Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a judge in Atlanta was just arrested and removed from the bench after getting into a fight at a nightclub and assaulting a police officer. Again: this woman works as a judge, not a waitress at Waffle House. But, she is just a symptom of a much larger problem. We'll discuss. Also, I'll offer my preview of tonight's presidential debate. Climate protesters attempt a very unique and hilarious method of stopping traffic. And, a guy on Twitter is roundly mocked and ridiculed after offering some unorthodox life advice to young men. As usual, the peanut gallery is wrong.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a judge in Atlanta was just arrested and removed from the bench after getting into a fight at a nightclub and assaulting a police officer.
Again, this woman works as a judge, not a waitress at a Waffle House, but she's just a symptom of a much larger problem we'll discuss.
Also, I'll offer my preview of tonight's presidential debate.
Climate protesters attempt a very unique and unintentionally hilarious method of stopping traffic, and a guy on Twitter is roundly mocked and ridiculed after offering some unorthodox life advice to young men As usual, the peanut gallery is completely wrong.
We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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One of the benefits of our whole federal system, at least in theory, is that it provides some insulation from bad government.
If your state is being run to the ground by incompetent politicians, then you can just move to another state.
And if a local politician is doing a terrible job, then at least he's not wrecking the rest of the country, too.
The damage is contained.
That's the idea, anyway, and there are about a million reasons why that's just not true anymore.
Exhibit A is the series of ongoing and deeply embarrassing disasters that are unfolding at the moment in Atlanta, Georgia and its surrounding metro area.
There's no other way to say this because the principles of federalism are no longer really operative.
Atlanta's dysfunction poses a direct threat to the entire country.
You can't get away from it simply by fleeing the state of Georgia or not living there to begin with because it's, like, all-encompassing.
Now, we're all very familiar with the catastrophe that is Fulton County, Georgia's attempt to prosecute Donald Trump on RICO charges.
The lead prosecutor, Fannie Willis, saw the trial as an opportunity to promote her boyfriend and shower him with taxpayer money.
Then she apparently lied about it in court.
She also tried to play the sassy woman when she testified about this conflict of interest, which somehow managed to lower public confidence in her office even further.
And all of that is pretty well documented.
On top of that, just this week, former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler asked why Fulton County officials are reportedly attempting to destroy 2020 election ballots before they can be inspected.
This comes after the Georgia Election Board footage reprimanded Fulton County and appointed an independent poll monitor for the upcoming election because of irregularities in the way that the county counted ballots in 2020.
That decision came after testimony like this, where it emerged that hundreds of thousands of ballot images are apparently missing in Georgia.
Watch.
Has the investigation confirmed that there are missing ballot images?
Yes.
Yes.
Do you know why 380,761 ballot images from Election Day machine count are not available?
We subpoenaed Fulton County for all of their ballot images.
We received approximately 518,000 ballot images.
518,000 valid images.
-From election day?
-Those are for the recount.
Those are from the recount, but we have no ballot images for 380,761 ballots from Election Day, correct?
What was subpoenaed was the ballot images for the recount because that's what this case was about, not the Election Day.
Does Fulton County know why there are not As with the investigators, we have not been apprised of this allegation.
This is the first I'm hearing about it.
So all of this dysfunction again might be mildly amusing if the impact of all the incompetence were confined to Georgia, but of course it's not.
Counting ballots affects national politics.
Jailing a presidential candidate affects national politics.
So the infestation of incompetent morons in the government of the state of Georgia is unfortunately a concern of everyone living in the country.
But somehow the most inept people imaginable are running things in Georgia.
It's important to figure out how exactly that happened so that we can stop it from getting even worse, if that's even possible at this point.
That brings me to the very curious case of a woman who, until recently, was the highest paid judge in Douglas County, a Democrat by the name of Christina Peterson.
Peterson was making somewhere north of $100,000 a year, according to some reports.
She became a probate judge in Douglas County, which is right next to Fulton County, back in 2020 after winning a contested primary and running unopposed in a general election.
Now, to be clear, Peterson was not handling the most high-stakes cases in Atlanta.
She dealt with things like marriage licenses.
But even so, you'd hope that a relatively highly paid judge in a metro area like Atlanta would be well-qualified, professional, competent.
At the very least, you might think that she'd have some capacity to control herself in public.
But last week, it became clear to everyone that Peterson lacks every single one of those characteristics.
She apparently got into a fight outside of a nightclub and hit a police officer, and it was all recorded on the officer's body camera.
Watch.
No!
[INAUDIBLE]
Take me where you want to take me.
I can't take you.
I don't have any identification on me.
I don't care.
You don't need identification.
You have black people up in you.
You have picked up dead bodies when you don't know who bodies it was, but you picked them up.
Take me where you need to take me.
I'm trying to.
No, take me where you need to take me immediately, expeditiously.
You're preventing me.
Take me, I could give a damn.
Take me where you want to take me.
So how do you want me to take you somewhere extra viciously?
Now!
Now!
Take me where you want to take me.
They coming to the front.
For what?
I wasn't close.
I wasn't when you needed to be.
Shut the **** up.
You look like that **** was trying to kill me before and I never let him.
Relax.
Shut the **** up.
Stop touching me.
You see?
Don't.
Yeah, stop touching me.
I got it.
I can walk on my own.
Don't touch me.
I got it.
I can walk on my own.
Don't touch me.
That is a judge.
That is a judge.
Try to imagine arriving here in a time machine from 30 years ago and watching that video.
You would assume that the woman in the video is like an unemployed welfare recipient or something.
When you found out that this is the kind of person who becomes a judge in the year 2024, you would be shocked.
And you get back in your time machine, you go back to your own time, and you do everything in your power to warn the public about the cursed future you're heading into.
But nobody would believe you, they'd think you're insane.
The sad reality is that voters in Douglas County picked that person as the best one in a competitive primary.
And then throughout her several years in office, nobody decided that she was unqualified in any way.
Now that all finally changed this week when the Supreme Court of Georgia removed Christina Peterson from the bench, but they didn't remove her because she hit a police officer in that body cam footage.
They removed her because of more than four dozen ethics complaints that, in the words of the court, demonstrated her flagrant disregard for the law, court rules, and judicial conduct rules.
And this is quite a rap sheet we're talking about here.
The most egregious incident took place in August 2021.
I'm going to describe it in some detail because it's actually hard to believe that such a low-level judge would engage in such obvious, flagrant misconduct.
And the fact that this woman did engage in this conduct and held on to her job for several years after that tells us a lot about how the justice system works in Atlanta and Nation One.
So, according to the Georgia Supreme Court, a naturalized U.S.
citizen who was born in Thailand filed a petition to amend her marriage license application.
She wanted to correct the name she had listed as her father's name on the form.
Basically, five years earlier, she had originally listed her uncle's name because her father wasn't involved in her life at the time, and now she wanted to fix that because she was, quote, completing immigration documents for her mother and believed that she should correct the application so that it would not be inconsistent with her birth certificate.
To support this application, the petitioner attached a copy of a birth certificate which had been translated from Thai into English.
There was even a note on the copy that it was a translation as opposed to an official document.
Now hearing all this, you might conclude this is not exactly the court case of the century.
It's just like normal paperwork stuff.
It's not interesting.
It's not important.
Just pretty standard stuff.
But in response to this filing, Christina Peterson went to war for some reason.
She wasn't going to let this marriage license application from five years ago get amended without a fight.
So she summoned this woman to her court, didn't advise her of her right to have a lawyer or anything.
She demanded that this woman show up, and when the woman showed up, Christina Peterson told her that the copy of the birth certificate was, quote, fictitious, fraudulent, and forged.
She declared that the petitioner was in blatant disregard for the laws of the state of Georgia and sentenced her to the maximum possible punishment for contempt of 20 days in jail.
That's a criminal offense.
But in the alternative, the judge allowed this petitioner the option of serving two days in jail and paying a $500 fine.
That's ultimately what the woman had to do.
She couldn't alert her children or arrange childcare services or anything.
She just went straight to jail.
Now anyway, the ethics panel in Georgia looked into this and they concluded that nothing Christina Peterson did made any sense.
They said that the judge predetermined that the petitioner committed a criminal contempt, quote, issued the notice of the hearing without informing the petitioner that the criminal contempt matter should be adjudicated, ambushed the petitioner at the hearing by alleging that she had committed a crime, summarily found the petitioner guilty and sentenced her, and then lied about her actions and her testimony before the panel.
Now there are a bunch of other violations in addition to this one.
For instance, the panel found that the judge let a wedding party into the courthouse without ensuring that the party underwent security screening by sheriff's deputies and then she tried to cover it up.
According to the Georgia Supreme Court, she quote, falsely testified that after the division commander of the courthouse told her not to take the wedding party into the courthouse, the sheriff overrode that directive and granted her permission to enter the courthouse to perform the wedding ceremony.
There was another incident in which a sheriff's deputy who was supposed to escort the judge to the courtroom in May of 2021 didn't get there on time.
So the judge pushed the panic button under her desk, which is reserved for emergencies.
So then police swarmed into her office and she pretended to not understand what the panic button was for.
And there are dozens of other instances like this.
They're all comical examples of the most petty corruption and incompetence imaginable, seemingly just for the sake of being petty and corrupt.
It's not even clear how this judge would personally gain from any of these abuses of power, but we know that even the smallest amount of power can go to a person's head after all.
I once worked for an assistant manager at a pizza restaurant whose $16 an hour management position had turned him into a power-mad tyrant.
That's how some people are wired, and now we have a lot of those kinds of people wearing judges' robes, working in Congress, etc.
This whole story tells us something about how easy it is for useless and corrupt halfwits to infest local governments, which matters for the rest of the country, as I outlined earlier.
And incidents like this are not confined to Georgia.
A couple of years ago in Ohio, a judge named Tracy Hunter had to be dragged out of court after her conviction on corruption charges was upheld.
But here it is, watch.
And taking the defendant into custody wasn't so easy, as a court officer had to drag her out.
Former Cincinnati Judge Tracy Hunter was sentenced to six months in jail back in 2014, but she's been appealing the ruling ever since.
She was convicted of misusing her position as a judge to help her brother, who was facing an employment dispute over his job in the county.
Tracy Hunter was another elected judge.
In fact, she was the first woman judge and the first black judge ever to serve on Hamilton County's juvenile court.
So she broke two glass ceilings at once.
Only to end up like this.
But don't get too sentimental because there's a lot more where that came from.
In fact, just this week, there was another unceremonious fall for yet another path-breaking black civil servant, talking of course about Jamal Bowman, who famously pretended not to understand how fire alarms work.
And the other woman, it was the panic button, so there seems to be some sort of, I don't know, something going on here.
But he did that, of course, so that he could delay a House vote.
Bowman just lost his primary, as you might have heard.
According to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wrote a teary-eyed tweet to mark the occasion, Bowman was, quote, elected as the first black congressman for New York 16.
Now, that's not true, as it turns out.
New York's 16th Correctional District has had several other black representatives in its history.
So she's just lying about that for no reason, but more to the point, this was how, just to review again so we can watch this video again, this was how Bowman and AOC tried to turn out the vote at a rally just before Bowman's election defeat.
This was a rally that wasn't even in his district, by the way.
I didn't mention that the first time we played this video, but let's watch it again.
Here it is.
[MUSIC]
Let's go, brah!
[MUSIC]
Are we ready?
Are we ready?
I can't hear you, brah!
We're gonna show them who the we are!
[APPLAUSE]
That's right, enough of that.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Yeah, and he did.
He showed us who he is.
He is a loser.
That's what he showed us.
He proved it.
We always thought the guy was a loser, and it turns out he is.
Now watching that, you can understand why the school that Bowman led for a decade is doing about as well as LeBron James' school is doing.
They have reading and math proficiency scores hovering below 30%.
In any event, AOC and Bowman are prancing around like they see themselves as superstars.
And fortunately for them, those videos are shot at a pretty close angle.
But if you take a few steps back, this is what the rally actually looked like.
Yeah, so you can see the barriers all the way in the back.
So they were anticipating a crowd about 10 times that size, but no one's even there.
It's a completely dead rally.
And indeed, the reason that no one was there is that Jamal Bowman is very unpopular.
But somehow, instead of making any effort to win over voters, both Bowman and AOC decided that the best course of action was to run around on stage and scream and dance to rap music.
At the local level, all over the country, we are ruled By people like this.
These are people who make a mockery out of the political system, the judicial system.
Even while pretending to cherish our system of government so deeply, they make a mockery out of it.
They have no regard for any of it.
They don't even realize how absurd they look to everyone else because they're not capable of shame.
And yet, somehow, at one point or another, all of these people that I mentioned managed to win competitive elections.
And they've parlayed those wins, in some cases, into national influence.
That's why fleeing their jurisdictions isn't enough anymore.
It's not even possible because these people are everywhere.
Which means that we must mock them at every opportunity and point out their corruption whenever possible.
That worked to an extent with Jamal Bowman.
Now there's a lot more imbeciles who need to meet the same fate.
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Okay, presidential debate is tonight as you may have already heard.
Everything that can be said about this thing before it happens has already been said.
I don't have any predictions to offer for it.
Instead I'll, if I were to break it down, I'd break it down this way.
I'll tell you what a pessimist might expect from this debate and then what an optimist
And I mean pessimist and optimist from the perspective of somebody on the right.
So, let's start with the optimistic view.
Optimistic hope is that there will be a total trouncing by Donald Trump.
We know that Joe Biden is a decaying husk of meat, mentally speaking.
He is basically roadkill at this point.
I drove by a decomposing raccoon on the way to work today, and that raccoon is more cognizant than Joe Biden.
We might as well just make the dead raccoon president.
And we know all that.
It's undeniable.
And so the optimistic view is that Trump will take it to him, get him against the ropes, and Biden will completely melt down on stage.
He'll stutter and, you know, babble and stare blankly and yell and mumble, you know, like he does, and then shit his pants and fall asleep.
And that's what will happen.
And that's how an optimist might expect this to go.
However, there is the pessimist view on the other side.
And the pessimist view is not that Biden will trounce Trump.
That's just not going to happen.
I mean, it's not impossible.
Nothing is impossible.
Anything is possible.
Biden, he could sprout wings and fly around the auditorium.
I mean, that's possible.
Fly around like some kind of a winged demon, like a gargoyle come to life.
Actually, that happening, that is significantly more likely.
I'd give that, that's like a 10% likelihood.
It's more likely than him actually winning the debate.
So I think Trump outright losing is a very unlikely scenario.
The more plausible pessimistic scenario is a boring, uneventful, basically even-keeled debate.
Where Biden, for the most part, keeps it together, and Trump is fine, but not terribly impressive, and no major blows are landed on either end, and the thing just ends, and we're all bored.
That's really the worst case scenario.
And I don't just call it worst case because, you know, we're doing a backstage episode, and I have to watch the whole thing and talk about it, so that if it's boring, it's just like, it's personally very bad for me, from an entertainment perspective, if that were to happen.
But I don't mean that, that's not why it's the worst case.
It's the worst case because if that happens, then it's kind of a tie.
Right?
And a tie means that Biden wins.
Okay?
That's the way it goes.
And the reason for that is that expectations are much lower for Biden.
Because he is a potted plant.
So if he can simply hang in there and not poop himself or go catatonic, then he wins.
You know, this is the risk of debating somebody like Biden.
The expectations are so low that if he just is coherent for two hours, that's it.
If he can simply be coherent, if he can only say things that mean things, like if everything he says means something, if everything he says is intelligible, then he wins.
Because the expectations are so low.
You know, it's like when I played horse against my 11-year-old daughter a few days ago.
Now, yes, the advantage was very much on my side.
But the risk is that, given the mismatch, if I don't win in a total shutout, then I've essentially lost.
And as it happens, for the record, I did win.
But she did manage to put a letter on me.
I did get an H.
Because the kid has a great jump shot.
She usually, we go out and play in the driveway all the time.
She usually doesn't want to play.
And then she comes out out of nowhere and says, oh daddy, I want to play horse.
And she starts nailing these shots from like, what's happening?
Are you going out at night and practicing?
What's happening right now?
Anyway, so I did miss one shot.
She could probably be a starter in the WNBA already.
So that's the positive.
She could go out and get a job in the WNBA, be bringing home some money, bringing home $20,000 a year to the family.
It could be a big help.
Anyway, so, but that's the situation that Trump is in.
He's basically, Trump is essentially playing one-on-one basketball against an 11-year-old girl.
And so what that means is he has to win decisively or he loses.
If Biden can just come across as competent and with it and conscious, then he wins.
And the pessimistic view is that he'll pull it off because he'll be, they'll have enough drugs,
and he's got enough practice that, and he's only got to do it two hours, and they've already rigged
the thing enough that he can't get cut off, Trump can't talk over him. They can't even really
engage with each other. They only have a minute to talk and all that kind of stuff. And so you
could see a scenario where this thing is a tie, which means it's a win for Biden.
Now, there's a spectrum here, of course.
It probably won't end up being the absolute best case or worst case scenario.
For Trump, if I had to predict, I would predict that it'll be closer to the optimistic view than the pessimistic.
Even if Biden doesn't completely fall apart, it will be obvious that he is operating without a full deck of cards.
He's got like three cards left in the deck, and one of them's a joker, so it's really only two cards kind of thing.
But there is a real risk here, and that is it.
I understand you got a chance to take a shot at a guy who's decomposing in front of all of us.
Yeah, you want to take it, but you got to land a blow.
You just have to.
So we'll see what happens.
Tune in tonight.
I want to show you this.
I don't know the full context.
The account EndWokeness reposted it.
It appears to be some kind of protest, probably a climate protest, I would assume, on a highway, as usual.
And they're trying to block the road, as they so often do.
But their methods are a bit dubious.
So let's first just watch the video here.
Okay, so they try to block the road with a rope.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
There's a car coming down the highway at a high rate of speed and their plan is to use a rope that they're holding on to to try to stop the car.
And then I want to, if we could take a look at this freeze frame.
Okay, I just want to, can we?
The image isn't exactly clear, but she appears to be holding the rope while this jeep is driving away.
And she's trying to, just on her own, she's trying to stop the jeep.
She lassoed a jeep on the highway and she's holding on with all her might trying to stop.
What did she think was going to happen?
She thought she would stop the jeep.
Maybe she thought that she could whip it back around, you know, and send it flying in the other direction.
A lot of people look at this and they say, well, this is the hazard of the climate alarmist, you know, when you have people that are climate alarmists and it drives them insane.
And, you know, it is that, but this is also the hazard of all, and I warn about it all the time.
This is one of the reasons why I'm not a big fan of all the female-led action movies and all the female superheroes.
Because I think women are watching those movies and they're getting the wrong idea about, they're hearing all this propaganda about girl power and women can do anything they want, women are so strong.
And now this woman, she thinks that she's actually Wonder Woman.
Doesn't Wonder Woman have a lasso, right?
Like an invisible lasso?
Or no, her jet is invisible.
But the lasso, doesn't she have a lasso, I think?
The lasso makes you tell the truth?
What?
So she doesn't actually use the lasso to physically hurt anyone, she just lassos them and then they have to tell her something that's true?
That is the gayest thing of all- that's the gayest superpower you could possibly- is that really called the lasso of truth?
So she's riding around in an invisible jet.
Which, what exactly is the... What's the practical application of that?
Number one.
And she has... And she has a lasso.
Like, why do you have a jet and a rope?
My God.
Okay, so... Maybe she thought that this would... This was the lasso of truth around that Jeep.
And the truth is that when you do that, you're gonna faceplant directly into the pavement, which is exactly what happened to her.
And it looked like she was...
She was injured there.
Hopefully she's okay.
Because we wouldn't want to see anyone get hurt doing that.
I would never take immense enjoyment out of watching climate alarmists get hurt while they're trying to block traffic.
I would never... I'll put it this way.
I would never say... I would never say that I take enjoyment out of watching these people get hurt.
I would never say that.
I would never say that it's really, really fun to watch.
I wouldn't say that.
I just wouldn't say it.
All right.
Let's see.
The Last of What Truth.
My God.
Can't even get over that.
And people watch that stupid movie.
I don't believe that anyone... I think The Last Wonder Woman didn't do very well in the box office, from what I understand.
But the first one... I remember when the first one... I never watched it.
You know why I didn't watch it?
Because I'm not a 12-year-old girl, and I'm not a gay man.
Like, those are the two options.
That would excuse you going to watch a Wonder Woman movie.
But I remember when the first one came out, you had all these grown men who did not appear to be 12-year-old girls and also did not appear to be homosexual, and yet going around saying, well, it's actually a pretty good movie.
Yeah, I remember I talked to what I thought was a friend of mine, no longer, obviously, but that's what he told me.
He told me he went to go see Wonder Woman in theaters.
And he said, it's actually pretty good.
You'd be surprised by how good.
No, I wouldn't be surprised, but it's awful.
There is a 0% chance that a movie with that character can be good.
All right.
And I didn't even know how bad it was.
I just learned.
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The 40-page publication from U.S.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy outlines the scope of firearm violence, its impact on victims and communities, and a slew of policy suggestions for lawmakers, community leaders, and health systems.
A public health approach, Murthy said in the report, can guide the nation's strategy and actions as it has done in the past with successful efforts to address tobacco-related disease and motor vehicle crashes.
He added, it's up to us to take on this generational challenge with the urgency and clarity the moment demands.
The safety and well-being of our children and future are at stake.
Okay, so they're going to declare it a public health emergency.
This is obviously terrible.
At best, at best, it's a totally meaningless political stunt.
And again, we have the optimist and pessimist dichotomy.
The optimistic view is that it's merely arbitrary and toothless and pointless to make some kind of declaration about gun violence being a public health issue.
Nobody's going to be convinced to refrain from gun violence because of this.
There is not going to be a single gang member on a single street corner in a single city who's just about to shoot a rival gang member and then stops and says, you know what?
U.S.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is right.
Shooting this person would be really bad for their health.
So I'm not going to do it.
That's not going to happen.
So the whole thing is futile.
But as I said, that's the optimistic way of looking at this.
The more realistic point of view is this, that there is a reason why the government wants to classify every bad thing as a public health matter.
Because recasting every human foible or evil as a medical issue does have a point.
It is actually not pointless.
It's just that the point isn't to actually save lives or make anybody healthier.
The point, as always, is to increase their power.
And what we know, what we've seen all too vividly, is that the government can claim for itself essentially unlimited power when it comes to combating so-called public health crises.
Now, it doesn't have that power constitutionally.
There's nothing in the Constitution that says, well, if it's a public health emergency, do whatever you want all the time, forever.
That's not what the Constitution says, but the government has set that precedent for itself, so that's the real point.
They want to take advantage of that precedent, recast gun violence in medical terms, so that they can then do literally anything they want to combat the quote-unquote epidemic.
Which is why it's very important to point out that gun violence is not actually a public health issue.
You know, I am skeptical of the whole category of public health, but if the term has any meaning, then it has to apply to medical problems, diseases.
Right?
A gun is not a disease.
Yes, a gun can cause injury, but there are thousands of physical objects in existence that can and do cause injury.
Are they all public health issues?
Well, the public health establishment would certainly say yes.
That's the point.
Also, and this is important, not all gun violence is bad.
It's another way you distinguish this from actual public health.
Lung cancer is bad all the time.
That's not a controversial view, I don't think.
So when you hear about lung cancer, you don't have to ask, is it the good kind or the bad kind?
Because it's always bad.
Now, it might vary in terms of severity, in terms of its lethality, and all the rest of it, but there is no good kind of lung cancer.
However, if you hear that somebody, if you just hear that, you know, so-and-so fired a gun yesterday, well, you have no idea whether it was bad or good until you hear why they did it, who or what they were shooting at.
The context entirely determines whether gun violence is good or bad.
And if somebody's doing it in self-defense, if they're doing it to protect themselves, their family, and so on, then yes, it's gun, you're using a gun, and it is violence, but it's not a bad thing.
So that's yet another reason why we wouldn't call that public health.
Here's another video I want to show you.
Well, I don't want to show you.
Well, I do want to show you.
You don't want to see it, but I want to show it to you because, as you know, I had to watch it, and so now you're going to see it too.
And maybe there's a more positive way of looking at this.
I know I can be hard on TikTokers sometimes, but every once in a while.
The TikTok community provides something useful.
And so here's a viral video of a woman showing us her coping strategies.
Here's how she copes.
A lot of people have, you know, difficult lives and looking for ways to cope with it, ways to deal with it.
And so this is her way of doing it, and it's a strategy you might want to try out yourself.
Here it is.
Let's watch.
Ooh, I'm here.
I know you don't know what to do.
But I've got you and I won't leave you.
And I love you and I'm so sorry that you're scared.
But it's okay to feel.
It's safe to feel.
It's safe to feel, it's safe to cry, it's safe to move through it.
I mean, that's relatable, you know.
That was basically me at Chipotle last night when they said they ran out of guacamole.
No warning, by the way.
I went through the whole line.
There was no sign saying, oh, we don't have guacamole.
Because then if I had known that, I would have gone somewhere else.
But I went through the whole thing.
I built the burrito bowl.
I get to the guacamole station.
They said, we're out of guac.
How does it even happen?
You have all the other ingredients but you don't have guac?
How does that, how, did you not, are people going through the line and asking for a burrito bowl with only guacamole and that's how you end up, that's how you end up with this disproportionate situation?
So in situations like that I think it's okay to react that way but most of the time I would say not.
And what, what is so sad about these videos, um, I mean what's sad about them, like besides literally everything else about them, what's sad is that I'm sure, I think it's an important point, I'm sure that this woman does have serious trauma in her past.
And I don't say that sarcastically, I mean sincerely.
So we see stuff like this and we're tempted to go, oh, why is your life so hard?
Yeah, look at you complaining, right?
You snowflake, Gen Z-er.
But this woman, she has blue hair, okay?
This is a woman with blue hair.
And that alone, even when we're putting aside what she's doing in the video, that alone is a blaring, deafening alarm signaling that she probably had a terrible home life, almost certainly comes from a broken home, a dad not in the picture.
We can assume that either her dad is not there or he's a terrible father.
He's failed utterly.
You know, if you catch your daughter wearing blue hair and you failed, like you as a father, that is an F. You got an F-grade failure on the report card the moment you see the kid wearing blue hair.
Unless it's like a Halloween costume and they're dressed up as Smurfs.
Do Smurfs even have blue hair?
Do they have blue skin?
So, that's a good indication that she has actually suffered.
Like, real trauma in life.
And so I'm perfectly willing to believe that this woman has legitimate issues.
Real, substantive reasons to be upset.
The problem is that, first of all, she's obviously never received any good counseling.
Nobody's told her how to actually cope with the problems that you face in life.
And indulging yourself Right?
Indulging in tears.
You know how I feel about men crying?
Women, I give a lot more latitude.
Women are, you know, women are criers.
They like to cry.
Okay, I can't relate, but we have to accept that men and women are not the same.
Fine.
But even for a woman, it's possible to vastly overindulge in tears, and especially in feelings of self-pity.
And this is what she's doing, and that is not healthy coping.
Okay, if you want to cope with whatever you're dealing with, again, even if it's something real, like you had a terrible childhood and your parents failed you, right, go for a walk.
Like, go for a hike.
Go get some exercise.
Pick up a hobby.
You know, invest yourself and your time and your energy in something other than this.
Rather than dwelling on whatever it is that upsets you, go just do something else.
Don't think about it.
Take all that energy and channel it into something rather than just stewing in your own pity to the point where you start to enjoy the feeling of self-pity.
But she obviously hasn't been told that.
And second, rather than experience your suffering and work through it privately, in a dignified way, she is performing her emotions for the camera.
So that even if she has legitimate reasons to be upset, she makes it fake.
She makes it phony.
It all becomes performance.
And the moment that you do it for camera.
I mean, even if it turned out that she had a death in the family last week, and that's what she's upset about.
Well, it's perfectly good reason to cry.
Okay, it's perfectly good reason to be extremely upset.
You had a death in the family.
But the moment you sit down and you pull out your phone and you hit record so that you can display this to the public.
It all becomes performance.
It all becomes phony.
It all becomes fake.
And I can't take it seriously even if I wanted to.
And if there are emotions that I personally and people generally would otherwise be sympathetic to, now we aren't anymore.
Because you're performing it.
Right?
You're being dishonest.
And it's not even the act of just putting down the phone and recording it.
That's unnatural enough.
But then you have to Stop record.
You have to go through and do a little bit of editing.
You have to add captions.
You have to search for the perfect background music.
And then you have to post it.
So there's so much premeditation that goes into it where anything that was authentic in that expression of emotion is drained out of it so that all we're left with is just performance.
And so you are, it's not everyone else minimizing your emotions.
You are minimizing them.
You're minimizing them into nothing.
You are sort of objectifying your own emotional states by turning it into a product for people to consume.
Um, so that you can, you know, sort of trade it in for whatever it is you're looking for.
Attention, pity, whatever it is.
So, that's what makes it so sad, along with, again, just everything else about that video.
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Somebody named Hickman on Twitter went viral this week with his advice to
young single men.
This post got a lot of feedback, most of it of the sneering and mocking variety.
Here's what he wrote in a tweet that's now been viewed over 7 million times.
Here it is.
Quote, here's my advice to single American men who feel hopeless about ever finding a good woman to marry.
Take a month or two between jobs and drive across the USA.
Stop at every gas station and truck stop and eat every meal at diners during non-rush hours.
Avoid cities, stop primarily in poor rural areas, out in the middle of nowhere.
Every time you see a pretty cashier or waitress with a good vibe, politely ask her out.
Tell her you're out seeing the country and looking for a place to settle and a good woman to marry.
Repeat until you've found somebody to go steady with.
This worked for at least one young, awkward guy I knew at a Catholic church in Louisiana.
Met his wife at Love's on I-80 in Iowa.
She converted, moved to Louisiana with him, and they go back to Iowa together every Christmas, fueling up at the truck stop where they met.
She was giddy to find him, as most of the men in her town were either already married or total losers.
They were both in their early 30s when they met.
At worst, you see the country and go on a few bad days.
At best, you find the love of your life.
Now the peanut gallery did not like this idea very much.
So here's just a brief sampling of the responses.
One says, hi men in this thread, absolutely do not hit on women while they're at work.
This is terrible advice.
Another says, this is one unmentioned yet insinuated step from becoming an honest to God serial killer.
Another says, travel the country to stop at a gas station and wife some broke mid.
No thanks.
Another says, have you just tried being normal about it and not bothering low-wage service female staff with your issues?
Another says, use a dating app for the love of God.
Stop harassing service workers.
And another says, if you quit your job for a couple months, you can have mildly positive social interactions with a 4 out of 10 customer service worker who's obligated to be nice to you all over the country.
So you get the idea.
Lots of women saying that this is a creepy idea and only serial killers would do it.
Lots of men saying it's a waste of time and women who work at gas stations aren't hot enough to justify the trip anyway.
People from both ends of the spectrum teaming up to cynically scoff at this idea for opposite reasons, and not for the first time, they're both wrong.
This is good advice, actually, and it doesn't just have to apply to finding a wife.
I think the guy who posted this would probably agree that you could have even broader reasons for embarking on a quest of this sort if you're a young man.
Finding a wife could be just one happy consequence.
There could be others.
You might find your career.
You might find your passion.
I categorically refuse to use the cliche, find yourself, so instead I'll say that you might find things out about yourself.
At the very least, you'll have a story to tell, and that's worth something.
That's actually worth a lot more than you may realize.
I think the reaction to this advice shows again that so many young people, and young men especially in this case, tragically, have lost their sense of adventure.
So many just have no ambition.
Like, no big dreams that they'll go to unreasonable lengths to pursue.
They aren't hatching any crazy schemes.
They aren't living with a mission.
You know, they complain that they can't find a wife, they can't find a job, they can't find success of any kind, but they're not willing to do anything big and wild and unorthodox to pursue it.
Now, that's not the case for all young men.
It is for too many of them.
So, if you're a young man and you hear this and you say, well, that doesn't apply to me.
Well, then great!
It doesn't apply to you.
Go with God.
You're fine.
But there are plenty of young men that it does apply to, and that's what I'm talking about.
And for those young men, it's a shame, because as I have preached so many times over the years, when you are a young, single man, you are in a position where you can go anywhere and do anything.
You have no excuse to just be sitting around depressed.
The world is your oyster.
You have no one depending on you.
You have very few responsibilities.
The stakes are very low.
When you get older, it won't be that way.
Me, as a man at 38 with six kids, the stakes are extremely high for any choice I make.
Because if I make the wrong choice, I have a family that will suffer greatly as a result.
And even I'm still willing to take risks, calculated risks, but as you get older, the stakes get higher and higher.
When you're just on your own and you're a single, able-bodied man, no one's depending on you, nobody to take care of, you could pack up and move anywhere.
If you end up living in some crappy apartment or even in your car for a time, it's fine.
You'll survive.
You're a young man.
You don't need much.
So you can put it all on the line.
Go out and chase something.
If you don't like your situation, get up and change it.
Do the things today that if you don't do them, you will wish you did.
Think about yourself at 60.
What will the 60-year-old you wish that the 23-year-old you had done?
Whatever that is, go do it.
Do it now, today.
Why not?
You can't come up with one good reason why you can't.
You can just go do it.
At least try.
So if you feel stuck, if you're treading water, if you have no job, if you hate your job, if you can't find a career that excites you, if you can't find a girlfriend, if you're just wasting away staring at screens all day, then get yourself unstuck.
Go somewhere else.
Do something.
Anything.
Again, why not?
What do you have to lose?
Worst case, you end up coming back where you started after a while, and you slip right back into the neutered existence you're currently living.
That's the worst case.
But most likely, something will change.
You will change, if nothing else, and that's enough.
You know, in times past, Young men with the spirit of adventure could become pioneers, explorers, crusaders, warriors.
They could board a ship to some unknown place across an unknown ocean.
They could become mountaineers, fur trappers, cowboys.
Every era had a way to satisfy the restless soul of an adventurous young man.
Now, we don't have most of those options anymore.
So you can choose to either live a rote and pre-programmed life, or you can seek your own adventure.
Now when I was a young man just entering adulthood, I was treading water.
I was living at my parents' house.
I was working different service jobs for barely more than minimum wage.
I hated all the jobs.
I hated it.
I didn't know what I wanted out of life.
I felt like I was going to be a failure.
I had no idea what I wanted.
I was completely stuck.
One day I packed my stuff into a duffel bag, I drove to a small town near the coast, 100 miles away, stayed at first in a Motel 6, that was where I lived at first, and got a job as the overnight DJ on a small rock station.
Now it wasn't exactly an exploratory expedition on a ship in the 18th century, I'll give you that, but it was a way to completely change my situation, strike out on my own, take myself wildly outside of my comfort zone, chart a new path for myself.
To do something that, like a couple years before, I didn't think, like, I never thought I'd be doing this, of all things.
Eighteen years later, I'm very happy with where my life is now.
It almost certainly wouldn't have ended up in this place if I had not thrown a curveball at myself back then.
I remember that first night, before my first shift at the station, my first night living on my own, and I was sitting in my motel room, listening to my neighbors next door having a marital dispute, and I'm just wondering, what the hell am I doing?
And why am I doing this?
I wouldn't really discover the answer to that question for many years, but now I know.
Now, I'm not suggesting that every young man move out of their parents' house to live in a motel and work at a small-town radio station.
There really are no more small-town radio stations anyway.
And nobody's suggesting that every young man should go on a cross-country trek where they ask out cashiers at random gas stations.
That may not be your adventure.
So, go have your own.
Now's the time.
There will never be a better time.
Put all of your chips on the table.
You don't have that many chips anyway, so bet it all on something.
Maybe you succeed.
Maybe you fail.
At your age, failure can be even better than success.
I had a lot of failures between the ages of 18 and 25, and I thank God for all of them.
So go now.
Go somewhere.
Do something.
Or else you are, today, I'm afraid to say, cancelled.
That'll do it for the show today.
That will do it for me until July 15th, actually.
I'm going on vacation, but the show is not going anywhere.
My friend David Cohn from Craney Company will be filling in for me for the next two weeks.
We've never had a fill-in host before, so this is something new.
Please be nice to him.
Unless he comes on air and says something insane, like that aliens don't exist, or it's okay to not return your shopping carts, in which case, please rip him to shreds.
