00:28:40.960What, how is that some sort of like horrifying dystopian reality?
00:28:46.520Now, I think it's actually really easy, though, to distinguish between something like a drag show and, you know, a pop star musical performance.
00:28:59.340It would be pretty easy to distinguish between those things.
00:29:01.380And I think even in the language of this bill, it succeeds in doing that.
00:29:05.860But my point is that, if you were to accept the slippery slope argument, I don't see it as a problem.
00:29:12.540To have some basic standards of decency, especially as it pertains to content that, that where children are involved, that's, that's, yes, we should have that.
00:29:26.120Historically in this country, we've always had that.
00:29:27.860But it's only very recently where we've decided that, that, well, the government has no role whatsoever in enforcing any standards of decency at all.
00:29:42.860And so if the sexual degenerates and perverts want to expose themselves to kids all day long and have sexual performance of kids, there's nothing we can do.
00:29:50.380Because if we were to do anything at all, next thing you know, we're in a handmaid's tale.
00:29:53.860Like, it's only, it's only very recently that people in this country have become stupid enough to buy an argument like that.
00:30:00.200Now, the, the reporter there in the, in the news article is not being honest.
00:30:07.100What we hear is that, is that the sponsors of this bill claim that it has nothing to do with drag shows.
00:30:13.040They're not saying it has nothing to do with drag shows.
00:30:15.060They're saying it's not specifically outlawing drag shows.
00:30:18.480What they're saying is it outlaws sexual performances for children.
00:30:21.660And if there is a drag show that falls under that umbrella, then yes, it would be banned.
00:30:29.880But this would also ban, for example, a burlesque performance with, with featuring women where children are invited would ban that too.
00:30:40.080Now, you might point out that that's not really happening, that most of this stuff is involving drag.
00:30:46.940But that only tells you something about the people that are putting on these shows.
00:30:49.680That, that just tells you something about drag.
00:30:51.720I mean, if, if, if the whole drag industry will come crashing down, if they aren't allowed to involve children anymore, well, then it sounds like the drag industry is, is, is one that should come crashing down.
00:31:05.460And they continue to tell on themselves so much because they don't even, a bill like this that prohibits sexualized performances for children.
00:31:13.560They don't, the left, they don't just claim that it's anti-drag.
00:31:21.940So if you want a bill that says, um, you can't put on a sexual performance for kids, you can't like strip and tear your clothes off in front of kids.
00:31:32.220You can't have, uh, you can't bring your sexual fetishes out and put on a performance featuring them for kids.
00:31:36.480If you say that, then they say, well, that's anti-LGBT.
00:31:38.920What are you saying about the LGBT community?
00:31:44.520That if we tell you that you can't sexualize kids, that it's somehow, are, are you saying that this is a, that, that, that sexualizing children is a, is a central fundamental aspect of LGBT culture?
00:32:00.640Because that would seem to be what you are saying if you are claiming that a bill banning the sexualization of children is anti-LGBT.
00:32:08.920All right, something else here, uh, kind of an update to story from yesterday.
00:32:14.300We talked about, of course, the, uh, satanic ritual at the Grammys and conservatives reacting to it, the way any normal sane person reacts to a nationally publicized satanic ritual.
00:32:24.260Um, which is that, from, from, certainly this is the case for me, but from any other conservative that I've seen on social media or elsewhere or, or in the media, um, most conservatives said, well, this is disgusting and gross.
00:32:37.380Many have pointed out, as I did, that although it's disgusting and gross, it's also tedious and boring.
00:32:42.200We've, with derivative, we've seen this a million times.
00:32:46.080Um, I haven't seen anyone, like, running through the street, like, their hair's on fire, screaming and crying about it, exactly.
00:32:52.280But people have objected, as they should.
00:32:57.900And yet the left has launched into, and, and the left-wing media in particular has launched into their usual routine of, of making the story about our reasonable reaction, rather than about the thing that we are reasonably reacting to.
00:33:11.540So just one brief example of this, of many, is from, uh, the website, the AV Club.
00:33:15.640Um, and, uh, it, the headline is, Sam Smith wore devil horns at the Grammys, and conservatives are losing it.
00:33:23.460The article continues, as similarly seen with Lil Nas X's Devilish Montero, um, in 2021, conservatives have their satanic panic panties in a twist over last night's performance from Sam Smith and Kim Petrus.
00:33:36.560The two took the Grammys stage for a performance of their song, Unholy, which won the award for Best Pop Duo.
00:33:43.460In addition to Petrus making history as the first out transgender woman to win the category, she and Smith stoked the flames of controversy with a fiery, hell-themed performance, much to conservatives' chagrin.
00:33:53.040Boneheaded political abomination Ted Cruz added his two cents last night, calling the set evil.
00:33:58.500Marjorie Taylor Greene also tweeted about the performance, fit with a Pfizer conspiracy, too dim-witted to even bother breaking down.
00:34:04.940Um, aside from the blatant thematic ties to Unholy, Petrus, uh, says that the Red Lace performance was inspired by the duo's experience with religious institutions.
00:34:14.900Petrus told Variety, I think a lot of people honestly have kind of labeled what I stand for and what Sam stands for as religiously not cool.
00:34:22.300And I personally grew up wondering about religion and wanted to be a part of it, but slowly realizing it didn't want me to be a part of it.
00:34:27.580So it's a take on not being able to choose religion and not being able to live the way that people might want you to live, because as a trans person, I'm already not kind of wanted in religion.
00:34:37.740So we were doing a take on that, and I was kind of Hellkeeper Kim.
00:34:42.280Like the discussion around Lil Nas X and his strip tease with the devil, conservatives love to ignore storytelling context, opting to spout off nonsense about queer and trans artists peddling out Satanism and immoral lifestyles to, oh my, the children.
00:34:57.520Yes, those conservatives who absurdly, you know, with their conspiracy theories that these people are peddling Satanism as they literally dress as Satan and put on a performance that they admit was meant to resemble and therefore is a satanic ritual.
00:35:17.200So they admit that's what they're doing, and then we notice it and say, look, they're doing a satanic ritual.
00:35:25.300And then the media comes along and says, you conspiracy theorists claiming that it's a satanic ritual.
00:35:29.780Well, I get so tired of this routine, this routine of intentionally trying to provoke people, and then when they're provoked, blaming them for being provoked.
00:35:42.540And this is all, it's all meant to desensitize, and it's meant to convince conservatives that anytime something like this happens, what we should really do is say nothing at all and remain quiet and compliant and just be good little boys and girls and, you know, say nothing while the Satanists carry on with their BDSM-themed satanic performances.
00:36:12.500That's how they want us to react, and there are some conservatives that that is how they react, and that's what they claim even after this.
00:36:18.560There were some conservatives on social media who were saying, well, don't give them what they want and talk about this.
00:36:26.260No, actually, that's not what they want.
00:36:29.220Like, what they really want, yeah, I mean, if we talk about it, then they're going to try to use that to their advantage because that's how the game is played, right?
00:36:36.680And they're going to try to use that to make victims of themselves and generate more publicity and all the rest of it.
00:36:44.520But what they really want, most of all, is to be in a culture where they can carry on this way and nobody will object whatsoever.
00:36:53.880That's what they're ultimately fighting for, is a culture that totally succumbs to this stuff.
00:37:03.340And so if you remain silent and do not object, then you are helping them towards that end, which to me seems rather obvious.
00:37:11.700Finally, as we've discussed on this show, you know, yesterday we talked about marriage and, you know, husbands and wives and what makes men happy, etc.
00:37:21.220I think partly, you know, as a consequence of this conversation, there's this TikTok video that has gone viral showing, once again, another one of these, day-in-the-life TikToks.
00:37:32.120And this one shows a stay-at-home husband.
00:38:25.920The stay-at-home husband who will make them snacks and cuddle with them and, you know, waiting there like a puppy dog when they get home from work.
00:38:35.160So, they can provide, you know, that's what women want, right?
00:38:39.120To provide for a man who's sitting around at home waiting for her to get back.
00:38:44.040That's what, that's what, that's what, it's, it's insisted that that's what women want and, in fact, it's insisted that women should want that and that, conversely, men should, should also want to live the life that we see there.
00:38:56.900And yet, it's just, it's just not the reality in practice.
00:39:03.100And we know that for a lot of reasons.
00:39:04.660One of them, by the way, is that if you're, if, if this is the life that you choose, your chances of getting divorced are much higher.
00:39:12.660In fact, when, when, when the, when a, even if both man and husband and wife are working, as soon as the wife earns more than the husband, divorce rates go up by 50%.
00:39:28.920And that, again, is, in most cases, where the husband's working.
00:39:32.180Now, if the, if the wife is earning the most because the husband's not working any, earning anything because he's at home, then it's likely the divorce, divorce rates are even higher than that.
00:39:42.660So, they're trying to shape our desires and tell us what we should want.
00:39:48.380And yet, reality always has this way of just intruding inconveniently into that picture.
00:39:55.800Now, let's get to our comment section.
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00:41:30.200So anyway, my daughter is heading out to her sleepover, and she's got this duffel bag packed with stuff.
00:41:38.180I mean, the duffel bag weighs probably 55 pounds.
00:41:41.420It would be, it's like if you tried to check it at the airport, you'd get charged an overweight bag fee for it.
00:41:47.200And it's stuffed to the brim with supplies.
00:41:51.980This is what she's bringing for one night.
00:41:54.820The sleepover party started at like 4 o'clock, and she was back home by 8 in the morning.
00:42:00.900That's a, what, maybe a 16-hour stretch.
00:42:02.920She needed apparently 25 outfits and other supplies as well.
00:42:07.100Doesn't include her pillow and sleeping bag.
00:42:08.620Now, meanwhile, it's a difference in the sexes.
00:42:12.560If we are going away on vacation for, let's say, a week or even longer, and we tell her twin brother to go and pack, which the last couple of times we've tried this.
00:42:26.620It's like we have the kids pack for themselves, and then we'll say, well, go pack for the ship.
00:42:32.980And her brother will say, okay, and he'll run upstairs, and he'll come back down in three and a half minutes with two T-shirts and a pair of sweatpants thrown into a plastic grocery bag.
00:42:42.140And that's his plan for a week or longer.
00:42:46.480So that's just one of the differences.
00:42:50.060And, of course, I don't think she actually used most of the supplies or clothing that she brought.
00:42:53.000But she did come home the next morning dead tired like a walking zombie and complaining that her friends were talking until, like, 2 in the morning, and it kept her awake.
00:43:01.660And then they started singing songs from The Greatest Showman at, like, 1 or 2 in the morning, and she was complaining about this.
00:43:59.820You don't have to point it out and make me feel self-conscious about it.
00:44:02.480But then, at the same time, I realized that we wouldn't be the Sweet Baby Gang if you didn't all give me a hard time and mock me ruthlessly for how I sound.
00:44:15.980Steve, the Grand Marshal, says, Matt, I agree with you on almost everything, but I disagree on the DiCaprio thing.
00:44:24.660It's honestly just creepy that a 50-year-old man is dating a girl old enough to be his granddaughter.
00:44:29.700Even if she's legally capable of consent, it's still very weird.
00:44:32.680And, honestly, the power dynamic there is also concerning.
00:44:35.720So, I don't think you disagree with me in that case because I never said that it's a good idea for a 50-year-old man to date a 19-year-old woman.
00:44:48.460What I said is that the feminists that are drawing a comparison to this and, like, child rape and child molestation, who are saying that he's a sex predator.
00:45:00.980And then, my second point is to observe the many contradictions that are present in this idea that a 19-year-old can't fully consent to dating Leonardo DiCaprio, but a 15-year-old girl can consent to having her breasts removed and all the rest of it we went through yesterday.
00:45:34.840I don't think I'd even have anything to talk about with someone.
00:45:37.200I couldn't possibly relate to them on any level because it's not just the age gap.
00:45:42.480I mean, the age gap is quite significant, but, you know, not all age gaps are made the same.
00:45:49.000So, if you're 35 dating someone who's significantly older than you, that's one thing.
00:45:55.600If you're 19 dating someone who's significantly older than you, it's just, you're, you're, because at 35, you're, you're, you've been an adult for a long time.
00:46:02.820You, you're in a different place in life.
00:46:06.040So, it's really about what, what, the place you are in life.
00:46:09.520And so, it's going to make it really hard to relate.
00:46:11.000Now, on the other hand, I would imagine that Leonardo DiCaprio is not dating these girls because he's looking for interesting conversationalists.
00:46:22.100So, he's probably not as worried about the fact that he doesn't have much to say to them because that's not what this is about for him.
00:46:31.220And it did, there's, there's one other contradiction here that I think other people have pointed this out.
00:46:36.520But when you compare the left's reaction, not everyone on the left, but this is like, this is a, it's, this seems to be a feminist thing that's starting now where they, they take these Hollywood actors that date younger adults and try to turn them into sex predators.
00:46:50.620But consider for a second, this, this point.
00:46:55.900If Leonardo DiCaprio was paying this woman directly, and in a sense, he is because she's with him for the status and the money and the gifts and all the trips and everything.
00:47:09.600And, and he's with her because she's a good looking, you know, younger woman.
00:47:16.040And so, that's what they're getting out of it.
00:47:17.080So, so it is like a transactional thing.
00:47:19.240But if it was more direct, okay, if she was a prostitute, then, then this would be sex work.
00:47:27.480And then, according to the left and the people that are complaining about it now, then everybody involved should be applauded for their open-mindedness, for their progressive open-mindedness.
00:47:35.940And that's probably the most absurd contradiction of all, is that, is that, this is, I think, would apply to almost every single person that has tried to label Leonardo DiCaprio a sex predator for dating younger women.
00:47:49.880If the younger woman, if the younger woman was a quote-unquote sex worker, was a prostitute, and he was directly paying her for her time and her company, then they would all be fine with it.
00:48:01.000It's only because she's not a prostitute that they refused to applaud it.
00:48:07.880You just, you can't get more backwards than that.
00:48:10.300That this, that this relationship between the two of them would only be acceptable in their eyes if it was prostitution.
00:48:18.580And because it's not, it's not acceptable.
00:48:20.180My God, these people are just, you, you, you really, you cannot get more morally backwards than that.
00:48:26.960Yosef says, Matt, amongst all this satanic evil, I wanted to let you know that your show inspired me to quit porn, an addiction I had since nine.
00:50:46.420We're not talking about the Uncle Joe State of the Union, which will no doubt be filled with mumble-mouthed lies about how inflation is actually good for us.
00:50:53.160And self-congratulatory victory laps for sending us closer to World War III.
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00:51:10.680We'll give you a fresh and entertaining perspective on the State of the Union.
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00:51:21.280Now, finally, let's get to our Daily Cancellation.
00:51:35.560You may remember Maj from his previous appearance in this segment five or six months ago.
00:51:39.380He had become incensed when I made the point that slavery is not an exclusively white sin and that, in fact, all races practice slavery and were victims of slavery.
00:51:47.400Maj did not want this truth to be acknowledged, and so he launched into a multi-day temper tantrum attacking me on various platforms and accusing me of racism.
00:51:55.820I'm guessing his feelings will be hurt once again after the opening monologue today.
00:51:59.680Ever since then, Maj has continued to look for any opportunity to whine about me, calling me a clown and a bigot and other insults, always in response to points that I've made that he then wildly and intentionally misconstrues.
00:52:12.260Just last week, for example, Maj was posting Instagram videos and doing interviews on other podcasts and tweeting up a storm, furiously attacking me for suggesting that we should be tougher on crime in this country.
00:52:23.840He was very offended by that, and he said that my advocacy for law and order makes me a neocon, which once again demonstrates Maj's unfortunate habit of using words without knowing what they mean.
00:52:34.460And just a quick hint here, I'm an anti-interventionist who wants to suspend all foreign aid to all countries, so that alone precludes me from ever being labeled a neocon.
00:52:45.220You might as well call me a vegan while you're at it if you're just gonna throw labels at me that are literally the opposite of who I am.
00:52:52.940I've generally ignored most of Maj's crybaby fits.
00:52:56.020In fact, I've never initiated any interaction with this guy in my life.
00:52:59.680I've never intentionally tried to talk to him.
00:53:02.560Prior to the whole slavery kerfuffle, I vaguely knew of him as sort of a right-of-center pundit and gun rights activist, and I would have considered him, in many respects, an ideological ally.
00:53:12.960But sadly, Maj would prefer to use my name for clout and to take potshots at me as a means of building up his own platform and increasing his own name recognition.
00:53:22.240As he sees it, there's no point in working with someone when you can get more clicks and retweets by tearing them down constantly.
00:53:30.020And this is a, I have to tell you, a depressingly common occurrence in the right-wing media sphere in particular.
00:53:36.820And it's one of the many reasons why conservatives so often lose.
00:53:42.600All that to say, by acknowledging him, I will be giving him the attention he so desperately seeks from me.
00:54:40.460I mean, you beat someone over the head repeatedly, and that's the way to kill someone.
00:54:45.260They didn't, thank God, but they could have.
00:54:47.120And they wouldn't have cared if they did, by the way.
00:54:50.600Now, the attacker in the video has been arrested and will face charges, though there's no reason to think that he'll ultimately end up with anything more than a slap on the wrist, because that's usually the way these things go.
00:54:59.460But the fact remains that the teenage boy beat the hell out of a nine-year-old girl a third his size.
00:55:05.560It is a vicious, brutal, animalistic behavior and should be condemned as such, which is why I tweeted on Friday that these are, quote, children raised to be animals, because that's what they are.
00:56:34.360This clown, I guess, I guess those are the animals, right, that come from the same racial jungle that Biden said he didn't want his children to be a part of.
00:56:46.760Now, the funny thing here is that Maj would later go on to tweet that the people criticizing him for the comments you just heard there from him are Karens who have a victim mentality and are crying racism.
00:57:05.220But this is about the level of cognitive dissonance you can expect from the same guy who recently said that it's reductive to use the phrase all lives matter because you're stealing it from BLM, even as he has an entire line of merchandise with the phrase black guns matter.
00:57:18.320So he can take the phrase for the purpose of monetizing it, but we can't take it for the purpose of emphasizing the value and worth of all human lives.
00:57:39.200Okay, but if I'm a clown, what does that make the grown man hanging out in my comment section?
00:57:45.380See, there are plenty of people on the internet, people like, say, you, for example, who I think have nothing interesting or especially intelligent to offer, who I think are absolute idiots.
00:57:54.780But the good thing is that I'm not forced to see or interact with their content, nor am I compelled to reply to everything they say.
00:58:02.540So I guess my point is that if you really don't respect my point of view, if I'm just a clown as far as you're concerned, then, and I'm trying to put this as nicely as I can, piss off, dude.
00:58:20.100Second, I never said anything about the races of the children involved.
00:58:24.120It may shock you to learn this, but I am opposed to teenage boys of any race brutalizing nine-year-old girls of any race.
00:58:32.520You know, you are the one who has once again found a way to racialize something while accusing everyone else of racializing it.
00:58:40.060Because you're also a coward who can't stand on your own words.
00:58:43.380And since you clearly do see this through a racial lens, and you've made it a racial issue, I must wonder whether you would be so desperate to minimize the actions of the assailants if they were white boys beating up a black girl.
00:58:57.180After all, I mean, you must have some kind of motivation that would drive you to utterly humiliate yourself by using the she started it excuse.
00:59:05.600Now, it's not at all clear from the video who actually did hit first.
00:59:10.060First, and even if you did see a first hit in the video, that wouldn't tell you what happened right before the video started.
00:59:18.180You see, videos almost always begin after the action starts.
00:59:21.640Otherwise, there'd be no reason for anyone to be filming in the first place.
00:59:27.340Someone pulls out their phone, starts filming.
00:59:29.460So the first thing you see in the video is not the first thing that happened, Maj.
00:59:33.180But that's all completely and totally irrelevant.
00:59:37.960There is no circumstance that would ever even begin to justify or minimize the brutal physical assault of a nine-year-old girl who is cowering with her hands over her head while being pummeled in the skull.
00:59:55.800Okay, there are plenty of cases where the details about who started it really matter.
01:00:00.640A fight between two teenage boys, for instance.
01:00:02.480I think, in that case, it matters who started it.
01:00:05.700But when a little girl in third grade is being pummeled over the head by a teenage boy, the question of who started it could not be less relevant.
01:00:13.720And it's only brought up by someone looking to minimize the guilt of the assailant.
01:00:18.100Of course, you do issue a half-hearted denunciation of the assault by saying that the boys were being dumb and simply overdid it when they repeatedly bashed a nine-year-old girl over the head.
01:00:28.980No, Maj, that's not typical dumb kid behavior.
01:00:47.260Just like we don't condemn an arsonist who burns down a building by saying, well, he's overdoing it.
01:00:51.520Because that would obviously imply that he's not necessarily wrong for setting fire to the building, but that the fire shouldn't have been as big.
01:00:59.560In fact, overdoing it is exactly the sort of phrase you use when you don't want to fully condemn a certain action.
01:01:06.320Which again raises the question of why you wouldn't want to fully condemn the savage physical assault of a small child.
01:01:16.880Hopefully, you know, this is also a question that you may ask yourself while looking in the mirror and wondering about the sort of man you've become.
01:01:27.180Third, you're right that I don't know these boys' parents.
01:01:36.300And I can assume that because boys with good and attentive fathers, they don't beat the hell out of little girls.
01:01:42.680Now, it's true that we as parents, we can't directly control everything our kids do.
01:01:46.740Actually, in a literal and technical sense, we can't directly control almost anything they do, okay?
01:01:52.580Because they aren't remote control cars or puppets on strings.
01:01:56.000And if that's what we mean by control, like actually physically control their movements like they're drones or robots, that's not how it works with human beings.
01:02:04.520They have free will and they act on their own volition.
01:02:06.840As parents, it's maybe more precise to say that we influence our children for better or worse.
01:02:12.060You may not be in a position to actively control your kid when he's on the school bus and you aren't even physically present, but your influence is present even when you aren't.
01:02:21.760And if your teenage child is viciously assaulting a third grader, that certainly speaks, and speaks very poorly, to your parental influence.
01:02:31.140My guess, which is based not on racist dog whistles, as you claim, but rather on a simple understanding of human nature, is that the boys in the video come from homes filled with violence and emotional and psychological chaos.
01:02:46.420This is the most important kind of influence we can give them.
01:02:49.340And refusing to take charge of that process of moral formation is a form of moral formation itself, which is really moral deformation.
01:02:57.900There are many morally deformed kids running around these days, thanks to their morally deformed parents.
01:03:04.260Now, if I'm wrong, and it turns out that the teenage boy who was brutally assaulting a nine-year-old girl actually comes from a loving and intact two-parent household where they eat dinners together and they go to church and they have family board game nights and so on, then I will admit that the boy is an exception to the rule.
01:03:23.140The rule which says that children raised to be decent human beings will generally become decent human beings, and those raised to be animals will generally become animals.
01:03:29.820But I don't think this is an exception.