Ep. 1071 - Democrats Deliver Death Blow To Religious Liberty
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show: Democrats in the Senate sign religious liberty s death warrant, with 12 Republicans obediently going along with it. Also, Disney retreats from the culture war, New York City pledges to start getting violent, crazy people off the streets, Will Smith begins his redemption tour just in time for his new movie, and the U.S. Men s team wins a big cash prize for its recent victory at the World Cup, and now they have to split it with the Women s team, all in the name of equality.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Democrats in the Senate sign religious liberty's death warrant
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with 12 Republicans obediently going along with it. Also, Disney retreats from the culture war.
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New York City pledges to start getting violent, crazy people off the streets. There's an idea.
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Will Smith begins his redemption tour just in time for his new movie. And the U.S. men's team
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wins a big cash prize for its recent victory at the World Cup. And now they have to split it with
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the women's team, all in the name of equality. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Yesterday was, we're told, an historic day in the U.S. Senate, a landmark occasion. With 61 votes,
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including every Democrat plus 12 obsequious, pathetic, lick-spittle Republicans, the Senate
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officially passed the inaptly named Respect for Marriage Act. And the bill will, of course,
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repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, codify gay marriage into law at the federal level,
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officially redefining marriage and reshaping it in the image of left-wing ideology. And despite
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assurances from the aforementioned obsequious, pathetic lick-spittles, it will, in fact, set
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the stage for an all-out assault on religious liberty across the entire country. Now, there can
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only be two reasons for legislation like this to be introduced in the first place, and that's one of
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them, to destroy religious liberty. It's why Democrats were celebrating the bill as a consequential
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moment in American history. Here's Senator Tammy Baldwin yesterday afternoon after the bill was passed
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talking about how historic it all is. A lot of people have asked me in recent days what the passage
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of this historic bill would mean to me as a member of the LGBTQ plus community. What I said to people
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who asked me a similar question back in 2012 when I was first elected to the United States Senate still
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rings true today. I didn't run for the Senate to make history. I ran for the Senate to make a
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difference. And we are not pushing this legislation to make history. We are doing this to make a
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difference for millions upon millions of Americans. It's a historic day.
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Sorry, I should have specified. Tammy Baldwin actually argues that the bill does not make
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history, but it is historic. What exactly is the distinction here? This is like the greatest
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humble brag I've ever heard. You should try that in a job interview, maybe. You know, I'm not
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interested in making history. I just want to make a difference. What's the difference between making
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history and being historic? There really isn't one, but Democrats are simply determined to never speak
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clearly about anything. They are allergic to clarity, it would seem. And yet, in spite of the
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obfuscation, it's clear what is actually happening here. As I said, there are only two reasons why this
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bill was written, introduced, and now passed and will certainly be signed by Biden. The first reason
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is to virtue signal, you know, and to give Democrats something to do that doesn't involve solving any of
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the many actual problems that we face as a country. This is reason enough to oppose the bill also.
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And it ought to have been reason enough for every Republican to vote against it.
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Because even if you agree with the Democrats on the subject of marriage, you should still see this
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bill at the very best as in some ways similar to, say, the anti-lynching law that Biden signed
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last year. In that case, I, of course, agreed with the Democrats that lynching is bad, but I oppose the law
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because lynching is already illegal, it's already a felony, and it's already a hate crime.
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So before Biden signed the bill, anyone who lynched a black person would be certain to spend the rest
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of his life in federal prison. After the bill, anyone who lynches a black person is certain to
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spend the rest of his life in federal prison. Nothing has changed. The bill was a waste of time
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designed to help generate the false impression that Democrats in DC are actually working to solve
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problems when, in fact, they aren't working on solving any real problems at all. In a similar way,
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the so-called Respect for Marriage Act was pushed through in response to a totally imagined threat.
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The backers of the bill have imagined a hypothetical scenario where some undetermined,
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unspecified state somewhere passes a law banning same-sex marriage, and then that law is upheld by
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a federal court, and then it winds its way through the court system and ends up at our nation's highest
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court where a majority of justices side with the unknown state and gay marriage is overturned.
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Every part of that scenario is a fantasy. No part of it will actually happen. There is no state in
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the union attempting to ban same-sex marriage. There is no federal court that would uphold such a law,
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and there's only one, maybe two, but certainly not a majority in the Supreme Court that would side
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with the state in such a situation anyway. So this law to begin with is not needed.
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And therefore, again, at the very best, it's designed to give Democrats an opportunity to
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stand in front of the press and congratulate themselves on a historic victory over an imagined
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enemy. They are once again solving a made-up problem because they don't have the interest or
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the will or the ability to solve any of the real problems. And in fact, most of the real problems,
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they don't even see as problems, and that's the first problem. And that's issue number one here.
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But it's worse than that because I wish the legislation was merely pointless. I wish that
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it was merely meant to virtue signal. It was merely a waste of time. But it is, in fact,
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far more troubling than that. As it turns out, the law will accomplish something. Namely,
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it will accomplish the further destruction and degradation of religious liberty and free speech
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in the United States. And if you were among the oblivious conservatives who didn't see this or
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understand it before, hopefully you've now been jolted awake by the fact that three attempts to
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include amendments protecting religious liberty all failed. Okay, there were attempts to put religious
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liberty amendments on this thing, guaranteeing that religious liberty would not be, this bill would
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not be used to attack religious liberty, and all those amendments failed. Reading from the Daily Wire,
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it says, Oklahoma Republican Senator James Langford, who proposed an amendment addressing
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religious liberty concerns, warned of the language fails to place any restrictions which would cause
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entities such as nonprofits or faith-based organizations to choose not to provide those
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services or to abandon their faith. Quote, I encourage everyone in this body to ask a very simple
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question to themselves. Is today about respecting the rights of all, Langford said on the Senate floor,
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or is it about silencing some? Senator Mike Lee called on his Republican colleagues in favor of the
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legislation to include protections for anyone with a religious belief or moral conviction that
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marriage belongs to one man and one woman. Lee introduced an amendment prohibiting federal
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bureaucrats from discriminating against individuals, organizations, and other religious entities by
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stripping away tax-exempt status, licenses, contracts, or other benefits. Quote, instead of subjecting
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churches, religious nonprofits, and persons of conscience to undue scrutiny or punishment by the
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federal government because of their views on marriage, we should make explicitly clear that this
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legislation does not constitute a national policy endorsing a particular view of marriage that
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threatens the tax-exempt status of faith-based nonprofits, he wrote. As we move forward, let us
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be sure to keep churches, religious charities, and religious universities out of litigation in the first
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instance. But neither Langford Lee or Senator Mark Rubio's amendment to the bill passed.
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So that tells you what you need to know. There were multiple attempts to add specific, strong,
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clear language guaranteeing the religious rights of individual Americans, and those attempts were all
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rebuffed. Here is Senator Lee explaining more about the purpose of his amendment. Listen.
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In the hope that we can come to a place where we respect each other, I have offered an amendment to
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this legislation that would explicitly minimize the threats to these religious organizations and
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individuals. I am at the table. I am willing to compromise. And in the spirit of compromise,
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I have publicly stated and I reiterate here again today that I will support the legislation if my
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amendment is adopted. My amendment simply prohibits the federal government from discriminating against
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schools, businesses, and organizations based on their religious beliefs about same-sex marriage.
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That's all it does. My amendment prevents the Internal Revenue Service, among other things,
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from revoking the tax-exempt status of these charities and organizations simply because they act according to
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their beliefs about the divine purpose of marriage. It prevents the Department of Education from targeting
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schools with honor codes based on the fact that they've got provisions in their honor codes based on
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religious beliefs. It protects individuals from being denied business licenses or grants or other statuses based on
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their views about marriage. It protects Americans who wish to add, who wish to act according to their religious
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beliefs, from being forced to abandon their God-given mandates to love, serve, and care for the poor, the orphan, and the
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refugee. If we allow the government to threaten their ability to do so, then the religious liberty of every
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Well, that argument was not persuasive to those assembled. That amendment failed. We're told that the amendments
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weren't needed because the so-called Respect for Marriage Act already protects religious liberty, and that, of course,
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is a lie. Here's what the bill actually says on the subject of religious liberty. Here's what it says. Here's the language in the bill.
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It says, diverse beliefs about the role of gender in marriage are held by reasonable and sincere people based on
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decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises. Therefore, Congress affirms that such people and their
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diverse beliefs are due proper respect. Well, that means exactly nothing. Notice how it does not specify, it doesn't
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mention any specific belief about marriage. It doesn't say anything that, you know, belief in traditional or
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biblical or man-woman marriage. No word like that or term like that is used. It only says that diverse beliefs
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are due respect. Which beliefs? And what does due respect even mean? I mean, we don't need the law to grant
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vague and unspecified respect to certain beliefs. Yes, people are free to believe whatever they want.
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So when you hear from a government, you know, from these people, oh, we're not going to stop you from
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believing what you want to believe. Well, I know that because you can't stop me from believing something,
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even if you wanted to. And I think you do want to. Because a belief is something that I carry around
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in my head and in my heart. There's no law that can govern that directly. So the issue isn't belief
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per se, but action. The government must protect your right, not simply to believe what you want to
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believe, but to live out and act out your faith. And this is precisely what the bill does not protect.
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It's what the amendments that were voted down were supposed to protect, but the bill does not.
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Also note that the supposed religious liberty protections in the bill only apply to religious
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institutions like churches, allegedly protecting their right to not directly participate in the
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solemnization of a same-sex marriage. I'm skeptical that those protections will be meaningful in
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practice, but they also don't include the people who actually need the protections. As recent history
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shows, the left is far more interested in imposing its will on small town bakers and photographers and
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florists who prefer not to lend their services to gay weddings. But a bakery is not a religious
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institution. And yet the baker still has First Amendment rights, or at least he ought to.
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You shouldn't need to work for a religious institution in order to have the right to live
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and operate according to your religious beliefs. In fact, if you're only allowed to live by your
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religious beliefs at church, then you don't have religious liberty at all. And that is the goal
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here. The left's goal is to contain religious expression, relegate it to certain assigned areas,
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and then once it's been entirely walled in, that's when they set out to eradicate it completely.
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Well, the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, a massive defeat in the legislature and a massive
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defeat culturally as well. That's what it is. There's just no way around it. And don't listen
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to any conservative who says, oh, it's okay. It's no big deal. Because these are very often the same
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exact conservatives that every single massive defeat conservatives have suffered. They're the
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ones saying, yeah, it'll be fine. No, it's fine. We didn't need that anyway. Religious liberty,
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what do you need that for? They said you can still have it at church. Just go to church and have all
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the religious liberty you want inside those walls. Until a few years from now, when the government
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comes along and says, you know what? People have the human God-given right to, a man has a human
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right. This is a basic human right that a man has to marry another man. And who are you even in a
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church to deny someone their human rights? So that's the argument that we are going to start
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hearing. And then when we start hearing that argument, and they actually move finally in a
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really serious way against the churches, these same conservatives again will say, well, it's fine
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anyway. In your home at least, what do you need to gather together for to express your religious
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faith? Just stay at your home. There's Zoom church. You can do it on Zoom. Well, no, you don't
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have access to Zoom anymore because we took that away because they're not going to let you use it
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for those bigoted purposes. So just stay at your house. Gather together in your home. Not too many
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of you, just individual families. That's a defeat. But there was yesterday a victory, a much smaller
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scale, I have to say, but also important. So Chris Ruffo has this report. It says,
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in recent years, the Walt Disney Company has become embroiled in America's culture war.
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As I've reported, the company has pushed critical race theory and its employee training programs and
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radical gender ideology and its children's programming. Last week, Disney's board of directors
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fired CEO Bob Chapek, who lost a high-profile fight with Governor Ron DeSantis regarding legislation
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restricting radical gender theory in schools, and brought back former CEO Bob Iger to right the
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ship. Ruffo reports, I have obtained exclusive video of Iger's first town hall meeting with Disney
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employees, in which he retreats from the company's most controversial political positions and moves
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toward neutrality in the culture war. So I want to go through some of these videos as he's talking to
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his employees about his vision for Disney going forward. And we'll start with this. Here's Bob Iger
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answering a question about whether Disney will stay out of, what's Disney going to do about politics?
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Are they going to stay involved in politics? Are they going to get out of politics? Here's what he says.
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This is a virtual question. Many cast members had wished that Disney stayed out of politics.
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Will Disney stay out of making political statements?
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You know, I think there's a misperception here about what politics is. And I think that some of the subjects
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that have proven to be controversial as it relates to Disney have been branded political, and I don't
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necessarily believe they are. I don't think when you're telling stories and attempting to be a good
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citizen of the world, that that's political. Just not how I view it. Do I like the company being
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embroiled in controversy? Of course not. It can be distracting, and it can have a negative impact on
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the company. And to the extent that I can work to kind of quiet things down, I'm going to do that.
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But I think it's important to put in perspective what some of these subjects are, and not just simply
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brand them political. Okay, so that's a little bit, yes, on one hand, he's saying we're retreating
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from politics, but that he does also offer this qualification that, well, I don't consider
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some of this stuff to be politics. So that's a classic move on the left, is to say, well, this isn't
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political or ideological at all, right? To have gay romance storylines in films for kids, nothing
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ideological or political about that. So you can't tell based on that. Is this just his way of actually
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doubling down and saying we're going to continue in this direction? I think it becomes more clear
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when he's asked specifically about the battle with Ron DeSantis in Florida and how he feels about that
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now, you know, upon reflection. Here's what he says. Bob, have you given any thoughts on how to tackle
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the Reedy Creek situation in Florida? No. I have to get up to speed on that
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completely. Obviously, I followed the news. That development occurred after I left the
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company. I was sorry to see us dragged into that battle. And I have no idea exactly what its
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ramifications are in terms of the business itself. What I can say is the state of Florida has been
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important to us for a long time. And we have been very important to the state of Florida. That is
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something I'm extremely mindful of and will articulate if I get the chance. But I don't have the details at
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all yet about what the ramifications are of the decision that was made by the state of Florida and
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whether we intend to do anything about it. Okay. And finally, one other clip to play. This is
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more specifically asked about the Don't Say Gay bill. And remember, this is what this all traces
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back to is Disney came out against the Don't Say Gay bill and had this whole battle with DeSantis over
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it. What they label the Don't Say Gay bill, a bill that we must remember that that bill never
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actually existed that was invented by the left. Just to clarify. It was actually the anti-groomer
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bill that they had a problem with. But here's what he says about that. All right. Another virtual
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question. What is your stance on the Don't Say Gay situation? Well, first of all, our LGBTQ employees
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are very important to us and we care deeply about them. That is a given. Secondly, this company has
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been telling stories for 100 years. And those stories have had a meaningful, positive impact
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on the world. And one of the reasons they've had a meaningful, positive impact is because
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one of the core values of our storytelling is inclusion and acceptance and tolerance.
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And we can't lose that. We just can't lose that. I think about Black Panther and the impact
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that had on the world or a film like Coco. I mean, I could go on and on. And how we actually
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change the world for the good. It must continue. We also, when you tell stories, it's a delicate
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balance. You're talking to an audience, but it's also important to listen to an audience.
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It's important to have respect for the people that you're serving, that you're trying to reach,
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and not have disdain for it. That said, we're not going to make everybody happy all the time.
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And we're not going to try to. And we're certainly not going to lessen our core values in order
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to make everybody happy all the time. So it's complicated. And there's a balance. But
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at one point, I said, we do what we believe is right. And then someone criticized me. You're
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saying, well, who are you to say that that's right? Well, when you're in a job like mine,
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or you are responsible for the storytelling that many of you are responsible for.
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Okay. So you're talking to an audience, but you want to listen to them and not have disdain for
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them. That's quite an interesting revelation. Don't have open contempt for your audience is what
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they're realizing over at Disney, or at least is what they're saying publicly. You know, gee,
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I don't know. Maybe we shouldn't openly hate. We can still hate them, but let's not be so open
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about it. Now, so a few things about this. Obviously, it would be quite naive to believe
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that this is a sign that Disney is anti-woke now and that everything he said about, you know,
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politics, don't want to be too involved in that, that they're going to withdraw completely. And
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it's going to go back to, you know, they're going to start making content like they made in the 1950s,
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right? That's not going to happen. Disney is run by the people it's run by. It is a woke leftist
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corporation. And that's probably not ever going to change. If it ever did change, it's not going
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to happen overnight. Like that's a decades long change if it ever happens at all. Just like it
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took decades for Disney to be overrun by these types of people. So it would be incredibly naive
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to think that, that this is, that they're just, you know, next thing you know, Disney's like going
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to be modeling itself after the Daily Wire. That's not going to happen. However, this is also
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a victory. It's a victory for Ron DeSantis, that's for sure. He went up against Disney and this is
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Disney backing down. They're backing away from it. Which by the way, if you're one of these people
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that's out there claiming now that somehow Ron DeSantis is an establishment Republican,
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this completely absurd notion, well, this should put that notion to rest. Okay. Establishment
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Republicans, and there are a lot of reasons why Ron DeSantis is not an establishment Republican. Okay.
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But establishment Republicans, they're not going to go to war with major corporations. Establishment
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Republican Republican who's a governor is not going to go up against. He's not going to pick a fight
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with the, with, with the most powerful corporate interest in his state. And if ever they established
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Republican pretends to be doing that, he's going to be the one who backs down quickly.
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That's, that's one of the defining features of the establishment is that at the end of the day,
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they are, they're going to bow before corporate America and do as they're told.
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So this is not what the establishment does. It's not just a victory for Ron to say this though. It's
00:25:19.840
also a victory. This is a, you know, for conservatives. This is a cultural victory.
00:25:24.040
Because even though Disney is not now going to become conservative,
00:25:28.420
they are actually responding to public pressure. That's what they're doing.
00:25:37.260
And now they're going to look for more subtle ways to inject this stuff into their programming,
00:25:44.020
which you could argue is even more dangerous if they're more subtle about it, because you have
00:25:46.880
to look out for it more. And that's true. So we kind of enter a new phase here, but even so they
00:25:53.040
are responding to pressure. They are backing away. They are crumbling a little bit under pressure.
00:25:58.780
And, uh, that's important. And it's important for us to see that we can do that. Like we have that
00:26:05.560
power. Um, we can put pressure even on these major corporations and we can force them to respond to it.
00:26:14.920
All right. From the Daily Wire, it says, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the city will begin to
00:26:22.680
involuntary hospital, involuntarily hospitalized mentally ill residents. In a press conference
00:26:27.740
Tuesday, Adams announced that first responders in the city would be able to remove people who
00:26:32.300
appear to be mentally ill and pose a danger to themselves. First responders will be able to remove
00:26:37.520
individuals and take them to a hospital for evaluation. And the individuals will be held until a
00:26:41.720
treatment plan is established. Adam says, it's not acceptable for us to see someone who clearly
00:26:46.340
needs help and walk past. For too long, there's been a gray area where policy law and accountability
00:26:51.800
have not been clear. And this has allowed people in need to slip through the cracks. This culture of
00:26:56.500
uncertainty has led to untold suffering and deep frustration. It cannot continue. We need to change
00:27:00.920
that culture and clarify our expectations. No more walking by or looking away, no more passing the buck
00:27:06.840
going forward. We will focus on action, care, and compassion. If severe mental illness is
00:27:11.540
causing someone to be unsheltered and a danger to themselves, we have a moral obligation to help
00:27:16.040
them get the treatment and care they need. It begins with an immediate shift in how we interpret
00:27:20.400
our obligation to those in need and calls upon our outreach workers to take deeper actions
00:27:25.520
and more intensive engagement. We can no longer deny the reality that untreated psychosis can be a
00:27:31.800
cruel and all-consuming condition that often requires involuntary intervention, supervised medical
00:27:36.940
treatment, and long-term care. So there's a lot of revelations going on here on the left today.
00:27:40.980
On one hand, we've had Disney saying maybe we shouldn't openly hate our audience.
00:27:45.480
And then we've also now got the mayor of New York saying we can't deny reality. Maybe we shouldn't
00:27:50.140
be denying reality. Maybe to some extent we should confront reality. Because when there's uncomfortable
00:27:57.120
realities out there, like for example, the existence of violent and dangerous crazy people,
00:28:02.680
it's an uncomfortable reality. But when we just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist,
00:28:06.720
it just causes more suffering for everybody involved, including the violent, dangerous crazy
00:28:11.780
people. So maybe we should confront that reality. And that's what they're claiming they're going to
00:28:16.160
do here. Now, once again, on this story too, I'm kind of of two minds about it. You know,
00:28:23.380
on the one hand, and what I see from most people on the right is that they are applauding this and
00:28:31.060
they're saying, thank you, finally. Like, this is what we used to do with violent, dangerous,
00:28:37.300
crazy people. We used to, we had things called insane asylums. And that's where we put them.
00:28:43.720
Okay? If they, if you couldn't get through to them, if they wouldn't respond to therapy and
00:28:49.180
counseling, if they were that, you know, off their rocker, if they were completely disconnected from
00:28:54.680
reality, and they were a danger to themselves or others, then you had places that you put them.
00:28:58.980
Because what else are you supposed to do? The only other option is to just leave them out on the
00:29:03.620
street where they're going to victimize themselves and other people. And this used to be what we did.
00:29:09.660
And so on the one hand, you might think it's a good thing we're returning to that. And it is
00:29:17.980
looked at a certain way. Because again, what else are you going to do?
00:29:24.640
This, this other option of just leaving them on the street is obviously not working.
00:29:32.360
Because next thing you know, they're walking down to the subway and just like throwing a random woman
00:29:36.280
in front of the train. You know, these are the kind of things that are happening.
00:29:40.220
So that's, that's good if we're, if we're taking them and involuntarily hospitalizing them.
00:29:46.140
Um, but then on the other hand, this is New York and it's a city run by leftists,
00:29:55.920
which means that there's always, even when they appear to be doing something good and making the
00:30:00.840
right choice, you, you, there's always going to be the flip side of the coin you have to worry about.
00:30:05.060
In this case, there's two things. Number one, if you're putting cops in a position now of
00:30:13.060
involved, of taking crazy people and involuntarily committing them, that means that, uh, it's
00:30:18.800
involuntary. So they're not going to agree to it, right? If, if, if they were agreed to it,
00:30:24.140
then it's voluntary commitment. We already have that. But the thing about violent, dangerous,
00:30:28.060
crazy people is that they're oftentimes not going to, they're crazy. So they don't understand.
00:30:31.780
They're not going to agree to go and seek help. Involuntary means that you're going in many cases
00:30:38.320
and you are physically detaining them and against their will, bringing them to the mental hospital.
00:30:47.400
Okay, fine. But what happens when the cops start using force on the crazy people? And then you've got
00:30:56.840
the very helpful crowd standing around and filming it and then cutting it in, in, in a way that makes
00:31:04.260
it look as brutal as possible with as little context as possible. And then they put it on Twitter and it
00:31:09.780
goes viral. And what happens then? So it's one thing to tell the police to do this and say, this is how
00:31:15.920
we're going to handle, uh, these sorts of people from now on. But are you going to have their back
00:31:20.120
when we start seeing all of the, the viral videos and the outrage and everything else?
00:31:29.660
about it, are you going to have their back? Are you going to stick by them?
00:31:35.260
That's one of my first concerns. First time I, when I first heard this, my first thought,
00:31:39.960
well, what happens when we start seeing the videos of this? Cause this is not a pretty thing. Okay.
00:31:43.340
It's not, there's no easy way to do it. As we said, it's an uncomfortable reality that you have
00:31:49.300
violent, dangerous, crazy people. And when you're, when you're dealing with them, it's not pretty.
00:31:54.660
It's not going to be pretty. It's going to be a rough thing to see. And we live in a society now
00:32:00.300
where we get to see everything. So how, how is that going to work? That's my concern.
00:32:07.280
Second concern is what counts as a mental illness? You know, um, we know that the category of mental
00:32:17.060
illness is being increasingly expanded every, every new iteration of the diagnostic statistical
00:32:23.100
manual of mental disorders. You know, they, they add a bunch of new ones and we're already at a point
00:32:28.980
where, uh, any, anyone, I mean, you could pick up the DSM and you could find 15 mental illnesses on
00:32:35.720
there that apply to you, even if you're not crazy at all. So they, this is happening within the context
00:32:42.240
of the mental health industry, sort of, uh, categorizing and cataloging and medicalizing
00:32:50.340
every aspect of the human condition. So as to make everybody mentally ill, even if we're not.
00:32:57.900
So what counts as dangerously mentally ill? You know, do you get to a point where, uh, you're
00:33:04.780
maybe just being a conservative is a mental illness and also a danger to the public.
00:33:10.280
You tweet something that makes people uncomfortable. You tweet a criticism of the
00:33:13.880
trans community, right? Of the trans agenda. We've already been told that's terrorism. That's dangerous.
00:33:21.040
So you worry about these kinds of measures being abused in that way as well.
00:33:27.060
Uh, what, and what do we, what do we end up with? Like, is this the right move or not? I don't know.
00:33:32.120
It's just the problem. When you, when you have these crazy leftist running cities, there's no,
00:33:38.160
it's, it's a no win situation. But what I will say is in theory, this is the right approach in theory,
00:33:44.740
if it's done exactly the right way and if it's done responsibly.
00:33:49.940
All right. So I've had this for a couple of days. I want to play for you.
00:33:53.620
Uh, NBC news. They had, this is last week. They had a story, quite a tragic story about one of the
00:34:01.220
Twitter moderators who lost his job or as they say, her job. And, um, it's quite, quite revealing
00:34:09.720
to see who was actually in charge of moderating content. Who was making the calls on these things?
00:34:15.100
Like what counts as inappropriate content. And, uh, here's, here's one from, uh, NBC watch in her
00:34:22.940
San Francisco home with some moral support from her dog biscuit. Melissa Engel follows the rapid
00:34:28.120
fire changes at her former employer on the current path. I just, I'm really, really worried about
00:34:33.940
Twitter's future on November 12th. She learned she'd been let go first by losing access to her
00:34:38.860
accounts. Then an email, she says other former full-time employees have told her they had to sign an
00:34:44.660
NDA to get their severance benefits. But because she was a contract worker, that doesn't apply to
00:34:49.780
her. So she's speaking out. I'm not giving a severance package. I can't, they can't take that
00:34:55.360
away from me. And I think people need to know about this situation. The layoffs followed by an employee
00:34:59.980
exodus came just days before Elon Musk reinstated former president Donald Trump's account Saturday
00:35:06.120
evening. Outstate East Bay professor Grant Kian says the move appears strategic. He gets to say that he's
00:35:13.580
rescuing democracy and reintroducing a certain type of political discourse on Twitter, even while
00:35:21.500
it overshadows for the moment, some of the, um, really tough news that people at Twitter have had
00:35:29.260
in the past couple of weeks. While the focus might be on Trump's account now, Kian notes that the
00:35:34.240
absence of employees like Engel who checked content will shape users' experience on Twitter.
00:35:40.020
Those losses of personnel are going to be felt. Just over time, these things build up and the site
00:35:45.980
will become more abusive, more extreme, and less reliable over time. Alyssa Gord, today in the Bay.
00:35:54.180
Look, just keep that screenshot up there. Does anyone, you see that person, does anyone think that that
00:36:01.380
individual was fairly, even capable of fairly assessing, you know, what qualifies as offensive content and
00:36:10.920
what doesn't? And of course, when it comes to offensive content, it's subjective. So Twitter is run
00:36:20.120
according to what that person, what offends that person. Does anyone think that this could be, that
00:36:27.540
that that person's capable of, of, of any kind of like objective, rational analysis?
00:36:35.100
Obviously not. If someone is confused about their own identity, how could they possibly be able to
00:36:41.700
do anything worthwhile when it comes to content moderation?
00:36:46.540
Of course, if you, you know, you could simple, simplify the content moderation thing and you make
00:36:51.300
it a lot easier. Michael Tracy tweeted this yesterday and Elon Musk responded to it saying
00:36:57.000
that it makes sense to him and he likes it. So Michael Tracy tweeted, Twitter policy in 2015,
00:37:02.760
and there's a screenshot of what the Twitter policy was back in 2015, before media slash activists
00:37:07.280
lobbied for the company to become a giant online daycare center. No direct threats of violence.
00:37:12.180
Beyond that, Twitter doesn't mediate disputes between users or remove offensive content.
00:37:16.480
If you feel a law was broken, contact police. And like I said, Elon Musk responded and said,
00:37:22.900
that makes sense. And it does make sense. And that's what the moderation policy really should be.
00:37:29.200
It's actually pretty simple. And it was simple on social media in the early years of it.
00:37:40.160
Yeah, we hear that in the early days of Twitter and Facebook, it was like the wild,
00:37:44.720
wild west of the internet. It's not really because in the wild, wild west, you know,
00:37:47.760
people get shot and killed. That's not happening on the internet. It just means that people can
00:37:51.220
share their opinions. And we can try to complicate it and make it seem much more complex than it is,
00:38:00.200
but there's no reason to do that. Like if I'm in charge of a social media platform,
00:38:06.140
for me, it's very simple. If you cannot directly threaten to kill people, right? Direct threats of
00:38:12.160
violence. That's a crime. It's against the law. You can't do that. So that's out the window.
00:38:18.180
You cannot dox people. And doxing means publishing personal, private information about them,
00:38:25.800
like their address. Can't do that. And that falls under the death threat category.
00:38:30.540
And then the only other thing that I would add is pornographic content. Starting, of course,
00:38:35.220
with child pornography, with which Elon Musk has already done a really good job of getting rid of a lot of
00:38:39.180
that. You know, he's been able to clean almost all that stuff out in just a few weeks, which makes
00:38:45.360
you wonder about the people that were in charge. You're going back to that Twitter moderator that
00:38:49.480
we saw. You know, if it was so easy for Elon Musk to get rid of a lot of the child exploitation images
00:38:55.460
and all this stuff was able to proliferate for years, it makes it seem like Twitter really wasn't
00:39:01.120
trying that hard to get rid of it. Because at a minimum, they weren't worried about that.
00:39:05.340
They were more worried about protecting the feelings of that Twitter moderator that we saw,
00:39:09.680
men who dress up like women. That was their primary concern.
00:39:13.840
So child pornography, obviously, should not be allowed. And then if I were in charge,
00:39:19.840
I would also include all other forms of pornographic material as well. I wouldn't allow.
00:39:24.200
But those are, you know, definable categories, pretty easy to enforce. Anything outside of that
00:39:32.100
that qualifies as an opinion that somebody is sharing. And you should be able to share your
00:39:37.300
opinions, no matter how stupid they may be. And if you really got into the business of saying,
00:39:43.280
we're not going to allow stupid and objectionable opinions on this platform, then almost nobody would
00:39:48.720
be allowed to post on any platform. It would be a platform with nobody on it.
00:39:55.420
You want a social media platform with no stupid or objectionable opinions, then it's just,
00:39:58.660
it's a platform just with nothing. It's just a blank screen and nothing is happening.
00:40:04.240
All right. Do we have time for this? Maybe we do. So CBS has this report. Actor Will Smith says that
00:40:11.960
he would understand if audiences are not ready to see him on the big screen so soon after the infamous
00:40:16.800
Oscar slap earlier this year. On Monday, Smith spoke to Fox 5 DC's Kevin McCarthy about his new film
00:40:23.400
Emancipation, which is set to be released in theaters on December 2nd and starts streaming on Apple TV
00:40:28.020
on December 9th. It's his first major project since he slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Academy
00:40:32.520
Awards. And this is a movie, as the title suggests, it's a movie about slavery. Emancipation centers
00:40:38.880
around Smith's character, Peter, an enslaved man who escapes a Louisiana plantation and makes his way
00:40:44.020
north. The film was inspired by 1863 photos of a man whose bareback was mutilated from whippings by his
00:40:50.320
enslavers. Well, even before we talk about Will Smith specifically, I will say that I'm just,
00:40:55.600
I'm glad we finally have a movie about slavery. And finally, finally, Hollywood is telling this
00:41:04.480
story. Because I think the story has never been told and we haven't heard about this. And it's just
00:41:11.900
really good. I mean, at the very least, it had been 17 seconds since the last slavery movie. And we know
00:41:17.940
that if there's going to be a movie about American history, like as far as Hollywood's concerned, this is
00:41:23.300
the only thing that happened in American history. Certainly the only thing that you can tell a story
00:41:27.840
about. So that's great. But Will Smith is kind of on this, on this publicity tour, where he's claiming
00:41:36.520
that I don't care, you don't, if you, I understand if you don't, if you're still upset, and he's pretending
00:41:41.560
to be apologetic. But then if you listen to what he's saying, it actually doesn't sound very apologetic
00:41:46.520
to me. Here he is with Trevor Noah, a couple nights ago, listen.
00:41:49.520
I guess what I would say, you just never know what somebody's going through. You know, you know,
00:41:59.480
in the audience right now, you know, you're sitting next to strangers, you know, and somebody's mother
00:42:08.080
died last week, you know, somebody's child is sick, you know, somebody just lost their job.
00:42:17.100
Somebody just found out their spouse cheated, you know, there's, it's like, there's all these
00:42:21.640
things and these, there's strangers, and you just don't know what's going on with people,
00:42:28.340
you know, and there's, I was going through something that night, you know, and not that that,
00:42:35.880
you know, justifies my behavior at all. I would just say, you know, you're asking,
00:42:39.820
what did I learn? And it's that, um, we just got to be nice to each other, man. You know, it's like,
00:42:49.540
it's hard. I'm not justifying or excusing my behavior, but here's my justification and my excuse.
00:42:58.020
I was going through something. So this is really what he's doing. He's, he's like really Will Smith
00:43:02.640
is doing the victim routine and he's making, and if you listen to him, he's just making a whole
00:43:06.720
bunch of excuses. I don't even think that he's, that he's actually apologetic at all. Um, because
00:43:13.300
if you're actually apologetic, you're not going to get into this. I was going through something.
00:43:16.780
No one gives a damn what you were going through. You got up, what you did was so
00:43:22.380
unbelievable. It's like, it goes beyond inappropriate. It doesn't begin to cover it. Okay.
00:43:28.200
And yes, is it, was it worth the, all the headlines, everything? No, nothing is ever
00:43:32.980
worth all the attention the media gives to it. But at the same time, it's still, uh, the kind of
00:43:38.520
thing that, yeah, that's going to destroy your career. Now look, look at it this way because there
00:43:43.160
is now this, uh, this move online. It's like, it's actually seemed to me, anecdotally, there's a lot
00:43:49.500
of sympathy for, for Will Smith and people say, well, we should forgive him. And he's one of these
00:43:53.980
putting him in the category of these canceled. He's like, he's been canceled. No, this is not
00:43:59.520
actually being canceled. This, this in fact is just, this really is just a natural consequence
00:44:06.060
for your actions. Like getting banned from the Academy Awards, well, you physically, you committed
00:44:10.260
assault in the middle of the ceremony. Of course you're going to get banned. That would happen to
00:44:14.220
anybody. So just imagine if you were like, what if you were at your job and it's, it's, and you have
00:44:20.600
some kind of banquet at your job, maybe an awards, you know, like some kind of awards banquet at your
00:44:26.180
job and they're awarding employee of the year and all these kinds of things. And they, they bring
00:44:30.320
someone up in the MC at this banquet and he makes a mild joke about you or about your wife or something.
00:44:36.740
And you get up and you physically assault the guy in front of all your coworkers at this employee
00:44:43.360
banquet. Do you, would, would you even bother begging for your job back? Like you would sit
00:44:51.080
down and know, okay, well, I'm getting fired for that. And I'm also going to go to jail by the way,
00:44:55.280
because that's a felony assault that I just committed. And that would happen to anybody
00:45:00.520
and any normal person. So the fact that anyone's even talking about like accepting Will Smith back
00:45:07.680
into the fold, that's just privilege that no one else would get. If that was you, you're done,
00:45:13.320
you're fired. You're not getting another job either. When people find out about that. And also,
00:45:17.560
again, you are going to be criminally prosecuted for it, which he never was.
00:45:24.240
So no, I actually don't think that I'm all about people make mistakes and I'm a hundred percent
00:45:29.260
against cancel culture, but there is, you know, not everything is cancel culture. Sometimes someone
00:45:34.340
just acts in a way, this is physical assault you committed in the middle. And sometimes it really
00:45:39.900
just is a consequence of that. All right, let's get to the comment section.
00:45:46.520
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MB says, this idea that only easy lives are worth living is paradoxically going to bring about
00:46:56.020
a pervasive misery in society, unlike anything the world has seen before. Well, you summed it up
00:47:01.260
quite well. That's exactly the point I was making in the opening yesterday. It's not that it's going
00:47:05.440
to bring about misery, pervasive misery in society. It already has. This myth that life is not supposed
00:47:13.780
to include suffering. That's not what life is supposed to be. And then people experience suffering
00:47:20.280
because it turns out that actually life is suffering in many ways. And they experience it,
00:47:26.340
and then they think, well, there's no point in living anymore. I am, you know, they think that
00:47:33.360
or they think there's something wrong with me. I am broken somehow. The same is why I'm always
00:47:38.600
talking about the way that we've medicalized anxiety and depression. And it sends the message
00:47:44.820
that people are not supposed to experience anxiety. And so if you do, then it's a sign,
00:47:54.120
it's a symptom of that something is broken in your mind. But it's actually the other way around.
00:47:58.880
Like, if you would never experience any anxiety at all, then you're not even human. Like,
00:48:05.340
that's not, that means you're not a conscious human. You don't have consciousness if you don't
00:48:10.660
experience anxiety because that's, anxiety comes with consciousness. It comes with our awareness
00:48:16.380
of ourselves and of our place in the world, right? And of the state of the world. If you're aware of
00:48:25.500
those things, it will cause anxiety. All right. Let's see. Wider says, quoting me,
00:48:34.600
suffering is a part of life, like it or not. Then he says, yeah, some people don't like that. And so
00:48:39.200
they use their freedom to choose the other option. Why wouldn't they? I know there were a lot of
00:48:44.200
comments like this. So people, anytime we talk about euthanasia, assisted suicide, whatever
00:48:48.980
euphemism you want to use, there are always people saying, well, this is freedom. It's a freedom.
00:48:55.160
It's the freedom to destroy yourself. I think one thing we learned from that is that's why,
00:49:00.480
that's why freedom, freedom, freedom understood as simply the ability to do whatever you want.
00:49:05.180
That is not the be all and end all. And that cannot be what our lives revolve around and what
00:49:11.960
society revolves around. And that kind of freedom also doesn't exist, by the way.
00:49:16.860
That kind of freedom cannot exist in any society. It wouldn't be a society. It wouldn't be a
00:49:20.580
civilized society. Obviously, you're not able to do everything that you want.
00:49:24.060
And when it comes to someone killing themselves, what I would ask you, and for anyone who says,
00:49:32.940
well, this is someone's right, the right to, okay, well, what if you saw, you were driving along and
00:49:39.720
you saw someone, some distraught suicidal man about to jump off of a bridge to his death?
00:49:46.540
Would you just keep driving and say, well, that's his freedom. It's his choice. He doesn't want to
00:49:54.040
live anymore. Godspeed, sir. Wave to him as you drive by. Is that what you would do?
00:50:01.200
Or would you stop and pull over and try to persuade him not to jump and tell him that life is worth
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living? I mean, would you at a minimum call the police as you drive by? I'd hope you do more than
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that, but would you at a minimum do that? Or would you simply wave as he jumps?
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I think any decent person would try to persuade the person not to do it.
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Because although you recognize that someone has the freedom, as in has the physical ability to
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destroy themselves, you also recognize that this is not a good choice and that life is worth living.
00:50:38.380
And the other thing about assisted suicide too, by the way, is that we're not just talking about
00:50:43.940
the choice of the suicidal individual. We're also talking about what the medical profession is
00:50:52.340
doing. So this is first and foremost a question of, should the medical profession be in the business
00:51:01.860
of directly and intentionally ending human life? Should that be a treatment? Should the end of human life
00:51:08.380
be a treatment option for human suffering that the medical establishment will potentially provide?
00:51:17.900
It's not a question of, should people kill themselves? My answer to that is, no, they should
00:51:22.700
not. And I hope that that would be your answer too. Again, if you were in a position where you saw
00:51:26.660
someone about to do it. But before we get to that question, it's really a question of, should the
00:51:31.100
medical establishment be killing people? And my answer to that also is most certainly not.
00:51:39.080
All right. I cannot neglect this. You all know about the hideously stupid deal that I made,
00:51:45.120
the agreement to watch a season of anime. And I've been quite worried about this, distressed about it.
00:51:50.660
But then someone, a valiant member of the SBG tweeted to me this morning, and this is Joshua Laster.
00:51:57.080
He tweeted, hey, Matt Walsh, you're officially the star of the shortest ever anime season,
00:52:02.040
one episode, 16 seconds total. You're welcome. So this individual has created an anime series.
00:52:09.740
He's completed an entire season of this series. And technically, if I watch this right now,
00:52:16.440
live on the air with you, then I will have fulfilled the terms of my deal. So let's watch it.
00:52:40.400
That was extraordinary, I thought. I thought that was really, you know, some people said if you sit
00:52:45.140
down and watch an anime, you might discover that you like anime. And I will say, I don't know if I
00:52:49.020
like anime in general, but that particular show I found to be quite, quite, well, it was efficient.
00:52:55.900
I'll say that. It was quite efficient. The season started a little bit slow, really picked up in
00:53:00.360
the middle, I thought. And by the end, I was worried that at the finale, it might let us down
00:53:04.020
a little bit. How are they going to wrap all the whole story together like this? And they found a
00:53:08.440
way to do it at the end that I thought was quite fantastic. I just, I really, I thought that was
00:53:15.600
great. And that's my, that's my reaction to it. And I, and so I have watched that's like, that is,
00:53:21.440
that's a season of an anime. That's an anime season, technically. Okay. So that's it. The deal's
00:53:28.140
complete. Well, the sweet baby gang came out with a vengeance over at my swag shack this past cyber
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week. Johnny, the walrus said it's plush companions were flying off the warehouse shelves, but the sweet
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baby album tea ripe with the smell of sweet baby spirit and nineties nostalgia sold out faster than
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mimosas at a drag queen brunch. Many of you probably weren't able to get the shirt. However,
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because I am so widely revered for both my wild generosity and the propensity to champion equity,
00:53:56.280
we've decided to restock. Now everyone can have another chance to buy the gift of the year to
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over $75 and get a free leftist tears tumbler with all orders over $100. Also last Friday,
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we released the first two episodes of the brand new biblical series by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.
00:54:26.280
The series is called Exodus and in it, Jordan Peterson sits down with other scholars to read
00:54:30.840
the book of Exodus and discuss what it means and why it remains significant thousands of years after
00:54:35.240
it was written. Scholars at the table include Dennis Prager, Jonathan Bagoe, and many more.
00:54:39.360
There will be new episodes releasing weekly and trust me, you don't want to miss the series.
00:54:45.000
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
00:54:53.260
Turns out that a book is more durable than stone. It's more durable than a castle. It's more durable
00:54:59.420
You don't get away with anything and so you might think you can bend the fabric of reality and that
00:55:08.840
you can treat people instrumentally and that you can bow to the tyrant and violate your conscience
00:55:13.100
without cost. You will pay the piper. It's going to call you out of that slavery into freedom even if
00:55:27.880
Well, do you want the Pharaoh on your side or do you want God on your side? That's kind of the question.
00:55:35.360
There's a profound sense here that what is going on with the Israelites is the contrast to Pharaoh,
00:55:41.640
right? Like under no terms will you go and the Israelites have to say, we will go under any terms.
00:55:47.060
And we're going to see that there's something else going on here that is far more cosmic and deeper
00:55:54.500
The highest ethical spirit to which we're beholden is presented precisely as that spirit that allies
00:56:03.540
itself with the cause of freedom against tyranny.
00:56:09.980
But do you want the villains to learn before they have to pay the ultimate price?
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Well, you've got to be a member to watch, so head over to dailywire.com slash subscribe to become
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a Daily Wire member and watch Exodus today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:56:30.480
You know, I actually tried to watch some of the World Cup this week. As a red-blooded patriotic
00:56:35.460
American, it's of course my general preference to ignore soccer and pretend it isn't real. And yet,
00:56:40.480
for some reason, soccer continues to insist on existing. So I decided to finally give it a fair
00:56:47.220
shake. I turned on the game or the match or the whatever they call it. And I watched as one team
00:56:53.120
kicked the ball towards the other team's goal. And then I watched as the other team kicked it towards
00:56:57.360
that team's goal. And then the team that was originally kicking it, what happened was that they
00:57:02.560
started kicking it again. And the other team, they started kicking it once more. And they were kicking it
00:57:08.760
back and forth. At this point, I wasn't sure what the opposing team would do. Would they begin kicking
00:57:13.040
the ball also again? Or would something else happen? And I sat in rapt fascination waiting to
00:57:18.180
find out, yes, as it turns out, they did kick it. Everyone was kicking it. They kicked it, and they
00:57:23.800
kicked it, and they kicked it. And I truly had never seen so much kicking in my life. And I said to
00:57:27.840
myself, wow, these fellas sure love to kick. All they did was kick this way and that. And at one point,
00:57:33.880
one of the teams, I think it was our team, they kicked the ball into the goal. And this was
00:57:37.660
tremendously exciting because it was the first time that anything actually happened during the
00:57:43.140
competition. And it was also the last time. Because for the rest of the match, neither team would make
00:57:47.900
the mistake of doing anything interesting again. Instead, they would simply kick. And they would
00:57:52.320
keep kicking. And people in the audience would cheer, yes, great job kicking. And all the kicking
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enthusiasts were quite pleased with the spectacle. I cannot say that I was nearly as satisfied.
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I bring this up because the daily cancellation today has to do with soccer, and I cannot in good
00:58:06.780
conscience discuss a soccer-related topic without taking time first to make fun of it. So now that
00:58:12.660
I've fulfilled my duty in that regard, we can move on to the topic at hand. Our friends, speaking of
00:58:18.300
kicking, our friends at OutKick have the story. Here it is. Quote, the USMNT, US men's team, answered the
00:58:25.320
call against Iran on Tuesday to advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since
00:58:31.340
2014. It wasn't just a historic day for the men's national team. However, it was a monumental day
00:58:36.600
for the USWNT, the women's team. By advancing to the knockout stage, the USMNT earned a payout of at
00:58:43.980
least $13 million. Only half of that money will go to the men's side, while the USWNT will get the
00:58:49.540
other half. The USMNT and USWNT recently signed a new collective bargaining agreement that states that
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prize money from the World Cups is pooled together and split evenly between the two teams. The total
00:59:02.000
prize money for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is set at $440 million, which is $310 million more
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than the women's 2019 World Cup prize pool. The USMNT will earn money if it shocks the
00:59:15.840
Netherlands on Saturday to continue its World Cup dream, and the USWNT will again get half of that
00:59:21.100
number. If the USMNT stuns the World Cup and wins the World Cup, it will earn $42 million,
00:59:26.240
with $21 million of it immediately going to the women's side. Now, in fact, the women's team will
00:59:33.200
earn more money from sitting on their couches and watching the men's team play than they earn from
00:59:39.440
winning the World Cup themselves in 2019 and 2019, 2015 and 2019. The bargaining agreement they signed
00:59:46.500
with the men's team, of course, cuts totally in their favor. So this is not equality at all.
00:59:52.580
The prize money comes from revenue generated through TV contracts and ticket sales and merchandise and
00:59:58.000
marketing and licensing. The men get more prize money because their sport earns more revenue,
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because there is greater public interest in their sport, because they are better and more impressive
01:00:08.900
athletes, by soccer standards anyway. There was never any conspiracy to deprive female soccer
01:00:15.380
players of fair compensation. They just generate less revenue. It's as simple as that. And now they're
01:00:21.740
being given a cut of revenue they did not generate, revenue that they lifted not a finger or a foot to
01:00:27.640
earn, all in the name of equality. And I could not think of a better way than this to reveal the
01:00:33.600
fundamental absurdity of gender equality as a concept. Because as we discover again and again,
01:00:40.520
no matter how hard we try to deny it, the sexes are not actually equal. They are different.
01:00:45.000
They have different capacities, different strengths and weaknesses. They thrive in different areas.
01:00:50.000
Inequality between the sexes is natural. It is not then unjust. There is nothing unjust about the
01:00:56.460
fact that men have greater physical strength than women. There's nothing unjust about the fact that
01:01:00.600
women have the power to conceive and bear children, and men do not. This is simply the way it is.
01:01:05.560
It's the way nature is designed. Justice is giving to each what they are due, which means that injustice
01:01:14.340
is giving to someone what they are not due or not giving them what they are due. But nobody can be
01:01:20.280
do something that falls outside of the natural order. Injustices are perpetrated by willful actors,
01:01:27.660
right? Nature itself cannot be guilty of an injustice. Because nature just is. It's the state of things.
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So if the natural inequality of the sexes is not unjust, then the injustices will come with our
01:01:44.680
attempts to ignore or rectify or subvert this natural inequality. It is not unjust that only women have the
01:01:52.140
power to give birth. But much injustice is created when society pretends that men also have that
01:01:59.700
capacity. And there is nothing unjust about the fact that men are superior athletes, but injustice is
01:02:05.260
created when a professional sports league decides to treat men and women as though this inequality does
01:02:09.700
not exist. And yet in this case, we are not actually going to cancel the female soccer players for
01:02:16.960
being the recipients of this sweetheart deal. Because in some ways, I mean, you might even call it
01:02:21.780
old-fashioned. The men are making the money and bringing it home to the female soccer players.
01:02:26.940
The men are the breadwinners. And Megan Rapinoe and the female soccer players, they are now like the
01:02:31.740
housewives of professional sports. I might even applaud such an arrangement if the women were holding
01:02:37.760
up their end of the bargain by doing like the men's laundry and keeping their houses in order.
01:02:42.760
But they are required to do nothing, which again is what makes this unjust.
01:02:46.140
And yet who can blame them for taking the deal? I mean, if I could get the soccer team to split
01:02:53.160
their earnings with me, I'd take the money. It's not fair, but like if they would agree to it,
01:02:58.300
I would take it. No, the group that really deserves to be canceled is the men's team.
01:03:04.860
Because they agreed to this arrangement. Because they were afraid to say no. And they were too intent
01:03:11.340
on virtue signaling, too fearful of upsetting the feminists that they want to upset. So they signed
01:03:18.020
the collective bargaining agreement to forfeit half of their own money and give it to the least
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sympathetic and needy charity in the world, known as women's soccer. The men's team, they even
01:03:29.140
pretended to be excited when this deal was signed several months ago. A lot of the men's soccer
01:03:33.380
players, they were like cheering it on. They cheered on their own robbery. They got mugged by Megan
01:03:39.020
Rapinoe in a back alley, and they responded by hailing her heroism and courage.
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The women's team doesn't deserve the windfall that they will now receive, but the men's team
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certainly does deserve to be on the losing end. It is a fitting penalty for their cowardice.
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And so they are the ones who are today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as
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we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.