The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1087 - The Real Objective Of The Speech Police

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Stanford publishes an extensive list of benign everyday terms that are now considered offensive.

00:00:06.100 Meanwhile, a Canadian organization puts out an activity book to explain assisted suicide to children.

00:00:11.880 How are these two issues related? I'll explain.

00:00:14.080 Also, Zelensky gets a hero's welcome as he visits the United States to beg for more money, of course.

00:00:19.240 And parents at an all-ages drag show attempt to explain why they're choosing to expose their children to sexually explicit content.

00:00:26.260 Their answers are not exactly convincing.

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00:01:35.120 So you've probably heard about the new harmful language policy at Stanford University.

00:01:41.040 Much has already been said about it, but as usual, I think that people are missing the most important point.

00:01:47.160 So first, if you aren't familiar, let's get you up to speed.

00:01:49.980 Breitbart reports, quote, Stanford University published a list of words and phrases deemed harmful language.

00:01:56.400 The school plans to eliminate this language from its websites and computer code and also suggested words and phrases to serve as replacements.

00:02:02.860 Stanford's IT department recently launched its Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, which is a multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford.

00:02:13.420 The goal of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is to eliminate many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, and biased, disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias, language in Stanford website and code.

00:02:26.940 The guide reads, of course, the guide is largely made up of perfectly acceptable language used by Americans.

00:02:32.680 For example, it advises readers to say U.S. citizen instead of American because of how harmful that term is.

00:02:38.960 Before listing the harmful words in the replacements, the university issued a trigger warning, but even the term trigger warning has been deemed harmful, so the school instead used its replacement content warning.

00:02:49.180 And it says, content warning, this website contains language that is offensive or harmful.

00:02:54.020 Please engage with this website at your own pace.

00:02:56.740 From there, the so-called harmful language was broken up into 10 different categories, ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent, and additional considerations.

00:03:11.440 So those are all the categories.

00:03:12.640 Now, I read through the entire report, making sure to pace myself, as I was warned.

00:03:17.240 It took me about 18 hours because I had to keep stopping for mental health breaks.

00:03:21.360 I broke out into uncontrollable sobs at least a dozen times.

00:03:25.200 It was a deeply traumatic experience, but it was necessary and it was educational because you have to do the work.

00:03:32.260 And there are hundreds of banned words on this list.

00:03:36.100 I think it goes up to a thousand words or something.

00:03:38.520 And we can't go through them all, but we can highlight just a few.

00:03:42.420 So under the ableist category, we're told right off the top that addict is unacceptable.

00:03:48.100 It's suggested that instead we use person with a substance use disorder.

00:03:52.640 And the reason is that, as it explains, you should use person-first language.

00:03:57.080 This is also why person of color is acceptable, but colored person is considered unthinkably racist.

00:04:03.020 It's likewise recommended that you should not say gay person, but rather person of gayness.

00:04:09.760 I mean, that last one I made up, but that's the implications here. 0.85

00:04:11.720 Other ableist terms include basket case, which is a term offensive to both crazy people and basket weavers, I guess.

00:04:19.040 Not to mention baskets themselves.

00:04:20.820 Blind study is no good, but because it furthers an ableist culture to say blind study.

00:04:26.280 Instead, you should use masked study.

00:04:28.900 Though I imagine that next year's edition will rule out masked study because it marginalizes people who wear masks, obviously.

00:04:36.000 And we should not say crazy, crippled, handicapped, lame, insane, mentally ill, or OCD.

00:04:44.320 On that last one, it suggested that instead of saying OCD, we say detail-oriented.

00:04:49.080 So, example sentence, Bob has locked himself inside his bathroom for 17 hours and is delusionally muttering to himself as he washes his hands over and over again until they bleed because he suffers from being detail-oriented.

00:05:02.380 And this is only a partial sample of the ableism category, and that's just the ableism category.

00:05:08.440 As we move on to ageism, we are commanded to stop saying senile.

00:05:12.700 Instead, it's recommended that we just use his name, Joe Biden.

00:05:16.000 In the colonialism category, we're informed, much to the surprise of everyone in the world, that the term Philippine Islands is racist.

00:05:25.140 And we should consider just saying Philippines instead. 0.67

00:05:30.280 Apparently, the Philippine Islands are, I don't know, self-conscious about being islands, having a bit of an inferiority complex because they're excluded from the main content.

00:05:38.180 And I don't know, and this is why it's best we don't call attention to it.

00:05:40.800 I'm not exactly sure.

00:05:42.060 Then there is culturally appropriative language like brave, guru, chief, tribe, obviously.

00:05:49.880 There's gender-based language we shouldn't say, like ballsy, guys, ladies, mailman, man hours, man-made.

00:05:58.220 There's institutionalized racism language like black hat, black mark, black bald.

00:06:04.700 I guess that's gender-based and racist. 0.89

00:06:07.940 Grandfathered, uppity, none of those are any good. 0.90

00:06:10.700 And then there are just miscellaneous words that are offensive for reasons that can't possibly be explained, like convict, immigrant, prisoner, disabled person.

00:06:17.860 All of these words and terms are no longer acceptable, according to our cultural overlords.

00:06:22.980 And the words and terms that we are assigned to replace them with will become, in short order, unacceptable as well.

00:06:29.940 We must keep up to date on the language rules, follow the instructions.

00:06:35.080 And not because the instructions make sense, but simply because they are the instructions.

00:06:39.540 It's like a giant game of Simon Says.

00:06:41.780 And that leads to the point that is often missed.

00:06:47.580 This kind of over-the-top speech policing, actually, it has very little to do with being sensitive.

00:06:53.320 This is the mistake that conservatives have always made, still make.

00:06:56.780 We're told that the term Philippine Islands has become arbitrarily offensive.

00:07:02.600 And we say something like, geez, people are so sensitive these days.

00:07:05.480 But it's got nothing to do with being sensitive.

00:07:09.520 Nobody is actually offended or hurt by any of the words on this list.

00:07:14.080 Nobody really cares.

00:07:14.920 This is about exercising power.

00:07:17.000 It's about control, for control's sake.

00:07:20.140 It's really not, it's kind of like the linguistic version of that scene in Cool Hand Luke,

00:07:25.360 where Paul Newman's character is forced to dig a ditch for no reason.

00:07:31.100 And then once it's dig, they tell him, Doug, they have to, they tell him he has to fill it back in again for no reason.

00:07:36.540 So the ditch itself serves no purpose.

00:07:39.780 But that is its purpose.

00:07:42.180 By forcing someone to do something totally pointless and arbitrary, you are controlling them.

00:07:48.240 And you are controlling them in the most humiliating and demoralizing way.

00:07:52.060 Paul Newman knew that there was no reason to dig the ditch.

00:07:55.680 The prison guards knew it.

00:07:56.960 Everyone involved knew that it was pointless.

00:07:59.540 And yet he had to do it anyway.

00:08:01.020 It was a way of breaking his spirit, crushing his defiance, bringing him in line.

00:08:08.520 And that is why they do this obsessive language policing.

00:08:13.340 That's what it's all about.

00:08:15.460 But it serves a deeper purpose, too, of course.

00:08:17.660 Yes, it's arbitrary.

00:08:18.620 No, there's no reason why one term is suddenly considered offensive while another is appropriate.

00:08:23.880 No, there is absolutely no meaningful distinction between the banned phrase disabled person and the recommended phrase person with a disability.

00:08:32.920 And yet, through the force of sheer repetition, the person who abides by the language rules

00:08:42.020 will eventually begin to perceive reality in a way that conforms with the rules.

00:08:49.280 Most obvious example of this, of course, is the pronouns.

00:08:53.520 It is, as I already covered, demoralizing, humiliating, degrading, to be forced to play along with someone's gender charade by using their, quote, preferred pronoun. 0.85

00:09:02.760 Although the term for preferred pronoun, by the way, is also now not allowed.

00:09:06.900 That was on the banned word list.

00:09:08.720 You're not supposed to say preferred pronoun.

00:09:09.960 You just call them pronouns because it's not a preference, right?

00:09:13.440 It's not a mere preference.

00:09:14.500 This is like, this is what someone is in their inner self.

00:09:17.740 Anyway, that's all true.

00:09:19.960 And that demoralization, that humiliation, that degradation is a big part of the point.

00:09:26.560 But if that's all the left ever got out of it, they'd be happy.

00:09:31.920 They're degrading you, demoralizing you, controlling you.

00:09:34.600 That's good.

00:09:35.780 But they get more than that.

00:09:37.320 The person who follows the rules, at first reluctantly and begrudgingly,

00:09:42.260 will often eventually begin to experience a change in perception.

00:09:45.760 As he degrades himself, so too does his ability to perceive objective reality become degraded as well.

00:09:52.720 So by controlling words, the left is also controlling minds.

00:09:56.760 In fact, Michael Knowles wrote a book on that subject, as you may have heard him mention, a time or two.

00:10:02.200 So this week, I think, provides us, we have this example from Stanford.

00:10:06.600 This is another example, though, that's far darker and not nearly as funny.

00:10:09.900 Not funny at all, in fact.

00:10:12.760 As you've heard on this show, Canada has recently set out to become the suicide capital of the globe.

00:10:18.660 Their medical assistance in dying program, MAID, as they call it,

00:10:22.720 casts a wide net, opening assisted suicide up to almost anyone, whether they're terminally ill or not,

00:10:30.120 eventually whether they're adults or not.

00:10:32.280 Anyone can get it.

00:10:33.840 And if you want to see how language is manipulated to change the way people perceive reality,

00:10:39.720 you can find no example more stark, more disturbing,

00:10:42.680 than with the propaganda that surrounds and promotes this MAID program.

00:10:48.680 Case in point, there's an organization called Canadian Virtual Hospice,

00:10:52.820 and they've published an activity book, as they call it, an activity book about suicide aimed at kids.

00:11:01.420 Now, aesthetically, the activity book looks like any other kid's activity book,

00:11:06.400 with a kind of childish font and lots of illustrations and so on.

00:11:10.300 Now, in saner times, you know, this would be, you see an activity book like this,

00:11:14.940 it would be an activity book teaching kids about the solar system or dinosaurs or something like that.

00:11:20.440 Instead, in this case, in our dystopia, it's teaching them all about the wonders of suicide.

00:11:26.720 But it's the language that is the most relevant for our purposes.

00:11:29.860 So reading from the pamphlet, it says this.

00:11:32.260 The term MAID is short for medical assistance in dying.

00:11:36.500 The word medical means the science of medicine, and assistance means help.

00:11:40.400 So MAID means that medicine is used to help someone with their death.

00:11:44.880 A doctor or nurse practitioner, a nurse with special training,

00:11:48.080 uses medicines to stop the person's body from working.

00:11:51.360 When their body stops working, the person dies.

00:11:53.880 This is done in a way that does not hurt the person.

00:11:56.300 The medicine helps them feel comfortable and peaceful.

00:11:58.280 A person has to ask for MAID and then goes through a bunch of steps before it can happen.

00:12:03.940 What are those steps?

00:12:05.020 Well, next, it lays out the steps that are used to actually kill the patient.

00:12:09.600 And it says this in the activity book for children.

00:12:13.720 The three medicines work like this.

00:12:15.760 The first medicine makes the person feel very relaxed and fall asleep.

00:12:19.160 They may yawn or snore or mumble.

00:12:21.360 The second medicine causes a coma.

00:12:23.720 A coma looks like sleep, but it's much deeper than regular sleep.

00:12:26.360 The person will not wake up or be bothered by noise or touch.

00:12:30.580 The third medicine makes the person's lungs stop breathing, and then their heart stops beating.

00:12:35.280 Because of the coma, the person does not notice this happening and does not hurt.

00:12:39.300 When their heart and lungs stop working, their body dies.

00:12:42.400 It will not start working again.

00:12:44.640 This often happens in just a few minutes, but sometimes, rarely, it can take hours.

00:12:50.640 Notice the words being used here.

00:12:53.000 Most notably, medicine.

00:12:54.540 The person is not being given a toxic substance meant to kill them.

00:13:00.120 He is being given medicine.

00:13:03.000 Of course, in truth, this is the opposite of medicine.

00:13:06.040 Medicine, by definition, is something meant to cure, treat, heal a person's body.

00:13:11.680 A substance which directly and intentionally kills the person is not medicine.

00:13:17.280 It is anti-medicine.

00:13:18.800 It is literally poison.

00:13:21.120 Doctors are poisoning patients.

00:13:22.900 That's what's happening.

00:13:24.540 Even if you're deluded enough to support this barbarity, you should be honest about it.

00:13:29.000 You should support it honestly.

00:13:31.280 You should speak honestly about it.

00:13:33.420 You don't support doctors giving medicine.

00:13:35.220 You support doctors giving lethal doses of poison to their patients.

00:13:40.220 That's what you support.

00:13:41.280 But to speak truthfully about it is to perceive it truthfully.

00:13:48.560 And that is precisely what the death cultists do not want.

00:13:53.160 It's what they wish to avoid at all costs.

00:13:56.620 Because we're not supposed to see anything for what it is.

00:14:00.280 Everything has to be cloaked in euphemism.

00:14:03.080 Everything has to be shrouded under a layer of misleading jargon, otherwise known as lies.

00:14:07.980 And the jargon has to change constantly to keep people on their toes.

00:14:14.400 Very few people would go along with the left's agenda if they saw it and understood it for what it actually is.

00:14:21.620 So they cannot be allowed to see it and understand it for what it is.

00:14:25.360 That is what this is really all about.

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00:15:36.080 First of all, thank you to the ladies in the wardrobe department for my Christmas. 0.99

00:15:40.320 I'm not wearing a Christmas sweater, but I'm wearing my Christmas gift from them, you know, instead.

00:15:45.760 Which is, I don't even know if you can see it on camera.

00:15:47.120 I don't think you can, but it's my, it's a UFO sweater and a sweater with a UFO on it.

00:15:52.060 And I think that it was supposed to be some sort of gag gift.

00:15:54.940 I don't know.

00:15:55.340 But I, I mean, uh, this is not the first time this has happened to me that someone gives

00:15:58.880 a gift that's supposed to be a gag, but it's like unironically, I think it's great.

00:16:02.360 And I'll wear the sweater all the time.

00:16:04.980 Um, let's, uh, start with something that I wish was a gag.

00:16:09.200 The president of Ukraine, Zelensky, visited the United States yesterday.

00:16:13.920 It was a time of, uh, great excitement for DC and for the media, though, not for anyone

00:16:20.660 else in the country.

00:16:21.400 Like no one else is excited about it, but they're excited about it.

00:16:24.520 Um, all of the Zelensky worship, most of it anyway, is, is, is relegated to those areas,

00:16:30.920 DC media.

00:16:32.260 Um, Zelensky started the trip with a, with a, uh, a visit to the white house where he expressed

00:16:37.120 his appreciation to the American people for all, all the money that we've given him, all

00:16:43.560 the billions of dollars.

00:16:44.800 He appreciates it.

00:16:45.580 Isn't that nice?

00:16:46.620 Let's watch some of that.

00:16:48.500 Thank you so much, Mr. President.

00:16:50.460 Of course, thanks.

00:16:52.280 My partners in support, thanks Congress and, and thanks from our just ordinary people to

00:17:01.840 your ordinary people, Americans, I really appreciate, I think it's very difficult to, to understand

00:17:12.760 what does it mean when we say appreciate, but, but you really have, have to feel it and thank

00:17:21.860 you so much.

00:17:22.580 Great honor to be here.

00:17:23.940 And, uh, yesterday I was on Donbass, in Baham, that is the place on the east of our country,

00:17:31.820 you know, all the details.

00:17:34.060 We had so many phone calls.

00:17:35.320 That's good.

00:17:36.280 Isn't that very cute?

00:17:37.040 He's so appreciative. 1.00

00:17:38.160 By the way, can the guy put a damn suit on? 0.99

00:17:40.440 Like, can you, can you wear a suit for the, I mean, I, I, I'm not saying that Joe Biden 0.99

00:17:46.060 himself is, uh, worthy of any kind of special recognition like that, but you're visiting the United

00:17:53.160 States.

00:17:54.160 You claim to be so appreciative for it.

00:17:55.620 You are going to the White House.

00:17:56.820 The later he would speak in front of Congress, spoke in front of Congress without a suit on,

00:18:01.440 wearing a sweatshirt.

00:18:03.080 And you can't claim, see, usually when you, when you see this, he's doing all the interviews

00:18:06.560 and he's always got a t-shirt or sweater on, a sweatshirt on.

00:18:09.200 What we're told is, well, he's in the middle of fighting a war.

00:18:10.840 He doesn't have time to worry about.

00:18:11.820 Okay.

00:18:12.140 Well, but yeah, you, you flew in a plane over here.

00:18:14.120 I'm sure you had time to change into a suit.

00:18:16.540 And it really is, it, it, it, it really tells you something like that, that is a statement.

00:18:22.180 If you go to the White House and then speak in front of Congress and you can't even take

00:18:27.100 the time to put a tie on, that is a statement.

00:18:31.180 And what is the statement exactly?

00:18:33.320 It's a statement of disrespect.

00:18:36.140 If you, if you really, if you're really grateful, then the first thing that you would do is think

00:18:41.060 about how you're presenting yourself.

00:18:42.260 How about, how about to put that gratitude on display?

00:18:45.100 Um, but he doesn't do that here.

00:18:50.480 Although he claims that he appreciates the help yet.

00:18:53.380 He was here to beg for more help, beg for more money, which led to his state of the Ukraine

00:18:58.840 address in front of Congress.

00:19:00.540 Uh, post-millennial has a report on that.

00:19:02.240 The Congressional Chamber was abuzz with excitement on Wednesday evening in anticipation of Ukrainian

00:19:06.880 President Volodymyr Zelensky's, uh, Zelensky's addressing the body to ask Congress to make

00:19:11.400 good on President Biden's promise to deliver another $45 billion in funding to assist their

00:19:16.120 war effort against neighboring Russia.

00:19:18.180 Zelensky was treated to uproarious applause from Congress as he took his place behind the

00:19:21.980 podium to address the senators and representatives.

00:19:24.380 Some members held up a Ukrainian flag and Zelensky could barely get started with his ask for

00:19:29.200 cash due to the extreme adulation showered upon him by American delegates.

00:19:33.580 He declined to wear a suit, stood before Congress in a sweatshirt.

00:19:37.240 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over Congress along with Vice President Kamala Harris as

00:19:41.840 they looked on with glee at the coming of Zelensky, who Pelosi had likened to World War II era,

00:19:46.860 uh, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

00:19:49.640 Pelosi silenced the room, then presented Zelensky for a second time to additional cheering,

00:19:53.020 and they were cheering and cheering.

00:19:53.940 I was very excited.

00:19:55.120 Uh, and again, there were, there were, uh, there were some members that were flying Ukraine

00:19:58.640 flags inside the halls of Congress.

00:20:02.680 And Zelensky went on to thank Congress for spending American taxpayer dollars to fund his

00:20:06.800 war before saying, is it enough?

00:20:08.900 No, not really.

00:20:10.120 Congress chuckled, appreciating his ask for even more U.S. dollars and weapons.

00:20:14.300 Uh, we have that moment, actually.

00:20:15.660 Let's watch the clip.

00:20:16.280 So, so here is the front line, the tyranny, which has no lack of cruelty against the lives

00:20:25.920 of free people.

00:20:27.440 And your support is crucial, not just to stand in such fight, but to get to the turning point

00:20:35.540 to win on the battlefield.

00:20:38.920 We have artillery.

00:20:40.840 Yes.

00:20:42.180 Thank you.

00:20:43.900 We have it.

00:20:45.300 Is it enough?

00:20:46.340 Honestly, not really.

00:20:47.540 To ensure, Bahamut is not just a stronghold that holds back the Russian army, but for 0.91

00:20:57.980 the Russian army to completely pull out, more cannons and shells are needed.

00:21:04.240 If so, just like the Battle of Saratoga, the fight for Bahamut will change the trajectory

00:21:11.660 of our war for independence and for freedom.

00:21:17.160 If your patriots stop the Russian terror against our cities, it will let Ukrainian patriots 0.91

00:21:26.740 work to the full to defend our freedom.

00:21:35.500 Ukrainian patriots want to defend their freedom, and somehow that's our job and our responsibility.

00:21:39.720 They ended, of course, more applause, applause, applause.

00:21:42.960 People were very excited.

00:21:43.700 And at the end, he snuck a little kiss with Nancy Pelosi.

00:21:46.220 I think we have that moment.

00:21:47.900 Let's watch that wonderful moment here.

00:21:57.520 Isn't that nice?

00:21:58.300 I suppose there's no non-awkward way to kiss Nancy Pelosi, but if such a way existed, he

00:22:13.200 certainly didn't find it.

00:22:14.020 That was quite awkward.

00:22:15.500 And then he gifted a flag to Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris that I guess they can split.

00:22:22.300 Maybe cut the flag in half.

00:22:23.560 Put the flag in a shredder and then give little pieces of it to everybody so you can have a

00:22:28.140 piece of the flag.

00:22:28.780 But it was signed.

00:22:29.480 I don't know who signed it.

00:22:30.180 I guess some Ukrainians signed the flag, which is, by the way, is like, not that I care if 0.99

00:22:36.500 you choose to desecrate your own flag, but that is flag desecration.

00:22:40.040 It's like signing the actual flag itself.

00:22:41.940 Okay, now, look, as far as Zelensky goes, if I were in charge, maybe I'd welcome him into

00:22:51.960 the country and then arrest him on suspicion of war crimes, potentially.

00:22:55.800 Because are we really just moving on from the fact that the Ukrainians fired a missile

00:23:02.600 into Poland a few weeks ago, killed two people, and then claimed it was sent by Russia in order

00:23:09.440 to hoax Western governments into a global nuclear war?

00:23:13.260 Have we just, like, forgotten about that?

00:23:17.840 And the only way out of that, I mean, it's a fact that Ukraine, we have, there are facts

00:23:23.260 on the ground here.

00:23:24.140 Fact is, missile was launched, killed two people in Poland.

00:23:28.160 That's a fact.

00:23:28.940 Fact, Ukraine blamed Russia for it immediately and then used that as another argument for

00:23:36.260 Western governments getting involved, and so, and then, and then another fact is that actually

00:23:41.700 turns out that the missile was sent by Ukraine.

00:23:44.400 The only speculation here is whether they fired the missile intentionally as a false flag

00:23:51.040 operation, or if this was all some kind of mistake that they then blamed on Russia.

00:23:57.020 No matter how you slice it, it does not look good for Zelensky, and no matter how you slice

00:24:03.240 it, he was using this false claim to try to get America involved in a war that would kill

00:24:09.660 millions of people, of our people.

00:24:12.320 So that incident alone is enough reason to not celebrate this guy as a hero.

00:24:19.920 But that's not even the point for me.

00:24:21.420 Yes, Ukraine is actively trying to get us involved in a war that will kill millions of our people.

00:24:26.300 Yes, that's true.

00:24:27.160 Yes, Zelensky is, as he's been described, essentially an international welfare queen at

00:24:32.700 this point, begging us constantly for money and receiving it, billions of dollars, while

00:24:38.580 our own people suffer.

00:24:40.760 Our economy is in shambles, okay?

00:24:42.440 Our infrastructure is crumbling.

00:24:44.200 Our border is wide open.

00:24:45.880 We're in bad shape.

00:24:46.720 And we're taking food off of the table of our, you know, off of our children's plates and

00:24:54.140 handing it to this corrupt foreign government.

00:24:58.280 Our cities look like, and basically are now, refugee camps, people sleeping in tents. 1.00

00:25:05.900 We've got these makeshift shanty towns in the middle of the street in major American cities

00:25:10.920 made out of cardboard, fentanyl zombies staggering around.

00:25:17.760 We've got kids graduating high school that can't even read.

00:25:20.980 And we're sending money to one of the most corrupt governments in the world, in Ukraine?

00:25:27.280 Like, we have the funds for that?

00:25:30.660 Like, we can afford to worry about that?

00:25:32.980 So yeah, all that's true and all that's awful.

00:25:36.800 But even if it wasn't, okay, even if Ukraine was a wonderful country with an honest and

00:25:42.420 trustworthy government and Zelensky was as, let's say Zelensky was as saintly a figure as

00:25:49.600 they paint him to be, that would still change nothing about my perspective of the situation.

00:25:56.720 And my perspective has always been the same from day one, that this is not our fight.

00:26:05.860 Now, you remember when this all started months and months ago, I was willing to admit, I think

00:26:11.600 I'm probably one of the few people in media, one of the few commentators or pundits that

00:26:15.680 admitted from the beginning, I don't know very much about this situation, okay?

00:26:20.760 Before all this happened, I spent maybe a cumulative amount of like one minute of my life thinking

00:26:25.980 about Ukraine's existence, if that.

00:26:31.060 Because I'm focused on issues in America, I'm not thinking about Ukraine, I'm not worried

00:26:34.160 about Ukraine.

00:26:37.140 And what led up to this conflict and everything going on behind the scenes and all that, I

00:26:41.780 really don't know.

00:26:43.340 Which is true of 99.9% of the people in this country and 99.9% of the pundits and commentators.

00:26:49.820 It's just that most people in that class won't admit it.

00:26:52.080 Like as soon as something happens, they all become experts on the subject, hoping that

00:26:57.920 the audience will never stop to ask them like, when did you, you've never talked about this

00:27:02.560 before.

00:27:03.060 When did you become an expert exactly?

00:27:06.380 So I said from the beginning, I don't know anything about this.

00:27:08.660 So, as I said from the beginning, like if it will, if this is actually important to average

00:27:19.420 Americans, okay, if the outcome of this fight could have some direct, immediate, quantifiable

00:27:26.700 impact on average Americans, such an impact that we need to worry about this or even get

00:27:31.000 involved by sending money or manpower, then explain it to me.

00:27:37.720 What effect does this have on us?

00:27:39.700 Why should we care?

00:27:41.100 From my perspective, this is not our fight.

00:27:43.420 It's not our country.

00:27:45.140 I don't see why we should care.

00:27:47.840 But if you're someone who's hanging, put a Ukraine flag in your bio and all this kind 0.91

00:27:51.620 of stuff, and you think that we should care, that average American families ought to care

00:27:56.600 about what's happening in Ukraine, go ahead and make your case.

00:27:58.280 Why should we care?

00:27:58.820 How does this affect us?

00:28:01.860 And they've had months and months to explain it, and they can't.

00:28:06.200 Because the answer is, it doesn't affect us.

00:28:08.480 That's the answer.

00:28:09.660 The most they can do, right?

00:28:12.120 Basically, there are two talking points that hope to justify why Americans should be spending

00:28:18.560 billions and sending billions and billions of dollars there, potentially getting involved

00:28:22.020 militarily, as many people in our country, or at least in the governing class, have called

00:28:26.720 for.

00:28:26.940 Two arguments that I've heard.

00:28:29.440 And these are the only two arguments.

00:28:32.400 One is the utterly fantastical, absurd speculation that Putin, that this is just the first phase

00:28:42.720 in a potential war of global conquest, and that Putin's going to move on from Ukraine and

00:28:51.620 then start invading more countries.

00:28:52.880 Next thing you know, he's going to be invading France, and it's going to be World War II all 0.95

00:28:55.600 over again.

00:28:56.420 So that's the first claim.

00:28:58.860 That obviously was absurd from the beginning, and it hasn't happened.

00:29:02.380 Okay?

00:29:02.660 Putin is not going to be—we're not going to see Russian ships landing on our shores.

00:29:09.060 That's not happening.

00:29:10.440 It just isn't.

00:29:11.140 So if that's not happening, then the only other justification we ever hear is just this

00:29:18.260 kind of vague, we have to protect freedom.

00:29:22.480 This is Ukraine, they're being invaded.

00:29:24.660 It's like all these kind of vague, sort of ambiguous ideas about freedom and just sort

00:29:30.060 of what's—these are good people that are being victimized.

00:29:32.560 Well, if that's all you got, then only once again for the umpteenth time confirms my immediate

00:29:42.400 instinctive reaction to this, which is it's not our fight.

00:29:48.800 There are—you know, someone said to me on Twitter yesterday, they said, well—and I've

00:29:53.960 heard this a lot, you know—Russia is invading Ukraine, and it's happening whether you like

00:29:59.060 it or not, and you've got to pick a side.

00:30:01.520 It's happening.

00:30:02.280 We have to pick a side.

00:30:04.520 Do we?

00:30:05.760 Why do we have to pick a side?

00:30:06.700 There are bloody conflicts happening all over the world every day.

00:30:15.340 Do you pick a side in all those?

00:30:18.000 What about all of the wars of conquest and conflicts and all that sort of thing happening

00:30:25.020 across the entire continent of Africa?

00:30:27.040 Every single day.

00:30:29.860 Groups of people warring against each other, trying—fighting over land and all the resources

00:30:33.940 and all the rest of it.

00:30:35.920 Are we picking a side in all those?

00:30:37.460 Do you even know about most of those?

00:30:40.320 Could you even tell me?

00:30:42.260 What—could you even describe what's happening there?

00:30:45.400 No.

00:30:48.020 So it's happening all over the world, and yet this one particular—and no one says we should

00:30:52.240 pick a side in most of those, yet in this one particular conflict, we have to pick a

00:30:57.840 side?

00:31:01.120 Why do you think that?

00:31:01.900 You think that because the TV told you to.

00:31:03.260 That's why.

00:31:04.580 It's because the TV—it's because the media has selected this one conflict.

00:31:08.600 They could have selected any.

00:31:09.660 They selected this one and said, this is the one that you care about.

00:31:12.320 And then a lot of unthinking Americans said, well, then I care about that one.

00:31:16.220 And they never stopped to ask, why that one?

00:31:23.420 If Ukraine cannot defend itself and preserve its own existence, then it won't exist.

00:31:30.800 That's just—countries have to be able to live and die of their own volition at a certain point.

00:31:42.040 That's the law of—you know, that's the law of the jungle.

00:31:45.900 That's the way—like it or not, that's the way it goes.

00:31:48.480 If you want to exist as a country, you have to be able to defend yourself and your own interests.

00:31:57.520 All right.

00:31:58.040 What else do we have here?

00:32:00.840 Okay, so here's a story.

00:32:03.740 It's from the Post Millennial and other outlets are reported, too.

00:32:07.340 Eight teenage girls have been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a 59-year-old Toronto man.

00:32:13.300 According to the Toronto Police Services, the teen swarmed the man and stabbed him multiple times before fleeing the scene.

00:32:20.220 He was rushed to the hospital and passed away as a result of his injuries.

00:32:22.980 The incident took place just around midnight on Sunday, December 18th, in Toronto, downtown Toronto.

00:32:28.720 The girls—here are the ages of these girls. 0.99

00:32:31.460 Three 13-year-olds, three 14-year-olds, and two 16-year-olds were located nearby and promptly arrested.

00:32:37.820 So, you know, and we still don't know exactly what precipitated this or what it exactly was, but a group of girls, teenage girls, kids swarmed this guy and stabbed him to death.

00:32:53.100 And I bring this up because it's another example of a point I try to make often on this show, which is that we, you know, we hear so much about hate crimes.

00:33:03.020 But we don't have a hate crime problem in this country, or Canada in this case.

00:33:07.700 Culturally, there isn't a hate crime problem.

00:33:09.380 There is an indifferent crime problem.

00:33:12.020 And this, yet again, is that.

00:33:14.100 Here you've got a bunch of teen girls, a bunch of kids, swarming and stabbing a man to death. 1.00

00:33:19.540 What were their surface-level motivations?

00:33:21.620 I mean, we don't know.

00:33:23.860 But underneath it, I would not call it hate, most likely.

00:33:31.860 This is the case for so much of the brutality in the inner city, the brutality gripping our communities.

00:33:37.380 Also, it's the case for many of the mass shootings that we see.

00:33:40.700 With these kinds of culprits, it's almost like hatred would be a step up.

00:33:45.460 Hatred is—because hatred is human.

00:33:47.140 It's emotional.

00:33:47.940 It's passionate.

00:33:48.500 It is, you know, there's—if somebody is hateful, there's, like, something you can work with there.

00:33:53.560 A hateful person feels something, at least.

00:33:57.080 He feels the wrong things.

00:33:59.200 And he does the wrong things with those feelings.

00:34:01.700 But there's something there.

00:34:03.760 That's not what we see these days out in the streets.

00:34:07.100 What we see these days are people who just feel nothing at all.

00:34:09.440 They have no humanity.

00:34:10.620 No—really no motivation.

00:34:12.320 Violence for the sake of violence.

00:34:16.000 Just the real crisis is a lack of human conscience.

00:34:20.580 And it has reached a real crisis level, especially in the cities.

00:34:27.220 It's a kind of a Lord of the Flies situation.

00:34:29.160 And we know, just as in that story, when kids are left alone on an island without any guidance from their parents, they turn into savages.

00:34:41.560 As a fallen species, savagery is what you descend into.

00:34:45.760 So we need strong families, strict discipline, clear guidance, you know, a foundation of faith and moral formation in order to grow beyond those impulses and develop into decent, civilized adults.

00:35:00.640 We need—our consciences need to be formed.

00:35:04.760 But that's not happening in so many of these communities, and this is the result.

00:35:09.160 All right, let's do something a little bit less serious here.

00:35:14.560 It's a controversy with slightly smaller stakes.

00:35:17.120 So this video has gone viral.

00:35:18.920 It's a video of a Karen, and that's how it's labeled anyway.

00:35:24.040 That's what—and this is one of the most popular genres of videos on social media are the supposed, you know, quote-unquote Karen videos.

00:35:31.020 And it's a video of a Karen, a white woman, being put in her place, allegedly, getting her comeuppance.

00:35:40.040 And for those not watching the video podcast, what the video shows, it shows this woman, this alleged Karen, in a confrontation with a neighbor in her apartment complex through—

00:35:50.500 and this confrontation is happening through the ring doorbell camera.

00:35:53.960 He never comes to the door to actually talk to her.

00:35:56.620 But he confronts her because she apparently was messing with his welcome mat.

00:36:00.280 He had a welcome mat outside of his door, but it had a profanity on it.

00:36:03.500 Apparently it had the F word.

00:36:04.700 From what I read, it was like it said F off, I think, in big block letters.

00:36:08.760 And she didn't like that, so she flipped the mat over so that the words weren't seen.

00:36:13.920 He was very upset about that, and it led to this exchange, which we'll watch a quick piece of that.

00:36:21.000 Excuse me, ma'am.

00:36:24.140 Can you pick my rug back up?

00:36:26.840 Because I saw that you flipped it over early.

00:36:28.280 It was not bothering you or anyone.

00:36:33.100 Sir, I don't think it's appropriate.

00:36:35.400 It does not matter.

00:36:36.080 I live here.

00:36:36.520 This is appropriate.

00:36:37.720 It does not matter what you deem appropriate.

00:36:40.980 Nobody else has said anything about it. 0.99

00:36:42.520 That does not give you the right to touch anything on my damn porch. 1.00

00:36:45.280 You can go up there and tell your goddamn husband to come see me when I come home. 1.00

00:36:50.000 I'll be home at 530. 0.99

00:36:51.480 Make sure you're there, ma'am, so you come down and talk. 0.99

00:36:54.660 Take your shake ass upstairs. 1.00

00:37:00.820 Sir, do you want to talk to me again? 1.00

00:37:11.120 How can I hit you?

00:37:12.060 Look, I'm not trying to be ugly, and I'm not trying to cause any scene with you whatsoever.

00:37:19.640 We live in a family environment here.

00:37:21.920 I have children here, too.

00:37:23.500 To me, having the F word on your doormat is not respectful of anyone that lives here.

00:37:29.620 And it's not respectful of you to touch my property.

00:37:32.320 It's not bothering anybody.

00:37:33.480 I have my neighbors across the house.

00:37:34.840 I'll pay you for your mat.

00:37:36.660 I will pay you for your mat.

00:37:38.260 Get that out of here. 1.00

00:37:39.700 I don't know what made you change it to something so ugly as that, but I'm not going to know.

00:37:46.780 Okay, that's good.

00:37:48.360 That's fine.

00:37:49.200 And then he starts insulting and all the rest.

00:37:50.880 First of all, this woman has not done or said anything that deserves to be labeled Karen.

00:37:57.740 And that's why, as you know, I hate that term. 0.91

00:38:01.880 Because Karen, it is simply a racist smear against white women. 1.00

00:38:07.080 That is what it is.

00:38:08.680 And so if you're one of those people that goes around using the term, just stop using it.

00:38:14.340 That is the etymology of this slur.

00:38:18.440 It's where it comes from. 0.83

00:38:19.760 It was originally a slur by black people on social media to smear and make fun of white women. 0.99

00:38:26.520 That's where it comes from. 0.95

00:38:27.340 That's what it is.

00:38:27.960 It is a racial slur.

00:38:29.780 And now it's at a point where it's just like, if you're a white woman between the ages of 40 and 80,

00:38:33.800 then you automatically fall into that category.

00:38:36.140 And anything you do, if you, God forbid, get upset about something, you're automatically a Karen.

00:38:40.620 And it's, you know, I don't, my mom is in that category of being a woman between those ages, a white woman.

00:38:46.280 And so I'm actually not okay with hating an entire demographic of people like this.

00:38:52.300 And I don't quite understand why people just accept that.

00:38:59.440 And because we all know that if we started referring to black women with a stereotypical name, okay, 1.00

00:39:07.460 if I saw a video of an angry black woman and said like, oh, it's Shaniqua over there. 1.00

00:39:14.740 If I said that, it would be judged horrifically racist.

00:39:19.060 And yet this is okay.

00:39:20.840 And I'm just done with that.

00:39:22.600 We got to be done with that.

00:39:23.640 This double standard that we allow to exist. 1.00

00:39:28.460 And you got a bunch of henpecked, cowardly white people who go along with it. 0.99

00:39:33.380 It's like, well, it's not the same thing at all. 1.00

00:39:34.760 Yes, it is.

00:39:35.400 It's a slur against you. 1.00

00:39:36.660 Have some damn self-respect. 0.99

00:39:40.560 Now, second, any reasonable person knows that you are wrong if you go out of your way to put a sign with huge profanities on it right where kids are walking around. 0.99

00:39:52.180 That there's no good reason to do that.

00:39:53.940 There's no justification for it.

00:39:55.780 But some people are saying, well, she should have handled it differently.

00:39:59.060 She should have gone to the property manager or whatever. 1.00

00:40:02.220 Fine.

00:40:03.140 But I wouldn't have.

00:40:03.840 If that was me, I would have picked the mat up.

00:40:07.760 And I would have thrown it away is what I would have done.

00:40:10.180 Even if it's not my property.

00:40:11.800 And you can say, that's not your property.

00:40:12.760 I don't care that it's not my property.

00:40:15.520 Because you know why?

00:40:16.300 I'm fine with people taking matters into their own hands like this.

00:40:22.060 Because people are sick of this.

00:40:24.040 They're just sick of it. 1.00

00:40:26.480 This is a good warning for all of anyone out there who thinks it's fun to be just an obnoxious jerk with no class and no dignity and no decorum and no sense of basic responsibility. 0.99

00:40:39.460 You know, for the fact that you're an adult in society and there are kids around. 0.99

00:40:44.680 Everything is vulgar now, right?

00:40:46.340 Everything.

00:40:46.720 It's just everything's vulgar and ugly and our kids are exposed to it and it's everywhere.

00:40:51.400 And I can see where this woman's coming from. 0.99

00:40:52.720 It's just you see this thing, this stuff everywhere. 0.97

00:40:54.340 And now this guy, this freaking guy has decided to put it on his welcome mat. 0.86

00:40:57.520 Why? 0.98

00:40:58.700 Can we get a break from it?

00:40:59.820 Like, can I walk down the hallway in the apartment complex without seeing this stuff?

00:41:06.200 People are tired of it.

00:41:08.140 They're sick of it.

00:41:09.580 And they should be.

00:41:12.180 Okay?

00:41:12.660 And they're not going to go through the proper channels.

00:41:15.260 You go through the proper channels and nothing happens. 0.94

00:41:18.880 You know, the guy there in the apartment, clearly it's a black guy.

00:41:24.460 You know, go to the, she's a white woman. 1.00

00:41:28.980 And so it's automatically there's the racial dynamic.

00:41:31.360 And she goes and she goes to the property manager.

00:41:33.500 And then, you know, who knows?

00:41:35.760 The next thing I'm going to tell, it's like, well, your concerns don't matter because now there's the competition of identity demographics here.

00:41:45.120 And, you know, so people don't want to go through the proper channels anymore.

00:41:49.660 Taking matters into their own hands.

00:41:52.120 I saw a video.

00:41:53.160 This is, it's not a recent video.

00:41:54.200 I think it was from a few months ago of a guy on a plane with a big, with a sweater that said F, F Biden on it.

00:42:03.060 But it actually said the word, you know, the F word in big block letters.

00:42:07.320 And he was, and they were, in the video, they're trying to throw him off the plane because they've got policy against having, it's not about, you know, it's not about defending Biden.

00:42:16.520 You know, I'm not going to do that.

00:42:17.900 But it's just, it's the vulgarity.

00:42:19.540 It's the profanity.

00:42:20.280 And they've got a policy.

00:42:21.160 This is their private property.

00:42:22.520 You can't walk in here with, with huge profanities on your clothing.

00:42:28.080 But even that, there's people on the internet are defending it.

00:42:33.920 It's free speech rights. 0.99

00:42:35.360 Oh, shut up. 0.99

00:42:37.160 How about just a basic level of decency is, is all is being asked for. 0.99

00:42:45.700 And I'm telling you, people are sick of it.

00:42:49.020 You walk around like that, you know, you're, you're, you're lucky if you just get thrown out.

00:42:52.280 Eventually you can be, people are going to, you're going to get a, you're going to get a punch right in the face of what's going to happen.

00:42:55.500 Because people, people are so tired of it, especially parents fed up to get this ugliness and this vulgarity everywhere all the time.

00:43:06.280 And we are sick of it.

00:43:09.840 And these people that are just, they, they, they, they feel like they're, they're, they're not responsible to anyone.

00:43:14.200 They do whatever I want.

00:43:16.780 So she's totally in the right here.

00:43:19.560 Okay.

00:43:19.840 That was not five headlines.

00:43:20.680 I think it was like three, but even so, we're going to move on now to the comment section.

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00:44:20.580 Trust me says, apropos of nothing, it just dawned on me this morning that the plural of Walsh is waltz.

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00:44:30.780 What?

00:44:31.260 That's not, no, that's not, the plural of Walsh will be what?

00:44:34.960 Walshes? 0.98

00:44:35.560 What are you talking about?

00:44:38.680 Jordan L says, Matt definitely plays on the floor with Legos and Star Wars action figures after all his kids go to bed.

00:44:44.580 Uh, I, I, you know, I, I, I'll play with those toys with my kids.

00:44:51.000 We've never actually been a big Lego house, um, which, uh, you know, I think it's one of the more wholesome and constructive toys that a kid can play with, but my kids have never gotten into it that much.

00:45:01.140 Actually, um, Stephen says, Matt, I agree with your stance on big pharma, but long COVID is very real.

00:45:07.240 I'm an engineering student and over the last year, I've noticed a severe decline in my health and subsequently my academic performance after having had COVID twice.

00:45:14.640 I'm tired constantly.

00:45:15.860 I can't get through my day, sometimes falling asleep at my desk for up to three times a day.

00:45:19.400 My resting heart rate, sometimes, um, resting heart rate on average is the mid nineties and peaks at about 180 when I go upstairs.

00:45:26.160 The worst and most frustrating symptom for me is the, uh, is in fact the brain fog.

00:45:30.200 I can't think clearly enough to do math that I've been able to do since fifth grade.

00:45:34.520 Uh, I can't keep more than two numbers in my head at the same time.

00:45:37.500 I trip over words.

00:45:38.660 I jumble them around so much so that my friends notice and make fun of me for it.

00:45:41.960 I feel like I've become Joe Biden.

00:45:43.580 They've run every test on me possible from every blood test out there to an MRI of my brain,

00:45:47.340 an ultra scan and monitor my heart.

00:45:50.660 And I haven't been able to find anything out of the ordinary besides the possibility of long COVID.

00:45:54.180 I don't know what to do about it, but, uh, my doctor has been giving me a medication to help with the fatigue,

00:45:58.820 but I'm still struggling greatly with the brain fog.

00:46:01.020 It's the most frustrating experience perhaps in my entire life.

00:46:03.140 I'll be a young life.

00:46:04.740 Um, interested to hear your thoughts, SPG for life.

00:46:08.220 Well, okay.

00:46:08.780 I'll, I'll give you my thoughts and look, I'm not saying that what you're experiencing is not real.

00:46:15.980 Okay.

00:46:16.500 Obviously you're experiencing that and it's a real thing, but, and can I sit here and certainly rule out with,

00:46:24.540 with absolute certainty, the possibility that it's tied to having had COVID?

00:46:28.260 I can't do that.

00:46:29.540 But what I can say is that like what you're describing,

00:46:32.380 there are literally dozens of plausible reasons why you could be experiencing all of that.

00:46:40.200 Um, in fact, there are not only that, but there are dozens of plausible reasons why anyone in society

00:46:45.740 would be experiencing the things that you're experiencing.

00:46:50.240 Can't focus on things.

00:46:51.520 Can't keep a train of thought for very long.

00:46:53.480 Feeling kind of foggy, tired, all that.

00:46:56.120 Uh, this is just, this isn't, you know, these are experiences that are increasing in society in general,

00:47:01.020 even before COVID.

00:47:03.640 And part of the reason is that we, that's, that's the world we live in now.

00:47:06.940 I mean, we live in a world, how much time do you spend staring at screens every day?

00:47:11.120 We live in an overstimulated, oversaturated society.

00:47:15.760 And, uh, it makes, it makes it so people can't focus on things for as long as they used to.

00:47:20.620 It robs us of our attention.

00:47:22.060 Like we need this constant stimulation.

00:47:23.640 Otherwise we get bored and start falling asleep and, you know, feeling foggy,

00:47:27.160 not being able to concentrate on things.

00:47:29.240 So that's, that's just like the general, uh, environment that we're all living in now.

00:47:37.460 So is that the 100% explanation for what you're going through?

00:47:45.400 I can't say that, but I do know that it's, that's certainly a factor.

00:47:51.300 Um, that's, that's one of the reasons, you know, ADHD.

00:47:54.960 The other thing is a lot of what you've described also gets labeled ADHD, which is why now, at least

00:48:01.340 from that one study, they want to start treating the long COVID quote unquote with ADHD medicine.

00:48:06.180 But that's one of my many criticisms of ADHD.

00:48:09.240 When you hear people say, well, I can't, I can't focus on anything.

00:48:13.380 I'm so distracted.

00:48:15.060 Well, gee, I wonder why that is.

00:48:16.760 When we live in a, we live in a culture that is designed to distract you every second of the day,

00:48:22.860 we are all surrounded by distractions every second of the day.

00:48:27.320 You carry distraction around with you on your person, right?

00:48:31.520 In, in, in the form of your phone.

00:48:33.480 So you, you literally carry a distraction device around with you.

00:48:37.540 We all do.

00:48:39.200 And then we sit here and say, I don't know why I'm so distracted.

00:48:41.140 This is just to illustrate the point that there are so many factors and what you're

00:48:47.840 talking about is, is so, although it's real, it's also so kind of vague and generalized that

00:48:54.240 to point to any one explanation, like, well, you had COVID to me, it seems like there's,

00:49:01.780 there's no way that they could prove that connection and they haven't.

00:49:05.500 And so it's just kind of a, an assumption, maybe has something to do with the fact that you

00:49:09.680 COVID, how, how exactly, how is it that having COVID would then cause you?

00:49:15.500 So if you're, if you're distracted right now and you had COVID nine and a half months ago

00:49:20.020 and they want to say, well, the COVID is what caused that.

00:49:23.360 How did it cause it?

00:49:24.980 What's the mechanism by which COVID nine and a half months ago can still be making you

00:49:29.980 distracted today?

00:49:30.720 They can't explain that.

00:49:33.640 So it is at best an assumption.

00:49:36.460 And I think it's an assumption, I think it's an assumption that we should be skeptical about

00:49:41.400 until, and if they can present hard evidence and proof and say, yes, COVID causes this.

00:49:50.440 Here's how it does it.

00:49:51.480 We've proved it.

00:49:52.380 Here it is.

00:49:54.800 Until they do that, I would be skeptical.

00:49:57.040 Um, Mike says, Matt, as a hater of all things that other people like, that's not entirely

00:50:05.360 fair.

00:50:06.020 Just most things.

00:50:07.180 I assume you will agree that Christmas story is overrated.

00:50:09.800 Yes, I absolutely will not agree with that.

00:50:12.620 I could not disagree more.

00:50:14.500 In fact, I think Christmas story is rated exactly as it should be.

00:50:19.760 Um, I think it's, uh, for my money, you know, it's, some people say it's a wonderful life

00:50:24.780 is in the running for this.

00:50:25.620 And I can see that, but a Christmas story is the best Christmas movie.

00:50:29.140 It is, uh, it is, it is rewatchable, you know, and it just, it, it, it's a, it's a great

00:50:35.460 simple story.

00:50:36.760 Um, and it's funny, it's amusing, it's all these kinds of different things.

00:50:43.200 And that's all true.

00:50:44.020 But it also has, it just has this, this quality to it that it's, it's, it's kind of hard to

00:50:49.340 describe.

00:50:49.700 I think that that's the case also with really good Christmas songs.

00:50:53.340 And there hasn't been a good Christmas song made in like 30 years, if not longer.

00:50:58.280 They made a lot of different Christmas songs, but you hear all the modern ones.

00:51:02.320 You hear any Christmas song that somebody, some pop star made two years ago.

00:51:06.340 And you hear it and you're like, uh, it just doesn't, doesn't have that Christmas feel

00:51:09.840 to it.

00:51:10.240 I can't really explain it, but it's not there for this.

00:51:14.420 Um, and that's the same is true for a lot of Christmas movies, but Christmas story has

00:51:19.020 that feel, has that Christmas feeling.

00:51:22.220 And so I've, I don't know, I've seen, I've probably seen it 50 times and I enjoy it every

00:51:25.500 single time.

00:51:25.940 So you're wrong, sir.

00:51:27.360 And you're banned from the show.

00:51:30.900 Finally, Sky says, you truly are a crusader on porn, Matt.

00:51:34.840 I don't really get it.

00:51:35.700 I can't get that worked up about adults looking at porn online.

00:51:39.040 No pun intended.

00:51:40.460 As a man, many years, you're senior.

00:51:42.020 I remember when you had to, uh, when we had to fight for years just to be able to look

00:51:46.060 at a naked woman in the magazine, it was a battle that lasted for decades. 1.00

00:51:49.680 It was very, very valiant battle, sir.

00:51:52.320 You're fighting for decades to look at naked women in a magazine. 1.00

00:51:57.160 Do you ever think about just like getting married?

00:51:58.740 Um, I don't see throwing my, that freedom away because, uh, it, because it, it offends

00:52:05.760 the sensibilities of some people like you.

00:52:07.780 If you don't like it, don't look at it.

00:52:09.180 I don't think children should see it either.

00:52:11.180 But in a free society, there are a lot of bad things.

00:52:13.460 Taking away the freedoms is not an answer.

00:52:15.280 You know, sir, I don't even know where to begin here.

00:52:17.520 First of all, what freedoms am I talking about taking away here?

00:52:21.520 Now, it's true that, that as I happily admit, I am in favor of just getting rid of all pornography,

00:52:28.880 banning it outright.

00:52:29.860 I absolutely reject the claim that pornography is free speech.

00:52:33.740 It is not speech.

00:52:35.040 You know, having sex with someone on camera is not speech.

00:52:38.060 Whether or not you're saying something while you do it, it is not speech.

00:52:41.380 There's no like message or opinion you're expressing.

00:52:44.960 It is prostitution. 0.98

00:52:46.080 It's sex for money. 0.98

00:52:46.800 That's what it is.

00:52:48.420 But that's not what we were talking about this week, was it?

00:52:51.480 We were talking about putting basic parameters in place to protect kids from it.

00:52:56.160 We were talking about, you know, age verification for websites.

00:52:59.300 So what freedom is being taken away?

00:53:01.540 Is it your, is that, so what, what freedom?

00:53:03.980 Describe, so your, your freedom, your right, your right to look at and have access to an unlimited

00:53:11.560 supply of free pornography that doesn't require you to verify your age.

00:53:17.380 That's your right.

00:53:18.080 Where do you get this right?

00:53:18.900 Is it, what is this?

00:53:19.440 Is this a, is this a God-given right?

00:53:21.080 Is this embedded in, in your soul from birth?

00:53:23.780 Is that what you, what are you talking about?

00:53:25.320 Is it, does it take away your freedom when you have to show your ID when you, before you

00:53:31.060 buy a bottle of whiskey at the liquor store?

00:53:33.180 Does that take away your freedom?

00:53:34.260 You know, if, if you, if you, you have to produce age verification to gamble at a casino or online,

00:53:41.580 is that a, is that take, my freedoms are under assault.

00:53:44.160 They're taking away my freedom.

00:53:46.600 Does that take away your freedom?

00:53:50.160 You know, if you want to buy a cigar, a 13 year old can't go in to the cigar shop and buy

00:53:57.080 a cigar.

00:53:58.120 Are you going to show up to the cigar shop with the, with the picket signs?

00:54:01.340 Stop robbing us of our freedoms.

00:54:02.860 No, you're not.

00:54:05.620 It's just with this, it's, it's with this one particular thing that it's in a, it's an

00:54:11.260 egregious assault on your freedom.

00:54:12.720 If there are any parameters put in place at all, it's like, this would require almost

00:54:19.840 nothing of you.

00:54:20.480 All it would require, it would require like, however, however long it takes you now to access

00:54:24.820 internet pornography.

00:54:27.100 If we put these things in place, it would take you, I don't know, an additional seven,

00:54:32.700 seven seconds, but you're not willing to spend that seven seconds just for the sake of protecting

00:54:38.560 kids.

00:54:39.180 Yeah, children shouldn't see it, but I, children should see it, but I will do absolutely not

00:54:43.300 one single solid thing to make sure that they can't.

00:54:46.240 That's what you're saying.

00:54:46.720 Very, uh, very noble of you, sir.

00:54:52.380 You're banned from the show too.

00:54:54.340 Whenever I get into a spat with someone on Twitter over something I supposedly tweeted,

00:54:58.160 it's, it's usually because they didn't actually read what I wrote.

00:55:01.100 Reading is a lost art on Twitter.

00:55:03.780 It's a lost art across the entire country these days, but that's not the case on Daily

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00:55:31.860 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:33.540 Yeah, I figured it'd be nice, uh, and nicely in keeping with one of the major and most unfortunate

00:55:42.520 themes of the year if the final daily cancellation of the year was dedicated to the groomers.

00:55:47.160 In fact, because I'm a fair person today, we're going to give the groomers a hearing.

00:55:51.520 We are going to let them defend themselves.

00:55:53.980 We are going to listen to whatever arguments they might be able to put forward in their

00:55:57.660 own defense.

00:55:58.820 Um, I have long believed that it's not possible for us to make a more compelling case against

00:56:02.740 leftism than the leftist makes himself against himself.

00:56:06.540 If you simply let him speak, that was the idea behind my film.

00:56:09.380 What is a woman? 1.00

00:56:09.980 And today we will apply it to this specifically to the suddenly quite common phenomenon of

00:56:14.320 the all ages drag show.

00:56:15.700 Last week, we told you about the all ages drag show in Texas covered by a journalist named

00:56:19.720 Taylor Hanson.

00:56:21.220 It was a Christmas themed show, which is currently touring the country and which includes graphic 0.98

00:56:26.160 talk about sex, graphic performances of simulated sex, uh, half naked and nearly fully naked 0.98

00:56:32.400 men parading in front of the crowd, cross-dressing men with fake breasts, et cetera. 0.98

00:56:36.620 It is graphic, it's sexual, it's obscene, and it's advertisers to all ages.

00:56:41.240 How can it possibly be defended?

00:56:43.340 Well, it can't obviously, but the left is giving it their best try as typified by this

00:56:47.600 Twitter thread from a so-called investigative journalist named Steven Monicelli.

00:56:52.600 It's very important to Steven apparently that he defend the honor of half naked cross-dressers 1.00

00:56:57.160 who perform simulated sex acts in front of elementary schoolers.

00:57:00.200 It's very important to him.

00:57:01.240 He's very passionate about allowing these sorts of displays.

00:57:05.380 And he posted a lengthy Twitter thread with that goal in mind.

00:57:09.040 Let's read through it.

00:57:10.460 He says, quote,

00:57:12.020 Right-wing activists working with the Blaze TV and Texas Family Project must have realized

00:57:16.060 that protests outside of drag shows, which often feature sexual language and are always

00:57:19.880 outnumbered but don't look great, uh, don't, don't look great.

00:57:22.960 So they've taken the tactic of filming drag shows for selective outrage. 0.92

00:57:26.180 Hanson and Sarah Gonzalez from the Blaze are happy to play fast and loose with the facts.

00:57:31.840 Hanson claims the drag show that is touring Texas right now is family-friendly.

00:57:36.200 Their advertising doesn't say that.

00:57:37.960 What it says is all ages welcome.

00:57:40.500 This is not unlike an R-rated movie.

00:57:42.660 Here's another piece of info about the show that's touring Texas right now, spotted by Parker

00:57:46.360 Malloy.

00:57:47.100 It explicitly says it contains adult content.

00:57:51.840 Ah, okay.

00:57:52.720 See, he got us.

00:57:53.400 He got us.

00:57:53.860 These aren't family-friendly drag shows. 0.99

00:57:56.360 They're all ages drag shows. 0.98

00:57:58.640 Ha! 0.89

00:57:59.200 See?

00:58:00.040 That changes everything.

00:58:02.220 What exactly does it change?

00:58:04.320 Well, that's not really clear.

00:58:05.780 In fact, Stephen, in an attempt to defend the sexual performances for children, has only

00:58:09.860 somehow succeeded in making them seem even worse than they originally, than we originally

00:58:14.460 suspected.

00:58:15.560 He thinks that it gets the drag show off the hook to point out how it advertises the fact

00:58:20.280 that it has adult content.

00:58:21.440 But because he's a creepy degenerate himself, he doesn't see the problem with putting the

00:58:26.560 phrases adult content and all ages welcome on the same poster. 0.62

00:58:32.740 The fact that they acknowledge up front that the event is sexual in nature and yet still

00:58:37.340 make sure to note how all ages are welcome only makes the pedophilic grooming nature of 0.56

00:58:42.900 the whole affair all the more explicitly and horrifically clear.

00:58:45.800 Because keep in mind something, the defense up until now has been that drag shows aren't

00:58:53.840 adult-oriented.

00:58:54.800 That's what they've been saying.

00:58:56.880 Now they admit that they are adult-oriented, but that's okay because it says adult-oriented

00:59:03.380 in all ages on the poster?

00:59:04.920 What?

00:59:05.380 So once again, we go from that isn't happening to it is happening and it's good.

00:59:12.240 This is always the process.

00:59:13.980 This is always the trajectory every single time.

00:59:17.120 Stephen compares this to an R-rated movie, once again defending it in terms that only prove

00:59:22.320 the opposite of the point that he's hoping to make.

00:59:24.140 Also, although you technically can bring a child to an R-rated movie, nowhere on any R-rated

00:59:33.220 movie's poster or in its promotional material will you ever see the words, all ages welcome.

00:59:39.900 If the movie Eyes Wide Shut came out in theaters tomorrow and in all the previews it said, all

00:59:45.760 ages welcome, we would agree that it's a major problem and extremely creepy at a minimum.

00:59:51.740 Or maybe at this point we wouldn't agree.

00:59:55.360 I don't know.

00:59:56.340 After all, the other side of this debate has now reached the point of outright defending

01:00:00.680 sexual performances for children.

01:00:02.920 But what about parents? 0.75

01:00:04.720 Yes, the drag performers themselves deserve all the scorn and contempt that we can heap 1.00

01:00:08.840 on them, but the parents who actually bring their children to these events deserve even

01:00:13.140 more of it.

01:00:14.520 How do they defend it?

01:00:15.980 How can they, you know, what can they say for themselves?

01:00:19.500 Well, fortunately, the aforementioned Sarah Gonzalez, who has been doing a lot of great

01:00:23.600 work and important work on this issue, was on the scene for this one drag show in Texas 0.66

01:00:28.620 and she asked the parents themselves why they're bringing their kids.

01:00:32.700 And here's what they said.

01:00:34.440 Can I ask you a question?

01:00:36.180 Do you find this to be age appropriate for your children?

01:00:39.600 Yeah.

01:00:39.960 I mean, I'm a little more, I'm not as conservative, but I mean, really, it's not any different

01:00:48.240 than, I mean, Disney, and Disney, they have similar things.

01:00:52.300 Like, it's really not that far from it. 0.96

01:00:54.300 I had sex with my father's boss in my father's office. 0.97

01:00:59.240 Really? 0.99

01:00:59.700 Honestly, like, I'm bi-positive.

01:01:01.280 Do you find this to be age appropriate for children?

01:01:07.260 Do I find this to be age appropriate?

01:01:09.080 Yeah.

01:01:09.660 For my child, yeah.

01:01:11.380 Hello, you're reaching for my t-t-t.

01:01:13.080 Are you hungry?

01:01:14.140 Do you mind me asking how old she is?

01:01:15.780 She's 12.

01:01:16.640 12?

01:01:17.160 Uh-huh. 0.79

01:01:17.700 She knows about sex and, I mean, she doesn't see sex. 0.92

01:01:22.780 Yeah, well, I mean, she kind of sees simulated sex in the show. 0.94

01:01:27.060 She goes to school. 0.91

01:01:28.300 She sees simulated sex all the time. 0.97

01:01:30.220 You know what I'm saying? 0.56

01:01:32.840 Do you think it's exposing sex to them too young?

01:01:37.040 Honestly, because there's, there's like, this is a little bit more forward, but there's,

01:01:41.160 there's innuendo and all that kind of stuff in Disney.

01:01:43.600 I mean, Shrek, I mean, they're talking about, are you compensating for something?

01:01:47.340 There's a lot of things that they don't necessarily get.

01:01:53.680 I mean, it is sexualized, but, like, I, it's, it's, it is what it is.

01:01:57.780 I just think it's the stigma around it that's, you know, which they don't care.

01:02:01.740 I've raised them not to care.

01:02:03.020 The stigma around what?

01:02:04.720 Around, um, you know, different sexualities.

01:02:09.200 You know, it's just, it's just, that's not any different than, you know, straight people.

01:02:18.260 Another big riot.

01:02:21.200 So you don't worry that this is, like, ruining her innocence or anything?

01:02:26.360 No, she needs to know what's appropriate and know when to say, you know, consent and what's

01:02:36.060 appropriate and what's not.

01:02:37.580 And how will she know that if she doesn't see it in a safe way?

01:02:44.720 So her argument is that kids are going to eventually be exposed to cross-dressing fetishists 1.00

01:02:50.060 who simulate sodomy on each other anyway, so it's best to introduce them to it in a safe

01:02:55.960 environment. 0.58

01:02:57.400 In other words, according to her, kids are going to be sexually harassed and sexually

01:03:01.460 groomed, so you might as well facilitate their abuse yourself.

01:03:06.560 If you were wondering what these parents could possibly say for themselves, what defense they

01:03:10.340 could possibly offer, how they could ever manage to justify their parenting choices, well,

01:03:14.300 now you know.

01:03:15.540 They can't defend it.

01:03:16.720 They can't justify it.

01:03:17.680 The job of a parent, of course, is to fight tooth and nail to preserve your child's innocence,

01:03:24.640 protect their heart, protect their soul, protect their minds, not feed them to the lions intentionally

01:03:29.980 because you figure that they're going to be consumed eventually anyway.

01:03:34.240 But these are parents who don't care about protecting their children, obviously.

01:03:36.740 To them, the most important thing is to signal their leftist enlightenment to the world.

01:03:40.820 And what better way to do that than to offer up your own to the LGBT groomers, putting 1.00

01:03:48.080 their innocence on the altar as a sacrifice?

01:03:52.360 This is what they're really doing.

01:03:54.120 Only they won't say it out loud.

01:03:56.920 That is why these parents and everyone else involved ultimately claim the honor of being

01:04:02.560 the last people of 2022 to be canceled.

01:04:06.140 And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.

01:04:09.260 Hope to see you there.

01:04:10.000 If not, talk to you.

01:04:10.980 Well, no, talk to you next year.

01:04:13.440 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 22, 2022

Ep. 1087 - The Real Objective Of The Speech Police

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