Ep. 934 - The Real Reason Why The Media Wants To Destroy Libs Of TikTok
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The leftist media tries its best to defend the Washington Post reporter responsible for doxing the creator of the Libs of TikTok account. Also, cable news pundits are now shipping themselves off to go fight in Ukraine. Elon Musk exposes the overpopulation hoax. A Democrat lawmaker earns props from the left for his theatrical, tearful speech protesting a bill to protect women s sports. And as airline passengers tear off their muzzles and celebrate their freedom, the Biden administration fights to muzzle them once again. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the leftist media tries its best to defend the Washington Post
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doxing the creator of the Libs of TikTok account. We'll talk about that and also try to answer this
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question. Why are they bothering to go after Libs of TikTok at all? Also, cable news pundits are now
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shipping themselves off to go fight in Ukraine. A win-win for everybody, perhaps. Elon Musk exposes
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the overpopulation hoax. A Democrat lawmaker earns props from the left for his theatrical,
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tearful speech protesting a bill to protect women's sports. And as airline passengers tear
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off their muzzles and celebrate their freedom, the Biden administration fights to muzzle them
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once again. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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wherever you live. Well, if you thought there would be any accountability for the parasitic sociopath
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named Taylor Lorenz, who docks the woman behind the libs of TikTok account, I envy your naivete and
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innocence, you sweet summer child. The regime will always defend its own. And so it has dug its trenches
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around Lorenz and will protect her, of course. Now, before we get to the latest on the story and some
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important points that I think need to be made about it, let's back up quickly and review for anyone who
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gave themselves a day off from the news cycle yesterday. You should probably just keep that going. Go back
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into whatever cave you were hiding in and don't emerge. There's nothing up here for you. Well, Lorenz,
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a Washington Post reporter who gins up outrage mobs against people for a living, basically, that's what she
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does, while simultaneously crying about all of the online harassment she supposedly endorsed, wrote,
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an article about the previously anonymous woman who runs the libs of TikTok account on Twitter.
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She published the woman's name, the city where she lives, and her employment history.
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She also tracked down the woman's family and went to their homes. Not only that, but the article in
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WashingtonPost.com originally included a link, which, if you clicked on it, would give you the
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woman's current home address. Now, the link was taken down after backlash, but the proverbial cat
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is already out of the bag, by design, of course. I mean, you don't have to keep the link up. It only
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needs to be up for five minutes, and leftist internet trolls will take it and run with it,
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ensuring that the information is enshrined forever online. And so that was the strategy there.
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Now, the doxing is the big news here and the most vile thing about the piece, but let's not
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let it distract us completely from the fact that the article is also, along with the doxing,
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incredibly dishonest. Lorenz accuses the Libs of TikTok creator of using, quote,
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QAnon-related language, but doesn't explain what that means or provide any examples or evidence.
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The left has previously decided that any outrage expressed over pedophilia or child grooming,
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or if you say something like, we have to save the children or protect the children,
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that that is QAnon language. We can only assume that Lorenz is referring to that.
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Lorenz starts the article with this sentence. This is what it says.
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On March 8th, a Twitter account called Libs of TikTok posted a video of a woman teaching
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sex education to children in Kentucky, calling the woman in the video a predator,
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which she doesn't mention. Now, what she doesn't mention, though, what Lorenz doesn't mention,
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is that the sex educator is running a, the quote-unquote sex educator, anyway,
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is running a sexy summer camp for kids, and that's what she calls it. And in the video in question,
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where she's, well, she's just teaching sex ed to kids, is what Lorenz says in the article.
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Well, in reality, she's talking about how she, she recommends masturbation to very young children,
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and she brags in the video that her nephews were masturbating, quote, as soon as they can talk.
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We've played that video on the show. You might remember it. I'm not going to make you sit
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through it again. Lorenz doesn't mention any of that in her article because she's a dishonest,
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soulless hack. Speaking of which, the piece also contains this passage. It says,
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Tyler Wren, a former English teacher in Oklahoma, posted a video telling LGBTQ kids shunned by
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their parents that Wren was proud of them and loved them. It was featured on Libs of TikTok last
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week. Since being featured on the page, Wren has been barraged with harassment and death threats.
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Quote, I've always seen myself as the type of teacher to stand up for marginalized voices,
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Wren said. I see fellow teachers on TikTok speak out for our disenfranchised students,
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and they're getting the same sort of harassment too. Oh, poor Tyler Wren. He's being harassed because
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of the mean woman behind the Libs of TikTok account. Hey, just curious. I mean, not that it
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matters, of course, but what exactly does the teacher say in the video? I mean, does he really
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just say that he's proud of his LGBT students? That's all he says, huh? He just says, hey, I'm proud
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of all my students, including the LGBT students. I'm proud of you all. And that's what ended up on
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Libs of TikTok. He's getting death threats over that. Well, that's some terrible homophobia.
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If that's all he said, but let's go to the tape and find out.
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Hey, if your parents don't love and accept you for who you are this Christmas,
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f*** them. I'm your parents now. I'm proud of you. Drink some water. I love you. Bye.
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Ah, okay. So he does say that he's proud of his students. It's just that Lorenz,
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quite accidentally, I'm sure, left out the part where he says, F your parents. I'm your parents
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now. He says this and chooses to post it to a public platform. Libs of TikTok, that's another
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important point here. She's not sneaking into these people's homes with a camera and surreptitiously
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recording them. She's taking the videos they record of themselves and post themselves,
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and she's reposting it to another platform. Lorenz calls this anti-LGBT harassment,
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which is absurd because you can't harass someone by simply calling attention to something they chose
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to post, but also because she's lumping all LGBT people into the groomer camp. She's doing that.
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Lorenz is doing it. She is labeling all LGBT people groomers. Libs of TikTok's not doing that.
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After all, you know, I don't think, and Libs of TikTok doesn't think, that every gay person,
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or even most, believe that we should teach masturbation to toddlers or agree that teachers
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should tell students, F your parents, I'm your parents now. I don't see that as the official
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gay position on these topics. Lorenz apparently does, and that's her issue. That's on her.
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But the media wagons have circled around Lorenz. Many of her peers have come to her defense claiming
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that her tracking down the name, address, and family members of an anonymous Twitter account
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is just good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting. The Post itself has taken this stance. As The Hill
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reports, quote, The Washington Post is standing behind the reporting of one of its top columnists
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after a story published Tuesday sparked pushback from supporters of a popular conservative Twitter
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account. Quote, Taylor Lorenz is a diligent and accomplished journalist whose reporting methods
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comport entirely with The Washington Post professional standards. Cameron Barr, senior
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managing editor at The Post, said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the report, quote, did not
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publish or link to any details about the creator's personal life. Now, that's simply a lie. It did,
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in fact, include personal details. Some were later removed, and some remain. One of the personal
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details that remains is the most basic of all, her name. Now, of course, the Lorenz defenders say that
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it's not doxing to publish the woman's name because names are publicly available information.
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That's the narrative now. Well, it's publicly available. Well, if that's the standard for doxing,
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then I've got bad news. We're all in trouble because in the information age, literally everything
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is publicly available to any member of the public with the knowledge and wherewithal to track it down.
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I mean, your name is publicly available, your date of birth, your address, your employer.
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Even things that are allegedly private can still be accessed by someone who knows what they're doing.
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Besides, do you know who is on the record as stating that it's doxing to publish someone's
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name without consent? There is one person who's made this point in the past, and I thought it did so
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very well, and that would be Taylor Lorenz. Here she is just a few months ago complaining about the
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doxing campaign against a guy dubbed West Elm Caleb. Some women on TikTok were complaining
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about this guy for ghosting them, and it went viral for some reason, and it was a viral trending
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thing. And pretty soon this guy's name was everywhere. And here's Lorenz's thoughts about
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A bunch of people are asking if I'm going to write about the West Elm Caleb story. No,
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I'm on book leave. I can't keep writing pieces for the New York Times. I literally do have a lot
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of deadlines. But journalists who are writing about it, please speak to people with experience
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in online harassment. I'm not going to lie, I've been pretty horrified by a lot of the media coverage
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of this. A lot of people are just aggregating some of the cruelest commentary online and whipping
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it all up into a news story with absolutely no comment from Caleb or nuance about the situation.
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The top story on Google yesterday was literally this House Beautiful story that doxes Caleb,
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puts his full name in the story, zero comment from this man. After this whole article gleefully
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encourages this online harassment and doxing campaign, they literally use him to sell West
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Elm furniture through affiliate links. Once again, commercializing a harassment and doxing campaign.
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I think the media needs a total wake up call on the way that they cover online harassment. And this
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is just the latest example of it. And reporters should be adding nuance, not just piling on.
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Yeah, you don't want to pile on. You want to have nuance. The media needs a wake up call. I agree
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with, I agree actually with everything she said in that, in that one minute clip there. I agree with
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the entire thing. The problem is that she does not agree with it. She says that a, a, a news story
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doxes Caleb puts his full name in the story. That's a direct quote from her. Doxes Caleb puts his full
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name in the story. Now, whether publishing somebody's name is doxing or not, it's very
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clear that the person who published libs of TikTok's name thinks that it is. Now, how can she
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justify this double standard? Well, first by having no soul as covered, but second, because as always
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with the left, whatever they're decrying, whatever, and especially when they're decrying the way that
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somebody is treated, there is always an asterisk. And the asterisk says, unless they deserve it.
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Okay. That's always the exception. That's, that's always the catch. So hatred and intolerance
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are bad unless they deserve it. Violence is bad unless they deserve it. Human rights violations
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are bad unless they deserve it. Doxing is bad unless they deserve it. And libs of TikTok deserved it.
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She had it coming for one reason above all others. And here's what you have to understand.
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So this may be the most important point of all here. If this woman had started a Twitter account
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called libs of Twitter, and it was dedicated to the libs of Twitter, her name and address would
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still probably be private right now. If she had made a libs of Facebook account, exposing the liberal
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wine moms who populate that platform, she'd be at home safe and sound rather than having to hide in a
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safe house right now. The great crime committed by libs of TikTok was focusing her energy on TikTok
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specifically. And as I said yesterday, but bears repeating the reason that this is such an infraction
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in the eyes of the left, the reason why that pokes the bear so much is that our kids are on TikTok.
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Not my kids. My kids won't ever even have cell phones because I love them, but lots of people,
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people's kids are on TikTok. The common thread here, the theme is that the left does not want us
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to see what our kids, our kids are seeing on TikTok. They don't want you to see what your kids are
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seeing. That platform, along with the public school system, together act as a social contagion
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factory. They're like petri dishes where the viruses are grown and cultivated and the hosts are
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infected. Now the boomers on Facebook are getting infected by their own mind viruses, as are the
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millennials on Twitter. But it's most important, as far as the left is concerned, to keep what is
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happening to our kids in the dark. That's why they cry harassment when you simply point and say,
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hey, look what's happening over there. They don't want you to look while they're still sowing.
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They just want you to accept whatever grows from the seed without asking questions.
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Well, just like the foundation of this great country is the constitution, the foundation of
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your family should be your faith and your beliefs. So I have a serious question for you.
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If something should happen to you or your spouse, who do you trust to instill those same core beliefs
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and values in your children? Do you think it's that the same person the state would assign them to?
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Are you going to trust the state to make that decision? If you don't have a will in place,
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then you have no say in the future of your children. It's as simple as that. You're choosing
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not to have a say. And if you're single and don't think you need a will, you could not be more wrong.
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A will allows you to establish who has power of attorney over you. Without that, the state has total
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control over your medical decisions if you can't make them for yourself. I wouldn't trust the state with
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Let's see. So we'll start here. American cable news pundit, Malcolm Nance, has decided to go to
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Ukraine, allegedly to fight the Russians. And he put up a tweet and he's posing there with his,
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you know, he's got his gun. He's got the fatigues on and everything. And he captions it, says,
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I'm done talking, is what he said. And while he's been there, he's been doing a lot of
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cable news hits and things and doing interviews and talking about why he decided to go fight in
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Ukraine. And here he is on Joy Reid. Now, remember something. Just last week, Joy Reid was complaining
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about the focus on Ukraine and saying that it was racist to talk so much about Ukraine. Yet here she
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is. And here's Malcolm Nance. And let's watch that. Well, as you know, I spent quite a bit of time
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here in the pre-war period. And when the invasion happened, I had friends who were in Donetsk, who
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were in the Ukrainian army, who were writing to us and telling us, we're not going to survive tonight.
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We've been hit 500 times. You know, these are graduates of Defense Language Institute. These
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are my friends. And, you know, as the more I saw of the war going on, the more I thought,
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I'm done talking. All right. It's time to take action here. So about a month ago, I joined the
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International Legion here in Ukraine. And I am here to help this country fight, you know, what
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essentially is a war of extermination. This is an existential war. And Russia has bought it to these
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people. And they are mass murdering civilians. And there are people here like me who are here to do
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something about it. He's actually he's done quite a few interviews while he's been supposedly on the
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battlefield. And it's just a different kind of war, I guess, where you can stop and do interviews.
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He's been tweeting a lot to prolifically tweeting while on the battlefield. Now, listen, I did say at
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the start of this thing that if you really think America should get involved in this war, then why
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don't you go to Ukraine yourself and fight? I did say that. Nance is taking me up on it.
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Apparently, it was sort of rhetorical. I don't actually think you should do it.
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I don't think you should go and risk your life potentially to protect someone else's country.
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It's not something I would do. And that's why when I've when I've brought this up and I've been
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asking questions about this Malcolm Nance thing, some people on Twitter say, well, what are you?
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You're just sitting in the safety of your home criticizing. Well, yeah, you're damn right.
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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.
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And, you know, there are some who say, well, at least we give him some credit for putting his
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money where his mouth is. It's just hard for me to give him credit, though. I got to be totally
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honest with you, because I can't imagine that the Ukrainian military needs or wants help from an
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out of shape, 60 year old cable news pundit who's tweeting and doing interviews from the alleged
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battlefield and can't even speak the language as far as I know. But he shows up there and immediately
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he changes his Twitter profile of him posing with with, you know, with the fatigues and everything.
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And he's got the cameras falling around. He's doing interviews.
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Is that and I admit I have no experience on the battlefield myself, but maybe someone who does
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have experience, you can tell me if like if you would find that helpful when you've been.
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And again, if you're a combat veteran, then I'm soliciting your opinions on this.
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First, when you were in a firefight, did you ever find yourself in a position
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where you were thinking to yourself, what we really need right now on the scene here
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is a 60 year old out of shape cable news pundit with a camera crew following him
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who's going to tweet? Like, did you ever think that? Was there ever a situation where you were
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But this has become kind of a LARPing opportunity for for people in cable news to show up there and
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get some camera time. And I I just I fail to see how it could help. But maybe maybe some
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military analysts can can kind of spell it out for me. I'll be very interested to hear that.
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This is from Fox Business. It says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is willing to invest up to 15 billion
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dollars of his own cash to take Twitter private and will make a bid within 10 days,
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according to Tuesday reports. The New York Post reported Tuesday that Musk with a 9.1 percent
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stake in the social media company has tapped Morgan Stanley to help raise an additional 10
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billion. Musk's massive 43 billion dollar bid to purchase the company may require borrowing
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against both the company and his stock in addition to raising money from private equity
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investors. The estimated 10 to 15 billion dollars Musk is reportedly willing to invest is well above
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his roughly 3.4 billion dollar stake in the company. Sources told the Post that the co-investors
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will collectively have more equity in Twitter, but Musk will remain the single largest shareholder.
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So to summarize, the story isn't over yet. The board is trying to shut it down. The corrupt
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Twitter board, who again have almost no once Jack Dorsey is gone. Jack Dorsey, who, by the
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way, it's a whole other story. He's lighting the place on fire on his way out the door.
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And once he's gone, he's got, I think, 2 percent of the company. And once he's off the board,
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then they're not even going to have 2 percent collectively, all the rest of them.
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So this isn't over yet. Elon Musk isn't giving up. But this, I think, is the,
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that's all great. But here's the Elon Musk news that I really appreciate. This is a video that's
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gone viral today. This is Musk in a recent interview. I'm not sure when this was.
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talking about the overpopulation scam, which is what it is, and kind of debunking it. Let's listen
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to this. Yeah. So most people in the world are operating under the false impression that there
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are too many people. This is not true. Earth could maintain a population many times at the current
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level. And the birth rate has been dropping like crazy. So unfortunately, like we have these like
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ridiculous population estimates from the UN that need to be updated because they're just don't make
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any sense. Really, you can just look at, say, what was the birth rate last year? How many kids were
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born? Multiply that by the life expectancy and say, OK, that's how many people will be alive,
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you know, in the future. And then say, is the trend for birth rate positive or negative? It's negative.
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So that's the best case, unless something changes with the birth rate.
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Yeah, he's exactly right there. This is a really important thing to bring up. The overpopulation
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myth. I mean, this is one of the most insidious, in a literal sense, anti-human myths that the left
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has ever concocted. And of course, you always notice with the overpopulation myth, the people that are
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out there promoting it say, oh, there are too many people. There's over. We have population and then
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overpopulation and we're full. We're above capacity right now. Well, the people saying that, they never
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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.
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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
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
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
00:28:11.720
Democratic lawmaker in Missouri challenged a Republican representative over their state's
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.
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
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:36:25.420
naked boys? What about the girls who are being sexually assaulted and raped
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?
00:36:54.360
But you deserve it. I mean, this guy, whoever that guy is, he's just, he's a, that clip right there is
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.
00:39:08.780
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
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
00:40:39.200
with, if they hated Indians and thought they were weak and stupid and inferior or whatever else,
00:40:47.000
then you wouldn't use them as your mascot. The whole point of a mascot is that this is something
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
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
00:43:40.020
all. And so she was like bleeding profusely from her face. And then my wife came home and
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
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if you get rid of the income tax, it's not that the government all the way goes, goes all the way
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down to zero dollars. And the point you make here is very good because yeah, as it stands right now,
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get rid of the income tax and the government's still left with $2 trillion in revenue every
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single year from all the other taxes and the consumption-based taxes and everything.
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demanded. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for the final time, we cancel the mask Nazis,
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
00:51:13.620
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
00:51:56.640
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
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
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
00:53:58.280
at large public events without a mask and saying that he's like a hypocrite. But this is all part
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.
00:54:58.180
Look at my face! I don't even know how to change this!
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
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
00:58:13.920
that's because you're sick you're a sick person psychologically and emotionally and spiritually
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
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
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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