Ep. 990 - Democrats Vote To Redefine Marriage, Republicans Obediently Agree
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Rachel Levine pushes castration and sterilization on kids, but instead of being a high-ranking federal official, she should be in prison. Also, 47 Republicans get on board with the federal government redefining marriage. Many on the right have changed their minds on the marriage issue in recent years, but why? What compelling argument convinced them? And the heroic squad led by AOC are arrested and frogmarched in front of cameras with invisible handcuffs, a harrowing scene indeed. Plus, CNN discovers something known as and blames it on climate change. All that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, top HHS official Rachel Levine appears on TV yet again this week
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to push castration and sterilization on kids. But instead of being a high-ranking federal official,
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Levine should be in prison. We'll talk about why. Also, 47 Republicans get on board with the federal
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government redefining marriage. Many people on the right have changed their minds on the marriage
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issue in recent years, but why? What compelling argument convinced them? We'll try to figure that
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out. And the heroic squad led by AOC are arrested and frog-marched in front of cameras with invisible
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handcuffs, a harrowing scene indeed. Plus, CNN discovers something known as summer and blames
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it on climate change. All of that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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The Biden regime is not competent in very many areas, except one. It is very good at embarrassing
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itself, and by extension, the rest of the country. This is its core competency, I would say. The Dementia
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administration constantly finds new and creative avenues of mortification. It is, historians agree,
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I think, the first White House in American history with an actual sexual fetish for humiliation.
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Actually, this White House has many fetishes, even more than it did when Clinton was in charge,
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and that was on full display and rather grotesque display, I would say, over the weekend when
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administration officials attended a party at the home of a French diplomat.
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Two of the most prominent and publicized officials of the Biden administration were there,
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and they took a photograph together, and that image has circulated rapidly online. In it, as you
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can see, Assistant Health Secretary, quote-unquote, Rachel Levine, and Department of Energy official
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Sam Britton, both males, both in women's clothes, are there together, smiling for the camera. Britton,
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who I've introduced you to in the past, is an LGBT activist who identifies as gender fluid,
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and also sometimes as trans, I guess, I think. He's also a drag queen who goes by the stage name
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Sister Radioactive and belongs to a drag group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
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where all of the drag queens dress like demonic, sexualized nuns. And Britton has been very public
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about his sexuality, of course, which is how he got the job in the Biden administration in the first
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place. And because of his thirst for public notice, we know, though we don't want to know,
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that along with being a gender fluid drag queen demon nun, he's also a dog fetishist who enjoys
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having sex with men dressed in leather dog outfits. He calls himself a pup handler and teaches classes
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on kink at universities. That is the career path that led directly to a position in a presidential
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administration. At one time, it would have led directly to an insane asylum. Today, it takes
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you straight to the White House, though the distinction between the White House and the
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insane asylum is, granted, increasingly hard to discern. But Sam Britton is merely a pervert
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and a weirdo. Levine is something even worse. At least Britton cannot use his position as deputy
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assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy for
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the Department of Energy. That's his whole title to advocate for and push dog fetishism. I mean,
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he may yet make me eat my words on that. I'm sure he's looking for a way. Perhaps he'll find it. I'm not
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sure what the intersection is between spent nuclear waste disposal and being a dog fetishist, but I'm
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sure there's something there and he'll find it. Levine, on the other hand, as one of the highest ranking
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officials and certainly the most visible at the HHS, can actually, in a much more direct way,
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use his position to impose his lifestyle on the public and especially on children.
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That indeed is what he's trying to do. Like so many of his ilk, his primary goal in life is to justify
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himself and rationalize his life choices by recruiting others to behave as he does.
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So he made headlines again this week while appearing on MSNBC with a message of empowerment,
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quote unquote, for children. Listen. I want to ask you also about transgender Americans because
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you're the first openly transgender official confirmed by the United States Senate. In a recent
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op-ed, you urge people to base medical decisions and public statements on real data and compassion
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rather than slander. And you spoke to trans youth in Florida recently. Tell us what you told them.
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Well, you know, trans youth are vulnerable and they suffer significant harassment and bullying
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sometimes in schools or in their community. They have more mental health issues, but there's nothing
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inherent with being transgender or gender diverse, which would predispose youth to depression or
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anxiety. It is that harassment and bullying. Now they're suffering politically motivated attacks
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through state actions against these vulnerable transgender youth. This is not based upon data.
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These actions are politically motivated. And so we really want to base our treatment and to affirm and
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to support and empower these youth, not to limit their participation in activities in sports and even
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limit their ability to get gender affirmation treatment in their state.
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Now, it really sounded like he said, we really want to debase our treatment, which is a Freudian slip,
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if I've ever heard one. And probably the first true thing he said in decades, if accidentally,
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of course. His claim that the suicide rate among, quote, gender diverse youth is, and he says that it's,
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you know, it's entirely due to bullying. There's nothing inherent in these identities that would cause
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suicidal thoughts. That claim is totally baseless, of course, and contradicts the data at every turn.
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The so-called gender diverse have sky high rates of suicidality, no matter how affirmed they are by
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society. That's what the data actually says and has said in study after study after study. But Levine
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simply lies with abandon, disseminating propaganda, making wild and dangerously false claims constantly,
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and doing so behind the magical force field of his transgender identity. It is a force field that
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served him well. After all, even his critics rarely mention that Levine earned his promotion into the
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federal government after a disastrous tenure as health secretary of Pennsylvania. Like so many other
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health officials in blue states, he responded to COVID by making the crisis significantly worse
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every chance that he could. Instituting the same policy in Pennsylvania that Cuomo put in place in New York,
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Levine sent COVID-infected people into nursing homes, which led directly to many deaths, countless deaths.
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We'll never know how many, because during his federal confirmation hearing, it was revealed that much of the
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information and data related to his nursing home policy had gone missing. Oops, it's all gone. Can't find it.
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In fact, at the time of the confirmation hearing, the death and case numbers for over 100 of Pennsylvania's
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nursing homes were missing from the record completely. But we do know at least one resident in an elder care
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facility in Pennsylvania who did not fall victim to Levine's murderous policy, and that would be his mother,
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because Levine moved his mother out of the system right as he was moving COVID patients into it.
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Par for the course in Pennsylvania, though. After all, the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolfe,
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shut down most businesses in the state in 2020 while allowing his own business that has his name on
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it, a cabinet supply company called Wolfe Home Product, to stay open. It was granted the status of a
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life-sustaining essential business, because, you know, everyone knows that our lives depend
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on high-quality cabinetry. Now, both Wolfe and Levine should be in prison on charges of corruption.
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As well as for the mass murder of their state's elderly population.
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Instead, Wolfe is still governor, and Levine is being rapidly promoted up the federal ranks.
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They both possess, obviously, the Democrat get-out-of-jail-free card. They have the letter
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D next to their names, which goes a long way. That's enough to shield Wolfe from any accountability
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for his policies. But Levine can add the ultimate resume enhancer. I mean, 10 years ago,
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he was a 54-year-old white dude named Richard. No victim points, no social credit, languishing all
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the way at the bottom of the victim hierarchy. But then he grew out his hair and took the name Rachel
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and everything changed. Four years later, he got his first job in government. Now he's in Washington,
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D.C., fighting to drug and castrate children. It's not exactly what we would call a classic
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success story, but it is a very modern one. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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You know, as a parent, I know that one of the most important and sacred responsibilities that I have
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is to instill values, the right values, in my children. And we certainly, as we talk about all
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the time on this show, you know, you can't rely on anyone else to do. You certainly can't rely on the
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state. But what if I or my wife were not around to raise my kids and instill those values? Well,
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I don't want the state deciding who that responsibility goes to. That's why having a will is so important.
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A will, it's not about you. It's about your loved ones. It's about the really hard decisions that need
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to be made if something were to happen to you. You need to lay out all the answers to questions like
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life support or pull the plug, buried or cremated. Do your parents get the kids, your in-laws, or maybe
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neither if they're all crazy. But here's the deal, that the judge doesn't, who's deciding these cases,
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he's not going to know who your best friend is or who you trust to raise your kids.
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today. All right. A few more days out here in our undisclosed log cabin in the woods. It's been
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good. It's been refreshing. It's been educational, you know, for everyone here, especially for my
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producer, Sean, who's sitting five feet away from me and can do nothing as I throw him under the bus
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here. You know, he's more of a, more of a city slicker type. So not as accustomed to the rustic
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life. So yesterday we had all the kids together and we were, you know, just hanging out and Sean
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tried to roast a marshmallow over a citronella candle. And of course we learned him, we warned
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him it would infuse citronella flavors into the marshmallow and it did, you know, so that's fine.
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It's a learning curve. Okay. We all have learning curves in life and there could be worse ones out
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here in the woods. I think we can, we can say. All right. We're all learning. We're all learning
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some, some difficult things, some difficult things about the Republican party. If you didn't already
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know this, the Daily Wire has the report, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to pass a
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bill that would codify same-sex marriage. Lawmakers passed the Respect for Marriage Act. That's the,
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that's what they're calling it. We're going to respect marriage by destroying it.
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And it was passed 267 to 157 with 47 Republicans joining Democrats, including GOP leader, Congresswoman
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Elise Stefanik and National Republican Congressional Committee chair, Tom Emmer. They were on board.
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CNN reports House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, quote, it is critical to ensure that federal law
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protects those whose constitutional rights might be threatened by Republican controlled state
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legislatures. LGBTQ Americans and those in interracial marriages deserve to have certainty
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that they will continue to have their right to equal marriage recognized no matter where they live.
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The bill now moves to the Senate where at least 10 Republicans would need to join Democrats before
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reaching President Joe Biden's desk. And I see no reason why they couldn't get 10 Republicans or more.
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It would also legalize interracial marriage, even though the Supreme Court protected interracial
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marriage in a ruling back in the 1960s. So legalize something that's already completely legal and
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which no one in the country is trying to make illegal. So that's very important as well.
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C-SPAN Capitol Hill producer Craig Kaplan reports the Biden administration's support for the bill.
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White House officials said no person should face discrimination because of who they are or whom
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they love. And every married couple in the U.S. deserves the security of knowing their marriage
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will be defended and respected. Now, on this interracial marriage bit, because, well,
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what does that have to do with so-called gay marriage? This is something that's a connection
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the Democrats have been trying hard to make. Representative Jerry Nadler did this when he
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was speaking on the floor of the House and he brought up interracial marriage as well. Let's listen to
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what he had to say. The substantive due process logic by which the court overthrew Roe v. Wade applies
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equally to Obergefell, to Loving, to Lawrence, in other words, to the right to contraception,
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to the right to gay marriage, to the right to interracial marriage for that matter. And Justice
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Thomas mentioned all that specifically. Yes, he said this case doesn't involve that. We're not deciding
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that yet, which is what the portion of his concurrence that Mr. Johnson read, but read the rest of his
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concurrence, where he said specifically that we should overrule or reconsider Obergefell and
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Lawrence, which is consensual, which is gay marriage, which is consensual sodomy. He didn't mention
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loving, though for some reason, which is interracial marriage, maybe the fact that he's intermarried and
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so Senator McConnell, maybe that had something to do with it, but the same logic applies there.
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Okay, so Nadler even says that Clarence Thomas, his statements are being used as the basis for
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this law that they're trying to pass, but he even says that Clarence Thomas never mentioned anything
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about interracial marriage. Of course he didn't. So no one is talking about interracial marriage.
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Interracial marriage has nothing to do with it because interracial marriage, and this is why there
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is, again, nobody in the country advocating for making interracial marriage illegal. And the reason
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is that interracial marriage does not create any problems for or pose any challenge to the definition
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of marriage. There's no definitional problem when it comes to interracial marriage, which is why
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nobody's talking about it. No one's making an issue out of it, except for the Democrats.
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Now they want to lump these things together because they are the ones who want to draw a correlation
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between interracial marriage and same-sex unions. They're the ones doing that. Nobody on the right is
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doing it. Of course, many people on the right, as we just discussed, have just thrown their hands up
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on the marriage thing altogether. That's why 47 Republicans are now on board. And what they're
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on board with, okay, let's be clear about what they're on board with here. They're not on board
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with giving the issue back to the states, quote unquote. That's not what we're talking about here.
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Or, you know, the common libertarian refrain of get the government out of marriage. That's not what
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they're doing. They want the federal governments to redefine marriage from Washington, D.C. and impose
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that definition on all of the states and all of the people against their will. That's what Republicans
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are now getting behind. This is a position that would have been too radically far left for Barack Obama
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when he ran for office the first time in 2008. And this now is what Republicans are saying.
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One of those Republicans is Representative Nancy Mace. She says, this is what passes for
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conservatism in 2022, okay? This was her tweet. If gay couples want to be as happily or miserably
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married as straight couples, more power to them. Trust me, I've tried it more than once.
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So I'm making a joke about her multiple divorces and then say, yeah, yeah.
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But let's get on board with this radical far left legislation that affects, you know, one
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of the fundamental building blocks of human civilization. By the way, Nancy Mace, I mean, it's
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kind of here, neither here nor there, but she's the politician who claimed a couple of years
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ago that she had been, her house had been targeted by Antifa and Antifa, there'd been all this graffiti
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and stuff at her house. And it was always kind of strange because you think like, why would Antifa
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worry about Nancy Mace? She's the most, if you're on the left, she's the most non-threatening, she's
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on your side. So why would you care about her? And it was just, it was strange. It seemed like a
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little bit of a potential Jussie Smollett thing that Republicans don't do very often. That's what it
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seemed like. And then she said that the police were looking into it and we never heard anything
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about it again. You know, these Antifa that showed up and they only vandalized her house,
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nobody else. Interesting. And now she's coming out in support of the federal government
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redefining marriage. Look, here's the problem with all this quote unquote marriage equality stuff.
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And this is, again, all something that conservatives understood, actually everyone understood,
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everyone in the world understood until Barack Obama and a bunch of other people suddenly
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discovered otherwise right around 2012 or so. And they never explained why. And all of these people
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on the right and left who have changed their mind about something as fundamental and basic as marriage
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never really explained why. What is it that convinced you otherwise? You thought that marriage was our
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particular thing, right? And then you decided that it's not. And so why? What changed your mind?
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What changed your mind? Just like all the people that decided that, oh, you know what? I think
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actually men can have babies. Why did you decide that? What happened that made you decide? What did
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you discover? What can you tell me about? I'm very interested when it comes to men having babies and
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marriage being redefined. I'm very interested in hearing about your road to Damascus moment when you
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saw the light. Can you tell me about it? No one ever does. Can Nancy Mays tell me about it? She can.
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Here's the problem, as I see. And this is how I've always seen it. And I haven't changed my mind
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because no one's convinced me to change my mind. I haven't heard any argument that I would find at
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all compelling. I've been shouted at a lot. I've been labeled names. I've been called a homophobe.
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Those aren't arguments, though. See, I don't find that persuasive. For a lot of people on the right,
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they do find that persuasive. All you have to do is shout at them, especially call them a homophobe.
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You know, there might be some labels that conservatives are comfortable ignoring,
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but many of them are not. You can get them with homophobe. You call them a homophobe,
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they go, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not that. I don't find that convincing. See,
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I don't care if you call me that or any other label. It doesn't matter to me.
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So, as it seems to me, if two things are equal, they are the same. We heard about the, you know,
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we just heard that marriage is equal, that marriage equality. Are same-sex unions the same as,
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equal to heterosexual unions? Is so-called gay marriage equal to what is now deemed traditional
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marriage or biblical marriage, which I just call marriage? But are these two, whatever labels you
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put on them, are these two categories the same? Clearly not. Why aren't they the same? Well,
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because the union of a man and a woman has, in principle, the potential to create of itself a
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whole new life. The union of two people of the same gender does not have that potential, period.
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Okay? So these are two, not just different things, radically, drastically, fundamentally,
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definitionally different things. The potential of the heterosexual union to create
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people is largely why marriage exists. It's why society has cherished and protected this institution
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because it has been understood that a union which might create a person has to be protected by
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society. It needs to be stable. It needs to be permanent. It needs to be protected. It needs to
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be a faithful relationship. It needs to be monogamous because marriage exists as the foundation of the
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family unit. And the family unit exists as the foundation of human society. And so that's why
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you take it, you give it a different name, and you give it a status that no other kind of coupling
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possesses because none of them have that inherent power. If marriages are strong, families are strong.
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And if families are strong, society is strong. You know, we know that from history. We know that from
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our own experience in this society, one of the most crucial functions of marriage is to create the
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basis upon which and the context within which children are created and born and raised. This is
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why society has a, or had a vested interest in marriage and why the state has a vested interest in
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it. Because bad marriages or non-married procreative unions hurt everyone. They create poverty,
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they feed the prison system, they create drug abuse and crime and suicide and everything else.
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The union between two men cannot of itself create anything. Therefore, the state has no real interest
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in it. Society has no real interest in it. And you'll notice that the people who tore down
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so-called traditional marriage, they never did offer a new definition of marriage. And they never
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explained what marriage's new purpose is. Like, we had the definition before, you might not have agreed
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with it. Right? You might not have agreed with what the definition of marriage was up until 15 seconds
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ago. But it had a definition. And we could speak coherently about the fundamental purpose of
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marriage. I just did. It's easy to understand what I'm saying. Again, even if you don't agree
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with it, you can still understand what I'm trying to say, because it's very clear. Union between a man
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and woman has, in principle, the potential to create human life. Serves as the foundation of the nuclear
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family. Therefore, serves as the foundation of society. Okay? That's it. And then the other
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side comes along, as they always do, and they say, well, no, no, no. Marriage isn't that. That's not
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what it is. It's something else. And then we say, well, okay, well, what is it then? What's the new
00:25:19.300
thing that it is? Uh, you know, it's just, it's whatever. They never had a new definition. And as I
00:25:27.060
said, not, they never had a new purpose either. I can tell you what the purpose of marriage was
00:25:31.300
before. Foundation of the family, foundation of human society, pretty big purpose, pretty
00:25:36.020
important purpose. What is it now? So the most we could ever, most we've ever been told is that,
00:25:42.860
well, um, uh, you know, it's when two people love each other. What does that mean? And why do you need
00:25:48.900
to be married to love each other? And if love is the one prerequisite here, then on what basis do
00:25:54.460
you limit this union to two people or, uh, or to adults or whatever? You know, what basis do you do?
00:26:02.600
Now you're, now you're drawing a bunch of other arbitrary lines. Whereas before you didn't need any
00:26:06.340
arbitrary lines. Anyway, there were lines, but they weren't arbitrary.
00:26:11.100
There was a sensible boundary before. Now there's none.
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What are the new boundaries and why are they there and not somewhere else?
00:26:20.880
Marriage went from a coherent thing with a certain purpose and function in society
00:26:25.060
to this vague and ambiguous thing defined only by love, which also they cannot define,
00:26:32.020
nor can they explain why love should necessitate marriage in the first place.
00:26:35.680
And in spite of all of these problems, so many people on the right, we're still convinced
00:26:45.340
they came along and said, we've got a, we don't want the old definition of marriage anymore.
00:26:50.400
We don't know what the new definition is. And many people on the right said, Oh, okay.
00:26:53.480
It sounds good to me. I'm convinced by no argument.
00:26:58.620
It's pathetic. All right. This is something let's move from, from that pathetic display to
00:27:09.200
something more inspiring. This is the, I think the most inspiring story of the week. Pro-abortion
00:27:13.120
protesters in DC out on the streets again. They promised a summer of rage, but that kind of
00:27:18.860
fizzled out. Instead, they have settled on more of a, a summer of mildly annoying people. And so that's
00:27:25.560
what they've been doing. And they were doing that in DC. They were out blocking traffic
00:27:28.760
and sit in the street blocking traffic. And, and, um, the protesters were given multiple warnings
00:27:33.840
by police say, you got to get out of the street or we're gonna have to arrest you. And they,
00:27:37.080
they stayed there because they wanted to get arrested because it's all publicity stunt.
00:27:40.780
And, um, and so the police ended up arresting a bunch of people, including 17 house Democrats who
00:27:46.980
were there for the pageant, um, and we're taking part in it. None of them were put in jail or anything
00:27:52.120
like that. Uh, none of them were charged with anything serious or anything at all,
00:27:56.360
but they were arrested technically because that's what they wanted. That's why they were there.
00:28:00.960
Um, that's why they came out to participate in the stunt. And that's why video went viral of
00:28:06.620
representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she of big booty fame being marched away in handcuffs.
00:28:15.120
Let's watch this. If you haven't seen this footage yet, you have to see it. Um, so let's play it now.
00:28:22.120
Okay. So you see her being marched away there by the cops and she's in, she's in handcuffs,
00:28:30.380
but actually the handcuffs are invisible because, okay. And then she raises her fist there.
00:28:34.460
So she forgot, she forgot that she was pretending to be in handcuffs and she raised her fist and said,
00:28:39.420
oops, sorry. Um, but you know, they, so they're invisible handcuffs and they also allow for full
00:28:45.820
range of motion. That's possible. Now, some are looking at this footage and they're saying the
00:28:51.620
empress has no handcuffs, but I look and say, wow, what an inspiration because listen, even if she
00:28:59.080
isn't technically handcuffed and we don't know that because can you prove that she didn't have
00:29:05.240
invisible handcuffs? Can you prove it? Do you have evidence that, that they have not invented
00:29:10.580
invisible handcuffs and put up, you don't have that evidence, but even if she wasn't, okay.
00:29:15.320
Even if she was, even if it is as it seems that she was pretending to be handcuffed,
00:29:21.140
she is still handcuffed by the invisible restraints of systemic racism and the patriarchy and toxic
00:29:28.760
masculinity. Okay. I think that's the message here. This was a, this was a symbolic gesture
00:29:36.420
meant to communicate all of the many ways that she is oppressed by our society.
00:29:43.920
And then you can, you can also see it. There's a different video with, uh, Ilhan Omar, where you see
00:29:47.840
her getting carted away as well. Uh, so you see, you see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and then you see
00:29:55.740
Ilhan Omar also with hands behind the back. Yep. There she is. She has not only invisible handcuffs,
00:30:04.500
but an invisible cop also that's an escort. An invisible cop is escorting her away in invisible
00:30:10.300
hand restraints. These people will stop at nothing to keep the squad down. They're pulling
00:30:15.300
out all the tricks, invisibility cloaks and everything. Now the jokes on you, if you, if you
00:30:20.520
do think this was, this is, this was all a stunt. Okay. If you're more of the cynical, pessimistic
00:30:24.580
type and you think this is all a stunt, um, if you think that this was, that it didn't work,
00:30:29.140
well, that's where the joke's on you because, um, they did this to get headlines exactly like
00:30:35.780
this from ABC says, Justin representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and other house Democrats
00:30:42.540
arrested in abortion rights protest at the Supreme court. And then we see the photo of them from the
00:30:48.040
front hands behind the back. No mention that they're choosing to stand like that, that they're
00:30:52.240
faking the handcuffs, uh, that no mention of that. So they got the photo op they wanted and that's all
00:30:58.300
that matters. Most people will, will never read far enough into it to find out that she faked it.
00:31:04.140
Most people aren't on Twitter. So they're not going to see that Twitter was making fun of it
00:31:07.500
for a day and having fun with it. Um, so most people are going to see that. This is what most
00:31:11.040
people will see. They'll see just that image representative Ocasio-Cortez arrested at abortion
00:31:15.600
and they see her just standing there with hands behind them behind the back. She got what she wanted
00:31:19.520
out of it. Just as most people probably still don't know, uh, that she was crying over an empty
00:31:25.820
parking lot down at the border at the very beginning of her public career.
00:31:31.440
It makes it easier to pull stunts like this when you have, you know, the media as your
00:31:37.320
propaganda arm. All right. This is from New York times. It says with few able and fewer willing
00:31:43.460
U S military can't find recruits. It says these are tough times for military recruiting almost across
00:31:49.080
the board. The armed forces are experiencing large shortfalls in enlistment this year, a deficit of
00:31:54.420
thousands of entry-level troops that is on pace to be worse than any since just after the Vietnam
00:31:58.780
war. It threatens to throw a wrench in the military's machinery, leaving critical jobs
00:32:02.700
unfulfilled in some platoons with too few, too few people to function. COVID-19 is part of the
00:32:07.800
problem. Lockdowns during the pandemic have limited recruiters ability to forge bonds face to face with
00:32:12.220
prospects and the military's vaccine mandate has kept some would be troops away. The current white hot
00:32:17.560
labor market with many more jobs available than people to fill them is also a factor, but longer term
00:32:22.520
demographic trends are also taking a toll. Less than one quarter of young American adults are physically
00:32:27.900
fit to enlist and have no disqualifying criminal record, a proportion that has shrunk steadily in
00:32:33.020
recent years. And shifting attitudes toward military service mean that now only about one in 10 young
00:32:38.760
people say they would even consider it. Now, this article starts with a very real problem, which is that
00:32:45.820
we can't find people to join the military. You can't recruit for your military, which is a problem
00:32:50.880
to say the least. Doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, though, of the root causes of the problem.
00:32:58.600
Military recruitment is falling dramatically. Why? Well, yeah, the fact that people are fat and slow and diseased
00:33:04.680
in this culture is certainly one aspect of this issue. But there are other aspects also.
00:33:11.000
Like, for example, patriotism is not being instilled in the younger generations or in anybody else at this
00:33:21.420
point. In fact, it's quite the opposite. People are being taught to hate the country. Kids are being
00:33:27.860
raised to believe that America is systemically racist, that it's the worst country in the world,
00:33:33.160
that it's oppressive, and all these things. Well, the kids that are raised to believe that they're not
00:33:38.720
going to sign up to defend a country like this. There's no sense of honor or sacrifice or selflessness
00:33:47.760
being instilled in kids. These are not virtues that anyone cares about anymore.
00:33:55.180
Certainly, the institutions that have been put in charge of raising and forming and shaping the next
00:34:01.000
generation of Americans, they don't care about these things. Honor, sacrifice, selflessness.
00:34:06.820
When's the last time you've even heard anyone talk about those virtues? Honor and sacrifice. Honor
00:34:14.620
especially. And what this all means is that the actual pool of applicants is extremely small. But
00:34:25.160
then the problem is even worse than that. Because what about those candidates? Okay, what about the
00:34:30.440
physically fit, tough, patriotic men who are willing to sacrifice? What about virtuous, physically fit,
00:34:37.300
patriotic men? Those are the sorts of people you need in the military. Despite anything we're told and all the
00:34:41.680
girl power stuff, the people that you need in the military absolutely are physically fit, tough, patriotic men.
00:34:48.980
That's who you need in your military. If you don't have those, then you don't have a military and you don't have a
00:34:55.200
country pretty soon. But what about them? Well, those are exactly the sorts of people that are being
00:35:02.560
alienated. These men, many of them don't want to join the military and be subjected to anti-white
00:35:10.420
indoctrination and discrimination, equity and diversity training, and all the rest of it.
00:35:16.280
They don't want to go to some foreign hellhole and serve and die alongside
00:35:22.640
a platoon of non-binary trans gender queers. That's not what they're signing up for.
00:35:30.380
It's just a fact. These men who we need in the military, that's not how you recruit them. That's
00:35:37.440
not how you entice them to serve. We are alienating those men. And it's being done on purpose.
00:35:46.280
By the way. Okay. What else do we have? We have CNN with this headline. More than 100 million in
00:35:53.980
the U.S. face excessive warning or heat advisories as a dangerous heat wave continues. More than 100
00:36:02.120
million. It says heat alerts cover more than 20 states today and Wednesday as well across the
00:36:07.760
southern plains and parts of the northeast. And temperatures will soar above the century mark
00:36:12.360
for 60 million people over the next week. All while similar heat wave is bringing all-time
00:36:17.420
record temperatures to Western Europe. The Weather Prediction Center said dangerous heat will
00:36:22.140
continue to impact a large portion of the U.S. this week with now more than 100 million people under
00:36:26.880
excessive heat warnings or heat advisory. Excessive heat. Yeah. So CNN has discovered the sinister
00:36:33.140
phenomenon known as summer. So it's July. Excessive heat. I'm not even sure what that means. Excessive? I
00:36:41.380
mean, first of all, isn't that sort of in the eye of the beholder here? Isn't that a kind of a
00:36:47.240
subjective? For me, excessive heat is over like 70. I consider that excessive. But it's just,
00:36:53.800
it's a strange way of phrasing it when you're talking about weather. Excessive. Like walking out of
00:36:59.980
your house. This, this is a K, come on, come on, weather. This is excessive. Take it easy a little
00:37:05.100
bit. And the way that they're framing this, talking about the number of people who are experiencing,
00:37:14.800
quote, excessive heat, you know, that's, that's clever. I mean, it's, if, you know, it's, it's,
00:37:21.080
it's a clever trick that will fool you if you're very stupid. So I guess it's not a very clever trick,
00:37:24.060
but it is a trick because, uh, of course, the more people you have in the world, then the more
00:37:30.440
people who are going to experience hot temperature. So you could say certainly that, um, billions more
00:37:36.900
people this year will experience hot temperatures than experienced hot temperatures a hundred years
00:37:43.760
ago or a thousand years ago. That's obviously correct because there are a lot more people around
00:37:50.040
to experience temperatures in the first place, but heat in the summer, all the same, whether there are
00:37:58.900
7 billion people on earth or one person on earth, heat in the summer is not shocking. And, uh, in fact,
00:38:04.320
it'd be much more alarming if the summer came and went and no one ever broke a sweat on the same topic
00:38:11.260
here. Thomas Massey, um, had a wake up call yesterday for the climate alarmist. I thought he raised a good
00:38:18.060
point here. We were talking yesterday about the, um, the give and take here is it's, it's the,
00:38:24.440
the climate alarmist, the environmentalists are always proposing this supposed green technology,
00:38:29.800
so-called green technologies. And then, and then they propose them as if they're utopian and there's
00:38:33.860
no downside, and this is going to save the planet and, um, and you know, all upside, no downside kind
00:38:41.360
of thing. But there are always, there's always a give and take. There's always a downside.
00:38:45.520
There are always side effects. And Thomas Massey talks about some of those. Let's listen to this.
00:38:51.580
The average household uses 17% of their electricity for air conditioning. And, um, that would mean the
00:39:00.200
average household uses 1,870 kilowatt hours per year for air conditioning. If that average household
00:39:09.720
plugged in electric cars, do you know how much more electricity they would use in comparison
00:39:16.420
to the air conditioning that air conditions their whole house? No, but again, I would emphasize it
00:39:21.600
will. Let me help you. Let me help you with that first before we go on, because the numbers are
00:39:25.320
important. It would take four times as much electricity to charge the average household's
00:39:30.860
cars as the average household uses on air conditioning. Do you think that could be? So if we reach the goal
00:39:37.680
by 2030 that Biden has of a 50% adoption instead of a hundred percent adoption, that means the average
00:39:44.460
household would use twice as much electricity charging one of their cars as they would use for
00:39:51.140
all of the air conditioning that they use for the entire year. Yeah. That's a pretty good point.
00:39:58.520
Actually. Yeah. You switch over to electric cars. And this, by the way, was in a conversation
00:40:03.460
with Pete Buttigieg, who has said many times, and he said during this hearing as well, that the high
00:40:10.240
gas price and everything is actually, it's great because it's an opportunity for everyone to switch
00:40:14.820
over to electric cars, because that's something that's within the realm of possibility for average
00:40:19.480
Americans, apparently. You know, the average working class American can just, because they're, they can't
00:40:24.780
pay for gas. And so a reasonable solution for them is to go out and buy very expensive, to go out and buy
00:40:32.240
a Tesla. That's, that's Pete Buttigieg to, you know, working class family, three kids making $55,000 a year
00:40:40.180
can't afford $5 a gallon for gasoline. Well, you know what you can do? Just go buy a Tesla. Yeah,
00:40:45.520
no problem. See, that's what I did. Why can't you do that? But even if that were feasible,
00:40:51.660
okay, even if it were possible, now you have the, a whole bunch of households, millions of households
00:41:02.540
using a lot more electricity than they were in the past, four times as much.
00:41:08.340
And where does the electricity come from? Electricity is not magical. It comes, most of it,
00:41:15.640
over 60% of the electricity in this country is generated by the dreaded fossil fuels, coal,
00:41:21.380
natural gas, petroleum, and so on. So by switching over, everyone over to electric,
00:41:29.180
to electric cars, you are still depending on fossil fuels. And if everyone is using electric
00:41:37.180
guitars, you need much more electricity, then your generating capacity for electricity needs to go up
00:41:42.800
also by like 400%, which means you need a lot more of the fossil fuels.
00:41:46.960
Or if you're going to increase your electricity needs by 400% or more and not increase your
00:41:57.840
generating capacity, that means that what do you have then? You have rationing. Then you say to each
00:42:02.940
household, this is how much electricity you get to use up. And once you're done for the month,
00:42:07.900
you're done. Now you have the basically rolling blackouts nationwide in perpetuity forever.
00:42:18.960
And of course, the Democrats, they would hear this, and although they're not going to say it out
00:42:23.960
loud, what they would say among themselves is, yeah, exactly. That's exactly what we're going for.
00:42:28.780
Energy rationing is the ultimate goal for them. You want to talk about being able to control and
00:42:37.680
manipulate people. I mean, you control their energy consumption, then you control them.
00:42:45.500
Because life, modern society is powered by energy. Control that, you control everything. That's the
00:42:52.180
ultimate goal. All right, let's get to the comment section.
00:43:09.720
First comment says, Matt, if you had a time machine, would you rather go back in time to
00:43:13.080
see how it used to be or forward to see how it will be? Love your work. You know, honestly,
00:43:17.760
if I had a time machine, I would go, I would just use it to drive to the supermarket. You know,
00:43:23.460
if it was like that kind of, if it was a back to the future type vehicle, I would just use, I would,
00:43:27.620
I would stay right here in, in modern times. I wouldn't go anywhere with it. And not because
00:43:34.580
everything is perfect in modern times. Not at all. We have a lot of problems, which I spend every
00:43:38.900
single show talking about. But I still don't have any great desire to live a hundred years ago.
00:43:47.760
Nor do I have any great desire to just like leapfrog all the way in to the abyss of our
00:43:54.680
dystopian future and live there. So I think I just, I'm just going to stay here and kind of
00:43:58.540
ride it out and go where it takes me, I think. CoolpapaJmagic says, I admit, I get pretty annoyed
00:44:04.220
when people say things like, man, look at how crazy everybody is on both sides. No, there's no
00:44:09.320
comparison between far left and far right. I'm so tired of this rational centrist act. This is not a
00:44:13.560
game of stay in the middle. This is a battle of good and evil. Be on the side of good,
00:44:17.120
because compromise with evil is evil in itself. Couldn't have said it better myself.
00:44:22.740
The problem on the right is not that people are too radical or too far right, you know,
00:44:28.700
have taken their, but have taken the conservative principles too far. Is that the issue that we have
00:44:35.460
on the right? No. I mean, what do we just, what do we just talk about a few minutes ago? 47 Republicans
00:44:41.360
getting on board with the federal government, wanting to give it the power, not just to the
00:44:47.460
federal government in general, which is bad enough. They want to give the power to Joe Biden
00:44:53.020
to come up with a definition of marriage and impose it on, they want to give the power to the federal
00:44:59.100
government, right? Run by Joe Biden to impose a definition, a redefinition of marriage on the entire
00:45:04.860
country. So that's what's happening on the right. That's what's happening among conservatives.
00:45:08.000
So I would certainly agree with you. The problem is not radicalism on the right, far from it.
00:45:16.420
The fish says, S is for shut the hell up, you damned crybabies. We need that in the merch shop
00:45:22.040
for sure. I can see that. We workshop that a little bit. You know, yeah. Can we take S is for shut the
00:45:28.540
hell up, you damned crybabies. If you could do it in like the Sesame Street style, I don't know if that
00:45:32.520
might be a copyright issue. We could talk about that. I always appreciate suggestions for
00:45:37.980
the merch store. And, uh, many times it's, this is like really a, this is an effort. This is kind
00:45:42.500
of a crowdsource effort with the merch store. Um, lying cat says, Oh, and does the definition for
00:45:50.080
male have the same nonsense definition as female now? Wouldn't that end up in a circular definition?
00:45:57.320
Yeah, it does. So we talked about yesterday, trans activist succeeded finally in pushing for a
00:46:02.980
redefinition of female in the dictionary. And so now it says the gender identity opposite of male.
00:46:09.000
What's the definition of male? Well, yeah, the definition of male now is the gender identity,
00:46:12.980
identity opposite of female. Now, the interesting thing is that actually opposite of male is an essential
00:46:22.500
part of the definition of female. It's, it's good to include that. If you want to have a more
00:46:29.540
complete definition of female, that should be in there because it denotes that there are only two
00:46:36.080
options, which is important. And, um, it also shows that in some ways each sex is defined by the fact
00:46:43.080
that it is not the other sex. So it shows kind of the complimentary nature of the sexes. And it also
00:46:48.960
shows that the sexes are in fact binary. So that's an important part of the definition. It can't be the
00:46:54.320
only part of the definition though. Obviously it can't be the only thing that defines it because
00:46:58.960
if it does, then we have no idea what this thing even is. And to see how that's the case, I mean,
00:47:07.480
just imagine if I said, um, if I, you know, was using the word, uh, hug a balloon and you said,
00:47:12.800
what's a hug a balloon? And I said, well, it's the opposite of a bug a balloon. And you said,
00:47:16.500
well, what's a bug a balloon? That's the opposite of a hug a balloon. I have no idea what these words
00:47:19.900
mean. It's just nonsense now, which is what they've done with male and female. Um, and Jordan
00:47:25.200
says, does art even exist on the right? Don't the constricting principles of conservatism preclude
00:47:30.640
any real artistic expression? Who are the biggest right-wing artists, physical, musical, theatrical,
00:47:35.500
et cetera, of the last decade or the last century? Well, your point is partially valid. Um, you know,
00:47:42.260
it's, it's hard to go back a century for this question as the delineation between right and left,
00:47:46.180
according to modern standards anyway, gets more complicated when you're applying, you know,
00:47:49.640
our modern ideas of right versus left, uh, a century ago becomes more difficult, but certainly
00:47:54.540
in current times, there's no doubt that all of the arts are dominated by the left and, and the artistic
00:48:03.280
output in our country has generally gotten weaker over time, partly for the reason I described yesterday.
00:48:11.400
Um, for whatever reason, great art often seems to be born partly from pain and frustration. People,
00:48:18.720
you know, figuring out how to work both within boundaries and then, and break them. But our
00:48:24.140
artists today are all fat and comfortable. They've achieved total cultural victory. They're now living
00:48:29.800
life as the victor and it doesn't make for interesting art, but your statement that, that, that being on the
00:48:35.600
right precludes artistic expression is obviously not true. Okay. Um, I mean, just think about the great,
00:48:43.200
how many examples from history do you really need? I mean, think about the great Renaissance artists,
00:48:48.620
right? Um, would, would they count by, by our definition today, would they be considered left-wing
00:48:56.140
liberals? You know, if you go back in time and talk to Michelangelo, would you think he'd qualify
00:49:02.100
as a leftist by our standards today? Now there may not be much artistic expression on the right today.
00:49:11.380
We're trying to change some of that here at Daily Wire, making films and so on, but there isn't much
00:49:16.580
of it. Like that's a problem that we've identified, which is why we're doing what we're doing, but it
00:49:20.680
doesn't necessarily have to be this way because what's really needed to create great art is beauty
00:49:26.600
and truth. Art is a reflection of an expression of, of beauty and truth, which isn't to say that
00:49:33.460
all art has to be happy. Uh, it doesn't mean that art can't be sad and difficult and painful and all
00:49:37.800
that, but, um, it, it must be beautiful to really count as art to be art. That's what art is.
00:49:45.480
And in fact, this makes conservatives the most naturally equipped to create great art.
00:49:51.540
Even if in this culture, they don't, the left is hamstrung by what we discussed by their, how fat
00:49:58.800
and comfortable they are, but also even more fundamentally by the fact that, that on the
00:50:04.560
left, they reject beauty. They hate it. They worship ugliness. And because of that, they can't create
00:50:11.980
great art. So the left can't create great art. The right right now is for the most part, not even
00:50:17.800
trying. And so what do you end up with? You just end up with no real art at all. You end up with
00:50:22.320
Marvel movies and, uh, ugly, you know, architecture and, and, um, people vomiting onto a canvas and
00:50:30.460
calling it a, you know, a painting like that. That's what you end up with. Well, a couple of
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and especially with, you know, we can't rely on Merriam-Webster anymore. We can't rely on the
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our daily cancellation. Although virtual reality has always been featured prominently in fictional
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versions of our dystopian future, for a while it seemed like it wasn't really going to catch on in
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the real world. Sort of like how all the sci-fi writers in the mid-20th century universally agreed
00:53:23.740
that we'd have flying cars by the early 21st century. And yet here we are in the actual 21st century,
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and the technology exists technically. And there are companies that are actually trying to build
00:53:34.220
these contraptions, flying cars. But most of us have come to realize that having everybody fly
00:53:39.620
around in their own personal aircraft would be a disaster. I mean, most drivers can barely manage
00:53:44.840
to pilot their vehicles on the ground. It's horrifying to think about what would happen if these drivers
00:53:49.800
had access to the sky. I guess those who made these predictions about the future also assumed
00:53:54.920
that the average driver would have mastered the fundamentals of using a steering wheel by now,
00:53:59.880
but that has not been the case. And so flying cars have not taken off figuratively or literally,
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and probably never will. And if they do take off, most of them will certainly crash and burn about 45
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seconds later. I had always hoped that virtual reality would suffer the same failure to launch.
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And I felt heartened in recent months as Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his metaverse,
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which is his virtual reality vision. And I was encouraged to see how boring and dull it is.
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As we talked about on the show, Zuckerberg's great vision is to create an immersive internet experience
00:54:33.200
where people can enter inside it, like the Matrix, crossing through a portal into a limitless
00:54:39.160
3D virtual reality world where they can have meetings and conference calls.
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Zuckerberg's cyber universe is considerably more boring than the regular universe. And this is
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what happens when you put like Spock in charge of designing our VR utopia. But I've probably taken
00:54:57.860
too much solace in this. The fact is that there are other VR platforms aside from the hellish corporate
00:55:04.240
seminar universe that Zuckerberg is creating. And VR is, like it or not, catching on. There are currently
00:55:10.540
about 50 million VR users in America today. The whole industry is worth about $8 billion, projected
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to be, to grow to nearly 30 billion in the next five years or so. More importantly, the most powerful
00:55:22.920
corporations in the world, companies that have literally made a science out of understanding and
00:55:28.460
predicting and manipulating our behavior, they are investing more and more into VR technologies.
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We already know about what Zuckerberg and Facebook are up to. Apple has its own design. So does
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Microsoft and Google. These companies want a future where we are all wearing their devices
00:55:45.360
on our heads, blocking out the entire physical world from our view, and living our lives entirely
00:55:51.100
within the alternate reality that they create for us. It's not hard to see why they find that so
00:55:56.520
appealing. The entertainment industry is buying in now too. HBO Max will soon release what is being
00:56:01.980
called a groundbreaking documentary. And it's groundbreaking because it is the first film
00:56:07.680
made entirely in virtual reality. The website VR Scout has more. It says,
00:56:13.100
shot during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we met in virtual reality as an upcoming documentary
00:56:17.440
from the director Hunting that follows the lives of five specific individuals using VR chat and modern
00:56:24.400
VR technology to connect with others in a variety of unique ways. The 90-minute film was shot entirely in
00:56:29.780
VR. At no point do we learn the real world identities of its subjects, says the director.
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The film presents an immersive journey through the world and different VR chat communities. Each
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individual that you meet shares really unique experiences on VR and each engages with their
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community in different ways for them. VR means very different things. Through their eyes, the film
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presents a very broad portrait on how social VR can affect our emotional and social relationships with
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each other, but also within ourselves. The trailer was released a few days ago. Here's a peek at that.
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Making friends here is sometimes what saves people's lives or what gets them up out of bed in the morning.
00:57:10.400
I am a teacher for Helping Hands, a sign language community here in VR chat. Hand rested under
00:57:17.180
our elbow and we're going to go like this. Christmas. Slow, quick, quick, slow. If I had confidence
00:57:23.980
that I could teach dance as a living in VR, I totally would do exactly that. With a long distance
00:57:29.720
relationship, having VR is a game changer. We are 5,000 miles apart, but we're going to try our best to
00:57:37.720
make it work. This year has been really hard. The thing that has kept me sane has been VR and the VR
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community. I would not have weathered this without you guys. 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!
00:57:57.900
You can be who you've always wanted to be, and you can, in a way, start over. We can come together
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and support each other. This community means a lot to me, and I really want them to know that they're loved.
00:58:10.120
It's true. It's been a year since I've seen Kevin's IRL body.
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Well, isn't that beautiful? People connecting, forming communities, falling in love.
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You can start over, says one of the VR fans. You can be reborn. You can be whoever you want to be,
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provided that you want to be a weird, creepy anime avatar. Like, if you want to be that, you can be that.
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This all sounds like a utopia with no downside at all, right? So what's the problem?
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Well, there are many problems, it turns out. We've talked about some of them before, but let's
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review. First of all, the documentary is filmed in the platform, on the platform, VRChat. But based
00:58:52.320
on the trailer, it seems to give a rather glossy and carefully curated view of this VRChat platform.
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An article on the site Engadget gives the other side of the VRChat story. Headline is,
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investigation of VRChat finds rampant child grooming and other safety issues. They report,
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one of the more popular VR apps you can download through Steam and Meta's Oculus Quest store has a
00:59:17.140
child safety problem. VRChat styles as the future of social virtual reality. Our vision for VRChat is
00:59:23.960
to enable everybody to create and share their own social virtual worlds, the game's developer says
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on its Steam store page. With some understanding of Unity, players can create their own social spaces
00:59:32.920
and avatars. That means you can see a lot of creativity on display in VRChat, but there's
00:59:36.140
also a dark side to it, as the BBC found out. Posing as a 13-year-old girl, BBC researcher Jess
00:59:41.940
Sherwood said she entered a virtual strip club where she saw adult men chase a child while telling
00:59:47.480
them to remove their clothes. In many of the rooms Sherwood visited, she frequently saw condoms and sex
00:59:53.100
toys on display, and on one occasion even saw a group of adult men and minors simulating group sex.
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She also saw instances of grooming. Well, it turns out that virtual reality is, even in its fetal stages,
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infested by perverts and pedophiles, of course. No surprise. Just look at what happened in our real
01:00:11.920
life cities when we told everyone to wear a mask. Anonymity removes accountability and removes shame,
01:00:18.600
which invites chaos. Now, put people in virtual world with full anonymity, an entirely new and fake
01:00:25.900
identity, and also empower them with the false notion that nothing is real in cyberspace,
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as if the human beings they're interacting with don't even count as human beings.
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Tell them that the normal rules of morality and decency no longer apply, and suddenly it becomes like
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the purge every day, all day, except more sexual and with a lot more child molesters.
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This is just one of the problems with virtual reality. The fact that the internet is a hellish place
01:00:53.140
where people act monstrous towards each other because they feel empowered to do so.
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But that's not the full indictment. I mean, in theory, putting all the sex predators aside for
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a moment, which is very hard to do when you're talking about anything related to the internet,
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but putting that aside, there's nothing wrong with VR in small doses as a fun, gimmicky little
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diversion. But we know that people in our culture don't engage in escapism entertainment in small
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doses. They turn it into a lifestyle. That's why even in the trailer for the documentary, we begin
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with some users discussing practical applications for the technology, teaching sign language, for
01:01:31.840
instance. Seems like a, okay, yeah, that's one area where it seems like that would make sense.
01:01:37.320
But very quickly, we start hearing how VR is really an opportunity to form loving bonds and find
01:01:42.700
community and reinvent yourself and restart your life and find meaning and everything else.
01:01:47.760
So the pipeline from escapism entertainment to lifestyle choice is short, and the transition
01:01:55.120
from one to the other happens at near lightning speed. We are a culture obsessed with escaping.
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VR offers the most complete form of escape, short of suicide. The user can block the entire physical
01:02:08.020
world from view, enter into the internet, recreate themselves according to their own vision, or rather
01:02:13.020
according to the vision of Apple or Microsoft or Facebook, which they will be tricked into thinking
01:02:17.600
is their own vision. This grants almost unlimited power to these tech giants, allowing them to control,
01:02:23.500
manipulate, track, and monetize your every movement, literally. I mean, think about for a second what they do
01:02:29.440
on the social media platforms, the way they're able to predict your behavior, just based on what you
01:02:36.240
search for and, you know, the kinds of posts you click on and everything. That's why people often
01:02:40.700
think when they see ads pop up and they think, oh, the phone's listening to me. No, it's not listening
01:02:46.280
to you. It's even worse than that. They've built technology that can just predict what you are going
01:02:51.820
to want. They can predict the kind of ad, like you were just talking about something you want to buy,
01:02:56.540
you've never searched for it before, and then the ad pops up. No, the phone didn't hear you say that.
01:03:01.440
It just predicted based on your behavior that you would want a product like that, and then you did,
01:03:06.000
which is a lot scarier. Now, give them that kind of predictive capability when they can also track
01:03:14.320
your movements, everything. What happens then? But worse, it further severs you from your physical
01:03:21.120
existence and your actual true physical self. Now, it sounds like new, like sort of new age claptrap to
01:03:26.780
say that people need to be reconnected with themselves, you know, find themselves, and it is
01:03:31.740
new age claptrap. But in this case, the new age claptrap is inadvertently true. As human beings in
01:03:36.700
modern culture, you know, we find various and ever more elaborate ways of hiding from ourselves,
01:03:42.260
shrinking away from our actual lives and bodies. And as that happens, the job of rescuing society from
01:03:48.240
collapse and despair revolves more and more around encouraging people to live authentically. Be
01:03:52.620
yourself. Not in the bumper sticker slogan kind of way, but in a deeper, more urgent sense.
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Inhabit your own life. Be yourself. Your self. Live in and interact with and see the world,
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the physical world. Accept it and understand it and appreciate it for what it is.
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These days, we're always out looking for any kind of reality, but our actual reality.
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And that's why our actual reality never improves.
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And that's why virtual reality is, once again today, canceled. And we'll leave it there for
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today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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