The Matt Walsh Show - September 16, 2022


Ep. 1023 - New Medical Guidelines Say Parental Consent Not Required For Child Gender Transition


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the leading transgender health organization in the world
00:00:04.100 has finally released its new guidelines recommending medical and surgical transition for kids,
00:00:08.660 also recommending that in some cases they go around the parents if parents aren't affirming
00:00:14.420 enough. Parental consent is now optional, says WPATH. Also, in one of the best stories of the
00:00:18.860 year, Governor Ron DeSantis ships plane loads of illegals to the sanctuary city of Martha's
00:00:23.240 Vineyard. We'll find out how this is just like the Holocaust, according to the left.
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00:01:48.500 by texting Walsh to 989898 now. There is no good reason why the opinions and proclamations of the
00:01:56.040 World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, should matter at all to anyone.
00:02:02.080 The organization was founded in the late 1970s not by a medical doctor, but by a social psychologist
00:02:08.200 named Paul Allen Walker. Walker worked with John Money, who, as you know, if you heard on this show,
00:02:13.760 is the depraved quack who performed sexual experiments on young boys, causing two of his
00:02:18.340 test subjects to kill themselves. Walker, for his part, who was openly gay, lived in the Castro
00:02:24.600 district in San Francisco, set up his practice in the same city where he helped facilitate sex change
00:02:30.400 surgeries back like in the 60s and 70s. He also had a treatment center, quote unquote, for sex offenders.
00:02:36.920 But Walker never met someone who wouldn't be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, according to him. I mean,
00:02:43.080 he would just diagnose anyone. For example, Walt Heyer, who's a man who detransitioned back in the
00:02:48.760 early 90s and has been speaking out against the gender ideology industry ever since. He tells the
00:02:55.080 story of his initial consultations with Walker in 1981. Now, Heyer was abused by his grandmother as a
00:03:02.960 very young boy. If you've heard his story before, you're familiar with it. But he was, just to summarize
00:03:08.920 very briefly, he was forced to dress in girl clothing as like a four-year-old child by his
00:03:15.840 grandmother. And to use the current phrase, in other words, he was sort of socially transitioned
00:03:22.020 into a girl against his will, just because his grandmother was an abusive psychopath. Now, in his
00:03:28.840 40s, Heyer became a patient of Walker and explained this history of childhood abuse and trauma to him.
00:03:35.620 But he was immediately diagnosed with gender dysphoria anyway and recommended for hormones
00:03:41.020 and surgery. So to be clear, Walker's recommendation was that Heyer should use drugs and surgery to
00:03:47.920 affirm the false identity that his insane abusive grandmother created for him when he was four years
00:03:54.000 old. That's the kind of mental health professional that Walker, the founder of WPATH, was. Eventually,
00:04:00.180 he died of AIDS and the leadership of WPATH was passed on to somebody else, which brings us to
00:04:05.760 today. Today, the president of the organization is a man named Walter Pierre Bowman, who is a sexologist
00:04:12.400 and quote unquote trans health specialist. He's on his way out though, apparently, and the president
00:04:18.120 elect of the organization is Marcy Bowers, who's the trans sex change surgeon featured in my film,
00:04:24.060 what is a woman. The organization's treasurer is a guy named Lauren Schechter, who's a plastic surgeon
00:04:30.180 from Chicago and who also performs gender transitions on adults and children. In fact, all the way down the
00:04:38.100 line from president on down in this organization, you find people who are not only totally ideologically
00:04:45.320 invested in the trans agenda and therefore untrustworthy sources of information, but even worse,
00:04:52.240 they are financially invested. Bowers, Schechter, many of the rest in leadership and on the board
00:04:58.760 all have made millions of dollars from the gender affirmation business. So now they're in charge of
00:05:07.300 WPATH and the more that WPATH relaxes their recommendations and guidelines and sort of opens
00:05:12.980 things up and the more of the population that they can include as potential patients and as potential
00:05:20.960 candidates for gender affirmation procedures, quote unquote, the more money they personally make.
00:05:27.620 This is a conflict of interest to say the least. And yet it has not stopped WPATH from becoming the
00:05:34.040 leading authority on trans health in the world. Not according to me anyway, but according to
00:05:41.240 all the major medical institutions and organizations. It shouldn't matter what they say or what they
00:05:47.480 recommend, but it does. Because whatever they declare is uncritically adopted by every other
00:05:53.400 major medical organization in the Western world, which is what makes their highly anticipated set of
00:05:58.640 new guidelines just released this week, unfortunately, relevant. Christina Buttons, who's our new and quite
00:06:05.940 fearless reporter at the Daily Wire, reports this, quote, the leading transgender health association has
00:06:12.660 released its much anticipated new guidelines. One aspect noticeably different from previous editions
00:06:17.800 is that the explicitly stated minimal age recommendations for minors to obtain puberty blockers,
00:06:23.920 cross-sex hormones, and surgeries have been removed. Now to state the obvious here, or to restate,
00:06:33.200 that means that there is now no official minimum age recommendation for any gender transition procedure.
00:06:40.480 So continuing. The new guidance also suggests that if parents do not affirm their child's newly chosen
00:06:47.400 identity, the state may be enabled to intervene in order to assist with the child's transition.
00:06:52.540 WPATH published its Standards of Care 8th edition in the International Journal of Transgender Health on
00:06:57.580 September 6th, 2022. A correction was published in the same journal on September 15th, which removed
00:07:03.360 sections pertaining to, quote, minimal ages for gender-affirming medical and surgical treatments for
00:07:08.740 adolescents. A confidential draft of the 8th edition was released for public review in December 2021
00:07:14.820 that lowered the recommended minimum age for minors to obtain cross-sex hormones, which caused
00:07:20.020 permanent changes to the body from 16 to 14, and then also irreversible chest, face, and genital surgeries
00:07:25.660 to 15, 16, and 17, respectively. Little has changed from the early draft, and while WPATH no longer
00:07:31.820 provides explicit minimum age recommendations in their latest official guidelines, a close reading of the
00:07:36.580 text finds that age suggestions are woven into the text. So before we read a little bit more of this,
00:07:43.440 there are basically two ways to potentially interpret WPATH's decision to remove the explicit minimum
00:07:49.980 age recommendations from the text. One is that they don't want there to be any minimum age. You know,
00:07:57.240 they want to open the door for any procedure at any age. We heard from a gender surgeon in a clip last week
00:08:02.560 that he doesn't recognize any minimum age at all for any form of medical intervention. We heard that
00:08:09.880 explicitly. Or you might theorize that WPATH removed some of these minimum age guidelines, or at least
00:08:16.640 made them harder to find in the text, made them a little bit less clear, because they don't want people
00:08:22.680 to know that these things are being done to kids as young as 14. I mean, they've been talking openly
00:08:29.780 about doing these things to kids for many years, but now some of us are paying attention and drawing
00:08:34.560 attention to it, and they don't want that, which is the same reason why children's hospitals and other
00:08:40.240 clinics around the country have been frantically removing this information from their website.
00:08:45.140 Any mention of performing any sort of procedures on kids, they're removing from the website,
00:08:49.380 not because they don't do it anymore, but because they don't want us to notice it. They don't want to
00:08:53.060 give us something really simple that we can point to and say, oh, you see? They're trying to make
00:08:57.780 it harder for critics to expose what's going on, rather than laying it all out plainly in a document
00:09:03.260 that we can, again, just point to and say, well, there it is. Now, I tend to think that out of
00:09:07.780 these two possible explanations, maybe there's truth to both. Reading on. Chapter 6 on adolescence
00:09:14.760 in the new guidelines suggests that cross-sex hormones may be administered to children as young
00:09:19.080 as 14. Quoting from the document, it says, more recent guidelines suggest there may be compelling
00:09:24.760 reasons to initiate gender-affirming hormone therapy prior to the age of 16, although there
00:09:29.920 are limited studies on youth who have initiated hormones prior to 14 years of age. In the same
00:09:35.160 chapter, so you see how they have the ages there. They make it a little bit more obscure what they're
00:09:39.060 actually saying, a little bit more. In the same chapter, guidance is issued for chest masculinization
00:09:45.060 surgery, otherwise known as a double mastectomy, which is the removal of healthy breasts.
00:09:49.520 Quoting again from the document, it says, chest masculinization surgery can be considered
00:09:53.280 in minors when clinically and developmentally appropriate as determined by a multidisciplinary
00:09:58.840 team experienced in adolescent and gender development. Though no precise age is indicated,
00:10:04.260 most pediatric gender clinics will perform double mastectomy surgeries on 15-year-olds.
00:10:09.920 Guidance on vaginoplasties, the creation of a pseudo-vagina using existing genital tissue,
00:10:15.240 indicates that they may be obtained as a minor as well. Quoting again from the document,
00:10:19.080 while the sample sizes are small, these studies suggest there may be a benefit for some adolescents
00:10:23.620 to having these procedures performed before the age of 18, reads the guidelines. Now,
00:10:29.600 keep in mind again, that younger children undergoing gender transition means millions of more dollars
00:10:38.540 in the pockets of the very people who are making these recommendations.
00:10:42.160 Now, we should note that WPATH does at least have one form of genital mutilation, which it does not
00:10:49.760 yet recommend for kids. Quote, the only genital surgery it seems the WPATH is comfortable setting
00:10:54.960 an age recommendation for is phalloplasty, which creates a penis-like phallus from skin grafts taken
00:11:00.680 elsewhere in the body. The document says, given the complexity of phalloplasty and current high rates of
00:11:06.540 complications in comparison to other gender-affirming surgical treatments, it is not recommended
00:11:10.380 that this surgery be considered in youth under 18 at this time. The at-this-time qualifier is rather
00:11:18.480 glaring and conspicuous, and so is this part. Reading from the document, we recommend when gender-affirming
00:11:25.700 medical or surgical treatments are indicated for adolescents, healthcare professionals working
00:11:29.580 with transgender and gender-diverse adolescents involve parents or guardians in the assessment and
00:11:34.820 treatment process, unless their involvement is determined to be harmful to the adolescent or not
00:11:39.960 feasible. Helping youth and parents slash caregivers work together on important gender care decisions
00:11:44.580 is a primary goal. However, in some cases, parents and caregivers may be too rejecting of their adolescent
00:11:50.660 child and their child's gender needs to be part of the clinical evaluation process. In these situations,
00:11:56.640 youth may require the engagement of larger systems of advocacy and support to move forward with the
00:12:01.980 necessary support and care. Now, this statement from WPATH will be and has been reported as WPATH
00:12:13.060 recommending parental consent. Oh, they're being responsible. They're saying that there should be
00:12:18.840 parental consent, but they're actually doing the opposite, which is quite obvious when you read it.
00:12:24.160 What they're saying is that parental consent matters if the parent says yes. If the parent says no,
00:12:31.980 their opinion doesn't matter. So you only get consent if the consent, if there is consent. Consent only
00:12:38.820 matters if you say yes, which is to say that your consent doesn't matter. Your opinion doesn't matter at all
00:12:45.620 in either case. The medical establishment is saying to the parents here, we're going to do what we want to your
00:12:50.580 kids and we'll get the state involved if we have to. And you can give us your approval and we'll do it or you can
00:12:57.560 disapprove and we'll still do it. What this means is that the approval is irrelevant and symbolic at best.
00:13:05.100 The parents are cut out of the equation and consent is deferred not to the child who cannot actually
00:13:10.840 consent, but to the very surgeons and doctors who are financially invested in transitioning as many
00:13:17.820 people as they can, as young as they can, as fast as they can. That's what so much of this is about.
00:13:26.740 Now, we know that they are rabid ideologues that are in the gender transition industry and they're at
00:13:34.180 WPATH and they're, as I said, ideologically invested in this. They're religious fanatics and they want to
00:13:43.020 induct as many people as they can into their cult. And that's what's driving a lot of it.
00:13:47.940 But we can't overlook the fact that they're also just scam artists
00:13:50.900 trying to make a buck or two or two billion. That's what much of this traces back to.
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00:15:11.480 year, potentially of all time. We've heard about Republican governors sending busloads of illegals
00:15:15.660 to Chicago and New York and other places. Well, Ron DeSantis, I think, tops them all with this,
00:15:20.320 as you've probably heard, Daily Wire. The far left melted down Wednesday night in response to
00:15:24.680 Governor Ron DeSantis sending two planefuls of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard,
00:15:29.000 a Massachusetts island that is home to wealthy progressives like President Barack Obama.
00:15:33.960 The office, DeSantis' office said in a statement, yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with
00:15:38.880 illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard today were part of the state's relocation
00:15:42.360 program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations. States like Massachusetts,
00:15:48.000 New York, and California will better facilitate the care of these individuals who they have invited
00:15:51.640 into our country by incentivizing illegal immigration through their designation as sanctuary states and
00:15:56.300 support for the Biden administration's open border policies. This is something that you'd think the
00:16:03.320 left would support, especially if they declared themselves sanctuary states. And also, they would
00:16:07.620 be the first to say that. I mean, Ron DeSantis, he's a fascist. He's Hitler incarnate. In fact,
00:16:14.600 they do say that. We'll get to that in a second. And Florida is a hellhole. You don't want to live
00:16:21.140 there. There's no, don't say gay. You can't even say the word gay when you're walking down the street
00:16:25.580 or a drone will come by and incinerate you. That's how bad it is there. Texas is even worse.
00:16:31.860 So you think they would be quite excited about these illegal immigrants being relocated from
00:16:36.660 those terrible, terrible states and brought to places that have declared themselves to be
00:16:40.600 sanctuaries. I mean, they say we are a sanctuary, come to us. And then as it turns out, when the
00:16:48.200 Republican governors take them up on that and say, okay, well, here you go. Here's some people for
00:16:52.760 your sanctuary. Well, we didn't mean, we meant, you know, spiritually. We're spiritual. We're here
00:17:00.440 for moral support from a distance. You know, we'll give a thumbs up. That's what we wanted to do.
00:17:05.420 That's what we meant by sanctuary state. Leftists proceeded to erupt with anger that DeSantis would
00:17:11.300 send the illegal immigrants to the island, with many falsely accusing him of human trafficking or
00:17:14.980 being a literal Nazi. Former CNN reporter, Jackie, uh, Schechner says the Nazis had a relocation
00:17:22.040 program. DeSantis' communications director actually uses the word the state's relocation program. Oh,
00:17:28.180 well, the Nazis relocated people. And this is also being called relocation.
00:17:36.720 Yeah. I mean, you know, when I, when, uh, when the daily wire moved to Tennessee from,
00:17:42.260 from Los Angeles, I was living in Pennsylvania at the time and, uh, they wanted me to relocate
00:17:47.820 here to Nashville, you know? And, um, so I am also, you know, I am essentially the victim of
00:17:56.460 the Holocaust now because of that, because it's relocation. Well, no, obviously you see when the
00:18:02.080 Nazis relocated people, um, they were relocating Jews to ghettos and then eventually they are being
00:18:09.220 relocated quote unquote to concentration camps where they were, uh, slaughtered. In this case,
00:18:16.360 we have illegal immigrants being put on a nice jet and brought to the wealthiest and nicest neighborhood
00:18:22.700 in the country. Um, where again, they have been told that we're a sanctuary.
00:18:30.540 This Nazi comparison has come up more than once. Not surprisingly, here's, um, a conversation with
00:18:37.660 the documentarian Ken Burns, who's just make it, it's a kind of a, it's a, make it a bad,
00:18:44.400 bad name for all the rest of us documentarians in the documentarian, uh, community. But anyway,
00:18:49.480 here he is talking about this, uh, connection between Ron DeSantis and Hitler.
00:18:53.660 This is history. All of your documentaries are about history, but all of them also make you think
00:19:00.940 about where we are now. And we woke up to the news this morning that governor Ron DeSantis of Florida
00:19:07.260 sent two plane loads of migrants, uh, to Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, including
00:19:13.320 kids and whatnot. And I'm not saying this is not a one for one. This is not a parallel here in any way,
00:19:18.280 but it does address some of the same themes that are part of this documentary.
00:19:22.560 Well, it's the abstraction of human life. It's basically saying that you can use a human life
00:19:28.100 that is as valuable as yours or mine or Lynn's and to put it in a position of becoming a political
00:19:34.860 pawn in somebody's authoritarian game. This is the coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook.
00:19:40.760 This is what's so, uh, disturbing about DeSantis is to use human beings, to weaponize human beings
00:19:47.280 for a political purpose. It's like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida, like the
00:19:52.540 Walt Disney company, he punishes them. This is not the actions of a person participating in a
00:19:59.040 democratic process in which there's an exchange of ideas. This is about punishing political enemies,
00:20:04.620 putting on, uh, shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives
00:20:10.980 of human beings. And what's so ironic is these are Venezuelan refugees, which DeSantis should be
00:20:16.480 supporting because they're trying to flee the corruption of a left-wing government and all of
00:20:21.920 the pain there. And so the, the, the level of cynicism is beyond that. And, and what we find in
00:20:27.600 all our films is that the themes that we engage in the past are present.
00:20:32.160 Good enough. Shut up, Ken. We got it. Um, uh, where to even begin? Okay. Even if it was true that
00:20:39.320 Ron DeSantis is using the illegal immigrants as quote political pawns, which to, to accuse him of
00:20:45.760 that is to admit that the whole sanctuary state thing was, was, was, you know, a mirage. It was not
00:20:52.000 serious. I mean, this is, they're only political pawns if there's, if the sanctuary state, because
00:20:59.000 that's what that's, he's sending them to a sanctuary state. So what they're saying is that, yeah, he's,
00:21:03.200 he is calling, um, you know, the, the bluff of, uh, you know, Massachusetts, New York. That's what
00:21:08.740 these Republican governors do. They're, they're calling the bluff of these other states who claim
00:21:12.580 to be sanctuary states. Um, but they're not admitting that explicitly, but even if that's true,
00:21:23.740 they're using them as political pawns. Is that what the, that's what the Holocaust was?
00:21:27.020 That's what the Holocaust was all about, was using what Jews as political pawns. That's it.
00:21:33.560 No, I think the issue with the Holocaust was the mass murder. Okay. So it's, it's, it's something
00:21:38.480 quite beyond being used as a political pawn. Mass, mass slaughter was the issue there.
00:21:45.400 He also mentions the abstraction of human life, which is a good phrase, actually. It's a useful phrase.
00:21:50.540 Uh, and that is happening in our culture, but who's doing that exactly? The abstraction of human
00:21:58.560 life. What does that mean? I guess it means making human life abstract, um, kind of obscuring it,
00:22:05.080 making it this kind of abstract concept. Well, where is that going on?
00:22:09.940 I mean, that's, that's going on with it in the womb. That's the pro abortion side. That's the
00:22:17.340 left. As always, as always, when they accuse someone of doing something, it's because they
00:22:20.940 themselves are doing it every single time. It's like a hundred percent of the time. That's the
00:22:24.340 case. Certainly the case here. That's exactly what they're doing here. They are the ones that say,
00:22:30.720 well, I don't know what, when does human life begin? And nobody knows. We can't even define it.
00:22:34.040 You know, we know we can stump them with what is a woman. You could also stump them by asking what
00:22:40.180 is human life? They can't define it. They won't define it. So who's, who's engaging in the
00:22:43.060 abstraction here? We're not making human life abstract. We can give you a definition. We
00:22:48.400 tell you exactly what it is and when it starts. The White House also was, uh, on the scene to
00:22:57.080 denounce this unethical move by Ron DeSantis. Let's listen to that.
00:23:01.680 On what you call this political stunt with the asylum seekers, let's specifically get
00:23:07.380 into the locations. Martha's Vineyard, the Naval Observatory. Can you talk to the issue of,
00:23:15.460 you said Boston. It's an island that they sent the asylum seekers to. An island that, um, is
00:23:23.500 known to be, in some instances, a democratic haven. Uh, former presidents, former democratic
00:23:29.640 president's vacation there, owned homes there, et cetera. Could you speak to that as well as the
00:23:34.780 Naval Observatory? What I could say, and I've been very clear, uh, it is a political stunt.
00:23:41.120 That's what we're seeing from governor, uh, governors, Republican governors in, in particular. And,
00:23:46.640 um, it is a cruel, inhumane way of treating, uh, people who are fleeing communism. Uh, people who are,
00:23:55.500 who are, uh, and we're not just talking about people. We're talking about children. We're talking
00:23:59.760 about families, uh, who are promised, uh, a home, promised a job, put on a bus, and, uh, you know,
00:24:07.720 driven to a place that they do not know. And it is a cruel thing to do. According to local reports,
00:24:14.880 Governor Ron DeSantis sent a hired videographer on the plane to Massachusetts, uh, to order to capture
00:24:21.520 footage of them being dropped off. Remember, there were children on this plane. So I cannot speak to,
00:24:28.420 uh, anything outside of what we're seeing, right? Which is-
00:24:32.020 I, I, you know, I, I'll take that inhumane treatment, like a free private jet ride to
00:24:37.360 Martha's Vineyard. You know, I'll, I'll take that. Um, being used as a political pawn, she says that,
00:24:45.540 oh, they're being put on buses and shipped to a place they don't know. Yeah. What does that remind
00:24:48.780 you of? I mean, it reminds you of the, of the illegal immigration epidemic that's been ongoing
00:24:52.820 for decades. That's exactly the problem. That's what these, these, uh, governors, you know, in
00:24:58.580 border states and governors down South have been saying, what conservatives in general have been
00:25:01.900 saying for years is that when you open up the border and you invite people in and you start
00:25:08.560 talking about how you're a sanctuary city, a sanctuary state, whatever, this is what you end up with.
00:25:14.000 So once again, accusing people of doing exactly what they're doing, they're the ones who have
00:25:19.600 for decades been using illegal immigrants as political pawns, um, inviting them in to these
00:25:25.940 red states. They don't want to have to deal with them themselves. We want to invite them into the red
00:25:29.040 states. What they're, what they're actually having a problem with it. What they're really saying is,
00:25:34.340 well, how dare you use illegal immigrants as political pawns? Only we're supposed to do that.
00:25:39.440 We're the ones that are that that's our thing, not yours. It's like a form of plagiarism
00:25:45.740 essentially is what they're accusing Ron DeSantis of, but really it's the reaction from some of the
00:25:50.640 local leaders themselves. That's really telling here's the, um, homeless shelter coordinator
00:25:55.960 in Martha's vineyard. And here's what she had to say about this. So what are the most difficult
00:26:01.780 challenges right now? The difficult challenges are, uh, we have at some point in time, they have to
00:26:09.420 move somewhere else, right? We, we cannot, we don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants.
00:26:16.780 Um, and we, we certainly don't have housing. We're in a housing crisis as we are on this island.
00:26:22.400 And so we don't, we can't house everyone here that lives here and works here. We don't have housing
00:26:28.960 for 50 more people. Eventually we have to pick them up and move them somewhere else.
00:26:35.160 We can't take care of them here. We don't have a housing. It's a crisis. So, so, uh, 50 illegal
00:26:40.280 immigrants in Martha's vineyard is a crisis, a humanitarian crisis, which they've been calling
00:26:43.740 it a humanitarian crisis. Well, what is thousands of illegal immigrants every single day being
00:26:48.420 funneled into these border towns and border States? What do you call that? Um, what we should see
00:26:55.460 again, the left, left likes diversity in theory, but they certainly don't want to have to actually
00:26:59.760 confront it in reality. And this also goes to show that the most compassionate and humane border
00:27:08.640 policy is one that deters people from coming here to begin with. Because once you have the flood of
00:27:15.500 illegal immigrants coming into the country, there are no good answers. When they're here,
00:27:20.200 there's no good answers. And when you have this unchecked tide coming in every single day,
00:27:24.920 there are no good answers. Um, there are right answers, but there aren't any, like no matter
00:27:29.660 every answer is difficult. And the only way to stop that is to deter people from coming here in
00:27:37.120 the first place. Yeah. It's not shipping them off. It'd be better if, if, uh, Ron DeSantis didn't
00:27:43.820 have to do that. It'd be better if Greg Abbott didn't have to ship illegals up to sanctuary cities
00:27:49.300 and sanctuary states. That'd be better, but they're here because the border is not secure.
00:27:55.820 So why can't we all agree that, that actually the best thing is for them not to come to begin with?
00:28:00.020 And how do you stop them from coming? Well, you secure the border, border obviously,
00:28:03.980 but it also means that you have, again, you have to have a policy that deters people from coming,
00:28:08.320 which means when they come, you know, you have to be very strict and even seemingly unkind.
00:28:14.920 Like you come here, you shut the border down. People come, doesn't matter how far
00:28:18.160 they've been traveling. You turn them around and say, you can't come in here. Go away.
00:28:22.740 It seems really upsetting to people and it does seem unkind and uncharitable,
00:28:26.420 but that is actually the most charitable and compassionate thing.
00:28:30.500 If you want to avoid this humanitarian crisis in Martha's Vineyard, which is the only place the
00:28:36.380 left cares about it. If it's in Martha's Vineyard, they care about it. They don't care about the
00:28:38.960 humanitarian crisis that's been ongoing for decades in Texas. You really want to avoid a
00:28:44.240 humanitarian crisis. Then that's what you do. You shut the border down and you are strict
00:28:50.000 about it and unwavering and you're not allowed to come here illegally. If you come here,
00:28:57.180 we will send you away and that's it. All right. Don Lemon has been demoted, essentially.
00:29:04.880 Not essentially. I mean, he's been, we know that at CNN, they're kind of scrambling and trying to
00:29:10.460 figure out what's wrong with their ratings. I mean, what's wrong with ratings is nobody wants to watch
00:29:13.600 CNN. So they've got, we know they got rid of Brian Stelter. They got rid of Chris Cuomo a while ago
00:29:19.940 and they're revamping their primetime lineup. They're taking Don Lemon and they're kicking him
00:29:24.080 down to the morning show and they're demoting him. They're taking him out of primetime, putting him
00:29:27.280 somewhere that's not primetime. But this is kind of embarrassing for him. He, rather than just kind
00:29:33.740 of going quietly on his show last night, he's defending himself. And we just talked about the
00:29:39.040 problem of like getting defensive. He's defending himself against the claim that he was demoted.
00:29:43.480 And here's how that went. I was presented with an opportunity that I can't pass up at this network.
00:29:50.900 And we have a new boss who is a morning show impresario. And he wants a morning show that will
00:29:58.200 kick off the editorial direction of the network every single day. And I am honored that he asked me to do
00:30:04.840 it. And for all of those who are out there saying, oh, he moved me and without my, he asked me and I
00:30:11.060 said, yes, I could have said, no, this is my show. I have a contract for this show. I decided that I
00:30:17.800 would take him up on that and take this journey with him. So this is not someone moving me. And by
00:30:23.460 the way, this is not someone saying you must move to the right Don Lemon and you must not be so,
00:30:29.560 um, give so much of your perspective. None of that has happened. All of that is fodder for
00:30:33.960 Twitter, which is not real. So stop it. I was not demoted. None of that. This is an opportunity.
00:30:39.120 This is a promotion. This is, this is, um, an opportunity for me to create something around me.
00:30:45.620 And I get to work with two great ladies who, you know, Poppy Harlow, who I've known for more than a
00:30:51.500 decade. I went to her wedding in Slovenia. I know her children. I know her husband and Caitlin
00:30:55.820 Collins. Uh, same thing. We've been friends since Caitlin has been at the network. This, I was not
00:31:02.000 demoted. I wasn't. Uh, I love the phrase there. I, I, I decided to take this journey with him.
00:31:09.500 So your boss calls you in and says, uh, yeah, we're kicking you down a few notches here. You're
00:31:14.300 not, you're not performing well. You know, we're going to give you a pay cut. It's emotion. Okay. I'll take
00:31:20.200 this journey with you. Let's go hand in hand on this journey. Um, first of all, nobody volunteers
00:31:27.480 for, to do the morning show, especially not from prime time. Like you're gonna, you really, you want
00:31:32.960 to get up at three 30 in the morning and do, and do a show. It's what you really want instead of being
00:31:38.400 in prime time. I doubt it, but you also notice he, his, his, uh, near admission of bias. Not that
00:31:44.740 we need him to admit it. We already know, but he almost admits it. He says, um, he says,
00:31:51.960 oh, no, it's, it's, it's, they, they didn't come to me and say, move to the right, stop being.
00:31:57.300 And then he stops himself, uh, you know, stop giving my perspective. So he almost said,
00:32:01.960 they didn't tell me move to the right, stop being so liberal. And then he stopped himself again,
00:32:08.640 not that we needed his admission, but even so. All right. Maybe, uh, let's play one other clip.
00:32:15.200 This is the, uh, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen waxing poetically about the IRS.
00:32:24.020 Today, I want to spend some time discussing how the new IRS funding in the Inflation Reduction Act
00:32:31.540 will make these types of investments possible as well as its impact on the American economy.
00:32:38.640 But first, I want to begin by speaking about the IRS itself. As our nation's revenue collection
00:32:47.580 agency, the IRS is a foundation of our government and our society. The IRS collects 96% of the revenue
00:32:59.540 that funds the federal government, that supports our priorities from national security to infrastructure
00:33:07.880 to social security. It's also one of the very few parts of the federal government that touches
00:33:15.560 nearly every American household. IRS employees are known for their extraordinary dedication to public
00:33:25.860 service. They have always served with distinction. But over the past couple of years,
00:33:33.020 the employees of the IRS have been called to stay further to serve the American people.
00:33:42.700 Serve the American people with audits. That's what we're getting served with. By the way,
00:33:48.120 I don't mean this in a bad way. I really don't. And I don't mean this as an insult. But, um,
00:33:51.700 every time I see Janet Yellen, doesn't she look a little bit like the albino who works in the torture
00:33:58.020 chamber in The Princess Bride? Uh, we could put up a split screen maybe of that. I don't know. I,
00:34:03.880 you know, again, it's not, it's quite a handsome guy. So I'm not, I mean, as an insult, I just,
00:34:08.680 I don't know if they found that. It would make sense to find that person who works in a torture
00:34:13.600 chamber. Um, what do they call that in the film? The pit of despair. So put that person runs pit
00:34:20.060 of despair, runs the IRS. You know, there is a connection there. Anyway, um, the IRS is the
00:34:26.300 foundation of the United States. Uh, you, you laugh at that, but it's actually, it's just an outrageous
00:34:35.000 claim. And it's another, although it's an overused term, it's quite Orwellian, this rewrite of
00:34:40.860 history. I mean, America was founded on a, on a, on a tax revolt. I mean, it was, it was founded by
00:34:49.040 people who revolted, rebelled, would, would, would started killing people because of taxes. And so
00:34:56.080 now the foundation of the country is that the revenue collection agency, which by the way,
00:35:05.320 didn't even exist, um, for the first century plus of the, of the, of the country's existence.
00:35:13.420 And now they, it serves as our foundation,
00:35:15.800 which there's a lot of truth to that from her perspective, from the, from the perspective of
00:35:21.960 the powers that be here, the regime, that is how they see it. The IRS is, is utterly foundational,
00:35:28.100 which probably tells you everything you need to know. Let's get now to the comment section.
00:35:35.320 You know, one of the great things about being a parent is that it provides you with many
00:35:51.800 occasions to learn empathy. And I need a lot of practice in that regard, as you know, so it's a
00:35:56.720 good thing. And, um, and the reason is that your children will get upset about the dumbest things
00:36:01.860 all the time. And this, this, this holds true at every age, by the way, every stage of childhood.
00:36:07.060 And your job is to try to understand where they're coming from and to not be dismissive because
00:36:10.420 yeah, you don't want to, uh, if, if they're, if they're overreacting to something, you don't want
00:36:14.960 to encourage it. But at the same time, you can't always be dismissive and you have to try to sort
00:36:18.340 of understand where they're coming from. So last night I put the kids down for bed and I went upstairs
00:36:22.520 about 30 minutes later. My son, uh, my five-year-old is sitting in his bed, sobbing uncontrollably.
00:36:28.620 And I go in and ask him what's wrong. And he says that he's scared. And I ask him why that he's
00:36:33.780 scared. And he says he's scared because his toys come to life at night while he's sleeping. And he's
00:36:39.300 worried about that, which admittedly, I mean, I would be worried about that too, if that was
00:36:44.480 happening. But I tried to explain to him, it's not happening. Um, toys don't actually come to life.
00:36:48.620 That's just for the movies and TV shows. It's not real. It's not physically possible, but I made it
00:36:53.200 worse because at one point he says, well, I know the toys, when they come to life, they can't touch
00:36:57.720 humans. They can't attack humans, but it's still scary. That's what he said to me. My son, by the
00:37:02.720 way, never uses the word person or people. He only ever says humans for some reason. So if we're in
00:37:07.100 the mall or something, and there's a lot of people there, he'll say, he'll say, uh, there are a lot
00:37:10.900 of humans in here. Or did you see that human driving that car? And it makes sense. It's a perfectly
00:37:16.580 valid way of saying it. It just, you never realize how weird some phrasing sounds until you hear it out
00:37:21.000 loud. Anyway, so he says that the toys come to life, but they don't touch humans. And then I say,
00:37:27.440 well, how do you know they can't touch you? And he says, wait, so they can, they can attack me.
00:37:33.660 And I said, no, I didn't mean it like that. I'm just wondering where you're getting the
00:37:36.100 information. It's this very specific information you have. I want to know where you got it from.
00:37:40.780 And he has like this whole mythology that he's built up. I said, did you get this from Toy Story?
00:37:44.520 What are we talking about? Let me know so I can engage with you a little bit in this conversation.
00:37:47.980 And I guess he just came up with it in his head and was immediately convinced of its validity.
00:37:52.620 And at another point, I'm still trying to convince him. This went on for like a while,
00:37:56.320 this conversation about, about the toys coming to life. And, and, uh, and, and he goes, and I say,
00:38:02.380 well, no, they don't. I keep trying to tell them they don't come to life. And he says, well,
00:38:07.240 have you ever seen toys not come to life when you're sleeping? And I just stopped and think about
00:38:13.840 that for a second. Have I seen toys not come to life when I'm sleeping? Uh, I said, no,
00:38:22.320 I guess I haven't seen that. Well, you see, so you don't know. Anyway, so maybe he's right. Maybe
00:38:27.620 they do come to life. I guess I really don't know. I just, my whole concept of reality broke down.
00:38:33.700 All right. This is Melanie Wild says, I love it when the media takes your hilarious dry humor. So
00:38:38.900 literal, um, honestly, nobody could say conservatives aren't funny because Matt gets me rolling daily.
00:38:43.380 Thanks, man. I don't know what you're talking about. What? There was no joking on yesterday's
00:38:48.180 show, especially it was one of my most serious shows. I don't even know what you're referring to.
00:38:52.420 Um, Cameron says this was hands down without a doubt, the greatest opening monologue and
00:38:56.720 admittedly the short history of podcasting. Well, thank you for that. Uh, and I would also say
00:39:01.460 probably one of the most important monologues if I do say so myself.
00:39:04.820 Uh, Genevieve says your rant about Starbucks baristas made me howl with laughter. My ex-best
00:39:11.880 friend once, I was serious about that too. So what are you guys laughing about everything for?
00:39:15.920 These, everything was serious, especially the stuff about baristas. My ex-best friend once yelled at
00:39:21.340 me driving in the middle of Chicago traffic, telling me her job as a Starbucks barista was a career
00:39:25.280 that she plans to grow into. This was a response to me trying to help her find a job with her college
00:39:30.680 degree that she had received over a year ago, a degree, which was in, uh, you guessed it photography.
00:39:35.960 Needless to say, our friendship didn't last much longer after that. Well, I'm sure your friend was
00:39:40.840 quite annoying. And so I wouldn't mourn the fact that she's gone, but I would say like, I don't,
00:39:45.140 I wouldn't begrudge anyone or dissuade or try to discourage anyone who is in a customer service
00:39:51.280 job and says that they see it as a career. It can be actually now like being a, you know,
00:39:56.960 working the drive-through at Starbucks is not in and itself a career. Hopefully you're not doing
00:40:01.300 that for 20 years, but if you see that as a stepping stone and you kind of want to stay in
00:40:07.080 the customer service world and you want to work up to being a manager and then eventually you got
00:40:11.280 your own, uh, you have your own location that you're running, you know, you work, you work your
00:40:14.980 way up that way. I think that's perfectly admirable and noble. And that's a, that's a career path
00:40:19.440 that many people follow. I guess that's great. Um, but that means that's all the more reason why
00:40:25.360 if you see it that way, then when you're there, you're going to be working as hard as you can,
00:40:30.000 putting in the extra effort. You're not going to be recording TikToks, complaining about your job.
00:40:33.980 You're not going to be focusing on all the things you hate so much and trying to avoid,
00:40:36.760 you know, getting mad when people, uh, order complicated drinks that make you work harder
00:40:40.500 because you're there and you see this as an opportunity. So I actually, I, you know,
00:40:44.460 I encourage people to have that attitude actually. Uh, SSG Emeritus says, I saw a headline that
00:40:50.600 read that you had a meltdown over the little mermaid. I laughed so hard at you having a meltdown.
00:40:54.400 Your excellent response was a classic, responsible, knowledgeable version of a
00:40:57.800 Matt Walsh meltdown. Good for you. I did read there, there've been many headlines like that
00:41:01.700 actually, cause the media is still talking about this, by the way. And now people are sending me
00:41:05.140 tick. So TikTok has gotten in on the action. Maybe we'll play some of those videos next week. I don't
00:41:08.440 know. As we continue the mermaid conversation into, um, just indefinitely. But so there, you know,
00:41:15.120 there's more reporting on it. And yeah, that, that has seemed to be the most common characterization
00:41:20.680 of our initial conversation about translucent mermaids is that they're saying was a meltdown.
00:41:26.400 I don't meltdown about it because yeah, everyone knows, uh, this is what I, people know this about
00:41:33.620 me. I, that's my personality. I'm overly emotional. I get very excited easily, uh, overly enthusiastic.
00:41:40.540 That's, I admit, that's one of my great, greatest flaws. Right now over at dailywire.com slash shop,
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00:44:05.680 cancellation. Today, we check in with the fat community over at TikTok, a realm that we may call
00:44:15.840 Thick Talk. That's actually my producer Sean's joke. Now, as the host of the show, it's my God-given
00:44:22.660 right to steal the joke without credit. I can steal any joke I hear around here because it's mine.
00:44:27.940 That's the way it goes. But I've decided to forego that privilege and give credit where it's due
00:44:31.660 in this case. So there it is, Thick Talk. Anyway, we'll start with one recent viral video from a fat
00:44:37.280 activist, and then perhaps we'll continue down the Thick Talk rabbit hole and see what else we may find.
00:44:43.080 Here it is.
00:44:44.700 I'm going to prove to you why white people are the reason I'm fat today.
00:44:48.900 If white people didn't go looking for spices, then various sea routes to Indian subcontinent and
00:44:57.320 Africa and other places of the world would not get discovered. And if they didn't get discovered,
00:45:03.000 then East India Company would never come to Indian subcontinent. And if they didn't come,
00:45:08.520 then the fertility of the land would not get destroyed because they forced us to cultivate
00:45:15.560 tobacco and dyes and opioid, things like that. And that destroyed the fertility of my country.
00:45:24.480 And then if that didn't happen, and if they didn't exploit and extract resources until
00:45:30.480 my ancestors were left with nothing to eat, we wouldn't move to this grain-heavy,
00:45:38.280 very little nutritious diet that we have today. Also, if white people didn't come to the Indian
00:45:45.160 subcontinent, then my ancestors would not go through 50 small, medium, large famines in
00:45:53.700 a period of 200 years. That's a lot. And in 1943, nearly 3 million people would not have died
00:46:05.140 due to starvation and malnutrition. And if that didn't happen, then this entire place
00:46:13.580 and the people of this place would not adapt to survive on lower calories.
00:46:23.020 Okay. I didn't realize that was a 45-minute clip. But it's a fun game, I have to admit. It's like the
00:46:27.780 self-victimizing version of Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Just take some negative aspect of yourself that
00:46:33.020 you don't want to take responsibility for, and then find a way to cast the blame as far away from
00:46:37.180 yourself as possible. I can do this too. For instance, I tend to be impatient and at times
00:46:41.920 ill-tempered, I admit. It's not my fault, though. It can actually be traced directly back to Alexander
00:46:47.740 the Great's invasion of Persia in 334 BC. I'll need to do some research on Wikipedia to connect all
00:46:53.700 the dots, but I'm sure there's a way to do it. Actually, in this woman's case, you might compare it
00:46:57.840 more to a sort of, it's sort of like a butterfly effect, but for fatness. So a butterfly flaps its
00:47:04.020 wings 700 miles away, sets off a chain of causation that eventually ends with this girl eating a
00:47:10.600 cheeseburger. Although here, in a rather extraordinary feat of deflection, she has punted responsibility
00:47:15.860 actually out of this century, halfway across the previous millennium. Imagine that the mental
00:47:21.840 gymnastics required to be in the process of devouring like a Cinnabon while thinking to yourself,
00:47:28.400 this is all Vasco da Gama's fault. Damn you, Vasco. Meanwhile, there is, as always, an obvious
00:47:35.640 contradiction at work here. On the one hand, we're told that fat is beautiful, fat is good, fat is
00:47:40.000 healthy, fat is desirable. On the other hand, it's also very important for us to believe that fat people
00:47:45.800 are fat through no fault of their own. So it's like, this is good, but it's not my fault. Well, if it's
00:47:52.640 beautiful and good, then why would you not want to take credit for it? In fact, if white people made
00:47:56.860 this girl fat, then shouldn't she be thanking us, given that fat is beautiful? We made you beautiful.
00:48:02.140 You're welcome. Which is it, is my question. You have to choose. Pick a lane. Either it's bad and it's not
00:48:09.400 my fault, or it's good, in which case the blame game makes no sense. Let's watch the next one.
00:48:15.800 Thigh shaming and skinny shaming are the same. Actually, no, they're not. Fat people are denied
00:48:21.940 jobs, proper medical care, health insurance. They're paid less. They don't have equal access
00:48:26.160 to clothing, travel, many public spaces. Even the body mass index, the way that it discriminates
00:48:30.360 against women, especially women of color, it was created for and based around white men. Like,
00:48:34.800 fatphobia is literally rooted in anti-blackness. It's rooted in racism and sexism. Skinny shaming is
00:48:39.640 not. How many times have you seen marketing campaigns that are labeled, get fat quick, finally add
00:48:44.420 those stubborn 30 pounds? Show me where all the weight gain industries are. Show me all the
00:48:47.960 damaging messages that say that skinny equals unworthy life or skinny equals ugly. When is
00:48:53.120 the last time that you've been penalized financially when an aircraft seat had to be accommodated to your
00:48:57.000 smaller body? When is the last time you've walked into a doctor's office and after they weighed you,
00:49:01.200 stopped listening to what you were actually there for and told you to just gain weight because it
00:49:04.940 will fix everything? Fat people endure all of that and more. Skinny people do not face employment
00:49:09.820 discrimination or medical discrimination. The world was designed for you. Eat a burger is just
00:49:13.580 not comparable to systemic abuse and oppression. I mean, she's absolutely right. You know, fat shaming
00:49:19.340 and skinny shaming are not the same because if you're shaming somebody for being skinny, then you're
00:49:24.600 shaming them for a healthy physique, provided that they aren't, you know, rail thin. If you're shaming
00:49:29.500 them for being fat, you're shaming them for being in an unhealthy and destructive physical state.
00:49:34.380 You really shouldn't be walking up to people and shaming them for their appearance in either case,
00:49:37.620 but it is without question worse to shame a good thing than it is to shame a bad thing.
00:49:43.560 But my favorite part of this clip is her list of oppressions and persecutions that fat people face.
00:49:47.880 She says fat people don't have equal access to clothing, which is an interesting way of putting
00:49:52.360 it. So if I gorge myself during Thanksgiving and put on five pounds in one weekend, I can then complain
00:49:57.780 that I don't have equal access to my own pants anymore. Yet, contrary to the way she phrases it,
00:50:04.340 there is no law preventing fat people from wearing clothing. I mean, incidentally, this is actually
00:50:10.040 news that someone should probably share with Lizzo. It's like, you know, you can, you're allowed to
00:50:13.740 wear clothes just so you know. By the way, the reason there aren't advertisements telling people
00:50:20.320 how to add pounds, she says, why are there any average, there's no ads telling people to put on
00:50:24.120 pounds. Well, the reason for that is that number one, you don't want to add pounds, right? It's unhealthy,
00:50:30.000 but also nobody needs help doing that. Putting on weight is easy and fun and often delicious.
00:50:37.020 You just make a tray of brownies. That's all it takes. There's no further assistance required.
00:50:42.360 So that's why you don't find that. Let's check out one more.
00:50:46.780 I'm gonna be real with y'all. I am really sick and tired of skinny coming on this app and trying
00:50:50.960 to compare fat phobia to getting called a door once. That's called body shaming. And it literally
00:50:56.680 happens to every single person on the planet at least once. It's not a systemic issue. Girl,
00:51:03.180 I went to my doctor when I got diagnosed with severe depression and she dead ass looked at me
00:51:07.840 and said, lose some weight and break up with your boyfriend. I was in school today thinking about
00:51:12.680 where I wanted to go for off-campus lunch and I started looking up restaurant menus and realized
00:51:16.860 that I didn't want to linger on the tab too long in case somebody looked over at the fat girl's laptop
00:51:21.080 seeing where she wanted to go for lunch and judging me for it. I can't walk into a 7-Eleven and order
00:51:25.800 a Slurpee and some skittles because I'm afraid that when I put them down on the counter like a
00:51:29.880 skinny person could do with no problem, somebody's gonna judge me for it. I've applied to a job at a
00:51:34.900 restaurant and heard somebody say how they're not gonna hire me because they think I'm fat enough
00:51:37.960 to eat all the food. I'm terrified to be seen eating in my car or eating alone. Y'all got insulted
00:51:43.180 once and ran with it. This is what the youth of today are spending their energy on. This is what
00:51:48.980 they're arguing. These are the subjects they're discussing. What's worse, fat shaming or skinny
00:51:53.160 shaming? Oh my god. Okay, let's go through a few things here. I would absolutely, absolutely judge
00:52:00.460 you if you were buying a Slurpee and Skittles at the same time. I mean, fat or skinny, if I see
00:52:06.580 someone washing down Skittles with a Slurpee, yes, I'm gonna make some judgments about that person.
00:52:11.440 That's disgusting and you would deserve to be judged for it. Absolutely, you deserve judgment. In fact,
00:52:16.700 if someone walked up to you to your face and made fun of you for buying Slurpees and Skittles at the same
00:52:20.640 time, you would deserve that too. It'd be good. It'd be a wake-up call for you. That's like an
00:52:23.900 intervention. Guess what? You don't get to be free of the world's judgment. Here's a new flash for
00:52:29.360 everybody watching right now. You don't get to be free of the world's judgment. You don't. Nobody
00:52:32.580 does. You are being judged all the time, all the time. People look at us and observe our behavior
00:52:37.480 and make judgments. Sometimes the judgments are bad. Sometimes they're good. Sometimes they're
00:52:41.820 neutral. This is just what it means to live in a society among other rational creatures. You can accept
00:52:47.700 that and move on with your life or you can sit around crying about, I'm being judged. I'm being
00:52:51.540 judged. Yes, you are. Okay, we've established that. Live your life now or just stay huddled in a corner
00:52:58.840 in a fetal position. Stop judging me. Well, you've chosen the latter, I suppose. And now you're on TikTok
00:53:05.200 like, I can't even freebase pixie sticks behind the dumpster at 7-Eleven without being judged.
00:53:11.300 Of course you can. Nor should such behavior be free of judgment. Also, you most certainly were not
00:53:20.000 turned down for a job at a restaurant because the interviewer said you'd eat all the food. Okay,
00:53:24.320 that just didn't happen. It absolutely 100% did not happen. However, did a doctor actually tell you
00:53:31.900 that the cure for depression is to break up with your loser boyfriend and shed a few pounds? I hope
00:53:35.700 so, because that's actually fantastic advice. I wish more doctors would help their patients adjust
00:53:40.660 their lifestyles before writing prescriptions. You had a good doctor who cared about your health,
00:53:45.480 which is why I assume you never went back to him again. All in all, if these experiences,
00:53:51.200 as you describe them, actually all happened and were upsetting to you, there is a solution. It's
00:53:55.560 a solution totally within your power. You can lose weight. It won't be easy, but you can do it. It is
00:53:59.840 possible. I know from experience that there is a correlation between diet, lifestyle, and weight.
00:54:04.900 We all know this from experience. This is the point that the fat activists, the fat-tivists,
00:54:09.740 seem to always miss. You can't lie to the rest of us about this issue. You can't pretend that you
00:54:16.400 have nothing to do with your own waistline. All of us have experienced putting on weight
00:54:21.780 because we ate too much and didn't get enough exercise. All of us in the modern world have
00:54:26.080 experienced that. We know that's how it works. We also know that it's difficult. It takes self-control
00:54:32.420 to practice dietary discipline. And we know that's why you don't want to do it. Not because you're
00:54:38.900 oppressed or the victim of white supremacy. It's just, it's hard. And you don't want to
00:54:42.640 do something that's hard. We've all been there to one degree or another, which is why you would
00:54:49.360 actually have our sympathy if you just said, I know I can get healthy, but it's really hard.
00:54:56.440 And so I'm struggling. You could just say that. That's a statement I totally sympathize with
00:55:02.220 because whether it's weight or something else, we all have things about ourselves that we don't
00:55:06.640 like or we want to improve. But we have trouble improving those things because it's hard to
00:55:12.260 improve something about yourself. It doesn't matter what it is. And we all have flaws. And so if your
00:55:18.220 flaw is that you tend to overeat and you don't get enough exercise and so you put on weight,
00:55:22.500 that's a flaw. It is a flaw. You're not the only one in the world with flaws. We all have them.
00:55:25.940 And you could rightly point out that we all have flaws. That's true. But when you make your flaw
00:55:30.220 into a cause, right, into a banner that you march under and you try to convince the world that your
00:55:37.080 flaw is actually a virtue, well, now you've made it an issue we have to talk about. And that's on you.
00:55:45.640 If you would just admit that it's a flaw that you do have control over, then it's an entirely
00:55:50.020 different situation. And for the rest of us, with our flaws, we have them not because, and we have
00:55:58.540 trouble solving them, not because we can't solve them or it's impossible or because it's all the
00:56:02.780 fault of spice traders in the 1500s. We can control ourselves, but it's difficult. And we have trouble
00:56:08.780 doing difficult things. Everyone does. That's why we call them difficult. That's something that we can
00:56:14.160 all as humans relate to and sympathize with. And we can commiserate with each other about that.
00:56:18.600 We can also support each other and help each other. But you can't really have anyone's support or
00:56:25.520 anyone's help or even sympathy if you refuse to be accountable for your own choices. As long as you
00:56:31.440 insist on blaming everything and everyone but yourself, you'll never get over the hurdle. You'll be stuck
00:56:36.040 with the burden forever while trying to convince yourself that you're happy with it, but you know
00:56:40.500 better you're not. And that is why these fat activists on TikTok are today, unfortunately,
00:56:48.600 I must say, canceled on this flannel Friday, which by the way, I can't believe I went the whole show
00:56:53.300 without saying happy flannel Friday. Well, there it is. Hope you're wearing your own flannels as we
00:56:56.620 move into the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.
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