The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1063 - The New York Times Is Forced To Acknowledge The Dangers Of Puberty Blockers

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in the latest evidence that we are shifting the Overton

00:00:03.520 window, the New York Times is now acknowledging the dangers of puberty blockers.

00:00:06.800 Also, with the help of several Republicans, Democrats in the Senate now have a filibuster

00:00:10.360 proof majority to redefine marriage at the federal level.

00:00:13.360 Plus, a prominent physicist claims that there are more than two human sexes.

00:00:16.840 The View frets about Republicans raising the voting age to 28, I wish.

00:00:20.960 And the U.S. men's soccer team replaces the American flag with the pride flag.

00:00:24.500 All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:47.420 Well, it's only Tuesday, but the New York Times has already had an interesting week.

00:01:52.380 It began on Sunday with an article about age restrictions for tattoos.

00:01:57.220 The piece begins with this anecdote.

00:01:59.260 It says,

00:01:59.520 Last month, a 10-year-old boy walked into the nurse's office of his elementary school in Highland, New York,

00:02:04.620 and asked for some Vaseline. 0.65

00:02:06.220 He wanted to rub it onto his new tattoo,

00:02:08.160 a crude rendering of his name in large block letters on the inside of his forearm.

00:02:12.960 The nurse called the police. 0.99

00:02:14.680 The boy had gotten the tattoo with his mother's permission from a neighbor,

00:02:17.740 according to local authorities.

00:02:19.340 While some states have no minimum age for receiving a tattoo if a parent allows it,

00:02:23.180 New York State forbids anyone younger than 18 from getting tattooed with or without parental consent.

00:02:28.360 Last month, both the tattoo artist Austin Smith, 20, who was unlicensed,

00:02:31.900 and the boy's mother, Crystal Thomas, 33, were arrested

00:02:34.360 as pictures of the boy's arms stirred outrage across local and international news sites and social media.

00:02:41.140 Well, we're then told that tattoos are becoming more and more common and socially acceptable,

00:02:45.000 which is not exactly news to most of us.

00:02:47.740 The worst thing about tattoos now is that they're cliched since everyone has them.

00:02:51.960 And I say that as somebody who has two.

00:02:54.280 As we're told, however, most states forbid children, those under the age of 18,

00:02:57.960 from getting these permanent markings on their bodies.

00:03:00.680 Yet 12 states or so, around a dozen states,

00:03:03.640 do allow tattoos on children with no minimum age requirement at all,

00:03:07.020 as long as they have parental consent.

00:03:08.340 Back to the article, it says,

00:03:10.020 It is a situation that Dr. Cora Bruner,

00:03:12.440 a pediatrician and professor at the University of Washington Medical Center,

00:03:15.940 Seattle Children's Hospital,

00:03:17.960 and author of Guidance on Tattoos for Pediatricians,

00:03:20.700 issued by the American Academy of Pediatric Medicine,

00:03:24.180 finds troubling.

00:03:25.120 Quote,

00:03:25.880 It is a permanent mark or a symbol you're putting on your body.

00:03:29.040 I don't think kids under 18 have that kind of agency to make a decision,

00:03:33.280 Dr. Bruner said.

00:03:34.300 We need to look at these laws again.

00:03:36.020 Now, personally, I couldn't agree more.

00:03:40.160 Children do not have agency to make permanent life-altering decisions.

00:03:44.280 It's good to hear that the American Academy of Pediatrics has reached this common sense conclusion.

00:03:49.800 Like most people, the American Academy of Pediatrics can clearly see,

00:03:53.720 when it comes to tattoos, that children are impulsive, suggestible,

00:03:58.680 unable to think through the consequences.

00:04:01.640 In fact, the Times article ends by telling us that everyone involved

00:04:04.780 in the tattooing of the 10-year-old now regrets it.

00:04:08.440 It says,

00:04:08.920 Miss Thomas, the parent in Highland, New York, near Poughkeepsie,

00:04:12.700 described her case as a misunderstanding.

00:04:14.760 She said she favored age limits and that she had mistakenly believed

00:04:18.400 her son was asking for permission to get a temporary tattoo.

00:04:21.980 No little child should get tattooed, she'd said.

00:04:24.160 She has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

00:04:27.760 A few days after he was arraigned in Lloyd Justice Court on charges of dealing unlawfully

00:04:32.780 with a child, a misdemeanor that can entail up to a year in prison,

00:04:35.440 Mr. Smith, a tattoo artist, said that he is racked with deep regret over tattooing the 10-year-old.

00:04:40.680 Quote,

00:04:40.880 It's the worst mistake I've made in my life, he said.

00:04:43.780 At the time, I thought that if you got your parents' permission, you could get a tattoo.

00:04:46.940 As for Miss Thomas' son, today he feels differently about Mr. Smith agreeing to give him a tattoo.

00:04:54.020 Quote,

00:04:54.540 He should have said no, the boy said.

00:04:57.660 Now, you may be skeptical about the mother's excuse here.

00:05:00.740 It's hard to see how a misunderstanding could result in a 10-year-old getting tattooed.

00:05:05.760 But the point is that most people, including the American Academy of Pediatrics,

00:05:09.980 recognize that there is no good reason to make these types of body modifications to a child.

00:05:15.480 Yet, it's hard not to notice that their views on a child's ability to consent

00:05:22.440 and the propriety of making permanent physical alterations to a minor who lacks agency

00:05:27.060 seem to be rather inconsistent.

00:05:30.480 After all, the AAP also fully endorses medical and surgical gender transitions for children.

00:05:36.640 The very group that, when it comes to tattoos, they readily admit lack the capacity to consent.

00:05:41.720 Again, this is not cognitive dissonance on the part of the medical establishment.

00:05:46.540 For them, it's fully intentional.

00:05:48.760 They know exactly what they're doing.

00:05:51.180 They want you to have the cognitive dissonance.

00:05:54.240 They're trying to create, or at least exacerbate, a mental disconnect in your head,

00:06:00.320 whereby you adopt an entirely different set of values and priorities and fundamental beliefs,

00:06:05.040 depending on the topic.

00:06:06.080 When it comes to tattoos, you're meant to see children as children,

00:06:11.020 incapable of making these kinds of long-term choices.

00:06:13.580 When it comes to gender transition, suddenly, even a five-year-old possesses agency, 0.53

00:06:18.480 the capacity for long-term thinking,

00:06:21.240 a deep and mature internal sense of what is best for their own well-being.

00:06:25.820 This is how the gender ideology game has always worked, 1.00

00:06:28.220 as proponents want you to see gender as its own world, its own universe,

00:06:31.640 where entirely different scientific and moral laws obtain.

00:06:35.980 The whole thing comes crashing down once you simply apply the same scrutiny to gender ideology

00:06:40.000 that you apply to everything else.

00:06:41.940 And that's why it's interesting that the New York Times printed another story on the same day,

00:06:46.060 which, for the five people who still read the print edition, appeared on the same page.

00:06:50.640 And this one is titled,

00:06:51.920 They paused puberty, but is there a cost?

00:06:55.420 Puberty blockers can ease transgender youth's anguish and buy time to weigh options. 0.95

00:06:59.960 But concerns are growing about long-term physical effects and other consequences.

00:07:05.540 Now, the article is somewhat tentative in its criticisms of puberty blockers,

00:07:08.860 but it does say this, quote,

00:07:11.040 As the number of adolescents who identify as transgender grows,

00:07:14.680 drugs known as puberty blockers have become the first line of intervention

00:07:18.000 for the youngest ones seeking medical treatment.

00:07:20.700 Their use is typically framed as a safe and reversible way to buy time to weigh a medical transition

00:07:26.260 and avoid the anguish of growing into a body that feels wrong.

00:07:30.080 Transgender adolescents suffer from disproportionately high rates of depression and other mental health issues.

00:07:34.540 Studies show that the drugs have eased some patients' gender dysphoria,

00:07:37.960 a distress over the mismatch of their birth, sex, and gender identity.

00:07:41.360 But as an increasing number of adolescents identify as transgender,

00:07:44.720 in the United States an estimated 300,000 aged 13 to 17,

00:07:49.120 and an untold number who are younger.

00:07:50.440 Concerns are growing among some medical professionals about the consequences of the drugs,

00:07:55.080 according to a New York Times examination.

00:07:57.440 The questions are fueling government reviews in Europe,

00:07:59.940 prompting a push for more research,

00:08:01.660 and leading some prominent specialists to reconsider

00:08:03.540 at what age to prescribe them and for how long.

00:08:06.880 A small number of doctors won't recommend them at all.

00:08:09.200 There is emerging evidence of potential harm from using puberty blockers,

00:08:12.360 according to reviews of scientific papers and interviews

00:08:14.200 with more than 50 doctors and academic experts around the world.

00:08:16.920 We're then given a brief and incomplete list of some of the complications from these drugs,

00:08:22.380 but these are important complications to list anyway.

00:08:25.420 It says,

00:08:25.900 The drugs suppress estrogen and testosterone hormones that help develop the reproductive system,

00:08:30.580 but also affect the bones, the brain, and other parts of the body.

00:08:34.120 During puberty, bone mass typically surges, determining a lifetime of bone health.

00:08:38.580 When adolescents are using blockers, bone density growth flatlines on average,

00:08:42.480 according to an analysis commissioned by the Times of the Observational Studies examining the effects.

00:08:47.380 Many doctors treating trans patients believe they will recover that loss when they go off the blockers,

00:08:51.480 but two studies from the analysis that tracked trans patients' bone strength while using blockers

00:08:56.840 and through the first years of sex hormone treatment found that many do not fully rebound

00:09:01.580 and lag behind their peers.

00:09:03.540 That could lead to heightened risks of debilitating fractures earlier than would be expected from normal aging

00:09:08.820 in their 50s instead of 60s.

00:09:10.560 And more immediate harm for patients who start treatment with already weak bones, experts say.

00:09:15.880 Quote,

00:09:16.900 There's going to be a price, said Dr. Sandeep Khosla, who leads a bone research lab at the Mayo Clinic,

00:09:23.500 and the price is probably going to be some deficit in skeletal mass.

00:09:27.400 Now, the article does provide equal space, or better, in fact, better than equal space,

00:09:34.140 to the other side, quote unquote.

00:09:36.520 And this mostly consists of lengthy anecdotes and quotes from various medical professionals

00:09:41.100 making wild assumptions about the totally unsubstantiated alleged benefits of the drugs.

00:09:46.980 That doesn't matter.

00:09:48.140 The point is that the New York Times is acknowledging the criticisms of these practices

00:09:53.100 and even providing an accurate, though incomplete, accounting of them.

00:09:57.100 They are, in other words, legitimizing the debate.

00:10:02.800 Acknowledging that there is a valid reason to doubt the mainstream consensus.

00:10:07.680 Now, to be clear about this, I'm not giving them credit, okay?

00:10:12.620 I'm not applauding the New York Times.

00:10:14.480 I'm not going to applaud them or nominate them for a Pulitzer.

00:10:17.260 They're a decade late to the party, and they had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to this point.

00:10:23.520 We dragged them here because we are shifting the Overton window.

00:10:28.980 We are forcing the most mainstream media institutions to take these arguments seriously,

00:10:34.800 to give them an airing for once.

00:10:38.320 I mean, none of us who've been in the trenches on this issue will ever get credit from the New York Times, of course.

00:10:43.200 They're not going to quote us.

00:10:44.440 They're not going to say, as so-and-so has always said, they're not going to do that, but that doesn't matter.

00:10:49.620 We've done this.

00:10:50.940 And you can forget about the election for a moment, okay?

00:10:54.880 We are still winning.

00:10:56.400 Republican politicians in many states may not be.

00:11:00.280 But on this issue and other cultural issues, we are seeing progress.

00:11:04.100 This is progress.

00:11:04.760 And it's significant because the left, and this is on all issues, but especially this one of gender ideology.

00:11:11.880 The left relies on manufactured consensus.

00:11:16.680 Okay?

00:11:17.220 They can't defend their position.

00:11:19.440 They can't do that.

00:11:21.080 So instead, they pretend that no other position but theirs even exists.

00:11:25.400 They present this united front, which is totally a facade.

00:11:31.460 And they don't allow any opinion but their own to be heard.

00:11:34.140 Oxygen deprivation is their greatest weapon.

00:11:36.800 They try to suffocate the other side.

00:11:38.500 They declare everyone agrees, even though everyone doesn't agree.

00:11:43.220 But the people who don't agree don't get a hearing.

00:11:45.240 They don't get a platform.

00:11:45.880 And they keep declaring it, but everyone agrees, until eventually, in so many cases, history shows, everyone really does agree.

00:11:54.980 You know, they can kind of manifest it.

00:11:57.060 If they say there's a consensus and they say it long enough and loud enough, then eventually a consensus sort of forms.

00:12:03.860 They've manufactured one.

00:12:06.380 Now, if they allow the other side to be heard, then the public will know that there is another side.

00:12:12.100 And even that the other side is reasonable and making evidence-based, logical arguments.

00:12:18.500 The manufactured consensus crumbles, and their agenda goes down with it.

00:12:24.840 I predict that we will see, and we are now beginning to see, this very thing happening with gender ideology.

00:12:31.640 We have punctured the manufactured consensus bubble.

00:12:36.520 And now we're going to see it all come apart.

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00:13:49.820 All 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.

00:14:03.220 And backers expect to have 60 votes needed to break a filibuster.

00:14:07.200 They released details of their bill, which the Senate punted until after the elections.

00:14:10.800 And by the way, the Daily Wall, or rather, the Blaze has also wrote an article about this naming some of these senators.

00:14:18.540 It 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.

00:14:25.800 Those 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.

00:14:38.900 They 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.

00:14:50.520 Through 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.

00:15:02.000 We 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.

00:15:12.180 Well, 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.

00:15:21.940 Well, 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.

00:15:32.820 The Respect for Marriage Act, but what it really is doing is codifying the destruction of marriage into federal law.

00:15:40.920 You 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.

00:16:00.660 No one has an issue with that.

00:16:02.020 Okay, 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.

00:16:14.140 But, 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.

00:16:32.560 Our whole point is that marriage is definitionally, in principle, a procreative union between man and woman.

00:16:40.120 It lies at the foundation of the family.

00:16:43.220 It's the source from which the family springs, and therefore is the foundation of civilization.

00:16:49.160 So, 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.

00:17:00.500 Whereas the union between two men and two women is not, never can be.

00:17:04.320 And that's the point.

00:17:06.840 Now, the language here, I'm not going to read the entire thing, but this is the language that was added to the bill.

00:17:11.680 This is what's getting a 60 vote.

00:17:13.340 You know, this is what's getting, supposedly going to get 60 votes in the Senate.

00:17:16.700 And there's a whole bunch of stuff about religious liberty.

00:17:22.980 It says,

00:17:52.980 The fact that, again, they are still codifying at a federal level the radical redefinition of marriage.

00:18:02.680 So, they're putting these supposed guardrails in place to protect religious liberty.

00:18:07.620 And 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.

00:18:16.240 There's nothing I can say to you.

00:18:17.540 If you're that naive, then there's no conversation that we can have.

00:18:20.120 Obviously, 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.

00:18:32.140 That's where it ultimately leads.

00:18:35.300 Because 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.

00:18:43.460 Then that would mean, by extension, that a church that refuses to marry a gay couple is depriving them of their basic human civil rights.

00:18:53.260 They may not be putting that language in the bill exactly because they want it to pass, but that's what it means.

00:19:02.560 And that's how it will be used, no matter what the bill says.

00:19:05.260 And 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.

00:19:24.120 Doesn't matter.

00:19:25.280 Any Republican who would sign on to that should be exiled from the party.

00:19:29.520 It won't happen because this is the direction the whole party is going, but that's what should happen.

00:19:35.260 You 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.

00:19:54.140 10 years ago, there was basically no one in the Democrat Party pushing for this, or very few anyway.

00:20:00.940 Certainly, you go back 15 years ago, and that was the case.

00:20:10.800 So 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.

00:20:17.460 And now you've got supposedly conservative Republicans signing on to it.

00:20:24.460 You cannot jump on board with the redefinition of marriage and then think that you're going to hold the line on any other issue.

00:20:32.480 This is the fundamental institution.

00:20:40.060 This is the fundamental, you know, this is civilization's fundamental institution.

00:20:46.300 Marriage and the family.

00:20:49.040 So you give up on that, and so we don't need to protect that anymore.

00:20:52.000 And then what?

00:20:52.960 Where are you drawing the line after that?

00:20:54.860 You're going to erase that line and redraw it where exactly?

00:20:57.300 This is the Republican Party for you.

00:21:03.620 And it's no surprise then that they lost in the midterms, or at least vastly underperformed.

00:21:13.620 Because, as I've been saying for the last week, they have no message.

00:21:18.260 They're not really giving anyone a reason to vote for them.

00:21:20.860 And voters are saying, hey, if we want left-wing policies, then we have the Democrat Party for that.

00:21:27.820 What do we need you for?

00:21:28.840 I mean, you made yourself irrelevant.

00:21:31.760 So you're going to support, you know, you're supporting leftist policies, what now count as moderately left-wing policies.

00:21:41.080 And then you've got extreme left-wing policies, even though, again, this would have been extreme left-wing policy 10, 15 years ago.

00:21:46.360 But voters who want that, they've already got the Democrats for that.

00:21:52.440 What do they need you for?

00:21:55.960 You're not providing an alternative.

00:21:59.500 Okay, provide an actual, real alternative to what the Democrats are offering.

00:22:07.740 Will the voters go for that?

00:22:09.120 Are we at a point in our culture where the voters just aren't going to be interested in the alternative at all?

00:22:13.020 I don't know exactly.

00:22:13.980 So we can't know because we haven't done it yet.

00:22:17.500 We don't have a political party.

00:22:19.220 There are, in effect, just two political parties in this country.

00:22:21.800 And we don't, and it's really a uniparty.

00:22:23.980 There is no real alternative.

00:22:28.840 Speaking of the manufactured consensus fracturing, Colin Wright, who is a scientist, an evolutionary biologist, also tweeted yesterday,

00:22:38.500 biological sex is real, immutable, and binary, which, of course, is exactly correct. 0.99

00:22:43.980 Um, and then Sean Carroll, who's a prominent physicist and has been, you know, he's, he's been all over TV.

00:22:53.540 You've probably seen him in interviews.

00:22:54.420 And he's, in the past, has done a lot of, uh, debates, you know, defending the, the atheist worldview.

00:23:00.540 He responded to it and said, actual science would like a word.

00:23:04.700 And he includes this chart with, um, lots of words on it.

00:23:08.700 And the chart is titled, Beyond XX and XY.

00:23:13.080 And there, there's a lot going on in the chart.

00:23:15.040 There are a lot of words, a lot of colors.

00:23:17.620 And this, now he doesn't explain.

00:23:19.540 Sean Carroll is obviously, this is a prominent scientist who has bought into gender ideology.

00:23:26.780 Um, he doesn't defend it or even explain what he thinks this chart proves.

00:23:30.860 He apparently thinks it proves that sex is not binary, that there are more than two biological sexes.

00:23:37.720 This is what a mainstream, incredibly prominent, highly educated scientist is saying,

00:23:46.520 that there are more than two biological sexes.

00:23:49.060 He doesn't go beyond and explain any more of that because he actually shut down comments

00:23:52.860 on his Twitter page after he posted this.

00:23:55.720 This is, because this is, this is, this is how healthy scientific debate works, right?

00:23:59.160 You make a, you make a statement, you don't defend it, and then you stop anyone from disagreeing

00:24:04.720 with you.

00:24:05.060 That's the scientific process now.

00:24:07.340 But in fact, there was pushback from other scientists, including Jerry Coyne, who's a

00:24:11.580 biologist and, as far as I know, not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

00:24:16.720 He responded, he says, actual science done by biologists shows two sexes, one with small

00:24:21.800 mobile gametes and the other with large immobile ones.

00:24:25.640 There is no third sex. 0.89

00:24:27.000 Disorders of sex development are not new sexes, and biological sex is binary.

00:24:31.780 Let's not conflate sex, gender, and developmental anomalies.

00:24:36.000 Well, that's exactly the point.

00:24:37.540 Because you go back to this chart provided by the physicist Sean Carroll, which apparently

00:24:41.920 he got from a Scientific American article.

00:24:45.620 And you look at it, and this is, this is, this is their attempt to prove that sex is not 0.96

00:24:49.920 binary, that it's on a spectrum.

00:24:51.080 And you look at what the chart actually shows.

00:24:54.800 And again, you're not supposed to look at the chart.

00:24:57.300 You're supposed to just see that there's a chart there, and you see the title.

00:25:02.780 This chart proves that sex is a spectrum.

00:25:05.120 And then you're supposed to see just like a bunch of words and arrows pointing to stuff

00:25:08.840 and be impressed with that.

00:25:10.560 And then say, well, I guess sex isn't a binary.

00:25:12.380 But then when you actually look at it, the whole thing starts, falls apart immediately.

00:25:17.680 Because what you find is, you've got on one end of the so-called spectrum, typical biological

00:25:22.760 female.

00:25:23.580 And then on the other end of the spectrum, you have typical biological male.

00:25:26.820 And then you've got a bunch of genetic abnormalities and conditions that are randomly placed on

00:25:33.900 this spectrum.

00:25:34.700 So, for example, farther down, like on the left side of the spectrum, but farther to the 0.82

00:25:43.040 right, on the female side of the spectrum, they have enlarged clitoris, fused labia, short 1.00

00:25:50.780 vagina, normal ovaries, uteric cervix. 1.00

00:25:54.500 Okay, so that's the description of a genetic condition, which on this chart puts you closer

00:26:03.520 to the male end of the spectrum.

00:26:07.220 But then you look at that and you say, well, but that's not male at all. 0.99

00:26:10.540 That's just a female, has an enlarged clitoris and a fused labia. 1.00

00:26:16.540 So this is a female with some abnormalities physically, but that's still just a female. 1.00

00:26:25.220 That's what that is. 0.97

00:26:26.620 If you have an enlarged clitoris as a female, then you're closer to male? 1.00

00:26:30.840 What? 0.99

00:26:31.240 And this is what they do.

00:26:34.280 I've told you this before.

00:26:35.260 This is how they've expanded the term intersex.

00:26:39.120 You know, they've got what they call the ideal, you know, they've decided, they being the people

00:26:45.640 that have come up with this, they've decided what are sort of the typical or ideal male

00:26:51.720 or female.

00:26:52.600 And if you're outside of what they consider to be the ideal or the typical, then you're

00:26:56.940 intersex.

00:26:57.560 You're on a spectrum somewhere. 0.97

00:26:58.560 So if you have an enlarged clitoris as a female, then you're closer to male on the spectrum. 1.00

00:27:05.860 They also say that if you have an abnormally small penis, then you're closer to female 0.99

00:27:09.580 on the spectrum. 0.93

00:27:12.480 Even though in the first case, you're still completely biologically female. 0.96

00:27:15.980 And in the latter case, you're completely biologically male.

00:27:22.280 Now, despite what Sean Carroll appears to be claiming, variations within the sexes do not

00:27:31.180 count as a third sex. 0.68

00:27:33.400 These are just variations within the sexes.

00:27:35.120 Nobody ever claimed that every male is 100% physically identical to every other male.

00:27:43.460 We're not all identical twins.

00:27:46.480 Okay?

00:27:46.860 No one ever claimed that.

00:27:48.680 There are physical variations between within the categories of male and female.

00:27:53.880 Every male is a little bit physically different from every other male, but they're still all 1.00

00:27:58.540 males.

00:27:59.220 Just like every human is physically different from every other human, but we're still all

00:28:04.560 the same species.

00:28:08.280 This is what counts as, or what they want to say counts as science, but you see that the

00:28:15.240 claims they're making can't survive a debate if there is a debate.

00:28:18.680 Which is why for so long they've had success in just making sure there is no debate, but

00:28:24.020 that's not working anymore.

00:28:27.700 So Sean Carroll can make this claim and put the chart up, but then he has to shut down

00:28:31.580 the comments because he's being disputed by a whole bunch of people, including other

00:28:35.300 scientists, who are saying this is b****, Sean, and you know it.

00:28:38.560 All right.

00:28:41.840 Speaking of BS, this is from the Daily Mail.

00:28:43.560 It says, climate activists in Austria today poured a black oily liquid over Austrian painter

00:28:48.520 Gustav Klimt's masterpiece, Death and Life, at Vienna's Leopold Museum.

00:28:53.500 So we're still doing this, and there are still people that are able to walk into art museums

00:28:58.160 holding buckets of paint, and nobody stops them.

00:29:02.780 It says, two members of the group Last Generation threw the die over the 1950 painting before one

00:29:08.100 proceeded to glue himself to the glass, protecting the masterpiece.

00:29:11.300 A security guard at the museum managed to restrain one of the activists before police arrived

00:29:15.320 at the site.

00:29:16.420 Museum staff are now concerned that Klimt's painting could have been damaged in the protest.

00:29:20.280 A spokesperson for the museum says restorers are working to determine whether the painting

00:29:24.320 protected by glass has been damaged.

00:29:26.540 The Last Generation group defended the protest, saying in a tweet that they were protesting oil

00:29:30.640 and gas drilling, which they called a death sentence to society.

00:29:34.520 Numerous masterpieces across Europe have been attacked in recent weeks in protests.

00:29:38.100 At the lack of action against climate change.

00:29:41.620 And then we have a video of it.

00:29:42.840 Let's watch the video.

00:29:47.660 We know the problem for 50 years.

00:29:50.860 So he dumps the black paint.

00:29:52.160 He walks in holding the paint.

00:29:53.560 No one stops him.

00:29:54.380 And he's posing there while someone else films.

00:30:01.600 Like, everyone knows what's about to happen.

00:30:06.120 And then a 95-year-old security guard comes in.

00:30:14.000 All right, so there you go.

00:30:15.380 All right, he's actually getting dragged out by the 90-year-old security guard.

00:30:25.060 All right, that's enough.

00:30:26.000 I've seen enough of that.

00:30:28.680 Yeah, it must be...

00:30:31.120 I've never been to an art museum where this has happened.

00:30:34.160 I mean, I don't know.

00:30:35.400 I think I've been to, like, one art museum in my whole life, period.

00:30:37.360 But it seems like it'd be pretty obvious.

00:30:41.700 If they're setting up to do something like this, it's pretty obvious that they're about to do it.

00:30:45.760 Like, if you see someone walking through the museum with a big bowl of tomato soup

00:30:51.900 or holding, you know, a container of black paint

00:30:56.840 and they're wearing shirts, you know, with climate slogans on them

00:31:04.360 and then someone's setting up to film, like, you know it's going to happen.

00:31:10.380 How about stop them ahead of time?

00:31:13.760 I say again that this could all be stopped immediately.

00:31:17.040 All of this kind of stuff could be stopped immediately, overnight, 0.75

00:31:19.600 by giving just one of these losers a 25-year prison sentence. 0.76

00:31:25.060 Okay? 0.95

00:31:26.260 Or, and as I've suggested, when they glue themselves to stuff,

00:31:29.480 there are two approaches you could take there.

00:31:31.180 One is to leave them glued to it.

00:31:33.840 Just leave them, you know.

00:31:35.780 The other is to remove them from whatever they've glued themselves to

00:31:41.800 by removing the body part.

00:31:44.660 So you glue your hand to something, a painting, 0.91

00:31:48.020 then we're going to cut your hand off. 0.99

00:31:49.600 I mean, if you don't want to have your hand cut off, don't glue it to a painting. 0.98

00:31:55.180 Don't glue it to something that's not your property.

00:31:58.640 Or if you want to be nicer, public flogging, 40 lashes.

00:32:02.680 And I'm dead serious about it.

00:32:04.300 I mean, if I was in charge and you destroyed or attempted to destroy

00:32:07.780 a priceless work of art, I would have you dragged out into the street 0.97

00:32:11.280 and beaten with a bullwhip until all the flesh on your back has been peeled off. 0.99

00:32:17.440 That's what I would do. 0.97

00:32:18.840 Okay?

00:32:19.200 And I would make sure that there's a big crowd and everyone sees me do it.

00:32:23.680 And that's what a serious country would do.

00:32:25.920 Because that's justice.

00:32:27.460 It's severe.

00:32:28.420 It's immediate.

00:32:30.080 Public punishment.

00:32:32.420 Totally, fully, completely deserved.

00:32:35.100 Because how dare you?

00:32:38.760 I mean, this is, we're talking about works of art made 100 years ago or more

00:32:43.580 that people have been coming to the museum to enjoy for decades or centuries.

00:32:50.460 It is literally priceless.

00:32:52.100 You cannot put a price on it.

00:32:54.600 And you think you could come along and just try to destroy it

00:32:57.120 because you're having a temper tantrum?

00:32:58.840 No.

00:33:00.580 No.

00:33:02.520 Totally unacceptable behavior.

00:33:05.480 And until there's a response that communicates, that conveys how unacceptable it is,

00:33:10.800 it will continue.

00:33:11.420 This is what happens when action is divorced from consequence.

00:33:19.440 And these climate brats have lived a life where that's the life they lived. 1.00

00:33:25.140 The action has been divorced from consequence, or maybe the other way around.

00:33:29.140 Consequence divorced from action.

00:33:30.420 They can do what they want, and the natural consequences that should follow don't.

00:33:41.100 And you know what?

00:33:41.980 That not only emboldens them to continue with this,

00:33:47.340 but it also just contributes even more to the nihilism

00:33:51.380 that encourages them to act this way in the first place.

00:33:55.880 Because these people are not concerned about saving the planet.

00:33:59.260 They're not concerned about human life.

00:34:02.480 If you were concerned about human life,

00:34:04.000 you wouldn't be trying to destroy some of the things that make life worth living.

00:34:08.380 Art, beauty, I mean, these are the things that make life worth living.

00:34:12.580 And so if you loved human life, that would be the last thing you'd be trying to destroy.

00:34:17.920 Well, they don't care about human life.

00:34:19.340 They don't care about the planet.

00:34:21.240 They're nihilists.

00:34:23.120 They don't care about anything.

00:34:24.060 Nothing has meaning to them.

00:34:24.820 This is one of the ultimate statements of nihilism,

00:34:29.560 is to destroy a painting, a priceless painting, a historic artifact.

00:34:37.160 It's the same thing when they're tearing down statues and all the rest of it.

00:34:41.000 It is a statement of nihilism.

00:34:42.600 Well, you're only encouraging more of that

00:34:45.240 when people do not experience consequences for their evil and wicked behavior.

00:34:50.760 I mean, these are already people who think that nothing matters.

00:34:56.880 You know, nothing matters.

00:34:59.920 Nothing has any significance.

00:35:02.800 And when they're able to just walk into an art gallery

00:35:05.820 and deface a painting like that with no consequence,

00:35:10.520 then that confirms what they already suspected,

00:35:13.280 that nothing matters, nothing has any significance,

00:35:16.060 just do what you want.

00:35:16.840 No, so you start passing down severe punishments. 0.96

00:35:26.760 You not only are going to scare these cowards,

00:35:29.780 none of them would risk it if they thought there'd be a serious consequence. 0.93

00:35:32.240 Not a single one would risk it.

00:35:33.560 Not one.

00:35:35.200 So you're not only scaring them straight, as it were,

00:35:37.980 but you're also telling them that, you know what, some things do matter.

00:35:41.620 Like, some things do matter.

00:35:43.940 Art, this matters.

00:35:44.960 It matters to us.

00:35:47.020 It is significant.

00:35:49.800 And we're going to show you how much it matters to us.

00:35:54.620 All right.

00:35:55.940 What else do we have here?

00:35:57.300 Interesting claim made on The View yesterday about, I don't know,

00:36:01.500 this is a claim about a policy that apparently Republicans have been supporting.

00:36:06.040 This is news to me, but I don't know.

00:36:08.260 Listen.

00:36:08.420 But I will say this.

00:36:11.220 Just like the Latina saved the Senate, young voters saved this country.

00:36:16.320 And we need to really understand that we are supposed to leave this world in a better place than we found it.

00:36:24.340 When you look at the youth voter turnout in the 2022 midterms, they delivered key wins for the Democrats.

00:36:30.180 Younger voters aged 18 to 29, which, by the way, now the Republicans want to raise the voting to age 28.

00:36:36.840 Younger voters were the only voter group by age to overwhelmingly support Democrats in the midterms.

00:36:44.300 63% of voters voted for Democratic House candidates.

00:36:49.500 I think my friend, you know, Cornell Belker, and you know Cornell as well.

00:36:53.660 He says there are really two electorates, one older and one younger, fighting to take this country in very different directions.

00:37:00.140 The Republican Party has to get with it.

00:37:02.580 They are dying out.

00:37:03.980 And we are going to talk more about that, honey.

00:37:06.020 We're up on time here.

00:37:08.080 So what was that again?

00:37:09.400 Right.

00:37:10.320 She says, by the way, you know, Republicans, they want to raise the voting age to 28.

00:37:13.660 What?

00:37:14.220 What Republican has said that?

00:37:16.020 Tell me what Republican has said that, because I would be supporting them.

00:37:19.040 I'd be campaigning for them.

00:37:20.700 No Republican is saying that.

00:37:22.680 Raise the voting age to 28.

00:37:23.800 I haven't heard that from anyone.

00:37:25.200 Now, you know, you're also mistaken.

00:37:27.760 Like, I'm not pushing for raising the voting age to 28 either.

00:37:30.280 I want to raise it to like 35.

00:37:32.920 But I am far, in a way, in the minority on that.

00:37:37.280 And I'm also not an elected Republican politician.

00:37:41.740 And I have not heard any suggest that we do that.

00:37:44.480 And as we talked about yesterday, as much as I think that we should, we should raise the voting age.

00:37:53.900 We should have all kinds of parameters put in place.

00:37:56.640 There should be all kinds of restrictions on voting that go way beyond voter ID, same-day voting.

00:38:02.540 I mean, that should just be the beginning of it.

00:38:04.100 There should be so much more.

00:38:05.360 But none of that is going to happen.

00:38:09.960 It should, but it's not going to happen.

00:38:14.000 And so we have to get to a point, myself certainly included, in dealing with what actually is happening.

00:38:22.780 Yeah, our entire system of voting is a joke.

00:38:26.340 And it only becomes more of a joke every single day.

00:38:29.240 But if we want to have any chance of changing any of that, we have to deal with that, confront that.

00:38:37.200 And as I said yesterday, figure out how to navigate the system and exploit the systems that are in place.

00:38:45.380 Republicans in some states have figured out how to do that.

00:38:47.340 How do you mobilize the mass mail-in voting, early voting?

00:38:51.060 None of that should exist.

00:38:52.020 It shouldn't exist, but it does.

00:38:53.380 And so are we going to allow Democrats to be the only ones who utilize that?

00:39:02.360 Or are Republicans going to start utilizing it too?

00:39:05.220 System shouldn't be there, but it is.

00:39:08.440 And so take advantage of it to the extent that you can.

00:39:13.380 Because the only other, what's the other option?

00:39:15.320 I don't see any other option.

00:39:18.040 The other option is to, on principle, say, no, we're not going to do that.

00:39:22.060 And then you just never win another election ever again.

00:39:28.280 And all of the policies that you oppose, all of that only gets worse as a consequence.

00:39:38.060 All right, I wanted to mention this too before we get to the comment section,

00:39:41.720 because this relates to something we talked about yesterday.

00:39:43.460 We talked about anxiety, depression, these supposed mental illnesses that are especially affecting the younger generation.

00:39:54.600 And we just heard from the view that we should be following the lead of the Gen Z, the younger generation.

00:40:01.900 They know what's up.

00:40:02.940 I mean, we should be taking their lead.

00:40:05.580 We should be putting them in positions of leadership and following them.

00:40:08.420 Meanwhile, as we saw yesterday, studies show that half of that generation, just about half, has been diagnosed mentally ill.

00:40:19.660 And yet we should be following them and taking their lead.

00:40:23.020 Well, on that topic, CNN has this.

00:40:24.900 A mindfulness meditation course may be as effective at reducing anxiety as a common medication, according to a new study.

00:40:33.400 The research, published on November 9th in JAMA Psychiatry, involved a group of 276 adults with untreated anxiety disorders.

00:40:39.880 Half of the patients were randomly selected to take 10 to 20 milligrams of a generic form of Lexapro,

00:40:46.020 a common medication used to treat anxiety and depression.

00:40:47.880 The other half were assigned to an eight-week course in mindfulness-based stress reduction.

00:40:52.280 The results were stunning.

00:40:53.220 Both groups experienced about a 20% reduction in their anxiety symptoms over the eight-week period.

00:40:58.600 Elizabeth Hodge, the lead researcher, told CNN that she hopes the research can open up more treatment options for patients with anxiety.

00:41:04.920 She said, Lexapro is a great drug.

00:41:06.300 I prescribe it a lot, but it's not for everyone.

00:41:09.760 Now, listen, I'm not going to pretend to be a proponent of mindfulness meditation,

00:41:14.380 mainly because I don't even know what that is exactly.

00:41:17.580 I've heard of it, but I'm not one for meditation personally.

00:41:20.900 But 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,

00:41:38.640 getting some fresh air, exercising, fixing your diet, you know, all of those sorts of things,

00:41:46.020 and also practicing, and maybe this is part of what meditation is supposed to do, I don't know,

00:41:51.320 but it's, you know, learning how to take control of your emotions or at least not be a slave to them,

00:41:58.280 and that is a skill, and no one is ever going to be 100% perfect at it,

00:42:02.680 but you can develop your skill in not being a slave to your emotions.

00:42:09.320 Sometimes it's a matter of, like, fake it until you make it.

00:42:13.200 Okay, you're feeling down, you're feeling anxious.

00:42:15.740 Act like you aren't feeling that way.

00:42:17.920 And very often you'll discover, as you're acting the part, you're pretending,

00:42:25.200 and then a moment's going to come where you look back and you realize,

00:42:27.880 oh, I'm actually not, I feel better now.

00:42:33.440 And these sorts of strategies, they do work, they can work.

00:42:39.220 We don't need to rely on drugs.

00:42:42.580 Because, you know, as much as we hear that something like anxiety and depression,

00:42:47.300 these are physical diseases, it's no different than cancer,

00:42:50.400 or no different than diabetes, that's what they tell us anyway.

00:42:54.580 And yet, no one is recommending meditation for cancer.

00:42:59.280 Now, as a way to kind of psychologically deal with a cancer diagnosis,

00:43:03.320 that might be one thing, but as far as treating the cancer itself,

00:43:06.140 obviously you're not going to do that with meditation.

00:43:07.740 And I wouldn't say that you're going to do that by taking walks and, you know,

00:43:11.040 all of that sort of thing.

00:43:13.400 But with things like anxiety and depression,

00:43:15.700 you can actually treat the, quote, illness itself through those sorts of practices.

00:43:23.580 Because actually, it's not an illness in the same way that a physical illness is an illness.

00:43:29.900 It's not the same sort of thing as cancer or diabetes or arthritis.

00:43:35.580 It's something in your mind.

00:43:37.740 And it is also an inexorable part of the human condition.

00:43:42.900 Which doesn't mean it's not serious.

00:43:44.460 Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't take people seriously when they say they're struggling with it.

00:43:50.560 It just means that we should be looking at a different sort of approach.

00:43:53.000 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:43:56.520 Do you know their name?

00:43:59.900 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:44:04.360 By the way, you know, I hate to have to keep coming to you guys for emotional support on this issue.

00:44:08.860 But here's what my wife tweeted this morning.

00:44:12.040 She said,

00:44:12.420 Okay, first of all, she already leaves the Christmas tree up all year, basically.

00:44:31.140 Second, this is what I'm dealing with now.

00:44:33.540 So I've managed to secure my rights to the walrus.

00:44:36.300 But I haven't been able to bring it home.

00:44:38.480 Because one battle just led to a tougher battle.

00:44:41.400 And this time the opponent is my wife who refuses to allow the walrus into our house. 0.95

00:44:45.000 And we've had so many discussions about this.

00:44:46.580 And it's all the more disappointing to me because we have a biblical household and a biblical marriage.

00:44:55.120 And Ephesians 5 clearly says a wife must submit to her husband, including an all matters walrus related. 0.79

00:45:02.360 And that last part isn't actually in the text, but I think you can infer it.

00:45:06.640 And she keeps arguing, though, that we don't have room for the walrus.

00:45:10.720 You know, the walrus is too big.

00:45:12.300 It would be embarrassing.

00:45:13.680 She actually said that.

00:45:14.340 She said it would be embarrassing.

00:45:15.940 I'd be embarrassed to have the walrus in the house.

00:45:19.300 And it's like, oh, you're embarrassed by Johnny the walrus.

00:45:22.780 Johnny the walrus is paying the mortgage on this house, okay?

00:45:26.180 This walrus has a right to be in this house.

00:45:32.180 And meanwhile, she fills our home with furniture, throw pillows, random pieces of, like, random decorations.

00:45:41.780 She'll go buy, like, a decorative, I don't know, wheelbarrow or something and put it in the dining room. 0.97

00:45:50.280 Yet if I want to bring one walrus home, suddenly it's a problem.

00:45:52.760 Last time we moved, okay, I don't even realize all the stuff she's bought until we move and I have to move the stuff.

00:45:59.900 And so last time we moved, I remember I made, like, five separate trips to lug a whole bunch of old-fashioned glass milk jugs.

00:46:08.280 We had dozens of them.

00:46:10.520 And I said to her, why do we have these?

00:46:12.800 What is this?

00:46:13.740 And she said, oh, it's decor.

00:46:15.700 Decor for what?

00:46:16.500 A dairy farm?

00:46:17.480 Why do, this is decor?

00:46:18.880 Or, so here's all I'm going to say.

00:46:21.700 And this is it.

00:46:22.360 This is really all I'm going to say.

00:46:24.560 If, 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.

00:46:34.740 And 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.

00:46:52.360 Do you want us to bring it in or just leave it in, you know, in the driveway?

00:46:57.080 If they were to do that, then at that point I think my wife would have no choice but to accept the walrus. 0.67

00:47:02.100 Especially 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.

00:47:09.960 They would show up and they would see the walrus and they would know what their mother is trying to deprive them of.

00:47:16.800 And, and, and, and they would, they would have an emotional breakdown if, if she said, we can't take the walrus.

00:47:21.620 So, I'm not advocating that, okay?

00:47:24.660 I'm not saying that, I mean, that's not my point.

00:47:26.580 I'm just saying that if all those things were to happen, then I would have the walrus at my house.

00:47:32.100 That's it, that's it, okay.

00:47:36.520 The Drummer's Workshop says, the problem with a lot of Gen Z is that they get rewarded for being mediocre. 1.00

00:47:42.820 Then they can't understand, with all the quick fame they've achieved, why they still feel unfulfilled.

00:47:48.820 And Rational Bacon, which remains one of my favorite YouTube usernames, agrees with this.

00:47:53.800 It says, kids today are taught that any suffering is unthinkable cruelty.

00:47:57.560 Being older, we grew up expecting tragedy.

00:47:59.820 It made us appreciate good times.

00:48:02.040 Bubble wrapping children robbed them of true happiness.

00:48:04.540 Yeah, 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.

00:48:24.200 And again, not because they're all a bunch of combat veterans.

00:48:27.800 I mean, maybe some of them are, but, but the vast majority, we can assume not.

00:48:32.760 And yet they have PTSD.

00:48:36.060 And that's, that's real to us in a certain way.

00:48:39.320 Now, 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.

00:48:54.520 They've never been given that skill.

00:48:56.160 They've never been taught how to hone that skill.

00:48:59.960 And so now, anytime they, they, they encounter any obstacle at all, they, they, they just like, they, they break down.

00:49:04.960 They can't handle it.

00:49:05.800 They don't know how to handle it.

00:49:09.320 And then we write them off as, well, they're mentally, I'll just give them drugs.

00:49:15.460 The, the drugs might, they might numb some of, some of this.

00:49:19.040 They, you know, they might be a band-aid solution for some of this, but they aren't going to teach them the skill.

00:49:25.400 They aren't going to, they're going to teach them how to deal with life, how to deal with living a human existence.

00:49:33.000 Aaron says, Matt, I hear you often criticize the GOP focus on tax cuts.

00:49:36.580 I think it's misguided.

00:49:37.400 The problem is that they, isn't that they promise tax cuts, but that they promise them and don't follow through.

00:49:42.820 Well, my issue isn't with the idea of tax cuts.

00:49:45.220 It's with making tax cuts or issues like tax cuts, the central aspect of their agenda and their campaigns.

00:49:51.580 Tax cuts aren't going to save the problem, aren't going to save the country.

00:49:54.680 Tax cuts aren't going to motivate voters to go to the polls the same way that other issues do.

00:50:00.220 Tax cuts are just an easy thing to pander with, and that's my issue with it.

00:50:05.160 But as far as tax cuts go, I mean, I'm all in favor of them.

00:50:08.780 I'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.

00:50:17.640 Government already gets trillions of dollars, trillions every single year in its income.

00:50:21.820 That'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.

00:50:30.980 I 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.

00:50:38.960 The 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.

00:51:03.340 We pay taxes on everything, everywhere, all the time, including paying a tax for simply earning a living.

00:51:10.040 We pay a tax for existing and for dying.

00:51:13.020 If 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.

00:51:19.580 And 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.

00:51:27.520 I despise the whole idea of it.

00:51:29.460 Actually, this is one of my problems with the Republican obsession with tax cuts.

00:51:34.400 It's that it doesn't go nearly far enough.

00:51:36.640 It doesn't solve anything.

00:51:39.380 Shaving off a percentage or two, only to have the Democrats raise it again, what does that solve?

00:51:47.040 What does that achieve in the long run or in the short run?

00:51:51.340 Be bold, have some conviction, go for the whole thing.

00:51:55.760 Attack the system and its foundation, its roots.

00:51:57.920 Talk about abolishing the IRS. 0.97

00:52:00.060 There are a few Republicans talking about that.

00:52:01.520 Ted Cruz has talked about that.

00:52:04.800 That's a bold revolution.

00:52:08.900 That would be a revolution in our country to get rid of the IRS completely.

00:52:13.120 Get rid of the income tax completely.

00:52:17.320 But that's what Republicans do.

00:52:18.840 They're always just dancing around the edges at best.

00:52:23.080 If 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? 0.54

00:52:31.380 It has more than 5,000 audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and even five reviews from critics who were brave enough to touch it.

00:52:37.140 Just in the month after we released What is a Woman? The Daily Wire gained more members than at any other time in our history.

00:52:42.220 Just goes to show that if you make something worth watching, unlike most Hollywood films, people will watch it in droves.

00:52:47.580 If you haven't seen it yet, go to whatisawoman.com to watch it right now.

00:52:51.360 That's whatisawoman.com today.

00:52:53.200 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:58.740 To 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.

00:53:07.240 And 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.

00:53:21.180 And 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.

00:53:37.440 It'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.

00:53:46.260 And 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.

00:53:55.260 So 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.

00:54:04.480 And so to that end, the men's World Cup team is doing its part, providing further evidence that soccer is gay. 0.99

00:54:10.920 Finally, the men's team has redesigned their official crest to get rid of the American flag colors and instead incorporate the rainbow flag.

00:54:18.820 From the Daily Mail, it says,

00:54:19.600 The 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.

00:54:34.240 The 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.

00:54:44.500 As 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.

00:54:57.200 The 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.

00:55:05.840 Pictures 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.

00:55:20.000 It 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.

00:55:26.360 So 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. 0.77

00:55:34.820 That'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. 0.94

00:55:50.520 Yet, fortunately, the other colors are represented elsewhere in their practice facility. 0.95

00:55:54.940 After all, it's not just about the crest.

00:55:57.580 You know, U.S. soccer is doing an entire LGBT rebrand.

00:56:00.780 Reading more from the Daily Mail, it says,

00:56:02.840 Neil Buthe, the USMNT's chief communications officer, told DailyMail.com,

00:56:08.460 Our rainbow badge has an important and consistent role in the identity of U.S. soccer.

00:56:13.000 As part of our approach for any match or event, we include rainbow branding to support and embrace the LGBTQ community,

00:56:19.460 as well as to promote a spirit of inclusiveness and welcoming to all fans across the globe.

00:56:23.360 As a result, locations that we will manage and operate at the FIFA World Cup, such as the team hotel, media areas, and parties,

00:56:31.140 will feature both traditional rainbow U.S. soccer branding.

00:56:33.920 So it will have the traditional flag and also the rainbow flag.

00:56:36.240 Now, you may point out that if U.S. soccer is actually concerned about Qatar's record on, quote, LGBT rights,

00:56:44.700 they could make a much greater statement by refusing to participate in the World Cup in the first place.

00:56:50.980 I mean, by simply showing up and participating, they are financially supporting the country that they claim to be protesting against,

00:56:58.160 which is a bit like protesting J.K. Rowling by buying a Harry Potter book and then burning it.

00:57:02.580 I 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.

00:57:10.440 You've already given your financial support.

00:57:12.300 It's a little bit too late.

00:57:13.520 Whatever statement you make in the process or afterwards is now irrelevant.

00:57:19.500 But then, of course, this is the whole point of virtue signaling.

00:57:22.540 That's why we call it virtue signaling, not virtue doing.

00:57:25.900 We don't call it virtue doing because there is no virtue involved here in the first place,

00:57:30.160 and also because nothing is being done.

00:57:32.580 The corporate gay pride stuff is all just sheep's blood on the door signaling that they are the chosen people

00:57:37.820 so that the angel of cancellation passes them over.

00:57:40.900 But as far as symbolism goes, I think it is appropriate that they should replace the colors of the American flag

00:57:47.600 with the colors of the LGBT flag.

00:57:50.360 I mean, it's horrendous. 0.99

00:57:51.500 It's traitorous.

00:57:52.360 It's treasonous.

00:57:52.900 If I was in charge of the country, they wouldn't be allowed back into the country. 1.00

00:57:57.400 But it's also appropriate because the LGBT nation, LGBTistan, we may call it,

00:58:06.060 is, after all, the country that corporate America, as well as the United States government, seeks to represent.

00:58:11.440 It is the nation that the left pledges its allegiance to.

00:58:14.100 It is the country that wishes to colonize the world and export its ideas and values to corners of the globe that have no interest in them.

00:58:22.280 Now, I've often said that the Alphabet Club is a religious cult.

00:58:25.900 And it is that, certainly.

00:58:27.440 But maybe on second thought, it's better understood in this way, as a country.

00:58:32.800 It has its own flag, its own national holidays, its own myths and traditions, its own sports teams.

00:58:41.240 And it has its own government, too, which is formerly known as the United States government.

00:58:46.560 Now, some people predict that we will eventually, in the future, become two countries.

00:58:51.040 You know, there's going to be some kind of civil war.

00:58:52.860 But the point is that we're already two countries.

00:58:54.800 There's one that salutes the pride flag and despises the American flag.

00:59:00.260 And one that salutes the American flag and has no use for the pride flag. 0.71

00:59:05.800 At this point, it's only a matter of making the split official, I suppose.

00:59:09.540 Something that we will probably never do, but we should.

00:59:13.080 And that is why U.S. soccer is today canceled. 0.67

00:59:16.060 Though, really, a lot of unnecessary words there, because U.S. soccer is already canceled because it's soccer.

00:59:22.600 So, canceled on two levels there.

00:59:23.980 And that will do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.

00:59:26.700 Hope to see you there.

00:59:27.520 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:29.220 Godspeed.

00:59:29.540 I'm good.

00:59:34.600 Bye-bye.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 15, 2022

Ep. 1063 - The New York Times Is Forced To Acknowledge The Dangers Of Puberty Blockers

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