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Today, we're going to talk about what happens when a person sells their soul.
It never works out for them.
We should have learned that by now throughout human history.
Certainly, it doesn't work out in the long run, but even in the short run, it doesn't work.
An actress was bragging this week about having killed her child, bragging that it helped her career in Hollywood.
She traded in her baby.
She traded in her soul for a career.
But let's see how that actually worked out for her.
I think there's a lot to be learned from it.
Also, five headlines, including the supposedly controversial execution of Nathaniel Woods last night.
He was executed for the killing of three police officers.
Now, his supporters say that this is wrong.
He should have been executed because he didn't pull the trigger.
But should that actually make a difference?
We'll talk about that.
And your emails, including one of an email about the new Taylor Swift song.
I don't know if you've heard this one or Seeing the video, but it's absurdly dumb, even by her standards.
And it illustrates... It's a very anti-man song, and it illustrates how feminists see men, which is they see us like cartoon villains.
So we'll talk about that.
And, oh yeah, MSNBC.
There's a segment on MSNBC.
I'm going to be cancelling MSNBC today, finally.
Should have done it long ago.
Because they aired what may be the dumbest segment ever to make its way onto cable news.
And I understand what a statement that is, but I think I can back it up
and we'll get to all of that coming up.
Now, we spoke yesterday about the pro-abortion protesters in DC.
losing their minds over a case that, if decided the right way, which is against them, would simply result in abortion clinics having to follow the same regulations that any other medical clinic has to follow, having to have admitting privileges at a local hospital in case there's a medical emergency, which does happen.
It happens hundreds of times across the country every single year in abortions.
Not surprising, given what the abortion procedure entails.
But we're told we can't have those kinds of regulations, because as we talked about yesterday, pro-abortion people, they don't take their own propaganda seriously.
They say abortion is healthcare, yet they don't want the law to regulate it as healthcare.
Now, they're all about all the other regulations for every other medical clinic, but not for abortion clinics.
Abortion proponents, they want to have their abortion cake and eat it too.
They want to present child murder as a legitimate medical procedure while reserving the right to go into spasms of fury and anger if anyone proposes a law that actually treats abortion as a legitimate medical procedure.
That's because abortion, for them, is not actually medicinal, despite what they say.
It's sacramental.
It's religious.
Senator Gillibrand, she was on cable news last week, and she tied abortion to religious freedom.
It's a matter of religious freedom that women should be able to kill their kids.
Well, she was actually telling the truth.
It is religious.
You know, no law, no policy, no regulation or limitation can get within a thousand miles of this sacred ritual.
They're going to defend unlimited abortion with the same satanic enthusiasm that the Aztecs defended their temples of human sacrifice.
It's the same sort of Same sort of energy that you see.
All decency and dignity goes out the window because the idol has to be protected at all costs.
And that's what we've been witnessing in DC this week.
Speaking of Dignity going out the window.
I played a few clips yesterday of the rally, including various speakers getting up there and screaming about abortion, including the infamous one of Chuck Schumer threatening the conservative justices by name to try to intimidate them into deciding the case the way that he wants.
But there's one clip I didn't play because I hadn't seen it before the show aired.
And I'm gonna play it now because there's an important and I think quite sad, quite tragic truth To be found here.
Not in what's being said.
I'm going to play it for you.
This is the actress Busy Phillips.
Here she is speaking, well screaming actually, about her abortion among, well, other things.
Sitting in Los Angeles in my beautiful office of my own late night talk show.
Soon I would be driving my hybrid car to my beautiful f***ing home.
To kiss my two beautiful and healthy children and my husband who had taken the year off to parent so I could focus on my career.
And I have all of this!
All of it!
Because, because, because I was allowed bodily autonomy at 15.
I will not be shamed into being quiet.
We will not be shamed into being quiet never again.
will never stop talking about my abortion or my periods or my experiences in childbirth,
Hmm.
my episiotomies, my yeast infections or my ovulation that lines up with the moon.
Hmm. Yeah. Um, I, I, I do, I don't even know where to begin.
I do believe that maybe the first time in history that yeast infections have gotten applause.
You think that's ever happened before?
Someone uses a yeast infection as an applause line?
She says she's never going to stop talking about her yeast infections, which also, that may be the first time in history that that sentence has ever been uttered.
I'll never stop talking about my yeast infections!
In what other context would anyone have ever said that?
Now, it raises the question of, many questions are raised, but one question is very simple.
Why are you not going to stop talking about it, exactly?
What's the reason for that?
Why are you talking about it to begin with?
What do your yeast infections have to do with anything right now?
And why would you be proud of them?
And again, what do they have to do with abortion?
I mean, whether abortion rights are right or not, how does your yeast infection factor into it?
That's like if somebody was up giving a speech at a gun rights rally and suddenly said, I have the right to bear arms.
Also, I have toe fungus.
I have toe fungus and I will never stop talking about my fungus.
It is my fungus.
But this is the mark of a modern feminist, that she loves to speak in graphic terms about her body and its functions, and she also wants you to know that all of the things she's telling you, which you didn't ask to hear about and certainly don't want to hear about, are none of your business.
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Okay, Busy Phillips says that she's happy that she had her abortion and killed her offspring, her child.
Because it enabled her to have a wonderful career and a talk show.
But, you know, and I'm not even trying to insult her here.
Not that I could be blamed for insulting such a vile, grotesque excuse for a human being.
But that's not even my point.
That's not my point in pointing out that, you know the talk show, she said, that she has, that made the abortion worth it?
The talk show's been cancelled.
It was cancelled after one season.
And her acting career.
Let's take a look at her IMDB page.
Let's take a look at the things she's had roles in.
Often bit roles.
And I'm going down this.
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
She appeared in some episodes of that.
A show called Camping.
She had a few voiceover roles in American Dad.
Drunk History.
Something called Grizzly Bear Losing All Sense.
Um, The New Girl, Cougar Town, there, I think I recognize that one.
Okay.
Made in Cleveland.
These are all just, a lot of these are just one episode, it looks like, that she appeared in.
Um, Don't Trust the B Word in Apartment 23.
That was a, it was a show that was on, it looks like, for one year.
And she, she was on for one episode.
Uh, and I'm just going down, I'm trying to find something that would be How I Met Your Mother.
She did an episode of that.
And just a lot of stuff like that.
White Chicks.
She was in the movie White Chicks.
Okay, there's one.
I remember that movie.
Cinematic masterpiece.
Here's my point.
She sold her soul.
Killed her child.
And this is what she got out of it.
A cancelled talk show.
A skit on drunk history.
A voiceover on The Reef 2 High Tide.
Now, look, of course, even if she had five Academy Award wins and her filmography was chock full of film classics, it still wouldn't make the abortion worth it.
Nothing could ever justify killing a child.
No earthly reward, no professional achievement or accomplishment could vindicate that, of course.
It just shows you the tragic absurdity of this idea that a woman should sacrifice, literally sacrifice, her children and her family for a career.
Because Busy Phillips did that, and she wants us to believe that it was all worth it, and her career may be profitable, maybe she's made some money, I would believe that, but nobody's going to remember anything this woman has done in her career so far.
Nobody remembers it now.
And this somehow is considered the noble choice?
To throw out motherhood for this?
For this?
You know, GK Chesterton, he had a great quote where he talks about, in our professional lives, not just women, men too, we are the same thing to everyone.
In that we fill a certain role, we do a certain thing.
And in that role, in our jobs, when we're clocked in, that's what we are to everybody, no matter what you do.
I mean, even if you're the President of the United States, well, you're the President of the United States.
That's what you are to everybody.
But as parents, rather than being the same thing to everybody, we are everything to someone.
Or to a few people, depending on how many kids you have.
And he points out that, especially with women, this idea that the latter role, where you're everything to someone, everything to your children, the idea that that's narrower and more confining and less noble and less worthwhile is ludicrous.
It's a lie.
It's one of the worst lies that modern culture tells.
Our role as parents, that role, much more than our role in our job or Busy Phillips' role in Made in Cleveland, is a dynamic, versatile thing.
Something that will make a lasting difference, a lasting impact.
Something that will leave a legacy.
Speaking of legacies, now that's not to say that your job is unimportant.
I mean, some jobs are more important than others.
Some jobs are basically completely unimportant.
Except for, I mean, even in a completely frivolous and unimportant job, if you have a family, that actually lends Import to that job.
It gives it meaning.
Because at least you're there and you're doing this for your family.
So the meaning comes from that.
See, the meaning springs forth from that role.
As a parent, as a husband, as a wife, a mother.
If all you have is your job to find meaning in, well that ultimately is going to feel like, and it is going to be in many ways, a meaningless life.
The fact is that whatever you do for a living, Probably.
You can leave that job and be replaced easily, and nobody will remember what you did.
There may be a few exceptions to this.
There are a few people across the world who are exceptions to this, but almost all of us Whatever we do for a living, no matter how important we might think it is, you can leave, eventually you will leave, you'll be just replaced by somebody, your company, whoever you work for, they're going to find someone to fill in that role, and they're going to move forward.
And, you know, no one's going to, maybe if you were employee of the month or something, you got your plaque on the wall, and so you'll, and that's all you'll be now is just that picture on the wall, if that.
But you get replaced and it doesn't matter.
Now, you leave your role as parent, You're not going to be easily replaced.
In fact, you cannot be replaced at all.
Not fully.
And that loss... You know, you think of a father who abandons his children.
A father works at a job, leaves the job.
Who cares?
He'll be replaced.
No one's going to care or remember.
Leaves his kids, though.
That's going to leave a hole in those kids' lives forever.
That they're never going to fully get over.
Now, I mean, look at me.
I write articles.
I do podcasts.
There are a million people who do the same thing.
There are a million podcasts out there.
Nobody's going to remember this segment that I'm doing right now.
By the time this is over, you probably will have forgotten it.
By the end of today, you'll probably have forgotten it.
No one's going to remember it next week.
Even tomorrow, probably.
This show that I'm doing could disappear.
The entire show that I'm doing could disappear, and some of you would care for 10 minutes.
Some of you would celebrate.
But even that celebration wouldn't last long and then you just move on with your lives.
Right?
Because what I am to you is maybe I'm something to you, hopefully, but I could be replaced with somebody else.
You'll find whatever role I play in your life as a viewer, you'll find someone else to fill that role.
Not like that for my kids.
So, you know, that's what really makes a difference.
That's what makes an impact.
So when we encourage people, especially women, and they're the main ones who are encouraged to do this, to subordinate parenthood and for women to subordinate motherhood beneath the almighty career, when we encourage them even to kill, to murder, in order to escape motherhood so that they can focus on their career, We are encouraging them to put the more important thing, the more beautiful thing, the more sacred thing, below the less important and less beautiful thing.
And that makes no sense.
And you know what else?
It also very clearly does not lead to joy, does not lead to fulfillment, does not lead to happiness.
I said this yesterday.
Look at Busy Phillips there, screaming about her yeast infection.
Does she strike you as a joyful person?
Does she strike you as someone who is fulfilled in her life and happy about what she's doing and feels confident about it?
No.
Because I tell you, if you feel confident about your life choices, you don't get behind a microphone on a stage and scream about them trying to justify them.
If you feel confident in them.
She went looking for that meaning and that joy in the career and clearly has not found it.
Which is shocking.
I'm shocked that she can't find meaning and joy in her role as Karen in White Chicks.
She actually played a woman named Karen in White Chicks.
That's what it says on IMDb.
One other thing here that I was thinking about.
Think about the message that this sends, and this is all very intentional of course, but think about the message that this sends to young women who are pregnant.
When you've got these Hollywood actresses, pro-abortion people, Democrats, people in the media, in Hollywood, saying that, according to Busy Phillips, she got all of these wonderful things She got because, emphasizing, because, because, because of her abortion.
So, think about the effect that has on a, if there's a young pregnant woman who's watching TV, watching the news, and she sees that.
Here's that, and she doesn't need to see it there.
I mean, she's getting that message everywhere.
And certainly if she goes to the Planned Parenthood clinic, that's the message she's gonna get.
The only way For you as a woman, a pregnant woman, the only way for you to have success in life is to kill your child.
You have to reject motherhood.
You have to reject this profound power that you have to bring new life into the world.
You have to reject that.
Literally throw it in the garbage if you want to have success in life.
This whole part, this whole facet of womanhood, the most spectacular facet of it, reject it, throw it out if you want to have success.
You can't have both.
You as a woman, you cannot have both.
You gotta choose one or the other.
Success in life or motherhood.
That's the message.
As I said, completely intentional.
Trying to scare women into getting abortions.
And it's not even true, actually.
Busy Phillips traded in her child for her worthless, stupid career, making horrible movies that nobody cares about or will ever remember.
But she didn't even need to do that.
There are plenty of women who have kids, are loving mothers, And have also, you know, gone out into the world and they do other things as well.
Maybe it's a job.
Maybe it's a, you know, they have another vocation as well.
And so they have that kind of success and they can express maybe of women who are very artistic.
I think my wife is great. My wife is a very skilled person.
She's a skilled mother, but she's got other skills as well that are not directly
tied to motherhood.
She's found ways to express those skills as well as being a great mother.
So that is possible.
And isn't the empowering thing to say to a woman, for empowering women,
shouldn't we be saying, you can do that. You can be a great mother.
You don't have to reject this part of womanhood. And you can also have all that.
You can have all of that, actually.
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All right, let's go to five headlines.
Number one, despite protests from celebrities and media people and Kim Kardashian, et cetera, et cetera, Alabama executed Nathaniel Woods last night.
His supporters said that he shouldn't have been executed because even though he was convicted of killing three police officers, he actually did not pull the trigger.
What happened was the police officers were storming the crack house.
Where innocent old Nathaniel Woods was, and they were shot in the process.
Well, we also know that Nathaniel Woods, it's not just that his actions led to these police officers being killed, although that's true also, but he also directly told the gunman to go and kill the police officers.
And then he did, and they're dead.
The idea that that makes him less culpable is asinine, in my view.
It's no different, really, from a woman who goes to a hitman and says, kill my husband.
Okay, she's not wielding the murder weapon, but obviously she's just as culpable, if not more so, than the hitman.
So, he was executed, ultimately, and I would say justice was served there.
Number two, let's go from justice served to justice not served.
This guy, D'Andrean Anderson.
Well, let's take a look at what he did last year.
Watch this video.
Watch this video.
Hurry up, hurry up.
So he's finally been sentenced for that.
30 days in jail is what he's getting.
Now, I'm not kidding when I say, if I'm the judge, I'd give him a year in state prison for that.
It's so gratuitous and gross, and it betrays such a disregard for common decency and for other people, that yeah, I would throw him in prison for a year.
You're spreading germs, you're spreading disease, you're spreading it intentionally to someone you don't even know.
Like, someone's gonna buy that ice cream, feed it to their kids, and you've slobbered all over it.
Just the disregard for other people, I think, is enough to land them in jail.
Now, I say a year in jail if I was a judge in the United States under our current system.
Of course, under my dictatorial, theocratic regime, it goes without saying that the punishment would be quite harsher and more just than that.
What I would do probably in this circumstance is, and I'd have to look at his prior His prior convictions, and I'd have to look at his criminal history.
When I say criminal history, I mean, you know, does he lick his fingers, as we talked about?
Is he a Michael Bloomberg?
Those sorts of things.
So that's going to factor in.
But if this was a one-time deal, it would begin, he would have his tongue amputated, of course.
Then he'd be strapped to the back of a donkey with a sack over his head and exiled out into the desert with two jugs of water.
And what happens from there happens.
Number three, the Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS spoke to the media yesterday with some somewhat reassuring information on the coronavirus, and I also enjoyed this because it proved me right in a lot of the things I've been saying on the show the last few days.
We are still very early in understanding, and all the evidence isn't there, so I want to caveat that.
To set some foundation, the typical mortality rate for seasonal flu is about 0.1% or 0.15%.
The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, okay?
That's lower than you heard probably in many reports.
for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%, okay?
That's lower than you heard probably in many reports.
Why is this?
Number one is because many people don't get sick So probably for, and this reflects the overseas experience, so probably for every case there are at least two or three cases that are not in the denominator.
So I just want to sort of scale that, that it certainly could be higher than normal fluid probably is, but it's not likely in the range of 2 to 3%.
So our best modeling, again, you have a denominator problem, and I want you to understand that, that only the people who are really sick or have symptoms come in and get tested.
So based on the models we have right now, we estimate the mortality as 0.1 to 1%.
It is likely not in the range of two to three percent.
Now, of course, we still take the virus seriously.
Nobody's saying that.
But fortunately, the fatality rate isn't nearly as bad as what's being reported, which, you know, maybe means they should stop reporting it.
Maybe the news should stop saying that the fatality, the mortality rate is two or three percent, because it's not.
Just a thought.
Number four, reading now from a Daily Mail exclusive report, it says, Bill Clinton claims that his affair with Monica Lewinsky was one of the, quote, things I did to manage my anxieties.
The former president suggests in an explosive documentary seen by Daily Mail TV that he had the fling with the ex-White House intern while he was in office because it helped with his own issues.
Bill reveals that at the time he met Lewinsky, the pressure of the job made him feel like a boxer who had done 30 rounds, and he looked at Lewinsky as something that will take your mind off it for a while.
He makes the claim in an interview featured in the new documentary series that will air on Hulu about his wife Hillary Clinton, called Hillary, where the former First Lady and Secretary of State candidly reveals that in the aftermath of the scandal, the couple underwent painful marriage counseling.
So there you go.
There is the casual, even now at this point, the casual cruelty of Bill Clinton.
Even now, these many years later.
He's literally referring to a woman, Monica Lewinsky, as a thing.
As one of the things I did.
She was one of the things I did to manage anxieties.
Just something to take my mind off it.
Yeah, this is a whole other human being, but who cares?
Her life was destroyed by it.
I mean, think about if you're... Monica Lewinsky, her whole life is defined by this.
This is all she... Talk about being one thing to everybody, the same thing to everybody.
This is who she is.
Now, of course, she's actually a human being and there's a lot more to her than this, but as far as the public is concerned, you say Monica Lewinsky, this is the only thing that anybody will ever think about.
And that's what he did.
And even now.
He says, yeah, it's just something I did just to tick my mind off.
You know, could have been this, could have played ping pong.
Just using a woman and throwing her out.
This is how Bill Clinton operates.
Not a surprise for someone who's good friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
Number five, finally, Rachel Maddow went to interview If Hillary Clinton can't win when she gets the nomination, and then you can't get the nomination, and neither can Kamala Harris, and neither can Amy Klobuchar, and neither can Kirsten Gillibrand, I mean, I think part of what's going on today is that women around the country are like,
Okay, honestly, you know, if it's not going to be any of them, let's get real.
Is it just that it can't be any woman ever?
Are we just going to run, you know, white men in their late 70s against each other, both parties, and that's all we can agree to do?
I think there's a feeling that your campaign ending is very specific to you, and it also feels a little bit like a death knell in terms of the prospects of having a woman for president in our lifetimes.
Oh God, please no.
That can't be right.
You know what I'm talking about.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
I know exactly what you're talking about.
This cannot be the right answer.
No, I understand that this is very sexist for me to say, but I have to say, and don't take it the wrong way,
but I don't give the slightest damn whether we have a woman president or not.
And I think probably Maddow is sensing that most people don't care.
And that upsets her.
But why should we care?
I care about having a good president.
We've had a lot of bad presidents, that's true.
Am I saying that a woman could never be a good president?
No!
So run a good woman for president!
And I'll vote for her!
Not because she's a woman, but if she's the best in the field, in my opinion, I'll vote for her.
But don't go into this whole, I will never have a woman president, woe is me thing, after, you know, this time around we had Elizabeth Warren to choose from, Klobuchar, Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, last time Hillary Clinton.
Put a woman up there who would make a good president?
How about that for an idea?
And people will vote for her.
But the simple fact of being a woman.
And of course we can get into the fact that these are the same people who say that gender is relative and is on a spectrum and it's all fluid and so there really isn't anything, there isn't anything, there's no such thing as a woman or a man, so that of course makes all of this, all of what they're saying, self-contradictory anyway.
Okay, let's go to your daily cancellation.
I've been waiting to do this, I can't wait any longer.
I think today on a Friday it seems like a great opportunity to cancel MSNBC.
And it feels good to cancel it, not for political reasons or ideological reasons, but just on the basis of sheer, unadulterated, grade-A stupidity.
In fact, as I said, this clip from MSNBC that I'm going to play Might be the stupidest thing you will ever see on cable news.
I know that's a hell of a statement, and I know it has so much competition, and I know that future cable news segments will try like hell to top the stupidity of this segment.
I know legions of talking heads and cable news anchors in the future will see this as a challenge, and they're gonna say, oh no, I could be stupider than that, watch me.
But I'm telling you, I don't think they can do it.
I don't think anyone can do it.
Watch.
You see it as a possibility if he wants to spend a billion bucks beating this guy, he could do it.
Absolutely.
Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars.
I've got it.
Let's put it up on the screen.
When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.
Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads.
U.S.
population $327 million.
Don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math.
He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.
It's an incredible way of putting it.
It's an incredible way of putting it.
It's true.
It's disturbing.
It does suggest what we're talking about here, which is there's too much money in politics.
Yeah.
This reminds me of the time that I won 75 bucks on a scratch-off, and so I gave my parents and all of my siblings $16,000 each.
The math checks out.
No, actually, I'm not sure that it does.
So let's think about this.
327 million people 500 million dollars.
If we give a million dollars to each person, if we were to line everybody up, line 327 million people along, line them all up, and give each a million, we would run out of money by person number 501.
The first 500 people are lucky, so they made out like bandits.
Everybody else, you're out of luck.
That's because 327 million times a million is 327 trillion.
You would need 327 trillion dollars to give everybody a million dollars.
Which is, shall we say, a little bit more than 500 million.
In reality, with the money that he spent, 500 million bucks, he could have distributed that between 327 million people, that's true, but it would have worked out to what, about a buck fifty?
I'm no math genius myself.
And so this is part of the way that I know that this is so stupid.
That I, myself, am very, very, very dumb with math.
You don't even understand how dumb I am.
I don't even want to tell you the kinds of math problems that I will use my calculator for.
Okay?
I won't even get into it.
My son says, Dad, what's 2 plus 2?
I say, hang on a second, let me grab my phone.
Okay?
But even I am shocked by the stupidity of this.
If you can shock me with your math stupidity, Then that should tell you something.
But no, $1.50 a person for $500 million, I think Bloomberg could have feasibly bought everybody in America a box of Tic Tacs and maybe two gumballs from a gumball machine.
Now, granted, that would have been a better use of his money than all of these ads for a political campaign that resulted in him winning American Samoa and that's it.
Probably better off with the Tic Tacs and gumballs for everybody, but that's all that would have happened.
Now, the person who tweeted this originally followed it up and she said, blah, blah, blah, math, blah, blah.
That sentiment I relate to.
Blah, blah, blah, math, blah, blah.
That's my argument that I would make to all of my math teachers in high school, as I would fail the math tests.
Blah, blah, blah, math.
Who needs it?
Anyway, blah, blah, blah, math, blah, blah.
People are telling me my numbers are wrong, but the point still stands.
He could easily afford to give everyone a million dollars and literally never notice.
Well, no, I think he would notice because, again, a million dollars to each person would cost him $327 trillion.
He's worth $60 billion.
So, if he were to distribute his entire net worth among the entire population of America, in the end, he would be in the hole about $267 trillion.
So, he would probably notice that.
Now, if he were to distribute his own net worth, how much could he give us?
This is a little bit better.
He could give us all $180.
So, if he forfeited all of his money, We would all get $180.
And that's not bad.
You could do some damage at Best Buy with $180.
Or you could go to the grocery store.
You could buy easily six or seven boxes of brand name cereal with that kind of money.
So that would be great.
The really amazing thing here is because I'm never surprised by the stupidity of one person.
There is no amount, there is no level of stupidity that a person can sink to, or perhaps rise to, that would surprise me for an individual person.
I understand that the capacity of an individual person to be stupid is infinite, limitless.
But when the stupid thing requires the planning and approval of several other people, Then that's when it becomes really mind-boggling.
So think of how many layers of stupid were involved in bringing this glorious moment to air.
You had the original stupid tweet.
Then you had the woman there, and also Brian Williams, stupidly reading that and not seeing the mathematical difficulties.
Then there had to be a graphics guy who put it up there so it could go on air, a producer, I mean, easily we're talking about at least five or six other people on top of Brian Williams and the person who tweeted it and the woman there.
So, easily five or six.
We're talking about a total of like nine or ten people.
And none of them, all of them literate adults, all of them college educated, I assume, which only goes to my point about college education, by the way, none of them solve the problem with that.
But this does at least clarify one thing.
It shows why so many people in this country think they should be given free everything.
Free college, free healthcare, free housing, and so on.
This is a very clarifying moment.
It's because they don't understand how numbers work.
If you think that $500 million can make millionaires out of 327 million people, then just imagine what you think the government can do with its $4 trillion budget.
Now that we understand that mentality, the prominence, the rise of socialism in the United States starts to make sense.
Okay, let's go to emails.
mattwalshow at gmail.com, mattwalshow at gmail.com.
This is from Patrick, says, Good evening, Matt.
First of all, I need to share my appreciation for you, who you are, and what you do as a Catholic conservative living in Massachusetts.
I sometimes feel as if I'm surrounded by madness.
Kafkaesque doesn't begin to describe the sensation.
So thank you for being one of the few sources of sanity in what can otherwise seem to be an insane world.
With that important feature out of the way, would you mind explaining what motivated your decision to get a tattoo?
I've always mused about getting a symbol of my faith as a tattoo, and I've heard some pros and cons, but as a fellow Catholic, I'm curious what brought you to the decision to, one, get a tattoo, two, choose the Cairo, as opposed to a cross or other religious symbol, and three, put it on your forearm.
Thank you for your time and for doing incredible work.
Have yourself a great evening.
Well, as far as a tattoo goes, you know, I like the idea of having just a symbol of my faith that would be out and on display for everybody proudly.
It's also given rise to many opportunities for conversations with people, non-Christians oftentimes, when I'm out somewhere and they'll say, what's that tattoo about?
And I'll explain it.
So that gives an opening to talk about my faith.
So I've enjoyed having it for that reason.
The Cairo, I just, I like the How ancient the symbol is.
This is the symbol that was prominent before even the crucifix was a prominent Christian symbol.
And so I like the history of it.
And as far as on my arm, I think when I was getting that tattoo and choosing that location, one verse that was in my mind was the verse in the Song of Solomon that says, set me as a seal on your Now, for the first thing you said about knowing that you're not alone when you're surrounded by madness, well, that's the thing.
Really, we aren't alone.
that verse a little bit. But now obviously I know that that verse is not
referring to a tattoo, but still I saw it as a symbol of that. Now for
the first thing you said about knowing that you're not alone when you're
surrounded by madness, well that's the thing is that really we aren't alone and
there are as sane people, also as Christians, we're not the only ones.
There are a lot of us out there.
And so it's both encouraging and discouraging for me.
I was talking about this with someone yesterday.
I was doing an interview for Church of Cowards, my new book, which is in stores now.
And I was talking about this, how it's sort of encouraging and discouraging when I go out and I talk to people and I discover all these many people who feel the same way that I do on all these issues.
Or I get emails from people, so that's the encouraging part, is knowing that I'm not alone, which is the feeling that you have, right?
But then also, it's a little bit discouraging, because I think, well, if there's so many of us that are sane and rational and have a clear moral sense about so many of these issues, then why are things the way they are in the culture?
We talk about the silent majority, and we say that proudly.
We say that conservatives are the silent majority.
Well, it's nice to know in one hand that if we are the silent majority, that there's a majority, but why are we silent?
It just makes it all the more pitiful.
And that goes to Church of Cowards.
That's why I wrote the book.
That we're cowards.
That we're the majority, but we've allowed this to happen?
I talk, the things I talk about all the time with the drag queens and the gender stuff, I absolutely believe, I know that the majority of people are not on board with this, yet it's happening.
And why is that?
Why are we letting this happen when we have the numbers on our side?
And I don't want to hear anything about, oh, the elites, they have all the power.
No, if we were to rise up and speak out and actually use our numbers to our advantage, this stuff would not be happening.
A drag queen story hour happening in a town where 90% of the people think it's crazy.
Well, if that 90% would speak up and maybe get out of their houses and off their butts and even show up to the library to let their voices be heard and to make it clear how they feel, it wouldn't happen.
I feel the same way when I get emails, if I'm talking about some controversial subject, and I take a position.
I'm getting a lot of backlash and I'll get all these private messages and emails from people saying, Hey, I agree with you.
I agree with what you're saying about it.
I just want to let you know, thumbs up, keep it going.
And I think, thank you for the encouragement.
Why are you whispering it to me behind the bushes?
Okay.
Why are you, why are you like, come here, come here, let me tell you something.
It's like I'm in the middle of a pitchfork mob, and they're bearing down, and then there's someone hiding in an alley over there, and they motion me over.
Hey, I agree with you.
Keep it up, champ.
And then they run off.
It's like, well, thank you, but maybe publicly, if you were to say that, that'd be kind of nice.
I understand people have jobs and things unlike me.
I don't have a job.
So that's something you have to have to factor in as well.
But but still Yes, I guess my point is Patrick that we're not alone that there are a lot of us out there Which is encouragement, but it's also our shame that we have allowed the culture to become what it is Despite the fact that most of us know it's wrong Let's go to Cuba.
Cuba, I'm not sure.
With a K. K-U-B-A.
Most eminent and sublime man, my humble personage bows before your grandeur.
Have you heard of the song The Man by Taylor Swift?
If not, you should watch it on YouTube.
The song is so good at portraying what a man is and does that I figure that you might find some inspiration in it.
Personally, I've been playing this song on repeat because it speaks the truth of how a man acts.
In many ways, I fall short of the standard outlined by Swift.
She makes an excellent point when she states that I'm sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man.
To that I say, yes, yes, you would, because men are built physically to run faster.
What a wonderful insight.
I thought I played this song on the air.
I'm sorry if I didn't, because it's such a wonderful song.
Let me play a quick clip of this.
It's a new music video from Taylor Swift, a song called The Man, where she dresses up as a man.
And is talking about trying to show all the terrible things that men are able to do.
So watch this.
You can tell the song itself is just a terrible song, which is what we've come to expect of Taylor Swift, especially in recent years.
But she dressed up as a man.
We see her on a subway, of course, doing the man spread with her legs wide open.
Yeah, that's a man, all right.
That's how men act.
All men.
Right?
And by the way, as I've tried to explain in the past, I don't want to get into graphic detail, okay?
I'm not going to give a whole anatomy lesson here, but for feminists that don't understand why men don't sit the same way that women sit, it's because we do have different body parts, which makes it so that we are going to sit a little bit differently from you.
But anyway, so Taylor Swift's got the man spread, and she's got her arm around, as a man, he's, quote-unquote, got his arm around the person next to him, and she's smoking a cigar on the subway, And then ashing out into a woman's purse next to her.
And then she comes out and she pees in the middle of the subway station.
Which that does happen, but usually it's the homeless people doing that.
I mean, we see that all the time on the subway, right?
A guy, a man, smoking a cigar on the train, tapping the ashes into a woman's purse.
Totally normal, yeah.
But this is how feminists see men.
We're cartoons to them.
And that's why they're so bitter about men.
Because they don't understand a single damn thing about men.
Now, how do you think that... Do you think a male artist could make a video like that about women?
All of the annoying things women do?
Do you think a man could get away with that?
Well, the first problem is that the song would be way too long.
The song would be six and a half hours long and nobody's gonna listen to that, so that'd be the first problem.
But nobody would... He couldn't get away with it.
Only women can do that. Finally, this is from Sarah, telling me this is the why I'm wrong email of the day.
Not the most important issue in the world, but you know, you got to keep me...
And this is what I say, I encourage the emails telling me why I'm wrong.
And it doesn't have to be... You got to keep me honest.
So if I make any mistake at all in your mind, let me know.
And that's what Sarah's doing here.
Says, Dear Matt, you are wrong about the Fairy Godmother in the Cinderella reboot.
This character will not be called The Thing, as you postulated.
Indeed, they have already determined the name of this genderless being, Fab G. The actor slated for the genderless role, Billy Porter, claimed, quote, it hit me when I saw on the set last week how profound it is that I am playing the Fairy Godmother.
Yes, profound.
Deeply profound.
They call it the Fab G. Magic has no gender.
This is a classic fairy tale for a new generation.
I think that the new generation is really ready.
The kids are ready.
It's the grown-ups that are slowing stuff down.
Sarah continues, I'm sure this was an honest error on your part, but please be sure to tread a bit more lightly on such serious topics going forward.
Fab G. Okay.
You got me on that one.
I was wrong.
Doesn't happen often.
And that does give me an idea for when my kids get older and they have kids of their own.
I don't want to be called Grandpa.
I want to be called Fab G. Because when you see me, it's the first thing you think, right?
It's fabulous.
You look up fabulous in a dictionary, you're going to see my face.
And we'll leave it there.
Hope you guys all have a great weekend.
Buy the book, Church of Cowards.
Godspeed.
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