Ep. 1055 - Dwyane Wade Exposed For Exploiting His ‘Trans’ Kid
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Summary
Former NBA player Dwayne Wade has been parading his trans kid around like a pet for two years now. But a new report reveals that the boy s mother is not on board with this transition, and she believes that Wade is doing it for money and attention. Also, the media comes up with its most absurd argument against voter ID, yet the White House tries to defend its secret social media censorship campaign. Caitlyn Jenner and Dylan Mulvaney get into a fight and nobody wins, and a priest in Ireland is thrown under the bus by his own bishop when he dare to defend Catholic teaching during Mass.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, former NBA star Dwayne Wade has been parading his trans kid,
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quote unquote, around like a pet for two years now. But a new report reveals that the boy's
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mother is not on board with this transition, and she believes that Wade is doing it for money and
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attention. Imagine that. Also, the media comes up with its most absurd argument against voter ID,
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yet the White House tries to defend its secret social media censorship campaign.
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Caitlyn Jenner and Dylan Mulvaney get into a fight, and nobody wins. And a priest in Ireland
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is thrown under the bus by his own bishop when he dares to defend Catholic teaching
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during Mass, and you can't do that. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Dwayne Wade reached the end of his NBA career back in 2020. He had faded from the spotlight during the
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previous few years, bouncing from team to team, averaging about 11 points a game towards the end,
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which isn't great in the NBA for his position, just so you know. When he finally hobbled into
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retirement, he faced the terrifying prospect of irrelevance. And it was at this exact moment
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when, conveniently, his 12-year-old son came out as transgender. It's a very similar situation to,
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like, when Colin Kaepernick was, right at the moment he got benched, he decided to become a
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social justice advocate. And for Dwayne Wade, right at the moment when he washed out of the NBA,
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he decided that he was going to do the same. Couldn't have planned it any better, really.
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The moment his NBA career ended, he was able to make the jump into the very profitable business
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of social justice activism. In fact, his supposedly trans son, who he now calls his daughter,
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brought him more attention and generated more headlines than he was ever able to achieve
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on his own, even during his prime playing days. So here's Wade, just to reminisce for a moment.
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Here's Wade back in 2020, announcing his son's new identity to the world on the Ellen DeGeneres show.
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So once Ziya, our 12-year-old, came home, and first Zion, everybody, I don't know if everyone
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knows, originally named Zion. Zion born as a boy, came home and said, hey, so I want to talk to you
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guys. You know, I think going forward, I'm ready to live my truth. And I want to be referenced as
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she and her. I would love for you guys to call me Ziya. And so internally, now it's our job to,
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one, go out and get information, to reach out to every relationship that we have. My wife reached
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out to everybody on the cast of Pose. We're just trying to figure out as much information we can
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to make sure that we give our child the best opportunity to be, you know, her best self.
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That's his job as a parent, he says. His son comes home one day, announces that he's really a girl,
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and his job as a father, he claims, is to immediately accept this statement as fact,
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ask no follow-up questions, and follow the lead of the child blindly and without a hint of skepticism.
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Not only that, but the father's next task is to apparently go on national television and announce
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his 12-year-old's gender identity to the entire world. This is an important part of the affirmation
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process, you see. Not only do you unquestioningly affirm whatever he says, but you also have to put
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it on a billboard for the whole world to see, so that this identity that your child just adopted five
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seconds ago will now be set in stone, cemented in place. From this point, Wade would go on to become
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a prominent advocate of trans rights, and everywhere he went, he would be greeted with applause and
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adulation. You know, he was just a washed-up NBA player before. He was facing a life as an ESPN
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commentator, which is a lowly fate that anyone would be desperate to avoid. But now, with his
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trans child, he found himself accepted, celebrated, beloved in the upper echelons of society in Hollywood.
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Here he is on the red carpet earlier this year.
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And I just have to thank you, because you've been amazing with your daughter.
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Your daughter, it's pretty incredible. What keeps you going, fighting for her?
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Just being, you know, just being a father, and just seeing our child grow up every day,
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and doing what you're supposed to do as a parent, is to make sure that you sit back and,
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you know, you see what it is in life that they want to do, and you try to go there with
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them, and try to help them mold them into what it is they want to be, and who they want
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to be. So, we're just doing our part, you know, as parents. And we love our kids, and we
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get to see them every day. That's what people on the outside don't get to see, but we know
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them, and we see them all the time. Yeah, and we believe them when they tell us who
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they are. What do you say to a dad out there whose daughter has just come home and said,
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I'm trans? What do you say to that dad? Well, I say the moment when you were in the
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hospital, and you grabbed your daughter, and you looked at your daughter, and all the things
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that went through your mind, all the emotions that went through your mind, and how much love
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fills your heart at that moment. Don't let that ever leave you, no matter what. Like, the
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one thing as parents, what we do is, we find our mini-mees, and we try to make them just like us.
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But just understand, like, our kids are going to be who they are. It's our job to help mold
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them, and help try to, you know, push them in the right places that they want to go. But
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just remember that moment, what you said, in that hospital that day they were born.
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Yes, Duane. Remember that moment in the hospital when your son was born. Your son. The doctor
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identified him by, you know, by his sex. All human beings are identified this way, and that's
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who he was, and that's who he still is. So remember that moment. Take your own advice.
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At least that part of your advice. The rest of it is nonsense. He says that the job of
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a father is to, and I quote, sit back and see what they want to do, and go there with
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them. Now, I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is the worst parenting advice I have
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ever heard in my entire life. It is quite literally the opposite of parenting. You know, a great way
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to parent would be to listen to what Dwayne Wade is saying, and just adopt the opposite
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approach. Just do the reverse of whatever the hell he is babbling about. Because if I parented
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the way that he proposes, all of my kids would be dead right now. None of them would have made
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it past the age of two if I sat back and went wherever they wanted to go and did whatever
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they want to do. If that's how you're going to parent, then you aren't needed. You might as well
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just abandon your kids in a forest somewhere. Let them fend for themselves. Maybe they'll
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be adopted by a friendly pack of wolves. Honestly, Dwayne Wade's kids would have been better off
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raised by wolves than raised by him. An actual parent, a real parent, is there to offer guidance
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and wisdom and insight and direction and correction. That's the job of a parent. That is what you
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are there for. And if your son comes up to you one day and reveals that he's confused about
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his identity, he is in desperate need of guidance and wisdom and insight and direction and correction.
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But he wasn't given what he was needed. Instead, his confusion was affirmed and then exploited.
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And that's certainly the case that the boy's mother, Wade's ex-wife, is making now in court filings
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from the Post Millennial. This was breaking news yesterday. It says, Wade's ex claims that Wade has
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been exploiting Zaya, who, quote, came out as transgender at the age of 12. Siobhan Funchess-Wade
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has now filed paperwork to ask a judge to hold off on the legal name change, saying that Zaya's modeling
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contracts and influencer deals are Wade's impetus for forging ahead with the gender transition.
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In the legal filing, Funchess-Wade states, quote, I have concerns that Dwayne may be pressuring our
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child to move forward with the name and gender change in order to capitalize on the financial
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opportunities that he has received from companies. Wade, who has had full custody since 2011 when
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the divorce with Funchess-Wade went through, said in August when petitioning for the name change that
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the child's mother was only informed as a courtesy. Funchess-Wade fought for four years to retain custody
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of the children. She wants Zaya to wait until the age of 18 before making this change. She is the child
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of both Wade's oldest children and is concerned that Zaya is being pressured into the changes by the
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elder Wade who is, quote, poised to profit from Zaya's deals and sex change. To back up her claims,
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Funchess-Wade said that she had a conversation with Wade in April during which he explained the extent
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of the financial benefits of Zaya's sex change. She said, quote, he told me that he intended to make
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our child very famous due to the name and gender issue and also informed me that there would be
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endorsements and contracts associated therewith. I am concerned, she went on, that our child is being
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commercialized at a young age and also is of the uncontrollable consequences of media exposure,
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i.e. cyberbullying statements and or pictures taken out of context of our child and the unwanted
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spotlight focused on our child. So in other words, Dwayne Wade is an abusive, evil monster and none of
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this is new. In fact, the Dwayne Wade case is quite instructive. You know, it's symptomatic of
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something which is, it raises a question which is, why is it that celebrities are so prone to having
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trans kids? Have you noticed that? How do you explain the high concentration of trans kids,
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quote, unquote, in Hollywood? Dwayne Wade, Charlize Theron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jennifer Lopez,
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Busy Phillips, the list goes on. It's because they use their kids as status symbols and there is no way
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around that conclusion. In fact, even if it happened to be true that a kid could be, quote, trans and
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that their transgenderism should be affirmed and both of those things are emphatically not true at all,
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but even if it was, it would still be totally indefensible to make your child's gender transition
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public. There's no benefit to your child in turning this into a public spectacle. If he's on a gender
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journey, as you say, and if you actually wanted to give him space to be who he is, as you claim,
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then you wouldn't be crowding the space with cameras and microphones. The only possible effect
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of the publicity is to set this new identity in place. Now that you've made him into a leader,
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right, into an LGBT icon, and you've got the endorsement deals rolling in, and there's a lot
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of money on the line, and not only that, but in Dwayne Wade's son's case, like, he's making all this
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money. Dwayne Wade doesn't have a job anymore, and so now I guess he's the breadwinner in the family.
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He's going to feel like he's not able to switch back or detransition or have a change of heart,
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and that, of course, is exactly why they do this. They are leading their children, it turns out.
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You know, I wish that Dwayne Wade was merely sitting back passively and following his child's
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lead. That would be bad parenting, but not as bad as what he's actually doing, because what he's
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actually doing is actively leading his son into self-rejection, self-loathing, deeper and deeper
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confusion. He has taken his son by his hand and guided him straight over the cliff and profited
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from it the whole way down. It is, again, pure evil. He should be shamed for it and disgraced for
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it, ostracized from society, arrested, you know, because this is abuse, but instead all he hears is
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a nice laugh. We are very much in the throw anything against the wall phase of the election
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season. We've been in that phase for, I mean, like a decade or something. And so here is NBC
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warning about voter ID laws and how they might disproportionately impact, wait for it, trans
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people. Let's listen. As Gen Z gears up to hit the polls, transgender voters are concerned
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they might be blocked from casting their ballots. Yeah, that's because a growing number of states
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are enforcing stricter voter identification laws that disproportionately impact the community.
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NBC Out reporter Joe Yerkeba joins us now with more on this. Joe, good morning to you. So first of all,
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how can voter ID laws create obstacles for transgender people? And where do we see some of
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the strictest voter ID laws? Sure. Yeah. So voter ID laws disproportionately impact trans people
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because trans people are more likely to have IDs without the name that they go by and the gender
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marker that reflects how they present. And recent research shows that just over 200,000 eligible trans
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voters in 31 states that both conduct their elections mostly in person and require or request ID at the
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polls don't have IDs that reflect their gender identities and the names they go by. And, you
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know, the states that have the strictest voter ID laws are mostly concentrated in the South and
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Midwest. So you're, you know, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Kansas. So voters there are going to be most affected.
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Hmm. Yeah, this is a fun game. You know, just spin the wheel and find out what trans people are
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disproportionately impacted by. Throw a dart at the board and, you know, trans people are disproportionately
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impacted by car accidents. Trans people are disproportionately impacted by tornadoes. Trans
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people are disproportionately impacted by falling into volcanoes. Trans people are disproportionately
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impacted by death because when a trans person dies, they're really super dead as opposed to when other
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people die and they're less dead. So trans people are disproportionately impacted by everything. And this is
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even sillier considering that you can actually change your gender and your name on your
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driver's license in all 50 states. You shouldn't be able to do that. Okay. If I was in charge,
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you would not be able to do that, but you can. So you can actually do that. So what we're talking
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about here are lazy trans people who want to identify as a different name and a different gender,
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but don't feel like filing the paperwork. Like they don't feel like going to the DMV,
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but they also want to retain the right to be offended when they have to show their ID and somebody
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sees their biological gender on it, even though they chose not to change it. They could do it.
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They just don't feel like it because they're lazy. And, and, and that's a, that now becomes a
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violation of their rights. But I do appreciate this because it highlights once again, how just
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completely absurd the voter ID complaints actually are. The left has not been able to come up with an
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argument against showing your ID to vote. They're against it, but they don't know why, at least they
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don't have a public facing argument. I mean, they do know why they're against it. They're against it
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because, uh, they're, they're opposed to voter ID because voter ID makes it harder to cheat.
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And that's why they don't want it. I mean, that is the, that's, that is really the only reason you
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could be against it is if you, you want to cheat and it's going to make it harder for you to do so,
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but they can't, they can't make that argument publicly. And so maybe eventually they will,
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we might get to the point where they are openly defending cheating because on the basis that it's
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the only way to save democracy. So we're not quite at that point yet. So they can't say that. So
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that, so instead they're left with arguing that, um, black people don't know how to get driver's
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licenses and don't know where the DMV is and have no way to figure it out. And the trans people are
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traumatized by having to present an ID that they didn't feel like taking the time
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to change. And it's also a part of this very familiar pattern of trans people acting victimized
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by their own choices. So the trans person says, well, I have a, I identify as a female, but it says,
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but I haven't, but my ID says male and it'll make me feel bad to have to present that. What am I
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supposed to do? Well, I don't know. That's that. I mean, that's your problem. That's your fault.
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That's, that's your own choice. There's like a series of choices that have led you. You chose
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to try to identify as a different sex. You chose not to get your, your ID changed. And now that's
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our problem. Like now we can't protect the integrity of our voting process because of this problem that
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you created for yourself. How is that my issue? It's the same thing when you hear from trans people
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that say, well, you know, that someone, a trans person, a man, let's say, who, uh, thinks anyway,
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that he's passing as a female and because maybe he's gotten surgery or whatever. And then says,
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well, look at me, you think that I should have to go into the men's restroom? How am I going to go
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into the men's restroom looking like this? I don't, that's your, that was your choice. That's,
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that's not my problem. I don't know what to tell you. You made the choice to, you got the surgery,
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you're dressing the way you dress. That's all your decision. And so you, yes, you have not put
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yourself in an awkward spot when it comes to the bathrooms because you don't belong in the women's
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bathroom. Um, but you would be a little conspicuous in the men's bathroom. I don't know what to tell
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you. It's not my problem and it's not the problem. It shouldn't be the problem of the actual women
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who are in their restrooms and don't want a man in there. So you're going to people who have nothing
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to do with the choices you made and expecting them to solve a problem that you created for yourself.
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That's just not how it works, or at least it's not how it should. It shouldn't work that way.
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Anyway. All right. Some news on the free speech front. Elon Musk has given more details about his
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plans for content moderation. He tweeted this, talk to civil society leaders, Jonathan Greenblatt,
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Yale Eisenstadt, Rashad Robinson, Jessica Gonzalez, Norman Chen, Derek Johnson, Ken Hirsch,
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Sidney Benavides, about how Twitter will continue to combat hate and harassment and enforce
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its election integrity policies. Twitter will not allow anyone who is deplatformed for violating
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Twitter rules back on the platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at
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least a few more weeks. Twitter's content moderation council will include representatives with widely
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divergent views, which will certainly include the civil rights community and groups who face hate
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fueled violence. Okay. I'm not, I'm not going to claim that the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter is a
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bust at this point. He just got in there. Um, it's very early, right? We need to give him time to figure
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it out. So I can understand all of that, but this also isn't a good sign. Maybe we could say, um, it is a,
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it's a bad sign because he had a little group chat about content moderation and hate fueled violence.
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Every single person in the conversation was a leftist, every single one. And not just like,
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we're not talking about a Bill Maher esque liberals. Okay. We're talking about far leftists,
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every single one included. These are people with the ADL, the NAACP, other leftist advocacy groups.
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So he says widely divergent views, but the views, uh, that, that are in that group there,
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they diverge on the spectrum between extremely left wing and really, really extremely left wing.
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Like that's, that's the, the spectrum of divergent views that he's, has assembled so far. And that is,
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um, that's pretty concerning now, again, still early, but it's something we should keep an eye on.
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Um, and you know, if you really want to hear about the impact of harassment and hate and, um, uh,
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death threats and all of that on the platform, then you need to talk to conservatives and especially
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in particular, you need to talk to conservatives who have faced the wrath of the trans activists
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because the trans activists are far and away without even a close second, the most vicious
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and vile people on social media. Um, and there is just no rule of decency or, and no law that they
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respect or will abide by. They just do not care about any of that. I know this from experience.
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Um, and, and, you know, it's like people are always talking about the, you know, people always
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talking about death threats. Anytime a leftist says anything, it's a little bit of criticism.
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I'm getting death threats all over the place. And, you know, maybe in some cases they're right,
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but I, but I think very often this is exaggerated. What I can tell you though, is that death threats,
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death wishes, you know, things like that, doxing and all of that. When I talk about that from the
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trans activists, um, it is 100% not an exaggeration. This is just, it is guaranteed to happen when you go
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up against these people. So if you're really interested in having a, uh, uh, having a full conversation
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about this problem, you need to bring people in who've experienced that part of it. And so far
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he hasn't, but hopefully it does. Meanwhile, the white house responded to the intercept report about,
00:23:02.060
uh, DHS using social media companies to suppress speech. And I guess we could call this a response
00:23:07.760
such as this. Here it is. There was a reporting in the intercept about opportunities for the federal
00:23:16.420
government to identify, uh, for social media companies, different posts that contains, uh, what was
00:23:23.960
perceived as misinformation about the origins of COVID, the vaccine, uh, other things as well, you know,
00:23:30.000
such as Ukraine or the U S withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yeah. I, so, um, look, I'll say this, um, the,
00:23:38.620
the administration, um, the Biden administration remains fully, uh, committed to our mission to protect
00:23:44.440
the security and resilience of our, um, of, of our, you know, elections and safeguard election
00:23:50.480
infrastructure. That includes combat, combating disinformation. That is something that, uh, we are
00:23:54.940
committed to, um, you know, we work to protect that, uh, protect Americans from disinformation that
00:24:00.680
threatens the homeland, including malicious efforts spread by foreign adverse, um, adversaries,
00:24:07.460
uh, adversaries, sorry, pardon me, began before the disinformation governance board was established.
00:24:13.300
In fact, some of that work, uh, began before this, uh, administration. So, uh, you know, I want,
00:24:18.780
I want to be very clear that cross agency work continues to this day. Uh, don't want to,
00:24:23.820
don't want to get ahead of, uh, of anything else. This is a department of Homeland security. So I would
00:24:28.500
refer you to them. So you are flagging, uh, misinformation. I don't have anything more to add.
00:24:34.400
This is a department of, of Homeland security that I refer you to adversaries. Got to watch out for
00:24:41.040
them gut dang adversaries. You know, we've talked plenty about why the government shouldn't be in
00:24:47.220
the business of, uh, policing what it deems misinformation or disinformation, but I want to
00:24:53.920
point out one other thing, which, which I'm not sure if, uh, if we've really taken note of to the
00:24:59.400
extent that we should. So you know, notice the confidence on the left. They want to give the
00:25:06.260
government and governmental agencies, this, this power over information to decide, to decide what
00:25:14.740
is misinformation, disinformation, and then to suppress it, which is just a profound, uh, power
00:25:22.360
that they want to grant the government. The government's already granted itself this power.
00:25:26.700
So they want to do this and they're not worried about what'll happen if Republicans take over the
00:25:34.980
government. They're not worried about if Republicans win in 2024. I mean, think about that. They,
00:25:39.080
they tell us that Donald Trump is, uh, is a, is an existential threat to democracy. He's a fascist.
00:25:44.140
He's Hitler and all these things. And they're also very worried that he'll run and win in 2024.
00:25:50.660
And yet at the same time, they are expanding every moment, the, the scope and power of the federal
00:25:59.020
government, knowing that Donald Trump might be in charge of that in a couple of years.
00:26:05.260
So how do you, how do you make sense of that? They aren't worried about these powers being used
00:26:10.320
against them. Why is that? Well, for one thing, for all their talk about fascism, you know, they
00:26:16.680
actually know that Republicans wouldn't do many of the things that they do. Okay. So they, they know
00:26:23.180
that even if Republicans could, they wouldn't go behind the scenes to social media companies and
00:26:29.000
give them a list of leftist talking points and leftist ideas that they want erased from the
00:26:34.000
internet. They, they know the Republicans aren't going that they know that's the kind of thing that
00:26:37.760
only they will do. So that's part of their confidence. The other thing though, is that they know that
00:26:44.360
they as leftists are so deeply embedded into the system, into the government, into these agencies,
00:26:52.680
that it doesn't matter who's in the white house or who's in Congress. They know that we saw that
00:26:59.540
in 2016 through 2020 with Donald Trump, you know, he had the entire federal government against him.
00:27:06.980
And so it almost didn't really matter what he did or what he said is while they were doing all their
00:27:11.280
hand wringing and being chicken littles running around saying the sky is falling. It actually didn't
00:27:14.940
like matter that much. And then when Donald Trump left, whatever, whatever, I can't even say that
00:27:22.300
we've made that much progress was even made, but whatever progress was made, it was all just
00:27:25.480
reversed immediately. It's just four years wiped out about five seconds, partly through executive
00:27:32.140
orders. And also partly just because the federal agencies were always in the hands of the Democrats.
00:27:38.480
The only thing they couldn't reverse are the Supreme court picks, although they would like to,
00:27:42.540
they're trying to dilute that by expanding the court or abolish the Supreme court and ending this
00:27:47.340
nonsense. That was the only thing they couldn't take away. Everything else just, it's gone. Just like that.
00:27:51.540
And, and they know that. And so that's, that's the confidence that they, that they have.
00:27:58.080
All right. I haven't mentioned anything about this. There's this, maybe you've heard about this cat
00:28:02.380
fight between two males, Dylan Mulvaney and Caitlyn Jenner. A little background on this.
00:28:08.520
Mulvaney did, and I'm not even going to play it for you because even I have my limits for the grotesque
00:28:13.240
things that I'll subject you to, but he did one of his grotesque, ridiculous days of girlhood videos
00:28:18.460
where he talked about going to the store in tight pants and having a bulge, you know, because he has
00:28:25.400
a penis because he's a man. He wants to be a woman, but his penis was visible through his shorts. And
00:28:32.120
this is what he was doing a video about this. And he said that this is why we have to normalize the
00:28:38.540
bulge for women. That was his, that's his, you know, campaign slogan. That's the banner that he's
00:28:45.120
marching under. Now Jenner responded to this by saying, let's not normalize any of what this
00:28:52.020
person is doing. This is absurdity. And then in a follow-up, he said, he's talking about his penis,
00:28:58.840
which I mean, pointed to the obvious there. Thanks for that Jenner. Now this led to lots of outrage on
00:29:04.420
the left. And, uh, you know, because Jenner is calling it absurd, but also because Jenner quote,
00:29:09.360
misgendered Dylan Mulvaney referred to him as a, as a guy. Um, and Mulvaney responded to that. We'll
00:29:16.200
play a little bit of, of, uh, this. This is, this one's a little bit safe. I don't think you start
00:29:19.700
talking about his bulge here, but you never know what this guy. So let's watch a little bit of this.
00:29:24.140
Days of transitioning and remember being embarrassed about your body or having strangers give you dirty
00:29:30.860
looks. That's why I made that video because I was embarrassed and I wanted to reclaim my body in a
00:29:37.000
positive way. And now you've taken that and you've turned it into something really ugly.
00:29:42.520
And I didn't start days of girlhood because being a woman sounded fun. I started this series because
00:29:48.720
of the unspoken shame of being newly trans. I still have so much to learn. And we come from very
00:29:56.280
different generations and you're so much farther along in your journey than I am, but I have cheered
00:30:01.240
you on from the second you came out truly. And I'm so happy that you've had the surgeries that
00:30:06.800
you've desired, but I'm 25 years old and I am on day 233. I can't even get bottom surgery right now
00:30:13.300
if I wanted to. I haven't been on hormones long enough. And this whole situation makes me not want
00:30:19.340
to share my surgical plans because there are so many trans women who don't have access to it or
00:30:25.300
they don't want it. And it doesn't make them any less of a woman. You know, funny enough, one of the
00:30:31.020
only things that we do have in common is that I'm going to one of your surgeons. You know, I'm just,
00:30:36.140
I'm not as far along as you. Please be patient. And, you know, now that I think about it, I don't
00:30:44.160
even think I have interest in getting to know you because the way you use your platform to publicly
00:30:50.260
degrade me, it told me everything I needed to know about you. And a trans person invalidating
00:30:56.900
another trans person's transness is pretty evil in my eyes. Like the call is coming from inside the
00:31:01.980
house. It's coming off very selfish. You know, is no one else allowed to be trans? I for one am
00:31:08.500
excited to welcome anyone into our community because I know how isolating it can be. In this
00:31:14.320
whole situation, it feels like the movie Mean Girls. I mean, Halloween is right around the corner.
00:31:18.860
So there's a costume idea for us, I guess. I don't know. I digress. But you've been accepted,
00:31:23.700
like, you've been accepted by a group of people that clearly does not accept me.
00:31:27.600
All right, show up, Dylan. And nearly every day.
00:31:30.060
Yeah, it's very isolating. It's very isolating for Dylan Mulvaney to be a girl, supposedly,
00:31:37.380
for 45 seconds and to be greeted with, you know, adulation and applause and corporate sponsorships
00:31:46.000
and brand deals and, you know, invited to speak at women's summits. It feels very isolating and alone.
00:31:53.700
Isolating and alone to be an actual woman, maybe. I could see that as being isolated,
00:32:00.920
making you feel isolated and lonely when you're an actual woman and you've been living as one
00:32:06.040
because you are one your entire life. And then this guy comes along and just jumps to the front
00:32:12.380
of every single line. Well, yesterday, Jenner responded by apologizing for misgendering Mulvaney.
00:32:21.160
An individual on Ms. Jenner's team haphazardly misgendered Dylan in the tweet he is talking
00:32:26.620
about his penis. For this, we deeply regret the comment and have taken the appropriate actions
00:32:31.180
to rectify the situation internally. Ms. Jenner has no further comment on the matter
00:32:36.000
and stands by her statements otherwise. Right, someone on his team. Well, he is on his own team,
00:32:43.560
so I guess that's accurate. You see, once again, this is why Caitlyn Jenner never should have been
00:32:53.960
embraced by conservatives because that's the real story here. And I've seen some conservatives
00:32:58.820
respond as defending Jenner. He deserves no defense. Really, this is a story about the moron conservatives,
00:33:08.840
the idiots who embrace this guy, and they just look dumber and dumber every single day.
00:33:16.340
Never should have been embraced by conservatives. He is not a good advocate on this issue or on any
00:33:21.420
issue, but especially on this one. Okay, to use the leftist terminology, he is not an ally.
00:33:29.100
So these idiot conservatives think, well, if we have a trans person come in and criticize the trans
00:33:35.720
agenda, well, that's the Trump card right there. That's the ace up our sleeves.
00:33:41.640
No, that's the last person who can criticize the trans agenda is someone who's actively promoting it.
00:33:49.500
You know what it's like? It's like if you want to do a news segment, if you want to do a television
00:33:53.200
segment about the problems of drunk driving, and so you have someone come on the air who is currently
00:33:59.100
drunk and drove to the studio, and you have him come on to talk about the danger of drunk driving.
00:34:04.100
That is the worst advocate, or that's the worst person to talk about this issue, especially if
00:34:10.560
he's talking about it by, you know, you have this drunk bastard coming on criticizing other drunk
00:34:16.660
people. Okay, this is not someone you want to, you want to have, if you want someone to come on TV
00:34:22.220
and, you know, extol the virtues of moderation, it shouldn't be an actively drunk person.
00:34:28.100
Now, you want to bring someone on who is a recovering alcoholic, used to be an alcoholic,
00:34:34.020
has gotten past it, and is recovering, and can talk about, retrospectively talk about what it was
00:34:41.940
like to be an alcoholic, you know, as someone who experienced it and got past it. That's different.
00:34:47.120
Just like if you want to talk about, if you want, you want to talk about the transgender agenda,
00:34:54.140
yeah, and bring on a detrans person, someone who was in that life and managed to get out of it and
00:35:00.340
can talk about it again, retrospectively. Well, that's a great advocate, but not someone who is
00:35:07.780
actively in it right now and promoting it, which Jenner is. Refers to him himself in the tweet as
00:35:15.700
Ms. Jenner. Because you know what? You're putting the other side in a position where they're right.
00:35:21.800
What Dylan Mulvaney said there, most of that is, like, basically right from, from, from Caitlyn
00:35:27.500
Jenner's perspective. He's right about that. Because basically what he's saying is, wait a second,
00:35:32.300
if you get to be a woman, like, why can't I? Like, where do you come off calling me a he,
00:35:39.460
and yet you expect us to call you she? How does that work? He's, he's actually right
00:35:45.640
about that. That's what a brilliant advocate Caitlyn Jenner is. He puts us in a position
00:35:50.600
where we have to, he gets into an argument with a guy like Dylan Mulvaney, and Dylan Mulvaney is
00:35:55.860
right. He put, he gives this, this, be careful the words I use. He gives this individual the
00:36:02.780
opportunity to be right about something. That's how terrible Caitlyn Jenner is. That's not going to
00:36:10.480
stop, yeah, he's a Fox News contributor. He's got to stop Fox from bringing him on.
00:36:14.440
The worst possible person. All right. What else do we got? This is a few other things. We have to
00:36:22.560
get to the comment section in a second. I also wanted to, maybe I'll mention this. Yahoo has
00:36:28.200
this story. It says, we've heard a little bit about Happy Meals recently. There's been a little
00:36:33.080
bit of Happy Meal talk on the show for whatever reason. Happy Meals have entered the culture war.
00:36:37.580
Not that I want them to, but that's just the way that it's worked out.
00:36:42.580
So Yahoo reports, hot on the heels of the Boo Buckets promotion, McDonald's announced the release
00:36:48.360
of its new Happy Meal toys, figurines based off characters from Black Panther Wakanda Forever,
00:36:54.560
which heads to theaters November 11th. There are 10 toys in total, all of them characters from the new
00:36:58.980
Marvel movie. These might seem like ordinary toys, but they continue a quiet theme that has run through
00:37:05.920
all of the fast food chain's recent promotions. Representation. Very important. It's very important
00:37:12.840
to be represented by a Happy Meal toy because that's what we all look for in life. That's what
00:37:20.980
we want to see. That's how we find our own guiding light in life is in a Happy Meal box. And it can be
00:37:27.100
very traumatic when you pull the toy out of the Happy Meal box and you don't see yourself reflected in it.
00:37:32.820
That's what I want. When I get a Happy Meal for my children, I want to make sure that I am
00:37:36.720
personally reflected in the Happy Meal toys themselves. In its announcement of the new Happy
00:37:43.480
Meal toys, McDonald's explains that the Wakanda Forever lineup gives everyone the chance to see
00:37:48.360
and celebrate their inner hero. The first Black Panther movie set a whole new standard of representation
00:37:53.620
on screen. And now we're excited to bring that experience to our restaurants and help fans see
00:37:58.960
and celebrate their inner hero with this new Happy Meal toy. Because seeing is believing.
00:38:05.040
Jeez. Good God. First of all, I cannot understand. I'm being somewhat rhetorical when I say that. But
00:38:13.740
why are we pretending that Black Panther was like the first movie with black people in it?
00:38:19.980
It's this desperate attempt to turn it into some kind of historically significant glass ceiling
00:38:28.940
breaking moment. What? Have you seen no movies in the last 40 years? What are you talking about?
00:38:37.660
It's not even the first black superhero. So what is the significance here exactly?
00:38:43.520
And then on top of that too, it's just, you see how like everything is designed to encourage
00:38:53.520
narcissism. You know, it's like you can't enjoy anything for its own sake anymore. It's always
00:38:58.940
about yourself. Even right down to damned Happy Meal toys and stupid superhero movies. Because what's
00:39:06.360
the marketing promotion here? Well, it's all about celebrating you and your inner hero. Why would Black
00:39:11.080
Panther be about celebrating you or your inner hero? Isn't Black Panther about the character Black
00:39:17.300
Panther? Aren't you watching it to see that story unfold? But no, you're actually watching it so that
00:39:23.460
you can see yourself as the hero on the screen. It's really all about you. So you're not enjoying a story
00:39:30.520
anymore. No one enjoys the story. Because really, it's all about themselves. And when you watch a movie,
00:39:37.660
it's like you want to really, you're just staring into a, your reflection in the mirror.
00:39:42.240
Everything is, everything is focused back to the self. Um, it's just, uh, every part of it is
00:39:49.320
ridiculous. But at least as far as I know that these are, these are Happy Meals for kids anyway. So
00:39:54.400
they've gotten away from the adult Happy Meal thing. Although I'm sure there are plenty of adults
00:39:57.460
who go and disgrace themselves by buying these things. Uh, let's get to the comment section.
00:40:02.040
Uh, let's see. Hi, I've been watching your Daily Wire show for a while. Today was no exception.
00:40:17.000
You rightfully canceled Anne Hathaway, but I want to offer this as a concept. When I was a state
00:40:20.460
representative, we debated abortion. I posed a question the other side couldn't answer. Uh,
00:40:25.400
if you're wrong on abortion, what does that get you? And if I'm wrong, what happens? Of course,
00:40:29.480
the answer is if I'm wrong, you have a beautiful baby. Yeah. This is what I've called the Pascal's
00:40:34.400
wager of the abortion debate, you know, um, because, uh, it's, if we are wrong about the abortion issue
00:40:42.460
and we succeed in stopping abortion in many places, which we have, then the end result of our wrongness
00:40:50.420
is that lots of people are living who would not otherwise have been allowed to live. That's,
00:40:55.500
that's the end result of us being wrong. It's also the end result of us being right.
00:40:59.480
But if the other side is wrong, right, the end result is that millions of human beings
00:41:07.040
are dead. If they're right. So if the pro-abortion side is right, then that, that means that a bunch
00:41:11.880
of clumps of cells were discarded and it doesn't mean anything if they're right, which they aren't,
00:41:16.400
but if they were, but what I'm saying is that if they're wrong, the consequence of their wrongness
00:41:22.860
is mass slaughter on an unthinkable scale. So worst case for the pro-life side, if they're wrong,
00:41:30.140
is that there's a whole bunch of people that are, that lived and wouldn't. Worst case scenario on the
00:41:34.820
pro-abortion side is that you've got, uh, you've got the Holocaust times 10, you know, that's happened
00:41:41.460
over the last several decades. And this argument is important because even the most hard line pro-abortion
00:41:47.460
people will usually admit a certain amount of uncertainty. They don't know when life begins.
00:41:53.080
They're not going to say when it begins. They won't answer that question. And they always just,
00:41:56.740
remember Barack Obama infamously said, it's above my pay grade to answer that question. They all give
00:42:00.620
an answer similar to that, which means that even according to them, they could be wrong, which means
00:42:06.460
that they, by their own logic, they at least could be supporting, promoting, encouraging the mass
00:42:13.420
slaughter of human beings, which would be reason enough to be pro-life. That's, that's the interesting
00:42:21.020
point here is that you don't eat. You don't need to have a firm answer on when life begins to be
00:42:28.000
firmly pro-life. Now I do have a firm answer, but you don't need to. All you need to know is that it's
00:42:34.680
at least plausible that life begins at conception. It's at least plausible that life begins at conception,
00:42:41.240
which means, which, which leaves open the door of possibility that if you support abortion,
00:42:45.500
you are supporting, uh, genocide. And I don't know about you, but I don't, I don't want,
00:42:54.520
I wouldn't want even the possibility that I'm supporting genocide. Let's see. Bradley Williams
00:43:01.920
says, Matt, as a black man that grew up in the hood in the late nineties and early two thousands,
00:43:06.240
I appreciate you covering this topic because gangsta slash street slash trap rap music has been a
00:43:10.700
problem in the last 30 years since the rise of death row records in the early nineties.
00:43:14.260
White liberals literally told us and forced us to believe that this is black culture and it's not.
00:43:21.880
Another similar comment. Sins Witty says, I got lost in hip hop for years. Having an absent father,
00:43:27.060
I gravitated towards the anger and pain of 1990s rap. I became obsessed with it, started rapping and
00:43:32.380
adopted the culture. I still love hip hop, but only as a fully functioning adult do I understand the
00:43:36.180
issues with diving too deep into an, into an angry source of art. You have to listen and learn from
00:43:42.160
mistakes that they're making in their music, not following their footsteps. By the way, I'm still
00:43:46.200
an ill rapper. Um, yeah, it's anger. It's, it's not just angry music and, and, you know, rap was not the
00:43:54.100
first, uh, example of angry music to come along, obviously, but it's angry. It's degraded. Uh, and that's not the
00:44:03.580
case, like, you know, it's not the case necessarily for every single rap song that's ever been made.
00:44:09.780
Uh, because at its, at its, at its fundamental level, I mean, rap is, you know, supposed to,
00:44:15.300
I suppose, be poetry set to music. That's what it's supposed to be. It's very lyrical. It's beat
00:44:19.920
heavy. And that's, uh, that's what it is. And there's no reason why that, you know, performing a
00:44:26.280
song which is very lyrically heavy. And, um, there's a beat in the background. There's no reason why that
00:44:31.780
is like inherently immoral or something. Of course it's not. Um, but that just makes what,
00:44:38.060
what rap has become. It just makes it all the more, uh, outrageous and infuriating going back
00:44:44.400
to the first comment. Like it doesn't, it doesn't need to be this way. It didn't have to become this.
00:44:49.160
There's no reason why it has to be this, but this is the decision that was made and it was made at,
00:44:54.000
uh, at the highest levels, you know, in, in the music industry, because this is the most profitable.
00:44:58.380
This is what they could sell. This is the culture they could sell. Uh, Eric Wade says,
00:45:03.980
love your show, Matt. I watch every day a year into marriage. My wife and I learned
00:45:07.540
that she was medically incapable of conceiving or bearing children. One of my coworkers said,
00:45:12.580
uh, that he would have filed for an annulment because he couldn't consider himself a real man
00:45:16.980
if he hadn't sired children. I didn't find him particularly impressive as a person. He was a
00:45:20.900
career desk jockey and his kids were nothing special. They're probably all majoring in gender studies.
00:45:24.780
As I write, I enjoyed your testosterone blinkered blue pill, normie reminder, Matt. It's always
00:45:30.120
amusing for a 30 year veteran like myself who faithfully served his country in some of the
00:45:34.300
world's most awful places to be told that he's not masculine enough. So I guess I might as well
00:45:38.200
shave daily from now on. Apparently I'm not man enough to crawl among your sweet baby gang. By the
00:45:42.440
way, the term manosphere was coined by mostly apolitical thought leaders in the early days
00:45:46.700
of, uh, men go their own way. It simply refers to men in a context that doesn't focus on women.
00:45:51.800
Okay. Eric, this is what frustrates me because if I, if I, if I make a general statement
00:45:55.880
and then I say that there are exceptions because there are of course exceptions to
00:46:00.620
most general statements. And if you are an exception, then why are you offended?
00:46:05.920
If you look at that and say, well, that's not the case for me. Okay. Well then it's not the case
00:46:10.360
for you. I didn't, I didn't say, uh, Eric Wade. This is, this is true of Eric Wade. I know I don't
00:46:17.000
know you. I don't know who you are. And so if I'm making a general kind of observation, which is that
00:46:22.360
most men are called to the, the, the vocation of fatherhood, but not all, you know, if that's the
00:46:30.760
general statement I'm making, which I, I mean, would, do you even disagree with that? Would you
00:46:34.980
disagree? Or do you think that a majority of men should not be fathers? So you're, you're, I mean,
00:46:40.120
are you advocating for essentially the extinction of the human race? Because that's what it would be.
00:46:44.300
So I assume you don't advocate for that, which means you agree with my general statement,
00:46:50.340
yet you're still taking offense. Why? I then said that even men who are not called
00:46:56.480
to have biological children are still called to a life of paternal service in some other capacity.
00:47:03.700
So you've just, you've skipped over that part of it. So in fact, I, yeah, I do think that every man
00:47:08.220
is called to fatherhood. For most men, that's going to be fatherhood in the traditional biological sense
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of the term, but not for every man. There are, there are other ways to be a father. I gave one
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example, which is the religious life. It's not the only example, but that's what every man is called
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to do. A life of paternal service in some capacity, which is just another way of saying that no man is
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meant to live a life entirely focused on himself and serving only himself. No man is supposed to live
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a life like that. Now you're telling me that you, uh, have a 30 year veteran. So you obviously have
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not lived a life like that, a life that is focused entirely on serving the self. So again, it's all
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the more reason why you're in, why, uh, you, uh, you know, you, you fall into the, this, the, the,
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the second general statement, which is that all men are called to a life of service.
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So I'm just not sure why, what the issue is here. Um, okay. Kim says this logic can be applied to
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all media, including action movies. Not everything has to be about the culture war. These young men
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were tragically murdered simply for being at the wrong place in time. Well, that's strange. It's a
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weird coincidence, isn't it? Rappers are constantly at the wrong place in the wrong time while country
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stars are like, they never have that problem. Pure luck, I guess. Or maybe the genre openly advocates
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criminality and violence and the rappers themselves live lives of criminality and violence in a culture
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of criminality and violence. And that's how they so wind, so often wind up in the wrong place
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because the entire culture that they exist in and have helped to create is wrong. There's that
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possibility. And finally, lady studio says, write a book about violence, thumbs up, write a movie about
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violence, thumbs up, write a country song about violence, thumbs up, write pop songs about violence,
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thumbs up, write rap songs about violence, you're glorifying violence. Rap, rap, rap, rock, and metal
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are the only genres deemed unacceptable when they have lyrics about violence. Well, this is just really
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stupid, I'm afraid to say. First of all, as we had talked about, um, these forms of media are not all
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created equal. They are different and they, they affect us in different ways. You know, a song can totally
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change your mood in like 90 seconds. Okay. That's how quickly it works. A book can't do that. Even
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movies and shows can't do that to the same extent. I mean, they can affect your mood, any kind, any form
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of media can, but, but, uh, they're not going to do this quickly and efficiently and with the same kind
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of power that a song does. And I'm not just talking about moods here. Um, but I'm simply pointing out
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the power that music has to sway us, to move us. And it's silly to deny that. Also these rap songs,
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they're not just about violence. Okay. Over the weekend, I watched all quiet on the Western front
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on Netflix, which is an excellent film, highly recommended. And it is about violence, at least
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in part, it's about world war one and the hopeless brutality that these young men endured. It's, it's about
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that. It, um, shows that it portrays that it's not promoting it. It's not glorifying it quite the
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opposite. It's actually an anti-war film. And so you don't leave the film itching to go jump into a,
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you know, a trench and get into some trench warfare. You don't leave it feeling like world war one was a
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fun romp in the sun. The film is about violent events. It portrays the violent events. It doesn't
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promote it. Okay. What about these rap songs that we're talking about? Well, they actually actively
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promote the violence. They try to make it seem cool. The rappers are bragging about their violent
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exploits, the crimes they commit and so on. Kids are, um, their kids are not going out to emulate
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German soldiers in world war one. They are in fact emulating rappers and they're at emulating
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everything about them, the way they dress, the way they talk. Um, they do what they do. They carry
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themselves in the same way. They adopt the same sets of values, emulating every aspect of them.
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Why? Because again, music is extremely powerful. It's, it gets right to the core of a human being.
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It sways and it moves people in ways that other forms of media don't.
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And the rap industry, again, generally speaking, has used this power to actively explicitly glorify
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the worst forms of human behavior. So that's the difference. You know, now that it's officially
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You know, various saints in the early church are credited with declaring that hell is paved with
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the skulls of bishops. St. John Chrysostom was even more descriptive. He wrote,
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the road to hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks and the skulls of bishops are
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the lampposts that light the path. His point was not that all leaders in the church are bad, but rather
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that they are called to be very good, to be virtuous and noble. And if they fail, if they don't live up to
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their calling, if they choose cowardice and corruption over courage, then the consequences for the flocks
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that they're misleading are dire. Just as the consequences we can assume that they will personally face
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at Judgment Day will be dire as well. And I thought about that Chrysostom quote yesterday when I read about
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Irish Bishop Ray Brown, who is the subject of today's daily cancellation. The story begins, as Rod Dreher reports
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this week in the American Conservative, with an old priest named Father Sheehy in the Diocese of Cary in Ireland.
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Father Sheehy stood in front of his congregation over the weekend and said that churches need to start
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talking about the reality of sin. And he then mentioned certain sins that have gained mass
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approval in society, including promiscuity, sex before marriage, homosexual sex, transgenderism,
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abortion. Here's the relevant portion of that sermon.
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What is so sad today is you rarely hear about sin, but it's rampant. It's rampant. And we see it,
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for example, in the legislation of our governments. We see it in the promotion of abortion. We see it,
00:55:09.420
for example, in the example of this lunatic approach of transgenderism. We see it, for example,
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in the promotion of sex between two men and two women. That is sinful. That is mortal sin.
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And people don't seem to realize it. But it's a fact. It's a reality. And we need to listen to God
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about it, because if we don't, then there's no hope for those people. And so God is also telling you and
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me today, look, you have a responsibility to seek out those who are lost. You have a responsibility
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to call people to an awareness of the fact that sin is destructive. Sin is detrimental. And sin will
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lead us to hell. When we honor the saints on the first of this coming month, we honor people who are
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saints. Why are they saints? Because they repented and because they sought forgiveness. As somebody said
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one time, heaven is full of converted sinners. And so today, God says to us, I have come to call sinners.
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But if you don't admit you're a sinner, then you're not listening to my call. And I can't do anything for you.
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Because it's a two-way street. Now, there are people, you see, who won't like to hear what I'm saying.
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But the day you die, you will find out that what I'm saying is not what I invented. It's not what I came up with.
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Well, that was all very Catholic. It was a completely accurate summary of official Catholic
00:56:40.880
teaching on sexual morality. But if we've learned one thing, it's that a Catholic church is no place
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for Catholicism, especially not in Ireland. And that's why Bishop Ray Brown responded by immediately
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throwing his priest under the bus and groveling for forgiveness from those who were offended to
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encounter Catholicism in a Catholic church. Brown posted the following statement to the diocese website.
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This fundamental Christian teaching was beautifully proclaimed in the Book of Wisdom at Mass last
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Sunday and in the second reading and in the Gospel of the Beatitudes at Mass today, November 1st,
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the Feast of All Saints. I quote the three passages. And then he quotes them.
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Yes, you love all that exists. You hold nothing of what you have made in abhorrence. You spare all things
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because of all things are yours, Lord, lover of life, you whose imperishable spirit is in us all.
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That's wisdom. Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God's
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children. And that is what we are. And then blessed are the gentle. They shall have the earth for their
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OK, so let's let's start by reiterating a basic point. Agree or disagree with the sermon.
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The fact remains that it was fully in line with Christian teaching.
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Contrary to Bishop Brown, the priest was indeed articulating the Christian position.
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If you don't want to hear the Christian position, then you should not be in a Christian church.
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Nobody is forcing you to be there. You have not been dragged to church against your will
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or marched in the doors at gunpoint. Right. Those who allegedly experienced deep upset and hurt by a
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basic articulation of biblical principles deserve to have their feelings utterly dismissed.
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OK, it's like going to a steak restaurant and then complaining because the menu isn't vegan.
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You can't expect an establishment, whether it's a restaurant or a church, to accommodate your demand
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that the establishment abandon its core mission and purpose for your sake.
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You might as well go to a scuba diving instructor and insist that he teach you how to play guitar.
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Doesn't make any sense. Speaking of guitar lessons, this reminds me of a Ricky Gervais joke that
00:59:09.180
James Corden actually stole this week. Gervais pointed out the absurdity of people who come to
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your page on Twitter and get offended by the opinions you're expressing there. As he remarked,
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it's like it's like getting offended by a notice on a bulletin board advertising guitar lessons
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because you personally don't want to play guitar. OK, well, if you're not interested,
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then just move along. Why is that so difficult? Bringing it back to the church for a second.
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The problem in so many churches today is precisely that they have done nothing but accommodate
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churchgoers who don't want to be at church. Now, it's one thing to welcome those who are skeptical
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or dubious or hesitant. That we should do. It's another to drive Christianity out of your church
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just so that you can attract people into it who hate Christianity. You've just defeated the very
01:00:00.520
purpose of welcoming them in the first place. So you could brag about, oh, we got them in the door.
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So what? You got them in the door for what? You have nothing to offer them. And also, you're not
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actually getting them in the door this way. It's not even working. You have expanded your church,
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supposedly, by abolishing it. You haven't just opened the doors wide. You've torn down the walls
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and you've invited the stragglers to come stand in the rubble with you and sing Kumbaya.
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But of course, this is how it works on the left. They are not satisfied to let Christianity be
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Christianity. They have to rip it down, destroy it. As Ben Shapiro says, they are transgressives,
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not progressives. Though I still kind of like the term progressive because, as I've often said,
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leftism does progress in the same sense that cancer progresses. It eats away. It poisons. It
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destroys. As to the rest of this weakling bishop's pathetic, self-flagellating statement,
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you know, he says that mass is not an appropriate place for these issues to be discussed. He's wrong
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again. Couldn't be more wrong. It is the most appropriate place for them to be discussed.
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The congregation sitting in the pews, they've lived each day of the preceding week in a culture of sin.
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They've been surrounded by sin. They've been inundated with messages promoting sin. They live
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in a society that carries out a constant assault on virtue and goodness. You know, that's the reality
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that they're dealing with every moment of the day. We often hear that pastors ought to meet people
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where they are. And yes, I agree. And that's where they are. They are living in the muck and the filth,
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trying to keep their head above the surface. This reality needs to be acknowledged. It needs to
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be confronted. It needs to be dealt with. What good are you as a leader? What purpose do you serve?
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Who do you serve if you will not do this, if you won't help your flock navigate the world that
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they've been given? And what about love and dignity, as the bishop mentions? Yes, it is our job as
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Christians to love people and to defend the inherent dignity of the human person. Well, you don't achieve
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either of those goals by leaving people to flounder in their sins. You certainly can't preserve human
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dignity by ignoring some of the most insidious attacks on human dignity that the world has ever
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seen, like abortion or the trans agenda, which is waging a nuclear war on human dignity.
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A person who rejects their own identity, who rejects themselves, also rejects their human
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dignity. Because a person cannot have dignity without first having a self. And the trans agenda,
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the leftist agenda in general, teaches him to deny his self. Not deny himself in the way that Christ
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calls us to, but deny his selfhood, his identity as a self in favor of some imagined new self that can
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never actually be attained. So yes, the priest was not only speaking truth and outlying Catholic
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teaching, but he was performing an act of love and service and defending the human dignity
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that cowards like Bishop Brown have long since surrendered to the spirit of the age.
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And that is why Bishop Brown is today canceled. That'll do it for us today. Talk to you tomorrow.
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