The Matt Walsh Show - January 04, 2023


Ep. 1089 - Louisiana Is Protecting Kids From Internet Porn. Every Other State Should Follow Suit.

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We ve been told for decades that there is nothing that can be reasonably done to regulate internet porn, and yet, starting this week, the State of Louisiana is doing the impossible, and porn apologists are not happy about it. Also, Kevin McCarthy encounters what the media describes as historic opposition to his bid to become Speaker of the House, and are pro-lifers really to blame for the disappointing midterm results? I ll lay out why that s not the case.

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we've been told for decades that there is nothing that can be
00:00:03.520 reasonably done to regulate internet porn or protect kids from it, and yet starting this week,
00:00:07.800 the state of Louisiana is doing the impossible, and porn apologists are not happy about it. Also,
00:00:12.580 Kevin McCarthy encounters what the media describes as historic opposition to his bid to be Speaker
00:00:16.860 of the House, and are pro-lifers really to blame for the disappointing midterm results? I'll lay
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00:01:49.800 reading plan for free. Over the years, including recently, just a couple of weeks ago, when I have
00:01:55.300 discussed the need for, at a minimum, some basic regulations on the internet porn industry that
00:02:00.480 would provide at least minimal protection to children, I have been met with a number of objections,
00:02:05.740 and all of them are incredibly lame and unconvincing. But the principal objection has always been
00:02:10.340 that such regulations are somehow infeasible, if not impossible. Laws and regulations in every state
00:02:17.140 require every other adult-oriented industry to verify ages, whether online or in real life. But
00:02:22.660 for whatever reason, we could never expect porn companies to abide by these same rules. Every
00:02:27.920 other company can, but not porn companies. Now, granted, we've never tried. There's never been
00:02:33.660 any serious attempt at any level to even moderately regulate internet porn, but we've decided that it
00:02:39.900 can't be done anyway. There's no sense in even trying. So let's just keep feeding generation 0.99
00:02:45.040 after generation of children into this wood chipper, allowing their minds and souls to be corrupted 0.97
00:02:49.900 by the most depraved forms of filth ever conceived, while we sit by helplessly on the assumption that
00:02:56.620 even if we tried to do something, we couldn't do anything, and so we'll just do nothing. Yet now,
00:03:02.520 into this picture steps the state of Louisiana, which, as of this week, has set out to do, and is,
00:03:09.220 in fact, now doing the impossible. They have not only done it, but they've done it relatively
00:03:14.860 quickly and cheaply and easily. They haven't entirely solved the problem of children accessing
00:03:19.780 hardcore porn, and there are plenty of loopholes still to be closed. But in a span of a couple of
00:03:24.560 days, they have made more progress than had been made collectively for the whole history of internet
00:03:30.780 porn up until now. All it took was the willingness to do it. That is the only thing that has held us back
00:03:38.080 from protecting our kids from these filthy smut peddlers. We have been unwilling to even try. 1.00
00:03:44.220 But in Louisiana, they are now trying. They're putting a law in place that requires porn sites
00:03:52.460 to verify ages, to actually verify the age of every user who tries to access a site. So here's Vice
00:03:59.660 on the Louisiana law. They write, quote,
00:04:02.500 A new law makes porn sites liable for content deemed harmful to minors if it doesn't install
00:04:08.040 age verification technology for anyone accessing them in Louisiana. And it's already affecting how
00:04:13.580 people in the state access Pornhub. The law, which was signed by Louisiana's Democratic governor,
00:04:18.720 John Bel Edwards, in June, became effective on January 1st, 2023.
00:04:22.920 Now, make special note of the fact that a Democrat governor signed this bill. And I know it's Louisiana,
00:04:28.200 but this is a Democrat governor signing this bill. So if your state is run by a Republican governor,
00:04:33.480 you should be asking why he or she has not signed a similar bill, if the Democrats are doing it.
00:04:39.860 Vice continues, the law passed as Act 440 states, quote,
00:04:44.880 Any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material
00:04:49.040 harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material
00:04:53.800 shall be held liable if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the
00:04:59.300 age of individuals attempting to access the material. It also states that any commercial entity
00:05:03.500 in violation will be liable to an individual for damages resulting from a minor's access to the
00:05:08.160 material. Motherboard confirmed through a virtual private network that Pornhub is showing people
00:05:13.340 visiting the site from a Louisiana-based IP address, a page that requires identity verification before
00:05:19.380 entering. The page says, Louisiana law now requires us to put in place a process for verifying the age
00:05:25.100 of users who connect to our site from Louisiana, the page says. When Motherboard tested the verification,
00:05:31.140 Pornhub directed us to AllPass Trust, which is a third-party identity verification site,
00:05:36.460 which connects to LA Wallet, which is a digital driver's license for Louisianans.
00:05:41.760 Pornhub guarantees that Pornhub doesn't collect data during this process.
00:05:46.300 Now, the article goes on to note that some other major porn sites haven't yet put anything into
00:05:52.740 place to comply with the new law. OnlyFans, meanwhile, can't be accessed at all right now
00:05:58.360 from a Louisiana IP address. Perhaps they've shut down access until they can get something in place
00:06:03.120 to verify ages. Perhaps they'll never restore access at all, which would be the best case scenario,
00:06:08.140 really. But the fact remains that the biggest porn distributor in the world has figured out a way
00:06:13.960 to conform itself to the sort of basic regulation that, once again, literally every other adult-oriented
00:06:22.600 business is required to comply with. An exception has been carved out for internet porn, a totally
00:06:29.420 baseless, indefensible exception. And in Louisiana, at least, that exception, that loophole, has been closed.
00:06:38.040 Now, one of the most important parts of closing the loophole is the financial liability, as mentioned
00:06:44.500 in the article. Porn sites now have a major incentive to try and keep kids off of their platforms, whereas
00:06:50.520 up until now, they have had no incentive to keep kids off. Indeed, the incentives have gone the other
00:06:56.460 way. Like, we have been actively incentivizing porn sites to expose kids to this stuff. Luring kids onto the
00:07:07.500 platforms, early and often, up until now, in Louisiana anyway, guaranteed millions of new porn addicts
00:07:13.820 every year, translating into billions and billions of dollars. That was the incentive. The only way to
00:07:19.880 compete with this kind of profit motive is to, as Louisiana has done, make porn sites financially liable
00:07:26.740 for the harm caused to the children exposed to their product. This, yet again, is exactly what we do
00:07:34.400 with every other industry that sells a product that is potentially harmful to kids.
00:07:40.720 We require them to put measures into place to ensure that kids are not accessing the product.
00:07:47.720 If they fail to enact such measures and their recklessness results in children gaining access
00:07:52.120 to their product or service, they are subject to fines and lawsuits. There is no reason why porn
00:07:58.200 companies should continue to enjoy the unprecedented privilege of being able to harm whoever they want
00:08:04.360 and profit from it without a shred of accountability. So, why shouldn't similar measures be put in
00:08:11.260 place in every state and on the federal level, too? You know, the harm that pornography consumption 0.50
00:08:18.160 inflicts on the developing minds of children is not a subject up for debate any longer. There is no
00:08:25.180 debate about it. There is no question that a young child who is exposed to hardcore porn suffers very real
00:08:32.220 emotional, emotional, and psychological trauma, which manifests itself immediately and in the long
00:08:38.640 term in myriad ways. None of them good. This is not only proven by the research, but it is an
00:08:44.540 inescapable conclusion reached by anyone with the slightest bit of common sense. Because we know that the
00:08:52.220 human mind is impressionable, and the mind of a child is more impressionable still. Marketing departments
00:08:58.680 know this. Advertising, the advertising industry knows this. So, what kind of lasting impression then
00:09:06.020 is left on a child who's introduced, introduced to the concept of human sexuality through exposure to
00:09:13.260 forms of sexual debauchery and depravity that human beings prior to the internet age could not have even
00:09:17.980 conceived of? Okay, this is stuff that most people who've ever lived on earth prior to the internet
00:09:24.240 never would have seen or even thought of, and now we have eight-year-olds who are ingesting it every
00:09:31.580 day. What impression, what impact does that have on the child? You don't need to put on a lab coat and
00:09:40.080 conduct a scientific study to answer that question, but as it happens, people have conducted such studies
00:09:45.400 and the results line up with what common sense already attests to. So, back to the question.
00:09:51.460 What is the argument against this? What is the problem with taking even the most meager and
00:09:59.460 basic steps to prevent internet pimps from hawking their poisonous product to seven-year-olds?
00:10:06.240 Why isn't this happening everywhere? Why is it only just happening now in one state?
00:10:14.560 Well, there really is no argument against it. I mean, I know that because I've asked the critics,
00:10:19.120 those freaking out about this Louisiana law and similar efforts elsewhere, I've asked people to
00:10:24.920 explain it to me. For years, I've been asking this question, and they can't explain it. The most they
00:10:29.560 can do is mutter about how protecting children from porn is the parent's job, which it is, yes, but it's
00:10:36.000 also the government's job to protect its citizens, and that includes, indeed, ought to especially include
00:10:42.460 children. See, children should be at the front of the line when it comes to protection from the
00:10:47.960 government. You expect it to be protected from the government. Adults expect it.
00:10:54.040 You expect various forms of protection. Well, children should be in the front of that line.
00:11:00.260 They should be in front of all of us when it comes to being protected.
00:11:03.480 And parents cannot contend with a porn-saturated culture all on their own.
00:11:09.780 They cannot be left alone to deal with this. That is not a fair thing to expect.
00:11:17.880 And there's no reason why they should be.
00:11:20.800 Now, we're also told that this is a slippery slope.
00:11:23.860 There was a viral tweet from someone who identifies themselves as a
00:11:28.420 criminal defense attorney in Louisiana, anonymous, and also anti-fascist, he says.
00:11:35.320 And he was a viral tweet, and he lives in Louisiana. He's very upset that now he has to go through one
00:11:41.860 extra step before accessing Pornhub. So his masturbation, he has to hold off on that for 0.97
00:11:47.540 another 30 seconds. Very upset about that. And so he's tweeted this long viral thread, 0.99
00:11:52.480 saying this is a slippery slope into fascism, a surveillance state.
00:11:58.180 First, the government will require identification for accessing Pornhub.
00:12:01.000 And then next, some bad thing will happen.
00:12:06.220 You know, of all the weak, half-cocked, faux-libertarian arguments that porn apologists 1.00
00:12:10.900 come up with, this is probably the dumbest of all. And that's saying a lot. 1.00
00:12:15.400 And I'll just respond to it this way. I need everyone to pay attention to this part because
00:12:20.060 it's very important. The government does not need the precedent of a good thing in order to do
00:12:29.060 a bad thing. Okay? They'll just do the bad thing. So whatever you're worried about,
00:12:34.960 well, so maybe protecting kids from porn is okay, but then that would lead to the government doing
00:12:39.300 this other thing. Whatever that other thing is, they're already doing it. It is already doing
00:12:45.700 whatever bad thing you're worried about. The question is simply whether, amid all the bad the
00:12:51.420 government does, it ought to at least also do a good thing or two. Another way of putting this,
00:12:56.800 because the government does a lot of things that aren't its lawful or rightful job,
00:13:02.700 should we then object on the rare occasion when it actually does its lawful and rightful job?
00:13:09.820 Protecting children from multi-billion dollar porn merchants is fully and clearly within the purview
00:13:15.800 of the government. Why in God's name would you oppose that based on the fact that it's also doing a
00:13:21.640 bunch of things that are not in its purview? Yeah, it shouldn't be doing that. But the stuff in its
00:13:26.740 purview, it should be doing. I mean, talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. 0.99
00:13:32.560 Except in this case, you're just throwing the baby out and keeping the dirty bathwater. It's the worst
00:13:37.240 of all worlds. But it's no surprise that such bad arguments would be made by those opposed to
00:13:43.640 protecting kids from porn. They can't be blamed for their bad arguments. They are trying to defend
00:13:48.040 the indefensible and they're doing it for reasons that they won't really say out loud. 0.99
00:13:51.500 That's why all the arguments are so stupid and bad is because none of these people will actually 0.99
00:13:56.240 say what their real argument is. Their real motivation is to, as we talked about a couple 1.00
00:14:01.200 weeks ago, not only protect their own ease of access to pornography, but also I think at a deeper
00:14:07.520 level, they want to avoid thinking about the harm that pornography inflicts on people to begin with.
00:14:14.200 You know, this entire conversation requires us to confront what pornography is and how toxic it is.
00:14:22.000 And that causes the adult porn user to feel bad about himself and his habits.
00:14:29.200 And I think that's really why he'd prefer that we not talk about it or do anything about it.
00:14:35.960 But that's also yet another reason why we must. Now let's get to our headlines.
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00:16:14.360 30 minutes anyway. So Washington Post headline here. Kevin McCarthy faces open GOP revolt as
00:16:20.640 House fails to elect Speaker. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy faced open revolt in the House
00:16:25.260 Chamber Tuesday, failing in three rounds of balloting to earn enough votes to capture the
00:16:28.620 Speakership in a once in a century showdown that will now spill into a second day. The stunning
00:16:33.620 failure of the House to elect a Speaker on its first round of voting came after McCarthy and
00:16:38.500 his allies spent weeks working to secure the 218 votes needed for him to take the gavel.
00:16:42.660 Republicans won back the House in November's midterms, but worth a slim four vote majority
00:16:46.420 requiring near consensus among the conference to vote, move votes forward. By early Tuesday,
00:16:52.060 it became clear that hard right GOP holdouts had not been swayed. The failure was the culmination
00:16:57.580 of an internal divide that had in the past helped to bring down the Speakerships of John
00:17:01.660 Boehner and Paul Ryan with members of the staunchly conservative House Freedom Caucus
00:17:06.320 asking for a range of demands in exchange for their votes. So this is another example of a couple
00:17:11.340 things about this. Another example of the kind of story the media makes a big deal about and
00:17:18.140 political pundits make a big deal about it. You know, we hear historic showdown once in a century.
00:17:23.480 We haven't seen this in our lifetime. But most people, I suspect, aren't even aware this is
00:17:31.660 happening, couldn't care less who the Speaker of the House is. And in reality, it probably doesn't
00:17:40.080 matter all that much to your life. Like it probably, whether Kevin McCarthy is the Speaker of the House
00:17:46.320 or some other Republican, or if they put a broken toaster oven as a Speaker of the House. Of those
00:17:52.440 three options, your life would probably be exactly the same. Like if I were to give you three crystal
00:18:00.100 balls and I didn't tell you which was which, and they give you a vision of your future in each
00:18:06.020 scenario. Here's the crystal ball where Kevin McCarthy is the Speaker of the House. Here's another
00:18:09.500 Republican. Here's the broken toaster oven scenario. And you were to look into it and see what your
00:18:16.240 life is like. You wouldn't be able to tell, because it would be exactly the same is what I'm trying to
00:18:20.120 say. Your life would play out exactly the same no matter who the Speaker of the House is. With that
00:18:25.080 being said, Kevin McCarthy, for what it's worth, doesn't deserve the Speakership. And this is not,
00:18:35.460 we could call it a historic showdown with these so-called hard right Republicans are refusing to
00:18:41.820 go along. Refusing to go along with it just means that they don't think that Kevin McCarthy is,
00:18:49.860 these other House members, they don't want to vote for a leader who they rightly have judged to be
00:18:55.080 unfit and to be a failure. Kevin McCarthy, in his role in Republican leadership, has been a failure.
00:19:03.760 And it's not just because of the disappointing, to put it mildly, midterm results, but that's just
00:19:12.560 the latest in a line of failures. Another way of looking at it is like, what has this guy achieved
00:19:16.780 exactly? Nothing. He's just another Republican establishment, kind of squishy, nobody, empty suit
00:19:24.520 kind of guy. And this idea that he deserves the Speakership, that it belongs to him, that he should
00:19:31.980 have it. That is the most establishment-like mentality of all. That is establishment. That's
00:19:38.300 what the establishment is. It's this idea that certain people deserve these roles in government.
00:19:43.540 And so everyone else would just step aside. But that's not the way it's supposed to work.
00:19:49.900 And I say that about the Speaker of the House. I say that about the presidency.
00:19:54.340 You know, you hear from some people who are Trump fans that, well, no, this is,
00:19:58.760 it's his turn again in 2024. Everyone else should step aside. It doesn't, it's not turn.
00:20:02.940 What do you mean? It's your turn. It's nobody's turn. If you want a role in government as an elected
00:20:10.040 official, you got to run for it and earn it, get the votes. And if you want to be Speaker of the
00:20:15.740 House, you have to get the votes from your members. And he doesn't have them right now.
00:20:20.320 And he shouldn't. Because again, he's a failure. He's a nobody. And really the onus is on him. 0.97
00:20:25.220 So all the people that are worried about, well, this is a historic meltdown and it's making the 1.00
00:20:32.320 Republicans look stupid or whatever. You hear this a lot. It's a big clown show. Again, 1.00
00:20:36.840 most people aren't paying attention. So most people don't care. And as far as Republicans
00:20:41.720 making themselves look stupid, they don't need any help with that. Republicans make themselves 1.00
00:20:45.480 look stupid every day. But not because of this. This is one example of Republicans, 1.00
00:20:51.640 some Republicans at least, actually standing on principle and standing up against their own so-called
00:20:57.060 leadership and having a backbone, having a spine. This is an example of them making Republicans? No,
00:21:04.020 this is like the one time when they don't look stupid. But even if that's true, then whose fault is 1.00
00:21:11.480 it? Then the onus is on Kevin McCarthy to step down, step aside. You don't have the votes.
00:21:17.200 If you're worried about how this all looks and that it's some sort of historic quagmire,
00:21:24.620 then why aren't you putting the pressure on Kevin McCarthy to step aside and clear the way for
00:21:29.680 someone else? He's failed in his role of leadership. He doesn't have the confidence
00:21:35.000 of many of the members. And so he should step aside.
00:21:40.140 I see the onus on him. That's where it should be.
00:21:47.320 All right. Fox News headline. DeSantis calls Florida land of sanity and slams Biden policies
00:21:53.240 in his inaugural address. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday praised the Sunshine State
00:21:58.420 as the land of liberty and land of sanity while slamming the floundering federal establishment in
00:22:03.340 Washington, D.C., the Biden administration, and laying out his policies for the months and years
00:22:07.240 ahead as he was sworn in for a second term. DeSantis, who's considered a likely GOP 2024
00:22:12.200 presidential contender, delivered his inaugural address on the steps of the state's Capitol in
00:22:16.820 Tallahassee on Tuesday after a decisive 19-point re-election victory. Now, it was a great speech
00:22:22.860 and all, and I think it's a very good speech, at least, worth watching. But this was the best part.
00:22:30.640 Here's just a 20-second clip. And this may not seem very remarkable to you, what he says here,
00:22:36.100 but this, to me, was my favorite part of his speech. Listen to this.
00:22:40.800 Florida must always be a great place to raise a family. We will enact more family-friendly policies
00:22:49.360 to make it easier to raise children, and we will defend our children against those who seek to rob
00:22:56.260 them of their innocence. There you go. Very simple. Like I said, doesn't appear to be anything
00:23:02.600 revolutionary there. And there isn't. But this should be the Republican Party's platform going
00:23:10.460 into 2024. And this is, if you want to know what my political ideology is at this point, that's it,
00:23:16.820 what you just heard there. That's the whole thing. Protect families, protect children.
00:23:21.720 There you go. That's it. That's the fundamental political platform. And that's what every
00:23:30.280 Republican ought to be talking about. And if the term conservatism means anything,
00:23:36.560 it ought to be conserving that. I mean, most fundamentally, as I always talk about,
00:23:41.000 it's conserving basic truth. And it's also conserving and protecting the family and the safety
00:23:49.600 and innocence of children. That should be the marching orders.
00:23:57.760 And not only is that the right, you know, the right platform and the right mission
00:24:03.420 and what needs to be done, but it's also a winning political message.
00:24:11.460 Forget about what you've heard from squishy establishment Republicans for years and years,
00:24:14.920 who still to this day, you know, they will go down with the ship claiming that all anybody cares
00:24:22.600 about is their wallet and the financial bottom line. And so just talk about tax cuts and all of
00:24:28.580 that. That's all anything anybody cares about. That's not true. People care about money.
00:24:33.840 They care about their financial well-being. Of course they do. We all do.
00:24:37.000 But they care about those things primarily because of how that affects the safety and stability of
00:24:47.240 their families and their children. Because even more basic than the financial concern is that
00:24:54.140 concern about your family, about your kids. This is what people, this is why I always say you got to
00:24:59.620 think about what do people wake up in the morning thinking about? Okay, they don't wake up in the
00:25:05.720 morning thinking about tax cuts. Nobody does. If you're a parent, you wake up in the morning and
00:25:11.260 you're thinking about your kids, you're thinking about your family, you're thinking about your
00:25:14.040 spouse. Like that's, that's, those are the first thoughts in your mind. And politically, if you're
00:25:21.420 speaking to that, if you're speaking to, forget about the kitchen table issues. I'm talking about
00:25:25.900 before you even get to the kitchen table. Okay, before you sit down at the kitchen table for breakfast,
00:25:29.720 what are the things that you're thinking about? And it's that. And politically, if you're
00:25:35.460 speaking to those issues, then that's, that is going to be a winner every time for almost everybody.
00:25:42.440 All right. Here's something else. This is, if I can pull it up here.
00:25:49.220 This is a story from last week that I wanted to touch on. The Hill headline says,
00:25:53.300 Trump says abortion issue responsible for GOP underperforming expectations in the midterms.
00:25:58.600 This is the article from last week. Former President Trump blamed the abortion issue,
00:26:02.160 quote unquote, for Republicans underperforming expectations on 2022 midterm elections.
00:26:06.860 Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday that many in the GOP handled the issue poorly,
00:26:11.480 especially those who firmly insisted on no exceptions to bans on the procedure,
00:26:15.180 including on instances of rape and incest. Well, rather than reading the article,
00:26:19.140 I'll just read you what he, what he posted on Truth Social. He says,
00:26:22.940 it wasn't my fault that the Republicans didn't live up to expectations in the midterms.
00:26:26.080 I was 233 to 20. It was the, it was the abortion issue poorly handled by many Republicans,
00:26:33.160 especially those that firmly insisted on no exceptions, even in the cases of rape,
00:26:37.320 incest, or life of the mother that lost large numbers of voters. Also, the people that pushed
00:26:41.600 so hard for decades against abortion got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court and just plain
00:26:45.620 disappeared, not to be seen again. Plus Mitch stupid money. Stupid money? I'm not even sure 1.00
00:26:52.480 what that means. Mitch, Mitch stupid, and then the dollar sign, apostrophe S. Anyway, 0.99
00:26:57.880 so that's what he said. Now, there are a few problems here. 1.00
00:27:04.020 The first is that before we even get to the substance, this is just whiny. You know, like,
00:27:11.220 I think one rule in politics and also to be an adult in life is like, never start a sentence with,
00:27:17.680 it wasn't my fault that, never start a sentence that way. Even if you're trying to deny fault
00:27:25.200 in a situation, don't start a sentence. It sounds whiny. It just sounds weak and whiny. That's how it
00:27:31.020 sounds. And it again makes you think like, is this, is this what the Trump campaign is? He
00:27:38.000 announced his candidacy, what, two months ago now? And then, and then disappeared. Like,
00:27:43.880 where is he? And he announced his candidacy. And rather than launching right into rallies and
00:27:50.040 exciting things and making announcements and, you know, stirring things up, he just like retreats
00:27:54.540 to Mar-a-Lago and is issuing these, these, what do they call them? Truths on truth social,
00:28:00.840 deflecting blame, looking backwards, all this kind of stuff. It looks weak and whiny and irrelevant.
00:28:05.660 That's the first problem. The second is putting blame at the feet of pro-lifers, which by the way,
00:28:11.660 is what the Republican establishment, speaking of them, it's what they've always done. Okay. This,
00:28:17.040 what you hear here, what you hear in this case is a slightly more direct version of what the
00:28:25.880 Republican establishment has been saying for decades. Anytime there's a major political defeat,
00:28:30.500 they always, and I know this as a pro-lifer myself and someone who's been in the movement for years,
00:28:36.060 standing in the group that, that, that always has the fingers pointing at it from the conservative
00:28:41.460 Republican establishment. It's all their fault because they care too much about protecting
00:28:46.780 babies from being murdered. It doesn't make any sense. It's not true. Especially from the guy who
00:28:57.180 in the past has bragged about the Dobbs decision. This, the, the Dobbs decision is legitimately a legacy
00:29:05.320 of the Trump administration. Okay. If we didn't have Trump, if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, 0.99
00:29:11.260 then obviously she would not have appointed, uh, three justices who would then go on to overturn Roe 0.65
00:29:16.780 v. Wade. So this is not only part of his legacy, but it is the most important part. And, and also
00:29:24.880 perhaps the only lasting bit of legacy that there is. Everything else that Trump did was, was,
00:29:30.920 was undone by Joe Biden in about five seconds. This is the one lasting thing. And it's one of the most
00:29:39.100 important moments in American history is the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
00:29:45.860 Even with the States that still have, uh, you know, still kill babies, even with them, it's still,
00:29:53.900 you know, tens of thousands, at least of lives saved every year because of this, at least.
00:29:58.060 So that's something that Trump should be championing. And he has in the past until now
00:30:07.140 he's turning around and pointing the fingers at pro-lifers and, and, and it is pro-lifers by the
00:30:13.080 way. It's not just, it's not just singling out certain Republican politicians saying Republicans
00:30:19.660 generally, voters who are too firm in insisting on no exceptions for, uh, rape and incest and life
00:30:28.940 of the mother and all the rest of it. You know why we don't agree with those exceptions?
00:30:37.700 Because the exceptions are morally incoherent. It doesn't make any sense. Okay.
00:30:43.460 There is only one reason to oppose any abortion at all. Okay. There's only one reason. I don't care 0.88
00:30:52.280 the circumstances that lead, that led up to the baby being conceived, uh, what, what stage of
00:30:57.840 pregnancy we're talking about, the manner of the abortion, putting all of that, whatever,
00:31:01.780 that doesn't matter. Whatever kind of abortion we're talking about, there's only one reason to
00:31:06.860 oppose it. And that one single reason is that the child is a human child and that intentionally
00:31:16.220 killing a human child is murdered. It is the murder of a child. That is the one single reason to oppose
00:31:22.120 abortion. And it's a really good reason. You know, when you have a good reason, when you have a good 0.98
00:31:27.360 argument, you don't need any other arguments. When you've got a Trump card argument, that's all you
00:31:32.480 need. And that's our one single Trump card argument. This is a human child. Scientifically,
00:31:39.940 you are intentionally killing it. And that by definition is murder. Intentionally killing
00:31:44.280 human life is the benefit of you. This is the murder of a child that we are opposed to murdering 0.95
00:31:47.460 children. The only reason to be opposed to abortion. But if you oppose abortion for that reason,
00:31:54.160 it doesn't make any sense to carve out exceptions. How can you possibly say, well, I oppose murdering
00:32:02.100 children. Except for, what? Except for, there are some things where there can be no except for. There
00:32:11.700 could be no but. And this is one of them. If abortion is murdering a child, then there can never be a
00:32:22.600 situation where it is okay to do. Because there is never a situation where it is okay to murder a child.
00:32:27.920 But if abortion is not the murder of a child, then there's never any reason to oppose it.
00:32:36.660 Then you're not murdering a child. You're just dispensing of inanimate, meaningless matter. And
00:32:42.700 why shouldn't you do that? Those are the two options. Okay, that's not me being extreme or hard
00:32:51.000 line or anything. I mean, you could call it that if you want. I don't care.
00:32:53.600 It's really just about being morally and intellectually consistent.
00:33:00.640 And if your argument on this topic is not morally and intellectually consistent, then it just falls
00:33:05.040 apart. Okay, this is not about a purity test or something like that. Standing on a pedestal and
00:33:12.800 say, I'm more principled than the rest of you. That's not what this is. It's just your argument
00:33:18.180 falls apart if it's incoherent, which the exception thing is incoherent. So just that's that form of
00:33:25.300 being pro-life doesn't work. It doesn't achieve anything. It doesn't win the argument because it
00:33:29.800 can't. Now, the so-called moderate pro-lifers, they benefit from the fact that pro-abortion people
00:33:37.040 are very bad at arguing their case. But if they were any good at it, then they could easily, you know,
00:33:42.220 like how would an argument, how would a, imagine how a conversation with a competent pro-abortion
00:33:46.120 person would go? Argument between a competent pro-abortion person, if they exist, and a so-called
00:33:51.480 moderate pro-lifer who believes in exceptions. So the moderate pro-lifer says, well, abortion is the
00:33:57.060 murder of a baby. We shouldn't be allowed to do it. Competent pro-abortion person says, well, what
00:34:02.060 about rape and incest? Life of the mother. Oh yeah, well, no, except for those. That's okay.
00:34:08.240 So in those cases, it's okay to murder a child? So those children can be murdered, you're saying?
00:34:13.360 Well, I mean, yes. The moment they get you to admit that you're actually saying it can be okay
00:34:22.680 sometimes to murder a child, you lost. All right. Joy Reid this week has joined in the pro-lifer pile
00:34:32.220 on. I want you to listen to this 90 second clip because there's a lot to be learned about leftist
00:34:37.080 misinformation strategies here. Listen to this. As we brace for a Republican-controlled house at
00:34:43.020 a post-Roe America, it may be a good time to take a closer look at just what the so-called 0.98
00:34:48.500 pro-life party has been doing or attempting to do legislatively since winning their tiny majority
00:34:54.380 in November. Over the past month, Congress has voted on numerous pieces of legislation.
00:34:59.680 And while several passed with bipartisan support, there was a considerable amount of Republican
00:35:04.100 opposition to members that all had one thing in common. That is, they affect either pregnant people,
00:35:10.380 mothers, or young children. And these weren't complicated or thorny issues. In fact, they all
00:35:16.040 seem like pretty basic bare minimum stuff. For example, in the House, 90 Republicans voted against
00:35:22.940 the Pregnant Women in Custody Act, which would guarantee minimum levels of health care and nutrition
00:35:28.660 for women who are pregnant and incarcerated and their newborns, while also preventing those who
00:35:34.160 are eight months pregnant from being placed in solitary confinement. Among the politicians who voted
00:35:39.240 against the bill were Matt Gaetz and soon-to-be ex-Congressman Madison Cawthorne. 44 Republicans voted
00:35:45.880 against a bill that aims to provide maternity services for pregnant and postpartum veterans. Yes,
00:35:51.560 you heard that right. The party that supposedly loves the military doesn't want to help those serving our
00:35:55.880 country while pregnant. Make it make sense. 17 Republicans voted against the Early Hearing 0.91
00:36:01.160 Detection and Intervention Act, a bill that would help early diagnosis and treatment for deaf and
00:36:07.280 hard-of-hearing newborns. Because apparently, they only care about the health of babies who are in utero.
00:36:12.600 Once you're out, you're on your own, kid. Now, I continue to be just amazed that anyone watches that show
00:36:19.560 on purpose. Even if you agree with what she's saying, how can you, it's just grating to listen to.
00:36:26.040 Now, the claim that she makes there at the end that this is one of the ultimate
00:36:29.860 political cliches that conservatives only care about life in the womb. Talk about being incoherent.
00:36:38.280 That doesn't, like, that just goes to show that what leftists have in their head, they have their
00:36:44.960 head, this cartoonish idea of conservatives, and they really believe it. They see their opposition
00:36:53.220 as a cartoon, which makes them vulnerable, makes them easier to beat. Because you can't defeat an 0.99
00:37:01.860 enemy if you don't understand them. You got to understand them first.
00:37:04.160 But leftists don't understand conservatives, and they don't want to try to understand conservatives
00:37:09.680 because trying to understand conservatives means taking us seriously for at least a moment or two
00:37:13.980 so you can try to understand where we're coming from, and then you can formulate strategies and
00:37:18.540 arguments against us. But they won't do that. So they have this cartoonish idea of, like,
00:37:25.300 psychopaths who care deeply about children in the womb, but the moment they're born,
00:37:30.300 they don't? Just psychologically, that doesn't make any sense. The whole argument for caring about
00:37:42.380 life in the womb is by drawing a comparison to life outside of the womb and making the observation
00:37:49.800 that there is no substantive distinction between life in the womb and life outside of the womb.
00:37:54.880 So our whole argument hinges on the fact that life outside of the womb has meaning and value.
00:38:02.140 If we didn't believe that, then there'd be no reason to think that life inside the womb has
00:38:07.020 meaning and value. And the morbid irony here is, of course, on the left, they're the ones who actually
00:38:13.360 don't think that life outside of the womb has any value. They don't think that life inside the womb has
00:38:16.660 value, and they also don't think about life outside. These two things go hand in hand because it's the
00:38:20.480 same life we're talking about. And so if a baby five seconds before emerging from the birth canal
00:38:26.500 has no value according to you, it is guaranteed you're also not going to see much value in it
00:38:32.840 a second after it emerges from the birth canal because nothing has changed.
00:38:36.800 It has switched locations in space. That's it. Whereas if you really believe that that baby has value
00:38:45.640 a second before emerging from the birth canal, of course you'll still think that when the child
00:38:49.220 emerges. Because again, nothing has changed. So on the left, they're the ones, the nihilists,
00:38:56.340 who don't believe that life has any intrinsic value. But just to show you how you can't trust
00:39:01.820 anything these people say, let's take one of the claims that she made. She said that all these
00:39:06.860 Republicans voted against the Pregnant Women in Custody Act, which she says was supposed to guarantee
00:39:13.920 proper treatment of pregnant women in custody. So why would Republicans vote against that?
00:39:20.520 Well, there was one Republican, Representative Scott Fitzgerald, who's quoted in a media article
00:39:24.420 explaining the issue with this law. And he says, we all believe that pregnant incarcerated women should
00:39:32.960 be well cared for while they're in federal custody. However, I would like to note the concern the bill
00:39:37.060 would require the Bureau of Prisons to provide abortifacients to pregnant inmates. However,
00:39:42.400 the word contraception is not defined in the bill, and the Internal Bureau of Prisons policy does not
00:39:46.500 define contraception. Because of the word contraception is not defined, this ambiguity
00:39:50.600 leaves the reasonable interpretation of the term contraception and could include abortifacients or other
00:39:55.500 substances that induce abortion. Okay, so this bill wasn't simply about protecting pregnant women
00:40:03.180 in custody, which by the way, women, what are those? Okay, this is like one of the only times
00:40:08.340 they'll acknowledge that women even exist. But this was not about protecting pregnant women in custody.
00:40:12.100 What the bill says, here's the language of the bill.
00:40:15.640 Access to complete appropriate health services for the life cycle of women. The director of the
00:40:20.080 Bureau of Prisons shall ensure that each woman of reproductive age is in custody at a Bureau of
00:40:24.100 Prisons facility, A, has access to contraception and testing for pregnancy and sexually transmitted
00:40:29.560 diseases upon request of any such woman, and B, is administered a pregnancy test on the date on 0.93
00:40:34.460 which the woman enters a facility, which the woman may decline. Okay, so this isn't exclusively for
00:40:41.800 pregnant women. It's actually also for non-pregnant women, any woman of reproductive age, as it says,
00:40:48.120 guaranteeing birth control. Well, all you do is think about that for a second. Why would you need
00:40:54.180 birth control in prison? But what's the need for that? Now, of course, I say that, but as they
00:41:02.020 introduce males into women's prisons, the possibility and the actuality of women getting pregnant while in 0.84
00:41:09.940 the lockup, that is happening more and more. But under normal circumstances, you wouldn't think
00:41:19.320 there'd be much need for birth control in a prison, in a women's prison, which just leads all the more 1.00
00:41:26.600 to the suspicion that when you say contraception, you're also including abortifacients. And that
00:41:31.720 was not properly defined in the bill. There was nothing put in there that stipulates, no,
00:41:37.140 we're not going to be requiring taxpayers to give abortifacients to pregnant inmates and all the 0.71
00:41:40.660 rest of it. And because of that, there were some Republicans who rightly voted against it.
00:41:44.860 Of course, we don't hear that from Joy Reid. All right. One other quick thing. Yahoo Sports.
00:41:53.140 UFC president Dana White admits to slapping his wife on New Year's Eve. Now, this is a story that's
00:41:57.960 gotten a lot of attention. Dana White slaps his wife, beat his wife, as some on social media have put it.
00:42:04.400 Lots of outrage about this. Lots of claims that White is a domestic abuser. Lots of condemnation, 0.99
00:42:09.700 et cetera. Before we talk about it, let's check the video. Here it is.
00:42:20.400 Okay. So there it is. So his wife slaps him. He slaps her back. And all the headlines saying Dana White
00:42:29.720 slapped his wife, could just as well say Dana White's wife slaps Dana White. But we know why
00:42:34.900 they don't. Here's what I'll say about this. You know, the position most people, especially on the
00:42:43.660 left, have on this condemning Dana White. And this, maybe this is a theme we're talking about today,
00:42:49.800 people who have incoherent positions. Well, the position of most of these people,
00:42:53.620 again, particularly on the left, it's an incoherent position. Because if you truly believe
00:43:01.360 that men and women are entirely equal, there is no difference between the two. In fact,
00:43:06.820 the categories don't even exist according to you. They don't even say, these words don't even mean
00:43:12.200 anything if that's what you believe, which every person on the left just about pretends to believe,
00:43:16.640 then there just is no basis for condemning for any serious condemnation of Dana White. Because then
00:43:27.060 you have one individual who was slapped by another individual and that individual slapped back. So
00:43:33.100 yeah, you could blame them and say, be the bigger man, be more mature or whatever. But to go beyond
00:43:40.940 that, it just doesn't make any sense. So if you're consistent in that belief, then you should look
00:43:46.920 at that video and react to it the exact same way that you would react to a different video of a man,
00:43:54.120 let's say a smaller man, walks up to Dana White, slaps him in the face, and then Dana White slaps that 1.00
00:43:59.600 man back. If you believe that men and women are entirely equal, then you should react to the one of 0.99
00:44:05.440 him and his wife the same way you'd react to that. And how would you react? How would anyone react to a
00:44:09.500 video of a smaller man walking up to Dana White, slapping him in the face, getting slapped back?
00:44:13.920 Almost every single person, now there might be a few people who say, you know, be more mature.
00:44:18.480 But almost every person would respond by saying, well, don't go up and slap Dana White. I mean,
00:44:23.640 you got slapped back because you slapped him. If he's a bigger guy, you shouldn't be doing that.
00:44:28.220 F-A-F-O, right? F around and find out. That's what everybody would be, that's what every single 1.00
00:44:32.180 person would be saying. And we all know that. So to heap any sort of extra condemnation on Dana White,
00:44:40.320 that the only way to do that, the only way to condemn him beyond how you would condemn him
00:44:47.380 if he slapped another man who slapped him first, which is you wouldn't condemn him hardly at all
00:44:51.180 in that case, the only way to do it is on the grounds of chivalry. It's on the grounds of like
00:44:55.580 a recognition that men and women are not equal. And that there are codes of chivalry and conduct
00:45:03.420 that men should abide by. That men should, men should treat women differently from how they treat 0.99
00:45:11.220 men. And women should treat men differently from how they treat other women. That is the only basis 1.00
00:45:17.820 upon which you can coherently condemn Dana White here. But most of the people doing the condemnation,
00:45:26.380 they don't accept that basis. And so it's all, it's all incoherent. Which by the way, you know,
00:45:31.300 and I'm a believer in chivalry. But does chivalry lead to the conclusion that it's never acceptable
00:45:40.600 under any circumstance for a man to strike women? Well, of course not. I mean, there could certainly be
00:45:45.720 and have been conceivable scenarios where self-defense is necessary. Like you're not, you're not called
00:45:51.180 upon as a man to just be beaten silly and to not defend yourself at all because the person doing it 0.99
00:45:57.100 is a woman. That's absurd. But general, it's kind of a general principle. If you don't subscribe to the 0.99
00:46:04.800 leftist notion that the sexes are equal, then you see that they're unequal and you think, well, men should 1.00
00:46:10.660 respond in situations differently to women and then they respond to men. All right. 0.95
00:46:16.100 Let's get to the comment section.
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00:47:35.820 there was once a frog in a beaker full of water. The beaker was over a Bunsen burner and the water
00:47:40.860 in the beaker was slowly getting hotter. At some point, the frog began to realize that he was in
00:47:44.440 danger and in a panic began to try to get out of the water. Fortunately, someone convinced the frog
00:47:48.820 that he was only having a moral panic and he was able to die in peace. Perfect. You have, Michael,
00:47:55.280 I will say you have in a YouTube comment, you have succinctly summarized our cultural condition
00:48:01.300 there. That's pretty much it. That's the whole story. That's the whole story of a modern Western
00:48:06.740 culture. A body in progress says, Matt managed to say senior member of research at Media Matters
00:48:12.580 without laughing out loud at the idea that Media Matters does research and has a senior member of
00:48:16.640 that department. That takes major acting skills. It's not acting at all. I mean, it's research.
00:48:25.040 I mean, it's very tough research too, because they have to watch me every day.
00:48:27.660 And I know it's not a difficult, not an easy thing to do. So as always, I thank them for their
00:48:35.040 service. Janet says, my heart swells with pride for you, dad. Dad. Well, Sweet Daddy Walsh is the,
00:48:44.840 of course, the proper name. And if your heart is swelling, you probably shouldn't have gotten that
00:48:49.580 booster shot. Raptor Man 101 says, the 2 million subscriber special should be Matt confronting people
00:48:55.260 who haven't returned their shopping carts. You know, well, we've already, we've run past 2 million
00:49:02.060 subscribers without even noting it, I guess. This is like once, well, I guess this is this thing.
00:49:05.960 Once you get the first, you get to the first million, it's a big deal. And then, and then after
00:49:11.580 that, it's like, nobody cares anymore. I think you have to get to 100. The next one that anyone will
00:49:14.900 care about is if I get to 100 million subscribers. Similar to what I, and I will abide by that because
00:49:21.400 this is what I say all the time about, about birthdays. You know, we celebrate birthdays when
00:49:27.080 you're a child and in YouTube terms, sort of like your childhood and adolescence is before you get to
00:49:32.600 the millions of subscribers. And then you get there, you're an adult now, YouTuber. And, and we don't
00:49:38.400 really recognize birthdays until it's something really significant. As far as confronting people
00:49:43.520 who haven't returned their shopping carts, I would love to do that. But that is already,
00:49:47.400 that service is already being provided by, by cart narcs. And they're out there every day 0.85
00:49:53.640 hunting down people who aren't returning the shopping carts. And I think they're doing a
00:49:59.420 fantastic job. I wouldn't want to steal, I wouldn't want to steal the idea from them.
00:50:02.680 But also I think they're already performing that service. Let's see. Andrew says, Matt,
00:50:10.100 do you actually have to watch a WNBA game or can you hang out at the concession stands and walk around
00:50:14.960 the arena when you're at the WNBA game? Do WNBA games even have concession stands? I don't mean
00:50:20.140 that as a joke. Do they actually sell? Is there someone there who tries to actually sell like
00:50:27.560 merchandise and food? Is it just some kid with a lemonade stand selling lemonade for a, in a plastic
00:50:35.580 cup for 25 cents? Well, whatever it is. No, I think it's, it, this is clear. You know, I gotta,
00:50:41.400 I have to sit and actually watch the game. And as I've been saying all along, I, I, nobody's ever
00:50:48.140 watched an entire WNBA game before. So we don't, in fairness, we're all sort of assuming that it will
00:50:56.380 be horribly boring and tedious. We're assuming that. And I think it's a pretty safe assumption,
00:51:03.240 but no one's tested the theory. No one's actually tested the theory. Not one single person. This is a
00:51:06.800 scientific fact. Not one single person in the world has ever actually watched an entire WNBA game.
00:51:12.180 And, and I, and so I am going to be that first person and we'll find out. Maybe I'll enjoy it.
00:51:17.080 Maybe I'll get into it. Maybe I'll be their first fan. That would be a twist ending that nobody would
00:51:23.460 see coming. And finally, Tampa Tampa six says my response to Matt's assault on ranch is simple.
00:51:29.920 We agree on a lot, roughly 99%, but I will hold my ground. If you want me to stop covering my
00:51:35.440 pineapple pizza in ranch, then come and take it. Well, I don't want to touch that stuff. So I won't
00:51:40.760 do that, but I actually, I'm not one of these people that has a problem with pineapple pizza.
00:51:44.960 Okay. I will, you have my blessing. You want to put pineapple on your pizza. That's fine. I don't,
00:51:48.660 I don't see pizza as this sacred thing. You can, you can try different toppings. I am,
00:51:53.880 have a very surprisingly open mind when it comes to pizza. Uh, but ranch doesn't belong on anything.
00:51:59.720 It is, uh, if there is anything, well, I'll put it this way. If there's any food item
00:52:06.380 that would be improved by ranch, then that is a food item that is not fit for human consumption
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00:53:06.580 After Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field, everyone on social media and in the
00:53:11.660 news media and especially in sports media agreed and said out loud over and over and over again
00:53:16.260 that football is just a game and that when stacked up against matters of life and death,
00:53:20.640 it is completely unimportant. Now this is of course true and incredibly obvious. So obvious in fact,
00:53:26.940 that it doesn't really need to be said, much less does it need to be said 100 million times in a row
00:53:31.980 repeated over and over again like some sort of incantation. But one thing we know about tragedies
00:53:37.120 in the modern world is that they serve as occasions for people to issue totally unnecessary statements
00:53:41.320 just like that. Not because they need to be said, but because the person making the statement
00:53:45.720 needs everyone else to see him making it. Otherwise known as virtue signaling. And when it comes to
00:53:52.200 pointless unproductive games, games that especially should not be a top priority in the light of tragic
00:53:57.020 occurrences like the Damar Hamlin incident, this game, the game of virtue signaling is even more
00:54:02.880 pointless and less productive than football. That's especially the case for the particular brand
00:54:07.900 of virtue signaling that comes in the form of performative outrage. This obviously is the
00:54:13.260 internet's favorite kind of virtue signaling and favorite game. And ironically, many of the people who
00:54:17.980 tripped over themselves to clarify and declare that games aren't important now that Damar Hamlin is in
00:54:22.780 the hospital were in that very moment at the same time playing the most frivolous self-serving
00:54:28.480 grotesque game of all, which is performative virtue signaling outrage. Now we know how the game is played.
00:54:35.640 As soon as the terrible event occurs, the hordes of frivolous simpering idiots immediately begin 1.00
00:54:40.900 prowling the internet in search of any opinions connected to the event that they, the frivolous simpering 1.00
00:54:46.480 idiots, can label as somehow inappropriate or out of bounds. Then every single person in this group will 0.99
00:54:53.500 individually denounce the bad opinion. So the bad thing happens, and all these people go on the internet
00:55:00.000 and say, let's find someone saying something bad about this. And once they find it, every person individually
00:55:06.220 has to take turns saying, I disagree with this. Even after it's been denounced 50 million times, still, idiots 1.00
00:55:14.040 number 50 million and one and 50 million and two and so on must make sure to register their disapproval as 1.00
00:55:19.620 well. I also think this is bad, they say. Not because there's any need for this allegedly bad opinion to be
00:55:26.640 condemned even more after it's already been condemned by half the planet, but only because once again, they
00:55:33.000 want everyone else to see them condemning it. This is how the game is played. And after the Damar Hamlin injury,
00:55:39.480 a number of candidates were selected as targets for this dog pile of dummies. Principal among them 0.97
00:55:45.080 was sports pundit Skip Bayless. Now, to be totally clear, I have no affinity for Skip Bayless. I don't
00:55:52.520 enjoy his work. I don't watch his show. I don't care about his opinions. But that doesn't mean that I'm
00:55:57.640 going to pretend that even his most benign statements are unthinkably monstrous and heinous. Yeah, that's
00:56:04.180 what's happened. That's exactly what happened on Monday night in response to one in a series of tweets
00:56:08.740 that Bayless posted about the Hamlin situation. This one tweet, the one that provoked the ire of
00:56:13.980 millions, earned over 100,000, okay, 100,000 outraged comments in a day and over 100 million
00:56:23.880 views on Twitter. We know that now because Elon changes. You can see how many views a tweet gets.
00:56:29.920 This one got over 100 million. That's a third of the country. He was trending number one on the entire
00:56:37.000 site. This one tweet about Hamlin was allegedly so offensive, so out of bounds, so scandals, such an
00:56:43.740 unseemly abomination that it received this level of attention. There were many outraged media headlines
00:56:49.760 published about it. People called for Bayless to be fired from his Fox Sports show. Many professional
00:56:54.600 athletes joined in the cancellation chorus saying he should be fired. The tweet, which I'll read in a
00:57:00.760 moment, was called sick and gross and disgusting and disgraceful. It was so bad that Skip's co-host on 0.76
00:57:08.060 his Fox show, Shannon Sharp, refused to come to work and host the show with him on Tuesday because he was
00:57:14.120 so upset by this tweet. It was so bad that Skip not only apologized for the tweet and a follow-up tweet,
00:57:20.360 but even began his show, which he was hosting by himself yesterday, by apologizing for even hosting a
00:57:26.280 show to begin with. Watch. Janet, allow me to say up front that I apologize for what we're going to
00:57:38.140 set out to do here today if it offends anyone, because we're going to try to do the show pretty much as
00:57:45.980 we usually do the show. But I'll admit up front, I'm still shook up by what happened last night to Damar
00:57:57.920 Hamlin. In fact, I'm still wrecked. In fact, I'm not sure I'm capable of doing this show today. But after barely
00:58:09.580 sleeping on it, I decided to give it a try. Maybe I'll fail. Maybe we will fail. But we're going to try.
00:58:19.660 So he says he's wrecked, incapable of doing the show. He couldn't sleep
00:58:24.180 because of this. Really? It's a terrible, very sad thing. But
00:58:30.240 is that? Well, this is all performance, we see. That's all this is. That's all any of this is.
00:58:36.960 It's performance. The outrage against Skip Bayless, Bayless's response to it. It's all
00:58:42.740 performance. And as for the tweet that set this all off, here it is. Okay, get ready for it.
00:58:49.540 He tweeted on Monday night, shortly after the injury first occurred. He said,
00:58:53.240 no doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game. But how? This late in the season,
00:58:57.600 a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular season outcome, which suddenly seems so irrelevant.
00:59:02.640 That's it. 159 million views, 100,000 outraged comments, calls for termination because of that.
00:59:12.380 What exactly is the problem? He asks a rhetorical question about how the NFL will handle rescheduling
00:59:18.580 the game, while in the same breath acknowledging that the game is insignificant compared to the
00:59:24.280 tragedy. What precisely is so horrifying about that? The faux outrage mob will respond that Bayless
00:59:31.080 shouldn't have been thinking at all about the logistics of rescheduling the game at a time
00:59:35.020 like that, even if he acknowledged out loud that it's not important. But that's nonsense.
00:59:40.380 Every single person watching the game at home was wondering about how they'd handle postponing and
00:59:47.620 rescheduling, and especially a week before the regular season is supposed to end.
00:59:51.300 Every person watching the game had that same thought. It's a normal thing to think about.
00:59:56.360 Not because this consideration is more important than Damar Hamlin's life, but simply because it's
01:00:01.760 one thought of many that happens across a human being's brain. People are capable of holding more
01:00:06.820 than one thought in their head at the same time. Now, I will confess to you right now that as I was
01:00:11.720 sitting with my wife in our living room, and we saw this, and we had the same question. We very
01:00:18.060 briefly acknowledged that canceling the game at this point in the season presents an interesting
01:00:21.620 challenge, and we wondered how they would handle it. If you had been sitting in the living room with us,
01:00:26.480 and you overheard this very brief exchange, you would not have shrieked out in horror and cried, 0.94
01:00:32.620 you monsters, how dare you? That's a disgraceful thing to briefly consider at a time like this.
01:00:39.340 You would not have done that, because that would be insane. That would be an insane reaction
01:00:44.940 to such a benign nothing of a comment. And that's because that's the sort of histrionic display that
01:00:53.680 people reserve solely for social media and nowhere else in life. There are a great many statements a
01:01:01.220 person can make that would be considered perfectly normal in any other context of life, and yet be
01:01:06.960 greeted with screeches of outrage on social media, where mob rule and performative anger combine to
01:01:12.660 create an environment where you simply are not allowed to say normal things. The whole thing is
01:01:19.360 obscene. The phony outrage mob is obscene. Skip Bayless, well, he's obscene too, for plenty of other
01:01:24.980 reasons. But in this particular case, the obscene thing is the tiresome internet charade, the pageant
01:01:31.000 of fake anger, wherein a person cries, how dare you think the same thing that I was also thinking?
01:01:38.560 And then, by the way, I was thinking, and I maybe would have tweeted myself until I saw
01:01:42.540 that you tweeted it and how people reacted to you, so I won't tweet it. Instead, I'll pretend to be
01:01:46.380 outraged by that thing myself. This is the state of things on the internet at all times, every day,
01:01:53.060 no matter what is happening in the world. But the outrage theater really kicks into high gear,
01:01:56.640 and people put in their most melodramatic Oscar bait-type performances when there is some kind of
01:02:02.580 tragic event, right? As soon as the tragedy occurs, the mob begins laying traps in the form of these
01:02:08.520 arbitrary rules. And depending on the tragedy, there are things you are allowed to say and things
01:02:14.040 you're not allowed to say. You're not going to know what the rules are until you've run afoul of
01:02:18.720 them. That's the game. Part of the fun for the outrage mob is that they change the rules for every 0.95
01:02:23.180 tragedy. They move the landmines around, and then they sit back, barely disguising their gleeful
01:02:28.040 anticipation as they wait for people to step on them. Now, of course, another aspect of the game here
01:02:34.840 is that not every tragic event in the world registers on social media. People die every day.
01:02:41.760 Terrible things happen every day. People die in the course of doing their jobs every day, and most of
01:02:48.760 these atrocities and tragedies are ignored entirely. You're allowed to carry on with your life, say
01:02:52.720 whatever you want, without even acknowledging it. In fact, there's a lot of death that happens every
01:02:57.940 single day that you're allowed to make light of on Twitter. I mean, there are literally videos
01:03:02.180 posted on Twitter of people dying, like videos of death posted on Twitter that people will post and
01:03:08.240 joke about. Here's a video of someone actively dying in front of you. Isn't this funny? Well, that's okay.
01:03:17.140 Every once in a while, though, one tragic event is selected as the main topic of conversation on
01:03:21.840 social media, and all of the rules of conversation change in light of it. Everything you're allowed to
01:03:27.300 say, even if it's not about the subject, now changes. Though, again, you're not going to know
01:03:32.780 the rules until you violate them. And then in a day or two, maybe two days, you know, maybe three days,
01:03:38.040 it will be randomly decided that enough time has been spent on the tragedy, and everybody just moves
01:03:42.860 on. And most of the people who are so emotionally affected by this event will never say another word
01:03:48.640 about it ever again for as long as they live, and they will carry on as if it never happened.
01:03:53.860 That's all part of the game. And the real terrible consequence is that it turns the people who play
01:04:01.220 this game into sociopaths, incapable of experiencing authentic human emotion.
01:04:09.100 You know, those who grow so accustomed to performing emotion, performing it, performing emotion,
01:04:15.140 they eventually forget how to actually feel emotion. So ironically, as they appear increasingly
01:04:21.280 over-sensitive, they're actually becoming the opposite. They aren't sensitive. They're sociopaths,
01:04:27.360 feigning outrage, feigning sadness, because they cannot feel it. 0.59
01:04:34.160 They can't feel anything else either. And that is why they, the faux outrage mob coming after Skip
01:04:41.100 Bayless, though not Skip Bayless himself, are today canceled. Though Skip Bayless will, I'm sure,
01:04:46.040 get his turn in due time. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the
01:04:50.980 members' block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.
01:04:54.180 Hope to see you there.
01:05:03.280 Bye-bye.
01:05:07.940 Have a richtig.
01:05:10.800 We love you today.
01:05:19.060 Hope to see you there.
01:05:21.200 Bye-bye.
01:05:22.040 Bye-bye.
01:05:22.940 Bye-bye.