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Ep. 1766 - The Return Of Wokeness? Amazon BANNING Books Is Just The Start
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And now that many Western countries have been overwhelmed with foreigners, the Camp of the Saints isn't really even a dystopian novel anymore. It's more more like a a lightly fictionalized version of real life. Which makes it even more depressing. Your universe has no meaning to them, one passage from the book reads. They will not try to understand. They will be tired. They will be cold. They will make a fire with your beautiful oak doors. It's a passage from the book, which again rings very true these days. Now, after I mentioned the book on the show, it moved quickly to the top of The Amazon's bestsellers list. The publisher, a small outfit called Valbin Books, was thrilled. As you might expect, they invested a lot of time and money into translating a definitive edition of the book. Their goal was making it accessible and affordable after every other publisher had dropped it. And indeed, it was catching on. Various conservative commentators were praising the novel on social media. Have been for a while. The reviews were almost universally positive with a 4.8 star rating on Amazon, which controls about 50% of the physical book market. And then about 24 hours ago, the book simply disappeared from Amazon entirely without any explanation. If you tried to navigate to the latest edition of the Camp of the Saints, here is what you would you would see on on the website. There was no indication of what happened, only that the webpage was down. For some unknown reason, it was unavailable for most of the day. Yesterday, only the older out of print versions, the ones that cost more than a hundred dollars in most cases, were available for purchase. But the affordable definitive edition of the Camp of the Saints was simply deleted from Amazon. And predictably, none of the leftists who claim to care about banned books, including politicians like Gavin Newsom, said a word about it. Now, according to the publisher Valvin Books, Amazon specifically claimed that the novel violated their offensive content policy. Amazon told the publisher that, according to the publisher, that it had reviewed the book's content and believed that it was unacceptable. But again, they didn't elaborate on that. Apparently it's not enough for every public school to ignore the Camp of the Saints. It's not enough for the media to call you a racist if you read it. Amazon evidently believes that the only solution is to erase the book from its shelves entirely. It's just too offensive. Now at the same time, if you're looking to pick up a copy of, you know, Mein Kampf, that's no problem on Amazon. You can buy that. You can, you can see the store page right there. Amazon will happily sell you the essential Mein Kampf, a new English translation of the classic work by Adolf Hitler, one of the most consequential leaders in world history, as it says in the description. So you can still buy that. And of course Amazon will sell you all kinds of deranged left wing propaganda. Thousands of books like this one called My Child is Trans. Now, what a joy centered approach to support. So it's not offensive to encourage parents to mutilate and castrate their children in the name of gender ideology. The Red Line apparently is a fictional book about mass migration from third world countries like India in particular, which is what the Camp of the Saints is about, the great replacement, is their red line. You can't talk about that. They'll tolerate Hitler's book, probably because it's a historical document. They'll tolerate child mutilation, obviously, because they agree with it, but they definitely won't tolerate a contemporary, highly accurate portrayal of Western decline and the people who enable it. That's simply unacceptable to these people. Now, we reached out to the editor of Valbin Books, the publisher, to see if we might be missing something. We asked him what, if anything, Amazon could have possibly been referring to, and he told us that, yes, the migrant horde consisting of a million foreigners is indeed depicted in unflattering terms, but there are several non white characters who are depicted as nuanced and cultured individuals or even heroes, including the Indian government minister, as well as, quote, a fully integrated French national of Indian origin who joins the remnants of France's state and military in putting up a last stand against the invasion at the book's end. So as a factual matter, this is not a book that argues that Indians or people from the Third World generally are all fundamentally inferior or anything along those lines. Instead, to quote the editor, the intent of the author was never to slight the Indians or migrants. Instead, it was to warn of attitudes common in his era and our own that would necessarily lead to demographic submersion should such masses of people ever appear on Western shores. Quoting from the publisher, of course he actually read the book. You'd recognize all this. So the goal of Amazon, and the left in general, is to make sure you can't actually read the book. They'll just tell you that it's offensive and that's the version you'll get. And that's it. That brings us to an issue that's much larger than this one book. Make no mistake about it, the censorship of the Camp of the Saints is a clear signal of the left's intent should they ever take power again. They haven't undergone a change of heart, even after their campaign of lawfare failed and Trump won the popular vote and returned to office. They're not going to moderate their psychopathic drive for power. And they won't hesitate to punish their political enemies. They will intimidate, censor and destroy conservatives at every opportunity. Now, in the case of the Camp of the Saints, the hit job was fairly well organized. A few weeks ago, a political operative for the French paper Le Monde wrote a lengthy article about the influence of the Camp of the Saints in the Trump administration. Specifically, the article was translated into English and then shortly afterwards, just one day before Amazon pulled the book, New York Magazine ran an article entitled why Orban's Loss Was so Devastating for the New Rights, and it made the same arguments as the Lamond article. It was clear the author either hadn't read the book or wasn't remotely interested in portraying it fairly. The article just regurgitated the same old talking points about the novel without any context. And the point was to give Amazon a pretext to delete the book. And Amazon got the message, and that's what they did. So we're very familiar with this kind of campaign. We've seen it play out many times and it's still going on. But in this case, too many people noticed what was happening. So late last night, after sustained outrage from conservatives on social media, Amazon relented. They created a new listing so that people can once again purchase the physical edition of the Camp of the Saints, which you should do if you haven't. If you haven't read the book. And then around midnight, Amazon finally replied to my producers. After delaying the response for several hours, Amazon claimed that some kind of error had caused the book to be taken down. They didn't explain why they told the publisher a completely different story. Nor did they elaborate on the nature of this error and why it only affected this one book, which is kind of strange. That's a heck of a coincidence. I mean, you have a coordinated campaign by the media to explain why this book is offensive, and then the next day there's an error that erases the books from the website. What a coincidence. So it's obvious they didn't expect the backlash, and that's why they offered no actual explanation for anything they did. And therefore there's no doubt that they're going to try this kind of censorship again and soon. Amazon got ahead of itself here, but they're absolutely going to continue censoring Wrong thinking as soon as they feel like the political winds have shifted. This is how Democrats are going to operate the moment they return to power. We've already talked about their Project 2029, which has been endorsed by J.B. pritzker in Illinois. The idea is to imprison everyone who's upset the Democrat Party, including ICE officers who are lawfully enforcing immigration law. And on top of that, Democrats are now openly floating the idea of granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico for the purpose of gaining more representation in the Senate so they can pack the Supreme Court. This is James Carvel's latest rant. Watch the Democrats win the presidency in both Houses of Congress. I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico, you see a state and it should expand the Supreme Court to 13. Eat our dust. They've done everything they could that they held up to 22,000 election, they stole it, they've stolen Supreme Court seats, they've gerrymandered everything that you can. And the only way to fight this is don't run on it, don't talk about it, just do it. She said, okay, we got 54 senators and we got 13 court members. Thank you, goodbye. Because you're not going to get a fair shake any kind of way in this system. 18% of the United States elects 52 senators. Well, you're not going to make it equitable, but you'll make it better by adding Puerto Rico and dc. Don't run on it, don't talk about it, just do it. So he wants him to keep a secret as he says the entire plan out loud. And meanwhile you have Republicans who are refusing to pass the SAVE act because they wouldn't want to disrespect the hallowed traditions of the Senate. While Republicans are hiding behind the rules as an excuse for their complete failure to do anything, productive Democrats are planning to simply ignore the rules and remake our entire system of government so that Republicans can never hold power again, which a lot of Republicans don't even want to hold power. That's very clear now. Now it's worth paying attention to just how flimsy his justification is. Carville says that Republicans have gerrymandered everything. That's his rationale for why Democrats should transform the country into a one party authoritarian state. And he's making this argument at precisely the same moment the Democrats of Virginia are trying to redraw their congressional maps so that they have a permanent 10 to 1 advantage. There's a vote on that today. This is a state where 46% of the voters supported Donald Trump in the most recent election. Pretty soon 90% of the congressional seats will belong to Democrats. And of course, many other Democrat run states already were already work like this. California's congressional delegation is around 18 Republican. Even though Trump won nearly 40% of the vote in the last election in the state, 43% of voters in Illinois supported Trump, but only 17% of the congressional delegation is conservative. And on and on and on. But Carville simply doesn't care about any of this. He also doesn't care about the rampant anti white gerrymandering that was mandated under the Voting Rights act, which has allowed Democrats to effectively steal more than a dozen congressional seats. Instead, Carville's goal is to manufacture a narrative that sounds persuasive enough to most Democrat voters, which isn't exactly difficult. And if you're tempted to dismiss Carville as an irrelevant old hack, which he is, you need to realize that Democrats at the highest levels are saying basically the same thing. They're repeating the same deranged argument about gerrymandering which they plan to use as a justification to do whatever they want. Watch. And we're urging everyone to vote yes, to stop the MAGA power grab. And the voters of Virginia have an opportunity to ensure that there's a fair national congressional map. Because we believe that it's the voters of Virginia and the people of this country who should decide which party is in the majority in the aftermath of the midterm elections, not Donald Trump and his extreme MAGA sycophants and state legislative bodies across the country who were ordered by Donald Trump to gerrymander the national congressional map as part of the effort to rig the midterm elections. This effort has failed because Democrats haven't stepped back. We fought back. The constant hand motions, the can talking points, the complete lack of charisma. None of it matters to Democrats because they don't want people who can think, don't want intellectual arguments. They want craven, simple minded leaders who will destroy the Republican Party. That's what Democrat voters are looking for. As long as you're advancing their political interests, Democrats simply don't care about the logic you use or, or lack thereof. And nowhere is that more obvious than the Supreme Court. We've talked a lot about Kanji Brown Jackson, but it really needs to be emphasized that in every single case she disregards the law and votes based on what Democrats want. Most recent example came down yesterday in an opinion where Katanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent all by herself. No one else joined it. There were no other dissents either. So here's a quick rundown of the facts of the case to set the scene. Let's all play Supreme Court justice for a moment to see if we're as dumb as Ketanji Brown Jackson. The case was about a Washington D.C. police officer who got a dispatch call to check out a suspicious vehicle at a specific address in the middle of a winter night. This is from yesterday's opinion. Quote, Officer Vanterpool reached the apartment building at that address around 2am as he turned his marked police vehicle into the parking lot, he saw two people immediately flee from a car unprovoked after police had not done Anything other than simply pull up the runners, left open at least one of the car doors. The driver then began to back out of the parking space. Rear door still open. Officer Vanderpool decided to investigate. He parked directly behind the car, left his own vehicle, ordered the driver to put his hands up, and drew his service weapon. And indeed, it turned out that the car, of course, was stolen. Now, under these circumstances, maybe we have some police officers in the audience. Do you believe that the police officer had a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was taking place when he ordered the driver to put his hands up? That's a standard here, because this wasn't an arrest. It was just a stop. It's extremely low standard. And you might think, well, yeah, of course there's reasonable suspicion that some crime may have occurred here. Running away from the police suggests that you committed a crime. It's not a thing that people who have not committed crimes generally do. And if you're in a car and your friends run away when the police pull up, the appropriate response is to stay in the car. On the other hand, if you start backing out with the door open, then it's reasonable to think that you're involved in criminal activity. By itself. It's a crime to drive a car with the door open. It's completely reasonable for the officer to conduct a traffic stop and ask you some questions in those circumstances. He's not arresting you. He's just detaining you. And somehow, though, Ketanja Brown Jackson disagreed. She accused her colleagues in the court of wordsmithing, as in they used words that she didn't like. That's the level of legal analysis this woman is capable of. Democrats aren't ashamed of this. They aren't bothered by the fact that they picked a Supreme Court justice on the basis of race and gender. And shockingly enough, she turned out to be a complete moron. All they care about is that they managed to place a true believer on the Supreme Court. They have a committed activist on the bench, and given the opportunity, they'll put 10 more Ketanji brown Jacksons on the court once they have a compliant Supreme Court. There's nothing stopping Democrats from carrying out the campaign of lawfare and political violence that they're already planning and already engaging in to a large extent. Now, Republicans can take action now to prevent this kind of thing from happening. We could have three new young Supreme Court justices if the oldest Republicans on the bench retired right now. Additionally, we could abolish the filibuster and pass the SAVE act, which would do more to secure the future of this country than any other piece of legislation. Hands down. We could abolish DC Entirely and return it to Maryland so the Democrats can't turn it into a separate state. We could cut all ties with Puerto Rico and make them independent for the same reason. Now, would this guarantee the Democrats can't pack the court? No, it won't. But it would make it much, much harder to do because they'd have a much more difficult time rigging elections and adding more Senate seats. So it's worth trying. I mean, it's something, but the particular policies don't actually matter at this point. We just need to see something, anything from Republicans that suggest they understand what's coming right now. If there's enough outrage on social media, we can get companies like Amazon to back off. But if these people take control of the government, complaining isn't going to fix the problem. By that point, no institution in this country, whether it's Amazon or the US Supreme Court, will even pretend to care what conservatives think. 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Let's start in Idaho, where, incidentally, I will be next week with Michael Knowles at the University of Idaho on Tuesday for Turning Point. Also, incidentally, Idaho is one of the one of the remaining two US States that I have not yet visited, so I'll get to cross that off the list. And then I just need to get out to Hawaii and I'll have all 50 states and then maybe I can finally give my definitive ranking of US States from worst to best. I have a pretty clear idea of it already. I don't actually need to go to those two states to do it. I certainly know that my bottom five are New Jersey, New Jersey, New Jersey, New Jersey and New Jersey. So those are the bottom five. And then we got to figure out everything else. Anyway, so back to Idaho, where the local news gives us this profile of a struggling farmer, which is supposed to make us feel bad about deporting illegal immigrants because the farmer is struggling because there are no illegal immigrants to hire for slave wages. That's the gist of it I don't mean to spoil it, but here it is. Watch. It's been a tough year for Idaho farmers. Less water, higher fuel prices, and now fewer workers in the fields. I'm your Mountain Home neighborhood reporter Sahana Patel, speaking with a local farmer who says crackdowns on immigration enforcement has made it much harder to find help. It's just been harder and harder and harder to find those people to work. Bethany Gotts owns Quays Farm in mountain home, a 500 acre family operation she took over after her father passed away. But now with fewer workers, a lot of the manual labor is left up to her. She tells me she's tried hiring locally, but it's been difficult to find people willing to do the hard work. Finding a legal American here that is going to work as hard as an immigrant is nearly impossible, and I don't know how to say that kindly or well. She even posted job openings on Facebook, but says interest dropped quickly. I had seven people contact me about it, and when I sent them the description, I had no people respond. Gaut says the increase in immigration enforcement has made it harder to find migrant workers. The community has definitely been on edge around here, and it's just, it's heartbreaking because they are living in fear here. She says hiring undocumented workers is not an option with serious risks for both sides. The repercussions are too bad because one, you're going to get fined. You're going to, you have a, unfortunately, an employee living in fear, and I don't blame them, but they could get picked up at any, any moment, and then you're without an employee to keep her farm running. Gotts is hiring high schoolers and is now looking into the federal H2A visa program, which allows temporary agricultural workers into the U.S. this year I have endeavored to spend $200,000 to build a small, small worker housing. Okay, so she's building and we see the housing there that she's building. So she's building a small shack to house foreign third world labor. So for dirt cheap on her farm. Where have I, what does that remind you of? Where have you heard. Stop me if you've heard this one before. You're going to build a shack and then bring in workers from the third world to work your farm. What is, what does that remind you of? It's, it's actual slave labor. I mean, that's, that's, or, you know, she, she, she's trying to run an old school plantation, basically. At least it's, it's as close to Slave labor as you can get these days under the law. And it's facilitated by, in this case, now she wants to facilitate it by these visas for agricultural workers, which is a thing that should not exist, should not be allowed. That's totally absurd. I mean, it's one thing to claim that we need to allow special visas for highly skilled workers. And I'm also opposed to that, by the way. I think we have plenty of highly skilled people here, and if you want highly skilled workers, you should hire American workers. But it's even more ridiculous to claim that we need visas for people whose specialty is, what, picking fruit off of trees? I mean, you don't even have the pretense in that case that, well, we need the best of the best. And it just so happens that, you know, that we don't have the best here. We got to go to Asia or something. It. That's the pretense when you hear about, well, we need highly skilled workers, and it's. It's totally bogus. But in this case, you don't even have that pretense. Look, well, you got to go. You got to go 10,000 miles away to find someone who can pick fruit. And this is why I have no sympathy for this woman. Woman at all. I gotta tell you, I have no sympathy. I mean, I have all the respect in the world for farmers. Generally, we need farmers. But for this woman, no sympathy. And, you know, as I've been talking about this, you hear from some people say, well, the farmers are the backbone. We shouldn't be criticized. Okay, yeah, we're. No, we're allowed to criticize her. Like, there's no profession you can have that puts you above criticism. Sorry. She's whining because she can't import cheap third world slave labor. That's what she's whining about. And we're supposed to feel bad for her. Says she can't find Americans willing to do the job. Well, here's an idea. Here's an idea. Here's a crazy idea, okay? Pay the Americans a fair wage, and then maybe they'll work for you. If. If you have a job and you're having trouble finding people who are willing to do it, the first thing I would look at is the wage you're offering. That might be the problem. It's not that Americans won't work on a farm, Are we. Does anyone really believe that? Does anyone really believe that there are no Americans in Idaho who are willing to do this kind of work? No, it's that they don't want to work on a farm for the amount of money that you're paying them. And that makes sense, okay, because if I'm looking for a job and I can choose between monotonous physical labor with long hours on, you know, on the one hand, and a job that's much easier with maybe shorter hours and pays more or even the same, I'm going to choose the latter. Obviously, that's not laziness. It's like no one is born with an obligation with some, with some calling, some obligation to go work on your farm. You have to convince them that that's the best option for them. And if they have another option where it's like, okay, I get to be in air conditioning and it's, the hours are shorter, it's not as demanding, like I'm sitting down for part of like, whatever, and, and the money is the same or even better, of course I'm going to take that. Why wouldn't I take that Easier job for more money, huh? I could do a harder job for less or an easier job for more. Which one am I going to go with? Oh, anyone in their, in their right mind would take the, would take the job. Now the only way you take the harder job for less money is if you're really passionate about it specifically or if you see it as a stepping stone into a career. I mean, there are cases where it makes sense actually to take the. Take the job for less money. That's harder if that's the case. If, like, you're passionate about it. You want this to be your career. But menial farm labor probably isn't going to be a stepping stone into a career. I mean, it could be, but it probably isn't. And it's not something that most people are especially passionate about. So you take the job that pays more in that case. Now how much is this woman, woman willing to pay? And well, there's, there's. So there's, this is circulating online. As far as I know, it's legitimate. I'm not exactly sure. But according to this listing, if it's accurate, which is purportedly the listing for the job on the farm that she's trying to, to fill, she's offering up to $3,000 a month, which, if you do the math, that's 36, 000 a year. And there are no hours listed. So we, we can assume that this is probably a job that will be more than 40 hours a week. If it was just 40 hours a week, it's probably more. If it was just 40 hours a week, that's 17 an hour. If it's, say, 50 hours a week seems more likely than the wage would be like 13 bucks an hour. Now, to put that into perspective, and I looked this up. The starting full time wage at Chick Fil A, just for example, is usually like 16 bucks an hour. So that's more or at best basically the same as what this woman wants to pay for farm laborers. But Chick Fil A is a much less demanding job. And honestly, it's more likely to become a career opportunity between the two. Of course, I'm not saying that there are no careers in agriculture. I'm just saying that menial farm labor is not itself a career. And the path to a career from there is not very wide. Now go to Chick Fil A, be punctual and competent and you could be a shift manager very quickly. You could move from there to an assistant manager, eventually a general manager. And they get paid like double what this woman is offering for her job. A job which, by the way, also in the listing, it says that it requires two to five years of experience. Now, so that's the problem here is you're not, you're not paying a fair wage. And you can find low skilled third world workers who don't even speak English and have no other prospects and can't do anything else. And yeah, they'll take that job for them. It's a lot of money. And that's why you want those workers here. But that's, that's not a sympathetic story for Americans. And look, I'm on the record many times saying that I think the minimum, the minimum wage is a concept. The government arbitrarily mandating a living wage, quote unquote, is ridiculous and counterproductive. But I still think people should be paid a fair and decent wage. I think that they should be paid that. I don't want bureaucrats mandating it because that creates far more problems than it solves, in my view. But in this case, I'm not calling on the government to force this woman to pay her workers a decent wage. She can pay whatever she wants. What I'm saying is that she has the option to pay a decent wage and then she'll be able to attract workers. So I believe that companies should be able to pay whatever they want. And then you can choose to take the job or not, but they should be required to only choose from a pool of actual American citizens. And within that pool, as far as what the wage is, well, that the market determines that. But you can't really talk about how the market determines the wage. If, if, if that is a fair concept, if we're talking about America and Americans in that context, the market determines the wage. But if the context is the entire world, and now you have Americans who have to compete for even these kinds of jobs with the entire third World and people who will take any job, well, that's not obviously not fair. And look, if she doesn't want to do that, if, if the only option that she wants is to hire foreign slave labor, well, then guess what? Your farm doesn't deserve to exist. I mean, it's that simple, really. If you can't keep your operation running by paying Americans a fair wage, then your operation should not exist. Whatever the operation is, it's a farm, it's a restaurant. Whatever it is, I don't care. It's a gas station, it's a retail store. Whatever it is, if you can't keep it running by hiring and paying Americans, then it shouldn't exist. It should not exist in America. Go take it somewhere else. That's an option, too. How about that, lady? You want to have a farm and only hire third World Third Worlders? Move to the Third World. Take your farm to the third World. Start farming there if that's all you want to do. So when, when you hear from these business owners and say, well, what am I supposed to do if I, I can't stay open if I can't hire Third worlders, if I can't, if I can't flood my community with invaders and hire only them, then I can't stay open. Well, then I guess you shouldn't be open. I don't know. I guess your business should not be open. In that case, or find a way to make it work, because I'm sure you can. No, you just prefer to hire the Third world immigrants because it's cheaper for you. That's it. You prefer that. It's a lot easier. But you don't need to. You don't need to be Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg or Winston Churchill rallying a nation to make a powerful point. You just need to know how to use your words. The truth is, language is one of the best tools we have. 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But anyway, here's another video that's making the rounds. Watch this. Who yells the loudest? Who says yes the most? Who's the best dancer? Who's hornier? Who's richest? Who is on their phone the most? So another video that Shane McAneley took and recorded posted himself hideously disgusting. Talking about being horny in front of your kids is just revolting. And there are a ton of videos like this proudly shared by Mr. McAneley. And so I was, I was, you know, talking about this issue on X where I said that surrogacy for gays should be banned and also all surrogacy for everybody should be banned as well. It shouldn't be legal to purchase children and that shouldn't be a controversial opinion. And I got a response from a lot of people, including this guy, somebody named Brandon Straka. And he's one of those former liberal guys, he's I think, openly gay. New York leftist who a few years ago decided to leave the left and he started a walk away campaign encouraging other liberals to leave liberalism behind. Right, so he's one of those guys. And which, which on the surface, all that is, or at least most of that is good. I mean, leaving the left and encouraging others to do the same. That part good. I'm, I'm in favor of that. And yet he's been very upset by all the conservatives speaking out against gay parenthood and surrogacy generally. And he posted this in reply to me unprovoked. I wasn't talking to him. I don't know this guy. But he, he posted this, he said about once a year or so, like Groundhog Day, the right has to go full retard for a couple days and do a factory reset back to 1992. Within about seven days, these systems reboot and we enjoy many uninterrupted months of normalcy until the next retard reset. It's a beautiful and natural part of our fragile ecosystem. So what he's saying in this snide way is that when I say that surrogacy is bad and that letting gay men buy babies is bad, I'm going quote, full retard. That's retarded. It's like 1992. Because to him, 1992 is the dark ages. Right? The conservatives of 1992 were all a bunch of absurdly backwards primitive bigots. That's how he sees it. What he doesn't understand is that actually. And that's why it's always funny when people do this. So you sound like a, you sound like people in the 90s. Well, social conservatives of 1992 were right about literally everything, every single thing. They have been vindicated on every imaginable point. Prove me wrong. Point to one point or, or position that social conservatives in the early 90s took generally that they were proven to be wrong about. Can you point to one? What were they wrong about? I mean, gay marriage, abortion, pornography, Hollywood, the public school system, you name it, they were right about everything. But Brandon doesn't understand that because he just showed up to conservatism very recently. And this is the point I want to make. Not to pick on this guy in particular. Like I said, I don't really know him. I don't know him at all. But I gotta just tell you, I'm getting very, very sick of these former liberal types showing up to conservatism and then 10 seconds later trying to set the ground rules for us. You Know, showing up to the party way late and then trying to issue instructions, these former liberals who show up and say, no, no, no, no, I'm here now, and this is the way it's going to be, all right? Trying to set up guardrails. I mean, this has been the story of the conservative movement for the past decade. It's been a big problem for at least a decade now where we've been overrun by leftists who allegedly, allegedly left the left. And then they come here and they try to drag conservatism over to the left. Well, here's a thought. If you are this hostile, if you have this kind of contempt for the basic tenets of conservatism, if conservatives advocating for the family and for marriage, as we've done for decades, somehow offends you, makes you angry, reduces you to calling us retards, then. Then might I suggest that you didn't actually leave the left. You're still very much a part of it. And let me also suggest that if you were a member of the radical left and by your own admission, wrong about everything until very recently, then consider the possibility that you might also be wrong about this for the same reason you were wrong about all the other things. Okay? The. The fundamental premise that you built your whole worldview on was wrong. You've admitted that. Thank you for admitting it. But your attachment to something like gay surrogacy, you think maybe that's part of that fundamental premise that you actually have not let go of? That's what blows my mind about these people. They say, hey, I was wrong, and, you know, in my entire worldview, wrong about everything for years. But I'm definitely not wrong when I say that gay parenthood is okay and, you know, abortion is okay up to a point, and, and whatever. It's like, did you actually learn anything? Have you actually disavowed the fundamental premise of liberalism as you say? You have? Because if you think that it's okay for gay men to purchase babies, you have not disavowed the premise. You haven't. You just haven't. And how about have a little humility, like you're showing up to those of us who have been here the entire time. We've been fighting for conservatism the entire time. And you show up here and you have the gall to say you're all a bunch of. No, no, you were the one that was wrong about everything. You were wrong about everything. And you're showing up and calling us retards. Like, who do you think you are? And look, I fully support people changing their minds. I welcome it. I'm not someone who, if you change your mind, I'll hold it against you or rub it in your face. I don't, I don't do that. But to claim that you change your mind and switch teams and then come to our team and call those of us who've been here the whole time and demand that we accept degenerate insanity because it offends you that we don't. That I can't abide. I just can't abide that. That, that we just can't accept. And, and like I said, this is just, it's all over the place. Like we're, we're invaded. We're invaded by these people. It feels like half the commentators now who are out there or the influencers or like these people. I left the left. I left the left. Here's why it's okay for gay men to buy babies. Oh, but I thought you said you left the left. I thought you said you left it. I abandoned the left. But I still hold to like the most extreme views of the left. Believing that it's okay for two men to not only get married, but to be parents and to buy a baby. That's not just one thing that liberals believe. That is one of the most extreme left wing positions that you can hold. In fact, it's so extreme that 20 years ago, no elected Democrat, Democrat held that position. You currently hold a position that was too extreme for Democrats 20 years ago. But you left the left. Okay, sure you did. Starting something new can be daunting. When we launched the Matt Walsh show, we had all the usual fears, but it worked out well. It's possible for others too, using our sponsor, Shopify. Shopify is an e commerce platform powering millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce in the US including our very own daily wire shop. Getting started is incredibly easy. With hundreds of ready to use templates, you can build a beautiful online store that matches your brand's style. 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According to a report by axios, at least 11 states have individual restaurants or bars that have implemented some form of phone restriction or incentive aimed at reducing device use while dining. Some larger chains are also exploring similar policies. The supper club chain Delilah's has adopted a no phones, no posting policy. In Maryland, a Chick Fil a location Towson Place is offering free ice cream to families who refrain from checking their phones during the meal. And then there are other examples as well of the Charlotte, NC Bar. Bar antagonist has taken a stricter approach. The establishment requires customers to lock their phones away for up to two hours. The bar told Axios the policy is meant to build a place that kind of forces you to connect. Okay, so I'm obviously a big fan of this people. People sitting at restaurants with their families and staring at their phones or tablets is just one of the saddest and most common spectacles in modern society. I was at a restaurant with my family the other day and we saw this like you see it everywhere. There was a table next to us, two adults, mom and dad, two kids, all of them looking at screens. I mean, I think the kids were on tablets, the parents were on their phones. Why even go out to eat at that point? Why are you going out to a restaurant? Like I remember back in the 90s when TV dinners were a thing. You don't really hear about TV dinners as much anymore, but TV dinners were, I guess they still sell them. They were, you know, usually a frozen meal that you heated up, just glorified dog food in a tray. But the idea was that you would eat the tea, the eat the, the TV dinner on the couch in front of the tv. And I remember that my parents were adamantly opposed to the idea of families eating dinner in front of the tv. We never did it one time growing up, not once. The thought of it, the thought of it horrified them. And not just because of the, the worry about getting food on the couch. It's also just the thought of sitting down for dinner when you're supposed to be with your family and just watching tv. They is, we never did it. Now, I was a dumb kid, so I, I saw like my friends, families that did this frequently and I was kind of jealous. My friends would eat TV dinners or fast food dinners in front of the tv. And as a kid I was, I was envious. You know, I'm getting delicious home cooked meals that we ate around the table as a family and I'm, I'm looking at the kids in broken homes watching Jeopardy. While they eat chicken nuggets silently next to their mom or whatever and thinking that like they were living like kings because I was, I was stupid as a kid, as, as kids tend to be. But anyway, that was bad. But even that was vastly preferable a lot better to what we have now, this current version, which is eating dinner while looking at your phone. Because at least with a TV dinner that now you're not talking and you're not sitting around looking at each other, you're looking at a screen, you're looking at the tv, that's not great, but at least you're all watching the same thing. At least there's some kind of communal shared experience. At least there are commercial breaks. Maybe you could fit a little conversation in during the commercial breaks or something. I mean, it'd be better to sit at a table and have a conversation. But that, that was better than every member of the table, every member of the family at the table being absorbed in an entirely different stream of mindless content. So it, it's, I mean, it's just, it's awful. Like it's very bad. And if you ever do this at the dinner table or if you allow your kids to do it ever, you just need to stop. I mean this, this is one pretty simple improvement you can make to your life and it's not that hard. But put the phones away when you're, at least when you're sitting at the dinner table with other people. So I'm a big fan of any attempt to fight back against it. Not so much the reward idea. Like I don't think we should be giving adults little treats to reward them for refraining from checking their phone for 12min. But the general idea is a good one. And you know, locking the phone away in a separate location is the best approach. Or even here's an idea that you, that you could think about, we could all think about. If you're going out to dinner as a family and multiple members of your family have a phone, you don't even need to all bring your phone. You consider that that's a revolutionary idea. That's a shocking idea. What if you just didn't even bring your phone? What if you didn't bring your phone in other contexts? Like what. What if you just didn't always bring your phone with you everywhere? And I was thinking about this the other day because I'm trying to be intentional, more intentional about reading at night, you know, reading like actual physical books. I've always been a reader, but recently I've tried to devote more time to it because over the past few years, like a lot of people, I found myself reading less and even having trouble focusing on reading more than I have in the past. And that really distresses me. I don't. I don't like that. So I'm trying to counter program myself. And what I found. This is like the most obvious revelation of all time. But it's kind of a revelation for me because like I said, I'm stupid. But I found that I will read probably 300% more in a night and be much more focused on it, retain more if my phone is simply in another room. If I have my phone in my pocket or sitting next to me on the table or whatever, I will read much less and I'll be much less focused on it. But the simple step of just putting the phone in another room, preferably on another level of the house, that. That makes an enormous difference. You don't even need to lock it in a safe or anything, but just have it somewhere else. Because this is one of the most underrated aspects, I think, of the phone, one of the. One of the underrated hazards of it, which is that, I mean, we think of the phone, we think of all the problems of the phone that come with the phone, and all that is related to when you're using it, when you're looking at it. But the problem is that the phone, the cell phone, is a loud, oppressive, pushy, demanding presence in your life. Even when you're not using it. If it's sitting there next to you or in your pocket, it still claims your attention. Because at any moment, someone could text you or call you, or you could get an email, or there could be something that you just want to look up real quick and check, or it pops into your head and this is. This is my Achilles heel. Is that all? Especially if I'm reading this is. This is. This is what distracts me. So reading something and I encountered like a thought related to what I'm reading pops into my head or a question or anything like that. And so I just look it up on my phone, real Quick, that's interesting thought. I wonder, you know, and I'll just look it up on the phone and then 47 minutes later, like you're watching a video of cats being surprised by cucumbers or so or whatever. And that's the way that it always works. It's this attention sucking black hole that just sits there next to you, lingering over your shoulder. And anyone can barge into your life at any moment through the phone. I mean, this is the thing that we younger people who weren't alive in the before times have no appreciation for this. And I think a lot of us who were alive in the before times before the smartphone have, have lost our appreciative appreciation of it. But it's, it's just very weird to be walking around all the time and where anyone can get a hold of you always. Like you're never out of reach. You're always reachable. That's very bizarre. And human beings never lived that way up until very, very recently. And now we're all living our lives like on call surgeons or something. And that's why you feel, even me like I'll try to leave the house without my phone. I feel. You feel weird about it. What if someone needs to get in contact with me? Why would someone. What? Okay, so what if they do? You're going to be gone for an hour. What could they possibly need to talk to you about that's so urgent that it couldn't wait for an hour? What's the likelihood that if you're running to whatever, do a go running to Rite Aid or something to run an errand, errand, you'll be gone for 47 minutes. What's the likelihood that something's going to come up that's so urgent that you must be able to respond in that moment? Very small likelihood. And yet this is how we all live our lives now. We all live like Batman, waiting for the Bat signal at all times. Except for us. The Bat signal is just any text from any random person who feels like contacting us at any time of day or night. Or it's a group thread, you know, a meandering conversation that goes on for years with no point or purpose. But that again, could just barge into your life, into your day at any time. It's totally insane and I think we've all become slaves to it. So put the phone away. That's my message yet again that I preach from the mountaintops after you watch the show. I mean, obviously watch the show, clearly watch the show, obviously consume my content. That's the good part of the Internet. And then. But after you've done that every day, put the phone away and which you can do right now because I guess we'll wrap the show up there and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America, their statues should not be in the Capitol. History is written by the victors. And since the 1960s, we've been told mostly by people whose ancestors didn't even live here. During the war, the south committed treason. But if the Confederates were traitors, then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason? What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of? Do they know something they're not allowed to say? Today, it's time for the truth. So here it is. Robert E. Lee was a military genius and a man of immense honor. He was beloved by Americans from the north and south for a century after the war. This is the real history of the Civil War. It.