The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1113 - Poisons Pour Into Our Water Supply While The Biden Administration Focuses On Identity Politics

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a train derailment sent toxic chemicals pouring into the air and

00:00:04.560 water supply, but the Biden administration can't put identity politics to the side for

00:00:07.800 long enough to address the problem. We'll discuss. Also, the White House is now officially denying

00:00:11.900 that the UFOs are aliens, which confirms that they are aliens. Nikki Haley announces her candidacy.

00:00:17.780 A Christian group runs a Super Bowl ad calling on people to love each other and get along.

00:00:22.040 AOC says the ad promotes fascism somehow. And the Washington Post says that on this Valentine's Day,

00:00:26.980 don't forget about the asexuals. Very important. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:44.080 Yesterday afternoon at a time of crisis in America on multiple fronts, President Joe Biden issued a

00:01:49.400 statement meant to calm our anxieties and let us know that he has everything under control. He tweeted,

00:01:55.100 we're going to end unfair service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events and make companies

00:02:00.140 disclose all fees up front. In fact, he's been talking about this nonstop since he announced his

00:02:05.320 war on junk fees during the State of the Union. On Sunday, he tweeted something similar, I'm calling

00:02:09.940 on Congress to pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act because these unfair charges add up. No company should

00:02:16.120 overcharge you and get away with it. It's a basic question of fairness. Wow, what a relief. I mean,

00:02:22.620 inflation is driving Americans into poverty. China is sending spy balloons over our airspace.

00:02:28.040 Mysterious UFOs are hovering in our skies. Trains are derailing across the country.

00:02:33.040 And Joe Biden is working on making concert tickets slightly more affordable. He has heard the cries of

00:02:40.280 the American people. He has listened to our pleas. He knows that what we need now is strong and

00:02:45.880 confident leadership. And so he has set to work on the problem of excessive resort fees.

00:02:51.780 I mean, this agenda may seem totally irrelevant to the major problems faced by real people. But then

00:02:58.080 again, you have to keep in mind, Joe Biden has lived in D.C. for 50 years. It's been a very long

00:03:02.220 time since he's even met a real person. But while Biden works on making hotel reservations slightly

00:03:07.680 cheaper, arguably larger problems continue to plague the country. A problem like, for example,

00:03:13.460 the highly toxic fumes polluting the air and water supply in East Palestine, Ohio and potentially

00:03:20.420 well outside of that area as well. We discussed this story yesterday, but here's the latest from

00:03:24.260 Breitbart says, quote, the fiery derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals across the Ohio,

00:03:29.980 Pennsylvania line last week spewed more harmful pollutants into the water and surface soils and air

00:03:35.680 than originally reported. Fresh data made available Monday suggests about 50 cars on a Norfolk Southern

00:03:40.860 railroad train derailed on February 3rd while traveling from Illinois to Pennsylvania through

00:03:45.660 the small town of East Palestine, Ohio. More than 2,000 residents were evacuated due to health

00:03:50.060 concerns over the chemical leak, but have since been allowed to return. State health officials were

00:03:54.280 initially concerned about the presence of vinyl chloride, a highly volatile colorless gas produced

00:03:59.000 for commercial uses, which spilled in the accident. Other toxins like hydrogen chloride were emitted

00:04:04.160 in large plumes of smoke during a controlled release and burn, prompting officials to issue

00:04:09.400 mandatory evacuation orders in a one mile radius of the crash site. Another of the substances released

00:04:14.720 was phosgene, which is a gas deployed as a chemical weapon across the First World War battlefields.

00:04:19.900 A list of the cars involved in the derailment and the products they were carrying since released by

00:04:25.540 the Norfolk Southern Company reveals several more toxic chemicals than first made apparent following the

00:04:32.120 crash, according to ABC News. Among the substances were ethylene glycol, monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate,

00:04:42.720 there we go, and isylbutylene were also in the rail cars that were derailed, according to the list.

00:04:48.400 Contact with ethylhexyl acrylate, a carcinogen, can cause burning and irritation of the skin and eyes,

00:04:56.080 and inhalation can irritate the nose and throat, causing shortness of breath and coughing,

00:05:01.500 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, in other words, the situation

00:05:06.100 sounds very bad, but according to the testimony from people on the ground, it's actually much worse

00:05:10.720 than it already sounds. TikTok is flooded with lots of videos from people that live in the area or around

00:05:18.300 it and are talking about the things that they've seen and what they've heard. Here's just one example.

00:05:23.000 Here it is. I see so many people talking about the train derailment at East Palestine, Ohio,

00:05:29.640 and all I'm gonna ask is that if you do this, you get your facts right. I literally grew up right down

00:05:37.320 the road from East Palestine. My old childhood best friend lives in the f***ing town. My current best friend

00:05:46.120 literally lives right next to the town. It is so much worse than what the media is telling any of us.

00:05:55.880 I'm getting reports from people that are down there right now that they're literally seeing

00:06:02.200 schools of fish floating down streams, rivers, f***ing dead. I got a video from my friend,

00:06:12.320 okay? And she's like walking, dude. It's all f***ing dead. All f***ing dead. And on the top of the

00:06:20.420 water is a really pretty chemical rainbow sheen. As I said, many videos just like that one. Of

00:06:27.000 course, you can claim, you can watch that and claim that these are, well, it's anecdotal,

00:06:30.540 unreliable, etc. But the question is whether we're better off relying on this kind of testimony or the

00:06:37.840 official word from authorities who would have been happy to let most of the country ignore this

00:06:42.720 story completely. Keep in mind, this originally happened over a week ago. And as far as the

00:06:47.900 corporate media was concerned and the authorities dealing with this, we would never even be talking

00:06:52.820 about it. They'd prefer to not talk about it at all. These are the same people who have a vested

00:06:57.680 interest in downplaying the extent of this catastrophe. You have the authorities in charge

00:07:05.780 who have, you know, some of these people are the ones who decided to burn the stuff in the first

00:07:10.160 place. And as far as the corporate media is concerned, this is all happening under the Biden

00:07:15.220 administration. So they're not exactly motivated to talk about it. And in fact, they're still

00:07:21.780 downplaying it. For example, chemicals from the derailment have now made their way into the Ohio

00:07:26.860 River. And this would seem to be a rather major problem given that the Ohio River flows through

00:07:32.160 Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Kentucky. And through its various tributaries,

00:07:37.480 the river provides water to millions of people, reaches down into Tennessee, you know, where I

00:07:43.280 live and farther south, parts of Virginia, North Carolina could also be affected. You got 50 train

00:07:48.500 cars of hazardous chemicals that were intentionally burned, sending toxins into a river that supplies

00:07:54.980 drinking water to something like 10% of the U.S. population. And yet, and yet we're told

00:07:59.680 there's nothing to worry about. Spectrum News reports, quote, a low level of hazardous chemicals

00:08:04.980 ended up in the Ohio River because of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio earlier this

00:08:08.940 month. But officials from the Greater Cincinnati Water Works are working to reassure residents that

00:08:14.100 faucet water will remain safe to drink. Jeff Swertfeger, the superintendent of water quality and

00:08:20.660 treatment of waterworks, told Spectrum News on Monday, samples taken downstream from the derailment

00:08:25.000 showed incredibly low levels of the chemical. The risk of exposure for natural and man-made

00:08:30.240 hazardous substances is determined by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,

00:08:36.020 which is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

00:08:40.240 Well, but it's a good thing that the Department of Health and Human Services never gets anything

00:08:44.560 wrong. I mean, these are people we can rely on. Don't worry, folks. Rachel Levine is on the case.

00:08:49.600 He'll let us know if we're being poisoned by our drinking water. Of course, Levine, you know,

00:08:53.500 thinks it's a good idea to give chemical castration drugs to children, which may impact

00:08:58.020 your confidence in his ability to judge what is healthy and what isn't. Meanwhile, experts on the

00:09:04.400 ground who are not directly working for the federal government are painting a slightly less rosy picture

00:09:09.580 of what's going on. Here's one guy explaining that it may not have actually been a great idea to,

00:09:16.520 as he puts it, nuke a town with chemicals. Listen.

00:09:19.600 We now know three more chemicals that were on board the Norfolk Southern train that derailed here in

00:09:26.600 East Palestine just over a week ago, and we're being told that some of those chemicals are

00:09:31.500 dangerous. We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open.

00:09:37.240 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to Norfolk Southern stating that ethylene glycol

00:09:42.860 monobutyl ether, ethylaxoacrylate, and isobutylene were also in the rail cars that were derailed,

00:09:49.380 breached, or on fire. Caggiano says ethylaxoacrylate is especially worrisome. He says it's a carcinogen

00:09:55.560 and contact with it can cause burning and irritation in the skin and eyes. Breathing it in can irritate

00:10:01.120 the nose, throat, and cause coughing and shortness of breath. Isobutylene is also known to cause

00:10:06.480 dizziness and drowsiness when inhaled. I was kind of surprised that when they quickly told the people

00:10:14.500 they can go back home, but then said if they feel like they want their homes tested, they can have

00:10:21.240 them tested. I would have far rather they did all the testing. Caggiano says it's possible some of

00:10:26.740 these chemicals could still be present in homes and on objects until you clean them thoroughly.

00:10:31.740 So there's a lot of what ifs, and we're gonna be looking at this thing 5, 10, 15, 20 years down

00:10:37.300 the line and wondering, gee, cancer clusters could pop up, well water could go bad. Caggiano recommends

00:10:44.460 anyone who's in the East Palestine area get a health checkup. He says get a record of where your

00:10:49.460 health stands now so that moving forward, you have documentation of any possibly related effects

00:10:55.020 to the train derailment. Now the official word is that they burned the chemicals on purpose because

00:11:02.780 they had to do it, otherwise it would have set on fire on its own. So this was a controlled burn sort

00:11:10.520 of thing, getting out ahead of it. That's the official word anyway, to the extent that you trust

00:11:17.060 the official word, which for me, I don't at all. Now what you hear from the hazardous materials expert

00:11:23.240 there is, you know, from his perspective, the way he puts it is that they did it because they were

00:11:27.900 just trying to get the railroad open and it was the quickest way to do it. Now, what was the real

00:11:33.440 motivation behind it? Was it like, well, we just got to need to get this thing open. So we're just

00:11:36.760 going to set all this stuff on fire. Was this extreme callous recklessness and incompetence

00:11:44.120 that puts potentially millions of people in harm's way? Or was it like, it was the only option they

00:11:51.440 had? We are never going to officially be told the answer to that question. Never. Okay. Just like

00:11:58.660 everything else that goes wrong, there is never going to be any accountability. There might be

00:12:03.500 some Republicans that talk about, we need to investigate this and have a hearing, but there's

00:12:06.880 never, no one's ever going to be put on trial for it. There's never going to be anyone charged with

00:12:10.400 any kind of, you know, recklessness or, or, or anything like that. So we're never going to be

00:12:16.440 told officially. We're going to be left to speculate. And personally, I think the speculation

00:12:23.820 that makes the most sense is that this was again, extreme callous recklessness and disregard for human

00:12:28.300 life. But anyway, that all sounds extremely disturbing, but, but at least our fearless

00:12:33.320 transportation secretary has things under control. Pete Buttigieg, who has now been at the helm of the

00:12:38.800 transportation department for at least four transportation related disasters. Uh, he addressed

00:12:45.020 a group of reporters yesterday where he said absolutely nothing about the train derailment.

00:12:51.980 He did however, find the time to complain that there are too many white construction workers. Listen

00:12:57.320 to work with your contractors, uh, to work with your community colleges on building a workforce

00:13:05.160 that reflects the community. That's right. We have heard way too many stories from generations past

00:13:10.500 of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color that finally sees

00:13:15.520 the project come to them. But everyone in the hard hats on that project looking like, uh, uh, you know,

00:13:20.500 doing, doing the good paying jobs don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood.

00:13:24.380 Right. You can build community wealth that will help close wealth gaps in this country if we can tear

00:13:31.620 down those barriers. But that happens at the delivery level. Ah, yes. The barriers that are

00:13:37.580 preventing racial minorities from getting into the construction business. Now, of course, uh, and I say

00:13:43.660 this with respect, but Pete Buttigieg is a babbling dumbass. Uh, he, he paints a picture of all white

00:13:49.720 construction crews coming into cities to build things for minority populations. Meanwhile, I have never in my

00:13:56.080 life seen an all white construction crew. I don't even know what that would look like. I've never seen it.

00:14:00.700 Um, I'm not sure I've ever even seen a majority white construction crew, let alone all white.

00:14:07.140 The construction industry is well known for being disproportionately Hispanic. In fact,

00:14:12.720 half of all construction workers are racial minorities. White people are vastly underrepresented

00:14:17.560 in the business. And yet, even if it were true that construction workers were predominantly white,

00:14:23.940 why would that be a problem? You're telling me it would be racist for white men to build homes for

00:14:28.540 black people. That's racist. That's an example of white supremacy in your fevered mind rather than

00:14:35.160 being an example of white people serving and helping minority communities. But that's neither here nor

00:14:40.480 there. The real point is that trains are derailing all over the country. By the way, there have been,

00:14:44.340 there have been more than a dozen derailments just in the last month and a half in this country.

00:14:48.800 A dozen. More than that. Yet, the Secretary of Transportation is more concerned with making sure

00:14:54.760 there are fewer white people in the construction industry. This is the fundamental problem. We are led by

00:15:00.400 people who are these left-wing nihilists who do not value human life. They do not care about the country

00:15:07.700 or the health and safety of its citizens. And whose only goal, aside from maintaining and expanding their

00:15:12.760 own power, is to further their ideological agenda. Anything that falls outside the scope of those

00:15:17.960 interests will be ignored. This is also why you've noticed that the environmentalists have shown very

00:15:25.560 little interest in this story, this actual environmental disaster. Why is that? Well, because it's a practical

00:15:33.980 and immediate problem. The air that people breathe, the water that they drink, that's been poisoned.

00:15:44.140 You know, and if you didn't know any better, you'd think the environmentalist brigade would be shouting

00:15:47.380 from the rooftops about the situation. This is their moment. This is the kind of crisis they're

00:15:51.740 supposed to be especially concerned about. But as it turns out, they're not environmentalists because

00:15:58.640 they care about the well-being of human beings who live in the environment. They're environmentalists

00:16:03.960 because they hate human beings. And environmentalism is a tool to control, manipulate, and ultimately

00:16:09.140 eradicate that which they hate. That's why they'd rather talk about climate change rather than, you

00:16:15.260 know, poisoned water supplies. Because climate change is vague, amorphous, ambiguous. It's a concept that

00:16:20.960 can be used to exploit people because it doesn't, it's like, doesn't really mean anything. But a poisoned

00:16:25.720 river, well, that's something simple and immediate. You take on that problem because you want to help

00:16:33.440 your fellow human beings. And that's the last thing these left-wing environmentalists are

00:16:37.980 interested in doing. Now, as for the people in East Palestine, Ohio, in those in the surrounding

00:16:44.320 areas who might be drinking contaminated water and breathing contaminated air, well, they're on their

00:16:50.480 own. You know, unfortunately, that area of the country has made the mistake of being mostly white

00:16:56.900 and working class. So they don't check any of the identity boxes necessary for the powers that be to

00:17:01.680 care about them or pretend to care about them anyway. In fact, they're exactly the kind of people

00:17:06.940 that Pete Buttigieg wants to expel from the construction industry and every other industry

00:17:11.320 to make way for more favored identity groups. Because that's the sort of depraved mentality

00:17:17.420 shared by those who lead us. They aren't just incapable of solving real problems. They're also totally

00:17:24.840 uninterested. Now, let's get to our headlines.

00:17:34.340 We'll start with this briefly, which, of course, the top headline will continue to be the fact that

00:17:41.740 we are under an alien invasion. We are experiencing the first phases of an invasion from space aliens

00:17:51.260 who have decided that, you know, these are intergalactic dreamers, you might say,

00:17:57.120 who have come here for a better life. And they've decided, they've seen how welcoming this

00:18:02.120 administration is to the terrestrial variety of illegal aliens. So they figure they'll try their

00:18:07.620 luck as well. I think it's been all but confirmed, as you know, that these UFOs are a space alien in

00:18:17.780 origin. They are from, I'm not going to say from another galaxy, potentially another solar system,

00:18:21.800 I don't know exactly. But it is, it's 100% guaranteed at this point. How do I know that?

00:18:29.300 Well, because, well, there's three ways that I know it, okay? Three ways. I have three pieces of

00:18:34.200 evidence that I will present to you. One, there's stuff flying in the sky.

00:18:44.720 Two, I feel it in my heart. I just feel, I can sense in my heart that this is an alien invasion.

00:18:52.800 And three, here's the third, this might be the most convincing. If those two didn't convince you,

00:18:56.840 third piece of evidence is that now they are officially denying that these UFOs are from aliens.

00:19:03.820 Like the one thing that gave me, as sure as I have been that these are aliens, the one thing

00:19:08.040 that gave me a little bit of pause is that we played some of the clips yesterday of, you know,

00:19:12.640 the administration and officials, like sort of entertaining the notion that they might be

00:19:19.900 space aliens. And when I heard that, that made me a lot less confident. But now they've changed

00:19:25.320 their tune and they're officially denying it. So here's Karen Jean Pair issuing the official White

00:19:31.520 House denial. I know there've been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again,

00:19:38.660 no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. Again,

00:19:45.580 there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.

00:19:51.660 Very funny. Let's all laugh about it. You hear them laughing in the room. And then John Kirby,

00:19:55.280 so that wasn't enough. John Kirby is a Pentagon spokesman. And he also had a similar message

00:20:01.180 for the public yesterday.

00:20:01.980 My understanding is that the top officials of the Pentagon, when asked explicitly if they were

00:20:09.420 ruling out any kind of extraterrestrial presence, said they weren't ruling anything out. And yet at

00:20:14.160 the beginning of today's briefing, albeit with her usual winning smile, Ms. Jean Pierre seemed to rule

00:20:20.300 out any extraterrestrial activity. I don't think the American people need to worry about aliens with

00:20:25.500 respect to these craft, period. I don't think there's any more that needs to be said there.

00:20:31.580 That's not, that's a, that's a non-denial denial. He's saying, I don't think the American people need

00:20:35.840 to be worried about aliens. He didn't say they're not aliens. He just said you don't need to be worried

00:20:39.780 about them. Very interesting wording. So what else do you need to know? There are things in the sky

00:20:47.480 and they're doing weird stuff. I feel it in my heart and they're officially denying it, but, but also not

00:20:56.260 denying it at the same time. That's all you need to know. Daily Wire report. Nikki Haley, the former

00:21:01.920 governor of South Carolina and one-time UN ambassador announced Tuesday that she will seek the 2024

00:21:07.000 Republican presidential nomination. Haley served three terms in South Carolina House of Representatives

00:21:11.060 before she was elected governor in 2010, becoming the youngest governor in the country at age 38.

00:21:15.660 After winning re-election, she served in 2017 when former president Donald Trump nominated her as

00:21:20.360 the United States ambassador to the United Nations. And she officially announced her candidacy this

00:21:26.860 morning. She put, she released a video at like 6.30 in the morning for some reason, which was kind of

00:21:32.560 an odd, an odd choice. But we have a little bit of her official announcement video. It's time for a new

00:21:40.520 generation of leadership to rediscover fiscal responsibility, secure our border, and strengthen

00:21:47.860 our country, our pride, and our purpose.

00:21:54.860 Some people look at America and see vulnerability. The socialist left sees an opportunity to rewrite

00:22:03.840 history. China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied, kicked around. You should

00:22:11.860 know this about me. I don't put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you're

00:22:18.820 wearing heels. I'm Nikki Haley, and I'm running for president.

00:22:31.040 Eh, that's always been my take on Nikki Haley. I'm not a, I have to tell you, I'm not a big Nikki

00:22:37.540 Haley fan. Well, I'm not a fan of any politician in general, because politicians shouldn't have fans.

00:22:42.360 But Nikki Haley is basically kind of an establishment, sort of typical, prototypical

00:22:50.800 Republican type, yet is a woman, which is not unique at all. And then you get the girl power

00:22:58.260 stuff at the end there. Here's a challenge for you. Like, if you're a woman and you're announcing

00:23:04.300 your candidacy for the presidency, or any political campaign, how about, like, you don't need to

00:23:10.860 mention the fact that you are a woman? That's the challenge. Can you put together the campaign ad

00:23:15.940 without, without, not even one little, and by the way, I'm a woman. We know that, first of all,

00:23:24.040 well, some of us do anyway. Those of us who know what a woman is are able to recognize that.

00:23:29.200 And it's, it is not a qualification for the office. And we're not interested in the White House

00:23:36.480 becoming a forum for, you know, girl power sloganeering. It's just not the kind of thing

00:23:41.700 that's going to motivate people to vote for you. So we don't need that. And also, I just,

00:23:48.100 this is a, this is a stylistic point, but the delivery, I don't know what it is with Republicans

00:23:55.380 in particular, but this kind of lifeless, robotic delivery. I know she's capable of speaking like a

00:24:02.900 normal person and sounding relatively authentic. And like, she's not reading from a script, but

00:24:08.480 from pure style perspective, she sounds like she's reading a teleprompter that she just was reading

00:24:16.480 then for the first time. And that's going to be a problem. That is, that is a problem politically.

00:24:22.580 So, and finally, the last point here is that, you know, I think Nikki Haley is going to be with

00:24:36.300 someone like her getting in the race. This is, this is just like floodgates opening and it's going

00:24:42.120 to be the beginning of a whole bunch of other people. Many of them kind of standard Republican

00:24:47.020 types jumping into the race. In fact, I just read an article, Tim Scott is going to probably

00:24:52.300 announce, I think this week. And so we're going to get a lot of Tim Scott, Nikki Haley sort of types

00:24:57.260 who, again, these are, these are just your basic ordinary kind of establishment Republicans.

00:25:04.440 But with, you know, Nikki Haley establishment Republican, but she's a woman. And so that's

00:25:09.740 exciting. And Tim Scott establishment Republican, but he's black, he's a racial minority. So that's

00:25:15.760 supposed to add a bit of excitement and make it something different and new and unique, but it

00:25:20.040 doesn't. So there's gonna be a lot of that. And I can tell you right now that this is the number one

00:25:29.220 way to guarantee that Donald Trump gets the nomination in 2024. This is, this is how you

00:25:38.120 guarantee that result. So if you're a big, in fact, I saw some, some Trump supporters on social

00:25:45.180 media reacting to this announcement for Nikki Haley, and they were sort of angry about it and

00:25:49.760 upset and saying how she doesn't, she doesn't have loyalty. In fact, I'm, we can guarantee that

00:25:56.280 Trump, if he hasn't already, will issue some sort of statement from his truth, social platform,

00:26:01.060 attacking her for not having loyalty, which of all the issues you might have with Nikki Haley,

00:26:05.920 that is not one of the problems. The fact that she lacks loyalty to some other politician

00:26:10.300 who gives a damn. Um, but if you're a Trump supporter, you, there's no reason to be angry

00:26:17.020 that she's getting in the race. You should be very happy about that. Actually. In fact,

00:26:20.060 you should be encouraging more and more people to get into the race because they're going to split

00:26:26.420 the non-Trump vote. That's how Trump got, got the nomination in 2016 because he was running against

00:26:33.680 27 people and, uh, and all on the, the non-Trump and anti-Trump vote was split between all those

00:26:40.320 people. And it's looking like that's going to happen again in 2024. Um, which of course also

00:26:48.260 makes me very much question the intentions and motivations of people like Nikki Haley.

00:26:53.200 It's like, unless you've completely deluded yourself, you must know that there's, you're not

00:26:57.420 going to win the nomination yourself. You must know that you don't have any real base of support.

00:27:02.460 No one is like, there's, there's no, maybe if this was 20 years ago, it would be different,

00:27:08.220 but it's not. And, and right now, especially among conservatives, the people that you need

00:27:14.180 to win the nomination, um, there's no real desire for this kind of kind of standard establishment

00:27:25.120 Republican campaign. There's no, no one, no one wants it. There's not enough of a, of a base

00:27:32.280 out there to carry you through to the nomination. So you're in there and you're just guaranteeing

00:27:38.080 that, you know, Trump will get the nomination. Um, that's how you keep, that's how you keep

00:27:44.940 DeSantis out and you put Trump in the nomination is by having a whole bunch of people. And this

00:27:50.840 is what it's going to end up with. We're going to end up with, it's going to be yet against

00:27:53.200 me 2016 all over again. And there's going to be 19 or 20 people in the race, um, all taken

00:27:58.880 a little bit of a chunk from it. And it's going to be a chunk. You know, it's going to

00:28:02.900 mostly be votes that would have gone to Ron DeSantis. And instead it's going to be split

00:28:09.580 between all these other people. Trump will, I'd say Trump at this point is looking like

00:28:14.220 Trump will probably walk into the nomination. So again, if you're a Trump supporter, there's

00:28:18.020 no reason for you to be angry about this. You should be very excited and you should be

00:28:22.020 encouraging more Republicans to get in the race.

00:28:23.880 There was a Superbowl related controversy yesterday that we didn't get a chance to

00:28:28.720 talk about. And, um, we'll start with the Daily Wire report. A Superbowl message of hope

00:28:34.500 and love from a Christian organization drew mockery from representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:28:39.100 who likened the commercials extolling Jesus Christ to fascism. The nonprofit Servant Foundation,

00:28:46.160 um, it's the name of the organization, Servant Foundation's name, sponsored two Superbowl

00:28:49.800 commercials as part of the He Gets Us campaign. The first featured photos of children in heartwarming

00:28:54.560 situations, including black and white children hugging, as well as a poignant photo from 2019

00:28:59.560 of, uh, five-year-old Aubrey Burge comforting her four-year-old brother as he underwent chemotherapy.

00:29:06.120 The narrator says, Jesus didn't want us to act like adults. He just didn't want us to act like adults.

00:29:13.200 Um, he gets us, all of us be childlike. The second ad showed adults arguing and fighting with

00:29:19.120 each other, then stated, Jesus loved the people we hate. Reiterating, he gets, he gets us, all of us.

00:29:25.980 In fact, we have that ad. Um, let's go ahead and play that.

00:29:42.880 Maybe I'm foolish. Maybe I'm blind. Thinking I can see through this and see what's behind.

00:29:49.120 Got no way to prove it. So maybe I'm lying.

00:29:54.980 Take a look in the mirror. What do you see? Do you see it clearer? Or are you deceived?

00:30:03.380 In what you believe?

00:30:06.420 Cause I'm only human after all.

00:30:09.980 I'm only human now.

00:30:12.480 Okay, so you see it there. That one, uh, ad doesn't really translate for audio very well, does it? I didn't realize that.

00:30:32.700 But so, uh, that's the ad that played. And as it, as Daily Wire described it, it just shows a bunch of people like, uh, arguing with each other, different, uh, photos, different shots of people in various situations.

00:30:44.900 Uh, oftentimes it seems like they're at, you know, political demonstrations where you've got two sides that are yelling at each other.

00:30:49.760 And, uh, then it has that message of, uh, hope and unity and how we should all get along and all the rest of it.

00:30:55.620 Um, and the left was upset about this. They were complaining about it, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who said,

00:31:02.400 something tells me Jesus would not spend millions of dollars on Superbowl ads to make fascism look benign.

00:31:08.220 So what you just saw there is making fascism look benign.

00:31:13.060 The most, yes, benign is, is the right word. I mean, it is a very, it is a very benign ad.

00:31:20.040 I mean, the whole point of the ad is let's not argue, let's be friends and get along.

00:31:23.700 And say what you want about the value of a message like that. And I'll talk about that in a second.

00:31:29.380 But how exactly that promotes fascism, it's, it's, I, I, I can't see it.

00:31:38.640 Except that fascism is, it's a reflex. These people all have Tourette's syndrome, essentially.

00:31:43.440 A kind of ideological Tourette's syndrome. And they just shout the word fascism at anything

00:31:49.340 that they don't like. And they decide what they, what they don't like, not based on any kind of

00:31:54.780 analysis of, of the situation. But just, it's just like coding. It's sort of like they,

00:32:00.180 they see something and it codes to them a certain way. And so in this case, they see that they see

00:32:05.300 the word Jesus. Maybe they know, maybe AOC realizes that somebody at Hobby Lobby had something to do

00:32:10.900 with the ad. And so immediately that makes it bad. Doesn't matter what the message is.

00:32:15.260 Jesus, Hobby Lobby, Christian type stuff, bad. And if it's bad, that makes it fascist.

00:32:24.140 And also racist and homophobic and transphobic. Though she didn't say that. There were other

00:32:27.860 people on social media that were making those claims as well. There are also complaints like

00:32:33.660 this from Sawyer Hackett, who is appropriately a hack and a Democratic consultant. He tweeted,

00:32:39.240 with the money that he gets us people spent on their right-wing Jesus ads, they could permanently

00:32:45.040 house 1,563 people experiencing homelessness. Um, the right-wing, what, what in the ad was right-wing

00:32:55.780 exactly? And just so you know, um, if they were to take their however many millions of dollars

00:33:01.760 and just buy a bunch of homes for homeless people, that would be a really great way to make sure that

00:33:10.680 homeless people have a home for about three or four days. Um, the, the amount of time it takes them

00:33:18.040 to completely destroy whatever home you give them. Because the whole reason that most homeless people

00:33:26.160 are homeless is that they have given up their entire lives for the sake of the drug that now

00:33:32.880 stands at the center of their, their life. And that's how they end up on the street. But most of

00:33:38.580 the time, that's how you end up on the street, especially if you're on the street for any extended

00:33:42.380 period of time. It's because you've given your entire life to a drug and it's the only thing you

00:33:46.800 care about. And it's all that matters. And whatever you're given, it's all going to be in service to

00:33:51.260 the drug. So they would destroy the house, trash it, maybe sell it so they could buy a bunch more

00:33:54.980 drugs. That's what would happen. You, that's why it's not as simple. If you're, if you have, um,

00:34:02.320 wisdom and intelligence beyond that of a child, you understand that you can't solve homelessness by

00:34:08.300 just literally giving as if the problem with homelessness is just the simple fact that they

00:34:13.080 don't have homes. That's it. Just give them a home and the problem solved. That's all.

00:34:18.100 No, most homeless people, you idiot Sawyer Hackett. Most of them. Okay. Most of them,

00:34:26.360 they weren't born homeless. They had homes. They lived in places. Don't you understand that?

00:34:31.540 They ended up on the street because of the drug problem and the mental illness.

00:34:36.120 And so if, if you have any solution that does not directly solve that, it's not a solution at all.

00:34:42.300 But what about this idea that the ads are right wing? Well, Breitbart has this report. Uh, the

00:34:49.420 campaign's advertisements all centered around the idea that Jesus gets us. According to NPR,

00:34:53.860 the well-funded campaign discusses how Jesus was a refugee, uh, had disdain for hypocrisy and was

00:34:59.500 also unfairly judged like other marginalized members of society. Quote, the advertisements are part of an

00:35:04.720 effort to shift away from a negative public perception of Christians and towards Jesus, says Bob

00:35:10.140 Smitana, national reporter for religion news service in an interview with NPR. Smitana says

00:35:15.720 that the campaign is attempting to appeal to groups that may have felt excluded or repelled by the

00:35:19.680 church in recent years, like members of the LGBTQ community, uh, different races, ethnicities,

00:35:24.540 those who lean more liberally, uh, liberal politically, or people who have kept up with the scandals of

00:35:30.020 abuse. So in other words, um, the, these are ads that they're putting these ads up for since 2022 and

00:35:38.140 they're, they're pushing for open borders saying Jesus was a refugee. And so therefore we have to

00:35:42.040 open up our borders and all the rest of it. Um, this is, these are ads designed to present Jesus

00:35:48.640 as a kind of left with it. They have a liberal message. It's supposed to appeal to left wing

00:35:53.580 people, um, with talking points that they will find appealing. And of course it utterly fails in doing

00:36:00.940 that, which, which should really be a message for the churches. You're trying to, you're, you are

00:36:05.840 speaking the language of the left. Um, you are abandoning the actual moral truth and moral

00:36:13.600 substance of the Christian faith in order to appeal to the left in the process. You alienate

00:36:19.640 all true Christians, but you do not succeed in actually winning the minds and hearts you're

00:36:25.600 trying to win because they're going to hate you regardless. Now we'll say that the one, you know,

00:36:32.480 open border stuff and all the rest of it. That's one thing, but the message in the one ad we played

00:36:36.480 about, Hey, we should all give her, get along and love our enemies. Like that, that is, like I said,

00:36:40.820 it's benign. I mean, there's, there's nothing, there's nothing, um, offensive about it unless

00:36:46.000 you're AOC. Uh, there's nothing offensive or, or outrageous about it. But I do think that

00:36:52.140 this kind of message and I, and I get this is sometimes this is what Christians like to lead

00:36:57.400 with because it's the most crowd pleasing. Love your enemy, love everybody, get along. Okay.

00:37:03.240 But it's not a very useful message. Um, you could say, you could say love your enemy and that is,

00:37:11.580 that's scriptural. It's true. But you should, you should be saying something useful about that.

00:37:17.700 Like it's not enough to just say, well, I love your enemy. What does that mean exactly? What do you,

00:37:21.220 what do you mean we should love our enemies? Does that mean we have to, we have to get along with

00:37:24.760 them all the time and always be smiling and cheerful and we can never disagree. And they

00:37:28.600 showed a lot of clips of people screaming at each other. And like I said, in many of those,

00:37:31.920 we don't know the context for those clips, but in many of them, it seemed like these were

00:37:36.420 demonstrations that were the two sides yelling at each other. Are we sure that both sides were being

00:37:42.400 hateful? Some of those clips that might be people who are standing for the truth and standing for what

00:37:48.580 they believe in and standing up to those who represent evil. So that's not, that's not hatred.

00:37:55.660 There's nothing wrong with that. Just because someone is yelling and angry doesn't automatically

00:38:00.500 make them hateful. And by the way, even if they're being hateful, that's not necessarily wrong because

00:38:06.500 there are things in the world that we should hate. There are things that God hates. Evil and sin

00:38:12.800 are those things. We should hate evil. We should hate sin.

00:38:21.920 I don't know if any of those clips are from any demonstrations outside of a drag queen story hour,

00:38:26.440 for example, but those are the kinds of demonstrations that sometimes get a little

00:38:29.380 heated. The people that are protesting the drag queen story hours or the, you know, the family,

00:38:34.620 so-called family-friendly drag shows, are they hateful? Yeah, in a certain sense,

00:38:39.080 because they hate the sexualization and grooming of children. They are hateful towards that act and

00:38:46.120 they should be. So yes, we should love our enemies. We should have love, but that, but that means

00:38:52.840 standing for what is right, standing for what's true. Um, it means wanting the best for people,

00:39:00.580 but wanting the best for someone also means not going along with those things that are destroying them.

00:39:09.080 And that has to be part of the message. If it's not, then, uh, I'm not sure what we achieve.

00:39:16.180 All right. Finally, Dylan Mulvaney is on a day 300 something of girlhood. And of course has learned

00:39:21.660 nothing from the actual women who've tried to tell him how degrading this whole stunt is. So here's

00:39:26.420 his latest video. It's day 335 of being a girl. And I wanted to go on record to say that this

00:39:33.460 might be the hottest I've ever looked and will ever look in my lifetime. And I'm making this video so

00:39:40.600 that in thousands of years, there will be evidence. Is it the dress? It could be the dress. Is it the

00:39:48.580 makeup or is it the hair? Because I think it's the extensions. And when I have extensions in, I don't know

00:39:55.200 my name. I don't know where I live. I just know that I love these. And I know that I look like I could

00:40:00.280 steal a husband, but I want to promise you, look me in the eyes. I want to promise you that I would

00:40:05.220 never do that to you. Okay. I am a girl's girl and I love you. Woo. But seriously, this is good,

00:40:12.620 right? Okay. Okay. Okay. Love you. Love you. Okay. Now, listen, I know I don't have a reputation for

00:40:18.740 being necessarily the kindest or gentlest person in the world, especially when dealing with people

00:40:22.280 like this. The truth though, is that I, I am a gentle soul at heart, I think. And also I do feel

00:40:27.860 pity or I can feel pity for some of these people. Um, and so I wouldn't usually say what I'm about

00:40:35.320 to say, at least not as directly as I'm going to say it, but Dylan Mulvaney is intentionally degrading

00:40:41.840 women. Every time he does this woman face minstrel show routine, he is insulting and demeaning them

00:40:48.080 and doing it on purpose and he, and profiting off of it. And he doesn't care. And since I have two

00:40:53.200 daughters and a wife, uh, I take this kind of thing personally, which is why I have to say to

00:40:56.860 Dylan, Dylan, if that is the most attractive you will ever look, then I don't even want to imagine

00:41:04.440 what you'll look like when you're at your ugliest. You do not pass as a, as an attractive woman or as

00:41:11.040 a woman at all. Uh, even with 50 pounds of makeup and plastic surgery and clever lighting tricks, even

00:41:16.760 then you still cannot escape what you really are and what you will always be. You have successfully

00:41:22.420 shed whatever parts of you were masculine, perhaps, at least on the surface, nobody would

00:41:26.700 ever describe you as masculine or manly. So you've got that going, but your femininity quotient has not

00:41:31.880 increased at a rate commensurate with the loss of your masculinity. Um, you may not be masculine,

00:41:38.180 but you also aren't feminine. Instead you are, you are weird and artificial. You are manufactured and

00:41:44.720 lifeless. You are unearthly and eerie. You are like some kind of human deep fake. That's what you are.

00:41:51.280 You are a man deprived of all the best qualities of men, but without any of the best qualities of

00:41:57.380 women. Even your personality is contrived. Everything about you is fake. Nothing about you rings true.

00:42:02.860 Nobody buys the act. You'll never be accepted as a woman by anyone, never by anyone. Even the people

00:42:07.480 who pretend to accept you as a woman are only pretending because they're afraid of being lectured

00:42:12.220 if they don't, or because they want to use you as a platform to virtue signal. But everyone who looks at you

00:42:18.780 will see something pitiable and bizarre, something utterly unfeminine in every way, you will never

00:42:25.760 be able to actually have the identity that you're trying to appropriate, nor will you ever be able

00:42:30.980 to fully escape the identity that you're fleeing. The best you can hope for is some kind of limbo,

00:42:36.500 the worst of all worlds. And yet even in that limbo state, you will still be a man, just not one that

00:42:43.340 any of us can respect or take seriously. But other than that, champ, you're doing great.

00:42:50.240 Now let's get to our comment section.

00:42:51.680 Do you know their name? They're the sweet baby gang.

00:42:59.700 Mary Kane says, Matt is a quizzling who will sell out humanity to invading aliens. Yeah, but at least

00:43:05.980 I admit it. At least I'm honest about it. And the other thing too is that my selling out the human

00:43:11.500 species to the aliens, it's not even, it's not motivated by cowardice. It's not motivated by

00:43:16.600 hatred for humanity. It's really just motivated by the fact that, you know, I've been waiting for

00:43:23.400 this moment forever and I want to be able to see some of what our, you know, post-apocalyptic

00:43:29.380 alien controlled world is like. I just, I think it'd be cool. I'd like to see it. And so if I get

00:43:34.740 incinerated in the first batch of people, then I don't get a chance to see it. So that's,

00:43:38.880 that's really what mode, I don't know if that makes it better necessarily. I don't know if this

00:43:43.660 is a, you know, this is a good moral defense, but that is my, my motivation. That's all.

00:43:51.700 Frank S says, why are we not talking about the term, how the term national refers to nation?

00:43:55.980 What exact nation is the black national anthem celebrating? Wakanda? Right. Well, this is one of

00:44:02.160 the, the, the, the many, many, uh, you know, internal inconsistencies with the, with the

00:44:08.020 race hustlers. Um, and this is what they're always doing, right? Like lumping all black

00:44:14.220 people together as if they, as if, as if every black person has, as if there is like a black

00:44:20.000 nation, as if every black person has the same, you know, shared heritage and culture and tradition

00:44:25.680 and all the rest of it. Um, and then they do that while at the same time saying that we have to

00:44:31.220 respect and celebrate and recognize, uh, the individuality of, of every, you know, POC as

00:44:39.120 they say. And in fact, the term POC is a people of color. Well, we say people of color. We don't say

00:44:42.900 colored people. And why is one okay and not the other? And the reason that they give is that we

00:44:47.540 got to put, we want to put people first to recognize the individual humanity of each person.

00:44:51.500 And I believe in recognizing the individual humanity of each person. It just seems that

00:44:55.360 they don't really believe it. At least they don't believe it all the time. And at the same

00:44:59.020 time, they'll also say that, you know, the reason why you can have black pride and talk

00:45:08.560 about how proud you are being a black person and say all these things, but you can't have

00:45:12.300 white pride or talk about how proud you are being a white person. Um, or talk about your

00:45:16.400 white identity. You know, if you ask the race hustlers, why they have that view, they'll say

00:45:21.100 that. Well, because white people, you know, they don't have the same, um, it's like white

00:45:26.000 people, they all come from different parts of the world. And like, there isn't a one white

00:45:30.500 nation. And if you're white, you could be Italian ancestry or, uh, you know, Scandinavian

00:45:36.120 or Irish. I mean, there's all different kinds of places you could come from. And so there

00:45:39.260 isn't that one shared identity. And that's why it doesn't make any sense to take pride in

00:45:43.720 your, your whiteness. Uh, and so therefore, if you do, it means that you're racist.

00:45:47.180 Well, okay. But the exact same thing is the case for black people. Um, it, it, Africa

00:45:54.860 is not a country. It is a continent with lots of countries on it. And there are also people

00:46:01.060 who would qualify as black or certainly a person of color who come, who come from, from outside

00:46:07.140 of Africa. So it's the exact same situation. And yet sometimes, you know, we, you can,

00:46:18.140 refer to black people as having a kind of homogenous racial identity and other times you can't. And

00:46:23.800 what those rules are again, always arbitrary by design. And, um, it's up to them. It's up to the,

00:46:31.360 the, the left to decide. And they'll tell us, well, here's, here's the rule for this particular moment.

00:46:36.860 Here's how you're allowed to think of this right now. Check back in five minutes to see if those rules

00:46:42.940 have changed. Uh, Aegis Rick says that cancellation today was very insightful. The talk young folk needed

00:46:50.740 to hear, but truly I fear they heard it too late. This generation wasn't raised right. Their actions

00:46:55.080 are means to an end instead of intrinsically satisfying in itself. No, no, no motivation,

00:47:00.160 no drive, no soul. Um, and yeah, I, I obviously, I largely agree with you. And we do also have to

00:47:07.560 recognize that anytime you talk about young people, in fact, I had that, had my whole rant yesterday

00:47:12.440 about it. And there were some comments saying, Oh, this is boomer talk, get off my lawn, that sort of

00:47:16.840 thing. And you're always going to run into that. There's always going to be that objection. And it is

00:47:21.220 true that older generations have always complained about younger generations. And that's probably the

00:47:26.120 case through the entire course of human history. Um, however, that doesn't mean that the complaints

00:47:32.980 are always wrong or baseless. In fact, they're usually not baseless. They're usually based in

00:47:37.820 something. And in this case, there is, you know, what makes me concerned, especially concerned is

00:47:45.440 that a lot of what we're seeing from the young generation now, these are not your typical follies

00:47:51.560 of youth. And if they were, then it'd be a lot more, it'd be a lot easier to dismiss them and say,

00:47:57.080 well, it's just kids being kids, young people being young people, and they'll grow out of it.

00:48:01.380 Um, but a lot of this stuff, as we talked about yesterday, having no motivation, just no desire

00:48:05.860 to do anything, no ambition. This is not natural for young people. And so that's what makes me

00:48:13.300 especially, uh, worried about it. And finally, Red Falkor says, I really just want Matt to explain

00:48:20.100 why he cares so much about all this UFO stuff. To me, this is an awfully convenient smokescreen for

00:48:23.940 recent Democrat failures in our country, appearing right as Biden's potential Republican replacements

00:48:28.140 begin their campaigns. But if Matt had a story, maybe beginning in his childhood to explain his

00:48:32.160 emotional investment in UFOs, his interest in them would at least make a lot more sense.

00:48:36.360 Those of us on the right may trust emotions less, but that doesn't mean we aren't sympathetic

00:48:40.580 to personal stories and the emotional arc of the life of another. Well, I don't have,

00:48:45.460 I wish I could tell you I had some sort of, uh, experience with UFOs when I was a kid.

00:48:50.100 Um, maybe I was abducted by aliens and I came to, to know and love my abductors in the sort of,

00:48:58.020 you know, intergalactic Stockholm syndrome sort of thing. I mean, if I had a story like that,

00:49:02.480 I would happily share it with you. I don't, to me, it's just, it's self-evident. I don't know.

00:49:07.320 It's self-evident that this is really fascinating. The possibility of life on other planets,

00:49:12.140 the fact that the universe is incomprehensibly vast and there are trillions of planets and we have

00:49:17.680 like no idea what's going on on almost any of those planets, comparatively speaking.

00:49:23.520 That fact is, is fascinating. And I, so I don't, I almost have a difficulty explaining why I find

00:49:29.940 it interesting because to me, it's so obvious that it is. And if you can't be interested in that,

00:49:35.220 then what in the world is interesting if that isn't? So that's my pitch. I don't know if you'll

00:49:40.880 find it convincing or not. You know, fellows, your lady loves you and means well, but without the

00:49:45.160 proper nudge, she just might get you a terrible Valentine's day gift, like a silly stuffed bear

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00:50:24.040 You'll both be glad you did. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:31.200 Today is Valentine's day in case you didn't realize. In fact, if you're a man listening to

00:50:35.560 this and you just remembered what day it is, don't panic. There's still time to run to the store on the

00:50:39.460 way home from work, pick up a gift. Most of the cards and flowers probably get picked over by now,

00:50:43.820 but fortunately I've always found that the pots and pans and kitchen utensil aisle of the grocery

00:50:47.980 store is well stocked around Valentine's day. So grab a box of forks, a spatula, maybe a new

00:50:53.080 spaghetti strainer. If you really want to spoil her, throw them in a gift bag. You're going to have

00:50:57.000 a very happy wife and I'm willing to bet a romantic evening as well. Take my word for it. But of course,

00:51:02.700 not everyone is interested in romance. And for some, even a, even a brand new nonstick frying pan

00:51:08.900 wouldn't be enough to pique their romantic interest. This is the so-called asexual and

00:51:14.800 aromantic community. Unfortunately, they are the ones that the Washington post is thinking about

00:51:19.480 on Valentine's day. This weekend, WAPO published a piece written by a woman named Samantha

00:51:25.240 Cherry or Sherry and titled, it was titled quote, how asexual and aromantic people make Valentine's

00:51:32.600 day their own. Now the article begins by telling us about a 37 year old person who goes by the name

00:51:37.520 Odell Pax, Odell Pax rather. And the post reports this, Odell Pax identifies as both asexual and

00:51:44.420 idem romantic, which means that she does not have any desire for sex and she doesn't make any

00:51:49.880 distinction between romantic and platonic feelings. So what to do with a holiday that assumes romantic

00:51:54.680 and sexual attraction are the norm. This year, she's doing what she usually does on February 14th,

00:51:59.380 making time for self-love and self-care. For her, that means soaking in a hot bath before curling up

00:52:04.680 in bed with her three stuffed animals, Findle, Marsha, and Sylvia. The last two names are named

00:52:11.220 after trailblazing trans activists, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. Yes, why not? I mean,

00:52:18.400 why not tell us the names of this grown adult stuffed animals? And if that's not enough, we're also

00:52:22.780 treated to a picture of Odell with the stuffed animals along with this caption. This is the caption

00:52:29.260 under the picture. It says, Odell Pax with her three dolphin stuffed animals, Sylvia, Findle,

00:52:34.360 and Marsha from left to right. It's a very good thing they specified from left to right because

00:52:39.920 otherwise we wouldn't know for sure which stuffed animal is named Marsha and which one is Sylvia. So

00:52:44.520 now we know and we can sleep easy tonight. Sleep easy anyway with the somewhat cruel satisfaction we

00:52:51.340 all sometimes experience after seeing someone else's utterly pathetic and depressing life and feeling

00:52:56.460 deeply relieved that it's not our own life. I try not to delight in the misfortune of others and I

00:53:02.540 don't delight at all in Odell's misfortunes. I don't. But I will admit that when I read this article

00:53:08.020 and I see that picture, I can't help but think to myself, my God, I am glad I'm not that person.

00:53:15.040 Anyway, here's more from the Washington Post. It says, Pax is not alone in rejecting the notion that

00:53:19.680 relationships acknowledged on February 14th have to include romance and sex. Roughly 1% of lesbian,

00:53:25.760 gay, and bisexual Americans are asexual, according to a study from the Williams Institute at the

00:53:30.460 University of California, Los Angeles. Although experts such as Jennifer Pollitt, assistant director

00:53:35.060 of gender sexuality women's studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, believe the population

00:53:38.820 is undercounted and its influence underestimated because of a lack of awareness. Sexual intimacy

00:53:43.100 is often placed on a pedestal to sell products, especially for Valentine's Day, Pollitt said,

00:53:47.200 but love without romance or sex is just as valid and fulfilling for asexual and aromantic people.

00:53:51.880 As more people understand that, there will be more support for people exploring their

00:53:56.260 relationship wants, hopes, and needs. In the meantime, many people on the A-spectrum, also known

00:54:01.040 as A-spec or A-spec, an umbrella term for anyone who identifies as asexual and aromantic, are finding

00:54:07.780 creative ways to define the holiday on their own terms. Now, the article does continue providing

00:54:13.700 along the way more examples and anecdotes of asexual and aromantic people celebrating Valentine's

00:54:19.120 Day. But I think we've probably already heard quite enough. We've heard, for example, this sentence,

00:54:26.240 again, roughly 1% of lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans are asexual. Now, let's think about

00:54:33.920 that. Bisexual Americans are asexual. That is exactly like saying that 1% of polytheistic people

00:54:42.780 are atheistic or that 1% of empathetic people are apathetic. You cannot be something and also

00:54:49.840 the negation of that thing at the same time. If somebody is sexually attracted to two sexes

00:54:55.500 or sexually attracted to the same sex, that means they do experience sexual attraction,

00:55:01.400 which would seem to preclude them from claiming the title of asexual. But then again, we must remember

00:55:06.860 the first rule of the LGBT cult, which is that they can make it up all as they go along and nothing

00:55:12.640 they say has to comport with anything else they say. And they must never be held to even the most

00:55:18.020 basic standard of coherence. That's why any attempt to nail down a definition of what qualifies as

00:55:23.880 asexual or aromantic will ultimately wind up as fruitless as any attempt to get anyone on the left to

00:55:29.660 give a definition of literally any other word they use. To prove my point, here's the Cambridge

00:55:34.380 University website attempting to delineate between these two categories of asexual and aromantic.

00:55:41.860 This is what it says. Asexuality is an orientation defined by a lack of sexual attraction. That means

00:55:47.720 that an asexual or ace person experiences little or no sexual draw towards others and has little or no

00:55:53.100 desire to have sexual relationships with other people. However, the asexual spectrum has many nuanced

00:55:57.520 identities that fall under the umbrella term asexual. Some of the more common ones are gray sexuality or

00:56:02.800 gray asexuality, where someone experiences sexual attraction rarely or infrequently. Another

00:56:07.580 common identity is demisexuality or demi-asexuality, where someone only experiences sexual attraction

00:56:12.440 after forming a close emotional romantic bond with another person. There are many other identities on

00:56:17.140 the ace spectrum, but what they all have in common is the lack to varying extents of sexual attraction.

00:56:24.540 Aromanticism, on the other hand, is an orientation characterized by a lack of romantic attraction. While

00:56:28.760 asexuality is a sexual orientation, aromanticism is a romantic orientation, and the two don't necessarily

00:56:34.020 correlate. Someone may be asexual but not aromantic, or vice versa, or they may be on both

00:56:39.620 spectrums. An aromantic or aro person experiences little to no romantic attraction towards other people and has

00:56:45.420 little or no desire to form a romantic relationship with anybody else. Like asexuality, aromanticism is a spectrum

00:56:51.180 which includes gray romanticism or gray aromanticism, where someone occasionally or rarely experiences

00:56:56.460 romantic attraction, and demiromanticism or demi-aromanticism, where someone only experiences

00:57:01.920 romantic attraction after forming a strong emotional bond with another person. Aromanticism is considered

00:57:06.480 an umbrella term that encompasses all the identities that fall on the aromantic spectrum.

00:57:11.880 Make sense now? Now, there's a lot going on here. Actually, let me amend that. There is nothing going on here.

00:57:19.420 This is a whole lot of nothing which is trying to sound like something. It's a bunch of narcissistic,

00:57:23.700 fart-sniffing, mumbo-jumbo, dressed up to sound complex and nuanced, when in fact all the complexities

00:57:30.000 and nuances are just varying degrees of self-contradiction. There's actually no meaningful

00:57:35.260 distinction between sexual attraction and romantic attraction. The two terms are synonyms.

00:57:40.220 If a person told you that they were romantically attracted to you, but not sexually attracted,

00:57:45.720 they will have given you no useful information about their feelings towards you. They will,

00:57:51.040 however, have given you useful information about the tedious inner workings of their own

00:57:54.820 inane and pretentious minds. As for demi-aromanticism or someone who feels romantic attraction,

00:58:02.060 especially after forming a strong emotional bond, well, that is simply called being a person.

00:58:08.960 I mean, it's more common that a woman's romantic attractions hinges on an emotional connection,

00:58:13.460 but for men or women, this is a rather normal way for things to work.

00:58:18.280 So here we see again how the LGBT cult, not satisfied to legitimize every degraded fetish

00:58:24.700 they can find, has now set its sight on fetishizing even what's normal and healthy.

00:58:30.800 This is a trick they get away with because, as it turns out, plenty of otherwise normal and healthy

00:58:35.240 people want to be members of the cult. The best way to rack up social capital is to claim membership

00:58:40.960 in the alphabet club. That's because LGBT people in the modern United States are not only not oppressed,

00:58:46.240 oppressed, but are in fact the least oppressed people to have ever walked the face of the planet.

00:58:52.580 But what about actual asexual people? How should we understand those people who really don't

00:58:59.740 experience sexual attraction and who therefore can validly claim the label of asexual?

00:59:05.520 I think there are a few things to keep in mind about this group. First of all,

00:59:08.100 I'm extremely skeptical that most of the people that claim to be asexual are actually asexual.

00:59:16.160 Okay, because somebody with a low sex drive is not asexual. Someone who doesn't desire romantic

00:59:21.640 relationships is not asexual. Keep in mind the left will always do everything it can to inflate the

00:59:27.660 statistics for any of the identity groups that it invents. That's why the leftist group,

00:59:31.960 the Trevor Project, has a page on its website with information about asexuals where they stipulate

00:59:36.940 that asexual people might still, quote, fall in love, experience arousal and orgasm, masturbate,

00:59:45.000 and engage in sexual activity. In other words, lots of people they call asexual are not at all,

00:59:52.320 in any definitional sense of the term, really asexual. Most of them are simply just selfish,

00:59:58.200 lonely, depressed people with relatively normal libidos who have chosen asexuality as their identity

01:00:03.980 group in order to give some meaning to their self-centered existence. Like most trendy modern

01:00:09.760 identity groups, this one is, for the most part, just a cover for narcissism. It is a coping mechanism

01:00:15.900 to cover up a character flaw, which is narcissism. But assuming that there does exist a collection of

01:00:22.560 people who truly, and through no fault of their own, have no sexual attraction, no desire for sex at all,

01:00:30.040 no capacity for sexual arousal, etc., then we could say two things about this group. Number one,

01:00:35.900 it's almost certainly very small. It's not going to be anywhere near one percent or even half of one

01:00:40.260 percent. Number two, it's not an identity, least of all a sexual identity. If you truly lack the ability

01:00:46.680 to experience sexual attraction, then something has likely gone awry physiologically. You have an issue

01:00:53.380 that you might try to fix rather than making it into your whole personality. Now, you shouldn't be ashamed,

01:00:58.380 it's not your fault, but you also shouldn't make your inability to experience sexual attraction into

01:01:04.000 the centerpiece of your identity as a human being. Neither does it make sense to be proud of this

01:01:10.240 inability. I mean, the only thing more bizarre than marching around and claiming to be proud of your

01:01:16.000 sexual attraction is marching around and claiming to be proud of your lack of sexual attraction.

01:01:21.560 And that's why today, on Valentine's Day, I will not cancel all asexuals. They have enough to deal

01:01:26.300 with, especially on a day like today. Instead, I'm specifically canceling these flag-waving

01:01:30.520 asexuals like those profiled by the Washington Post, especially the ones who have stuffed animals

01:01:35.280 that they name. They are all today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 14, 2023

Ep. 1113 - Poisons Pour Into Our Water Supply While The Biden Administration Focuses On Identity Politics

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