Ep. 1034 - Medical Organizations Want Us Arrested For Criticizing Them
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Major medical organizations call the DOJ to arrest and imprison those of us who criticize their practices. Also, female athletes at a school in Vermont are banned from the locker room because they don t want to get naked in front of a boy. Candace Owens and Kanye West are up to trouble by wearing shirts with a very controversial message. Leftist activists make their counterinsurgency battle plans for my What is a Woman? screening tour. And in our daily cancellation, two gay men say they have a right to be biological parents. How does that work? We'll find out today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, major medical organizations called the DOJ to arrest and
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imprison those of us who criticize their medical practices. Also, female athletes at a school in
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Vermont are banned from the locker room because they don't want to get naked in front of a boy.
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Candace Owens and Kanye West are up trouble by wearing shirts with a very controversial
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message, White Lives Matter. You can't say that. Leftist activists make their counterinsurgency
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battle plans for my What is a Woman screening tour. And in our daily cancellation, two gay
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men say they have a right to be biological parents. How does that work exactly? We'll
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find out today. That and much more on Matt Walsh Show.
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Yesterday, the American Academy of Pediatrics, along with the American Medical Association and the
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Children's Hospital Association, collectively published a letter which was addressed to the
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Department of Justice and which calls for me to be prosecuted and thrown in federal prison.
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So just another day at the office, I suppose. But it's not just me being targeted. Of course,
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Libs of TikTok, Chris Rufo and others are all are on the hit list. And the letter doesn't mention us
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by name, but it doesn't have to. Besides, there's always the media, which is here to sort of fill in
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the blanks for them, which they rely on. So as The Hill reports, quote, leading health care
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organizations and sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and called on the Department
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of Justice to investigate recent threats of violence against physicians, hospitals and
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families that provide gender affirming care to transgender youth. The organizations collectively
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represent more than 270,000 physicians and more than 220 children's hospitals nationwide. Medical
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facilities that provide gender affirming health care to transgender minors have recently been the
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targets of online attacks. And the letter says a few high profile users are intentionally spreading
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false and misleading information. Conservative commentators, including Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh,
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as well as right wing social media accounts with large followings like Libs of TikTok have alleged
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that doctors are abusing children by prescribing puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones.
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Now, notice the verbiage there. First of all, we have we're told that we've alleged that doctors are
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abusing children by prescribing puberty blockers and gender affirming hormones. So which part is alleged
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that doctors are prescribing these drugs or that they're abusing children by prescribing the drugs?
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So as always, the phrasing is intentionally vague and misleading and also false. We should we should know we are not
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alleging that doctors are giving sterilization and castration drugs to kids. They're doing more than that, too.
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They're mutilating kids physically through surgery. We're not alleging that we're reporting it. We're observing it.
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We're pointing it out. It is a fact that this is happening. And we are calling attention to the fact.
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We're also not alleging that these drugs constitute abuse. Again, this is a fact according to any coherent
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definition of the word abuse. We are arguing that this practice is abusive and we are presenting evidence
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and information to support that claim. But we know, of course, that the other side will not honestly
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engage with us because they cannot. They can only lie and mislead. And if that fails, they can call
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upon their powerful friends to have a silence, which brings us to the actual letter, which begins,
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quote, Dear Attorney General Garland, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American
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Medical Association and the Children's Hospital Association, collectively representing more than 270,000
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physicians and more than 220 children's hospitals, we write to urge you to investigate the organization's
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individuals and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal
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violence against children's hospitals and physicians across the U.S. So take special note of the words
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individuals and provoking. Now, if they had simply called upon the DOJ to investigate the people
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carrying out the alleged bomb threats, I'd have no complaint about that. Yes,
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if there's a bomb threat, investigate it. But they also want the federal government to bring the
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hammer down on the individuals who they claim are provoking these alleged threats. And it's already
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been made very clear that anyone who reports on what these hospitals are doing or criticizes them for
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it or says that they should not be doing what they're doing is inciting violence. Even if they never call
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for violence or say anything that could be remotely construed as an encouragement for violence,
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just by talking about it, they are inciting violence. So it's clear who's being referred
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to here. Now, continuing from Boston to Akron to Nashville to Seattle, children's hospitals,
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academic health systems, and physicians are being targeted and threatened for providing evidence-based
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health care. These attacks have not only made it difficult and dangerous for institutions and
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practices to provide this care, they've also disrupted many other services to family-seeking
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care. These coordinated attacks threaten federally protected rights to health care for
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patients and their families. The attacks are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation
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where a few high-profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting
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individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment,
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and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions. Organizations have called on technology companies
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to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms, and we now urge your office to take swift action
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to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible.
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Well, there it is. High-profile users on social media are targeting hospitals, which results in
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threats. And this is happening in places like Boston, and they mention Nashville. And they say these
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individuals should be investigated and prosecuted. And this is all according to three of the largest and
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wealthiest medical organizations in the entire world. So make no mistake here. They are explicitly
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stating that high-profile people, quote-unquote, who criticize their practices should go to federal
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prison. That's what you're asking for when you're asking for the federal government to arrest somebody.
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They're not just saying that it should happen. They're actively calling on the attorney general to make
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it happen. They intend to use the force of the federal government to silence us permanently if they can.
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So let me make a few points here. First of all, we are once again accused of sharing false and
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misleading information, to use their phrasing. And yet, once again, they fail to provide any specific
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example of this supposed misinformation. So I've been told a million times that what I'm saying is
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misinformation, what Libs of TikTok is saying is misinformation, Chris Rufo, everybody, what we're all
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saying is misinformation. No one's ever specified what exact part is misinformation. They don't do
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that because they know full well that everything we've reported about these hospitals is factual
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and supported by extensive documentation and evidence. We lay it all out. They also know full
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well that we're not saying anything that these medical establishments have not already said themselves.
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So the hospitals say, we provide these services. And then we say, look, these hospitals just said
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they provide these services. And then we get accused of misinformation. The real misinformation here
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is the claim that we are spreading misinformation. That itself is misinformation. It's also defamatory.
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Okay, the AAP and the AMA, they are lying about us with the direct and explicit intent of causing us harm.
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That's defamation. Second, I'm obviously well aware that the people who go around all day crying about
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fascism and tyranny really have no idea what these terms mean, nor do they care. But if we were living in
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some alternate reality where such people had integrity, then maybe they'd be concerned about this
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actual real-life example of authoritarian tyranny happening in their midst. Because to state again,
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these extraordinarily well-funded and powerful medical organizations are attempting to use the arm of the
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state to suppress, intimidate, and punish their critics. And not just the state. See, we see here the whole
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multi-headed hydra monstrosity come into view. This is the medical establishment
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government, summoning the federal government, and also the big tech monopoly, to crush anyone who
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opposes it. And in this effort, they also get a big assist from the corporate media. So this is the
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system. The corporate media, the government, medical establishment, big tech. This is the system.
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It's the thing the left used to pretend to rage against. Yesterday, there was a woman named Brooke
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Binkowski, who's the managing editor of a sham fact-checking outfit. And she tweeted at me in
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support of the AAP's speech suppression tactic. She said, freedom of speech isn't freedom from
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consequences for that speech. That's the part you bootlickers always forget until it's too late.
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Cry more. Yet, of course, the medical establishment is trying to get the state involved. And free speech
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does most certainly mean that your speech should be free from government reprisal. If that's not what
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free speech means, then I don't know what free speech means. Which is what people like, you know,
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that's what people like Brooke really mean, by the way. They don't think that free speech means
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anything. They don't care about it. They're too cowardly to say it. But it's her usage of the
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term bootlicker that really interests me. Because she is here coming to the defense of the federal
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government, the medical establishment, big tech, and the corporate media. She is defending
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all of the most powerful institutions in our society. And while doing so, accusing me of being a
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bootlicker. No, I'm the one that they are trying to stomp under their boot heel. Okay, me and anyone else
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that opposes what the medical establishment is doing to kids, we're the ones being stomped or
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that they're attempting to stomp. She is the one kneeling and kissing their feet. She and everybody
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else on the left. They rage against the machine these days by bowing before it. But will they be
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successful? The AAP wants Garland's goons to break down our doors and cart us away in the middle of the
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night at gunpoint. And is that actually going to happen? Maybe. I mean, you can't rule it out.
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It's exactly what they just did to that pro-life activist up in Pennsylvania.
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And if they'll do it on that issue to a guy like that,
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then they'll do it here. So, you know, it is possible. I will say that. It's certainly a possibility.
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I can't control that or predict it. But what I can say is this, what I've been saying all along,
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which is that I truly believe that gender ideology is one of the greatest evils in human history.
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I don't say that lightly. It's what I actually, that's what I believe. And I believe that those
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of us who are in this fight are called to be here. This is our vocation. This is our mission.
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There's nothing they could threaten that would make me back down from this fight. You're going
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to have to throw me in prison or kill me because that's the only way you'll shut me up.
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I would actually rather be dead than surrender to this madness.
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For me, it's as simple as that. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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This is from fox17.com. It says, girls high school volleyball team, a girls high school
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volleyball team has reportedly been banned from its own locker room after some players objected
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to allowing a transgender player to be present while the team was changing clothes. In Vermont,
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the home of Randolph High School, state policy dictates that transgender students can play sports
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and use facilities that correspond to their desired gender. The state law allows for trans
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students to play on Randolph High's girls volleyball team and apparently use the team's
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locker rooms at the same time as everybody else. Adding to this, the trans athlete allegedly made
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an inappropriate remark to other players on the team while they were all changing, which made
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some uncomfortable. One student who spoke with a news outlet claimed that the issue had become a
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school-wide controversy. Quote, it's a huge thing. Everyone's asking, so why aren't you allowed in the
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locker room? This is according to Blake Allen, one of the affected volleyball players.
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My mom wants me to do this interview to try to make a change. I feel like for stating my opinion
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that I don't want a biological man changing with me, that I should not have harassment charges or
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bullying charges. They should all be dropped. Allen claims that several other students and some
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parents have raised complaints about allowing the transgender athlete inside the girls locker room.
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Those concerns were all reportedly shot down by the school officials who pointed to state law,
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which says transgender athletes are allowed to use whichever locker room they wish.
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One parent who spoke with a daily signal was reportedly bewildered that the school would
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prioritize the transgender students' needs over their daughters. Quote, we allowed a child who's
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biologically the opposite sex male to go in a locker room where biologically girls were getting
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fully changed. The biological child was not changing and sat in the back and watched girls getting
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changed. That made girls feel uncomfortable, made girls feel violated and not protected.
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Yeah, I should think so. In response to the complaints, Randolph High said in a letter to
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parents that it has plenty of space where students who feel uncomfortable with the laws may change in
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privacy. So that's what we're saying to the girls, not to the boy who's claiming that his gender
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identity needs require him to change in a locker room with girls. Not even change, reportedly. Just sit
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there and watch them get changed. So we can't say to him, you know, there's plenty of other facilities.
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If you want to, you know, you can change somewhere else. You don't need to change it. We're not going
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to say it to him. We'll say that to all the girls who feel uncomfortable. Say to the girls, oh, if you
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don't want to get naked in front of this guy, that's your problem. You're the one with an issue.
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In response to the complaints, Randolph High sent a letter to parents that, and it said that it has
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plenty of space. I read that. Allen contests that the school's statement and its apparent solution
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of using more private areas such as bathroom stalls to change simply aren't feasible. Allen said they
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want all the girls who feel uncomfortable, so pretty much 10 girls, to get changed in a single
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stall bathroom, which would take over 30 minutes, where if one person got changed separately, it would
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take a minute. No extra time. So you could have 10 girls take turns with one stall in a bathroom
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getting changed. And that is the solution they came up with, rather than saying to the one guy,
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you get changed in a stall. The girls have said they don't have any issue with the trans athlete
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playing on their team, but they don't want the transgender person in the locker room where
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they're changing, especially given the inappropriate remark that the person allegedly made.
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And then it continues, the volleyball team has been banned from the locker room by the school,
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with officials saying in an email announcement that they do not make this decision lightly,
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but we believe it's the right decision at this time.
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the use of restrooms and locker rooms by transgender students requires
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schools to consider numerous factors. A transgender student should not be required
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to use a locker room or restroom that conflicts with a student's gender identity.
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You know, I'm sometimes tempted to draw historical analogies and to compare all of this to other
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previous examples of, you know, mass hysteria, mass insanity that you see throughout history.
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But this is really on a different level because, and it defies comparison in so many ways.
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Other incidents of mass hysteria, for one thing, are much more contained. They're more localized.
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The Salem witch trials, for example, and oftentimes they're much shorter in duration.
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Sort of these weird blips on the historical radar. So there was something called the Dancing Plague
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of 1518. And I don't know a whole lot about it, but I don't think anyone really does. What I do know
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is that in 1518, it's some village in the Roman Empire, I think in modern day France,
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dozens of people, just townspeople started dancing and they danced for weeks and nobody knew why they
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were dancing. And some of them like danced themselves to death. And it was thought at the time that they
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were demonically possessed. Now it's theorized that they were sick or I think one theory is that they
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had food poisoning, which makes you dance. I've, you know, I've had food poisoning before. I've been
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a Burger King like so many other people. It's never caused me to dance. In fact, I would rather get
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food poisoning that makes me vomit my guts out for two days than have food poisoning that makes me
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dance. Anyway, that's one theory. Another theory is that it was, you know, some sort of psychotic
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episode that they all were having at the same time. Personally, I prefer the contemporaneous
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explanation of demonic possession makes more sense to me. But either way, these things are
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similar to the transgender craze that is inflicting our society right now in that they are bizarre,
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irrational. They cause people to completely lose their grip on reality. And also the transgender
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craze like the dancing epidemic or the Salem witch trials will be looked back on by history as a
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mystery, a period of time that requires explanation, but can never really be explained. That's what you
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have to realize about what we're living through right now, that we are living in a chapter of the
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history books, one of those chapters where people are going to be trying to explain it. Like that's going
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to be the main topic of conversation for historians of the future. How did that happen exactly?
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And yet this is different. It's far worse because it's much wider spread.
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It encompasses all of Western civilization. It's been going on for years and the consequences are
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far more dire, far more dire, but it's still mass hysteria intentionally orchestrated,
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but mass hysteria. And now we have girls getting kicked out of their locker rooms for not wanting to
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be naked around a boy who is also sexually harassing them allegedly. And even if he wasn't saying
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anything, just his very presence is sexual harassment. I mean, that's what we used to all
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agree. I thought that if you are interjecting yourself into a situation and where a girl does
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not want you there, doesn't consent to it in her private space where she is vulnerable and, you know,
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taking her clothes off and you show up and she doesn't want you there, your very presence is
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harassment. We used to all agree. And the sane and rational among us still agree. It's just that
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we're a dwindling minority, unfortunately. Being sane and rational, I mean. By the way, Caitlyn Jenner
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was on Fox to talk about this. And, uh, and I saw this cause it was trending on social media this
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morning. Caitlyn Jenner was trending for this. Um, let's, let's check that out. Here it is.
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The left is hijacked and politicized yet another minority group in our wonderful country,
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the good old US of a, and this time again, it's trans people, um, as a result of their radical left
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and their use of identity politics agenda, they're really driving this country apart. I thought Joe
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Biden was supposed to be the great unifier and all they're doing is driving in this apart. Now,
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does this trans girl have the right under Vermont law, um, to be on the team and to use the,
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the locker room? Yes, she does. Do these girls have the right to comment and tell the school board
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how uncomfortable they are being in a locker room with basically a biological boy with a penis?
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Absolutely. They do. And what is the school's solution to this? Well, let's ban the 10 girls,
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uh, who complain the complainers, put them off in the corner in their own little part of the locker
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room and don't do anything when it comes to the, this trans person. So honestly, everything is out
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of whack right now. So these things have to stop. Everything's out of whack. I agree. So it's,
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it's so out of whack that this male who identifies as a woman is being trotted out onto TV to be the
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voice of reason. And it's celebrated by many on the right in that role. But, but Jenner is not suited
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for the position of the voice of reason. This is like, um, the worst possible person actually
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that you could bring in to talk about this would be Caitlyn Jenner. But of course what they think as
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well, this is a trans person. It's a perfect, see, we, we, we get credit from the left because
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it's a trans person saying all of this. Jenner is part of the problem. Okay. It was Jenner winning
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woman of the year in 2015 or whenever that was, who did perhaps more than anyone else currently alive
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on the planet to bring chance transgenderism into the mainstream. You know, the, the, the, the,
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at least the, the final move into the mainstream was brought about, uh, largely by Caitlyn Jenner.
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We used to be Bruce Jenner. Uh, that was a, that was a, a pivotal moment in history. And again,
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historians looking back on that, they're going to point to that moment, not the beginning of the
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transgender craze, uh, but even so a pivotal moment of bringing it into the mainstream.
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And it's not like Jenner has repented of that or said, you know what? I was wrong about all that.
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I wish I wasn't a part of that. No, not at all. And now we get these Fox segments,
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but Jenner's position makes no sense. Okay. Is the biological, and of course they don't,
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they don't ask, they don't ask this, but is, is the biological male a girl or not? Jenner says,
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uh, this, you know, this person who's, who's basically a biological male. No, not basically
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a biological male. It's a biological male. So is the biological male a girl or not?
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If he's a girl, as Jenner says, then yes, he would have the right to use the girl's locker room. In
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fact, if he was a girl and hadn't done anything else. So let's say that the sexual harassment,
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uh, the inappropriate remarks that are alleged didn't, didn't actually happen. So it's just a
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girl using the locker room, not doing anything wrong. And those other girls decided to be mean
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and demand that, uh, he be kicked out, uh, because he's not cool or something. Then it would be the
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right decision to tell the other girls that they should leave instead of him. If he was actually a
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girl, but he's not. See the one single, the, the only argument against quote, trans girls in the
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girls locker room is that they are not girls. That is the only argument. It's the only one. It's a
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good argument. It's the only argument you need, but it's also the only argument. If we're not right
00:24:26.280
about that, if we, if we are not correct, that trans girls are not in fact girls, then we're wrong
00:24:30.860
about the whole thing, but we are correct. Obviously there is no other argument. So Jenner wants to
00:24:37.760
affirm the girlness of this boy referring to him as a trans girl and yet still maintain that the
00:24:45.420
other girls are also correct. Well, you know, they're, they're, they're both right. No one's
00:24:49.340
wrong here. No, no, it's, this is a situation where you have diametrically opposed points of view
00:24:54.260
and only one person can be right. It's impossible for them both to be right.
00:24:57.140
And instead of getting someone on the segment to just explain this and actually speak some truth,
00:25:07.680
we get Caitlyn Jenner. It doesn't say anything, by the way, really all the whole segment just
00:25:14.280
amounts to, well, yeah, we got this situation. This is happening over here. That's happening over
00:25:18.380
there. It's a big mess. Oh, thanks, Caitlyn. Very insightful. We really are grateful for your
00:25:25.800
insight yet again. All right. Daily Wire reports this, uh, one day after wearing a White Lives
00:25:32.760
Matter shirt with Daily Wire host Candace Owens in Paris, Kanye West declared the Black Lives Matter
00:25:37.580
movement over. West and Owens shocked social media when the duo donned the White Lives Matter shirt,
00:25:43.500
each of which also included a picture of the Pope's face on the front while flanked by models and
00:25:49.260
matching tops. I didn't, okay. I never saw the front of the shirt. I saw the back. So there's the Pope
00:25:53.100
face on the front with models and matching tops. I can't quite connect the dots on that one, but
00:26:00.440
that's all right. Everyone knows the Black Lives Matter was a scam. West said on Instagram where he
00:26:04.620
was nearly, where he has nearly 18 million followers. Uh, now it's over. You're welcome.
00:26:09.240
The BLM movement has opposed law enforcement while promoting other radical ideas, uh, as we know. Okay.
00:26:13.840
So the White Lives Matter thing, um, uh, with our very own Candace Owens has been a big topic of
00:26:21.060
conversation and people are very upset. As you can imagine. Um, we don't have to go through the
00:26:27.440
whole rundown. In fact, I just saw, I mean, there's, there's so many examples of this. We
00:26:30.180
read them all, but I just saw someone posted, it was a fashion designer. Uh, I don't even, I don't
00:26:35.560
know which one, not that I can name any fashion designers who said that this was a traumatic, it was
00:26:39.760
a traumatic moment in all of our lives for Candace Owens and Kanye West to wear a shirt that says
00:26:44.020
White Lives Matter. Um, and lots of stuff like that. It's dangerous. It's traumatic. Uh,
00:26:50.140
Jameel Hill, Hill tweeted, so many folks are trying to excuse Kanye wearing a White Lives
00:26:55.300
Matter t-shirt as just a troll move or marketing. Maybe it is, but it's a dangerously dumb message
00:27:00.620
to send for someone with his massive platform. I been off, dude. I been off, dude. I been off,
00:27:07.480
dude. I've been off. I is supposed to be a comment there. I've been off, dude.
00:27:13.360
I've been off, dude. Oh, I've been, okay. So she has been off. She's been off this guy.
00:27:20.520
It's like, she doesn't like him. Is that, is that what it means? Okay. But y'all go ahead
00:27:25.420
labeling his foolishness as genius. Um, and then I responded to that. I said, yes, it's so incredibly
00:27:32.220
dangerous to say that a White man, a White person's life matters. We know that you would
00:27:36.260
never make such a claim, Jameel. You despise White people, which is why you're morally superior.
00:27:40.060
Thank you for enlightening us once again. A little bit of sarcasm there, I admit. But she
00:27:43.000
responded, I want you to pay attention to this response. Okay. Now remember, she originally
00:27:45.900
said that it's, it's not only dumb, but dangerous. It's dangerous to say that White
00:27:50.480
lives matter. She responded to me. She says, you truly don't have the range for this. The
00:27:55.300
reason we don't have to say White lives matter is because White lives have never not mattered.
00:27:59.680
The default position in this country is White equals worthiness. The same has never been
00:28:04.320
true for Black people. You're welcome. Now I want you to notice what she did there,
00:28:09.240
because this is always what happens, right? This is always what happens. Um,
00:28:13.900
she retreats from her claim without admitting that that's what she's doing because she does it in a
00:28:20.320
very, uh, defiant kind of way and acts like she's, you know, uh, like she's dropping the mic,
00:28:27.100
but she actually retreated completely from her claim because she originally said it's dangerous
00:28:32.060
to claim that White lives matter. And then in response to me, she says, it's just,
00:28:37.260
it's not necessary. It's redundant because White lives matter and everyone knows it. So you don't
00:28:41.020
need to say that. Well, those are two different things. Okay. Um, it's a, a redundant unnecessary
00:28:46.760
message is not the same as a dangerous message. In fact, a redundant unnecessary message cannot be
00:28:52.260
dangerous. It's, it's, it's redundant. It's unnecessary. How can it, how can it be dangerous
00:28:56.600
and also redundant and unnecessary? If it, what she's, what she's claiming in her follow-up is that,
00:29:02.820
well, it's, everyone knows that white lives matter. It's so, uh, inherently understood
00:29:07.220
that it's, we don't even need to say it. Well, if we all have this on inherent understanding and
00:29:12.440
everyone knows it, then how can it be dangerous to just say it out loud? The worst it could be
00:29:16.820
is redundant and unnecessary. No, it can only be dangerous. There's only one way,
00:29:25.760
only one way that a message can be dangerous and there can be dangerous messages. Here's a
00:29:33.300
dangerous message to say to a boy, uh, you could be a girl. That's a dangerous message. Very
00:29:38.640
dangerous. So I'm not here saying that, uh, words can never be dangerous. They can. You say that to a
00:29:43.840
child, those are words. It's very dangerous. But the only way a message can be dangerous is if it's
00:29:49.200
not true. Okay. If the message, the, uh, the, the, the, the statement, the declaration is true,
00:30:02.500
So if you are saying that it's dangerous, you are saying that it's not true, which,
00:30:06.040
which means that you are saying that you don't agree that white lives matter,
00:30:09.280
which is what she really means. So what she said the first time is what she means. It's what they all
00:30:15.260
mean. Anyone out there saying white lives matter is dangerous. What they all really
00:30:19.020
mean is that they don't agree with it. They don't think that white lives matter. At least they
00:30:22.020
don't matter as much as black lives do. And, uh, and, and so it's dangerous to say it because in
00:30:27.440
their mind, there's a racial hierarchy in our society that they've worked very hard to, uh, to
00:30:33.100
build. And when you go around, especially as a, as a black man and a black woman saying white
00:30:38.380
lives matter, well, that, that, that throws the whole hierarchy out of balance, makes everything
00:30:44.420
out of whack in Caitlyn Jenner's words. So that's their actual problem. And this is all, uh, you
00:30:51.520
know, just leaving aside the fact that what, what she's, what the claim that white lives have never
00:30:57.280
not mattered in this country is of course, uh, not true. Um, in fact, the very, the very fact that
00:31:05.020
it's considered dangerous to say white lives matter means that white lives are not valued as much as
00:31:12.440
other lives in this culture. I mean, can you think of any example, just, uh, you know, again,
00:31:19.040
we're talking about history today, historical precedents, just think of other, and there are,
00:31:25.020
and there are other examples you can think of through history where it was considered controversial
00:31:29.500
to say that a certain group of people had dignity or that their lives mattered to speak up in defense
00:31:37.860
of the, you know, the inherent human dignity of a certain group of people. Think of any time when
00:31:42.900
that's been considered controversial. Has it ever been because everyone knows that that group of
00:31:49.340
people, that they're great and everything's fine? Or is it because, uh, there is a considered effort
00:31:56.640
to dehumanize that particular group of people? Um, and then, and then of course we should also
00:32:05.980
note that of, of all the things that are rappers say, you know, of course, this is what they're
00:32:11.780
upset about. White lives matter of all the things that a rapper could say. And many rappers do say
00:32:16.620
Kanye West, not as much, but other rappers, and this is what they're getting upset about.
00:32:22.800
So of course, you know, they, they can go out there openly advocating to kids that they use drugs,
00:32:29.620
kill people, abuse women. That's not a dangerous message, but to say white lives matter. Well,
00:32:38.780
that's dangerous. Yeah. All right. This is, uh, as you know, we're on this, we're, we're just now
00:32:45.160
embarking on our screening tour for, uh, what is a woman? We're going to be going to colleges all
00:32:50.620
across the country and we're starting, we're here, we're in DC right now. We're going to be speaking at
00:32:55.120
Catholic university. We have an update on that, not just speaking, but screening the movie. And
00:32:59.320
then we'll do a Q and a, uh, we have an update on Catholic university, but first where we're going
00:33:03.260
next is, um, the university of Illinois. And so you have tweeted this yesterday. It says leftists
00:33:10.460
have a battle plan in place, what they call battle plan, quote unquote, to try and prevent Matt Walsh's
00:33:16.040
what is woman tour at UIUC this Thursday. They're asking volunteers to be mischief makers and plan to
00:33:22.620
assemble a massive trans pride flag in the audience. So this is what, and then we'll, we'll put it up
00:33:29.320
on the screen. You can see, this is what they're, they're sending around the activists. Um, I think
00:33:33.840
they originally, yeah, they originally posted this on Reddit and it says, um, remind him talking about
00:33:40.840
me that earth have no space for transphobic. What was that? Remind him that earth have no space.
00:33:48.220
Remind him that earth have no space for transphobic. You don't have to be trans non-binary to join
00:33:55.980
because you two are a human being. You are very unlikely to get into trouble. You can participate
00:34:01.360
anonymously. So what are they planning to do? They're going to cause some mischief during my Q and a,
00:34:05.720
this is in a couple of days. Oh, I'm walking into some mischief. I'm getting a little nervous about
00:34:10.720
this. You know, there's nothing I hate more than mischief. So, uh, what is it? We'll go with now.
00:34:15.300
You know, here's what they're doing. They have it, they have it all. Okay. They have it all drawn
00:34:18.380
out here. I have to say that this drawing is, I mean, my nine-year-old daughter literally draws
00:34:22.720
better pictures than this. We should have hired her. They should have asked her to help. Uh, so battle
00:34:26.640
plan. Um, the plan is assemble a massive trans pride flag in the audience.
00:34:35.860
That's the whole plan. So I guess they want to like, by wearing certain colored shirts,
00:34:40.780
they want to make a trans pride flag. And then they, and then I guess I'm going to come out
00:34:44.380
and see the trans pride flag and burst into tears and run off the stage. I think that's what they're
00:34:52.280
hoping will happen. We'll see. We'll see if it happens. Um, anyway, if you're interested in
00:34:58.900
participating in this, I want to tell you what their, their plan is. So stage one, uh, there's a signup
00:35:03.900
form and a, and a, uh, so there's, you can go to a certain website and you sign up to be a mischief
00:35:08.580
maker because that's the thing about mischief makers. They always have signup forms. You
00:35:12.680
have to sign up to do mischief. Um, uh, stage two, be a mischief maker, show up at 7 PM,
00:35:21.960
put on provided shirt, then return the shirt back to us. Um, stage three, return the shirts.
00:35:31.140
And it mentions again, return the shirt. So they're very, this is the funniest thing about this to me
00:35:36.040
is that they're very clear. They want the shirts back. They need their shirts back. That's the
00:35:40.700
most important thing. That's like stage three, four, and five is make sure you give the damn shirts
00:35:44.600
back. Um, okay. So that's what they're planning to do. And there is an update that was, this is
00:35:50.280
just emailed to me. And so I'm looking at it right now on the spot here. Um, and we're being told that
00:35:56.140
they canceled, uh, the, the counter protest is canceled at Illinois. Okay. So this was all a big
00:36:01.820
waste of time. Apparently this is what they sent out. This is what the activists sent out.
00:36:05.520
Dear mischief makers and accomplices. This email is for announcing that, that Thursday's mischief
00:36:10.980
has been officially canceled. Please do not bring t-shirts on Tuesday or show up on Thursday night.
00:36:17.480
The reason behind the prompt cancellation has to do with a serious logistic issues and be
00:36:22.160
safety of participants. How can you have logistic issues when all you're planning to do is sit in the,
00:36:28.000
sit in the audience with, with blue and pink shirts on you have logistic. You can't figure that
00:36:33.720
logistically. I am no logistical genius by any means whatsoever, but I can figure out how to,
00:36:39.180
I'll help you. Okay. You need my help. I'll, we can figure out a way to get everyone the shirts
00:36:44.440
they need for this. Um, what are the logistics? We collected more than 60 responses to show up during
00:36:51.200
the speech. Even though some responses are just random responses, the number of participants is much
00:36:55.340
higher than the t-shirts available, which is less than 10 at the time of writing. So they couldn't get
00:37:00.780
enough t-shirts. You wanted to make a trans pride flag in the audience and you only had 10 shirts.
00:37:05.300
How are you going to make a whole flag with 10 shirts? And then also safety of participants.
00:37:11.200
Some responses in the signup form made us worry about the safety of the participants. We fight
00:37:14.780
and speak up yet safety and mental wellbeing always come first. Uh, so it sounds like my safety was
00:37:20.200
actually being jeopardized. So these are, these are people on your side saying things that make you
00:37:24.120
worried about safety. So isn't they, were they planning to hurt themselves during the speech or were they
00:37:30.080
planned or were they saying things that they're planning to hurt me and you don't want to get
00:37:33.700
in trouble for that? Well, I don't know. But, um, anyway, so they had their big protest and they
00:37:40.420
had to cancel it because they couldn't find enough shirt. You had all this planning and you couldn't
00:37:45.040
come up with pink and blue shirts. Okay. You couldn't just order a pack of them on Amazon. You could
00:37:50.380
order a pack. You can order a pack of them on Amazon for 20 bucks. You get enough pink and blue
00:37:54.220
shirts for everybody. You'd have enough for either. I could wear one. Oh my God.
00:38:00.080
Uh, and then what's happening. Let's see. There's also an update that this is all just sent to me
00:38:04.780
right now. I honestly have not read it. And, uh, so there's an update on the Catholic university.
00:38:09.120
Am I about to find out right now that our event was canceled and I'm here for no reason?
00:38:13.200
Uh, so this email was sent out by the president of the university says, um, as the Catholic
00:38:19.960
university of America, we are often asked to defend or explain our actions in terms of how they stand up
00:38:23.900
to what it means to be a Catholic. As an example, last week, I met with a group of students who asked me
00:38:28.020
to consider censoring or canceling a speaker invited by another group of students whom they
00:38:31.800
believe does not reflect the values we hold as core to our identity as a Catholic university.
00:38:36.220
Uh, here we go. The argument made an impression on me because it came from a sincere desire,
00:38:41.540
which I shared to create on this campus, an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere for all
00:38:45.200
students. The speaker they asserted would make them feel unwelcome and even unsafe.
00:38:48.840
While I do not want any student to feel unwelcome or unsafe, I, okay, I couldn't agree to the request.
00:38:53.960
All right. Well done, sir. Uh, and then he goes on explaining why, uh, after consideration,
00:39:00.780
he's decided not to cancel the event and, uh, but it's pretty long and he's, you know, trying to
00:39:07.460
reason with people and explain that, you know, it's, it's, we want to hear other people's points
00:39:11.880
of view. He doesn't, I don't think he mentions this, uh, to read the whole thing, but, you know,
00:39:17.200
I am Catholic myself and everything, and no, he does not say this. I'm Catholic myself.
00:39:23.900
Everything I say on the topic of gender and sex, all of that is 100% in keeping with Catholic
00:39:32.220
teaching. 100%. It's also in keeping with reality and truth. And, uh, you know, so often all these
00:39:40.800
things line up together, which is the great thing about being Catholic. But anyway, um, you know,
00:39:45.460
that's also something maybe, maybe, maybe it'd be worth mentioning. And I know, I guess I'm supposed
00:39:49.980
to give Peter Kilpatrick credit for not canceling the event, which great, but, but actually I don't
00:39:55.620
give you credit for that at all. I'm not going to thank you for that because, uh, that's what I,
00:40:01.020
that's expected. Okay. To cancel a Catholic speaker on a Catholic campus, who's, who's talking about the
00:40:08.440
reality, uh, and, and of, of, of biological sex, but that would just be unacceptable. And so he is not
00:40:17.940
doing the unacceptable thing, which is okay. Good. All right. Let's see. One other thing that we got.
00:40:26.340
Well, this is important before we get to the comment section. Um, this is from NPR.
00:40:31.320
This is only going to interest me. So we're going to talk about it. Months of suspicion erupted into
00:40:36.400
full throated fury at a professional fishing tournament in Ohio, where two anglers were
00:40:41.280
allegedly caught with egg shaped weights in their catch, an edge of more than seven pounds that
00:40:46.100
would have ensured a lucrative championship. And there's a video apparently of people discovering
00:40:51.440
this very dramatic video. Uh, we're not going to play it, but you can find it online where they're
00:40:55.320
doing the weigh in. And, uh, and then they, someone suspects that there's weights in the fish.
00:40:59.320
They cut the fish open, you know, there's unfortunate for the fish. And so the fish get cut open
00:41:05.060
and they pull the weights out. So they, they actually put lead weights in the fish that they
00:41:09.020
could, um, win when they get to the weigh in. Now, as an avid angler myself, I have to say that
00:41:14.280
I'm totally disgusted and disappointed that I never thought to do this because that's, that's
00:41:19.520
actually pretty smart. It never even occurred to me that you could put weights in the fish's mouth
00:41:24.720
to pump up your stats a little bit. Uh, but it is bad. It's cheating. It brings disgrace
00:41:31.420
to those of us who enjoy sitting around for hours at a time, stabbing hooks through fish's mouths
00:41:37.900
for fun. It makes us even look a little bit weird. Um, which is to me, what I am most angry about.
00:41:48.340
Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.
00:41:54.200
Dalton says dad and I went squirrel hunting Sunday morning and I had a blast even for a first time
00:42:02.260
other than spending time outdoors with my father and learning firearm safety. I kept in the back of
00:42:06.760
my head, many of our leaders, um, I kept thinking, I guess in the back of my head, many of our leaders
00:42:11.700
would despise my family for doing what we did simply because it has a semblance of toxic masculinity
00:42:16.440
and making our leaders even more upset pleases me to no extent. Well, yeah, it's a, it's a fulfilling,
00:42:23.560
uh, even leaving aside the fact that you're, you're killing those, those innocent, precious squirrels,
00:42:28.980
um, which, which actually in all seriousness, I mean, if you're going to go hunting, that's,
00:42:33.800
that's probably the best hunting you can do because squirrels are, are a menace. Um, but even leaving
00:42:40.240
that aside, the fact that you're spending quality time as a family learning some important life
00:42:46.480
skills. Yeah, that is, uh, that would upset the powers that be in our culture. Um, Berzum,
00:42:53.220
Berzum II says, I've already reached my quota for gay content. I binged a Netflix series about an
00:42:59.080
iconic LGBTQ figure, Dahmer. Great acting, tight writing, and I suppose a good boost for their
00:43:05.160
representation. Uh, yeah, that's been one controversy that, you know, we cover a lot of the,
00:43:10.140
the really dumb controversies on this show. And, and there are some that even I can't bring myself
00:43:15.280
to care about even enough to, to, to talk about. Uh, and that's, that's one of them, but it is,
00:43:20.400
it is pretty funny. I mean, I, I have to admit that, so I guess Netflix has this, I don't know if
00:43:27.580
it's a, I guess it's not a documentary. It's a, like a true crime show miniseries about Jeffrey Dahmer,
00:43:33.240
the serial killer. And I have an issue with it because I just don't, uh,
00:43:40.140
maybe there's a certain gene that I lack that other people have that makes them really fascinated
00:43:46.620
by serial killers. And there's this insatiable, uh, thirst that people have to, to consume serial
00:43:54.860
killer content. And I don't quite have it. And I, I especially like a mini series about a serial
00:44:00.360
killer. I don't need to see these people actually are not that interesting, right? Serial killers are,
00:44:05.320
uh, they're sociopaths and they enjoy killing people. I don't, I don't find it. It's, I don't
00:44:12.780
find it interesting. Like I don't need to spend the idea of spending five, six, seven, eight, nine,
00:44:18.060
10 hours collectively, you know, watching a story like that. I don't quite get it myself, but you know,
00:44:27.680
Netflix especially puts these things out all the time. People love it. Uh, but not in this case,
00:44:32.460
because they represented, you know, Jeffrey Dahmer's is a homosexual and they, I guess that
00:44:37.240
comes out in the show that he was a homosexual. And apparently Netflix even labeled it at one point,
00:44:43.620
they labeled the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killer show as LGBT content. They had that label. It was under
00:44:49.140
the LGBT category, which is almost funnier than my book, Johnny the Walrus, uh, being labeled an LGBT
00:44:55.800
book. Almost funnier, but not quite. And of course the left got very upset about this. They said,
00:45:00.600
uh, no, we don't want that. This is not LGBT. Well, he was gay, you know, so you want representation.
00:45:07.540
Oh, we don't want that representation. So you want, you want representation of only the good guys. So
00:45:13.980
you want, that's what you want. You want, well, that's, that's not how it works. Uh, as the straight
00:45:19.580
people, we have good guys, we've got bad guys, we've got them all. And, uh, so if you want,
00:45:24.880
is a two sides to the coin. And if you want representation and film, then you got to take both sides of it.
00:45:29.980
And that means you got to start claiming some of these serial killers too. You got to start taking
00:45:33.180
some of them, some of them off our, our hands. Um, the dirty bubble says, I am very, the dirty
00:45:42.720
bubble. I'm very happy to hear the movie bros has been a commercial failure. YouTube was pushing
00:45:48.900
this film heavily in their advertisements for a few weeks and championing its critic rating as if
00:45:53.960
it's worth a damn. Uh, yeah, that's one of my favorite things about this story also is just the
00:45:58.220
whole thing is great. The whole thing is great. Um, the fact that the movie flopped so spectacularly
00:46:02.860
and I really can't, we talked about it yesterday, but I cannot emphasize enough just how much of a
00:46:07.000
failure this film actually was to make less than $5 million in an opening weekend. They made half a
00:46:12.140
million on opening night. Okay. 500,000 less than 5 million over a whole opening weekend.
00:46:18.020
When you've got all that marketing push behind it and the media is behind it is just a
00:46:22.960
catastrophic failure and it's hilarious. So I love that. Um, I love the fact that, uh, Billy
00:46:31.000
Eichner, the star of the film is just watching him. If you don't have a Twitter account, get a
00:46:35.360
Twitter account this week because the best thing happening on social media this week and probably
00:46:39.700
for this decade is Billy Eichner trying to cope with the fact that nobody wanted to see his gay
00:46:45.160
sex film. He, he cannot cope with it. He can't deal with it. And he's just lashing out and it gets
00:46:50.740
more unhinged by the day. It's great. Um, and also when you see how the critics especially are
00:46:58.740
flabbergasted by this because they keep saying, well, we, we said it's good. We told you guys,
00:47:04.120
the movie's good. We told you to go watch it. You didn't watch it. So the media can't understand.
00:47:08.880
It doesn't compute. So if you go to Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has a 300% fresh rating of
00:47:14.300
Rotten Tomatoes. It's the best thing they've ever seen. Right. And yet no one cares. No, no one in the
00:47:20.540
movie going audience cares what the critics say. And so they're trying to cope with that. There's
00:47:24.520
a lot of cope going on and it's just great. Do you want to win a McLaren or $250,000 in cash?
00:47:32.140
I'm talking to all the dads right now. As a father, we all want what's best for our children
00:47:37.080
and their education. Um, well, I would never want my kid to own a McLaren. What is it? Where is this
00:47:42.020
going? Well, I wouldn't want them to have $250,000 either, but that's why we sometimes begrudgingly,
00:47:47.220
but still enthusiastically participate in school fundraisers from buying magazines to baking
00:47:51.880
cookies, to paying a bunch of kids to half wash our vehicles at the team car wash. Well, what if
00:47:57.780
you could spearhead the biggest fundraiser in your school and community history with less effort than
00:48:02.320
a walkathon? Okay. All right. I do agree with this. By now you've likely heard of Jeremy's Razors,
00:48:07.680
the contest for the car where you might become the winner of Jeremy's McLaren. Now short, you could
00:48:12.400
add a 592 horsepower supercar to your school's bus fleet, or you could opt for the $250,000 cash
00:48:19.380
prize instead. You and all the other dads and moms could do a lot of good for your kids with that
00:48:24.640
money just by referring a few non-woke razors. Um, imagine a quarter million dollars to resurface
00:48:30.740
the gym, build a computer room, put up some Friday night lights. Right now, most of the top players in
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the contest still haven't hit the 10 referrals mark. So the field is wide open for you to win it all.
00:48:40.000
Go to the principal's office, get him, uh, or her involved and head to jeremysrazors.com
00:48:46.740
slash play to get your referral link and get in the game. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Today for our daily cancellation, we turn to the Guardian, which published an article on Saturday
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with this title and a subheading, how gay parenthood through surrogacy became a battleground. In New York,
00:49:07.260
a gay couple fighting to make their insurers pay for fertility treatment have found themselves in
00:49:11.720
the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood involves someone else's body?
00:49:18.160
Well, I can answer that question. What happens or what should happen anyway, is that you realize that
00:49:22.460
nobody has a right to parenthood in the first place. The very notion of a right to parenthood is
00:49:27.060
not only bizarre and unintelligible, but also ripe with all sorts of very dark implications. But
00:49:33.140
something tells me that that's not the answer to the question that we're going to get from this
00:49:36.260
piece. So let's read on. It says, Corey Briskin and Nicholas Magi Pinto met in law school in 2011,
00:49:43.480
were engaged by 2014 and had their 2016 wedding announced in the New York Times.
00:49:47.620
They moved to a waterfront apartment block in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with a bright playroom for
00:49:52.940
families on the ground floor. Quote, we got married and then we wanted all the trappings,
00:49:57.440
house, children, 401k, etc. Magi Pinto 37 tells me in their building shared meeting room,
00:50:03.780
tapping the table in sequence with the progression of each idea. Briskin 33 grew up assuming he'd have
00:50:08.840
children. He came out in college. Quote, once I had come out to myself and others, I don't think
00:50:13.740
my expectation of what my life would look like changed all that much. With marriage equality one
00:50:18.000
years ago, they expected to be able to have a conventional married life. Yes, the laws changed,
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which led these two men to assume that they would be able to have a biological child.
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A change in the law was supposed to also result in a change to fundamental human biology, apparently.
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That's what they expected. And it didn't turn out that way, tragically for them.
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Reading again, it says, six months before their wedding, a targeted ad from an organization called
00:50:43.120
Gay Parents to Be landed in Magi Pinto's Instagram feed, offering free consultations with a fertility
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doctor who'd give them the whole rundown on how they could start a family. Quote,
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we had the same appointment and we were 100% on the same page. Let's move forward with this,
00:50:56.520
like Magi Pinto. That's when they first became aware of the eye-watering cost of biological
00:51:01.200
parenthood for gay men. Magi Pinto reels off the price list in a way that only someone who's poured
00:51:08.580
over every item could. There's compensation for the egg donor, no less than $8,000. The egg donor
00:51:13.960
agency fee, $8,000 to $10,000. The fertility clinics bill, including genetic testing, blood tests,
00:51:19.240
STD screening, and a psychiatric evaluation for all parties. Sperm testing, egg extraction,
00:51:24.220
insemination, the growing, selecting, freezing, and implantation of the resulting embryos,
00:51:28.200
up to $70,000. And that's if it all goes well. If no embryos are created during a cycle,
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or if the embryos that are don't lead to a successful pregnancy, they would have to start
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again. Okay, I feel like I must interject here to correct the record. These are not the costs of
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biological parenthood for gay men, as though they're some sort of special upcharge based on your
00:51:49.780
sexual orientation. These are the costs of trying to usurp and evade nature during the child
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conception process. For two men, the costs are even steeper because they not only must conceive
00:52:02.220
a child in a petri dish, but they also must rent a woman's womb, literally purchasing her body to be
00:52:07.920
used as property. And along with being a morally horrific practice, it's also very expensive.
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So the expense is the only thing that mattered to these two narcissists. They don't appear to have
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stopped to consider the ethical implications at all. It continues, then there's the cost of a
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surrogate called a gestational carrier when they carry embryos created for another woman's eggs.
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Magi Pinto and Briskin were told agency fees alone could stretch to $25,000 and the surrogates
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themselves could be paid a minimum of $60,000. It takes 15 minutes for Magi Pinto to run me through
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all the expenses they could incur if they tried to have a child genetically related to one of them.
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The bottom line, $200,000 minimum, he says, tapping his index finger on the table with each word in
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disbelief. They couldn't afford it. Magi Pinto earns a corporate lawyer's salary, but is saddled with student
00:52:56.860
debt. Briskin used to work for the city of New York as an assistant district attorney earning about
00:53:00.800
$75,000 a year. Okay. Yes. Who could find a more oppressed victim group than two gay lawyers in New
00:53:09.940
York? Well, I mean, literally anyone could find a more oppressed victim group. I cannot think of a
00:53:15.300
group less oppressed than gay lawyers in New York. But don't worry. They are working to rectify this
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injustice. They're suing the city of New York so that their IVF and surrogacy will be covered under
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the city's health insurance plan. In other words, they want to create a baby and purchase a woman's
00:53:35.040
womb and they want the taxpayers to fund it. As one of them says in a line quoted in the headline of
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the article, they can't be expected to be okay with not having children. Even though they are two men
00:53:48.180
and they literally cannot have children together, not by my decree or by the law, but by the decree of
00:53:54.860
nature, they still shouldn't be expected to be okay with it, they say. It's the duty of the taxpayer or
00:54:02.680
the insurance companies to subsidize whatever elaborate morally problematic workaround they
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can devise. That's their position. And it's completely absurd, of course. Now, commercial
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surrogacy to begin with is a barbarous practice, which is why it's illegal in many countries across
00:54:19.640
the Western world, except in the United States, of course. That's one thing I think people don't
00:54:23.740
often realize or appreciate, is that so often our laws are far more leftist and liberal than Europe.
00:54:31.080
I mean, we tend to think of Europe as the kind of farther along on the left-wing crazy train.
00:54:36.480
And maybe in some ways, culturally, they are. But when it comes to laws, abortion laws, another one,
00:54:41.420
their laws are much more conservative than ours.
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So, in many countries, for-profit commercial surrogacy is illegal. And even not-for-profit
00:54:51.620
surrogacy, what they call, quote, altruistic surrogacy, is also banned in many countries,
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including Germany, Portugal, Italy, Spain. Why? Well, because surrogacy is a moral crime against
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both women and children. The woman is rented. Her actual body, her reproductive capacity,
00:55:10.240
is put under contract. It's purchased for temporary use, like an Airbnb. It is dehumanizing,
00:55:17.520
even if the woman is paid for it. In fact, especially if she's paid for it, it's dehumanizing.
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And in most cases, such as would be the case with the two oppressed gay New York lawyers,
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a second woman's body is also auctioned off as she has to provide the eggs to conceive the child,
00:55:34.660
who's then, and then that's implanted into the rented womb of another.
00:55:38.340
The two men who wish to have biological children have almost nothing to do with the process,
00:55:44.620
except to provide the sperm for the petri dish. And it should be noted that only one man provides
00:55:50.900
the sperm, so that even after all this effort, still the male couple will not have a biological
00:55:56.340
child. So this whole thing is about gay couples who want to have biological children. They still
00:56:00.820
can't. They can't. One member of the couple will have a biological child, while some other woman
00:56:06.520
who neither of them know and who the child will never know is the other person who creates the
00:56:13.020
child. And that brings us to the child, who you may have noticed never factors into the calculation
00:56:20.320
at all. The two dudes talk about me, I, we, us, me, me, me, me, me. But they never at any point
00:56:26.560
mention the well-being of the child who they're trying to conceive. The child who will forever
00:56:32.380
be deprived of knowing his mother. He will never know the woman who gave him life. He will never
00:56:37.440
know the woman who harbored him in her womb and birthed him. He will only know the men who bought
00:56:42.940
him. The men who they believe have a right to him. And that's exactly why there is no right to
00:56:50.120
parenthood and never can be. What kind of confused world do we live in when society does not recognize
00:56:55.800
a parent's right to raise their own children that they actually conceived, but it does recognize
00:57:00.880
a gay couple's right to conceive children in the first place? Such a right cannot exist. Rights,
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okay, if they mean anything, human rights must be natural, ingrained in our human nature. You cannot
00:57:14.940
have a right over and above and against nature. You cannot make a rights claim against nature. So two
00:57:22.220
men claiming that they have a right to conceive, it's like two men claiming they have a right to
00:57:25.780
breathe underwater like a fish. And with technological assistance, you can breathe underwater, not exactly
00:57:31.500
like a fish, but you can get by underwater for a time, a pale imitation, but it may be enough to get
00:57:39.520
the job done. Yet it doesn't make any sense to say that you have a right to do it. Our rights are not a
00:57:46.560
list of all the things that we can physically do with or without technology. The main reason you
00:57:52.380
can't have a right to parenthood is that parenthood requires the participation of other people. And in
00:57:58.860
the case of two gay men, it requires a whole army of other people, a whole battalion, doctors and
00:58:05.260
scientists and multiple women willing to sell parts of their bodies and agencies and everything else.
00:58:10.760
To say they have a right to parenthood is to say that all of these other people are obliged
00:58:15.320
to provide them with their parenthood opportunity. It is to, in a sense, morally conscript these other
00:58:24.440
parties to give you what nature would not. Your right becomes an obligation for others. Your right,
00:58:31.420
in other words, becomes the removal of rights for others. Imagine if a gay couple couldn't find a
00:58:39.080
woman willing to rent out her womb or sell her eggs. If the couple has a right to parenthood,
00:58:46.200
then it must be said that these women are infringing on the couple's right by not providing
00:58:50.200
their bodies for usage. These two men are literally declaring that they have a right to a woman's body.
00:58:58.360
Because that's what it means. As a gay man, if you're saying you have a right to biological
00:59:01.260
parenthood, you are saying you have a right to a woman's body, which is exactly the sort of thing that
00:59:06.680
the left is always screaming about. Only in this case, it's actually happening. And the people who
00:59:11.940
scream about it are silent or else cheering it along, which is hypocrisy in the extreme.
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Par for the course. But we still must say that Corey Briskin, Nicholas Magi Pinto, the oppressed
00:59:26.920
gay lawyers from New York, only to add to their oppression today, are canceled. And that will do
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it for us today. We move over to the members' block. I hope to see you there. If not, talk to you
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tomorrow, or I'll see you at Catholic University tonight. Godspeed.