The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1085 - Chronically Immature Millennials Are Keeping The Toy Industry Afloat

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, toy companies are thankful this Christmas for the rise of a new

00:00:04.180 demographic they call kidults. Those are adults who still buy children's toys for themselves,

00:00:10.220 and there are a lot of them out there we'll discuss. Also, four female track athletes 0.99

00:00:13.760 challenging the policy of allowing males to compete against them suffer a defeat in court.

00:00:18.180 The White House tries to explain what exactly it's been doing to address the border crisis.

00:00:21.780 The answer is, of course, nothing at all. And a school in Maine begins a girl's gender transition,

00:00:26.880 quote-unquote, while concealing it from her parents. Many such cases, and they're all 0.88

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00:01:40.380 reading plan for free. You probably don't need any more reason to be frustrated as you wade through

00:01:46.580 the holiday crowds to buy the cheap plastic toy gifts for your children that you know will all be

00:01:51.780 lost or broken within three and a half hours of being opened on Christmas morning. But I will give

00:01:56.320 you another reason anyway. So consider that, according to the latest data, a significant portion of

00:02:02.180 the adults in that crowd are buying toys not for children but for themselves. In fact, if you're not able

00:02:10.120 to find the exact Barbie play set or Batman action figure or whatever that you're looking for, it could be

00:02:16.620 because some adult has already purchased the last one, not for his kid, but for himself. CNBC reports

00:02:24.100 this morning about a new group of consumers that have been dubbed kidults. These emotionally

00:02:31.220 stunted, intellectually shallow, overgrown adolescents, well into their 30s or 40s, and yet

00:02:37.000 apparently still, I don't know, riding around on big wheels, drinking their juice boxes, may be

00:02:42.940 destroying society, but they're doing wonders for the toy industry. So that's the good news. This is

00:02:47.600 from the report. It says, there are two things keeping the toy industry afloat right now. Inflation

00:02:51.980 and a consumer group known as kidults. These kids at heart are responsible for one fourth of all toy

00:02:58.840 sales annually, around $9 billion worth, and are the biggest driver of growth throughout the industry,

00:03:04.800 according to data from the NPD group. This cohort, which NPD defines as ages 12 and older,

00:03:11.000 has been steadily contributing to the industry for years, but spending has accelerated in the wake

00:03:15.980 of the pandemic, leading to year-over-year gains, despite tough comparisons. It's an industry moment

00:03:21.340 for the toy industry. It's an important moment for the toy industry, too, with the holiday season

00:03:25.300 upon us. While sales surged across the board for board games, puzzles, and play sets during the

00:03:29.440 pandemic, the first nine months of 2022 saw a 3% decline in sales volume. Higher toy prices helped

00:03:35.380 outweigh these losses, as sales revenue for the time period jumped 3%. NPD reported,

00:03:41.100 kidults who tend to spend more on toys have a great fondness for cartoons, superheroes,

00:03:46.240 and collectibles that remind them of their childhood. They buy merchandise such as action

00:03:50.720 figures, Lego sets, and dolls that might typically be considered for kids. However, in recent years,

00:03:56.360 toy makers have created product lines just for these consumers, realizing that demand is high

00:04:01.120 for this generation of adults who still want to have fun. So, as the economy struggles and more

00:04:07.960 and more adults drop out of the workforce entirely, adults are, at the same time, spending more money

00:04:14.680 than ever on children's toys for themselves. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but this is

00:04:21.700 not a sign of a healthy society. Now, granted, if 12 years old is the cutoff, then some of these

00:04:28.700 kidults are actually just kids. And the good news is that if your 12-year-old is still playing with

00:04:34.220 Legos, that's a great sign, actually. He has his innocence still. And Legos are a hell of a lot more

00:04:40.520 wholesome and productive than staring at screens all day, as most 12-year-olds do these days,

00:04:45.680 unfortunately. So, that's fantastic, a 12-year-old playing with Legos. But the fact remains that a

00:04:52.340 great number of the people in this demographic are, in fact, actual adults. Millennials and Gen Xers who

00:04:57.780 refuse to let go of their childhoods, no matter what. The Today Show highlights some more of the

00:05:03.860 people in this group. Let's watch. I don't want to grow up on a Toys R Us kid. They got a million

00:05:10.500 Toys R Us that I can play with. Everybody knows the song. It's that classy 80s commercial for Toys R Us.

00:05:18.280 And it turns out a kid can always be a kid. It's true. There's a growing trend that finds more and

00:05:23.780 more adults buying toys for themselves. The group being called Kidults. And it's proving to be a

00:05:29.900 very big business. And our kid at heart, NBC News Now anchored Joe Fryer is here with more. This is a

00:05:36.180 thing, huh? Yeah, good morning. I don't want to grow up either. You know, new data is showing that

00:05:39.660 people age 12 and older, those are kidults, 12 and older, they now make up at least a quarter of

00:05:44.860 toy consumers. And the industry is cashing in with new products marketed specifically

00:05:49.800 toward millennials, even Gen Xers.

00:05:53.820 Toys of Christmas past are now revisiting many in their adulthood. From adult Happy Meals.

00:06:03.120 Here are the fries. And then a toy.

00:06:08.000 To Barbie, who's starring in a new movie coming out next summer.

00:06:13.240 Nostalgia is a driving force for a growing consumer group called the Kidults. CNBC reports

00:06:21.420 that data from market research company NPD Group show adults who are young at heart spend about

00:06:27.040 $9 billion annually.

00:06:29.760 For the past two plus years, adults really started to gravitate towards toys and games,

00:06:35.040 not just to spend more time with their families, which they were doing at home, but also for

00:06:39.240 themselves to de-stress. Aaron Muterich is a former software engineer turned connoisseur

00:06:45.060 of putty. He says grownups are stuck on reliving simpler times from their childhood.

00:06:51.580 I think there is some level of nostalgia. Putty was introduced in the late 1950s to children. We've

00:06:59.180 seen it time and again where adults maybe think it is for children, but then once they touch

00:07:03.840 the putty that their children have, they want one for themselves.

00:07:09.960 God help us all. I mean, it's gotten to the point where adults who play video games all day are

00:07:15.000 essentially this generation's version of a man reading a leather-bound book in his study while

00:07:20.940 smoking a pipe. I mean, the gamer is mature and refined compared to a 40-year-old man who sits around 0.98

00:07:26.780 playing with silly putty all day. Now, what's the problem here? Well, the situation already feels 0.52

00:07:33.200 rather hopeless based on the fact that we even need to explain the problem. What's the problem

00:07:38.280 with adults sitting around all day playing with toys? I mean, it should be self-evident that your

00:07:43.260 society is not in tip-top shape when adults are spending billions of dollars on children's toys

00:07:48.260 that they will play with themselves. Shows not only a catastrophic lack of maturity in the culture,

00:07:53.580 but also a misalignment of priorities, a level of shallow materialism that is certainly unprecedented

00:07:59.620 in the history of the world. I mean, this would all seem to me to be totally self-evident, but if I must

00:08:05.440 flesh it out, then I would simply make the following observation. So first, nobody is saying that we

00:08:14.040 should not have fun as adults. There's nothing wrong with fun and recreation. On the contrary, these are

00:08:18.620 important parts of a whole and well-lived life. Yet everything must be done in the right proportion

00:08:23.600 and in a way that is properly ordered. Our trouble is that recreation has become the primary, if not

00:08:30.300 sole, focus of many people's lives. And what's more, their idea of recreation, their idea of fun

00:08:36.640 has not grown or evolved over time. They have grown physically, but their tastes have not.

00:08:45.040 This is one of the most glaring signs of emotional immaturity. And the thing about emotionally

00:08:49.700 immature people is that if you ever talk about the problem of immaturity, they will laugh at you,

00:08:54.960 which is exactly how you would expect an immature person to respond. Of course, if we lived in a

00:09:01.120 culture that was filled with mature, interesting, competent adults, adults with useful skills,

00:09:06.320 adults capable of having intelligent conversations, able to grasp and to express nuanced ideas, adults

00:09:12.100 who eagerly accept the duties and responsibilities of adulthood, etc. If that was the case,

00:09:17.620 and still many of these adults also happen to be obsessed with superheroes and cartoons and action

00:09:23.120 figures, then we might just chalk it up to a weird sort of quirk or eccentricity in our culture and not

00:09:28.600 really worry much about it beyond that. But that is not the sort of culture that we find ourselves in.

00:09:34.880 Instead, we are surrounded by immature idiots who have the skill sets, reasoning skills, and ambitions 1.00

00:09:41.260 and motivations of children. And they also happen to have the hobbies and recreations of children. 1.00

00:09:46.880 And so we can conclude, I think logically, that all of these things are probably related. That the

00:09:52.480 billions spent on the toys, the obsession with nostalgia, is both a symptom and a driver of the

00:09:59.880 overall problem. And the overall problem is that the real business of adulthood is being delayed and

00:10:06.860 sometimes shirked entirely. This is most obvious when we see the numbers of people refusing to start

00:10:11.560 families and have kids of their own. I mean, it's no surprise that that's the case, given that they

00:10:17.360 see themselves as kids, so they don't want to have kids. And since that's how they've chosen to live,

00:10:24.080 they also don't realize that not only is it possible to have fun as an adult, like an adult,

00:10:30.420 but you can even be a real adult and still enjoy the toys and games of childhood.

00:10:37.620 Like, I'm not even saying that when you become an adult, you can never pick up a toy ever again.

00:10:42.420 But here's the difference. You know, those childhood toys, you're supposed to be playing with those

00:10:49.040 with your own kids. I was just playing with Batman action figures yesterday, okay? Just yesterday I

00:10:54.860 was. But I was playing with my son. It was something I was doing with him. I wouldn't sit down

00:11:00.180 on the floor by myself and play with Batman toys because I'm a grown man. And there was a time when

00:11:06.740 a grown man sitting on the floor and playing with action figures by himself would be immediately seen

00:11:11.720 as mentally handicapped and probably institutionalized for it. Yet, when you're 0.84

00:11:16.880 playing with your children, it's a different story. I have indeed experienced, once again, many of the

00:11:22.760 joys of childhood. But from the perspective of an adult who is now helping to introduce those joys to

00:11:29.360 my own children. And the joy that I derive from it now is largely in seeing and being a part of

00:11:36.240 their joy. This is supposed to be one of the hallmarks of a stable, functional, well-rounded

00:11:41.040 adult, that you learn how to find happiness in helping other people to be happy.

00:11:48.760 Now, another point here. I made the same observation when we were discussing the adult

00:11:53.460 Happy Meals a few weeks ago. And we hear so much about how my generation is obsessed with

00:12:00.360 nostalgia. This is like the millennial thing, always talking about their nostalgia, constantly

00:12:05.940 pining for the innocence of their childhood growing up in the 90s. And there's nothing wrong with

00:12:10.880 nostalgia, unless it totally consumes your life and becomes your entire personality. But also think

00:12:16.860 about what they are nostalgic for. Their nostalgia is all tied to brands. Their nostalgia is a corporate

00:12:25.800 invention. They're nostalgic for consumer products. They're nostalgic for entertainment franchises.

00:12:34.580 It is a very particular, very modern kind of nostalgia that is easy for brands to exploit and

00:12:41.820 monetize because they invented it. But it's not the kind of nostalgia that drives people towards

00:12:47.120 better, more complete, and fulfilling lives. It just doesn't. Now, a nostalgia for experience,

00:12:54.940 a nostalgia for family, a nostalgia for actual meaningful events that you went through and experienced

00:13:01.700 as a child, that can drive you in a good and worthwhile way. So, you know, I find myself nostalgic

00:13:09.800 for the family dinners that we would have when I was a child with my parents and my five brothers and

00:13:15.760 sisters, and we would all sit around and have these big dinners. And I can be nostalgic for that.

00:13:21.580 Well, guess what? Now I have six kids of my own, and I find myself back at the dinner table again

00:13:27.320 with four of them because two are still unborn. But I find myself back at the dinner table again,

00:13:32.540 recapturing that experience and passing it down to my kids, who I hope will pass it to theirs and so on.

00:13:41.400 That's the sort of generational passing that we're supposed to be doing, not passing down

00:13:46.440 entertainment franchises. I remember when I watched this franchise when I was a child,

00:13:52.860 and it's experience, things that you did, things that meant something. That's what you're supposed to

00:13:58.280 be passing down to your kids. The problem is that so many in my generation, they were latchkey kids

00:14:05.360 who came home to empty houses and divorced parents and ate dinner on the couch watching TV.

00:14:10.300 And so their nostalgia is not for the experience, but for the thing they were watching.

00:14:17.620 Last point, you know, you notice the way that things have completely flipped upside down.

00:14:21.780 We have these adults clinging to their childhoods, while at the same time,

00:14:29.360 we rip the childhood away from actual children. So children have their innocence stolen by groomers

00:14:36.880 in public schools, by early exposure to porn, and all of the debased and degraded things that

00:14:43.000 kids are exposed to intentionally all the time. And it's this mechanism which is intended to

00:14:49.120 corrupt children to destroy their innocence. And at the same time, when society is engineering this

00:14:56.880 corruption, it is also beckoning towards adults, telling them to come back and become kids again.

00:15:03.800 It's almost like we're trying to switch places. It's totally inverted and perverse.

00:15:11.760 And we need to flip things back around and set it right. Let the kids be kids. They're the kids.

00:15:17.500 If you're going to be obsessed with nostalgia and childhood innocence, be obsessed with protecting

00:15:24.160 the innocence of actual children. It's their turn to be kids now. We had our chance. It's over.

00:15:31.080 We're adults now. Let the kids be kids.

00:15:38.620 You know, there's a reason why scripture says, when I was a child, I spoke as a child. I understood as a

00:15:44.080 child. I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. It is time to do

00:15:52.140 that. Well past time to put away the childish things. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:13.160 you, we were, speaking of childish things, we were all competing in this Daily Wire fantasy football

00:17:20.220 tournament and it is official that I will be the ultimate loser. I did come in last place.

00:17:25.720 My strategy of never updating my team or even looking at it one time, turns out that wasn't the

00:17:33.440 best approach. That's not the best strategy. So it would seem that fantasy football leagues are

00:17:38.640 not like, you know, say crockpot beef stew where you could just set it down and leave it and come

00:17:46.620 back when it's finished. It doesn't work that way. So anyway, the consequence is that I'm a loser and

00:17:51.080 I'm required now to go and attend a WNBA game. There's no way around it. There's no fine print.

00:17:56.540 There's no legalistic maneuvers. I just have to do it and I understand it and I will. Okay, I will.

00:18:01.540 In a way, I'm looking forward to it. That's a little bit too strong. I'm not, when I say looking

00:18:05.520 forward to it, I mean that I'm dreading it like a condemned man dreads his execution. But there is,

00:18:09.800 I do feel maybe honored is what I should be saying because I, as someone who admires pioneers and

00:18:16.220 explorers, I feel honored that I will be the first human being to ever attend a WNBA game in person.

00:18:25.140 I'm, in a way, I'm going to sort of be discovering the WNBA. So going where no man has ever gone before.

00:18:33.620 Only question now is what to wear for the big day. And originally we had talked about wearing

00:18:38.480 a free Brittany Griner shirt. A little redundant now because she's free. So now the thought is maybe

00:18:44.520 I wear a shirt that says trade her back, which would be a little provocative. But if you're going

00:18:52.320 to, if we're going to do it, if we're going to do this thing, if we're trolling in that WNBA game,

00:18:55.520 then I think you got to go all the way. Okay. So we'll start with this from the Daily

00:19:02.040 Wire. It says four female athletes who sued over Connecticut transgender sports policy lost their

00:19:06.880 case in federal court on Friday. A three judge panel on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

00:19:11.380 affirmed a lower court's decision to throw out the girls case, which was seeking to scrap a policy

00:19:16.280 that allows biological males to compete on girls sports teams in Connecticut. The four track

00:19:21.200 athletes, Selena Soule, who you may remember from, what is a woman? She appeared in that. Chelsea 0.99

00:19:27.760 Mitchell, Alana Smith, and Ashley Nicoletti and their mothers had argued in their suit that

00:19:32.000 Connecticut's high school sports authorities policy allowing transgender students to compete

00:19:35.920 on girls teams just disadvantages female athletes and has caused them to lose out on opportunities 1.00

00:19:40.100 and awards. Yes, they're arguing that because that is obviously the case. I mean, there's,

00:19:45.420 it's not even really an argument. It's just a fact. You can look at the times and you can see

00:19:51.440 that, you know, we could see which girls in particular lost out on what opportunities and 1.00

00:19:57.800 what medals and what awards that they would have otherwise gotten because the field was crowded out

00:20:01.800 by these, by these two males. They had asked for the court, the court for an injunction to erase the

00:20:08.640 victories of two biological male transgender athletes who broke the 17 girls track, broke 17,

00:20:15.780 get this right, they broke 17 girls track records. So these are records that were broken, 17 of them

00:20:23.740 by boys. And so boys now own 17 girls records in track and field. And they also snagged 15 women's

00:20:36.180 state track championship titles. In 2019, two transgender athletes finished ahead of Soule, causing her to 1.00

00:20:42.460 miss out on a qualifying for finals and the opportunity to compete before college scouts.

00:20:47.620 Mitchell has missed out on state championship title titles four different times because she finished 0.89

00:20:52.900 behind transgender athletes. But the, the court said that just struck this down and, and they lost

00:21:02.980 their appeal yet again. Now, the important thing to remember as always about these cases and like,

00:21:12.460 not that this even matters that much, because the fact is that these boys did not belong competing

00:21:18.580 against the girls no matter what, because they're not girls and that's it. That's all we need to say 1.00

00:21:22.840 about it. But it is also notable that these boys were once again, not dominant male athletes.

00:21:32.440 They were middle of the pack. And this is in a sport like track and field. It's really easy to see all this

00:21:39.960 because it's one of the most, probably the most quantifiable sport in existence. It's very simple. You're just

00:21:46.360 running and whoever gets their quickest wins and you have the times and all of that. So you can look at their

00:21:51.280 times and you can see that against the boys with the times they're finishing in their races, they were middle of the

00:21:56.520 pack. They weren't even qualifying for championship, um, championship matches. They weren't even get,

00:22:01.940 they weren't getting to the States or anything like that. Uh, and then they go over to the girls and

00:22:06.620 you take these middle of the pack, mediocre boys, put them against the girls and they are dominating

00:22:12.280 nearly every single race that they run, taking 17 records.

00:22:16.700 no better Testament, both to the insanity of this policy and also to the difference between girls 1.00

00:22:26.520 and boys. And I'm still waiting. It's just, it is, it is a fascinating coincidence, isn't it?

00:22:34.560 That we still have not seen a dominant male athlete discover that he's female. Isn't it just,

00:22:42.080 you know, maybe, maybe, uh, we could get a study done on this or something like that. Why is it

00:22:46.100 that there are plenty of male athletes who discovered they have women trapped inside them

00:22:51.000 magically? So this seems to happen a lot, but they're always middle of the pack. They're

00:22:55.980 always mediocre. It's never the ones at the top. Hmm. It's always the mediocre athletes who,

00:23:03.420 and usually it's like they've been competing against the boys for a while. And then at some

00:23:07.640 point they, they realized, well, you know what? I think I'm actually a girl turns out. What do you

00:23:12.700 know? I mean, I don't know. Is it, is it because if you're racing against the boys or competing

00:23:17.860 against the boys and you're dominating there that there, there's no incentive to want to race against

00:23:22.600 the girls, you're already getting all the gold medals and you're getting it against tougher 0.67

00:23:27.920 competition. And so you'll take that. You'd prefer those accolades, but if you have to choose between

00:23:33.560 being a mediocre, nobody, uh, male athlete or a dominant pretend female athlete, you'll choose that.

00:23:39.800 Could that be the reason? Who knows? In fact, everyone knows, um, who's honest about it.

00:23:47.860 Okay. Another report from the daily water system. The Supreme court has blocked the Biden administration

00:23:52.180 from lifting title 42, the statute, which gives commanders in chief, the power to shut down

00:23:57.860 immigration as an emergency action to keep communicable diseases out of the United States

00:24:02.320 was last used by former president Donald Trump in reaction to the COVID outbreak.

00:24:05.600 Family seeking asylum had filed a lawsuit in which, um, led to a federal judge ordering the

00:24:10.680 Biden administration to lift title 42 by Wednesday. In order from chief justice, John Roberts,

00:24:16.200 staying the ruling, stayed the ruling of the lower court. Greg Abbott said in response,

00:24:21.780 Texas and other States are insisting that the court leave title 42 in place. Today's order is a step in

00:24:26.260 the right direction. This helps prevent illegal immigration. So this was supposed to be lifted,

00:24:31.560 I believe, uh, tomorrow. And now for right now, anyway, the order has been stayed. Um, if it does

00:24:40.380 end, then the floodgates are going to open and even more than they already are. And it'll be even more

00:24:48.100 of, of a disaster, especially for, uh, towns that are down on the border. Now the Biden administration,

00:24:53.860 they've been hiding behind the fact that, that, you know, this was originally a court order that was

00:24:59.840 supposedly telling them that they have to lift title 42. What they, what they don't want you to know

00:25:04.740 is that they sought to lift it. This is what they wanted. As this surprisingly skeptical journalist

00:25:10.920 pointed out to Karen Jean Perry yesterday, let's watch this. If you're saying that Republicans aren't

00:25:16.140 doing the work, um, to get this done, and then you have someone like Joe Manchin saying, well, the

00:25:21.040 president has the ability to ask for an extension. He should be asking for an extension because we're at

00:25:26.400 this point where you've got a deadline and a crisis. Is that within the president's authority to do

00:25:32.720 that? So look, we remain, we're, we remained under a court order to lift title 42. That is a court

00:25:38.460 order. That is a quarter order that is telling us to lift title 42. And we're going to comply because

00:25:44.900 we follow the rule of law. That is not to lift that is what it is a court order, but that is that

00:25:51.320 It was a court order that has been provided to us. And so now we have to comply. And that is, we have

00:25:58.180 to comply by December 21st. It is, it is a law that is, what I'm saying is that, what I'm saying

00:26:06.720 that it is a court order that has been presented to us that we are going to comply with.

00:26:11.840 It's always fascinating when these people decide to care about things like, uh, the rule of law.

00:26:16.480 It never, it just, it always sounds awkward. Phrases like rule of law and also free speech

00:26:23.940 coming out of the mouth of a leftist. It always sounds awkward coming because you, you, you, you

00:26:28.680 know that they don't actually care about that. And, uh, it's the last thing that they want to have to

00:26:33.100 talk about or rely on, you know, or fall back on. But in this case, it's the rule of law.

00:26:37.960 Well, the rule of law also says that we have borders. The rule of law would stipulate that

00:26:46.840 the borders be protected and that our immigration laws be enforced. That's also what the rule of law

00:26:51.500 says. But the whole press conference on this subject was a disaster. She was also asked, um,

00:26:56.240 what exactly Kamala Harris is doing on this issue? Because Kamala Harris is supposed to be, 1.00

00:27:00.000 this is supposed to be her thing. You know, she's, uh, heading up the immigration response and

00:27:04.960 she's dealing with this crisis. What is she doing though, Kamala Harris, besides laughing

00:27:10.700 awkwardly and talking about Venn diagrams? What is she actually doing? Uh, Karen Jean-Pierre tried to 0.94

00:27:16.140 give us an answer to that. The president, uh, tasked the vice president with studying and working on the

00:27:22.680 root causes of some of these issues. I'm wondering if there's any update from this side of the White 0.99

00:27:28.080 House on what she's been doing and what she will continue to do as we're expecting an influx at the

00:27:32.920 border. Well, as you know, the president, uh, appreciates the partnership that he has with

00:27:37.920 the vice president. You're right. That has been her charge to, uh, work in a diplomatic way on 0.95

00:27:43.260 finding the root causes of, of, um, of migration. Uh, I don't have anything to lay out specifically

00:27:49.360 on what that work looks like. Uh, but again, we appreciate her partnership. Uh, and, uh, I would

00:27:55.480 probably, uh, refer you to her office on anything specific on the work that she's doing.

00:27:59.940 It's been, it's been over two years. You don't have anything specific at this point with this

00:28:05.740 work in any other context. Like, could you get away with that at your job with your boss? And we

00:28:11.580 are allegedly supposed to, these are our, they're working for us supposedly. And so we're supposed

00:28:17.600 to be the bosses. And, uh, when, so if we want to know, like, what are you guys doing about this?

00:28:24.420 They should be able to give us some sort of answer. Uh, yeah, they can get away with this. You,

00:28:28.100 you couldn't, you know, if your boss gave you a project and said, uh, here's what you need to do.

00:28:32.860 This is the problem you need to solve. Two years later, you get called into the office. So, uh,

00:28:36.840 give me the updates on that. Well, I don't have anything specific at this point. Um, I, but we,

00:28:42.040 it's certainly something that we're moderate monitoring and we're, you know, I'm, I'm thinking

00:28:46.580 quite a lot about it. Um, I've, I've made some Venn diagrams if you want to see them.

00:28:50.580 Um, you can never get away with that, but they can. Um, meanwhile, Texas border towns,

00:28:58.500 as mentioned, like El Paso are bracing. And, uh, here's a, an MSNBC report, which also maybe

00:29:05.440 somewhat surprisingly is even talking about this issue, but here it is right now, as we speak,

00:29:10.540 it is 30 degrees Fahrenheit. That's below freezing in El Paso, Texas, where hundreds of people,

00:29:16.900 including children are sleeping on the streets after crossing the Southern border.

00:29:21.900 The mayor of that city declared a state of disaster this weekend, saying asylum seekers are not safe

00:29:27.800 with shelters and processing centers at capacity. And in just two days of Biden administration is

00:29:33.820 ordered to stop using title 42, the border policy health policy. The U S has used to turn back

00:29:40.300 two and a half million asylum seekers since president Trump enacted it in March of 2020. An appeals court

00:29:46.820 denied the extension requested by 19 Republican States on Friday, clearing the way for the change,

00:29:52.900 unless the Supreme court weighs in before the 21st. Humanitarian crisis. Yes. Well, you know,

00:29:59.880 the, um, the mantra peace through strength is probably never more applicable than at the border,

00:30:07.780 because if you want to stop this, do you want to stop it? Well, they obviously don't,

00:30:13.380 but if you do want to stop this, you want to help these people. If you want to dissuade more of

00:30:19.160 this, you want to end the humanitarian crisis, then there's a way to do it. You militarize the border,

00:30:26.440 you round people up, people are coming across the border illegally. You round them up at gunpoint,

00:30:33.200 um, just like they do in many other countries across the world. You know, if you try to sneak

00:30:39.260 across the border in many other countries, countries that take their border seriously,

00:30:43.000 uh, you're going to find you're going to, there's going to be guns pointed at you.

00:30:47.560 And then you eject them from the country. You know, you start using very harsh and immediate methods.

00:30:55.780 You become absolutely ruthless in the defense of the border and of national sovereignty.

00:31:02.440 You let people know that it's not worth it to come here. It's not worth it to try to invade the country

00:31:09.920 this way. Um, it's not worth it to come here illegally. It's not worth it to, to, to, to try this.

00:31:17.320 Not worth the risk. It's not worth the price you will pay.

00:31:22.240 You do that. And it's the best thing, first and foremost, for American citizens, because you're

00:31:27.000 defending American sovereignty, but also for the potential illegal immigrants. It is, it is the most 1.00

00:31:32.380 humane and responsible thing. If you don't want to end up with, uh, illegal immigrants that are, 1.00

00:31:37.940 you know, huddling around, lying on the street, lying on sidewalks and freezing cold temperatures.

00:31:43.940 If you don't want people bringing kids across the border 1.00

00:31:46.620 or even worse, giving their kids to human traffickers who bring the kids across, if you don't want that,

00:31:54.760 then the only way to stop it

00:31:57.280 is to not only round up the people that are here to stop them, but actually, but you know,

00:32:02.740 that's, that's only one thing you can stop the people that are coming across. We're not even doing

00:32:06.040 that, but you can do that. But then what do you do to stop people from wanting to come in the first

00:32:10.680 place? That's the actual issue. That's what Kamala Harris is supposedly working on. What are the root

00:32:15.600 causes? That, that, that is a good question. Not a difficult question to answer, but the root cause

00:32:26.300 of, uh, you know, the fundamental root cause of people, you know, trying, you know, trying to

00:32:33.280 sneak across the border in droves, not even sneaking, but just coming across. Fundamentally, it's because

00:32:37.880 they believe that they can, they know they can, they know it's an option.

00:32:41.280 You know, I always say this when we talk about illegal immigration, I don't, for me, it's, uh,

00:32:47.560 it's, it's, it's nothing personal. Like, yes, I'm in favor of actually building a wall, uh,

00:32:55.300 militarizing the border, rounding people up, being, being again, ruthless in defense of the border

00:33:00.220 is nothing personal for me against illegal immigrants. If I lived in Mexico, I would not 1.00

00:33:07.420 want to be in Mexico. I would all, I would want to be here. And, and I don't know if I live there,

00:33:11.280 and I thought it was an option to just walk across the border. And I thought that I could

00:33:16.240 do that. And then I'd be here and I wouldn't be there anymore. I'd probably do it. I understand

00:33:21.660 why people do it. You look at the places that they're leaving. I wouldn't want to live in those

00:33:27.240 places either. And if you believe that you can just walk across as simple as that, why not?

00:33:33.560 Of course, they don't have any respect for our laws because they don't, they're not citizens

00:33:37.540 here. Why would they respect them? I mean, I don't, I don't have a ton of respect for other

00:33:42.860 countries' laws. I don't need to, I don't live there, but it's not. So yeah, I can, I can understand

00:33:48.960 that, which is why it's nothing personal when I say that these people need to be rounded up and

00:33:53.700 ejected from the country. It's just what needs to happen for their sake and for ours. All right. 1.00

00:34:00.160 Here's a report. This is from a website called the MaineWire, MaineWire.com. Maine as in the state

00:34:08.060 of Maine. A public school worker at Great Salt Bay Community School who coached a 13-year-old girl

00:34:13.180 into a gender transition without telling her parents has only a conditional license to practice social

00:34:18.700 work in Maine. The MaineWire has learned. Amber Levine, the mother of the young girl, revealed at a

00:34:23.820 school board meeting on Wednesday that she discovered a chest binder in her daughter's bedroom several

00:34:28.940 weeks ago. Her daughter told her that the binder was provided by a social worker at the public school

00:34:33.740 who encouraged her to keep it secret from her parents. That's when Levine learned that the

00:34:39.800 social worker and other school staff had started a social gender transition for the girl in October

00:34:44.760 without her parents' knowledge or consent. Sources have confirmed the social worker in question is Sam

00:34:50.660 Roy, a 26-year-old University of Maine graduate student who has a conditional license from the state of

00:34:56.520 Maine to work as a social worker. Roy started working with the Damariscata School this fall.

00:35:03.480 Roy is scheduled to graduate next year from the University of Maine with his master's degree in

00:35:08.080 social work. So he doesn't even have the degree yet, but he has taken charge of this girl's

00:35:13.700 quote-unquote social transition. Levine learned that the school had begun transitioning her daughter when

00:35:20.140 she discovered a chest binder in the girl's bedroom. Chest binder is a device that flattens the 0.96

00:35:24.840 appearance of a woman's breasts. They're sometimes used by individuals suffering from gender dysphoria

00:35:28.440 or gender confusion. Unless worn properly, binders can cause or exacerbate health problems.

00:35:34.340 Binders are typically used during social gender transitions and are considered a stepping stone 0.99

00:35:37.740 to an eventual double mastectomy. Of course, surgery that removes healthy breast tissue. 0.98

00:35:44.120 Although Levine knew that her daughter was seeing a social worker through the school,

00:35:47.240 she did not know that her daughter was reassigned to Roy in October.

00:35:50.000 However, she has never seen or talked to Roy. Okay. So this is, and this is not as unusual as we

00:35:58.680 want to think it is. This is certainly not unprecedented. Where a school is, it's not even just that the

00:36:06.280 school knows that a child identifies as the other gender and is not telling the kid, the parent about

00:36:12.600 it. That's bad enough. That's already horrific. Uh, for the school, I mean, schools should not,

00:36:20.340 a school should not know anything about your child that you do not know. There should be no information

00:36:30.560 at all, none that the school knows about your kid that you don't know. Because when we talk about the

00:36:38.580 school, the school is not some sort of amorphous, uh, entity, it's, we're talking about people.

00:36:44.680 And so is there any individual person who works at the school who has a right to know information

00:36:50.280 about your child that you don't?

00:36:54.680 Obviously not. And that is especially the case when it comes to something like this. So that's bad enough

00:36:59.520 if they're just concealing just, I mean, if they're concealing this kind of information, but in this case,

00:37:03.800 they are actually facilitating this quote unquote transition themselves, took it upon themselves to

00:37:12.080 do that. Of course, while not only not telling the parents, but actively concealing it from them.

00:37:21.020 By the way, this article says that, uh, and I, and I want to make sure to note this. The article says

00:37:25.400 that chest binders, unless worn properly, uh, can are damaging. Well, that's, that's,

00:37:31.320 there is no proper way to wear them. They are damaging period. The whole point is to flatten,

00:37:37.140 you know, um, the chest. It's there's, there's no healthy or proper way to do that. There are ways

00:37:43.560 that are, you know, when, so when we, we talk about proper or healthy way of wearing a chest binder,

00:37:49.320 what they really mean to say are here's the way to do it. That will supposedly mitigate some of the

00:37:54.700 harm that this is going to cause the child, but there still will be harm no matter how you slice it.

00:38:01.320 Um, and this is, this is one step towards the, towards the surgery. So when the left says that

00:38:11.180 they're not, they're not performing these surgeries on kids, that's a lie. First of all,

00:38:14.460 they are performing surgeries on kids. They're performing double mastectomies on girls as young

00:38:19.080 as 15, 14 years old, maybe even younger, but also the, the so-called social transition

00:38:27.140 that is about putting the child on the conveyor belt, which leads directly to the surgery. And most

00:38:36.480 of the kids will stay on that conveyor belt all the way down, you know, till they get to the part

00:38:41.960 where, with, with, with the saws and the blades, that's what it's about. And the schools, they don't see

00:38:50.100 any problem with this because as far as they're concerned, it, these kids are theirs. The kids belong

00:38:57.860 to them. And you should know that. So I'm always preaching about homeschool, but if you can't do

00:39:06.680 homeschool and you feel like you have to send your kid to public school, it really should be the last 1.00

00:39:09.680 resort. But if you're going to do it, then you should, you should just understand that you cannot,

00:39:14.460 you cannot implicitly trust anyone there. You especially can't trust counselors, therapists,

00:39:20.540 social workers. I mean, you can't, we're at a point now, sad to say, where you can't trust people

00:39:27.940 in that field at all. I mean, that entire field is ideologically captured. It is hostile to you.

00:39:35.540 And it just is, you cannot trust it. I would not send my kid to any of these people, period,

00:39:42.120 especially not unattended. So if your kid does, you know, if you really feel like your kid needs

00:39:49.140 to see some sort of counselor, then you need to be in the room. But the schools, this is what they

00:39:55.000 believe, that they, they own your kids. The kids belong to them. You are, talk about things being 0.62

00:40:00.540 inverted. You know, you are, you're the, you are basically the hired help and they have ownership

00:40:08.500 of your child. That's how they see it. All right. One other thing to get to, this is from The Sun.

00:40:15.660 It says, Britney Spears' father last night defended the controversial legal order that sparked

00:40:20.500 worldwide outrage, insisting she could have died without it. Speaking exclusively for the first

00:40:25.280 time about the 13-year conservatorship, which controlled almost every aspect of the troubled

00:40:29.640 U.S. pop star's life, Jamie Spears claims he is far from the monster he has been painted

00:40:33.760 as in his first interview in more than a decade, Jamie, speaking ahead of a book by Britney's ex-husband,

00:40:39.000 Kevin Federline, about fatherhood in the midst of public drama, said, quote,

00:40:43.100 my God, where would she be without that conservatorship now? I ain't, I ain't gonna paint,

00:40:47.400 you know, pretty pictures. That conservatorship was one hell of a time and without it, I don't know if

00:40:52.460 she would be alive now. Jamie, 70, 70 years old, has endured slurs that claimed he wanted power over

00:40:58.860 Britney, 41, to line his own pockets and micromanage her career. Even though he says all decisions under

00:41:03.980 the order were taken jointly with a, quote, group of very good people, her fans saw him as a controlling

00:41:08.320 puppet master. You know, this whole story is frustrating to me. He had this pitchfork mob

00:41:14.140 that has assembled demanding that Britney be released from her conservatorship, despite having

00:41:20.540 absolutely no idea what was going on behind the scenes. Okay, no idea. And I made this point at the

00:41:28.220 time. It's like, you're calling free Britney. You don't, you have no clue what's actually happening.

00:41:32.760 You don't know. You saw a Netflix documentary. It's all you saw. That wasn't even pretending to

00:41:39.000 be objective. All they knew is that, is what Britney Spears told them. And surprise, Britney Spears

00:41:46.240 doesn't think she should be under a conservatorship because every person who is in a conservatorship

00:41:51.420 doesn't want to be in one. That's just assumed. That doesn't mean that automatically, like anytime

00:42:01.480 you're forcing someone to do something, of course you have to force them, which means they probably

00:42:06.300 don't want to do it. But the fact that they don't want to do it doesn't necessarily mean

00:42:10.080 that it's wrong. It could, I mean, it could be wrong, but it depends. Like there, there are people

00:42:19.180 in the world who are a danger to themselves and others. Okay, whether Britney Spears is one of

00:42:25.300 those people, that's a different conversation, but those people exist. There are those people out

00:42:29.820 there. And for people like that, these kinds of arrangements can be necessary because otherwise

00:42:38.220 they're going to hurt themselves or hurt other people. Now as for Britney Spears, what do we know 0.83

00:42:44.800 about her? Well, we didn't know a lot, but based on what we knew, she was a nutcase. She lost custody 1.00

00:42:50.700 of her own kids in California. A woman lost custody of her own kids in California. Do you know how 0.98

00:42:56.420 utterly disastrous of a mother you have to be to lose custody of your kids? In California, no less. 1.00

00:43:03.980 So we knew that. We saw all the crazy stuff on social media. We saw how she rambles 0.99

00:43:10.240 incoherently. Like even when she was defending herself and trying to explain why the conservatorship

00:43:15.900 was terrible, she couldn't string together a coherent sentence. She's like incoherent. 0.69

00:43:22.180 Does all of that mean, and now she's like posting 56 nude pictures every day. It's like naked, 0.97

00:43:32.640 babbling incoherently. It's all the signs of a crazy person. Does all that mean that she actually 0.99

00:43:38.560 is crazy? Well, I can't say that for sure because I don't see what's going on behind the scenes. But

00:43:41.840 like it seems like all the signs are pointing in that direction and there are no signs pointing to

00:43:46.480 her being actually sane. Does that make her dad a good guy? No, because he pimped his own daughter 0.75

00:43:53.380 out to the music industry when she was like 15 years old. So he at a minimum consented at a minimum

00:43:59.700 to having his teenage daughter turned into a, you know, into what she was turned into.

00:44:05.920 So, you know, her first song, she was like 15, 16 when she performed that song.

00:44:12.960 So he's obviously not a good guy, which is why if people had been arguing that someone else should

00:44:21.500 have control over the conservatorship, then that would be one thing. But instead they said free

00:44:25.640 Brittany and just free her entirely. And now she's probably going to be dead of a drug overdose 0.85

00:44:31.700 within a couple of years. And all of her fans that called for this, like this is going to be partly

00:44:38.240 on them. This, this is, this is what you wanted. Like she, does anyone think she's going to live

00:44:43.460 to 50? Does anyone think that? Does anyone see that happening? Seems very unlikely. All right,

00:44:49.700 let's get to the comment section. Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

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00:45:47.320 my ex grew up in a religious home, but still got exposed to porn at the age of 12 while at a friend's

00:45:52.340 house. His friend said to him, hey, you want to see something cool before he knew it? He was viewing

00:45:56.380 this material for the first time on his friend's desktop. His parents had zero clue this experience

00:46:02.020 turned into a full-blown addiction as one of the contributing factors to our breakup. Point is,

00:46:06.840 this smut needs to be outlawed. Yeah, this is, and there are so many stories like this. I mean,

00:46:14.860 millions of stories just like this of people who were exposed to this. And in a way that,

00:46:22.900 like the person you're talking about, did he have bad or neglectful parents? Maybe he did,

00:46:28.680 but there's no indication from the story you just told that he did.

00:46:34.060 Given that this stuff, and this, I'm assuming was several years ago at least,

00:46:40.600 it's only gotten more pervasive since then.

00:46:44.460 So it would have been difficult enough, like in the early days of the internet being a sort of a

00:46:49.860 household item. Even back then, it would have been very difficult, would have been difficult for

00:46:54.700 parents to hide, you know, to shield their kids from this kind of content. But back then, at least,

00:47:01.080 the internet only existed on desktop computers. And so it was much more contained. Now everyone is

00:47:13.180 walking around with devices in their pocket that can access pornography. And so it's just,

00:47:18.820 you can do a lot to shield your kids. And there's a lot that parents could be doing that they're not.

00:47:26.520 But there's only so much you can do, given that this stuff is everywhere.

00:47:31.500 And we have just made it impossible for parents, which is why I said yesterday,

00:47:34.860 can we help parents out a little bit?

00:47:39.000 I just get, I get so frustrated when I hear people say, oh, these parents, you know,

00:47:42.000 it's all about the parents. Okay, easy for you to say, as a childless person who has no stake in

00:47:49.560 the future of this country, who has no responsibilities at all, you know, you just,

00:47:55.000 you were just that target in the toy section, buying more Spider-Man action figures. So it's

00:47:58.960 easy for you to say, parents today, you're not doing anything. You have no idea what you're talking

00:48:04.280 about. Okay, you're still living as an overgrown child. But those of us who have kids, we understand

00:48:11.900 that we have been put in an extremely difficult situation. We live in a culture that is absolutely

00:48:21.340 hostile to children. And there are booby traps laid out everywhere. And so when we say, hey,

00:48:30.840 can we get a little bit of help here? What we get in response is, hey, this is your problem.

00:48:38.960 And why do we hear it? Like, why is that? Why the hostility? It's again, because these people,

00:48:47.160 they don't want any hindrance or any inconvenience at all in their pursuit of masturbation material.

00:48:55.740 And they are willing, they're willing, I mean, there are people today, many people,

00:49:02.580 they would be willing to sacrifice the innocence of a billion kids just to 0.99

00:49:09.180 make it slightly easier for them to masturbate to pornography. 0.99

00:49:17.380 And if that sounds like a, like you have to be a sociopath to, well, yeah, we're surrounded by 0.99

00:49:22.400 sociopaths. Let's see. Lena McCune says, it's scary how they expect parents to keep their kids 0.93

00:49:33.680 off porn, but also increase the amount of work expected to be done on the internet. I'll keep

00:49:37.780 my child off the internet as much as humanly possible, but I don't feel confident that she

00:49:41.560 won't see something inappropriate. Another perfect example. This is what I'm talking about. Not making

00:49:45.680 it any easier on parents. So while we say keep the kids off the internet, more and more of the schools

00:49:49.620 are saying you have to be on the internet. We're structuring life around the internet.

00:49:57.060 Becky says, I know someone who has been addicted to pornography since he was eight, eight. He's

00:50:01.340 married with two kids now, one on the way, and his marriage is suffering. Porn is absolutely evil 0.98

00:50:06.160 for children, obviously, and adults. Eight years old. I mean, kids are being exposed to this stuff. 0.57

00:50:14.740 This is, it's bad enough if you had a healthy childhood and you were introduced to

00:50:25.460 human sexuality in a healthy way, and then you find pornography. So that's bad enough. But in this

00:50:35.260 case, you're taking kids and this is their introduction. It's not like a biology lesson. It's

00:50:41.240 not anatomy class. It's not a birds and the bees talk from their parents. Their introduction is

00:50:47.180 whatever you find on Pornhub. This is the gateway in. So from the very beginning, like this goes all

00:50:55.660 the way to the root for them. From the very beginning, their concept of human sexuality and

00:51:03.360 the sexual act and all of that has been totally shaped by what they see on the internet.

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00:52:23.300 Today for our daily cancellation, I must circle back to something from last week. You may recall

00:52:32.040 early the previous week when Elon Musk got himself into trouble with the woke brigade for making fun

00:52:37.280 of the preferred pronoun ritual. And we discussed the issue on this show. And I explained, as I have

00:52:42.200 many times in the past, that it's not only valid, but necessary to mock preferred pronouns because the

00:52:47.240 whole concept of preferred pronouns is fundamentally nonsensical. And that's not just because men are 0.63

00:52:51.560 demanding that incorrect female pronouns be used for them and vice versa, but because the entire

00:52:55.280 concept of a person having a preference when it comes to pronouns, the idea that they can have a

00:53:00.400 pronoun at all is incoherent. And I made this same point on Twitter where I posted, quote,

00:53:06.000 nobody has pronouns. You can't have a pronoun any more than you can have a preposition or an adverb.

00:53:10.080 The concept doesn't make any sense. Pronouns are not things you can own. They aren't pets or accessories.

00:53:13.880 They are parts of speech. That's it. You don't get to customize them. So that's what I said.

00:53:19.160 My point, pretty basic, self-explanatory, hard to misinterpret. You would think.

00:53:23.720 Now, it will surprise you to learn that this, surprise you to learn this probably, but I've

00:53:28.000 been trying to spend a little bit less time on Twitter recently. So I never checked to see

00:53:31.680 how people responded to that tweet. And I didn't know that it had gone relatively viral and the

00:53:37.080 left had seized on it and they were trying to dunk on it. I was oblivious to all of this and they were

00:53:42.420 dunking for days and I didn't even know like the proverbial falling tree. They were dunking in the

00:53:47.080 forest, but nobody was there to see them. So did they really dunk at all? That's a philosophical

00:53:51.220 question. But then this weekend came and I was flying back and forth from Phoenix and I was bored

00:53:56.480 on the plane. And so I went back and I stumbled upon these responses. To summarize, basically, the

00:54:02.820 leftist on Twitter had apparently decided that my argument was hilarious and ridiculous and stupid 0.98

00:54:08.860 because, as so many pointed out, I was using pronouns while tweeting against pronouns. Yes, 0.98

00:54:17.100 they had decided that I was making an anti-pronoun case. I'm against pronouns as a concept. I'm opposed

00:54:23.880 to anyone using pronouns for any reason, they decided. And so it's very funny that even while

00:54:28.480 telling people not to use pronouns, I was using them myself. Checkmate, they got me. Now, one example 0.99

00:54:35.700 of this rebuttal came from a woman named Jessica Piper. Her response caught my eye in particular

00:54:39.400 because she is apparently a teacher, an English teacher, and she's also a former political

00:54:43.920 candidate. But it's her status as a teacher that makes the following response from her quite troubling.

00:54:48.780 She said, quote, they aren't sending their brightest, are they? The first word in this rant against

00:54:53.860 pronouns is a pronoun. Laughing face emoji. She continues, grammar check. How many pronouns are in

00:54:59.400 this message against using pronouns? She then includes an accompanying TikTok video where she circles

00:55:05.360 all the pronouns in my tweet with the Curb Your Enthusiasm music in the background because aren't

00:55:10.440 I such a dummy for being anti-pronoun even while using pronouns? Now, if you have better reading

00:55:18.120 comprehension skills than our friend Jessica, you've already made note of the problem here.

00:55:22.860 I, of course, never said that we shouldn't use pronouns. I'm not against pronouns. I have not taken

00:55:28.620 an anti-pronoun stance. I'm saying that, I'm saying not that pronouns can't be used, but that they can't

00:55:35.560 be possessed. They can't be owned like a pet. Pronouns are not fashion accessories. You don't have

00:55:41.900 pronouns. People use pronouns. They use pronouns to refer to you. But the pronouns that they choose

00:55:48.520 when referring to you are not meant to reflect your preferences or your self-image. They are not

00:55:53.880 borrowing your pronouns so that they can use them. It's not the way it works. Excuse me, sir, if that's

00:55:59.460 what you are. May I borrow your pronouns? That's not how it works. It's grammar. And they are meant

00:56:04.940 to reflect physical reality. That's my point. You can disagree with it, I suppose. You'd be wrong if

00:56:10.920 you disagreed with it, but you're free to be wrong. What you cannot do is invent an entirely different

00:56:15.840 argument I never made and then think that you've defeated me by tearing down the argument

00:56:20.740 that I didn't make instead of the one that I did. Otherwise known, of course, is making a

00:56:25.440 straw man. Now, I made this observation to Jessica and she responded, quote, the fact that Matt Walsh

00:56:31.580 is quote tweeting me on the topic of grammar, a subject which I have a whole ass degree, I bet he's

00:56:36.860 fun at parties. Now, I'm not sure what part of this is my favorite. Is it that she's bragging about

00:56:43.000 having a degree in grammar, even while revealing that she has the reading comprehension skills of a

00:56:47.900 toddler? Or is it the fact that she has a degree that uses phrases like whole ass? Or is it the fact 1.00

00:56:54.140 that she sent three tweets and made a TikTok video in reaction to my statement and yet is now taking

00:56:59.180 offense at the mere fact that I would dare respond to her at all? Or is it the implication that being

00:57:04.740 fun at a party means agreeing with Jessica about whatever nonsense she happens to be spewing? Now, I very

00:57:11.540 much doubt that Jessica is getting invited to parties, but if she is, she has ironically revealed

00:57:15.440 herself to be exactly the sort of person that you avoid at a party at all costs. So take your pick

00:57:20.640 of the litter there, I suppose. This only goes to show what sort of bind the left finds itself in.

00:57:29.220 They cannot defend their position on pronouns or on gender ideology as a whole.

00:57:34.340 Jessica, as an English teacher, cannot begin to articulate an argument as to why

00:57:38.640 the pronouns we use to refer to someone should depend on how that person happens to be feeling

00:57:45.140 that day rather than being based on our own perception of physical reality. She can't explain

00:57:51.260 why we should have our own preferred pronouns and not our own preferred adjectives and prepositions,

00:57:56.000 which everyone else is required to affirm and to use in reference to us. She can't do that. In fact, 0.62

00:58:01.180 she can't explain why this pronoun customization only applies to certain pronouns in certain situations.

00:58:10.480 So what if I were to make the following statement? What if I were to say this? I was talking to

00:58:17.260 Jessica Piper about pronouns. We believe that preferred pronouns are nonsense. Now, Jessica would 0.63

00:58:25.600 probably object. She would say, no, we don't believe that. You believe that. And you're just you.

00:58:31.180 You're not us. It would be no use then for me to clarify that my preferred pronouns are I, we,

00:58:37.900 and us. Those are my preferred pronouns. So anytime you talk about me, you have to say I, we, or us.

00:58:44.520 Indeed, Jessica would flatly refuse to use my preferred pronouns in that case. She would say

00:58:48.780 that though I get to choose my own, I can't choose those. Why can't I choose those? Well, because it

00:58:56.360 doesn't make any sense for me to insist that other people say the word we when referring to me, given

00:59:01.460 that I am just an individual. I'm not everyone. In other words, she will declare that in this conflict

00:59:08.180 between physical reality and my perception, physical reality wins out. In this case, but not in others.

00:59:15.860 I'm betting she would say the same if I told her that my pronouns are me, I, and myself. Those are

00:59:23.860 my only pronouns. Therefore, when you refer to me, you must say me or I when talking about me, which

00:59:31.380 means you'll be talking about yourself because I identify as you and also me. I identify as everyone.

00:59:37.500 Your identity has been collapsed into mine, according to me, and it's how I identify.

00:59:45.100 Now, she probably wouldn't respect that either. She would say that, well, that makes no sense.

00:59:50.300 You can't identify that way. And even if you do, you can't, I'm not going to affirm it.

00:59:56.700 So it turns out that I can't just choose any pronoun I want. It turns out that there are still

01:00:03.080 some rules here. And those rules, when they are applied, are based on physical reality. They are

01:00:10.140 based on a need to be coherent. At times, a basic level of coherence is required, but not at all

01:00:19.800 times. So I can't have, it would be too incoherent for my pronouns to be I, me, or we. But if my pronoun

01:00:24.760 was Z, Zer, and Zim, literal gibberish that doesn't mean anything, that's okay. So who decides when 0.66

01:00:32.400 a physical reality trumps self-perception? Who decides when it's necessary to be coherent and

01:00:37.900 when it's not necessary to be coherent? Well, I guess Jessica Piper decides. Her and people like 0.96

01:00:43.740 her. Those are the real rules of grammar now. That's what they're going to be teaching the kids

01:00:48.800 in English class. The rule is they decide what the rules are and when they're applied and to whom.

01:00:55.520 That's the logic we get from English teachers these days. And that is why she and all the rest 1.00

01:01:02.220 of them are today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the

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The Matt Walsh Show - December 20, 2022

Ep. 1085 - Chronically Immature Millennials Are Keeping The Toy Industry Afloat

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