The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1094 - Trans Activists Are Fleeing The Country

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media frantically reports that trans activists are fleeing the

00:00:04.520 country for fear of imaginary persecution. We're supposed to be upset about this, I guess,

00:00:08.560 though I can't see why. Also, flights across the country are grounded as the FAA experiences a

00:00:12.780 catastrophic failure of its computer systems, another major win for our historic transportation

00:00:17.500 secretary. And the Biden administration has come up with another thing to ban, gas stoves.

00:00:22.420 Apparently, they're killing you, your children, and the planet. We'll talk about all that

00:00:25.820 and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:21.760 ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. At the beginning of last year, I predicted and promised

00:01:27.520 that we would be launching a full-scale war on gender ideology. And now, as we sit at the beginning

00:01:32.420 of 2023, we can clearly see how effective the anti-gender ideology insurgency has been. Multiple

00:01:38.740 states across the country, including here in Tennessee, are preparing to ring in the new year

00:01:42.740 with legislation banning the sexual mutilation and sexual indoctrination of children. Soon, in these 0.88

00:01:49.340 states at least, things like gender transition surgeries for minors, also family-friendly

00:01:54.500 quote-unquote drag shows will be a thing of the past. We have legislation dealing with both subjects

00:01:59.700 in Tennessee, which I expect to pass quite easily. These laws, though, have set off a new wave of

00:02:04.520 panic on the left. Hard to say that when they're always in a state of panic, but it's been increasing

00:02:10.800 even more recently as the media and trans activists, a distinction without a difference, I realize,

00:02:15.680 screech about the dangers that these legislative efforts pose. Here's NBC's Joe Yercaba,

00:02:22.760 they them, by the way, trying to explain the danger of these legislation. Listen.

00:02:29.500 We are only about a week into 2023, and across the country, people are already seeing a wave of

00:02:34.520 anti-transgender legislation making its way into state houses across the country. More than two dozen

00:02:39.640 bills looking to restrict trans health care access have already been introduced in 11 states so far

00:02:44.320 this year. You see them here. In Texas, three separate bills would classify gender-affirming

00:02:48.660 care for minors as child abuse, and an Oklahoma bill would ban gender-affirming care for anybody,

00:02:53.500 anybody under the age of 26. I want to bring in NBC Out reporter Joe Yercaba. So, Joe,

00:02:58.100 talk about these new bills coming forward this year, who they're targeting, etc.

00:03:02.400 Yeah, so many of these bills, like you mentioned, seek to restrict or ban access to gender-affirming

00:03:07.400 health care completely, and that includes hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgery

00:03:11.560 for anyone under 18. But some of them are taking it up a notch this year, like Oklahoma's, for example,

00:03:17.280 which would bar that care for people up to 25, and would block coverage for that care under the

00:03:22.400 state's Medicaid plan for anyone. And then we have a bill in Texas that seeks to completely bar minors

00:03:28.260 from attending drag performances in the state. So, what we're seeing is really an escalation of

00:03:32.900 this legislation and protests on drag shows that we've seen over the last two years.

00:03:37.740 You describe it as an escalation. Part of that is because we saw record anti-trans legislation

00:03:42.480 last year, and, you know, more last year than the year before, etc., etc. Talk about where the

00:03:48.800 trend lines are going and what this means for people in the LGBTQ plus community.

00:03:53.700 Yeah, well, advocates in Texas have told me that they expect things to get a lot worse before they

00:03:58.540 get better. And so, even if these bills don't pass, they say they still have an impact. A recent

00:04:03.680 national survey, for example, from the Trevor Project found that 85% of trans and non-binary

00:04:08.660 youth across the country said debates on this legislation have negatively impacted their mental

00:04:13.260 health.

00:04:14.580 Well, no, that's not what's going on. The debates around the legislation have not negatively affected

00:04:20.380 any child's mental health. Rather, the things that people like Joe Yerkeba, they, them, are telling

00:04:26.780 children about the legislation are negatively affecting their mental health. These gender-confused and 1.00

00:04:33.000 brainwashed kids are being told that bills which protect them from mutilation and sterilization

00:04:38.780 and exploitation and indoctrination will somehow put their lives at risk. They are being told

00:04:44.140 with a wink and a nudge that maybe they might even want to kill themselves because of it. 0.99

00:04:49.720 The trans propagandists, because they're among the most evil people currently walking on the planet, 1.00

00:04:54.580 tried to convince children, convince them to be afraid, confused, and suicidal. 0.84

00:05:00.960 And that is indeed having an extremely deleterious impact on their mental health and their physical

00:05:06.480 health and their spiritual health and their health in every other sense of the word.

00:05:10.960 But it's not just trans-indoctrinated youths who, the media says, are now living in fear.

00:05:16.480 Trans adults are feeling so terrified and oppressed that, as Vice reports this week,

00:05:21.680 they are now fleeing the country. There will soon be trans-refugee camps in places like Canada,

00:05:28.120 I guess, until the camps are all shut down because the workers at the camps all end up fired because

00:05:33.420 they can't keep track of everybody's pronouns. Here's Vice. Reports, Rin Aziriel-Wilgos,

00:05:40.480 a 50-year-old transgender woman, has been rapidly researching ways to flee the United States.

00:05:46.660 She's from the U.S., but with physical attacks against transgender and non-binary people on the rise

00:05:51.720 and lawmakers targeting transgender people with increasingly draconian legislation that

00:05:56.080 criminalizes their very existence, Wilgos is afraid. The national landscape accompanied by

00:06:01.700 some of her own, and by the way, every time I say her or she, do the air quotes in your mind,

00:06:06.160 but I'm just reading from the article. This is what it says.

00:06:08.540 Her own personal experiences has made a future in the U.S. feel untenable for Wilgos.

00:06:13.040 In March 2021, when Wilgos had just started her transition, she was traveling across the state

00:06:18.520 for work when she decided to stop at a public bathroom. A man followed her inside and pushed her up 1.00

00:06:23.420 against the wall. She told Vice News, I thought he was going to choke me to death.

00:06:28.500 Now, we need to stop here for a moment. First of all, notice how this man just began his,

00:06:35.620 quote, transition in 2021, and yet is already so persecuted, according to him, that he needs to

00:06:40.640 leave the country. Also, as for the claim about the incident in the bathroom, it should be needless to

00:06:46.220 say that anytime you hear anything like this from a trans activist, actually, anytime you hear them say

00:06:50.560 anything at all about anything, you should be immediately skeptical, absent any additional

00:06:55.540 evidence. In this case, we aren't told whether this alleged encounter with the man in the bathroom

00:06:59.820 even had anything to do with the fact that Rin identifies as trans. The incident is mentioned

00:07:05.000 extremely briefly with very few details, and then the story just, like, moves on. This is how it almost

00:07:11.100 always works with claims of anti-trans violence. Very few details are provided. The story is always

00:07:16.300 sketchy, but you're meant to just accept it as more proof of an epidemic of anti-trans hate crimes,

00:07:22.600 even though there is no such epidemic to begin with. But back to the story. Today, she feels

00:07:28.180 mostly safe in Fargo, North Dakota, where she lives, but she's careful in rural areas.

00:07:33.260 And when she leaves the state, she often doesn't feel safe at all.

00:07:36.920 Wilgo said, there's like 30 states right now I wouldn't even drive through. Her own experiences and

00:07:41.580 increasingly hostile national climate inspired Wilgo's to start Transport, a budding non-profit

00:07:47.320 that seeks to help trans people transition, navigate bureaucratic mazes, and ultimately

00:07:52.900 finance their journeys as they flee the country. Wilgo's is considering claiming asylum in Iceland,

00:07:59.000 a country she visited last summer and considers more accepting and safer than the US. And she felt

00:08:03.780 like being trans was a non-issue there. Though there's currently a lack of clarity around whether

00:08:08.460 it's even possible for transgender US citizens to claim asylum elsewhere. And an expert told Vice

00:08:13.280 News it's unlikely. The devolving situation in the US has inspired people like Wilgo's to try.

00:08:19.740 So just to be clear, trans activists now want to claim asylum in foreign countries.

00:08:28.620 Okay, they want to be treated like a defector fleeing North Korea. And of course, the difference,

00:08:35.140 and it's a very subtle difference, but the difference is that the North Korean asylum seeker,

00:08:38.460 if he's not given asylum and is sent back to North Korea, will almost certainly end up in a

00:08:43.280 concentration camp where he will be starved and beaten and tortured and killed. But what will

00:08:49.180 happen to Rin Wilgos if he is not given asylum in Iceland? What awful, unspeakable fate awaits him

00:08:56.420 back in the United States? What will happen to him? Well, literally nothing. Not a single thing. In fact,

00:09:05.920 as a 50-year-old man who just decided about 85 seconds ago to become a woman, none of the laws

00:09:12.760 being considered or passed in any state will have any measurable impact on him at all.

00:09:20.520 He says he's terrified to even drive through a state like Tennessee as if we have anti-trans

00:09:25.420 checkpoints set up on the highway. And any trans person we catch will be carted off to a forced 1.00

00:09:30.600 labor camp. Now, that's the kind of picture they want you to have in your mind, but it's not actually 0.75

00:09:35.920 what's happening. Instead, our laws, when they pass, will only prevent medical professionals

00:09:41.040 from chopping the breasts off of teenage girls or sterilizing children or committing any similar act.

00:09:48.280 So these are laws that don't restrict trans people at all. In fact, they restrict doctors

00:09:55.320 and what doctors can do to people. Because we are, you know, we take the controversial apparently

00:10:01.820 position that doctors should not be able to just do whatever they want. There should be regulations

00:10:08.040 and laws in place governing what they can do and what they can't do. And one of the things that they

00:10:12.840 can't do or shouldn't be able to do is permanently, you know, and physically alter children before they

00:10:20.000 are possibly able to consent to such a procedure. Now, if Wren is coming here to butcher children,

00:10:26.940 then yes, he should be worried. Otherwise, perfectly safe. But he already knows that. I mean,

00:10:33.400 they all do. What we're seeing from trans activists is one great pageant, a performance,

00:10:38.420 where they pretend to be fearing for their lives from a threat that they have invented.

00:10:44.560 I mean, in reality, the far left trans activist poses a greater danger than he faces. He is not

00:10:51.900 under threat. He is a threat. He pushes for the recruitment, indoctrination, and butchery of children.

00:10:59.880 He poses a clear and present danger to children. And he does this not because it will help the

00:11:06.320 children. That's not why. That's not why. Wren, Wilgos, or whoever. Why does he feel so strongly

00:11:12.840 about making sure that children are castrated and sterilized? Is it because he thinks it will

00:11:17.820 actually help them? No. He doesn't care about them at all. But no, it's the more people who are transed, 1.00

00:11:25.120 the better he feels about himself. This is what trans activists do. And it's the trans activists who

00:11:32.620 prowl about searching for people whose lives he can destroy for committing the sin of disagreeing

00:11:38.400 with him. As far as that goes, this week provides yet another chapter in that saga. The Post Millennial

00:11:45.280 reports this. On Friday, the video game company Limited Run Games fired their community manager,

00:11:50.680 a woman named Kara Lynn, after a far left trans activist using the name Purple Tinker demanded that 0.99

00:11:56.460 the company either fire Lynn because she followed conservative users on Twitter, such as Ian Miles Chong,

00:12:01.760 and libs of TikTok, or lose their support. Ian Miles Chong tweeted,

00:12:07.360 a video game company called Limited Runs Games fired Kara Lynn because some nutjob got offended over 1.00

00:12:11.640 the fact that she follows me and libs of TikTok. According to an Observer article from 2012,

00:12:15.560 Purple Tinker is a biological male who identifies as transgender and an activist who founded BronyCon,

00:12:22.560 a convention for adult men who like to dress up as characters from the children's television show,

00:12:27.000 My Little Pony. Chong posted screenshots of Purple Tinker's now-deleted Twitter account.

00:12:32.460 The community manager for Limited Run Games is a transphobe, this is what the, this was the tweet,

00:12:36.740 is a transphobe who follows a veritable who's who of right-wing transphobic creeps.

00:12:41.260 Unless and until she is fired from the company permanently, I am not giving them another single

00:12:46.120 dime. That's what Purple Tinker tweeted at the company on January 6th at 9.06 a.m.

00:12:51.980 Now, at 5.40 p.m. the same day, on their Twitter account, Limited Run Games announced that Lynn had

00:12:59.060 been fired and wrote, quote,

00:13:01.360 LRG respects all personal opinions. However, we remain committed to supporting an inclusive culture.

00:13:07.000 Upon investigating a situation, an employee was terminated. Our goal as a company is to continue

00:13:13.320 to foster a positive and safe environment for everyone. So, did they really fire an employee?

00:13:21.460 By the way, within hours? So it's like almost immediately made the decision to get rid of this

00:13:26.440 person because one creepy trans activist with a My Little Pony fetish complained about the account

00:13:32.620 she follows on Twitter? Yes, that seems to be precisely what happened. And it is the sort of 0.65

00:13:39.840 power trans activists wield in a country they pretend to be persecuted by. And they are among 0.89

00:13:46.320 the only ones who have that kind of power. Where one of them can make a complaint about someone and

00:13:52.520 say, I think that person should lose their job. Off with their head. They have upset me. 0.99

00:13:56.760 And they get a response. So you or I could never do that.

00:14:03.560 They whine about the dangers and the marginalization they face while at the same time

00:14:07.900 using their vastly outsized political power to professionally and financially destroy anyone

00:14:13.580 who defies them. And if they can't succeed in that regard, they will, as I've discovered,

00:14:18.780 dox you, threaten to murder you and your family. And they do it all while refusing to relinquish 0.80

00:14:25.560 their victim status. It's exactly the behavior you would expect from extreme narcissists who believe

00:14:31.580 that the world exists for no other purpose than to affirm them.

00:14:36.600 So in conclusion, that's all to say, if they really are leaving the country, then I guess

00:14:42.820 all we should say in response is, okay, bye. Now let's get to our headlines.

00:14:55.560 We'll see you next time.

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00:15:54.280 The first headline from Daily Wire, breaking all flights across the U.S. grounded as FAA systems

00:16:01.340 fail. All flights across the United States were grounded Wednesday morning as the Federal Aviation

00:16:05.940 Administration's Notice to Air Missions system failed. That's NOTAM, I suppose, is the acronym.

00:16:13.000 A NOTAM may state abnormal status of the National Airspace System, including problems such as runway

00:16:20.140 closures or general bird hazard warnings. That's what it's supposed to do.

00:16:23.560 The FAA tweeted at 6.29 a.m. Eastern Time, the FAA is working to restore its Notice to Air

00:16:29.580 Mission System. We are performing final validation checks and reloading the systems now. Operations

00:16:33.860 across the National Airspace System are affected. We will provide frequent updates as we make

00:16:38.540 progress. 28 minutes later, the FAA issued an update writing, cleared update number two for all

00:16:43.460 stakeholders. The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Mission System following

00:16:47.640 an outage. While some functions are beginning to come back online, National Airspace Systems operations

00:16:52.500 remain limited. And this continued for several hours as every flight was grounded. It was a total mess at

00:17:00.340 our airports. Every flight grounded. And in fact, I saw this firsthand, or I guess secondhand, because my

00:17:07.360 mother-in-law, as it happens, is trying to fly in to visit right now as we speak, which maybe makes me a

00:17:15.460 little bit less upset about the problems. I might have actually sabotaged the system myself. I don't,

00:17:20.380 that's a theory that you might have. You never know. But generally, it's been a disaster. And how

00:17:24.120 this happened? Well, Fox Business has more on that. It says, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration made

00:17:28.560 the heavy decision Wednesday morning to ground all domestic flights amid a nationwide system failure,

00:17:33.920 a system that is exceptionally not up to speed, according to one aviation expert. Kyle Bailey warned that

00:17:39.340 the outage could cascade into cancellations and delays for days. Quote, the longer this goes on,

00:17:45.120 there's going to be a ripple effect throughout the entire system. Unlike regional effects from,

00:17:48.300 say, individual airlines, this is the entire system in the United States affecting basically

00:17:52.040 every single aircraft departing. So the longer this goes on, it's just going to cascade into flight

00:17:56.140 delays and cancellations, possibly for days. The nationwide failure has caused the capacity of the FAA's

00:18:02.180 outdated technology to be put under a microscope, with some critics arguing that the system is

00:18:06.220 obviously behind. Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo pointed out that the FAA systems have not been

00:18:13.380 updated since 2015. Quote, it's government technology, so it's obviously behind the private

00:18:18.220 sector. But this particular system is feeding data points from almost every single airport in the

00:18:22.240 country, not just large airports, but small airports to realistically all around the world and

00:18:26.200 the airspace all around the world. So everything from a crane in the vicinity of an airport all the

00:18:30.240 way up to, say, a volcanic eruption affecting airspace. So tremendous amounts of data points coming

00:18:35.160 into these systems from all over the world, and the systems are layered and antiquated.

00:18:39.080 They're not up to speed. This, again, is the aviation expert. Not up to speed like the private

00:18:43.640 sector would be. So private sectors like, say, SpaceX, the FDA doesn't have analysts and engineers on the

00:18:48.900 level and the capacity of the private sector. The FAA, not the FDA. So old, outdated systems

00:18:55.700 causing major problems, major catastrophe. So in summation, this is another huge victory for our

00:19:05.760 transportation department and its secretary. Its historic secretary. Remember, it was historic

00:19:10.660 when Pete Buttigieg was given this role as secretary of the transportation department.

00:19:21.740 But maybe it turns out that it's not a good idea to hire a transportation secretary based solely on 0.86

00:19:31.420 the fact that he's a gay Democrat. That's the only reason he got the job. But no, let me back up for 0.77

00:19:38.540 a minute. It's not just that. No, that's not fair. That's a straw, man. That's not fair. I apologize for

00:19:42.200 that. He was hired. He was given this position because he's a gay Democrat, but also he likes trains.

00:19:48.640 So that was another thing, too. He did say that when he was asked why he got the job. He said he's

00:19:52.820 always liked trains. He was a Thomas the Tank Engine fan as a child, as many of us were. And so

00:19:59.260 he's got that. He likes Thomas the Tank Engine. He still has Thomas the Tank Engine bedsheets. And he's

00:20:05.760 a gay Democrat. And that's why they gave him the job. Maybe that's not a good reason to give somebody 0.98

00:20:14.560 a job like this or, in fact, to give them any job at all. It's not just that, though.

00:20:21.960 He got the job despite not having any qualifications at all to speak of that have anything to do with

00:20:28.900 transportation. And his primary focus on the job has been social justice. That's what he's worried

00:20:35.340 about. In fact, if you want to know why these systems are still antiquated and outdated and they

00:20:40.900 haven't been fixed and they haven't been updated in years and now they're failing and causing these

00:20:44.320 cascading, disastrous effects. Well, if you want to know why that might be the case,

00:20:50.080 all you got to do is look at what Pete Buttigieg and the Department of Transportation have been

00:20:56.940 focused on, what they've been worried about. So at the beginning of last year,

00:21:01.860 Pete Buttigieg put out this big memo that you can go to transportation.gov and you can read it for

00:21:07.200 yourself if you're interested. It's their equity action plan for 2022. And this is what they're

00:21:13.740 focused on, is the summary of the equity action plan. The U.S. Department of Transportation is

00:21:19.780 committed to pursuing a comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all. In response to Executive

00:21:25.900 Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government,

00:21:32.140 this equity action plan highlights key actions that the U.S. Department of Transportation will undertake

00:21:37.080 to expand access and opportunity to all communities while focusing on underserved, overburdened,

00:21:41.880 and disadvantaged communities. The actions described here fall under four focus areas,

00:21:47.460 wealth creation, power of community, interventions, and expanding access. Now you'll notice there's

00:21:52.960 nothing in here about like keeping planes in the sky. So we're not focused on that. We're not

00:21:57.840 focused on air traffic control. You know, how about an action plan to make sure that planes can fly

00:22:05.960 and they're not going to run into each other? They're not going to actually accidentally, you know,

00:22:10.880 run into a flock of birds and end up in the Hudson again. How about an action plan for that?

00:22:17.660 John Cardillo has more on this equity action plan. He posted a screenshot to his Twitter page.

00:22:23.220 Um, and this is more of what they were focused on. Uh, the budget requests an additional $20 million

00:22:31.540 above the 2020-21 enacted level for the Office of the Secretary to lead, uh, Department of Transportation's

00:22:37.620 efforts to promote equity and inclusion. With these resources, the Department of Transportation

00:22:42.760 would better ensure that historic investments under the bipartisan infrastructure law deliver resources

00:22:48.520 and benefits equitably, including communities that have been historically underserved and

00:22:52.500 adversely affected by persistent poverty or income inequality. Department of Transportation actions

00:22:57.620 include workforce development, disadvantaged business enterprise procurement, data collection,

00:23:03.080 reporting, public participation, and assistance measures, uh, mitigating or negating the effects

00:23:08.880 of structural obstacles to building wealth. And this also is specifically about the FAA. The budget

00:23:16.020 provides $15 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Federal Aviation Administration

00:23:20.380 to improve aviation safety, transform the nation's aviation infrastructure, and improve cybersecurity.

00:23:25.940 These investments also promote environmental justice and climate change mitigation by prior,

00:23:31.100 by prioritizing sustainable design and construction and enhancing equity through more inclusive contracting

00:23:37.360 and workforce development. So sometimes the best they can do is like, it starts okay.

00:23:43.340 Okay. And so the second part of this starts, okay. All right. So we're going to have something in the

00:23:47.860 budget, discretionary budget, and it's going to give the FAA, uh, an improved ability to focus on safety

00:23:54.300 and, uh, aviation infrastructure, improve cybersecurity. All that's good. That's what you should be doing.

00:23:59.940 And then the very next sentence, it all falls apart because then they tell us, well, what do they mean by

00:24:06.520 that? What they mean by that is we have to worry about environmental justice and, you know, enhancing

00:24:14.440 equity through more inclusive contracting and workforce development. This is, uh, not what anyone needs

00:24:24.720 the Department of Transportation to do. But of course, the funny thing is that as, as all this was going on

00:24:30.180 and you had people on social media that were, uh, uh, uh, very, you know, ruthlessly blaming Pete

00:24:38.920 Buttigieg for this. And it was very rude and it was just not, not a nice thing to do. And so you had

00:24:43.720 defenders of Pete Buttigieg and you had leftists and Democrats that were saying, well, you can't blame

00:24:47.760 him for this. This is not his fault. The exact same thing. We heard the exact same thing during the,

00:24:54.520 uh, supply chain crisis, which was going on while Pete Buttigieg was taking his six months of maternity

00:25:00.920 leave for however long it was. And we heard the same thing that, well, don't be absurd. It's not

00:25:05.440 his fault. This is nothing. He had nothing to do with this. What do you expect him to do about this?

00:25:11.480 Well, if that's true, like if everything I've said so far is not valid because actually this isn't

00:25:18.600 Pete Buttigieg's fault and the Department of Transportation has nothing to do with this. If that's the case,

00:25:23.680 then that would only prove that we don't need the Department of Transportation and we don't need

00:25:30.380 Pete Buttigieg at all or his job at all. But this is, it's, they're not doing any, if they don't have

00:25:36.900 anything to do with a problem where, you know, it's the Transportation Department. And if they have

00:25:44.080 nothing to do with a problem where every flight in the country is grounded, that you would think

00:25:50.740 that's a major transportation issue. And if their hands are clean on that, that just tells

00:25:57.200 you that they're not doing anything, that they serve no purpose at all. So either this is their

00:26:02.260 fault or the Department shouldn't exist or both. I like to go with both. It is their fault and it

00:26:09.920 shouldn't exist. Partially because it is their fault. All right. Speaking of other things that

00:26:16.220 shouldn't exist in the government. Here's a headline from Fox News. House Republicans to

00:26:22.340 vote on a bill abolishing the IRS and eliminating the income tax. Republicans in the House of

00:26:26.820 Representatives will vote on a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service, eliminate

00:26:30.720 the national income tax and replace it with a national consumption tax. Fox News Digital has learned

00:26:35.760 the House will be voting on Georgia Republican Representative Buddy Carter's reintroduced Fair Tax Act

00:26:40.500 that aims to reel in the IRS and remove the national income tax as well as other taxes and replace them

00:26:45.480 with a single consumption tax. The vote on the bill was made as part of the deal between House Speaker

00:26:49.660 Kevin McCarthy and members of the House Freedom Caucus and was pushed forward in his quest for the gavel

00:26:54.620 last week. Now, of course, needless to say, abolishing the IRS and the income tax has zero chance of

00:27:01.820 actually passing. It's not going to pass through the Senate. It would never be signed into law

00:27:06.320 by Joe Biden. But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't vote on it. And even if it won't pass,

00:27:17.460 it still should. It's obvious. So we could talk about whether this could ever happen.

00:27:24.460 But whether it should happen? Of course it should. Of course we should get rid of the IRS and the income

00:27:29.140 tax. What kind of a masochist, what kind of a just a submissive, self-loathing masochist would you have 0.75

00:27:37.360 to be to think that we shouldn't get rid of the IRS and the income tax? This abomination known as the 0.72

00:27:44.740 IRS. Something that, by the way, obviously, the people that founded this country never had in mind.

00:27:53.900 They never had this in mind. Of course they didn't. They famously had quite a problem with

00:28:03.680 the idea of being overtaxed, taxation without representation. So the idea of having this

00:28:10.420 massive bureaucracy that can tax us simply for living and for earning an income, and not only that,

00:28:19.500 but they have direct access to our finances and our bank accounts, and not only that, but they get

00:28:26.460 to take our paychecks before we get our hands on them as part of the withholding system and take the

00:28:32.820 part that they want and give us the rest, like giving us an allowance of our own income. It goes to them

00:28:38.700 first and then us. This was never intended. It is not compatible with like any notion of economic

00:28:51.640 liberty, freedom. It's just not compatible with that. So clearly it needs to go away. Now, I actually, if I could

00:28:58.280 snap my fingers and make this law a reality, and we would have the fair tax rather than the income tax, then I would,

00:29:07.240 I'd do that in a second. I would snap my fingers for that in a second. But I actually don't think,

00:29:10.880 you know, I'm in favor of abolishing the IRS and not replacing it with the fair tax. I think we should,

00:29:15.860 we should just not replace it with anything. And the 40% or so of revenue that the IRS generates,

00:29:25.340 or not generates, takes by force, that 40% of revenue should, they should just, they could just do

00:29:30.540 without it. Okay. They would still have trillions to work with. And I think that they, that, that

00:29:35.160 should be enough. Right. So they would have whatever it would be, 2 trillion rather than

00:29:41.360 4 trillion. And that should be enough. You should be able to run a government on a couple trillion

00:29:47.320 bucks a year. That's my, that's, that's my radical theory. Because the fair tax, the idea with the fair

00:29:54.980 tax is we're going to get rid of the income tax, but make up for all of that quote unquote lost

00:30:01.680 revenue with a consumption tax, which would be a national sales tax. And in order to make up for

00:30:06.280 the quote unquote lost revenue, and I have to keep putting air quotes around lost revenue,

00:30:11.140 because it's not really lost. It was never the government's revenue to begin with. It was never,

00:30:14.100 never belonged to them. It's our money. But in order to make up for what is lost,

00:30:17.860 it would have to be a significant national sales tax. And I'm not sure exactly what,

00:30:26.200 with the latest proposal, what they would, you know, what they're proposing the national sales

00:30:29.820 tax should be, but it's something like over 20%. It's an enormous sales tax. Again, still better

00:30:35.600 than what we currently have, but almost anything's better than that. Obviously this should, this should,

00:30:41.600 this should have, it won't happen, but obviously it should. And we should all support it happening.

00:30:47.860 Again, there's no point. If you pretend to believe in anything like economic freedom,

00:30:54.620 if you've ever talked about that or pretended to believe in that, well, that is impossible

00:31:01.300 as long as the IRS still exists. Neil deGrasse Tyson was on a podcast. I'm not sure which podcast this

00:31:09.720 was, but he was asked about the safety of the vaccines. And I thought that this

00:31:13.920 exchange was quite revealing. So we'll watch a little bit of this. Here it is.

00:31:18.620 Oh, your own body. Your own body. If you want to get an abortion, get an abortion. If I want to get 1.00

00:31:21.860 the vaccine, I get to choose. So you can't force, if I can't force you to get an abortion, you 0.98

00:31:26.580 shouldn't be able to force me to get the... Because it's not about you. It's about people you interact

00:31:30.380 with. And that's the social contract of public health. We don't, we don't even know if the vaccine

00:31:35.540 worked or not at the time. Yes. That's what the trials are, dude. That's why these trials,

00:31:40.620 are you missing data out there? But let me ask you a question. Are we saying only one

00:31:45.200 type of scientists are right? No, we're saying that the system in place... The 16,000 that signed

00:31:51.340 that... No, no, no. The system in place to test vaccines, there's an entire system that's in

00:31:58.800 place. That with review boards and all of this, that's in place. Now you can say, what you can say

00:32:05.860 is, I have a better idea than all these review boards and all these agencies and the CDC. I have

00:32:12.020 a better idea. Here's what you should do. And that would have made everything better. Okay. You can

00:32:16.840 put forth that idea. But what I'm saying is, in a case where you can contaminate someone else,

00:32:23.900 it's not about you. It's about the collective health. You're assuming. You're assuming because

00:32:31.000 somebody can take the vaccine, won't get COVID, which by the way, I don't need to play the clips

00:32:36.460 for you to see it where everybody said, hey, if you get it, you're not going to get... If you take

00:32:40.100 the vaccine, you're not going to get it. Rachel Maddow, Joe Biden, I can give you Fauci. I can give

00:32:44.060 you... And you've seen these clips before. It's not like you've never seen it before. They were wrong.

00:32:47.900 Hold on. So, the strain evolved.

00:32:57.300 Ah, it evolved. So that was great. He had two minutes there, fair questions. And the first

00:33:04.160 thing to always notice, and we saw the same thing with Fauci, just the clip we played yesterday,

00:33:08.480 a couple of days ago. As always, they get very upset when you even ask questions. And they say,

00:33:15.360 hey, trust the science, listen to the experts. And then when you get one of the alleged experts

00:33:19.700 into the room, and you say, okay, well, all right, can I... You say you're the expert. Let's talk

00:33:26.200 about this. I have some questions. I would like to get an answer to the questions. You're the person

00:33:31.540 I'm supposed to be asking, right? But then when you do that, they get very upset. They immediately

00:33:36.980 feel attacked. And that right there, major red flag. You know, if just basic, straightforward

00:33:47.120 questions get that kind of angry and flustered response, then that tells you the person you're

00:33:54.800 talking to, at some level, they know that what they're defending is indefensible. Of course,

00:33:59.340 this was what is a woman was all about, right? That was my experience. It's always been my experience 0.99

00:34:05.180 talking about gender ideology. Take one of the... Well, they say, well, listen to the experts on

00:34:09.500 that. You're not a scientist. You're not a college professor. Okay, well, let me sit down with one of

00:34:12.460 the self-proclaimed experts and ask them some basic questions about this thing. And they get very

00:34:17.240 upset. Same thing here with the vaccine. The most we get from Neil deGrasse Tyson is that, well,

00:34:24.780 there were systems in place. And the thing about the systems that were in place

00:34:29.460 is that they were in place. And they were systems. What more do you need?

00:34:37.680 Just rattling off kind of the bureaucracy that exists, citing the bureaucracy as proof in itself

00:34:45.040 that whatever the bureaucracy did was valid or good. So there's review boards and there's this and

00:34:54.220 there's that and they're checking in there. So are you suggesting that we wouldn't trust all these

00:35:00.460 boards and committees that there are boards and committees and they sat and they had meetings and

00:35:05.540 they agreed on things? Yeah. And they could be wrong. Maybe they're not wrong. Tell me why they're

00:35:12.680 not wrong. Give me the evidence that they're not wrong. Can you do that? But the most frustrating

00:35:20.500 thing, and again, another thing we always hear from these people, those who want to defend, not just

00:35:25.560 the vaccine, but still defending the government, the system's response to COVID, the kind of

00:35:33.980 revisionist history that they're doing now is they're saying, well, no one ever suggested a better

00:35:42.680 option. If you had a better idea, why didn't you say it? What are you talking about? There were many

00:35:49.280 people suggesting other ways to approach COVID. There were many proposals put on the table,

00:35:55.820 but they were never even considered. Any proposal that was not shut everything down, put masks on

00:36:02.220 everyone and put a needle in their arm. Any proposal outside of those three things was not considered.

00:36:07.560 Not only was it not considered, but for a period of time there, you would be kicked off of social

00:36:12.100 media if you even suggested it. There were many other proposals. They shout down the other proposals,

00:36:21.680 the other ideas, and then a couple of years later they say, well, no one ever had any other ideas.

00:36:26.240 I didn't hear anybody say anything else. Well, you didn't hear them because you were closing your

00:36:31.460 ears and screaming every time they opened their mouths. That's why you didn't hear it.

00:36:34.380 Well, here's some more good science. Ellen DeGeneres has some thoughts. Her show is over 1.00

00:36:44.260 now and she kind of left in disgrace. Now I think she's looking for what's the next stage in her

00:36:50.280 career. Her next stage is as kind of a shaman, a witch doctor doing a rain dance. Here she is with 0.93

00:36:58.660 some scientific thoughts on the rain and the flooding issues in California. Listen.

00:37:06.540 So, Montecito is under complete evacuation. The entire town, this is a five-year anniversary

00:37:14.400 from the fire and much life that killed so many people and who lost their homes, their lives.

00:37:24.180 This is crazy on the five-year anniversary. We are having unprecedented rain. This creek

00:37:30.960 next to our house never flows, ever. Probably about nine feet up and it's been going over two

00:37:38.000 feet up. We have horses ready to go back and leave. We need to be nice to the Mother Nature. 1.00

00:37:45.060 The Mother Nature is not happy with us. Let's go to our heart. Stay safe, everybody.

00:37:54.180 Yikes. Well, that was a good clip for me to play. That's why I never listen to clips before I play

00:38:03.840 them because you can't understand anything she said. But what she did say at the end there,

00:38:07.200 the point was she said that Mother Nature is angry at us. She's standing next to this flooding

00:38:11.580 river and she says Mother Nature is angry at us and we need to be nicer to Mother Nature

00:38:18.740 so that she's not angry. Mother Nature is punishing us. Now, the climate change alarmists, the

00:38:26.840 environmentalists, have been speaking this way about the issue for a long time. Think about Mother

00:38:33.440 Nature and we've made her angry and she's punishing us. And I think for a while people assumed that they

00:38:40.360 were being, this was kind of poetic language, you know, they're being metaphorical. So people assumed.

00:38:46.200 But that was not a valid assumption because they mean it quite literally. This is religion right

00:38:55.980 here. This is superstition. This is what we have to wrap our minds around. This is actually what

00:39:02.560 they think. So this is like we are going full circle back to primitive paganism. You know, we're going

00:39:10.320 back to the year 600 AD or BC even with this paganism that, you know, the earth gets angry at us when we 0.92

00:39:23.200 mistreat it and then it punishes us. Again, it's not metaphor. It is literal. That's really what they

00:39:29.260 believe. Here's a clip that's a little bit easier to understand, I think. And I want to play one more

00:39:36.980 before we get to the comment section. Stacey Abrams was interviewed by Drew Barrymore, who

00:39:41.620 has a, I suppose, a talk show or something like that. And she recounted this story of, that's

00:39:47.760 probably entirely invented, but still funny and ironic in its own right. So the story about kind

00:39:53.420 of her origin story about being, you know, dumped and dissed by a man and how that fueled her moving

00:40:02.260 forward. Uh, listen to this. So when I was in college, I fell in love with a boy who was mean

00:40:09.740 to me. Um, Oh God. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? We've all done that. Yeah. Well, he broke up with

00:40:14.900 me and he said that I was too ambitious and wanted too many things and I would end up alone and lonely.

00:40:21.460 Uh, and so I got really mad and then I was like, fine, I'm going to figure out all the things I'm going

00:40:26.940 to do to make him rue the day that he was mean to me. And so I, this was now I'm old. I'm 49.

00:40:32.460 So I'm maybe 48. We're right next to each other. So you'll appreciate this. This was before Excel.

00:40:37.020 This is when it was Lotus one, two, three, right? Okay. You had to go to the computer lab because

00:40:41.540 owning a computer meant that you could buy the world. Right. I went to the computer lab at Spelman

00:40:45.980 and I did a spreadsheet and I laid out all the things I was going to accomplish and all the ways I was

00:40:50.560 going to just be fantastic and magnificent. And I don't know if he's ever going to see it,

00:40:55.400 but I'm, I'm, I'm doing okay. I'm, I'm, I'm doing okay on my spreadsheet.

00:41:00.420 I don't know where to begin with this. First of all, look how into it. Drew Barrymore is. She is,

00:41:04.440 she is just, she's wrapped up in this almost certainly made up story that by the way, if it's

00:41:12.240 true, I'm doing Stacey Abrams a favor here. I'm cutting her some slack. I'm going to give her the

00:41:16.820 benefit of the doubt that she's just making that up to give herself an interesting story to tell.

00:41:21.080 It's not all that interesting and even making it up. She can't just, I fell in

00:41:25.380 love with a boy who was a mean to me. Drew Barrymore. Oh my God. Mean to you. Oh no.

00:41:34.140 But if the story is true, this is psychotic, pathetic behavior. So you, you, you set up a 1.00

00:41:42.220 spreadsheet that you still apparently refer to because there was one kid like two decades ago

00:41:49.860 who didn't want to go out with you. I mean, there were a lot more than, there's a lot more

00:41:54.320 than one person who didn't want to go out with you, but it's like this one person. And so,

00:41:58.400 and so you have been driven. This is what the feminists, they think that this is inspiring. 0.98

00:42:04.780 So they make, you make up a story in which she is driven by spite because there was one kid who

00:42:11.800 didn't want to go out with her. Did he have to go out with you? Like, was he not allowed to say

00:42:16.720 no? No means no, Stacey Abrams. But the greatest thing of all is that apparently this guy said that

00:42:25.680 you're going to be lonely and alone. And, and he was right because that's exactly what happened.

00:42:32.700 Usually when you tell a story like this, I tried, I fell in love with this person and they said that I

00:42:37.980 was going to be lonely and alone. That's when you follow up by saying, and I showed him, I'm happily

00:42:43.040 married. I have four kids. But that's not the case for her. She's not married. She's childless.

00:42:49.880 And she is most famous for losing elections. One, that's all she's done. 1.00

00:42:57.980 Childless alone and her whole career has just been losing things.

00:43:01.600 And so I, I, that guy, if he exists, not only right, but he, uh, we could say we really,

00:43:11.400 he dodged a bullet too. So well done to that young man. Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:17.140 Who makes Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang. 0.78

00:43:28.140 Seth says, Matt, after your discussions about masculinity these past few days, I'm wondering

00:43:34.180 what you think about men who go to the gym and make that their entire personalities. I agree that

00:43:38.520 men should be physically fit, but are we putting too much emphasis on it and allowing that to become

00:43:44.340 our entire vision of what masculinity is? Uh, probably there's an element of that going on. I mean,

00:43:52.120 it's good to go to the gym. You shouldn't, you should go to the gym. You should be physically fit.

00:43:55.320 Um, there there's, there's in, in some cases there are, you do see this some places on the right

00:44:02.520 where that's like the whole ideology is just get physically fit, be fine, be financially successful.

00:44:09.320 Like that's, that's it. And that's, and that's, that's, you know, conservatism. Uh, so Rab Amari

00:44:14.520 wrote a, uh, a, uh, an article about this and he called, I don't remember what he called it. He

00:44:18.660 called it lifestyle rightism is what he called it. And, uh, and I think that's a sort of a good way

00:44:23.740 of putting it where it's, you know, your ideology is contained entirely in your lifestyle.

00:44:29.340 And when of course it should be about more than that, but that is an element. It just,

00:44:34.520 it's an element, but it just can't be everything. Um, all right. Now the comment says Matt emphasizes

00:44:42.700 how people can no longer trust medical establishments. True. And that's the problem

00:44:47.160 with nutrition slash healthy eating. Few doctors even understand what a good diet is. You'll hear

00:44:52.020 plant-based low fat, lots of fruits and veggies, et cetera. I went keto years ago, lost 30 plus

00:44:56.840 pounds, never gained it back. Point is it's not just common sense. What healthy eating entails,

00:45:01.460 there's massive confusion, disagreement, agreed, agreed. Parents who feed their kids,

00:45:05.520 crap, processed food are guilty. Uh, I would amend your statement to say that it's eating healthy is 0.98

00:45:13.860 not complicated, but it's been made complicated. We make it seem more complicated than it is.

00:45:19.020 And part of that is because of all these different fad diets and everything else. And

00:45:23.680 you've got, you have some people doing keto. You've got the people that are like, well, you should only

00:45:27.960 eat raw meat that you, you should only eat shirtless while you're, you know, you should be shirtless in

00:45:35.700 a forest eating raw meat with a machete. That should be your diet. Like there's that, um, all these different

00:45:42.780 things making it seem more complicated than it is, but it actually is not that complicated. Okay.

00:45:47.720 I don't follow any of these fad diets. I don't even, I don't need like, I don't even know what

00:45:51.140 gluten is. Okay. But, um, I am able to eat relatively in a relatively healthy way. I'm able

00:45:58.600 to not become morbidly obese. And because it's pretty obvious, like just, just don't portion

00:46:03.700 control is a big thing. Okay. Don't eat, eat until you're satisfied, but not until like everyone,

00:46:09.860 I think everyone kind of knows where that level is, where you could stop eating. But a lot of times

00:46:13.840 you'll continue eating just because you're like recreational don't, don't engage in recreational

00:46:18.720 eating. Uh, obviously don't eat, eat things with a lot of processed sugar, cut down seriously on fast

00:46:25.320 food, you know, all that kind of stuff. Like it's, it's all, it is actually pretty obvious. Make sure

00:46:29.800 you're getting plenty of fruits and vegetables. I think it is, it is pretty self-evident now.

00:46:36.560 Now, and that's just be a basically healthy person. If you want to be a bodybuilder or something like

00:46:43.040 that, then that's when you got to, you know, if you're a cross country runner, well, in that case,

00:46:48.880 I think you can basically eat whatever you want because you're burning so many calories. But you

00:46:52.620 know, if you're, if you're an athlete or something, then it makes sense to pay, to be, to take, to pay

00:46:57.060 more specific attention to your diet. But I think for most people, it's just about portion control,

00:47:02.220 get some fruits and vegetables, don't eat, cut out the fried food, cut out the fast food,

00:47:08.400 you know, don't eat too many snacks. Don't go to the fridge and stand at the fridge at midnight,

00:47:15.500 just like gorging yourself, which I am guilty of doing plenty, but I realized that that is an

00:47:20.560 unhealthy thing to do. All right. John Curtin says your comment. They've been, they've been to medical

00:47:28.960 school. So they know what, they know why people get fat. I'm afraid that isn't the case. My wife

00:47:32.900 is a doctor and in all her years of medical school, she studied what you can learn from a couple hours

00:47:37.660 of Googling with regards to nutrition. It's one of the problems the medical profession has. 0.99

00:47:43.240 That's an interesting note. Cameron says, I actually agree with the medical industry,

00:47:46.940 actually starting to address obesity and childhood obesity, instead of going along with the woke,

00:47:51.200 everybody is beautiful and healthy mantra. However, their prescription is wrong. We need to return to

00:47:56.540 the physical fitness standards in schools of the past. Diet and exercise need to be pushed hard,

00:48:01.900 not resorting to surgery and drugs and children. Yeah, you're right that they're correct to treat

00:48:08.160 obesity as a problem. But as you point out, their prescription, it's not just wrong. It's like

00:48:15.660 horrifically off base. And it is a prescription that causes more problems than it solves.

00:48:23.120 That's the issue. And even still, it's not like the medical establishment, this is part of the

00:48:34.100 contradiction, is that, yeah, they're talking now about prescribing drugs to kids for obesity and

00:48:41.480 getting surgeries and all the rest of it. But they also haven't completely abandoned the whole body

00:48:45.920 positivity thing. They can never completely abandon that. Because the medical industry is captured by

00:48:51.540 the far left. That's part of the far left religion, which means they can never give up on it entirely.

00:48:58.580 Mike says, you're totally right about the pit bulls. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was attacked

00:49:01.960 while delivering a pizza, and I was fortunate enough to deflect the bites with the pizza bag.

00:49:06.500 Otherwise, I would have been mauled. Owner just stood there like a deer in the headlights.

00:49:10.980 Thank you for bringing attention to this. Doesn't surprise me to hear that the owner was standing

00:49:16.720 there shocked and confused. Because that's the way it so often goes. Now, yes, there are pit bulls

00:49:21.800 that are used in fighting and dog fighting and all the rest of it, where obviously the owner knows

00:49:28.040 the dog is aggressive and dangerous. The owner wants the dog to be aggressive. There are also pit bulls

00:49:32.760 that are abused, just like any other animal. All of that is true. But in a great number of these

00:49:40.060 attacks and maulings that happen, you hear from the owner that they were shocked and surprised,

00:49:45.860 and he was such a good little puppy, and we never had an issue with him, and he's so nice to the kids,

00:49:49.780 and he's so nice. That is very often the case. Which tells you that all these other pit bull owners

00:49:56.180 who say that, no, it's all the owner's fault. I treat my pit bull very well, and so he would never

00:50:00.300 do that yet. Well, that's what they all say. That's what almost all of them say anyway.

00:50:04.300 But dog is an animal at the end of the day, and something can just snap, and instincts kick in.

00:50:11.620 That's what happens with animals. So although the owners are surprised, there's really no cause

00:50:19.040 for being surprised. It is a vicious, instinctive animal that is acting like it.

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00:51:50.480 the cooking in my house. Now, do I cook because I want to challenge gender stereotypes, or do I cook

00:51:55.980 because I'm a sexist and I believe that men make better chefs, or do I cook simply because I enjoy

00:52:00.660 it and I'm good at it? Theories abound, but nobody can say for sure. Whatever the reason for my cooking,

00:52:05.520 it is partly because I cook so much that I reacted with special horror and took it personally when I

00:52:13.860 read the news this week that the Biden administration wants to confiscate my gas stove and yours, everyone's.

00:52:19.600 The New York Post reports, quote, the Biden administration is considering a nationwide

00:52:23.360 ban on gas stoves, citing the harmful pollutants released by the appliances. According to a report,

00:52:28.640 the Consumer Product Safety Commission is mulling the action after recent studies showed emissions

00:52:32.300 from the devices can cause health and respiratory problems. This is a hidden hazard, CPSC Commissioner

00:52:38.900 Richard Trumka Jr. told the outlet. Any option is on the table. Products that can't be made safe

00:52:44.260 can be banned. Reports by the groups, by groups including the American Chemical Society and New

00:52:50.860 York University Law School's Institute for Policy Integrity found that gas stoves, which are used in

00:52:56.120 40% of U.S. homes while the remainder use various forms of electric cookers, emit pollutants like

00:53:00.840 nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and fine matter at levels deemed unsafe by the Environmental Protection

00:53:05.740 Agency and the World Health Organization. The studies also link gas stoves to respiratory illness,

00:53:11.600 cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions. More than 12% of childhood asthma

00:53:17.100 cases can be attributed to gas stoves, according to a report published last month by the International

00:53:21.460 Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Not only that, by the way, but AOC, who

00:53:27.300 predictably jumped on the anti-gas stove bandwagon, tweeted that gas stoves, along with giving you cancer

00:53:33.260 and asthma and destroying the planet, can also cause brain damage. And gas stoves aren't the only

00:53:39.320 appliances on the chopping block. States like California and New York have already moved to ban

00:53:43.260 gas heaters. Anything run on gas must be prohibited, apparently starting with the stoves, is what we're

00:53:49.740 being told. Yes, people have been cooking with gas since the 1820s. You may have grown up in houses that

00:53:56.900 only ever had gas stoves. Millions and millions of people have been using gas stoves for decade upon

00:54:01.300 decade without any issue. But now, suddenly, it's a crisis. And people who never mentioned the crisis

00:54:07.960 before, people who never said anything about the fact that gas stoves are giving us tumors and

00:54:13.040 destroying our brains, are all quite certain now that it is happening. And they insist that drastic

00:54:18.700 action be taken in response. None of us from gas stove households ever noticed people being struck

00:54:24.700 down with cancer or losing their minds because of the stove. Everything seemed to be working just fine.

00:54:31.300 There didn't appear to be any issue at all. But there is an issue, it turns out, a very big issue,

00:54:36.320 a deadly issue. People are dying. They are dying. And so we must consent to whatever exorbitant measures

00:54:42.780 the powers that be prescribe. Or not. Here's why, just to summarize, here's why I will not consent to this

00:54:51.260 war on gas stoves. And they will have to pry my gas stove from my cold, dead hands, or warm hands,

00:54:57.680 as the case may be. First, there is no compelling evidence for any of the claims they are now making.

00:55:02.900 What they have are a handful of studies funded, you know, usually by activist groups speculating that

00:55:08.860 gas stoves may have some link, maybe, to some health problems, possibly, perhaps, in theory.

00:55:15.380 Of course, you could conduct a study finding a theoretical link between literally any object or food

00:55:21.100 or activity and any health problem. This is easy to do if you set out with the intention of finding the

00:55:28.740 link. Second, a big part of the concern is about the supposed environmental danger. CBS News reported

00:55:34.700 recently, gas stoves are contributing more to global warming than previously thought because they

00:55:38.740 constantly leak small amounts of methane even while they're off, a new study has found. The same study

00:55:43.400 also found that home stoves can emit high levels of nitrogen oxides, raising concerns about health and

00:55:48.720 indoor air quality. Even when they are not running, U.S. gas stoves are putting 2.6 million tons of

00:55:53.740 methane in carbon dioxide equivalent units into the air each year, a team of California researchers

00:55:58.060 found in a study published Thursday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. That's

00:56:02.940 equivalent to the annual amount of greenhouse gases from 500,000 cars, or what the U.S. puts into the air

00:56:07.960 every three and a half hours. Yes, you're not only killing your children with the gas stove,

00:56:12.740 you're also killing the polar bears and the entire planet with it. But what is the plan here?

00:56:17.540 If we're supposed to believe that fossil fuels are destroying the planet, what happens when we get

00:56:23.940 rid of the gas stoves and we convert 40 million households over to electric all at once and have

00:56:31.100 increased our electricity usage by that much? Electricity is largely generated by fossil fuels

00:56:36.920 also. So even by the environmentalist's own logic, aren't you simply shifting the problem, not solving it?

00:56:42.240 Third point, gas stoves work. They just simply work. They work far better than an electric stove.

00:56:48.400 They cook more evenly and efficiently. They can be controlled more precisely. An electric stove is

00:56:53.080 fine for like heating up a can of soup or maybe even frying an egg. I wouldn't try to scramble an

00:56:58.860 egg on an electric stove, but you can at least fry one maybe. But that's the extent of its abilities.

00:57:04.900 Most real cooking requires careful temperature control, something that isn't possible on an electric

00:57:09.440 stove. Not only that, but electric stoves are harder to clean. They're more expensive to operate

00:57:14.820 over the course of a year. So this is yet another example of leftist bureaucrats wanting to take 1.00

00:57:20.600 something away that is more affordable and more functional and which has been working fine for

00:57:26.860 millions of people for many years. And they want to do that in favor of something crappier and more

00:57:32.040 expensive. And they do all of this based on flimsy cherry-picked data compiled by activists who almost

00:57:37.960 always stand to profit somehow from the change they're advocating. This is what left-wing bureaucrats 0.64

00:57:42.600 do. They themselves are inefficient and useless, and so they instinctively hate anything that is 0.99

00:57:47.900 efficient and useful. They basically want every aspect of our lives to be as haphazard and 0.75

00:57:53.440 dysfunctional as the agencies they run. That's essentially the goal here. Fourth, finally,

00:58:00.980 as always, there is the hypocrisy factor. AOC has, you know, she's saying now that gas stoves cause brain

00:58:09.460 damage, and yet she has taken Instagram videos in her kitchen where you can clearly see the gas stove 0.94

00:58:15.120 in the background, which come to think of it may actually lend some credence to the theory that gas

00:58:19.980 stoves cause brain damage. I mean, it would explain a lot in her case. Anyway, Jill Biden was also 1.00

00:58:24.820 photographed in her own kitchen in 2020 with a gas stove. And of course, these people all have gas

00:58:30.460 gas stoves. Gas stoves are better, and the elites obviously prefer the better thing over the inferior

00:58:35.700 thing. They just don't want you to have it. You can make do with your electric stove, you peon.

00:58:42.800 Besides, you're supposed to be eating bugs anyway. You don't need a stove for that.

00:58:46.560 That's the attitude, which is why we must respond, no, I will not eat the bugs. I will not live in the

00:58:53.840 pod. I will not overcook my chicken stir fry on an incompetent electric stove. I won't do it.

00:59:00.460 Instead, I will say to those who wage war on the gas stove, you are all canceled.

00:59:07.020 And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there.

00:59:10.480 If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 11, 2023

Ep. 1094 - Trans Activists Are Fleeing The Country

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