The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1115 - Stop Sacrificing Truth On The Altar Of Nice

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, lots of people are very upset because of some things I said

00:00:03.660 on this show about the trans TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney. Even conservatives are claiming

00:00:08.640 that I need to be nicer and more gentle in dealing with the trans agenda. Today, I'll explain why the 0.54

00:00:13.480 people making this claim are horrifically stupid and wrong. Also, 200 journalists write a scathing 1.00

00:00:18.680 letter to the New York Times complaining about all of its anti-trans coverage. What does it tell

00:00:22.880 us that even the New York Times can be considered anti-trans now? Plus, Don Lemon tries to criticize

00:00:28.200 Nikki Haley, but does it in a way that even manages to upset his leftist co-hosts. In our

00:00:32.520 Daily Cancellation, a left-wing magazine has taken a crack at answering the great question of our time.

00:00:38.280 We'll see how they did. All that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:40.560 There's been a lot of discussion this week about the latest CDC report showing, as New York Times

00:01:45.120 headline put it, record levels of sadness among teenage girls in this country. From the Times,

00:01:50.760 it reports nearly three in five teenage girls felt persistent sadness in 2021, double the rate of

00:01:56.460 boys, and one in three girls seriously considered attempting suicide. The findings, based on surveys

00:02:01.560 given to teenagers across the country, also showed high levels of violence, depression,

00:02:05.380 and suicidal thoughts among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth. More than one in five of these students

00:02:10.120 reported attempting suicide in the year before the survey. According to the agency, the Youth Risk

00:02:14.940 Behavior Survey was given to 17,000 adolescents at high schools across the United States in the fall of 2021.

00:02:21.520 The survey is conducted every two years, and the rates of mental health problems have gone up with

00:02:26.520 every report since 2011. Now, this is self-reported data, which always has its limitations. As it turns

00:02:33.420 out, people are not always the best judges of their own mental states and experiences, a point that is

00:02:38.720 probably doubly true for teenagers. But even with those limitations in mind, there is no question

00:02:44.060 that young people, especially adolescents, are in crisis. There's an epidemic of despair that has

00:02:50.220 seized hold of our society, and this mental and spiritual plague has infected children most of 0.55

00:02:55.880 all. It is not normal, or it should not be normal, and hasn't been normal historically, for millions

00:03:01.780 of kids in a generation to be chronically depressed, much less suicidal. It's become our normal, but it

00:03:08.860 shouldn't be. The big question, of course, is why this is all happening. I mean, what lies at the root

00:03:15.780 of a generation of teenagers who are basically ready to give up on life after having experienced so

00:03:21.560 little of it? And this is the part, the diagnostic process, where most of our institutional authorities,

00:03:28.700 like the CDC and the corporate media, become totally useless. You know, they can identify some of the

00:03:34.800 elements of the problem. Everyone seems now to agree, for instance, that shutting down schools,

00:03:39.800 locking kids in their homes for a year or two years was a very bad idea, which had and is still having

00:03:45.360 a disastrous effect on their mental health and their physical health and in their health in all

00:03:51.320 senses of the term. Now, many of us said that at the time. At the time, we said that this would happen,

00:03:56.780 but we were shouted down and we were silenced. And now many of the people who did the shouting

00:04:01.460 are echoing the very points that they shouted down. But the lockdowns don't tell the full story.

00:04:06.760 After all, these were all trends that were present before COVID. It was a fire already burning before

00:04:11.900 our government's COVID response poured gasoline onto it. So what else then? Well, you know,

00:04:17.500 there's the fact that kids spend 10 hours a day staring at their phones, that they have been robbed

00:04:23.380 of the true joys of childhood, that their lives have been consumed by these little glowing screens they

00:04:29.940 carry around. This is a major factor to go along with the breakdown of the family, the decline of

00:04:34.900 faith in our country, the general purposelessness and listlessness that defines modern American

00:04:40.120 culture. All of these are ingredients. And all of that goes along with the one major factor that the

00:04:48.960 CDC and the corporate media and the medical establishment will never mention. In fact, they're more likely to

00:04:55.420 present this as a cure rather than a cause. And that is, of course, the gender insanity that has 1.00

00:05:02.220 gripped hold of the youngest generations. It is absolutely not a coincidence that suicidal tendencies

00:05:08.580 and sadness and depression and anxiety are skyrocketing among adolescent children, especially

00:05:14.940 girls, at the same moment that trans and quote-unquote non-binary self-identification is also skyrocketing

00:05:21.340 among children, especially girls. These kids get sucked into this world. They contract the trans mental 1.00

00:05:29.180 virus from their peers and from TikTok and from other social media platforms and from Hollywood and the

00:05:36.520 school system. And they see it as a solution to their problems, you know, because they're unhappy, they're

00:05:42.380 confused, they feel self-loathing, they feel resentment that they don't quite understand. And in

00:05:47.680 transgenderism and gender fluidity, they think they've found a way out, a new beginning, a sort of

00:05:53.920 rebirth. But instead, they tumble directly into an identity crisis and the loss of whatever remnants of

00:06:02.280 meaning and purpose they had in their life before. They think they found the antidote because they've been

00:06:08.840 told that it's the antidote. But the antidote is poison. They're trying to escape whatever parts of

00:06:15.940 themselves they don't like. But the escape hatch is a door that leads to a world of confusion and despair

00:06:21.640 and regret far worse than what they were already experiencing. That's what's happening. And when

00:06:27.800 we're taking into account all of the many horrific consequences of the trans agenda and the stranglehold 1.00

00:06:33.780 that it has on our culture, this needs to be at the top of that very long list. That it is sending

00:06:40.280 children spiraling into anguish, despondency, self-destruction. Millions of children, and counting.

00:06:49.080 And that is also why, on a personal note, I don't pull any punches when I talk about this subject.

00:06:56.360 It's why I long ago decided to be direct, plain-spoken, honest in my opposition to the trans agenda, 1.00

00:07:03.220 even if it means being harsh, even brutal. We don't have the luxury of soft-pedaling this.

00:07:09.080 There isn't room, there isn't time to dance around the subject, as so many others have been doing for so

00:07:15.920 many years. Which brings me to the reason that I'm trending on social media today. Lots of people are

00:07:23.060 very upset about a segment from my show a few days ago where I addressed Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney is,

00:07:28.040 of course, the male TikTok guy who announced on TikTok several months ago that he's going to start

00:07:33.600 identifying as a woman. And every day since then, he has published one gross and degrading video

00:07:38.640 after another, making a sick mockery of womanhood, all in an effort to enrich himself, which he has 0.94

00:07:44.660 done with wild success, thanks to various corporate sponsorships and the like. And along with promoting

00:07:49.860 himself this way, he's also seeking to promote the concept of transgenderism. In his latest video,

00:07:58.240 he shows off his plastic surgery, declares that he's the hottest he's ever looked, and that he's so

00:08:02.740 attractive that women need to watch out because he might, quote, steal their husbands. Now, I issued 0.95

00:08:08.740 a brief response, which was succinct and to the point, I thought, and which has now ushered in

00:08:14.760 another round of trans activists wishing for my death, while even many of my fellow, quote, 0.84

00:08:19.540 conservatives are joining them in denouncing me for being mean and hateful and all the rest of it.

00:08:27.160 So I have something I want to say about all this, but in order to put it in proper context,

00:08:30.760 we should probably play that clip from the show. If you were watching a few days ago,

00:08:33.980 you already saw this, but for those who missed it, here's the clip that has everyone so upset.

00:08:39.220 Here it is. Dylan, if that is the most attractive you will ever look, then I don't even want to

00:08:46.560 imagine what you'll look like when you're at your ugliest. You do not pass as an attractive woman or as 1.00

00:08:53.740 a woman at all. Even with 50 pounds of makeup and plastic surgery and clever lighting tricks, 1.00

00:08:59.160 even then, you still cannot escape what you really are and what you will always be.

00:09:04.240 You have successfully shed whatever parts of you were masculine, perhaps, at least on the surface.

00:09:09.040 Nobody would ever describe you as masculine or manly, so you've got that going. But your femininity 0.86

00:09:13.460 quotient has not increased at a rate commensurate with the loss of your masculinity. You may not be

00:09:20.100 masculine, but you also aren't feminine. Instead, you are weird and artificial. You are manufactured and 0.99

00:09:27.440 lifeless. You are unearthly and eerie. You are like some kind of human deep fake. That's what you are. 0.98

00:09:34.280 You are a man deprived of all the best qualities of men, but without any of the best qualities of 0.59

00:09:40.080 women. Even your personality is contrived. Everything about you is fake. Nothing about you 0.99

00:09:44.940 rings true. Nobody buys the act. You'll never be accepted as a woman by anyone. Never by anyone. 1.00

00:09:49.700 Even the people who pretend to accept you as a woman are only pretending because they're afraid of

00:09:54.220 being lectured if they don't, or because they want to use you as a platform to virtue signal.

00:10:00.120 But everyone who looks at you will see something pitiable and bizarre, something utterly unfeminine 0.96

00:10:06.540 in every way. You will never be able to actually have the identity that you're trying to appropriate,

00:10:12.560 nor will you ever be able to fully escape the identity that you're fleeing. The best you can hope

00:10:17.820 for is some kind of limbo, the worst of all worlds. And yet, even in that limbo state,

00:10:22.680 you will still be a man. Just not one that any of us can respect or take seriously.

00:10:32.100 But other than that, champ, you're doing great.

00:10:34.520 Well, there it is. I've got to stop beating around the bush, I think, just to give you an idea of how

00:10:43.680 people are receiving this. I'll read a few of the angry responses. Keep in mind that, again, not all of

00:10:48.660 these are coming from self-described leftists. Some of them are coming from the right, allegedly. So

00:10:53.240 here's a sample. Quote, this is one of the ugliest videos I've come across in my lifetime thus far.

00:10:59.240 Matt Walsh deserves no respect for dehumanizing Dylan Mulvaney, for being transgender. She's an 1.00

00:11:04.420 effing human being, for crying out loud. Another one says, when people like Matt Walsh make videos

00:11:09.360 like this, it reinforces the idea that right-wingers are cruel, close-minded, and unlikable. It makes the

00:11:13.880 rest of their ideas seem toxic. It gives a hard-on to this tiny 2% online movement, and Matt thinks

00:11:19.860 it's a huge W, but it's not. Another says, as has been noted over and over, the cruelty is the point.

00:11:25.360 Anytime conservative reactionaries seem like they're gaining momentum culturally,

00:11:28.540 they can't hold back the gleeful vitriol. It's not surprising his insults are the exact things

00:11:33.260 he's insecure about. Beards aren't magic. Oh, but they are. Another one says, I disdain

00:11:40.540 everything about Dylan Mulvaney and what he stands for. This is one of those from one of the so-called

00:11:45.840 conservatives. But this is why I don't follow Walsh anymore. I know he thinks he's a hero saying

00:11:49.800 the truth that every conservative is thinking, but if you listen to his voice, it's just deep,

00:11:53.440 pure hate. He's no longer rational nor Christian, and if you think he doesn't feel this way 1.00

00:11:58.440 about regular gay people, you're fooling yourself. Another one says, I hope Matt Walsh's God actually

00:12:03.080 does exist so he'll burn in hell for eternity for being a soulless, heartless cretin who spreads 1.00

00:12:07.760 only hatred and fear. He makes the world a worse place with every single breath he takes. I can go on, 1.00

00:12:12.620 but you get the point. And if I went to my emails and DMs, that's where you'd really hear how people

00:12:17.000 feel. And it's not always pretty. So allow me to address these complaints. To begin with,

00:12:23.460 needless to say, I don't apologize at all, nor do I wish to amend what I said or soften my language.

00:12:28.500 I said exactly what I meant to say, exactly as I meant to say it. And I stand by every single word

00:12:33.400 without the slightest bit of equivocation. I will also note that I did not insult Dylan Mulvaney in

00:12:39.140 that clip. I merely described him as directly and honestly as I could. If honesty sounds insulting,

00:12:45.280 well, that only tells us something about the nature of what is being described. It doesn't

00:12:51.160 mean that we should stop being honest about it. Indeed, we need a lot more honesty, direct to the

00:12:56.760 point, brutal at times. Why is honesty and the truth brutal? Well, because the reality of what we're

00:13:04.180 dealing with is brutal. It is a brutal, horrific thing. And so there is no honest way of describing it

00:13:11.440 without sounding brutal yourself. We have gotten to this point where depraved lies and destructive

00:13:19.800 lunacy are destroying our country and consuming entire generations of children, largely because

00:13:24.300 people have been too afraid to speak honestly and to say out loud what they know to be true. We have

00:13:29.400 prioritized politeness and tolerance over truth. And look where it's gotten us. Look what it has

00:13:35.660 achieved. So if you, whoever you are watching this, and if you saw that clip of me addressing Dylan

00:13:45.580 Mulvaney and you thought to yourself, oh, that's mean. He shouldn't have said all that. I don't

00:13:51.460 necessarily disagree, but that's mean. Well, if that's your reaction, then all that tells me and

00:13:58.360 what it ought to tell you about yourself is that you are among the legions who have sacrificed truth

00:14:03.500 on the altar of nice. And the destruction that has followed from that decision is your fault.

00:14:11.500 Okay, this is not a, your cowardice is not a victimless crime. These kids who have been abandoned

00:14:16.800 to lies and despair and who are killing themselves because of it, that's on you and everyone like you.

00:14:24.720 Now, you can't undo the damage that your cowardice has done, but you can at least get on the right side

00:14:32.100 and start fighting for the truth now. You can stop cooperating with the harm and thereby causing harm.

00:14:40.600 Get on the right side of the issue. And you need to, because we are way, way past the point of being

00:14:49.620 able to worry about nice. I mean, that point never existed. It certainly doesn't exist now.

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00:16:11.660 direct and honest truth, I think this helps to underscore that point. Fox News reports nearly

00:16:16.240 200 liberal New York Times contributors signed an open letter bashing their own news outlet for its

00:16:21.800 recent coverage of trans issues. The letter claimed that the paper's coverage of the propriety

00:16:26.480 of medical care for trans children, quote unquote, has featured an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience

00:16:32.840 and euphemistic charged language. Just to be clear, they're accusing those who oppose the trans

00:16:41.020 agenda, who oppose trans and kids. They're accusing us, and in particular those who have written in the

00:16:47.000 New York Times, which I haven't, but they're accusing us, our side, of using pseudoscience

00:16:53.820 and euphemistic language. We're the ones doing that. So they're castrating and mutilating kids and

00:16:59.120 calling it gender affirmation care, but we're the ones using euphemisms. They are trying to turn

00:17:06.200 males into females with drugs and surgery, but the pseudoscience is on our end.

00:17:16.180 I mean, they cannot define any of the terms they use, but we're the ones engaging in pseudoscience.

00:17:22.340 Right. Back to Fox, it says, those who signed the letter allege that the outlet has followed the lead

00:17:28.280 of far-right hate groups in presenting gender diversity as a new controversy. As Fox News Digital

00:17:34.060 reported last November, the Times faced blowback for one of its recent reports delving into the

00:17:38.740 potential consequences of puberty blockers. The blowback has now materialized in the February

00:17:42.700 15th letter signed by prominent lefty journalists and authors, including Ed Young, Lucy Sante,

00:17:49.760 Roxane Gay, and Rebecca Solnit. Personally addressed to the Times' associate managing editors for

00:17:57.120 Standards, Philip B. Corbett, the letter alerted him to serious concerns about editorial bias in the

00:18:02.720 newspapers reporting on transgender non-binary and gender non-conforming people. The aggrieved liberal

00:18:07.340 authors noted that though plenty of reporters at the Times cover trans issues fairly, they are

00:18:11.780 eclipsed, however, by what one journalist has calculated as over 15,000 words of front-page

00:18:16.260 Times coverage debating the propriety of medical care for transgender children in the last eight

00:18:21.920 months alone. Okay. This just like perfectly proves my point, doesn't it? Almost, you couldn't have

00:18:29.720 planned it any better. And it's really a profound statement, okay, that the New York Times, we're being

00:18:35.800 told, is biased against trans people, according to these journalists, okay, which shows you the level

00:18:43.880 of absolute, unquestioned, unthinking loyalty to their agenda that the left demands? Anything outside

00:18:54.260 of 100% conformity to everything they say, especially on the trans issue, but really on every other issue

00:19:01.680 too, particularly on this issue, there is no amount of leeway granted. You have to go along with everything

00:19:09.240 they say. And if you do anything outside of that, I mean, if you, if you venture even one inch off the

00:19:14.820 path that they have cut for you, then you are a radical extremist and you're going to get trans 1.00

00:19:19.500 people killed. What they're taking issue with here, and they even say it outright, that these are 0.99

00:19:25.380 articles, um, which, uh, which, okay, 15,000 words debating the propriety of medical care for trans

00:19:36.440 children. And that's what the articles actually do. That's correct. Now, the New York Times has not

00:19:43.920 published anything on the trans issue that any rational person could describe as right-wing or extreme

00:19:52.300 or anything like that, okay? They've not come close to it. The most they've done is just acknowledging

00:20:00.640 that there is a debate to be had about whether or not we should be mutilating and castrating

00:20:07.340 children. But, but really there is no debate to be had about that. There's no debate. It just shouldn't be

00:20:13.940 happening. It's, it's a horrific, these horrific Frankenstein medical experimentations on children

00:20:20.660 should not be happening. There's no rational debate to be had about it. But that's the point.

00:20:25.440 That all they're doing is saying, gee, you know, guys, uh, I know we're doing this to all these

00:20:31.520 kids, but maybe we should talk about it. Should we, should we take a second and just talk about it?

00:20:35.340 Should we, like, maybe there are people on the other side of this who might object and perhaps we

00:20:40.220 should listen to their objections, maybe. And all the articles I've read, we've, we've, uh, read many of

00:20:47.880 them on the show when they come up. And they couch, you know, anytime there's this one in particular,

00:20:54.900 they're upset about where they talk about, uh, the puberty blockers and even the writers of that

00:21:00.120 article, they never say categorically that we should never give these drugs to children.

00:21:06.320 Though of course that's correct. We should never give them to children. That's not what they say.

00:21:11.020 They're not calling for shutting it all down. They're just saying, well, maybe we should slow

00:21:14.200 it up a little bit and we should, uh, you know, we, uh, obviously they say there are times when this

00:21:20.160 is the right thing. And clearly there are kids with gender dysphoria and sometimes a medical

00:21:24.400 intervention is necessary. Clearly that's the case, but maybe there are times when, uh, kids are

00:21:29.120 getting these drugs and they shouldn't, and we should talk about it. That's the only thing they

00:21:31.560 say in the articles. And even that, like as that kind of criticism that is couched, that is, uh, that is,

00:21:39.120 uh, you know, uh, that is made to is presented in as soft a way as it possibly can be tiptoeing around

00:21:51.360 the issue. Like they're dancing over broken glass as they're talking about it, walking on eggshells,

00:21:57.020 whatever. Um, even that is, is too far. Even that is an assault on the very, uh, lives of trans people 1.00

00:22:07.260 and we'll get trans people killed. So what does that tell you? It tells you again that on the 1.00

00:22:14.600 left, this is the kind of conformity that they demand. There is no room for debate, no room for

00:22:21.160 discussion. And so they can come along out of the blue with some absurd, unheard of claim,

00:22:31.720 historically unprecedented, such as the claim that, Hey, you know, sometimes girls are actually 0.98

00:22:38.820 boys and we should chop their breasts off at the age of 14, like something like that to call that 1.00

00:22:45.180 extreme and radical would be, would be severely understating it, but then come along with a 0.99

00:22:49.240 statement like that. And, uh, you're not even allowed to question it. There, there, there cannot

00:22:53.040 even be a moment of discussion about it. So that's what it tells you about the left, which we already

00:22:58.920 know, but what does it tell you about what our response should be and what our approach should

00:23:05.960 be? You can couch your language all you want. You can be as polite and nice about it as you want,

00:23:11.600 and it won't matter. Okay. They are still going to shout it down and scream at you. They're not

00:23:19.200 going to be willing to hear it. So you might as well be direct and to the point and just say what is

00:23:25.280 true and put it out there and leave it there. Like you might as well just put the cards on the table

00:23:33.140 because any attempt that you make to be, to be, uh, nice about it, it won't matter anyway.

00:23:46.380 All right. This has gone viral. Another, uh, awkward exchange between Don Lemon and his female

00:23:50.960 co-hosts. And this one starts when Lemon tries to criticize Nikki Haley and manages to do it in a way

00:23:57.600 that, that offends even his leftist co-hosts. Uh, let's watch how that goes.

00:24:02.620 This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think that, I think it's the wrong road to go

00:24:07.560 down. She says people, you know, politicians or something are not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn't

00:24:11.700 in her prime. Sorry. When a woman is considered to be in her prime in her twenties and thirties and

00:24:15.840 maybe forties. That's not according to me. Prime for what? It depends. I mean, it's just like prime.

00:24:22.280 If you look it up, it'll say, if you look, if you Google, when is a woman in her prime, it'll say

00:24:26.040 twenties, thirties and forties. I don't necessarily agree with that. So I think she has to be careful

00:24:32.540 about saying that, well, you know, politicians aren't in their prime. You need to qualify. Are you

00:24:36.420 talking about prime for like child caring or are you talking about the facts are Google it? Everybody at

00:24:43.300 home. When is a woman in her prime? It says twenties, thirties and forties. And I'm just

00:24:46.900 saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they

00:24:51.900 need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in a prime according to Google or 1.00

00:24:57.140 whatever it is. Uh, you, you realize you can see the look on his face that he realized he stepped in

00:25:03.940 it. And, uh, it's, it's pretty great as he tries desperately to wiggle his way out of it.

00:25:09.400 Look it up on Google. Just Google it. I mean, Google knows about the prime.

00:25:13.300 It tells us what the prime is. Okay. These are the facts. They're facts about being in the prime

00:25:17.420 and women are not in the prime. Okay. After 40, it said, just look at Google. Google said it. 1.00

00:25:23.120 What are you talking about? Of course, conservatives, uh, are jumping on this one and they're doing the

00:25:28.600 whole, see Democrats are the real sexist routine. And, uh, and also the whole, um, well, imagine if the

00:25:34.400 scenario was reversed routine. And yeah, I mean, that's like, of course, if the scenario is reversed

00:25:38.280 and, um, Don Lemon had said this about a Democrat woman, uh, then there'd be a lot more outrage.

00:25:45.760 And we know that, I mean, like Kamala Harris, how old is Kamala Harris? She's, she's definitely 1.00

00:25:51.600 above, she's past her forties. That we can say, I think she's, she's approaching 60 at least. 0.95

00:25:57.140 Um, but Don Lemon is not saying that she's past her prime.

00:26:03.160 I can guarantee you that Don Lemon voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. It was in her like

00:26:08.260 late sixties at the time. So yeah, there's a double standard. Um, but it's, it's always,

00:26:15.160 you know, I always cringe when I hear that. Oh, see there's sexist. Like accusing,

00:26:19.840 it doesn't work anyway. Um, it's not going to have the effect that you want,

00:26:25.560 but using the left's language, trying to use it against them. Hey, he's being a sexist.

00:26:32.540 Is he, is Don Lemon a sexist? Like, does he hate women or is it that he's just an idiot? 1.00

00:26:39.380 And he was, he was looking to criticize Nikki Haley because Nikki Haley is a Republican. 1.00

00:26:44.860 And so he just stumbled his way into this. I think it's more of that.

00:26:50.840 It's also true by the way, that there is a prime, uh, for politicians. Like everyone has

00:26:56.220 a prime and it, but it depends on the context we're talking about, you know? Um, so it's not

00:27:00.780 like there's one human, well, this is the prime for a person. It depends on what, in what context,

00:27:05.760 what are we talking about? If you're talking about a physical prime, um, are we talking about,

00:27:09.660 you know, what's the prime for a, for an NFL running back? Like it's good. All these things are

00:27:14.620 going to change. Um, but there is a prime for politicians and is it, is it, it's definitely

00:27:25.980 not 20 or 30, it's not 40, but one thing we can say for sure. And Nikki, Nikki Haley is not past

00:27:32.880 her prime. I mean, she, I don't think she's impressive in her prime, but there is a prime. 0.99

00:27:39.080 Um, and, uh, and the one thing that we can say, and we should say is that your late seventies

00:27:45.640 is past it. Whenever that period is like, you're not in your prime in your late seventies,

00:27:50.940 you're not going to be in your prime in really any context or any respect when you get into

00:27:55.320 your late seventies. And that's not a, that's, that's no disrespect. People in their late seventies

00:27:58.880 is no disrespect to elderly people. It's just a reality of aging. We're all going to be there

00:28:02.720 one day, unless we die before that. This is just, that's the reality. Either you die before

00:28:07.320 you really get past your physical and mental prime, or you get past your physical mental 0.99

00:28:11.520 prime and then you die. That's, that's what it means to be a mortal creature walking the

00:28:15.220 earth. And once you get into your late seventies, you are past your physical prime, you're past

00:28:20.100 your mental prime. Um, that's just it. And, uh, so Nikki Haley has nothing to do. There 0.99

00:28:29.440 are other reasons to criticize Nikki Haley's candidacy reasons that you're never going to hear

00:28:33.880 from a, from, you know, a Democrat, but we should absolutely be talking about the fact

00:28:40.800 that, uh, you know, once you get into your late seventies, it's just absurd. It's a, as

00:28:45.440 I've been saying for so long, it's absurd that we allow people in their late seventies to run

00:28:49.980 for office. We've seen how this plays out. It's played out with Joe Biden exactly. It was

00:28:54.160 as it was always destined to play out. Um, and as you get into your late seventies and your

00:28:59.340 early eighties, the physical and mental decline only accelerates and it accelerates if you're

00:29:04.900 retired and you spend your days sitting on your porch in a rocking chair as everyone in

00:29:09.980 their eighties should be like that's, you've earned that. That's how you should be spending

00:29:12.980 your days. How I want to spend my days if I make it to my eighties. Um, but if you, you

00:29:20.900 add on the, the mental and physical stresses of the presidency, which is one of the most high

00:29:27.560 pressure jobs in existence, and you add that on to what is already going to be a period

00:29:34.060 of mental and physical decline. It just, you end up with Joe Biden and it is, there is no,

00:29:40.960 I have not heard one good argument for allowing people past 75 to run for the presidency. 35

00:29:47.680 to 75. I think that's a good cutoff. I mean, you could argue for cutting it off sooner than

00:29:50.860 that, but I think 35 to 70 is pretty, gives you a nice round number 40, 40 years. You have

00:29:55.880 40 years to become president. You can't do it in that timeframe. Then, uh, well, it just

00:29:59.360 wasn't meant for you. And that's okay because you know, the vast majority of humans who have

00:30:03.740 ever existed in America are not going to be president. So you're just going to be one

00:30:07.700 of us. Um, all right. This is good stuff from a magazine called in these times, which

00:30:15.420 is like a commie magazine from the sixties or something that's still around now as a website.

00:30:19.860 And they ran an article calling out the, uh, the transphobes and it's titled transphobic

00:30:25.220 violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. And you're not going to believe this, but, uh, they do

00:30:29.460 criticize me in the article as a transphobe, you know, transphobe of the year. It's to be 0.99

00:30:34.220 expected, mostly boilerplate stuff, calling out transphobes, et cetera. But what, what this

00:30:40.560 one just takes up a notch because they throw the sweet baby gang into it. And I did, I did,

00:30:45.160 we don't often see that included, but it does seem like they're finally discovering the sweet

00:30:50.900 baby gang cult and they're not happy about it. So this is some of the articles is notoriously

00:30:56.380 anti-trans daily wire host, Matt Walsh speaks frequently to his audience of millions about

00:31:00.560 the horrors of drag and gender ideology, including right after the club Q massacre at Walsh's rally 0.77

00:31:05.720 to end child mutilation in Nashville, uh, last October attendees, not dressed in proud boy or

00:31:10.880 other militia branded clothing or wearing gear referencing the quote sweet baby gang, a name

00:31:16.620 some of Walsh's followers used to refer to themselves. Walsh, the demagogue has his constituency

00:31:21.360 clad in his image. The vilification creates an enemy and a scapegoat. Now that a constituency is

00:31:27.620 formed, the demagogue may proceed to heighten the rhetoric and disinformation creating and vilifying

00:31:32.280 an enemy. Quote, the hated target is first denigrated writes Burlett, then, uh, I don't know,

00:31:37.600 some author then vilified, then demonized and finally dehumanized. A constituency created

00:31:43.880 through the weaponization of shared rhetoric, rhetoric, like the avid fan base that listens

00:31:47.600 to Matt Walsh every day is primed to hear that an already targeted group is the cause of their

00:31:52.260 ills. For Christian nationalists, the targeted scapegoat is often said to harbor or outright be

00:31:57.020 the antichrist. Well, yeah, they are the antichrist, but you see, um, the point is that if you're in

00:32:04.080 the sweet baby gang, then you are under my control. You have played right into my hands. You're being 0.94

00:32:08.780 manipulated for my dastardly purposes. That's what they're claiming. And every member of the

00:32:16.720 SPG is thinking and listening to that and thinking, well, yeah, that's the whole idea. Although I do,

00:32:21.960 I do like the term constituency. So I'm sort of thinking about sweet baby gang. Should it be the

00:32:28.020 sweet baby constituency? Got kind of a mafia-esque ring to it. Maybe we'll stick, we'll stick with

00:32:36.060 the gang. I think, um, I also have this, uh, video that I've had for a couple of days. Maybe

00:32:44.540 you've seen it circulating. I just think it's pretty extraordinary and it's a great lesson for

00:32:49.080 all of us. This is a self-described quote unquote non-binary TikToker who came out as non-binary to

00:32:56.460 her family and yet has found that her grandmother is not going along with it. So granny ain't having 1.00

00:33:03.000 it basically. Uh, the TikToker then reads a letter that her grandma wrote to her, which we're supposed 0.99

00:33:08.600 to see the letter is like horrible and bigoted. It was actually one of the best examples of real

00:33:13.920 maternal love that I've heard in quite some time. So I want to go ahead and play that for you. Here it

00:33:19.420 is. Hi. So recently I texted my parents because I'm going to go home for Christmas. And I said,

00:33:26.180 Hey, do you mind calling me Mike when I come back for Christmas? And then when I got home today,

00:33:33.100 I got this letter from my grandma and it is addressed to miss old name. Not actually,

00:33:41.140 but you know, I don't want to say my real name on the internet. Dearest dead name on this, our

00:33:49.020 blessed mother's feast day. I am writing to tell you that I will not address you as Mike. My decision

00:33:55.200 is probably not a surprise to you. Others may comply with your request. My anguish in your chosen name

00:34:00.960 and what that means has to do with your eternal soul. Know that I love you more than words could ever

00:34:07.360 possibly convey to you. No matter how you decide to identify yourself does not change my deep love

00:34:12.540 for you, honey. Because of my concerns for your soul and your mental health, I am spending more time

00:34:18.420 with Jesus in adoration. The, my cousin's last names are doing the same for you. Um, then she lists my one,

00:34:28.220 two, three, four, five cousins that are below the age of 10 who are apparently, um, offering up special

00:34:36.760 personal sacrifices for me, who I didn't tell, um, that I wanted to go by Mike. I didn't want to. I haven't

00:34:44.280 talked with your godmother and her family, but I'm sure they would do the same for you. Do you know how much you

00:34:51.100 are cherished and loved? It would be a joy to see you and be with you during the, I mean, Christmas,

00:34:56.380 um, a celebration of her Lord's birth.

00:35:02.000 Uh, that is what, what love sounds like. That is true maternal and Christian love. That's exactly

00:35:11.160 what it sounds like from the grandmother. And this fits right into the theme of the show today,

00:35:16.020 I guess, about being a direct to the point and being honest and truthful. And that's exactly what

00:35:21.140 this grandmother is doing for her granddaughter. Something that, um, from the sound of it seems like

00:35:26.180 most people in her life are not willing to do. And this young lady is, um, going to be very upset 1.00

00:35:33.600 because she wants to engage in something self-destructive and she wants people to cooperate with her 0.95

00:35:40.420 delusion. And right now she is guarding that delusion jealously because she sees it as, uh,

00:35:46.640 she sees it, she wants it to be her identity and she sees it as her salvation. You know, whatever

00:35:52.000 she's trying to escape, she sees this as the way to escape it. And so anyone doesn't go along with it,

00:35:56.720 she's going to lash out and, uh, and be very angry and sad about it. But what we can hope and pray is

00:36:03.320 that, uh, and I think that there's a good chance of this, that, uh, as this young lady grows up,

00:36:09.740 eventually she's going, and this might happen when the grandmother is dead. You know, this might, this

00:36:16.640 might be after the, this might be years later after the grandmother has already, has gone on to her

00:36:21.000 reward. But, uh, there will come a time, I believe and hope when she will look back and realize

00:36:28.440 that her grandmother was perhaps the only person in her life who really loved her.

00:36:33.320 Um, and this, that's what this love does is like this great, the grandmother obviously wants a

00:36:40.880 relationship with her grandchild, obviously loves her, obviously wants to get along with her, wants

00:36:45.080 to see her and wants, wants everything to be happy and fine. But she's willing to sacrifice that for

00:36:50.300 the time being for the sake of, uh, her grandchild's mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing in the long

00:36:57.680 run. And she's even willing because this grandmother obviously knows what's going on as a 1.00

00:37:03.900 very intelligent person. And so she knows that there's a possibility that this could sever the

00:37:09.820 relationship for the rest of the grandmother's life. And so if the time ever comes when that love

00:37:16.040 really sinks in and, and, and this, the, the, the girl has an awakening, the grandmother might not even

00:37:22.380 be around to see it, but this is the legacy that she's leaving behind. She is sacrificing something 0.74

00:37:27.860 in the moment for the sake of the girl's, uh, you know, ultimate betterment and for her salvation.

00:37:37.520 That's, that's what, that's what love is. That's what it sounds like. Um, it's no different than if,

00:37:45.380 you know, you're on a ship at sea with someone and, uh, let's say the grandmother, maybe the

00:37:51.360 grandmother and the grandchild are on a cruise together. And, uh, and the, the, the girl says

00:37:56.840 that, you know, she identifies suddenly as a dolphin. And so she's going to jump into the ocean

00:38:03.080 and, you know, she's going to jump into the middle of the sea and swim like a dolphin, you know, 1.00

00:38:08.580 the most loving response, obviously, no matter how much the girl believes that about herself,

00:38:15.060 no matter how much she wants to be seen as a sea creature, no matter how much she wants to be

00:38:19.020 seen that way, it's not true. And so if the grandmother goes along with it, all she's doing

00:38:23.600 is condemning this child to, to drown in the depths of the ocean as she jumps in and, uh, and drowns.

00:38:32.340 It's like, so is that love to condemn someone to sink into the dark depths of the ocean and die?

00:38:40.160 Is that, is that what love is?

00:38:43.880 But that is exactly what many people are doing to, to kids in the name of so-called love,

00:38:50.000 condemning them to sink into the darkness and despair and drown and die.

00:38:58.180 If you really love someone and you really care, you're going to be willing to tell them the truth.

00:39:01.460 All right. A little bit of a lighter note as we, uh, before we get to the comment section,

00:39:08.100 Sam Smith is back on TV again, and I'm loathe to play any more clips involving this freaking guy,

00:39:15.040 but I have to play this, um, as an angler myself, it just irked me. And so I can't help but play it.

00:39:22.640 Here it is.

00:39:23.940 You're a big fan of fishing.

00:39:25.040 I do love fishing.

00:39:26.660 Yes, I do.

00:39:27.620 Yeah, yeah. I'd love to be a fisher, fisher them.

00:39:29.680 What, like a fly fisherman?

00:39:31.820 I'd, I'd be, I'd be any type of fisher them. I think I would like to, one day I'd just like to end my days fishing.

00:39:38.740 Like, sitting on the back.

00:39:39.900 Do you fly fishing?

00:39:41.200 I do it on the sea and I do it in the lakes. I've never done it alone.

00:39:44.040 So cool.

00:39:44.860 Someone's always taught me.

00:39:46.400 Fantastic.

00:39:47.100 Yeah.

00:39:49.780 Fisher them.

00:39:50.620 Um, that's the kind of thing, like, if I found out that, uh, Sam Smith is a, is an angler, considers himself one.

00:40:02.200 I would say that as a, that's a joke that I would come up with to make fun of him.

00:40:06.020 I call it, well, yeah, fisher them.

00:40:08.120 But he's embraced it.

00:40:09.500 This is as, as, as these people just continue to be, to, to, uh, get to a point where it's just beyond,

00:40:14.800 there's no way to even satirize or mock them anymore effectively because it's beyond parody and mockery.

00:40:22.820 So he doesn't, he's not saying it as a joke.

00:40:25.480 He can't be saying it as a joke because then what would the punchline be?

00:40:28.680 The punchline would be, you know, the, the non-binary craze. 1.00

00:40:33.200 And obviously that's not the punchline.

00:40:35.960 So this is what, how he actually wants to be referred to.

00:40:39.380 Fisher them.

00:40:40.100 Um, and I'm sorry, I don't, I don't buy Sam Smith as a fisherman or fisher them.

00:40:47.240 You know, uh, I don't, I don't buy it at all.

00:40:49.600 This guy is not going out fishing.

00:40:51.040 I know he's not, maybe he's been out a couple of times.

00:40:52.960 Okay.

00:40:53.940 I've heard this from people before.

00:40:55.260 Oh, I love fishing.

00:40:56.040 And then like, you go out fishing with them.

00:40:58.000 And, uh, you know, for them fishing is like, you know, just a, uh, uh, a spin cast reel,

00:41:06.420 throwing it out into the middle of the, of the lake with a bobber on there.

00:41:09.900 And it's like, you know, that, that's the kind of thing that he's, he's doing actual

00:41:13.360 fishing.

00:41:13.760 I'll tell you why I know he's not a fisher, fisherman, um, it's because the, what makes

00:41:19.860 fishing enjoyable is that, you know, it's just like, it makes many hobbies enjoyable.

00:41:25.460 It's one of the fundamental joys of it is that you're, you're not thinking about yourself.

00:41:29.200 You are, um, focusing and concentrating on something other than yourself.

00:41:33.960 You know, it's the, it's the craft and the skill of fishing.

00:41:38.740 That's what makes it fun.

00:41:39.920 That's what makes it enjoyable.

00:41:42.100 But we know that a narcissist like that could never find joy in that because everything has

00:41:47.660 to come back to him.

00:41:48.920 Everything has to be about his own self-obsessions.

00:41:51.640 So anything that takes him out of that is going to be very disturbing.

00:41:55.820 We already know that.

00:41:56.420 So I do not accept him in the angler community. 0.97

00:42:00.740 I'm sorry.

00:42:01.500 We're a welcoming community for the most part, but we, we do draw the line somewhere.

00:42:06.280 We draw it at Fisher thems.

00:42:08.540 Let's get to the comment section.

00:42:09.760 If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in hay with a sweet baby gang.

00:42:20.060 LFTR says, my girlfriend liked Chelsea Handler and showed me some of, uh, the reality show

00:42:25.220 Chelsea had done that, that followed her daily life.

00:42:28.700 My God, that sounds horrific.

00:42:30.740 About five minutes in, I had realized I was watching one of the saddest and most miserable

00:42:34.900 people I'd ever seen.

00:42:35.860 At six minutes, I had succumbed to Handler poisoning and had to go stand in the sunlight

00:42:40.140 to halt the reaction.

00:42:42.740 Yeah, well, that's a red flag.

00:42:44.280 First of all, your girlfriend likes Chelsea Handler.

00:42:46.140 I mean, that's a comment.

00:42:46.700 I'm not saying you should break up with her on the spot because of that.

00:42:50.480 There are worse reasons to break up with someone, but I'm not necessarily recommending it,

00:42:53.820 but I would have a conversation.

00:42:54.580 I would really have a serious conversation.

00:42:56.780 So I would go to her today and say, listen, we need to talk about this Chelsea Handler stuff.

00:43:01.860 Like, what is it about her that you find?

00:43:03.960 How could you sit and watch, bad enough to watch her give an unfunny monologue, but you

00:43:10.500 want to watch and just watch her live her daily life? 0.92

00:43:14.980 It's not, it's, that's, that's the one thing. 0.98

00:43:16.740 Yeah, it's, it's, as we've reviewed, it's just sad and pathetic and trying to convince 0.89

00:43:20.160 everyone that she's happy, but it's also just the life that she's living. 0.57

00:43:26.100 It's, it's, it's so uninteresting.

00:43:27.540 It's not an interesting life.

00:43:29.360 Um, so at the very least, if you are, you say you're going to be childless or you're not

00:43:35.980 going to get married, you're not going to do any of that.

00:43:38.420 Okay.

00:43:38.820 Well, I don't know.

00:43:40.460 Go out and do something interesting.

00:43:42.020 The most interesting thing you can think to do with this quote unquote freedom that you

00:43:46.860 have, because, uh, there's no one in your life that you care about and love.

00:43:50.060 And there's no one who loves and cares you, cares about you.

00:43:52.320 I mean, you call that freedom.

00:43:53.200 I don't, but okay, let's call it freedom for a minute.

00:43:56.160 So the most interesting thing you can think to do with it is like to go to tourist spots.

00:44:02.100 Go do some, I mean, go, uh, I don't know, go explore some unexplored part of the Amazon

00:44:07.020 or something like do something like that.

00:44:09.120 Something really interesting.

00:44:12.080 That's a reality show that I would watch actually drop Chelsea Handler off in the Amazon. 1.00

00:44:17.360 I don't think it's a show that would last very long, but, uh, for as long as it lasts,

00:44:21.840 I think I might actually watch that.

00:44:23.760 Dallin says, I completely agree with Matt.

00:44:25.560 My stepdad is a mountaineer who's done four of the seven summits and many other high mountains,

00:44:30.440 and he still does it even with work, even with kids, even with gymnastics competitions

00:44:34.180 that my sister has or mountain bike races my brother and I have.

00:44:37.180 He's still actively there for us and prioritizes that, that, that over other things, but he also

00:44:42.840 plans time to do the things he loves.

00:44:45.960 Yeah.

00:44:46.160 All of that is, it's perfectly possible.

00:44:48.740 It's perfectly plausible.

00:44:49.540 Um, you don't need to give up, you know, again, I mean, if there are things that you

00:44:55.640 like to do that are unhealthy and not good and you shouldn't be doing, um, then like

00:45:03.180 binge drinking, for example, that is something that you should give up when you have, you

00:45:07.780 should give it up before you have kids.

00:45:09.020 Well, certainly if you have kids, you should give it up.

00:45:10.220 But if there's real, like, wholesome, fruitful hobbies and things that you like to do, there's

00:45:15.000 just no reason why you actually have to give up any of that when you have kids.

00:45:18.960 Um, you have to put it, you have to, uh, be a little more intentional with your time.

00:45:24.900 You have to plan things out more than you normally would, but that's also not a bad thing.

00:45:31.240 Um, it's just a, it's just a matter of like reprioritizing, but there's no reason, especially

00:45:37.820 if there's two of you, this is one of the, this is a one of the many advantages of having

00:45:43.300 children with someone and getting married and staying married because now there's two

00:45:47.480 of you and that's also going to, and if you're on the same page and you're on the same team

00:45:51.600 and you're looking out for each other and you're both realize, you know, both spouses

00:45:56.160 realize that the other needs break sometimes and needs to be, it needs to be able to get

00:46:00.220 out and do their own thing on occasion.

00:46:02.160 Um, and, uh, and so if you have that, then there's no reason why you can't do all of those

00:46:06.680 things.

00:46:07.740 And that also gives you things that as your kids get older, you can incorporate them into those,

00:46:12.400 those things as well.

00:46:14.700 Uh, William says about, uh, Chelsea Handler, like Norman O'Donnell said, women aren't good 1.00

00:46:20.960 comedians.

00:46:22.640 Yeah, well, I think it's, I mean, it is a fact that male comedians tend to be funnier.

00:46:26.620 You know, this is one of those many, one of the, one of the many, uh, controversial statements

00:46:31.280 that, that people act as though it's controversial, even though everyone knows that it's true and

00:46:35.740 agrees.

00:46:36.620 Like if you were to make a list of the twenties, 20 funniest comedians of all time, everybody

00:46:42.260 everybody's list, everyone's list would be a little bit different, but everyone's list

00:46:45.420 would, would be dominated by men. 0.96

00:46:47.540 That's the case for anybody.

00:46:49.700 Um, and if we weren't such a sensitive society, we might be able to have a conversation about

00:46:53.380 why that's the case because it is an interesting phenomenon.

00:46:56.200 You know, Christopher Hitchens back years ago wrote an article about this, about how women 1.00

00:47:00.800 aren't funny and, uh, and people were very upset about that.

00:47:03.960 And his argument was kind of, um, and this is not a surprise coming to Christopher Hitchens.

00:47:07.960 He, he saw it as kind of an evolutionary adaptation that men tend to be funnier because, um, they

00:47:13.680 need to be in order to attract a mate. 0.62

00:47:16.700 Whereas, whereas for women, it's not like that because men aren't typically ranking funniness

00:47:22.280 high on the list of qualities that they need in a woman. 0.98

00:47:25.860 Now, a good sense of humor, men want that. 0.96

00:47:28.880 They want a good sense of humor.

00:47:29.820 You certainly don't want to be with like a woman who's shrill and has no sense of humor 1.00

00:47:33.760 and is getting offended all the time.

00:47:34.840 Uh, you don't want to be like a feminist, for example, but a good sense of humor doesn't 1.00

00:47:38.840 necessarily mean that you yourself are funny.

00:47:40.400 Really, it means that you're going to, are you going to laugh at our jokes?

00:47:42.580 That's the first thing we're worried about.

00:47:44.740 Um, so I don't know, there might be something to that.

00:47:47.060 I think also female comedians, um, first of all, they tend, not always, but they tend to 0.96

00:47:56.540 structure their comedy around being masculine and man-like.

00:47:59.860 So it's a lot of, uh, a lot of jokes that are based, that basically boil down to, hey,

00:48:03.680 look how vulgar I am.

00:48:05.120 Listen to how frankly I talk about sex. 0.79

00:48:07.340 This is what men usually do, but I'm doing it. 1.00

00:48:09.080 Isn't that funny? 0.99

00:48:09.600 So it's a lot of that kind of thing and it gets kind of pathetic.

00:48:11.520 And then also I think self-deprecation is an essential ingredient in being funny.

00:48:16.700 Um, really funny comedians are extremely self-deprecating.

00:48:20.460 They're willing to make themselves the butt of the joke, but in particular, these feminist 1.00

00:48:25.340 comedians, they really struggle in that regard.

00:48:28.100 And so it's just not funny.

00:48:29.380 You heard in the Chelsea Handler clip yesterday, uh, one of the first, I don't know, jokes

00:48:33.280 that she makes is how she, she looks in the mirror and admires herself for being such a

00:48:37.760 dynamic woman.

00:48:40.520 And that's not supposed to be ironic.

00:48:42.440 It's supposed to be a kind of girl power empowerment thing. 1.00

00:48:45.880 Um, it's supposed to elicit, uh, clapping applause more than laughter.

00:48:53.180 And it's just, it's not funny like self-confidence, especially pretend self-confidence isn't funny.

00:48:59.520 There's nothing funny about that.

00:49:01.460 And if you can't laugh at yourself and see yourself as absurd, then you're not going to

00:49:07.200 be funny.

00:49:07.820 And I think that's one of the many problems that, uh, Chelsea Handler has. 0.97

00:49:12.280 Uh, finally, Captain Everyman says, dude, please, there is no utter disgrace in playing

00:49:16.560 lift every voice and sing.

00:49:18.600 You continue the tradition of conservatives being race baiters and undercover totalitarians.

00:49:23.260 The Star Spangled Banner is not appropriate for everyone.

00:49:26.440 It's a song written by a slave owner in 1812 that declared the U.S. the land of the free

00:49:30.720 while my ancestors were held in bondage as chattel slaves.

00:49:33.540 So let's get a new anthem we can all embrace.

00:49:36.320 The words of our national anthem speak to what the U.S. should not be.

00:49:40.160 What?

00:49:41.080 Lift every voice and sing speaks to what the U.S. should be.

00:49:44.440 I'm sorry, what part of the national anthem speaks to what the U.S. should not be?

00:49:47.880 Should it not be land of the free, home of the brave?

00:49:52.700 Now, your criticism, is your criticism that those words were written when it wasn't true?

00:49:56.760 Or is your criticism that the words shouldn't be true?

00:49:59.600 Because your criticism can't be both of those things.

00:50:01.500 It sounds like it's both, and that doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:50:04.300 Also, I'm wondering, by the way, this standard that you've applied to the national anthem,

00:50:08.180 where it was written and it's aspirational, talks about freedom and all these things.

00:50:13.500 But these aspirational principles were not consistently applied to everyone.

00:50:18.780 And so you say that means we need to throw out the national anthem.

00:50:21.240 Do you apply that to every country?

00:50:23.360 Is it just our own?

00:50:24.680 Like if I go and find other countries in the world that have their own national anthems

00:50:28.540 that were written at a time when there was slavery and segregation, all that kind of stuff,

00:50:33.060 are you going to say that those countries should also throw out their national anthems and get new ones?

00:50:37.080 Or is it just us?

00:50:37.860 Because I think probably you would tell us it's just us.

00:50:39.960 So you're again holding the United States to a standard that you don't hold any other country in the world.

00:50:44.860 And certainly African countries you don't hold to that standard.

00:50:47.400 And the utter disgrace is in giving racially segregated national anthems.

00:51:00.440 National anthems are supposed to be about the nation, about unity.

00:51:04.880 And having a black national anthem is meant to be, it's an attack on that very concept of national unity. 1.00

00:51:12.560 So that's why it's a disgrace, just to be clear. 0.53

00:51:15.000 Well, it seems that almost everywhere you turn, the world wants to make you woke.

00:51:19.140 But our good friend Dennis Prager is on a mission to make you wise instead.

00:51:22.580 And thankfully, Dennis has created a brand new series with Daily Wire Plus called The Master's Program,

00:51:26.860 which will do just that.

00:51:28.300 We've had a longstanding relationship with Dennis Prager for good reason. 0.99

00:51:30.700 He's been leading the charge against stupidity for longer than I've been alive. 0.97

00:51:33.840 And he's done it with content like Prager used five-minute videos and so many other things. 0.98

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00:51:47.220 Episodes explore topics like, is human nature basically good?

00:51:50.740 I think we can say for certain that I'm obviously good, but I can't speak for anyone else.

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00:52:10.120 That's dailywireplus.com today.

00:52:11.900 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:17.560 Today we cancel the website Covator,

00:52:20.320 which is, according to its About Us section,

00:52:22.640 is a multifaceted lifestyle brand that brings you insider access

00:52:26.800 to the people shaping today's cultural conversation.

00:52:29.640 Our goal is to reimagine luxury and take you behind the scenes with those in the know.

00:52:35.140 We celebrate independent expression in all its varied forms,

00:52:38.320 and we help pave the way for what's new and next.

00:52:42.100 Well, that all, of course, means nothing.

00:52:43.540 All you really need to know is that Covator is yet another leftist rag,

00:52:46.560 and it's another one that has decided to take a crack at answering the question of our time,

00:52:51.500 the great question, the ultimate question.

00:52:53.580 They've had months to think about it, lots of time to reflect,

00:52:55.940 to organize their thoughts, to plan what they're going to say.

00:52:58.360 And this week they unleashed their answer in an article

00:53:01.040 written by Harley Preston entitled,

00:53:03.800 What is a Woman? 1.00

00:53:04.420 Now, not to spoil the ending,

00:53:06.720 but you should know that Preston never really promises an answer exactly.

00:53:10.340 Instead, the subtitle promises, quote,

00:53:12.120 an exploration of how transness can expand our understanding of gender.

00:53:16.640 So we're not off to a great start, but Preston begins, quote,

00:53:19.180 as trans women like me struggle to be seen and respected as women,

00:53:22.640 the most frustrating conversation to witness has been the one

00:53:25.040 that probes at a trans woman's realness.

00:53:27.960 It's a question that is so seemingly simple yet insidious at its core

00:53:31.120 as violence towards trans women continues.

00:53:33.380 What is a woman? 1.00

00:53:34.940 This question brings divisiveness into the fold as people connect semantics with biology.

00:53:39.840 Linguistics and definitions become a hurdle for someone like me to overcome.

00:53:44.140 There is a silent threat in those four simple words that aims to dismantle the logic

00:53:48.760 that trans women are, in fact, women.

00:53:50.580 Well, yes, that's exactly the idea.

00:53:53.820 We are dismantling the logic of transgenderism, and we're doing it with one single question. 1.00

00:53:58.060 You know, an introspective person might here begin to wonder whether his logic is fatally flawed

00:54:03.420 if it can be dismantled by a question.

00:54:06.800 Because just think about that for a moment.

00:54:08.800 Preston has described a question as insidious and threatening and compared it to physical violence.

00:54:15.740 A question.

00:54:17.200 Now, I have never in my life described a question that way, any question, or thought of any question that way.

00:54:24.040 In fact, I quite welcome any question that anyone might ask about my ideas or my worldview

00:54:30.340 because the question only gives me the opportunity to say more about my ideas and my worldview.

00:54:36.000 Even if the question is asked in bad faith by someone not really interested in the answer,

00:54:40.720 still, by asking it, they have given me the floor to speak.

00:54:44.720 So, when the trans activist declares that he is threatened by a question,

00:54:50.040 he's really saying that he is threatened by whatever might come out of his mouth in response to the question.

00:54:55.360 He is threatened by the opportunity to speak.

00:54:58.880 And he's right. 0.99

00:54:59.700 But his worldview is so depraved and indefensible that it can only sound dumber and more depraved the more that he speaks. 0.99

00:55:07.020 And he knows that. 0.99

00:55:08.840 Back to the article.

00:55:10.540 As it is, common definitions of woman are often associated with an adult human female.

00:55:14.800 In other words, of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs.

00:55:19.060 Now, let's face the facts here.

00:55:20.780 I can't do either of those things.

00:55:22.220 I lack the ability to bear offspring, to produce eggs, or to menstruate.

00:55:25.100 And some people will use that very definition of woman as a weapon to attack the notion that I am deserving of womanhood. 0.96

00:55:30.740 And to complement that, this logic insinuates that I and women like me are nothing more than men with a mental illness.

00:55:37.720 To be a woman is much more nuanced and complicated than a mere biological function.

00:55:42.740 This rhetoric continued on into June, Pride Month no less, as Matt Walsh, a right-wing political commentator,

00:55:48.180 released his problematic documentary, What is a Woman?

00:55:50.440 In this film, Matt Walsh asked various people, from politicians to medical professionals, what is a woman?

00:55:56.240 He intended to poke holes into the trans movement with the mindless prejudices under the guise of common sense.

00:56:02.300 It was portrayed that no one was able to give a universal definition of woman.

00:56:06.020 The common response was that a woman is someone who identifies as a woman.

00:56:08.840 And while this makes sense to me, Walsh makes a point to show that this violates the rule

00:56:13.040 that you cannot define a word by using the same word or the definition,

00:56:16.680 and ultimately puts into question the legitimacy that trans women are women.

00:56:22.060 Yes, now you're getting it. That's exactly correct.

00:56:24.020 You cannot define a word by using the word you're supposed to be defining.

00:56:26.980 So, is this the part where Preston has his come-to-Jesus moment?

00:56:30.500 Do the mental clouds open up, allowing the sun to peek through?

00:56:34.420 He starts to finally get it?

00:56:36.620 Not exactly.

00:56:37.480 He goes on, quote,

00:56:38.220 This question began to feel cruel.

00:56:41.240 As you can imagine, witnessing these conversations made me viscerally frustrated

00:56:44.860 as I, too, struggled with finding an answer.

00:56:47.760 My womanhood was being perceived as having no logic or basis

00:56:50.920 because the English language failed to support or encompass my experience as a woman.

00:56:55.460 It was the obsession of some to debunk my womanly existence

00:56:58.840 with the exclusion of trans women from a definition in the dictionary

00:57:01.660 or because of biological limitations.

00:57:03.440 As politicians continued to argue my realness as well as assess my threat to society,

00:57:09.060 I grew obsessed with wanting to define woman through a transgender lens 0.86

00:57:12.240 and questioned whether that was even possible.

00:57:14.860 I wondered if I was asked such a question, what would I say?

00:57:18.040 There was a desire to go toe-to-toe with Walsh's pseudo-logic

00:57:20.680 that trans women need to fit into a singular definition or otherwise we are not women.

00:57:24.720 As I struggled to form an answer to Walsh's question,

00:57:26.860 I couldn't help but feel like this was a clear indication

00:57:28.800 that the English language sometimes does not appropriately grasp the nuances of gender.

00:57:34.780 Ah, well, there you go.

00:57:36.440 You know, it's not his logic that's the problem, it's the English language.

00:57:39.900 So if he's struggling to use the language to defend and communicate his point,

00:57:44.300 it must be because the language itself is deficient.

00:57:47.660 This reminds me of the argument that I made to my math teacher in middle school

00:57:50.320 when I failed to, you know, I failed all my algebra tests, basically.

00:57:54.960 I tried to explain that if I fail the test, that it must mean that there's something wrong with algebra.

00:58:00.900 Algebra isn't working right.

00:58:02.580 Algebra is broken.

00:58:04.240 Or maybe it's numbers.

00:58:05.480 You know, numbers are broken.

00:58:06.980 There's a problem with the numbers.

00:58:08.980 Can't you see that?

00:58:10.280 Whatever it is, it certainly can't be that I'm just bad at math.

00:58:14.180 Just as with Preston, whatever is the source of his inability to articulate his own point of view,

00:58:18.880 the problem simply cannot be his point of view.

00:58:22.860 That can't be it.

00:58:23.540 Of that much, he is sure.

00:58:25.720 And though the English language is woefully insufficient in conveying whatever the hell he's trying to convey,

00:58:30.900 he does make the best of the situation at the end of the article,

00:58:33.740 and he finally provides his own answer to the great question.

00:58:37.440 And remember, he admits he's been thinking about this for a long time,

00:58:41.300 gearing up for this, and this is what he comes up with.

00:58:45.720 Quote,

00:58:46.080 I am a woman because I know myself to be a woman.

00:58:50.400 I may not have what some women have. 1.00

00:58:52.360 I might not act how other women act. 1.00

00:58:54.000 But that cannot and should not dictate my life or my experience with life.

00:58:58.020 The definition of woman is found within me and within every person who identifies as a woman.

00:59:03.220 And the meaning that I place upon that word is what I decide it to be.

00:59:07.820 Suddenly, the word woman, something that was once aspirational but restrictive,

00:59:11.560 now feels limitless because I no longer need to fit into someone else's understanding of gender

00:59:16.580 simply because they lack the language to even begin to comprehend me.

00:59:20.900 I and every other single woman is a walking, changing, growing definition 1.00

00:59:25.080 of what it means to be a woman, and no two will ever be the same.

00:59:30.380 Okay, so this is a good time for what I call the toaster oven test.

00:59:36.220 And the toaster oven test goes like this.

00:59:38.300 If I can take the definition of woman that you have just offered,

00:59:41.820 and I can swap out woman with toaster oven, 1.00

00:59:44.680 and it makes just as much sense,

00:59:46.660 then your definition is not good.

00:59:49.060 So let's try it.

00:59:50.320 I am a toaster oven because I know myself to be a toaster oven.

00:59:53.820 I may not have what some toaster ovens have.

00:59:56.380 I might not act how other toaster ovens act.

00:59:58.360 But that cannot and should not dictate my life or my experience with life.

01:00:02.120 The definition of toaster oven is often found within me

01:00:04.820 and within every person who identifies as a toaster oven.

01:00:08.180 And the meaning that I place upon that word is what I decide it to be.

01:00:11.200 Suddenly, the word toaster oven,

01:00:13.340 something that was once aspirational but restrictive,

01:00:15.920 now feels limitless because I no longer need to fit into someone else's understanding of kitchen appliances

01:00:20.840 simply because they lack the language to even begin to comprehend me.

01:00:24.820 I and every single other toaster oven is a walking, changing, growing definition

01:00:28.920 of what it means to be a toaster oven,

01:00:31.000 and no two will ever be the same.

01:00:34.460 There you have it.

01:00:35.860 Either I have proven that I am a toaster oven,

01:00:38.420 or there is something wrong with the way you're defining your terms.

01:00:42.140 And I feel pretty confident that the latter is the case.

01:00:46.280 I am a woman because I know myself to be a woman is not a valid definition,

01:00:49.580 nor does the claim make any logical sense.

01:00:51.740 You can only know yourself to be something if you are that thing.

01:00:55.100 You are therefore trying to prove you are a woman 0.99

01:00:57.300 by offering evidence that can only be convincing to us

01:01:00.300 if we accept the very premise that we are challenging.

01:01:03.680 This is called begging the question.

01:01:05.360 It's also circular reasoning.

01:01:07.480 You cannot know that your inner experience is that of a woman 0.99

01:01:10.860 unless you are a woman and have access to a woman's inner experience. 0.87

01:01:14.360 This is where we start going around in a circle.

01:01:16.500 How do you know you're a woman? 0.80

01:01:17.500 Well, because you feel like one.

01:01:18.840 How do you know that you feel like one?

01:01:20.320 Well, because you are one.

01:01:21.380 But how do you know that you are one?

01:01:22.660 Well, because you feel like one.

01:01:24.200 Around and around we go logically

01:01:26.020 and on the logically incoherent carousel.

01:01:29.680 And at any rate, you certainly cannot know

01:01:32.840 that you are something if you can't define it.

01:01:35.400 How can you possibly come to the conclusion

01:01:37.180 that you are something if you don't know what that thing is?

01:01:39.840 I'm a woman.

01:01:40.360 What's that?

01:01:40.860 I have no idea.

01:01:42.300 You see the problem here?

01:01:43.780 Apparently not.

01:01:45.400 And that itself is the problem.

01:01:47.940 And that is also why this writer and this magazine

01:01:49.920 are all today canceled.

01:01:52.660 That'll do it for this portion of the show.

01:01:53.980 Let's move over to the members block.

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01:02:01.620 See you over the members block.

01:02:02.720 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:04.120 Godspeed.

01:02:04.400 All right.

01:02:17.560 Yeah.

01:02:18.080 Yeah.

01:02:18.580 Yeah.

01:02:19.100 Yeah.

01:02:19.300 Yeah.

01:02:19.780 Yeah.

01:02:20.460 Yeah.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 16, 2023

Ep. 1115 - Stop Sacrificing Truth On The Altar Of Nice

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