The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1117 - The Woke Speech Police Are Now Rewriting Books By Dead Children's Authors

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, and perhaps the most egregious example of cancel culture yet,

00:00:04.020 woke publishing companies are now rewriting the books of dead authors to make the language

00:00:08.240 conform with left-wing sensibilities. One of the most revered children's authors in the nation,

00:00:12.540 I'm not talking about myself, is their latest target. Also, Joe Biden continues to demonstrate

00:00:17.000 his America last approach by visiting Ukraine while his own country falls apart. Marjorie

00:00:21.660 Taylor Greene provokes a heated reaction after suggesting a national divorce to fix our problems, 0.91

00:00:25.580 and conservative media figures continue to criticize me for my mean language. I have some

00:00:30.880 choice words for them today. All of that and more on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:41.720 You may recall a couple of years ago when the estate of Theodore Geisel, who's better known as Dr.

00:01:46.860 Seuss, of course, made the decision to stop selling a number of Seuss's books because the

00:01:51.260 books featured culturally insensitive words and themes. One of the books, for example,

00:01:55.720 contained a shocking reference to Eskimos, and we're not allowed to call Eskimos Eskimos anymore

00:02:00.680 for reasons that have never fully been explained. But it's too late to explain these things to Dr.

00:02:04.980 Seuss himself as he died 30 years ago. All they can do is posthumously label his work bigoted and

00:02:10.400 shove a chunk of his catalog into the memory hole, which is exactly what they did.

00:02:13.900 Now, many people, the optimistic ones anyway, thought that maybe the whole Seuss saga represented

00:02:20.600 cancel culture at its most absurd. And at the very least, they figured it's the most ludicrous 0.86

00:02:27.000 example of censoring a dead children's author that we'll ever see. Can't get worse than that. 0.82

00:02:33.060 But they forget, in spite of my many reminders, that progressivism is progressive like cancer.

00:02:37.880 It grows and spreads and doesn't stop, can't stop until its host is dead. And so this past weekend,

00:02:44.540 another beloved children's author who died a year before Dr. Seuss found himself in the

00:02:49.420 woke cult's crosshairs. And this incident actually makes the Seuss cancellation look downright reasonable

00:02:54.660 by comparison. So the Guardian reports on the efforts by Roald Dahl's publisher to actually rewrite

00:03:01.320 his books in order to bring them into line with modern sensibilities. Reading from the report,

00:03:06.460 it says, Roald Dahl's children's books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by

00:03:12.260 the publisher Puffin. Puffin has hired sensitivity readers to rewrite chunks of the author's text

00:03:17.940 to make sure the books, quote, can continue to be enjoyed by all today, resulting in extensive

00:03:22.960 changes across Dahl's works. Hundreds of changes were made to the original text, and some passages

00:03:28.220 not written by Dahl have been added. But the Roald Dahl story company said, quote, it's not unusual to

00:03:34.740 review the language during a new print run, and any changes were small and carefully considered. 0.95

00:03:40.980 Now, if you thought that the, you know, DEI consultants were useless parasites, what can

00:03:45.760 we say about professional sensitivity readers? I suppose we would say much the same about them, 0.96

00:03:51.020 though perhaps maybe we might give them, we might be tempted to give them a little bit of credit for

00:03:55.520 finding such a profitable yet low effort grift. And speaking of low effort, here are some of the

00:04:01.940 changes that were made at their behest. Quote, edits have been made to descriptions of characters'

00:04:08.620 physical appearances. The word fat has been cut from every new edition of relevant books,

00:04:13.680 while the word ugly has also been culled, the Daily Telegraph reported. Augustus Gloop in Charlie

00:04:19.020 and the Chocolate Factory is now described as enormous. In the twits, Mrs. Twit is no longer ugly and beastly,

00:04:25.240 but just beastly. Well, that's good, because now the line has left open the possibility that Mrs.

00:04:31.700 Twit might be beastly, yet not ugly. Perhaps she is a big, beastly, beautiful woman. That might be 1.00

00:04:39.320 a somewhat incoherent image. I can't imagine what a beastly, yet attractive person would look like,

00:04:45.060 but at least you get the alliteration there. Big, beastly, beautiful. Reading more, it says,

00:04:49.600 in the witches, a paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs, ends with this new

00:04:54.780 line. Quote, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs, and there is certainly 0.99

00:04:59.300 nothing wrong with that. I'm surprised that they didn't add yet another line to note also that

00:05:05.220 not all witches are supernatural creatures who create magical potions to turn children into mice,

00:05:11.140 as they do in Doll's book. You know, there are other kinds of witches as well. In fact,

00:05:15.000 we even have witches in Congress, quite a few of them. One of them used to be Speaker of the House. 0.98

00:05:18.680 It seems that sensitivity readers missed an opportunity to fully combat the stigma against

00:05:23.920 witches. I'm a little disappointed by that. Hopefully, they'll catch it on the next go-around.

00:05:27.680 Back to the Guardian says, in previous editions of James and the Giant Peach, the centipede sings,

00:05:32.300 Aunt Sponge was terrifically fat and tremendously flabby at that, and Aunt Spiker was thin as a wire 1.00

00:05:38.140 and dry as a bone-only dryer. Both verses have been removed, and in their places are the rhymes,

00:05:43.560 Aunt Sponge was a nasty old brute and deserved to be squashed by the fruit, 1.00

00:05:47.360 and Aunt Spiker was much of the same and deserves half of the blame. 1.00

00:05:52.660 This is another important edit. As we all know, it's deeply offensive to call a woman fat. We

00:05:57.100 should instead be polite and merely call them brutes who deserve to be squished to death. 0.99

00:06:01.760 But, you know, we shouldn't be surprised that these changes make no sense at all. After all, 0.98

00:06:05.100 the woke police, they still haven't quite figured out what to do with fatness, because on the one hand,

00:06:10.600 of course, they want to stop you from calling people fat because it's intolerant. But on the other hand,

00:06:14.480 they preach about fat acceptance and declare that fat is beautiful. But if fat is acceptable and

00:06:19.740 beautiful, then why can't we call people fat? Shouldn't we, wouldn't we be complimenting them 0.55

00:06:25.600 in that case? I mean, one of the greatest things you could say to someone is, hey, you fat ass, 1.00

00:06:29.300 you're calling them beautiful. So the sensitivity readers are a bit confused on that point. 0.99

00:06:34.000 But one thing they know for sure is that any reference to biological sex is, of course,

00:06:39.220 terribly offensive now. Reading again, it says,

00:06:41.480 references to female characters have disappeared. Miss Trunchbull and Matilda,

00:06:46.800 once a most formidable female, is now a most formidable woman. 0.95

00:06:51.100 Gender neutral terms have been added in places where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's Oompa Loompas

00:06:55.340 were small men. They are now small people. The Cloud Men and James the Giant Peach have become

00:07:00.740 cloud people. Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company made the changes in conjunction with Inclusive Minds,

00:07:06.660 which its spokesperson describes as, quote, a collective for people who are passionate about

00:07:11.080 inclusion and accessibility in children's literature. Alexandra Strick, a co-founder of

00:07:15.760 Inclusive Minds, says that they aim to ensure authentic representation by working closely with

00:07:20.640 the book world and with those who have lived experience of any facet of diversity.

00:07:25.360 A notice from the publisher sits at the bottom of the copyright page of the latest editions of

00:07:28.960 Roald Dahl's books and says, quote,

00:07:31.060 The wonderful words of Roald Dahl can transport you to different worlds and introduce you to the

00:07:35.540 most marvelous characters. This book was written many years ago, and so we regularly review the

00:07:40.300 language to ensure that it can continue to be enjoyed by all today. Now, as I said at the beginning,

00:07:47.000 this is all significantly worse than simply banning books or taking them off the shelves.

00:07:51.760 It represents a rather startling escalation by the woke brigade, because if they had, you know,

00:07:58.580 removed the offensive, quote, unquote, Dahl books from circulation, that would be a ridiculous and

00:08:05.380 shameful move, just like it was with Dr. Seuss. But it would at least be honest, I mean, more honest

00:08:10.520 at any rate, and it would keep the author's work intact. But now they've taken the liberty to rewrite

00:08:18.300 the books and change the author's words without his consent to make it more acceptable by their

00:08:24.400 standards. And you don't need to strain very hard to see where this is going. I mean, it's one thing

00:08:29.300 to imagine a world where Shakespeare has been entirely removed from the classroom because he

00:08:34.280 was a white male who authored works that contain problematic themes. That prospect is disturbing enough

00:08:40.700 if it isn't already happening, which it probably is. But now imagine a world where kids are taught

00:08:45.980 Shakespeare, except they're reading things that Shakespeare never actually wrote. I mean, I would

00:08:52.900 rather Shakespeare be cast aside as a toxic white male than retroactively edited to be turned into a 0.99

00:08:59.900 woke transgendered polysexual or whatever they would do to him. Yet that's where we're headed. 0.99

00:09:06.200 Now, the problem with this approach is not simply that it's politically correct. We have moved way past

00:09:11.840 mere political correctness at this point. The problem is that, first of all, it's a lie. So you may wish

00:09:19.340 that an author had written something a different way and used different language, gone this direction

00:09:25.080 instead of that. But those wishes are born from the fact that the work is not your work. It came from

00:09:30.740 someone else's mind. You wish he had written it a certain way, but he didn't write it that way.

00:09:37.240 He wrote what he wrote, no matter how you feel about it. This is no different from rewriting the

00:09:43.240 history books to tell the story of what you think should have happened in history, rather than telling

00:09:48.440 what actually did happen. And of course, that's exactly what they're going to do with the history

00:09:53.320 books, if they aren't already. The left believes that it has the moral authority to alter anything it

00:10:00.560 wants to alter. Because it doesn't believe that anything that conflicts with their worldview

00:10:06.580 has any right to exist in the first place. And that's really what this comes down to.

00:10:12.100 From their perspective, Roald Dahl had no right to author those kinds of books in the first place,

00:10:18.900 because it conflicts with them and it makes them feel bad. And so he had no right to do that. And so

00:10:23.820 that gives them the moral license to do whatever they want. If that means burning the books,

00:10:27.520 banning them, they can do that. If that means rewriting it, it means that. This is not only

00:10:32.180 unethical and arrogant in the extreme, editing a dead writer's words so that they sound better to you,

00:10:38.380 but it also deprives children of the full enrichment and edification that can come

00:10:44.560 from reading the vivid and even maybe sometimes a little upsetting, if the child is an especially

00:10:49.360 sensitive type, words of a great imaginative writer. See, we tend to worry that this kind of

00:10:56.440 censorship will help to indoctrinate children into wokeness. And we're right to worry about that.

00:11:01.820 We should be worried about it. But it's perhaps an even greater concern that it will help to make

00:11:06.160 our children into bland, boring people, which of course is an inevitable consequence of making

00:11:13.260 them woke. And if you want to make children bland and boring and bored, there is no better way to do it

00:11:21.140 than to reimagine great children's literature so that it sounds like something written by a

00:11:25.960 diversity consultant. That is just about the worst and most disrespectful thing you can do to a piece

00:11:33.280 of literature. And it's also a very terrible thing to do to the child who is reading it.

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00:12:45.260 Yeah, one more note about this. I think it was the author, Matthew Crawford, who pointed out

00:12:49.400 an important change in children's cartoon shows in recent years. Aside from all the explicit left-wing

00:12:56.060 indoctrination that we know about and we talk about all the time, the other major change is that

00:13:01.400 this is the kind of thing that if you watch kid shows today, it's like you notice it,

00:13:06.400 but you might not be able to put your finger on it until somebody points it out. So the other major

00:13:10.480 change is that a kid's cartoon show used to be vividly drawn and the plot and most of the humor

00:13:19.840 would come from the characters experiencing frustration with the physical world, right? That's

00:13:25.860 what most of the plots revolved around. The coyote failing to catch the roadrunner, et cetera,

00:13:30.620 et cetera. It's like every single plot was that. It was a character trying to do something and then

00:13:35.520 he encounters the physical world and maybe he can kind of defy the laws of physics briefly,

00:13:40.380 like the cartoon character that runs over the cliff and was running on thin air and then notices that

00:13:45.840 he's running on thin air and then he falls, right? But that's only brief. And then eventually the laws

00:13:50.860 of physics reimpose themselves again and then that's where the plot and the tension and the humor comes

00:13:57.680 from. And there was even violence in these shows, you know, it was cartoonish and it was played for

00:14:02.300 laughs. But still characters were shot or blown up or they were, they fell off a cliff and all the rest

00:14:08.920 of it. And in this funny and childlike way, kids were introduced to a world that will not fully bend to

00:14:17.540 your whims and that has rules and laws that exist apart from your desires. A world that, that where you're

00:14:24.160 going to encounter frustration and failure and all of that. But kids cartoons today are, again, aside

00:14:31.280 from the blatant, explicit left-wing propaganda, along with that, they're bland, they're sanitized,

00:14:40.000 they all kind of look the same and there's no frustration. Like no, the characters never are

00:14:46.340 frustrated, especially for cartoon shows that are meant for very young kids. There's certainly no pain,

00:14:52.140 there's definitely nothing like violence. Crawford gives the example of the modern Mickey Mouse

00:14:57.660 clubhouse cartoons where, you know, again, it's just a sanitized animation. It just looks bland and

00:15:03.600 boring. But on top of that, you know, the house is like magical and it solves all the problems for

00:15:08.700 the characters. And so just when you get to the point where you think they're about to be frustrated

00:15:12.240 by something, something magical happens and it's okay. And that's what we're feeding to kids. And I think

00:15:19.820 what they're doing with Roald Dahl and rewriting these books is a similar kind of thing. Just

00:15:25.480 changing the words so that there's nothing that might be a little bit upsetting or a little bit

00:15:29.800 frustrating. Yeah. Describing a character as ugly might be if a kid is sensitive and might be,

00:15:33.980 oh, that's a little rude. So we're going to take all of that out, add disclaimers. Oh, yes,

00:15:38.780 this character is bald, but there are lots of other bald people, by the way. Just making everything

00:15:43.960 kind of soft and bland and boring. And this is all the content that's being fed to kids all the time.

00:15:50.300 All right. So Joe Biden went to Ukraine yesterday. This is supposed to be a very big deal for some

00:15:56.040 reason. We're supposed to be very impressed by that. Fox has the story. It says, President Biden's

00:16:00.480 surprise Monday trip to Ukraine was actually an operation that began under the cover of darkness

00:16:04.640 early Sunday morning and included a plane ride on an Air Force C-32 jet, a motorcade on an empty

00:16:11.560 Polish highway and a long overnight train ride into the war-torn country. The small two-person

00:16:16.300 print press pool accompanying Biden on the trip found out it was happening just days before it

00:16:20.560 had to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in the wee hours of the morning before being forced

00:16:24.680 to hand over their phones before boarding the jet. The plane was parked in the dark next to a hangar

00:16:30.340 away from the tarmac with the shades drawn. The plane stopped to refuel. Okay. Why am I reading

00:16:37.020 this? Who cares? I don't need the whole saga. This is not, he's not James Bond. He got on a

00:16:41.940 plane basically and he went to Ukraine. What happened? And you know what? This would be a lot

00:16:47.060 more impressive and harrowing if like Sean Penn hadn't already been there and other celebrities.

00:16:55.600 And if cable news pundits hadn't already gone there dressed like GI Joe's to pretend to be fighting

00:17:00.920 the Russians. Every famous left of center person has been to Ukraine at this point. It is like a,

00:17:07.280 it's a, it's a tourist attraction for these people. And Biden was among the last to show up. So I find

00:17:12.720 it for that reason, a little bit less impressive. Although it is, it is interesting that Biden showed

00:17:19.280 up there and he's on the tarmac and you can see they have a place. They, they marked down a place

00:17:26.120 where he's supposed to stand for the photo op in the middle of a war zone, right? This is a very

00:17:32.960 dangerous, but they took the time to put some tape down so that Biden would know where to stand for

00:17:37.360 the photos. And they do the photo op. And it's just at that moment when he arrives for the photo op

00:17:42.420 that you hear the air raid sirens going off in the background. And other journalists that, uh, I don't

00:17:47.760 know, maybe they didn't know exactly what they were saying, but other journalists on the scene reported

00:17:51.180 that it's been a long time since they've heard the air raid sirens. And it just so happens to go off

00:17:56.640 the moment Biden arrives and the cameras are rolling. Wow. Very convenient timing to make all

00:18:04.460 this quite dramatic. And, uh, it worked for the media. They are very impressed. Here's a CNN talking

00:18:11.120 about it. As our resident historian here, place this in the context and the pantheon of presidential

00:18:16.920 visits to war zones. Presidents have visited Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years,

00:18:20.980 but those were U S wars. This is a Ukrainian war. No U S military presence on the ground. How

00:18:26.020 significant? It's extremely significant. The United States is wedded more to the Ukraine than ever 0.88

00:18:32.460 before. Uh, I, I go back to history and think of Roosevelt and Churchill when FDR had to sneak off

00:18:38.980 in the dead of night, even had a body double at one point to first meet Winston Churchill off the coast

00:18:44.740 of Newfoundland. And then of course you had all those world war two meetings between Churchill. Uh,

00:18:50.300 it's worth, I mean, mentioning Churchill Koselinski has been called the Churchill of our generation

00:18:56.060 and Biden going there today. I think it's going to be a, uh, a moment for the history books. It's

00:19:02.340 like when John F Kennedy went to Berlin on 1961 and gave a speech at the height of the cold war.

00:19:08.420 Ukraine is the new Berlin. It's the rally point for NATO and the, the Western allies. And, and, uh,

00:19:15.300 I think Biden did something really heroic. Hmm. Heroic. Well, you know, it's, it's nothing like

00:19:23.000 either of those, uh, any of those, uh, other historical analogs that he mentioned, because

00:19:30.380 this is a scuffle for, for, for a few reasons, but the first reason most important is that this is a

00:19:34.840 scuffle between Russia and a frankly irrelevant country, which has no significance outside of that 0.70

00:19:41.640 region, no matter how much they want to convince us. Otherwise it just doesn't. And, um, unless,

00:19:48.240 unless we continue to try to make it, uh, relevant by intentionally trying to escalate it into a world

00:19:53.620 war, but there is no reason, maybe I should rephrase. There's no reason why this should have any

00:20:00.020 relevance outside of the region where it's happening. There is no actual reason why it should

00:20:07.000 matter to Americans, which corrupt government controls Ukraine. Is it going to be Russia or

00:20:13.820 is it going to be Ukraine's current government? Which of the government's controls the territory

00:20:17.700 of Ukraine? There's no reason why that should matter to any of us or have any impact on any of us. 0.70

00:20:24.640 But even so, uh, very courageous of Biden, at least that's MSNBC. Here they are talking about

00:20:29.340 not only how courageous Biden is, but what a coward Trump was by comparison. 0.55

00:20:34.140 The president has some wind at his back. I'm not sure that it was all pre-planned, 0.78

00:20:40.500 but it has certainly all been well executed. His back and forth with the nuttiest of the nutty 0.62

00:20:46.480 Republicans at the state of the union, pulling off this trip and these images of defenders of

00:20:52.900 democracy from two very different generations, walking shoulder to shoulder in Kiev. Um, what do you

00:20:59.860 make of this moment in the Biden presidency? Well, it's very important because in the back of

00:21:07.200 everyone's mind, there's always a contrast. There's always a comparison. And this kind of dovetails of

00:21:13.800 what you talked about earlier, that when the president runs for reelection, it is not a referendum on him.

00:21:20.660 It is a choice. And if you compare and contrast Donald Trump, Donald Trump was afraid to go to

00:21:26.820 Afghanistan. Um, and Afghanistan was afraid to stay upstairs during the black lives matter protests. 0.97

00:21:34.420 Exactly. Exactly. I mean, very little courage and, you know, having flown into war zones a number of

00:21:42.580 time, both Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Senate, um, was there moments that it was weird?

00:21:49.440 Yes. But there was always a sense that you're surrounded by the United States military. You're

00:21:54.220 enveloped by the United States military. When that air force won. Good. Well, she, and she also,

00:22:00.180 she had to throw that in there. She's also quite courageous herself. Biden is way more courageous

00:22:04.220 than Trump. They say this, this is very much has the whiff of like, uh, my dad could beat up your

00:22:09.160 dad type of thing. That's basically what this is. Meanwhile, we're supposed to believe that there

00:22:15.200 was like any chance at all that Biden would be a battle casualty. That's what we're supposed to

00:22:20.480 believe that there was even the smallest chance that, uh, they were putting the president United States

00:22:25.000 in the position where he could be killed by Putin as if they'd ever take that chance.

00:22:28.920 Then again, as I say this, maybe they would, I mean, the Democrats are desperate to find someone

00:22:34.720 else for 2024 after all, not to start any fresh new conspiracy theories. But the point is that this

00:22:41.240 was, um, more pageantry, uh, meant to puff up this Ukraine war with Biden visiting and visiting by the

00:22:48.160 way, while, uh, a town in Ohio is still dealing with being poisoned after a train derailment. I mean,

00:22:53.840 we have massive problems. We can't even keep our trains on the rails. And so that's the kind of

00:22:57.400 problems we have here, not to mention at our border and everywhere else. And Biden is going to Ukraine

00:23:01.260 instead. Uh, here's what he tweeted about it. He said, one year later, Kyiv still stands. Ukraine

00:23:08.460 stands. Democracy stands. America and the world stands with Ukraine. Well, no, America doesn't. 0.95

00:23:17.300 Um, DC does Washington, DC stands with Ukraine. America doesn't because America is comprised of 0.65

00:23:24.860 people and, uh, the majority of people don't care one way or another about Ukraine. And there's no

00:23:30.860 reason why they should. And still to this moment, the proponents of America's involvement in the

00:23:40.820 Ukraine war, the people that want us to continue sending billions of dollars over there and weapons

00:23:45.080 and the people that are pushing for even more involvement, potentially boots on the ground

00:23:48.380 and all the rest of it. Still, I mean, these people have had now a year to come up with some

00:23:54.540 kind of cogent argument for why we should care about this. And they still can't do it. This is

00:24:00.740 the best they can do. What you just read in that tweet, democracy stands. That's it. That's,

00:24:07.060 that is still the entire argument. Now, when this first started happening, you heard, uh,

00:24:12.660 warnings about how, well, uh, no matter how you feel about Ukraine, America might have to get

00:24:17.240 involved here because Putin, you know, he's, he's not going to stop Ukraine. He's going to try to

00:24:21.260 invade all of Europe and he's going to, you know, we heard all this kind of stuff and that hasn't

00:24:24.780 happened and it's, it's not going to happen. That's just not a plausible scenario we have to worry

00:24:30.520 about, about, about Putin trying to take over the world. So that hasn't happened. And instead that

00:24:38.300 means that they're stuck with this, they're stuck with a shilling for the Ukraine war, um, on the

00:24:43.060 basis of freedom and democracy. Nevermind the fact that yet again, the Ukrainian government

00:24:50.880 is not a beacon of freedom and democracy. It's one of the most corrupt governments in the world.

00:24:57.280 And even if it was, you know, there are many, there are billions of people all throughout the

00:25:07.260 world whose freedoms are being infringed upon to include people that live in this country, by the 1.00

00:25:13.460 way. Um, I mean, after what, what we just went through with the, with the COVID lockdowns and

00:25:20.040 everything, we know how, how, uh, precarious our own freedoms are, but, you know, versions of that

00:25:27.500 happening all over the world and, um, people that are in really difficult spots all over there, there

00:25:33.780 are, there are wars and, uh, and conflicts and larger powers trying to impose themselves onto weaker

00:25:42.040 powers and weaker people that's happening all over the globe.

00:25:45.420 And so why is this specifically the one area that we have to be interested? Why should this matter to

00:25:55.420 us more than what's happening anywhere else? They can't explain it. All they have, even now,

00:26:01.200 after all this time, all they have are bumper sticker slogans about standing for freedom and

00:26:05.640 democracy. And that's the kind of thing that, that might've been compelling to a lot of Americans,

00:26:11.160 I don't know, 20 years ago, but it hasn't been for the past two decades because we've seen quite

00:26:18.400 enough of American money being spent and more importantly, American lives being lost in pursuit

00:26:24.440 of defending quote unquote freedom of other people in other parts of the world who very often, as it

00:26:32.600 turns out, aren't even interested in our idea of freedom. Uh, closer to home, this is from the

00:26:40.660 Washington Examiner reports, uh, it's president's day and representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's got

00:26:48.140 a plan. Instead of celebrating the birthdays of America's founding fathers, George Washington,

00:26:51.300 Abraham Lincoln, the, uh, Georgia, America's founding fathers, George Washington and Abraham

00:26:58.080 Lincoln. That's the way the Washington, this is the way the Washington Examiner frames it. Anyway,

00:27:02.440 the Georgia GOP firebrand is calling for a national divorce, tweeting that red and blue states need to 0.92

00:27:08.060 separate and go their own ways. She's also advocating shrinking the federal government. 1.00

00:27:11.860 We need a national divorce, Greene tweeted from the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved 1.00

00:27:16.380 down our throats. The Democrats traitorous America last politics. We are done. And, uh, so that's, 0.99

00:27:22.020 that's, she tweeted about the national divorce and obviously there's the expected freak out over this.

00:27:28.760 And what's even more expected is that the freak out deprives us of any chance

00:27:34.480 to have an interesting conversation about it, at least on a national level.

00:27:39.120 Um, and what I'll say about it, and it is, it is, it's not, it's not every day that a member of

00:27:45.960 the United States Congress, uh, actually floats the idea of a national divorce. I mean, I'm not sure

00:27:51.560 when's the last time it happened, you know, after the civil war, I'm sure it's happened before, but

00:27:55.620 it's not, it's, it's an uncommon thing. So that is noticeable. Um, although she's not the only person

00:28:01.220 to talk about it. And this is something, this is a, it's a sentiment that I understand. I've expressed

00:28:05.740 similar sentiments myself many times going back years, you know, and it's, that's why I say it's

00:28:12.280 not, it's something worth discussing. Like if we were capable of being adults and just having a

00:28:18.220 conversation, it's not a crazy thing to talk about because it is true that as I talk about all the

00:28:25.740 time, our, the divide in this country and in our culture is deeper and wider and more unbridgeable

00:28:35.260 than it's ever been in American history. And that includes a civil war. I'm talking about the

00:28:40.760 ideological divide when you have two sides and it's not as simple as two sides because there are

00:28:46.240 factions on the different sides and everything, but just speaking generally, you have two sides

00:28:49.220 that, that, that do not share anything. Like we have nothing in common. We have no shared values

00:28:56.220 whatsoever. And I've gone through this exercise several times in the past of just asking people

00:29:02.640 like, what, what do you, what do you think? What, what are the, can you name one shared value

00:29:08.900 that binds Americans together? One thing we can agree on. And I'm talking about fundamental basic things.

00:29:19.220 And there really is nothing. Uh, you, you want to answer, well, we all believe in freedom,

00:29:25.340 but that clearly is not the case. Or at the very least we, we, you know, that will raise the question

00:29:32.800 of, okay, what is freedom? How do we understand that term? And then you find out that for a lot of

00:29:39.740 people, they say they value freedom, but for them freedom means, uh, for example, mothers killing 0.93

00:29:46.200 their children. That's the kind of freedom they talk about. And it means children being, uh, being

00:29:52.560 liberated and freed from the clutches of their parents by an overarching federal government and

00:29:57.800 a school system that, uh, that, that steps in between them and severs the bond between parent

00:30:02.180 and child. That's what they mean by freedom. So we don't have freedom in common. We don't have

00:30:06.380 anything in common. And that is a serious problem. And one we should be talking about.

00:30:11.160 What is it that binds America together? We are people, but in what sense are we a people?

00:30:21.920 Um, and it would seem like the only thing is just the borders that we all happen to live within the

00:30:27.300 same borders. But then of course those borders are being erased. So we don't even have that anymore.

00:30:30.760 So what's left? That's not crazy that I'm talking about national divorce, but

00:30:35.680 the problem is, uh, is one of geography. It's just, it's a simple logistical problem that I think

00:30:43.300 makes a plan like this totally, uh, unfeasible. It can't happen. It's an issue of geography.

00:30:50.160 Yeah, there is a, there is a deep and unavoidable, unbridgeable ideological divide,

00:30:56.160 but that divide is not reflected by the geography of the country. There are not clear geographical

00:31:03.200 dividing lines between the two sides. You know, it's not, we talk about red and blue states,

00:31:10.320 but that is a massive oversimplification because even in the reddest of states, you have, uh, most of

00:31:16.720 the time, the big cities are going to be deep blue. And even in, even in, uh, blue states, you have

00:31:23.080 pockets of, uh, of, of the state that are, that are red. So how exactly do you divide all this?

00:31:34.000 Like who, who gets Texas, for example? I mean, every state you could do this.

00:31:40.320 So there's just no way it's just that if you could divide things geographically that easily,

00:31:47.220 if we could say that, uh, well, you know, we've got this deep ideological divide and most of the

00:31:53.420 people who are on the right side of that divide live in these states. And most of the people that

00:31:56.780 are on the other side live in those states. If you could say that, then I think it becomes very

00:32:00.180 practical and we should really be considering, uh, the national divorce strategy, but, but that's not

00:32:04.640 the case. And so, um, I don't see how it, how it works. Where do we go from there? Like what's a

00:32:12.120 better strategy? I don't know, but that's why I said we should be talking about it and talking

00:32:16.560 about it in a frank and, you know, uncomfortable way. Nobody wants to think of their country this

00:32:21.940 way. We don't want to think of our country as a, as, as one that is like where the, we say the

00:32:26.920 word United States of America. We don't want to think that it's, that we are united in name only.

00:32:34.340 Might want, we might not want to think about it, but it is the case and we need to confront that.

00:32:41.400 I want to play this clip too. Larry Hogan is the former, uh, Maryland governor and is gearing

00:32:46.060 up for a presidential run. We think that's sure to earn him about as much support as probably,

00:32:50.420 uh, he'll get as much support from the Republican base as Michael Bloomberg got from the Democrat

00:32:55.860 base in 2020. It's gonna be about on par with that, which is to say no support at all. But here's

00:33:01.480 Larry Hogan, um, going after Ron DeSantis over the weekend. My question to you is not whether this is a

00:33:09.400 legitimate issue to be talking about. It's about whether this is the main issue or not. Do you view

00:33:14.360 this as the main issue for 2024? No, I think it's an important issue and I do hear it. And people

00:33:20.160 are concerned about this as I travel around the country because, you know, the, most people just

00:33:24.380 don't think we should be talking about, you know, things like sex to young kids and the parents want

00:33:29.600 to be more involved in decisions about what their kids are being taught. However, uh, you know, I think

00:33:35.100 some of this rhetoric is, uh, you know, it's something, you know, demanding that things be done a certain

00:33:39.960 way or that you can't say this, you can't say that. We've got to be really careful. Does it feel like

00:33:43.720 you're going the other way? Like it's sort of like you're on one hand, you've governor DeSantis

00:33:47.440 claiming, Hey, I don't want all of this, but I'm going to tell you exactly what you can say.

00:33:52.060 And I'm going to say what you can't say. Well, I'm a small government, you know,

00:33:54.880 common sense conservative. And to me, it sounds like big government and, uh, authoritarian, uh,

00:34:00.580 you have to agree with me and I'm going to tell you what you can and can't do. So,

00:34:03.680 but it's an issue. It's not the most important issue. I think more people are concerned about the

00:34:07.580 economy, inflation. They're concerned about, uh, crime, uh, but education is one of the

00:34:12.580 things that we've got to talk about. Yeah, this is, this is, uh, I mean, this is,

00:34:17.600 you put them in the same camp as, uh, Nikki Haley or any of these other Republicans that are looking

00:34:22.400 at jumping into the 2024 race. Um, it's, they're going to run campaigns that might have had a chance

00:34:30.560 in 2008. That's especially the case for Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. I know we're not talking about

00:34:35.500 Nikki Haley. That was Larry Hogan, but they don't exactly look the same, but, uh, Nikki Haley would 0.98

00:34:40.300 have been a formidable Republican nominee for the presidency in 2008. Um, but it's not 2008 anymore.

00:34:49.220 And so she's not anymore. And Larry Hogan's in the same kind of just kind of your milk toast,

00:34:53.120 whatever moderate Republican thing. And, uh, he doesn't even have the courage to just say what

00:34:59.360 he really thinks. And what he really thinks is that he doesn't care at all about education.

00:35:02.840 He doesn't care at all about what kids are taught. He doesn't care at all about, uh, about anything

00:35:07.000 that has to do with the culture, uh, any of the, the, the so-called social, he just doesn't care

00:35:11.060 about that. Um, but he doesn't want to say that. So instead he says, well, it's an issue we should

00:35:16.280 talk. It's an important issue. It's not the most important issue. It's, you know, and there are both

00:35:19.580 sides to this and there are two sides. People care much more about the economy. People do care about

00:35:24.400 the economy, but they don't care more about the economy than they care about their kids

00:35:30.000 and their kids' education. Like people wake up in the morning and yeah, they're worried about how

00:35:35.240 they're going to pay their bills, but, uh, they're also in primarily worried about their children and

00:35:40.840 the future that their children are going to have. And, um, and so that is, that is one of, that's like

00:35:47.320 the most deep seated concern that an American has, especially a parent that a parent has.

00:35:53.280 And this idea that it's, well, I'm not, I'm not a big government conservative. I'm a small

00:36:00.800 government conservative. That's nonsense. First of all, that's the other thing about these

00:36:05.620 establishment Republicans. They all describe themselves as small government. All they ever

00:36:09.200 do is expand the government. That's all they ever do. I mean, we've had so many small government

00:36:15.120 conservatives that go into the white house or elected to Congress. They, they end up in

00:36:19.160 governor's mansions and they don't do a single damn thing to actually actively shrink the size

00:36:24.780 of government. They just don't. All they do is expand it. And, uh, Larry Hogan's the same deal.

00:36:30.780 The small government conservatism is, uh, it's just a, it's another bumper sticker slogan that he uses.

00:36:36.200 And it doesn't even make any sense in this context. We're talking about public schools. These are

00:36:41.440 government facilities. So let me see if I understand this correctly.

00:36:46.180 The person who runs the government in the state, you know, the executive of the, of the state is the

00:36:53.720 governor for him to exercise any control over what's being done in the schools, which are government

00:37:02.620 facilities. That's big government. They are government facilities. Now, if you want to argue

00:37:09.600 that the existence of the public school system to begin with is a symptom of, of, uh, of big government

00:37:17.040 and we should get away from the public school system entirely and dismantle it, burn it to the

00:37:23.120 ground and dance around its ashes. If that's what you want to argue, then, uh, then now you're singing

00:37:27.520 my tune, but that's not what he's saying. He's saying that the small government, so, so public school

00:37:32.520 system is great. Government facilities where kids are, are brought and indoctrinated.

00:37:36.240 But if anyone, whether it's Ron DeSantis or anybody else, including private citizens,

00:37:41.700 if anybody criticizes, um, or scrutinizes what's happening in those government facilities,

00:37:49.220 then we become proponents of big government. It's completely and totally incoherent,

00:37:55.700 but what else can you expect from these people? Let's get now to the comment section.

00:37:59.700 All right. Um, sorry. Well, first of all, I have to tell you that I did learn a valuable

00:38:13.600 lesson over the weekend. Uh, and the lesson that I learned is to not let my kids throw

00:38:19.120 axes at my faces. Um, and my, my wife came home with this, uh, it's actually a great toy. 0.88

00:38:25.040 It's a toy Velcro. Uh, it's like a, it's an axe throwing toy, but it's like the toys,

00:38:29.360 the axes have Velcro on them. And of course, the first thing I thought is that we need to,

00:38:33.080 uh, have someone stand in front of the target so that the axes can be thrown like around their head.

00:38:38.240 Looks like a, it's like a danger act, you know, that you see on, uh, America's Got Talent

00:38:41.240 or something like that. And I thought that's what we should do. Of course, my kids volunteered me

00:38:44.700 as the first, uh, victim in this game. And here's the, uh, here's the brief replay on that one.

00:38:49.440 Let's watch that. You know, I've watched that replay a few times and this is starting to feel

00:39:07.340 flagrant and intentional. I have to be honest with you. She put that axe right between my eyes 0.97

00:39:11.780 and some people have asked me, why did I think that that was a good idea to do? And the answer

00:39:17.580 is I never said it was a good idea. It was just an idea. You know, this is the fundamental confusion

00:39:21.100 that people have about, about me, maybe about men in general. Not that all men would make themselves

00:39:25.620 the target for an axe throwing game. I'm not accusing all men of that. I just mean that, uh,

00:39:29.680 we don't need to think that something is a good idea in order to do it. You know, we could know that

00:39:35.340 it's a bad idea and do it anyway. Sometimes the fact that it's a bad idea is what makes it appealing.

00:39:42.040 And it's not that I'm totally undiscerning when it comes to these things. In fact, I have matured a

00:39:45.440 little bit. I feel like I have to, I have to, uh, reclaim my, my pride a bit and tell you that for

00:39:51.820 instance, two weekends ago, I took, uh, my machete out to help my son clear a path in, uh, in the

00:39:59.760 woods behind our house. He's building a fort and he wanted me to help clear a path to his fort. And

00:40:03.640 so I, you know, and I look for any excuse to use the machete cause it's a lot of fun. And so I did.

00:40:07.940 And I briefly, I briefly, briefly felt the urge to try to impress my son by flipping the machete in the

00:40:14.780 air and catching it on the handle. And of course I would make sure he was nowhere near. And I,

00:40:19.200 I briefly had that urge. I was up in that, but I didn't, I didn't do it. I didn't. And I didn't

00:40:23.620 bring it up either because I know if I brought it up, then he would try it. So the thought crossed

00:40:27.620 my mind. And if this was 20 years ago and I had a machete, someone was dumb enough to give me a 0.99

00:40:32.040 machete 20 years ago. And I had that thought, I would have just done it and I wouldn't have a hand 0.96

00:40:35.220 today. But I didn't, I said, that's not a safe thing to do. And now I just stick with, uh, I

00:40:43.000 satisfy my urges for dangerous stunts by using styrofoam axes. So I have, I think I haven't grown,

00:40:49.340 I think is what I'm trying to say. All right. Stacy says, uh, Matt, we've all seen way too many

00:40:55.100 sci-fi movies. Also Matt desperate for an alien invasion. Well, yeah, it's exhibit a, I don't,

00:41:02.280 I don't deny that. So when I, when I criticize people for watching too many sci-fi movies and

00:41:05.880 then, uh, you know, imagining that Siri or whatever, some, some AI chatbots going to take

00:41:10.600 over the world, that they've seen too many sci-fi movies, it leads them to that conclusion.

00:41:15.020 I fully admit that I have watched way too many alien invasion movies. I mean, I've watched any

00:41:21.420 movie that involves an alien invasion or people encountering aliens. I've watched them all.

00:41:25.420 And, uh, I am very much influenced by that and I don't deny it at all. Um, doesn't mean I'm wrong

00:41:31.800 though. Doesn't mean I'm wrong. Let's see. Evan says, I'm not worried that AI is turning into a

00:41:37.960 mediocre woman with a liberal arts degree. I'm worried that society is actually run by a bunch 1.00

00:41:41.960 of mediocre women with liberal arts degrees. Well, I think you're right. And actually picking 1.00

00:41:46.660 up on that theme, um, this, this, it kind of brings me to my, my thought about this AI stuff

00:41:53.780 and the concern that, uh, well, AI and robots are going to become human. They're going to become

00:41:59.220 sentient and conscious and self-aware and they're going to take over the world. Uh, I'm less

00:42:03.080 concerned about that than I am about it going the other way. Yeah. I think that's what we have to

00:42:09.320 worry about. It's not, it's not humans. It's not robots turning into humans. It's rather humans

00:42:15.000 turning into robots effectively. I think that's what's happening. And we're already sort of seeing

00:42:20.400 that with people who, you know, they carry the phones around. They can't be without them. They're

00:42:24.460 staring at the phones. All the words are totally dependent on the screens and everything. It's like

00:42:28.200 basically becoming these pre these programmed robots. You can't even drive, uh, you know,

00:42:34.460 five minutes down the street to Walgreens without using your GPS. Like we are, we are turning into,

00:42:41.100 we are, we're sacrificing, um, much of what makes us human and becoming robots ourselves. So I think

00:42:46.840 that's, it's not as, uh, you know, it does, it's not as cinematic of a prospect, but I think that's

00:42:54.960 what's actually happening. Um, Thomas says there are moments when Matt disses someone. It's so true 0.99

00:43:02.440 and so cold that you feel it in your soul. Chelsea took a hit on that one. Yeah, she did, but she 1.00

00:43:08.680 started it. Remember that she started it. And I do think this idea that like she, the other person

00:43:15.020 saying, well, they started it. The idea that that's not a good excuse. I mean, sometimes it's not,

00:43:21.900 but, but sometimes it is like if someone starts an altercation, then, uh, they started it. I think

00:43:28.200 it's perfectly valid to point that out. And finally, Kitty Foods says someone got an F on their science

00:43:37.760 fair project because the federal government shot it down. Yeah, that's, uh, in order for Joe Biden to

00:43:45.600 salvage his own pride and his own ego, he's out there shooting down science fair projects that people

00:43:51.180 have worked very hard on. I find that really offensive. You know, it's no secret that the

00:43:55.680 left hates our country, wants to rewrite history. And even our children's books, as we've already

00:44:00.140 reviewed, they villainize our heroes and omit key details from the historical record. Like the fact

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00:44:36.940 today and get 30% off any razor. That's jeremysrazors.com today. Now let's get to our daily

00:44:43.060 cancellation. Okay. So it's been a week since my brief, but now infamous segment on this show about

00:44:53.520 trans activist, Dylan Mulvaney. The tweet with that clip has been viewed nearly 20 million times

00:44:57.800 on Twitter alone. That doesn't count all the other platforms where it's been shared and reposted.

00:45:01.820 As you know, all I did in the segment was speak honestly to Dylan and about Dylan, a man who degrades

00:45:06.600 and appropriates womanhood while shilling for child mutilation and sterilization. It does all of it for 0.98

00:45:10.980 profit. Um, real women have tried to tell Dylan how demeaning his woman face routine is, but he

00:45:16.100 only doubles down on the mockery in response. And most recently he, he released a video bragging

00:45:20.980 about what an attractive woman he is and warning women that he could steal their husbands, quote

00:45:25.520 unquote. And this was a video that provoked my response in which I simply told him the plain and

00:45:29.820 unvarnished truth about himself, that he is not a woman, that he doesn't look like one, that the 0.63

00:45:33.720 whole degrading display is not beautiful or remotely attractive, that he is imitating something he will

00:45:39.440 never truly be. In other words, I said out loud what most people already think, but some of those

00:45:45.680 people, the ones who agree with what I said and were already thinking it were nonetheless very upset

00:45:50.720 by my remarks and perhaps upset is an understatement. They've called me mean and cruel and sadistic. And

00:45:56.380 this has been going on for a week now with no sign of letting up. Uh, they've called me a bully and a

00:46:02.540 grifter. They've said that I'm, I'm only, I'm only, um, hurting the cause by being so repulsively

00:46:09.780 honest. And remember, these are people on the right, or at least not openly on the left saying

00:46:16.500 this. Now I've already addressed the critics on the show, but the criticism has only gotten louder

00:46:21.740 and more intense since then. And many conservatives in media, or at least again, people in media who do

00:46:27.020 not identify as leftists have joined in the dog pile. And what began as a three or four minute

00:46:32.300 commentary on Dylan Mulvaney in the middle of an hour long podcast on Tuesday has now turned into

00:46:37.020 something of a, of a demarcation, kind of a dividing line. It's been a very revealing moment,

00:46:43.700 enlightening. Um, and, uh, and I think for that reason, it's worth revisiting one more time so that

00:46:50.280 I can make, or perhaps reiterate or emphasize a few crucial points. In order to frame those points,

00:46:56.700 I'm going to play a quick montage of some right of center media figures and podcasters sharing their

00:47:02.360 criticisms of my Mulvaney comments. And what you'll hear in these clips doesn't come close to

00:47:06.860 representing the harshest rebukes that have been directed at me, but they do capture the basic

00:47:10.440 point that all of my critics have been trying to make in one form or another with varying levels of

00:47:15.540 outrage. Listen, it wasn't that good. Well, he was just being mean. Well, I was going to say like,

00:47:24.040 what, what he is saying is actually genuinely like really mean parts of the whole thing is true.

00:47:28.480 Like it's not, it's not like it's untrue. It's not like Del Mulvaney is a male and he will always

00:47:33.700 be a male. And no matter how much makeup or face feminization or whatever, you'll always be a

00:47:37.900 male. This is like a reality. I have a lot of contempt for these people. Like a lot of content. 0.96

00:47:43.240 You're talking about like woman face people. You're not talking about Matt. Yeah. Right.

00:47:46.840 Well, I sometimes have contempt for Matt, but, but less often than I have contempt for a Dylan

00:47:51.600 Mulvaney. I have, I get where he's coming from because like, I have so much contempt for these

00:47:56.840 people. And the more that this drags on and the more that they denigrate females, the more that 0.90

00:48:00.680 anybody denigrates females, the more angry I get. And the more contempt I have for people who

00:48:05.060 participate in that in whatever form that comes in. Um, I don't know how, I don't know if there's a

00:48:11.500 necessity or a point and just being like mean. Here's my take on it is, uh, and I, you know,

00:48:18.120 obviously I'm much so after generally, but like, there's nothing he said that isn't true,

00:48:24.340 but it accomplishes nothing. All it does. It's just so mean that like it won't resonate and it

00:48:31.800 won't change minds. And I will absolutely say, yeah, it's mean. Yeah. Matt Walsh is being mean.

00:48:38.520 I mean, come on, Matt Walsh insults Dylan Mulvaney as eerie, weird, and, and bizarre.

00:48:45.520 You can get the point across without saying that. The major divide on this video is whether or not

00:48:50.620 the language was a little too harsh towards Dylan. You guys know me, you watch my show,

00:48:58.580 you know how I talk about these issues. I am on the side of this being, uh, too harsh. And I know

00:49:04.060 there are many who will, who will disagree with me, but, uh, to me, there is no need for vitriol.

00:49:14.060 I mean, do you reckon he's into her?

00:49:19.060 It sort of does look like the sort of thing somebody would say that when they're slightly

00:49:22.520 obsessed with somebody. Yeah, exactly. And look, factually, he's not wrong. Yeah. Is he?

00:49:28.160 No. Factually? Yeah. I, I don't, look, if your job is to win hearts and minds,

00:49:36.520 I don't think this is the best way of doing it. What if it's your job to get clicks online?

00:49:41.320 Again, but do clicks lead to changing of opinion? No. I, I don't think he's trying to change anyone's

00:49:47.180 opinion. What do you think he's trying to do then? Uh, he's trying to make people on his side feel

00:49:53.940 like he's done something cool and said something that they think, I think. Do you think that? Yeah.

00:50:00.000 Yeah. Well, you're trying to change Dylan Mulvaney's mind, isn't he? Yeah. I completely agree. I

00:50:04.600 completely agree. I just, I just look at that and just go, even people on his own side were like,

00:50:11.340 hold on a bit, mate. Okay. So that was a Tim Pool, Jeremy from the YouTube channel,

00:50:17.720 The Quartering, Sydney Watson, Amala Ekpanobi from PragerU and the guys from the podcast

00:50:22.880 TriggerNometry. Now, one thing I want to be clear about here is that I'm not mad at any of these

00:50:26.180 people. There are no hard feelings. We can disagree and all that. It's fine. I could have done without

00:50:31.480 the snideness and the lame cheap shot from the TriggerNometry guys at the end, especially in the

00:50:35.700 video where they're supposed to be lecturing me about the value of taking the high road. Okay. When you're

00:50:40.440 going to do that, you can't start the video by insulting me, but we'll leave that to the side

00:50:45.400 for now. Instead, all I'd like to do is address the overarching criticism one last time. First,

00:50:53.060 you'll notice the connecting thread. Okay. They all agree that I'm right, that what I said is

00:50:58.380 factually correct, but they think that it goes too far by saying it out loud. Mulvaney's the one

00:51:04.400 running around like some cartoon of a woman passing out camp pods in the women's room and meeting with 1.00

00:51:09.200 the president to defend the mutilation of children, but I went too far. Well, see, this is where we

00:51:14.480 differ because in the culture war, I don't think it's possible to go too far by speaking truth.

00:51:22.020 The truth is the truth. It is what it is. It's the reality. Are we going to defend it or are we

00:51:27.980 going to conceal it? Are we going to embrace it? Are we going to hide from it? You can't have it both

00:51:31.300 ways. When it comes to gender ideology, the truth is ugly. It is brutal and harsh and disgusting. 0.54

00:51:36.260 I wish it wasn't that way, but it is. I didn't make it that way. I didn't create the ugliness.

00:51:42.380 I'm merely pointing to it and saying, look at this, look at it for what it is.

00:51:48.860 But you would rather that I soften the blow a little bit, that I dress the truth up to make

00:51:52.920 it prettier, more palatable. You want me to lie to protect the feelings of our enemies.

00:51:59.380 And make no mistake, Dylan Mulvaney is our enemy. He is an open, visible, active, and passionate

00:52:07.140 advocate for the abuse of children, the war on fundamental truth, and the destruction of human

00:52:13.000 society as we know it. You wish to defeat this man in a manner that will not make him feel bad

00:52:19.240 about himself, but I'm here to tell you that you are delusional. I'm not going to protect your

00:52:24.160 feelings any more than I'll protect his. You are deluding yourself. We got into this position

00:52:28.940 in our culture precisely by valuing politeness over truth. We got here by doing exactly as you

00:52:34.620 would have me continue doing and what you blame me for not doing. We got here by refusing to speak

00:52:41.540 the plain truth and by allowing the anti-truth brigade to emotionally blackmail us into silence.

00:52:48.140 They use their own mental fragility as a cudgel to beat us into submission. That's the threat,

00:52:53.860 right? And we let them get away with it. Or you do anyway. I won't. Second, you say that I'm not

00:53:03.820 going to convince the other side with this kind of rhetoric. But here's what you have to understand.

00:53:08.040 This is very important. Convincing the other side is not my primary objective. This is the core

00:53:16.840 difference between you and me. I'm not looking to reach an understanding with these people.

00:53:23.280 I'm not interested in compromise and dialogue. For those who castrate children and attack the

00:53:29.640 very concept of truth and erode the foundations of human civilization, my goal is to defeat and 0.95

00:53:35.060 humiliate and demoralize them. Okay, I want to destroy everything they stand for. 0.99

00:53:40.880 The other side is not interested in compromise. They want nothing less than your unconditional

00:53:47.360 surrender. We have to meet them with that same energy or we will lose or continue losing.

00:53:55.160 And by the way, this is also a good strategy because it rallies people to our side. It emboldens

00:54:01.880 the troops. It lets people know that it's okay to speak up and to speak truthfully. You know,

00:54:07.280 it's often said that you shouldn't preach to the choir. That's basically what they were saying at

00:54:11.980 the end of that clip there. Just pandering. He's pandering to his own audience. This is a message

00:54:18.740 that's meant for his own audience. Well, God forbid. God forbid I speak to my own audience on my podcast.

00:54:28.240 No. Preaching to the choir is a good thing. We need to do more of it. Because if the choir is

00:54:35.260 demoralized and scared and cowering in silence, then you damn well better preach to them.

00:54:41.720 What kind of congregation can you hope to have when even the choir is too afraid to sing? 0.86

00:54:46.860 In our choir, those who agree with us, the many millions of them have been cowed into submission.

00:54:52.960 They are nervous. They are timid like you. And then you come along and say that we should ignore

00:54:57.880 them and instead tailor our message for a group that hates us and will hate us no matter what we say or do.

00:55:03.300 This is not just morally wrong. It's also terrible strategy. It is a dumb strategy.

00:55:12.340 In fact, it's exactly what the churches have done for decades. And it's why most of them are dying. 1.00

00:55:18.160 They water down their preaching to appeal to the crowd, a crowd that isn't interested in the message

00:55:22.760 no matter how softly it's peddled. And while at best, because they did that, they bore to death

00:55:29.680 and at worst actively alienate the very people who are actually sitting in the pews.

00:55:35.780 So that's what the churches do. The people sitting in the pews who come to hear it and then they give

00:55:40.120 their preaching, which is designed to appeal to people who are outside the building and not even

00:55:44.660 sitting there. But the people that are outside the building, they don't come in to hear any more

00:55:49.720 of it. Instead, the people that were actually sitting there get up and leave.

00:55:55.760 Conservatism has made the same mistake.

00:55:59.200 And at what point do we learn the lessons that our own recent history seeks to teach us?

00:56:05.580 Now, you say that we can't win hearts and minds by being nice.

00:56:11.300 Because by the way, I'm not saying that we're only preaching to the choir.

00:56:17.640 That's not it. We also do want to convince people. But guess what? You don't convince people

00:56:23.940 by being nice. You don't. At least not on a cultural level. I mean, where did you get this idea?

00:56:32.420 Where did you arrive at this conclusion that the way to win the culture is by being nice?

00:56:37.060 Is that how the left won the culture? Have you been paying attention at all?

00:56:43.760 They have seized hold of our society, indoctrinating entire generations, and they didn't do it with 0.88

00:56:49.480 niceness. They didn't win these flies with honey. They did it by being bold and aggressive and by

00:56:55.800 making their opposition's arguments seem not only wrong, but utterly horrific and insane.

00:57:02.920 That's how they did it. See, it turns out that the tone of your argument is often more important

00:57:09.020 than the substance of it. And the tone that actually wins the day on a cultural level

00:57:14.300 is the one that is unwavering and which paints the opposition as so repulsive that you shouldn't

00:57:20.220 even take their position into consideration. Now, the only difference is that they do that to us

00:57:27.620 dishonestly, right? They make the truth seem insane. But what they're peddling actually is

00:57:35.400 insane. We have allowed them to make the truth seem crazier than actual craziness.

00:57:43.100 Okay? We take their ideas more seriously than they take ours, but their ideas are insane lunacy. 0.64

00:57:50.720 And we lend them more legitimacy than they will lend to us when we are speaking the truth and they

00:57:57.460 are babbling nonsense. You think this is a good strategy? What is the evidence that this strategy

00:58:06.540 works? We moderate our tone. We seek to kill them with kindness while they recruit legions by doing

00:58:14.980 exactly the opposite. Again, I ask you, when will you learn? Now, finally, 0.99

00:58:23.120 if you sense anger in the words that I use when discussing this topic, you're right. That is one

00:58:31.320 crime I will confess to. I am angry. When I look at what these people have done to our country, the

00:58:38.240 devastation they have wrought on a generation of children and adults alike, the bleakness and ugliness

00:58:43.920 of their worldview, the moral and intellectual chaos they leave in their wake, yes, I get very angry.

00:58:50.620 And when I consider that my own children must inherit this culture, that Dylan Mulvaney and his ilk will

00:58:56.880 prey upon my children and try to turn my own sons and daughters into mutilated, mutant, self-loathing,

00:59:05.140 hollow, twisted shells just like themselves, well, my anger then turns into more of a boiling rage.

00:59:13.920 And I know that I will do whatever is necessary. And I will speak whatever truths are necessary

00:59:20.300 to protect my kids from this hellish, God-forsaken madness.

00:59:27.380 Now, I have personally heard from many parents, more than I can count, who tell me versions of the

00:59:34.780 same horror story. A beautiful and innocent kid one day, seemingly out of nowhere, gets sucked into the

00:59:41.180 gender cult and is devoured by it. The child they held as a baby and raised and gave their lives to and 0.99

00:59:48.420 loved and still love, becomes suddenly unrecognizable. All of their innocence and light and beauty just

00:59:57.020 drained out of them, replaced by this self-cannibalizing madness. For a parent to see this happen to a child,

01:00:05.840 it is a fate worse than death. I would rather be dead than have that happen to my kids.

01:00:12.680 See, the thing that I most despise about Dylan Mulvaney is that he is part of a movement which

01:00:18.300 actively seeks to turn my children into Dylan Mulvaney. That's why I'm entitled to my anger

01:00:26.960 and to whatever language I use to convey it. I will say whatever I want to say, and I will be

01:00:35.260 justified in saying it, because these people are after my kids, and yours, and everyone else's.

01:00:45.800 And you're worried that I'm being a little rude?

01:00:47.880 Well, you see, when it comes to my children, the children that I cherish more than my own life,

01:00:56.140 if you think mean words go too far, then you would be very shocked to hear how far I would

01:01:03.260 really go to protect them. Trust me, words are the least of it.

01:01:07.700 So yes, my words reflect anger, because I am angry.

01:01:17.380 But the problem is not that I'm angry. The problem is that you aren't nearly angry enough.

01:01:26.220 And that is why the Be Nice Conservatives are finally, today, canceled.

01:01:32.500 I'll move over to the members block. If you're not a member yet, become a member and use code

01:01:36.120 Walsh at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Hope to see you there. If not,

01:01:39.580 talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 21, 2023

Ep. 1117 - The Woke Speech Police Are Now Rewriting Books By Dead Children's Authors

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