Ep. 997 - Public Health Experts Recommend Orgies During Monkeypox Outbreak
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Summary
Public health experts encourage gay men to continue having orgies and attending fetish festivals in spite of monkeypox. What exactly explains the incredible contrast between the monkeypox response and the COID response? Also, reptilian demon spawn George Soros pledges to continue funding and facilitating the violent chaos in our cities. Also, more victims of alleged Sesame Street racism step forward and demand cash. Gordon Ramsay faces backlash as TikTokites discover with horror where their food comes from. And our daily cancellation, even Beyonce is not safe from the woke mob now. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, public health experts encourage gay men to continue having
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orgies and attending fetish festivals in spite of monkeypox. What exactly explains the incredible
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contrast between the monkeypox response and the COVID response? I have a few theories that I'll
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share. Also, reptilian demon spawn George Soros pledges to continue funding and facilitating
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the violent chaos in our cities. Also, more victims of alleged Sesame Street racism step
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forward and demand cash, of course. Gordon Ramsay faces backlash as TikTokers discover
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with horror where their food comes from. And our daily cancellation, even Beyonce,
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is not safe from the woke mob now. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Walsh today. Following in the footsteps of New York and Illinois, California has officially declared
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a state of emergency because of the monkeypox outbreak. Governor Newsom announced the move on
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Monday, explaining that the state of emergency would help facilitate the state's vaccination drive.
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As of now, he says there is far more demand for the monkeypox vaccine than there is supply.
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Meanwhile, and this happened just this morning, President Biden is still, of course, battling
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through his 19th bout with COVID, but he still announced his newly assembled monkeypox response
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team. Think of them as sort of like the Avengers, except for blisters. Robert Fenton of FEMA is now the
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national monkeypox coordinator and Dr. Dimitri Daskalakis of the CDC will be his deputy, his Robin
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to his Batman, I suppose. I know I'm mixing DC and Marvel. Forget about it. It's a good thing,
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though, that we have both FEMA and the CDC on the case because both organizations are renowned for
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making every problem worse. And I think their vast experience with being totally incompetent and useless
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will be very important in this case, especially after all, making the problem worse, fanning the
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flames, dumping fuel on the fire would seem to be the overall sort of agreed upon strategy with respect
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to monkeypox. For example, in San Francisco, a day before the virus was declared a statewide emergency
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with, you know, the lines for the vaccine still stretching around the corner, an annual gay fetish
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festival was still held as scheduled. Your grandfather died alone in a nursing home because
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you weren't allowed to visit him due to COVID and your kids were locked out of school for a year. But
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gays in San Francisco were still having their sex festival even amid an outbreak that specifically
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spreads through those sorts of events in that community. A local news outlet reports, quote,
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the annual Door Alley Festival happened Sunday in San Francisco's Soma neighborhood despite growing
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concerns about the spread of monkeypox. The virus has been predominantly spreading among gay and
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bisexual men who make up the majority of the festival's attendees. The leather and fetish fair
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draws thousands of people to San Francisco. The event comes after the city just declared a public health
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emergency for monkeypox as the virus continues to spread. I think the risk is not zero, UCSF infectious
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disease specialist Dr. Peter Chin Hong said. I think if people are smart and know how monkeypox is spread,
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they can avoid it. Chin Hong says that the risk of contracting the virus at events like Door Alley is
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very low. However, that risk increases based on intimate interactions with others. Quote,
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prolonged skin-to-skin contact and possibly through sexual transmission, although skin-to-skin contact is
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the main thing, Chin Hong added. So that's large. In terms of medium, that will be prolonged kissing
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through saliva, but it requires hours. Hugging by itself, giving a high-five, shaking somebody's hand is
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not going to result in transmission, he says. Oh, well, that's a relief. You know, if you're attending the
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gay fetish carnival to give high-fives and shake people's hands, then you should be fine, he assures us.
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Anyway, the good news is that the event was also an educational opportunity. The report continues,
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quote, event organizers say they're working with the city's public health department to provide
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on-site outreach and education. Despite precautions, Chin Hong expects to see more cases after this
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weekend. Quote, I expect a lot of activity next week in terms of alerts, Chin Hong says. So to review,
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this public health expert and infectious disease specialist says that the risk of contracting
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monkeypox at a fetish festival in a city that's a monkeypox hotspot is very low. And yet he anticipates
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purely by coincidence, more virus activity directly after the event concludes. Now, the San Francisco
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AIDS Foundation, which is a non-profit which has worked closely with the city's public health
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department for decades, they issued their own sort of guide for this festival, which they are calling
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Douchey's Guide to Door with, quote, some ideas to reduce your risk and still enjoy your favorite
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kink and fetish festival in San Francisco. The guide begins, quote, we're gearing up for an exciting
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return of our favorite street festival in San Francisco, Up Your Alley, aka Door Alley, where
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you'll get your fill of hot hairy daddies, hungry pigs, BDSM babes, and kinks of all kinds. Douchey's got
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some hot tips for a fun and filthy weekend, free of anxiety. We are then given a variety of tips and some
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of them I can't even read out loud to you. And really, I shouldn't read any of them out loud. But
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here's one tip. It says, take a friend to the dungeon. Going to sex parties with people you know
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and planning on who you'll hook up with can be one way to reduce your risk if you're able to have
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open and honest conversations about monkeypox symptoms and possible exposures. So make sure to
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have open and honest conversations in the sex dungeon, they're saying. The guide also cautions that
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you should perhaps, you know, think about avoiding the piles of gay men having sex with each other in
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dark back rooms and instead stick to having orgies in well-lit areas. Also, if you appear to be breaking
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out in monkeypox rashes yourself, well then of course the guide says, stay home, don't go. Just kidding,
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the AIDS Foundation recommends that you just cover your bumps with a band-aid and head out onto the town
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anyway. That's really what it says. You could actively be breaking out in monkeypox. Ah, just,
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you know, wear long sleeves, put some band-aids on, go have fun in the orgy. This is a sort of health
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advice that's being dispensed for monkeypox. Any warnings or suggestions or policies more stringent
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than this would be shaming to the gay community. We can't have that. That's what California legislator
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Scott Wiener, whose name will never stop being funny, recently explained on Twitter, he tweeted,
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quote, lots of sex shaming of gay men around monkeypox. The same shaming we saw in the 1980s about HIV.
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Lecturing people not to have sex isn't a public health strategy. It didn't stop HIV, it made it
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worse and it won't stop monkeypox. What will work is vaccination, testing, and education. Well, what about
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educating people about the fact that fetish festivals and orgies are disgusting and barbaric
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and are guaranteed to be vectors of all kinds of diseases? Can we educate people about that? No,
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we can't impart that sort of education because it's simply not a good public health strategy to tell gay
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men to make good health decisions and to encourage them to please refrain from recklessly spreading their
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bodily fluids all over town. Yet it was a good public health strategy to shut down all of society for
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a year or more. That was perfectly reasonable, practical to tell people to stay in their homes
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and not go anywhere or do anything for months on end. That's reasonable, practical. But telling gay men
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just, hey, refrain from the orgies for a couple of weeks. In fact, I made this point in response to
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Wiener and some guy named Lane Wood, who has a blue check, so again, we know he's important,
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responded tagging Twitter and Twitter CEO. He said to me, hey, Twitter safety, I know these are not easy
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calls to make and technically Matt Walsh's tweets don't cross lines yet. I don't care that he has the
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views he does, he's allowed. However, we know this is paving the path to violence for his audience.
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So, I didn't say anything wrong or incorrect, whether factually or morally, and I didn't violate any
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Twitter policies, but Lane wants me banned anyway because somehow the simple truths I'm discussing might
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pave the path to violence. This is, of course, a common view on the gay left. On Friday, a gay news site
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LGBTQ Nation published an article with the headline, Monkeypox is not a gay disease, but it is being painted
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that way worldwide. Touting the monkeypox virus as a gay disease endangers both queer and non-queer
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people. Now, to be perfectly clear about this, I don't think that monkeypox is a gay virus. I doubt
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it has any particular sexual orientation at all, though I haven't asked. I also don't know its
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pronouns. I wouldn't presume to assume. What I do know is that it's a disease which infects gay men
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nearly exclusively, nearly, in part, helped by the fact that gay men are nearly exclusively, nearly,
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the ones attending fetish festivals and orgies. That's what I do know. Two other important points
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I think should be made here. First, you notice how often LGBT people are endangered by the truth,
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according to the left. They spread this ring of eggshells around LGBT people and demand that we
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walk gingerly on them all the time. There are a million fantasies, false impressions, delusions
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that we're supposed to keep intact. A million bubbles we must not burst. This is how the left
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wants us to see it anyway. But this approach not only places a ridiculous, unfair burden on all of us
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who are forbidden from speaking the basic truth, commanded constantly to lie, but it also harms the
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very people it's supposed to protect. The truth that we must shield LGBT people from are, these truths
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are always, and in every case, exactly the truths that they most need to hear. So who is the compassionate
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one, the loving one? Is it the guy who shouts to the person about to walk right off a cliff,
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attempting to warn him about the plunge ahead? Or is it the guy who tries to muffle the other guy,
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preventing him from issuing the warning? Which one is loving and compassionate?
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Second point, there are several reasons why gay people are allowed, rather encouraged, actually,
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to continue running around town having sex with strangers during monkeypox while the rest of us
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were made to put our entire lives on hold during COVID. The most obvious reason is that gays are a
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protected privileged class, and therefore they have different rules, and they just live by a different
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set of rules than the rest of us do. But there's something else too, and it's this. The left believes
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that no right is as sacred as the right to sexual gratification. Okay? In fact, by their doctrines,
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there really is no right other than the right to sexual gratification. That is, every right boils
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down to this one, the right to be sexually satisfied. Every liberty is grounded in this.
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According to them, we have no right to do anything except satisfy ourselves sexually.
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This is, by their view, in their dreary, miserable vision of the world, this is what it is. There is
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no meaning to life other than the pursuit of temporary carnal pleasure. This is why they can't
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bear to abstain or tell others to abstain, even amid a monkeypox outbreak. A life without immediate,
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constant sexual satisfaction is a life without meaning, a life without purpose. It is a kind of death.
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To tell people to control themselves sexually for even a day is to essentially kill them. That's the
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way the left looks at it. Because this right trumps everything. The right to be sexually satisfied
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certainly trumps any concern for safety or health, especially the safety and health of other people
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who themselves have no worth except so far as they can be used sexually and discarded.
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This is what lies at the heart of the public health approach to monkeypox and also, of course, at the
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All right, before we continue, I wanted to tell you about a little bit of personal news. Actually,
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not a little bit. It's a big personal news. So one night in early June, this past June,
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my wife walked into the living room and she was holding a little pink stick. And it was kind of
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the familiar setup to a scene that's played out a few times in our marriage. And, you know, she of
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course told me that she was pregnant. Now, it might seem strange when I tell you that her pregnancy came
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as a shock to both of us because we are a married couple with four kids already. You would think
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that by now we've kind of figured out how these things work. But in fact, 10 years ago, before our
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twins were born, we were told that it was unlikely we'd ever have children at all. That's what the
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doctors told us. And then we had the twins. And with each pregnancy, we were kind of told the same
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thing. Well, this is probably the last one. And then we had our youngest daughter almost three years
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ago. And we were told the same thing. We started to believe it, you know, almost three years go by.
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And we kind of settled into this idea that, okay, we're going to have four kids. And we just in fact
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bought a car that fits our family of six perfectly, like the day before this news came down. And,
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you know, God had other plans as is so often the case. So a couple of weeks later, my wife went for
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an ultrasound. And I stayed with the kids. And she came out of the appointment with a mysterious look
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on her face. And she handed me the ultrasound picture. And I looked at it. And sure enough,
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you know, as expected, there was the little circle, which is our baby. And right next to that one,
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another little circle, because there's another baby. And we're having twins. Again, we're having
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another set of twins, almost a decade, almost exactly a decade after the first set.
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Now we're going to give it another go. I'm going to be totally honest with you. There was a, you know,
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the reaction, it's, it's, there's a lot of, we've been, like I said, we've been through this before,
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but a lot of emotions come rushing it. A little bit of panic set in at first. I will admit that.
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I may have for a moment sort of doubled over and looked like someone catching his breath after a
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five-mile run. This was just not on my radar at all. To use an online cliche that I hate,
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this wasn't on my bingo card, let's just say. But you know, life would be very boring if you always
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got what you expected or what you planned for. The excitement in life and the joy of it, it comes
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from embracing the unexpected. Adjusting your swing for the, for the curve balls, I guess.
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This is also the hallmark of true adulthood. So my wife and I, I, you know, I'm not going to say
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we're ready because we learned from the first set of twins. You can never actually be ready to have
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twins, but we, we, we are ready to do what we aren't ready for, if that makes sense. And we're
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grateful and we're excited and frankly, a little bit terrified, but all of that is part of, part of
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life. That's all, that's all, that's all the joy of life. And the other good thing is that my wife and
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I are single-handedly staving off the population decline. We are, we, we've got this. We're taking
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control. We will get us all above replacement level. We'll do it. And I am also taking over the
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world with my progeny. So one step closer to my vision of a theocratic fascist dictatorship.
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If I can't, you know, if I can't get to that position through votes, then I'll just, I'll,
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I'll, I'll get there through sheer numbers. All right. There's no stopping us now, I guess.
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All right. So let me, uh, let me go here first. Here's something heartwarming. It's a news report
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out of Los Angeles about an attempted armed robbery of a convenience store. And, uh, we'll play this
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clip for you. This is the, the local news report. Let's go ahead and play this.
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Strategically tucked behind the counter, Cope whipped out his hidden shotgun and
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blasted the suspect in the arm. As the man took off, another camera captured this.
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The suspects, after nearly leaving one of their own behind, sped off in a black BMW X3.
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Now you notice how these people, they, uh, first of all, they almost always run when they
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encounter resistance. And I just love everything about that. Start shouting and screaming. It looks
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like there are three of them there and they're all armed and they get, they get resistance and
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they start running away. They try to ditch the one guy and he manages to, to jump in,
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but helpfully they've backed into the parking spot and they're showing their, uh, their license plate
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right to the security camera. So that was very helpful and nice of them. But this is what you,
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you know, when you see these great videos of the would be victims refusing to be victims,
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you, you, you almost always see this where the, the, uh, the predator, right, who has now become
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the prey just collapses and runs away immediately. And why does that happen? It's because they're,
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they're cowards. Um, it's also because they're not expecting resistance of any kind. They're not,
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they're not expecting any sort of accountability at all. And that's thanks in large part to
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what's happening in these cities, especially with the Marxist DAs who refuse to prosecute and punish
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criminals. Many of those DAs installed with the help of George Soros, who, uh, just this week wrote
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a defiant op-ed in the wall street journal doubling down and saying that he's not going to stop funding
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these DAs, no matter how much violence and chaos and death and destruction and misery and suffering is
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caused by all this. He's not going to stop. You know, he's going to keep doing it because
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those things are, those are not bugs. Those are features. I mean, that's the point anyway. So
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of course he's going to continue. I'm going to read a little bit from this op-ed from, um,
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George Soros. He says, Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to
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crime. People have had enough of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the
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debate and obscure the issues. Like most of us, I'm concerned about crime. One of government's
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most important roles is to ensure public safety. I've been involved in efforts to reform the criminal
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justice system for more than 30 years. And for the more than 30 years, I have been a philanthropist.
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That's one way of putting, putting it. Yet our system is rife with injustices that make us all
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less safe. The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false. They reinforce each
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other. If people trust the justice system, it will work. And if the justice system works,
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public safety will improve. We need to acknowledge that black people in the U S are five times as likely
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to be sent to jail as white people. That is an injustice that undermines our democracy.
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We spent $81 billion every year, keeping around 2 million people in prisons and jails.
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We need to invest more in preventing crime with strategies that work, deploying mental health
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professionals in crisis situations, investing in youth job programs, and creating opportunities for,
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uh, education behind bars. Yeah, that's what we really needed. And that scene there where the
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armed robbers come in, what, what we, what, what he should have done, what the guy should have done
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rather than shooting them. He should have, uh, got on the horn right away with some mental health
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professionals and maybe some, you know, uh, maybe some representatives of a job programs who can show
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up and say, well, the only reason you guys are doing this is because you don't have, you can't get
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a job, right? You're what was it that AOC said you're hungry for bread. Maybe have some baker show up
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with a loaf of bread. Here you go. Um, a couple of points about this. First of all, it's only an
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injustice that black people are more likely to be sent to jail if black people aren't more likely to
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commit crimes that would put them in jail. So we hear this all the time that black people are,
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whatever the number is, four or five times more likely to go to jail. And this is just presented
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without any other context as clear evidence of racial injustice. But don't we need a little bit
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more information? Now, if black people and white people statistically as a group were equally as
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likely to commit violent crimes and were responsible for an equal proportion of violent crimes, and yet
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you discovered that one group was incarcerated far more often than the other, then absolutely I would
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be the first to say this is evidence that there's something, uh, horribly wrong here. And it's
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probably evidence of racial injustice, but that's not what you find when you look at the numbers.
00:24:16.700
The crime rate between white and black people would have to be the same in order for the
00:24:22.360
incarceration rate to be unjust, but the crime rate is not the same. It's just simply not. And that's
00:24:30.480
all. And that, you know, we can take this logic and extend it to the 2 million people who are in jail
00:24:36.640
right now, white or black. Because that's the other thing we're always told, as George Soros does
00:24:43.240
here. So we got 2 million people in jail. Clearly that's, that's too many. We shouldn't have that
00:24:47.600
many people. Of course, you know, you notice they never tell us how many people they think should be
00:24:53.060
in jail. In a, in a country of 300 and whatever, 50 million, you're going on 350 million, uh, people,
00:24:59.740
how many should be in jail in your mind? Well, like a thousand, 10, what do you, what do you think is a
00:25:05.540
reasonable number? What, what number are you going to pull arbitrarily out of your hat?
00:25:10.800
But you've decided that 2 million is too many. Well, but that's only an, an example. That's only a
00:25:17.480
symptom of over-incarceration. If we are incarcerating people who are not dangerous criminals.
00:25:23.460
So if society is generally peaceful and safe, but there's a bunch of people in prison,
00:25:30.100
then maybe you might look at that and say, well, you know, what's going on? Do all these people
00:25:34.820
really need to be in prison? But given that our societies are descending, uh, our society and our
00:25:41.320
cities are descending ever further into violence and anarchy, the problem is clearly under-incarceration,
00:25:48.040
not over-incarceration. That is quite obviously the problem because all you have to do is walk
00:25:56.720
into any city and you're going to find that the streets are crawling with violent criminals who
00:26:02.100
should be in jail and are not. So that is an under-incarceration problem. We've got 2 million
00:26:07.020
people in jail. Um, that is a shocking number because it should be way higher than that. I don't
00:26:14.060
know what the number should be. Okay. I'm not going to come up with arbitrary numbers,
00:26:16.560
but certainly way higher. And my evidence is all the people in all these communities across America
00:26:25.920
that are committing violent crimes and are not in prison.
00:26:30.820
This is not what, what, you know, what you hear from the other side on this, the, uh, the side that
00:26:37.080
calls for criminal justice reform, which is another euphemism. I mean, I, I support criminal justice
00:26:42.480
reform too. I just think that it should be reformed the other way. You know, it should be reformed in
00:26:49.740
the direction of actually finding, detaining, punishing, and segregating from society, dangerous
00:26:58.780
criminals. That's what I, that's the kind of reform I would like to see. But the people who support so
00:27:05.040
called criminal justice reform and it's in, you know, uh, in its current state, this is not compassion.
00:27:12.200
Okay. This is not concern for their fellow man. This is nihilism. This is disregard for human life.
00:27:20.060
You know, George Soros is 6,000 years old, a billionaire living, you know, he's, I think he's
00:27:26.600
technically an American citizen. Um, I don't know how much time he actually spends in this country,
00:27:30.900
but he's not living in these, he's certainly not, he's certainly not spending any time in these
00:27:36.680
communities where these sorts of things are happening. He's not going anywhere near like a,
00:27:41.980
uh, a convenience store in, in, uh, the bad parts of Los Angeles, which, you know, the whole part is
00:27:48.160
all of Los Angeles is the bad part now, but he's not going anywhere near these, a convenience store
00:27:52.400
that might get robbed by three armed men. So it's really easy for him to sit back. The same for,
00:27:58.920
you know, all the elected Democrats and almost everyone on the left who calls for this. They're
00:28:04.220
not in these communities where these things are happening. And they're totally morally dead inside
00:28:11.000
because when you see all these crimes and, and so often now they're caught on video. In fact,
00:28:18.640
I just saw right before I went on the air, there's security camera footage of, uh, some,
00:28:23.640
some kids in what appears to be a suburban neighborhood at a lemonade stand were robbed
00:28:30.560
at gunpoint at a lemonade stand. Now, again, that's, that's a symptom of the under incarceration
00:28:37.860
problem. But when you see that you should be filled with rage, righteous rage and anger
00:28:47.460
at the predators who are victimizing these people, that's the feeling you should have.
00:28:56.500
If you immediately sympathize with the predator, then there's something wrong with you deeply.
00:29:03.700
And certainly with George Soros, who is, uh, just one of the worst human beings to have
00:29:07.560
been born in the past two centuries. It's, there are a few people who have done more damage
00:29:13.340
to human society than George Soros over the last 200 years, but it's, it's not a long list.
00:29:30.300
And he's, uh, and he lingers on. I think he's in his nineties now.
00:29:34.480
There's more evidence that the, uh, good die young as the saying goes.
00:29:39.280
All right, let's move to this. Some moments of cringe in the White House. Here's, uh,
00:29:42.980
we'll just play this for you. Karen Jean pair attempting to break the ice with a little bit
00:29:49.860
There was a video of him yesterday, FaceTiming with the folks, the veterans camping out on Capitol Hill.
00:29:55.200
We haven't seen anything from him today. Can you give us a sense of how he's doing,
00:29:59.980
um, with having to go back into isolation? I mean, is he frustrated, uh, and how is he dealing
00:30:08.220
with being away from the first lady for as long as he's been?
00:30:11.420
Well, the day's still young. You never know. Uh, um, but, um, look, the president,
00:30:17.300
I'm just making a joke. Clearly it was not funny.
00:30:22.380
Uh, I will try harder next time to be more funny. Um, but, um, uh, look, he is continuing
00:30:31.340
to work from the residents. Uh, and I just want to share, uh, as we all know, the president is
00:30:36.700
fully vaccinated. He's fully, uh, he's double boosted. He was on treatment for Paxlovid.
00:30:43.000
These people, they're, they're just, they're automatons. It was humor. I will attempt better
00:30:48.620
humor in the future. My humorous overtures seem to have not had the desired effect. I will
00:30:53.960
recalibrate. And then of course we're, we're assured that he's, well, he's been, he's been,
00:30:59.120
look, he gets vaccinated five times a day now and, uh, and continually gets COVID, but let's
00:31:05.180
not draw any conclusions about the vaccine. Obviously Kamala Harris is always ready with
00:31:09.220
the cringe herself. Here she is addressing the, uh, recent flooding in Kentucky. And, and she says
00:31:16.280
that, you know, there are, this could have been prevented flooding and rain could have been
00:31:22.700
prevented actually. Is it by building like a giant dome across the sky to stop the rain from falling
00:31:30.440
on, uh, on people? Well, let's find out. Go ahead. For years, our nation and many of us have
00:31:38.660
discussed, have lamented, have talked about the threat of climate change. For years, we debated the
00:31:47.040
potential impact that climate change could have on our communities, on our country and our world.
00:31:56.580
And today we know the impact. If folks weren't clear about it before, just watch the evening
00:32:02.840
news and see that the time for debate is long past.
00:32:15.180
Climate change has become a climate crisis. And a threat has now become a reality. In recent
00:32:26.180
days, deadly floods have swept through Missouri and Kentucky, washing away entire neighborhoods,
00:32:36.260
leaving at least 35 dead, including babies, children. As has been reported,
00:32:45.060
four children from one family. So the devastation is real. The harm is real. The impact is real.
00:33:02.060
Hmm. Uh, yeah, the, the harm and devastation is real. That's, but that's the only bit of reality
00:33:08.060
that we heard in those remarks. And I'm, I'm really concerned that on the right, when we hear
00:33:14.880
something like what we just heard there, we don't react to it with the level of scorn and mockery and
00:33:23.200
derision that it deserves. In fact, this is, this is a common problem on, on the right, I think.
00:33:31.760
And some of it's understandable because you're constantly hearing so much insane,
00:33:36.200
rambling nonsense that you get desensitized to it after a while. But, but, um, no, when, when something
00:33:42.560
is completely absurd and ridiculous, the first and most immediate response should be mockery. And that's
00:33:48.420
what we should do when we hear a politician claiming that legislation could have stopped
00:33:54.920
the rain from falling. Okay. That's not just her point of view. This is not a, this is not a
00:34:03.500
differing, differing perspectives on an issue or anything like that. This is insane, pagan nonsense.
00:34:11.880
It would be no different if she were to have broke out into a rain dance right there on stage,
00:34:20.040
begging the rain gods to stop, um, dumping water onto the land. It would be, it would be equally as
00:34:28.560
absurd. In fact, maybe a little bit less so. Just think about what she's saying. Again, I know people
00:34:38.120
are desensitized to it, but think about it, that we could pass a law that will stop it from raining.
00:34:45.320
What? And not only that, by the way, but, um, that the law will have this effect in her mind,
00:34:55.740
like pretty, pretty, pretty quickly. Cause what she's saying is, well, if only this law had been passed,
00:35:01.740
you know, a month ago, then maybe this wouldn't have happened. Of course, never asked to explain
00:35:10.440
that. So you've got step one, pass a law, step two, question mark, step three, it stops raining.
00:35:19.720
Or we don't want it to stop raining completely, but it rains only just the amount that we need it to,
00:35:23.820
and not any more than, than we need it to. And obviously they're never, uh, required or,
00:35:30.040
or put in a position where they have to grapple with the fact that all of these devastating weather
00:35:35.780
events have been happening on the planet for billions of years. And they happened before
00:35:41.880
man even walked the planets. And so that is reason enough why you can't just point to every devastating
00:35:50.140
weather event and say that it's the result of man caused climate change. Because that is to suggest
00:35:56.820
that without so-called man made climate change, none of this would be happening. But we know that's
00:36:03.420
not true because it all did happen before there even was a human civilization.
00:36:10.160
Which means at best, some of this wouldn't be happening if it wasn't for us driving our SUVs
00:36:17.000
around. Like that's, that's as far as you can take the claim.
00:36:23.920
But then how do you know which ones? Like which, which hurricanes, which tornadoes, which tsunamis,
00:36:31.440
which floods, which floods would have happened anyway, as opposed to the ones that would not have
00:36:39.100
happened if not for, you know, our SUVs. Of course that'd be, that's impossible to determine.
00:36:44.980
So instead they just take this giant blanket and cover it over everything.
00:36:53.100
All right. This is from NBC Philadelphia. It says, following a high profile case of alleged
00:36:58.840
racial discrimination against two black girls, SeaWorld is being sued for other alleged instances
00:37:04.540
of pervasive and appalling discrimination against children at Sesame Place, Philadelphia.
00:37:10.120
So what, does SeaWorld own Sesame Place? I guess that's, okay. Yeah, they do.
00:37:14.980
So it says the plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are Baltimore, Maryland residents, Quinton Burns
00:37:19.760
and his five-year-old daughter, who allege that former four performers refused to engage with the
00:37:26.400
girl and other black children during a meet and greet last month. The performers did readily engage
00:37:31.120
with numerous white kids, according to the suit. William Murphy, one of the lawyers of the Burns
00:37:35.740
family says racism is horrible when it's perpetrated against adults, but it's in a separate category
00:37:41.220
altogether of horror when it's perpetrated against kids who can't fight back and who have to struggle
00:37:46.520
to understand how ugly it is and how it must be eliminated from every aspect of American life.
00:37:52.160
The plaintiffs are seeking at least $25 million in damages from SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment,
00:37:56.560
which owns Sesame Place, on behalf of all the black people who visited Sesame Place since July 27th,
00:38:02.540
2018. Oh, you got to love this. Well, you don't have to. I mean, really, you should hate it. But
00:38:07.280
so, and this obviously harkens back to what we talked about last week or a couple of weeks ago,
00:38:16.360
the five-second video of two young black girls who were at a parade at Sesame Place,
00:38:22.140
and we saw one of the Sesame Street mascots for one of the characters walked by the girls.
00:38:29.880
You know, because of course, it's at a parade, mascots never did. The normal thing at a parade is
00:38:34.680
that the mascot greets personally every single person in line, right? That's what usually happens,
00:38:40.880
supposedly. And because the mascot didn't notice these two girls, then that's obviously racism.
00:38:48.520
And that means that there has to be sensitivity training and lawsuits and everything else.
00:38:53.560
And now we've got someone jumping onto that bandwagon and saying, oh, I was at Sesame Place
00:38:57.900
too, and my daughter was ignored by some of the mascots. And so now this guy, he wants $25 million
00:39:05.680
because his five-year-old daughter didn't get a high five from a few mascots. And he wants it on
00:39:12.900
behalf of all the other black people who he just assumes were racially discriminated against.
00:39:18.520
And so if you're a black family that went to Sesame Place at any point since 2018,
00:39:24.120
good news, you will get justice for the non-existent racial discrimination you suffered
00:39:29.080
in the form of this one guy being made a millionaire. I'm sure that will assuage your anguish.
00:39:36.620
It's just out in the open. This is an out-in-the-open scam, a con artist. And this is what you're
00:39:44.980
able to do if you have all the victim points lined up. And it's not even something that needs to be
00:39:52.620
explained. I mean, if you've ever been with little kids to any kind of event, theme park, parade,
00:39:59.420
where there are mascots, you know that it is so incredibly common for the mascot to just walk by
00:40:05.880
and not notice. And usually what happens, because the people in that mascot suit, their field of
00:40:14.300
vision is very, very small. That's why usually they're carted around by somebody else. Usually
00:40:18.540
there's a guide walking with them, pulling them by the hand. And they're getting swamped by all these
00:40:25.360
little kids. It's 6,000 degrees inside that mascot suit. They're dying of dehydration
00:40:32.840
and heat exhaustion. And so they miss some of the kids. And normally when that happens and your child
00:40:39.780
is like a little bit disappointed, oh, I wanted to say hi to whoever, Spider-Man. Oh, he didn't
00:40:44.600
notice. It's okay. And then they get over it. Not now though. No, now rather than telling your kid
00:40:52.920
to cope with this minor disappointment, rather than helping them to cope with this minor disappointment,
00:41:00.140
because that's a skill that kids need in life. That's one of the most important skills that human
00:41:05.800
beings need to have in life. And if you want to be a functioning adult in the world, one of the most
00:41:11.720
important skills is to cope with disappointment. And fortunately, as a parent, you are given many
00:41:20.180
opportunities, many sort of small scale, low stakes opportunities to teach your kids that skill.
00:41:28.340
Because kids, they're very excitable and they get very into everything that they're doing. And that's
00:41:33.120
what's so wonderful about childhood. And so if they don't get their way about something, they'll be
00:41:38.640
very dejected for about 30 seconds. It's the worst thing that's ever happened to them. And then they move
00:41:43.600
on. And in that 30 seconds, you have an opportunity as an adult to teach your kid, oh, okay, well,
00:41:48.640
it didn't go exactly as you wanted. You wanted to say hello to Big Bird, and he didn't notice you.
00:41:53.460
And that's okay. It's going to be fine. If you want your kid to be a functioning adult.
00:41:59.640
But if you want your kid to be a professional victim, then no, you use all of those momentary
00:42:06.240
disappointments as an opportunity to validate your young child's most unreasonable perceptions.
00:42:15.520
And then you say, oh, Big Bird didn't notice you. Well, you're right. This is devastating. This is
00:42:22.520
the worst thing that's ever happened. This is the worst thing that's ever happened to anybody.
00:42:25.820
And they did it because you're black. You know that? They did it because they hate you because
00:42:29.020
for your skin color. Big Bird hates you. He's racist. That's what gets me about this. It's not,
00:42:35.000
you know, trying to scam Sesame Place or SeaWorld at a $25 million. I don't care about that. Go ahead.
00:42:41.900
You know, whatever. But the child abuse, the way you're abusing your child
00:42:48.420
and trying to turn your child into exactly the kind of self-victimizing, self-obsessed
00:42:58.920
parasite that you are, you know, that's what really gets me. That's what upsets me.
00:43:05.140
All right. Let's move to this. One last thing. Story from NBC. It says, celebrity chef Gordon
00:43:12.460
Ramsey is facing backlash on TikTok from some users after posting a video in which he appeared
00:43:17.900
to select a lamb to slaughter for a meal. On Thursday, Ramsey posted a video of himself
00:43:22.880
climbing into a pen of roughly 10 pristine white lamb. In the video, Ramsey rubs his hands together
00:43:28.360
while repeatedly saying, yummy. And some people on TikTok were apparently very upset about this.
00:43:34.120
First of all, I think we have that video. Can we play that?
00:43:42.580
Mmm. Yummy, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Yummy, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Which one's going
00:43:59.660
All right. So you see that. And it's, I mean, it's, it's a little bit weird. I admit, I mean,
00:44:07.140
it's a little bit weird to baby talk your meal. Slightly strange, perhaps. I'm also not a chef.
00:44:14.160
I mean, he's a chef. So this is just, he gets really into his meals. And so that's what he does.
00:44:19.140
But aside from the commentary that he offers, I think people should realize that this is where
00:44:25.980
your food comes from. So the people on TikTok who are upset apparently are just learning where the
00:44:31.880
meat that they eat comes from. I guess they thought that it just materializes at the supermarket.
00:44:38.760
Just, there's a fairy who comes by with a magic wand and just a little bit of fairy pixie dust. And
00:44:45.360
oh, there it is. There's your lamb chop. No animals were hurt in the making of that lamb chop.
00:44:54.000
No, the food that you eat comes from animals who are killed. And that is, in fact, what sustains
00:45:02.440
probably your life. And it certainly sustains the lives of billions of people on earth. But here's the
00:45:09.260
good news. You know, because the argument against eating meat generally is that, at least the so-called
00:45:15.540
sort of ethical argument against it, is that we're no better than animals. Like, we're equal to them,
00:45:23.220
so we have no right to consume them. But that argument cuts us against itself, so to speak,
00:45:30.080
because, well, if we're no better than animals, this is exactly what animals do. They also eat each
00:45:35.520
other. So that's just more justification for continuing to do what we're doing. I mean, either
00:45:40.320
way, either we're equal to animals and no better than them, in which case, why should we hold ourselves
00:45:44.000
to a higher standard? Animals eat each other, feed off of each other than we can too. Or we're superior
00:45:48.860
to animals. We are a superior species on a hierarchy, and so therefore we have every moral right to use
00:45:56.580
them in this way. Either way, it comes back to enjoy your hamburger or your lamb chop, as the case may be.
00:46:16.540
Lady S says, remember that story Matt told of how he ate the chicken nuggets his wife wanted to save
00:46:21.480
for their kids' lunch the next day? He ate it cold. Yep, he's president of the Husbands Eating the Food
00:46:26.780
the Wife Wanted to Save for the Kids Club. Oh, absolutely, I'm president of that club. I am a
00:46:31.360
I am a longtime member. I am a ranking member of that club, to the point now where my wife doesn't
00:46:39.080
even bother telling me, oh no, we're saving that food for whatever. Look, I think it's fair. If the
00:46:44.880
food's in the kitchen, if it's in the refrigerator, then it's fair game for me. Well, it's fair game for
00:46:50.540
me anyway, to eat. Jesse says, on an episode where you mentioned both gambling and the wildly
00:46:58.140
disparate punishments issued by the NFL for different offenses, I'd like to point out that
00:47:03.980
Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Calvin Ridley was suspended for the entire 2022 season for betting
00:47:10.160
fifteen hundred dollars on a game that didn't involve his team. That's a very good aspect of
00:47:16.980
the story to bring up. So Deshaun Watson is accused by 26 women of sexual assault, 26 massage therapists
00:47:27.100
of sexual assault, all telling strikingly similar stories. And he's going to get six games. And meanwhile,
00:47:35.480
there was a wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons who bet on some games. His team wasn't involved in
00:47:40.300
the games. And he's suspended for the entire season. Yeah, I can't exactly make sense of that.
00:47:46.880
And I did get a little bit of pushback from some people talking about this yesterday.
00:47:50.920
I guess thinking that I was, you know, becoming a propagator of the Me Too movement because I was
00:48:00.300
suggesting that 26 accusations against Deshaun Watson does count as some kind of evidence because
00:48:07.860
it does. So when you say, well, there's no evidence against him. I mean, no, there is. I mean,
00:48:12.140
26 people accusing you of something is evidence. I'm not saying that it's decisive. I'm not saying
00:48:20.140
that it's 100 percent bulletproof, but it is evidence. And when it comes to the kind of accusation
00:48:26.840
being made, it's the only sort of evidence that could possibly exist. As I said yesterday,
00:48:31.460
if he did sexually assault any of the 26 women who accuse him, there couldn't be any physical
00:48:37.520
evidence of it based on what they're accusing him of doing, unless they got, you know, security
00:48:42.680
camera footage of it. But I don't think they have security cameras inside the room where they're
00:48:46.420
doing the massages. So if it happened, there's not going to be any physical evidence of it. The only
00:48:52.820
evidence that could exist is accusations. And this is often the case, by the way, for these sorts of
00:49:01.120
crimes when they're alleged. This is what makes them so hard to adjudicate. And this is one of the
00:49:06.140
reasons why false accusations are so damaging. But you get to a certain point. You know, I think of it
00:49:13.540
very similar to, you know, it's like Michael Jackson. People still, there are still people to defend
00:49:18.220
Michael Jackson. Even, even long since in the grave, they still feel the need to defend his good
00:49:24.340
name and say, oh no, he, he never molested any children. Yeah. But like through years of his life
00:49:30.840
for decades, this guy is accused by different children of, of, of child molestation. At a certain
00:49:38.460
point, you have to think like, are they all making it up? And if this is the kind of thing that can
00:49:44.640
happen to, like, why doesn't this happen to anybody else? Most of us can live our lives and
00:49:49.200
we're not going to have 26 women come out all at once and accuses of sexual assault. And we're not
00:49:54.960
going to have for decades at a time, different children coming out and making these kinds of
00:49:59.560
horrible accusations. So, you know, either it's that there's this conspiracy among dozens of people
00:50:07.180
or this one individual is in fact a scumbag, right? So with Deshaun Watson, somebody is lying.
00:50:16.560
It's either him or 26 women. It just kind of, you got to play the numbers game after a while in my
00:50:23.420
mind. All right. Um, AMV Life says, when you take the emotional aspect away from listening to what Matt
00:50:30.700
is saying in his discussion of the history of white slavery and the importance of integrating this
00:50:34.500
understanding with the current curriculum, you can't help but agree with his reasoning.
00:50:37.740
I learned something new today that shifted my understanding of the world I live in for the
00:50:40.560
better. And that alone is exactly why the topic of history of white slavery should receive equal
00:50:43.920
attention in regard to the moral blind spot of all of our ancestors' belief systems, as well as the
00:50:48.840
aspects of those belief systems that we all agree should not be repeated. Um, yeah. And, and,
00:50:55.540
you know, the discussion about slavery, it, it began as we talked yesterday about the existence of
00:51:02.060
white slaves because in fact, white people were enslaved also. Um, but this expands beyond that
00:51:09.640
also. You know, what we really need to talk about is the entire institution of slavery that,
00:51:18.260
that persisted for thousands of years. And that is actually, it's a very, um,
00:51:25.700
interesting conversation and an important one. Like it's actually, it's a fascinating question,
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isn't it? How could it be? I mean, this, this thing that to all of us today is self seems so
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self evidently wrong. Nobody needs to explain to us why slavery is wrong. We don't need that
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explanation. We get it to us. It's self evident. It's intuitive. And yet for thousands of years,
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almost no one saw that there was anything wrong with it. And not only that, but, um, you know,
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it wasn't like slavery started as a germ of an idea and then spread to different civilizations from
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that one starting point. It is civilizations that had never come in contact with each other that
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were separated by oceans that were different in so many ways still had at least this one similarity
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of slavery. You know, when Europeans went to, um, uh, went across the ocean to the, to the new world
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and they encountered these Indian civilizations, there had been no contact between the two at all.
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Um, a total, you know, it's, it's in many ways, it's like two aliens from different planets
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meeting each other, except that they, they both knew what slavery was.
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I mean, how is that? How could that have happened?
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Well, we can't talk about that because we're supposed to own, there's this one sliver of
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the conversation when it comes to slavery that we're supposed to be focused on. And that's the
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problem. You know, recently we celebrated the one year anniversary of our podcast Morning Wire.
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In this short period of time, it's become one of the top news podcasts. I suspect it's, uh,
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because Morning Wire gives you all the news you need to know in 15 minutes or less without the
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manufactured outrage. New episodes are available every morning, seven days a week, and they cover
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the most important stories of the day. So check out Morning Wire on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Daily Wire
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Plus, or wherever you listen to podcasts now. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Last week, the most overrated musical artist in history released a new album. Uh, no,
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John Lennon did not rise from the grave. He is after all, only the second most overrated artist
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in history. The crown belongs to the Queen Bee, Beyonce, whose mediocre talents cannot on their
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own even begin to explain the worshipful praise her every breath receives. Now she's not a bad singer
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exactly, and she is a relatively talented dancer, but there's nothing about her music, sound, or output
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that significantly differentiates her from any other pop star. Yet music critics bow before her and recite
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Psalms of Thanksgiving. Sometimes they have to contort themselves into even more tortured shapes,
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however, as has been the case with her new album, Renaissance, which just came out last week.
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She released the first single, Break My Soul, a few weeks ago, and it sounds, well, like this.
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Now on the one hand, it's inspiring that she could compose a hit single on an old Casio keyboard that
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she bought at a yard sale. But on the other hand, the song is just not very good. I mean,
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it sounds both retro and perfunctory, like a filler song you might have heard dropped into
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the middle of an Ace of Base album in 1995. Now it might make for some decent upbeat hold music,
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the kind of a thing that keeps your spirits up while waiting for the Comcast customer service
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agent to come back on the line and tell you that he can't fix whatever problem you're having with
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your service. But it's certainly not the sort of music any normal person would want to sit and
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listen to on purpose. And the whole album is apparently filled with stuff just like that,
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which you can tell based on the hideous pretzel-like shapes critics are assuming in order to
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give the record a positive review. I mean, they are desperate to find a way to positively review
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this thing. The Atlantic, for example, calls the song, or rather the whole album, a mess,
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says that the songs on the album clatter, wobble, and lurch, and derides the whole effort as indulgent,
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childish, exhausting, and ridiculous, and yet uses these adjectives in an overall positive review.
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The critic concludes, quote, but committing oneself to pleasure as fully as Beyonce has here
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takes defiance and guts, and more deeply, faith in the preciousness of one's own experience.
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Somehow, she has found a way to make messages of individual empowerment, which can be so trite in
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pop, jolt, again. Plus, he notes the album is very gay, and so that earns it a five-star rating
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all on its own. But even a big gay album, even one produced by Beyonce, the queen of all creation,
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is not exempt from the woke mob. Beyonce's team this week had to release a statement
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and retroactively change one of the songs on the album after receiving intense backlash
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for the use of an ableist slur. As many outlets, including Yahoo, have reported,
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the song Heated, off of the Renaissance album, contains the slur spaz, which Yahoo notes, quote,
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is a derogatory term for spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy, which makes it difficult
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for people to control some muscles. Because obviously, you know, when someone uses the word spaz,
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they're intending to refer to spastic diplegia. Indeed, they're intending to insult and demean
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everybody with a spastic diplegia. This is obviously the meaning behind the word and
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why it must be denounced and renounced and erased from any book, film, or song where it occurs.
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Now, if this all sounds like deja vu to you, that's not because you're going insane. It's because
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the world is going insane. Because yes, if you recall, Lizzo, another once immaculate and sinless
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musical genius and poet, had to change one of her songs a couple of months ago because it also
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contained the word that we've just decided now is a slur. Now, what this shows us is that wokeness
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itself is now the god. Beyonce and her ilk have been basically demoted. They are now merely priests
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and priestesses of the religion. They're not the gods themselves. All must bow before the woke altar
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and make their offerings. Virtue signaling is a requirement from which none are exempt.
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Now, this may seem like a positive development of sorts as it ensures that the people who promote
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this ideology will be forced to take their own medicine, but it's less positive when you realize
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that wokeness is mass hysteria now. It is just an avalanche of stupidity and insanity that nobody controls.
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That, to me, was the most salient and important point in the latest controversy where people are once
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again spazzing out over the stupidest imaginable thing. But then, I went and listened to the
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portion of the song that contains this allegedly offensive lyric. My eardrums have yet to recover
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from the experience, and now yours will suffer the same fate. I'm afraid. Here it is. Listen.
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Now, when I hear lyrics like mmm yummy yummy yum, make that bummy heated, make a pretty
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girl talk that whiskey till I'm tipsy, glitter on my kitty, cool it down down down my pretty
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bad, bad, make the bad, bad glitchy, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, liberated living like
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we ain't got time, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, bomb, bomb, ca, ca,
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spazzing on that ass, spaz on that ass, fan me quick girl, I need my glass.
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When I hear those lyrics, I am not especially offended by the word spaz.
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I can barely hear the word by the time we've made it to that part because I've been reduced
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The idiocy in the song is so potent, so pure, so uncut that I have overdosed on it.
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You can actually feel your head start to throb and burn as your brain cells self-immolate
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Listen to this on repeat for 30 minutes would have the same neurological effect as a lobotomy.
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But even on just one brief listen, the song is dumb enough to provoke a full-fledged existential
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crisis, causing the listener to question the very purpose and meaning of human existence.
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It's the worst thing I've ever heard, and yet it's also indistinguishable from 95% of pop
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It all bleeds together into one putrid, toxic, malignant, cancerous lump.
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Now, it seems trite, I understand, to complain about dumb pop music, but that's only because
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we take for granted that most popular music will be aggressively, ear-bleedingly bad.
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It's a very modern predicament that most of our artists produce vulgar, inane, disgusting
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rubbish that is essentially the auditory equivalent of drinking stagnant water out of a trash can
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Artists through history have had varying degrees of talent and genius, of course, but they've
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They have strived historically to produce things that are beautiful and true and important.
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Artists have not historically been a class of wealthy, semi-literate, self-aggrandizing
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This is a situation peculiar to the modern age.
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And like most things that are peculiar to our age, we assume that it's always been this
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Well, probably the most reasonable response to a song like that is to vomit all over yourself.
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But a slightly cleaner and more subtle reaction would be to recoil in disgust and to be offended,
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not in a petty, oversensitive kind of way, but in the deeper and more righteous sense of
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Offended by the vulgar stupidity and shamelessness of these pop industry parasites who wish to
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make our children dumber while feeding on their souls and their minds like some kind of
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Most of all, we should dispense with the notion that art and beauty are entirely subjective.
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As if the Sistine Chapel and a smiley face smeared in feces on the wall of a padded cell
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have equal artistic legitimacy, as if a sane person could be justified in preferring either
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No, far from subjective, beauty and art are transcendent.
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To understand this fact is to take one of the most important red pills you can take.
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But you can't do that until you ditch all of this pop music garbage, starting with Beyonce,
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who is awful and stupid and talentless and terrible.
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