The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1015 - The War On Childhood Innocence

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, we will discuss the latest example proving that there is a

00:00:03.740 full-fledged war on childhood innocence in our culture. Also, senile Biden continues screaming

00:00:09.360 dementedly into cameras. The Seattle Teachers Union prepares to go on strike. The mayor of

00:00:13.380 Chicago recoils in horror as busloads of illegal immigrants show up in her city. And Men's Health 1.00

00:00:18.620 Magazine declares that heterosexuality is a shameful, offensive, disgusting fetish. 0.99

00:00:24.760 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. 0.99

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00:01:45.980 weekend in my family, much like every other weekend, I suppose, but even more so this time because I took my

00:01:51.660 sons for a boys' trip and my wife took the girls' for a girls' trip. And the girls apparently spent

00:01:57.160 the long weekend eating at nice restaurants and shopping. And they even on Saturday dressed up

00:02:01.900 real fancy-like and went to a tea time, which is something that exists in the modern United States,

00:02:07.660 evidently. I had no idea. For our part, you know, the boys went to a lake house in Kentucky. Now,

00:02:13.060 originally, I mentioned on the show, I wanted to rent a dilapidated shack in the woods that I found on

00:02:17.980 Airbnb. But my wife was concerned about the serial killer factor. We went back and forth about it.

00:02:23.160 Ultimately, unsurprisingly, she won that argument. So we settled on the lake house instead. And we

00:02:28.000 spent our time kayaking and fishing and hiking and collecting interesting rocks and bones that we found

00:02:33.400 along the shoreline and so on. We ate hot dogs that we cooked over a fire. We didn't bathe, of course,

00:02:39.260 the whole weekend. At night, we watched westerns. We had a lot of interesting conversations, too. Many of

00:02:44.080 them centered around dinosaurs. My boys are finally going through a dinosaur phase. And I'm grateful

00:02:49.060 for that because I love dinosaurs. And for years, I haven't had anyone to talk to about them. And that

00:02:53.640 finally is changing. It was a good time, all told. And the sort of childhood experience that I want the

00:03:00.740 boys to remember as they get older. Most importantly, I want them to actually have a childhood. My wife and I

00:03:08.320 want that desperately for all of our children. And we have organized much of our lives around this goal

00:03:16.480 because that's what you have to do now as a parent. If you want your child to have a childhood, you have to

00:03:21.360 be very intentional about it. A fun weekend is nice. But these days, parents have to work nearly constantly to

00:03:29.600 protect and nurture their children's childhoods. Kids can't do it themselves and they don't realize how precious it is

00:03:37.480 anyway. That's not the kind of thing you realize until it's gone and it's too late. The other thing kids

00:03:42.480 don't realize, and a lot of parents unfortunately don't realize either until it's also too late, is that

00:03:48.060 we live in a culture which has dedicated itself to destroying childhood. So it requires the active

00:03:55.560 protection and preservation of us as parents because there are so many forces actively engaged in an effort

00:04:02.620 to demolish it. Our culture sees the innocence of childhood as a thing to be exploited and eradicated.

00:04:12.500 But the innocence of childhood is childhood. Innocence is what makes it childhood. It's the thing that we

00:04:19.680 look back on fondly as adults and mourn having lost. Innocence is also what adds a sort of a bittersweet

00:04:26.440 tinge to every wholesome moment that we have with our kids. Because as parents, we look at our kids and we know

00:04:34.040 something they don't know. We know that this isn't going to last. We know that one day they'll be jaded and weary

00:04:42.540 just like us. And it hurts us to think about that, but it's the truth. Yet if we aren't diligent, then the loss of

00:04:50.360 innocence happens much sooner than it should. And at a time when our kids aren't ready for it.

00:04:57.660 When I got home on Monday night and started the often slightly or even extremely depressing process

00:05:04.660 of prepping for my show the following day, the first thing that I saw was this video highlighted

00:05:11.000 by Chris Ruffo and originally produced by Lori Children's Hospital. Now this is another one of those

00:05:17.340 materials which was published by a children's hospital, but which you and I are not allowed

00:05:22.620 to notice and certainly not allowed to talk about, lest we be terrorists. So terrorists we will be,

00:05:29.020 I guess, because here's the video. All right, so you want to talk about gender today? Yes.

00:05:35.100 So what do you, what is gender to you? Hmm, like my birth parents said that I was a girl,

00:05:40.780 but they made a mistake. Yeah, us too. Yeah. Right. So your mommy and I, we assumed that you were a girl.

00:05:47.340 But then when did you set us straight? Well, I was at least like five or six.

00:05:52.620 But it started before that. You kept sending us signals, right? You'd say, sometimes I want to be a boy.

00:05:58.900 Yeah. Sometimes I want to be a girl. Something just doesn't seem right here.

00:06:02.660 Well, I wasn't a girl or a boy. Ah, so what are you? Non-binary. 0.99

00:06:07.340 Right. And how do you feel about being non-binary? Good.

00:06:11.080 Your mom and I have tried our best to support you and make that like something that's celebrated

00:06:17.220 in our household. Have you ever spoken to your class about your gender? Yeah.

00:06:22.260 What did you tell them? I told them my pronouns. Uh-huh. And also my name.

00:06:27.480 And why are your pronouns important to you? Well...

00:06:32.540 Like, it'd be like if I just, I was like, I can't remember your name. I'm just going to call you Susie.

00:06:37.360 Wait, what? Yeah. And that wouldn't be so cool, would it?

00:06:40.040 Well, if you ever forget someone's name, you can ask them.

00:06:44.220 Yeah, if you forgot their name, you can ask them. Or if you don't know somebody's pronouns,

00:06:47.540 you can ask them, right? Yeah. So asking is very important. Yeah.

00:06:51.000 It represents you, right? Yeah.

00:06:53.140 Like, how did it feel to like be able to share your story? It felt like really, really, really good.

00:06:57.860 It felt really good. 0.85

00:07:01.180 Lord, I hate these people. I really do. The woman in that, I just, I just despise them. 0.98

00:07:06.520 And everything they stand for. I despise it so much. 0.97

00:07:09.940 And we're supposed to buy that as some sort of organic conversation

00:07:15.560 while the child is obviously repeating what has been rehearsed.

00:07:23.240 Now, I watched that video, and I immediately think of my boys running down the shoreline,

00:07:29.620 excitedly picking up rocks. They spent hours doing this, by the way.

00:07:32.520 I mean, just like they could spend hours picking up rocks. Even though the child in the video is about

00:07:38.200 the same age as my kids, what she's talking about, rather being forced to talk about, you know,

00:07:43.200 the lines that she's being coerced into repeating, are so far outside of the world that my kids live in.

00:07:51.800 They are 10 million miles away from all of that.

00:07:57.640 They've never heard the phrase non-binary.

00:08:00.840 They don't know what gender identity is. 0.92

00:08:03.860 They spend 0% of their time thinking about pronouns.

00:08:09.680 They don't think about sex either.

00:08:12.420 Because kids at that age shouldn't be thinking about sex at all, or anything related to it.

00:08:16.400 And they won't think about it, or talk about it, unless the adults suggest it.

00:08:23.200 No child thinks about any of this stuff, or wants to think about it.

00:08:28.460 This has to be imposed from the outside.

00:08:32.860 Their innocence is ripped away, and this is put in its place.

00:08:39.020 Now, whenever we talk about this, the war on childhood innocence,

00:08:44.660 and we've talked about it many times, and we've arrived at the, I think, correct conclusion

00:08:48.660 that much of this is driven by the left's desire to exploit the ignorance of childhood.

00:08:56.280 You know, we see innocence, they see ignorance, and ignorance and innocence go hand in hand.

00:09:03.000 They're peas in a pod, as it were.

00:09:05.700 But that's what the left homes in on, the ignorance part of that.

00:09:09.220 Because then that means that this is something they can exploit.

00:09:12.280 Much of what they profess as leftists is so self-evidently absurd that they have to recruit

00:09:18.580 people at an age when they lack the mental capacity to notice absurdity or distinguish

00:09:23.080 fantasy from reality.

00:09:24.440 Children are easy prey.

00:09:26.420 And if they're brainwashed young enough, and in large enough numbers, the entire generation

00:09:31.380 eventually becomes an ideological army for the left.

00:09:34.640 So that's part of the story, and that's the part of the story that we talk about a lot.

00:09:38.600 That's kind of the plan, the plot, concocted and put into effect by powerful people and

00:09:45.920 institutions.

00:09:47.100 But on an individual level, however, the war on innocence is also largely a product of just 0.74

00:09:56.440 narcissistic adults whose self-absorption is like a black hole that sucks everything into 0.96

00:10:04.020 itself. 0.97

00:10:05.580 So not all of them necessarily say to themselves explicitly, I'm going to corrupt this child

00:10:11.620 because it will help my cause ideologically and politically.

00:10:15.320 Lots of them are that intentional about it, obviously.

00:10:18.560 But in many other cases, they barely even see the child.

00:10:22.760 They barely see anything at all.

00:10:24.680 Because whenever they look at anything or anyone, they only see themselves reflected back.

00:10:30.660 The girl in that video gets sucked into this world by sheer gravitational pull. 0.98

00:10:39.060 Now, it's obvious there's a lot of intentionality there, too, because the mother has taken this

00:10:43.140 poor child and put her on display.

00:10:49.460 But even if she didn't, the girl hardly stands a chance with a mother like that. 0.99

00:10:55.120 She was cursed with this self-obsessed egomaniac.

00:11:01.700 Now, to protect a child and her innocence requires you to see outside of yourself.

00:11:07.860 It requires you to value something greater than yourself.

00:11:12.000 It requires you to have the capacity for sacrifice, for love.

00:11:18.980 You know, you see a child, the innocence of childhood, and you say,

00:11:23.580 this is a wonderful, joyful thing that is good for a child.

00:11:28.500 And I'm going to not only let them have that innocence, but I'm going to protect it.

00:11:33.340 Not for me, not because it's going to help me, but just for them, for their own sake.

00:11:39.260 That's it.

00:11:39.900 But to say that to yourself, to do that, it requires love.

00:11:47.440 It requires you to see outside of yourself.

00:11:49.480 And these people cannot do that.

00:11:52.520 It is beyond their grasp.

00:11:55.700 And so children are made to pay the price.

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00:13:25.360 All right, so Biden has passed fully into his grumpy old man phase, his grumpy old man

00:13:32.780 shouting phase, which I guess makes it sound less sinister than it is.

00:13:38.620 Biden is a grumpy old dementia riddled man who also happens to be president and is part 0.94

00:13:45.820 of a system. 0.87

00:13:46.540 Notice I didn't say controls a system because he doesn't control it.

00:13:48.860 But it's part of a system that seeks to obliterate our fundamental human rights and destroy our

00:13:52.980 civilization and eat our children alive spiritually and mentally and also in many ways physically.

00:13:59.040 So anyway, with that specified, Biden was campaigning yesterday when he launched into a rant about

00:14:04.540 Big Pharma and made some rather dubious claims.

00:14:09.820 For the last several decades, many of us have been trying to fix the problem.

00:14:16.140 But for decades, Big Pharma tried to block giving lower drug prices for those on Medicare

00:14:23.020 or anywhere else.

00:14:24.880 For decades, Big Pharma won year in, year out because they own chunks of the Congress because

00:14:31.340 had to help like your senior senator, Ron Johnson, who said, oh, I want to say what he said.

00:14:40.300 He said he opposed lowering drug costs because we result in punishing the pharmaceutical industry.

00:14:47.740 Bless me, father, for I have sinned.

00:14:50.100 I mean, come on, man.

00:14:53.120 Not this year.

00:14:54.300 We beat pharma this year.

00:14:56.860 We beat pharma this year.

00:14:59.120 And it mattered.

00:15:00.120 We're going to change people's lives.

00:15:03.200 We finally beat pharma.

00:15:07.480 Now Medicare will have the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices.

00:15:12.240 We can guarantee no senior, no senior will have to pay more than $2,000 out of pocket for their

00:15:19.040 drugs for the entire year, no matter whether the bill is $50,000.

00:15:23.160 No more than $2,000.

00:15:25.460 Period.

00:15:27.160 It almost seems like there's a jump cut there or something.

00:15:30.120 Where he transitions so suddenly from the, come on, man, to, we beat pharma, screaming

00:15:36.560 and pointing at the camera.

00:15:39.120 But putting that aside for a second, listen to the claim that he's actually making.

00:15:46.700 You beat big pharma.

00:15:48.780 Beat them?

00:15:50.800 You?

00:15:51.360 I mean, and you say we.

00:15:52.360 You mean like the Democrats, right?

00:15:53.980 Your regime.

00:15:56.460 Well, this is like the McDonald's marketing team bragging that they beat McDonald's.

00:16:02.040 It doesn't even, it's not just that it's not correct.

00:16:04.760 The claim doesn't make sense.

00:16:06.460 You're all part of the same thing, the same institution, the same mechanism.

00:16:10.600 What do you mean you beat them?

00:16:12.640 The Democrat Party and big pharma are practically inseparable entities.

00:16:17.000 The Democrats are like the marketing arm of big pharma, which I guess in some ways doesn't quite

00:16:24.600 work as an analogy because most marketing departments, though they wish they did have

00:16:29.100 the capacity, in fact, do not have the capacity to literally force people to use the product.

00:16:33.860 If they could, they would, but they can't, so that's why they market.

00:16:36.560 But the Democrats did exactly that when they forced millions of Americans to use big pharma's

00:16:44.920 vaccine product.

00:16:45.980 So this is how you beat big pharma by putting billions of dollars into their pocket?

00:16:50.280 That's how you beat them?

00:16:52.360 That's how you defeat them?

00:16:54.900 I mean, if only I could be defeated that way.

00:16:59.840 So we defeated big pharma by putting billions of dollars into their pocket over the last few

00:17:05.120 years.

00:17:05.400 And when they're not forcing people to use the product, they're funneling millions of

00:17:11.300 kids into big pharma's clutches and getting them on puberty blockers and hormones and all

00:17:17.180 the rest of it.

00:17:19.280 In fact, big pharma, and there are many examples that reveal this to be the case, but of all

00:17:24.780 the examples, big pharma most convincingly proves that everything the Democrats say about

00:17:33.760 being anti-corporation and they all, they don't like millionaires and billionaires proves all

00:17:38.700 that to be false because of big pharma.

00:17:41.580 This multi-billion dollar industry and the Democrats, their entire machine just funneling people into

00:17:51.400 its arms.

00:17:54.500 It's welcoming, greedy arms constantly.

00:17:58.060 Of course, by the way, you know, I say Democrats and it's not like the Republicans are much

00:18:05.840 better on this front.

00:18:07.640 They're really, of the two parties, neither one of them are doing much of anything to

00:18:13.620 curtail big pharma or to actually beat them, whatever exactly that would mean.

00:18:17.340 And there are things that could be done that you would think there would be, there could

00:18:26.540 be some actual bipartisan agreement about.

00:18:30.740 Obviously, if the Republicans make serious efforts to stop big pharma from shoving, you

00:18:36.760 know, hormones and everything into children, if they do that, which Republicans really haven't

00:18:42.340 made any serious effort on that front, but we know Democrats are going to oppose that.

00:18:45.960 But there are other things that could be done to actually regulate and control big pharma

00:18:52.340 and to help weaken their grasp on the American public.

00:18:56.420 One of them, like we talked about before, is banning direct-to-consumer advertisements.

00:19:01.300 That's something that there's no immediately obvious reason why you couldn't have bipartisan

00:19:08.060 agreement on that.

00:19:09.380 It doesn't appear to be a partisan thing.

00:19:11.520 But big pharma basically owns both parties, and that's why there is not agreement on that.

00:19:21.140 Speaking of angry old men, I wanted to play this to you, by the way, the lead singer of 1.00

00:19:24.200 Dropkick Murphys, which used to be a punk band and now is just a bunch of old dudes towing 0.97

00:19:29.740 the party line.

00:19:31.180 Here he is.

00:19:31.980 This went viral yesterday.

00:19:33.640 Here he is at a concert railing against conservatives.

00:19:37.680 Let's listen.

00:19:39.420 If you were part of a union or working class people who were allowed to build a better life

00:19:44.780 in the middle class in America, you'd f***ing listen to us. 0.98

00:19:48.480 Because if you're out there buying those f***ing hats that these swindlers are selling at 0.97

00:19:57.120 that f***ing fair, I'm sorry kids, I know there's kids here, then you're part of the 0.99

00:20:02.420 problem, and I'll tell you why. 0.98

00:20:03.880 Because you're being duped by the greatest swindler in the history of the world. 0.99

00:20:08.200 You're being duped by a bunch of grifters and billionaires who don't give a s*** about 0.99

00:20:13.760 you or your family. 0.99

00:20:15.800 They care about their f***ing tax breaks and the money they can put in their pocket. 0.98

00:20:21.120 If you consider yourself a patriot and you're spouting off that election denier s***, I will 1.00

00:20:26.900 fight your ass outside if you want to. 1.00

00:20:31.680 Wake the f*** up! 1.00

00:20:35.980 We're working class people. 0.99

00:20:38.200 These people, the f***ing rich, the billionaires, and they don't give a s***! 0.98

00:20:45.120 Thank you for listening. 0.99

00:20:47.900 Someone get grandpa's meds.

00:20:50.080 I love this, don't you?

00:20:51.620 I love going to a concert, hoping to hear some music, and instead a 55-year-old pudgy guy

00:20:57.840 screams MSNBC talking points. 1.00

00:21:00.420 That's exactly what you're looking for when you buy a ticket for a concert.

00:21:04.460 First of all, the Democrats are, as we just discussed, he's here.

00:21:08.100 Again, pretending the Democrats are, oh, they're the party of the working class.

00:21:14.280 No, they are the party of millionaires and billionaires, which is why nearly every major

00:21:18.100 corporation in the country is run by leftists and has an overt leftist agenda, every single

00:21:23.760 one.

00:21:24.100 So party of the working class, that entire talking point is out the window.

00:21:26.780 So you can still keep saying it, but it doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:21:30.940 Second, I just think it's interesting, these aging rock stars, and a bit generous, I guess,

00:21:35.840 of a description for the dropkick Murphy guy to say he was ever a rock star.

00:21:39.160 But whatever, he's aging anyway.

00:21:42.040 These aging rock stars, you know, they want to act like they're still rebelling against

00:21:47.820 the system, but they represent the system.

00:21:51.540 You know, they're raging for the system now.

00:21:54.600 There may have been a time when it was actually true that they were rebelling against someone,

00:21:59.900 something, I suppose.

00:22:00.820 But now they're a part of the ideology that owns the system. 0.97

00:22:05.660 And you're left with pathetic displays just like that. 0.97

00:22:11.840 All right. 0.96

00:22:12.320 This is from the Seattle Times.

00:22:13.440 It says, more than 100 Seattle educators gathered on Labor Day at Judkins Park, stapling and taping

00:22:19.500 signs to wooden pickets in preparation for a potential strike.

00:22:23.700 One sign read, liberation through public education.

00:22:27.520 On Tuesday, Seattle teachers will find out if they have enough votes to authorize a strike.

00:22:31.240 Then it comes down to whether the Seattle Education Association and Seattle Public Schools

00:22:34.300 can strike a deal before Wednesday, which is the expected first day of classes.

00:22:38.000 If the impasse remains, Seattle could be the second large K-12 school district in the area

00:22:41.800 to be mired in a strike.

00:22:43.580 The Kent School District was supposed to start classes on August 25th, but a strike stretches

00:22:48.280 on as the Kent Education Association demands more pay, smaller class sizes, a more manageable

00:22:53.800 staff-to-student ratio in special education and English language learner programs, as well

00:22:58.640 as more staffing for student mental health support.

00:23:01.680 Kent School District officials and the Teachers Association met with a mediator on Labor Day,

00:23:06.300 but still did not reach an agreement.

00:23:10.300 There's also a video from, this is a, I believe, an elementary school teacher in Seattle explaining

00:23:16.740 why she supports going on strike.

00:23:19.600 Let's listen.

00:23:19.940 My name is Heather Barker, and I'm an educator at Sanislo Elementary, and I voted yes for

00:23:28.000 the strike authorization vote.

00:23:29.640 And I did that because I think that we need to have a contract that shows us respect and

00:23:36.200 shows us respect as the experts that we are, that we know our children and we know how to

00:23:42.140 best support them and to give them the world-class education that we know that they deserve and

00:23:48.600 that they can get here in Seattle Public Schools.

00:23:51.600 We are fighting to ensure that we have reasonable workloads so that we are available to support

00:23:59.600 our kids.

00:24:00.400 We are fighting to make sure that we have a workable special education model to keep all

00:24:10.320 of our kids safe and to keep our staff safe.

00:24:13.960 We are fighting to make sure that we have access to the mental health care that our kids need,

00:24:20.320 because we have a lot of needs coming out of this pandemic.

00:24:25.100 And we just need to be there to support our kids, and we need to have contract language that

00:24:30.040 lays that out for us so that we know that we can be delivering the best possible education

00:24:35.500 and learning experience for all of our kids.

00:24:38.720 I'm standing with Seattle Education Association.

00:24:42.200 Yeah, I bet you are.

00:24:43.340 I mean, I'm so sick of public school teachers.

00:24:46.800 I really am.

00:24:47.920 And yeah, I'm going to, yes, all of the qualifiers, right, that there are exceptions.

00:24:54.780 There are still some good ones.

00:24:56.140 I know that because I've met some good ones, and I know that they're increasingly in, you know,

00:25:01.280 it's like they're working behind enemy lines.

00:25:02.760 I have a lot of respect for that.

00:25:05.920 So there are exceptions to what I'm going to say.

00:25:08.560 Now, I've established the exceptions, so now I'm going to continue.

00:25:11.920 In general, I can't stand these people.

00:25:15.500 They, I don't think that there's any group in America that hates working as much as public

00:25:23.220 school teachers do.

00:25:24.240 They just hate it.

00:25:27.160 They get like two months off a year.

00:25:29.320 They get every single holiday off.

00:25:30.900 They get nice breaks for, for a nice, I was going to say Christmas break.

00:25:35.480 We don't call it that, right?

00:25:36.240 So they get a nice winter break.

00:25:37.480 They get a nice, they get a smaller spring, but they still get a spring break.

00:25:40.500 They get multiple months in the summer.

00:25:43.100 Oh, well, but we have to, we still have to prepare for classes and we got to come in

00:25:46.800 for teacher days or whatever.

00:25:48.100 Yeah, you still get, you get multiple months in the summer, basically off.

00:25:51.600 No one else gets that.

00:25:52.420 And then COVID rolls around.

00:25:56.280 Schools are shut down for over a year in some cases.

00:26:02.560 And it's still, it's still too much work.

00:26:06.060 They're still complaining about the workload.

00:26:07.840 Now they go on strike.

00:26:08.680 What, what do you want exactly?

00:26:14.060 Do you think that being a teacher should, should require no work at all?

00:26:20.220 And every time I bring this up, I'm always told about, oh no, this is, this is a misconception

00:26:24.580 that teachers get a lot of time off.

00:26:26.060 No, it's not.

00:26:27.320 We can all see it.

00:26:28.300 We're not stupid.

00:26:29.360 They shut down the schools for like during the, from out of 12 months, multiple months,

00:26:36.560 cumulative, the schools are shut down.

00:26:40.520 So we can all see that.

00:26:43.720 They get all this time off.

00:26:44.940 It's still not enough.

00:26:47.500 But even putting that aside, I'll tell you what really frustrates me the most when I,

00:26:53.320 when I, especially when I hear stuff like this from that teacher.

00:26:56.240 First of all, it's, it's the pretending that you're doing this for the kids.

00:27:01.680 Oh, this is really about providing the best experience to the kids.

00:27:05.440 This is all about the kids.

00:27:06.880 I want a higher salary for the kids. 0.96

00:27:11.640 Are you sharing your salary with the kids?

00:27:15.400 Are you, are you giving them a, like a cut?

00:27:17.400 Are they getting a commission?

00:27:19.480 No, at least have the honesty to admit it's for you.

00:27:22.980 You want more money for yourself.

00:27:27.680 Now on its own, that's, that's understandable.

00:27:30.040 Everybody wants more money.

00:27:30.940 Okay.

00:27:31.220 So just say that.

00:27:33.720 That's what I would want.

00:27:34.600 You want to make a video explaining why you're going on strike.

00:27:37.840 At least admit I'm going on strike because, because this is an op, this is a way we can

00:27:42.800 hold the kids hostage.

00:27:44.160 This is a power that we have.

00:27:46.600 Okay.

00:27:46.960 We have control over kids' educations.

00:27:50.360 And lots of parents depend on us as de facto babysitters, basically.

00:27:55.100 And because they got to go to work and they got to send the kids to school.

00:27:58.340 And so this is power that we have.

00:27:59.960 And I can use that power to get more money for myself.

00:28:02.500 And so that's what I'm doing because I want more money.

00:28:06.140 I could respect the honesty, at least if you would just say that.

00:28:09.640 But when you pretend that you want more benefits and more time off and more luxuries and more

00:28:14.720 this and a greater salary, for the kids' sake, it insults our intelligence.

00:28:23.660 And then also, you want to, this is a common complaint we hear from the public school teachers,

00:28:28.940 that the class sizes are too big.

00:28:32.140 Well, you know what?

00:28:32.680 I agree with you.

00:28:35.120 I totally agree.

00:28:36.260 Class sizes are way too big.

00:28:38.920 This is one of my fundamental complaints about the public school system,

00:28:44.300 is that it's a factory assembly line approach to education.

00:28:50.420 And you take hundreds of kids and just throw them on the assembly line and you turn the lever

00:28:57.120 and they just go down, you know, they go from one place to the next.

00:29:05.240 And even if they're not ready to move on to the next phase in the assembly process,

00:29:08.760 they're going to move on anyway.

00:29:10.140 And because the most important thing is to spit them out the other end on schedule.

00:29:16.080 Yeah, I don't like that either.

00:29:20.420 And when you've got like 30 kids in a classroom or even 20 kids,

00:29:25.800 there's just no way that those kids are going to get the individualized,

00:29:32.200 personalized attention that they need.

00:29:35.280 Because although we have the factory assembly line approach to education in this country,

00:29:39.820 education is not really something that can be done that way.

00:29:45.200 Real education has to be personalized because every person is different.

00:29:51.460 And they all have different brains and they're on different levels.

00:29:56.080 And they grasp certain subjects a lot quicker than other subjects.

00:29:59.660 And so in an ideal scenario, we would be able to, this is what homeschooling is all about.

00:30:04.220 You come up with a curriculum and an approach that works for the kid.

00:30:07.540 And so, yeah, all that, I'm with you.

00:30:15.080 Except that the public school system steadfastly resists any effort to actually address the class size problem.

00:30:25.720 Because how do you end up with smaller class sizes?

00:30:28.280 Let's do a little bit of math if you're a public school teacher.

00:30:32.680 You've got class sizes that are too big.

00:30:37.580 What does that tell you?

00:30:39.060 It tells you there's too many kids in the school.

00:30:42.800 So how do we solve that problem?

00:30:45.140 By having fewer kids in the school.

00:30:48.200 And how do we do that?

00:30:49.880 School choice.

00:30:53.620 Homeschooling.

00:30:54.140 Like actually promoting homeschooling as a valid option for parents to explore.

00:31:02.080 That's how you reduce the size of the classroom.

00:31:06.400 And then you have many fewer kids in the class.

00:31:08.560 And you have some hope of giving them something close to a personalized education.

00:31:13.500 At least you can personalize it a lot more than you can now when you've got 30 kids in the classroom.

00:31:19.160 But, you know, the woman in the video there, I don't know anything about her.

00:31:21.920 I'm going, but I do know she's a Seattle public school teacher.

00:31:25.940 So I'm going to assume, now wild speculation here.

00:31:29.300 She is not a homeschool advocate.

00:31:30.880 And she's not a school choice advocate.

00:31:35.160 So you want to reduce the size of the classroom.

00:31:37.720 But you resist anything that would actually accomplish that goal.

00:31:42.100 And accomplish it quickly.

00:31:45.080 And cheaply.

00:31:46.020 And efficiently.

00:31:49.160 Why?

00:31:49.480 Because it's not about the size of the class.

00:31:51.160 It's about money.

00:31:53.100 It's about power.

00:31:54.360 And it's also that you're just lazy and you don't want to work.

00:31:57.440 That's what a lot of this is about.

00:31:59.080 And we got to, you know, let's be honest about it.

00:32:01.280 Like I said.

00:32:04.300 All right.

00:32:06.600 What do we got next here?

00:32:07.820 So this is from Fox.

00:32:09.280 It says,

00:32:09.560 More migrants arrived in Chicago from Texas on Sunday.

00:32:12.920 And Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot once again slammed Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott,

00:32:17.520 saying he's using them as human pawns.

00:32:20.020 The migrants arrived in the Windy City after Abbott sent two buses carrying migrants to Chicago last week.

00:32:25.240 Abbott said he'll continue to bus migrants to sanctuary cities until the federal government secures the southern border.

00:32:32.200 Lightfoot said that while she welcomes new residents, she has a problem with Abbott bussing the migrants to her city.

00:32:36.940 She said at a press conference,

00:32:40.280 My frustration comes from the actions of the governor of Texas.

00:32:43.100 There could be a level of coordination, cooperation, but he chooses to do none of those things.

00:32:46.280 Instead, he chooses to send human beings across the country to an uncertain destination.

00:32:50.920 That's unacceptable.

00:32:53.440 Yeah, unacceptable to, you know, allow human beings to go across the country to an uncertain destination.

00:33:00.820 Unacceptable.

00:33:01.720 Well, once again, I agree with her there.

00:33:03.280 Here's more of Lori Lightfoot on this issue.

00:33:05.680 Governor Abbott's racist and xenophobic practices of expulsion have only amplified the challenges

00:33:14.020 many of these migrants have experienced on their journey to find a safe place.

00:33:20.420 The governor's actions are not just inhumane.

00:33:22.900 They are unpatriotic.

00:33:24.180 He is a man without any morals, humanity or shame.

00:33:28.280 I got to say, Greg Abbott, credit where credit's due.

00:33:34.480 I've been critical of Governor Abbott in Texas, you know, for different reasons over the years.

00:33:40.980 But what he's doing here is, I mean, it's one of the most brilliant things that we've seen a Republican governor do.

00:33:50.320 And it's brilliant in its simplicity.

00:33:52.440 And he's put these Democrat, you know, and it also, it's not just like a political ploy.

00:34:02.060 It's not, it's not just political gamesmanship.

00:34:03.820 It is that too.

00:34:04.980 And it's very, it's very effective strategy as far as that goes.

00:34:08.920 But it also solves a problem for him.

00:34:10.440 We've got all these illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:34:15.300 We've got the federal government not securing the border, trying to stop us from deporting them.

00:34:20.900 And so instead, all right, fine, we'll just send them, we'll send them to the states that claim that they want them.

00:34:26.620 Run by governors who are constantly saying all these wonderful things about open borders that we should accept.

00:34:32.580 Right, quoting the inscription on the Statue of Liberty about accepting people from all across the world,

00:34:38.100 you know, the weary and the tired and all the rest of it.

00:34:40.440 Well, they say that, so let's just, okay, here you go.

00:34:46.880 And it puts them in this position where they look absolutely absurd.

00:34:50.660 They are, the Democrat governors are being given the opportunity to put their money where their mouth is,

00:34:56.780 and they're practically in tears about it.

00:34:59.120 This is racist and xenophobic.

00:35:00.800 It's racist?

00:35:02.740 How is it racist?

00:35:04.640 You say you want illegals in the country, so we're, here you go. 1.00

00:35:11.160 I don't know.

00:35:11.580 Well, no, because you want them, yeah, you want them coming in, but you don't want them, you don't want them with you.

00:35:16.880 You want it to be Texas, Texas's problem.

00:35:19.280 You know, you want them down on the, on the, on the border states.

00:35:22.040 You want them in the red states. 0.75

00:35:23.000 And why do you, hmm, why is that?

00:35:29.360 Because this is another unspeakable thing, right?

00:35:31.180 But why do they, so they, they want the illegal immigrants to come into the country. 0.99

00:35:38.500 They don't want to secure the border.

00:35:39.920 That's wrong.

00:35:40.460 We don't build walls, right?

00:35:42.780 Build bridges, not walls.

00:35:44.180 We don't have walls separating us.

00:35:46.440 It's a terrible thing.

00:35:48.380 So you want them to come in, but you don't want them in your state, and you have a blue state.

00:35:53.960 You don't want them there, but you want them in the red state. 0.98

00:35:58.200 Why is that?

00:36:00.780 I mean, it's almost as if you're trying to import voters.

00:36:05.020 Like, you're trying to replace, you're trying to replace Republican voters with, with Democrat voters.

00:36:15.760 You're trying to replace red states, turn them into blue states.

00:36:20.240 It's almost like there's a replacement, like a, on the, on the scale of it, you might even say a great.

00:36:26.640 It's like there's a great replacement happening.

00:36:28.320 You might say that.

00:36:31.100 Oh no, that's racist and xenophobic too.

00:36:33.080 Just to talk about it is racist and xenophobic.

00:36:36.820 And yet these, these blue state governors don't want the illegals in their backyard. 0.98

00:36:44.900 Brilliant by Governor Abbott there.

00:36:47.020 All right, what else do we got?

00:36:49.800 Okay, I wanted to mention this too, if I can find it on my list of stories.

00:36:56.700 Here it is.

00:36:57.980 Killing time.

00:37:00.080 Where is it?

00:37:01.400 Oh, there it is.

00:37:01.800 Okay, this is from the Daily Beast.

00:37:03.460 It's good that I spent time really trying to find this story, because this is an important one.

00:37:06.860 Britney Spears lashed out Monday at her son, Jaden Federline, who recently criticized her in an interview, and said that he will see her again when she's better mentally.

00:37:16.600 In an Instagram recording, the singer accused Jaden, 15, and his brother Preston, 16, of abandoning her, saying that they always ended their visits early and spent the time together sleeping or playing piano.

00:37:27.120 Spears says, it saddens me.

00:37:28.120 Spears says, it saddens me that not one of you has valued me as a person.

00:37:32.180 She's talking to her own children here on social media, by the way.

00:37:35.220 It said, Spears, who's been locked in a very public battle with her parents, sister, ex-husband, and other family members since she convinced the court to end a conservatorship that stripped her of her rights.

00:37:45.700 She says, quote, I don't believe in God anymore because of the way my children and my family have treated me.

00:37:52.720 I'm an atheist, y'all.

00:37:53.860 Now, I mention this because I vaguely sort of follow the Britney Spears saga, and not because I'm interested in Britney Spears, but because I'm interested in what all of this says about people in general.

00:38:08.600 And it says a lot about people that Britney Spears can claim that her entire family, including her children, are victimizing her.

00:38:18.980 This is what she's claiming.

00:38:21.180 Everyone around her, it's like every week, there's another headline of another member of Britney Spears' family or friend or something that she's attacking, and the media's attacking too.

00:38:30.560 How dare you be so mean to poor Britney? 0.54

00:38:33.860 The media eats it up.

00:38:35.200 The public buys it, seems like. 0.76

00:38:39.200 And does this even though it's extremely clear that she's a mentally unstable narcissist, and she's the common denominator in all of these situations.

00:38:48.980 So this is the fascinating thing to me.

00:38:52.480 When I see all these people who buy into the Britney Spears story, and she's a victim and all the rest of it.

00:38:58.920 Well, have you people not met people?

00:39:02.200 I don't understand.

00:39:03.320 This is what boggles my mind, is when you come across people who don't seem to know how people work.

00:39:13.060 But you are a person.

00:39:14.560 And so, as a person, having lived a human life, have you not noticed that every single time, when there's someone who claims that everyone around them is victimizing them, and it's horrible and mean and oppressing them, in every single case, it turns out that that person is the problem.

00:39:36.380 Okay, if you can't maintain a relationship with anyone in your life, including your own children, you've got to start looking for the common denominator, which is you.

00:39:48.280 Now, look, there are exceptions to every rule, so maybe there's an exception here.

00:39:53.660 There might be a few people out there who go around claiming that everyone's out to get them and that they're oppressed by everyone and their whole family.

00:40:00.480 And it's actually true, like there may be cases like that, maybe, in theory, but if you don't know much about the situation, and we don't know much about the situation here because we don't know any of these people, all you read is the headlines.

00:40:13.860 And so, you have to make assumptions based on what you know about how people work. 0.95

00:40:21.440 And the safest assumption here is that she's just like this miserable, narcissistic, frankly, pretty horrible person. 0.88

00:40:28.600 Not much of an assumption either, because when you're calling out your own minor children on social media, that alone, pretty good indication that there are problems, and the problems are mainly with you.

00:40:45.020 Now, I say all of this, but I'm starting to realize maybe part of the problem here is that those people who are constantly claiming that everyone around them is out to get them, like they don't realize that they are that sort of person.

00:41:01.160 So maybe all the people that are rallying around Britney Spears, they are also that sort of person.

00:41:06.440 They also think that everyone in their life is out to get them.

00:41:08.800 And all the problems they have in their many relationships, all the many problems they have in all of their relationships are always the fault of the other person, never them.

00:41:18.800 Maybe that explains it.

00:41:20.060 I don't know.

00:41:20.400 It's possible.

00:41:21.580 Let's get to the comment section.

00:41:23.640 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.

00:41:29.100 We're the sweet baby gang.

00:41:34.320 First of all, I want to say, just to address one thing,

00:41:36.760 there's been a lot of consternation, perhaps even anguish, maybe I could say, over my change of wardrobe recently.

00:41:46.960 And there have been accusations that I sold out by putting on a sports jacket because the bar for selling out where I'm concerned is extremely low.

00:41:57.260 I'm not given a lot of room here.

00:41:59.040 All I have to do is shower and comb my hair and dress business casual.

00:42:02.760 People start acting like I'm driving a Lamborghini and I have a butler and I drink caviar smoothies for breakfast or something.

00:42:09.500 And I have to be honest that at first, when the SPG started complaining about the move away from the flannels,

00:42:16.800 I was defensive and I said, my body, my choice, all right?

00:42:21.740 Okay, don't try to control me.

00:42:24.200 How dare you tell me what to wear? 0.99

00:42:26.780 I'm a strong, independent woman, damn it. 0.99

00:42:29.800 But now, I've seen just how seriously you guys take that. 0.99

00:42:34.360 And I see this.

00:42:35.440 Like one of our DW superfans, no soup for knolls on Twitter, started a poll yesterday on Twitter on the subject of my wardrobe.

00:42:43.060 Should I wear blazers or flannels?

00:42:44.480 I did not ask for this poll.

00:42:46.360 I didn't actually put it up for a vote, but it's been put up for a vote anyway.

00:42:50.260 And I just looked at it.

00:42:52.460 The poll has over 5,000 responses and 70% of the respondents are demanding a return of the flannels.

00:43:03.460 And I will say again, my wardrobe not up for a vote.

00:43:08.760 Unless the results are really lopsided.

00:43:12.360 In which case, I don't want to make everyone that mad.

00:43:15.740 I'm a man of principle.

00:43:17.040 So I've taken it into advisement.

00:43:18.740 That's all I'll say.

00:43:19.300 I hear the outcry of the people.

00:43:22.000 I hear it.

00:43:22.660 I hear you.

00:43:24.060 I understand you.

00:43:26.780 And that's where we'll leave it for now.

00:43:31.880 Sierra says, I really pride myself on the fact that at the end of every one of Matt's opening monologues, I can perfectly time his,

00:43:38.020 now let's get to our five headlines, and recite it along with him, nailing his inflection.

00:43:42.620 You're saying that I'm predictable.

00:43:44.540 If that's an insult, you're banned from the show.

00:43:46.620 Luke Hansen says, hey, Matt, I'm one of the BYU students.

00:43:49.300 Since that co-wrote the BYU story, you would unfortunately not be surprised that many people were scared to talk to us just to give a statement that they did not hear anything at the game.

00:43:58.720 Some were willing to give statements and were told by either a lawyer, parent, or coach not to be involved.

00:44:03.040 Well, it's good that you guys are chasing down this story.

00:44:05.960 You should continue to do that.

00:44:08.740 But really, even if nobody talked to you, that actually tells us all that we need to know.

00:44:14.500 It's like the silence in this case answers the question because certainly if anyone actually did hear the N-word being shouted at this game,

00:44:23.680 which is what was claimed, if anyone actually heard it, they would be eager to come out and say so.

00:44:29.520 Because they'd be greeted as a hero by the media.

00:44:32.640 They'd be on ESPN and everything.

00:44:34.340 So the fact that nobody has come out and said, I heard that, tells us that it didn't happen.

00:44:43.840 Because if it was being shouted, as was originally claimed, originally, remember, it was claimed that the N-word was being shouted at the black volleyball player.

00:44:52.220 However, not once, but throughout the match, constantly being shouted, and nobody heard it.

00:45:01.660 Well, that's it.

00:45:05.860 Simon says, fee-fi-fo-fum.

00:45:09.200 After all these years, I just realized that the Giant was probably just telling Jack his pronouns.

00:45:14.460 That is a terrible joke.

00:45:16.180 Really bad.

00:45:18.000 And I liked it.

00:45:20.200 Thank you.

00:45:22.220 Sally says, I'm always on your side when it comes to nonsense, but not when it comes to abortion. 0.84

00:45:28.200 A woman can decide by herself. 1.00

00:45:32.380 So you're always on my side when it comes to nonsense.

00:45:37.020 Except apparently when it comes to the nonsense that you just said in the very next sentence.

00:45:41.080 A woman can decide by herself. 1.00

00:45:43.160 Well, I know that a woman physically can decide that to kill her child. 1.00

00:45:48.560 I'm fully aware of that.

00:45:49.860 Women and men, after a child is born, can also physically kill their children, and many have. 0.98

00:45:58.680 So I'm aware that that's a decision that can be made.

00:46:03.080 The question is whether it's the right decision. 0.99

00:46:07.960 Is it the right thing to do, to kill your child?

00:46:10.180 And I assume that you would say, in the case of a child born outside of the womb, that's born and is outside the womb, that the answer is no.

00:46:19.160 And so what you have to reflect on is whether that no should still hold in the womb.

00:46:25.660 And if not, why not?

00:46:26.700 And also, I always find it interesting when I hear from people who say, well, Matt, I agree with you on everything, except this one fundamental issue where we're on opposite sides.

00:46:39.820 Now, that's fine.

00:46:40.920 We don't have to agree on every single issue.

00:46:42.540 Okay?

00:46:42.820 I'm not saying you have to agree with me on everything.

00:46:44.340 But, you know, my, I have kind of a worldview that's coherent, and I don't decide my stance on issues at random.

00:46:56.320 Like, I have certain underlying fundamental beliefs, and one of them is about the inherent value and dignity of human beings.

00:47:03.960 And that underlying belief informs everything that I say about every social and political issue.

00:47:14.420 So I'm not even sure, if you reject my underlying belief in the inherent value and dignity of human beings, which you must reject it if you disagree with me on abortion, then how can you agree with me on everything else?

00:47:28.140 Because, for me, everything else grows from that root.

00:47:31.860 The value and dignity of human life.

00:47:37.100 So what are you rooted in?

00:47:39.280 What's your fundamental belief?

00:47:42.120 Something to think about.

00:47:46.160 And finally, Whiskey Tango says, the solution to a lost sock problem is just have all of your socks look the same.

00:47:52.320 I'm not saying you're limited to one design or color, but the more variables can just add more problems.

00:47:56.840 Now you're trying to control what socks I wear, too.

00:47:58.480 Like, can I, can I wear, can I decide on anything for myself?

00:48:01.860 I'm trying to take my autonomy from me, even when it comes to my socks.

00:48:06.600 Just back off, all right?

00:48:08.980 Are you still giving your money to woke razor companies that hate your values, see masculinity as toxic, and think that you should teach your daughter to shave her beard?

00:48:18.920 I mean, if she does have a beard, then she probably should shave it. 0.99

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00:48:59.920 Now let's get to our daily cancellation. 0.98

00:49:01.100 Well, today we cancel Men's Health Magazine, which is a publication, at this point, as concerned with helping men be healthy as, say, Planned Parenthood is with Planning Parenthood.

00:49:17.740 But perhaps the better comparison is with the magazine Scientific American, which, as we saw a couple weeks ago, has completely abandoned science and replaced it with delusional LGBT propaganda. 0.85

00:49:27.160 Men's Health has undergone a similar process of devolution, as evidenced by its advice column, Sexplainit, written by a guy named Zachary Zane. 0.91

00:49:35.340 Now Zach, whose picture we'll put up on the screen for reference, describes himself in his bio as a sex writer, author, and ethical boy slut. 0.99

00:49:46.200 Now Zach had to add the word ethical there because he had decided that the term boy slut was somehow not stupid and embarrassing enough on its own. 0.99

00:49:54.700 This is, of course, the one skill that most leftists still possess. 0.99

00:49:58.900 They're always finding increasingly inane ways of describing themselves. 0.99

00:50:03.380 And just when you think that they've come up with a label so bizarre and asinine that it could not possibly be topped, they come along and drop ethical boy slut. 0.98

00:50:13.420 So Zach goes on explaining that in his bio, he says, 0.99

00:50:18.620 Over the years, I've had my fair share of sexual experiences dating and sleeping with hundreds of people of all genders and orientations.

00:50:25.640 In doing so, I've learned a thing or two about navigating issues in the bedroom and a bunch of other places, TBH.

00:50:32.240 I'm here to answer your most pressing sex questions with thorough, actionable advice.

00:50:36.480 There's no doubt, of course, that he has learned how to navigate certain issues in the bedroom.

00:50:41.060 For example, I'm sure he could tell us which topical ointment is best for treating monkeypox sores.

00:50:45.840 But outside of managing the side effects of the many dozens of diseases this man has most likely contracted over the years,

00:50:51.920 it's not clear what advice he really has to offer or why anybody would try to solicit it in the first place.

00:50:58.460 And yet some people do, allegedly, like the guy who sent in this question for the most recent edition of his Sexplainit column.

00:51:06.720 So someone going by the moniker Labels Are Hard writes,

00:51:10.020 Dear Sexplainit, if I'm sexually attracted to people AFAB, which stands for assigned female at birth, because of anatomy, does that make me pansexual?

00:51:21.500 My whole life I've identified as a straight man because I'm sexually attracted to women's bodies.

00:51:26.240 But if I'm attracted to someone AFAB who comes out as a trans man but doesn't choose surgery, does that make me pan or bi?

00:51:34.680 I'm not attracted to people AMAB, assigned male at birth, but I am to certain trans men and NBs, which means non-binary, by the way.

00:51:44.760 If I change my sexual orientation, I feel bad, as if I'm just pretending, so I can encompass their gender identity to be with them.

00:51:50.720 Now, before we get to Zach's answer, it's worth noting that the person who wrote this question, just a small detail here, almost certainly doesn't exist.

00:52:02.040 And I know that because advice columnists frequently invent questions, and also because no straight man in the world feels guilty about being straight, first of all, as this person seems to.

00:52:12.380 Nor would any straight man feel that his orientation and sexual behavior requires the blessing of a gay guy in a mesh t-shirt. 0.98

00:52:20.980 There is just no heterosexual in existence who's ever said to himself, you know, I think it's okay that I'm attracted to the female form, but I better check with an ethical boy slut first. 1.00

00:52:32.140 No, this is a question that Mr. Zane has come up with, because he has some thoroughly unsolicited advice that he wants to offer on the subject, and here's what he says.

00:52:43.240 Quote,

00:52:43.640 Did you get that?

00:53:08.820 That if you're attracted to somebody, if you're attracted to one sex, then you're bisexual.

00:53:16.620 One has become two.

00:53:19.200 Bad news for all the circus performers who have been training on the unicycle their whole lives.

00:53:23.940 It was all a waste of time, because every unicycle is now a bicycle.

00:53:28.840 Words have no meaning.

00:53:30.480 Numbers have no meaning.

00:53:32.380 Zach continues,

00:53:33.020 There's nothing wrong with having a fetish for a certain body part. 1.00

00:53:36.380 I, for example, have a fetish for huge asses. 1.00

00:53:39.280 But it's offensive to reduce a person to that sole body part, in this case, their vulva, unless the person is explicitly open to being fetishized in that way. 1.00

00:53:48.140 I love when I find a person who wants me to worship their ass, or wants me to use them, because, as the gay boys say, I'm just a hole, sir. 1.00

00:53:57.140 The real key here isn't picking the right label for your orientation. 1.00

00:54:00.560 If you list yourself with bi and start matching with trans men and NBs, you can't go around asking them if they have a penis or a vulva down there. 1.00

00:54:09.080 That's not only rude, but also potentially triggering for people with gender and body dysmorphia. 0.98

00:54:14.460 So, go ahead and call yourself bisexual to expand your pool of potential partners, but you must also make it crystal clear in your dating app bio that you're only looking for people with a vulva. 0.90

00:54:23.900 This way, you know, the people who swipe right on you are clearly okay with your preferences, and the people who aren't can safely swipe left. 0.90

00:54:32.260 I hope you find someone who gets just as turned on by you reducing them to their vulva, but I'll be real with you.

00:54:38.100 The majority of people, cis and trans, aren't down to be fetishized.

00:54:42.040 Your search will be slow going, but at least you won't have to feel bad about pretending anymore.

00:54:46.980 So, to review, people attracted to one sex are bisexual, women are mere vulva owners, heterosexuality, rather, is a potentially offensive fetish, 0.58

00:55:01.060 and straight men are ethically bound to announce themselves because there are some people who may not be okay with that preference. 0.97

00:55:08.220 This is all so demented and ridiculous that it may seem unworthy of any response at all, and perhaps it is. 0.82

00:55:16.340 But on the other hand, conservatives have made the mistake of not responding to lots of demented things over the years 0.92

00:55:21.420 until one day they realize that they probably should have offered some sort of response earlier, and now it's too late.

00:55:27.600 So, on that note, I will make a couple of observations here.

00:55:31.620 First, we see here again the resentment and hatred that the LGBT left has for women.

00:55:38.220 Never mind that the phrase vulva owner doesn't even make sense, because your body parts are not objects that you own. 0.80

00:55:46.080 Okay?

00:55:46.860 They are the things that physically comprise you.

00:55:50.980 They're part of you.

00:55:53.120 They are you.

00:55:55.160 Right?

00:55:55.760 Like, my hand is not, it's not just this thing that I went and bought at a store.

00:56:01.140 Hey, if you cut my hand off, I wouldn't say, hey, don't take that, I own that.

00:56:06.200 No, that's me.

00:56:07.080 That's my body.

00:56:08.000 That's who I am.

00:56:11.320 Now, the greater point here is that they insist that women shouldn't be reduced to their genitals,

00:56:15.960 even as they do exactly that.

00:56:18.620 As always, they're the ones doing the thing they accuse everyone else of doing.

00:56:22.180 Projection.

00:56:22.720 That's all they do. 1.00

00:56:23.940 So, the boy slut here says that if a man is attracted to women, he must be attracted solely for her genitals. 1.00

00:56:30.040 And that's because Zach himself sees women as nothing but genitals, like with a body and brain attached. 1.00

00:56:37.040 But in reality, a man is attracted to a female's body. 0.95

00:56:41.700 That's true.

00:56:42.280 And it's a good thing that he is, because without that attraction, the human species wouldn't exist.

00:56:47.960 Zach himself would not exist if it wasn't for a long line of men before him who were, according to him, vulva fetishes.

00:56:54.480 But that's not the full story. 0.69

00:56:57.080 A man is attracted to a female's body, but is also attracted to everything else about her.

00:57:04.140 Right?

00:57:04.480 Her personality.

00:57:05.500 Just the way she is.

00:57:06.920 The way she carries.

00:57:07.520 The way she speaks.

00:57:08.920 The way she sounds.

00:57:10.680 The totality of her feminine presence.

00:57:15.640 We see women as much more than reproductive organs, and we are drawn in by the whole experience. 0.93

00:57:22.520 The whole package.

00:57:24.760 The LGBT left, on the other hand, denies that there is anything more to a woman than her genitals,

00:57:29.120 and then says that even the genitals don't matter. 1.00

00:57:31.060 And they do all of this simply so that men can partake in and appropriate womanhood. 0.92

00:57:38.060 They reduce women, and ultimately erase them, and then accuse us of doing exactly what they have just done themselves. 0.79

00:57:46.460 Second, get ready here for another shift.

00:57:49.940 Right?

00:57:50.120 Because living in a society run by the left means that you're standing on cultural tectonic plates

00:57:55.480 that are constantly moving around, shifting, jostling, often creating huge earthquakes

00:58:00.580 that can, all at once, completely change the landscape.

00:58:04.420 So here it is happening again.

00:58:06.420 For decades, the left worked to remove the stigma from fetishes and normalize all sexual proclivities and preferences.

00:58:16.220 They said that nobody should feel ashamed of who they love or who they're attracted to.

00:58:20.400 And they largely succeeded in this project and created exactly the sort of profligate, shameless society they wanted.

00:58:27.380 But now they've changed their minds.

00:58:28.860 Because now they say, actually, a fetish is shameful and unnatural.

00:58:34.080 It turns out that not all sexual proclivities are acceptable.

00:58:37.340 It's just that heterosexuality, that is the preference, quote unquote, that sustains human life 0.93

00:58:43.260 and upon which human civilization depends, is the shameful, unacceptable fetish. 0.98

00:58:50.720 Victorian prudishness is rapidly coming back into style, except in this kind of deranged, demonic form.

00:58:56.660 It is exactly what is natural and healthy and life-sustaining which is now stigmatized.

00:59:03.700 They insisted that the doors be flung open in the name of inclusion.

00:59:09.120 And they got their way.

00:59:10.580 And they were invited inside.

00:59:12.640 And then they immediately proceeded to kick everybody else out and shut and lock the very doors that they were just demanding be opened.

00:59:20.540 Inclusiveness is the ultimate Trojan horse.

00:59:22.880 If only everybody else would stop falling for it.

00:59:27.660 And also stop reading Men's Health magazine.

00:59:30.460 If anyone actually does read it, which I kind of doubt.

00:59:32.920 But at any rate, it is today canceled.

00:59:36.060 And that'll do it for this portion of the show.

00:59:37.400 As we move over to the members block, hope to see you there.

00:59:39.620 If not, Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 06, 2022

Ep. 1015 - The War On Childhood Innocence

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