Ep. 1032 - An Epidemic Of Lonely, Alienated Young Men
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There is a crisis in our culture of lonely, disaffected young men, but anyone who speaks up for them, like Jordan Peterson, is villainized. We ll talk about that today. Also, a House hearing on abortion descends once again into anti-Science nonsense, Vice has a puff piece about sex offenders that does not go according to plan, and Kamala Harris is relatable, at least to me for the first time. And in our daily cancellation, we ll deal with one of the great injustices and outrages of all time, it has to do with somebody named Haley Bieber and the color of her lipstick.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there is a crisis in our culture of lonely, disaffected young men,
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but anyone who speaks up for them, like Jordan Peterson, is villainized. Why? We'll talk about
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that today. Also, a House hearing on abortion descends once again into anti-science nonsense.
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Vice has a puff piece about sex offenders that does not go according to plan, for them anyway.
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Kamala Harris is relatable, at least to me, for the first time. And in our daily cancellation,
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we'll deal with one of the great injustices and outrages of all time. It has to do with
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somebody named Haley Bieber and the color of her lipstick. All of that and more today on the Matt
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Last week, a film that had been grabbing headlines for reasons that have nothing to do with the film
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itself finally premiered. Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling is, from what I've read, a sort of
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feminist fever dream of a film, woke in the extreme, and yet of such low quality that most movie critics
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have actually panned it despite agreeing with and applauding its politics. Now, fortunately for the
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critics, Olivia Wilde is white and I think straight, and so they're allowed to criticize her work. You
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know, they're actually allowed to do that, and so in this case they have. The movie had a relatively
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strong debut at the box office, helped by all of the news coverage it had gotten due to gossip and
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drama behind the scenes, the details of which are too tedious and boring to bother recapping here.
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But sales began tumbling a few days after the release as audiences realized that the film is garbage and
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word began to spread. It's sort of unfortunate in a way. You know, Hollywood finally puts out a movie
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that isn't based on a comic book or some other pre-existing brand, and it sucks. So I have a
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feeling the industry will learn all of the wrong lessons from this outcome. But months before the
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film came out, Wilde had explained that the villain in the movie is based on Jordan Peterson, whose excellent
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content, by the way, is now available on Daily Wire+. Wilde said that Peterson himself is, quote,
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a hero to the incel community, which she defined as, quote, disenfranchised, mostly white men who
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believe they're entitled to sex from women, and they believe that society has now robbed them,
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that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must put back into the correct
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place. She then accused Peterson of, quote, legitimizing certain aspects of their movement
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because he's a former professor, he's an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real
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philosophy that should be taken seriously. Now, almost everything that you can hear in that quote
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there is false and stupid. It's like a seven-layer cake of wrongness, just totally ridiculous on
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multiple levels. But how does Jordan Peterson himself feel about it? Well, he was asked about it
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by Piers Morgan last night while he was visiting Piers Morgan's show, and here's what he said. Watch.
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I want to ask you just quickly, the film director Olivia Wilde has a new movie out, which she says is
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based on you, this insane man, this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community, incel being these
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weirdo loner men who are despicable in many ways. Is that you? Are you the intellectual hero to these
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people? Sure. Why not? You know, people have been after me for a long time by, because I've been
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speaking to disaffected young men. You know, what a terrible thing to do that is. I thought the
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marginalized were supposed to have a voice. It's making you emotional, talk about it. Well, God, you
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know, it's very difficult to understand how demoralized people are. And certainly many
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young men are in that category. And you get these casual insults, these incels. What do they
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mean? It's like, well, these men, they don't know how to make themselves attractive to women
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who are very picky. And good for them. Women, like, be picky. That's your gift, man. Demand
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high standards from your men. Fair enough. But all these men who are alienated, it's like
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they're lonesome. And they don't know what to do. And everyone piles abuse on them.
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When she said that, Olivia Wilde, it stung you, didn't it? I saw the direction.
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Oh, by that time, you know, as far as critiques go, that was kind of low level. I mean, once
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I got painted as Red Skull, you know, magical super Nazi, that was kind of the end of the
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insults. Now, Peterson has been trending today because of that clip with thousands of leftists
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mocking him for becoming emotional and slightly teary-eyed. Media headlines from outlets like
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Variety declare, Jordan Peterson breaks down in tears when asked about Olivia Wilde calling him
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the hero to the incel community. Now, the headlines are, of course, meant to stir up even more mockery.
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And they also are meant to give the false impression that Peterson was crying over the
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insult from Olivia Wilde. No, obviously, it's not the case. He makes clear that he doesn't care what
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Olivia Wilde says. And why would he? Does anyone? He became emotional when speaking about disaffected,
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despairing young men. Those were tears of empathy, not self-pity. Okay, this was not a
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Taylor Lorenz-type crying fit. It was in every way the opposite. But this is an interesting thing
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that you might notice. The left constantly insists that men should be less stoic, should show more
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emotion. And then when a man does exactly that and shows emotion, he's ruthlessly ridiculed for it.
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So they say that men should be vulnerable, but the moment that any man actually takes them up on it,
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his vulnerability is wielded against him, used against him. And if men notice that this is how
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it works and thus resolve to be even more closed off and reserved, they'll be accused of toxic
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masculinity. It's a game that men cannot win because no matter what they say or do, no matter how they
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react to any situation, they lose. And that is really the point, isn't it? Jordan Peterson has noticed
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the ways that our culture stacks the deck against young men, isolates them, disenfranchises them,
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alienates them. He speaks with empathy to and about this group of people, and that's the primary
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reason why he is hated so much by the left. People like Olivia Wilde have made it clear that young men
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should be lectured and nagged and treated with disdain. We should make no attempt to understand them,
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least of all guide them and champion them. We can't do that. And that's why anyone who does so,
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any figure who comes along and tries to give alienated young men a voice and thus earns a
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large following of exactly those kinds of men is going to get kicked off social media, de-platformed,
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villainized, etc. We've seen this play out countless times, not just with Jordan Peterson.
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I mean, can you think of an example of a public figure who has garnered an audience,
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who's known to have garnered an audience largely of men and yet has not been labeled controversial
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because of it? The message is made loud and clear. You may ignore these people or you may demonize
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them, but you must not treat them with respect or advocate for them or try to understand them.
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Because if you do that, you're a danger, you're a threat. You're a hero to the incel community. Of
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course, we have to keep in mind that whenever anyone on the left uses the term incel, they simply mean
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all men who are not avowed woke leftists. That's what an incel is. It is at this point, nothing but
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an anti-male slur used against literally any man who's judged to be a political enemy.
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You don't need to gather on 4chan and you certainly don't need to be an involuntary celibate
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to earn the title. I mean, they use that term against me and I have a wife and six kids.
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If you can be an incel while driving your family in your 12-passenger van to church,
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then the term obviously has a much broader meaning. It's just another way, another label
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meant to stigmatize and alienate. And it works. Because no matter what you think,
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no matter what image you have of the world, no matter what your politics or your ideology demands
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you believe, no matter how deeply you believe in the fiction of male privilege, the fact is
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that a huge number of men in our culture, especially young men, are deeply lonely, lost, frustrated,
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isolated. I mean, I hear from these men every day. Jordan Peterson hears from them
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at an exponentially greater volume. That's why he gets emotional when he talks about the issue,
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because encountering the depths of other people's despair every day takes a toll.
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I mean, it's an enormous burden, emotional burden, that sociopaths on the left can't understand.
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I mean, they literally can't understand empathy. When they see it, they just laugh at it because
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they don't know what else to do with it. But it leaves us again with this stark fact that these men
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exist and denying that they exist only contributes to the problem. But it's easy to see why the left
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doesn't want to acknowledge the societal crisis of marginalized, disenfranchised young men. Because
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for one thing, the left has this complicated, ever-changing victim pyramid to maintain. And a victim
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pyramid requires a villain. With all those victims around, we need someone to do the victimizing.
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Men, especially white men, have been assigned that role. But much as comic book films don't usually spend
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too much time humanizing their supervillains for fear that they might, you know, become too sympathetic
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and then you're not going to root for the good guys anymore, so too does the left avoid humanizing their
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own chosen villains, and for the same reason. That's why they treat it like a big secret. Like, no, no, no,
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you're not, these people aren't human beings. You can't, no, no, no, no. We have, we can describe
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these people in one sentence and you're not allowed to go beyond that sentence. But I think there's a
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deeper reason also why they would prefer to ignore this group. And that's because young men and young
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women in this culture are suffering from despair and hopelessness and purposelessness because this
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is what the sexual revolution and our culture's continued lurch leftward has brought. You know,
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if you acknowledge the men, if you take their pain seriously, then you've opened a conversation that the left
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doesn't want to have. Because it's a conversation about how all of their promises have been empty. Their
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revolution failed. I mean, they created despair where they promised happiness and emptiness where they promised
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fulfillment. That's why these men must continue to be ignored. And anyone who speaks for them silenced.
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So there was a House Oversight Committee hearing on abortion yesterday. Yet another one. So they have
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committee hearings on abortion, it seems like three or four times a week. And they had another one
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here. A few moments worth revisiting, I think. We'll start with Dr. Bhavik Kumar. Kumar identifies as a
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trans and abortion care provider and was brought on as an expert witness. And there are a couple of
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moments here. We'll start with this where we're told that, among other things, hurricanes require abortions.
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There's a connection between hurricanes and abortions. How could that possibly be the case? Well, let's listen to the
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This nationwide abortion ban, 15-week nationwide abortion ban, Dr. Kumar, a 2021 study predicted a 21% increase in
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pregnancy-related deaths if an abortion ban were imposed, with black women facing a predicted increase of 33%.
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Can you explain to us why there would be an increase in pregnancy-related deaths, as well as more black
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women, a 33% increase in black women dying as well?
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Sure. Thank you for that question. What I would point to first is a recent CDC report that looked at
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maternal mortality in our country and actually found that four out of five of those deaths are
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preventable. Some of the top conditions that they talked about were mental health conditions, such as
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suicidality or depression, excessive bleeding referred to as hemorrhage, cardiac conditions, which are
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highest among black women, and also hypertension-related conditions. All of these things are
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preventable. When we look at today's landscape of abortion access and we talk about a 15-week ban, we can look at
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Florida, for example, what's happening today with a natural disaster hurricane. As that state has a 15-week ban and we think about what's
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happening to families, what's happening to their homes, folks that may be 13 weeks pregnant or even 10 weeks pregnant, as they deal with the
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things that they're having to deal with in their lives, they're being pushed further and further into pregnancy. When we look at the
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landscape around accessing abortion and the limited number of clinics that are still available in Haven states and how long people are
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waiting sometimes several weeks, that's also pushing them further into pregnancy. So these impacts are always felt
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disproportionately by people of color, especially low-income folks and also black folks. And that's what we'll continue to see, but it will only
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My God, these people are such demonic, satanic freaks. I mean, they really are.
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The problem, so what we're worried about with the hurricane is that it's pushing people into pregnancy.
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So there's a hurricane slamming Florida and destroying wide swaths of the state and cities and people are getting
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swept away and houses are destroyed. But the thing that Dr. Bhavi Kumar is worried about is that it's going to push
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people into pregnancy. Well, this hurricane might lead to fewer babies dying.
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Just think about what a twisted, sociopathic, bloodthirsty goblin you have to be to see a hurricane. The first
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thing that comes to mind is, oh my God, more babies might be born because of this. But somehow that's not
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even the most, you know, the headline from the clip you just heard there, because right before that,
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we're told, and this is an important point, actually, because they talk about the maternal
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mortality rate. And of course, everybody agrees that maternal mortality, people, you know, women
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dying in childbirth is a terrible thing. We have to do everything we can to prevent it. But on the left,
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they're very invested in making childbirth seem as dangerous as possible. I mean, the great thing about
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living in the first world, you know, in a Western civilization is that maternal mortality is, you
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know, it's, you know, childbirth is very, very safe. So it's a rare exception when somebody dies
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from childbirth in this country in modern times. It wasn't always that way. It isn't that way
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necessarily in other parts of the world, in third world countries, where they don't have access to
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the same medical care. But in this country, it is. I mean, it does happen, but it's rare. Thank God.
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Right. But on the left, they're very invested in making, in making child, you know, childbirth seem
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even more dangerous. They want it to be dangerous because then they can use it as a rationale for
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having more abortions. But there are a couple of problems here. First of all, you heard him say
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that when it comes to maternal mortality, you know, the number one cause is suicidality and depression.
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And so they're counting suicide as a death caused by childbirth. They're including that in maternal
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mortality, the maternal mortality rate, according to what we just heard there, suicide. Now, of course,
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when they, if they don't specify that and you hear about maternal mortality, nobody thinks suicide.
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You don't think of that as a, as a directly caused by childbirth. I mean, you're thinking of someone,
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of a woman tragically bleeding out during childbirth or something like that. That's what they want you to
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think about. But as we just heard, they're, they're sort of padding the stats by adding suicide to it.
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Now, it's true that, you know, postpartum depression is a real problem. And tragically,
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there are women who commit suicide suffering from postpartum depression. The question though
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is, can you solve that problem through abortion? So you kill the baby, does that solve the depression
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problem? Let me ask you something. How, so we know about suicide, which they link to postpartum
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depression. What about suicide linked to post-abortion depression? We have any stats on that?
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Well, no, there are basically no stats on it because it never happens. It never happens because
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women never regret their abortions. That's total nonsense. We know, but there's, there's no one
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who feels, you know, the people who are in charge of tabulating these things, there's, there's no real
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incentive for them to keep track of that. But of course we know the reality is that while postpartum
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depression is a very real problem, it is, thank God, most of the time, temporary, women get through
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it. The guilt and regret and despair that comes from abortion, on the other hand, can be lifelong,
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never goes away. But if a woman five months after an abortion or 15 years after an abortion
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commits suicide because she can't deal with the guilt anymore, we're never going to be told about
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that. They just won't tell us. That, that, that link will never be made in any official sort of
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context. Uh, then the conversation moved on and got more bizarre as we get to this exchange between
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the doctor and a Republican lawmaker on the issue of whether men can get pregnant. And you feel like
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you kind of know what the answer is going to be, but there's, there's, there's one part of this
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answer that's pretty interesting. So I want you to listen to this. Dr. Kumar, can biological men
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become pregnant and give birth? Um, so men can have pregnancies, especially trans men.
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Uh, so can biological men become pregnant and give birth? So are you saying that a biological
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female who identifies as a man and therefore becomes pregnant is, quote, a man? Is that what
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you're saying? These questions about who can become pregnant are really missing the point. I'm here to
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talk. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is me asking a question and you answering. I'm asking
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the question, sir, not you. Right. And I'm answering the question. Somebody with a uterus may have the
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capability of becoming pregnant, whether they're a woman or a man. That doesn't make a difference.
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Okay, we're done. Not every person with a uterus has the ability. This isn't complicated. Let me tell
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you, if a person has a uterus and is born as a, is born female, they are a woman. That is not a man. And
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the vast majority of the world considers that to be a woman because there are biological differences
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between men and women. I mean, clearly, any high school biology class teaches that men and women
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have different chromosomes. Females are XX chromosome and male are XY chromosome. Can't believe it's
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necessary to say this, but men cannot get pregnant and cannot get birth, give birth, regardless of
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how they identify themselves. So we, we see these exchanges now every time, pretty much any time
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there's a, any hearing in the, in the house that we get, we get this question from a Republican
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lawmaker, can men give birth? What is a woman? And I think it's great. I mean, it's fantastic. This is
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exactly what you should be doing. And especially if they're there to talk about anything related to
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pregnancy, if they're there to talk about anything science related, then yes, you should get them on the
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record, uh, endorsing the idea that men can give birth. So that's, that is a, this is, this is progress
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for the Republican party and I'm glad they're doing it. Uh, but you notice the response there. The
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response was, yes, men can give, get pregnant, especially trans men, especially not only, but
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especially now a trans man quote unquote is a woman who identifies as a man. And yes, we all know that
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those individuals, I mean, if they haven't, uh, mutilated or their body or, or, or sterilized
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themselves yet, um, they can get pregnant. So we know that yes, it's a woman who calls herself
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something else or mentally identifies another way can still get pregnant. She still has all the
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functions of a woman. That's our point. That's what we're saying that that actually helps us
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that yes, no matter how you identify, unless you, unless you go to a surgeon and tell them to start
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removing parts of your body, it doesn't matter, no matter how you identify your, your, your biological
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essence, the biological reality remains. But what about, but, but especially, so especially means that,
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well, in, in, in particular, uh, women who identify as men can get pregnant, but since you're using the
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word especially, that would seem to indicate that even non-trans men can get pregnant. So the claim
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that we just heard from that doctor is that not only women who identify as men can get pregnant, but
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actual biological men can get pregnant. This is what we hear from doctors now, something that
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we unfortunately, again, always have to keep in mind when you're going to the doctor, you're
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consulting any, any healthcare professional, not saying that you never should. I'm not saying that
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you should, uh, uh, you know, swear off modern medicine entirely. That wouldn't be a good idea for
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your own health and safety, but you do have to keep in mind that much of the medical profession is
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totally compromised and has been claimed by this absolute abject insanity. Um, and has lost its grip
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on physical reality. So you got to remember that and just be cautious and look out for that.
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A little bit later on, AOC chimed in and had a rebuke for the transphobia that we just heard there,
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but, but something also to say before that, let's listen.
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Briefly, I'd like to address some of the prior claims that, uh, and prior, several prior immediate
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claims. One being that, uh, abortion is not an economic issue and that we should be focused on
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economic issues. And I also, you know, I think it's important to state that, um, that abortion
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is an economic issue, forcing poor and working class people, uh, to give birth, um, against their
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will, against their consent, um, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child is a
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profound economic issue. And it's certainly a way to keep, um, a workforce, uh, basically
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conscripted, uh, to large scale employers and to employers to be, to work more, uh, against their
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will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy. And so the idea that,
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um, that abortion and access to abortion is somehow not a profound and central economic
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and class issue and class struggle, um, is certainly something that I think a person who's never had
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to contend, uh, with the ability to carry a child, um, you know, it belies that perspective, um, and it's
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disappointing to see. Um, but secondly, I think another thing that I'd like, uh, to address is that
00:25:55.380
the same folks who tell, who tell us and told us that COVID COVID's just a flu, that climate change
00:26:03.700
isn't real, that January 6th was nothing but a tourist visit are the same, are now trying to tell
00:26:11.080
us that transgender people are not real. And, um, I would say that their claim, uh, is probably just
00:26:19.360
as legitimate as all their others, which is to say not very much at all.
00:26:26.740
She is so stupid all the time. And it's not, it's not a put on, it's not an act. I mean,
00:26:34.020
some of these people on the left, there are people on the left who are quite intelligent and they're
00:26:38.180
the ones you have to watch out for the most. Uh, they're very smart and, and, um, and scheming
00:26:45.140
and devious and they say things that they know aren't true, but I don't think that's true for
00:26:51.940
AOC. I think she actually is enormously dumb. You know, uh, that's, that's what I think the
00:26:58.700
issue is for her. So when she says, the trans people exist, you're denying the existence of
00:27:04.880
trans people. I, I, I'm willing to believe that she actually believes that that's the issue here.
00:27:10.060
But of course it isn't. No one is denying that quote, trans people. Obviously we know that
00:27:17.280
otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. How can you claim in one, in one breath that we're
00:27:24.200
transphobic and in the other breath, we're denying the existence of trans people. If they don't exist,
00:27:29.260
then there's no, so if, are we afraid of them or do we deny they exist? Because if we're denying that
00:27:33.520
they exist, then there'd be nothing to be afraid of. You got to choose one or the other.
00:27:38.860
Now, both are not correct, but at least choose one falsehood or the other,
00:27:48.220
People who identify as trans exist. People who make the claim that they are a sex other than what
00:27:58.100
they were born at birth exist. Those people exist. However, the claims they are making about reality
00:28:04.260
are false. That's what we're saying. We're denying their claims, not their physical existence. You
00:28:11.980
moron. What she says before that is even worse though, because she's exactly wrong. She's, she is,
00:28:19.820
she's, she's chosen a position that is the diametric. She's like on the South pole and what is,
00:28:26.340
and the truth is the North pole. She's in the, she's the, all, she couldn't get farther away from
00:28:30.920
the truth because she says that it's kind of a conspiracy among corporations and the wealthy
00:28:37.720
to push abortion bans, you know, because it helps their own bottom line. What?
00:28:45.080
What major corporations are supporting abortion bans?
00:28:51.540
Almost every single one of them have come out and denounced abortion bans. And not only that,
00:28:56.940
but a lot of these corporations are paying to send their employees to other states to get abortions.
00:29:04.380
That's what the corporations are doing. You ignoramus. That's what almost all of them are doing.
00:29:10.600
And why would they do that? Because it's better for the corporation. That's better for your employer.
00:29:17.440
If you kill your child, because then you have more time to spend at work. It doesn't help. How does it
00:29:24.060
help your job? If you have a baby, especially as a woman, it means that you got, you have the baby,
00:29:29.300
you take maternity leave. And now you have something else in your life that is claiming your time and
00:29:36.660
attention. You have something that is pulling you away from the job, especially as a woman.
00:29:43.800
Well, the employers, they don't want that. The corporations, they don't want that. So they're going to ship you
00:29:48.780
off and they'll say, sure, we'll pay for your abortion. Yeah, go ahead. We'll do that. It means you have more
00:29:53.120
time for us. It means that we, as the corporation, we remain the focus of your life. We don't want the baby
00:29:59.000
to be the focus of your life. We don't want your family to be the focus of your life. We want us. We want what
00:30:03.220
happens here in this building, in your dumb little cubicle. We want that to be the thing that's most
00:30:07.540
important to you. And that's why they pay for the abortions. So she literally could not be more wrong
00:30:15.720
about that. All right. Let's move on before I get heated. Too late, probably. So this shouldn't be
00:30:25.720
funny, but it is. And you've probably seen this clip already, but I have to play it anyway. Vice put
00:30:30.340
together a puff piece about how society is too mean to sex offenders and we need to treat sex
00:30:38.700
offenders better. We have to reintegrate them into society, poor victims and all that. And the report
00:30:44.900
ended this way. I'm definitely hopeful. I like the position I'm in. I ain't finna let stuff stop me.
00:30:53.260
Not even this. Or DNA or a person's opinion. Like, we all out here in this world and we all
00:31:03.920
got to make it happen. It ain't nothing stopping me. So like, I'm very hopeful and confident.
00:31:11.840
After this interview, Ashif sent a picture of his penis to our producer.
00:31:15.580
He later said through his lawyer that he sent it by mistake.
00:31:28.260
It's a shame, too, that it turns out he's still a sexual deviant because I thought his insights were
00:31:34.720
quite profound. You know, he said he's not going to let anything, any stuff stop him.
00:31:39.560
You know, we all got to make it happen in life. That's real insight. That's Kamala Harris level
00:31:46.740
insight. You know. So, turns out, you know, he's one of the people being profiled. Let's reintegrate
00:31:55.000
him into society. And he sexually harasses one of the producers on the story that is meant to paint
00:32:03.680
him in a positive light. There was a follow up interview with a producer of this of this
00:32:10.600
segment asking, you know, what what happened behind the scenes? Why did this happen? And why did you
00:32:18.160
decide to include it in the report? And let's listen. I wanted to ask you about what it was like,
00:32:24.280
what it was like to find out that Ashif had sent that picture to one of your producers. I mean, I was
00:32:29.400
shocked. I was angry. If this was something that happened from a stranger, you would just block the
00:32:37.060
person and never talk to them again. But we're journalists and we were working with Ashif on
00:32:40.560
this. So we reached out to him. We got comment. You know, we reached out to his lawyers. He says
00:32:45.620
he sent it by mistake, which I think is up for the viewers to decide whether they believe that or not.
00:32:51.420
Was it hard to decide whether to use that information or not in the piece?
00:32:55.740
Yeah, we went back and forth a lot about it because on the one hand, you could argue that it's not
00:33:01.060
relevant to the story of the injustice that Ashif faced at the hands of the state all of the years
00:33:07.520
of dead time that he served. You know, that's really what our story was about. And his lawyers would
00:33:13.220
argue that, you know, the fact of the dick pic isn't relevant. But we wanted to basically give the
00:33:19.040
full story to our viewers in a piece that's also about what it means to reintegrate successfully
00:33:23.680
and unsuccessfully as someone who's on the sex events registry. This seemed like, you know,
00:33:28.380
an important fact to note about Ashif, who is a complex person. And this is part of his complexity.
00:33:34.780
It's part of his complexity. He sends pictures of his penis. That's OK. I guess you've just given
00:33:41.160
that rationale to any future scumbag men. Why didn't you give that to any of the men during
00:33:51.660
Me Too? Maybe Harvey Weinstein could have said that. You know, this is all part of my complexity.
00:33:59.680
When he sent a picture of his penis, he was actually showing his complexity. There's a euphemism
00:34:04.860
for you. Now, she says that, well, it's not really relevant. It's not relevant to how the
00:34:11.460
state treated poor Ashif, which just shows that these people, they cannot learn. They just can't
00:34:19.260
learn. You're doing a puff piece on sex offenders, claiming they should be reintegrated to society.
00:34:24.300
You get sexually harassed by one of them, and it still isn't enough for you to, that's not a wake-up
00:34:29.320
call. So she says it's not relevant to how the state treated him. Of course it is. It's very
00:34:35.120
relevant. Because the whole point is that he's clearly still a danger to society. He's out there,
00:34:42.840
that's sexual harassment. So he's out there sexually harassing women. And just think about
00:34:48.280
this for a minute. If he's willing to do that, OK, if he's going to do that to the producer of a
00:34:54.240
segment in which he is painted as a protagonist, and he would do that in that context, then what
00:35:06.640
else is he doing? We can't know. This is one of the problems. One of the problems, one of the many
00:35:12.340
problems of releasing sex offenders back into society is that much of what they do, we aren't
00:35:20.320
ever going to know. The vast majority of sex offenses go unreported. And even if they're
00:35:29.160
reported, many of them are almost impossible to prove, unless you're stupid enough to do it
00:35:33.680
with your phone through pictures that you're sending to people, in which case it's very easy.
00:35:44.560
That's the thing about a lot of these sex offenses committed by these creeps.
00:35:50.320
That there's kind of a scale, and many of them are really easy to prove because they're doing it,
00:35:55.220
they leave a digital paper trail, but then there's a whole other category that's almost
00:36:03.020
But yes, it's all relevant because it shows that, yes, this is someone who you have selected
00:36:09.520
because it helps to prove your, who you thought helped to prove your point,
00:36:13.720
and even he turns out to be still a danger to society.
00:36:19.620
That's just, that's the nature of this kind of crime.
00:36:24.140
The people who behave this way, who treat others this way,
00:36:36.660
We can't say that it's, that it's categorically impossible for someone to change.
00:36:48.100
But out of the, outside of the realm of theory and in reality,
00:36:51.480
the vast majority of these people will never change.
00:36:54.180
That's just, that's, and we could talk about why that is,
00:36:56.720
and it gets into psychological facts and spiritual facts,
00:37:00.960
but the fact still is that the vast majority never change.
00:37:07.020
So what happens when you take them and you put them in prison
00:37:09.460
and you have them kind of stewing in that environment
00:37:12.800
with other sociopaths and dangerous people and scumbags,
00:37:17.780
and you have them stewing in that environment for several years,
00:37:23.220
Are they likely to be less dangerous magically during that time?
00:37:31.900
I mean, you could argue that if you're going to take a dangerous sex offender,
00:37:35.120
put them in jail for three years, and then release them,
00:37:40.740
Because all you're doing is now delaying the inevitable,
00:37:43.340
and you're putting them in an environment where they're only going to get worse.
00:37:49.040
So it seems to me the most logical and practical thing is that
00:37:55.720
if you're going to put these people in prison, which obviously we should,
00:37:59.400
you keep them there for a very long time, if not forever.
00:38:03.900
All right, we're going to kind of skip ahead here.
00:38:09.260
It might be four headlines today because I do want to play this for you too.
00:38:12.820
This is Kamala Harris, and I'm playing this for you because this is the one.
00:38:25.460
Because here she is visiting the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea,
00:38:30.420
and she's talking to people who've got a lot on their mind.
00:38:35.240
There are plenty of things they have to worry about being in the DMZ.
00:38:40.460
And she thought, though, it was a good time to have this conversation.
00:38:45.220
Have you seen the photographs from the web television?
00:38:53.540
So we invested in this telescope, and the images just came back.
00:39:00.160
And they show us three billion years back to the beginning, to all these galaxies.
00:39:07.580
It's the most humbling thing you have ever seen.
00:39:17.120
So when we think we've seen everything, we're going to do.
00:39:30.040
This is why you shouldn't smoke weed before visiting the demilitarized zone.
00:39:33.980
And you've got to feel for those military officers, because they're standing there
00:39:37.220
thinking to themselves, why are you telling me this?
00:39:42.120
And yet, she's talking about outer space and all the cool stuff happening in outer space
00:39:47.560
in a very uninformed way, going on about how awesome it is, to people who do not care,
00:39:53.320
and in a context where it could not be more irrelevant.
00:39:57.080
And for that reason, I have never found her more relatable than in that moment,
00:40:02.840
That's what I do on this show about three or four times a week.
00:40:06.780
We have nothing else, but at least we have that.
00:40:11.560
Who saved Virginia after leaving there just for a day?
00:40:26.420
Marissa says, whoa, who would have thunk that if during the summer of love,
00:40:30.000
we simply got Lizzo to twerk on the statues, leftists would have thought history is cool
00:40:37.000
Yeah, I mean, that brings up another important point about this Lizzo.
00:40:39.800
James Madison flute situation, which is that they're all pretending to find the flute cool.
00:40:49.060
Oh, it's a nice, cool piece of history because of its ties to James Madison.
00:40:58.260
Since when have they thought that anything related to the founding fathers was cool?
00:41:08.340
You know, these people in media say, oh, that's awesome.
00:41:14.260
No, usually anything we could tie back to the founding fathers is problematic and bad and evil.
00:41:23.380
The claim that this was done out of respect for the founding fathers in American history,
00:41:31.080
you know right off the bat that that's not true because these people have no respect for American history,
00:41:37.060
All right, PG says, I didn't think pigs could fly, but now I know they can play the flute.
00:41:47.300
Lizzo is proof you can indeed grow up to be a walrus.
00:41:58.440
We don't, I'm deeply, deeply disappointed in both of you.
00:42:07.860
Ethan says, to destroy a people, you must first sever their roots, quoting Alexander Solzhenistin,
00:42:14.320
which, yes, this is, now you could say the flute thing is a rather petty example of it.
00:42:20.080
The more dramatic examples are tearing down the statues, taking names off of buildings and all the rest of it.
00:42:24.500
But as we talked about yesterday, the pettiness is the point.
00:42:28.640
That's part of the point here, is to find these really small, superficial ways of kind of driving the knife in deeper.
00:42:43.000
Jimmy says, Lizzo playing a priceless piece of history that the other 332 million people that live in this country
00:42:48.660
will likely never even see, let alone hold and play,
00:42:51.960
proves once again just how underrepresented and oppressed she really is, stunning and brave.
00:42:57.460
Yeah, that is another, there are other comments making that observation as well,
00:43:01.280
that along with everything else, this once again goes to show
00:43:04.660
that although we're told someone like Lizzo, being that she's a racial minority,
00:43:10.020
she's a woman, she's overweight, she checks a lot of victim boxes,
00:43:13.260
and yet she is being honored in a way that, according to her,
00:43:18.080
nobody else ever has been in history, in American history.
00:43:21.960
So that's what it means to be oppressed, apparently.
00:43:29.600
Funny how Matt and other conservatives didn't even know this flute existed until seven seconds ago,
00:43:40.320
I have to tell you, District 97, with all due respect,
00:43:44.200
that's the laziest response possible, and the dumbest.
00:43:54.860
I did not know that James Madison had a crystal flute dating back to 1813.
00:44:07.760
in fact, almost every artifact in the Smithsonian right now,
00:44:11.540
because it's been a long time since I've been there,
00:44:17.140
you know, there are many things archived that I have no knowledge,
00:44:25.260
There are many priceless artifacts and works of art
00:44:31.200
And yet, I would still be opposed to those things being defaced.
00:44:37.540
So, if someone, if I hear about someone defacing,
00:44:42.020
you know, a Michelangelo painting that I never heard of,
00:44:46.940
I'm not going to say, oh, I never heard of that one.
00:44:49.780
I only care about the ones that I had heard of before this moment.
00:44:53.680
Yeah, I, in principle, am opposed to defiling, defacing,
00:45:02.740
desecrating, disrespecting, priceless historical artifacts.
00:45:07.140
That's, across the board, I'm opposed to all of it,
00:45:19.660
that was the infamous, historic Walrusgate scandal,
00:45:46.820
is a giant stuffed walrus of arguably inconvenient size
00:45:54.680
and will sell out fast, so you don't want to wait.
00:46:11.320
Also, I'm going to speak to a segment of my audience
00:46:15.380
so I've never directly addressed before frat guys.
00:46:23.720
but in some ways, we're not so different, you and I.
00:46:30.520
by, oh, the woke razor companies and leftist ideology,
00:46:39.140
One Virginia Tech fraternity alone raised $255,000
00:46:47.140
I thought I'd share an idea that I obviously had.
00:46:50.440
I had this idea that I'm reading for the first time
00:46:53.520
You know, Jeremy's Razor's contest to win the car,
00:46:57.380
Well, we get that you don't want to shuttle everybody around
00:47:28.820
we'll see which of you is the most woke free fraternity
00:48:24.520
who have turned lipstick into a political issue.