The Matt Walsh Show - September 27, 2022


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


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

170.67027

Word Count

10,006

Sentence Count

674

Misogynist Sentences

20

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary


Transcript

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
00:00:08.660 especially egregious examples today. Also, as a hurricane bears down on Florida, Amy Klobuchar
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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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
00:34:28.660 find to be pathetic or shameful or embarrassing. That's not what you do. You choose the team name
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
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
00:35:44.300 American culture from American culture, we, that's, that's now a sign of progress. Not sure I quite
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
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?
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
00:38:56.340 bad guys. Like, that's what you want. And that used to be not just the emphasis in the military,
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
00:55:05.400 She is still advocating something that nobody in the Latino community uses or will use.
00:55:10.260 Latinx. She is still erasing sex distinctions. So Latina has all of the same problems of Latinx,
00:55:17.860 except that it arguably maybe sounds slightly less stupid. Slightly. She seemed for a moment
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
00:55:36.440 entire language to suit you. Just deal with it, you pretentious egomaniacs. But she cannot say that.
00:55:44.740 And so she will inevitably be stuck always catering to the whims of the most narcissistic and self-involved
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
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
00:57:45.860 as a citizen, citizenship ceases to have all meaning. When every shape is included in the
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.