In the latest evidence that we are shifting the Overton window, the New York Times is now acknowledging the dangers of puberty blockers. Also, with the help of several Republicans, Democrats in the Senate now have a filibuster-proof majority to redefine marriage at the federal level. Plus, a prominent physicist claims that there are more than two human sexes. The View frets about Republicans raising the voting age to 28, and the U.S. Men s Soccer team replaces the American Flag with the Pride Flag. All of that and more on the Matt Walsh Show.
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00:13:49.820All right, so CNN correspondent Manu Raju reports, a bipartisan group of senators say they have a deal on a bill to codify same-sex marriage.
00:14:03.220And backers expect to have 60 votes needed to break a filibuster.
00:14:07.200They released details of their bill, which the Senate punted until after the elections.
00:14:10.800And by the way, the Daily Wall, or rather, the Blaze has also wrote an article about this naming some of these senators.
00:14:18.540It says a bipartisan group of senators is pushing an amendment to the Respect for Marriage Act, which includes language that is supposed to protect religious liberty.
00:14:25.800Those lawmakers who include GOP Senators Rob Portman of Ohio, Susan Collins of Maine, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, and Democrat Senators Tammy Baldwin and Kristen Sinema of Arizona, issued a statement promoting their version of the measure.
00:14:38.900They say the Respect for Marriage Act is a needed step to provide millions of loving couples in the same-sex and interracial marriages the certainty that they will continue to enjoy the freedoms, rights, and responsibilities afforded to all other marriages.
00:14:50.520Through bipartisan collaboration, we've created common-sense language to confirm that this legislation fully respects and protects Americans' religious liberties and diverse beliefs, while leaving intact the core mission of the legislation to protect marriage equality.
00:15:02.000We look forward to this legislation coming to the floor, and are confident that this amendment has helped earn the broad bipartisan support needed to pass our common-sense legislation into law.
00:15:12.180Well, you know, when they're calling it common-sense, I can't remember the last time they called something common-sense legislation or a common-sense bill, and it actually contained any common-sense at all.
00:15:21.940Well, and that certainly isn't the case here, so they're calling it the Respect for Marriage Act, ironically, you know, the Orwellian twisting of language there.
00:15:32.820The Respect for Marriage Act, but what it really is doing is codifying the destruction of marriage into federal law.
00:15:40.920You know, it's codifying on a federal level the redefinition of marriage, and they also include, of course, well, this is about same-sex couples and interracial couples, conflating those two when nobody is talking about interracial couples.
00:16:02.020Okay, those of us who believe in, and I always put quotes around this, traditional marriage, because that's a qualifier that, you know, makes it sound like there are many different forms of valid marriage when really there isn't.
00:16:14.140But, you know, using that language for just a moment, those of us who are advocates for, quote-unquote, traditional marriage, no one in that group is criticizing interracial couples, because that does not challenge the fundamental definition of marriage.
00:16:32.560Our whole point is that marriage is definitionally, in principle, a procreative union between man and woman.
00:16:40.120It lies at the foundation of the family.
00:16:43.220It's the source from which the family springs, and therefore is the foundation of civilization.
00:16:49.160So, clearly, no matter what your races are, no matter the racial configuration of the coupling, that does not challenge the definition of marriage, because these are still in principle procreative unions.
00:17:00.500Whereas the union between two men and two women is not, never can be.
00:17:52.980The fact that, again, they are still codifying at a federal level the radical redefinition of marriage.
00:18:02.680So, they're putting these supposed guardrails in place to protect religious liberty.
00:18:07.620And if you trust that, okay, if you believe that any of this is actually going to protect religious liberty, then there's nothing we can talk about.
00:18:17.540If you're that naive, then there's no conversation that we can have.
00:18:20.120Obviously, if you do this, it is to begin with, it's not just this, but it is also to begin with, a threat to an attack on religious liberty.
00:18:35.300Because if you're codifying on a federal level that two men have a right to get married, it's a human right, a civil right.
00:18:43.460Then that would mean, by extension, that a church that refuses to marry a gay couple is depriving them of their basic human civil rights.
00:18:53.260They may not be putting that language in the bill exactly because they want it to pass, but that's what it means.
00:19:02.560And that's how it will be used, no matter what the bill says.
00:19:05.260And I'll tell you this, you know, any Republican who would sign on to a bill like this, I don't care if they have this weak, you know, they've created this Trojan horse now where they're pretending that they're protecting religious liberty.
00:19:25.280Any Republican who would sign on to that should be exiled from the party.
00:19:29.520It won't happen because this is the direction the whole party is going, but that's what should happen.
00:19:35.260You know, you are, these are Republicans who are signing on to something that only 10 years ago would have been too radically far left for even the farthest left people in the Democrat Party.
00:19:54.14010 years ago, there was basically no one in the Democrat Party pushing for this, or very few anyway.
00:20:00.940Certainly, you go back 15 years ago, and that was the case.
00:20:10.800So a decade and a decade, you know, a decade or a decade and a half, you go back, it would be too far left for the Democrats.
00:20:17.460And now you've got supposedly conservative Republicans signing on to it.
00:20:24.460You cannot jump on board with the redefinition of marriage and then think that you're going to hold the line on any other issue.
00:41:06.300I prescribe it a lot, but it's not for everyone.
00:41:09.760Now, listen, I'm not going to pretend to be a proponent of mindfulness meditation,
00:41:14.380mainly because I don't even know what that is exactly.
00:41:17.580I've heard of it, but I'm not one for meditation personally.
00:41:20.900But at the same time, this is an important result to think about because it shows that whether it's meditation or just going outside for a walk,
00:41:38.640getting some fresh air, exercising, fixing your diet, you know, all of those sorts of things,
00:41:46.020and also practicing, and maybe this is part of what meditation is supposed to do, I don't know,
00:41:51.320but it's, you know, learning how to take control of your emotions or at least not be a slave to them,
00:41:58.280and that is a skill, and no one is ever going to be 100% perfect at it,
00:42:02.680but you can develop your skill in not being a slave to your emotions.
00:42:09.320Sometimes it's a matter of, like, fake it until you make it.
00:46:24.560If, and I'm just saying if, if the crew here at the Daily Wire decided that, you know, we don't want the walrus taking up room in the studio anymore.
00:46:34.740And so, unbeknownst to me and unbeknownst to my wife, if they were to just, of their own volition, load the thing into a truck or van and drive it to my house and show up with it and knock on the door and say, hey, we have your walrus.
00:46:52.360Do you want us to bring it in or just leave it in, you know, in the driveway?
00:46:57.080If they were to do that, then at that point I think my wife would have no choice but to accept the walrus.
00:47:02.100Especially because, but the other thing that would happen is that my kids, who are all like little puppy dogs, and anytime the doorbell rings, they just run to the door.
00:47:09.960They would show up and they would see the walrus and they would know what their mother is trying to deprive them of.
00:47:16.800And, and, and, and they would, they would have an emotional breakdown if, if she said, we can't take the walrus.
00:48:02.040Bubble wrapping children robbed them of true happiness.
00:48:04.540Yeah, and that's, and that's, that's the point, is that, you know, when, when, when you've got all these Gen Z, all these younger people running around, as we said yesterday, there was something like 20%, 20% of the 50% that has been diagnosed with mental illness, 20% of that 50% have actually been diagnosed with PTSD.
00:48:24.200And again, not because they're all a bunch of combat veterans.
00:48:27.800I mean, maybe some of them are, but, but the vast majority, we can assume not.
00:48:36.060And that's, that's real to us in a certain way.
00:48:39.320Now, they haven't really experienced anything that should actually cause trauma, but they do really feel traumatized because they've never learned how to deal with just the normal disappointments that come with life.
00:49:37.400The problem is that they, isn't that they promise tax cuts, but that they promise them and don't follow through.
00:49:42.820Well, my issue isn't with the idea of tax cuts.
00:49:45.220It's with making tax cuts or issues like tax cuts, the central aspect of their agenda and their campaigns.
00:49:51.580Tax cuts aren't going to save the problem, aren't going to save the country.
00:49:54.680Tax cuts aren't going to motivate voters to go to the polls the same way that other issues do.
00:50:00.220Tax cuts are just an easy thing to pander with, and that's my issue with it.
00:50:05.160But as far as tax cuts go, I mean, I'm all in favor of them.
00:50:08.780I'm in favor of any tax cut for anyone because I like the idea of people keeping their own money, and I like the idea of the government getting less money.
00:50:17.640Government already gets trillions of dollars, trillions every single year in its income.
00:50:21.820That's its income, and I think that's quite enough, in fact, too much, and so I'm in favor of them getting less and us keeping more of our money, so I like that.
00:50:30.980I think the whole idea of an income tax is outrageous and tyrannical, and we only accept it because we've never known anything else in our lifetimes.
00:50:38.960The founding fathers, they staged a rebellion because they didn't want to pay a tax on tea, okay, and I know that there was a lot more to it than that, I realize, but still, they were upset about a tax on tea, and here we are paying taxes on, I mean, we pay taxes on tea, okay, you go get an Arizona iced tea at Walgreens, there's going to be tax, but we also pay taxes on everything else.
00:51:03.340We pay taxes on everything, everywhere, all the time, including paying a tax for simply earning a living.
00:51:10.040We pay a tax for existing and for dying.
00:51:13.020If you exist or if you're born, if you exist, and then if you die, you have to pay tax on all that, a hefty tax.
00:51:19.580And when it comes to the tax on existing, which is the income tax, the government extracts it from our paychecks before we even get a cut of our own paychecks.
00:52:18.840They're always just dancing around the edges at best.
00:52:23.080If you want to see one of the most important things I've done in my life, especially in my career, certainly, you have to check out my documentary, What is a Woman?
00:52:31.380It has more than 5,000 audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and even five reviews from critics who were brave enough to touch it.
00:52:37.140Just in the month after we released What is a Woman? The Daily Wire gained more members than at any other time in our history.
00:52:42.220Just goes to show that if you make something worth watching, unlike most Hollywood films, people will watch it in droves.
00:52:47.580If you haven't seen it yet, go to whatisawoman.com to watch it right now.
00:52:53.200Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:52:58.740To my great shame, I have neglected to mention until this moment that this week is Transgender Awareness Week, which leads us up to Transgender Remembrance Day.
00:53:07.240And it's important that we have this week and that day to become aware of and remember trans people, just as it's crucial that we have LGBT Pride Month and LGBT History Month and LGBT Spirit Day and Pronoun Awareness Day and International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and so on.
00:53:21.180And it's clear that if there is not a special holiday, recognizing and calling attention to LGBT people and especially trans people, and if we don't have this holiday at least twice a month, then we will all forget that these people exist and they will immediately evaporate.
00:53:37.440It'll be like that show The Leftovers, which is a great show, by the way, depicting an apocalyptic scenario where a large portion of the Earth's population suddenly vanishes without a trace.
00:53:46.260And the creator of that show never said this explicitly, but it's clear that it was supposed to be a parable about what will happen if we don't have enough LGBT awareness days.
00:53:55.260So we must always remain aware, we must make sure that everyone else is aware, that the LGBT club stays at the center of everything always, no matter what, forever.
00:54:04.480And so to that end, the men's World Cup team is doing its part, providing further evidence that soccer is gay.
00:54:10.920Finally, the men's team has redesigned their official crest to get rid of the American flag colors and instead incorporate the rainbow flag.
00:54:19.600The United States men's national team have made a huge statement at the World Cup in Qatar by redesigning their crest to incorporate the rainbow flag in a bid to show solidarity with the LGBTQ plus community.
00:54:34.240The tournament, which starts on Sunday and sees the U.S. play their opener against Wales on Monday, has been hugely controversial in its buildup given Qatar's human rights record and attitude to homosexuality.
00:54:44.500As recently as this month, a Qatar World Cup ambassador told a German TV broadcaster that homosexuality was damaged to the mind and it remains illegal to be gay in the conservative Muslim country.
00:54:57.200The USMT appeared to have made an immediate stand on their arrival in Doha, though, by changing their usual red stripes on their crest to a rainbow around their team base.
00:55:05.840Pictures from the Al-Garrafa SC Stadium in Arrayon, where the U.S. has trained on Monday, showed a huge U.S. crest on the wall alongside the slogan, One Nation.
00:55:20.000It is understood the crest on the team's kits on the field won't be changed, but the new colors will be shown off at their practice facilities.
00:55:26.360So as you can see, the crest is actually an example, really, of trans erasure rather than trans awareness, as it only includes the colors on the old LGBT flag.
00:55:34.820That's the bigoted, hateful LGBT flag of our ancestors, the one that looks tacky but lacks the boldness and courage to be totally chaotic and vomitous and hideous, like a unicorn vomited all over it, as, of course, the current trans-inclusive flag looks.
00:55:50.520Yet, fortunately, the other colors are represented elsewhere in their practice facility.
00:55:54.940After all, it's not just about the crest.
00:55:57.580You know, U.S. soccer is doing an entire LGBT rebrand.
00:56:00.780Reading more from the Daily Mail, it says,
00:56:02.840Neil Buthe, the USMNT's chief communications officer, told DailyMail.com,
00:56:08.460Our rainbow badge has an important and consistent role in the identity of U.S. soccer.
00:56:13.000As part of our approach for any match or event, we include rainbow branding to support and embrace the LGBTQ community,
00:56:19.460as well as to promote a spirit of inclusiveness and welcoming to all fans across the globe.
00:56:23.360As a result, locations that we will manage and operate at the FIFA World Cup, such as the team hotel, media areas, and parties,
00:56:31.140will feature both traditional rainbow U.S. soccer branding.
00:56:33.920So it will have the traditional flag and also the rainbow flag.
00:56:36.240Now, you may point out that if U.S. soccer is actually concerned about Qatar's record on, quote, LGBT rights,
00:56:44.700they could make a much greater statement by refusing to participate in the World Cup in the first place.
00:56:50.980I mean, by simply showing up and participating, they are financially supporting the country that they claim to be protesting against,
00:56:58.160which is a bit like protesting J.K. Rowling by buying a Harry Potter book and then burning it.
00:57:02.580I mean, you've already bought the book or protesting Elon Musk by buying a Tesla and then running it into a telephone pole on purpose.
00:57:10.440You've already given your financial support.