The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1062 - The Gen Z Mental Illness Epidemic

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, according to the latest data, nearly half of Gen Z has been diagnosed mentally ill.

00:00:05.780 How and why is this mental illness epidemic happening?

00:00:08.700 Also, a major financial scandal involving one of the biggest Democrat donors in the country.

00:00:12.360 Plus, is the woke brigade still in charge of Twitter?

00:00:15.240 And church attendance has yet to climb back to pre-pandemic levels.

00:00:18.940 Will it ever is the question.

00:00:20.440 And finally, the NEA Teachers Union claims that teachers know and love their students more than their parents do.

00:00:25.880 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:42.400 In the days after the election, there has been a lot of talk about the Democrat Party's dominance among young voters.

00:01:48.660 And, indeed, they did, in fact, dominate.

00:01:50.800 Republican House candidates won the 45 to 64 age bracket by 10 points.

00:01:55.780 They won the 65 and over group by even more than that.

00:01:59.100 No surprise, given that the Democrats spent the entire, you know, COVID pandemic trying to murder the elderly.

00:02:06.180 But that edge disappears in the 30 to 44 demographic, where Democrats had a slight edge.

00:02:10.960 It's almost 50-50, though.

00:02:12.720 And then there is Gen Z, which Democrats won by nearly 30 points.

00:02:17.800 If the exit poll data is any indication, nearly twice as many in the 18 to 29 group voted Democrat as voted Republican.

00:02:25.040 So that's Gen Z and, like, the first part of, you know, the later parts of the millennial generation as well. 0.59

00:02:33.380 It's no surprise to learn, then, that Gen Z is extremely mentally ill, at least according to the latest study, which we get this from the Christian Post.

00:02:42.140 It has the report, nearly 70% of Generation Z, people born between 1997 and 2012, say their mental health was adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic,

00:02:51.680 with 42% of adult members of the cohort reporting that they have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

00:02:57.700 And many of them say they are worried about the future, a new study from the data management firm Harmony Healthcare IT shows.

00:03:03.520 The study, which is based on a survey of 1,055 Gen Z members from the ages of 18 to 24 in September, included 47% men, 45% women, 6% who identify as non-binary, and 2% trans-identified individuals.

00:03:19.320 According to the report, some 57% of Gen Z adults struggle with their mental health and reported taking medication to alleviate their condition and paid an average of $44 monthly.

00:03:30.920 The most frequently cited conditions were anxiety and depression, which were reported by 90% and 78% of respondents, respectively.

00:03:38.980 Other conditions reported include ADHD, 27%, PTSD, 20%, OCD, 17%, eating disorders, 14%, and insomnia, 12%.

00:03:48.860 Less than 10% reported more diagnoses of bipolar disorder, addiction and substance abuse, and borderline personality disorder.

00:03:57.700 While only one in five reported going to therapy for their mental health and spending an average of $149 monthly to do so, 87% of them found it helpful.

00:04:09.560 Okay, so nearly half of an entire generation now qualify as mentally ill, according to their diagnosis.

00:04:18.420 When you break it down, the numbers seem to become even more troubling.

00:04:21.180 20% of that group allegedly have been diagnosed with PTSD, nearly 20% with OCD, 14% with an eating disorder.

00:04:32.360 I mean, these are staggering figures.

00:04:35.500 And however we make sense of it all, it's clear that something is very wrong here, to put it mildly.

00:04:42.160 So how do we make sense of it?

00:04:43.960 Well, to that end, I'll make three points.

00:04:46.020 There are a lot more than three points worth making here, but these are the three things that I'd like to focus on right now.

00:04:52.680 First, mental illness is a real thing.

00:04:56.480 There are legitimate mental illnesses that people suffer from.

00:05:00.760 But the only way you end up with half of a generation diagnosed mentally ill is if the definition of mental illness has been steadily expanded so as to include everyone, or as close to everyone as they can get.

00:05:13.420 As I've warned for years, the so-called mental health industry has a vested interest, an obvious financial interest, to the tune of many billions of dollars, in finding, labeling, and medicating as many mental illnesses as they possibly can.

00:05:28.460 We're at a point now where every emotion you might experience, every fear, every anxiety, every uncomfortable feeling or thought has been turned into an illness or the symptom of an illness.

00:05:41.240 The human condition itself has been medicalized, and Gen Z has grown up in a culture where every inner experience outside of the norm, however the hell the norm is defined, is considered a symptom of a mental disease.

00:05:57.280 They have been conditioned to seek the solace of a medical diagnosis, and so it is no surprise that they have sought and found so many of them.

00:06:06.540 Now, does that mean, just so I'm not misunderstood here, does that mean that the mental illness epidemic in young people is fake?

00:06:18.020 No.

00:06:18.940 It means that it's manufactured, which is certainly not the same thing as fake.

00:06:24.040 I mean, there's something real happening here, but it is manufactured.

00:06:27.880 Eventually, the entire generation, I mean, literally almost all of them, if these trends continue, will be diagnosed mentally ill.

00:06:36.680 And although many of these newfound mental patients never should have been diagnosed to begin with, they will increasingly become as mentally sick as the medical industry says they are.

00:06:46.780 It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

00:06:49.240 Why is that?

00:06:50.200 Because they're not given the tools to cope with normal emotional and psychological experiences.

00:06:55.500 They are made to rely on medication.

00:06:59.000 They are made to feel helpless, like they simply cannot control their own minds or their own emotions or how they respond to those emotions.

00:07:07.780 And the sicker they're made to feel, the sicker they'll become and act.

00:07:12.500 I mean, think of all the people in Gen Z saying they have PTSD.

00:07:15.140 You know, PTSD is something we normally think of, you know, people, veteran, combat veterans coming home from war and think about all the things that they've experienced and seen, and they're suffering from PTSD.

00:07:28.060 Now, that makes sense.

00:07:29.880 You've been in a truly traumatic environment.

00:07:32.780 But to have 20% of this group saying they have PTSD, these aren't, for the most part, combat veterans we're talking about.

00:07:43.620 And yes, they've been through some difficult things.

00:07:45.860 The way that we handled COVID was absolutely inexcusable, of course.

00:07:50.660 But post-traumatic stress disorder?

00:07:55.500 These are, many of them, people living very comfortable lives.

00:07:58.580 So where does the PTSD diagnosis come from?

00:08:03.600 It comes from kids and now young adults who have not been given the tools to cope with any difficult emotions at all.

00:08:13.940 They just don't know how to deal with anything.

00:08:17.200 And so any challenge at all becomes traumatic.

00:08:20.940 And they're now suffering from PTSD.

00:08:24.560 Again, it's manufactured.

00:08:25.820 There is an enormous generation-wide epidemic of Munchausen by proxy happening right now.

00:08:30.940 That's basically what's happening.

00:08:33.080 Speaking of which, the second point is that gender ideology is, without question, one of the primary driving forces here.

00:08:40.100 And this is something that conservatives often get wrong, I think, because they confuse the chicken with the egg. 0.95

00:08:44.600 It's not that so many in Gen Z identify as non-binary or trans or whatever because they're mentally ill.

00:08:51.100 It's rather that so many are mentally ill because they have been given these identities through peer pressure and the powers of social contagion. 0.91

00:08:59.060 The adolescent girl who first begins to fall into the trans trap, she's not sick. 0.89

00:09:04.280 There's no mental illness driving that.

00:09:06.920 At least there doesn't have to be.

00:09:08.920 But once she falls into the trap completely, that is when the mental sickness begins to form and take hold.

00:09:14.160 So for a good example of this phenomenon, here's the latest TikTok innovation, one of the latest identities, fresh, you know, it's one of the freshest ones right out of the oven.

00:09:25.720 It's called Trigender. 1.00

00:09:27.340 Watch this.

00:09:27.800 So a couple of people might have been surprised by my transgender pin that I put on this morning.

00:09:34.320 I figured it's about time that I came out and talked about my gender identity.

00:09:39.360 I am Trigender, which means like a triangle, I have three genders. 0.84

00:09:43.840 Male, female, and non-binary.

00:09:46.520 And the difference between Trigender and Gender Fluid is that I feel all three of these genders at the same time. 0.92

00:09:52.220 All the time.

00:09:54.060 It doesn't ever shift or change or where I feel one gender more strongly than the other, like gender fluid tends to be.

00:10:01.920 Also, I should recognize and accept that a lot of people don't see non-binary as a third gender.

00:10:08.960 They see it as something completely separate from the binary of male and female.

00:10:14.700 But for me, it's like a third gender.

00:10:19.560 Or I guess you could call it a third identity.

00:10:22.220 So how I feel, gender-wise, is like a man, like a woman, and as neither at the same time. 0.74

00:10:30.200 I hope this clears things up, but let me know if you have any more questions.

00:10:33.220 I'm happy to answer.

00:10:35.880 I do have questions, actually.

00:10:37.820 Quite a lot.

00:10:38.540 She says she's male, female, both, and neither at the same time.

00:10:41.960 Now, that obviously makes no sense at all.

00:10:44.260 It's the definition of a logical fallacy.

00:10:46.520 You cannot be something and the opposite of that thing at the same time.

00:10:50.780 It's like identifying as a married bachelor.

00:10:52.880 It is a self-contradiction. 0.94

00:10:55.400 So is the girl in the video simply crazy? 0.78

00:10:58.900 Is she suffering from mental delusions? 0.97

00:11:01.780 It's possible.

00:11:03.140 And appearances would suggest that such is the case.

00:11:06.280 But it need not be the case.

00:11:08.120 What's more likely is that she's simply trying to fit in with the fad and find her own trendy twist on it. 0.61

00:11:15.500 But the more that she tries to live in this nonsensical identity, the more confused she will actually become, the more detached from reality, and the more plagued by anxiety at the same time.

00:11:27.540 I mean, keep in mind, as I am always saying, that, you know, the really sinister thing about gender ideology is that when someone becomes fully enthralled to it, they will have lost grip, not just on reality in general, but on the reality of themselves. 0.50

00:11:43.960 And there's a lot that comes from this, and one of those things is anxiety.

00:11:49.840 Because anxiety is the unease that comes from uncertainty.

00:11:53.460 It comes from the unknown.

00:11:55.180 It's why, you know, you don't like walking down into a dark basement at night because you don't know what's down there.

00:12:00.900 And your mind sort of fills in the gaps with all the terrifying possibilities.

00:12:04.820 It's why Joe Biden's handlers become very nervous whenever he steps in front of a microphone because they have no idea what he's going to say or whatever, you know, childhood story he's going to make up.

00:12:13.180 This is all anxiety.

00:12:14.860 So gender ideology is like an anxiety machine because it makes a person's fundamental physical identity uncertain to themselves, creating a sort of unrelenting anxiety.

00:12:27.080 It's no surprise, then, that Gen Z are reporting record levels of anxiety at precisely the time when these kinds of ideas are gaining prominence.

00:12:36.640 Ideas which, in effect, turn out the intellectual lights, turning our minds into that dark, scary basement.

00:12:45.440 Which brings me to my third point. 0.90

00:12:48.060 I said at the beginning that it's no surprise that Gen Z voted Democrat because so many are diagnosed mentally ill.

00:12:53.340 And I wasn't being facetious there.

00:12:56.160 At least I wasn't being entirely facetious.

00:12:58.640 There is a relationship.

00:13:01.260 It does actually make a lot of sense.

00:13:04.120 Because we know with Gen Z, not only does this make them susceptible to identity politics and all that, that the Democrats can exploit. 0.74

00:13:12.120 But also, because they have all of this anxiety in their heads, in their minds, and they don't know what to do with it, and they don't know how to cope with it.

00:13:21.580 Again, having anxiety is a normal thing.

00:13:24.420 It's part of the human condition.

00:13:26.260 Nobody likes it, but it's part of the human condition.

00:13:28.000 One of the things that makes us human is that we can experience anxiety.

00:13:33.440 But the Democrat Party thrives on exploiting anxiety.

00:13:38.280 That's how they motivate people to vote.

00:13:42.100 If you listen to things that Gen Z, their exit poll data, what were they concerned about?

00:13:47.300 Why did they go to the poll to vote?

00:13:49.000 It's things like climate change.

00:13:51.280 They're actually worried about that.

00:13:53.740 They think the world's coming to an end.

00:13:56.360 They think that America is systemically racist. 0.99

00:13:58.560 That there are white supremacist murderers walking around out there. 0.99

00:14:02.980 This is their view of the world. 0.99

00:14:05.260 They're full of anxiety.

00:14:09.440 The Democrat Party is able to exploit it and convert that into votes.

00:14:15.000 Which is why, as I've been saying all along, we have a long road ahead in this fight for the culture.

00:14:22.420 And the fight is, in every sense of the term, generational.

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00:15:27.180 We start with this story from The Daily Wire.

00:15:29.540 It says Sam Bankman-Fried, who's the now-bankrupt founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX,

00:15:37.480 gave a staggering sum of money to Democrats and far-left causes this midterm election cycle

00:15:42.020 before his multi-billion-dollar empire imploded this week,

00:15:45.980 which is something, by the way, that happened.

00:15:47.960 So you've got this mega Democrat donor donated more than anybody else next to George Soros

00:15:55.300 to Democrat causes, and all of this explodes right after the midterms.

00:16:02.900 Well, we're still in the middle of the midterms, actually,

00:16:04.980 because they haven't even counted all the votes yet.

00:16:06.260 But right after voting allegedly concluded, that's when all this comes out.

00:16:12.500 Daily Wire has more information about this.

00:16:14.220 FTX, which is headquartered in the Bahamas, was launched in 2019

00:16:17.080 and had accrued more than 1 million users by 2022.

00:16:20.660 Users suddenly demanded $6 billion in withdrawals

00:16:23.740 after an article published by Coindesk revealed last week

00:16:27.380 that the two arms of Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency empire, FTX and Alameda Research,

00:16:32.620 had significant overlap on their balance sheets

00:16:34.500 in the form of the cryptocurrency FTT, which FTX invented.

00:16:39.460 Rival firm Binance, which had been planning to purchase FTX,

00:16:42.860 announced that it would discharge all holdings in the coin

00:16:44.820 and eventually reverse course on the acquisition.

00:16:47.520 The disheveled 30-year-old went from boasting a $15.6 billion net worth

00:16:52.260 to having no material wealth over the span of approximately two days.

00:16:56.800 Federal and state officials are now investigating

00:16:58.460 whether Bankman-Fried broke laws with his actions at the company.

00:17:01.740 You would think that he certainly did.

00:17:02.880 Now, so SBF, there are a lot of initials going on here,

00:17:07.320 but you've got SBF, who's the guy that owns FTX,

00:17:10.560 and that's the organization, the company that invented FTT,

00:17:17.660 which is the cryptocurrency.

00:17:18.860 So all these things are confusing.

00:17:20.260 But SBF was the second largest donor for Democrats this election cycle,

00:17:27.220 only behind, as I said, George Soros.

00:17:28.840 He gave at least $38 million to leftist causes, PACs, and candidates, according to Fox News.

00:17:35.360 Politico reported that Bankman-Fried was a top resource to whom Democrats went

00:17:38.500 when lawmakers began looking at ways to regulate cryptocurrencies

00:17:41.400 because of his willingness to write multi-million dollar checks to boost Democrats.

00:17:47.000 And the deeper you dive into this relationship between SBF and the Democrat Party,

00:17:53.780 the more you find.

00:17:55.220 For example, the Post Millennial has this report.

00:17:58.160 It says the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency company FTX,

00:18:01.240 run by SBF, the second biggest donor after George Soros collapsed last week,

00:18:05.440 so we know about that.

00:18:06.400 It was revealed that FTX had partnered with Ukraine to process donations to their war efforts

00:18:12.160 within days of Joe Biden pledging billions of American taxpayer dollars to the country.

00:18:16.640 Ukraine invested into FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation,

00:18:23.580 and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the U.S.

00:18:28.400 A lot of this comes from an article from the cryptocurrency news website Coindesk from March 15, 2022,

00:18:33.780 reported that Ukraine partnered with FTX and that FTX is converting crypto contributions

00:18:38.400 to Ukraine's war effort into fiat for deposit of the National Bank of Ukraine.

00:18:41.900 Okay, if you follow the trajectory there and you connect all the dots,

00:18:48.000 you don't have to connect a lot of them, but Ukraine invested into FTX.

00:18:55.000 FTX is investing into Democrats.

00:18:57.920 And who is investing into Ukraine?

00:19:00.720 In fact, you were, and you still are, whether you like it or not, and I certainly don't.

00:19:05.560 So the Democrat Party, this is interesting,

00:19:08.060 Democrat Party's funneling money to Ukraine, which then partners with FTX,

00:19:15.020 and then FTX turns around and gives a lot of money to the Democrats.

00:19:20.220 You might even call that a money laundering scheme.

00:19:24.080 In fact, that's exactly what you should call it.

00:19:27.100 It's like a giant money laundering scheme.

00:19:30.800 And not the only one the Democrats have, by the way.

00:19:32.880 They've got a lot of these things going on where they funnel money to organizations

00:19:37.980 and the organizations give the money right back to them.

00:19:41.880 You know, not to distract from the FTX scandal, which is massive,

00:19:48.080 but we should also note that this has been happening with Planned Parenthood for decades.

00:19:53.840 The Democrat Party gives $500 million a year to Planned Parenthood,

00:19:59.560 and then Planned Parenthood turns around and donates to Democrat causes.

00:20:04.040 And they always have ways of justifying this or getting around it legally.

00:20:07.480 Well, it's easy to get around it legally when nobody, you know,

00:20:09.880 the FBI is not interested in looking into it to begin with.

00:20:12.160 But the way they do it with Planned Parenthood is they say that,

00:20:15.120 well, but these are, the money's not going,

00:20:18.260 these are all separate areas that the money is going to.

00:20:22.160 Money's not going to fund abortions. 1.00

00:20:26.000 Except they're forgetting that the money is fungible.

00:20:28.040 And so if you give money to one aspect of an organization,

00:20:31.980 then you have freed up money in other places where they can then spend how they want.

00:20:36.220 So that excuse doesn't really wash.

00:20:39.600 The Democrat Party specializes in this kind of thing, is my point.

00:20:43.080 And that appears to be what's happening with FTX.

00:20:46.260 Now, you know, I just started reading about this last night,

00:20:50.160 and I'm far from an expert on anything crypto related or on this issue.

00:20:55.300 But it is quite obvious already that the deeper you dig into this,

00:21:01.300 the bigger the scandal becomes.

00:21:04.460 And already, Sam Bankman-Fried is, you know,

00:21:09.540 he's in the Bernie Madoff conversation.

00:21:11.300 At just the scope of this scam, this Ponzi scheme that he was running.

00:21:23.200 But we're never going to find out the full scope of it,

00:21:27.720 unless the media is interested in looking into it.

00:21:31.440 And if the federal government is interested in investigating it.

00:21:34.400 Which they certainly are not going to be because he was a major Democrat donor.

00:21:41.300 And it should be obvious by now, this is the reason why he was a major Democrat donor.

00:21:47.180 It's actually pretty smart.

00:21:49.520 And it does take intelligence even to run a scam as big as what he was running,

00:21:52.800 even if it all did fall apart.

00:21:55.040 It's pretty clear that he was donating to Democrats because he knows they're the ones

00:21:59.020 who run the media, they're the ones who run the government.

00:22:00.960 Even no matter who's in the White House, Democrats are still running it.

00:22:03.480 And when all this blows up, they're not going to be interested in coming after him.

00:22:11.420 Because they don't want all of these ties to come to light.

00:22:14.980 And what are they going to do, give the money back?

00:22:16.200 I mean, they should, they're not going to.

00:22:19.440 The other part of this too is just cryptocurrency itself.

00:22:22.300 And, you know, I said before that I don't understand cryptocurrency.

00:22:28.300 I'm not an expert in it.

00:22:29.460 And I've always said that.

00:22:30.660 But I'm increasingly coming to realize that those of us who say, well, I don't really

00:22:36.220 understand the whole crypto thing.

00:22:39.000 We actually do understand it.

00:22:41.800 But it's like our first reaction to it, we first heard about it, is that it sounds totally

00:22:46.180 arbitrary and fake and made up and absurd.

00:22:51.740 And so we always assume, those of us who say we can't understand, we assume that, well, there

00:22:56.480 must be something more to it that I'm just not getting.

00:22:58.760 I must not be getting it.

00:22:59.920 Because what you're explaining to me about cryptocurrency, it just, it sounds like a, just like a fantasy.

00:23:09.220 Just a bubble floating in the air that can easily pop.

00:23:11.880 And people are putting their money into this, like actual real money.

00:23:18.440 Well, you can, you can invent a digital coin and then just declare that it's worth something.

00:23:24.900 And it's only worth something if everyone else plays along.

00:23:28.040 That's what, that's what's keeping all this afloat is that everyone's playing along with it.

00:23:31.140 What happens when they stop playing along?

00:23:35.580 Well, the value plummets.

00:23:39.660 So for a lot of us, that was our first reaction to cryptocurrency.

00:23:42.480 And we first heard about it years ago.

00:23:43.720 That's why we didn't get invested.

00:23:45.100 Maybe we assume that there must be something that we're just not getting.

00:23:47.540 But no, there isn't, there isn't more to it.

00:23:48.920 That really is it.

00:23:50.700 It's just, it's just, it's nothing.

00:23:53.500 It's like something that floats out in the ether.

00:23:55.080 And as long as everyone plays along and agrees to pretend that these, these numbers on a screen mean something, then it will have value.

00:24:03.920 And then the moment that we all say, you know what, I'm not into that anymore.

00:24:06.120 It just plummets to the earth.

00:24:07.960 And I know that the response to that is always, well, that's the same thing with fiat currency.

00:24:11.320 It's the same thing with our money right now.

00:24:12.760 It's, you know, what's happening with inflation.

00:24:17.320 That only has value because we essentially believe in it.

00:24:20.980 Which, you're right, but then what that tells us is that cryptocurrency, it's not solving any of the problems caused by fiat currency.

00:24:32.340 It has all the same problems, but only worse.

00:24:35.220 It magnifies all of those problems.

00:24:37.680 It doesn't solve them.

00:24:40.280 It's like you're doubling down on what makes fiat currency unreliable and unstable.

00:24:45.820 By coming up with something that's even less reliable and even more unstable.

00:24:50.980 Seems to me we should be going in the other direction.

00:24:54.420 All right.

00:24:56.340 Moving to this also from the Daily Wire says, Republicans will fail to gain enough seats to take back the Senate majority.

00:25:01.560 According to a projection by Decision Desk Headquarters, the Senate will remain under Democrat control since ties are broken by the Vice President.

00:25:10.540 The projection came after Decision Desk Headquarters called the Nevada race for the Democrats.

00:25:14.520 The partisan makeup of the Senate will be decided after the December 6th Senate runoff between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock.

00:25:24.020 Which, even if Walker wins that one, the Republicans at this point will not be able to take control of the Senate.

00:25:32.300 Because Kamala Harris will still have the tie-breaking vote.

00:25:34.680 Although it's certainly much better to win it than not, obviously.

00:25:39.260 Because then you've got the 50-50. 0.92

00:25:40.800 We're back to what it was before.

00:25:42.400 And depending on what the bill is, what the legislation is, maybe you can peel Joe Manchin or somebody off.

00:25:48.060 But if Walker loses that race, then that's Joe Manchin's dream come true.

00:25:53.880 Now he's off the hook.

00:25:54.580 It doesn't matter what he does.

00:25:55.360 So, it looked like it was trending this direction last week, and this is where we are now.

00:26:04.020 And when I say trending in that direction, you know, it's the Democrats kept on counting the votes and kept on counting them until they had won the Senate.

00:26:16.240 That's what I mean by trending in that direction.

00:26:18.200 This from Breitbart, Senator Josh Hawley is calling for a Republican Party to undergo reform after it was projected the party would not gain control of the U.S. Senate Saturday night.

00:26:30.600 He said, the old party is dead.

00:26:32.240 Time to bury it.

00:26:33.440 Build something new.

00:26:35.440 And he said that in reaction to Republican Adam Laxalt losing in the Nevada Senate race.

00:26:39.980 And this is after the Republicans lost the Senate.

00:26:43.380 This is what most people are saying now.

00:26:44.780 And as far as the House goes, I mean, they're still counting the votes as it stands right now.

00:26:50.520 Somehow, they are still counting votes.

00:26:52.660 We're almost a week out, and they're still counting them.

00:26:55.320 Because this is how a modern election is supposed to work, where it takes you a week to count the votes.

00:27:00.840 They still have not been able to explain why exactly it takes that long.

00:27:05.560 I've listened to all the press conferences where the people in charge have answered questions and supposedly explained why it takes this long.

00:27:13.920 And I still don't understand why it takes this long.

00:27:16.480 I mean, I think I do understand it, but it's not an answer that they're going to give out loud.

00:27:20.720 There's no good reason why it should take a week to count the votes.

00:27:26.480 And what they especially have not been able to explain is why can't they go talk to Florida?

00:27:31.340 How do they manage to count, you know, many more votes in a small fraction of the time?

00:27:42.160 They've got many more millions of votes to count.

00:27:44.140 They do it in five hours.

00:27:46.940 And it takes you over five days in Arizona, Nevada, etc.

00:27:51.140 But this is what Republicans are saying, that we've got to burn the party to the ground, start over.

00:27:57.040 I agree with that.

00:27:58.660 I absolutely agree, obviously.

00:28:00.760 We need new leadership.

00:28:03.200 As I said, the day after the election,

00:28:07.700 you know, there are, we can spend weeks and months doing the post-mortem

00:28:12.660 and debating why the Republicans lost.

00:28:17.100 And there are a lot of things that went into it.

00:28:20.420 One of them, of course, is how these elections are run to begin with

00:28:24.280 and the fact that it does take a week to quote-unquote count them.

00:28:28.200 That's part of it.

00:28:28.940 It's not just that.

00:28:30.980 It's also, as I said, the Republican Party on a national level had no message.

00:28:35.900 I mean, what was the Republican Party's message?

00:28:38.040 I don't know.

00:28:38.440 I mean, I know their message was, Joe Biden is bad.

00:28:44.180 That's a fine message.

00:28:45.600 We all agree with that.

00:28:47.320 The voters seem to agree with it.

00:28:49.960 Which is why all the exit poll data shows that voters were upset with the direction of the country.

00:28:53.500 They were fearful and anxiety-ridden about the direction of the country.

00:28:56.680 And yet, many of them still voted for the party that is currently taking them in the direction

00:29:02.280 that they say they don't want to go.

00:29:06.460 What does that mean?

00:29:07.140 It means that your message cannot just be a negative of this guy is bad.

00:29:12.040 What you have to be able to explain is why we have a better vision for the country

00:29:16.080 and here's what the vision is.

00:29:17.140 And they weren't able to do that.

00:29:19.600 So that's one of the lessons that we should take from this.

00:29:23.380 But the other question then is what do we do about this system?

00:29:27.960 Democrats are able to dominate in these states because ballot harvesting, mail-in voting, early voting.

00:29:38.200 And I think almost any conservative will say that at this point that none of that should be happening.

00:29:50.080 As I've said a million times, voting should be on election day with rare exception, active duty military being one of them.

00:29:59.480 Maybe there are a couple others you can name.

00:30:01.140 But with rare exception, voting is on election day.

00:30:03.900 The polls are open from this hour to this hour.

00:30:06.520 You show up there in person, flesh and blood.

00:30:09.680 You walk in there, you cast your vote, and you produce your ID, and then you leave.

00:30:15.020 That's the way that it should work.

00:30:18.220 But it's not working that way.

00:30:21.740 And the problem is that Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, how are we going to convince the Democrats that run these states to change the voting procedures to disadvantage themselves?

00:30:40.920 It's just never going to happen.

00:30:43.140 They're not going to do it.

00:30:45.340 You know, we can't say to them, well, this gives you an unfair advantage.

00:30:48.700 Stop doing it.

00:30:49.820 That can be our claim.

00:30:53.180 That's basically what we've been saying as we're kind of impotently whining about it.

00:30:59.200 But that's not going to be a compelling argument to them because the whole point is that it gives them an unfair advantage.

00:31:05.120 They're aware of that.

00:31:06.060 That's why they're doing it.

00:31:08.000 And so how do you, when you don't have power, how do you convince them to change something to take an advantage away from themselves?

00:31:16.260 It's never going to happen.

00:31:19.820 So what can you do?

00:31:21.140 If you really want to change the system, if you want to change the way that elections are run in these states, you have to take control.

00:31:28.520 You have to have power in order to do it.

00:31:30.240 And unfortunately, in order to do it, in order to take control of the system, you have to do that through the system itself.

00:31:40.140 You have to be able to use the system that you want to change.

00:31:43.340 If you want to change a system, you first have to understand how to use it to your advantage and exploit it so that you can take control of it.

00:31:51.540 And then once you've done that, then you can change it.

00:31:55.760 So what we have to decide is, as conservatives, we can keep stomping our feet and whining about the early voting and mail-in voting and all the rest of it.

00:32:06.100 And emotionally, I fully understand that approach because I hate it also.

00:32:15.000 And we can keep doing that and nothing's going to change because the Democrats in Pennsylvania and Arizona and Nevada and the other states, they listen to us and they laugh.

00:32:24.200 And that's all they're going to do.

00:32:28.160 So the other approach is to learn how to, is to start exploiting the systems that are in place.

00:32:37.180 I don't think they should have mail-in voting.

00:32:39.100 I don't think they should have early voting.

00:32:41.440 But they do.

00:32:43.320 And so if we ever want to change that or anything else, then we have to learn how to exploit that, how to use that to our advantage.

00:32:55.200 In so many cases now, it seems like Republicans have kind of crossed their arms and said, I don't agree with this, so I'm just not going to take part.

00:33:02.220 Well, we're only hurting ourselves when we do that.

00:33:07.080 And so the Democrats are basically running unopposed.

00:33:10.560 They've created these tools for themselves and they have a monopoly on it because we haven't even tried to take advantage of it ourselves.

00:33:19.140 And nothing's ever going to change.

00:33:20.660 You have to be able to use the system and learn how to navigate it if you want to take control of it and change it.

00:33:28.300 That's just the reality.

00:33:30.460 All right.

00:33:31.360 What else do we got here?

00:33:32.400 So I thought this was funny.

00:33:34.780 Some journalists on Twitter are complaining of Elon Musk taking over Twitter and he's already fired a bunch of people and they're complaining about that.

00:33:45.080 Well, here's the latest from a New York Times article.

00:33:47.220 And a guy named Bill Gruskin tweets this.

00:33:49.500 He says, Mr. Musk plans to begin making employees pay for lunch, which had been free, at the company cafeteria.

00:33:57.240 And then a guy named Andrew Wartman responds to that.

00:34:00.660 He said, he fired three-fourths of the employees.

00:34:03.320 Now he's planning to starve the rest of them.

00:34:06.420 He's failure incarnate.

00:34:09.280 Yes, now the Twitter employees are, and Musk actually responded to this and said that, look, most of the employees don't even come to the office.

00:34:16.240 So I don't think I'm going to starve them to begin with.

00:34:20.040 But also, you know, they're working at Twitter.

00:34:24.640 It's, so they have jobs.

00:34:27.060 They probably should be able to pay for their own lunches. 0.77

00:34:29.960 Now, it's nice to get a free lunch every day.

00:34:31.680 Don't get me wrong.

00:34:32.320 We actually, we get that here at the Daily Wire.

00:34:33.520 They provide us catered lunch every day.

00:34:35.480 It's what's, it's fantastic if you can get it.

00:34:38.580 But if they were to take that perk away from us, I don't think I would just sit here and starve.

00:34:42.200 I would probably just, you know, you could pack a lunch or go buy lunch somewhere.

00:34:47.220 So these are these really petty complaints that we're still hearing about the Elon Musk takeover of Twitter.

00:34:54.480 But there are complaints that you could make that are not as petty.

00:34:57.700 So, for example, over the weekend, our great reporter, Christina Buttons, here at the Daily Wire,

00:35:03.940 she tweeted out a link to a report that she just did for the Daily Wire.

00:35:08.400 And the headline of the report is,

00:35:10.480 New data emerges of 1,100-plus adolescent gender-affirming mastectomies.

00:35:15.180 And then she tweets it with this caption.

00:35:17.660 She says,

00:35:17.960 New data, a study of nationwide hospital databases found that at least 1,130 adolescents between 2016 to 2019

00:35:24.840 received gender-affirming chest surgeries, gender-affirming in quotes.

00:35:30.080 Chest surgeries in the U.S., an overwhelming majority, 1,114 of the adolescents were female.

00:35:37.280 And so that's it.

00:35:38.160 That's the report.

00:35:38.700 Now, this isn't even an editorial.

00:35:42.680 This is just Christina Buttons presenting the information, the data, which says that over this span,

00:35:52.900 well over 1,000 minor girls had their breasts amputated in pursuit of this aim of becoming a boy,

00:36:03.020 which, of course, they can never become.

00:36:06.980 Well, if you tried to click on that link on Twitter over the weekend, this is what would have happened.

00:36:12.240 And this is what happened to me when I tried it myself.

00:36:15.260 A warning page comes up, and it says,

00:36:17.340 Warning, this link may be unsafe.

00:36:21.360 It says,

00:36:21.800 The link you're trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe,

00:36:27.640 in accordance with Twitter's URL policy.

00:36:29.780 This link could fall into any of the below categories.

00:36:32.980 And then it says it could be a spam, it could be a malicious link that's stealing information,

00:36:36.680 or, of course, it's none of those things,

00:36:38.260 or it could be violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm.

00:36:44.180 So if the content is violent or misleading, then this warning page comes up.

00:36:51.200 Now, it does give you an option.

00:36:53.860 There's a button there at the top that says you can click and go back to the previous page,

00:36:59.060 get away from the unsafe content.

00:37:01.240 Or in smaller letters below that, it says,

00:37:03.860 Ignore this warning and continue, and then you can get to the article.

00:37:06.420 So, factual information about the mutilation that's being inflicted on children in this country

00:37:16.560 by these so-called gender-affirming doctors,

00:37:20.660 that factual information is flagged on Twitter as unsafe, and it could lead to harm somehow.

00:37:25.700 Now, this is actually worse than it was before Elon Musk took over.

00:37:33.600 You know, I don't remember ever seeing a warning page like that pop up for an article like this before.

00:37:40.680 So it's not just that, you know, we still have the same wokeness now that Elon Musk,

00:37:46.460 it's actually worse in this way.

00:37:48.240 And that's extremely concerning.

00:37:52.640 Now, you know, I tweeted this out over the weekend.

00:37:55.880 There were people pointing out, saying that, hey, we need to be a little bit more patient

00:38:00.020 and a little more generous with Elon Musk here.

00:38:02.620 And he did, he just took over the company, can't fix everything right away.

00:38:06.440 And I understand that.

00:38:09.000 You know, Rome wasn't built in a day and all that.

00:38:12.560 And you certainly can't fix it in a day.

00:38:14.180 But all the same, I mean, as I said last week, you know, he,

00:38:20.440 Musk did right away institute some major changes.

00:38:25.400 The changes that he made with the verification process,

00:38:27.560 and then they ended up abandoning that after like two days because it was a total disaster.

00:38:31.180 But they did implement major structural changes right away.

00:38:39.260 So it seems as though they could have cleaned a lot of this up right away, and they haven't yet.

00:38:44.740 That doesn't mean they won't in the future.

00:38:48.200 But it does mean that the woke brigade is still there at Twitter,

00:38:52.240 and they're still running things to a large extent.

00:38:56.780 And if you really want to change that, I mean, Elon Musk has already fired whatever it is,

00:39:00.620 half of the company.

00:39:01.660 You've got to fire, basically fire almost everyone,

00:39:04.740 and build the company over again from scratch to actually fix this problem.

00:39:11.600 All right, this is from the Daily Wire.

00:39:15.160 Also, it says,

00:39:15.480 Churches in the United States are struggling to return to attendance levels seen prior to COVID

00:39:19.500 lockdowns, before that shut their doors and forced online services, according to a new

00:39:23.880 LifeWay research poll.

00:39:25.780 The survey released last week was conducted with 1,000 Protestant pastors from September 6th to

00:39:30.440 the 30th from a random sample of Protestant churches.

00:39:33.120 The survey revealed that despite churches failing to return to pre-lockdown levels,

00:39:37.520 the majority had resumed in-person worship services.

00:39:40.860 Now, this doesn't surprise me at all as someone, I don't go to Protestant churches,

00:39:47.180 I'm Catholic, obviously, but I have noticed this myself.

00:39:51.880 I think anyone who goes to church every Sunday, we all notice this.

00:39:56.380 And I've been to a bunch of different churches in several different states over the last couple

00:40:02.580 of years, and I've noticed this everywhere, that attendance appears to be significantly lower

00:40:07.240 than it would have been before the pandemic.

00:40:12.980 Is that problem going to right itself?

00:40:14.760 I mean, here's the question.

00:40:16.040 Are the churches ever going to get back to pre-pandemic levels of attendance?

00:40:22.360 And I'm skeptical that that will happen.

00:40:25.060 I'm skeptical for a few reasons.

00:40:26.660 One is that the culture keeps moving away from us,

00:40:29.240 as, you know, successive generations are more godless, more likely to be atheist.

00:40:36.780 Secularism takes hold of the culture more and more.

00:40:38.720 So you're already, okay, you're already trying to swim upstream because of that.

00:40:44.940 But then at the same time, and this was my objection at the very beginning,

00:40:49.360 this was my objection to church's closing to begin with,

00:40:52.680 is that when you do that and you shut your doors, you are telling your congregants,

00:41:01.440 you're telling your flocks that you are not necessary.

00:41:05.820 That you, the church, as the church, what you're saying to the congregation is that

00:41:10.020 what we're doing here is not necessary.

00:41:14.540 Remember, this was during the time that only essential workers were allowed to go to work.

00:41:21.820 All the essential services are allowed to stay open,

00:41:25.760 but all the non-essential services have to be shut down.

00:41:30.360 And state governments, they declared that, well, church is a non-essential service.

00:41:35.300 And unfortunately, a lot of churches, and there were some exceptions to this,

00:41:37.640 but a lot of churches went along with that and agreed with it,

00:41:40.500 whether explicitly or implicitly,

00:41:42.660 and said, you're right, we're not essential.

00:41:47.940 Once you've told your congregation that, once you've advertised that,

00:41:51.820 once you have sent that message, you're not going to be able to get them all back.

00:41:56.820 Because I think there were a lot of people who were going to church before that,

00:41:59.740 and the churches shut down, said, well, we're not an essential service,

00:42:02.600 so we can stay shut down for as long as the government tells us to.

00:42:07.100 Until everyone stops having the sniffles, we can just shut the doors.

00:42:10.880 There are many churches that stayed shut for months on end,

00:42:13.520 if not longer than that.

00:42:19.060 And then many members of the congregation said, well,

00:42:22.440 apparently you're not essential.

00:42:24.080 Apparently we don't need you.

00:42:27.280 Now you've opened your doors again, but what's the point of going back?

00:42:32.740 I don't agree with that. Church is essential.

00:42:34.580 As we're told in Scripture, man does not live on bread alone.

00:42:41.520 You also have to feed yourself spiritually.

00:42:43.540 That is an essential service.

00:42:47.780 But unfortunately, the church has broadcast the opposite message,

00:42:51.200 and that has sunk in.

00:42:53.500 And I don't know if there's ever going to be any undoing that completely.

00:42:57.160 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:44:18.840 The Mall says,

00:44:21.240 when it comes to voting,

00:44:22.260 we should not have names on the ballots,

00:44:23.980 but rather people have to write them down themselves.

00:44:26.780 That way a voter at least knows how to spell

00:44:28.740 and knows at least a little bit about the candidate.

00:44:32.400 Obviously, this isn't even close to perfect,

00:44:33.980 but I think it's a start.

00:44:35.040 That's not a bad strategy.

00:44:35.900 I love that idea.

00:44:36.960 I think that's actually a really good idea.

00:44:39.400 Now, maybe you wouldn't require that

00:44:40.820 of all of the candidates on the ballot,

00:44:43.300 but certainly the candidates at the top of the ticket,

00:44:45.480 and certainly in a presidential election,

00:44:48.000 if it were up to me,

00:44:48.960 yeah, I like that idea,

00:44:49.840 and I would adopt that right away.

00:44:51.640 You actually have to write the name

00:44:53.600 of the candidate that you want on the ballot.

00:44:56.880 Because if you can't even do that,

00:45:00.320 like if you need the name to be there ahead of time

00:45:02.120 because you don't know the names,

00:45:05.220 then you are voting purely out of ignorance.

00:45:12.040 And you are working to undermine the democratic process

00:45:15.240 and harm the country in the process.

00:45:18.960 So I would agree with you on that.

00:45:20.020 I think that's a great idea.

00:45:21.160 And you have to spell it correctly too.

00:45:23.680 So if you misspell it,

00:45:25.620 then the ballot goes out the window,

00:45:28.540 goes in the trash.

00:45:30.280 But here's my point.

00:45:31.780 This is a fun kind of like fan fiction thing

00:45:34.860 to indulge in.

00:45:36.760 If we were serious,

00:45:38.160 if we were actually serious

00:45:39.560 about protecting and preserving our republic,

00:45:45.240 these are the kinds of things we would do.

00:45:48.420 But it's just never going to happen, right?

00:45:50.380 Like that, of course,

00:45:51.240 what you're suggesting,

00:45:52.600 you're not suggesting it as a strategy

00:45:55.500 that will ever actually be adopted.

00:45:57.340 It's just in an ideal world,

00:45:59.680 if you really wanted to protect your democracy,

00:46:02.620 then these are the sorts of things

00:46:03.780 you might think about doing.

00:46:06.700 And so it's okay to talk about that.

00:46:08.280 I talk about it all the time.

00:46:09.220 We should talk about those things.

00:46:10.340 We should talk about what we would do

00:46:12.440 in an ideal scenario.

00:46:14.640 Because you have to know what the ideal is

00:46:16.460 so that you know which direction

00:46:17.500 you should be traveling in.

00:46:20.240 But then the next step is to realize

00:46:21.760 that we're not in an ideal scenario.

00:46:24.080 We're living in reality.

00:46:25.520 And so how are we going to navigate?

00:46:27.660 We got the ideal, right?

00:46:29.220 So we know the direction we want to go.

00:46:31.160 But now we have the reality.

00:46:33.100 And so how do we navigate the reality

00:46:35.340 in a way that brings us

00:46:37.880 at least a little bit closer to that ideal?

00:46:42.880 David said,

00:46:44.000 it just occurred to me that Matt Walsh

00:46:46.180 will be wanting to take some time off

00:46:47.600 when his twins are born.

00:46:48.620 Perhaps the Daily Wire could contact

00:46:50.360 the people at Hallmark

00:46:51.320 and bring in his doppelganger

00:46:52.540 to host for a couple of weeks.

00:46:53.720 Just an idea.

00:46:54.240 I would love that.

00:46:54.880 I would do that for sure.

00:46:57.580 And yeah, I certainly will be taking

00:46:59.500 some time off,

00:47:00.800 but I'm not going to pull a Pete Buttigieg,

00:47:02.920 so you don't have to worry about that.

00:47:03.800 I'm taking six months off

00:47:05.440 from maternity leave.

00:47:08.560 Adam says,

00:47:09.460 Matt, you were talking about

00:47:10.560 dealing with haters

00:47:11.520 and hateful, threatening people

00:47:12.920 at your rallies, etc.

00:47:14.600 What advice would you give

00:47:15.420 on how to deal with people

00:47:16.460 who see it as their mission

00:47:17.420 to hate and ridicule?

00:47:18.840 I've dealt with some of this lately,

00:47:20.120 and as much as I wish it hadn't,

00:47:21.720 it really has rattled my cage.

00:47:24.040 Thanks, SBG for life.

00:47:26.040 Well, the only way to deal

00:47:26.980 with people like that

00:47:27.660 is to realize that their opinion

00:47:28.620 doesn't mean anything.

00:47:30.480 And I know it's a little bit easier

00:47:31.620 said than done,

00:47:32.280 so I can tell you that,

00:47:33.080 and it doesn't mean

00:47:33.560 that you're going to be able

00:47:34.140 to emotionally adopt that right away,

00:47:37.000 but that is the only way

00:47:40.560 to deal with such people

00:47:41.560 is to realize that their opinion

00:47:43.940 simply doesn't matter.

00:47:47.300 And especially if you're

00:47:48.460 doing the right thing

00:47:49.720 and you're living

00:47:51.800 according to your beliefs

00:47:52.720 and you're speaking the truth

00:47:55.140 and you're defending the truth, 1.00

00:47:55.880 all of the sniping idiots 1.00

00:48:00.920 and all the little trolls 1.00

00:48:02.820 and vultures

00:48:03.380 who come after you,

00:48:03.940 none of their opinions

00:48:04.860 matter at all.

00:48:07.980 And so you have to get

00:48:08.840 to a point of indifference,

00:48:12.220 basically, to them.

00:48:14.020 I'm not going to say

00:48:14.520 you have to hate them

00:48:15.520 or be angry at them.

00:48:16.360 They're just indifferent.

00:48:19.200 And I don't recommend

00:48:20.360 indifference in very many situations,

00:48:24.420 but this is one situation

00:48:25.740 where indifference is the way to go.

00:48:27.560 You have to be indifferent

00:48:28.240 to what they think.

00:48:30.920 Jamie Jones says,

00:48:31.900 I was an iron worker

00:48:32.780 for many years.

00:48:33.500 In our apprenticeship training,

00:48:35.060 we're required to learn

00:48:36.120 eight or ten different knots,

00:48:38.240 including the noose slip knot,

00:48:40.320 noose slash slip knot.

00:48:42.100 They're easy to make,

00:48:42.880 great for moving things

00:48:43.660 floor to floor

00:48:44.140 in a skeleton building,

00:48:45.060 and they don't bind up.

00:48:46.380 They slip apart,

00:48:47.320 hence the name. 1.00

00:48:48.140 The stupidity flowing from the left 1.00

00:48:49.340 causes me physical pain. 1.00

00:48:51.060 Yeah, there's a lot of comments

00:48:52.120 from people in the construction world

00:48:53.280 who were agreeing that,

00:48:56.780 in fact, ropes are very common

00:48:58.700 on construction sites,

00:49:00.220 even things that might look like

00:49:01.720 a noose or a slip knot.

00:49:04.980 Might actually be one,

00:49:06.660 but there are practical applications

00:49:08.360 for that.

00:49:09.840 So that could explain,

00:49:10.920 and we talked about

00:49:11.380 in the daily cancellation on Friday,

00:49:13.160 that could explain this epidemic

00:49:15.440 of construction sites

00:49:17.520 across the country

00:49:18.180 shutting down for days at a time

00:49:20.240 because somebody finds a scary rope

00:49:22.400 and decides that it's a racist symbol.

00:49:24.840 Which the other thing about that

00:49:25.820 is I have to, again,

00:49:27.220 remind you that

00:49:27.920 not only are these noose stories

00:49:31.980 almost always either hoaxes 1.00

00:49:33.900 or some very stupid person 1.00

00:49:36.540 is misinterpreting 1.00

00:49:38.480 an innocuous rope

00:49:39.580 that was being used

00:49:40.880 for some other reason.

00:49:43.080 That's all true.

00:49:45.380 But also,

00:49:46.260 the whole idea

00:49:47.060 that a noose

00:49:48.060 is a racist symbol

00:49:49.160 to begin with

00:49:50.060 is invented.

00:49:51.580 That's invented

00:49:52.280 by the media.

00:49:52.980 It's like they invented 0.73

00:49:54.460 the OK sign

00:49:55.560 as a racist symbol.

00:49:58.420 That's a media invention.

00:50:02.780 I mean,

00:50:03.300 yes,

00:50:04.460 nooses

00:50:04.720 in the past

00:50:06.740 have been used

00:50:09.220 in racist lynchings.

00:50:10.920 That's obviously true.

00:50:13.480 But also,

00:50:14.460 the noose

00:50:14.820 has been used

00:50:15.600 as a method

00:50:16.960 of execution

00:50:17.640 for thousands of years

00:50:19.580 all over the country.

00:50:21.020 All over the world,

00:50:22.160 rather,

00:50:22.400 or I should say,

00:50:22.980 for thousands of years.

00:50:26.500 So,

00:50:27.120 the idea

00:50:27.540 that it specifically

00:50:28.600 has this one meaning now

00:50:30.360 just doesn't make any sense

00:50:31.840 to begin with.

00:50:33.320 You know,

00:50:33.860 last year,

00:50:34.220 we launched our daily news podcast,

00:50:35.920 Morning Wire.

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00:50:37.680 it's become one of the top news podcasts.

00:50:39.440 I suspect it's because

00:50:40.320 Morning Wire

00:50:41.100 gives you only the news

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00:50:44.480 without the manufactured outrage.

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00:50:57.440 Now,

00:50:57.660 let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:03.140 Last week,

00:51:03.780 we briefly discussed

00:51:04.460 the latest bout

00:51:05.400 of verbal flatulence

00:51:06.540 from Representative Eric Swalwell,

00:51:08.080 who critiqued the idea

00:51:08.920 that parents should be in charge 0.84

00:51:10.760 of their own children's education.

00:51:12.300 As you recall,

00:51:12.820 Swalwell said,

00:51:14.360 please tell me

00:51:14.760 what I'm missing here.

00:51:15.380 What are we doing next?

00:51:16.140 Putting patients in charge

00:51:17.100 of their own surgeries?

00:51:18.400 Clients in charge

00:51:19.120 of their own trials?

00:51:20.540 When did we stop trusting experts? 1.00

00:51:22.700 This is so stupid. 1.00

00:51:24.220 And indeed, 1.00

00:51:24.640 this is so stupid. 1.00

00:51:25.500 Everything you said 1.00

00:51:26.040 is so stupid. 1.00

00:51:26.740 As we covered, 1.00

00:51:27.540 clients are in charge

00:51:28.580 of their representation at trial,

00:51:29.780 and patients are in charge

00:51:30.860 of their surgeries.

00:51:31.480 Now,

00:51:31.820 they may delegate

00:51:32.800 many of those responsibilities,

00:51:34.700 which is a highly recommended approach,

00:51:36.440 especially when it comes to surgery,

00:51:38.140 but they are still supposed

00:51:39.160 to be the ones in charge,

00:51:40.820 basically,

00:51:41.220 the ones deciding.

00:51:43.000 As for the self-appointed experts,

00:51:44.820 well,

00:51:44.960 many of us stopped trusting them

00:51:46.120 when they shut down society over COVID,

00:51:48.540 waged war against our fundamental civil rights,

00:51:51.120 only to spend the next two years

00:51:52.260 slowly admitting

00:51:52.920 that all of their pandemic strategies

00:51:54.480 were based on lies.

00:51:56.020 Some of us may have also stopped trusting them

00:51:58.180 when they started pushing

00:51:59.000 for gender-confused children 0.98

00:52:00.160 to get mutilated, 1.00

00:52:01.000 castrated, 1.00

00:52:01.380 and sterilized.

00:52:02.240 And then there are those of us

00:52:03.220 who never stopped trusting the experts

00:52:04.900 because we never started trusting them

00:52:07.100 to begin with.

00:52:08.420 But these points are all academic

00:52:09.800 because public school teachers

00:52:10.980 are not experts anyway.

00:52:13.800 They are by no means

00:52:14.820 experts in the subjects they teach,

00:52:16.520 nor are they experts

00:52:17.260 in teaching necessarily.

00:52:18.680 Some of them

00:52:19.300 may certainly have reached

00:52:20.320 the point of expertise

00:52:21.160 through years of experience,

00:52:22.740 but as a class,

00:52:24.280 as a group,

00:52:26.020 they cannot be called experts,

00:52:27.640 especially because most teachers

00:52:28.720 start teaching

00:52:29.440 before the age of 25.

00:52:31.040 Some of them are as young

00:52:31.680 as 20 or 21.

00:52:33.080 Lots of them are

00:52:33.580 when they start.

00:52:34.640 You can't be an expert

00:52:35.420 in anything at that age.

00:52:37.380 You certainly aren't going

00:52:37.900 to be an expert

00:52:38.380 in teaching kids

00:52:39.300 who are barely younger

00:52:40.460 than yourself.

00:52:42.040 So,

00:52:42.420 Swalwell is wrong 0.97

00:52:43.120 on every level

00:52:43.680 and from every conceivable angle

00:52:45.440 as per usual.

00:52:46.960 But the interesting point

00:52:47.900 is that

00:52:48.980 he came out explicitly

00:52:50.800 against parental rights

00:52:52.260 just a day or two

00:52:53.200 after the election.

00:52:55.040 The left has gotten

00:52:56.020 even bolder than usual

00:52:57.240 over the past several days,

00:52:58.620 having decided

00:52:59.180 that the results

00:52:59.920 of the midterms

00:53:00.580 vindicate and validate

00:53:01.960 all of their most

00:53:02.880 extreme talking points.

00:53:04.520 This conclusion

00:53:05.320 is, of course, erroneous,

00:53:06.400 especially when it comes

00:53:07.080 to parental rights

00:53:07.800 of all issues.

00:53:09.300 In fact, Republicans

00:53:10.100 upped the ballot

00:53:10.960 may have fared

00:53:11.580 relatively poorly

00:53:12.420 in most states.

00:53:13.660 But as we talked

00:53:14.180 about last week,

00:53:14.780 conservatives in school board

00:53:15.760 races were much

00:53:16.720 more successful.

00:53:18.140 The Daily Wire reports,

00:53:19.080 quote,

00:53:19.100 this week conservatives

00:53:19.820 flipped at least

00:53:20.820 nine school boards

00:53:21.740 in at least six states,

00:53:22.780 Michigan, Maryland,

00:53:23.980 North Carolina,

00:53:24.600 South Carolina,

00:53:25.160 New Jersey,

00:53:25.640 and Florida,

00:53:26.200 giving them

00:53:26.520 conservative majorities

00:53:27.380 according to two

00:53:28.280 parental rights groups

00:53:28.980 who endorsed many

00:53:29.700 of the victorious candidates.

00:53:31.160 The wins signaled

00:53:31.880 that parental rights

00:53:32.580 were a significant factor

00:53:33.700 at the ballot box

00:53:34.460 on Tuesday.

00:53:34.900 In Michigan,

00:53:35.720 four school board candidates

00:53:36.860 in Brandywine,

00:53:37.740 who were endorsed

00:53:38.280 by a parents' rights group

00:53:39.940 called 1776 Project PAC,

00:53:42.660 won their races,

00:53:44.080 flipping the board

00:53:44.620 from liberal to conservative.

00:53:46.180 In Maryland,

00:53:46.940 three of their school board

00:53:48.420 candidates won

00:53:49.080 in Carroll County,

00:53:49.820 flipping the school board

00:53:50.540 there to a conservative majority.

00:53:52.940 The 1776 Project PAC

00:53:55.040 claims that it has

00:53:55.920 officially flipped

00:53:57.660 100 school boards

00:53:58.840 since November last year.

00:54:00.700 The group's candidates

00:54:01.340 also won in Oklahoma

00:54:02.340 and Ohio.

00:54:03.580 Another parent's rights group,

00:54:04.700 Moms for Liberty, 1.00

00:54:05.520 told the Daily Wire

00:54:06.140 that it notched clusters

00:54:07.440 of wins

00:54:07.960 in at least four states.

00:54:09.900 The group flipped

00:54:10.460 at least seven school boards.

00:54:11.980 In North Carolina,

00:54:13.100 conservative candidates

00:54:13.800 won in both

00:54:14.460 New Hanover County

00:54:15.480 and Iridale County,

00:54:16.960 flipping both of those

00:54:17.720 school board's conservatives.

00:54:20.340 In South Carolina,

00:54:21.840 six conservative candidates,

00:54:23.180 one in Berkeley County,

00:54:24.580 five won in Charleston County,

00:54:25.960 and another four won

00:54:27.120 in York County,

00:54:27.800 flipping all three

00:54:28.480 school board

00:54:29.060 to the conservative side.

00:54:31.560 Moms for Liberty 0.93

00:54:32.120 also said that in New Jersey,

00:54:33.980 three candidates

00:54:34.520 in Cape May County

00:54:35.440 won their elections,

00:54:36.320 flipping that school board 0.50

00:54:37.020 conservative.

00:54:37.500 In Florida,

00:54:38.440 two candidates won

00:54:39.440 in Pineas County,

00:54:40.840 flipping that board

00:54:41.580 conservative as well.

00:54:43.200 So in other words,

00:54:44.720 the left decides

00:54:45.520 at its own peril

00:54:46.680 that parents' groups

00:54:48.020 and parents' rights

00:54:48.980 are a losing political issue.

00:54:51.900 The results indicate

00:54:53.140 actually exactly

00:54:53.980 the opposite of that.

00:54:55.540 Republicans only lost

00:54:56.980 on the issue

00:54:57.560 of parental rights

00:54:58.320 if they chose

00:54:59.020 not to run on it

00:55:00.100 in the first place,

00:55:01.220 and many of them

00:55:02.140 made that choice.

00:55:03.800 You can't win

00:55:04.960 the argument

00:55:05.660 if you don't make

00:55:06.640 the argument.

00:55:08.120 And the argument

00:55:08.700 for parental rights

00:55:09.460 is very easy to make,

00:55:10.940 and it will automatically

00:55:11.960 resonate

00:55:12.460 with the vast majority

00:55:14.140 of parents.

00:55:14.920 That's the thing

00:55:15.420 about us parents.

00:55:16.400 Whether we identify

00:55:17.160 with the political

00:55:17.800 left or right,

00:55:19.060 we don't like it

00:55:20.120 when someone tries

00:55:20.860 to parent our children

00:55:22.040 for us.

00:55:24.260 Somebody should tell that

00:55:25.040 to the National Education

00:55:26.260 Association Teachers Union,

00:55:27.540 which also decided

00:55:28.720 after the election

00:55:29.360 that they now have

00:55:30.420 political permission

00:55:31.140 to explicitly attack

00:55:32.460 parental rights.

00:55:33.360 So on Friday,

00:55:33.960 the NEA tweeted this,

00:55:35.240 quote,

00:55:36.000 educators love

00:55:36.940 their students

00:55:37.680 and know better

00:55:38.600 than anyone

00:55:39.380 what they need

00:55:40.700 to learn

00:55:41.300 and to thrive.

00:55:43.500 Better than anyone,

00:55:44.840 they say.

00:55:46.040 Now, the phrasing there

00:55:46.860 is quite deliberate,

00:55:48.040 obviously.

00:55:49.400 The teachers' union

00:55:50.040 is claiming

00:55:50.680 that teachers know

00:55:52.300 better than parents

00:55:53.440 what their children need.

00:55:55.060 But that is,

00:55:57.180 of course,

00:55:57.500 exactly wrong.

00:55:58.800 It is the opposite

00:55:59.660 of reality.

00:56:01.360 In fact,

00:56:02.260 the very best argument

00:56:03.560 for homeschooling

00:56:04.360 is that parents,

00:56:05.520 not public school teachers,

00:56:06.900 are experts

00:56:07.620 in the most important field.

00:56:09.520 Now, most parents,

00:56:10.440 just as most teachers,

00:56:11.280 don't have PhDs

00:56:12.540 in math or science

00:56:13.380 or any other

00:56:13.900 academic discipline,

00:56:15.160 but they are experts

00:56:16.560 on one thing,

00:56:17.580 which is their children.

00:56:19.100 They're experts

00:56:19.820 on their children.

00:56:21.660 Parents know

00:56:22.480 or should know

00:56:23.340 their own children

00:56:24.820 better than anyone.

00:56:26.860 So the NEA

00:56:27.860 accidentally raises

00:56:28.840 a good point here.

00:56:30.900 The most effective educator

00:56:32.560 is going to be the person

00:56:33.820 who knows the child best,

00:56:36.060 who understands him,

00:56:37.300 who knows what he needs,

00:56:38.760 and can tailor the education

00:56:40.600 to fit those needs.

00:56:41.840 And that last step

00:56:42.580 is very important

00:56:43.200 because even if

00:56:43.880 a public school teacher

00:56:44.640 does come to understand

00:56:46.960 a child's educational needs,

00:56:48.320 which is a big if,

00:56:49.280 considering that the teacher

00:56:50.100 will likely have 20

00:56:51.000 or 30 other students

00:56:51.780 in the class,

00:56:52.500 only about 45 minutes

00:56:53.860 in a day to teach them

00:56:54.680 any given subject.

00:56:56.340 So it's very difficult

00:56:57.180 to get to know

00:56:57.640 any of the kids,

00:56:58.280 but even if the teacher does,

00:57:01.180 he's not going to have,

00:57:02.760 he will have only

00:57:03.420 a very limited ability

00:57:04.520 to respond to the child's needs,

00:57:06.960 even if the teacher

00:57:08.020 comes to understand

00:57:09.140 what those needs are.

00:57:10.640 A teacher can't give

00:57:12.000 30 different kids

00:57:14.060 their own personalized

00:57:15.200 and customized

00:57:16.160 educational environment.

00:57:17.540 It's impossible.

00:57:18.880 And that's not because

00:57:19.580 of the teacher's

00:57:20.560 personal limitations,

00:57:21.720 but rather it's because

00:57:22.340 of the way the system

00:57:23.480 is set up.

00:57:25.180 A worker on an assembly line

00:57:26.680 probably doesn't have,

00:57:27.820 probably doesn't have

00:57:29.240 the ability to make

00:57:29.940 the product by hand,

00:57:30.960 but even if he does,

00:57:32.400 he can't do that

00:57:33.260 while working

00:57:33.860 on the assembly line.

00:57:35.280 The public school system

00:57:36.440 is an assembly line.

00:57:38.780 The teachers are simply

00:57:39.620 manning their stations

00:57:40.700 along the conveyor belt.

00:57:42.120 And even if they man them well,

00:57:43.840 and many of them do,

00:57:45.180 there's only so much attention

00:57:46.280 they can give to each child

00:57:47.620 as he is ferried on

00:57:49.220 down the line.

00:57:51.920 So, yes,

00:57:54.180 it is important in education

00:57:55.460 to know the child well

00:57:56.760 and to be able to respond,

00:57:58.240 to know his needs,

00:57:59.300 and to be able to respond

00:58:00.420 to those needs.

00:58:02.300 And that's why the parent

00:58:03.380 is going to be

00:58:03.860 in a much better position.

00:58:05.180 And then what about love?

00:58:06.840 Well, public school teachers

00:58:07.820 may love their students

00:58:09.420 in a broad

00:58:10.220 and sort of charitable sense,

00:58:12.180 right?

00:58:12.400 But they will not

00:58:15.480 and cannot love the student

00:58:17.300 the way that a student's parents

00:58:18.740 can and should

00:58:19.680 and most of the time

00:58:20.500 do love him.

00:58:23.420 My wife and I,

00:58:24.360 we've been with our children

00:58:25.980 since they were born.

00:58:26.860 We feed them

00:58:27.500 and put clothes on their backs.

00:58:28.720 We care for them

00:58:30.740 when they're sick.

00:58:31.380 We're the ones

00:58:31.800 checking under their beds

00:58:32.720 for monsters

00:58:33.240 before we tuck them in at night.

00:58:34.440 You know,

00:58:35.060 we know them

00:58:35.920 and love them

00:58:36.560 more than anyone ever could.

00:58:39.400 And that does make us

00:58:40.740 better equipped

00:58:41.280 to educate them.

00:58:42.920 Because education

00:58:43.720 is not simply about

00:58:44.620 passing along information

00:58:45.900 after all.

00:58:46.700 It's not merely a matter

00:58:47.660 of memorizing details

00:58:49.300 and being able

00:58:49.820 to repeat them.

00:58:51.640 That's supposed to be

00:58:52.500 just a part of education.

00:58:54.440 But education

00:58:55.020 as a whole

00:58:55.960 properly understood

00:58:56.740 is supposed to be

00:58:57.800 about making someone

00:58:59.040 a better person.

00:59:00.820 Now,

00:59:01.080 our educational system

00:59:02.240 right now

00:59:02.660 may often have

00:59:03.360 the opposite effect

00:59:04.180 these days,

00:59:04.700 especially at the college level.

00:59:06.260 But a proper education

00:59:07.300 does mean

00:59:08.940 or should mean

00:59:09.860 instilling virtue.

00:59:11.720 And that requires care.

00:59:13.580 That requires patience.

00:59:16.800 That requires love.

00:59:19.080 Which is why the parent

00:59:20.120 should not only be involved,

00:59:22.080 but should in fact

00:59:23.260 be in charge.

00:59:25.540 And that is why today

00:59:26.640 the NEA,

00:59:28.020 Teachers Union,

00:59:28.860 is canceled.

00:59:31.080 And that'll do it

00:59:31.540 for this portion of the show

00:59:32.360 as we move over

00:59:32.840 to the members block.

00:59:34.280 Hope to see you there.

00:59:34.920 If not,

00:59:35.600 talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:36.500 Godspeed.

00:59:36.860 Okay.

00:59:40.760 Bye.

00:59:44.260 Bye.

00:59:45.580 Bye.

00:59:48.220 Bye.

00:59:48.860 Bye.

00:59:53.340 Bye.

00:59:55.660 Bye.

00:59:58.380 Bye.

00:59:58.760 Bye.

01:00:00.060 Bye.

01:00:00.400 Bye.

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01:00:01.340 Bye.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 14, 2022

Ep. 1062 - The Gen Z Mental Illness Epidemic

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