Ep. 1118 - Elected Official Inducts Me Into The 'Vortex Of Evil'
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1 hour and 5 minutes
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186.8243
Summary
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh says he would rather die than allow his kids to be transgender. Meanwhile, the outrage mob descends again, calling on Ben Shapiro to fire me because I dared to say that I don t want my kids indoctrinated into the trans cult. Also, Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to advocate for her national divorce plan, and some conservatives on social media have found their new hero, a cross-dressing makeup salesman who advocates for transgenderism.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, an elected official in Tennessee labels me, Ben Shapiro, and Candace
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Owens as members of the Vortex of Evil, which incidentally is also the name of the death metal
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band we're forming. Meanwhile, the outrage mob descends again, calling on Ben to fire me
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because I dared to say that I don't want my children to be indoctrinated into the trans cult.
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Totally offensive stuff, apparently. Also, Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to advocate
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for her national divorce plan. James O'Keefe is officially pushed out of the organization that
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he founded, and some conservatives on social media have found their new hero, a cross-dressing
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makeup salesman who advocates for transgenderism. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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One of these days, perhaps, I'll make it through a 24-hour period without provoking the outrage mob.
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Just as a matter of mathematical odds, it seems certain that eventually I'll have a day
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of peace and quiet. But that day is not this day, apparently. This day, the mob is very upset yet
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again and has me trending on social media yet again, trending right alongside the also-canceled
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Aunt Jemima, by the way. She's also, I don't know why she's trending, but she is because of a segment
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from yesterday's show. And during the daily cancellation yesterday, if you listened to the
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show, you know I delivered my final rebuttal to the conservatives who have been relentlessly
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attacking me for being, as they claim, too mean to trans activists like Dylan Mulvaney.
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Well, my PR reps over at Media Matters were, of course, as always, watching and listening intently,
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taking careful notes, as they always do. And towards the end of the monologue, they found
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the bit they needed for their headline. Emphasis on bit, because they only need a phrase, right?
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Not even a full sentence, because they can write the rest of it themselves. They just need me to say
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like a couple of words, and then they'll do the rest. That's exactly what they did with this
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headline. Daily Wire host, I would rather be dead than have a trans child. That's the headline.
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And from there, other Media Matters goons like Aerie Drennan ran with it. Aerie tweeted,
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in another unhinged rant about Dylan Mulvaney, Matt Walsh says that he would rather die than allow
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his kids to be trans. Matt says he's entitled to whatever language he wants, as am I. His six kids
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are not safe with him, and he should not be allowed within a mile of them. It's circulated from there to
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the corporate media, where NBC reporter and obsessed fan Benjamin Ryan posted, quote,
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Matt Walsh employs violent incendiary rhetoric to stir up moral panic against transgender people
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as he proclaims he'd rather die than have a trans child. And soon there are people tagging Ben
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Shapiro and calling for me to be fired. Because, you know, of course, that's the kind of thing that
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would happen here at the Daily Wire. I would be fired for being too aggressive in my, in my,
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in my opposition to, you know, transgenderism. One of those posts, calling for me to be fired,
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earned a like from conservative, quote, unquote, Jonah Goldberg, who is so conservative that he
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thinks conservative media figures should lose their jobs for not wanting their children to be
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trans. That's, that's conservative media now. Of course, the outrage mob made its way outside of
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the walls of Twitter, out into Reddit and other forums and the left-wing media world, leading to
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headlines like this from the leftist internet rag alternate, a fate worse than death. Matt Walsh
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launches vicious attack on parenting trans kids. Now, at this point, it might be relevant to go
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back and listen to the comment that these people are so upset about. I know that as far as the
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outrage mob is concerned, there's, there's no need to consider what a person actually said when deciding
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whether to be angry about what they said. All that matters is how they feel about what they think I
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said. Be that as it may, for those who care about irrelevant details, like, you know, the truth.
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Well, here's the clip. I have personally heard from many parents, more than I can count, who tell me
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versions of the same horror story. A beautiful and innocent kid one day, seemingly out of nowhere,
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gets sucked into the gender occult and is devoured by it. The child they held as a baby and raised and
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gave their lives to and loved and still love, becomes suddenly unrecognizable. All of their
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innocence and light and beauty just drained out of them, replaced by this self-cannibalizing madness.
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For a parent, to see this happen to a child, it is a fate worse than death. I would rather be dead
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than have that happen to my kids. See, the thing that I most despise about Dylan Mulvaney
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is that he is part of a movement which actively seeks to turn my children into Dylan Mulvaney.
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That's why I'm entitled to my anger and to whatever language I use to convey it.
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I will say whatever I want to say and I will be justified in saying it because these people are
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after my kids and yours and everyone else's and you're worried that I'm being a little rude.
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Well, you see, when it comes to my children, the children that I cherish more than my own life,
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then you would be very shocked to hear how far I would really go to protect them.
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Okay, so there it is. That's the clip that Media Matters posted. I know you don't need me to say
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this because at this point it certainly goes without saying, but I obviously stand by all that. I'm
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happy that I said what I said. I'm happy with the way that I said it and I don't care if it hurt your
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feelings. You know, this is not one of those, well, I'm sorry if it hurt your feelings. I'm not sorry
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if it hurt your feelings. In fact, I'm glad that it did because from what I've seen, the people who've
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had their feelings hurt by this deserve to have their feelings hurt. So I'm glad that it makes
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you uncomfortable. I really am. My point was very clear. I love my kids. I would give my life to
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protect them. I'd jump in front of a moving train if they were stuck on the tracks. I would dive in
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front of a bullet. This is what it means to be a loving parent. And any loving parent feels the same
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way about their own kids. And that means that I would also, if necessary, give my life to stop my
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children from being indoctrinated into a death cult that will deprive them of their sense of
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identity, lead them towards self-mutilation and self-harm, and a large percentage of cases lead
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to suicide. Obviously, I'd rather die than have my kids suffer such a fate. I have said some
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provocative things in my time. I've offered up, I'll admit, some hot takes that even I will confess
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were a bit on the eccentric side, even though I was still right about all those. But this is not one
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of those takes. This is very normal. I want my kids to be happy and whole and fulfilled. I want
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them to live fruitful and productive lives. I don't want them to fall prey to a poisonous social
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contagion that will deprive them of all of that. It's not just that I don't want it. It's that I will
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fight to my dying breath to prevent it. This is not extremism. It's love. And loving your child is
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normal, or it should be. This is how the game is played, though. Take a normal thing, try to make
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it unspeakable and unthinkable. Shriek in horror at what is normal and healthy and virtuous, and hope
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that the shrieks alone are enough to convince people to run the other way. It's an effective
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strategy to a certain extent, as anyone who understands group psychology can tell you.
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You know, you could try and experiment walking down a busy sidewalk, suddenly look behind you, and then
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run away with a terrified expression on your face. If you do that, it's guaranteed that other people
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will run with you, even though they have no idea what you're running from. Your reaction to the imaginary
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threat was enough to convince them. And the left deploys this method at an ideological level and on a
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culture-wide scale. And here they do it again. A man simply says that he doesn't want his children to
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fall victim to a self-mutilating cult. The left hears this totally normal sentiment and reacts as though
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that man had advocated for genocide, and they hope that others will follow them in their panic.
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No need to articulate any sort of coherent argument against the statement, any more than
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you'd have to make an argument to the crowd on the sidewalk in order to convince them to run away
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from the invisible monster. You know, they don't have to explain why normalcy is evil. They just have
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to treat it that way and hope that other people will follow suit. Speaking of which, we're on the
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verge of getting our law passed here in Tennessee, banning the mutilation and castration of children.
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I'd expect that to happen this week. The state legislature responded in a big way to my report
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exposing Vanderbilt. And now we will ensure that the things that I uncovered there will not happen
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ever again in this state anywhere. But not every Tennessee legislator is on board with protecting
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children. We do have a few Democrats here in this state, sadly. And as we saw at the hearing a few
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weeks ago, they are very depressed about the fact that kids can't be mutilated anymore.
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They're very upset about it. Very down. One of those legislators is State Representative Gloria
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Johnson, who is a particularly loathsome witch who feels personally attacked by our efforts to
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protect children. She takes it very personally. And that's how it is. You know, groomers take their
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grooming seriously, and they don't take kindly to those who stand in the way. In fact, Johnson has
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noticed that Tennessee is becoming more conservative as more and more sane and decent
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people move here. You know, we moved in. And next thing you know, child castration and child drag shows
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are about to be illegal. Because apparently this state just ain't big enough for all of us, which means
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the groomers and predators have to go. That's what led Johnson to tweet a few days ago this,
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quote, if I'm hearing this right, the following people now live in Tennessee. Please correct me
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if I'm wrong. Betsy DeVos, Rebecca Mercer, Roger Stone, Tommy Lahren, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh,
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Candace Owens. Who am I leaving out? It seems we are a testing ground for the vortex of evil.
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Now, obviously, it's not a healthy thing for elected officials to label their own constituents
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the vortex of evil. Yet this is the kind of rhetoric that even leftists in government will use.
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They'll use it about their own constituents. And they'll use it while the right continues to debate
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whether our own language is too harsh. So we're arguing amongst ourselves about, I don't know,
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maybe we should be a little bit nicer. Meanwhile, they're out there saying, you're the vortex of
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evil. You better not tell a man that he makes an ugly woman. That'd be very offensive to the
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sorts of people who already consider you to be a member of the vortex of evil.
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That said, I have to say I'm honored by the label. You know, I've been wondering what our
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supervillain squad name should be. And now we have it. I'd thought about axis of evil,
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but that's already taken. Cyclone of evil might overdo it a little bit. Vortex of evil. That's the
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one. Mostly though, I'm honored because I know what they consider to be evil. It's always opposite day
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with these people. So the word evil simply means good or sane or normal. That's what they hate most
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of all. We are not heroes because we oppose child abuse and want to protect our own children from it.
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You don't have to be heroic for that. We're just normal. You might say a vortex of normal is maybe
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what we should be called. But I guess that doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Now let's get to our
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out. Go to getrefunds.com, getrefunds.com. Yeah, vortex of normal. I kind of like that the more I
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think about it. It sounds like the most boring version of the Avengers ever conceived. And one
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other note about Gloria Johnson. She's a former teacher, but also unfortunately she's illiterate.
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And those are two things that go hand in hand a lot more often than you'd like to think. So she
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tweeted this as well. Can we put the tweet up? This is another tweet that she put up on a couple days
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ago. We have that. Okay, here it is. This is what she tweeted. Now try to follow along.
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If you're going to claim that your bill to outlaw something, a loud minority don't agree with it,
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then you probably shouldn't say it isn't relevant that the majority of Tennesseans don't agree with
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other things they pay for as taxpayers. You killed your own argument. I mean, you killed some brain
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cells at least with that. Let me just go through this guy because I honestly, I'm not even trying to
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be funny. I can't understand what she's trying to say. This is an elected representative, former
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teacher. If you're going to claim that your bill to outlaw something, a loud minority don't agree
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with it. Well, already that's not, that doesn't work. So we can't even move back. If you're going
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to claim that your bill to outlaw something, a loud minority don't agree with it, then you probably
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shouldn't say it isn't relevant that the majority of Tennesseans don't agree with other things they pay
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for as taxpayers. You killed your own argument. So you've got a couple of weird sentence fragments
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stitched together with an incoherent series of double negatives. And that's what she decided
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to put out there into the world. This makes Kamala Harris seem articulate by comparison. This is like
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the written equivalent of a stroke. I felt like I was having a stroke while reading it.
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It reads as though she wrote a normal sentence and then ran it through some kind of translation
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software. I don't know if she normally speaks Mandarin Chinese. She doesn't seem like the type,
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but maybe that would explain it. She actually speaks Mandarin and then, and then, so she, but
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so she has to filter everything through Google translate to tweet. And then, and then that's how
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you end up with this. I don't know. There are a lot of theories people have, but, um, uh, I guess
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the world will never know exactly. Okay. I want to begin here. Marjorie Taylor Greene set off,
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uh, as we discussed yesterday, an eruption of outrage a couple of days ago by suggesting
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a national divorce and she hasn't backed down from it. Um, and here she is on Fox news last night
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defending the idea. Let's listen to what she says. In my life, in my world, I, all of my friends are
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regular Americans. Everyone I talked to is sick and tired and fed up of being bullied by the left,
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abused by the left and disrespected by the left. And our ideas, our policies, our ways of life have
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become so far apart that it's just coming to that point. And the last thing I ever want to see in
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America is a civil war. Um, no one wants that. At least everyone I know would never want that,
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but it's going that direction and we have to do something about it. We're also a nation,
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a crumbling nation. We're a nation in distress. Our government is in complete failure over $34 trillion.
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We are on the verge of default and we have to do something about that. But that was the right and
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the left that did that to the American people on their own. But the Democrats never stopped pushing
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their policies, their ideas, and their culture on Republicans and the right. And we are so sick and
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tired of it. We are tired of our children being taught ideas and ideologies in school that we do not
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want our children taught like gender lies. We do not want our children, um, being having their gender
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change or transitioned. We, we can't even have women's sports and privacy in our bathrooms and women in
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prison can't even have spaces. ESG environmental social governance has completely taken over
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corporations. And this is a huge policy pressed on private businesses through the government from
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Democrats. If you're a white male today in the financial industry, you can forget it. You're a
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dinosaur. You're going extinct. No one should ever be hired by their skin color or their gender or,
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or how they identify. It should only be about your character and your ability to do the job.
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Okay. So she's not wrong about a lot of that. And like I said yesterday, she, you know,
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she's, she's not wrong to bring up the idea of national divorce necessarily. People have been
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talking about this idea for years anyway, and we might as well bring it onto the national stage
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in theory. I get it. I understand in theory, but I want to put up this, uh, this visual to
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buttress the point that I was trying to make yesterday about this because the problem,
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there's a few problems with national divorce, but, but the first and most insurmountable one
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is a problem of geography. And for a national divorce, a geographic problem is a fatal problem
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because it's all about geography and you can't really get around it. So let's put this up.
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Someone tweeted this to me yesterday, um, just to, to kind of, again, emphasize my point. They say
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tough to divide this up. And then it's a red and blue map and you see the distribution of red and blue
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voters. So let's keep this up because how, how do you divide this up? And I could see a couple of
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easy cases here. Uh, Vermont is entirely blue. Basically Massachusetts, Connecticut, New England
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in general, though, even in New England, you know, uh, New Hampshire and Maine have a lot of red.
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California is of course heavily blue. Um, New Mexico, but who gets Pennsylvania?
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Okay. Who gets, who gets Virginia? Who gets North and South Carolina?
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And you go out West, it's pretty clear that conservatives get Wyoming and like the 10 people
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who live there, but then, you know, jump down South, who gets Colorado? What about Texas?
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There just is no way to divvy this up without, without first facilitating a mass migration
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in two different directions by hundreds of millions of people who are all choosing to leave their homes
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or are leaving their homes by force. And, uh, and, and, and probably much of their families too,
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by the way, because no matter how you divide this up, how many people are going to end up in a
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situation where now your family, half of your family's in a foreign country.
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So that's what you have to do. You have hundreds of millions of people just, and I don't know where,
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I don't know where the dividing line is here. It's not, this is definitely not a clear,
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it's not a North versus South thing anymore. Uh, it's not that it's not East West. It, it, what is it?
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And however you divide it, you're going to have, is that we're going to have hundreds of millions
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of people all at once going into opposite directions. It'll never happen. Um, it just,
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it, it, it, it will not happen. It, it won't. So we can talk about in theory and, and, uh, would it
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be better if it did? Those are fine. I'm fine with having conversations in theory and the abstract,
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but when it comes down to it, I'm a practical person and I, and I prefer to, we could talk about
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abstractions all day, but let's bring it back to the practical real world. And in the practical real
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world, that just isn't happening. Okay. Um, and by the way, I thought about this also, you take the,
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take the Northeast, for example. So it's likely that however you separate this, it would mean that
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the left gets the Northeast where I was born and raised. Um, but I'm not going to agree to that.
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Okay. That's, that's my home. That's where I was born. That's where my family lives.
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And that's also where so much of our nation's history is. That's why I've always loved the
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Northeast. And, uh, that's one of my ties to it still. And it's got a lot of problems culturally
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and it is politically mostly dominated by the left. That's true. Although in a place like
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Pennsylvania, it's like, you know, you take Philadelphia out of it and you take Pittsburgh
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out of it. And this is a, that's a conservative state for the most part, but, but even, even
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aside from all that, it's just, it's got so much history. So much of our nation's history is there.
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And are you really willing to give up most of the, the most significant historical landmarks and
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monuments and locations? It really, are you willing to give that to the left and say, you can have
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it, give it over to people who are going to desecrate and destroy it. Are you willing to give that to
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them? To people who hate it? I'm not willing to do that. I'm not just going to give it to them.
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Hey, you can have all this, all, you know, so much of our nation's history, you can have it
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and do with what you will with it. Hell no. So where does that leave us? It means that
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what it means is that we have to fight this out. Okay. That's what it means. And we have to win
00:22:56.720
in the culture war. Okay. It's not going to happen overnight. As I'm always saying, it's not,
00:23:02.280
it's, it is not an overnight solution. And most of the, uh, the, the kind of doomer
00:23:07.780
perspective, the, uh, the, the, the people who are fatalists about it and say that we can never win.
00:23:14.340
It's impossible. They're talking about tomorrow. Okay. And, and, and they are, they're falling into
00:23:22.260
despair because they've noticed that we can't win this fight by, you know, say tomorrow around
00:23:27.880
lunchtime. And they're right about that, but this is a generational struggle and you just have to
00:23:33.100
accept that. And for a long time, most people throughout the world, this is how they live.
00:23:40.040
They lived understanding that they existed in one moment in time. And, but they were just part of
00:23:46.660
this, this, this, this, you know, uh, this chain where of ancestors and then descendants. And so
00:23:53.400
they lived and they wanted to build a legacy and build a future for people, uh, who would come after
00:23:58.780
them, their children and grandchildren. They, they were worried about what the world and what their
00:24:03.400
country and what their, their culture would look like when they were dead and gone and weren't a part
00:24:09.040
of it anymore. But all we're worried about in the kind of microwave age, all we're worried about is
00:24:14.700
the immediate. Well, we have to get past that. It's a generational struggle. And so there's no way
00:24:20.240
to divide this up. Instead, we're going to have to have a lot of kids and raise them well and win
00:24:29.140
this culture back and our country back and our history back over time, because I'm not willing to
00:24:35.460
give it up. I'm not surrendering my home to these people. I'm not giving our history over to them.
00:24:40.340
I'm not giving the places where I was born and raised. I'm not giving the places where my family
00:24:45.820
lives. Hell no. You know something else too? I'm also not giving up on the children who live
00:24:53.660
in the areas that would be, you know, part of a leftist stand or whatever they're going to call it.
00:25:00.800
I'm not going to, I'm not going to give up on them. It's not their fault.
00:25:03.280
So when this fight to, for example, protect kids from child mutilation or protect kids from
00:25:07.520
being murdered in the womb, you know, it's one thing to say to adults, adult leftists that,
00:25:13.820
hey, if this is the, if this is the country you want, this is what you want, uh, reap what you sow
00:25:17.600
and deal with it. And I'm willing to say that to them, but I'm not willing to say to their kids,
00:25:21.500
their kids didn't choose. It's not fair to them. I'm not going to consign all them to this
00:25:26.560
either. So we're left with the fight, what we're left with, get used to it. Learn, learn to love it.
00:25:37.520
Um, Pete Buttigieg was tracked down by a reporter yesterday and asked, uh, what he's doing about
00:25:44.940
the train derailment situation. And here's how that went.
00:25:48.940
Secretary, what do you have to say? Hi, how are you? Jenny's here at the Daily Caller News
00:25:52.940
Foundation. What do you have to say to the folks in Ohio, East Palestine who are suffering right now?
00:26:00.140
Well, I'd refer you to about a dozen interviews I've given today. And, uh, if you'd like to
00:26:04.160
arrange a conversation, uh, be sure to reach out to my press office, but I can have that
00:26:09.380
conversation with you just walking down the street here. You don't have a message for them?
00:26:12.120
I do, and I shared it with the press many times today. I'd refer you to those comments.
00:26:15.740
Do you mind sharing it with us? No, I'm going to refer you to the comments that I made to the
00:26:18.980
press because, uh, right now I'm taking some personal time and I'm walking down the street.
00:26:22.780
Are you going down there? What's that? Are you going down there at all?
00:26:25.580
Um, yep, I am. When are you going? Uh, I'll share that, uh, when I'm ready.
00:26:32.300
Okay, thank you. Can I get a, can I get a photo of you? Yeah.
00:26:36.940
Can I get a photo of you? You creep. What is that? What is that? Why do you want a photo of her?
00:26:43.560
Do I want to know? Um, he's taking some personal time. You know, Pete Buttigieg, one thing we know
00:26:50.200
about this guy is that he loves his personal time. That's why he took six months from maternity leave,
00:26:54.500
and now he's taking some, he's taking some personal time. Did he actually say,
00:26:57.620
take us a personal time to walk down the sidewalk? Yeah, I'm taking some personal time on this
00:27:02.100
sidewalk here. You know what I want to hear from Republican presidential candidates is, um,
00:27:08.720
what I really want to hear. I want to hear a lot from them. But one thing I want to hear
00:27:12.000
is a serious proposal, a serious proposal to gut these agencies like the transportation department
00:27:19.280
department and abolish most of them, like the transportation department.
00:27:25.220
Because that's, uh, one of the things that we've learned from all of this,
00:27:28.740
which many of us already knew, which is that the, you know, an agency like the transportation
00:27:35.500
department is totally useless. And he's basically admitted it in, in all the interviews that he's,
00:27:42.720
uh, given. And the reason he wanted to talk to the daily caller is because he knew that, uh,
00:27:46.200
he might actually be pressed and he would face some actual scrutiny. So he's only going to give
00:27:49.960
interviews. What he's actually saying there is, oh, no, I don't want to talk to you. You're going
00:27:54.180
to ask me actual questions. Sorry. I, uh, I only talk to media. I only talk to reporters who don't
00:27:58.480
ask me real questions. Oh, are you going to just say things that set me up to go on a stump speech?
00:28:04.120
Oh, you're not? Well then I, oh yeah, I'm in, it's personal time right now.
00:28:09.080
But if you listen to the, um, stump speeches that he's been giving,
00:28:12.600
they all really boil down to, this isn't my fault. This isn't the purview of the
00:28:16.940
transportation department. This is other agencies. And it's just a bunch of, a bunch of CYA
00:28:20.500
making excuses. And so I think that we should, uh, listen to that, take him at his word and say,
00:28:28.060
well, okay, I guess the transportation department is totally useless, which we always knew that it
00:28:32.920
was. Because if there could be trains derailing, this is the transportation department. And if there
00:28:38.940
could be trains derailing all over the country and dumping toxic chemicals into the water supply,
00:28:44.040
and not, and on top of that, we also have flights being grounded because the computer systems don't
00:28:47.940
work and all the rest of it. And there's a chaos at the ports and the supply chain.
00:28:51.880
All that's happening. And it's not the fault of the transportation department. What that tells us
00:28:55.580
is that the transportation department does nothing. We have to imagine what if the transportation
00:28:59.760
department didn't exist for the last two years, would any of this look any different?
00:29:03.740
Would it be worse somehow? I mean, could it get worse?
00:29:09.540
If it looks different at all, it would, it would look different in the other direction.
00:29:13.140
Maybe some of this would be better because you cut out some of the bureaucracy that it
00:29:16.100
interferes with everything. Okay. Bureaucracy gets in the way of everything, including keeping
00:29:21.220
trains on the tracks. So we just need to get rid of it. And that's what I want to hear from,
00:29:26.640
uh, Republican presidential candidates. What I don't want to hear is like what we heard from
00:29:30.660
Larry Hogan yesterday, uh, a platitude about, I'm a small government conservative.
00:29:36.040
I've heard enough of that. I don't, don't call yourself small government. I don't need to hear
00:29:39.760
it. What I want to hear is what are you actually going to do? And you need to go in and start
00:29:45.800
gutting these departments and firing people and shutting down agencies. No Republican president
00:29:52.920
has done that yet, at least not in recent history. Instead, what they've done is expanded it.
00:29:58.400
So we need promises on the record of this department, this department, this department
00:30:05.560
are gone when I become president. And we can start with transportation department. Um,
00:30:11.200
we can move all over to the education department. We, uh, you know, and we can continue for that.
00:30:16.320
I think we should start with those two and continue from there. Health and human services.
00:30:19.940
Uh, so start with those three. It's a long list. So we got to start somewhere.
00:30:26.060
Daily Wire has this, uh, Vivek Ramaswamy, the CEO of Anti-Woke Incorporated is running as a
00:30:32.960
Republican president of the United States in 2024, speaking of Republican presidential candidates.
00:30:37.220
The millionaire investor and author announced the official start of his campaign during an
00:30:40.440
appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson tonight. Ramaswamy's announcement follows weeks of rumors
00:30:45.280
and reporting that he was considering a 2024 bid. One thing I'll say about Ramaswamy is that I
00:30:49.860
appreciate that his name looks, um, daunting at first, but then you realize it's actually easy
00:30:54.220
to pronounce. And for me, as you know, it's a very important detail here. Um, so he announces, uh,
00:30:59.080
he announced that he's, he's running for president. He's 37 years old, by the way. So it's one of the
00:31:02.380
younger presidential candidates we've had. And he put out this ad yesterday. We'll watch a little bit of
00:31:06.340
yet. We're in the middle of a national identity crisis. Faith, patriotism, and hard work have
00:31:13.280
disappeared, only to be replaced by new secular religions like COVIDism, climatism, and gender
00:31:20.140
ideology. We hunger to be part of something bigger than ourselves, yet we cannot even answer the
00:31:26.240
question of what it means to be an American. Today, the woke left preys on that vacuum. They tell you
00:31:33.000
that your race, your gender, and your sexual orientation govern who you are, what you can
00:31:38.400
achieve, and what you're allowed to think. This is psychological slavery, and that has created a new
00:31:45.300
culture of fear in our country that has completely replaced our culture of free speech in America.
00:31:52.040
And that is why today I am announcing my run for president of the United States. This isn't just a
00:31:59.440
political campaign. This is a cultural movement to create a new American dream for the next
00:32:04.900
generation. To me, the American dream means you believe in merit, that you get ahead in this
00:32:10.900
country, not on the color of your skin, but in the content of your character and your contributions.
00:32:17.340
Okay, so that's a little bit of that ad. And he also, like I said in the article, he wanted to
00:32:23.300
appear on Tucker Carlson. I actually found him, I wasn't really familiar with him before he announced
00:32:28.560
his run for president. I found him to be an effective communicator, and I agree with a lot
00:32:35.540
of what he says. He has made getting rid of affirmative action policies one of the central
00:32:41.220
parts of his campaign, which I agree is very important. But he's also not going to win,
00:32:49.100
right? And he's just not. So as we've already discussed, I believe in being practical. We could
00:32:56.380
talk in the abstract, but it must come back down to the practical real world. And in the practical
00:33:02.000
real world, he's not going to win. And I think he knows that. But I really have to wonder if
00:33:10.340
failed presidential campaigns are the best use of effective communicators. Now, I'm not naive. I know
00:33:17.360
why they do it. They do it to increase their own personal brand and visibility. They do it as a way of
00:33:23.420
auditioning for a cabinet spot. So things like that. Maybe they want to get on the ticket.
00:33:27.940
There are reasons why people jump into a presidential race, even though they know they're
00:33:32.360
not going to win. But those might be the reasons, but I don't see them as especially good reasons.
00:33:42.040
And I really wish that people who are effective communicators on the conservative side and have
00:33:47.760
good ideas as he does. I just don't think it's the best use of that talent to jump into a failed
00:33:55.100
presidential campaign, especially these days in the internet age and cable news and everything.
00:33:59.260
And you go into the presidential race and you're going to get ripped to shreds. It's guaranteed.
00:34:04.260
Part of that is politics. But I just wonder if you risk damaging yourself
00:34:10.460
more than you help yourself in the long run by doing this.
00:34:15.560
All right. Something else I wanted to note here. We didn't get a chance to talk about this yesterday,
00:34:20.340
but we've been following this story a little bit. This is Daily Wire reports. James O'Keefe
00:34:23.720
announced a break with Project Veritas, the investigative group he founded, while hinting
00:34:28.320
at a new journalism venture in the future. In a video posted to Vimeo on Monday, O'Keefe said he was
00:34:34.520
stripped of all decision-making last week and he described some clashes with leadership.
00:34:38.580
O'Keefe, who was standing in a Project Veritas office, said he was relieved of his authority
00:34:43.240
as CEO for at least 180 days and removed from the Project Veritas board of directors,
00:34:48.320
citing board meeting notes. Currently, I have no job at Project Veritas, he added. I have no position
00:34:52.900
here based upon what the board has done. So I'm announcing to you all today on President's Day
00:34:56.800
that I'm packing up my personal belongings here and he's leaving. Now, the Project Veritas board put
00:35:03.160
out a statement where they lay out the alleged malfeasance that led them to suspend James
00:35:08.400
O'Keefe and force him out of the organization. Keep in mind that a couple of weeks ago on social
00:35:12.980
media, the Project Veritas, they said, they claimed that James O'Keefe was on vacation.
00:35:18.560
So they've already lied. They lied about it a couple of weeks ago when the reports first surfaced
00:35:23.680
that he was being pushed out. They said, oh, he's just on vacation. Everything's fine. So they lied.
00:35:27.640
So we know that. But here's what they said in their statement.
00:35:30.180
Here are a few examples of what has been done, what has been uncovered so far by the Project
00:35:36.180
Veritas leadership. This is far from an exhaustive list. It is merely a small representative sample.
00:35:42.040
This is their statement. $14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the
00:35:47.620
guise of meeting with a donor. $60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as Project
00:35:52.960
Veritas experience. Over $150,000 in black cars in the last 18 months. Thousands of dollars spent on
00:35:59.980
DJ and other equipment for personal use. Hundreds of other acts of personal eneurement.
00:36:05.720
The board wants to work things out with James and has tried every route possible to remedy the
00:36:09.340
issues at hand and begin to take the legally required corrective actions. James has left us
00:36:14.440
no choice but to suspend him, so on and so forth. Now, this is bizarre. When we first heard about this,
00:36:21.140
I said at the time that like so many other people, to me, James O'Keefe is Project Veritas. You cannot
00:36:28.820
separate the two. And from the very beginning, this smelled to me like a coup to push him out by
00:36:37.000
people who have a grudge against him, people who have egos or whatever else, and they want to get rid
00:36:41.200
of him and clear him out and take over. And now that we have their statement where they lay out their
00:36:46.860
case, and this might not be everything. We don't know everything. But we don't know everything went
00:36:51.340
on behind the scenes. But it's been 100% confirmed, number one, that Project Veritas lied to the public
00:36:56.300
a couple weeks ago. And now they're presenting their case. It may not be the full case, but this
00:37:00.320
is what they're choosing to lead with. So we can assume that if they had more shocking skeletons in
00:37:07.820
the closet they were going to drag out, they'd start with that. So this is the most shocking thing
00:37:12.560
they can do, they can tell us about. And what they tell us is that he wasted some money on a dance
00:37:18.680
party and on some transportation expenses. I mean, first of all, most of that, including the dance
00:37:25.680
party, can easily be justified as a valid business expense. If you're in the organization, you might
00:37:30.200
not agree with it. You might not think it's a good way to, you know, it's a useful business expense,
00:37:36.800
but it is a business expense. You know, getting car services, for example, obviously a business
00:37:44.200
expense. $150,000, whatever they said it was, may sound like a lot. But those kinds of car services
00:37:50.560
are expensive. And when you're traveling a lot, like James O'Keefe does, it adds up quickly. So it's
00:37:55.120
actually not that shocking. The thing about getting the boat fixed, I mean, maybe you can't justify that
00:38:01.420
as a valid business expense. But is that all you have? Really? That's all you got? And for that,
00:38:07.160
you force out the founder and face of your organization, provoking a mass exodus of donors
00:38:12.820
and supporters, probably taking your whole organization down in the process and severing
00:38:17.560
ties with one of the most visionary and effective leaders in the movement. For that? Because he got his
00:38:22.540
boat fixed? That's the reason? And why, if you, if this is not a coup with people trying to take
00:38:31.320
over the organization that he founded and that rests upon his work, that he's the face of the
00:38:37.040
organization, he's their primary fundraiser and everything else. If it's not a coup against him
00:38:41.340
and you really have a problem with how the money's being spent, then why wouldn't the board just resign
00:38:46.040
in protest and say, we can't be a part of it. We can't be a part of this organization with money
00:38:51.440
being spent on fixing boats. We can't do that. $14,000, that's too much. If it's not a coup,
00:38:57.740
that's, that seems like that's what you would do, but that's not what they did. Instead,
00:39:00.700
they said, we're going to take over and kick you out, even though this is the organization
00:39:03.720
that you founded. I said this when we first heard about the whole James O'Keefe controversy.
00:39:13.040
I have no trouble believing that James O'Keefe maybe rubs some people the wrong way
00:39:17.120
because he's highly effective and he's a great mind and talent and people like that tend sometimes
00:39:23.840
to be difficult in person. That's not my experience with, with James. I haven't, you know,
00:39:28.200
I've only met him a couple of times. Seemed like a nice guy to me, but it wouldn't, my point is it
00:39:32.600
wouldn't shock me if it was the case because highly effective and leaders, people who are great
00:39:39.400
talents, like they, they can sometimes be difficult. They make enemies that way. People hold grudges
00:39:43.660
against them. So what? You deal with it because that's the price of having a guy like that leading
00:39:49.880
your organization. It's a price worth paying. And this is a trend on the right that concerns me.
00:39:55.720
I saw some people making this point, you know, a few nights ago that it seems like conservatives
00:39:59.980
have this tendency to turn against the most effective and brilliant and creative people in
00:40:05.900
their movement. Like the greatest sin you can commit is to be actually successful and effective.
00:40:14.040
And the moment you do that, well, of course you can have the left coming at you, but your own people
00:40:17.800
turn against you because they're, because they're motivated by envy, whatever it is. They feel
00:40:22.400
threatened by your success. I see this a lot. The best people get driven out, driven away, leaving us
00:40:29.660
with a bunch of bland, mediocre boars. Ben Domenech of the Federalist made this point last
00:40:36.220
night. And I tend to disagree with him on a significant, you know, number of issues, but I
00:40:40.800
think he, I think he had this right. He said, James O'Keefe out at Project Veritas is yet another
00:40:44.860
example of how right media and a donor class have a deep intolerance for creative genius. If Andrew
00:40:50.460
Breitbart had lived, they'd have found a way to ditch him too. Conservative media is awash with medium
00:40:54.480
talent who pay their bills on forgettable churn that changes nothing and has a half-life measured in hours.
00:40:59.740
Creatives rise up, make a lot of noise, get a lot of enemies, then get taken out by their own,
00:41:04.420
then donors turn to the mids. I think he's exactly right. And I think that's precisely what's
00:41:08.940
happening with James O'Keefe, which is why I, along with many other people, most people from what I've
00:41:14.880
seen, you know, I'll, wherever, I'll be supporting whatever organization he goes and, and, and starts
00:41:21.060
from here. One other quick thing before we get to the comment section, we see these moments go viral
00:41:26.720
like once a month. Now, this is another wheel of fortune fail, which are always fun. So we'll,
00:41:31.640
we'll watch this video. But if you, if you're just listening to the audio, what you should know
00:41:34.760
is that this puzzle is already solved except for one letter. And, uh, the letter, the answer is fresh
00:41:42.680
tropical fruit. All the letters are there except for the S in fresh. And here's what happens.
00:41:49.320
Yes, there is an H. Uh, solve it or spin it or, but do something quickly. Um, I'll spin it.
00:42:01.520
Okay. Okay. What letter for you? I'll go with a G.
00:42:11.240
Uh, Juliana, it's your turn. I'd like to solve the puzzle. Yeah. Fresh tropical fruit. Yeah.
00:42:24.260
You know, when that happens and you're sitting at home, you're saying, how in the world can that,
00:42:27.800
but you know, sometimes it's a word that just doesn't want to come into focus for you.
00:42:31.380
It did for you. And in addition to that $650, we're sending you to the Island of Antigua.
00:42:36.620
You know, one of the sounds in this, there are some sounds in life that are, uh, always going
00:42:43.840
to be horrifying. And the last sounds that you want to hear, uh, like the sound of, uh, crunching
00:42:48.800
metal when you're driving a car, you know, it's just one of those sounds. And if you've been in a
00:42:53.000
car accident, you remember that sound forever. Uh, another of those sounds is if you're on a game
00:42:57.080
show and you hear a gasp of horror from the audience, that's, you never want to, you never want
00:43:02.400
to hear that. And you can hear the audience go, what? Um, although I do have to say, you know,
00:43:07.920
I do love freg tropical fruit. I go all the time to the grocery store and I say, Hey, where's your
00:43:12.780
freg fruit at? But this is why here's the point I want to make about this. It is, it's important,
00:43:18.360
but it's not important at all, but still, uh, I think the internet age makes it not worth it to go
00:43:25.060
on wheel of fortune. And I don't, I don't say this to dissuade. Look, I'm a fan of wheel of fortune
00:43:28.860
to jeopardy, um, like anybody else, but it's, it's just, it's, I would never go on these shows
00:43:33.560
anymore. And I say that as someone who look, I watched jeopardy and I will kill that show. I will
00:43:39.140
absolutely kill it when I'm sitting there in, uh, my best games on jeopardy are when I'm totally alone
00:43:45.780
in the living room and no one is there to hear me answering the questions correctly. Um, and then
00:43:51.160
I'll have to go tell my wife about it and she won't care at all. But, and I, I've thought to
00:43:56.940
myself and maybe I should go on and she'll, but it's just, it's not worth it because if you have a
00:44:00.900
brain fart moment, okay, you have a moment where just like you have a total lapse and you draw a
00:44:06.380
blank and you, you know, you, a moment like that will now live in infamy forever. You, it will be,
00:44:14.300
it will follow you so that this poor woman for the rest of her life, she's going to have that moment.
00:44:19.800
So that's what you risk. That's the risk. The risk is that you have a terribly stupid moment
00:44:26.100
and it haunts you forever because of the internet. Um, that's the risk. That's the worst
00:44:32.800
case scenario. What's best case scenario? Best case scenario is that you win, you know, $12,000
00:44:38.560
and a trip to Cancun or something. It's not bad to win that, but I don't know if it's worth the risk.
00:44:45.600
That's the point. Okay. Let's get to the comment section.
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Amy Goodman says, considering all the threats Matt gets that are directed at his family,
00:45:55.240
I don't think his anger is irrational. He's a father. He's standing up to protect children.
00:45:58.940
His, yours, and mine. We need his voice. Well, I would, I mean, Amy, I would feel this way,
00:46:03.680
uh, without the threats, but it's also true. I think that a lot of the nicer conservative types,
00:46:09.260
um, you know, the conservatives that are all about being nice and all that,
00:46:13.620
I don't think they've ever fully encountered the deranged demonic evil of, um, trans activists
00:46:20.180
in particular. And, uh, but I have, and I've told you in broad strokes about some of the threats that
00:46:27.420
I get, but I can't even tell you, I can't tell you everything they've done to threaten my family
00:46:33.900
and my wife and my children. Many of these things we have to deal with are just better dealt with
00:46:38.460
privately for a whole host of reasons. But, um, so that's all I can say, but yes, I, I have,
00:46:45.760
I have seen these people for what they really are. Um, and I don't think you need the threats
00:46:52.200
and all the rest of it to see it, but when you have that stuff as well, it just becomes
00:46:56.740
very clear the level of evil that you are dealing with. And I think for, for, for some of these nice
00:47:03.760
conservative types, they just, they've never encountered that. They never have. Um, and I also
00:47:09.280
think it is interesting note that, you know, we played that montage yesterday of, uh, some of the
00:47:13.680
right of center, uh, commentators and YouTubers and stuff that were, um, calling me mean. And I, I
00:47:19.960
think, I don't know this for sure, but certainly most of them don't have kids. Most of the people
00:47:25.840
that were in that montage don't have kids. Uh, maybe one of the two of them do, but most of them
00:47:30.360
don't have kids. And I'm willing to bet that of the conservatives who are though, well, we have to
00:47:35.620
be nice. You know, those types, I I'm willing to bet that the majority of them don't have children.
00:47:40.860
And so they just, they don't have the same stake in this. They don't have the same skin in the game.
00:47:46.720
And they, they haven't really had to think about, you know, like my God, what if my children were to
00:47:51.840
fall victim to this? And when, when that prospect is put in front of you in a very real way, it just
00:47:58.140
changes things. It makes you take this much more seriously than I think some of these people are
00:48:03.340
taking it. Um, it makes, you know, it is, it makes it so that it's not just, it's not just a topic
00:48:09.660
for YouTube. Okay. And I think for some of these people, and like I said, I have no personal grudge
00:48:17.520
against any of them. Uh, most of them I like and I enjoy their content, but I think for some of them,
00:48:25.400
they, they see this, it's just a topic. It is a topic to discuss on, on YouTube or on Twitter or
00:48:31.020
whatever. But for some of us, it is not only that. It's a lot more than that. It's a lot more real than
00:48:37.940
that to us. Uh, Lana says as a stay at home mom, a job that I absolutely love who rarely has adult
00:48:45.960
interactions outside of my husband and church, I often feel voiceless and helpless in this increasingly
00:48:49.940
depraved and disgusting world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for using your platform to
00:48:53.380
speak the truth. By the way, I love for these people saying you're too harsh to read the apostle
00:48:57.440
Paul's letters and tell me that he killed them with kindness. But not just the apostle Paul. I mean,
00:49:03.080
yeah, the apostle Paul is prime example. Uh, this was someone who was very blunt in his approach and
00:49:10.740
would, would, would also use actual insults. I know that people that don't actually read the Bible,
00:49:16.920
but, but are, you know, familiar with it by reputation, especially the gospels and, uh,
00:49:22.320
and with the new Testament and the epistles. No, people like that, uh, to, to, to suggest that there
00:49:29.460
are saints in the Bible who actually insult people, you know, to them, it's, well, that couldn't have
00:49:35.700
happened. No, well, it did, uh, pick it up and read it sometime, read the language that they used, but not
00:49:42.140
only the apostle Paul, Jesus Christ as well. Okay. And some of the stuff where we we've heard it so many
00:49:47.700
times we've taken for granted, but a statement like you'd be better drowning in the ocean with a
00:49:54.660
stone tied around your neck than doing what you're doing. That's what Jesus said. That's what Jesus
00:49:59.720
said about people that harm children and, and lead children into, into scandal, into sin. Um,
00:50:06.480
that's what he said. Now imagine for a second that Jesus hadn't said that, but then someone else
00:50:13.700
said, you know, like what, what if, what if, what if, uh, just what if I said, what if I said that?
00:50:18.920
What, what if that's what I said about Dylan Mulvaney? You know, you'd be better off drowning
00:50:23.900
in the ocean with a stone tied around your neck. You'd have a lot of conservatives and Christians
00:50:30.260
that would hear that. Well, that's the most, I can't believe you would say that's the worst thing
00:50:33.660
anyone's ever said. This is horrible. Who would ever say this is evil. You're a fake Christian.
00:50:37.640
Well, that's what Jesus said. That's what he said. And in fact, uh, Jesus go again, read the gospels,
00:50:47.540
read them. And what you're going to find is that he, he had no tolerance for, for evil, none.
00:50:57.140
And he would tell people very bluntly to their face and he would describe their actions in very harsh
00:51:06.400
terms. This was not like one. We only have comparatively, we are only given comparatively
00:51:13.740
few episodes from Jesus Christ's life. Um, and, and of course we know that, that, you know,
00:51:20.020
the, the, the, uh, lion's share of it is we were told nothing about at all. So we have when he was
00:51:27.280
born and then we have one brief episode from adolescence and then we have, um, and then we have
00:51:33.680
adulthood, a brief, really brief episode of adulthood. And even in that, and even then in
00:51:40.720
that snapshot, we have Jesus flipping tables in the temple using actual violence. Remember it says
00:51:48.320
he fashions a cord out of whips. It wasn't even like he grabbed it. He took some time. It sounds like
00:51:53.660
to make a whip and then use it against people. Said you're better off drowning with stone around your
00:52:00.540
neck. Calling people hypocrites and vipers and all these kinds of, uh, words. And that's just in the
00:52:06.920
parts that we're told about. So I'm sorry. The, uh, the, the hippie Jesus thing is just, it's an,
00:52:14.900
it's a modern invention. It's not real. And finally, Joe says, you've really been handing out some
00:52:20.980
excellent cancellations lately, Matt. Today was perfect. The Chelsea handler one was great too. So
00:52:24.740
great. In fact, that while driving alone in my car, I actually shouted, boom, shots fired captain in a
00:52:29.080
Scottish accent. Maybe it was more of a pirate accent considering the captain reference. Either
00:52:32.860
way, you're inspiring your deck mates, or I should say mateys to loot more and more sweet treasure from
00:52:38.800
the woke culture and to shout in random and indiscernible accents in their cars. Well, Joe,
00:52:43.400
I'm, uh, I'm, I'm just glad to find out that I'm not the only one who tries out different accents
00:52:47.500
while alone in my car. So maybe I'm not as psychotic as I thought, or I still am, but I'm not alone in that.
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Today for our daily cancellation, I must again, unfortunately cancel people on my own side,
00:53:42.220
or at least theoretically on my own side. Um, these are the conservatives who over the past few days
00:53:46.600
have been frantically applauding their latest hero, their newly elected spokesman,
00:53:51.700
their, uh, trendiest new conservative champion, Jeffree Star. And for those unfamiliar, as I was
00:53:57.620
until two days ago, Star is a social media influencer and owner of a popular, I think,
00:54:02.360
cosmetics brand. Uh, Star also enjoys dressing like a woman, but this flamboyant cross-dressing
00:54:08.260
makeup salesman earned applause from many on the right, including prominent figures on the right.
00:54:12.840
Um, when he appeared on a podcast and said this,
00:54:16.460
I'm not into all the other, I think what other, the, they, and them. Yeah. And all that extra
00:54:23.340
that we added during the pandemic. Cause everyone was so bored on their houses. They just started
00:54:27.680
to make up more and more more stuff. Yeah. That's where the conservatives like me. Cause I'm just
00:54:32.020
real. You do have a conservative vibe. You're trans, you're male or you're female. And you're
00:54:37.940
standing on that. And people get so mad when I say that. How are you with they? What the f**k does
00:54:42.160
that mean? As stupid as what it is. Yeah. But you need someone like me that looks like me to say
00:54:46.920
it. Because if you say it, it turns into you're homophobic. You hate trans people. You hate gays.
00:54:50.980
And it's just how you feel. You don't hate anyone. You just think it's stupid.
00:54:56.040
Now that, what you just heard, makes Jeffree Star based, apparently. He's based now. He said one
00:55:01.620
thing that conservatives like, and they were on the scene with pom-poms in no time. And yes,
00:55:06.160
Star is right. That the they, them stuff is BS, of course. Obviously. But the problem,
00:55:12.920
one of them anyway, is that he rejects non-binary while affirming trans. He says that the only
00:55:18.780
valid categories are trans, male or female. And to drive that point home, he made another video
00:55:25.040
responding to the backlash against his anti-they, them commentary, where he reiterated his support
00:55:32.460
I just went on and I saw a few outlets saying that I'm transphobic. Jeffree Star, who has
00:55:39.520
five transgender employees. I have over a hundred employees of all different ethnicities.
00:55:46.900
A brand that is inclusive to the entire world. What we're not going to do is lie. So if you
00:55:52.380
posted an article saying anything like that, you better delete it, Ms. Thing, because I'm
00:55:56.240
common. All I said was, is I don't agree with pronouns. That's it. So you know how Cardi B sued
00:56:02.800
that woman? And well, the lady don't have any money, but Cardi B won allegedly a lot of money
00:56:08.580
from the lawsuit, even though she'll never get it. It's still the point of she won. That was phenomenal
00:56:14.340
for someone like me that has been abused and dragged through the mud. Now we all know all my
00:56:18.280
past mistakes, girl. Every time that I have an opinion, everyone has to bring up everything
00:56:23.040
from the past. That's getting so old, but the support and the understanding and the common
00:56:30.980
sense from millions of people that I've seen over the last few days, it made me realize
00:56:36.240
the planet's not that awful. Like people get it. It's just social media and they love to
00:56:41.660
drag Ms. Jeffrey Lynn. Also shout out to so many amazing, beautiful transgender people and
00:56:47.340
the LGBT community in my DMs writing me. Just thank you. I'm sorry about that. This is just
00:56:55.000
too much. Between this guy and the Glory Johnson tweet, it's just the amount of brain cells we're
00:57:02.640
losing. It's really, it's like the effect of a concussion. We're all now concussed effectively
00:57:07.200
because of the level of stupidity that we've been forced, well, that I have forced you to
00:57:12.540
encounter today. But very inspiring response from this right wing warrior who desperately defends
00:57:18.640
himself from the transphobia claims by bragging about all the trans people he employs. I suppose
00:57:23.960
it just goes to show that Democrats really are the real transphobes. Of course, check back in about
00:57:29.420
five years and people on the right will be defending transgenderism and non-binary, but then claiming that
00:57:35.880
trans speciesism is where they draw the line. And somehow that position will be applauded as not only
00:57:41.180
correct, but based. See, this is how it works as the Overton window continues its relentless march to
00:57:47.180
the left. What was a fringe left wing view yesterday suddenly becomes mainstream today. And the fringe
00:57:53.620
today will be mainstream tomorrow. Meanwhile, the oblivious faction of conservatives, a rather large
00:57:59.240
group, unfortunately, continue to embrace any position that is not at this moment on the extreme
00:58:05.060
left wing fringe. As long as it's not the most extreme version of leftism, they embrace it, which
00:58:12.960
means that tomorrow they will embrace whatever is on the extreme left wing fringe today.
00:58:18.100
Jeffree Star's conservative defenders have told me that, well, we should accept him into the fold
00:58:22.100
because he is, they say, mostly right about the gender issue. But he's not mostly right. He's not even
00:58:29.060
in the neighborhood of right. He's not in the, he's not, I don't know what planet he's even on,
00:58:34.280
let alone the neighborhood. He believes that a person can identify as and actually be a member
00:58:39.760
of the opposite sex. He affirms transgenderism. It's just that he prefers to stick with the term
00:58:44.040
transgender to describe those people and believes that non-binary is extra and redundant. And he's
00:58:50.240
right that it is redundant. You know, as non-binary versus transgenderism, that is a distinction without a
00:58:54.700
difference. That doesn't make him more right or closer to the truth. He's not suddenly a defender
00:58:59.040
of truth and tradition because he prefers to stick with the craziest left wing ideas from yesterday
00:59:03.700
rather than adopting the craziest ideas from today. In fact, non-binary isn't even really crazier than
00:59:10.800
transgenderism. These terms are again, redundant. They are versions of the same nonsense.
00:59:16.180
Star prefers using one term for the nonsense rather than two. This apparently is enough to make him
00:59:20.300
our generation's William F. Buckley. The left here is using a classic manipulation technique. You make an
00:59:26.780
outrageous demand so that a slightly less outrageous demand seems reasonable by comparison. We should all be
00:59:32.840
familiar with this strategy. It's the oldest one in the book, right? Kids use it all the time. Just a few nights
00:59:37.580
ago, my son came up to me after dinner and said, Daddy, can we all go get ice cream? Now, asking me to load all
00:59:44.820
six kids in the car after dinner when I already have my sweatpants and slippers on definitely qualifies as an
00:59:51.980
outrageous demand. That's one thing they know. Once the slippers come out, I'm not going anywhere.
00:59:57.340
We are here for the night. So I said no, and then he immediately followed it up with, okay, well, then
01:00:02.920
can we just watch a movie? Now, in that case, I knowingly allowed myself to be suckered by the
01:00:07.600
strategy and I let them watch a movie. But on a cultural level, in the battle with the left, we cannot
01:00:13.340
be so easily duped by these kinds of tricks. Just because non-binary is arguably a little weirder than
01:00:18.900
trans. That doesn't make trans legitimate or any closer to legitimate than it was before.
01:00:25.800
Celebrating Jeffree Star at this point, it's like if somebody was beating you over the head with a
01:00:29.460
baseball bat and then Jeffree Star ran in and said, no, don't beat him over the head with a
01:00:33.200
baseball bat. Just stomp on his face with your boot instead. Here, I'll help. Now, it's true that
01:00:38.560
getting stomped is probably a little better than being bludgeoned with a bat, but does that
01:00:42.280
automatically make the person stomping on your face an ally? Would you applaud this person as they
01:00:47.860
kick you in the skull and say, wow, this guy's great. We should invite him to CPAC. No, he's still
01:00:53.660
your enemy. He's still trying to kill you, just perhaps in a slightly less efficient manner.
01:00:59.960
See, the curse of the big tent conservatism approach is that now our tent is filled with people who are
01:01:04.980
directly trying to undermine our cause. A big tent doesn't do you a lot of good when you're inviting
01:01:09.520
people under it who will just try to rip it down and leave all of us standing in the rain, which is
01:01:13.980
what's happening. One last point on all this. Star says that we need someone who looks like him to say
01:01:20.040
the things that he says, because if we say it, that is, if normal people who aren't cross-dressing
01:01:24.080
circus performers say it, then we will be called bigots and transphobes. Well, except this logic
01:01:29.300
is refuted by his follow-up video in which he defends himself against accusations of bigotry and
01:01:34.200
transphobia. So it turns out that tokenism is not actually an effective strategy here. We cannot insulate
01:01:39.680
ourselves from criticism by putting our arguments into the mouths of people who fall into identity
01:01:44.660
categories that the left usually celebrates. Okay, I don't know how conservatives keep thinking this
01:01:50.080
strategy will work. It never has. It never will. It doesn't work. Like, can you give me an example of
01:01:58.140
someone who's in one of these identity groups and they make a conservative, well, not even conservative,
01:02:02.740
they make a slightly less left-wing argument and the left goes, well, you know, normally I disagree with
01:02:08.400
that, but this person is an identity group that we support, so I think we'll take it into
01:02:11.660
consideration. Has that ever happened? Is there one example of that working? No, it doesn't, because
01:02:18.920
the left values ideological conformity over all else. Their vision of diversity is one in which people
01:02:25.540
of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, except white males, and made-up genders come together
01:02:31.420
to march in lockstep and speak in unison. Anybody who misses a beat or forgets a line or tries to
01:02:39.440
improvise will be cast out as not only a bigot, but a traitor as well. As it turns out, the people
01:02:45.280
from protected classes who disagree with the left are not given softer treatment or a better chance at
01:02:51.740
a fair hearing. If anything, they're shouted down all the louder and hated all the more, because on top
01:02:57.860
of saying the things that the left hates, there's also the element of betrayal, because the left
01:03:03.380
says, well, you're supposed to belong to us because of your identity. That doesn't make them, that doesn't
01:03:08.940
make the, you know, the heretic more credible in the eyes of the left. It just makes them a heretic.
01:03:15.840
Just look at Jeffree Star. He agrees with the left on nearly everything, and he's living exactly the
01:03:22.120
kind of lifestyle they promote, but they still exile him for mildly criticizing one small facet of gender
01:03:28.780
ideology. Well, that doesn't make him our ally or our friend, but it does prove that this whole, you
01:03:36.620
know, you need people like me to make this argument claim is moot. No, we don't need people like him to
01:03:42.140
make the argument. We don't need a cross-dressing trans activist with neck tattoos and copious amounts
01:03:47.380
of makeup to make the argument. You know who we need? This goes back to the beginning of the show.
01:03:51.100
We need normal people, normal people like you, normal, common sense people who live normal lives
01:03:59.060
and dress and act like normal people. We need them to speak up and be advocates, because after all,
01:04:06.760
normalcy is what we're trying to defend, isn't it? The best defender of normalcy is a normal person,
01:04:13.280
and not just one normal person, but legions of them, an army of normal people demanding a return to
01:04:19.660
sanity and common sense and basic moral decency. Jeffree Star is not ever going to be an effective
01:04:26.420
champion for that cause, but you can be. And that is why Jeffree Star and his conservative defenders are
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today canceled. That'll do it for this portion of the show. Let's move over to the members block. If you're
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