Ep. 948 - Target Celebrates Pride Month Early With Chest Binders For Girls
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Today on the Matt Warsh show, Target gets a head start on Pride Month by announcing that they ll now be selling chest binders for girls. Also, the pro-abortion pitchfork mob makes its way to Justice Alito s house in Virginia in spite of the fact that protesting outside of his home violates both federal law and Virginia state law. Plus, a protester gives the most honest and also dark and depressing argument for abortion we ve heard yet. And speaking of depressing, a lawyer goes viral for not brushing her teeth in the morning.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Target gets a head start on Pride Month by announcing that they'll
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now be selling chest binders for girls. What are chest binders and how far have we slid down the
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slippery slope that now they're on sale at a major big box retailer? We'll discuss that. Also,
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the pro-abortion pitchfork mob makes its way to Justice Alito's house in Virginia in spite of the
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fact that protesting outside of his home violates both federal law and Virginia state law. Plus,
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a protester gives the most honest and also darkest and most depressing argument for abortion that
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we've heard yet. And speaking of depressing, they're now doing interpretive dances in the
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European Parliament. In our daily cancellation, a lawyer goes viral and is celebrated for not brushing
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her teeth in the morning. What's that all about? We'll talk about it today and so much more on the
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We must gird ourselves for what is about to commence in a few weeks' time. June is sure to
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be the most relentless, tedious, over-the-top pride month that we've been subjected to since
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the LGBT club decided that one day was not enough time to celebrate itself and decided to expand to
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an entire month. You know, there was a time when these kinds of events may have gone unnoticed to
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the average person, but we live now in a branded world where the brands have branded themselves onto
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every aspect of our lives. And the brands now compete with one another to see who can fawn over
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the LGBT club the most, constantly trying to upstage each other with one pathetic, ingratiating display
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after another. And because we cannot escape the brands, we cannot escape the tornado of ass-kissing.
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We can expect the tornado this year to achieve a full category five rating. Truly, we're going to
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see some cat five ass-kissing as the brands ramp up the LGBT propaganda in response to the anti-groomer
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laws in Florida and the anti-child mutilation laws in other states. So this is going to be a lot of
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overcompensation that happens. There's no telling how far it will go. Is Kellogg's going to turn
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Toucan Sam into a drag queen? Will Mr. Clean come out as Miss Clean? Will some cookware company do an
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ill-conceived pansexual tie-in? Will the CEO of Disney sacrifice a live goat in front of a golden
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statue of Harvey Milk? Whatever happens, we know we're going to see some virtue signaling that defies
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the imagination. In fact, we already are. The website Bustle reports, quite approvingly, I should
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add, that in the lead-up to Pride Month, Target has announced, quote, fashion collabs with two queer-owned
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brands. And the article explains, Target's latest collaborations hit the mark. The superstore,
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known for their quick-to-sell fashion collabs, has released two new collaborations ahead of Pride
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Month, launching accessible, gender-affirming products for everybody and everybody. There you
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go. What makes these collaborations different from every other rainbow-splattered product at your local
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dollar store? Well, Target partnered with Tomboy X and Humankind, two queer-owned, female-founded
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brands to create these much-needed lines. The Tomboy X collab features undergarments like compression
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tops, a comfortable alternative to chest binders, as well as packing underwear, bras, and boy shorts in
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size small through 4X. Humankind's line, on the other hand, includes various swimsuit styles such as
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swim trunks, tops, and unisuits. As binders and gender-affirming swimsuits are notoriously difficult
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to find, particularly in extended sizes. This accessible drop will make shopping for everyday
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garments much easier. Now, packing underwear, as the term may suggest, is underwear that gender
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dysphoric girls wear to make it look like they have a penis. It's perverse and bizarre enough for a major
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big-box retailer to stock something like that on their shelves. But the compression tops, which aren't so
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much alternatives to chest binders, but rather just a less grotesque name for chest binders, are even
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worse. A chest binder, again, as the term suggests, is something that a girl with mental health issues
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wears around her chest to bind, constrict, and flatten her breasts in an attempt to appear more
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masculine. Now, Target's website confirms that these items are indeed for sale, describing the Pride
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Tomboy X compression top this way. They say, the Pride compression top from Tomboy X is designed to
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keep you comfortable while letting you be your best self. This black-hue top has a plain silhouette
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and pullover style that stays put throughout your day, plus soft, stretchy fabric and no cups for a
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smooth look and feel. With its athletic look, this compression top is great for both everyday wear
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and more active days. Yes, be your best self, the best version of yourself, by attempting to hide
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some of your defining physical features by constricting them dangerously and painfully
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with an elastic band. I mean, that's how you be your best self. That's how you show pride, apparently.
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The most terrifying thing here is that the product is not available to buy right now online,
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which appears to mean that it's sold out. Certainly does not mean that Target decided
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against putting it for sale. In fact, these can be found in the physical stores. As this tweet from
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an elated trans activist shows, someone who identifies themselves as MixMX Kelsey Danger says,
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holy crap, Target is selling binders. You can buy binders in an effing store now. That's incredible.
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Like every store does pride merch, but that's actually making a difference for queer youth.
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I love it. I bet you do. You love the idea of women destroying their bodies.
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Now, sane, morally decent people, on the other hand, look at this about the same as we would look
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at Walgreens selling laxatives marketed specifically to anorexic people. A few years ago, there was a
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woman who self-identified as disabled. She was a member of the trans-abled community, which is a thing.
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And she blinded herself with a drain cleaner in order to fulfill her dream of being blind. In fact,
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if I actually clarify that, she went, I believe, if I remember correctly, she went to her psychiatrist
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and her psychiatrist prescribed this to her, recommended it, and actually helped her blind
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herself with a drain cleaner. Now, perhaps if the trans-abled community grows a little bit larger,
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they'll start selling Drano specifically for that purpose. Wouldn't that just be wonderful and
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inclusive? Here, buy this Drano. You can unclog your drains and also blind yourself to be the best
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version of yourself. That's not as far-fetched as it may seem. After all, five years ago, chest binding
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was viewed as something no different than foot binding. Foot binding is, of course, the Chinese custom
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of binding and breaking a girl's feet in order to change the shape and size of their feet.
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Maybe we'll get to the point where Foot Locker sells feet binders. Who knows? But as for chest
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binding, it went from something macabre and grotesque, and it still is, but it used to be widely viewed
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that way, if people knew about it at all, which in fact, I guess five years ago, most people never
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even heard of it. Didn't know that that was a thing at all. But now it's being promoted and sold by
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Target. Not just Target, but the medical industry as well. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a paper
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on their website claiming that chest binding is, quote, often critical for mental health. And yet, in the
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very same sentence, they admit that, quote, negative physical side effects ranging from chronic pain to rib
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fractures are common. Now, for more on those side effects, we go to an article from the Cleveland Clinic,
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which also promotes and celebrates chest binding, but then lists some hazards that come with it. And those
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hazards include, here's a partial list. Acne, bacterial infections, fungal infections, itching, scarring, swelling,
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tenderness, loss of muscle mass, postural changes, rib fractures, shoulder popping, dizziness, headaches,
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Oh, and we should mention that it often crushes the breast to such an extent that there's permanent
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deformation of the organ, can make it difficult or impossible to breastfeed later in life.
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This is what Target is selling. As I saw somebody put it on Twitter, to be more specific, they are
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selling conversion therapy for girls. Just think of the name, Tomboy X. Yet, tomboys are precisely what
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they're erasing from existence. A girl with slightly more masculine characteristics and interests used
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to simply be a girl with slightly more masculine characteristics and interests. Those kinds of girls
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existed in the world once. And we would call this kind of girl a tomboy, and very often it was a phase
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that she would outgrow. Sometimes it was a personality trait that kind of cemented and endured for life,
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which is fine, or it was fine. Now, girls with these kinds of tendencies are told that they're not
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really girls at all. There used to be variety within each sex. Now, every type outside the mean,
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everything that is not average is subsumed by the LGBT cult, consumed by it, branded by it.
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Forget self-expression. Girls now are encouraged to literally constrict themselves, stuff themselves
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into a vice to try to change their shape, to hide and destroy parts of themselves.
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You know, the message to girls used to be, you're beautiful just the way you are.
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And that was the relentless messaging. And sometimes it went too far overboard.
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But now it's, here, flatten your breasts with this elastic band until you have a severe bacterial
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infection and your ribs are broken. Do this so that you can look like a boy.
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This is what passes for self-empowerment these days. It's also what passes for LGBT pride.
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Let me hide and destroy myself out of pride. That's LGBT pride, which perhaps should tell us
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you spend today. Okay, before we get started here, I got to show you this because yet again,
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getting shamed by my wife, we went out to eat, um, on, on Sunday, actually it was for Mother's Day
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and my wife, she always accuses me. I don't know why, but she accuses me at restaurants of trying to
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embarrass her. She says that that's like something I always do. And so I decided to, you see the picture
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that she posted. So I decided to wear my sunglasses inside, um, and I'll wear my napkin as a bib
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and then eat sushi with a fork. So this was what, because she accuses me of trying to embarrass,
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and I'm, I'm a grown man, by the way, I'm a 35 year old man. And that's how I decided to comport
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myself on Mother's Day, no less. And the thing is, um, I didn't know this, but the whole time,
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the, uh, the, the guy that was busting our table, he was a fan and he recognized, but he didn't say
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anything until the very end. And he witnessed all of this and, but I have to assume he's a fan of the
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show. He's probably not surprised by the way, other big news here. We're about to have a new
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press secretary. I thought we already did. I thought that, uh, I guess I'm not, I'm not up to
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date on this, but I thought that Jen Psaki was shuffling away and had introduced the new one,
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but she's still apparently gets, I don't know what the deal is, but eventually we're going to have a
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new press secretary and she's a black and gay. And this is a huge deal we're told. So the Cato
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Institute tweeted this. We have the tweet from the Cato Institute talking about, um,
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there we go. So Cato Institute says for roughly the first two centuries of American independence,
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no black or gay person and no woman could aspire to be the white house press secretary.
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Now I love this for so many reasons. The first one is that the position of white house press
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secretary didn't exist until like the 1930s. So we have not had a white house press secretary.
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I mean, maybe not surprisingly, there wasn't a white house press secretary in like 1805.
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Um, so that's the first problem. Second problem is who the hell aspires to be the white house
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press secretary that I that's like, that should be a prison sentence. I think that's that here's my
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idea off the cuff, off the top of my head here, but now we're brainstorming. That should be a prison
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sentence that you give to people where your job is to stand up there and lie for the president
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every day. And everybody knows that you're lying. So every day you just set your integrity and your
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credibility on fire in front of the entire world. This there's no, I mean, there are many ways,
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by the way, if you're willing to do that, to set your integrity and credibility on fire in front of
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the whole world. Um, there are, there are lots of jobs where people do that, but you could get paid a
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lot more to be white house press secretary. Who, who aspires to that? I would now, okay. I'll admit
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I, I would like to be white house press secretary for just so I could get fired on the first day.
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I wouldn't make it past the first day. So I would take one day in that position.
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But I don't know if my kids told me, if I was talking to my daughter and as we've had this
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conversation many times and, and what the, you know, it always kind of changes when you ask them,
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what do you want to be when you grow up? And if I were to go home tonight and ask my daughter that,
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and she said, I want to be the white house press secretary. I would put her in counseling.
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I would get therapy for her. That's as a, as a parent, it's one of your worst nightmares
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is that your child comes home and says, Oh, I got a job as the white house press secretary.
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Oh, not you, dear child, not you. Um, and the other interesting thing about this, uh, this person
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here, the fact that they're, that she's black and lesbian is not interesting at all and doesn't
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matter. But, um, the interesting thing is that, uh, she is on the record saying that the 2016
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election was stolen that, and using those words exactly that the Georgia's Georgia governor's race
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was stolen and that Fox news is racist. And this was very recently. It was a couple of years ago
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leading up to, uh, early on in coronavirus. And she said that Fox news is racist. Now,
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now she's going to be press secretary where she's supposed to pretend at least to be non-biased,
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non-partisan, you know, treating everybody equally in the press room. And yet here's what she thinks
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of Fox news. Listen, Fox news was racist before coronavirus. They are racist during the coronavirus.
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Fox news will be racist after the coronavirus. So there is nothing new here. I think the differences
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is they have been, they are all in on being state TV for Donald Trump. And so they will continue to
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give them misinformation. The danger is, so yes, you have Asian Americans right now whose lives are
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seriously in danger and you have their own viewers who can now, the ones who are 60, 60 and older,
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who are watching. This is a health crisis that we're in. This is a global pandemic as the WHO has said,
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and they're putting their lives in danger. And so that is where we are right now is the,
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the danger that Fox news is now what they're putting out there is going to hurt people and not
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help them. Oh yeah. Well, she'll be fair and objective, obviously. It's saying ahead of time,
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the Fox news is racist and dangerous and hurting people. But, uh, you know, I said that this is an
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interesting fact about it actually is not, this also is not interesting because this is, this is what
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we're used to, um, in general from the white house, but especially from this administration
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in particular, that they're all just activists, everybody. And this is what Democrats do. Um,
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everyone, they put anyone in any position, doesn't matter what the position is. They are all activists
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and she is a left-wing activist. It's just activists all the way down. And that's one of the reasons why
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this administration has been a total unmitigated historic disaster. I mean, it has been the worst
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first year and a half, two years of a presidential administration in American history. Nothing even
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comes close. And yet another example here, this is a story that's gotten more attention lately,
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but still less than it deserves. It says desperate mothers across the U S have been forced to buy
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formula. They know will make their baby sick as the country grapples with a shortage that has left
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shelves bare and has caused prices to skyrocket to $120 a can, $120 a can. I mean, think about getting
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into your car to drive to the grocery store. You got to put gas in your car for 450 a gallon or whatever
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it is now. And, um, and then you're, you're driving to the store and you're paying $120 a can for baby
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formula. This is simply not a sustainable way to live for most Americans. Uh, winter
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Balthrop of Gallatin, Tennessee says she broke down inside her car after driving to six stores and
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calling others as far as three hours away, only to receive the same answer, which is that the
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specific formula, uh, that her baby needs and tolerates was out of stock when it dawned on her
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that she would have to feed her baby girl, Blakely, um, baby girl, Blakely, non-hypoallergenic
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formula. She knew she would, uh, make her, make her stomach sick. The new mother burst into tears.
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And then they give many other examples of this major retailers, such as CVS, Walgreens and
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Target have a limited in-store and online purchased up to three per buyer. As parents have raised
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concerns that many are hoarding the already hard to find formulas. This is something I've noticed
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myself. I was at Walgreens yesterday, in fact, and they had the formula, um, behind the counter
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behind glass. And I watched somebody come in and they got their ration of formula. So we, we are now
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in a, in a, a position of baby formula rationing. And, um, now we're not in the market for baby
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formula, but this is something. And, you know, when I go to buy diapers, you see it as well.
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The shelves are almost entirely bare. And this is a, a real crisis. So much so that I'm not exactly
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sure what you do as a parent. Now I know that, um, you know, there's some people that have commented
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and said, well, there's a, there's a cheap, there's a free alternative to formula, which
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is breastfeeding. And obviously yes, but some mothers can't breastfeed, you know, for various
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different physical, medical reasons, don't have enough supply. Uh, there could also be, you know,
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there are plenty of mothers that actually have to work, especially given the state of the economy
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right now. And so what do you do in that situation when you can't find formula? You know,
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we were in that position with, um, even though my wife's a stay-at-home mom with our twins,
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uh, just because of supply issues and, and, and, and, uh, other, other things we had to
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supplement. We had no choice. We had to supplement the breastfeeding with, uh, with baby formula.
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And especially with twins, we bought a lot of it. And I know from experience that babies have,
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you know, very specific needs when it comes to that. And you're going to find a certain kind
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of formula that they need. If you try to give them something else, they're going to have gas,
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they're going to get colicky, they're going to be up all night screaming.
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And this is what, um, people are facing. Just, just one, this is, this is one of the
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major crises gripping the country. And it is a crisis. And I think it should tell you something
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that although it's a crisis, when this is food for infants that we're running out of,
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um, although it is a crisis, there's not a whole lot being said about it, especially
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from the corporate media. I mean, they're, they're paying lip service to it because they have to,
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they went a while without reporting it at all. And now they're reporting it because they have no choice,
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but they're mostly trying to ignore it. And part of the reason for ignoring it, obviously,
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is that it makes Biden look really bad. It's just yet another major problem that we're facing since
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Biden, uh, came into office and, um, they don't want to do that because he's their guy.
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But I think it's also just that for a lot of people on the left, especially, uh, especially if
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they're childless, they just don't feel any kind of, they don't really feel anything about a baby
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formula shortage. In fact, for a lot of them, they're more outraged about college educated
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adults having to pay their loans, their student loans than about babies not having enough food to
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eat. Have we heard anything from the squad about the baby formula problem? Because we've heard a whole
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lot about the poor, you know, the poor 30 year old college graduates with graduate degrees who now
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have to pay their student loans back. And what a crisis that is. What about infant children that
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can't, can't eat because they don't have enough food? All right, let's move to this. Speaking of
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protecting children, protesters showed up at, uh, Justice Alito's house yesterday. So they've already
00:24:07.800
been to Justice Kavanaugh's house. Uh, they went to Roberts's house, even though he's on their side
00:24:13.120
and they went there. Um, and here we have some of the footage of them just marching down the street.
00:24:19.180
They somehow managed to find his house. And we know they found Kavanaugh's house because his own
00:24:29.060
neighbor alerted the protesters and the activists to the fact that, you know, I live next door to him.
00:24:35.040
So did something similar happen here? I don't know. I think they're shouting, they want justice now
00:24:47.740
and, uh, justice in the form of killing babies. That's the kind of justice they want.
00:24:52.680
Just so you know, that footage you see there, that is, um, illegal on the federal level and on the state
00:25:00.960
level because that's in Virginia. Now it's, it is a, it is a federal crime to try to intimidate and
00:25:09.300
harass Supreme court justices to try to change the outcome of a decision. That's a federal crime.
00:25:16.300
It's also against the law in the state of Virginia. So put on a protest, have a display like that in
00:25:22.820
the middle of a residential neighborhood. They actually have a law against it.
00:25:32.680
And some of the, the, the rationale, and that this is in spite of the fact that Virginia is,
00:25:36.620
you know, famously now run by Republicans and they allowed this to happen. And that's in spite of
00:25:41.880
the fact that, uh, in this, some of the, the justification I've heard for that is that, well,
00:25:46.620
the, the law that's on the books that forbids you from having a demonstration like that in a
00:25:51.780
residential neighborhood, uh, that would never hold up in court anyway. And so that,
00:25:55.560
whether it would or not, it's the law on the books right now, which means that you can arrest them
00:26:02.540
or at the very least have the police show up and tell them to leave because that's the law on the
00:26:08.100
books. Now, if you want to challenge the law and you can go ahead and do that, but as it stands right
00:26:12.660
now, that's the law. And if those laws are not enforced, we know they're not going to be enforced
00:26:20.520
on the federal level. The DOJ is just sitting back and allowing this to happen because they're
00:26:26.220
happy about it. It's not just that they're allowing it. They're enthusiastic about it.
00:26:34.780
So if Republicans that are running the states where these things are happening and the localities
00:26:39.440
where these are happening, if they don't step up and stop it, then it's, it only gets worse from
00:26:45.180
here. I mean, we learned, we learned that, and this is a lesson that we should never have had to learn
00:26:50.680
the hard way. But when you sit back and you allow the leftist militants to do what they want, that
00:26:57.140
only emboldens them. You know, they're never going to reach a point where they say, okay, we've gone
00:27:03.360
far enough. This is, this is all we really wanted to do. And then they turn around and go home. Hey guys,
00:27:08.180
we've made our point. Let's go home. That never happens. They keep pushing and they keep pressing,
00:27:16.160
feeling more and more emboldened every step of the way as they're allowed to do whatever they want.
00:27:22.660
And then there was one interesting clip though, from one of the protesters at this demonstration.
00:27:30.820
And I'm going to play this. Now she's explaining why she is pro-abortion. And she has a, the reason that
00:27:36.380
she gives is deeply depressing and dark, but also, but also one of the more honest things that you're
00:27:42.900
ever going to hear from a pro-abortion protester. Listen to this. It's my body is my choice. My,
00:27:49.880
as I said before, my mother didn't have a choice. So I'm here, but I had 57 years of misery. If she
00:27:56.060
had a choice, she would have made different decisions and I might not have been here. Nobody
00:27:59.240
would have been the wiser. Give her her choice. But rather than she having a choice, a choice was made
00:28:05.620
for her because she didn't have it. And she brought teachers into the world that she didn't want.
00:28:10.420
What do you want people to know? What do they have to know about abortion? What's the number
00:28:13.440
one message? My body, my choice. That's the number one message. My body, my choice. I'm not a second
00:28:19.580
class citizen. So she is saying quite explicitly that she wishes she was aborted and that her mother
00:28:26.940
was forced to have her and didn't want to have her. And now she's been born and she's had 57 years of
00:28:32.200
misery and nobody would have been, they would have been none the wiser as she puts it, if she was
00:28:36.560
just aborted and everything would have been fine. Like she, it's not just, I mean, think about this
00:28:42.280
for a second. It's not just that this woman is saying that she wishes she was dead. Although she does
00:28:48.340
wish that apparently. It's like, she wishes that she never existed. Though of course, again, with an
00:28:56.980
abortion, it's too late for that because the baby already exists. But she wants to erase the last,
00:29:02.720
the whole, her entire life. Which is extremely depressing, of course. But it only goes to show
00:29:12.420
that these people are, in a very literal sense, anti-life. They really do hate human life.
00:29:19.020
And that should be no surprise. Because to be, you know, in favor of killing babies at all,
00:29:27.180
that's the perspective you have to have. And to get this upset at the notion that more babies are
00:29:35.840
going to be allowed to be born, and sadly, not even that many more babies, because as we've gone
00:29:41.220
over, you know, this is, 80 some percent of the abortions in America are still going to happen.
00:29:49.120
So if there's any increase in the birth rate at all, it makes these people very upset and outraged.
00:29:54.780
Because they are anti-life. Although what she just said there, at least, it is
00:30:00.380
the most honest, and in a way, the most coherent pro-abortion argument you're going to hear.
00:30:08.640
Which is that life is a terrible thing, it's an unending parade of misery,
00:30:14.520
and it's better to simply avoid the whole thing, and we're doing babies a favor by
00:30:19.860
killing them in the womb, so they never have to endure, you know, living outside of it.
00:30:26.700
That's a horrible argument. I mean, it's nihilistic and terrible and dark.
00:30:32.340
Like, but it's honest, number one, which is more than we could say for most of what we hear from
00:30:39.940
pro-aborts. And it's basically coherent. It's wrong, but it's basically coherent. Like,
00:30:45.260
I understand the logic of what you're saying. Terrible, but at least, it's not self-contradictory,
00:30:53.060
at least, for the most part. And that it really is. When it comes down to it, at its basest level,
00:31:00.980
what you just heard there, that is the argument for abortion. That life is an awful thing,
00:31:06.460
and it's best to be avoided. There's nothing inherently good about life.
00:31:12.600
And certainly, there is nothing intrinsic, you know, there's no intrinsic worth or dignity
00:31:28.660
Let's see. So, Rand Paul shared this. This is Lauren Garrett with the National Academy of Medicine
00:31:35.960
talking about the real reason for masking. And this, what you're about to hear, this is from
00:31:41.780
2018. This is before COVID, back when these public health experts were speaking more honestly about
00:31:48.860
things like masking. Because, just so you know, masking was not invented at the time of COVID.
00:31:55.140
Like, medical masks existed before then. And we knew a whole lot about them, and plenty of studies
00:32:02.060
had been done before about the efficacy of masking, about the appropriate times for masking,
00:32:07.460
when it works, when it doesn't. Just reams and reams of research on that.
00:32:14.040
Which is why the excuse that you hear that, well, we didn't know a lot about masking early on,
00:32:18.380
and so we said certain things, and it turns out those things weren't correct. But it's only because
00:32:22.700
we learned, oh, you didn't learn anything. We did not learn a single thing about masking during COVID.
00:32:26.880
Because we knew all that stuff already. Case in point, here's, again, Lauren Garrett,
00:32:34.780
National Academy of Medicine. Here's what she said in 2018. Listen.
00:32:37.960
There's only a couple of countries that have ever really done large-scale studies to try and figure
00:32:43.460
out what might work. Japan, it may not surprise you, is one of them. And they, in one of their large
00:32:50.580
studies, they basically showed that the masks, it seemed like the major efficacy of a mask is that
00:32:57.880
it causes alarm in the other person. And so you stay away from each other. And that's what I think
00:33:03.780
happened with SARS. When I was in the SARS epidemic, I saw everywhere, all over Asia, people started
00:33:09.240
wearing these masks. And it is alarming when you walk down the street and everybody coming towards you
00:33:14.180
has a mask on. You definitely do social distancing. You definitely, it's just a gut thing. But did the
00:33:21.460
mask really help them? Did the mask keep the virus out? Almost certainly not. If they, if the virus was
00:33:29.080
in there, around their face, the mask would not have made the difference. The mask almost certainly
00:33:35.800
didn't help, made no difference. That's not me talking. That's Lauren Garrett, the National Academy
00:33:41.560
of Medicine. That's what she's saying. But even to this day, if I were to say that, I'd get kicked
00:33:48.080
off YouTube. I'm not even sure, like, are we even allowed to play that according to YouTube's rules?
00:33:52.340
I guess we'll find out. But that's what she said. And according to her, before COVID, the primary
00:33:59.900
function of a mask was psychological. It was psychological conditioning and manipulation.
00:34:05.120
observation. And there were certainly many of us who made that observation from the very beginning.
00:34:16.000
But this is yet another thing that you weren't allowed to say at the time. People are saying now,
00:34:19.920
although in that case, she said it before. For an example of someone saying something now,
00:34:23.940
all of a sudden, we go to Bill Gates. So similar kind of theme here. But here he is. This is not back
00:34:29.540
in 2018. This is Bill Gates a few days ago. And here's what he says now. It wasn't until early
00:34:37.000
February when I was in a meeting that experts at the foundation said, there's no way. There's been
00:34:44.380
too much travel without diagnosis for us to contain this. And then at that point, we didn't really
00:34:53.140
understand the fatality rate. We didn't understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's
00:35:00.540
a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that. So that was
00:35:06.440
pretty scary period where the world didn't go on alert, including the United States, nearly as fast
00:35:15.020
as it needed to. We didn't understand that. We didn't understand early on that it affects mainly
00:35:21.340
the elderly. There's a relatively low fatality rate. We didn't, because I understood that.
00:35:28.540
I do think we should keep something in mind, even though I was wearing a hazmat suit to start the
00:35:32.420
show. A couple of things. First of all, most of the deaths are older people who are already in poor
00:35:39.300
health with compromised immune systems. So, you know, in other words, these are not young,
00:35:48.900
healthy people who are dying of this illness. The people that's especially at risk of dying from
00:35:54.700
coronavirus are the same people who are at risk from dying from the flu and many other illnesses.
00:36:00.480
I understood that nearly from the beginning. So what am I, a genius? I'm not the only one.
00:36:04.520
There's like a whole lot of us who were saying that. We weren't allowed to say it though.
00:36:07.360
But now Bill Gates is saying it. This is why, what I want to hear from Republicans heading into,
00:36:18.160
well, really in the midterms and especially in 2024,
00:36:23.100
what I want to hear them promising is that they're going to put people on trial.
00:36:32.620
on a faulty premise, it's not enough for them to just say, well, our bad. Well, we didn't know.
00:36:45.640
We, as the experts, didn't know things that people on Twitter knew within like two days.
00:36:51.260
No, that's not enough. This is not a mea culpa kind of thing. And it's not even a mea culpa because
00:36:58.020
none of these people are even apologizing. I just want to move on like it didn't happen.
00:37:05.260
Economic devastation, kids whose lives were destroyed for years, sometimes, I mean,
00:37:11.940
kids who killed themselves, everything else. I mean, we know the whole litany.
00:37:17.020
And they want to simply move on from it like it didn't happen. We cannot allow that. And what I
00:37:23.180
want to hear from Republicans is that we're going to find the people responsible for pushing this,
00:37:26.900
and we're going to put them on trial and hold them responsible.
00:37:32.060
All right, let's, one other quick clip here. Let's check this. This is at the scene at the
00:37:37.240
European Parliament. Let's put this up on the screen. I don't know what's going on here exactly, but
00:37:47.020
All right. This is interpretive dancing happening in the aisles from the European
00:38:01.320
I don't know exactly what the explanation is here. I don't think we need the explanation.
00:38:06.480
Like there can't be an explanation that makes this any less embarrassing.
00:38:08.980
By the way, interpretive dancing, that's, that to dancing is like the, it's like, that's like slam
00:38:19.340
poetry. Interpretive dancing is to dancing what slam poetry is to poetry, which is that it's not
00:38:23.620
really dancing at all. I mean, that's, if I could do it, that's the rule for dancing, is that if I can do
00:38:30.700
it, it is, you are not dancing. And I could do, I wouldn't do that unless I really needed to express
00:38:37.320
myself. There have been a few times I've been arguing with my wife and I couldn't get my
00:38:40.840
words out. And so I broke out into an interpretive dance to try to express how I was feeling deeply
00:38:46.100
inside. But for the most part, I won't do that. But if I can, then it's not dancing.
00:38:51.500
If you're doing poetry that I could write, it's not poetry.
00:38:53.840
Who's, who's the girl that showed up at the inauguration? Amanda Gorman, right? Like that
00:38:59.680
kind of poetry. I could do that. That's not poetry. That's what they're doing over at the
00:39:05.300
European parliament. Let's go now to the comment section.
00:39:08.680
Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.
00:39:14.160
Tom Young John says, whoever picked Matt to be part of the DW team deserves a raise.
00:39:24.100
Well, nobody really picked me. I just wandered in one day. Just wandered. I was in my, you know,
00:39:28.940
I was a homeless guy in my car and I was hanging out in the parking lot, ranting to nobody, talking
00:39:34.680
to myself. And then Ben Shapiro walked it down one day and said, well, if you're going to be
00:39:38.300
down here, we'll just give you a, we'll give you a cell phone. Just ranted to the camera. And
00:39:42.680
that's, that's the origin story. That's where it all began. But this apparently in the comment
00:39:48.120
section led to a little bit of a disagreement. And then Lisa Jay disagrees, does not think the
00:39:53.960
person who hired me should get a raise. In fact, maybe they should be fired. She says, couldn't
00:39:57.800
disagree more. He's become one of the main reasons I no longer subscribe and wouldn't tell anyone I
00:40:02.120
watch DW. I'm a conservative and think the other three main hosts are light years beyond Walsh and
00:40:06.740
infinitely more worthwhile. Matt Walsh had some strong points and much potential, but has chosen to
00:40:11.780
squander much of it in ugly, mean-spirited, childish humor that's sometimes even unethical
00:40:17.960
and often hypocritical. He has become desperate with his sweet baby stuff and crazy ego and needs
00:40:24.140
to relentlessly promote some dumb image he's created and become fixated on to the extent that it often
00:40:29.400
makes him say and push really unpleasant and ugly stuff to serve that image. That's the only
00:40:35.020
conclusion I can draw as to why someone who is thoughtful and interesting and often funny is now
00:40:38.420
often peppered with behavior that I would be so ashamed of. He and the fraudster Owens are the
00:40:44.420
weak links in DW, in my opinion. Well, me and Candace are the weak links. I mean, we were the ones who
00:40:51.700
spent like three days arguing over a bottle of water, so you might have a point. But I'm not going to
00:40:57.200
respond to each point, each part of this, especially because there are no examples provided of when I've
00:41:01.660
done any of these things that I stand accused of. But I will say, as far as the mean-spirited,
00:41:07.860
childish, unethical, ugly accusation, well, childish, I'll give you that too, because I did just show you
00:41:14.440
the picture of me in the sunglasses with the bib, you know, eating sushi with a fork, so I can't deny
00:41:18.780
that either. But the others I won't agree with. I may be mean sometimes, but here's the distinction.
00:41:23.980
I don't think this is splitting hairs. Mean but not mean-spirited. And I think there is a difference,
00:41:30.220
because mean-spirited is when you just want to hurt people. That's your only motivation. A mean-spirited
00:41:36.640
person, the only thing he wants to do is simply hurt people, and you take pleasure in hurting
00:41:41.340
people. That's not what I'm about. Now, I can act and speak in a way that's aggressive and even mean
00:41:48.500
sometimes, but that's because I'm responding to, right, and trying to fight back against things that
00:41:54.560
are evil. And you don't, I don't think you fight evil because you want to hurt people. Quite the
00:42:00.240
opposite. And the problem on the right often, especially in the commentator class, I don't
00:42:06.740
think it's that we're too mean, despite how it's painted, that, oh, there's a bunch of right-wing
00:42:14.680
radicals that are all so mean. I think the problem often is, for many conservatives, people who claim
00:42:19.460
to be conservative anyway, is actually that they don't really care. They don't feel any anger towards
00:42:23.640
the evil happening in our culture. I do. You know, it pisses me off, and I respond in kind.
00:42:29.340
And it can be a little mean sometimes, but not mean-spirited. That's the distinction.
00:42:33.520
Okay. Davey says, Matt, your book, Church of Cowards, got a shout-out by my pastor yesterday in
00:42:39.880
our Baptist church in Silicon Valley in California. It's crazy to think about how much more applicable
00:42:44.860
the book is today. Yeah, I wish, that's one that I wish I could say is now irrelevant and don't
00:42:50.640
bother buying it, but unfortunately, that's not the case. Let's see. Emery says, not trying to be rude,
00:42:57.400
but if you looked at a breakdown of adoptive families, I'd be curious to know the races of
00:43:02.440
adoptive parents. It's actually a really fascinating question and point, because yesterday we heard from
00:43:09.560
the race-hustling feminists about how black kids aren't adopted as often as white kids, and that means,
00:43:17.340
according to them, that we should just kill the black kids. That's their, well, we should have
00:43:21.720
abortion because they're not adopted anyway. That's their argument. But rather than blame
00:43:29.740
racism, it is interesting to ask how many black adults are adopting kids themselves. And as far
00:43:36.940
as that goes, there's a study by the Institute of Family Studies from 2017 that gives some idea.
00:43:41.900
It says of the races of adoptive mothers of kindergartners, so it's maybe a small select
00:43:47.680
sample here, but this is what they say, 77% are white, 6% black, 9% Hispanic. Now, of course,
00:43:56.320
white people can and often do adopt non-white children, but the fact is that white people
00:44:01.180
are carrying most of the load here, and they're way overrepresented in comparison to their statistical
00:44:07.340
representation in a broader culture. They're overrepresented as adoptive parents,
00:44:11.320
whereas other races are underrepresented. And when white families do adopt non-white children,
00:44:19.380
the race hustlers will often call that racist too. So it's a definite damned if you do,
00:44:25.140
damned if you don't situation. If you're a white family looking to adopt a child,
00:44:31.040
damned if you do, damned if you don't, right? And one solution to that situation might be for greater
00:44:37.640
adoption participation of other groups. But that's an aspect of this conversation that's
00:44:45.460
like never brought up. It's the first time I've seen anyone bring it up. It's a good point.
00:44:49.160
And that's in the YouTube comment section. And finally, Carrie says, Matt, I was at a friend's
00:44:53.140
house for dinner last night, and there are two kids were on their phones at the table the whole
00:44:57.760
dinner. Why do parents allow this? Is it just me or is that the rudest thing ever? It's not just you.
00:45:02.640
That's incredibly rude. I can't imagine. I don't understand why parents allow that.
00:45:07.160
I know that you can't, as a parent, you can't control every last thing that your kid does
00:45:11.980
because they are their own person. They have their own mind, and they're going to do things you don't
00:45:15.380
want them to do. And so a lot of times you're playing cleanup and you're punishing and things
00:45:19.620
like that. But this is one thing that you can absolutely control proactively, and lots of parents
00:45:24.740
don't even attempt to. So you see it at restaurants. I've seen it also at people's houses.
00:45:30.060
Kids are sitting there on their phones at dinner. I mean, it blows my mind. Just stand up.
00:45:37.020
Take the phones out of their hands. And the best thing you can do is take the phones out
00:45:42.300
of their hands and throw them in the toilet and destroy them. I was thinking about this
00:45:49.040
today. I was driving to work, and I was running later than usual. And so I usually see this because
00:45:55.180
usually I'm coming in too early. But I drove by, I don't know, five or six bus stops, and the
00:45:59.840
kids were out at the bus stops waiting for the bus. And at every single bus stop, of course,
00:46:03.800
the kids are just sitting there, like standing like zombies, silently looking down at their
00:46:08.180
phones. And I can remember when I was a kid, the bus stop was, it was its own thing, its
00:46:15.380
own adventure. You know, its own like ecosystem was the bus stop and the bus. And now it's nothing.
00:46:23.020
Kids don't even notice that they're there. They're just looking down at their phones.
00:46:26.860
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our daily cancellation. You know, one of the trends on TikTok for some reason is for people to post
00:47:22.500
videos documenting and explaining their morning routines. And the thing that you quickly notice if
00:47:27.720
you watch a few of these videos is that people on TikTok perhaps unsurprisingly have a lot of free
00:47:31.460
time on their hands. So for their morning routines, they wake up at a leisurely hour, they do 45 minutes
00:47:36.280
of yoga, an hour of meditation. They go into their immaculate remodeled kitchen with top-of-the-line
00:47:41.120
appliances that they could somehow afford despite not having a job. They make some kind of green,
00:47:45.440
healthy smoothie, go for a jog, do some crunches. Then they go consult their personal guru who lives on a
00:47:51.660
goat farm at the top of a mountain, and then they have lunch. And it's all quite difficult to relate
00:47:56.220
to, especially as a parent. I mean, my feelings about yoga are well-known, but even if I was
00:48:00.240
inclined to give yoga a shot, I don't think my kids would stay out of my hair long enough for me to
00:48:04.520
get a good yoga session in or whatever you call it. Though they probably would enjoy coming with me to
00:48:09.280
the mountaintop goat farm, come to think of it. In any case, we know that this is the kind of thing,
00:48:15.020
it's one of the two main genres of content on social media, especially on sites like TikTok and
00:48:20.340
Instagram. This is the, my life is perfect, look how happy and put together I am genre.
00:48:27.660
The second genre is the exact opposite of that. It is in fact meant to be a correction to the first
00:48:34.080
type, though it ends up being just as bad, if not considerably worse. And that is the, my life is
00:48:39.540
terrible, look how miserable I am, please feel sorry for me genre. So one TikTok or a lawyer in Toronto
00:48:45.880
has made her own morning routine video, which fits into this latter category. She's been applauded for
00:48:51.020
this video, which has been viewed many millions of times. Buzzfeed says that it's refreshing and
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makes them feel seen. Upworthy agrees that it's refreshing and honest. Yahoo celebrates it for
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being authentic and real. In the video, the 27 year old woman shows us what her routine is like
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as a lawyer who is depressed as F. Watch. This is my very realistic, non-aesthetic morning routine
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as a lawyer who is depressed as F. Took me half an hour to get out of bed, so I was very late this
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morning. I admit I washed my face to wake up, but didn't brush my teeth. Too lazy for a base routine,
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so I just mix some foundation with moisturizer. My latte also exploded in the microwave, very on brand.
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I have to contour my face to hide the fact that it's so bloated from drinking last night. I'm really
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not doing well, please don't judge me. I can't bring myself to give any more f***s than I do, so
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putting my hair up millennial style, okay? None of that clean girl, slicked back bun s***. Honestly
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though, I don't care how depressed I am, I will not wear my hair in a ponytail like that. I put on some
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earrings though, good for me. I'm wearing Crocs to work because I'm sad. Please don't ask me why there's
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Tupperware on the floor. Okay, have a nice day. Well, that was important information clearly and
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too depressed and sad to put the effort in to brush your teeth, but you can put the effort in
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to make a video and edit it and post it. Now, the comments are all raving about this. They call the
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video beautiful and raw and vulnerable and important and amazing. The lady simply just announced that she
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didn't brush her teeth in the morning and these people want to award her the medal of freedom for
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it. And why? Well, because it validates their own laziness and recasts their own self-centered
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disregard as somehow brave and empowered. So, let's consider a few points related to all this.
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First, brush your teeth. That's disgusting. Second, anytime you put personal information on the
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internet and demand not to be judged for it, you're lying because you do want to be judged. You
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wouldn't publish it for the world to see if you didn't want the world to make a judgment about it.
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If you really didn't want to be judged at all for the fact that you're practicing poor hygiene,
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you just wouldn't tell anybody and nobody would know unless they end up stuck in an elevator next
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to you. You take the time to record and publish the video because you want to hear the public's
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opinion. It's just that you expect that the public will have a positive, affirming opinion.
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That's what you're really asking for. It's not don't judge me. It's rather judge me in a nice
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and encouraging way. But that demand is unfair and also impossible. I mean, once you tell me
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something about yourself that I didn't ask for or want to know, you've given me information that my
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mind will process however it wants to process it. That's not my fault. You can't give me unsolicited
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information and also assign me an opinion that I'm supposed to have about that information. That's not
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how it works. Second, you know, we've all had times when we feel especially down and completing normal
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basic tasks feels like a huge burden. But those are precisely the times when it's most important
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that you complete the tasks and you do the chores and you follow the routine. If you wake up feeling
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extra depressed, you should be even putting even more effort into your mundane task. You should try
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to look even sharper and more put together than usual. The point is not to suppress your feelings
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exactly, but rather to refuse to become a slave to them. Fake it till you make it. It's one of the
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most fundamental truths of human nature. It may not be a catch-all cure for depression. I'm not
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saying that it is, but there are certainly worse treatment plans on the market. I'll tell you that
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much. Now, if you allow your feelings to entirely dictate your behavior and you use them to justify
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slacking off, not taking care of yourself, not taking care of your responsibilities, soon you'll be
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caught in this self-defeating spiral that becomes harder and harder to escape from. Not brushing your
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teeth in the morning is the first step towards that spiral, but it gets you closer to the spiral
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than you might think. After all, brushing your teeth is a very low effort task that anyone can
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complete. I don't care how depressed you are. You let your feelings justify skipping that step,
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and soon they'll be justifying much more than that. Third point, finally. I get as annoyed as
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anyone by the my life is perfect genre of social media posts, but I'll take that over the my life is a
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mess genre any day. The former may be cherry-picked and largely fake, but at least it's aspirational.
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You know, I'm never going to be somebody who drinks healthy green smoothies every morning or any
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morning, but I'd rather hear about that than have you tell me about your diet that's even more
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disgusting and lazier than my diet. There's a very dangerous inclination in all humans to take
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comfort in the fact that other people have personal habits and engage in behaviors that are worse than
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our own. That's why the my life is miserable genre is pretty popular. People are looking for ways to
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rationalize their worst tendencies. They want to be able to point at somebody and say, man, I felt kind
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of bad about myself, but it turns out that this person behaves the same way and even worse, actually,
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so I guess I'm not so bad off. One of the most popular mental health slogans these days is,
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that I'm sure you've heard before, is it's okay to be not okay. But I can't think of a worse
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thing to say to someone who isn't okay. It's not okay to be not okay. That's why we call it not okay.
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You might as well say it's happy to be sad or it's comfortable to be in pain.
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You should try to be okay rather than not okay. You shouldn't simply resign yourself to being not
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okay. You should aim up. This is one of the reasons why I despise all the efforts to so-called
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normalize depression. The effect is that now it's become an identity. It's become a lifestyle
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rather than something that you strive to overcome and conquer because nobody's aiming up anymore.
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They keep their vision fixed parallel to the floor and they stay on whatever level they're
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currently on or else they intentionally aim down. No, don't do that. Aim up. Put in the effort.
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Try to be better. Help yourself. Brush your teeth.
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That's my message to the depressed lawyer on TikTok. Also, as the segment unfortunately calls for,
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I also have to say, you're canceled. We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks
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