The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1029 - Frantic, Desperate Media Tries To Defend Vanderbilt

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has been forced against its will to report on the

00:00:04.360 Vanderbilt scandal, but their reporting has been less than honest, shall we say. We have two

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00:02:01.780 classic. When you look good, you feel good. Perhaps one of the most significant things about

00:02:07.140 our Vanderbilt expose is that it has gotten a significant amount of media coverage. Actually,

00:02:11.900 of course, you know, usually the media prefers to simply ignore these sorts of inconvenient things.

00:02:17.760 It's certainly been the case for anything I've been involved in up until now. Still to this day,

00:02:21.800 for example, my film, What is a Woman? has not been reviewed by a single mainstream media

00:02:26.720 publication. But the Vanderbilt situation has garnered attention from outlets that normally

00:02:31.700 prefer to use the journalistic strategy of closing your eyes, covering your ears, and humming loudly

00:02:37.120 to yourself until the scary story goes away. They haven't quite done that here. And that's not

00:02:43.520 because they've had a change of heart, mind you. I'm not giving them credit or accusing them of

00:02:47.680 engaging in acts of actual journalism. It's only because they realize that the backlash against

00:02:53.640 the trans agenda, and especially against the transing of kids, is gaining steam, despite their

00:02:59.620 best efforts at deflection. And they're soon going to be in a position where they've lost all control

00:03:04.620 over it. So they have no choice but to engage now. They're trying to get out in front of it and

00:03:09.180 shape the narrative and the conversation in a way that's convenient for them.

00:03:12.880 Now, we have, in other words, dragged the media kicking and screaming into a conversation that it

00:03:19.720 desperately does not want to have. Now, as far as that goes, there are two articles, both published

00:03:26.180 yesterday, one in a national outlet and one in a local, that I think perfectly capture the leftist

00:03:32.300 media's approach to the Vanderbilt scandal and to this topic overall in general. And taken together,

00:03:38.580 they show that the left is, they're backed into a corner here. They're intellectually out of ammo

00:03:43.320 and firing blanks. It's no wonder they'd rather just ignore all of this if they could. So the first

00:03:50.000 article is from a publication called Inside Higher Education. The headline is, attack on Vanderbilt

00:03:55.880 Clinic has ripple effects. It continues, last Tuesday, Matt Walsh, a conservative pundit and

00:04:01.800 columnist for the right-wing website, The Daily Wire, released what he called a, quote,

00:04:07.140 investigation into Vanderbilt's clinic for transgender health to his over 1 million Twitter

00:04:12.060 followers. Among other things, he asserted that VUMC established the clinic in 2018 because

00:04:17.300 gender-affirming surgeries were, quote, moneymakers, that the center threatened consequences for staff

00:04:23.000 who declined to provide gender-affirming care, and that it tried to enforce compliance from parents

00:04:27.960 who might be hesitant to consent to care for their minor children. Snippets of video are presented

00:04:33.200 as evidence for these claims. Yes, what I called an investigation. Well, I called it that because

00:04:40.060 we investigated Vanderbilt and we found out certain things and then we presented those things to the

00:04:46.980 public. I do call that an investigation because that's what the word means. But the few lines I just

00:04:53.520 read represent the full extent of this article's summary of the findings of my investigation. From there,

00:05:01.920 it launches into a lengthy editorial disguised as an objective news report slamming me for,

00:05:07.060 quote, intimidating doctors and, quote, threatening access to life-saving care. And it, of course,

00:05:12.880 makes the totally unsubstantiated claim that, quote, gender-affirming care for minors is medically

00:05:17.780 necessary. And as proof for this claim, they cite the leftist activist group, the Trevor Project.

00:05:25.160 Okay, they cite the Trevor Project as evidence, which, I mean, you might as well cite Trevor Noah. I don't

00:05:30.040 know. There's no credibility whatsoever. This is an activist group. But they're often cited as

00:05:36.420 sources for the claims that the left makes on this subject. The article never mentions the fact

00:05:42.500 that Vanderbilt performs irreversible gender surgeries on minors, gives irreversible hormone 0.98

00:05:47.340 drugs to kids as young as 13. It doesn't even mention that. And here's the most revealing thing,

00:05:52.560 though. They could not find a single healthcare provider at Vanderbilt who would defend this

00:05:59.440 practice on the record. I mean, defend it to a publication that's totally on their side.

00:06:04.040 They were trying to find someone who would just say the things that they want. They were trying

00:06:07.980 to find a medical professional who would say the things that they want them to say.

00:06:11.420 And they couldn't do that. In fact, they had trouble finding any doctors anywhere who would

00:06:16.520 actually publicly defend the practice of irreversibly mutilating and drugging kids.

00:06:22.200 But they say that, of course, is my fault, too. Reading again from the article says,

00:06:25.900 whatever the ultimate goals of the commentators and lawmakers scrutinizing trans health clinics,

00:06:31.240 the immediate impact of their work has been to intimidate professionals in the field

00:06:34.940 into silence. Of the eight specialists in transgender health contacted by Inside Higher Ed for this article,

00:06:41.440 only two agreed to speak on the record. All said they fervently believe in their work,

00:06:46.520 but that the risks of openly defending their practice have become too great to make speaking

00:06:51.300 out to defend it worth the dangers of harassment. Right. So they refuse to defend their own medical

00:07:00.000 practices on the record because they're intimidated, which is actually true. But they're intimidated

00:07:07.600 in the same way that cockroaches are intimidated when you turn on the light. They are intimidated

00:07:13.060 because they prefer to operate in darkness when no one is looking. They are intimidated by

00:07:17.200 the truth, not by me, not by threats. They're intimidated by the truth. They know they're being

00:07:23.280 exposed. Now, they did find one person who would speak on the record, though. Well, two, they say.

00:07:30.440 And one is none other than Michelle Forcier, who's the pediatrician who appeared in What is a Woman and who

00:07:36.580 famously, if you watch that film, you know she would she was the one who would not affirm that only female 0.95

00:07:42.720 chickens lay eggs. She wouldn't affirm that. She also threatened to walk out of the room when I asked her about 1.00

00:07:47.580 the chemical castration drugs that she prescribes to children. Now, Forcier's defense of Vanderbilt's greed

00:07:53.340 and profit-driven medical care is that essentially everyone does it. She says, quote,

00:07:59.160 So, anybody who works in a hospital setting knows that there are budgets, there are looks at costs

00:08:04.400 and expenditures, and more resources go to programs that bring in more money. That's the economics of

00:08:10.420 health care. Any cardiovascular center, for instance, looks at their surgical income versus outpatient,

00:08:15.580 and surgery is always going to make more money than outpatient services. None of that should be

00:08:19.680 shocking news. More resources go to programs that bring in more money. These people just

00:08:28.720 keep exposing themselves. And you can tell why most of them prefer to hide and stay silent.

00:08:35.240 Because every time they open their mouth, they accidentally say things that

00:08:38.680 proves exactly the point we're trying to prove. And then the article has this. This is my favorite part.

00:08:44.880 It says, Forcier is personally familiar with Walsh's brand of misinformation and targeted harassment.

00:08:51.600 A few years back, she agreed to be interviewed for his documentary, What is a Woman, whose central thesis

00:08:56.920 is that transgender identity is a harmful and unscientific fad? Forcier said she agreed to 1.00

00:09:02.360 the interview because she's passionate about the issue and committed advocate for transgender youth

00:09:06.560 health care, but that she was greeted with obstinacy and bad faith questions. She's been wary of doing

00:09:12.040 any media interviews, including with Inside Higher Ed, ever since. Quote,

00:09:17.500 When you're targeted in terms of hate crimes and victimization, you're careful where you go,

00:09:22.400 she said. You're careful who you talk to. Now, anyone can watch the film and see that all of

00:09:29.140 the obstinacy and bad faith was coming from the other side of the issue. But I am interested to

00:09:35.780 find out that she apparently considers the interview that we did to be a hate crime.

00:09:42.220 The interview was a hate crime, is apparently what she's saying. And we've gotten many, 0.97

00:09:46.820 we haven't gotten many critic reviews of the film, but I think that's probably the only review you need.

00:09:51.360 Maybe we put that on the movie poster. Now, meanwhile, on the local side, a leftist rag called

00:09:57.240 the Nashville Scene published an article from a woman named Betsy Phillips. And we'll have more

00:10:02.180 on Betsy Phillips in just a moment. The article is titled, We are lucky as a community to have a

00:10:07.260 pediatric transgender clinic. We have a place where kids who are dealing with huge decisions with

00:10:12.260 far-reaching implications can speak with medical professionals. Now, that's how it starts,

00:10:17.460 and it only gets dumber from there. Phillips claims that kids who are dealing with huge decisions 0.96

00:10:22.760 should consult with the very people who have an enormous financial stake in making sure that they

00:10:29.040 transition as early as possible. This is exactly why the profitability point is so important.

00:10:36.600 Because you don't have to be the most observant person in the world to notice that there's a conflict

00:10:41.240 of interest here. Okay, you just need to have a moderately functioning brain, which is a bar too

00:10:46.880 high for Betsy Phillips to get over, apparently. She continues, I want to write about the rights

00:10:52.200 attack on transgender kids and the people who provide them medical assistance. But I have to be 1.00

00:10:57.420 honest with you, I'm depressed about it. It feels like for a vast swath of us, words have no meaning.

00:11:03.520 So, it doesn't matter which words I arrange or how. It's not going to matter. Doctors and therapists who

00:11:10.360 are trying to help trans kids are still going to be called groomers and mutilators. Parents who live

00:11:15.940 every day with their distressed kids and are trying to find some way for them to be in the world and

00:11:19.840 thrive are called abusers. It's not true. And we all could take the time to refute it. But the whole

00:11:25.740 point of them doing this kind of thing is to cause us to waste our time doing so. Well, not the whole

00:11:31.280 point. I'm sure right-wing activists and media personalities like Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson,

00:11:37.340 their intention is to put people in danger. So, to be clear, the side that considers it a hate crime

00:11:44.720 when you ask them to define words is now accusing us of treating words like they have no meaning. And

00:11:51.480 the side that pushes millions of kids into brutal surgeries that will destroy their bodies forever

00:11:56.520 is accusing us of putting people in danger. Continuing, there are some gems like this. It

00:12:02.620 says, it's okay to initially be confused by the idea of transgender people. On the one hand,

00:12:08.880 once you know to look for transgender people, you see them throughout history.

00:12:15.080 Actually, there is no historical precedent at all for men who claim actually literally to be women

00:12:20.220 and vice versa. There has never been a society in history that believes men can give birth.

00:12:24.580 That's never existed until now. But it's not surprising to hear Betsy make a historically 0.61

00:12:29.360 illiterate claim like this when you consider that this is also the person who wrote the following

00:12:34.320 in the same article. Now, in response to our objections to performing irreversible surgeries

00:12:39.880 on kids, Betsy says this. This should go without saying, but we let kids make permanent life-altering

00:12:47.380 decisions that hurt them all the time. It's called football. If you have top surgery and later regret it,

00:12:53.600 that's a hell of a lot easier to repair than a brain riddled with CTE. We see what happens to

00:12:59.240 people with CTE, the memory loss, the suicides, the violence against family members. And we all

00:13:04.100 know it's caused by bashing your head. And how many of us spend our weekends watching kids bash their 0.52

00:13:08.880 heads? Well, what else do you need to know about these people? She's saying bodily mutilation is

00:13:18.080 akin to football. Ignoring the fact that, well, you have to ignore a lot of facts to make this argument,

00:13:24.080 but one of them that she's ignoring is that traumatic injury in football is not the point

00:13:31.540 of the sport. Okay? That's what happens when the sport goes wrong. Whereas traumatic permanent injury

00:13:39.100 to a child through, quote, gender-affirming drugs and surgery is the whole point, and it's the only

00:13:45.040 possible outcome. So the more accurate analogy is not to football, where injuries are a byproduct,

00:13:55.060 a side effect. Really, the analogy would be simply to just walking up to a kid and whacking him in the

00:14:01.360 head with a baseball bat, and then defending yourself by claiming that he wanted you to do it.

00:14:06.160 And aside from all that, here's the even bigger point. People like Betsy, pretty clear from what

00:14:14.880 she said there, they don't want kids to play football for exactly this reason, that it might

00:14:21.720 result in permanent injury. In fact, there are a lot of people these days who say, I don't want my kid

00:14:26.680 involved in football. Why? Because it's going to hurt them, and also because they are taking risks that

00:14:33.340 they don't fully understand at this age. That seems to be Betsy's position, and yet she passionately

00:14:41.740 advocates for intentional permanent injuries to be inflicted on kids in the name of gender

00:14:46.780 affirmation. These people cannot offer any argument that doesn't defeat their own point, which is why

00:14:53.840 they usually prefer to stay silent. Betsy, though, did not stay silent, and there's a reason for that.

00:14:59.140 It isn't disclosed anywhere in the article, but through a little bit of research, investigation,

00:15:04.280 you might say, I discovered that Betsy works in marketing for Vanderbilt's publishing in print. 1.00

00:15:11.660 So this is what the leftist media is reduced to. Printing PR releases written by Vanderbilt

00:15:17.840 marketing execs and pretending that it's an editorial from a third party.

00:15:22.200 Well, what else are they going to do? I mean, they would publish full, compelling,

00:15:29.600 evidence-based defenses from actual medical professionals, but they can't because those

00:15:35.320 people are all in hiding because they're scared of me. And I believe that partially. I mean,

00:15:42.380 I believe that they're scared. But they're scared not because we're jeopardizing their physical safety,

00:15:48.060 we aren't. But because we're coming for their bottom line, their profits. And that we are.

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00:17:09.060 So speaking of that hate crime I committed, What is a Woman? Now seems like a great time 1.00

00:17:15.340 to announce that I will be touring college campuses across the country this fall and

00:17:21.360 screening the film. So I'm not just going to college campuses to give speeches. I will be

00:17:25.580 screening the actual film in its entirety on college campuses around the nation that will

00:17:30.800 be doing a Q&A afterwards. And we can now announce the first six dates. We've got three dates that we

00:17:37.320 will be announcing in the coming weeks. We'll put these up on the screen for you. And if you live

00:17:42.880 anywhere around these areas, then you are invited to come to this screening. So on October 4th,

00:17:48.000 we'll be at Catholic University. We're starting at Catholic University right in the heart of D.C.

00:17:54.000 And if you don't know anything about Catholic University, you might think that, oh, that's a

00:17:58.000 friendly place to start. Starting a little bit easy on Catholic University. They'll be very

00:18:02.800 welcoming to this message. That's unfortunately probably not the case.

00:18:10.980 October 6th, University of Illinois. October 11th, University of Central Florida. October 13th,

00:18:18.040 University of Houston. October 24th will be University of Wisconsin-Madison. And then October 27th,

00:18:25.140 University of Alabama. As I said, those are the first six dates. We've got three more. This is a nine

00:18:30.440 campus tour. And the three others we'll be announcing soon. So I've been telling you that we are waging an

00:18:39.720 all-out war on gender ideology. And this is the next step. So we released the film in June. And it had

00:18:46.640 the kind of immediate major impact that even exceeded my own expectations, to be honest with you. And now,

00:18:54.740 as you know, we are moving to ban gender mutilation in Tennessee. And today, we're announcing that this

00:19:01.760 fight will be taken right into the breeding ground for gender ideology, which is the university system. 1.00

00:19:08.820 We do not anticipate that the film will be necessarily welcomed on any of these campuses,

00:19:16.480 especially not the campuses we're going to announce soon. We've got some good ones coming up,

00:19:20.440 but those are also good. But this is also where the film needs to be shown, which is why I will

00:19:26.320 go there personally and show it to you. So the next step here is that if you, again, if you live

00:19:34.040 anywhere around these campuses, then, or if you go to one of these schools, we need you to show up in

00:19:40.380 droves. We know the left is going to be there. I mean, we already, we have it, we've anticipated all

00:19:46.280 of it. They're going to try to shut these things down. They're going to have all kinds of dirty

00:19:49.280 tricks. They're probably going to pull to try to stop us from showing this movie. They don't want

00:19:53.560 anyone to see it. And, but if we have our supporters there, then I'm not worried about it.

00:20:00.480 Okay. I want to start with this because there's a lot that we can learn from this story, though

00:20:07.120 the real lessons are not the lessons that the Washington Post wants us to take from it. But this

00:20:13.440 is a story from the Washington Post. It's a long story. I'll read a little bit of it.

00:20:16.900 It says, the day after Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the state's Department of Family and

00:20:22.880 Protective Services to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of families with transgender

00:20:26.920 children, the first came up, the first case came up and Morgan Davis's name was on it. Davis was one

00:20:34.340 of four investigators on a Travis County unit tasked with reviewing claims of child abuse. Usually he and

00:20:40.820 his colleagues took cases on a rotation. Davis was next in line. That evening, a Wednesday in late

00:20:46.460 February, his supervisor called and relayed the basic facts. A mandated reporter by law, any licensed

00:20:52.460 professional who works directly with children, had turned in a family outside of Austin because they'd

00:20:57.060 allowed their teenager to live as a girl. Under the governor's order, someone had to investigate the 0.78

00:21:01.860 family for child abuse. And that is correct. You may remember that when Texas, it wasn't a law that

00:21:10.000 was passed. It was an order which came down from Governor Greg Abbott saying that children who are

00:21:16.340 being transed, children who are being indoctrinated by the trans agenda, this is child abuse and should 1.00

00:21:24.680 be investigated as such. And when that policy came down, of course, I supported it, you know, as and I still do

00:21:33.380 because this obviously is child abuse. But there are some problems with that approach. Because if we're if we're

00:21:42.780 saying, well, let's investigate, let's just investigate, we're not going to pass a law, but investigate this as

00:21:47.140 child abuse. Well, now it falls to Child Protective Services, the bureaucrats and CPS. And now you're you're relying on

00:21:54.200 them. You're hoping that they will do the right thing. You're hoping that either they will agree with

00:22:00.580 you or that they can put their own opinions to the side and do as they're told. But that's not what

00:22:08.020 happened in Texas, as we hear in this story. Davis's supervisor told him that she knew working the case

00:22:13.600 might be difficult. Nine months earlier, Davis had come out as a transgender man. He was 52, born in a

00:22:20.120 generation when calling yourself tomboy felt daring enough. But after five decades, he decided he was

00:22:25.500 finally ready to live as himself. Living as himself means living in an identity that is the opposite of

00:22:34.680 what of who she really is. On the phone, the supervisor said she was prepared to offer Davis

00:22:39.180 something she never had before. If you want to recuse yourself, she said you can. Davis had taken the

00:22:45.540 investigator job because he hoped to advocate for children in a way he felt no one had advocated for

00:22:51.100 him when he was young. And I was, you know, I'm reading this from Washington Post, but always there's an

00:22:55.840 asterisk every time I say he. That's just, that's, that's what they have written here, but that's not

00:23:00.000 actually accurate. This is a sheet. Usually he believed in the department's mission of removing children

00:23:04.260 from abusive situations. But if he took this case, he thought he'd be carrying out what many in his

00:23:09.280 department had been calling a political stunt. Across the country, Republican lawmakers were pushing

00:23:13.540 anti-trans legislation, yada, yada. And it continues, Davis pulled in a deep breath, exhaled, then told

00:23:21.400 his boss he'd do it. If it's got to be someone, he said, I want it to be me. Davis already had 25

00:23:26.800 cases of abuse and neglect on his docket, a load that current and former CPS employees described

00:23:30.880 at the Washington Post as unmanageable. And then it goes on. It's quite, like I said, very lengthy

00:23:36.280 article. So this is an actual, this is someone who identifies as trans. Only very recently,

00:23:43.140 like a few months ago, decided that she was trans, working in Child Protective Services. 0.92

00:23:51.900 Obviously, in every sense, opposed to Greg Abbott, is ideologically and personally invested

00:24:01.140 in affirming the trans agenda. And now this person has been tasked with going and investigating these

00:24:07.320 cases as child abuse. And we're told in the article that she did that and she went and she looked into

00:24:13.740 it and just gave them the sign off and said, oh, there's no abuse here. And now has gotten out of

00:24:18.680 it and is not investigating these cases anymore. See, this is exactly the problem. You are,

00:24:25.240 you know, you're relying on a bureaucracy that is against you. It's the same thing we encounter in

00:24:34.740 all these cities. You know, governors can pass laws, they can criminalize something, but then what

00:24:39.580 happens? Now you need, you need the actual district attorney to enforce the law. What if they don't do

00:24:43.540 that? It's, you know, it's, it's, it's the problem that people on the right, the Republicans in elected

00:24:49.760 office face everywhere. It's, it's a major problem. It's not totally unmanageable. I mean, there are

00:24:57.020 ways around it, but this is what you're up against. Because even if it seems like Republicans are in

00:25:04.060 control of the government in your state, or even on, you know, if, if, if Republicans, if there is a red

00:25:10.580 wave and the next thing, you know, Republican is elected president and it seems like they control

00:25:15.280 the federal government. Well, they don't really, because there's an entire bureaucracy. There is

00:25:19.620 this behemoth blob-like monstrosity of a bureaucracy underneath all of that. And the people within those,

00:25:27.520 those, that bureaucracy are not on the same page. So this is the challenge. This is one of the

00:25:34.920 challenges that we're dealing with here in Tennessee. Okay. If you want to stop the mutilation

00:25:41.560 of kids, how can you do it? Like you can pass a law, but then how do you do it in a certain way

00:25:49.220 where you're not beholden to bureaucrats and other people who are, you know, who can just choose not

00:25:54.580 to enforce it? So that's a challenge. There's what there are, there are ways to do it, but it's the

00:25:57.840 challenge. Okay. A hurricane is poised to hit Florida. Amy Klobuchar says that there's a solution

00:26:03.880 for that as the, as the hurricane bears down, she says, well, just vote Democrat. We wouldn't have

00:26:09.200 these problems. You've got leaders in Congress, like Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi, as well

00:26:18.880 as the Republicans that want to work with them, where we have been able to step by step by step

00:26:24.400 push these bills through. And so I think so many times people counted us out, but we want to make

00:26:30.640 clear. We've got the backs of the American people. And while we have clear disagreements,

00:26:34.820 we don't want, if the Republicans take charge, a number of them have been talking about an abortion

00:26:39.720 ban. You guys know that you featured on the show. That's why we've got to win this midterm.

00:26:44.040 We just did something about climate change for the first time in decades. That's why we've got to win

00:26:48.940 this as that hurricane bears down on Florida. We got to win in the midterms. We understand that,

00:26:54.920 but none of that has stopped us from deciding we're going to put our differences aside and get

00:27:00.480 some things done. That is what that vote is today in the rules committee, where you're going to see

00:27:05.440 a strong bipartisan support, a very good hearing for changes to the Electoral Count Act.

00:27:11.840 Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, thank you for being on this morning. Great to see you.

00:27:18.440 Yeah, there's just, there's not a lot we can do for someone if they hear something like that

00:27:24.520 from Amy Klobuchar and they buy it. You know, if you, if you buy that, then I'm not sure there's

00:27:29.900 much we can do. You're, you're like a hopeless case, at least right now. I hope not permanently,

00:27:35.340 but, uh, there are a lot of, there's a lot of work you need to do within yourself.

00:27:40.460 If you hear that and you think, oh yeah, well just vote Democrat and, uh, and there'll be,

00:27:45.740 there'll be no, no hurricanes. First of all, just to state the obvious, well, there are a few

00:27:51.700 obvious things we have to state. One of them is that we have Democrats who control Congress. 0.75

00:27:56.340 We have a Democrat in the white house right now and there are still hurricanes. So it turns out

00:28:00.940 that voting Democrat doesn't stop hurricanes from happening. Is that their fault? I mean,

00:28:07.760 maybe, maybe this is what we need to start doing. We can't because then we're adopting the left's

00:28:11.840 premise and we're agreeing with it. So we can't really, but it does seem sort of tempting to just,

00:28:16.500 to play their game and say, okay, well, hurricanes are political events now and, uh, they're the

00:28:22.280 result of bad policy. So if there's, you know, hurricane hits Florida and God forbid, lots of

00:28:28.400 people dies, a lot of damage. It's Democrats fault. You should have stopped that. You didn't.

00:28:33.200 This is all on you. But even that we can't really say, of course, because the other obvious thing we

00:28:40.080 need to state is that hurricanes, um, have been happening on this planet basically since the

00:28:49.320 planet was formed or at least since it's had an atmosphere. And certainly, certainly way before

00:28:57.160 there were any political parties in this country or there was a country at all or before the continent

00:29:04.760 even existed in its current shape, shape, there were hurricanes. Did you know, there are actually,

00:29:10.540 there are hurricanes on other planets that happen. There's been a massive hurricane happening on,

00:29:18.720 we have a little bit more in Jupiter, a little bit later in the five headlines. Um, but there's

00:29:24.000 been a hurricane on Jupiter for like hundreds of years, massive hurricane, a hurricane so big that

00:29:30.540 you could fit multiple Earths inside of it. I guess it's because they don't have, you know,

00:29:37.400 they don't have Amy Klobuchar on Jupiter to pass legislation to put a stop to that. 1.00

00:29:42.560 This is from Yahoo. It says an elderly pro-life volunteer in Michigan was shot in the shoulder

00:29:46.780 while canvassing a neighborhood to discuss an abortion ballot proposal according to Right to Life

00:29:51.120 of Michigan. The victim said that she was shot in the back slash shoulder while leaving a residence

00:29:56.620 during a heated conversation that the man who shot her was not a part of her conversation.

00:30:02.560 This is according to the pro-life group, which wrote in a press release on Saturday. The unidentified

00:30:05.760 woman is 83 years old, according to the police, um, though the Right to Life of Michigan identified

00:30:11.440 her as 80, 40 years old. Either way, she's in her 80s. She's an elderly woman, pro-lifer. She's 0.80

00:30:17.020 canvassing the neighborhood and then she was shot. Uh, the woman was canvassing a neighborhood in Lake

00:30:21.300 Odessa to discuss the state's proposal on, um, vote on proposal three, which would protect abortion access

00:30:26.200 in the state. The state will vote on the proposal on November 8th on the general election ballot.

00:30:30.260 Okay, so let's just review here what we've seen. So we've got a elderly pro-life woman who was shot

00:30:40.600 in the back while canvassing a neighborhood. Um, there was also the case a few, just a few days ago

00:30:46.340 of a Republican who was run over and killed by a guy who admits he did it because he thought that the

00:30:53.240 kid was a Republican extremist was, were his words. And in the midst of all sandwiched in between those

00:31:00.760 two events, we had the FBI rolling up with 15 cars and 30 agents dragging a pro-life activist out of 0.83

00:31:09.420 his house at gunpoint, despite the fact that he committed no crimes whatsoever. This is a, they're

00:31:17.340 waging an all out war on us at this point is what's happening. Just a matter of like, when do we decide

00:31:23.320 to pay attention and, and, uh, and acknowledge that. And while this is happening, it's, they accuse us,

00:31:29.200 right? They're sending FBI, 30 FBI agents to a pro-lifer's home. Again, did not commit any crime.

00:31:35.160 The case was dropped in court because no crime was committed. And Biden's DOJ picks up the case and

00:31:42.180 says, yeah, just send some, uh, send some agents to his house just to scare him. And we have to,

00:31:47.160 we have to assume that was the, the reason is there was no, there's no crime. You can't charge

00:31:50.340 him with anything. So it's just intimidation tactic. So sending the 30 agents to a pro-lifer's

00:31:56.520 home. And they're doing that while accusing the right of being fascist. And meanwhile, you have

00:32:03.360 pro-lifers and Republicans getting mowed down and shot while they're walking down the street.

00:32:07.720 And they accuse us of being violent extremists.

00:32:14.700 Well, the Atlanta Braves visited, uh, the White House yesterday, prompting this question from the

00:32:22.060 media. Let's listen to this.

00:32:24.600 The president hosting the Atlanta Braves today, wondering if you or the president has any thoughts

00:32:29.620 about some of the controversial, about the team name, the Braves name, the so-called Tomahawk

00:32:36.480 shop. Any thoughts on? So we, we believe that it's important, um, to have this conversation,

00:32:43.860 uh, you know, and, uh, and native American and indigenous voices, uh, they should be at the

00:32:49.980 center of this conversation. Uh, that is something that the president believes as something that this

00:32:54.480 administration believes. And he has consistently emphasized that all people deserve to be treated

00:32:59.700 with dignity and respect. You hear that often, uh, from this president. The same is true here.

00:33:05.020 And we should listen to native American and indigenous people who are the most impacted,

00:33:09.740 uh, by this.

00:33:12.320 Yeah, it's actually not important at all to be having this conversation. Can I just clarify?

00:33:17.060 Like, uh, in fact, of all, if I were to make a list of all of the conversations that it's important

00:33:21.320 for us to have, um, I think a conversation about the Atlanta Braves and whether the name is offensive,

00:33:26.720 that's gonna, I don't know, maybe make it into the top 20 million, very close to the bottom.

00:33:35.940 Uh, although I, I would be interested to hear her elaborate. It's, it's not an important

00:33:42.260 conversation. It's not one that certainly the white house needs to be having, but, uh, if we're

00:33:47.200 going to have it, please elaborate exactly. Please explain how it is offensive exactly to have a team

00:33:54.720 named after an Indian tribe. I mean, this is, this is the sort of thing that's just like, it's taken

00:33:59.680 as, as self-evident. It doesn't even need to be explained. Well, a team's named after an Indian tribe.

00:34:06.400 Of course, of course it's offensive. Well, why is it offensive?

00:34:10.660 That's, that's the thing I've never understood. Why, why is it not, um, honoring?

00:34:14.600 That's what you do with a team name. You don't, you don't, you don't choose a team name, uh, based on,

00:34:23.620 you don't, you don't name your team after something or after a group of people, after anything that you 0.88

00:34:28.660 find to be pathetic or shameful or embarrassing. That's not what you do. You choose the team name 0.86

00:34:37.080 because you think it's, uh, you, you, it's, it's formidable, uh, courageous, right? Tough, strong.

00:34:46.680 I mean, these are all, especially for a foot, for a, well, this is not a football team. It's a baseball

00:34:49.980 team, but I guess it doesn't really quite, it doesn't quite apply to baseball players as it does

00:34:53.140 to football. But either way, that's why you choose a team name because that's the association you're

00:34:58.460 trying to make. So explain to me exactly, uh, how that's insulting. That's what I don't understand.

00:35:03.600 But we've just accepted that it is. And then the result is now we're taking,

00:35:09.740 it's not just with team names either. What we've been told is that you got to take,

00:35:13.540 especially Native American references, wherever you can find them, whether it's a baseball team,

00:35:19.080 uh, or it's, uh, you know, a Native American woman on the box of, on a box of butter and take those 1.00

00:35:28.140 things away, remove all of these references to Native American culture, all these acknowledgements

00:35:35.680 of Native American culture, remove them. And then what? That's progress. The more we erase Native 1.00

00:35:44.300 American culture from American culture, we, that's, that's now a sign of progress. Not sure I quite 0.99

00:35:50.660 understand that. Uh, Ben Shapiro was trending two nights ago because of this, as Yahoo reports,

00:36:00.100 right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro was the subject of much mockery this weekend after he claimed the

00:36:05.420 U.S. military is suffering because the country has abandoned traditional masculinity. In a clip

00:36:10.220 posted on Twitter by Ron Filipkowski, the Daily Wire founder suggested that wars are best fought by what

00:36:16.540 he described as typically very patriotic, very male people. According to Shapiro, who has never served

00:36:21.880 in the military, men are supposed to protect, defend, and be strong. Shocking statement. Many

00:36:27.980 people didn't agree with Shapiro at all, including people who had actually had a military background,

00:36:31.780 such as Tom Nichols, a retired professor at the U.S. Naval War College and staff writer for The Atlantic.

00:36:37.320 Nichols not only said Shapiro didn't have a clue what he was talking about, but also pointed out that

00:36:41.200 Russia is having a hard time against Ukraine, despite being the opposite of what Ted Cruz referred to as

00:36:45.900 America's woke, emasculated military. Others piled on Shapiro, including Representative Adam Kinzinger,

00:36:51.580 a former Air Force second lieutenant. Well, if anyone is an expert on masculinity, it's Adam Kinzinger,

00:36:56.460 of course. Let's actually, let's watch the offensive clip from Ben. Let's hear it.

00:37:02.400 Guess who tends to fight wars? The people who tend to fight wars are typically very patriotic,

00:37:07.740 very male people. I mean, I'm sorry to break it to you, but this has been the truth about military

00:37:12.160 warfare for literally all of human history. And the institution of traditional masculinity

00:37:17.340 has been core to that idea. But we're a society that doesn't believe in traditional masculinity.

00:37:21.960 Traditional masculinity is an opponent because traditional masculinity requires roles. It says 0.91

00:37:26.280 that men are supposed to protect, men are supposed to defend, men are supposed to be strong, men are

00:37:30.740 supposed to be fathers and husbands. These are apparently very bad things now. You're not supposed to say

00:37:35.560 these things. Hilarious. I mean, what an idiot Ben is for saying this obviously true thing. And he was

00:37:44.100 trending, from what I can see, he was trending on Twitter for, I'd say, two days because of what you

00:37:49.260 just heard there. A statement that, now it's one thing, Twitter finds it shocking, the media finds it

00:37:59.040 shocking, the left finds it shocking. But you take that clip, you know, on your phone and you walk up to

00:38:04.640 just any normal person on the street and you show them that and get their reaction. What you're going

00:38:10.860 to get from 90% of them is like, yeah, well, of course. You want the military to be masculine and

00:38:17.260 tough and strong and that's what you want the military to be. As opposed to what? What else would

00:38:22.700 you want the military to be? Emasculated? Do you want a feminine military? Is that what you want? 1.00

00:38:27.900 Yet again, a completely obvious self-evident statement that is treated as shocking by the

00:38:38.540 left. And here's another important point about this. Because this is something that Ben is pointing

00:38:44.020 to here and what he just said. That, yeah, we want for our sake, for the country's sake, we want our

00:38:50.760 military to be masculine, tough, strong. We want them to just be badass dudes who are good at killing 0.98

00:38:56.340 bad guys. Like, that's what you want. And that used to be not just the emphasis in the military, 0.99

00:39:02.720 but the only point. Like, that was, you're recruiting people, you're recruiting badass dudes

00:39:08.580 who want to kill bad guys and are going to be good at doing it. That's it. There aren't very many other,

00:39:15.260 there are other, some other qualifications, but that's the central point. That's what you need.

00:39:18.940 So we want that for our own sake, so that we can be safe as a country and we have a military like

00:39:29.340 that defending us. But then also we want that for the men in this country, especially the young men.

00:39:37.880 Because no matter how we try to condition them, you know, young men have this kind of masculine

00:39:44.160 energy. They have their, they have aggression, right? Young men are much more physically aggressive

00:39:52.320 than young women. And we can do one of two things with that. We can scold young men and tell them it's

00:40:04.940 very bad to be like that. You shouldn't be like that. It's toxic. It's very bad. Try to get them to

00:40:10.800 suppress it. So you can try to do that. And we see how well that works. And it doesn't work at all.

00:40:20.560 I mean, the more that we scold and yell at and try to emasculate men, has it, has it, has it actually

00:40:27.360 succeeded in curbing violence or anything else? No. So instead of that strategy, what you can do is try

00:40:36.520 to harness it. And you can say to young men, okay, you've got all this aggression, you've got all this

00:40:41.020 physical energy. Here's a way to use it. Okay, you can use it in a noble way. For example, by serving

00:40:49.180 in the military. We can say to young men, like, the military is made for you. You guys are made for

00:40:54.520 each other. So you could try to suppress it as a society. Masculine energy and aggression. You can

00:41:05.920 try to suppress it or you can try to harness it. You could tell men where to target it, what to do

00:41:12.420 with it. It's not just the military. Like, not every man needs to join the military. But this is also

00:41:18.400 where sports have come into play. This is why football is good for young men, too, even with

00:41:26.780 the risk of injury. Still a good thing. Because it gives them an outlet for that energy, for that

00:41:36.600 aggression. All right. Before I get to the comment section, I wanted to also mention this. This is

00:41:47.500 from the Washington Post. Starting this weekend, sky gazers will see a rare view of Jupiter as it

00:41:52.920 appears its biggest and brightest in decades. Jupiter will be one of the most brilliant natural

00:41:56.920 objects, if not the most, in the night sky. On Sunday, Jupiter will reach its closest distance to

00:42:01.740 Earth in 59 years at around 367 million miles. On Monday, the gas giant will reach opposition,

00:42:08.780 meaning it will appear opposite the sun to those on Earth. Jupiter will rise in the east while the sun

00:42:13.460 sets in the west. So this was last night, if unfortunately you already missed it. So this

00:42:18.000 will be, last night was the brightest that Jupiter will appear, or has appeared in 59 years. And it

00:42:23.620 won't appear that bright in the sky again until about the year 2139. We went out a couple of times

00:42:31.620 last night to check out Jupiter, which was just spectacular. I mean, this is the largest planet in

00:42:37.380 the solar system, twice the size. It's twice the size of every other planet in the solar system

00:42:42.180 combined. It's the most ancient too. In fact, our planet was probably formed from the pieces of

00:42:50.020 planets that Jupiter destroyed as it was hurtling through the early solar system. It's got that big

00:42:55.580 red spot I already mentioned, which is a hurricane. It's been raging for like 400 years. It's so big,

00:43:00.740 you could fit two Earths inside it. Amy Klobuchar could pass legislation to stop it, 0.99

00:43:05.260 and she hasn't yet. And then it's got 67 moons, one of which is Europa, which is the likeliest

00:43:11.380 candidate for extraterrestrial life in the solar system. This is fascinating stuff.

00:43:15.960 So if you haven't gotten outside to see Jupiter, you need to do it. My sweet babies,

00:43:21.700 I beseech you. Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:24.640 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:43:31.380 Karina says, before taking your child to a drag show, ask yourself, would I take my child to a 0.87

00:43:38.280 strip club? Your answer for both should be no. Yes, it is a very similar thing. The only problem

00:43:43.600 with that argument, Karina, is that I'm not sure that the average parent who takes their child to

00:43:50.480 a drag show wouldn't also take them to a strip club. If as a parent, it's not immediately obvious

00:43:56.860 to you why a drag show is inappropriate for your child, then I'm not sure it would be obvious why

00:44:02.960 a strip club is inappropriate.

00:44:07.340 Gavno says, Matt, children, especially younger children, recognize evil out of the box. That

00:44:12.300 little girl and any of the other children who were trying to hide or avoid those badly wired

00:44:16.920 pseudo male creatures recognized the evil that was driving them and simply wanted to be away from it.

00:44:22.680 The parents need to be prosecuted and, in my never-be-it-so-humble opinion, sterilized.

00:44:29.560 It's as simple as that. I don't know if we're ever going to get legislation through requiring

00:44:33.480 sterilization for parents who bring their kids to drag shows, but I certainly agree with prosecution. 0.94

00:44:40.600 This should be a crime. I mean, it already is a crime. And we shouldn't need to stipulate.

00:44:48.520 There are already crimes against child abuse, child endangerment, child sexual abuse,

00:44:55.760 emotional, psychological abuse. I mean, all of these things are already crimes.

00:44:59.740 So, in fact, in any state in the union, if you bring your kid to a drag show, you have violated

00:45:06.260 probably six or seven state laws already. It's just that those laws don't stipulate,

00:45:12.220 oh, by the way, this includes bringing your kid to a drag show. So, now that needs to be stipulated.

00:45:19.280 I agree. Sean says, Matt, as a structural engineer, I was initially offended by your comment that

00:45:28.020 engineers are weird, but then I remembered how I got excited about making a concrete boat.

00:45:32.900 Nothing wrong with being weird. Well, it depends on, like, weird in what way. If you're weird like

00:45:37.580 a drag performer at an all-ages drag show, that's a bad kind of weird. Engineers are weird, though.

00:45:43.840 So, if you're an engineer yourself, being around a lot of engineers, I don't think you would deny that.

00:45:47.680 But not, maybe weird, eccentric, maybe is the word I should have gone with. Nothing wrong with being

00:45:52.420 eccentric.

00:45:54.940 Rogo says, Rogo, Rojo, Matt, at what point are you just going to bite the bullet and finally start your

00:46:00.860 own TikTok account? Funny story about that. We actually did apparently start a TikTok account

00:46:06.580 for me. I think it was, like, last week. So, the social media team started a TikTok. I didn't even

00:46:13.040 know they were doing it until it was already done. And they started a TikTok account. And I think we

00:46:17.940 made it, I'm not saying this is a record. I'm not going to claim the record, but it might be close to

00:46:22.600 one. We made it, I think, five days before we got a one-week suspension. And TikTok never specified

00:46:29.840 what the reason was. They said we violated their terms of service. Never stipulated what rule we

00:46:38.160 violated exactly. They just suspended us for a week. And so, we'll be back up and running,

00:46:43.760 I think, on Friday until we get banned permanently. And I'm sure we just got suspended because TikTok

00:46:50.940 looked at it and said, no, there's no way. We're not letting this guy on. This is not going to happen.

00:46:55.640 So, we'll see. We'll see how long we make it before we get the permanent ban.

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00:48:42.620 through that. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Well, almost exactly five years ago, Salon got on the

00:48:53.660 Latinx train. In an article titled, Forget About Latino, Why I'm All For Latinx, and You Should Be Too,

00:49:00.900 writer Yesenia Funes hailed the term Latinx as a needed response to the male-dominant Spanish language.

00:49:09.760 Now, most of us probably hadn't realized that an entire language needs a response,

00:49:13.820 but Salon realized. And they explained that Latinx is a superior word

00:49:18.000 devised by, quote, feminist and queer Spanish speakers. It is, in fact, they said, revolutionary,

00:49:24.740 because it's inclusive of those who live outside the gender binary. The article continued, quote,

00:49:29.880 that includes people like Aragani Da Silva, a Venezuelan race and sexuality educator. They are 29

00:49:37.360 and have used they-them pronouns for a little less than a decade. But they always knew that's how they felt.

00:49:42.620 Da Silva just didn't know genderqueer was a possible identity. Now they can add Latinx as an identity,

00:49:48.540 too. I can understand some hesitance to the term Latinx. After all, X isn't a letter widely used in

00:49:54.320 the Spanish language, so it might not feel organic rolling off the tongue. Da Silva understands that,

00:49:59.880 too, but it is what it is.

00:50:01.900 It is what it is. How could you argue with that? Case settled. Especially now that a race and 1.00

00:50:10.080 sexuality educator has ruled on the subject, then, you know, it just is what it is. Salon followed

00:50:14.760 orders, and they published many articles in the past five years, which adopted the Latinx term.

00:50:19.420 Articles with headlines like, Hollywood's Latinx representation is dismal. Why don't movies look 0.64

00:50:24.560 more like America? And also, Hollywood is still overlooking Latinx filmmakers.

00:50:29.280 My story matters. My pain matters. There was even an article published last month about the

00:50:35.260 magic of Miami's modern daiquiri, and it tells us that daiquiris are, quote,

00:50:40.760 a tangible representation of the relationship between Cuba, Latinx culture, and Miami.

00:50:47.080 But it seems that sacred bond has now been broken, at least as far as Salon is concerned.

00:50:53.120 Um, this article was published by the outlet yesterday. It says, stop using Latinx if you

00:50:59.080 really want to be inclusive. The writer, Melissa Ochoa, explains that though when she first heard

00:51:05.780 Latinx in 2017, she thought it was progressive and inclusive, she has now realized that there's a,

00:51:11.820 there's a dark underbelly to this particular form of gibberish. Damning it with the harshest term 0.60

00:51:17.400 available to a leftist, she has declared the term problematic. Ochoa explains that, first of all,

00:51:23.800 nobody in the actual Latino community uses the term. You know, she says that the term was invented

00:51:28.580 and is being pushed by American-born academics mostly. The marginalized communities it's meant 0.97

00:51:34.020 to represent don't like it, don't want it. She says that this makes the entire thing kind of elitist

00:51:39.300 and patronizing. She even points out that Latinx erases sex distinctions in situations

00:51:44.420 where she would prefer to keep them in place. So for example, she says like,

00:51:48.620 when you use the word Latinx to describe Hispanic women in fields where they are, quote, 0.72

00:51:52.380 underrepresented, we're only further obscuring their contributions. Finally, she observes that

00:51:58.460 the X affixed to the word is not pronounceable in the Spanish language. And she also wonders how far

00:52:05.200 this will go. To refer to someone from Mexico or Argentina, do we have to now call them Mexicanics

00:52:12.380 and Argentinks? It's a slippery slope, she says. This is what Ochoa is arguing. And it sounds exactly 1.00

00:52:20.700 like everything I've been saying about this issue for the past five years and everything that all of

00:52:25.740 us on the right have been saying. We have been making all of these exact arguments ever since we first

00:52:31.300 heard about this nonsense. But it will not shock you to learn that Salon is not going to credit us

00:52:37.180 with enlightening them on this topic or winning the argument. They're not going to acknowledge us at all.

00:52:41.060 No, they're going to pretend that they arrived at this conclusion on their own. And worse,

00:52:47.180 they're going to find a way somehow to double down even while backing down. This is a move that is

00:52:54.900 you only find on the left, and they're very good at it. To back down while also doubling down.

00:53:01.360 The writer continues, many academics might feel compelled to continue to use Latinx because they

00:53:06.780 fought hard to have it recognized by their institutions, or they've already published a

00:53:10.780 term in an academic journal. But there's a much better gender-inclusive alternative, one that's

00:53:16.440 been largely overlooked by the U.S. academic community and is already being used in Spanish-speaking parts

00:53:22.000 of Latin America, especially among young social activists in those countries. It's Latine.

00:53:28.260 Latine. So that's L-A-T-I-N-E. Latine. Not Latina. Latine. And it's far more adaptable, she says, to the 0.82

00:53:37.660 Spanish language. It can be implemented as articles, less instead of los or los, the words for the.

00:53:44.280 When it comes to pronouns, el can become a singular form of they and used in place of the masculine el or

00:53:50.780 feminine ella, which translate to he and she. It can also be readily applied to most nationalities,

00:53:56.260 nationalities, such as Mexicana or Argentina. I believe Latina accomplishes what Latinx originally 0.93

00:54:06.540 meant to and more. Similarly, it eliminates the gender binary in its singular and plural form.

00:54:12.560 However, Latina is not confined to an elite English-speaking population within the U.S.

00:54:17.160 It is inclusive. Language matters. Latina embodies that inclusivity across socioeconomic status,

00:54:24.180 citizenship, education, gender identity, age groups, and nations, while honoring the Spanish language

00:54:29.740 in the process. Well, this is the most you can really ever expect from the left these days.

00:54:35.160 Every once in a while, a stray like Ochoa here will wander dangerously close to the precipice of

00:54:41.580 rationality and then right before taking the final plunge, tumble back in the same direction she

00:54:47.460 came from. Indeed, all of the very true and valid criticisms of Latinx that she made, or rather we

00:54:53.580 made and then she claimed credit for, are abandoned and ultimately contradicted by her proposed solution.

00:54:59.880 She is still proposing manipulating a language to suit the needs and desires of an academic elite. 0.60

00:55:05.400 She is still advocating something that nobody in the Latino community uses or will use. 0.90

00:55:10.260 Latinx. She is still erasing sex distinctions. So Latina has all of the same problems of Latinx, 1.00

00:55:17.860 except that it arguably maybe sounds slightly less stupid. Slightly. She seemed for a moment 1.00

00:55:25.100 tempted, but ultimately could not bring herself to simply say, because this is all that needs to be

00:55:29.440 said, simply say to the so-called non-binary people, get over yourselves. We aren't going to change an 1.00

00:55:36.440 entire language to suit you. Just deal with it, you pretentious egomaniacs. But she cannot say that. 0.99

00:55:44.740 And so she will inevitably be stuck always catering to the whims of the most narcissistic and self-involved 0.80

00:55:49.920 people on her side of the ideological divide. And she will do this even at her own expense,

00:55:55.920 at the expense of her culture and her language. What she cannot see, what nobody on the left can see,

00:56:03.180 because if they could see it, they'd no longer be on the left, is that universal inclusiveness

00:56:08.440 is not a virtue. It's also not coherent or possible. You cannot include everything in anything,

00:56:18.580 because if you try, you'll only end up turning the thing into nothing, or else you'll end up

00:56:23.620 including a group while excluding another. See, the most that inclusion can ever hope to be,

00:56:29.960 at least this kind of leftist version of inclusion, is a lateral move. It's a trade-off.

00:56:36.520 You swap one excluded group for another. Only the group excluded in the name of inclusion is usually

00:56:42.420 the group that by all rights should be the most included. And the group included is the one that

00:56:48.140 by all rights should not be included at all. So the manipulation of the Spanish language is the

00:56:52.440 perfect example of this, as it includes these pompous LGBT-obsessed academics, while excluding 0.75

00:57:00.000 the everyday average Spanish-speaking people who've been using this language for centuries

00:57:05.800 without a problem. They don't see a problem here. This is a problem created by academic elites on the

00:57:13.940 left. Here's a general rule. And this you could just like take to the bank, okay? If everyone is doing

00:57:21.000 something without an issue, and then you come along and you're the only one having a problem,

00:57:27.400 that's probably because you are the problem. But usually, inclusion simply means destroying

00:57:35.160 that which everyone is being included in. Because when everyone is included in the definition of the

00:57:40.540 word woman, the word ceases to have all meaning. When the borders are erased and everyone is included 0.95

00:57:45.860 as a citizen, citizenship ceases to have all meaning. When every shape is included in the 0.53

00:57:52.260 word square, squares cease to have all meaning. I am not an advocate for inclusiveness because I would

00:57:58.760 prefer for everything to be known and seen for what it is and treated accordingly. You know, not

00:58:05.780 everything can be everything. In fact, nothing can be everything. Or else everything will be nothing.

00:58:10.920 Now, I've kind of confused myself, which I think is sort of the point. And the real point for us is that

00:58:17.940 Salon, despite coming precariously close to a logical viewpoint, still landed a million miles away, and

00:58:26.460 thus is today canceled. And that'll do it for us for this portion of the show as we move over to the

00:58:32.180 members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

00:58:35.660 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 27, 2022

Ep. 1029 - Frantic, Desperate Media Tries To Defend Vanderbilt

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