Ep. 1106 - The Growing Epidemic Of AI Pornography
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Summary
Is AI porn spreading like wildfire on the internet? What are the dangers of this technology, and where does this all lead? Also, a strange object is hovering in our skies, and so they claim it s not aliens, or so they say, but a Chinese spy balloon. AOC puts on her most over-the-top acting performance yet. NBC News publishes yet another hit piece on me, and the Daily Wire suggests that we should find a middle ground in the war over gender ideology. But does any middle ground exist? In our daily cancellation, we tackle the subject of No Fault Divorce, and more.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, AI pornography is spreading like wildfire on the internet.
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What are the dangers of this technology and where does this all lead?
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We'll discuss. Also, a strange object is hovering in our skies.
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It's not aliens, or so they claim, but a Chinese spy balloon.
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So why hasn't the Biden administration shot it down by now?
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AOC puts on her most over-the-top acting performance yet.
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NBC News publishes yet another lengthy hit piece on me and the Daily Wire.
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An alleged conservative publication suggests that we should find a middle ground
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In our daily cancellation, we tackle the subject of no-fault divorce.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, not really brave anyway, but it is new, I guess.
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And it's new in ways that threaten to make obsolete that old adage that there's nothing new under the sun.
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Because in our day and age, we have managed to create some new things.
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I think things without precedent, things without historical analog.
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The problem is that nearly all of those things are, well, terrible.
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Take, for example, the burgeoning industry of AI pornography.
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This is porn generated by artificial intelligence.
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It encompasses both deepfake porn, which is fashioned to look like some actual specific human being,
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and then totally artificial porn, whose images are created entirely by a machine.
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There's been a lot of discussion about this subject this past week due to a controversy in the world of Twitch streamers.
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And this is a world that remains mostly foreign to me, and perhaps to you.
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But I think we can both get the gist from this write-up in Vice.
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On Monday, Twitch streamer Brandon Ewing, who goes by Atriok Online, admitted to buying and watching deepfakes from an account that makes non-consensual, sexually explicit, AI-generated videos of his colleagues in the streaming world.
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In a live stream on Monday, Ewing inadvertently showed browser windows open to a website that hosts non-consensual, AI-generated images.
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The window showed that he was viewing images on the account of someone who specialized in making deepfakes of popular streamers.
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Viewers of the stream caught the leak and screenshotted the site, then shared the site, images from it, and names of the women who were deepfaked.
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At first, reported by Dextero, Ewing said during his Monday stream in a tearful, now viral apology, that he clicked an ad for deepfake porn while browsing Pornhub.
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That ad took him to another subscriber-only website that he said, where he paid to view the images of popular female streamers.
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He said that he was driven by morbid curiosity and that his watching non-consensual porn is not a pattern of behavior.
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His wife, cosplayer Arianna Ewing, I don't know what any of these words mean, sat in the background of the stream and cried.
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Stream to, like, create a pattern of behavior where I really want, especially women on Twitch, to feel safer.
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Like, we call booba spam cringe, we don't do that there, I've never made, like, a weird, I don't know, seat-sniffing joke.
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I've never done anything like that on the stream.
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And we don't tolerate any sex behavior in the chat, we ban it on site.
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And, like, I've done this consistently, over and over and over.
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And then, f***ing at 2 a.m., you know, I've been watching so much, I've been reading so much f***ing AI stuff.
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I've been reading all this f***ing stuff about AI and, uh, defake music, defake art and everything.
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And I was, I just feel so embarrassing to admit.
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There's an ad on every f***ing video for this f***ing video.
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So I know other people must be clicking it, because it's on every f***ing video.
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Now, to me, the real problem, one of the real problems here is that this guy is a professional,
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This is what qualifies as professional broadcasters these days.
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He has a large audience, people who sit around and watch him and listen to him.
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And yet he's incapable of stringing three words together without an F-bomb.
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I mean, he has the rhetorical skill of, like, a college freshman who just downed three beer bongs.
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And yet he has 320,000 followers on a streaming platform.
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The bigger problem, of course, is the AI porn itself.
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And some have made an attempt to defend this guy, claiming that, well, he isn't hurting anyone by watching deepfake porn.
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But, of course, any rational and even just nominally decent person understands that using someone's image without their permission,
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using their face, their likeness, to create pornography is a moral abomination.
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And consuming such pornography, knowing how it was created, is also morally abominable.
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Yet whether deepfakes or other forms of AI porn, the trend is becoming so prevalent so fast that internet platforms are scrambling to figure out how to handle all this.
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This is just a couple weeks ago in the New York Post.
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The internet group that creates pornographic images using artificial intelligence was kicked off fundraising platforms Kickstarter and Patreon
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after raising nearly $60,000 following complaints from social media users.
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Unstable Diffusion described itself as an online community of artists dedicated to creation and sharing of AI-generated NSFW, not suitable for word content.
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The group uses open-source text-to-image generating systems that were popularized by online groups such as Stable Diffusion and Dance Diffusion.
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Last year, the AI-powered technology DAL-E, which generates digital images from text descriptions, took the internet by storm.
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Unstable Diffusion is a group dedicated to spreading free and expressive AI usage born out of a grassroots community effort
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to reject the limiting rules of corporate AI companies, the group says on its website.
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AI porn has become, it's become a point of debate on Twitter as well this week,
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where an image of four blonde women went viral because people were arguing about whether the image was AI or not.
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Here's a photo, it's a blurred photo because women are mostly naked, but here it is.
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And I think that this is AI based on the fact that the faces all look creepily the same.
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But the fact that we can't tell for sure that there's any debate about whether the women in that image actually exist
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Because we are rapidly getting to a point, we've already reached the point, probably,
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where you simply cannot be sure whether an image, a voice, even a video that you watch is real or not.
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Even if it features someone who you know exists, that doesn't mean that it actually is real.
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Well, this new reality or unreality has far-reaching implications that I don't think we've even begun to scratch the surface of.
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But those implications are perhaps the most disturbing in this realm, in the realm of porn.
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Now, some real flesh-and-blood internet prostitutes, like OnlyFans model Laura Lux,
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have spoken out about the possibility that the entire porn and cyber prostitution industry
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will soon come crashing down as the people in that field can all now be replaced by artificial intelligence.
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Lux says that she's not worried about that, however, because as she tweeted,
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Anyone who thinks AI-generated images of hot, naked women is going to ruin the OnlyFans economy for real-life women
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has a fundamental misunderstanding of what OnlyFans is.
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People don't subscribe to my OnlyFans because they want to see a random naked woman.
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They subscribe to my OnlyFans because they want to see me naked,
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specifically based on a parasocial connection formed by following me on other social media platforms.
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Now, I'm not really, I confess, concerned about the job security of OnlyFans prostitutes.
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When I mention the horrific implications of this technology, that's not exactly what I was talking about.
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In fact, if anything, putting porn stars out of work is maybe the one single benefit of this technology
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because at least it might force these women to do something productive and valuable with their lives instead.
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And I do think that day is coming because despite the reassurance Ms. Lux offers to us,
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but really to herself, there's a reality here, which is that, you know, she's correct that OnlyFans customers
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are looking for something that resembles a human connection, human affection, romance.
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It's just that the porn consumer has given up on finding the genuine thing
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They've already decided to forfeit genuine human connections in favor of an image on a screen.
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They choose you as the OnlyFans model because you're not real to them.
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You are an object that they can make use of and then discard until they want you again.
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You are to them nothing but a collection of body parts.
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You have been dehumanized and you are taking part in your own dehumanization.
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You might as well already be a robot, which means that you could easily be replaced by a robot.
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And as far as the porn consumer is concerned, nothing at all would be lost.
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And it's the same fear with regular porn, actually, only accelerated once artificial intelligence is added into the mix.
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Because increasingly people are rejecting human connection, human relationships, human romance,
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and all that traditionally comes with it, including marriage and family, in favor of images on a screen.
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And this is dehumanizing, not just to the person on the screen, unless that person is already not human,
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And that's also why our criticism of the porn industry cannot focus just on the fact that the porn industry is fueled by sex trafficking, for example.
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Just as our criticism of AI porn cannot focus just on the fact that people are often being used in deepfakes without their consent.
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Again, that's a major problem with that technology.
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In both cases, we cannot neglect to acknowledge the harm that's also done to the consumer.
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As the consumer, the viewer, is driven further into self-isolation, cut off from meaningful relationships,
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and destroying the ones that he already has, while spending his time ingesting depraved filth.
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He is lessened by it, made into a smaller, less happy, less interesting, less productive,
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all-around, less impressive and fulfilled person.
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And now with AI adding fuel to the fire, the situation is only going to go from bad to worse.
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So here's the big story people are buzzing about today.
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A Chinese surveillance balloon is collecting intelligence over the continental United States right now,
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U.S. officials disclosed on Thursday, acknowledging that the Pentagon has been monitoring the craft for several days
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and briefly considered shooting it down before concluding that doing so posed a safety risk.
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The balloon is traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic
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and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.
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This is according to Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman,
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who told the reporters in a hastily arranged news conference where he addressed the ongoing situation.
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, continues to track the balloon's course,
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but officials would not specify its present whereabouts.
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The striking development comes at a time of peak tension between the world powers
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and just hours ahead of Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's expected departure to Beijing,
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where he's to hold a series of long-scheduled meetings with senior Chinese officials.
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Hey, gee, folks, would you mind not putting spy balloons right over our country?
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Would you mind not having spy balloons right in our airspace?
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I mean, it is incredibly pathetic that, well, there's a couple things.
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First of all, there's no reason to believe anything that we're told about this story, okay?
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There's no reason to believe anything we're told about anything these days from
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the administration or the corporate media, but especially in a story like this where there's
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some kind of strange thing hovering in the sky, and they tell us that it's a Chinese spy balloon.
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Maybe it is, but there's no reason especially to believe that, assuming that it's a Chinese spy balloon.
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Well, then that does raise the question of why wasn't this thing shot down immediately?
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I was just looking, someone had a map showing the alleged trajectory of this balloon,
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and it was floating over Alaska before it made it down into the continental United States
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You're telling me you couldn't shoot it down over Alaska without worrying about casualties on the ground?
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Well, if we shoot it down, then you'll have a debris field and people might get hurt.
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But at some point from Alaska to Montana, you could not have selected a time when it was
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Most of the entire state of Alaska and all the way down to Montana, along that entire path,
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you're probably not going to hit any densely populated areas at all.
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Montana itself is not especially densely populated.
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And they're telling us that they can't shoot it down.
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It is just the perfect image of this ineffectual, impotent administration that there is, according
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to them, a, you know, a spy vehicle hovering above our country.
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It's not like it's going so fast that we can't.
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And we have the entire federal government sitting around debating, what should we do
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And I'll tell you the other thing that annoys me about this story, okay, is that this is
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a story about a mysterious object floating in the sky.
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And so far as I can tell, nobody has even brought up the possibility that it might be aliens.
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It's a story about an unidentified craft hovering in the sky, and I'm looking at all the buzz
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about it on social media, and there are no conspiracy theories involving alien technology involved
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So if no one else is going to bring up that possibility, then I will at least.
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Why would aliens be flying around in a balloon?
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I mean, I don't have answers to those questions, but they are questions, and they're valid ones.
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Now, for the other latest drama in D.C. that nobody outside D.C. actually cares about,
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Ilhan Omar was booted from the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the reason that she was booted
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from the committee, and it's just like Eric Swalwell was kicked off of his committee,
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and, you know, because he slept with a Chinese spy, and there's been a few other Democrats
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that have lost their committee assignments, and this has been a big story in the D.C. media.
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Once again, nobody outside of that bubble cares at all.
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But the reason that we're given for her being ousted from the Foreign Affairs Committee is
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that she has made anti-Semitic comments in the past.
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That's a fine reason to kick her off the committee.
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But I'd prefer if they kicked her off because she's just sort of generally anti-American
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and shows no loyalty to or love for the country that took her in and gave her a life
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We brought her in, took her in, and she has shown no gratitude at all
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and is bitter and resentful to the country that saved her life.
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So I would like to kick her off for that reason.
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She's very upset that her friend Ilhan Omar lost the committee assignment.
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And here she is doing her best black preacher impression on the House floor as she discusses this.
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Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks
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when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers
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and an entire amount of tropes and also elevated her
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to some of the highest committee assignments in this body.
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This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.
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Don't tell me because I didn't get a single apology.
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You have to understand, these are all performers.
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I've seen some people describe her as a theater kid, you know, in high school.
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And that's, you know, Congress is full of people like this who are simply performers.
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And I know you might say that that's always been the case with politics.
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It's always attracted people who were too ugly to be actors.
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And I think that's a pretty good theory for why people end up becoming politicians, many of them anyway.
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Because really what they want to do is they want to be actors and they want to be in Hollywood.
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And to a certain extent, that's always been the case in politics, even before Hollywood and movies existed.
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But the difference now is that there is the opportunity to perform all the time.
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Because of 24-hour cable news, because of the internet and social media, and they're always going for that viral moment.
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Waving her hand around, doing this whole, all the theatrics and everything.
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And anytime she does it, it can go viral online, which it did.
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So while politics has always attracted these empty performer types, the problem is now that they can perform all the time.
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And so there's always this invitation to perform.
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I found myself, in fact, my own picture in one of the top headlines in NBC News yesterday.
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Not because they wanted to congratulate me or say, hey, nice job.
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Or, I don't know, wish me well with the new babies.
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How Tennessee axed millions in HIV funds amid scrutiny from far-right provocateurs.
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Tennessee's recent decision to reject over $8 million in federal funds to combat HIV was motivated, at least in part, by right-wing provocateurs stoking anti-LGBTQ sentiment, according to four sources within the state health department.
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The move by Republican Governor Bill Lee will hamstring, if not cripple, efforts to combat one of the country's most poorly controlled epidemics of the virus, HIV advocates say.
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The announcement followed a political crisis in Tennessee that began in September when conservative media personalities, including Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro, launched attacks on Vanderbilt University Medical Center over its care of transgender minors, which they alleged was barbaric.
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In October, the pressure wound its way to the unit that combats HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and viral hepatitis at the Tennessee Health Department.
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On October 24th, the unit's director, Dr. Pamela Talley, told employees that because of the social media firestorm over Vanderbilt, information about the Tennessee Transgender Task Force and other trans resources had been scrubbed from the department's website.
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A leading voice in the right's opposition to the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, Matt Walsh, a columnist from the conservative media outlet Daily Wire, published a series of widely read tweets on September 20th targeting Vanderbilt University Medical Center's treatment of minors at its transgender health clinic.
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Quote, they now castrate, sterilize, and mutilate minors as well as adults, Walsh said.
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The next day, Walsh appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show to publicize his investigation, and Ben Shapiro, a conservative commentator who co-founded Daily Wire, further amplified Walsh's attacks on Vanderbilt on his YouTube channel and podcast, decrying the, quote, nonsense garbage that a boy can be a girl and a girl can be a boy.
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Now, I'm reading through this whole thing, and they used my picture, again, at the top of the article, and on their homepage, it was right there, Tennessee getting rid of HIV funds, and then the picture of me.
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It's actually a pretty good picture, though. I'll give them that. I appreciate that much, at least.
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But then the interesting thing, of course, is that I have nothing to do with this HIV funds thing.
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So this is a story about HIV funds being taken away, I guess, and they make me the centerpiece of this story, and they put my picture there.
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The first I heard about this is in the article.
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So the first I heard about me apparently being involved in pulling HIV funds was in the article about it, which is always a strange thing.
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It's a strange day when you find out on NBC that you were involved in a conspiracy to deprive people of HIV treatment, because I had no idea that I had done that, because I didn't.
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But at least they acknowledge my work against child mutilation, and that's really what this is about, obviously.
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What they're actually upset about, and the guy, I'm trying to remember his name. I don't have the article pulled up right in front of me.
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Benjamin Ryan's his name. Benjamin Ryan, he's obsessed. He's writing articles about me all the time.
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He's constantly tweeting things and everything, and he's very, very upset that myself and The Daily Wire, that we're engaged in this campaign to protect children from being mutilated.
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He's really upset about that, but he knows that he can't engage with us on that issue directly, because he'll lose.
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What he's not going to attempt to do, what none of these people will actually attempt to do, is stand up and say,
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yes, I think it is a good idea, it is the right thing to chop the breasts of a 15-year-old, to a physically healthy 15-year-old girl.
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I think that's a good idea, and here, I will tell you why.
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None of these people will do that, because they know they can't.
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At some level, and not even that deep down, they know that this is a horrifying, grotesque practice.
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And that there's no way for them to defend it without sounding like absolute lunatics.
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And so instead, they constantly look for workarounds.
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And usually, there are going to be stories about how these reports that we're putting out,
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and the work that we're doing is causing death threats, and bomb threats, and putting people's lives at risk.
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And you notice that even in those articles, even if it were true that we were responsible for saying things that were encouraging bomb threats and death threats,
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which we aren't, but even if that was the case,
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well, you still haven't explained how we're wrong about what we're saying,
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And this is probably the most desperate attempt of all, as he goes for this really desperate workaround,
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where he's trying to tie this all into HIV funds and whatever else.
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Even as the former president tries to energize his tired campaign by pushing on trans issues,
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This is something you can always count on alleged conservatives,
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especially the ones that write for the bulwark,
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to come along and start talking about, well, we need a more moderate approach,
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especially when the right is winning, okay, and we're being effective,
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and we're achieving actual wins on the battlefield.
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That's when we can always count on people from the bulwark and other similar publications
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to come along and say, let's dial it back a little bit.
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Let's find a moderate approach between mutilating children and not mutilating them.
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I'm sure there's middle ground we can agree on.
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It says, two months into the lackluster start of his 2024 presidential bid,
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Donald Trump rolled out the most reliable weapon in the MAGA arsenal,
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a full-scale attack on transgender Americans and the medical and therapeutic communities
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In a three-and-a-half-minute video, Screed, which we played some of it on the show yesterday,
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Trump announced an onslaught of gender war measures going far beyond the questions raised
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in recent years about bathroom use, trans participation in women's sports,
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or the prescription of puberty blockers or hormones for adolescents.
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I will revoke Joe Biden's policies on so-called gender-affirming care.
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On the right, gender-affirming care has become synonymous with premature prescriptions
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of cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries.
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In reality, it is the common language phrase that marks a kinder, gentler approach to what
00:27:46.000
is now known as gender dysphoria, as opposed to previous treatments for gender identity disorder.
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Trump announced that he would ask Congress to pass legislation that recognizes only two
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genders, male and female, that they're assigned at birth.
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However, he vowed that he would sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency
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to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex or gender transition at any age,
00:28:07.200
and to ask Congress to outlaw the use of federal funds to pay for transition procedures.
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By the way, just a sidebar here, a couple things.
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Bad part, and I know this seems like splitting hairs.
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I think, yes, we want Congress to recognize, we want the government at every level to recognize
00:28:30.560
the reality of male and female, that there are only two sexes.
00:28:43.280
But we don't want Congress or any other government body to recognize sex, quote, assigned at birth.
00:28:51.620
That is certainly not the language we want, because sex is, when you say assigned at birth,
00:28:57.700
you are already agreeing with the ideologues, because you are agreeing that sex is the kind
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of thing that can be assigned, and that this assignment happens sometime after the conception
00:29:15.220
It is, you know, it is present at birth, whatever you want to say, although it's present before
00:29:21.120
But on the positive side, and this is something that other people have noted, and on the left
00:29:25.840
they note it with great alarm, is that when Trump is talking about this, he is not only
00:29:30.900
referring to the trans agenda as it targets kids.
00:29:36.360
He is also referring to, he is referring to the entire thing.
00:29:40.040
I mean, he is referring to transgenderism as a concept, which is exactly what we need
00:29:46.960
And yes, ultimately, we need to be protecting both children and adults from this, from these
00:29:57.600
It makes sense to, as we are doing, to start with protecting kids.
00:30:06.360
As I've always said, it should not be legal for doctors to do this to anyone.
00:30:16.220
If somebody is confused about their identity, a doctor saying, okay, well, we'll, you know,
00:30:26.420
We'll start chopping parts of your body off until you feel better about yourself.
00:30:31.480
That is barbaric and insane and abusive, no matter how old the person is.
00:30:37.520
It doesn't magically become ethical for the doctor because the person's over the age of
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So I think Trump is noting that, which is good.
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It says, whether this ploy is enough to help revitalize Trump's presidential effort is difficult
00:30:55.060
The Republican bench is deep with aggressive culture warriors in Florida.
00:30:58.000
Governor Ron DeSantis, Trump's top rival, has until now dominated the lineup.
00:31:01.860
But now that Trump has spoken, what MAGA candidate will want to be seen to be more moderate than
00:31:08.700
And I'm just scrolling along here to get to the end, because what I'm trying to figure
00:31:13.740
out, what's allegedly being pitched here is a moderate position, is that we don't want
00:31:21.400
the extremes of one side or the extremes of the other.
00:31:26.820
To the degree that this sort of radicalism has become the face of the movement for preserving
00:31:32.480
citizenship liberties for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans Americans, it's hardly a wonder
00:31:38.560
Okay, so now this person's talking about the extremism on the other side, saying that's no
00:31:47.720
When I began to transition, it was not that long.
00:31:49.740
Oh, this person is trans, so that's no surprise.
00:31:52.180
It seemed possible to hope that at some point, that would not be the thing that defined me.
00:31:56.820
I wanted re-assimilation into mainstream society, not revolution against it.
00:32:01.000
I thought that the trans rights movement would take the path charted by the marriage equality
00:32:05.080
The road to normality is now blocked from both left and right, but perhaps a middle way
00:32:09.960
Okay, so this whole article is written, it's in the bulwark, and you read it, it's proposing
00:32:19.980
And you read the entire thing, and you get to the end, and it never even stipulates what
00:32:28.540
It never suggests what is the moderate position.
00:32:32.260
You've got one side that says, you know, gender is fluid, there are a million of them, and
00:32:46.820
There is no, like, objective reality when it comes to sex.
00:32:50.740
And if a 12-year-old child's boy says that he's a girl, then he should be chemically castrated.
00:32:59.800
Then you've got the other side saying, no, absolutely not to all of that.
00:33:05.160
And then you've got this person saying, well, what about in the middle?
00:33:08.700
Okay, what is the middle between those two positions?
00:33:14.900
And the reason why they never stipulate the middle ground is because there isn't one.
00:33:21.620
Okay, you cannot have a middle ground between horrific falsehoods on one side from the gender
00:33:31.240
ideology crowd and the truth on the other side.
00:33:35.440
Because that's all you're getting from the other side.
00:33:48.020
So you've got falsehood and truth, any kind of middle ground.
00:33:55.320
Because if you stray even one inch from the truth and towards the falsehood, well, now it's
00:34:04.920
Now we're just like degrees that there's the truth and then there's the falsehood.
00:34:10.500
It's not like there's a spectrum where you go along and like suddenly the falsehood kind
00:34:14.840
of blends with the truth and right there in the middle is the sweet, lukewarm spot.
00:34:19.480
No, there are many different versions of falsehoods, some more extreme than others, and then there's
00:34:26.840
And if you venture away from the truth, then you are in the realm of falsehood.
00:34:33.200
And it's a surrender of something that we absolutely cannot surrender.
00:34:45.220
We've heard a lot of alleged gaffes from Biden, but this one, I really appreciate it.
00:34:50.780
More than half the women in my cabinet, more than half the people in my cabinet, more than
00:34:57.420
What I love about that is that he does correct himself, but then he goes back to the wrong
00:35:05.420
way because he says more than half the women, I mean, more than half the people, no, more
00:35:12.400
So he caught himself, but then he went back to the wrong way of saying more than half the
00:35:18.600
women in his administration are women, which people assume that that's a gaffe and he's just
00:35:30.880
But in this administration, there may be some reality to that.
00:35:37.240
Half of the women in the administration actually are women.
00:35:42.320
The other half of the women are men, I guess is what he's trying to say.
00:35:47.300
As members of the SBG, you're well acquainted with my affinity for pop culture and old school
00:36:07.320
hip hop, you know about this, as well as the undeniable street cred that I've garnered through
00:36:14.360
As a true rap mogul, all I could ever ask is to make my greatest influences and hip hop
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role models who's shiesty and spot them, got them and Tekashi69 proud.
00:36:25.140
That being said, I'm proud to announce the newest Sweet Baby album t-shirt, which is we unveiled
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This latest edition to my swag check is available now at dailywire.com slash shop.
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And we just keep, we keep putting, I mean, there are so many great things on the shop.
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If you haven't been to swag check recently, this shirt is great, but we have so many other
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And you can celebrate my long established roots in the hip hop world with yet another instant
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If we sell enough of these, it's not completely out of the question that I, they want me to
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say, they want me to again promise that I'm going to freestyle rap for you if we sell
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So I'm not going to even talk about that because then that'll be the, my life the next six months
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Hey Matt, when are you going to do the freestyle rap for us?
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But if you buy a lot of these shirts, I will give you a hearty thank you.
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Go to dailywire.com slash shop to get your Notorious SBG t-shirt today.
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Well, for our comment section today, we must unfortunately, once again, move away from responding
00:37:32.200
to comments from the SBG so that I can instead defend the validity and dignity and honor of
00:37:39.720
And especially of myself, your trusted cult leader.
00:37:43.020
As you know, Candace Owens, my colleague and apparent sworn enemy at the Daily Wire, has
00:37:47.700
launched a campaign to overtake the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:37:49.840
She wants to come up with her own gang, all with the intention of supplanting the SBG as
00:37:54.880
the Daily Wire's preeminent and most prestigious cult.
00:37:58.880
And she's even solicited suggestions for gang names, but all the suggestions were corny as
00:38:03.840
hell and didn't come close to capturing the spontaneous poetic charm of the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:38:11.220
So, so far, this campaign is off to a rather pitiful start.
00:38:16.840
But now she's taken it a step further, and she's even now enlisted the help of AI voice
00:38:21.960
generating software, speaking of AI stuff, which has, this has now turned into like an
00:38:31.440
You know, Matt Walsh, my colleague, my non-friend, my arch-nemesis, Matt Walsh, you know, he's
00:38:39.100
got that Sweet Baby Gang, and I would like to have the Sweet Baby Gang.
00:38:47.140
Let's hear Matt Walsh, maybe not, but definitely do say that the Sweet Baby Gang is mine.
00:38:53.740
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, I'll be telling you why I'm formally stepping down as the leader
00:38:59.620
I've searched long and hard for a successor, and have finally found one.
00:39:04.340
She is the host of my favorite podcast ever, and has the best taste in bottled water.
00:39:13.500
Secondly, I am announcing that I am formally handing control of the Sweet Baby Gang to my
00:39:19.620
I mean, is that not incredible and terrifying, but also amazing that Matt Walsh has renounced
00:39:26.120
himself as the leader of the Sweet Baby Gang, and that's actually mine?
00:39:28.620
And he admits that I'm his dear friend and also admits that I'm right about how disgusting
00:39:39.580
First, I am glad to find out that for Candace Owens, her greatest dream in her career is
00:39:50.920
Second, I never said that Dasani water is good bottled water.
00:39:54.340
I said that it's just, it's bottled water, and that's all it is, and it tastes like every
00:39:59.520
And I proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt in a blind taste test that we did on her show,
00:40:04.660
Third, I might not be as concerned about AI technology now as I was at the beginning of
00:40:10.000
the show, because that did not impress me at all.
00:40:12.440
That didn't sound like me in the slightest bit.
00:40:18.760
I mean, that robot could never capture the soul and gravity of my voice.
00:40:26.140
I have the voice, I've been told, of like an ill-tempered grizzly bear who smokes too
00:40:35.840
I don't know if it's intended that way, but that's how I take it.
00:40:40.840
Also, by the way, she began that segment by announcing ahead of time that the clip was
00:40:46.660
made using AI, which kind of defeats the purpose of the bit when you tell people that
00:40:53.420
That's like calling somebody up on a prank call.
00:40:56.060
And when they pick up, you say, hi, I'm about to prank you.
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Once again, I feel that the sweet baby gang is secure and safe and we have nothing to worry
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Well, if you've been listening to the show over the past month or so, you know that we
00:42:20.560
have returned frequently to a discussion about the situation that young men face in our culture,
00:42:27.520
And you know, not only if you've been listening to this past week, but if you listen really at
00:42:30.860
any point, that I'm a major advocate of marriage, that I especially encourage young men and women
00:42:38.360
But there's been a significant cultural shift away from marriage in recent years with an
00:42:41.660
increasing number of young people, men and women, giving up on the institution altogether.
00:42:46.700
And for men, this shift has become its own movement with its own name.
00:42:52.140
And the logic behind the movement is that our culture is hopelessly corrupted and the system
00:42:57.160
And so that they're left with no choice, but to give up on the system, give up on marriage,
00:43:00.880
give up on the family and strike out on their own, focusing instead on their own independence
00:43:08.880
I sympathize with those who are isolated and lonely and feel that this is the only path
00:43:14.460
But I don't think that surrender is the right response.
00:43:17.380
A man cannot give up on what he was made to do and to be.
00:43:21.840
To truly go your own way, alone and isolated, is to give up on your duty, your legacy, your
00:43:27.740
ancestors, your bloodline, your civilization, your happiness.
00:43:31.340
The movie Into the Wild tells the story of a man, Christopher McCandless, who went his
00:43:35.420
own way to the extreme, you know, burned his Social Security card, left his family, hiked
00:43:39.160
into the Alaskan wilderness, and he died there alone.
00:43:43.280
And as he was dying, he wrote in the margins of a book the words, happiness is only real when
00:43:48.820
This is one of the most essential truths of human nature.
00:43:53.180
Most of us are meant to share our happiness with others.
00:43:57.520
And for most of us, that's going to be with a spouse and children.
00:44:00.540
All of that said, there are systemic problems with the way that we approach and govern marriages
00:44:08.100
And it is important that we deal with and address those problems, which we usually don't.
00:44:14.560
This is one of the central points that a great many men have made to me as they've
00:44:18.400
given feedback on the topics we've discussed on the show in recent weeks.
00:44:21.800
I've read many messages like this one, just choosing this one at random.
00:44:24.500
It says, Dear Matt, I absolutely agree with your message about the importance of marriage.
00:44:27.180
I agree that men should become fathers and care for their families.
00:44:30.080
I even generally agree with your take on Andrew Tate.
00:44:32.000
But you talk about these things while never addressing these systemic issues.
00:44:35.760
You push for marriage but pretend that no-fault divorce doesn't exist.
00:44:39.380
Your message will fall on deaf ears as long as you refuse to acknowledge the whole picture.
00:44:44.100
Now, for the record, it's definitely not even close to true that I never talk about divorce
00:44:50.880
In fact, I've been talking about it for as long as I've had a national platform to talk
00:44:55.800
But if I'm being teed up to talk about it again, I'm happy to oblige, which is why the
00:45:00.820
cancelee for our daily cancellation today is no-fault divorce.
00:45:04.640
Now, for those who aren't familiar with the concept, no-fault divorce laws, first adopted
00:45:09.000
by California, of course, and then by every other state in some version, allow couples
00:45:14.800
to break up their marriage without any specific cause or reason.
00:45:18.140
They don't need to prove that anybody was at fault.
00:45:21.040
They simply tell the court that they don't want to be married, and that's it.
00:45:25.140
Now, in some states, no-fault divorce is the only choice.
00:45:28.700
An at-fault divorce is an unavailable option in these states.
00:45:32.080
In the rest of the states, no-fault is an option that can be chosen, among other options.
00:45:41.400
In most situations, it only takes one spouse to file for no-fault divorce.
00:45:48.420
This means that one spouse can break the marriage contract without citing any reason except irreconcilable
00:45:55.400
differences, even if the other spouse doesn't consent.
00:45:59.320
And this is where the gender disparity comes into play.
00:46:01.260
The vast majority of divorces are initiated by women.
00:46:04.140
Studies have also shown that women are more likely to get divorced after getting promoted
00:46:12.600
That's what the, you know, as their financial situation improves, the likelihood of divorce
00:46:21.660
Meanwhile, women are far more likely to make it out well in the divorce, receiving alimony,
00:46:26.800
other forms of, quote-unquote, spousal support.
00:46:29.920
Now, in theory, gender is not supposed to factor into who gets alimony or how much they receive.
00:46:37.900
An article last year remarking on how rare it is for women to be forced to financially support
00:46:43.860
So women are more and more becoming the breadwinners in their families, and yet the family court system
00:46:58.540
said that despite an increase in stay-at-home husbands, far more women than men seek and receive
00:47:06.100
So women are more and more becoming the breadwinners in their families, and yet the family court system
00:47:12.500
Alimony payments are still doled out like it's, you know, 1953.
00:47:15.580
What this means is that a woman, this is what can happen, a woman can marry a man, leave him
00:47:22.620
for any reason she wants, even after cheating on him, and still take half the assets and be
00:47:28.580
awarded with an allowance from her ex-husband in perpetuity.
00:47:31.960
It's not only outrageously unjust, but it also purposefully disincentivizes marital fidelity
00:47:38.340
while incentivizing disloyalty and infidelity and divorce.
00:47:42.460
There are many reforms that should be enacted to stop the bleeding here.
00:47:47.440
The alimony system, for one thing, has to be drastically changed.
00:47:50.460
Most alimony laws were created under the assumption that most women would be housewives and they
00:47:55.380
would be stay-at-home moms, and most divorces would be initiated by men who are the sole
00:48:02.860
And in a case like that, where a man chooses to leave a wife who was staying at home to raise
00:48:07.960
the kids and take care of the house, and he decides that he wants to leave, it makes
00:48:13.840
She structured her entire life around the assumption that he would provide for her financially
00:48:18.880
so that he could, you know, so that she can care for the children and he can go to work.
00:48:23.740
If the man decides to go shack up with his secretary or whatever, he should still have to provide
00:48:32.240
But this doesn't describe all or even most divorces in modern America.
00:48:37.100
Given that, again, most divorces are initiated by women, and also most women have careers.
00:48:43.520
There's no reason why a woman with a job who decides to leave her husband and break the
00:48:48.320
marriage vows should then be rewarded with a monthly stipend from the man that she wants
00:48:55.280
I think a fairer system would require the person who destroys the marriage to pay, regardless
00:49:01.740
And yeah, can it be difficult to decide who's at fault for destroying the marriage?
00:49:10.380
This is why these courts exist, to make these determinations.
00:49:14.660
And if the divorce really is a mutual decision, which, I mean, almost never really is, but
00:49:18.720
if that's what they're claiming, then neither should expect an allowance from the other,
00:49:26.080
But I think the reform to no-fault divorce is far simpler.
00:49:28.220
It should be reformed by simply ceasing to exist.
00:49:36.120
But to the extent that it is also a contract, it's hard to think of any other situation in
00:49:40.740
which a contract can be broken for no reason by either party without the consent of the
00:49:49.740
You know, it's hard to think of any other contract that would work that way.
00:49:53.420
But by treating marriage this way, we have downgraded the marital contract to something
00:49:59.500
less binding than, like, the agreement you have with your cell phone carrier.
00:50:03.600
We've made it into something cheap and worthless.
00:50:09.460
When you make divorce easy, and for at least one party concern, profitable, you get more of
00:50:16.040
In fact, shockingly, when you make divorce easier and more profitable for one sex at the expense
00:50:21.960
of the other, you get a greater number of the members of that sex initiating divorces.
00:50:27.000
You don't need a crystal ball to predict an outcome like this.
00:50:33.160
If you incentivize disloyal, selfish behavior, you get more of it.
00:50:38.220
However, if you make divorce difficult and potentially costly for everybody involved, not for one spouse,
00:50:42.920
but both, then you've given couples an incentive to find another solution for their supposedly
00:50:48.420
irreconcilable differences, and you've sent a message on a cultural level that the marital
00:50:53.480
vow is meaningful and important and not something that can be just discarded on a whim.
00:50:58.700
Now, no-fault divorce advocates will argue that the alternative, divorce without the no-fault
00:51:04.240
option, can tend to be traumatic and it could get really ugly.
00:51:08.260
But there's no way around that, and we shouldn't look for one.
00:51:13.680
Like, divorce is an ugly thing, no matter what.
00:51:16.880
A promise was made, a vow was made, now it's being broken.
00:51:21.460
There's no way to make this ugly thing not ugly.
00:51:25.100
Besides, no-fault divorce doesn't mitigate the trauma or ugliness of divorce.
00:51:29.080
Instead, too often, it simply shifts the trauma so that one party is made to carry most of its
00:51:35.120
burden. And that is the problem. And for that reason, and so many others, no-fault divorce
00:51:42.420
is, or should be, canceled. And that'll do it for the show today and for the week.
00:51:48.280
We'll talk to you on Monday. Have a great day. Godspeed.