The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1001 - The Trans Militants Must Be Stopped

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Wall Show, children's hospitals around the country are butchering, mutilating, and sterilizing their young patients.

00:00:05.960 New videos reveal just how widespread and depraved this practice is.

00:00:09.960 And that brings us to an important question.

00:00:11.900 What are we going to do about it?

00:00:13.620 I have some ideas.

00:00:14.520 Also, more information is released about the FBI's fishing expedition at Mar-a-Lago.

00:00:18.400 And CBS has figured out why kids these days are fat.

00:00:21.780 It's because of climate change, of course.

00:00:23.300 In our Daily Cancellation, Kamala Harris tries to explain the concept of equity. 1.00

00:00:26.300 It doesn't go well, but in fairness to her, there is no coherent way to explain equity.

00:00:30.000 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:41.020 Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and this battle is now finally leaving D.C. and going to the grassroots.

00:00:46.660 No group in America is better positioned than 40 Days for Life.

00:00:49.360 With about a million volunteers in 1,000 cities, 40 Days for Life holds peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities.

00:00:54.380 They have a larger presence in blue states, with California being their largest state, which is where they're needed the most.

00:00:58.980 So that's very good news.

00:01:00.860 Some former abortion facility directors say these vigils can cause the abortion no-show rate to go as high as 75%, which is detrimental to their abortion business, to say the least.

00:01:09.680 These law-abiding vigils have closed many abortion businesses in America, and nearly half of these closed were in liberal cities, where abortions will remain legal, including closures in San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle.

00:01:20.940 Well, 40 Days for Life is effectively changing hearts and minds in the grassroots to end abortion.

00:01:25.160 Check out their locations and podcasts and free magazine at 40daysforlife.com.

00:01:29.800 Now is not the time for us to back down or think that the fight is over to protect life.

00:01:35.620 In so many ways, it really now just begins.

00:01:37.700 At the very least, it enters a new and very important phase, and that's why we need 40 Days for Life.

00:01:41.260 So for more information on 40 Days for Life, go to 40daysforlife.com.

00:01:45.880 Welcome back to The Matt Wall Show.

00:01:47.440 I have survived barely my harrowing bout with laryngitis, and it has cleared up just in time because there's a lot to talk about.

00:01:54.480 More importantly, there's a lot to do.

00:01:56.400 We are way past the stage where anything can be fixed by simply talking about it.

00:02:01.580 The rot in this house is too deep, too pervasive.

00:02:04.920 We've ignored it for too long, and now we have only two choices left.

00:02:08.660 We can continue to paint over the problem, put it out of sight and out of mind until the floor gives out and the roof caves in and we're all buried.

00:02:16.120 Or we can get to work on some real repairs.

00:02:18.920 Take out the sledgehammers, crowbars, start pulling the rotting pieces out, and replacing them with better material.

00:02:24.920 Now, the latter strategy will be difficult.

00:02:27.820 There's no guarantee that we can salvage what's been neglected for so long, but it gives us a chance at least.

00:02:32.760 It's much better than sitting around waiting for the ceiling to fall on us, especially because this dilapidated old shack that we're living in is increasingly unsafe for our children.

00:02:43.540 So late last week, a video went viral from Boston Children's Hospital advertising what they describe as gender-affirming hysterectomies.

00:02:50.820 In fact, BCH has, or had anyway, dozens of videos on their website and YouTube channel promoting all manner of barbarism and mutilation for minors.

00:02:59.580 For obvious reasons, this one especially caught people's eyes.

00:03:03.320 If you haven't seen it yet, let's watch.

00:03:06.720 Gender-affirming hysterectomy is very similar to most hysterectomies that occur.

00:03:11.800 A hysterectomy itself is the removal of the uterus, the cervix, which is the opening of the uterus,

00:03:16.720 and the fallopian tubes, which are attached to the sides of the uterus.

00:03:20.420 Some gender-affirming hysterectomies will also include the removal of the ovaries, 0.96

00:03:24.200 but that's technically a separate procedure called a bilateral oophrectomy.

00:03:27.780 And not every gender-affirming hysterectomy includes that,

00:03:30.840 and people who are getting gender-affirming hysterectomies do not have to have their ovaries removed.

00:03:35.560 Hmm.

00:03:36.680 Yeah, so a gender-affirming hysterectomy is similar to other forms of hysterectomies

00:03:40.460 in the same way that having your leg eaten off by a shark is similar to having it amputated because of gangrene.

00:03:46.960 You know, they're similar only in the comparative end result of no longer having that body part attached to you,

00:03:52.240 but the similarities end there because in one, you're getting a necessary and life-saving medical procedure,

00:03:58.200 and in the other, you're being mauled by a savage beast.

00:04:02.320 Whether that beast is a shark or a smiley, polite gender-affirmation surgeon, it's the same.

00:04:08.780 You know, naturally, our brave media fact-checkers were on the case as soon as that video went viral.

00:04:15.560 A few days later, a series of fact-checks were posted assuring the public that, in fact,

00:04:20.020 these hysterectomies are not performed on minors at all.

00:04:22.840 They're not. Don't worry. They assure us. That's not happening.

00:04:25.800 Doctors wait until a girl is 18, three years before she can legally buy her own wine cooler, 0.95

00:04:31.220 seven years before she can rent her own car, before they begin removing her reproductive organs. 1.00

00:04:36.560 That's a good thing because it's not like 18-year-olds are notorious for making rash and self-destructive decisions

00:04:41.960 that they'll regret later in life, right?

00:04:43.520 I mean, 18-year-olds are perfectly equipped to make any decision imaginable.

00:04:47.860 But, of course, the fact-checks are also wrong.

00:04:50.200 As a reporter for The Post-Millennial, Christina Buttons, points out,

00:04:53.240 Boston Children's Hospital follows WPATH guidelines,

00:04:55.680 and WPATH recommends hysterectomies and genital surgeries for 17-year-olds

00:05:00.680 and double mastectomies for 15-year-olds. 0.94

00:05:04.040 Also, she notes BCH will perform a phalloplasty, 0.93

00:05:06.660 which is the creation of a fake penis using the severed skin from the forearm, at the age of 18. 0.93

00:05:11.960 But hysterectomies have to be completed three months before that, 0.67

00:05:14.940 which means that they could be done at 17.

00:05:17.320 But this all really amounts to hair splitting.

00:05:19.340 Whether gender-affirming hysterectomies are performed on girls when they're 17 and a half

00:05:23.800 or six months later, the horror and atrocity is that they're being performed at all.

00:05:30.420 And while the trans cult tries to confuse the conversation 1.00

00:05:32.980 by quibbling over the exact age in which these various brands of butchery are inflicted on young people, 0.99

00:05:38.680 the incontrovertible fact remains that girls as young as 13 are having their breasts chopped off,

00:05:45.320 and both boys and girls as young as 16, if not younger,

00:05:48.380 are undergoing irreversible forms of genital mutilation.

00:05:52.340 And even before any of that, prepubescent children are being castrated and sterilized.

00:05:57.020 And this is happening in every state and in hundreds of hospitals

00:06:00.740 and other establishments across the entire country.

00:06:04.300 Like the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, for example,

00:06:06.540 which also went viral a few days ago for its own video promoting this particular type of child abuse.

00:06:12.180 Listen.

00:06:13.500 Hi, my name is Priya Dar.

00:06:15.060 I'm one of the doctors at the Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health

00:06:18.040 here at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.

00:06:20.220 I wanted to talk to you guys today a little bit about puberty blockers.

00:06:24.460 Puberty blockers are basically a medication that says,

00:06:27.600 hey, let's just put a pause on puberty.

00:06:30.180 And that can be really beneficial for younger kids who have already started the puberty process

00:06:34.940 who either might go through a lot of psychological distress as they go through puberty

00:06:40.440 if they're struggling with gender dysphoria or for somebody who's saying,

00:06:45.180 hey, I'm not really sure if I feel comfortable in my body or what gender I truly identify with.

00:06:52.420 They aren't comfortable in their bodies.

00:06:54.240 And so doctors will irreversibly damage their bodies in order to ensure that they will never be comfortable in their bodies.

00:07:01.860 That's the general strategy with puberty blockers.

00:07:04.300 This is also why the claims that surgeries are held until 18 are not only objectively and wildly false,

00:07:10.840 it's just not true, but they're also irrelevant.

00:07:12.880 Because no matter when the surgeries are performed, the stage is set physically and medically before these children even hit puberty.

00:07:21.420 They're put on the conveyor belt heading towards the meat grinder,

00:07:25.580 and most will stay on until they're fed right into it.

00:07:29.460 That's how this is all designed.

00:07:32.220 Indeed, they're put on the assembly line well before the onset of puberty, years before.

00:07:36.600 Another Boston Children's Hospital video promotes the idea that children can identify themselves as trans from the minute they're born.

00:07:45.560 Listen.

00:07:47.660 So most of the patients that we have in the GEMS clinic actually know their gender, usually around the age of puberty.

00:07:53.180 But a good portion of children do know as early as seemingly from the womb.

00:07:57.320 And they will usually express their gender identity as very young children.

00:08:00.960 Some, as soon as they can talk, they might say phrases such as,

00:08:03.700 I'm a girl, or I'm a boy, or I'm going to be a woman, or I'm going to be a mom.

00:08:08.380 Kids know very, very early.

00:08:10.120 So in the GEMS clinic, we see a variety of young children all the way down to ages two and three,

00:08:15.120 and usually up to the ages of nine.

00:08:17.540 When they come into the clinic, they'll see one of our psychologists,

00:08:20.380 and we'll be talking to them about their gender. 0.92

00:08:23.400 We'll be talking to their family about how to best support that child

00:08:26.320 and how to make sure that that child has the space and support to explore their gender

00:08:30.680 and do well throughout their development.

00:08:33.860 And we'll be answering any parent questions.

00:08:35.960 A lot of parents do have questions, and so we answer those questions.

00:08:39.040 The biggest piece of advice I give parents who are coming through the gender clinic 1.00

00:08:42.620 at Boston Children's Hospital is to just be supportive.

00:08:46.420 Sometimes you might not understand.

00:08:48.100 Sometimes you feel like you don't know the terms,

00:08:49.760 or you don't kind of get exactly what the child means when they say that they might be this gender,

00:08:54.520 but the biggest thing you can do is just love your child and support them

00:08:58.440 and just allow them to express themselves.

00:09:00.880 That's the biggest protector as well against negative mental health effects

00:09:04.120 such as depression, suicidality, anxiety that we worry about

00:09:08.020 for our gender-diverse kids and young adults.

00:09:10.740 So that support from a parent is one of the best protective factors

00:09:15.200 and one of the best things they can do.

00:09:18.400 From the womb. 0.82

00:09:19.760 You know, children, babies, just out of the womb,

00:09:24.200 don't even recognize, they don't have a concept of their own selves.

00:09:28.920 They have no selfhood.

00:09:29.760 They don't recognize themselves as being distinct entities apart from their mothers.

00:09:35.440 They see them and their mothers as being one and the same.

00:09:38.860 So, but a child with no concept of self can yet have a concept of gender.

00:09:47.500 How do we know this?

00:09:48.480 Well, because they might refuse to get a haircut when they're toddlers or they're peeing the wrong way

00:09:53.420 or they're trying on a sibling's clothing or they're playing with opposite gender toys, she says.

00:09:59.360 So according to Boston Children's Hospital, literally every toddler who has ever been born

00:10:04.840 or will ever be born is trans because that describes the behavior of all toddlers everywhere for all time.

00:10:12.440 Now, if it seems like they're casting the widest imaginable net in order to catch the most children they can and put them all on a path to sterilization and butchery before they can even talk, 0.96

00:10:22.780 well, that's because that's exactly what these monsters are doing.

00:10:27.200 They're doing it with full knowledge of what they're doing and why.

00:10:30.880 And they've done it up until this moment without much resistance from the public.

00:10:36.600 And that's why I'm in the very early stages of trying to organize a national coordinated effort to fight back against this evil.

00:10:50.300 It is to our shame that there aren't rallies and vigils outside of every hospital, every clinic where kids are being butchered and sterilized.

00:11:00.580 It is an indictment on our entire culture and everyone in it that there has not been mass marches on Washington with hundreds of thousands of people speaking out against this.

00:11:10.860 There should be a full-scale assault encompassing activism, lawsuits, political action.

00:11:17.680 We should be pressing every pressure point all at once.

00:11:22.780 Now, so far, there has been resistance, but it's been haphazard, localized, disconnected, usually quite small in scale.

00:11:30.680 I want to change that.

00:11:32.760 I can't do it on my own, obviously.

00:11:34.020 That's the point.

00:11:34.600 Nobody can.

00:11:35.060 But I can use my platform and resources that I have to mobilize an overwhelming national effort to save our kids from this madness.

00:11:43.360 And that's what I'm going to try to do.

00:11:46.640 You know, it's really just a matter of where do we begin.

00:11:49.360 Maybe we begin at Boston Children's Hospital.

00:11:52.500 Maybe we begin with thousands and thousands of people outside of that building.

00:12:00.100 We'll have to figure it out.

00:12:01.180 And I do expect that if we really ramp up our efforts to fight back against this, things will get ugly.

00:12:08.920 They already have.

00:12:10.740 For me, personally, they have.

00:12:12.040 This weekend, trans activists on Twitter developed a new strategy for coming after me personally. 0.89

00:12:16.960 They decided to start tweeting that I'm a child abuser.

00:12:20.640 Now, there's, of course, no basis at all for this charge.

00:12:23.400 It's not grounded in anything whatsoever.

00:12:25.080 However, they simply invented it out of whole cloth, knowing that defamatory claims, if they take on a life of their own and are filtered through mostly anonymous accounts that would be difficult to sue for defamation, can be as harmful as they are baseless.

00:12:37.720 Now, they have no moral standards.

00:12:39.340 They have no capacity for shame or guilt.

00:12:41.920 And so there's no lie they won't tell.

00:12:43.440 There's no libel they'll shy away from.

00:12:45.100 This is certainly not the first time that these people have tried to mass, you know, have tried mass defamation against me as a strategy.

00:12:52.740 Since my film came out in June, since before that, really, but especially since the film, I've been constantly slandered and defamed.

00:12:58.540 On top of that, they've tried to get me kicked off of every platform through one mass reporting effort after another.

00:13:03.580 I've been doxed.

00:13:04.720 They've threatened to kill me many times.

00:13:07.200 Things have happened that I can't even talk about for security reasons.

00:13:10.220 But suffice it to say that the threats have made it close to home.

00:13:15.520 But as far as I'm concerned, these are all prices worth paying.

00:13:18.460 In fact, every bit of slander, every death threat, every dirty trick from these people only radicalizes me even more.

00:13:26.500 If the backlash has caused me to reflect on anything, it's only made me reflect on why I'm not doing even more to oppose these people.

00:13:34.520 So after that sort of reflection and reconsideration, I've decided to double down, triple down.

00:13:42.200 I've decided to be even more radical and extreme in the fight against this scourge.

00:13:47.680 I've decided to keep doing everything they don't want me to do and saying everything they don't want me to say, except I'll do it more and say it louder. 0.99

00:13:55.740 And I'll be a bigger pain in the ass than I've ever been. 0.98

00:13:57.900 And I would ask everyone else to make the same pledge. 0.99

00:14:03.820 Because we can't sit around waiting for things to improve anymore.

00:14:07.160 I mean, this has to stop.

00:14:08.940 It just has to.

00:14:12.080 And we have to make it stop.

00:14:14.360 Starting now.

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00:15:51.940 You know, when I first came down with the jitus, laryngitis, I actually thought it would be not so bad at first.

00:15:59.260 Kind of a nice break.

00:16:00.820 I don't have to talk, you know.

00:16:02.300 But I quickly discovered that not having a voice really makes you an invalid, whether you like it or not, especially in a house with four little kids.

00:16:09.520 You know, my loud sort of booming man voice really comes in handy when it comes, when it was hurting the cats at home.

00:16:15.580 But I don't have that.

00:16:17.120 It's just, it's really difficult.

00:16:19.900 So if I, all week, if I needed to stop the kids from doing something or tell them to do something, I had to like wave and flap my arms around and use improvised sign language.

00:16:27.580 And even if they knew what I was saying, they would act like they didn't.

00:16:30.940 And I knew what game they were playing.

00:16:32.640 So my son would be like literally climbing the wall and I'd start flailing around.

00:16:37.220 Hey, don't do that.

00:16:39.400 And he would just look at me and go, what, daddy?

00:16:40.980 I can't, I can't hear you.

00:16:42.380 I'm sorry, I can't.

00:16:43.180 I would come closer to hear you, but I'm climbing the wall right now and I don't know what you're telling me.

00:16:47.880 So sorry, daddy.

00:16:51.040 These are the ways that you're taking advantage of.

00:16:53.480 Hopefully my voice holds up though, at least for one show anyway.

00:16:57.500 Because I want to start with this.

00:16:59.260 This was a story that we were tracking last week.

00:17:03.140 We talked about last week for the one show where I could talk.

00:17:06.640 Eli Ehrlich is a trans activist and influencer who, it was revealed by Libs of TikTok,

00:17:11.120 posted on Instagram a few months ago, announcing a plan to send prescription hormone pills

00:17:15.680 to anyone who wants them across the country, including minors.

00:17:19.480 In circumvention of states that are outlawing these drugs for kids.

00:17:24.100 Also in circumvention of like every law, of every federal law.

00:17:27.060 I mean, you can't, you can't just take prescription pills and mail them to somebody.

00:17:30.560 Much less can you organize a distribution network for the illegal distribution and dealing of prescription drugs,

00:17:38.220 which is what Eli Ehrlich confessed to doing.

00:17:40.800 And it turned out that Ehrlich had talked about this plan many times before.

00:17:45.700 We played the YouTube video with a sort of a confession, which has now been deleted.

00:17:50.520 There were other Instagram posts as well.

00:17:52.260 And then there were these other Twitter posts, which Libs of TikTok dug up a couple of days ago,

00:17:59.140 just to show you how often Ehrlich has talked about this.

00:18:02.920 This is on Twitter.

00:18:03.720 This is in violation of Twitter's rules, by the way, of course.

00:18:05.900 Like you're not allowed on any of these platforms.

00:18:08.220 According to their rules, you cannot use their platforms to facilitate the commission of a crime.

00:18:13.880 And so Ehrlich posted in May.

00:18:16.120 He says, as I've said before, if anyone needs hormones who can't get access, message me.

00:18:19.320 I have a network with years of extra doses.

00:18:21.940 This is only a Band-Aid solution to an ongoing political problem,

00:18:24.640 but we can't rely on the state or medical institutions to keep us safe and healthy.

00:18:29.260 Update.

00:18:29.840 We now have a full network of trans people with prescriptions for testosterone shots and testogel, too.

00:18:35.000 We refuse to let Texas prevent trans youth from accessing care.

00:18:37.860 That was in February.

00:18:40.580 Also in February.

00:18:41.440 After reading about the sickening new Texas Directive Against Trans Youth,

00:18:44.120 I will personally mail estradiol and speranolactone to anyone worried about the government coming after your kids.

00:18:51.100 F-U, Greg Abbott.

00:18:53.600 Okay, so this is, and testosterone, by the way, a Schedule 3 controlled substance.

00:18:59.740 But it's being announced on Twitter, on YouTube, on Instagram, this illegal drug distribution thing.

00:19:07.580 Plan.

00:19:08.780 Now, I recommended last week reporting this to the DEA.

00:19:12.000 And if you haven't done that yet, then, now, I know it's the DEA.

00:19:16.640 The chances that they'll do anything are relatively slim.

00:19:19.600 You should report it anyway.

00:19:20.740 And if you haven't yet, go to the DEA's website.

00:19:22.780 It's very easy to go Google it, find the tip line, and send the tip in.

00:19:29.720 Ehrlich also lives, I believe, in New York City.

00:19:32.220 So if you want to contact local law enforcement, if you haven't done that yet, I know a lot of people have,

00:19:36.100 you can contact local law enforcement, let them know they have a confessed drug dealer running this prescription drug ring in the city.

00:19:42.000 Maybe they should want to do something about that.

00:19:43.640 I also mentioned that Ehrlich is a Ph.D. candidate at University of California, Santa Cruz.

00:19:48.040 Now, I said last week that I'd give the leadership there a day to respond and to tell us what steps they would take to address this

00:19:54.920 before I started giving out their contact information.

00:19:57.520 Well, they never did address it, and I was out for a week.

00:20:00.340 So they actually ended up getting a week, and now it's time to escalate.

00:20:06.280 University of California, Santa Cruz is a public university.

00:20:09.740 These officials have no rights to ignore this issue.

00:20:15.440 They just don't have the right to do it.

00:20:17.080 You can't ignore it.

00:20:19.520 You're a public institution.

00:20:21.440 There's a confessed drug dealer sending drugs to kids at your school.

00:20:26.020 You can't just ignore the public when we're concerned about it.

00:20:31.140 They have to tell us what they're going to do.

00:20:33.160 So here's what we're going to do.

00:20:34.720 First of all, I want to put up on the screen, we have an organizational flow chart for UC Santa Cruz.

00:20:40.240 I want you to take a look at that.

00:20:41.720 Maybe take a screenshot of it or something.

00:20:43.740 These are, and you see some email addresses there as well, but there you see all of the whole leadership at UC Santa Cruz.

00:20:51.080 You see all their names there.

00:20:53.480 And these are all people that we should be reaching out to to ask, what are they going to do about this?

00:21:00.080 A PhD candidate has confessed to a highly illegal prescription drug distribution ring targeting minors.

00:21:08.140 What are you going to do about it is the question.

00:21:10.300 But we should start, I think, with the chancellor of the university, who is Cynthia Larive.

00:21:19.560 And we'll put her contact information up there.

00:21:22.720 Now, you can email her, chancellor at ucsc.edu.

00:21:26.780 You can call her 831-459-4291.

00:21:30.440 I would start with her.

00:21:31.160 I mean, she's at the top of the hierarchy. 0.99

00:21:32.740 She's the leader.

00:21:33.740 So she should be the first one we contact.

00:21:35.060 There's also Peter Beal, who has his pronouns, of course, listed on his profile on the site.

00:21:42.720 He's the vice provost and the dean of graduate studies.

00:21:45.560 So this is a PhD candidate.

00:21:46.680 Also a good person to contact.

00:21:47.880 831-459-3336.

00:21:51.100 Or pbeal, B-I-E-H-L, at ucsc.edu.

00:21:57.260 So I want you to call and email these two officials at the university and ask them what

00:22:03.680 they are doing to investigate the confessed drug dealer at the university, confessed felon.

00:22:09.360 If they continue to ignore us, next I will find the board of trustees and I will find the

00:22:15.340 donors at the school.

00:22:16.900 And we're going to start reaching out to them.

00:22:19.600 And after that, if we still don't get a response, then we're going to show up there with a crowd

00:22:24.520 of people.

00:22:24.880 No, I'll come there personally because you cannot ignore us.

00:22:29.540 That is not an option.

00:22:32.320 If this was anybody else, if this was not a trans person, if this wasn't hormone prescription

00:22:38.040 pills, but some other prescription being distributed as part of this illegal drug dealing ring, we

00:22:45.860 all know the university would have kicked this person out of the school by now.

00:22:49.120 Instead, they want to give them, you know, instead it's, well, we're going to give all,

00:22:56.060 not even benefit of the doubt.

00:22:57.460 It's just all the, it is a get out of jail free card, literally.

00:23:01.880 But that's not going to be acceptable.

00:23:07.040 So again, what are you going to do about it, university?

00:23:09.640 You have to tell us.

00:23:11.140 I will not allow you to ignore us.

00:23:13.860 You cannot.

00:23:14.960 It is not an option.

00:23:16.520 All right.

00:23:20.080 Let's move to this.

00:23:21.460 Daily Beast says, former President Donald Trump is under investigation for several violations

00:23:25.940 of the Espionage Act and illegally keeping top secret government documents when he left

00:23:31.180 the White House last year, according to court documents unsealed Friday afternoon.

00:23:33.960 And the FBI was spurred to move so aggressively and search the former President of Mar-a-Lago

00:23:37.920 Oceanside Estate in Florida because some of the documents they were seeking pertain to

00:23:41.140 the nation's nuclear weapons.

00:23:44.560 This is, of course, by the way, this is not, this is, this is the first time, right, that

00:23:48.520 the intelligence community has told us stories about things related to nuclear weapons in

00:23:53.980 order to justify some outrageous activity that they're engaging in.

00:23:57.780 This has never happened before, right?

00:24:00.780 I mean, I might be able to think of one or two other times maybe.

00:24:04.240 It's hard to remember.

00:24:05.340 That was so long ago.

00:24:06.580 The FBI search warrant lists three federal statutes to justify the search of the Palm

00:24:10.160 Beach mansion.

00:24:12.400 That means the Justice Department, in a historic move, is investigating the former president

00:24:15.500 for violating the Espionage Act, mishandling federal records, and falsifying official documents

00:24:19.760 to obstruct an investigation.

00:24:20.760 Now, the Espionage Act, totally absurd to use on President Trump.

00:24:27.060 And Trump has repeatedly stated that he declassified all of these documents before bringing them

00:24:34.980 to his house, which is something that he is able to do.

00:24:39.280 I mean, he, that's, that's what you're able to do as, as a president.

00:24:41.920 You can just like wave your hand, essentially, over a box of documents and say, this is declassified.

00:24:47.580 But it is pretty much that easy.

00:24:50.500 You can declassify anything you want as a president.

00:24:54.680 So this was obviously a trolling attempt, and not trolling in the sense of my favorite

00:24:59.120 pastime, but trolling as in the fishing technique, which is, I guess, my second favorite pastime.

00:25:03.400 This is just throwing some lines in the water, drifting across the lake, and hoping you get a bite.

00:25:11.040 That's all this is.

00:25:14.420 Now, you know, there's a lot of people making predictions about where this goes from here.

00:25:19.760 A lot of, you know, hear a lot of conservatives saying, well, Trump's going to get frog marched.

00:25:23.640 They're going to put him in cuffs.

00:25:24.820 They're going to, you know, and maybe they will do all of that.

00:25:27.320 But they also have to know, obviously, that through this action, they have boosted Trump's

00:25:37.640 2024 chances considerably, and especially in the primaries.

00:25:42.700 Now, how much they're going to help him in the general, I'm not sure.

00:25:45.040 But the fact that they've helped him in the primaries, to put him, you know, he was already

00:25:50.080 at the top of the heap among Republican challengers.

00:25:53.600 But to make that divide even wider, I mean, they've done quite a bit there.

00:26:00.060 If they were to put President Trump in handcuffs and have that image out there, well, then

00:26:07.640 that would just, that would all the more solidify, if he wasn't already solidified, as the almost

00:26:15.240 certain nominee in 2024.

00:26:17.960 Which does make you wonder about conspiracy theories.

00:26:21.660 And I've heard others asking this question, like, did they do this to intentionally boost

00:26:30.320 Trump and drown out DeSantis?

00:26:33.800 We've been hearing the drumbeat for a long time, and there was even, there was someone

00:26:38.040 today who posted it again, some lib blue check, I don't remember who, who said, you know,

00:26:42.900 DeSantis, he's even more dangerous than Trump.

00:26:46.660 He's even more dangerous.

00:26:47.860 And that's what they really believe.

00:26:50.420 They believe that DeSantis is a greater danger to their agenda than Donald Trump is.

00:26:55.340 I think they're probably right.

00:26:56.420 I think, I think they're right in that assumption.

00:26:59.440 So all I'm saying is that if they wanted to make sure that Trump is not the nominee and

00:27:05.420 not DeSantis, what they did last week would be the, there'd be no better plan than that.

00:27:11.440 That's like the best possible thing they could have done to ensure that Trump is the nominee

00:27:15.680 and not DeSantis.

00:27:18.280 So that's the conspiracy theory.

00:27:20.500 Did they do this intentionally to boost Trump and drown out DeSantis?

00:27:26.140 And also put DeSantis in a position where he feels like he has to support Trump for president

00:27:31.260 rather than running himself.

00:27:32.280 You know, it's not a crazy theory.

00:27:37.040 The only reason that I don't, I understand why people have theorized about it.

00:27:41.260 The only reason I don't subscribe to it is that, and maybe I, maybe I underestimate them

00:27:46.840 to my own detriment, but I don't think the regime is smart enough to play chess on that

00:27:51.600 level.

00:27:53.600 From everything I've seen, they're not quite smart enough for that.

00:27:57.040 Because that would actually be a brilliant chess move.

00:27:58.960 I'm not sure if they're that smart.

00:28:02.180 I think it's, it's more likely that they are just, they can't help themselves.

00:28:07.680 I mean, this has been the story with the left and the left's approach to Trump ever since

00:28:13.680 he showed up on the scene.

00:28:15.000 They cannot help themselves.

00:28:18.020 Every, all of the freak outs, all the panicking, the way they constantly talk about him, keep

00:28:24.000 him in the headlines.

00:28:24.620 It only helps him.

00:28:25.800 And, but they can't help it because they hate him so much.

00:28:30.880 And they're so emotional that they can't control themselves.

00:28:36.620 Now, we also have to keep in mind, too, that we're talking about bureaucracies.

00:28:41.820 You know, we're talking about the government.

00:28:43.560 And so there are going to be a lot of different motivations playing into this.

00:28:46.200 So maybe at some level, somewhere, there are some people pulling the strings with, with

00:28:53.000 some more intention behind it.

00:28:55.980 I don't know.

00:28:57.720 All right.

00:28:58.120 CBS News has noticed that kids today are fat.

00:29:02.280 And I think we've all probably noted that.

00:29:05.580 And they found the culprit.

00:29:07.480 It's not what you think.

00:29:08.980 Or maybe it is.

00:29:09.900 If you think just like these people.

00:29:11.720 God pity you.

00:29:12.360 There's a new study showing how climate change, specifically higher temperatures, is making

00:29:19.400 our children more inactive and more obese.

00:29:22.720 The study published in a journal Temperature found today's children are 30 percent less

00:29:28.320 aerobically fit than their parents were at their age.

00:29:31.320 Fewer children are reaching the World Health Organization's recommendation of 60 minutes of

00:29:36.880 exercise a day.

00:29:38.100 Now, listen, it has been a lot hotter, hotter, and the weather has been crazy.

00:29:42.660 But I think it also has to do with technology.

00:29:45.180 You know?

00:29:45.560 Yeah.

00:29:46.000 It's one thing not to go outside, but these kids don't go outside because they can stay

00:29:50.220 inside, be on their phones, play video games, and be social without having to go outside

00:29:54.620 and be social.

00:29:55.960 Okay.

00:29:56.380 Well, it's not a lot hotter, first of all.

00:29:58.580 According to the government's own climate change website, climate.gov, you can go there.

00:30:03.120 Temperatures have risen two degrees Fahrenheit since pre-industrial times.

00:30:08.100 So that's if we're going with their data and we're just going to accept it on face value.

00:30:12.380 Then two degrees in 150 years.

00:30:18.440 According to this information, we're about a half a degree hotter, maybe, than we were

00:30:23.740 when I was a kid in the 90s.

00:30:24.920 And this counts as a lot hotter.

00:30:28.840 It explains why kids don't go outside.

00:30:31.980 Turn the temperature down by half a degree and it changes, or turn it up, rather, by half

00:30:37.080 a degree and it changes everything?

00:30:39.860 Really?

00:30:40.360 But what about the seasons?

00:30:43.280 So every time these people talk about climate change, they just ignore the concept of seasons.

00:30:47.080 I mean, the temperature does drop by a lot more than half a degree for kids today because

00:30:54.240 it's not summer temperatures all year long unless you live on the equator.

00:30:59.000 So do kids suddenly go outside and play in the fall, in the spring, in the winter, in the

00:31:06.860 early summer?

00:31:07.380 No, they don't.

00:31:10.600 Also, by the way, you can look at obesity rates by state and there is no correlation between

00:31:17.540 average temperature and obesity.

00:31:20.360 West Virginia is one of the fattest states, but it's got a mean annual temperature of 56

00:31:26.000 degrees.

00:31:26.600 West Virginia is beautiful.

00:31:29.360 The temperature is, at least for my taste, the temperature is almost always great.

00:31:34.660 It's a beautiful place, a beautiful state to go and run around outside, and yet it's the

00:31:40.420 second fattest state in the country.

00:31:43.000 Florida is, on average, 20 degrees or more hotter, and yet it's one of the skinniest states.

00:31:51.240 And this becomes even more, you know, this lack of correlation becomes even more apparent

00:31:56.620 when you look at it on a global scale.

00:31:59.040 Okay, because there are a great many very hot, tropical, you know, climates where people

00:32:12.720 are not only not obese, but oftentimes famished, starving.

00:32:17.800 You know, their ribs are poking out of their bodies.

00:32:21.880 And why is that?

00:32:23.220 Well, because this is about food.

00:32:25.180 Okay, obesity is about food.

00:32:28.300 It's about the foods you put in your body.

00:32:31.000 It's how many calories you put in your body versus how many you burn.

00:32:37.040 That's where obesity comes from.

00:32:38.940 That's it.

00:32:40.100 That is the whole story of obesity.

00:32:44.000 If you are obese, it is because you are taking in a lot more calories than you're burning.

00:32:51.180 End of discussion.

00:32:52.240 And that's why in third world countries, they don't seem to have the fat gene, surprisingly.

00:33:00.520 Why is that?

00:33:01.180 Because they're not eating enough.

00:33:03.020 And if you don't eat enough, then instead of being overweight, you're going to be very

00:33:06.140 much underweight.

00:33:08.880 So why are kids fat?

00:33:10.700 I mean, it is an important question.

00:33:13.380 It is something we should be talking about. 0.99

00:33:14.920 But they're fat because they're eating garbage food. 0.99

00:33:20.520 And they're sitting around on their phones all day. 0.98

00:33:23.460 We hear the CBS guy at the end.

00:33:24.960 He makes mention of that.

00:33:26.100 Well, I think it has something to do with technology, too.

00:33:27.940 It's not just something to do with technology.

00:33:30.740 That along with the food, that's the whole story.

00:33:34.400 50% of 50% right there.

00:33:37.100 The food is bad.

00:33:38.060 And kids are sitting around on their phones all day.

00:33:43.200 Doesn't matter how beautiful the temperature is outside.

00:33:46.940 And it's even worse.

00:33:47.840 Like, it's...

00:33:49.480 You know, this is...

00:33:50.700 We've gone way beyond mere laziness or anything like that.

00:33:54.600 Kids...

00:33:55.160 Many kids today no longer have just the innate desire to go run around outside.

00:34:04.580 Okay, and that should be innate.

00:34:08.260 Now, I know for my own kids, we don't give them phones.

00:34:10.380 We don't do technology.

00:34:12.120 We don't...

00:34:12.540 We have a TV.

00:34:13.320 We don't let them watch it that much, though.

00:34:15.160 And my kids can certainly be lazy.

00:34:17.080 Don't get me wrong about that.

00:34:18.640 But they still have this youthful, natural energy where they just...

00:34:23.560 They want to be outside.

00:34:24.800 I mean, I hear all the...

00:34:26.440 Well, it's too hot for kids to go outside.

00:34:28.020 We live in Tennessee.

00:34:29.940 It's like 6,000 degrees here all the time with a humidity of 6,000%.

00:34:34.020 And my kids will go run around outside.

00:34:36.800 We have to tell them to come in so they don't get heat exhaustion.

00:34:41.260 And that's normal for kids.

00:34:43.540 That doesn't make my kids special.

00:34:44.880 Quite the opposite.

00:34:45.400 It just makes them normal kids.

00:34:48.600 But for a lot of kids, they've become so numb, so sort of dead to the world,

00:34:54.000 that they don't even have the desire to run outside and explore and go into the woods and just whatever kids do.

00:35:01.860 You know, we all tell the stories about when we were kids and you'd go out and, you know,

00:35:05.600 you'd go out at 7 o'clock in the morning, you'd come back, you wouldn't be back until dinner.

00:35:08.740 Well, that's not just a get-off-my-lawn, you know, back-in-my-day kind of rant.

00:35:18.720 It is an observation about a wide-sweeping social change that has happened in this culture.

00:35:26.200 And it is a horrible change.

00:35:29.380 I mean, we still really cannot conceive of what this is going to be like in the future.

00:35:41.540 To have a generation of kids raised on this stuff, raised on screens, utterly dependent on them from toddler on.

00:35:53.100 What does that look like?

00:35:54.700 What kind of world are we living in in 40 years, 50 years?

00:35:56.800 I mean, certainly it's going to be a fat world, even fatter than it is now.

00:35:59.380 But in a lot of ways, that's like the least of our problems.

00:36:06.420 All right, so this is kind of old news, but I've had it earmarked for over a week.

00:36:12.160 And I have to say something about it.

00:36:15.020 It's the kind of thing I just have to comment on.

00:36:17.660 So, all right, we know that ESPN sports commentators have an average IQ somewhere slightly below like a hermit crab.

00:36:24.560 Though perhaps slightly above an oyster, I'll give them that.

00:36:27.540 I'm not totally convinced on the latter point. 1.00

00:36:29.380 I mean, they are very dumb, is the point. 0.99

00:36:31.260 They're also left-wing hacks. 0.99

00:36:33.340 Yet the most important thing that I'm always reminding people about, the sports commentators, is that they are, with rare exception, embarrassed to be sports commentators.

00:36:42.660 There's nothing at all ignoble or shameful about the profession in and of itself.

00:36:47.460 We have sports commentators here at The Daily Wire.

00:36:50.120 Crane & Company.

00:36:51.120 Very talented, intelligent, put together a really good show.

00:36:54.000 There's nothing wrong with talking about sports and that's your job.

00:36:58.240 But the ESPN brand of sports analysts, they take a different approach.

00:37:01.160 They apparently find their vocation to be lacking in importance.

00:37:05.940 And so their egos and delusions of grandeur lead them to conclude that they can't simply talk about sports and leave it at that.

00:37:12.360 They have to have important things to say, right?

00:37:15.040 They have to start conversations.

00:37:17.760 They have to be thought leaders.

00:37:20.360 And it's just a problem to be a thought leader when you don't have any thoughts.

00:37:24.420 And so they attempt to be culturally and politically relevant in ways that strain their poor, tiny brains and lead to extremely embarrassing episodes like this from former NBA player turned NBA commentator Jalen Rose.

00:37:38.780 He took to social media a little while ago.

00:37:41.160 It was a week or two ago to offer his thoughts on the history of Mount Rushmore.

00:37:46.520 Now, if you at any point in your life have wondered about Jalen Rose's opinions vis-a-vis Mount Rushmore, well, here you go.

00:37:55.040 Why do you think Washington changed their name from Redskins?

00:38:00.700 I do a show that didn't say that word for eight years.

00:38:06.080 And my co-host David Jacobi, we both said they're going to change the name one day.

00:38:10.680 Why?

00:38:11.860 Because it's offensive.

00:38:13.780 What about the Cleveland Indians?

00:38:15.280 Same thing.

00:38:15.960 Why did they change the name?

00:38:18.160 Because it's offensive.

00:38:19.380 So, I want to continue to challenge myself and to challenge you to do something.

00:38:28.700 Can we retire using Mount Rushmore?

00:38:30.960 That should be offensive to all of us, especially Native Americans, indigenous people, who were the first people here before Christopher Columbus.

00:38:41.280 That land was stolen for them when it was discovered that it contained gold.

00:38:46.720 And 25 years later, to add insult to injury, four American presidents were put on what we call Mount Rushmore.

00:38:58.140 On the top of the dead bodies that is buried right underneath.

00:39:07.220 So, I call for you and for myself.

00:39:10.800 I'm owning this too.

00:39:12.280 Let's stop using the term Mount Rushmore.

00:39:14.960 When we're talking about our favorite rappers, talking about our favorite movies, we're talking about our favorite players.

00:39:20.720 I know you're going to see this video, and I know you're going to take action.

00:39:25.980 No, I'm not.

00:39:26.780 I'm not going to take any action at all.

00:39:28.620 This guy's at the beach.

00:39:30.480 Beautiful day.

00:39:31.300 And he's sitting there thinking about why he's offended by Mount Rushmore.

00:39:35.020 What kind of mind works that way? 1.00

00:39:40.580 And, of course, needless to say, this might make it onto the Mount Rushmore of stupid opinions. 1.00

00:39:44.580 But let's back it up. 1.00

00:39:45.260 He begins by asking why the Redskins changed their name.

00:39:48.880 He says it's because the name is offensive.

00:39:50.720 Now, there was a time when a jock, right, a former athlete, would rather drown himself in the nearest river than publicly admit to getting their feelings hurt by a sports mascot.

00:40:03.540 Just talk about changes through time.

00:40:07.200 To be an athlete, talk about, well, it's an offensive mascot.

00:40:13.420 You know, there was a time when no man at all, but certainly no athlete, would speak that way.

00:40:19.080 He then claims that the Cleveland Indians is also an offensive name.

00:40:22.900 Yet he, like every other member of the PC brigade, can't begin to explain why.

00:40:27.840 If the term Indian is so insulting, then why do the Indians themselves use it?

00:40:34.720 In fact, I went to the National Congress of American Indians website.

00:40:37.960 The National Congress of American Indians website.

00:40:42.100 And found literally dozens of tribal organizations that all have the word Indian in their names.

00:40:48.420 Dozens of actual groups of Indians calling themselves Indians.

00:40:54.700 Why is it offensive?

00:40:57.280 Then, of course, he moves on to the topic at hand, talking about Mount Rushmore, why it's offensive.

00:41:00.780 He says it's, you know, hurtful and traumatizing to the indigenous people who Rose says were there first and, you know, had their land stolen.

00:41:10.340 And then face the added indignity of having four presidents carved into the mountain right over top the dead bodies.

00:41:17.320 Now, as to that last claim, I can tell you that Mount Rushmore is carved into granite.

00:41:21.920 So I highly doubt that there were grave sites desecrated.

00:41:26.600 I don't think they were burying people in granite.

00:41:28.900 That would seem like a rather, it's an impractical way of disposing of bodies.

00:41:33.100 To bury them inside a granite rock face.

00:41:38.480 But did we steal the land, as Rose claims?

00:41:40.800 No, the Black Hills, where the monument is located, have changed hands many times over the centuries.

00:41:47.840 The Lakota most recently had it, before the Americans had it.

00:41:51.920 Before them, it was the Cheyenne.

00:41:53.780 Before them, it was another tribe.

00:41:55.360 On down through the years.

00:41:57.200 Different groups of people fighting and killing over that piece of land.

00:42:01.160 The, quote, indigenous people were not a monolith.

00:42:03.740 They were not homogenous.

00:42:05.320 They were not a united people or culture or nation.

00:42:08.200 It doesn't even make any sense to talk about them in that way.

00:42:12.000 That's not how they saw themselves.

00:42:13.340 It's not, that's not the, they all just happened to live on this continent.

00:42:15.820 And they were fighting and killing each other over the land for thousands of years.

00:42:25.500 They were warring factions who slaughtered each other mercilessly.

00:42:30.360 The Americans couldn't steal the Black Hills from the Lakota for the same reason that, you know, 0.99

00:42:34.180 you couldn't be accused of stealing a car from a thief who just stole it from somebody else.

00:42:40.940 Right?

00:42:41.380 I mean, imagine you had a car that is just perpetually stolen so often that we don't even know who had it first now.

00:42:49.400 Well, there might be someone who's the victim.

00:42:53.120 We don't even know who that person is.

00:42:56.460 But if you run up and take it from the person who most recently stole it,

00:43:00.240 they can't claim that they, what, are they going to go to the police?

00:43:03.480 And say, well, he stole the thing I stole.

00:43:06.900 That's essentially what's happening.

00:43:08.180 There's another point, too.

00:43:09.020 This is why this sort of thing really annoys me.

00:43:10.900 is that we have this guy, Jalen Rose, plays a game for a living,

00:43:16.840 flippantly sort of dismissing the careers and contributions of Theodore Roosevelt,

00:43:20.800 Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

00:43:23.400 He's offended by their presence on the monument.

00:43:27.820 Each of those men, in any random six-month period of their adult lives,

00:43:32.940 accomplished more and had a greater and more positive impact on the world

00:43:36.740 than Jalen Rose has ever had or ever will have.

00:43:39.840 Jalen Rose could live 50 lifetimes and not achieve what one of those men did in six months.

00:43:47.560 That's how significant they were.

00:43:50.080 They deserve to be on the mountain.

00:43:51.820 When you have a life like that, and you contribute to that extent to civilization,

00:44:01.380 then, yeah, you deserve to be on the mountain.

00:44:05.060 And they deserve it more than any Indian tribal chief,

00:44:07.380 as they all contributed far more to the society we currently live in.

00:44:11.680 And they helped to build our civilization in a way that no tribal leader ever did.

00:44:17.000 Which isn't much of a knock on tribal leaders.

00:44:19.540 I mean, it's a high bar to clear, admittedly.

00:44:22.320 They all have had a greater impact on the world than I have ever had or ever will have also.

00:44:27.860 Okay, so I'm admitting that this is a bar that's really hard for anyone to get over.

00:44:31.680 So it's not really an insult when I say, well, you don't stack up to these guys.

00:44:36.260 Almost nobody does.

00:44:38.340 But that's why none of us end up on the sides of mountains.

00:44:42.920 That is reserved for the greatest.

00:44:45.340 And when we say great, we don't mean perfect.

00:44:46.940 We don't mean saints.

00:44:48.780 We mean great in terms of the contribution.

00:44:52.060 Like there's a reason we still talk about them.

00:44:53.960 To live and die and 100 years later, 150 years later, 200 years later, people are still talking about you and learning about you.

00:45:03.600 That means that you lived in a way that far surpasses most people.

00:45:12.260 Most of us will live and die and nobody will ever talk about us again.

00:45:15.980 Once our immediate family has gone along with us and they go to the grave, no one will ever say our names ever again.

00:45:21.260 It's a really startling and depressing thing to think about, but it's true.

00:45:24.700 For the vast majority, we will die and then our families will die.

00:45:28.320 And our names will never be uttered again on earth.

00:45:34.340 So that's most people.

00:45:35.960 That's like 99.999% of all people.

00:45:38.780 And you stack it up against the people that have the monuments and they get the cities and everything named after them.

00:45:43.560 That's because of the greatness of those people.

00:45:47.160 And we should admire greatness rather than being offended by it.

00:45:51.260 All right.

00:45:52.880 Let's get to the comment section.

00:45:54.700 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.

00:46:00.080 We the sweet baby gang.

00:46:04.960 Regardless of what the administration defines as a recession, Americans are certainly worried.

00:46:10.200 Food and gas prices are higher than I've ever seen them in my lifetime,

00:46:13.120 which is why I'm so grateful for my favorite meat delivery service, Good Ranchers.

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00:47:00.980 Well, we only had one show last week, as you know.

00:47:04.560 Our most recent video was something we posted on Thursday when I was still besieged by laryngitis.

00:47:11.740 Heroically, I came to work.

00:47:12.980 I recorded a short video message about my battle with the illness using subtitles and a robot Stephen Hawking voice.

00:47:21.960 And by the way, that video did like way better than any actual full show that we do, which is a little bit depressing.

00:47:28.640 But at least it made it worth the effort because you have no idea the physical pain but also shame I had to endure to bring you that video.

00:47:39.200 I mean, I had to come here to this place unable to speak.

00:47:43.140 And I was literally discriminated against and mocked for my disability.

00:47:48.560 This is true.

00:47:50.340 My own producer, Sean, kept saying things to me that he knew would annoy me, but I couldn't respond to.

00:47:55.540 He was slandering beekeepers in my presence.

00:47:59.080 Couldn't say anything.

00:48:00.960 Couldn't hit him because that would be an HR violation, not to mention a hate crime.

00:48:04.880 And then, I mean, just even our makeup artist, Cherokee, she joined in. 0.95

00:48:09.500 She said, what's the matter?

00:48:10.400 Cat got your tongue? 0.97

00:48:11.760 I'm like, what is this?

00:48:13.880 I'm actually disabled.

00:48:15.920 What if I was blind?

00:48:17.740 What if I came in here blind?

00:48:19.780 Did there be people, like, sticking their legs out and tripping me, laughing, stealing my walking cane?

00:48:26.300 Hey, blindie, who turned the lights out?

00:48:28.360 Hey, blind man.

00:48:30.600 That's the ableism we're talking about.

00:48:32.200 I could probably sue at this point.

00:48:34.920 And I would own the whole company.

00:48:37.380 But owning it is too much responsibility, so I'd rather just complain.

00:48:40.160 That's really more my speed.

00:48:41.300 Anyway, let's read some of the comments from the Sweet Baby Gang on that video,

00:48:45.040 because they were much more supportive of my plight than anyone in this building was.

00:48:50.360 I can tell you that.

00:48:52.220 So, Salvis says, I don't even have words for how inspiring this was.

00:48:56.940 Speechless.

00:48:58.600 Emily says, I, too, have survived laryngitis twice in one year, actually, while deployed.

00:49:02.740 Truly harrowing.

00:49:03.720 I was mocked and ridiculed, called mini-mouse, likened to the mice of Cinderella, a lot of mice

00:49:08.900 references, until now I've not had the courage to tell my tale.

00:49:12.100 Thank you, Matt Walsh, for inspiring me to speak my truth.

00:49:15.040 Sarah says, as a recent laryngitis survivor myself, this video made me feel seen.

00:49:19.680 I've always been so oppressed for it, as people didn't change the way they lived their lives

00:49:23.320 to cater to the fact that I had no voice.

00:49:25.460 I mean, how hard is it to start writing everything down on pen and paper so I'm not so marginalized?

00:49:29.660 Magic Robot says, our hearts are with you, Mr. Walsh.

00:49:31.800 You are so brave.

00:49:32.520 Thank God there's finally someone to speak for the silent struggle.

00:49:37.300 Dan says, your emotional labor is seen and heard, Matt.

00:49:40.160 Never stop fighting the vocal oppression.

00:49:42.760 Sour Sweet Tooth says, Matt seems to forget that he has a form of communication even more

00:49:48.720 powerful than his voice at his disposal, dance.

00:49:51.260 He's proven his ability to communicate complex ideas and opinions through interpretive dance,

00:49:54.640 so there's little reason for episodes to be canceled this week.

00:49:57.340 His opening monologue, the five headlines, responses to comments, and even the daily

00:50:00.140 cancellation could all be done effectively, dare I say masterfully, through dance routines,

00:50:04.540 and the sweet babies would witness and understand.

00:50:06.080 Okay, we were on a good roll with all the supportive comments, because this is all you're supposed

00:50:09.580 to do.

00:50:10.000 When someone is going through something and they're disabled, all you're supposed to do 1.00

00:50:15.720 is tell them that they're a hero and that what they're going through is the worst thing

00:50:19.980 anyone has ever experienced.

00:50:21.260 What you don't do is, you don't give advice or tell me that I should dance for you, like

00:50:30.200 some sort of wind-up monkey dancing for your amusement.

00:50:35.020 Is that what you think of the voice-depleted community?

00:50:40.240 YMill says, Matt, what's the status on the walrus?

00:50:42.720 Did you come back to your studio after your week of desperate illness to find it waiting

00:50:46.280 for you?

00:50:46.880 That would have been nice, wouldn't it?

00:50:48.160 That'd be a nice thing for someone I've thought about.

00:50:49.600 After what I went through for that entire week and all of the abuse, it could have all

00:50:58.480 gone away if I had just walked in here and seen my walrus just sitting there waiting for

00:51:01.680 me.

00:51:02.460 It's still not here.

00:51:04.400 And I haven't rested.

00:51:05.180 I'm not going to rest about that.

00:51:06.180 I will track that walrus down.

00:51:08.660 I will find the walrus.

00:51:10.880 Are you still giving your money to woke razor companies that hate your values, see masculinity 1.00

00:51:14.800 as toxic, and think you should teach your daughter to shave her beard? 1.00

00:51:18.180 There's a better way.

00:51:19.040 Jeremy's razors are 100% real and 100% woke free.

00:51:22.680 The premium matte tungsten handle has more heft than the left.

00:51:27.260 The razor head pivots without caving and has six blades that are sharper than truth.

00:51:32.660 I'm just delivering this really well, I think.

00:51:35.380 Those other razor companies keep virtue signaling to the totalitarian left and using your money

00:51:39.360 to do it, but you don't have to let them.

00:51:41.240 When you buy Jeremy's razors, you aren't just making Jeremy richer.

00:51:44.040 You're making the woke left poorer, which is more important. 0.99

00:51:46.420 75,000 people have already made the switch visit.

00:51:48.360 I hate harrys.com to get your founder series shave kit today.

00:51:52.220 That's I hate harrys.com. 0.99

00:51:54.340 Jeremy's razors, shut up and shave. 1.00

00:51:56.820 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 0.99

00:51:58.320 Vice President Kamala Harris is known for sputtering and babbling indecipherably like a very large infant, 1.00

00:52:09.060 but amid her stammerings, she'll sometimes say things which warrant further consideration, 1.00

00:52:14.020 not because they're intelligent, but because they're especially stupid and harmful and usually malevolent. 1.00

00:52:18.060 She manages to sneak in these sorts of toxic morsels unnoticed at times because her critics are too stunned 1.00

00:52:23.480 by the general inanity of her comments to bother parsing through the finer details.

00:52:28.360 I think this happened this weekend when another classic Kamala-ism went viral.

00:52:32.500 Here she is speaking at something called the Oakland Generation Fund event.

00:52:36.000 Listen to what she says.

00:52:36.760 So when we talk about equality, well, that's a good goal.

00:52:43.900 But let us not presume that because everyone should be treated equal that they start out on equal footing.

00:52:50.140 So equity, as a concept says, recognize that everyone has the same capacity,

00:52:59.480 but in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach that capacity,

00:53:04.900 we must pay attention to this issue of equity if we are to expect and allow people to compete on equal footing.

00:53:15.040 So equity says that we must pay attention to the issue of equity,

00:53:18.860 a perfectly circular and meaningless statement.

00:53:22.060 But buried within this mangled jumble of words is a relatively accurate,

00:53:26.680 therefore horrifying description of, as she says, the concept of equity.

00:53:32.060 And the concept of equity really matters because though it's malignant and insane,

00:53:37.020 we happen to live in a society now formally structured around it.

00:53:40.860 So Harris says that according to the doctrine of equity,

00:53:43.600 we all have the same capacity,

00:53:46.000 but we don't end up in the same place or achieve the same things.

00:53:49.160 Because we don't start in the same place.

00:53:51.300 She says that equality is a nice goal,

00:53:53.640 but you can't get there until first you create equity.

00:53:57.120 Now when she says capacity, it's clear from context that she means potential.

00:54:01.460 She's talking about reaching our full capacity, reaching our full potential.

00:54:05.140 So we all have the same inherent potential, she says,

00:54:08.140 and if we don't all arrive at the same finish line at the same time,

00:54:11.600 it's because of a lack of equity.

00:54:13.280 That is a lack of equality at the starting point.

00:54:16.920 So she envisions a world where as long as the starting line is the same for everyone,

00:54:22.340 everybody will run through the tape at the exact same moment

00:54:24.940 and hoist the first place trophy all together in unison.

00:54:27.760 Because that's how races work, obviously, right? 0.99

00:54:30.220 I mean, if everyone starts at the same place,

00:54:31.680 then there's no reason why anyone would get to the finish line first.

00:54:34.560 Well, this, of course, is nonsense.

00:54:38.740 We do not all have the same potential or the same capacity.

00:54:42.080 It doesn't matter where I started in life.

00:54:44.620 I was never going to play basketball like LeBron James

00:54:46.980 or the guitar like Jimi Hendrix.

00:54:50.360 Nor could I have enjoyed a career similar to,

00:54:53.720 much less the same as, Isaac Newton or Leonardo da Vinci,

00:54:57.960 no matter how level the playing field was.

00:54:59.920 Because on the other end of it,

00:55:02.060 you could take literally every environmental advantage away from me.

00:55:05.360 You could take all of my money and resources,

00:55:07.820 reduce my life to rubble,

00:55:09.420 and there's virtually zero chance that I would end up living under a box on the street

00:55:13.600 shooting heroin from dirty needles.

00:55:16.040 My inherent potential for that fate is about as low as my potential

00:55:20.120 to become an NBA Hall of Famer.

00:55:22.500 So when we talk about potential or capacity,

00:55:26.300 whichever word you choose,

00:55:27.340 we're talking about what you're capable of achieving,

00:55:31.320 what you can build with your basic raw material,

00:55:35.000 your personality, your strengths, your weaknesses, your intellect,

00:55:39.380 your drive, your physical stature, your virtue, your vices, everything.

00:55:44.200 Now, environment may play a role in forming some of this,

00:55:47.080 but there's no way to level that playing field

00:55:48.920 without simply lobotomizing everybody

00:55:50.480 and making us all vegetables like Joe Biden.

00:55:52.760 If Kamala doesn't have that in mind,

00:55:54.640 though maybe she does, I don't know,

00:55:55.740 then she must believe that even in spite of the differences

00:55:59.040 in a person's intellect, personality, ambition, etc.,

00:56:01.500 still we should end up in the same place

00:56:03.920 as if the raw material means nothing.

00:56:06.120 And that, again, is abject nonsense.

00:56:09.820 But our country revolves around it

00:56:11.420 because that's what equity says.

00:56:14.420 Now, it's not hard to see why the powers that be

00:56:16.720 find the equity myth so useful.

00:56:19.340 First of all, it gives them a pretense

00:56:20.720 for chopping down all the stocks that have grown too tall.

00:56:23.580 They can sort of keep everybody in check

00:56:25.560 by kneecapping anyone who enjoys too much prosperity.

00:56:28.420 And as they go all Tonya Harding on the successful ones,

00:56:30.900 they can justify it by claiming that these people

00:56:32.840 only got to this point because of unfair systemic advantages.

00:56:36.380 Not because they worked harder.

00:56:38.420 Certainly not because they're smarter or better than anybody else.

00:56:40.940 That, of course, is one of the most important equity tenets, by the way.

00:56:45.040 Differences in intelligence don't exist,

00:56:46.960 or they don't matter. 1.00

00:56:48.740 Everybody is equally smart and equally stupid. 1.00

00:56:50.760 Then, by obsessing over equity, 1.00

00:56:55.300 people become, by design, resentful

00:56:57.920 and suspicious towards each other.

00:57:01.200 Rather than looking with admiration

00:57:02.900 on those who have achieved greater things,

00:57:05.200 trying to learn from them,

00:57:06.740 like we should do with the men on Mount Rushmore,

00:57:09.280 seeking them out as mentors and coaches,

00:57:11.580 which I guess you can't really do with those men in particular

00:57:13.060 because they're dead, but in general,

00:57:15.120 rather than doing that,

00:57:16.640 instead the equity-minded person

00:57:18.200 hates the more successful person.

00:57:19.860 He feels an unjustifiable and irrational sense

00:57:22.720 of somehow having been robbed by that person.

00:57:25.820 He sees what other people have

00:57:27.700 and believes that he should have all the same things.

00:57:30.900 And he would have them,

00:57:32.160 if not for the mysterious, invisible,

00:57:34.100 yet somehow systemic roadblocks

00:57:35.660 that have been put in his way.

00:57:38.140 Now, all of this misfortune,

00:57:41.060 all of his misfortunes and failures

00:57:42.280 are due to the system, he says.

00:57:44.160 Therefore, he must go to the system,

00:57:48.500 ironically, to the government

00:57:49.640 for the solution to his problems.

00:57:51.520 Equity not only makes people resentful and suspicious, 0.99

00:57:53.600 but also, most importantly, dependent.

00:57:57.180 The system created the inequities

00:57:58.900 that you allegedly suffer from,

00:58:00.340 so then only the system can fix them.

00:58:02.960 And here's the good news.

00:58:04.000 People like Kamala Harris,

00:58:05.180 who've been in the system

00:58:06.280 and helping to run it for decades,

00:58:08.240 hold the key to solving all the problems

00:58:10.200 and healing all of your trauma.

00:58:12.340 Just please don't stop for even a second

00:58:14.300 and ask why they never used the key

00:58:16.260 if they've had it this whole time.

00:58:17.980 Don't think critically about it.

00:58:19.800 Don't evaluate anything.

00:58:21.900 Don't use your brain.

00:58:24.080 The whole point of equity

00:58:25.080 is that you shouldn't have to.

00:58:26.900 Just sit there, slack-jawed and helpless,

00:58:29.040 mouth agape like a baby bird,

00:58:30.940 waiting for mommy bird to come by

00:58:32.480 and regurgitate your daily rations.

00:58:35.700 That is exactly how people like Harris

00:58:38.480 want all of us to be.

00:58:40.900 They want you to be angry, sad,

00:58:43.680 bitter, resentful, envious,

00:58:46.040 and also totally, desperately dependent.

00:58:52.440 And that is why Kamala Harris 0.50

00:58:54.040 is canceled for the fifth time.

00:58:56.780 But not just Kamala Harris.

00:58:58.240 The entire concept of equity

00:58:59.360 is also today canceled.

00:59:02.560 And that is not it for us today.

00:59:04.380 Some exciting news, actually.

00:59:05.340 We're adding a new segment

00:59:06.360 onto the show for subscribers.

00:59:08.160 After the cancellation every day,

00:59:09.800 we're going to go to the mailbag

00:59:10.920 and answer longer questions,

00:59:12.840 maybe get some advice,

00:59:13.940 maybe answer some criticisms,

00:59:15.820 hopefully read some hate mail

00:59:16.900 on occasion to keep it fresh.

00:59:18.340 It'll be a fun segment,

00:59:19.180 but you have to be a member to watch it.

00:59:20.860 So click the link in the description,

00:59:22.660 and we'll see you over there.

00:59:24.180 We'll see you over there.

00:59:25.540 We'll be right back.

The Matt Walsh Show - August 15, 2022

Ep. 1001 - The Trans Militants Must Be Stopped

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