Ep. 988 - We Are All ＂Libs Of Tiktok＂
Summary
Libs of TikTok is one of the most influential accounts on the internet. They don t offer commentary, they just present the left in their own words and actions. And the liberal press can t stand it. So the Washington Post is trying to intimidate the account into silence by doxing this private citizen who runs the anonymous account.
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You've heard me mention Libs of TikTok many times on this show.
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It is one of the greatest accounts on the internet, in large part because it's so simple.
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Libs of TikTok just reposts public videos from Libs on TikTok.
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They just repost it to the other social networks, notably Twitter.
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They expose radical sexual and racial lessons in classrooms.
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They expose the realities of those lessons in the lives of confused young people.
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They don't constitute investigative journalism.
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They just present the Libs in their own words and actions.
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So the Washington Post is trying to intimidate Libs of TikTok into silence by doxing this
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private citizen who runs the anonymous account.
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The Washington Post sent an operative, Taylor Lorenz, to harass the anonymous woman's friends
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and family to literally knock on doors and then to reveal personally identifying information about her.
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The Washington Post initially tried to deny the doxing.
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Once this all came to light, they got a lot of backlash and the Post said,
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The Post defended this operative, Taylor Lorenz.
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And the Post insisted, quote, we did not publish or link to any details about the woman behind
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Like so much that is printed in the Washington Post, it was just a total dishonest fabrication.
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The paper did reveal the woman's name, occupation, religion for some reason,
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and even linked, hyperlinked, to her personal physical address, a link that the paper later
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And then they denied that they did it in the first place.
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The doxing looks bad enough for the Washington Post and for Taylor Lorenz, but it looks even worse.
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It looks perfectly worse because just a couple weeks ago, Lorenz was crying crocodile tears on camera
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about the horrors of being doxed as a journalist.
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You feel like any little piece of information that gets out on you will be used by the worst
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I think she needs to work on the performance a little bit.
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She's just doing a kind of caricature, a clown show of what it would look like if she were crying.
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She's not really upset because she's the perpetrator of these kinds of things.
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Lorenz and the Washington Post are a laughingstock.
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Hypocrisy, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time, and really all you can do is laugh.
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But the libs still want to shut down libs of TikTok.
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So now, some of the largest blue check accounts on the internet are posting a fake tweet that
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supposedly shows libs of TikTok endorsing pedophilia.
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Anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see right through it, which unfortunately
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leaves a lot of people who get their news from the liberal accounts liable to believe the hoax.
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Why would this account, libs of TikTok, endorse the very thing that they spend so much time
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What the whole affair does reveal is everything you need to know about the difference between
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When the left attacks the right, they censor us, threaten us, and make up things that we never said.
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When the right attacks the left, we play their own words back to them verbatim.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Ranger Smith, who says, great news.
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The CDC never had this authority to start with as a non-compliant, non-mask wearer from day one.
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I celebrate this, but I agree we never should have allowed it to start in the first place.
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But the one place you're wrong is you say that the CDC never had this authority in the
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The people in elected government and all the other authorities acknowledged that authority,
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We can bury our heads in the sand and pretend that our government is run just like we were
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told it's run in Schoolhouse Rock with a bill up on Capitol Hill.
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But that's not the way that our Constitution, with a lowercase c, actually works.
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In practice, the way that our rules are made, our laws are made, the way our government is run
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is by all these alphabet agencies that are largely unaccountable to us, the people.
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And if we want to stop it, if we want to restore some semblance of the traditional American
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The libs are furious that we're hearing what they have to say.
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And so they're acting in this vindictive, horrible, hypocritical way.
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Now, some people are saying two wrongs don't make a right.
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Michael, we shouldn't be investigating Taylor Lorenz now.
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Taylor Lorenz is a public figure, first of all.
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She writes her articles and her hit pieces with her name right out there.
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So at least when we're talking about the distinction between public and private,
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Totally unlike the woman who's behind libs of TikTok.
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The other distinction, of course, is that the woman behind libs of TikTok
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is actually doing a journalistic service by exposing the reality of what's going on in America's classrooms.
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Taylor Lorenz is nothing but a Democrat operative
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who's working for a liberal billionaire named Jeff Bezos who runs the Washington Post.
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The Washington Post, which simply is the propaganda mouthpiece for the liberal establishment.
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and we've got to stop treating them as though they're this wonderful, sacred check on power,
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No, they're nothing other than a bullhorn for the most powerful interests in the world.
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They deserve nothing but our scorn and derision.
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An article in the Washington Post should carry absolutely no weight whatsoever.
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We used to play nice, and we used to try not to rock the boat too much.
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I think it's becoming very clear where the political battle lines are.
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You see this nowhere clearer than you do in Florida.
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Ron DeSantis in Florida passes a parental rights and education bill.
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Our friend Vivek Ramaswamy calls it, wait till eight.
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So you can't trans the kids until they enter fourth grade.
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Before that, you're not allowed to talk to them about weird, creepy sex stuff in the classroom.
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And Disney, which is a big corporation in Florida, operates Disney World and is a kids company.
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They're furious, and they want to have a bunch of weird, gay, transgender, whatever stuff in all of their movies now.
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And they want to fight the will of the people of Florida and the ability of the people of Florida to have some say in their kids' education.
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So Ron DeSantis could try to make nice and be conciliatory and say, hey, listen, guys, let's all come together.
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Disney, I understand you're a powerful interest here, so we're going to try to placate you.
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You can't trans the kids in first grade, but second grade, maybe.
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DeSantis is actually going on the offense, and he came out just yesterday, and he said that not only are they going to stand up to Disney,
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not only are they going to stand up for parental rights, but actually, maybe Disney's special tax protections that they've had for 60 years,
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maybe those are going to have to go away if Disney keeps trying to undermine the ability of Florida parents to govern the way that their kids are educated.
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What they've been called upon to do, but I am announcing today that we are expanding the call of what they are going to be considering this week.
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And so, yes, they will be considering the congressional map, but they also will be considering termination of all special districts
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that were enacted in Florida prior to 1968, and that includes the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
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So, this sounds sort of like normal, bureaucratic, political talk.
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Well, we're redistricting, and maybe we're going to change the protections of certain districts.
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The Reedy Creek District that Ron DeSantis is talking about is Disney World.
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Not just Disney World, the park, but that is within the purview of the Disney Corporation.
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They get all sorts of special treatment there, and DeSantis says, okay, look, guys, we didn't want this fight.
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We just wanted to protect six-year-olds from being exposed to transgender weirdness in the classroom.
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Disney said we're going to throw around our gazillion-dollar corporation and all of our might
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to undermine the rights of parents to educate their kids.
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Well, since you brought the fight to us, we're going to fight back,
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To quote Blake Masters, who's a Republican running for Senate in Arizona,
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I'm not saying we got to be mean to people or stick our nose in all of their private business,
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Hollywood is announcing that there are going to be remakes of movies,
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remakes of Fight Club and My Best Friend's Wedding.
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The Hollywood executive says, all right, we've only been churning out terrible movies
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What if we do those other movies that were already done, but we make them super gay?
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So there are going to be these remakes that are right now in the works.
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It's nothing other than culture vultures coming in, taking products that did work from the past,
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and instead of coming up with new original ideas, just trying to give a kind of woke,
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Reboots of the superhero movies to make them more woke.
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Hey, what if we take Ghostbusters, but make it all chicks?
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So we'll just, we'll do a worse version of the movie,
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So if you're going to remake it, it's not going to be as good.
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And then we're just going to make it all women.
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Hey, hey, let's do Ocean's 11, but it's all women.
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How, isn't that a great, no, there's nothing interesting about that at all.
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That's the solution to a problem that no one had.
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And it's not because it's going to be particularly entertaining.
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It's not because we even need a remake of Fight Club or My Best Friend's Wedding.
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You will sometimes hear conservatives, when they're talking about the bill in Florida,
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though now it's a law, the parental rights and education law, they'll say, look, this
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I don't, I don't think kindergartners should say gay in the classroom, but I don't think
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they should say straight in the classroom either.
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And I, I understand conservatives are using it because they're trying to make clear that
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this is a bill about education and parents' rights.
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But at a deeper level, this actually is about LGBT.
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When we, when we talk about what can be said and not said in the classroom, probably the
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strongest argument that the libs have against the Florida law is that if you're in a math
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class and you're doing word problems, you could have scenarios where you say, all right,
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Johnny's parents, Johnny's parents, Tommy and Sally go to the store.
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Or the word problem could be Tommy and his Johnny and his, I forget what the kid's name
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Johnny and his parents go to the store, Johnny, Tommy and Steve.
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Wait, those are, his parents are two guys or his parents are a guy and a girl.
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And, and let's say you're, you're reading a storybook.
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And you read a storybook and you say, all right, uh, little baby bear is sitting by the
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fire with his family, mama bear and papa bear and his sibling bears.
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I, I, is it teaching some aspect of sexual morality?
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If you mentioned the family, you're teaching some aspect of sexual morality.
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I don't think anyone would have a problem with that law, with reading that book in Florida.
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But if the book said, Johnny is sitting with his gay bear daddies, Johnny daddy bear and
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Billy daddy bear and his transgender bear sister, Skylar.
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And then I think we probably would have a problem with that because it is advancing a more radical,
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And I think we need to be honest about that, that they are, they are different.
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And Drew made this point on backstage just the other day, and I thought it was a really
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It is, when you talk about mommy and daddy having kids, that is different than talking
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And one is normative and one is out of the ordinary and eccentric and more novel.
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Those, they're actually different and they must be treated differently in culture because
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cultures always have standards and norms and taboos and all sorts of things.
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There's not, it's not to say that we need to be mean to people and exclusionary and bigoted
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or whatever, but it's okay to say that in the normal operation of things, boys like girls
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and girls like boys and men and women are different and complimentary.
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That's just acknowledging facts of nature and standards and reality.
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The other day, this is on a completely different aspect of this topic.
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When the court came in and struck down the mask mandate on a lot of flights, mid-flight,
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the captain will come over to the speaker and say, hey, we're getting, there's no more
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mask mandate, so you can take your masks off if you want.
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There was one airline steward who was walking down the aisle with a trash bag saying, throw
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We've been talking a lot about singing on airplanes over the past few days because there was this
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kind of eccentric evangelical band that at 30,000 feet started playing extremely modern
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Well, I don't think anyone has a problem with that steward singing, throw away your masks.
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And everyone's happy and everyone's throwing them away.
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Because it's weird for everyone to be walking around with masks, even beyond the public health
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questions and the medical advantages of the masks, which were obviously so overstated from
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At the very beginning, Fauci admitted that the masks don't do very much.
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But then later on, he changed his tune and we all had to pretend.
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But that, I don't even think that's what the mask issue is about.
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I think it's that we don't want to walk around like banditos.
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We don't want to walk around like we're wearing these scientific secular burqas all the time.
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And normal involves expectations that we have of society.
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In society, we have a right to see each other's faces.
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You don't have a right in society to walk around with a mask on all the time like you're a burglar
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We have the right to the expectation that when you come into a public place, we're going to see your face.
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There was, basically, there were three views of the masks for almost all of the lockdowns.
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The first one was the lib view, which is that you always need to wear a mask all the time with seven masks on when you're alone in the car.
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Then there was the centrist view, the individualist view.
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You can wear a mask if you want to or don't wear a mask if you want to.
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It's your right to completely decide whenever you want to wear a mask.
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I have always been of the conservative view, which is that, generally speaking, with few exceptions,
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The White House was asked, Jen Psaki, spokesman for the White House,
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What do we make of the changing science and now the changing guidelines on the masks?
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But Jen Psaki's simple answer was, I'm not a doctor.
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You said about this mask ruling out of a federal court in Florida that it's a disappointing decision.
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And you say you continue to recommend that people wear masks.
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Why is it that we can sit here in the White House briefing room with no masks,
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but people can't sit in an airplane cabin with no masks?
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If you're a doctor, I wasn't aware of that today until today.
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But these determinations, remember the masking guidance is green, yellow, and red.
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We are currently in a green zone in Washington, D.C., so they're not recommending it.
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Some people can still wear a mask if they want to.
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Or wear them at certain times where you're going to be around or sitting close to people.
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Or maybe you have an immunocompromised parent or friend.
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And this is based on health considerations and data that the CDC looks at about transmissibility
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as we've seen an increase in cases on airplanes.
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I'm not a weatherman, but I know which way the wind is blowing.
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You don't need to be a genius to know that it is disordered to muzzle yourself in perpetuity
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And now it's over because, thankfully, one judge on a federal court said enough is enough.
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especially because this guy wants to come back.
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The Biden administration is fighting tooth and nail to keep this mask mandate,
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He's the highest paid employee in our federal government.
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that affected the way that 330 million Americans lived their lives.
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For goodness sakes, I'm telling you, wear a mask, keep social distancing.
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Paul Krugman, who is the radical left-wing economist, writes for The New York Times.
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Krugman insists that the masks are not about freedom.
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He says, a prediction about masking soon will be seeing many incidents in which those who choose
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to protect themselves with KN95s, etc., face harassment, even violence, because this was
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I don't think that people who wear the dumb masks are going to face harassment or violence,
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I do think that they will probably be looked on as neurotic and kind of weird, because with
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few exceptions, unless you have very, very specific medical conditions, you really shouldn't
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Because he makes one good point here, which is this is not about freedom exactly.
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It's about how we're all going to live together.
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If I lived in Saudi Arabia right now, it would be totally normal for women to cover their
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But unfortunately, it has become normal for all of us to cover our faces all of the time.
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That's not just a question of freedom or tyranny or slavery or any of these big abstractions.
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People in certain cultures wear a certain kind of hat.
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And so the battle about the masks and about actually about whether we're allowed to shake
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hands or not or about how we learn or about how we live or how we shop, that battle is a
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lot more complicated than just my freedom or my tyranny.
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And what COVID did so effectively is upend, totally blew up all of our customs because
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the people who run the show, the people who run our government and our corporations and
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the powerful institutions in our country don't like a lot of our customs and they want to
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With this ruling that people are thrilled about, you're hearing the cheers on airplanes
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and offices and everywhere, people are so happy about it.
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It's about going back to our regular way of life.
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And all the angry, neurotic people like Paul Krugman and all of the libs who just wanted
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to sanitize the entire culture and keep the filthy, dirty hoi polloi away from them, they're
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They are worthy of derision when they push things like this.
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This guy is going to face far lower charges than he otherwise would have because there is
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And he was just recorded on a phone call with his attorneys, this, this, not the DA, but
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And he says, I'm going to have to clean up some of this language because I'm going to
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He says, I'm going to get that N-words name on my face.
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F-ing Gascon, that's gang member Luis Angel Hernandez, talking about the DA, George Gascon.
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This SHIT looking real good, he says in a phone call.
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Now we got a new DA in LA, so they're going to drop a gang of, like, my gun enhancement,
00:31:22.040
My gang enhancement is 10 years, fool, for being a gang member.
00:31:27.780
I don't know, I've got to, I'll have to work on my performance.
00:31:30.160
Just like Taylor Lorenz at WAPO needs to work on her performance, whining about doxing, I'll
00:31:45.080
He's making historic changes for all of us, fool.
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I have, I actually have trouble believing that this guy is saying it, except that the
00:32:09.200
DA really is letting these people off the hook.
00:32:11.800
And the gang banging psychopaths are, they might be total lunatics, but they know where
00:32:23.060
And this guy owes a great debt of gratitude to George Gascon because as a result of George
00:32:29.240
Gascon's policies as district attorney, you're going to get a lot more crazy, murderous,
00:32:45.380
More innocent people, more innocent taxpayers, citizens of Los Angeles are going to wind up
00:32:50.260
the victims of violence because this district attorney would rather prioritize Luis Angel
00:32:59.020
Hernandez and would rather prioritize his interests over the interests of the people
00:33:12.360
It's very hard to recall people, but it's hard to see how this plays very well.
00:33:20.540
Why is this district attorney letting these breaking bad level caricatures of psychos off
00:33:29.420
He's doing it one part ideologically because the left believes that the only reason that
00:33:34.580
bad people do bad things is because society has somehow failed them.
00:33:45.540
That's the ideological reason why this is happening.
00:33:47.800
But then the raw political reason why this is happening is because chaos breeds opportunity
00:33:55.060
This is why they always want to upend not just our standards and mores and traditions, but law
00:34:04.840
This is why the left, this is why Kamala Harris, the sitting vice president raised money to
00:34:08.920
bail out the most violent people in the George Floyd riots is because when there's violence
00:34:15.380
on the streets, when, when buildings are burning, when the law is not being enforced, when the
00:34:19.920
cops are being defunded, when whole police departments are being abolished, that gives the
00:34:24.240
left much more opportunity to tinker with society, a society that they, they believe that
00:34:29.020
they can remake through their own unfettered reason.
00:34:36.040
It's that he's a radical and he's getting exactly what he wants.
00:34:40.580
Now, the only problem for him is that people don't like this.
00:34:44.200
We don't like it when there are gangbanging psychos running around on the streets.
00:34:50.460
We don't like it when millions of illegal aliens are flooding into the country.
00:34:53.740
We don't like it when gas is going through the roof.
00:34:55.520
We don't like it when inflation hits 40 year highs.
00:34:57.680
So then the question becomes, how are these people going to hold on to power?
00:35:04.580
Joe Biden is not only in terms of the actual effects of his policies, the worst president
00:35:13.780
It's that he happens to be president at a time when his political party is so far to
00:35:22.680
And he also has a brain made of pudding, so he's not able to really control very much.
00:35:29.640
And so the consequence of that is that he's just the worst president probably that we've
00:35:33.500
ever had, certainly that we've ever had in recent memory.
00:35:39.640
And yet he says he's going to run for president again.
00:35:43.820
According to The Hill, which is a left-leaning publication, Joe Biden has said to at least two
00:35:50.960
people and to Barack Obama that he will run again.
00:35:55.920
And Biden reportedly believes that he is the only Democrat candidate that will be able to
00:36:01.800
defeat Donald Trump if Donald Trump runs for president again.
00:36:08.540
His cognitive decline must be really, really bad if he believes, one, that he can be reelected
00:36:14.580
with an approval rating in the 30s, and two, that he's going to beat Donald Trump.
00:36:20.240
Or it just means that he's living in a total bubble where all he's hearing is the good news
00:36:26.280
from NBC and the Washington Post and all of the other propagandists for the establishment.
00:36:32.020
Just like in North Korea, you've got the crazy dictator who surrounds himself with propagandists.
00:36:39.480
Well, it's not all that different here. If Joe Biden is only ever listening to and reading
00:36:45.120
the Washington Post, the New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN, then he is getting a slant on the
00:36:53.560
news, a pro-administration slant on the news that is not all that much different than what Kim Jong-un
00:36:58.460
is getting in North Korea. So that might be it. Or the third option is they think that they can rig
00:37:04.220
the election. Again, they think that they can push for widespread mail-in ballots like they did
00:37:10.280
in some cases unconstitutionally and illegally in 2020. They think that they can extend election
00:37:15.360
day to election month. They think that they can tilt all of the scales in their favor.
00:37:22.920
But the bookies right now, Las Vegas doesn't believe that Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump or
00:37:29.140
another candidate, by the way. So one way that people make predictions, it's so early on that
00:37:34.100
any prediction about who's going to win in 2024 is basically worthless.
00:37:38.280
But you can look at public opinion polls. That's one way to do it. Or you can look at the money.
00:37:44.220
Where are people putting their money in terms of bets on who wins? And right now,
00:37:50.080
according to gambling.com's resident betting expert, Joe Short, Joe Biden's not looking great.
00:37:58.240
The presidential election odds put Joe Biden as the third most likely candidate to win the
00:38:04.060
presidency. Above him, way above him, at number one is Donald Trump. And then number two,
00:38:11.700
Ron DeSantis. So right now, you've got Trump at the top, DeSantis, Joe Biden, followed by Kamala
00:38:20.700
Harris, Jeff Bezos, Nikki Haley. And then further down the line, you get other people,
00:38:25.320
Buttigieg, Ted Cruz, other people as well. I definitely recommend caution when you're looking
00:38:34.940
at when you're making your political picks based on predictions two years out from more than two
00:38:40.140
years out from a presidential election. Don't forget, in 2016, you had the early favorite. I think Scott
00:38:47.440
Walker was probably the earliest favorite, followed by who? Marco Rubio, Ben Carson.
00:38:55.780
Was Chris Christie ever in there? He might've been in there. These things go through cycles. In 2012,
00:39:00.860
Bobby Jindal, maybe he's going to be the one. Early on, these things don't really matter. But
00:39:05.720
the reason these numbers matter is not because of who the Republican's going to be. It's because of how
00:39:10.300
unpopular Joe Biden is, not just against some generic Republican, but against actual people
00:39:15.760
who are getting a lot of press. What did the Democrats say about this? Well, Donna Brazile,
00:39:22.440
who's the former head of the DNC, who goes on and spouts the party line on all the mainstream media
00:39:28.820
outlets, Donna Brazile says that actually the Republicans are running on fumes and all of the
00:39:33.580
wind is in the Democrat's sails. And all we have to do is wait over the next 37 days. There's 11,
00:39:39.040
12 states hold their primaries. You have big primaries in Ohio and North Carolina,
00:39:45.960
Pennsylvania, where the former president has already tipped the scales in support of one
00:39:50.860
candidate over another. The Republicans are essentially running on fumes. They're running
00:39:56.160
on the energy of 2020, which is the big lie. Democrats are running on an economy that's roaring back,
00:40:03.640
that is fighting inflation, that is helping the Ukrainians. Democrats will run on what's
00:40:09.040
they've delivered. Republicans are going to run on the fumes in 2020.
00:40:13.980
I don't have very much to say about this woman's analysis other than that it is completely
00:40:19.780
worthless. It's not even that she's making some radical point and I'm going to debunk it. What she's
00:40:26.940
saying is just totally divorced from reality. It's not true that Republicans are running on election
00:40:31.620
fraud in 2020. They're just not. They're running on the economy and they're running on inflation.
00:40:34.980
It's not true that Democrats are doing anything to solve inflation or the economic problems or that
00:40:40.220
people even think that they are. She's just making things up. It exposes, just like the
00:40:46.700
libs of TikTok story, it exposes to you how worthless the establishment corporate press really
00:40:53.260
is. I was walking through an airport the other day, which is the only time that I ever see the
00:40:57.600
liberal press on TV in real time. I was listening to some analyst in a suit with his tie giving his
00:41:06.620
expert analysis on how Joe Biden's doing a great job. I just thought this is so worthless. These
00:41:11.880
guys are such shills. They're such hacks that I don't even think you can call it reporting or proper
00:41:19.720
journalism. It's nothing other than propaganda. The only way that it works, I think, as people are
00:41:27.720
tuning out and cutting their cable and not paying attention to them, the only way it works is if
00:41:32.420
they intimidate people, silence people, censor people, and rig the game. Social fads are moving
00:41:41.340
really, really fast. We call it the current thing. That's one way that in the internet meme culture,
00:41:50.140
people refer to the social issue du jour. One week, it's Ukraine, and everyone's totally focused
00:41:58.360
on the war in Ukraine. But before that, it's, I don't know, the masks. And before that, it's Me Too.
00:42:05.860
And before that, it's BLM. And it just changes by the week. And this has gone on for a while now.
00:42:11.040
I was recently reminded, do you remember Kony 2012? Kony 2012 was about this warlord gangster type
00:42:19.940
in Africa named Joseph Kony. And he had some army and he did all sorts of terrible things.
00:42:26.280
But for a few weeks in 2011 and 2012, everyone was obsessed with this. And they all changed their
00:42:32.620
Facebook profile picture. And they all said, we're going to go get Kony 2012. We're going to get him.
00:42:37.400
And this is so important in the whole world. But they didn't do anything. It was just slacktivism.
00:42:41.460
It was just changing your profile picture. It's largely what people are doing now with Ukraine.
00:42:46.420
They're not doing anything to really help Ukraine. But they're changing their profile picture.
00:42:49.940
And that's the most important. They don't know anything about it. They couldn't pick Ukraine
00:42:52.600
out on a map. They don't know anything. But they're really gung-ho about it. And before that,
00:42:58.020
it was the masks. And before that, it was the vaccines. And before that, it was Me Too.
00:43:00.940
Well, these things change. They come in cycles. And the cycles are increasing in their frequency.
00:43:06.880
Obviously, clearest evidence of this. I meant to get to it more than a week ago. But I don't want
00:43:11.600
to miss out on it. Louis C.K. won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album. Louis C.K., who I think is a
00:43:20.680
funny comedian. He's not my favorite comedian, but he's very funny. He got Me Too'd some years ago
00:43:25.900
because he, from what I can tell, I think they were consensual. Maybe some of them weren't,
00:43:29.940
but I think they were consensual, where he would expose himself and do weird things in front of
00:43:35.500
women. I don't think he was accused of rape or anything like that, but he had some weird sex
00:43:39.900
stuff behind him. And then he was Me Too'd and he was totally chased out of the industry. And now he's
00:43:43.720
back. It shows, one, I think the end of the Me Too movement. I think that's totally over.
00:43:50.260
So when you now have leftist activists forcing men into women's locker rooms to expose themselves,
00:43:57.140
like that guy Will Thomas on the Penn Swim team, when the official line of the liberals now is,
00:44:01.900
we need to force men to get naked in front of women who are unwilling and undesiring of seeing that,
00:44:07.520
then obviously Me Too has completely gone out the window. It also shows you that these are just
00:44:11.540
movements of convenience. They don't really care about women. They don't really care about
00:44:15.340
the Coney. They don't really care about Ukraine. They don't care about any of this. It's just,
00:44:20.000
it's just a way to get really riled up and to have a kind of political, religious ecstasy
00:44:24.700
and to score a few cheap points on your opponents and then move on. That's all that this is really
00:44:28.720
about. And so the question then for 2022 and 2024 is, what are those going to be?
00:44:35.780
The left is going to have to find some great crusade to rile everyone up about and pretend that
00:44:41.200
this is the do or die, end of the world scenario. Meanwhile, contrary to what Donna Brazile is saying
00:44:49.100
here, Republicans, I think are going to run on the basics. Gas is too high. Inflation is too high.
00:44:57.580
Immigration is way too high. Boys are not girls. Stop transing the five-year-olds. Really basic
00:45:03.220
fundamental stuff. It doesn't get you riled up in a crusade du jour, but it's pretty important to
00:45:07.920
people. Speaking of women in show business, Julia Roberts, Julia Roberts did something the other day
00:45:16.260
that I have to focus on because no one is really talking about it. And it's so great. It's one of
00:45:23.820
the most positive developments I've seen out of Hollywood in a long time. In large part, I think,
00:45:28.140
because it took place outside of Hollywood. There was a piece in the New York Times, there was a long
00:45:33.560
interview with Julia Roberts and she stood up for homemakers. Julia Roberts is 54 years old now
00:45:42.280
and she addressed her long absence from rom-coms. We haven't seen big Julia Roberts rom-coms in many,
00:45:48.820
many years at this point. She said, here's the thing. If I'd thought that a script was good enough,
00:45:55.120
I would have done it. But I also had three kids in the last 18 years. That raises the bar even more
00:46:01.700
because then it's not only is this material good, it's also the math question, the math equation of
00:46:07.300
my husband's work schedule and the kid's school schedule and summer vacation. It's not just,
00:46:12.640
oh, I think I want to do this. I have a sense of great pride in being home with my family and
00:46:17.860
considering myself a homemaker. You go, girl. I love this. This is so, I don't just love this because
00:46:24.460
Julia Roberts is exalting traditional standards and a traditional way of life. I love it because
00:46:31.940
she is expressing her joy to lots of women who need to hear this because what she's saying is
00:46:40.420
objectively true and it is a better way of life and it's much more conducive to happiness than what
00:46:47.480
lots of women are being fed in school and by the popular culture, which is that they need to ditch
00:46:52.100
having a family, put off getting married, put off having kids, possibly indefinitely and just go
00:46:57.280
work in the widget factory for some other guy until they're too old to have kids and then they
00:47:02.740
can be really regretful about that. Julia Roberts is sending a message here and it's in the New York
00:47:09.980
Times. I can't believe the New York Times let this through. That is so, I never want to hear again
00:47:16.680
from some feminist that, look, forget about having a family, forget about, and look, I'm not saying
00:47:21.680
everyone needs to get married and have kids. There's religious life. There are other callings as well,
00:47:25.280
but forget about all that. Forget about all those important, significant things in life.
00:47:28.880
The most important thing to do is to go work in middle management and do spreadsheets alone
00:47:33.500
in my studio apartment in some big city. That's the most important thing I can possibly do and
00:47:38.440
nothing else matters. That's just a lie. I never want to hear it from them again because the people
00:47:44.060
who say that have really relatively modest careers. Julia Roberts has one of the most spectacular
00:47:49.460
professional careers of any woman of her age and she kind of gave it up. She could have gone much
00:47:56.520
for it. She could have done a whole lot more movies. She could have made tens of millions more dollars at
00:48:00.420
least and she didn't. She said, no, that money, that fame, that celebrity, that adulation is actually
00:48:07.860
not worth anywhere near the value of having a home, having a family, having kids who love me,
00:48:16.720
going on summer vacation with the kids, making dinner, going over homework with the kids. These
00:48:24.160
are really basic things that we used to understand in our traditional way of life that for all times
00:48:33.240
throughout all of history and all places, certainly in our civilization and in many other civilizations
00:48:37.460
as well, we've known are true. And there is a concerted effort by political radicals to upend
00:48:42.000
and to deny and to pervert all of those things. Don't let them do it. You will be the victim
00:48:47.140
if you let them do it. It won't be a great cause of liberation. It won't be a way to finally overcome
00:48:52.740
the bourgeois terrible oppression of the past. You will be the victim. It will make your life worse.
00:48:57.780
Cling, hold on to those traditional values. They are what are going to fetter us to reality and to
00:49:03.560
a flourishing way of life. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
00:49:12.540
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