The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1080 - Leftists Answer 'What Is A Woman' Question By Rewriting The Dictionary

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, another major dictionary tries to meet the what is a woman

00:00:04.360 challenge by redefining the word. It's an Orwellian move, and even worse, the redefinition

00:00:09.000 makes no sense at all, of course. Also, a trans-identified male physically assaults two 0.99

00:00:13.200 girls in the girl's bathroom, something we continually are told never happens. A member 0.63

00:00:17.540 of a human rights commission resigns after going on an absolutely unhinged rant against Christmas

00:00:22.140 trees, and four nurses are fired for airing their complaints against their patients in a TikTok

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00:01:37.520 Definitions are important. If I were to summarize my work over the last couple of years in one

00:01:44.060 sentence, that would perhaps be the best summary. Words must have definitions and we must know what

00:01:48.580 those definitions are. We cannot communicate. We cannot express ourselves meaningfully. We cannot

00:01:54.380 convey any ideas or get across any message about anything if words don't have meaning. And if we

00:02:01.020 don't all know and recognize the meaning. Words cannot be subjectively defined. It cannot be

00:02:07.280 left up to each individual on their own to decide what any given word means because the essence of

00:02:12.320 language is that it is shared. It is a way for people to convey meaning to each other. But that's

00:02:17.840 not possible if words and their definitions are not communally understood. This of course has been

00:02:23.180 the crux of the what is a woman argument. The word woman must mean something or else it means

00:02:28.140 nothing. And if it means nothing, then it cannot be meaningfully used in communication between

00:02:32.780 people. A man cannot coherently say I identify as a woman if the word woman doesn't mean anything

00:02:38.180 because then he is identifying as nothing. Yet the only definition of the word that anyone has ever

00:02:42.860 been able to offer is one that would exclude the man claiming the title for himself. So the man is in

00:02:48.780 a bind. Either the word woman means something, in which case he cannot be a woman, or it means

00:02:53.420 nothing, in which case he still cannot be a woman. This is the position that the left finds itself in

00:02:59.460 when you ask what is a woman and it's why the question what is a woman has proven to be, if I may say

00:03:04.600 so, one of the most effective counter arguments against the left ever, period. In fact, it's been so

00:03:12.400 effective and devastating that they are now literally rewriting the dictionary in response to it. As the

00:03:19.500 National Review reports today, the Cambridge Dictionary has added a new, quote, trans-inclusive

00:03:24.700 definition of the word woman. This was apparently done sometime last week. The Cambridge Dictionary

00:03:31.040 supplemented its original definition of woman, which is still adult female human being. That's 0.98

00:03:37.560 definition one. And now they've added, in the last few days, this secondary definition, which is this.

00:03:44.080 An adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex

00:03:51.560 at birth. Now, this is very similar to the move pulled by Merriam-Webster's dictionary a few months

00:03:57.480 ago, which left the word woman untouched. Didn't change that definition. So the definition for woman

00:04:03.700 in Merriam-Webster's is still adult human female. But then you ask, what's a female? And well, they added a

00:04:08.740 new definition of female, which now reads, having a gender identity that is the opposite of male.

00:04:15.720 And obviously, in both cases, you know, Merriam-Webster, they also changed the definition

00:04:19.220 of male. And then the Cambridge Dictionary has also changed the definition of man.

00:04:24.660 Of course, the problem with this attempted rebrand is that it's totally nonsensical.

00:04:29.180 In both cases, with Cambridge as well as Webster, the new definitions contradict common sense,

00:04:35.260 science, and even the left's own narrative. And it accomplishes the latter feat by conflating sex 0.73

00:04:42.400 and gender, two categories that the left still pretends to insist are distinct. So to hear them

00:04:48.580 tell it, according to them, woman is a gender while female is a sex. Now, they've never been clear about

00:04:56.000 what this distinction is actually supposed to mean, because it doesn't really mean anything.

00:05:00.080 But whatever the distinction is meant to be, both dictionaries have erased it by treating woman as 0.98

00:05:06.520 a sex and female as a gender identity. But obviously, it's going to contradict the orthodoxies

00:05:11.940 of gender ideology. You cannot make any statement about sex or gender that doesn't contradict some

00:05:17.500 aspect of gender ideology, as the entire thing is a confused pretzel of competing mutually exclusive

00:05:23.840 claims and internal inconsistencies. The greater problem is that these definitions fly in the

00:05:30.240 face of basic logic, not to mention human biology. So they say a woman is an adult who lives and

00:05:35.740 identifies as female, though they may have been said to have been a different sex at birth,

00:05:42.060 according to the Cambridge Dictionary. But how can someone live as a female if they are not female? 1.00

00:05:48.360 I mean, to live as something is to be that thing. You cannot be something and yet not live as it,

00:05:54.640 just as you cannot live as something if you are not that thing. Unless by live as, we really mean

00:06:02.800 living in the manner of, or living as an imitation of. And if that's what's meant here, and it is what's

00:06:11.140 meant, because that's all that could possibly be meant by it, then the Cambridge Dictionary is actually

00:06:15.920 telling us that a woman is either an adult human female or not an adult human female. It is claiming

00:06:24.620 that a person who imitates something is definitionally identical to a person who is that

00:06:30.960 thing. But if that's true, I mean, if to imitate it is to be it, then there's no need to add this

00:06:38.400 second definition in the first place. If trans women are simply women, then they're already included 0.97

00:06:43.160 under the original definition, and there's no need to expand it. But if a new definition needs to be

00:06:48.040 added in order to include so-called trans women, that proves in and of itself that so-called trans

00:06:54.020 women are in a different definitional category. So think of it this way. A woman, by her nature, 1.00

00:07:01.560 has a uterus. This is part of what is meant when we talk about an adult human female. 1.00

00:07:07.800 A man who identifies as a woman is attempting to live as someone who has a uterus, a female, 0.99

00:07:16.000 even though he doesn't have one. So Cambridge Dictionary is now telling us, therefore,

00:07:19.580 that there is no difference between having a uterus and not having one. There is no difference between 0.81

00:07:26.920 a thing and the negation of that thing. There is no difference between one and zero. There is no

00:07:34.440 difference between something and its opposite. They're not just erasing women. They are erasing 0.81

00:07:41.500 the concept of differences. Even things that are different are still somehow not different.

00:07:48.540 We have descended into pure nonsense. We literally cannot make sense of this because there is no sense

00:07:55.580 to make. But we can't arrive at one conclusion, which is that we are winning the argument.

00:08:04.800 Dictionaries frantically changing their definitions, that is an admission that definitions matter and that

00:08:11.920 they must be objective and shared. And the fact that the new definitions are totally incoherent and

00:08:17.740 ridiculous and cannot be understood even on their own terms is an inadvertent admission that everything

00:08:24.620 we've said about gender ideology is correct. The left cannot ignore the what is a woman question. 0.99

00:08:31.360 They know they can. They want to, but they know they can't. And yet they cannot meet the challenge

00:08:36.540 it poses to them without wildly contradicting not only biology and logic, but even themselves in the

00:08:42.140 process. We win. The game is over. The dictionaries can say whatever they want. They cannot rescue the left

00:08:52.140 here, though. After all, dictionary definitions are descriptive. They're not proscriptive.

00:08:59.500 Cambridge Dictionary doesn't decide what a word means. It's not up to them to decide.

00:09:04.940 If the dictionary is functioning properly, it merely records what the word means.

00:09:10.880 So they could rewrite the definition of elephant to say, an elephant is a small round fruit that grows on

00:09:17.860 a tree. But this editorial decision would not actually cause elephants to suddenly start growing

00:09:23.400 on trees. Elephants would still exist just as they did before. They are things that occur in nature.

00:09:30.740 They are a physical reality. They have certain objective properties, whether we choose to recognize

00:09:35.440 that or not. Likewise, women exist in nature as a distinct biological category with certain natural 1.00

00:09:43.180 abilities and functions and possessing certain common traits. The category exists. So we could

00:09:49.460 abolish every word that describes the category. Or we could simply refuse to use the words that

00:09:55.660 describe the category. And yet the category itself would remain. The truth remains. Because the truth

00:10:02.880 does not require our permission or our acknowledgement. You can close your eyes. You know, it's like little

00:10:10.960 kids. They close their eyes or they cover their eyes and they think that everything around them has

00:10:15.820 disappeared. They think that they've disappeared because they're refusing to look. Well, no, you can

00:10:21.820 close your eyes, but the thing is still there. It just is. And that's it. Only one side of the gender 0.95

00:10:29.180 ideology debate is interested in recognizing this truth. Only one side can speak coherently and intelligibly

00:10:36.760 about that truth. And so we win the argument. Now, the other side will continue arguing, no doubt.

00:10:45.620 They'll continue saying things. But it's all sound and fury signifying nothing. We've already won.

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00:12:11.120 We begin here with the website Redux, which does a lot of actually important journalism. And here's

00:12:19.820 another example of that. It says, two female students have been left with injuries after 0.95

00:12:24.180 reportedly being assaulted by a trans-identified male student in the women's restroom at a high

00:12:30.040 school in Edmond, Oklahoma. Redux has obtained a police report related to a violent assault that took

00:12:35.360 place in a women's washroom at Edmond Memorial High School. The report, dated October 26th,

00:12:40.580 reveals that a trans-identified male student was handed a juvenile summons after two female

00:12:45.600 students were left with injuries following a fight he had reportedly initiated with them

00:12:48.840 in the women's washroom. On October 26th, at approximately 8 a.m., police responded to reports

00:12:53.680 of a fight that had broken out at Memorial High School in the small community of Edmond, Oklahoma.

00:12:57.180 Upon arriving, the officer found a female student with injuries to her face and head at the nurse's 0.73

00:13:01.480 station. The attending officer noted the female victim had several red areas on her face and that

00:13:06.540 both of her eyes were beginning to swell. The officer conducted an interview with the victim,

00:13:10.180 whose full name was redacted due to her age. The female student advised the officer that a trans-identified 0.73

00:13:14.800 student, indicated by the letter A, had approached her in the women's bathroom while she was speaking

00:13:19.360 to her friends. She explained that A had tried to talk to her and she had ignored him, at which point

00:13:24.400 A began to get angry and asked if she wanted to fight while approaching her with bald fists. 0.96

00:13:29.140 The victim said the trans-identified student then hit her in the face and she indicated in her statement

00:13:33.220 that she was not strong enough to fight back due to the force of the blow. The transgender student 0.97

00:13:38.200 pulled the girl's hair and forced her to the ground, at which point he began to kick her in the face 0.93

00:13:41.740 and punch her repeatedly. The victim's friends, who had been in the washroom at the time,

00:13:47.060 witnessed the incident and were pleading with A to stop his assault. One of the other female 0.75

00:13:50.680 students attempted to intervene and was punched twice on the left side of her face by the assailant.

00:13:54.880 One witness indicated that the girl had tried to step in because A is a man, quote-unquote,

00:13:59.640 and she felt her student, her friend's life was at risk. The female student intervened as listed as

00:14:05.080 having injuries to her eye, face, and head with a possible concussion. Now a statement from the

00:14:10.660 transgender student indicates that he had initiated conversation with the victim because he was trying

00:14:15.040 to pay her back for clothes he had stolen from her. The student also contradicts the victim and

00:14:21.860 witness statements and provides details that are inconsistent with the girl's injuries as recorded

00:14:26.100 by police. So this happened back in October, first time we're hearing about it, because of course the

00:14:33.040 media has absolutely no interest in these kinds of stories. And there's almost no interest or

00:14:39.720 motivation, certainly no interest or motivation in the corporate media to report on them.

00:14:45.040 Oftentimes there's very little interest on the part of the school to report these crimes. In this case,

00:14:51.440 the school did, did the right thing. But as we saw in Loudoun County, oftentimes that's not the case.

00:14:56.780 There's much more of an interest in covering it up. So the point is, we don't actually know. We hear

00:15:01.600 about these cases. Now we hear from the left that this never happens. It's a fantasy. You're not

00:15:09.000 going to have trans-identified males who are going into women's locker rooms and bathrooms and

00:15:14.100 assaulting, physically assaulting, sexually assaulting, whatever it is, women. They say it 1.00

00:15:19.180 doesn't happen. Well, we know it does happen because we hear about the cases. But the cases that we hear

00:15:23.180 about are, it's in spite of the best efforts to prevent us from hearing about it. So we don't even

00:15:29.320 know how common this actually is. And it's obviously no surprise. Well, it's no surprise to

00:15:38.580 hear about the fact that he stole clothes and even he admits to that. So this appears to be a little

00:15:43.100 bit of a trend. You know, think about the Sam Brittain case. But it's also no surprise when we hear

00:15:49.880 about incidents like this and we see acts of violence against women carried out by quote unquote

00:15:55.500 trans people in bathrooms and locker rooms and so on. Because how could it be a surprise?

00:16:00.720 Their very presence in that space is an act of violence in and of itself. Okay. So for a man to

00:16:12.420 enter into a private female space where females are vulnerable and exposed, that is an act of sexual 0.96

00:16:20.100 harassment in and of itself. For a man to knowingly walk into a women's bathroom, that's sexual harassment 0.96

00:16:27.440 just to be there in the first place. You are an abuser simply by walking into the room. So we make a

00:16:36.500 mistake, and conservatives have made this mistake for a while, when we have the bathroom debate and we

00:16:42.100 center it around, you know, hypotheticals about what about men who might pretend, quote unquote,

00:16:48.220 to be trans just so that for nefarious purposes they can gain access to the bathroom or the locker 1.00

00:16:53.640 room. And yeah, that is a concern. I mean, we know for sure that that happens. And I think that's

00:16:58.480 probably even more common in prisons, where you have male prisoners who just, out of whole cloth, 0.85

00:17:05.560 invent their, quote, trans identity as a way to access the women's prison. So we know that that sort 0.98

00:17:11.100 of thing happens. But when we center our argument around that, it makes it sound like, well, we're

00:17:18.300 not concerned about the sincere trans people. You know, if there's some way to determine the 1.00

00:17:23.820 insincere trans men from the sincere ones, then it would be no issue at all. I don't care if they're 1.00

00:17:29.640 sincere or not. It's like either it's a man pretending to be confused about his gender or

00:17:38.040 he's sincerely confused. Either way doesn't make a difference. It's not suddenly better if the man is

00:17:45.800 actually confused and he's going into the women's restroom. Because that's what we mean when we say

00:17:50.240 sincerely or really trans. Trans as a category is imaginary. It's a human invention. So there's no 1.00

00:17:57.740 way to be really trans, but you can be really confused about your identity. That does exist.

00:18:03.620 But either way, no matter what your intentions are or your motivations, being there in the first place

00:18:10.620 is a problem. It's an act of violence. Your presence is an intrusion. It is abusive.

00:18:18.660 So there is no question about whether men in the women's room are a threat. Are they a threat? Yes. 1.00

00:18:24.860 How do I know? Because they're in the room. Because they're there. Just like if somebody walks

00:18:30.320 into your house in the middle of the night. You don't need to wonder if they're a threat. They're

00:18:35.760 in your house. It doesn't matter what they do once they're inside. I mean, it matters. They could make

00:18:41.140 the situation even worse depending on how they behave once they get there. But my point is that by

00:18:45.440 walking in the door, they are already perpetrating a violent and intrusive act.

00:18:52.740 Same for men who walk into the women's room or the locker room. Just by walking in that door, 0.99

00:18:57.500 that is an act of violence against the women that are in there. There's a threat. There's intimidation. 0.61

00:19:04.160 This is all based around intimidation. None of these women actually want the men in there. 1.00

00:19:09.360 None of them do. Why would they? Is there even one actual woman in real life who actively wants 1.00

00:19:18.680 males to come into the locker room with them? There are plenty of women who won't speak out 1.00

00:19:25.500 because they've been intimidated into silence. And there are others who pretend that they want

00:19:30.820 that. These are minority. But of course, you wouldn't want that. 1.00

00:19:39.360 So it is an act of violence just being in the room. And that's, of course, you say that and the

00:19:46.420 left will scoff at it, to say the least. But these are the same people that find acts of violence

00:19:55.080 everywhere. They think that a tweet can be violent. They think an opinion can be violent.

00:19:59.400 They think a joke can be an act of violence. And of course, in all those cases, that's absurd.

00:20:05.800 But walking into the locker room or the bathroom, that is an actual physical act that you are. It's

00:20:11.060 not just an opinion. You are physically doing something. All right. Here's some good news.

00:20:17.520 Accountability for a change. Actually, two examples of accountability. Quick update first on a story

00:20:22.320 from yesterday. It says an Upper Moreland School Board member said she would not vote for the only

00:20:27.300 white cis man, quote unquote, on the board for the role of president because it sends the wrong 0.63

00:20:31.180 message to the community. We played that clip for yesterday. A Pennsylvania School Board member who

00:20:35.260 refused to vote for the only cis white male on the board to serve as president has decided to resign

00:20:39.260 from her position at the start of 2023. Upper Moreland School District Board member Jennifer

00:20:44.560 Solat made the comments during an open school board meeting on December 6th, just before a vote was held

00:20:50.520 to appoint a new board president. And now she's actually going to resign because there was enough of 1.00

00:20:56.800 a backlash against this that now she should be fired rather than being given the opportunity to resign. 0.98

00:21:04.400 But I'll take that is the best we could do. And it's a good sign, at least, that there's some

00:21:11.840 accountability here. There's a reason why she felt perfectly free to say this. She didn't think there'd be a

00:21:19.940 problem because she lives in an environment where, well, of course I can express my bigoted views

00:21:29.680 against heterosexual white men. Because this is what, you know, it's like this is the environment

00:21:33.300 she lives in. She never thought this is the atmosphere. So she thought she'd be perfectly,

00:21:39.440 I'm sure this is not the first time that she's expressed such views publicly, I would assume.

00:21:43.740 She thought she could get away with it here, but she couldn't. Is that a sign that things are

00:21:50.520 finally changing, that people are finally willing to speak up and say, you know what, no, actually,

00:21:56.240 it's not okay. It's not, you know, it's not suddenly okay to be bigoted against a group of people based

00:22:03.840 on their gender or their race, as long as it's white males. Also, there's this, a member of a Boston

00:22:11.240 Suburbs Human Rights Commission resigned after posting in a profanity-laden post to Facebook last

00:22:16.380 week that mocked God and cursed her fellow citizens amid controversy regarding a local library's 0.73

00:22:22.220 Christmas trees. So the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, about 30 miles southwest of Boston,

00:22:28.920 drew national attention after Lisa Desmond, the manager of the local Endicott branch library, 0.96

00:22:33.880 wrote on Facebook earlier this month that its annual Christmas tree display had apparently been

00:22:37.480 canceled to prevent offending people. Desmond wrote, I've never posted a negative post on Facebook.

00:22:42.620 That is, until now, I found out today that my beautiful library will not have its Christmas tree

00:22:46.460 this year. When I asked, I was told that people were made uncomfortable last year looking at it.

00:22:52.000 I'm sorry, what? In my 28 years at the library, I have never heard a negative comment.

00:22:59.280 Yeah, because it was probably just one person. I mean, how can you, I don't care what your religion is, 0.97

00:23:04.440 or if you don't have a religion, it doesn't even seem physically possible to conjure feelings of anger

00:23:13.760 or revulsion when you're looking at a Christmas tree. It's just, it's a naturally joyous, like,

00:23:19.260 doesn't it make anyone smile to see a Christmas tree? It could even make me smile. So how could you

00:23:24.140 manage to actually be upset, stewing in anger, looking at a Christmas tree, of all things?

00:23:31.440 Well, most people can't, but it was probably one person. So for 28 years, they had a Christmas tree,

00:23:37.680 no problems, no one ever expressed one single ounce of anger about it. One person comes along

00:23:46.120 after almost three decades and says, you know, I really don't like that. Okay, well, yes, sir,

00:23:49.760 we'll take it right down. Desmond noted that the town historically has celebrated and included

00:23:54.040 everyone in our community, and she happily participated in a recent Juneteenth celebration

00:23:57.920 at the library last summer. Diane Loud, who was appointed to the Human Rights Commission

00:24:03.700 in Massachusetts by the town's Commission on Disability, reportedly called Desmond a selfish

00:24:10.000 effing bee in a subsequent Facebook post that accused her of endangering lives by raising the issue.

00:24:17.240 She wrote, for a tree, for a mother effing tree, you've put people's lives in a lot of danger,

00:24:23.700 a lot of danger. So a Christmas tree puts people's lives in danger. I'm not exactly sure,

00:24:32.120 maybe if the tree falls over on you, or if it's a real tree and you're not watering it enough,

00:24:37.480 then it could become a fire hazard. I mean, that's real. So is that what she means? I don't think so.

00:24:41.620 Addressing others, she speculated, might also have been responsible for bringing the controversy to

00:24:45.160 wider attention. Loud continued in part, I hope you know the fact that you, who claim to believe in

00:24:50.220 Christ and Christmas or whatever happy horse S, you're trying to hide behind, are the least gracious,

00:24:56.560 most hateful, most disgusting trash in the world. Is this what you think your magic sky daddy wants?

00:25:04.540 Where in the Bible was this again? In closing, I would like to add an F you, you pieces of trash. 0.99

00:25:11.480 I hate each and every one of you, and I do wish great suffering on you. You're terrible,

00:25:17.120 terrible, terrible people. You did it all because you didn't get your way. You're despicable.

00:25:21.700 This is about a Christmas tree.

00:25:25.620 I always thought that the story of like the Grinch who stole Christmas was, you know,

00:25:29.180 it's a little hard to get invested in because it's just not very realistic. Like, how could anyone

00:25:32.440 hate Christmas that much? But here we go. This is the person that the story was based on, I guess.

00:25:39.800 And it says, loud participated earlier this year in an LGBT pride event hosted by the town of

00:25:44.500 Dedham and its HRC Human Rights Commission, where she was joined by her grown child, Max,

00:25:49.660 who discovered his transgender identity at the age of 13. All right. Big surprise there. So 1.00

00:25:53.460 Diane Loud, with a very appropriate last name, I must say, sounds like a, just a deeply miserable

00:26:01.580 person, a horrendously unpleasant human being all around. No wonder she has a trans kid. 1.00

00:26:07.060 She's exactly the kind of adult, exactly the kind of, especially over-domineering, 0.96

00:26:14.280 left-wing, mentally unstable mother who ends up having a trans child just by coincidence. No, 1.00

00:26:22.520 it's not a coincidence because she imposes that identity on her child. No surprise there.

00:26:28.500 But I really want to focus on the fact that she's an anti-Christian atheist with the Human Rights

00:26:35.000 Commission, or she was with the Human Rights Commission. And this is a problem that goes

00:26:39.900 far beyond just this one individual. It's a bigger issue. And I'm sure this never occurred to her

00:26:45.940 because she doesn't seem like the sort of person who makes a habit of, you know, thinking, much less

00:26:50.280 thinking self-critically. But you cannot be involved in protecting or preserving human rights

00:26:58.840 as an anti-Christian atheist. It doesn't really make any sense. It doesn't. And as I said, this is a problem

00:27:07.000 that goes far beyond Mrs. Loud. I'm going to say Miss Loud because I'm going to assume she's not married. 0.85

00:27:12.700 It goes far beyond that. It's like, if you're an atheist, you're a secular leftist, and you go around

00:27:19.120 talking about human rights all the time, you've got a real issue here. Because what do you think,

00:27:23.020 like, what is a woman? Well, what is a human right? Well, what do you think a human right even is?

00:27:29.260 Where do you think it comes from? What are you talking about? Now, the people who came up with

00:27:35.700 the concept, the concept as we understand it today, and if you want to, you know, if you want to trace

00:27:41.400 back the lineage of this thought process that led to the formulation of modern human rights as we

00:27:46.900 understand it, you can decide how far back you want to go. But the people who came up with the concept

00:27:51.280 as we understand it today, who formulated sort of the modern understanding of human rights,

00:27:55.420 these were Christians. And it's very much grounded in a Christian worldview of natural law, of human

00:28:03.180 beings created by God, endowed by certain rights, which we have as, you know, thanks to our inherent

00:28:13.860 dignity. And all of this is rooted in the fact that we are created by this transcendent being,

00:28:20.880 that there is something beyond the physical, that we are not merely subject to and products of

00:28:30.140 Darwinian evolution. There's something beyond that. That's human rights, as it's always been

00:28:36.780 understood. But if you don't believe any of that, and if you think, as Diane Loud does, that all that is

00:28:42.740 a bunch of happy horse S, then how do you hang on to the human rights? What do you think that's 0.92

00:28:48.760 grounded in? A human right must either come from, if it means anything at all, it either comes from

00:28:56.900 God, or it comes from man, it comes from the government. So either this is, a human right is

00:29:03.520 something that's ingrained, that we just, that we possess, whether it's recognized by the government or

00:29:08.240 not. It's just, we still possess it by our very nature. So it's either that, or it's simply words that we

00:29:17.700 write on a piece of paper. You know, governments decide what your rights are. You have the right to do

00:29:24.440 this because the government said you do. And if they say you don't, then you don't anymore.

00:29:30.660 But nobody wants to understand human rights that way. They certainly don't on the left.

00:29:37.720 Now, when the Supreme Court made the decision about Roe v. Wade,

00:29:39.980 we were told that by the left, including many of them secular atheists,

00:29:46.580 they said, well, it doesn't matter what the Supreme Court says. Women have the right to abortion. 1.00

00:29:51.260 What do you mean right? Says who? What are you appealing to exactly when you talk about this

00:30:00.640 mystical right that exists? You're not appealing to God. What are you appealing to?

00:30:04.640 If you can only appeal to man, if you can only appeal to the government,

00:30:10.620 then it's up to them what the rights are. And it doesn't make any sense. If the government says

00:30:14.300 you have a right to this, it doesn't make any sense to say, no, that's not true. What do you mean it's

00:30:17.880 not true? According to you, a right by definition is simply whatever the government says.

00:30:25.460 This is a real problem that I don't think anyone on the left has even attempted,

00:30:29.420 or very few people on the left have even attempted to confront or deal with or wrestle with.

00:30:34.640 Um, and it just makes everything they say about human rights totally meaningless.

00:30:41.340 All right. In response to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, the media seems to have two talking

00:30:47.500 points, basically. One is that Elon will restore free speech, which is bad and dangerous.

00:30:52.380 And the other is that Elon will actually restrict free speech, which is bad and dangerous.

00:30:56.820 And they seem to rotate kind of between these two talking points at will,

00:31:00.820 sometimes within the same sentence. So here's joy read last night, taking the ladder track. Let's

00:31:06.660 listen to those people. The apartheid child tweeted the woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing

00:31:12.560 else matters. That came a day after he used his platforms, not only mock the LGBTQ community,

00:31:18.120 but also to go after America's most visible public health official tweeting.

00:31:21.620 My pronouns are prosecute Fauci. Not funny. Dangerous, though. And the latest example of

00:31:28.580 Musk playing his role in the right's attempt to redefine free speech, which to them, simply put,

00:31:34.240 is whatever conservatives want said and nothing more. They've gone to great lengths in those efforts.

00:31:39.640 And when it comes to social media platforms, as the Atlantic's Adam Serwer writes,

00:31:43.500 to use them for their own political purposes, including propaganda, disinformation,

00:31:47.880 harassment, and message discipline, conservatives had to invent a new constitutional right,

00:31:53.520 a conservative right to post. And the Atlantic's Adam Serwer joins me now. Adam,

00:31:58.880 your piece was excellent. I want you to explain for those who have not read it,

00:32:01.980 and they all should, what the conservative right to post means.

00:32:06.620 It basically means that you would have a right to free speech as long as you are saying

00:32:11.000 what conservatives want you to say.

00:32:16.640 They just have no, it doesn't, it, it, they are not worried about saying things that, um,

00:32:24.080 even pretend to reflect reality. Uh, and obviously, of course, this is what

00:32:30.120 conservatives were saying about Twitter and about big tech for years and years and years.

00:32:35.060 And we were told by people like Joy Reid that this is all fanciful and it's ridiculous and, uh,

00:32:41.140 so on and so forth. And these are private companies and stop your whining, stop it. And then,

00:32:45.300 and then the, the script flips and within seconds, they, um, they, they're, you know, they start

00:32:53.020 contradicting what they've been saying for the last several years. But in reality, see the conservative

00:32:57.840 complaint that, um, people on the right were being specifically targeted on ideological

00:33:04.640 grounds and shut down and censored. That was real. It was actually happening. And we know that it was

00:33:11.000 actually happening. We now have the documentation. It was obvious to anyone that it was happening

00:33:14.640 because we could all see it. But now we have the behind the scenes and the documentation and the

00:33:19.720 email chains, and we've seen all that. So we now it's, it's only been further confirmed that this was

00:33:24.960 happening. What Joy Reid is talking about as usual is made up BS. This is not happening.

00:33:32.200 Like there, there, there aren't any leftists that are being kicked off the platform simply for

00:33:38.780 expressing left-wing ideas. It's not happening. It's simply not happening. And not only that,

00:33:45.200 there's no one calling for that to happen. Nobody even wants that to happen.

00:33:51.300 So while big tech has been censoring the right for years, they've also been doing it at the behest of

00:33:56.680 the left who's been very open about the fact that they want that to happen. Like these ideas are

00:34:00.060 dangerous. You shouldn't be allowed to express them. It doesn't exist on the right. It simply

00:34:04.760 doesn't. There, there, there's seriously no one saying that, um, that the left should be shut down

00:34:11.620 or censored on the internet because for expressing their ideas. No one's saying that. In fact, it's

00:34:16.080 exactly the opposite. I want them on these platforms expressing their ideas. I want that. I actively

00:34:27.080 want it. And I'm not the only one. We just want it on a level playing field. We don't want the deck to

00:34:34.820 be, we don't want the game to be rigged against us to begin with. But as long as it's not rigged and

00:34:39.980 we're on a level playing field and things are fair to begin with, then yeah, we want you out on the

00:34:43.720 playing field with us. We want you there. Do you know why? Because we believe we can beat you.

00:34:49.460 That's why we want you there. It's like, you don't have to believe that we have, that we,

00:34:53.380 that it's our, you know, that we have some sincere passion for free speech. I mean, we do,

00:34:58.000 but I'm saying you don't even have to believe that because on top of, uh, believing in free speech,

00:35:03.620 there's also the, I don't know if you'd like to say more selfish motivation that we want to beat you

00:35:09.840 and embarrass you. And I'll make no secret about the fact that that's my, that's what primarily

00:35:16.920 motivates me. That's, that's the primary reason why I believe in free speech, but, but even more

00:35:26.580 than that, why do I want the left on Twitter posting so that, so that we can expose them

00:35:30.660 because they cannot win these arguments. They cannot win any of these arguments if the, if it's

00:35:39.380 a level playing field and they will inevitably humiliate themselves. And that's what I want to

00:35:45.320 see happen. So yes, I want Joey Reed on the platform. Please keep posting. Please do that.

00:35:53.040 It's just that they're terrified now. They're terrified and they're running away

00:35:56.300 because the game isn't rigged because it is a level playing field and they know they can't win

00:36:07.640 on those, on those grounds. All right. One other thing, uh, I wanted to get to briefly. So Candace

00:36:15.840 Owens attracted the attention of our PR reps at Media Matters yesterday. They, they published this

00:36:20.920 headline and shared the clip on Twitter from her show yesterday. Uh, the daily wires, Candace Owens,

00:36:25.220 uh, quoting her, I actually think that society would be safer if we discriminated more. And they 1.00

00:36:30.460 actually published multiple clips of Candace scandalously suggesting that discrimination can 1.00

00:36:35.820 be justified or even good. Uh, and these were posted by Media Matters yesterday. I thought we've already

00:36:41.700 talked about what is woman, what are human rights. And so, uh, we'll, we'll continue on this theme of

00:36:46.700 definitions. What is discrimination? Because what Candace has said here is obviously correct. So this is

00:36:53.400 yet again, Media Matters getting upset about something and anyone listens to it, any normal

00:36:57.840 person listens to it and says, well, yeah, that makes sense. Of course we talk about, um,

00:37:02.960 it's obviously true. Here's what discrimination means to discriminate. Okay. Until they, until they

00:37:09.880 change the definition of this too in a Merriam-Webster, but, but even if they do, it still means what it

00:37:13.880 means, uh, to discriminate means to recognize distinctions. That's what it means to discriminate.

00:37:21.500 That's all. That's discrimination. It is to recognize distinctions. And so if you recognize

00:37:27.420 a distinction between one thing and another, you are discriminating. And that's why in the old days,

00:37:33.580 we, you know, you might describe someone, you might say that he's a, he's a very discriminating

00:37:37.240 person, but it would be a compliment. Because what you're saying is that this person is, uh,

00:37:41.180 that they're, that they have the powers of discernment and they're able to, and they're,

00:37:46.420 and they're very able to recognize distinctions. That's all discrimination is. If you, if you can

00:37:53.900 look at one thing and then another thing and say, those two things are different, you have

00:37:58.660 discriminated. And that means that we all discriminate every single second of the day. I mean,

00:38:06.300 every, every, every moment of the day that you are engaged in thought, you are discriminating.

00:38:11.540 You are recognizing distinctions. I don't think it's possible to be a sentient being without that

00:38:18.600 ability. Because the only other option is to look and think that all things are exactly the same.

00:38:24.180 There's no, that we're just living in this, uh, you know, hazy mess of nothingness. And there are,

00:38:29.600 there's no distinction from one thing to the next.

00:38:31.120 That's all discrimination is. Um, now you could discriminate wrongly. You could discriminate

00:38:42.580 unjustifiably. Um, you could discriminate unfairly. All those things are possible,

00:38:49.260 but discrimination in and of itself is not unfair just because you're doing it.

00:38:55.160 And this is also true of people. So like there's the obvious things where if you're,

00:39:00.680 if you're drawing a distinction, if you recognize that vanilla chocolate's different than chocolate,

00:39:04.700 than, uh, that vanilla ice cream is different than chocolate ice cream, you are discriminating

00:39:08.420 between the two types of ice cream. And nobody would have, uh, I don't think anyone would have

00:39:13.440 any moral problem with that. Although maybe some people would find a way to, um, that's the easy

00:39:17.820 thing. But what about discrimination among people? If you're discriminating, but you know,

00:39:23.440 one person distinguishing one person from another is, is that wrong? Well, obviously not.

00:39:30.240 I mean, in any kind of context, you're drawing distinctions between people.

00:39:37.140 I know we say that it's illegal to engage in discrimination while hiring. Well, it's obviously

00:39:44.440 not literally true. You wouldn't be able to hire anyone if you couldn't discriminate. 0.51

00:39:48.220 Like you have a, you have a job posting, you have a certain position you want to fill and you're

00:39:54.500 looking for the person who will best fill it. And so you're discriminating against the people who

00:39:58.060 will not be good in that job in favor of the people who you think will be. It's discrimination.

00:40:05.740 So media matters yet again, another swing and a miss. What else is new? All right,

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00:41:19.520 Amika says, I think a lot of people who participate in the preferred pronouns thing actually confuse

00:41:23.780 pronouns and personality. Just because we all have different personalities doesn't mean we get to

00:41:28.060 modify the language whenever we see fit. Well, you're exactly right. That is 100% what they're trying

00:41:34.820 to describe. And so really, they're trying to come up with pronouns to describe personalities,

00:41:40.420 which just doesn't make any sense. And that's not what pronouns are meant to do.

00:41:46.220 Max says, watch Brittany Griner get a book deal and a Netflix documentary as soon as she lands on 0.99

00:41:50.540 the US. Oh, are you kidding me? Look, she's going to put Colin Kaepernick to shame. If you think 0.99

00:41:57.760 Kaepernick cashed in on his faux victim status, you ain't seen nothing yet. Just wait until Brittany

00:42:03.760 Griner gets done. This is going to be, I mean, she is, my prediction is within a year, she's going

00:42:09.080 to be worth over a hundred million dollars on endorsement deals and Netflix and book deals and

00:42:13.300 everything else, cashing in on the victim status, 100%. Just Keating says, you really did have a big

00:42:21.980 year, Matt. In a fairer world, you would have at least been a finalist or even an honorable mention

00:42:26.040 for Times Person of the Year. I could not agree more. Thank you. Dan says, I'm a big fan of Jordan

00:42:34.700 Peterson, but I'd like to know what Matt thinks about Peterson's war on anonymous Twitter accounts.

00:42:40.820 Yeah, so this has been something that has gotten some people upset at Jordan Peterson on

00:42:45.920 Twitter. And I don't think it's a new thing. I'm pretty sure that Peterson has always made this

00:42:50.940 argument against anonymous accounts. And I don't want to speak for him. I'm not sure if he actually

00:42:56.360 thinks that anonymous accounts should be banned from social media and that you should only be able

00:43:01.580 to have an account if you have your actual name and face attached to it. I'm not sure if he believes

00:43:04.760 that or not, but certainly he thinks that it would be better if there were no anonymous accounts

00:43:10.060 on the internet. Now, I don't agree with him. I used to feel that way. There was a time when I would

00:43:16.640 have agreed with him. And I can understand why you would feel that way, especially if you're in the

00:43:23.740 public light and you're voicing your opinions all the time and your face is out there and you've got

00:43:31.400 your face and your name attached to it. And then inevitably, you know, we all end up getting doxxed

00:43:36.020 and even our addresses are out. Like everything is out there about us and we're putting our name and

00:43:39.900 our face with it. And then when you're doing that and you're constantly getting criticized by these

00:43:49.280 anonymous trolls, it's hard not to respond by saying, oh, you cowards, you won't even put your,

00:43:53.680 it's real easy for you to do, hiding behind your anonymous status, coming after someone who's put,

00:43:58.580 you know, it's like I've put everything on the line here and you're putting nothing on the line,

00:44:02.420 hiding behind it while you fling insults. And it's true that the anonymous accounts who do that,

00:44:07.440 they're merely anonymous so that they control people who are not anonymous and that's all

00:44:14.280 they're doing. Yeah, they're just nothing but cowards. But the reason I changed my mind about

00:44:18.660 anonymous accounts in general is that, of course, that's not what even the majority of anonymous

00:44:23.680 accounts are actually doing. It's, they're not by and large trolls who are trying to hide behind

00:44:33.960 the anonymous status. It's more that, you know, they want to use these platforms because these

00:44:41.460 are people who don't have jobs where it's your job to express your ideas. They have other kinds of

00:44:46.720 jobs, but they want to use the platforms and they still want to be able to participate in the kind of

00:44:50.980 conversation. But if they do that with their name and face attached to it, then they're just opening

00:44:57.940 themselves up to having their lives destroyed, to being targeted, fired, all these kinds of things.

00:45:04.160 Things that won't happen to me. I'm not going to get fired just because I express my opinion on social

00:45:08.760 media. That's my, I get paid to do that. But if you have a, you know, a job that is not in the media

00:45:15.600 and you do that with your name and face attached to it, then you've opened yourself up to that.

00:45:23.160 And so if you get rid of the anonymous accounts, what you've really done is you've just,

00:45:27.020 you've just taken away the ability of a lot of these different people to participate in the

00:45:32.520 conversation at all, which would be a very bad thing. You know, and this is, this is the game

00:45:42.160 the left plays too, by the way. It's like they, you know, if you say something they don't like,

00:45:45.960 they want to know everything about you. They want to find out everything they can about you.

00:45:48.920 Not, not because they are really interested or because they want to give you an award,

00:45:53.500 because they want to find this stuff out about you so they can destroy you.

00:45:57.360 And we don't want to make that easier on them. All right. Dennis Robinson says,

00:46:01.960 yes, there was an uprising by my wife and I to see our grandchildren during the alleged pandemic,

00:46:06.900 yet it was my afraid children of ours that kept the grandchildren from us. We are still

00:46:11.460 attempting to restore relationships. Meanwhile, Mallory says, I was extremely disappointed in my mom and

00:46:17.040 my mother-in-law. Both dads didn't seem to worry so much, but the grandkids were,

00:46:22.020 the grandmothers were afraid to come around any of their grandkids, even through Christmas 2021.

00:46:27.200 Thankfully, they've stopped the nonsense, but I lost faith and family a little bit.

00:46:31.960 I've heard many stories like that. So many stories of families where, you know, I think in many cases,

00:46:40.440 the rifts that were opened up, the wounds, damage may be permanent in some cases.

00:46:47.660 When you've got family members, you know, there's a sickness going around and you have family members

00:46:53.580 that will tell you, I'm okay not seeing you indefinitely just so I don't get sick. That's a

00:47:02.820 statement that people are not going to be able to forget. And then Raptor Man says, whoever was in

00:47:09.300 charge of the wardrobe for this episode really needs to be reprimanded, a tan suit for our sweet 0.98

00:47:13.260 daddy is just plain evil. Was it tan? I feel betrayed in that case because this is the position

00:47:17.960 I'm in as a colorblind American. I didn't even know that it was tan, but I've made my feelings

00:47:23.620 about tan suits very clear. So I feel somehow violated that I was put in a tan suit without my

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00:48:21.840 Well, I regret to inform you, my friends, that the nurses are at it again. We all remember the

00:48:27.160 COVID days when nurses across the country were posting choreographed dance routines to TikTok,

00:48:31.800 constantly complaining about being overworked and understaffed, even as they turned the hospital's

00:48:35.740 hallways into a scene from high school musical. It was annoying. It was insufferable. And it exposed

00:48:41.160 a troubling weakness in the nursing community. That is their need for attention, which is of

00:48:46.080 course a weakness shared by almost everyone in our culture. Among nurses, it was put on display yet

00:48:50.720 again with a slightly different style of video this week. NBC News reports four labor and delivery

00:48:57.060 nurses at an Atlanta hospital came under fire over a TikTok video in which they shared the things that

00:49:02.460 annoy them about expecting mothers and their families. The nurses at Emory Hospital or Emory 0.97

00:49:07.060 University Hospital Midtown were participating in a popular trend where users share their icks

00:49:11.640 or turnoffs about a person. The TikTok trend originally began as a way to for someone to describe

00:49:17.040 why they stopped dating another person. I can already tell you one of my icks, which is people

00:49:22.480 using the term ick to describe their pet peeves. I know this might come as a shock to TikTok users,

00:49:27.420 but we actually don't need a cutesy new slang term for everything. Now, I realize that every

00:49:33.860 generation is entitled to come up with its own slang, but this latest generation has grossly abused that

00:49:39.700 privilege. There should be laws governing this. Like if I was theocratic fascist dictator, I would allow

00:49:45.940 maybe three new slang terms to enter the lexicon every 25 years. Each generation gets to pick three,

00:49:53.300 not three in a week, but three total. In any case, bringing it back to the nurses,

00:49:58.300 not to jump ahead and spoil the ending, but according to NBC, it would seem that they have

00:50:02.020 been fired. It says, quote, Emory Healthcare said the video is disrespectful and unprofessional and

00:50:06.980 does not represent our commitment to patient family-centered care. We've investigated the situation,

00:50:12.180 take an appropriate action with the former employees responsible for the video, the company

00:50:16.640 said in an Instagram post. So, former employees. The hospital never specifically confirmed that they

00:50:22.040 were terminated for the video, but I think we can logically assume that they didn't all happen to

00:50:25.460 retire suddenly at the same time. So, it appears, therefore, that this video was a bad idea. Here it is.

00:50:32.140 My ick is when you come in for your induction talking about, can I take a shower and eat?

00:50:40.260 What? My ick is when you ask me how much the baby weighs and it's still in your hands.

00:50:46.440 Dad comes outside and asks for a paternity test right outside the room door.

00:50:52.360 Saying you don't want any pain medicine, no epidural, but you are at an 8 out of 10 pain

00:50:58.060 just to serve an ill and you're still closed. Fingertips. Well, we've already told you to push

00:51:03.520 a call light, but every five minutes, your family member coming at the front desk asking for something

00:51:09.540 else. Excuse me, can I have a blanket? Another ick. When you're going room to room between one baby

00:51:16.100 mama and your other baby mama. Oh, no. Ick. Say that. It's the unlimited trips to the nurses station for me. 0.66

00:51:24.760 Well, ladies, the good news is that you don't have to worry about any of those icks anymore.

00:51:31.600 The bad news is that you're going to discover a new ick, which is called unemployment.

00:51:36.460 I can understand why you are so frustrated. I mean, it must be difficult when your patients are a bunch

00:51:41.040 of domineering prima donnas, constantly making outrageous and haughty demands for exorbitant

00:51:46.560 luxuries like food and blankets. Next thing I know, you're going to tell me that they even sometimes

00:51:52.840 request anesthesia before surgery. I mean, these are divas we're talking about. Now, I admit, 0.97

00:51:59.700 there might be something to some of the complaints they lodged in that video. It wasn't all unreasonable.

00:52:05.620 I would also be annoyed and kind of grossed out by a man who has two children being born by two 1.00

00:52:10.180 different women in the same birthing unit, though that sounds more like the plot of a

00:52:13.400 90s comedy starring Eddie Murphy than an actual real life event. Be that as it may,

00:52:17.940 some of the complaints seem valid. And I'm sure there are plenty of nurses out there who could make 0.94

00:52:22.440 many other complaints even more valid and defensible than the icks these ones outlined.

00:52:27.900 In fact, I know they could because I have nurses in my family and I've heard the stories.

00:52:32.020 But there are two points that these ill-fated TikTokers failed to understand. And these are 0.97

00:52:36.940 lessons that all of us, no matter our careers, would do well to keep in mind. First, you go into the

00:52:43.720 same job every day. You have helped hundreds of patients, if that's your job. So you have been

00:52:48.980 asked for blankets and food hundreds of times. And every slightly annoying or silly or thoughtless

00:52:54.460 thing a patient might say or do, you've encountered dozens and dozens of times. So you feel the

00:53:00.860 cumulative effect of all of those little annoyances. But your patients don't. So this is a job to you.

00:53:08.500 This is something that you punch in and punch out of every day. But if you work in the labor and

00:53:12.140 delivery unit, for many of your patients, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. On average,

00:53:15.960 these days, it's not any more than a twice-in-a-lifetime experience. Nobody is in there

00:53:20.300 having a new baby every three days, unless it's my wife we're talking about. This is always the 0.94

00:53:24.500 tension between employee and customer, employee and client, employee and patient. You're both involved

00:53:32.060 in the same experience, but the experience is fundamentally different for both of you because

00:53:35.960 of your roles. For you, it's a job, but not for them. So part of your job then is to not bring 0.99

00:53:44.080 your weariness and annoyance into the experience. Yes, you've been asked for a million blankets,

00:53:50.460 yet the patient asking you for a blanket right now isn't cognizant about that or thinking about it

00:53:55.060 and shouldn't have to. You should treat the patient like their needs are the most important thing to

00:54:00.440 you, and then treat the next patient exactly the same, because that's what you're being paid to do.

00:54:04.580 And it's difficult, but that's what you're supposed to do, no matter what your job is.

00:54:10.020 You're running a cash register at McDonald's. Each customer who comes in,

00:54:16.900 the number one value meal, you've punched that in a thousand times, but you should act like this

00:54:23.220 is the most important thing in the world to you, getting this person their Big Mac.

00:54:26.900 Yeah, you're faking it, but that's your job is to fake it.

00:54:30.000 Second, everybody complains, okay? There's no sense in complaining about the fact that people

00:54:36.640 complain. People complain about their jobs, about their families, about their personal struggles,

00:54:40.300 their health problems, etc. Everyone has complained about all of these things.

00:54:44.300 But what people seem to not understand these days is that there is a proper time and place for these

00:54:49.100 complaints, and there are improper times and places. There are appropriate forums and inappropriate

00:54:54.060 forums. There are people in your life you can and should register these complaints with, and people

00:55:00.240 you shouldn't. And making a complaint publicly on video for the entire world to see is very rarely

00:55:08.160 the correct time, place, forum, or audience. Generally, you should be complaining to someone who,

00:55:13.780 A, can actively do something to solve whatever problem you're having, or B, is a trusted confidant

00:55:21.880 who can listen and provide you with meaningful support. So if your complaint is something that

00:55:26.960 nobody can reasonably solve, and it's not serious enough to warrant a consultation with a trusted

00:55:31.660 confidant, it's probably best if you just keep it to yourself. Because stifling a complaint, telling

00:55:36.780 it to no one ever, is also an option, and one that should be selected far more often than it is.

00:55:43.700 When it comes to complaints about your job, just some complaints about your family,

00:55:46.800 a great majority of them will fall into this last category. Like, there are complaints that you

00:55:52.620 should just never tell anyone, if you could believe it. There should be a whole list of complaints that

00:55:57.320 you have about people in your family, about your job, that you never tell anyone. Because there is no one

00:56:05.760 in your life who needs to hear all of that, or should have to. Grin and bear it. And the rest should be

00:56:13.960 articulated to the appropriate party within your family or your job. They should almost never be

00:56:18.560 aired in public for the entire world to hear, because the public can't do anything with your

00:56:23.180 gripe. We can't solve your issue for you. We don't know you. We aren't your friends, so we also can't

00:56:28.520 act as your trusted confidant. All we can do is listen to your whines and think to ourselves, wow,

00:56:34.500 I wish this person would stop whining. That's all we can do with it. And then we get back to our own

00:56:39.100 lives and our own petty annoyances. Whatever you were hoping to get out of the public airing of

00:56:44.060 your grievances, you almost certainly will not get. Unless in these nurses' cases, they were hoping to 0.99

00:56:49.100 get fired, in which case, mission accomplished. And not to add insult to injury, but I must also say

00:56:53.840 that along with being fired, they are today, needless to say, canceled. That'll do it for this

00:56:59.020 portion of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you

00:57:02.620 tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 13, 2022

Ep. 1080 - Leftists Answer 'What Is A Woman' Question By Rewriting The Dictionary

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