell you that my, uh, my, my kids

00:30:07.700 at that, that point in their life adored my, uh, my brother. Can I tell you if I were your brother,

00:30:13.400 I would have been afraid to tell you too. Well, I would have been afraid to tell you too.

00:30:19.380 Because of stuff like this. Uh, when I, when I first saw this clip without context, I was,

00:30:27.760 I was confused, you know, because I'm, I'm thinking, well, who is this guy being interrogated?

00:30:33.320 What is he a witness on the stand? What's what's happening here right now? Why is this the older

00:30:38.020 guy? Why is he just sitting there allowing himself to be yelled at by this, uh, this little punk right

00:30:42.940 here? And well, and the answer is no, he's not a witness on the stand. He's not accused of any

00:30:49.260 crime. He didn't do anything wrong. Well, he supports a bill that would prevent men from 0.97

00:30:54.160 competing in women's sports. Also has nothing to do with gay people, by the way.

00:30:57.760 It doesn't have to have anything to do with gay people. Now, if the LGBT community, like they 1.00

00:31:04.260 want to put that T on there and associate themselves, then that's their choice. But I

00:31:08.440 don't see any reason why the two have to be related at all. So this guy, he's a gay man. 0.95

00:31:15.340 What does that have to do with a man who claims that he's a woman? What's you explain that to me?

00:31:20.480 So why is he being berated? No, he's not, he's not convinced. He's not accused of any crime. He's

00:31:26.800 not a witness on the stand. He's a Republican. And this is what Republicans do. They allow themselves

00:31:30.200 to be berated. This is about his own family. What he should be doing is standing up right now and

00:31:34.780 saying, Hey, you punk, shut up. This, this is my family. It's none of your business. Who do you 1.00

00:31:39.100 think you are talking about my family? Maybe you should pull the Will Smith move. Keep my

00:31:44.680 brother's name out of your effing mouth. Maybe something like that. Look, this has nothing to 0.97

00:31:50.220 do with you. Then again, this Republican, apparently, I don't know what all the context is here, but,

00:31:55.720 but apparently he brought up this story. It would seem, um, while this bill was being debated because

00:32:03.120 he was, I, I can only guess because he was trying to give himself street cred with the left. He was,

00:32:09.060 he was trying to advertise to the left and say, no, no, no, I'm not a bigot. I have a gay brother.

00:32:15.920 And he thought that that would mean that he would be, uh, that they would have a less critical

00:32:20.220 reaction towards him. No, it's the opposite. And that's what he's going, what's happening right now.

00:32:24.980 So he thought he would, he would take that story out, pull that out there to try to appease the left.

00:32:30.440 And instead he's being humiliated and screamed at by them. So the same old story over and over

00:32:37.720 again, let's play the rest of this because of stuff like this, because this is what you're

00:32:43.100 focused on. This is the legislation you want to put forward. This is what consumes your time.

00:32:47.860 I would have been afraid to tell you too. I was afraid of people like you growing up.

00:32:52.140 And I grew up in Hickory County, Missouri. I grew up in a school district that would vote tomorrow

00:32:56.380 to put this in place. And for 18 years, I walked around with nice people like you

00:33:04.260 who took me to ball games, who told me how smart I was. And he went to the ballot and voted for crap 1.00

00:33:12.920 like this. And I couldn't wait to get out. I couldn't wait to move to a part of our state 1.00

00:33:21.280 that would reject this stuff in a minute. I couldn't wait. And thank God I made it. Thank

00:33:27.940 God I made it out. And I think every day of the kids who are still there, who haven't made it out,

00:33:34.180 who haven't escaped from this kind of bigotry. Gentlemen, I'm not afraid of you anymore because

00:33:43.620 you're going to lose. You may win this today, but you're going to lose. Oh, shut the hell up.

00:33:50.720 Shut up. I'm not afraid of you anymore. How many times have you practiced that speech in the mirror? 1.00

00:33:57.820 And it just kills me. This guy that's just sitting there taking it. You are so in the right

00:34:05.180 if the Republican in this exchange, you could not possibly be more right about something.

00:34:10.980 Your position is that males should not compete a women's award. Everyone on earth agrees with you, 1.00

00:34:19.440 except for like five people. It's this guy and then the rest of the Democrat weirdos. And they're

00:34:28.560 the only ones who disagree. Everyone else is on your side. Everybody in the world, in the history

00:34:34.060 of the world agrees with you. It would be hard to have more people on your side than you do.

00:34:43.480 And yet you just sit there like a scolded child. He's talking about your family.

00:34:49.180 What business is it of his? And you just sit there taking it. How about you stand up and say,

00:34:57.480 hey, hey, listen, shut up. Okay. I don't have to listen to you. Why don't you, why don't you answer 1.00

00:35:04.000 some questions? Like, first of all, what's a woman? Can you tell me that you answer that question?

00:35:08.480 And then maybe I'll let you continue your little speech talking about my brother, which doesn't

00:35:12.860 concern you. But you think that quote, trans women should compete in women's sports because they are

00:35:20.280 women. Is that what you think? Well, what's that mean? How are they the same as women? Are you actually 0.95

00:35:24.000 going to, do you take the position that biological males do not have any physical advantages over

00:35:29.280 women in sports? Is that actually your position? Literally all of the science, the entirety of 1.00

00:35:36.480 modern science stands against you. And that's your position. Is that really your position? Well,

00:35:41.260 why don't you explain that instead, instead of giving me a stupid little speech about how you were 0.99

00:35:45.120 afraid of bullies in school? I don't care about that. You know what? You're an adult now. You're a 0.99

00:35:50.720 grown man. Get over the bully. We were all bullied in school. We all went through it. Get

00:35:55.060 over it now. Because what the actual concern here is that there are currently, you're an adult now.

00:36:03.420 You're not in school anymore. There are actually kids in school right now who we do have to worry

00:36:09.640 about protecting. Okay. You still have your feelings here because you were bullied in school,

00:36:15.420 allegedly. What about the girls in school who don't want to be forced into a locker room with 1.00

00:36:25.420 naked boys? What about the girls who are being sexually assaulted and raped 0.99

00:36:32.960 by boys in female bathrooms, as has happened? 0.99

00:36:39.840 See, that's what we're concerned about. So why don't you flip it around and put it on him?

00:36:49.840 Just sitting there. Kills me. 0.96

00:36:54.360 But you deserve it. I mean, this guy, whoever that guy is, he's just, he's a, that clip right there is 0.96

00:37:00.680 going to live forever. And he's sitting there as a scolded schoolboy.

00:37:06.900 And you deserve it. If you allow yourself to be put in that position

00:37:11.520 by somebody who could not possibly be more wrong. He's just wrong

00:37:20.460 right down to the very core of this issue. He is wrong about it all. He could not be more wrong.

00:37:26.860 All right. What else have we got here? One other quick thing, maybe quick. This is from Fox 59 in

00:37:36.940 Indiana. It says, the Anderson Community School Corporation is reviewing its use of an Indian

00:37:41.100 at its mascot following, as its mascot, following backlash over a viral video posted to TikTok.

00:37:47.320 The video shows two students dressed up as an Indian chief and an Indian maiden performing a

00:37:52.380 ceremony with a pipe and then a dance before a basketball game. Sarah Holba, who shot the video

00:37:59.280 and posted it to, yes, TikTok, of course, says that it was disappointing, but not surprising that

00:38:05.120 it was happening. Holba was attending the game and recorded the video. She posted it on TikTok where

00:38:09.520 it's been viewed nearly a million times. Holba said the Anderson student section got really into it.

00:38:13.720 You had the pep band playing. I asked the people around me who said, oh, Anderson has been doing this

00:38:17.780 forever. The video prompted backlash towards the school district, so much so that the district put

00:38:22.580 the pregame ritual on hold. Okay. So it's a pregame ritual. It's out of high school, a basketball game,

00:38:27.760 and they've got an Indian mascot. And she has the video that she put on TikTok. And let's, first of all,

00:38:33.880 let's watch this event, this incident. I literally hate Indiana.

00:38:38.780 In the middle of warmups and all.

00:39:08.780 All right. There you go. Got the kids dressed up as Indians. Good. That's the mascot of the school.

00:39:25.800 Yeah, I got news for you. I know this is heresy, blasphemy these days, but there is nothing at all

00:39:31.000 offensive about that. It's not offensive. It's not at all offensive. It is perfectly fine. I will say

00:39:35.600 this on the record. It is perfectly fine for a white person to dress up like, you know, a traditional 0.72

00:39:43.080 Indian. And that's perfectly fine. There's actually nothing. It's not offensive. Why? Why is it

00:39:47.780 offensive? So you can't explain. It's just supposed to be self-evident. Well, of course it's offensive.

00:39:52.100 Why? Because it's cultural appropriation. What does that mean? So it's something from another

00:40:00.020 culture. And so you can't participate in it or pay homage to it or why? Why exactly?

00:40:10.120 Like everything else on the left, they can't answer. They can't answer any questions. They

00:40:13.640 especially can't answer the why question. It only takes like one or two whys before the whole thing

00:40:18.000 breaks down. That's offensive. Why? Because cultural appropriation. Okay. Why is that offensive?

00:40:22.260 Because. Because. That's it. That's all they got. So there's nothing offensive about that. And also,

00:40:30.540 and again, like it's, if the people involved and the people who made the mascot an Indian to begin 1.00

00:40:39.200 with, if they hated Indians and thought they were weak and stupid and inferior or whatever else, 0.99

00:40:47.000 then you wouldn't use them as your mascot. The whole point of a mascot is that this is something 1.00

00:40:53.760 strong and formidable. And like, that's the whole point. You don't take something that you hate and

00:41:01.140 have a low opinion of and feels inferior and make that your, your mascot. So it is a tribute to,

00:41:08.620 and yes, there is nothing racist about paying tribute to this culture. And the other thing is

00:41:19.320 that this school has been doing this apparently for 50 years and nobody in the school, except for

00:41:25.520 this one girl cared. But she even says herself, like everyone's into it. No, everyone's having a good

00:41:30.000 time. Everyone's into it. No one has a problem with it. And, but she puts it on TikTok. And then a lot

00:41:37.400 of people who are not at the school and who this doesn't concern them, now they're offended. And

00:41:42.700 so the school of course pulls it down and says, well, we'll put it on hold. We've been doing this

00:41:46.720 for, this is a tradition for, I think for like half a century, a tradition. Everyone at our school is

00:41:52.420 cool with it. They all think it's great. Nearly everyone, but some people on TikTok complain. So

00:41:58.240 we're just going to put it all on hold. This tradition for 50 years, we're going to abandon it.

00:42:01.520 So more cowardice. Common theme here. Let's get to the comment section.

00:42:23.020 Here's a message that was sent to me. Matt, the prank you pulled with your children is actually

00:42:26.700 horrifying. And I think less of you as a father because of it. Well, that's a little harsh, isn't

00:42:31.300 it? And like I told you, it wasn't my fault. It was my kid's idea. Blame them. What am I

00:42:38.780 going to do? Tell my eight year olds not to do something? That would be intolerant. And

00:42:43.160 I don't believe in intolerance. The honest truth is, and like, I got, I got mixed reviews

00:42:48.200 on the, uh, the prank, which if you didn't listen to the show yesterday, I don't know why

00:42:51.420 I'm even repeating it now, but, uh, my, my kids pulled a prank on my wife where they, she 1.00

00:42:56.040 was at it. Uh, she was out, you know, for a few hours and they decided that, um, when

00:43:00.720 she came back, they wanted to make, to pretend that my daughter, Julia had been terribly injured.

00:43:05.300 And like, first of all, when I explained it, it sounds a lot worse than it was. Um, there's

00:43:09.380 no way to explain it. That doesn't sound horrible, which maybe you should tell me something, but

00:43:12.320 it doesn't. So they wanted to pretend that she got terribly injured. And I did say to them,

00:43:17.520 you, we probably shouldn't do this. I don't think, you know, mom's not going to find this

00:43:22.220 funny and they really wanted to do it. So then I said, okay, if you're going to do it,

00:43:25.620 then we've got ketchup in the, in the, in the refrigerator, you could use that and make

00:43:28.940 it look like blood. That's all I said. And, uh, they chose to go forward with that. And

00:43:36.120 they just made it look like they made it look she got some kind of facial injury. That's 0.75

00:43:40.020 all. And so she was like bleeding profusely from her face. And then my wife came home and 1.00

00:43:44.140 she walked in and she was, you know, pretty horrified. And, and quickly she was told the

00:43:48.740 truth and she didn't find it funny. Um, so that's, that's what this is referring

00:43:51.720 to. But my point is, why am I not a horrible person? Well, number one, because I'm blaming

00:43:58.080 my, my kids for it. Number two, because I was actually, this was a, it was kind of a moral

00:44:04.460 crisis for me. I was, I was really, I kept like, I know that I should probably tell them

00:44:10.300 not to do it. Or maybe I should, I could also text my wife and tell her that they're going

00:44:14.080 to do this and give her a warning or something. But then I also just thought I can't like,

00:44:19.180 like, like I said yesterday, I can't allow myself to interfere with a good prank. I can't

00:44:27.560 do it. And so that was the moral dilemma that I was, I was wrestling with it. I really was.

00:44:35.740 And I think I came down on the, on the ethically correct side of this, which is that you do not

00:44:42.460 interfere with a prank. Never under any circumstance. Um, all right. Sliver says,

00:44:51.080 I've been filing my own taxes for over a decade. It used to be free and take an hour or so. This

00:44:55.420 year it took two days and cost me several hundred dollars. Also, these people believe that they can

00:44:59.780 print infinite amounts of money without consequence. So what exactly do they need our taxes for?

00:45:05.840 Um, yeah. And it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. I mean, originally there was not an

00:45:09.780 income tax and then there was an income tax and it was supposed to be temporary and then it wasn't

00:45:14.040 temporary. And then, and then, you know, um, in the early days it was just the income tax and you had

00:45:18.920 to pay your income taxes. And then they came up with the withholding system, which is where they

00:45:23.040 get to go very nice for them and take the money from you first and then give you whatever leftovers.

00:45:27.620 And then, and then if they take too much, then at the end of the year, they can return the money to

00:45:31.600 you without interest. And then everybody will celebrate and say, I got all this free money. No,

00:45:35.800 that's your own money dummy that they took. You could add that as a savings account. You'd make

00:45:40.220 a little bit more interest on it at least. Put it under your mattress. You'd be better off.

00:45:46.140 Uh, and the withholding system was supposed to be temporary and then it wasn't and it was permanent.

00:45:49.440 Um, and it just keeps getting worse and worse. And, and, but you know, it's the old, uh, boiling a

00:45:55.800 frog thing where people tolerate it. You know, if you had gone from, if you went from zero to a hundred

00:46:01.580 and you went right from, there's no income tax at all to, uh, the situation we have right now,

00:46:08.640 people there, you would, it would have been a, it would have been a rebellion. People would have

00:46:11.320 revolted violently. Um, but because you just do it kind of gradually over the course of a century or

00:46:20.300 so, people tolerate this totally intolerable situation where our money is being taken from us

00:46:28.140 in this. And, and, and, and, and, you know, we, we are burdened by this tax code that is so

00:46:35.340 complicated that you have to, you have to spend your own money and hire people to sort through it

00:46:40.860 for you. And if you try to do it yourself, it'll take two days to do. Um, let's see.

00:46:51.880 Devon says, Matt, while I agree with everything you've said about income tax, you missed a big part

00:46:55.880 that only furthers your point. You say the government could run off 2 trillion, but if we

00:46:59.520 weren't taxed on our income, we would spend far, we would spend far more money, thus increasing sales

00:47:03.900 tax. The government probably wouldn't even notice much of a difference in their income. Yet we would

00:47:08.600 have far more purchasing power, lower tax rates, promoting spending, which increases tax income.

00:47:14.020 Yeah. If you really want an economic stimulus, how about that? Give, let people, that's, that's the

00:47:17.580 kind of economic stimulus that I've have supported this whole time, including during the COVID

00:47:22.620 lockdowns. That's one of the reasons, that's one of the ways you knew that the, that they weren't

00:47:26.700 serious about the stimulus and trying to stimulate the economy because if they were really serious

00:47:30.000 about it, they would have suspended the federal income tax, let you keep your own money. You want

00:47:34.840 to stimulate the economy? How about that? You don't have to give people anything. Just let them keep

00:47:38.000 what they're making. If you can imagine that. And then, yes, despite what many people seem to think,

00:47:47.800 if you get rid of the income tax, it's not that the government all the way goes, goes all the way

00:47:51.900 down to zero dollars. And the point you make here is very good because yeah, as it stands right now,

00:47:59.100 get rid of the income tax and the government's still left with $2 trillion in revenue every

00:48:02.660 single year from all the other taxes and the consumption-based taxes and everything.

00:48:07.560 But actually it would be more than $2 trillion because now people have more money and as people

00:48:12.400 are inclined to do, they're going to go out and they're going to spend more. And then you're going

00:48:16.220 to make that money back in income taxes or rather in sales taxes. Dom says, you and CartNarks should

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00:48:29.740 that I find great ideas in the YouTube section, but I have a big supporter of CartNarks. That's the

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00:49:26.960 demanded. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for the final time, we cancel the mask Nazis, 0.84

00:49:36.140 or perhaps in fact, not for the final time. After the hero judge in Florida ruled that the CDC's mask

00:49:41.500 mandate was unlawful, I said on this show yesterday that the Biden administration would complain about

00:49:46.200 the ruling, but they wouldn't challenge it. After we've all seen the videos, you know, of air

00:49:50.580 passengers cheering over the news of the mask mandate ending like it was the fall of the Berlin Wall,

00:49:55.220 you know, challenging the ruling, potentially overturning it would be politically suicidal,

00:49:59.680 especially heading into midterms. But I may have underestimated this regime's penchant for doing

00:50:04.300 politically suicidal things. As the Daily Wire reports, today, the Biden administration will

00:50:08.820 appeal a court ruling by a U.S. district judge who ruled Monday that the administration's national

00:50:12.840 mask mandate on public transportation was unlawful. Quote, the Department of Justice and the Centers for

00:50:17.280 Disease Control and Prevention disagree with the district court's decision and will appeal,

00:50:21.860 subject to CDC's conclusion that the order remains necessary for public health.

00:50:25.360 The department continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor

00:50:28.940 is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect public health. This is an

00:50:34.460 important authority the department will continue to work to preserve. Well, this is why you shouldn't

00:50:39.220 listen to my predictions on this kind of thing. Turns out that I'm still somehow too optimistic to be a

00:50:43.860 reliable political prognosticator. Now, I still suspect that this appeal will be mostly for show,

00:50:49.460 but maybe not. Perhaps the Democrats figure they've already got so many nails in the coffin that they

00:50:54.500 might as well add one more heading into the midterms. If they succeed in forcing masks back

00:50:59.920 onto people's faces, it will be wildly unpopular with normal people, but at least the media will feel

00:51:05.060 good about it. Speaking of which, here's Andy Slavitt on MSNBC last night expressing his disappointment

00:51:10.580 over the judge's ruling. Listen.

00:51:13.620 What we're seeing today, people have to react to them. I'm going to get on a plane in about an hour.

00:51:19.280 Thankfully, I'm vaccinated and boosted and have a good quality mask,

00:51:22.300 so she'll feel reasonably good. But I think usually we would like to see the CDC, which has

00:51:28.440 the authority to make these decisions, make this decision, not a judge. The CDC has asked for 15

00:51:35.760 more days to review data. I think it's important that we see that. We have to remember there are

00:51:41.560 cancer patients and four-year-olds that are not vaccinated or are vulnerable. So hopefully,

00:51:48.120 people will continue to show good judgment and protect themselves and protect others where

00:51:54.480 possible.

00:51:56.640 Oh, the CDC only asked for 15 days? Well, okay then. I mean, if we've learned anything over the

00:52:02.420 past two years, it's that 15 days is just 15 days. When they say 15 days, they mean it. We all know

00:52:07.760 that. That's the great lesson of the pandemic. It's just that you have to keep in mind that the word

00:52:12.940 day is relative. Now, we might think of a day as 24 hours, but that's just from the perspective of

00:52:19.620 Earth. On Venus, for example, a day lasts 5,832 hours or about 243 Earth days. What the CDC and

00:52:26.960 other public health authorities forgot to mention is that when they say 15 days, they're referring to

00:52:31.600 Venus days, not Earth days. Simple miscommunication is all. I'm glad Andy Slavitt could help clear that

00:52:38.080 up for us. Another cable news pundit, Roland Martin, is having an even harder time with the news. This

00:52:43.440 is what he tweeted yesterday. He says, I don't give a damn about what some grossly unqualified Donald

00:52:48.800 Trump judge said. I'm double masked and wearing goggles on this Nashville to DC flight. I had COVID

00:52:54.460 in December. Y'all can kiss my ass about me not wanting it again. And any fool saying they don't 1.00

00:52:59.420 matter is a damn liar. You have to love the hat that says Roland Martin unfiltered, which is on top of 1.00

00:53:07.320 a head covered in goggles and two masks. Some irony overload there. Honest to God, though, if I knew

00:53:14.080 that this fruitcake was flying out of Nashville and his mask and goggles yesterday, I would have

00:53:18.000 gone to the airport and got on that plane just so I could sit next to him and cough and sneeze for

00:53:21.260 the entire flight. For his own good, of course. Now, look, this may seem like just a bunch of virtue

00:53:27.620 signaling from Martin, but it's actually not. I mean, it's not merely virtue signaling. The fact is that

00:53:32.540 this man, like so many others on his side of the ideological fence, has been psychologically

00:53:36.720 disfigured by two years of COVID fear mongering. He's still not scared enough for his health to go

00:53:42.480 on a diet. I mean, he's not going to panic that much, but he is legitimately afraid to go barefaced

00:53:47.760 on a plane. I believe that his fear and paranoia and effeminate cowardice are all real. Granted,

00:53:52.720 there are people on the replies to his post, you know, to this tweet, posting recent pictures of him 0.99

00:53:58.280 at large public events without a mask and saying that he's like a hypocrite. But this is all part 0.97

00:54:03.020 of the broken brain syndrome that is incoherent and arbitrary risk calculation. That's one of its

00:54:08.720 most prevalent symptoms. And I think nothing quite captures the damage done to people by two years of

00:54:14.320 COVID hysteria, like this short clip taken on a JetBlue flight right after the announcement about the mask

00:54:19.820 mandate was made. You could see the flight attendants ripping off their masks and literally dancing

00:54:24.940 for joy. And that's all great. But listen to what one of them says. It's very interesting. Listen.

00:54:29.680 This is the captain speaking. So right now, all flights in JetBlue, we have required, we don't require

00:54:39.520 the mask. So if you guys want to take it out, people don't want to.

00:54:42.840 Oh my God that is the best thing ever!

00:54:52.680 Oh my God! This is the best thing ever!

00:54:54.680 What's your and how you do? I'm so excited!

00:54:58.180 Look at my face! I don't even know how to change this!

00:55:02.380 Oh my God, yay! 0.97

00:55:04.880 Oh, Eric! You're so cute!

00:55:06.560 You can follow them and wave them in the air like you just don't care!

00:55:12.780 so she skips down the aisle uh waving the mask over her head feeling justifiably elated and

00:55:29.600 joyful and she says look at my face i have a face now that might seem like a joke but there's

00:55:37.260 actually something quite profound in that statement i think because by far the most

00:55:41.080 terrible and oppressive thing about masking was not how uncomfortable it was or what a ridiculous

00:55:47.740 charade the whole thing was but rather the fact that the mask turns you into a faceless automaton

00:55:53.160 the mask is dehumanizing and this is especially the case for workers in the service industry who

00:55:59.340 were turned into a literal faceless servant class forced to muzzle themselves like dogs and become 0.96

00:56:05.200 anonymous depersoned serfs over the last two years on planes everybody was in that position

00:56:11.600 we've heard so much about the epidemic of violence and fighting on planes over the last two years

00:56:16.340 and i'm convinced that this explains why it's not just that people were annoyed and on edge about

00:56:21.320 the masks but that when you put people into a high stress situation in a confined space with each

00:56:28.140 other and you cover everybody's faces so they can't fully see and appreciate and encounter each other's

00:56:34.860 humanity you end up with exactly the chaos that we experience people need to see each other and be seen

00:56:42.540 by each other this is not a want or a desire or a nice luxury but an actual human need because we are all

00:56:51.860 human beings after all we were born with faces and with the natural inclination to connect with other

00:56:57.980 humans primarily through facial cues the first thing a newborn baby does is look at and study his mother's

00:57:04.740 face and it's quite amazing to behold as i've seen uh four times that a baby comes out of the womb already

00:57:12.280 knowing kind of where to look baby doesn't know anything else but he will look at your face

00:57:19.240 we are literally born with this instinct this ability this need to see and recognize faces

00:57:24.860 remove that from people for a prolonged period of time and you're depriving them of something that is so

00:57:29.820 essentially human in a deep and primal sort of way the writer jonathan franzen wrote an essay back in

00:57:37.280 the 90s complaining about the very new trend at the time of people walking down the street talking on

00:57:41.520 their cell phones and he didn't like it very much and he said quote all i really want from a sidewalk is

00:57:47.080 that people see me and let themselves be seen now perhaps because of our cell phone addictions we

00:57:53.580 had got accustomed to not seeing and being seen by other people even when we're standing two feet from

00:57:57.840 them and so the masking for some wasn't much of a stretch they weren't losing anything that they

00:58:03.020 hadn't already effectively lost but that just means that if the masks didn't bother you it's only

00:58:08.660 because you'd already despaired of your humanity so the people that brag about i didn't bother me much 1.00

00:58:13.920 that's because you're sick you're a sick person psychologically and emotionally and spiritually 0.98

00:58:19.240 if it didn't bother you it should bother you it should bother you to not have your face seen or 0.99

00:58:24.860 be able to see other people's faces if it doesn't it's because you'd already given up on some of the

00:58:30.660 most crucial aspects of being human there's a reason why leftists in particular are so comfortable

00:58:36.300 in masks it's because their ideology puts them at war with human nature at every turn in every way

00:58:42.760 they deny everything that's natural and good and healthy they want to take everything that is true

00:58:49.120 and human away from us they even want to take away our faces as i watch some of these videos of people

00:58:56.680 celebrating the perhaps temporary unfortunately end of mask tyranny i thought about another writer c.s

00:59:02.360 lewis who wrote a book called till we have faces um now the title refers to faces in a spiritual sense

00:59:08.420 but that's partly because c.s lewis prophetic as he was never imagined that he would that we we would

00:59:12.840 live in a world where our actual faces are taken away at the very end of that book lewis writes this

00:59:18.160 he says i saw well while the gods do not speak to us openly nor let us answer till that word can be

00:59:24.420 dug out of us why should they hear the babble that we think we mean how can they meet us face to face 0.67

00:59:29.820 till we have faces now this is obviously meant to be understood in a very spiritual and poetic sort of

00:59:35.000 way referring to the true self-knowledge that comes from surrendering oneself to god but in modern times

00:59:41.060 till we have faces takes on a frighteningly literal meaning to take off the mask is to have a face an

00:59:48.460 identity it is to in many ways reclaim your humanity and that only sounds like an exaggeration to people

00:59:55.140 who have already given up on theirs and in the end is those people who are canceled we'll leave it

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