The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1114 - Creepy Childless Spinster Promotes Childlessness

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Daily Show hosted by Chelsea Handler defends and promotes

00:00:04.140 childlessness. We're told that not having children is great because it means that you can sit in hot

00:00:08.060 tubs and go on vacations, among other things. I'll pick through all the problems with that

00:00:12.200 argument today. Also, our sports show here at the Daily Wire, Crane & Company, is breaking some news

00:00:15.940 today about Leah Thomas, the male swimmer who claims to be a woman. The details are repulsive

00:00:20.700 but important. Plus, the White House now says that the UFOs invading our airspace are probably

00:00:25.780 just used car balloons. Right. And our Daily Cancellation, a New York Times columnist

00:00:30.340 dedicates an entire essay to responding to one of my tweets. We'll talk about all that

00:00:34.440 and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:32.580 If you want to understand modern American society, the first thing you need to realize is that lots

00:01:36.820 of people are very unhappy. And those unhappy people tend to think that their unhappiness can

00:01:42.120 be cured by majority vote, essentially. If they can convince other people to live the way that they live

00:01:47.660 and do the things that they do and become as unhappy as they are, then magically it will have the effect

00:01:53.740 of making them happy. And in a similar way, they believe that if they can convince everyone else that

00:01:58.860 they are not unhappy, even though they are indeed deeply and tragically unhappy, then they will become

00:02:04.920 happy. And if none of those strategies work, of course, which they don't, then there's always antidepressants,

00:02:09.660 antidepressants, which also don't work. What I've just described could, of course, be summarized by the

00:02:15.360 cliche misery loves company. And that, as it happens, would also be a great title for Chelsea Handler's 0.98

00:02:21.180 autobiography if she ever writes one. Not that the title of a book that nobody will read really matters.

00:02:26.040 Chelsea Handler, of course, is a comedian. At least I've gathered based on context clues that she's a comedian 0.99

00:02:31.620 or trying to be one anyway. Never actually heard her tell anything that can be immediately recognized

00:02:37.180 as a joke. That is, unless we step back and view her career through a wider lens and see that her entire

00:02:43.260 career is the joke. Maybe this is some sort of, like, performance art that she's doing. And if that's what

00:02:48.580 she's going for, then she is pulling it off, and masterfully so, I have to say. Now, recently, Handler took

00:02:54.600 the job of guest host on The Daily Show after Trevor Noah's departure. And we can't be sure what the producers

00:03:02.260 had in mind when they hired a shrill, unfunny spinster with all the wit and charm of a bitter 1.00

00:03:07.740 middle-aged woman standing in line at Target while loudly complaining that they don't have enough 1.00

00:03:11.940 registers open. I can only assume that there are maybe some Trevor Noah loyalists still on the staff

00:03:17.980 who wanted to find someone who could manage to make him seem funny in retrospect. Maybe that's

00:03:23.780 what's going on. Whatever the thought process, it didn't take Handler very long to steer the show in

00:03:28.600 the only direction she knows how to go, which is desperately justifying her own life choices,

00:03:33.840 especially her choice to not have children. And actually, I need to amend that slightly,

00:03:38.960 because it's not that Handler has chosen not to have children. It's that she's chosen not to allow

00:03:44.340 any of her children to live. Now, she is childless today, thanks to the three abortions that she often 1.00

00:03:50.700 brags about. She doesn't have any living children, we should say. She is, however, the mother of three

00:03:56.240 dead children, babies who are sacrificed on the altar of her quote-unquote freedom, a freedom

00:04:00.960 that was purchased with the blood of her own children. Just to clarify, that's what we're

00:04:05.660 talking about. Recently, as many people have seen in viral clips of the show, Handler dedicated an

00:04:11.520 episode to defending and promoting her child-free lifestyle. Now, normally, nothing involving Chelsea

00:04:17.120 Handler or The Daily Show, for that matter, is worth talking about. But in this case, she inadvertently

00:04:22.300 raises, I think, a few points, a few important points, that are worth discussing. So I think

00:04:27.020 it's worth spending a little bit of time on this. So, here's Chelsea. 0.73

00:04:31.420 One thing that I have made abundantly clear is that I do not want children. I say it on stage,

00:04:38.340 I say it in interviews, it's the first thing I say to myself in the mirror when I wake up each morning,

00:04:43.240 right before I tell myself, God, you're a dynamic woman.

00:04:52.060 Kids don't respect me. And quite frankly, the feeling is mutual. And the fact is, there are

00:04:57.800 millions of women just like me. But for some reason, every single one of us, at some point in

00:05:02.180 our lives, is shamed by society for not wanting a baby. And that's what I want to talk about in

00:05:07.940 tonight's installment of Long Story Short. Well, actually, Chelsea, society wouldn't know or

00:05:14.420 especially care that you don't have kids. Nobody's running up to you on the street screaming,

00:05:18.960 hey, where are your babies? You better have babies. Rather, you know, you often talk about

00:05:24.220 your decision to be childless. And you talk about it in the most obnoxious ways you possibly can,

00:05:29.700 which gives everyone else in society the right to give their own opinion about your choices

00:05:34.560 and the reasoning behind those choices. This is the way it works and something that everyone

00:05:39.840 needs to understand because a lot of people struggle with this. You see, when you present

00:05:43.860 your lifestyle choice to the public, when you go on TV and talk about it in front of millions of people,

00:05:49.580 or at least hundreds of people in the case of The Daily Show, you have submitted that lifestyle choice

00:05:54.780 for public discussion. You cannot go to the public and say, hey, guess what? Here's a fact about me

00:06:01.860 in the way that I live my life. You can't do that and then get offended when people say, well, here's

00:06:06.460 my opinion about that. You gave that information to us. People naturally form opinions about the

00:06:11.360 information you tell them. Now, nobody has the right to go banging on your front door and demanding

00:06:16.360 to know how many kids you have, but everyone has the right to form opinions about the unsolicited

00:06:21.400 information you give them. Don't want their opinion? Well, then don't tell them about it.

00:06:26.680 Now, let's listen to her continue to tell us about it.

00:06:31.280 In America, and honestly everywhere, motherhood is treated as a woman's central purpose in life,

00:06:37.600 as if our destiny is to let a tiny stranger rip a hole through our Pikachu from the inside out.

00:06:45.040 And then as soon as we turn 18, we're just supposed to sit back and wait for Nick Cannon to impregnate us?

00:06:50.680 Yeah, you see, it's funny because she made a reference to pop culture. We all know that

00:06:55.400 a statement is automatically hilarious when it refers to something in pop culture that we all

00:06:59.920 recognize. You don't need to have an actual punchline. No joke is needed. Simply say,

00:07:03.700 hey, you guys remember this thing from pop culture? And then wait for the uproarious laughter

00:07:07.460 to commence, especially if you're in front of a studio audience where they're instructed to laugh,

00:07:11.400 and it really works. Next, we hear testimonials from other childless women who have been

00:07:15.640 viciously discriminated against by society, they claim. And the ode to childlessness goes on for,

00:07:20.680 for a while longer, and it leads eventually to this.

00:07:25.080 But these Fox News trolls are right about one thing. I am miserable. In fact, I was just scrolling 0.98

00:07:29.700 through my Instagram feed the other day realizing how miserable I am. I'm miserable on the beach.

00:07:35.300 And then here I am miserable on the top of a mountain. And then here I am miserable scuba diving.

00:07:42.260 And then I'm miserable again smoking a joint in a hot tub.

00:07:45.520 Every day is truly a new circle of hell for me.

00:07:55.540 The simple truth is that I'm not having a kid because I'm happier without them. And that's

00:07:59.700 really not of anyone's concern, but my own.

00:08:02.960 And no, I don't hate kids. I just don't want them. That's what's so great about nieces and 0.78

00:08:13.600 nephews. I love being an aunt. I'm crushing that role. Guess who gave each one of them their first

00:08:19.220 edible? This girl. 0.92

00:08:20.240 Now, you see, Chelsea, you're 47 years old. So giving drugs to kids doesn't make you a cool aunt. 0.99

00:08:30.660 It makes you a creep and worse. Also, if your decision to not have any living children

00:08:36.520 is not anyone's concern but your own, then why did you dedicate a 10-minute segment on national TV to

00:08:42.340 it? Once again, that's the question. Well, you did it, as we established at the beginning,

00:08:46.320 partly because you're trying to convince yourself of your own happiness. This partly explains

00:08:51.600 virtually everything that any leftist says about almost any subject. It's almost always,

00:08:57.940 at least in part, a game of them convincing themselves that they're happy with the way

00:09:02.280 they've chosen to live their lives. And also, you did it because you wish to promote your empty,

00:09:07.700 miserable lifestyle in the hopes that more people will join you in it. And it's for that latter reason

00:09:13.200 that I feel compelled to make two points in response. First, I must again point out

00:09:20.320 that you're 47 years old. Nothing wrong with being 47. The point is that you could have had kids

00:09:27.780 and yet still be at this point climbing all the mountains and hanging out on all the beaches that

00:09:34.340 you want. Because children don't stay toddlers forever. They grow up. Okay? If you had a child at

00:09:41.360 the age when the average woman in America has children these days, even though, I mean, that 0.99

00:09:45.080 average age is going up and it's getting older and older. But even now, after that process has

00:09:50.640 happened, your child would be about 21 years old right now if you follow the sort of the average

00:09:55.960 trajectory. And if your child followed the average trajectory, by the time you're in your early

00:10:00.860 50s, your child would be married with a child of their own. The point is that at your age,

00:10:05.620 you could have all of your precious freedoms, all of your vacations, all the time in the hot tub that

00:10:12.840 you want, all the time to sleep in that you want, especially if you don't have a job, and also a

00:10:19.360 family. See, you're too old now to use this argument that you want to make. To use the argument of like,

00:10:27.280 you see how easy my life is? I don't have to get up in the morning with a screaming baby.

00:10:30.440 That might work when you're, still not a compelling argument, but like at least it's relevant when

00:10:34.920 you're 28 because if you were 28 and you had a kid, there's a very good chance a kid would be a

00:10:38.300 baby. You can't do that when you're 47. There are very few 47-year-olds, even ones with lots of kids

00:10:45.200 that are waking up in the middle of the night with a baby. You know, it's like going up to somebody who

00:10:49.400 just finished a marathon and bragging that you get to sit down and relax and you don't have to run a

00:10:55.220 marathon. Well, the person who just finished it also can sit down and relax, yet they get to do

00:11:01.020 it with the knowledge that they finished a marathon. So you're both relaxing now, but only one of you

00:11:06.760 ran a marathon. Who's in the better spot? Indeed, who can enjoy that relaxation more?

00:11:15.660 See, that's a factor that isn't often taken into consideration, but it's an important life lesson.

00:11:19.860 As a childless person, you don't get to experience the joys of having children, obviously, but you

00:11:27.820 also don't really get to experience the benefits of not having children. You don't actually experience

00:11:34.740 that. Or I should say you might experience them, but you don't appreciate them. You can't.

00:11:41.600 You see, you've always been able to sleep in. You've never had to wake up in the middle of the night with

00:11:45.620 a crying baby. You've always been able to sit in the hot tub whenever you want. You've always been

00:11:49.620 able to take vacations wherever and whenever you want. You've never known what it's like to not have

00:11:54.760 any of that, which means you can't experience all of the joy of having it. The only people who can

00:12:01.600 truly enjoy not running a marathon are those who've run marathons. It only makes sense for someone who's

00:12:07.980 run marathons to wake up in the morning and say, man, I'm glad I'm not running a marathon today.

00:12:12.680 For all the rest of us, that's just that we've never experienced it before. So every day is not

00:12:16.500 running a marathon. So we never really have that moment of, thank God I'm not running a marathon.

00:12:21.180 This is the catch-22 of life. Only the people who've done something can enjoy not doing that

00:12:28.400 same thing. So older people who've raised young children and have now moved past that phase of

00:12:34.580 life certainly do feel relief that they no longer have to deal with some of the challenges that come

00:12:39.540 with that phase. They also look back and miss a lot of that. You talk to any 47-year-old who's had

00:12:45.860 kids and they've moved past it. You're going to hear them say a lot about how I miss those days,

00:12:49.600 man, I really miss those days. But there are also parts of those days that they don't miss.

00:12:53.180 They don't miss having to wake up in the middle of the night or wake up early in the morning with

00:12:56.440 a kid. They don't miss that. They're relieved to be past that. But you don't have that relief

00:13:02.960 because you never were in that phase. You didn't earn the relief. They did. So they feel it

00:13:09.520 in a way that you never will. Then again, I should also note that even parents of young

00:13:15.160 children can still sit in hot tubs and go to the beach and enjoy and even climb mountains if they

00:13:21.380 want. It may take more planning. It may involve complications that you don't have to deal with

00:13:26.720 if you don't have kids. But despite popular misconceptions, you don't have to put your life

00:13:31.320 on hold when you have kids. You don't have to give up really any of the things you like to do

00:13:35.920 or any of your passions. I mean, provided that they're fruitful and good things.

00:13:44.940 Instead, you learn to be intentional with your time. You learn to make good use of the time that

00:13:51.400 you have. And that's a skill that you, Chelsea, would have done well to acquire, but you clearly

00:13:55.820 never did. Second and finally, having children, and this is maybe the most important point,

00:14:03.160 having children will not automatically make anyone happy. That's true. Okay. Nobody is claiming that

00:14:10.740 if you have a baby, you will immediately become unspeakably happy and you'll remain that happy

00:14:16.820 forever, experiencing an unbroken chain of pure, uncomplicated joy until the day you die. That is

00:14:24.400 not the case. And nobody has ever said that it's the case. In fact, if you're determined to be miserable

00:14:31.080 as a parent, there will be many opportunities presented to you to be as miserable as you want 0.98

00:14:38.240 to be. No, the point is that parenting opens up the possibility for joy, unique kinds of joy

00:14:47.920 that are simply not available and are indeed in some ways inconceivable to non-parents.

00:14:53.920 So the happiness that you're talking about, Chelsea, vacations and hot tubs and so on,

00:15:00.300 these are self-centered things. You're happy because of the comfort and entertainment that's

00:15:04.740 being provided to you. There's nothing wrong with that in moderation. Everyone is familiar with that

00:15:10.640 kind of happiness and it's available to everyone, parents and non-parents alike. But the joy of parenting

00:15:18.180 and a family life is a joy found in caring for someone else. And that is a joy that you, Chelsea,

00:15:26.000 have never in your life experienced ever. You can't conceive of it. You don't know what it is.

00:15:33.560 You have lived your whole life without it and will die without it and will be worse for it.

00:15:40.700 This is the joy in giving, in loving. It's the joy found in the bond that holds families together.

00:15:46.000 It's a simple joy and it's free and it's more pure and more beautiful than any joy that can be

00:15:52.640 provided to you by a vacation resort. It's a joy that, if you open yourself to it, makes you a better

00:16:00.300 person. It makes you less selfish, less superficial, less focused on your own needs and wants. In other

00:16:06.120 words, a parent who opens themselves up to the joy of parenthood will become, well, a lot less like

00:16:14.120 Chelsea Handler. And that is perhaps the best advertisement for parenting that I can offer.

00:16:20.380 Now let's get to our headlines.

00:16:27.500 Well, I hope you had a good Valentine's Day. I think that ours was pretty good. I don't know what

00:16:38.860 my wife would say, but she said she wanted to watch a romantic comedy last night. Very

00:16:44.600 cliche, stereotypical Valentine's Day type of thing. It was an afterweight dinner and the kids

00:16:49.140 went to bed. She said she wanted to watch a romantic comedy. And then she even said there

00:16:53.020 was a new one with Jennifer Lopez. I was like, I didn't even know that she was still making 0.91

00:16:57.300 movies. Apparently she is. But I convinced my wife instead to watch the 1997 Kurt Russell action

00:17:04.560 flick Breakdown, which is a movie where Kurt Russell gets kidnapped by evil truckers and he has to go

00:17:11.420 and kill them all and rescue her from the kidnappers. And it's a great film. It's seriously underrated,

00:17:16.640 by the way. I think it's one of my favorite films, certainly one of my favorite action flicks of the

00:17:19.680 90s. And I talked her into watching that instead and she was not impressed. Which, look, I understand

00:17:25.560 it's not a romantic comedy, but it is a romance. He rescues his wife from evil, murderous truckers.

00:17:33.520 What is more romantic than that? And there's, you know, it's not a lot of comedy. There is a scene

00:17:37.980 at the end, spoiler alert, where Kurt Russell throws the main bad guy over a bridge and then he's like

00:17:44.300 lying at the bottom, you know, in this ravine and his body's broken on all the rocks, but he's still

00:17:51.320 alive. And then this semi-truck falls right on top of him. And it's pretty funny. Like it's,

00:17:57.780 to me, it's funny. So you've got romance and you've got comedy together. Maybe not in a holistic way,

00:18:03.520 but it's there. And so I thought it was a good Valentine's Day viewing, but apparently not.

00:18:12.280 You live and learn. No Kurt Russell action movies on Valentine's Day. It's fine. But at least,

00:18:18.000 last year we went to Cracker Barrel on Valentine's Day. So, you know, this was at least a step up from

00:18:22.320 that. All right. So I want to start with this. Our friends over at Crane & Company, this great

00:18:30.800 sports show here at The Daily Wire, are breaking some news this morning. And it starts with Riley

00:18:38.900 Gaines, who is one of the female collegiate swimmers who competed against Leah Thomas, who is the male

00:18:47.620 swimmer pretending to be a female and was allowed to compete against women. Riley Gaines is one of 0.90

00:18:53.340 the few women who was directly impacted by this and has had the courage to speak out. Not the only one,

00:18:59.080 but one of the few. And they had an interview with Riley Gaines. I think we have a brief clip of that

00:19:04.680 interview. Let's go ahead and play that. If we let it, there will be men pretending to be women that 1.00

00:19:10.180 ruin women's sports. But ranking first was a person I had never heard of before. And of course,

00:19:15.020 this name was Leah Thomas. Leah Thomas did, in fact, formerly swim on the men's team for three

00:19:19.940 years. I thought, surely the NCAA wouldn't let this person compete with us. The NCAA official

00:19:25.640 looks at me and says, great job. Y'all tied. The trophy goes to Leah. And he said, well, for photo

00:19:31.000 purposes, Leah has to have it. Wow. Leah Thomas, who used to be Will Thomas, is now dating someone that 0.99

00:19:37.640 used to be a man that's now a woman and they consider themselves lesbians. Very interesting dynamic.

00:19:43.720 The things they practice actively are interesting. They cut off parts of their male parts, but left

00:19:52.300 other parts. These testicles are in a jar. Stop. We were being sidelined to validate the feelings and 1.00

00:20:00.080 the identity of a man. Okay. So there's some of what was revealed. And Jake Crane is on his Twitter

00:20:10.540 account has laid out a thread this morning with a lot of this information, um, at Jake Crane underscore,

00:20:17.880 if you want to go see for yourself. So I'll read a little bit from this.

00:20:22.420 And this is what it says. Uh, it says, this is a thread we never expected to write. We sat down

00:20:26.900 with NCAA women's swimmer, Riley Gaines, and she shared some info about Leah Thomas. So we did some

00:20:31.960 digging and now we have a lot of questions. Is this what the NCAA thinks a woman is warning? What we found

00:20:36.160 is jarring? And I don't know if that's an intentional pun, given some of the information we find out

00:20:41.700 later, the jarring part, but there's some literal jarring that has gone on. Apparently, Leah Thomas

00:20:46.840 appears to have two Instagram accounts as public account, Leah K Thomas, featuring a small handful

00:20:51.080 of generic photos, promoting messages like let trans kids play. Then a private account, which is Leah,

00:20:56.520 basically Leah Timmis with an I rather than an O. In our research, we found the observance, um,

00:21:02.160 uh, someone, uh, Nicole Walrose, a name who identified multiple IG posts about autogynephilia

00:21:09.500 that Leah Thomas under the account Leah Timmis allegedly engaged with. AGP autogynephilia is a

00:21:17.700 male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female. Uh, a similar image

00:21:23.780 liked by Leah Timmis is still found on Instagram account, um, of, uh, of Gwen Weisskopf, which is a,

00:21:31.440 Leah's alleged romantic partner. Gwen, who identifies Leah as his girlfriend is also a

00:21:37.900 quote unquote transgender woman. According to a GoFundMe for Gwen's breast augmentation, 0.72

00:21:42.640 he's also an unlicensed social worker living in Philadelphia. Um, and then the more information

00:21:51.140 about this person, um, lots of, some of the stuff I don't even want to read, it's so disgusting. 0.98

00:21:57.680 Are Gwen and Leah in, uh, an exclusive couple or in a polyamorous sex pod? One user called 0.94

00:22:04.600 crybabyhellb** writes, nice polycule liked by Gwen on a photo of Leah, Gwen, and two other trans people.

00:22:11.820 In the post, Gwen tags a third member via a stuffed animal in bed with Leah. Uh, so then apparently 0.93

00:22:19.420 there's some sort of polyamorous thing going on. Um, and later on we hear about Gwen posted a

00:22:29.480 mysterious round shaped organ looking item in a clear ball jar. So does this mean that testicles 0.99

00:22:36.060 were removed and put in a jar? I guess we're left to speculate about that. There's some Satanism stuff. 0.99

00:22:42.320 Um, a lot of very disturbing images as well that they dug up and all of this is, you know, it's

00:22:47.920 posted to the internet, but it was on, a lot of the stuff was on private accounts. Some of it was

00:22:51.220 on public accounts, just nobody took the time to go and find it. Now, so what's the point here?

00:22:57.760 I think the point's rather obvious. Um, it's not surprising to me anyway, that Leah Thomas

00:23:05.540 is a depraved pervert, according to the information that they've found here. That doesn't surprise me. 0.90

00:23:14.340 Um, but what it reveals and, and rather what it, what it confirms, what any thinking person should

00:23:22.000 have already known really is that this is all, this is a fetish. Okay. This is a, this is a, a, a,

00:23:29.220 a fetish community, if we can even call it a community. And that's what it is. Autogynephilia.

00:23:33.600 Autogynephilia. Okay. Is as it says there in the thread, autogynephilia is the men who are,

00:23:39.520 who are, uh, thrilled by the thought of themselves as a woman. Okay. They, they, they, they get off on 1.00

00:23:50.200 the idea of themselves being a woman, which by the way, that is not the same thing as actually

00:23:58.100 thinking that you are one. That's the important point. Now, even if Leah Thomas actually believed

00:24:05.800 that he is a woman, that wouldn't at all make him a woman. And so it wouldn't change much or it

00:24:11.080 shouldn't, but it becomes all the more grotesque and absurd when you consider the fact that even

00:24:20.220 these people who claim to identify as women, many of them really don't. They don't even believe what

00:24:26.180 they're saying about themselves. And yet we're supposed to believe that this is a fetish.

00:24:32.040 He gets a thrill out of pretending to be a woman and walking around like a woman and going into the 0.98

00:24:37.880 women's locker room. It's a thrill. It's a fetish thing. And so what we're being told is we have to

00:24:41.940 participate in your fetish. Leah Thomas becomes sexually excited by the idea of other people seeing 0.80

00:24:49.640 him as a woman and by competing against women in, uh, you know, in women's sports, it's all part of a

00:24:54.580 fetish. And what the women in these sports are being told is that you, it's not even that you 0.96

00:24:59.080 have to affirm his self perception as twisted as that would be on its own. It's actually that you

00:25:06.180 must participate in this man's fetish. Okay. He gets turned on by the, by, by the idea of himself

00:25:13.840 as a woman. And, and even more so if you, uh, participate in that charade. And so you have to

00:25:19.820 participate because he has a right to act out his depraved fetish, um, in public and with your

00:25:28.640 participation. That's what the women are being told. And as I've been saying for so long, this

00:25:32.900 is the case. Like it's impossible to know for sure of, of all the people these days who claim to be

00:25:38.980 trans or whatever it's, it's, we can't see inside their minds. So we don't know exactly what's going

00:25:42.500 on. We can't say for sure. All we, all we can talk about is what is the physical reality. And so we

00:25:47.100 know that they are not, they claim to be a certain thing and they're not that thing. We know that

00:25:50.580 because we understand physical reality, but there's a lot of very good evidence. Some of it in this

00:25:56.920 thread here that even if we could see inside their minds, um, they are, they are not, they're

00:26:03.240 misrepresenting in public what their own perception is. And for a lot of these men in particular, they

00:26:10.640 don't even actually see themselves as women. They, they know that they aren't. That's the whole point 1.00

00:26:16.340 of the fetish is to pretend to be something that they're not. Autogynephilia explains, can't say

00:26:23.240 what the percentage is, but it's a large percentage of these trans quote unquote trans men, especially,

00:26:31.080 especially the, the men who, uh, quote unquote transition later in life, even if it's when

00:26:37.380 they're 19 or 20. Uh, but in particular, the cases, you know, think about someone like, uh,

00:26:42.640 Rachel Levine transitions as middle-aged man. This is not someone who the whole time D had

00:26:51.200 really thought of himself as a woman and perceived himself that way. This was a, a sexual fetish 0.96

00:26:58.640 that he finally decided that he was going to dedicate his entire life to, and, and, and also

00:27:02.540 require everyone else to, to participate in that. That's what so much of this is now for women, 1.00

00:27:12.100 it's often a very different thing, especially adolescent, uh, girls who get caught up in this

00:27:17.580 for them. It is, you know, social contagion. It's, um, it is self-loathing. It's fear about their own

00:27:26.920 bodies and the way that their bodies are changing. Uh, it's, you know, it's, it's a lot of that. It's

00:27:32.020 like, um, it's a, a fear and loathing of, of who they are that's being expressed in this way. So

00:27:40.300 there, there are many different kinds of motivations that lead per a person to this

00:27:45.540 conclusion of claiming to be trans. But the really important point again, is that, you know,

00:27:52.920 we often talk about these people and say, well, they're confused. In many cases, they're not even

00:27:59.040 really confused. You know, they, they understand what the reality is, but they have other motivations.

00:28:03.840 And that's the case for Leah Thomas, pretty clearly. Nikki Haley announced her candidacy 0.95

00:28:11.180 for president yesterday. And, uh, here's Whoopi Goldberg on the view, trying to explain,

00:28:15.920 trying to explain why she opposes it.

00:28:19.780 You know, the Republican plan, I hate to ruin it for you, but the Republican playing field for the

00:28:25.720 2024 presidential race just got a little bigger. Former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley,

00:28:31.520 released a campaign ad, making her pitch to the people. Take a look.

00:28:36.480 My parents reminded me and my siblings every day how blessed we were to live in America.

00:28:43.600 Some look at our past as evidence that America's founding principles are bad.

00:28:48.960 They say the promise of freedom is just made up. Some think our ideas are not just wrong,

00:28:55.680 but racist and evil. Nothing could be further from the truth.

00:29:01.600 Joe Biden's record is abysmal, but that shouldn't come as a surprise.

00:29:06.240 The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again.

00:29:12.080 It's time for a new generation of leadership.

00:29:14.880 You should know this about me. I don't put up with bullies. And when you kick back,

00:29:21.760 it hurts them more if you're wearing heels. I'm Nikki Haley and I'm running for president.

00:29:27.200 So Nikki, you know, since you have been asleep all this time and you just woke up,

00:29:37.840 you're just finding out that there are things about our country that are not perfect. 0.77

00:29:43.600 And for us to pretend that it is and that nothing happened is ridiculous. So you're not saying anything

00:29:49.760 new. And you of all people should know better because you used to actually have some sanity

00:29:59.600 and knew right from wrong. Yes.

00:30:01.920 And then you lost your mind and went in some new direction. So don't do that.

00:30:06.240 What? What are you basing any of that on? Why is that your response to the clip that you just played?

00:30:17.440 See, this is just and I don't I don't support Nikki Haley's candidacy, as I said yesterday,

00:30:21.520 and I'll talk in a minute about more specific reasons why I don't. But but this is just people

00:30:27.040 on the left, Democrats trying to find a reason to oppose Nikki Haley, who's a very, you know,

00:30:34.240 very kind of benign establishment conservative type figure. And they're trying to find a reason to

00:30:43.760 oppose or they don't really have a reason. It's just like it's it's it's a reflex. All they know

00:30:47.680 about her is that she's Republican. That's all they really need to know. And this is in spite of all

00:30:53.360 the efforts that Nikki Haley has made to appeal to people like that. Nikki Haley has made many efforts

00:31:00.240 to appeal to the Whoopi Goldbergs of the world and the women of the view. And even after all that

00:31:07.040 effort, this is what she gets in response, which is why it's a very bad idea to waste your time trying

00:31:16.160 to appeal. You sacrifice your integrity and your principles for the sake of appealing to people

00:31:20.640 who will never accept you ever. Unless you abandon entirely even the facade of being conservative

00:31:29.360 and say, I denounce all of that. I renounce all of that. Now I'm a I'm a left wing progressive. I'm

00:31:36.960 sorry for everything I ever said. If you do that. Then, yeah, maybe they'll accept you sort of, but

00:31:44.400 they're never gonna let you live down the fact that you they're never even even then they're not

00:31:47.760 going to really forgive you for for having ever dared disagree with them.

00:31:54.960 But that's the most amount of acceptance you can ever hope. If you don't do that anything short of

00:31:59.280 that, there will be no acceptance at all. So there's no point. A guy named Gavin Sample compiled a tweet

00:32:04.800 thread of all the reasons that he opposes Nikki Haley's candidacy. And I happen to agree with many of

00:32:09.200 these reasons. And it kind of illustrates the point that I was just making. So I run through

00:32:16.160 what some of what he is compiled for those of us who don't, you know, maybe have not been keeping

00:32:21.040 very close track of Nikki Haley and don't remember everything she's ever said. Here's just a few,

00:32:25.040 few highlights, or maybe we should say lowlights. Gavin Sample writes, Nikki Haley is running for 0.95

00:32:30.320 president. Here's a list of a few reasons no one should vote for. Number one, Nikki Haley fell for the 1.00

00:32:35.280 Bubba Wallace hate hoax. And then he reposted this tweet from 2020, extremely embarrassing in hindsight.

00:32:42.960 And in fact, it was embarrassing in the moment because any thinking person knew in the moment 0.89

00:32:49.600 that the whole Bubba Wallace story was ridiculous. The claim that someone planted a noose in a NASCAR

00:32:57.840 garage was always absurd. This is what Nikki Haley wrote at the time. We should all stand with Bubba

00:33:02.960 Wallace today against the cowards who secretly put the noose in his garage stall. Watch your back, 0.61

00:33:08.400 cowards. Bubba has a bigger army than you do. Hashtag hate won't win. Hashtag we stand with Bubba. 1.00

00:33:16.400 Then he writes some other examples. Nikki Haley opposes combat, combating big tech censorship.

00:33:23.120 She wrote 2020 also censorship by big tech companies, especially censorship of conservative opinions

00:33:27.440 violates the spirit of the law and the first amendment, but more regulations would go too far in the other

00:33:31.660 direction, putting bureaucrats and lawyers in control of what gets said online. Either way, free speech loses.

00:33:38.300 Nikki Haley has been a squish when it comes to immigration. He brings that up. Nikki Haley removed

00:33:42.940 the Confederate flag from South Carolina state Capitol after the 2015 Charleston church shooting.

00:33:49.740 And Gavin writes, her decision can easily be seen as the first monument removal that sparked the entire

00:33:54.820 movement. This has led to many more statues and monuments of Confederate generals. Also, Teddy Roosevelt,

00:33:59.840 Thomas Jefferson and even George Washington being removed. Um, that's an important point that this was

00:34:08.560 not, uh, it wasn't like she got caught up in the hysteria of taking down all the Confederate flags and

00:34:18.800 monuments and everything. It wasn't even that she actually kicked it off. Arguably.

00:34:22.960 She also wrote this, uh, again in 2020 after George Floyd, we spent the last couple of days

00:34:31.400 celebrating our son's graduation tonight. I turned on the news and I'm heartbroken. It's important to

00:34:35.740 understand that the death of George Floyd was personal and painful for many in order to heal. It needs to

00:34:41.520 be personal and painful for everyone. That is precisely what the left people like AOC and Ilhan Omar and

00:34:51.320 others, Rashid Tlaib and all the rest of them, the squad. That's precisely what they were saying to justify

00:34:56.980 looting and rioting. Well, these people feel pain. And so everyone needs to feel their pain. Even though they

00:35:04.080 actually aren't inflicting that, they're inflicting that pain on other people in their community, not even on the

00:35:09.100 rest of us. Now there are other things that he brings up, but I think these three alone really tell you

00:35:15.840 everything you need to know about Nikki Haley and any other Republican who did the same thing.

00:35:21.500 You know, it's just, I can never trust you. I could never, I can never trust you as a leader

00:35:26.060 when you failed in these moments. Bubba Wallace, the Confederate, uh, taking down the Confederate flag

00:35:33.840 and then, and then George Floyd, those three things, you got those three things wrong.

00:35:39.240 And, uh, and that's just it. I mean, it doesn't mean I'm going to hate you forever as a person, but it means that

00:35:48.000 I can never trust you as a leader because those are the moments when your leadership is needed the most. And if

00:35:55.180 you're not there when it's needed the most, then how can I trust you in any other situation for all this stuff?

00:36:03.120 You know, going along with the Bubba Wallace thing shows number one, a willingness to go along with

00:36:09.860 the crowd. It also shows that you are easily duped in a way that is very concerning. Either you're

00:36:15.360 easily duped or you're willing to pretend that you've been duped to go along with the crowd.

00:36:19.620 Um, George Floyd, again, you know, going along with the crowd, saying things that, that, that

00:36:24.400 can only be construed as, as promoting and justifying rioting and looting. And then when it comes to

00:36:29.500 Confederate flag, this is an important one too, because there are even some conservatives,

00:36:33.100 that would defend that one. And so, Oh, it shouldn't be a Confederate flag flying. What

00:36:37.600 I've always said about this is that when it comes to any monument, anything like that, you

00:36:43.400 know, no one is saying that every single flag that's ever been raised, every monument that's

00:36:49.640 ever been erected has to stay forever and that we can never take it down under any circumstance.

00:36:54.940 No one is saying that. So if there's something you want to take down,

00:37:01.740 you make your argument, you explain why you should take it down, but you do that on your

00:37:08.800 own terms. What you never ever do is, is do it in response to the mob. So if you've got

00:37:17.440 a good argument for taking down a monument, um, you make that argument at a time when the

00:37:24.900 mob isn't demanding it, the fact that the mob demands it is, is reason enough to not do it.

00:37:34.300 Even if otherwise you, you could make an argument for it. If the mob demands it, you don't do it.

00:37:42.680 That again is leadership. You never cave to the demands of the mob.

00:37:47.000 So, Dickie Haley, not the one we need in this moment or any other moment.

00:37:55.440 This is the New York Post. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of unknown objects soaring in the

00:38:00.300 skies, but they're likely just used car balloons or other benign crafts and not aliens visiting

00:38:06.440 Earth, according to White House officials on Monday. White House Homeland Security Advisor

00:38:11.760 Liz Sherwood Randall said in a virtual briefing, quote, there are no UFOs. This is not an invasion

00:38:16.960 of aliens. I mean, it's funny, but it's not funny because people are communicating this on platforms

00:38:21.780 that are widely viewed. Uh, but despite Sherwood Randall's assurance to the elected officials,

00:38:27.400 the government is still unable to identify the trio of recently downed objects. The first was shot

00:38:32.220 down off of Alaska's Arctic coastline on Friday. The second over Canada's Yukon territory Saturday

00:38:37.340 and the third over Lake Huron on, on Sunday. Um, on the call to governors on Monday, Sherwood

00:38:43.880 Randall said there are hundreds, if not thousands of objects in the sky. Most are believed to be

00:38:47.980 mundane and could be things like used car balloons or aircraft launched by commercial businesses.

00:38:55.260 She added, well, like I said yesterday, if you needed any more confirmation that these are

00:39:02.340 definitely aliens, then, then this has to be it. Used car balloons. Yeah. There's a, a balloon from a

00:39:11.660 used car lot has become dislodged and is now 40,000 feet in the sky and is moving around in a way that

00:39:20.840 utterly perplexes Navy pilots. Yeah. That's what, that's one of the, say what you want about the UFO

00:39:25.420 theories, but you know, keep in mind that in many of these cases, including what happened, uh, over the

00:39:30.660 weekend, you've got trained pilots who this is, this is what they do. And they have laid eyes on these

00:39:37.700 objects and they come back and report. I can't, I don't know what that is. And I don't know how it's

00:39:42.360 moving away around the way that it is. I'm, I'm pretty sure that a, like a Navy pilot knows what

00:39:49.020 a balloon looks like and could easily at a use, are you talking about what used car balloons are we

00:39:54.440 talking about first? Are we talking about those ones, the, uh, the, the crazy, the ones with the,

00:39:58.040 the wacky arm ones? I assume that's what they're talking about. Cause that's like,

00:40:02.220 when you think of a used car balloon, that's the first thing that comes to mind, right?

00:40:06.680 Wouldn't that be really distinct? If you saw that somehow floating in the sky, 40,000 feet in the

00:40:14.400 air, I don't know how it gets up that high. Like I know that a wind gust can take a balloon pretty far,

00:40:18.700 but like, give me a break. But wouldn't that be the most distinct and obvious thing in the world?

00:40:24.500 I mean, it would be pretty clear. That's what it is. Now you might have a lot of questions about

00:40:29.120 how it got up there. Maybe, maybe it was aliens that brought it up there, but I think you'll know

00:40:36.000 that's what it is. And when you've got the Navy pilots coming back and saying, you know, this was

00:40:39.480 a cylindrical object. I don't know how it wasn't. I mean, there were generals, you know, a general in

00:40:44.860 the air force just a couple of days ago was saying, I don't know what these things are. I don't know

00:40:51.120 what their propulsion method is. Uh, I don't know how they're staying in the sky and I'm not ruling

00:40:56.300 out alien activity. It was from a general in the air force only a few days ago. And now they're

00:41:02.300 saying, Oh no, it was a used car balloon. That's all it was. Look, I'm not saying it was aliens.

00:41:09.420 Well, I am saying it. I've been saying that the whole time, but even if you still are not convinced

00:41:14.360 by my many compelling arguments in that direction, it is, it's like, clearly there's,

00:41:18.320 there's something going on and they are hiding it. I mean, I think we could all agree on that.

00:41:22.220 Whatever it is, they're not being honest about it. And it seemed like they were caught off,

00:41:26.920 whatever it is, they were caught off guard by it. Um, and they didn't have the story straight

00:41:31.100 initially because if they were expecting it and they were competent people, um, then they,

00:41:39.300 and they, they didn't want us to know it was really going on. Then they would have come out

00:41:41.960 from the beginning and said, Oh, it's just a bunch of balloons. Don't worry. Yeah. As a child,

00:41:46.500 in fact, there's a kid at Chuck E. Cheese was having a birthday party and, uh, and a bunch of

00:41:50.580 balloons, the balloons went in the sky. That's all it was. That's all in, it's on our radar. You

00:41:53.680 know, it happens all the time, happens all the time that kids have birthday parties and balloons

00:41:57.640 go in the sky. And then we dispatch, uh, jets to go investigate, you know, all the time it happens.

00:42:03.240 That's all it is. They would have said that from the beginning. They would have said that if that

00:42:07.300 was the case, um, or even if they were determined to cover it up and they, and they had their wits

00:42:13.020 about them and they were not caught off guard, then they would have said that from the beginning.

00:42:15.520 The fact that we're seeing this drastic change, again, just a few days ago, it was, they, they,

00:42:21.740 they would not rule out. They wouldn't publicly even on the record, rule out the possibility of

00:42:26.460 UFOs, alien spacecraft. And now they're saying use car balloons, whatever it is. They know more than

00:42:34.040 they're telling us. And they don't want us to know what they know. All right. Um, I had one other

00:42:40.920 thing, but I think we're going to save it for tomorrow because we have to get to the comment section.

00:42:45.520 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage? Who's to blame? It's a sweet baby gang.

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00:43:47.580 CJ says the decline of understanding love everyone to mean let people do whatever they want and don't

00:43:53.600 interfere is a direct consequence of people not having children. As a parent, you learn that

00:43:57.340 what that statement truly means. You love your children beyond description, yet you don't let

00:44:01.560 them do whatever they want. You're often the bad guy in their lives as you stop them from destroying

00:44:05.700 themselves on a regular basis because of the love that you have for them. Yeah, well, that's what

00:44:10.540 that's how good parents operate anyway. And you're right that I think that there is an interesting

00:44:16.500 connection that you've drawn there. Just it becomes very clear. It's not that you can't understand this

00:44:22.760 without having kids, but it does become very clear once you have kids that oftentimes the most loving

00:44:31.640 thing to do is to offer correction, even punishment. So you can understand maybe intellectually that

00:44:40.040 correction and punishment can often be fueled by the love for the person that you're correcting and

00:44:47.620 punishing. But it's an intellectual exercise and then you have kids and you really understand it.

00:44:53.980 You really understand what that means. That you love your children. You love your child more than life

00:45:00.240 itself. And because of that, you're forced to correct them. You're forced sometimes to punish.

00:45:07.800 I know that I'm not alone in this, but as a parent, I, you know, I, there are times when I've had to come

00:45:14.400 down pretty hard on my kids because they've done something that warrants, you know, a more,

00:45:20.320 a more severe response. And I don't, I hate it. I don't, I don't like it. I don't like punishing

00:45:26.140 my kids, which is good. I think if you, if you enjoyed it, there'd be something wrong,

00:45:29.560 but I really don't like it. I could say, I find it actually quite painful because it's not

00:45:35.760 the kind of, it's not what I wanted. It's not what I want to do. And especially if I,

00:45:40.900 you know, there's days where I come home from work and, uh, so one of the kids was acting up and I,

00:45:45.000 and of course I'm, you know, dad comes home from work. I got to have to deal with that sometimes,

00:45:48.860 but, um, it's not what I want to do. Like I come, I don't, I don't, I don't want to have to

00:45:55.100 have that kind of interaction, but I do it because I'm the father and this is what we are supposed

00:46:00.900 to do. I also understand as, as I become a parent, I understand parents that spoil their kids and let

00:46:07.820 the kids run, run wild and do whatever they want. I don't, it's not how I parent. Don't get me wrong.

00:46:13.340 And it's the wrong way to parent, but I can understand the emotional like inclination that leads

00:46:17.740 you in that direction because you just, you know, you, you, it's, it's hard to correct your kids

00:46:23.520 all the time. And it's even emotionally painful at times. Um, but that is, that's what it means to

00:46:29.980 love someone. That's, that's what, if you, if you want what's best for them, it also means you want

00:46:33.760 them to be a better person. You want someone to be a good person. You really want that. If you love

00:46:40.160 someone, that's what you want for them. You want them to be good, fulfilled people, which means you

00:46:46.600 don't just leave them to wander the earth on their own and figure out things as they go along.

00:46:51.200 You have to, you have to cut a path for them. And when they go off that path, you have to correct

00:46:56.040 them. And sometimes like drag them kicking and screaming back to the right path. Samuel says,

00:47:02.660 Matt, I agree with almost everything you espouse, but I'm confused. The ad simply said,

00:47:06.480 love your enemy. It didn't say love their sin or love their actions. Just love them. As Christians,

00:47:11.000 we need to bring people into Christianity. Gradually. We cannot cold turkey people into Christ. 0.88

00:47:15.480 Also, the ad serves its purpose. Whether there was hate on both sides or not, there was hate.

00:47:19.680 And that is what the ad was targeting. And thank, and finally, I think you missed a chance to accept

00:47:24.140 some of God's word into your life. You immediately went to defending your side from imaginary attack

00:47:28.360 instead of using the ad to realize that you could do with a bit of loving your enemies. All love.

00:47:35.000 I don't, I don't think that you quite understood my criticism. I'm not saying that we shouldn't love

00:47:39.460 our enemies. What I am saying is that I'm saying a few things. First of all, that is,

00:47:43.820 when it comes to the Christian message, that is the easiest thing to say.

00:47:47.780 It's the thing that's going to be the most crowd-pleasing and popular, even though in this

00:47:50.700 case, you know, because AOC is a, is a ditz, she, she still found a reason to complain about it. 0.98

00:47:55.860 But generally it's the most kind of crowd-pleasing message. Doesn't make it wrong. It's just,

00:48:00.860 that's what it is. And so I think that if you're going to, if you're going to go with that,

00:48:04.660 then it behooves you to say a little bit more about it, to say something useful about,

00:48:08.700 to simply say, and leave it at this, you know, to simply say, well, love your enemy. It's like,

00:48:13.180 here's a bunch of people yelling at each other. That's bad. Love your enemy. I, I'm sorry. I just

00:48:16.700 don't see that as a useful message because you're left people wondering, well, what does that mean?

00:48:20.960 Like, how do we love them exactly? Is it, does it just mean think nice things about each other

00:48:25.380 and hold hands and say kumbaya? Because that's what people think. And that's the kind of message

00:48:29.540 they often get from the Christian churches. And keep in mind that in the Bible, Jesus says,

00:48:33.640 love your enemy, but he doesn't just leave it at that. If you read the entire context of

00:48:38.360 scripture, you get a pretty good idea of what loving your enemy really means.

00:48:42.460 And so I, I simply think that a message like this, where you got the music in the background,

00:48:46.480 it's very inspirational. Don't yell at each other, love each other. All right. I mean, fine. It's fine.

00:48:51.820 It's, it's, you know, it's, it's inoffensive, but I also just don't, I do not think it's useful.

00:48:59.120 What people need is to understand what loving your enemy actually means. And they need to understand

00:49:04.440 that sometimes loving your enemy does involve anger. It could even involve raising your voice

00:49:09.840 and, and, and yelling a little bit. Sometimes that, that can happen out of love. Yes. That

00:49:14.480 can be fueled by love. Absolutely. And I think that that's a message that needs to be understood.

00:49:19.260 I just think that this, that ad again, basically benign, inoffensive, nothing about it. That's

00:49:24.620 explicitly wrong necessarily, but it all adds up to this sort of general picture, which is quite wrong.

00:49:31.820 Um, that Christian love means basically getting along with everyone and never getting angry.

00:49:37.340 Um, and I think we've had quite enough of that. I don't think we need more of it. If you are going

00:49:41.160 to spend $20 million on an ad for the Superbowl, like how about say something that, how about say

00:49:46.720 something that people aren't already going to hear everywhere? Like everyone has heard that

00:49:51.680 kumbaya get along. Everyone hears that. How about say something, a message that they won't hear

00:49:58.440 anywhere else? Yeah. Beggars can't be choosers and all that when it comes to Superbowl ads. So

00:50:03.620 it's like, at least it wasn't, uh, depraved and say overly overtly sexual and all the rest of it. But,

00:50:09.780 um, I do think we've reached a point in this culture where we got to do more. We got to do

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00:51:13.460 Well, it should perhaps tell you something about the cultural relevance of the New York Times that

00:51:21.840 a New York Times columnist wrote an entire editorial responding to one of my tweets.

00:51:26.360 And I just found out about it today, a week after it was published. I didn't even know that it happened.

00:51:30.620 And that writer is David French, a man who still pretends to be a conservative and yet is notorious

00:51:35.320 for articles like the one he wrote in October for the dispatch, where he complained that laws being

00:51:40.160 passed to protect children from the trans agenda are taking the culture war too far and quote 0.88

00:51:44.720 threatening foundational American rights. So he's a conservative who is deeply repelled by anything

00:51:50.980 or any idea that can be remotely described as conservative. That's exactly what earned him a

00:51:56.420 spot at the New York Times because the times like CNN is only interested in conservatives whose

00:52:01.200 conservatism consists of complaining about attacking and straw manning conservatives. That's exactly what

00:52:07.480 David French did in his latest New York Times op-ed, which was written in response to my now infamous

00:52:12.580 tweet a couple of weeks ago, where I made the apparently radical claim that men want loving

00:52:18.080 wives and they appreciate hot meals. Really offensive stuff. And French could not let such extremism 1.00

00:52:25.480 stand unchallenged. And that's why he wrote this. It begins this month, the popular conservative

00:52:32.860 podcaster, Matt Walsh tweeted a thought that rapidly went viral with approximately 18 million views.

00:52:38.320 All a man wants, he wrote, is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children

00:52:42.400 who are glad to see him and dinner cooking on the stove. This is literally all it takes to make a

00:52:46.620 man happy. We are simple. Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.

00:52:52.180 The message, French says, was obviously trollish and intended to generate outrage. Bringing back

00:52:57.760 leave it to beaver is not a serious strategy for renewing American masculinity, but it touched on

00:53:03.100 an important question. How much should a man's self-worth depend on the respect or gratitude of

00:53:08.440 others? Right. Trollish and meant to generate outrage. Why else would I suggest that men enjoy

00:53:15.920 coming home to a happy and loving family? I mean, why? Why should such an outrageous claim be made

00:53:23.340 except to troll people? That's the only reason, right? It's a deliberate provocation intended to

00:53:28.800 sow chaos. Now, there are really only two possible reasons why French would frame my statements this

00:53:36.300 way. One is that he's an intellectual coward who isn't confident in his ability to actually 0.91

00:53:41.900 articulate a rebuttal to my ideas. And so he must frame them as unserious and beneath him from the outset, 0.71

00:53:48.280 even though he's dedicating his entire column to responding to them. The other possibility is that

00:53:52.520 the conservative, quote unquote, David French is such an extreme leftist, so radically far left in

00:53:57.800 his thinking that he really does consider my incredibly normal description of a normal family

00:54:03.720 to be somehow shocking and outrageous. I can't say for sure which of these options is closer to the

00:54:09.400 mark, but I'd guess that the truth is maybe a combination of the two. French continues, I raise this

00:54:15.640 because an overwhelming amount of evidence from suicide to drug overdose to education achievement gaps

00:54:20.020 indicates that millions of men are in crisis. Simply put, while many men demand respect, what they

00:54:24.820 need is purpose, and the quest for respect can sometimes undermine the sense of purpose that will

00:54:29.400 help make them whole. To put it more simply still, what men need is not for others to do things for

00:54:36.440 them. They need to do things for others, for spouses, for children, for family, and friends and

00:54:41.300 colleagues. Okay, now, he's not wrong, obviously, that men need purpose. I say that all the time.

00:54:49.820 I never suggested that they don't need purpose. In fact, in the tweet that he's responding to,

00:54:54.060 I suggest exactly the opposite. The reason why a man finds joy in returning home from a hard day's

00:55:00.180 work to a warm and loving home is that it strengthens and vindicates and validates his purpose in life.

00:55:06.340 In that moment, he feels fully grounded in his purpose. He knows what his purpose is. A man who

00:55:13.340 returns home to a loving family returns home to his purpose. Now, French either doesn't understand 1.00

00:55:19.960 that or, again, is pretending to not understand it. We'll read one more passage just to get the full

00:55:25.240 context of his argument. Quote, the demand for respect is a hallmark of much right-wing discourse

00:55:30.680 about masculinity. In this narrative, too many women don't respect their husbands and the culture 1.00

00:55:34.900 more broadly devalues men. Part of this argument has merit. Yet, there's a danger in the quest for

00:55:40.980 respect. Finding happiness in another person's regard is elusive and contingent. After all, we have

00:55:45.920 little true control over how others perceive or treat us. Yet, when we're denied what we demand,

00:55:50.760 we're often filled with helpless rage. More important, a demand for respect or honor should

00:55:54.880 be conditioned on being respectable or honorable. When a man demands respect without being respectable,

00:56:00.240 that often looks like domination and subordination. To elevate himself, he must belittle others.

00:56:05.200 Virtuous purpose is worth more than any other person's conditional and unreliable respect.

00:56:10.640 It is rooted in service and sacrifice, not entitlement. And those qualities bring a degree

00:56:14.640 of meaning and joy far more important than the gift that others, the grateful spouse who cooks dinner,

00:56:19.760 the implausibly reverential children, can ever offer. What we do for others is infinitely more

00:56:24.820 rewarding than what we ask them to do for us. Okay. All of that is a response to the tweet that

00:56:32.340 I wrote. Now again, not everything he's saying here is wrong. I'm not going to play the Frenchian

00:56:37.860 game of pretending that some relatively normal idea is outrageous and offensive. But you have to read

00:56:43.040 between the lines a little bit and also keep in mind the statement, my statement, that his argument is

00:56:47.300 supposed to rebut. And when you take into account that context, you see that French's point is one that,

00:56:52.080 in fact, every left-wing feminist would agree with. Though even they wouldn't put it as explicit as he

00:56:56.420 has here. Men should not want anything. Men have no right to desire anything. Least of all, should they

00:57:02.680 have any emotional needs? Men are meant to operate in a vacuum where they pursue purpose entirely 0.98

00:57:08.640 unaffected by their surroundings. Now on the surface, it may sound like French is, if anything,

00:57:13.300 making the mistake of being too tough, you know, having standards that are too high,

00:57:16.460 expecting men to be too duty-bound and stoic. But that's not the case at all. In fact, he's calling

00:57:21.840 men to submissiveness. He considers it outrageous that a man should hold his wife to any standard

00:57:28.720 at all. Okay. Remember, all he said in the tweet is a grateful wife. So that's a stance. That is a

00:57:34.380 standard that I am putting on the woman. That is something that I am saying a woman should do. 0.97

00:57:39.120 God forbid we mention one single thing that a woman might, should do herself in a marriage. 1.00

00:57:46.460 French doesn't like that. The idea that a man should have any expectations, that a man should 0.99

00:57:53.440 want anything, is offensive. Even wanting your children to be happy to see you is, French says,

00:58:00.740 implausible. Remember again what I said, what French has responded to. The only thing I said about

00:58:06.020 children, I didn't say that when you walk in the door, children should bow, should do a profound bow

00:58:12.020 and say, father, we are grateful to be in your presence once more. No, I said that fathers want

00:58:18.120 their children to be glad to see them and grateful for them. French dismisses the very idea that your

00:58:24.340 children should want to see you, calling it implausibly reverential. Maybe we're learning

00:58:29.880 something about how his own kids treat him. I don't know. I can't understand otherwise why you would

00:58:35.220 consider it implausible that your children would be happy you walked in the door. Because a man who

00:58:41.340 simply wants his family to be glad that he walked in the door is, according to French, engaging in

00:58:44.920 some kind of leave it to beaver fever dream. Men should instead just shut up and do as they're 0.99

00:58:50.460 told. Men should focus on doing for others without being remotely affected by how they are treated in

00:58:54.620 return. Talk about implausible. I mean, if my vision for men is leave it to beaver, then his is like

00:59:00.400 Spock. He envisions men as unfeeling, inhuman creatures, no desires or emotions to speak of.

00:59:07.620 And you'll notice that French, this is what's most important to see. He has never and would never say

00:59:15.040 anything like this about women. He would never, not in a million years, lecture women for wanting

00:59:21.500 respect. He would never say that a woman who wants gratitude from her husband is being an outrageous

00:59:26.480 troll. He would never say that a woman who expresses her emotional needs is engaging in some kind of

00:59:31.360 ludicrous fantasy and shouldn't even be taken seriously. That's because this is not French being 1.00

00:59:37.100 like a hard-ass drill sergeant barking at everyone to stop whining and just get on with it. If it was,

00:59:42.640 I'd be sympathetic to his approach, even if I disagreed with his argument. But instead, French is 1.00

00:59:46.620 cowering to the feminist double standard, which says that men can never talk about what they want.

00:59:50.940 Only women can do that. Because that is the thing that upset everyone. That's why they're still 1.00

00:59:57.160 talking about that tweet two weeks later. Because I dared to say one single thing about what men want.

01:00:05.900 You're not allowed to do that, ever. And David French is here to enforce that rule.

01:00:12.160 Now, in reality, of course, in this contest between purpose and respect, a contest that French has 0.95

01:00:19.400 created, largely because he feels compelled to find some reason to disagree with me, the answer is

01:00:24.300 both. Men need purpose and respect. You cannot remove one from the equation without severely

01:00:30.140 diminishing the other. A man who has respect will be more likely to understand his purpose,

01:00:36.400 and a man with purpose is more likely to have respect. What this means for a wife is that if you

01:00:44.000 are a wife and you want to help your husband live with purpose, then you should respect him and show

01:00:51.160 that respect and make sure that he sees it and feels it. That doesn't mean respect is entirely

01:00:56.500 unconditional. It doesn't mean that a man should be respected no matter what he does at all.

01:01:01.620 It simply means that if you love your husband and you want him to be happy, and especially if you

01:01:07.120 realize that he's trying his best, even if it's not perfect, he's not a perfect person. He's trying.

01:01:12.480 And you want him to be the best version of himself that he can be, then you will help fuel him in

01:01:18.480 that direction, which means showing him respect. You know, my wife will often say to me, not every

01:01:26.320 day, not following some kind of script or timeline, but she will often say that she appreciates how hard

01:01:33.160 I work for the family. She's grateful for the sacrifices I make. She'll sometimes say that to me

01:01:38.100 in person. Sometimes she'll send me a text just randomly during the day when I'm at work with a

01:01:41.980 message like that. She lets me know that she notices and she cares and that it matters to her

01:01:48.680 and that, yes, she's grateful. These kinds of acknowledgements, they fuel me and motivate me

01:01:55.240 in a way that nothing else can. You know, I'm very happy to have a loving and grateful wife and

01:02:02.640 children. Guess what? Yeah, my kids are also happy when I walk in the door. I never knew that was

01:02:09.140 implausible, but this implausible fantasy has come into fruition in my own life, if you can believe

01:02:15.860 it. And there are many other men who have the same happiness. And I want those who don't have

01:02:21.900 that happiness to experience it. That was my whole point. And yes, it was a point that focused on the

01:02:28.080 needs of men. Much could be said about the needs of men or rather what men should do. There are plenty

01:02:38.840 of things that could be said about the responsibilities of men. Much could be said about

01:02:42.040 what men should do for their wives. And much is said about that all the time. It's okay to flip the

01:02:50.140 coin over and look at the other side from time to time. It's not only okay, but necessary. Even if

01:02:56.840 it offends guys like David French with the New York Times, who is today canceled. And that'll do it for

01:03:04.440 this portion of the show. So move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you

01:03:07.360 tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 15, 2023

Ep. 1114 - Creepy Childless Spinster Promotes Childlessness

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