Ep. 950 - If Only Babies Had The Same Rights As Sea Turtles
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People are getting sent to prison for killing bald eagles and harassing turtle eggs. Meanwhile, Handmaid s Tale cosplayers show up at Amy Coney Barrett s house and proceed to embarrass themselves because what else could they possibly do? And a Republican Senate candidate is caught on tape in shocking video claiming that the gender pay gap is a myth.
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Today on The Matt Wells Show, Democrats attempt to legalize abortion through every stage of
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pregnancy up until birth nationwide. Meanwhile, people are getting sent to prison for killing
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bald eagles and harassing turtle eggs. Our law and Democrat policies literally place animals
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and bugs above human beings. We'll discuss plus Handmaid's Tale cosplayers show up at
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Amy Coney Barrett's house and proceed to embarrass themselves because what else could they possibly
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do? And a Republican Senate candidate is caught on tape in shocking video claiming that the gender
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pay gap is a myth. Huge scandal. He's also completely right. We'll talk about that. For our daily
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cancellation, we will attempt to make sense of the latest gender innovation, which is called
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cake gender. All of that and more today on The Matt Wells Show.
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sentenced to seven months in federal prison for the crime of harming or potentially harming turtle
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embryos. Florida Fish and Wildlife investigators who were surveilling the area at the time caught Bivens
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and Cobb red-handed digging sea turtle eggs out of the sand in the middle of the night. And then the
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two dastardly crooks stashed their ill-begotten gains in a bag and they jumped into a truck and they drove
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away, but law enforcement were hot on their heels like an action movie. And they made the stop and
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they confiscated the sea turtle eggs and then they arrested both men. And the sea turtle community was
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made a little safer for seven months at least as these dangerous predators were taken off the street
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and put behind bars. Now, Bivens and Cobb are far from the first or only people to be prosecuted
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under the Endangered Species Act and sentenced to prison and hit with hefty fines as well.
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Only a few years before that, three men were sentenced to prison for drunkenly jumping into
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a swimming hole in Nevada or what they thought was a swimming hole anyway. And then they inadvertently
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smushed the eggs and larvae of the endangered pupfish, which is native to the region. And you
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got to be very careful if you're in Nevada swimming because there are pupfish around. And if you hurt
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one, then you could go to prison. One of the culprits spent a year in the federal penitentiary
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penitentiary for that crime. He was lucky to get off so easy given that he was guilty of mass
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murder. I mean, he killed dozens of these pupfish eggs. But you don't have to kill an endangered
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species to provoke the wrath of the legal system. The Endangered Species Act prohibits even the
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harassment of protected species, which is why a construction worker back in 2001 was sentenced
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to jail time, plus 200 hours of community service and a fine for relocating 64 California red-legged
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frogs and also 500 tadpoles from his construction site to what he thought was a safer location. He
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was actually trying to help the frogs out because he was like building something and the frogs were
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there. And he said, well, let me like relocate them. He didn't realize that this constitutes frog
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harassment, which is a federal crime. And he paid dearly for his ignorance. Now, if they had been
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another kind of frog, you would have been fine. But these are the red-legged frogs. And everybody knows
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that you cannot touch a red-legged frog without going to jail. This is a legal pitfall that people
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in the construction business are particularly susceptible to. Entire construction projects
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are frequently shut down. And sometimes the people involved fined or sentenced to jail time
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if they inadvertently disturb or irritate a protected species. In 2016, a $48 million road construction
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project was put on hold because it threatened the habitat of a three-inch long fish called an
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Okaloosa darter. Now, it would obviously be a great tragedy if the Okaloosa darter was
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inconvenienced, which means that human beings must be inconvenienced instead, right? Like we can
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choose between the Okaloosa darter having to, you know, accommodate us or we can accommodate them. And
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of course, we choose them every time. As it happens a few years later, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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Service removed the fish from the endangered species list anyway. So now you're entitled to harass the
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little bastards all you want. But at the time, they were on the list, and that means you can't do it.
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Now, I thought about these kinds of cases, and again, there are many hundreds more that I can
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mention. When I heard yesterday about the Democrats' failed attempt to pass the so-called Women's Health
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Protection Act, which would have legalized abortion through every stage of pregnancy for any reason up
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until birth all across the country. Every Democrat, except for one, Joe Manchin, voted for the bill.
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Now, it failed anyway, which led to lots of hand-wringing from the baby-killer squad.
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For example, here's Kamala Harris' reaction. Listen to this.
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I just presided over the Women's Health Protective Act vote, and sadly, the Senate failed to stand in
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defense of a woman's right to make decisions about her own body. And let's be clear, the majority of
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the American people believe in defending a woman's right, her choice, to decide what happens to her
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own body. And this vote clearly suggests that the Senate is not where the majority of Americans are
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on this issue. It also makes clear that a priority for all who care about this issue, a priority should
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be to elect pro-choice leaders at the local, the state, and the federal level. Because what we are
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seeing around this country are extremist Republican leaders who are seeking to criminalize and punish
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women for making decisions about their own body. God forbid criminalizing the destruction of human
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life. I mean, human life is not a sea turtle. Let's get a grip here. Now, in fact, the majority of
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the American people do not agree with the Democrats, despite what Kamala Harris says. They don't agree with
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Democrats that it should be legal to jam a vacuum tube into the base of a baby's skull in the eighth
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month of pregnancy and suck his brains out of his head. The majority of Americans do not agree with
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Democrats that it should be legal to rip a fully developed infant apart limb from limb. That's what
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Democrats believe and want, and have already put these laws into place in many of our most populated
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states. And even where they have not fully gotten their way, it is still the case that abortion, for now
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anyway, and for the past 40 plus years, is still legal in every state. Which means that
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humans in the womb have fewer rights, have less legal worth, fewer protections than sea turtles,
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or California red-legged frogs, or the blessed Okaloosa darter. There are indeed hundreds of
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species on the protected list, which means hundreds of species have greater legal protections in the
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United States of America than human babies. And this includes insects, plants. There are several
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different types of beetles, which if you were to step on them intentionally or unintentionally,
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you could do a stint in federal prison for it. There are trees whose branches you cannot break
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without risking your freedom. There are snakes and snails and clams, which all enjoy a legal status above
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that of a human child. And to make matters all the more grotesque and insane, the fetal and embryonic
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stages of all of these animals are also protected. The law draws no distinction between an embryonic sea
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turtle and an adult sea turtle. When it comes to sea turtles, there is never a time when they're
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considered just a useless clump of cells. Only human beings are considered totally worthless in their
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earliest stages of development. Think about that for a second. In this country, only human beings
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are legally worthless in their earliest stages of development. A beetle egg or a bee larvae enjoys
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a higher status than a human being at any point in his gestation. This does not just apply to
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endangered species either, by the way. Bald eagles are not endangered. They've been off the endangered
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list for 15 years. And yet federal law prescribes two years in prison for anyone who kills, harasses,
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annoys, insults, or breathes too close to a bald eagle or its offspring. A few months ago, a man in
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Louisiana, this was this year, was sentenced to prison after being found in the possession of a
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bald eagle feather. And they found him with a feather and then they interrogated him. Okay. They brought
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this guy in and they interrogated him for having a bald eagle feather. Where'd you get the feather?
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Where did you get it? And he admitted under interrogation that he had hunted and killed
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the bird. Oh, dear God. Dear God, not the bald eagle. U.S. Attorney Brandon Brown, who was on the
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case, explained why they had to throw the book at the eagle killer. He said, the American bald eagle
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is a symbol of our American freedom. This defendant did not take this symbol seriously, nor the laws that
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prohibit anyone from killing or possessing even a feather of a bald eagle. It's a symbol of our freedom.
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So we're going to send you to jail. We're going to send you to jail for not respecting freedom.
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You're going to sit in this jail cell and think about why freedom is important.
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Now, what does, that's what a bald eagle symbolizes. Okay. What does a human child symbolize?
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Nothing, apparently. Or he symbolizes, if anything, a burden, an inconvenience, an obstacle to be avoided
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or destroyed. According to federal law, you cannot so much as touch a bald eagle feather
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because of the eagle's great symbolic significance. That is in the law. That's what the law is.
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But babies can be killed, harvested for their parts, the rest of them discarded as medical ways.
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Think again about this for a moment. We have not just given greater legal worth to animals,
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but greater symbolic worth also. And that symbolic worth is so important to us that it's codified into
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law. There is no reason, really, why the bald eagle should be considered inherently special. I mean,
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I like bald eagles as much as anybody else. I think they're very nice and pretty. But why is a bald eagle
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any better than any other kind of bird? The difference is that we feel a personal attachment
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to the bald eagle. We see the bald eagle as especially beautiful and majestic. And that's
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reason enough to protect it under the law, apparently. And yet, a human child? Is there no personal
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attachment there? No beauty or mystery or majesty that we recognize? Not according to Democrats.
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Now, pro-abortion people will usually offer some sort of defense of this insane dichotomy by insisting
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that, well, human beings aren't endangered and thus don't require the same protections. I mean,
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I've heard this many times. I brought this whole thing up on Twitter yesterday, and this is the
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response I got dozens of times. Well, you moron, humans aren't endangered. Now, this ignores the fact
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that, as just established, not every specially protected animal is endangered. But leaving that aside,
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this kind of logic would, for one thing, justify the legalization of the murder of humans at any
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phase of life. If humans are expendable because they aren't endangered, then why can't I walk up
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to my neighbor and shoot him in the head? He's not part of a protected, endangered species.
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The answer, of course, is that my neighbor's inherent value, his legal and moral worth, is not contingent
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on the laws of scarcity. He's not some kind of object, an item on a shelf, a product whose value
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fluctuates according to supply and demand. It would be a moral outrage and a legal crime for me to murder
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my neighbor today, and it would be no less of an outrage if I waited until there were 8 billion people
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on earth instead of 7. You know, I can't, even right now, I can't murder my neighbor and then say,
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what's the big deal? There's 7 billion other people on earth. What do we need that guy for?
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I can't argue that. And we can see the logic with born people. We can see why it doesn't work that
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way with born people. We can see it for now anyway. It's only with the unborn where it becomes somehow,
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for some, confusing. But the tragic reality is that in treating the unborn as expendable,
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as literally less valuable than insects and lizards, we have, whether we mean to or not,
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devalued all human life. If human life is totally worthless at its earliest stages,
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then it has no inherent worth. Because inherent means that it belongs to a thing by its very nature.
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Belongs to a thing, in other words, as soon as that thing comes into existence.
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And if that's the case, if it has no value by its very nature, no inherent worth,
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Our laws have put us lower on the totem pole than bugs and beasts.
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And this is the consequence of living in a culture dominated by, run by, defined by,
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an anti-human death cult. All human life is cheapened and degraded as we bow to inferior species.
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And you know, while performing this act of humiliating self-debasement, placing ourselves
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on a rung of the ladder somewhere below toads and crayfish, yes, there are federally protected
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crayfish, by the way. As we do this, ironically, we end up devaluing even the animals we have
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seemingly valued above ourselves. The entire ladder topples over. Because if we can't identify
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any reason why we as human beings have inherent value, then there's no discernible reason why
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any form of life should have inherent value. And if you don't believe me, just ask a pro-abortion
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person to explain why trees and butterflies have value. And you'll see what I mean.
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They can't explain it. Or the best they can do in explaining it is to describe their own
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subjective experience of those other things. Let's say that the bald eagle is beautiful,
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the tree is beautiful. That's your subjective experience of the tree. So what you're saying
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is that the tree's value, it really hinges on your own experience of it. But hold on a second.
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If the value of these things all comes back to the fact that we personally find them beautiful or
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whatever, but we have no value, then how can the value that we assign to things mean anything?
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They can't explain this. The elevation of animal life over human life ends up being something of
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an illusion, actually. Legally, it's very real. I mean, the law literally on paper puts animal life
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over human life, puts a tadpole over an unborn baby. But philosophically, we're all just tumbling
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into the nihilistic abyss where nothing means anything. Nobody's worth anything.
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And nothing has any actual value at all. But other than that, things are going great.
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All right, a little bit more on this, this vote yesterday by the Democrats, as Democrats are very,
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very upset that they were not able to get this law through and on the books, which once again,
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to emphasize and reemphasize this, what they were trying to do is legalize abortion for any reason
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through every stage of pregnancy up until the moment of birth, the moment of birth, like the moment when
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the baby is coming out of the womb anyway. And either the child's going to come out of the birth
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canal dead or alive. But one way or another, it's happening. And what the Democrats say is that you
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can kill it, right? Kill the child right before he comes out. And of course, obviously, there is just
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no difference scientifically, morally, philosophically at all between killing a child five seconds before
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he's born and killing him five seconds after he's born or indeed five years after he's born.
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But as they're reacting to this, I want to play this clip from Katie Porter. She's a Democrat
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representative. And she's she was on MSCBC yesterday explaining how, you know, we really need to get a
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law like this passed and have the abortions, you know, keep churning out the abortions, because one thing
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is that it will help solve inflation. Listen, President Biden has said that inflation is the
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number one priority for the Biden White House to try to get under control right now. As you're out
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there in California talking to constituents during this reelection year for Congress, how does inflation
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compare to this newly important in the sense of the Supreme Court decision pending abortion issue?
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How do those two issues compare? Well, I don't think they compare. I think they actually reinforce
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each other. So the fact that things like inflation can happen and it can become more expensive to feed
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your kids and to fuel your car is exactly why people need to be able to be in charge of how many mouths
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they're going to have to feed. So I think the fact that we're seeing this jump in expenses, that we're seeing
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people having to pay more in the grocery store, pay more at the pump, pay more for housing is a reason
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that people are saying, I need to be able to make my own decisions about when and if to start a
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family. So I don't think we're going to see them. I don't think it's about comparing them or contrasting
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them. I think they reinforce for people just how big of a responsibility it is to take care of a
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family. Yes, it's we got to kill the babies because otherwise it's just more mouths to feed. And so this
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is the same argument we've heard over and over again. We heard it yesterday from Janet Yellen,
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the Secretary of Treasury. And this is the argument. But once again, relating it back to the opening
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there, you'll never hear an argument like this when it comes to animals. Similar to, by the way,
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like a climate change. We need abortion because it'll keep the carbon emissions down because there's
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fewer people. Well, I mean, animals, you know, also give off carbon emissions. So maybe we should
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start killing some of them off for the sake of that. And also, what about the expense? I mean,
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the enormous expense that we've had to undertake to keep these animals around. How much money are we
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spending? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enforce all these laws, send them through the court
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system. We're talking over the years, easily billions, easily billions of dollars.
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At what point is it too much? At what point is it too much to protect the reticulated flatwood
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salamander, which is, I'm just looking at the list of endangered species protected by the law. And
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there are, again, I mean, there are hundreds you can go through. I got spiders on here. The spruce fur moss
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spider. There's a bunch of spiders on here also. So at what point is it too much money to spend on
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these animals? Well, what we'll hear from people like Katie Porter is that, oh, it can't possibly be
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too much. To protect the red-necked parrot or the ash-breasted tit tyrant. That's the name of a bird.
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I mean, I know it sounds like someone you might meet at the Women's March, but the ash-breasted
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tit tyrant is a bird. So what Katie Porter would tell us is that there's no amount of money. I mean,
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if we have to spend billions more, trillions, to keep the ash-breasted tit tyrant around,
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then it's worth it because that is life. Damn it. But human life is an entirely different deal.
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Who cares? Now, when it comes to human life, let's start looking at the dollars and cents.
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Let's figure this out. If there was a different situation now with inflation and with the deficit
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and everything, maybe we could afford to have more people. But we really got to start rationing.
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We got to start rationing human life according to what we can afford to keep around.
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And it is only human life that we take that approach with. Not the ash-breasted tit tyrant.
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And I'm going to continue to try to find ways to work that into this show as we continue along.
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Speaking of ash-breasted tit tyrants, their Handmaid's Tale protesters showed up at Amy Coney Barrett's
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house yesterday. So they've been hunting down all the Supreme Court justices, and they finally made
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their way to Amy Coney Barrett. And Fox News was there, and they interviewed one of the protesters.
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And I thought what they had to say was pretty unintentionally hilarious. Listen to this.
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This is Catholic. Catholic is letting their religious doctrine interfere with their ability to write
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sound legal doctrine. It's also possible that the fact that she is an adoptive mother
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is influencing her inability to see what it's like to carry a pregnancy to term.
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Not everybody wants to have five kids, or four kids, or one kid.
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So her first response, you just see how they, they just go with the flow. Like, it doesn't matter.
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They're never taken, they don't lose a step, right? When they say something that's completely wrong,
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and then you tell them, oh, but that's, you're completely wrong about that. They don't lose a
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step. They just keep charging forward. Oh, well, that line of attack didn't work. I'll just switch over
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to this one. Which, even though this one completely contradicts what I just said. So she begins by saying,
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well, this woman doesn't even know what it's like to carry a child to term. Oh, but actually,
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she's, she's carried five children to term. Well, not everybody wants to have five children.
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But she thinks because she has five children that everybody should have it.
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You see, it's two completely different talking points. On one hand, it's, oh, well, she's only in
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favor of abortion because she's never had to go through this. And then we switch to, oh, well,
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she's gone through this a bunch of times. It's just, she thinks everyone else should.
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This is once again, the advantage of being not just a soulless wench, but also being a moral
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relativist. And those two things come hand in hand almost all the time. But this is the advantage of
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being a relativist is that the truth doesn't matter at all. You're not troubled by it. And you're just
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simply going to say what you think, you know, whatever is the most useful in the moment, whatever
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talking point is the most useful, you're going to use that one. And if it turns out not to be true,
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then, you know, you'll switch to something else. Doesn't matter.
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And, uh, but you notice something too. They're showing up there in their costumes and their,
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and everything at Amy Coney Barrett's house. Uh, there's, there's only a handful of them though.
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And that's kind of the dirty little secret here that the Democrats don't want you to notice
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is that they are not getting the national backlash and outrage that they expected or wanted.
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Like they didn't want just five weirdos and handmaid's tale costumes that they got at the,
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at the Halloween store. They don't want just them showing up. They wanted, they thought and wanted
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and hoped for a thousand people outside of Amy Coney Barrett with actual pitchforks and torches.
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And instead they get five weird middle-aged cat ladies in red robes walking around.
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And because they thought that that's the kind, they thought it would be national explosions of outrage
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over the possibility and what it seems like the near certainty at this point that Roe v. Wade is overturned.
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Which is why they have already basically changed the subject.
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Now they've got the women's march coming up this weekend.
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They've got another big women's march and I'm still getting, they're getting a big crowd for that
00:25:48.200
because they've got, you know, they pretend this is all grassroots.
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It's all astroturfed and everything. They've got a lot of money behind it,
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And they're going to, you know, they're going to put all their money into getting a big,
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I'm sure they'll get a, there'll be a big scene in D.C. and in, you know,
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Los Angeles and Austin and other liberal cities.
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But after that, it's going to kind of be the end of the activism.
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Because people just are not nearly as upset about Roe v. Wade being overturned
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as the Democrats thought they would be and hoped for.
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The Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary, we know that it's kind of come down,
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there are, you know, there's three or four people that are in the race still,
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but it's really kind of come down to Kathy Barnett versus Dr. Oz.
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And Kathy Barnett sort of exploded onto the scene last week when she took Dr. Oz to task
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for his, for his support of abortion in the past.
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And she had a very powerful, you know, some, some very powerful words from her own experience
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And now the, the so-called conservatives who have become Dr. Oz shills for some reason
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have set out, especially over the last couple of days,
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that has been an onslaught to try to destroy this woman, Kathy Barnett.
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And they're putting, they're taking out of context, clipped things, and they're making
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Digging through tweets from like nine years ago
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to try to find offensive things to take this person down.
00:27:25.280
And, but what they're actually finding is that, um, they're really working against themselves
00:27:31.420
because as they dig through her tweets, what they find is that, oh, back in 2014,
00:27:39.720
As opposed to Dr. Oz, who back 10 years ago, as we played on the show a few weeks ago,
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10 years ago, he was pushing puberty blockers for trans kids, so-called quote unquote trans kids.
00:27:51.100
Now, what you have to understand about Dr. Oz when it comes to the gender ideology issue
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in particular is, um, he was on the forefront of pushing gender ideology onto kids.
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I mean, this was a, he did a segment, his, his first segment on it was 2010, 2011.
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So he didn't even, he didn't jump on the bandwagon.
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He was driving the bandwagon to push puberty blockers and gender confusion and gender transition
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Actually, that's, that's enough that should disqualify him forever.
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And more than that, anybody in the, on the right who's shilling for him is also, as far
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as I'm concerned, disqualified forever from having any kind of credibility.
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Um, someone who was pushing gender transition onto kids.
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Like, I don't care what else you've done in your life.
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I don't care if outside of that, you've been a war hero.
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I don't care if I, I don't care what else you've done.
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It's just, this is just one in a, in a parade of, uh, of leftist radicalism that we've seen
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While Kathy Barnett, even six, seven, eight years ago was speaking out to protect the unborn.
00:29:08.500
Six, seven, eight years ago, Dr. Oz was pro-abortion two years ago.
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You know, he was talking about, um, uh, you know, systemic racism.
00:29:19.640
And then only, this is less than two years ago, about a year and a half ago.
00:29:23.840
This was a segment on Dr. Oz's show about the Jacob Blake case.
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Then, behind the horrifying death of Daniel Prude.
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I called for help, and that was the help they gave him.
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And he was pushing the Jacob Blake false narrative.
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And I don't want to hear any excuses about, oh, we didn't know at the time.
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If you're an honest and rational person, you knew immediately that the narrative over Jacob Blake was false.
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I mean, I didn't know initially that Jacob Blake, for example, allegedly broke into this woman's house and raped her.
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And then stole her credit cards in her car and all that.
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And then he showed back up at her house and she called the cops, and that's what precipitated all this.
00:30:41.760
But just watching the video, it was clear enough that he was fighting with the cops.
00:30:52.500
And this is why the police officer in that case was not charged with any crime because he didn't do anything wrong.
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So this was Dr. Oz back in 2020, less than two years ago, pushing the radical BLM agenda and a false anti-police narrative coming to the defense of Jacob Blake,
00:31:16.460
who was an utter, total, woman-abusing, predator scumbag.
00:31:22.500
And now there are conservatives who want him to be in the Senate as a Republican?
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Like, this guy, he has zero record of anything remotely conservative.
00:31:39.020
His entire record, his entire public career has been spent pushing leftism in its most radical forms.
00:31:54.060
So a Turkish citizen and New Jersey resident leftist is running for the Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania.
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And he's being pushed and promoted by very prominent people on the right to include, you know, President Trump.
00:32:17.280
This is a Republican running for Senate who deserves some promotion.
00:32:19.580
Blake Masters is running for Senate in Arizona.
00:32:22.300
He's a Republican, which you already know that based on the fact that MSNBC is going after him.
00:32:26.120
And they, in fact, are trying to expose him now.
00:32:38.480
I don't know why it's secret video where he says this.
00:32:41.940
Listen, there's a new video that we just obtained, actually, out of Arizona.
00:32:47.180
Another Senate race that we are going to be looking at that is still crowded.
00:32:50.500
Trump has yet to endorse in this race, but one of the candidates who has already made a trip to Mar-a-Lago is Blake Masters, the other Peter Thiel candidate, along with J.D. Vance, who has been heavily financed by the billionaire.
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This was Blake Masters back in February when he was asked a question about the future of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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And it's a left-wing narrative, this gender pay gap.
00:33:22.100
When you control for the occupations, when you control for people taking time out to, you know, birth children, things are actually pretty equal.
00:33:35.120
Not all of it, but, you know, 80% of it in this country.
00:33:37.720
Men are the ones who are doing risky, you know, fishing, crab fishing in Alaska.
00:33:46.360
And so I think we've got to push back on the fake left-wing narrative that women don't have equal rights in this country.
00:33:51.380
I want women to have equal rights, but we don't need an equal rights amendment that would actually just be a Trojan horse to give the government more power to implement Kamala Harris' national gender strategy.
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This is what the left does, and we have to resist it.
00:34:04.900
Now, Chuck, in this video here, this is what we're talking about when we're talking about the new Republican Party of today.
00:34:14.080
And there's much we could tackle here around what you just heard from Blake Masters.
00:34:17.860
But one of them, I think it's important to pair, is to note there is a gender pay gap here in America.
00:34:22.540
That reporter's name is Vaughn Hilliard, which is just perfect somehow.
00:34:32.600
So Vaughn, he's very impressed with himself, too.
00:34:34.260
When you cut out of that clip, you get back to him, and he's just kind of standing there.
00:34:41.020
Meanwhile, it's at, again, a public campaign event.
00:34:47.200
Like, he's not embarrassed about this getting out there.
00:34:50.120
In fact, Blake Masters himself tweeted this video out because he's proud of it, and he should be.
00:34:55.980
And not only is it 100% correct, but it just shows you how in touch with things MSNBC is.
00:34:59.940
It's 100% correct, and it's something that conservatives have been arguing in the mainstream for years.
00:35:06.180
This is a totally normal thing that many of us have said many, many times.
00:35:13.020
And they hear it over at MSNBC, and they're shocked by it.
00:35:22.440
With the exception of maybe the establishment of the Republican Party?
00:35:27.660
Because they're a bunch of milquetoast cowards, but anybody outside of that will.
00:35:31.600
And it is, again, 1,000% true that gender pay gap is a myth.
00:35:34.760
Now, the way that they come up with the whatever it is, and it kind of changes, but now it's 75 cents on the dollar, 77 cents, whatever it is.
00:35:43.080
The way they come up with that is, number one, there's just an element of straight-up fabrication that goes into it.
00:35:49.340
And then for the rest of it, they do it by taking all of the women who are working, who are in the professional world, in the working world,
00:36:00.020
and taking all of the men, and just comparing them.
00:36:08.380
And this is how statistics, this is how you end up with damned lies and statistics.
00:36:22.800
Because when you do that, then you're taking, like, for example, an airline pilot, and most airline pilots are men.
00:36:29.580
So when you're just comparing all men to all women, that means that you are taking an airline pilot and comparing him against a hairdresser.
00:36:38.520
You're taking, you know, and comparing their salaries.
00:36:42.620
So what you have to do is take, first of all, take it profession by profession, and then find people of both sexes with similar levels of experience, similar levels of skill, seniority, putting in the same amount of hours, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, narrow it down, narrow it down, narrow it down, and so that you have a valid comparison and then compare them.
00:37:09.840
So you need to show me that a man and a woman in the same industry, doing the same job, with the same levels of seniority, same numbers of years of experience, same skill level, same responsibilities.
00:37:34.900
And when you narrow it down that way, the gender pay gap basically disappears.
00:37:38.140
And the thing is, even if you did find just a random anecdotal example of that, which I'm sure you could find, of course, I could also find anecdotal examples of that situation where the man is paid less.
00:37:51.040
But if you found me an anecdotal example of the reverse, that in and of itself still does not prove the theory that the woman is paid less because she's a woman.
00:38:01.880
The next thing I'm going to ask is, well, has the woman asked to be paid more?
00:38:09.800
You know, it could be, this is one of the secrets of, you know, working a job, if you didn't know this, is if you want to be paid more, if you think you deserve more,
00:38:17.740
the first thing you have to do, probably, is go to your boss and ask for more.
00:38:24.980
Doesn't mean you're going to get it, but you might.
00:38:27.900
See, a lot of times bosses, they're not going to pay you more if you don't even ask for it.
00:38:31.720
If you appear to be satisfied with your current level of pay and you're not scheduled for a raise or whatever,
00:38:37.820
they're not necessarily going to call you in and say, no, I'm going to give you some more money.
00:38:40.620
I mean, the good bosses will, but, you know, there are plenty of bosses who won't.
00:38:46.920
So that's why you got to go in and ask for more.
00:38:49.480
And not just for a raise, too, but during the salary negotiation process.
00:38:54.960
See, one thing that men are more likely to do is they're more likely to assert their own, you know, interests, ask for more money.
00:39:02.580
They're going to drive a harder bargain during the negotiation process.
00:39:05.520
Men are more likely to do that, and so they're going to get paid more.
00:39:07.340
But even with all that in mind, still, when you narrow it down and you come up with comparable, you know,
00:39:16.500
you have an actual comparable situation, the gender pay gap goes away.
00:39:22.060
Now, why is it that women often end up in industries that generally pay less?
00:39:33.300
Like, there are a lot more women who are hairdressers, a lot more men who are airline pilots.
00:39:37.340
It's just because women are more likely to want to do that kind of job.
00:39:43.480
And also, as Blake Masters points out, there's a matter of priorities.
00:39:49.500
A woman is more likely to prioritize her family life, home life, having more free time, which is also great.
00:40:00.420
You know, that's actually a good thing to prioritize.
00:40:02.940
Men are more likely to prioritize just going to work and working all the hours.
00:40:12.700
But that's why the great thing between men and women is that there's a little bit of a balance there.
00:40:20.140
Let's, I guess we've got to get now to the comment section.
00:40:36.120
Scott says, I guess this is our chance to ask, why doesn't Biden just solve world hunger instead of sending all that money to Ukraine?
00:40:46.420
And we just heard, because Elon Musk is paying $44 billion for Twitter.
00:40:51.980
And we were told that with that money, it could have solved world hunger.
00:40:59.740
If that amount of money could solve world hunger, then why haven't we done it?
00:41:03.920
We chose to give that money to the Ukrainian government.
00:41:07.480
We're going to line the pockets of Ukrainian bureaucrats and defense contractors rather than solve world hunger.
00:41:21.940
Melanie says, Matt has not researched the Britney Spears issue enough.
00:41:28.280
These are subjects that he needs to research more.
00:41:30.520
Well, I don't need to research it more because I have, of all the things going on in my life and issues that I care about,
00:41:36.640
I'm just not going to spend a lot of time researching Britney Spears.
00:41:49.380
I'm taking notes, researching the Britney Spears situation.
00:41:55.940
And so I also admit that my take on the issue is really kind of a gut level reaction.
00:42:04.100
My gut level reaction from the very beginning is that I don't know a lot about the situation, but I do know that she's under a conservatorship.
00:42:13.840
She lost custody of her kids as a woman, as a rich, famous woman in California.
00:42:20.040
And so it stands to reason, probably, if I'm a betting man, I'm going to bet that she's crazy and a danger to herself and others.
00:42:29.160
And that's why she's under the conservatorship and should probably still be under one.
00:42:31.580
And I think her behavior after being released and freed has only further proved that point.
00:42:40.200
And I also think, tragically, unfortunately, that the point is going to be proven finally, you know, five, ten years down the line because I just don't see her living that long on the path that she's on.
00:42:58.100
As someone with a history of being self-destructive, suddenly freed, you know, and sent out into the wild, open world because of a hashtag campaign, basically.
00:43:17.780
Matt, Jimmy says, Matt, did you see that Taylor Lorenz sets her apartment to 87 degrees?
00:43:26.020
Apparently, Taylor Lorenz, she's the Washington Post reporter who doxed the libs of TikTok, remember, while crying about being traumatized because people criticize her.
00:43:34.660
So on Twitter, apparently, and she has me blocked, but I saw the screenshots.
00:43:38.320
She said that she first said that she drinks three gallons of water a day, which just seems like way too much.
00:43:44.860
You're going to overwhelm your internal organs with that much water.
00:43:56.400
So she lives, I mean, it does explain a lot, I guess.
00:44:04.220
She just hangs out under a heat lamp on a rock.
00:44:07.520
She's either a lizard or maybe a different endangered species, like, for example, the ash-breasted tyrant.
00:44:16.240
Mike Devin says, Matt, men don't wear sandals with or without socks.
00:44:20.040
That's how the breakdown of our culture got started, normalizing men wearing sandals.
00:44:32.640
I mean, I would say, on the contrary, all of the greatest men in history have worn sandals.
00:44:37.980
Jessica says, we officially need to get Matt to 1 million subscribers.
00:44:43.960
Walsh interpretive dance motions, preferably through the aisles of a theater, maybe the only thing that sustains us until the November elections.
00:44:50.300
M says, the SBG needs to choreograph an interpretive dance for Matt when he gets to 1 million subs.
00:44:54.840
Justin says, I pay for the Daily Wire but jumped on YouTube to subscribe to help the cause and get a dance out of Walsh.
00:45:00.220
Joshua says, everyone hold Matt to the promise of an interpretive dance at 1 million subscribers.
00:45:04.380
Jonathan says, looking forward to your interpretive dance, Matt.
00:45:07.560
This should be reserved for those who subscribe to DW.
00:45:15.740
A lot of comments about me doing interpretive dance because I did technically promise that.
00:45:18.500
But let's just stop and think about this for a minute.
00:45:23.700
Not every promise that a person makes, like there are, things can happen.
00:45:48.760
And now people are messaging me and telling me that they're, that they're making YouTube accounts just so they can subscribe to see the interpretive dance.
00:45:55.140
You people are going to regret it, first of all.
00:46:00.820
Do you understand what me dancing would look like?
00:46:08.980
It's the kind of thing you will not be able to erase from your minds.
00:46:15.780
Well, it's the most infamous Supreme Court case in memory and the deadliest decision in history.
00:46:21.040
But even 50 years after Roe v. Wade, few know the full gruesome truth behind the landmark decision to decision that's enabled the destruction of over 64 million babies since 1971.
00:46:31.700
Well, tomorrow, May 13th, The Daily Wire will take a wrecking ball to the four big lies the abortion industry is built upon.
00:46:36.920
Tune in to the world premiere of our original documentary, Choosing Death, The Legacy of Roe, and uncover the inside story of how Roe v. Wade came to pass and why it needs to pass away.
00:46:47.520
You'll hear the facts and stories the abortion regime has suppressed for generations and get a clear-eyed view at the brutal reality they desperately don't want you to see.
00:46:55.080
Some of this content is hard to take in, but few subjects, if any, are more important than this.
00:47:06.920
Many times when we did this, as we started, patients would begin crying and protesting.
00:47:22.900
But once we had begun dilating the cervix and passing instruments into the uterus, it was too late to stop.
00:47:29.060
I was handing hush money to women who we had left pieces of their baby.
00:47:45.820
We had put their lives at risk, and we were literally giving them a check for $800.
00:47:54.940
I mean, there have been so many moments in the last decade plus of going undercover in abortion clinics myself and seeing just heartbreaking things.
00:48:08.300
Women vomiting in the hallway of an abortion clinic, crying out in pain.
00:48:12.520
The late-term abortionists talking casually about how they would literally leave a born-alive baby to die.
00:48:19.560
Or if you deliver the baby in the toilet, then you pick it up and stuff it in a plastic bag and bring it to us.
00:48:34.940
It's happening more often than people want to think about.
00:48:39.660
These abortion facilities, these abortion providers, these doctors, they don't care about these women.
00:48:47.360
And you're just realizing you're watching, in front of your own eyes, play out America's greatest horror story, which is how we butcher children, in the name of choice.
00:49:38.380
And if you're not already, become a Daily Wire member
00:49:40.040
and tune in Friday to our documentary on abortion,
00:49:55.500
we've encountered so many new fake made-up genders
00:49:58.060
that you may think you can no longer be surprised
00:50:00.100
by the latest innovations in the gender market.
00:50:11.560
fresh out of the oven, it's called cake gender.
00:50:21.480
with terms such as masculinity, femininity, neutrality,
00:50:43.060
It's typically described as them feeling light and fluffy
00:50:48.000
And it's not something that you could typically describe
00:50:51.080
with the terms masculine, feminine, androgynous, etc.
00:50:56.860
if someone feels like they have different layers
00:51:10.400
if you're going to choose a pastry-related gender,
00:51:15.820
and most frequently disappointing dessert item.
00:51:18.540
I could see maybe pie gender, cookie gender, brownie gender.
00:51:30.500
I mean, exist inside some troubled TikToker's head, at least.
00:51:33.640
These are, as she tells us, examples of xenogender.
00:51:42.500
that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender,
00:51:57.120
a term invented by somebody on Tumblr in 2014, by the way,
00:52:02.720
that they can't be contained by human understandings.
00:52:06.700
They transcend thought and reality and coherence.
00:52:40.140
Cake went by cake self to the bakery to get a cake
00:52:44.880
after the doctor replaced cake's genitals with cake
00:52:54.340
I mean, I'm making cake gender people seem very extremely insane
00:53:13.700
it's really someone who feels that they're light
00:53:22.080
like I did last night after eating too much Indian food,
00:53:30.720
this actually reveals something quite clarifying
00:53:32.580
and important about the pronoun phenomenon, I think.
00:53:35.440
What it shows is that when these people talk about
00:53:47.800
as a baked good could really be warm and inviting,
00:54:01.620
You don't need a pronoun to describe your personality.
00:54:05.760
You don't need a gender to describe your personality.
00:54:10.140
These are all three separate categories of things.
00:54:14.540
Now, if I were to identify myself with a food item
00:54:19.060
I suppose I'd have to identify as like the shoe leather
00:54:23.440
if you've been stranded at sea for seven months
00:54:27.300
But rather than claiming that I am shoe leather gender,
00:54:39.940
about the gender and pronoun mania gripping our culture,
00:54:44.700
Still not very much sense, but a little bit more.
00:55:23.460
they've essentially erased personality entirely.
00:55:32.480
you notice they never talk about their personalities.
00:56:04.300
They've not only categorized themselves to death,
00:56:21.660
We need people with that personality in the world.