The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1119 - Tennessee Passes Law Outlawing The Transing Of Kids

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the law banning child mutilation has now been passed by the

00:00:04.060 Tennessee legislature. We are fighting back and we are winning. Meanwhile, crazed drag queens and 1.00

00:00:08.740 trans activists, as they lose, are getting more desperate, are now threatening violence and 1.00

00:00:12.460 claiming that they're victims of genocide. These are the scare tactics that have worked in the

00:00:16.000 past, but no longer. Also, video services of HHS Secretary Rachel Levine demanding that he

00:00:21.160 be not only tolerated, but celebrated, and says that explicitly. Donald Trump visits East

00:00:25.920 Palestine. Pete Buttigieg follows behind him a day later. The Biden administration's most notorious

00:00:30.760 luggage thief has apparently been on the prowl for much longer than we thought. Finally, a far-left

00:00:35.760 race activist finds out, to her horror, that she has descended from a pilgrim on the Mayflower.

00:00:40.780 How quickly does the oppressed become the oppressor? All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:45.220 That's epicwill.com slash Walsh. Today, House Bill 1, called the Protecting Children from Gender

00:01:51.620 Mutilation Act, finally passed the Tennessee House of Representatives. It's legislation that will ban

00:01:56.360 doctors from giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children or performing gender,

00:02:01.940 quote-unquote, gender reassignment surgeries on children. This law, which will soon be signed by the

00:02:06.460 governor and then officially enacted, will actively save kids from one of the most sinister forms of

00:02:12.560 child abuse the world has ever known. Laws, just like it, are being passed all across the country,

00:02:17.020 which means not only that countless children will be protected from this evil, but also

00:02:20.820 that the cultural tide is turning in a very real and measurable way. And that's

00:02:25.900 not something that happens by accident. It's true, as the saying goes, that culture is upstream from

00:02:31.700 politics. And so this bill in Tennessee and others around the country are in large part a response to

00:02:37.240 cultural changes. And those cultural changes are not incidental, but rather the direct result of work

00:02:43.440 that has been done by many people in many places, including us here, of course, at The Daily Wire.

00:02:48.420 As for myself, you know that I've been fighting against gender ideology for many years, yet for 0.83

00:02:52.920 much of that time, fighting, like it does so often for me, for much of that time, fighting meant

00:02:58.300 simply, you know, talking about it. And there is value in talking about things, of course, but

00:03:03.380 our problem as conservatives is that too often, we just leave it there. We talk and talk and talk,

00:03:09.840 and we're in the talking phase the whole time. And when that doesn't work, we talk some more.

00:03:14.780 It feels fruitless after a while, and it is, if there's no escalation, no next phase. Talk is

00:03:21.340 impotent if it isn't coupled with action. And so a couple of years ago, I decided that it was time

00:03:26.320 for action. And a short time later, we published Johnny the Walrus. You know, we've had a lot of

00:03:30.080 fun with the very hilarious fact that I'm a bestselling LGBT children's author. And the book

00:03:34.360 itself is funny and meant to be, but it also has a serious purpose. It's an actual children's book

00:03:39.380 meant for children, which has now been read by and to many children, and which is supposed to be

00:03:45.220 an antidote to the gender ideology and indoctrination that pervades the children's section in nearly every

00:03:51.000 bookstore in America. The book would go on to sell over 100,000 copies in a few months.

00:03:56.260 We were not the first conservatives to publish a children's book with a quote-unquote conservative

00:04:00.600 outlook on a current issue, but ours was certainly at least among the most successful in that category.

00:04:06.720 Now, when the book was published, we had already begun filming What is a Woman? And in January of 2022,

00:04:12.200 though the movie wasn't complete yet, we had filmed enough to be sure that we had something

00:04:16.820 significant on our hands. And that's when I announced publicly that 2022 would be the year

00:04:22.040 when we wage an all-out assault on gender ideology. And I promised that we would be dealing

00:04:27.500 at some major blows that year. And I wanted to call the shot so that people would know that this

00:04:33.380 is all part of a plan. I wanted our allies to know that. I wanted our enemies to know that.

00:04:38.040 That month, my episode of Dr. Phil was released and went viral a few months later. What is a woman 0.98

00:04:41.860 came out, took the country by storm. And then in the fall, with all the momentum we had built up,

00:04:45.640 we set out to expose and shut down Vanderbilt's child mutilation clinic. A few weeks after that

00:04:50.340 report, clinic was shut down. We're holding a rally in the state capitol. Thousands of people

00:04:55.140 were there. Several lawmakers attended the rally, announced that they would work on legislation to

00:04:59.760 ban the practice in Tennessee. And this week, that bill passed and now awaits the governor's signature.

00:05:05.500 While similar bills work their way through the legislatures in many other states,

00:05:09.260 or in some cases have now been passed. Now, lots of people on the right talk about fighting

00:05:14.740 and call themselves fighters. But when I say that we're fighting here at the Daily Wire,

00:05:19.080 this is what I mean. And of course, none of this is possible without our members. The films,

00:05:24.080 the books, the investigative work, the rallies, everything else. Can't do any of that or achieve

00:05:29.060 any of the victories without people who support us and support our work. And by supporting it,

00:05:34.460 contribute to it. So I use the word we when I talk about all these things, because this truly is a

00:05:40.160 we operation. Like I said already, I was talking about this for many years, but only talking.

00:05:44.640 I can talk on my own. I don't need anybody else for that. I can talk all day. But I needed the

00:05:49.660 Daily Wire and all of you to actually do all of these things. That's why your membership is so

00:05:54.320 important. And this work becomes all the more important as the other side continues its own

00:06:00.540 escalation. So for example, there's another bill soon to be passed here in Tennessee, which would

00:06:05.580 outlaw sexual performances for children. This would have the effect of primarily banning

00:06:11.580 family, quote unquote, family friendly drag shows. And the reason that I say it would primarily ban

00:06:16.480 those is that drag queens are the primary ones who are most eager and insistent on performing in front 1.00

00:06:23.260 of kids, which is all the more reason. So it's a little bit like if I said that stealing is illegal

00:06:30.900 and that primarily affects kleptomaniacs. Well, it's not a bill that says only kleptomaniacs can't

00:06:37.940 steal. But if you have a compulsion to steal, then in a certain way, you might say that you're more

00:06:44.000 affected by that bill. But that's because of you. That's a you problem. It's your own fault.

00:06:49.460 And it's the same thing here. So the drag queens who feel targeted by a bill that won't let them 0.96

00:06:55.180 sexualize children. Well, if it targets you, that's only because you have this apparently by

00:07:02.220 your own confession, this special compulsion to engage in that kind of behavior, which is all the

00:07:09.220 more reason why you shouldn't be allowed to. But a leftist activist and drag queen who goes by the 1.00

00:07:14.020 name of Bella DuBall addressed a crowd here in Tennessee a few days ago. And he had his own

00:07:20.960 suggestion for how the opponents of this bill ought to respond. Leftists on social media have

00:07:26.300 applauded this speech, called it defiant and brave. And it is at least one of those things,

00:07:32.600 the former that is. Let's watch. This is an attempt to erase drag in Tennessee. 0.90

00:07:40.800 This bill will further harm trans people who are literally just living their lives.

00:07:47.240 I need you to contact your house representative and tell them this will not stand. Urge them to

00:07:56.460 both know, because if they don't, this will make public pride illegal this year. Now, if you don't

00:08:03.540 know, we've been having public drag in Tennessee for over 50 years. And pride began to commemorate the

00:08:10.220 events of Stonewall. Back in Stonewall, we weren't allowed to do drag. It was criminalized. And so what

00:08:16.680 happened when the cops came in and tried to beat us down, we picked up them bricks and sent them packing.

00:08:23.940 The original pride was a riot. And if this year we need to remind them that we will fight for our

00:08:32.100 liberation. I may need your help with legal fees because mama ain't quitting. I'll get arrested. I don't care. Somebody's got to be first. We'll sue the state. But whatever happens, we are queer people. We are very strong. And we will rise.

00:08:56.300 Thank you so much y'all for hearing that. Let's get back to your drag show. I will introduce myself, but that is the least Southern thing that a lady can do. 1.00

00:09:08.280 So to be entirely clear, this drag queen is calling for violence because he won't be able to perform strip teases in front of children anymore. That's how 1.00

00:09:15.540 important grooming is to this groomer. He would rather kill than be deprived of his right to sexualize small 0.99

00:09:21.600 children. But why is this so important to him? Why can't he just be satisfied to perform his whole 0.99

00:09:29.800 weird and depraved routine in front of adults behind closed doors? There was no movement to outlaw drag until you brought 0.99

00:09:35.700 children into it. So why can't you just leave them out of it? The answer is partly that they get a sexual

00:09:42.280 thrill, apparently, out of cross-dressing and dancing for kids. It's part of the fetish for them. And they will 0.99

00:09:49.360 kill to protect their fetish because their fetish is their whole identity. It's all they have. It's all they are.

00:09:53.720 That's all they've chosen to be. The other answer is that drag shows for kids are part of their master

00:10:00.980 plan for indoctrinating and desensitizing the youngest generations. They can't convince the kids to enjoy 0.72

00:10:06.940 this stuff, but they can condition them to accept sexual perversion as normal. And the sooner they're

00:10:14.640 exposed to it, the easier that is to do it. That's a large part of the point. The third part of the

00:10:19.960 explanation, this is an essential thing to understand if you're trying to figure out why these people

00:10:23.660 would threaten to murder others because you're not going to let them strip for children. 0.76

00:10:28.640 The other part is simply that they are raging narcissists who have never been told no until now. 0.65

00:10:35.880 We have been a disastrously permissive culture, convinced that the worst thing we can ever say

00:10:40.940 to anyone, especially an LGBT activist, is no. And now they've become convinced that they have the 0.93

00:10:49.060 right to never be told no because they've never been told no. Gender ideology, 0.95

00:10:53.660 LGBT activism, is all just sexualized narcissism anyway. They've made narcissism their entire 1.00

00:11:01.040 worldview. And they're reacting as any narcissist does when you tell him, no, you can't do that.

00:11:08.120 You cannot do whatever you want. There are rules you will follow. It doesn't matter if you don't like

00:11:12.660 it. Your desires do not supersede the law, whether the laws of man or of God. Your desires do not

00:11:20.480 supersede either. They can't handle this news. They don't know what to do with it.

00:11:26.900 Keep in mind, these people honestly believe that they have the right not just to be tolerated,

00:11:31.020 but to be celebrated. I've made this observation many times, but don't take it from me.

00:11:37.580 Here's a trans HHS official, Rachel Levine, in a resurfaced video that went viral this week,

00:11:42.520 stating this point explicitly. Listen.

00:11:46.780 You know, what I like to say is, you know, in terms of diversity, I mean, diversity is so powerful

00:11:52.320 for any organization and diversity in all of its different aspects, including for sexual and gender

00:11:58.220 minorities. And, you know, you don't want to have a tolerant environment. You know, gee, thanks for

00:12:04.160 tolerating me. I really appreciate that. And, you know, an accepting environment is good, but you really

00:12:09.800 want to work on it on a welcoming and even a celebratory environment for diversity in all of

00:12:15.220 its aspects, including for LGBTQ individuals. And so, you know, Hershey approached that.

00:12:22.380 We must celebrate him, he tells us. Long gone are the days of leave us alone, let us have our privacy.

00:12:28.060 That was always a bait and switch, obviously, because now actually to leave them alone would be an attack

00:12:32.900 on them. That's an attack. It is your obligation to not leave them alone, but rather to lift them on your

00:12:39.520 shoulders like Rudy at the end of the movie and parade them around while the crowd cheers.

00:12:45.260 This demand for celebration is, again, partly a tactic, but it's also a sincere expression of their

00:12:50.780 overwhelming, suffocating narcissism. For people who demand celebration and who claim the right to do

00:12:59.480 literally anything they want, up to and including holding sex shows for toddlers, is it any wonder that

00:13:04.980 they react with such demonic fury when we not only don't celebrate, but actively fight against their

00:13:11.420 agenda? Yesterday, the trans activist Aaron Reid published a tweet thread which garnered 40,000 likes

00:13:18.180 in which he claims that the laws being passed in places like Tennessee and elsewhere represent an

00:13:25.800 actual genocide against trans people. And he meant it literally, even provided the UN definition of

00:13:31.520 genocide to prove his case. But of course, the definition disproves his case, but that's not the

00:13:36.460 way he sees it. It's not meant as hyperbole when these people talk this way. They actually see it as

00:13:43.600 equivalent to genocide if anyone tells them no. If any limitations are placed on the trans activist or the

00:13:50.640 LGBT activist at all, if any attempt is made to control any of their behavior, it is genocide. 0.86

00:13:57.480 Murdering an entire group of people and tossing their bodies in a mass grave is on the same moral 0.76

00:14:03.440 playing field as telling Aaron Reid that he can't strip in front of kids or chemically castrate 0.92

00:14:09.120 a 12-year-old. Indeed, calling Aaron Reid him, as I just did, in the first place is genocide,

00:14:17.180 an act of evil indistinguishable from the Holocaust. This is what they honestly believe. 0.99

00:14:22.600 And it's what happens when self-obsession becomes identity and identity becomes religion.

00:14:30.320 And their rage only increases all the more as they realize that this kind of hysterical yammering,

00:14:35.780 along with the threats of violence and the attempts at deplatforming and shouting bigot and labeling and

00:14:40.720 all that, as they begin to realize that this isn't going to work anymore, it did work for a long time,

00:14:45.300 but it doesn't work anymore. Because they're now dealing with adversaries who cannot be manipulated

00:14:50.560 or cowed into silence that easily, or at all. And that's why I will conclude here by assuring you,

00:14:59.380 you, Aaron Reid, and you, the drag queen threatening violence, and the rest of your ilk, that we aren't 1.00

00:15:05.120 even remotely done. Okay? This is honestly only the beginning. We've got a lot more in store for you.

00:15:13.140 I promised you a year ago that we were going to war here, and I kept that promise. I'll keep this one, 1.00

00:15:17.360 two. There is much more to be done that needs to be done, and we aim to do it. So the battle continues,

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00:16:22.140 details. We have to start with this. I don't know if it's the most important story in the country right

00:16:26.680 now. I mean, it's not, but it is at least the funniest. And so you know all about Sam Britton.

00:16:32.760 He's the former Biden energy official who liked to cross-dress and called himself they-them and

00:16:40.000 was also into bestiality role play and all kinds of other sick and insane things that none of us

00:16:45.720 needed or wanted to know about, but we do now. And he's also the guy who got fired after stealing

00:16:51.920 luggage from what we thought was only two women on two separate occasions stole their luggage right 1.00

00:17:00.340 out of the airport out of the baggage claim. Now, I told you at the time that, you know, this guy,

00:17:06.980 pretty clear to me, stealing the luggage, he's not stealing it because he wants the luggage, right?

00:17:12.580 Nobody needs that much baggage, especially someone like him who already comes with so much baggage

00:17:17.160 to begin with. But it's very clear that he is doing this and he's targeting women because it's all part, 0.81

00:17:23.420 again, of the sick, twisted fetish. He has a thing for stealing and wearing women's clothing. 0.95

00:17:28.440 That was clear to me. And that brings us to this tweet from a woman named Asya Kamsin,

00:17:35.020 I think. We'll just call her Asya. Hopefully she's okay with that. Here's the tweet. And

00:17:40.600 let me see, can we pull the tweet up? There it is.

00:17:45.180 So my name is Asya, Tanzanian fashion designer based in Houston, Texas, USA. I lost my bag in 2018

00:17:52.260 in the DC airport. Recently, I heard the news on Fox News about Sam Britton luggage issue.

00:17:56.980 Surprisingly, I found his images where he wore my custom made outfit, which was in the lost bag

00:18:03.740 in 2018. And then you can see the dated photo of her in the dress in 2018. And then you also can see

00:18:13.340 Britton in the exact same outfit. So it's a rather distinct outfit. It's very distinct because she

00:18:20.320 made, she custom made the outfit. She's a fashion designer. And her luggage goes missing in 2018,

00:18:24.860 four years ago. And then Britton turns up wearing her custom clothing. You know, it's pretty close

00:18:31.060 to a case closed on this thing. So what this means is that, there he is. And apparently he's also

00:18:38.440 wearing this wrong. He's wearing it, I think he's wearing it backwards or something. He doesn't even

00:18:41.600 know how to wear the outfit. What this means is that Britton, the baggage bandit, has been patrolling

00:18:49.820 our airports for years. He's been lurking in the baggage claim area, like some kind of predatory,

00:18:56.700 you know, forest creature on the prowl. This is like when all the small dogs and cats in a neighborhood

00:19:02.440 start going missing and you know that there must be a coyote in the woods. Except this coyote steals

00:19:07.180 women's luggage and then parades around in their clothing. So when we say, here's what makes this 0.99

00:19:14.100 so apt, is that when we say that these men are appropriating the female identity, well, 0.96

00:19:20.220 he was literally doing that, right? I mean, we were saying that about Sam Britton when he was first

00:19:24.260 hired and we were supposed to applaud him. And I know I said, many of the people said that he's

00:19:29.280 making a mockery, he's appropriating womanhood and all the rest of it. We didn't realize how 0.96

00:19:33.540 literally correct we were. He's actually stealing their clothing and putting it on.

00:19:38.040 Yet nobody ever connected the dots. That's what's interesting. At least we don't think they did.

00:19:42.360 You know, I like to imagine that there was maybe one detective somewhere out there who was at the

00:19:48.460 station late one night, smoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee and pouring through all

00:19:52.640 these missing baggage cases. And then, you know, he realized that it was all done by one man and

00:19:58.040 that there was a criminal mastermind on the loose. And he had the bulletin board up with all the

00:20:02.320 newspaper clippings and the, you know, and the, and the lines connecting them and all that. And he

00:20:07.460 realized that it was Sam Britton the entire time. And he tried to make the arrest, but the brass

00:20:11.580 at the station stopped him. That's what I like to imagine happened anyway. And if it didn't happen,

00:20:16.140 then someone should make a movie where something like that does happen. All I know is that now,

00:20:23.740 like we are seeing the beginning of a, of a new me too movement, except that in this case,

00:20:30.280 it's just women coming forward because Sam Britton stole their baggage. It's going to be, 1.00

00:20:34.040 it's a whole me too thing. Now, Sam Britton is the Harvey Weinstein of cross-dressing baggage 0.72

00:20:41.420 thieves. He's the, uh, he's the Bill Cosby of baggage claim is Sam Britton. And I just hope

00:20:47.680 that more women have the courage to speak out. It is like, it's, it all seriousness, it's pretty 0.95

00:20:53.200 disturbing too. Can you imagine that you lose your baggage and then, and then this creep,

00:20:58.580 then this creep turns up wearing it. Um, so stay tuned more on that. I will say if you're a woman, 0.96

00:21:09.000 if you're a woman who has lost your baggage at any point in the last decade, anywhere within the

00:21:14.320 continental United States, or probably, or probably anywhere else in the globe, we don't know how far

00:21:18.220 this conspiracy stretches, but if you were in that category, I would start looking through,

00:21:23.180 well, let me stop myself. I was going to say, I would start Googling images of Sam Britton to

00:21:28.840 see if you can find him wearing your clothing. But if you do that, you're going to see a lot of

00:21:32.220 other things about Sam Britton that you don't want to see. So nevermind. You know what? Maybe

00:21:36.300 it's better just not to know. You probably don't want to know. And all you could do now is move on

00:21:41.400 with your life. All right. WKBN in Ohio reports, former president Donald Trump spoke to those in East

00:21:47.020 Palestine after a short stop at a little Beaver Creek on Wednesday, telling locals, you are not 0.61

00:21:51.740 forgotten. Trump landed Wednesday afternoon at the Youngston Warren Regional Airport. He met briefly

00:21:57.160 with local leaders at Little Beaver Creek before making his remarks to the media. Details of his

00:22:02.200 visit had not been released to the public in advance, but several of Trump supporters were in

00:22:05.900 the area to greet him with cheers. Some other supporters chanted, we love you, Trump, at USA.

00:22:11.340 Trump spoke to a small group of local leaders, first responders, and the media at the local fire

00:22:14.780 station. He said he's donating thousands of bottles of cleaning supplies and pallets of bottled water to the

00:22:19.500 area that were collected through his Trump organizations. And he, you know, he walked around

00:22:24.320 the town. He also went to McDonald's and bought McDonald's for all the firefighters and first

00:22:28.980 responders there. And he, as mentioned, he gave a speech. We have a little bit of the, of that speech.

00:22:33.840 Let's listen. To the people of East Palestine and to the nearby communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania,

00:22:40.200 we have told you loud and clear, you are not forgotten. You are not forgotten. We stand with you,

00:22:46.160 we pray for you, and we will stay with you in your fight to help answer. And the accountability that

00:22:52.340 you deserve, we'll have that accountability. It'll all be out there very clearly.

00:22:59.220 Now, while he's giving this speech and he's in Ohio, Biden is in Ukraine. And this is the

00:23:06.240 advantage that Trump has. It's one of the, one of the key differences between him and Biden,

00:23:10.400 really between him and many in DC, if not almost everyone in DC, is that, and you can see this in

00:23:17.960 the visit, that he connects with normal Americans. He just, he does. And the media has been perplexed

00:23:23.680 by this for years. They don't like it. They, they've tried all, they've tried all different kinds of

00:23:29.080 methods to sever this bond between normal Americans and this connection between normal Americans and

00:23:35.580 Trump. But, but really, well, I said that they've tried, they've tried many different strategies.

00:23:41.120 Really, it's just the one, the one strategy, which is to yell at everybody, to yell at everyone and call

00:23:46.280 you a bigot and call Trump a bigot. And that's the only strategy they've used. Surprisingly, that hasn't

00:23:51.480 worked. But he connects with normal Americans. And that has a lot to do with the fact that he doesn't

00:23:58.200 have contempt for them the way that Biden does and the way that Pete Buttigieg does and all of these

00:24:05.400 DC swamp creatures do. And, you know, I've made this point many times about Trump that you, you look at,

00:24:13.240 he's, he's seen as this hostile figure that's always attacking people and getting into fights and all the

00:24:19.240 rest of it. Of course, that's part of his appeal. But you look at everyone that Trump has attacked.

00:24:24.340 Okay. And it's a long list. Oftentimes he's attacking in response to being attacked, but it's a, it's a

00:24:29.640 long list. Um, but it's almost always other politicians, people in media, uh, celebrities,

00:24:38.440 public figures. That's like, that's everyone. That's the entire list. It's all people in that world.

00:24:44.720 Now Biden, on the other hand, and the Democrats, they attack Americans. Okay. They attack normal people,

00:24:52.480 just citizens. Labeling them bigots and racists. Uh, you know, is the justice department infamously 0.93

00:25:01.700 labeling parents at a PTA meetings and school board meetings, terrorists. Trump never does that

00:25:10.660 because he doesn't actually hate normal people. Whereas Biden really does. These people really do.

00:25:17.160 Um, and it, it, it turns out that when you have basic respect for people and you treat them like

00:25:28.220 human beings, they respond in kind. Shockingly. Now, Pete Buttigieg also showed up. Uh, he showed up

00:25:35.120 today. So it's a day later. He finally comes and we have one clip. I haven't watched this clip yet,

00:25:39.440 but he's confronted by a reporter. Uh, and let's watch this. Sorry, Pete. I just have a quick

00:25:45.760 question. Uh, the American public doesn't seem to be very confident in your ability to do your job.

00:25:50.820 Will you be resigning anytime soon? I'm not here for politics. I'm here to make sure the community

00:25:54.780 can get what they need. Will you apologize for the response, for the slow response, taking your time?

00:26:00.780 One of the big things. Let's, let's go in here and get away from me. Nope. No apology.

00:26:10.300 Mary, why did it take you an entire universe to get here to respond to East Palestine? Will you 0.97

00:26:16.080 apologize to the residents of this city? Uh, he's not there for politics. Really? Well, what are you

00:26:22.320 there? Well, first of all, of course you're there for politics. That's that, that's, uh, the only

00:26:27.580 reason that you're there. I mean, are you there because they actually need you for the cleanup?

00:26:32.240 Um, and if they did, you're three weeks late, which is why Buttigieg showing up three weeks late.

00:26:38.460 It's really the worst possible thing, especially a day after Trump. Okay. Because you're, you're,

00:26:43.380 you're coming in a day after him and the optics are that you only came because Trump came, which is,

00:26:49.300 those are the optics. And that's also the reality. He came because Trump went and he also went because,

00:26:54.120 uh, because he's, he's been harangued and, and, uh, yelled at. And finally he said, fine, I'll go.

00:27:01.020 Um, but I think that just from a pure optics and politics standpoint, showing up three weeks late

00:27:08.020 is pretty much the worst of all possible worlds. Uh, you're better off not going at all. If you're

00:27:13.860 going to go three weeks late, you're better just not going because then now that's not a good option.

00:27:18.520 Best option is to be there on the scene shortly after to show that you actually care about this

00:27:25.320 and that this is on your radar. Because yeah, again, it, nobody thinks that Pete Buttigieg is

00:27:30.480 actually practically needed there to do anything any more than, than Trump is like Trump's not there

00:27:36.500 to help with the cleanup and to clean up all the, uh, train cars that are still laying all over the

00:27:40.960 place. But the, the practical benefit of anyone showing up, especially someone who's currently in

00:27:49.540 the government is to send a message to the people there in the town that you are, that you care about

00:27:55.740 this, that you're aware of it, that you're working on it, that it's on your priority list.

00:28:02.680 And instead for three weeks, the people in that town have felt totally abandoned by the federal

00:28:07.780 government because they have been. So what, again, what's the benefit of showing up three

00:28:12.660 weeks late? Everybody knows you're only there because you have to be. Um, it's, it's, you can't

00:28:19.920 pretend that it was an urgent priority because it took you three weeks, but the fact that you're going

00:28:25.520 at all now, it's just, it just advertises that, uh, you know, it's, it's low down the list of

00:28:29.600 priorities. If you're, if, if you're, if it's, if three weeks have passed and no one from the

00:28:34.320 Biden administration, uh, has showed up, then it's a really bad situation politically, but your best

00:28:41.900 option, I think then is to not go at all and then make some excuse about how, well, we're not, we've

00:28:47.460 decided, we decided not to do that because that would be political showmanship and, uh, we would

00:28:52.040 be getting in the way and it wouldn't be appropriate. It like make some kind of claim

00:28:54.880 like that. I mean, total, totally bogus, but at least you could go with that, um, excuse.

00:29:00.380 That excuse is out the window because you did still show up and of course, claiming that, uh,

00:29:07.720 they don't want to make it into a political theater that, that, that wouldn't, that, that

00:29:10.520 wouldn't work anyway because, uh, Biden and Biden officials, they will show up at the scene

00:29:16.240 of tragedies. If it's a tragedy, if it's a tragedy, a catastrophe that they find politically

00:29:22.100 useful to them. I mean, they'll send, they'll send the vice president to a funeral of someone

00:29:30.140 that no one in the administration remotely knew if they think it's politically useful

00:29:34.600 to them, but they figured that this was not politically useful. I said this from the very

00:29:39.500 beginning where some people upset about it, but it's just, it's obviously true that this

00:29:45.100 happened in a, this happened to a small town in Ohio. These are white working class people

00:29:49.700 for the most part. And so they just don't rate very high. They're, they're, Biden administration

00:29:55.140 doesn't care about them. Um, they're not in the base and they figured that it's just not like

00:30:02.520 that. That's white working class. People are exactly the kind of people that if you're in DC, 0.69

00:30:08.080 if you're in the media, you, you ignore and they've gotten used to ignoring them and they

00:30:11.500 figured they could do that here, but it didn't work out that way for them. I wanted to play this

00:30:19.060 clip from CNN. Um, CNN had this report on the problem of there not being enough black doctors

00:30:27.800 play a little bit of this right now, fewer than 6% of doctors in the U S identifies black or

00:30:34.920 African-American. That's despite the fact that the community makes up 12% of the country's total

00:30:40.280 population. And that's raising concerns about the impact on public health. CNN health reporter,

00:30:45.120 Jacqueline Howard joins us now. So Jacqueline, what is being done to rectify this? That's the thing

00:30:50.300 beyond a more needs to be done to make sure that our physician workforce here in the U S reflects the

00:30:54.960 diversity seen among patients. Now, what has been done so far, we've seen more efforts to get STEM

00:31:00.060 programs in grade schools at the medical school level. We've seen more mentorship programs,

00:31:04.900 particularly for students of color. But when you look at the physician workforce right now,

00:31:10.180 active doctors at this moment, we're still seeing 5.7% are black or African-American. And that's 0.64

00:31:17.100 compared with, as Victor said, 12% of the U S population. When you look at native Americans,

00:31:22.860 less than 1% of doctors are native American. And that's compared with up to 2% of patients.

00:31:28.720 When you look at Hispanic or Latino physicians, 6.9% are doctors compared with up to 18% of the U S

00:31:36.900 population. So those differences are what's concerning here. And experts say we need to do

00:31:41.440 more to make sure our doctor workforce reflects the diversity seen among patients. Yeah. We need

00:31:47.500 to do more because the research shows, and we've discussed this before the benefits of a more diverse

00:31:52.520 workforce, uh, often, um, sometimes, uh, doctors will dismiss the concerns or symptoms of a certain

00:32:00.900 demographic. Uh, explain what the studies show. Exactly, Victor. And research shows that when

00:32:06.700 we have a more diverse physician workforce, there's more understanding and more trust between the

00:32:12.180 patient and the doctor. If the doctor has an understanding of the patient's cultural experiences,

00:32:17.880 cultural background, lived experiences, especially when it comes to racism or discrimination.

00:32:22.760 Okay. Yeah. If you want to treat someone's medical condition, you need to have a, you need to have an

00:32:26.580 appreciation of their lived experience of racism, right? If somebody has, uh, I don't know,

00:32:31.360 a brain tumor, uh, well, how, how is a doctor going to treat the brain tumor if he doesn't first

00:32:37.960 understand the lived experience of racism? You know, you got to take that into account.

00:32:42.440 That's why if you go in and you have a brain or any kind of medical condition,

00:32:45.360 you know, doctor, I have diabetes and they'll, they'll ask you, well, what's your lived experience?

00:32:50.000 Have you experienced racism? Tell me about your lived experience.

00:32:54.500 This is what we hear from. There's a couple of points about this. First of all,

00:32:57.840 you always see the left's elitism with these kinds of things, but they're worried about

00:33:03.300 diversity among, anytime you hear a report about a problem of, uh, there not being enough diversity

00:33:10.160 in a certain workforce, it's always going to be, oh, uh, it needs to be more diversity among doctors

00:33:16.660 and surgeons. There needs to be more diversity among, uh, you know, Hollywood actors. There needs

00:33:23.320 to be more diversity and with NFL head coaches, right? It's always these like high paying,

00:33:28.780 very visible jobs, the kind of jobs that they being the elites respect because this is it because

00:33:36.840 these are the elites themselves. Um, but they, they never do that. They never do this with working

00:33:43.300 class jobs. If you've noticed, they never, they never, they never, you never see a report like this

00:33:48.460 and they're bringing up some, you know, a working class profession and say, well, we need more

00:33:53.260 diversity. This needs to reflect the diversity of the, uh, of, uh, of, of the community.

00:34:00.940 Or I should say they very, they very rarely do that. And when they do do something like that,

00:34:07.480 because we did hear from Pete Buttigieg a couple of, a couple of weeks ago about how there's not

00:34:11.200 enough, uh, diversity among construction workers. So if they do bring it up, they, it can be

00:34:16.720 guaranteed. They bring it up in a way that's totally divorced, divorced from reality because

00:34:20.220 there's already a lot of racial diversity among construction workers, but even then it's very,

00:34:23.080 it's very limited. So for example, um, how many female roofers are there? Like in, in what sense does 1.00

00:34:34.640 the, does the roofing profession reflect the, uh, demographics of the country? Certainly if you break

00:34:44.980 it down along gender lines, it's not reflective at all. Same for, let's say trash collectors 1.00

00:34:52.020 or plumbers. Definitely. If you break it down along gender lines, not going to be not, not going,

00:35:00.380 not going, it's not going to reflect, you know, all the people that are working on roofs,

00:35:04.320 that workforce does not really reflect, uh, the identities of, of the people that are living under

00:35:10.560 those roofs. They're not as worried about that though, are they? Right? My second question is,

00:35:19.600 if you are going into surgery, let's say for, for anything, um, what do you want to know about

00:35:29.460 your doctor? What's going to make you feel, feel better? What's going to make you feel more confident?

00:35:34.060 Is it his skin color? Like, what do you want to know? Do you, do you, what would you, what do you,

00:35:41.440 what do you want to be sure of? Do you want to be sure that he, um, got into this position because

00:35:47.200 he's the best of the best and because he got there by merit, right? And he's, he's the best qualified

00:35:54.800 based on his merit, based on his skill, based on all that, his experience, his training. Do you want

00:36:01.100 to know that right as your eyelids start to get droopy from the anesthetic? Do you want to have

00:36:05.560 that thought in your head that these people, they're there because they're the best and that's

00:36:09.500 it. And they, and they, they earn that spot. And so I'm in good hands or do you want to think, wow,

00:36:15.560 this is a very diverse operating room. Is that going to make you feel good as you drift away?

00:36:22.520 Potentially for good, you know, to not wake up again, because that's, what's going to happen more

00:36:27.100 and more as diversity in these kinds of professions is prioritized over just simply who's

00:36:32.880 the best. Speaking of workforces, Daily Wire has this report. Amazon employees are furious as the

00:36:40.080 company rolls back remote work arrangements with some threatening to quit and others drafting

00:36:44.560 petitions in reaction to a recent announcement that they must report to the office at least three

00:36:48.780 times per week. Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to employees on Friday, but the company believes

00:36:54.800 teams tend to find ways to work through hard and complex trade-offs faster when they're in the

00:37:00.660 same physical location. Shortly after the announcement, hundreds of Amazon staffers started

00:37:04.680 joining an internal Slack channel called Remote Advocacy, where they were, there were more than

00:37:11.040 14,000 members of the channel as of Tuesday. Nearly 80% of the workers of the channel claim that they

00:37:15.320 would start to look for another job because of the new policy. So if they had to actually go to work

00:37:19.420 physically, then they would look for another job because this is a deep, this is a, you know,

00:37:23.580 this is an affront against them. One disgruntled employee wrote, this is going to be absolute

00:37:27.940 chaos and make everyone's work distracted for probably a quarter, maybe longer. It's hard to

00:37:32.000 be productive with so much uncertainty injected into our lives. The shift towards more traditional

00:37:36.040 work arrangements, however, comes as Amazon seeks to downsize amid macroeconomic tumult and a decline

00:37:41.800 in consumer demand that followed the lockdown-induced recession. Amazon dismissed some 18,000 employees

00:37:47.760 over the past several months. Employees in the Slack channel nevertheless drafted petitions against the

00:37:53.440 return to the office, to office policy. Says, we, the undersigned Amazonians, are responding by

00:37:59.820 petitioning for the right to choose where to work, including remote locations. The petition included

00:38:05.980 survey data which found 56% of Amazon employees desire monthly sync-ups in the office, while 31% want to

00:38:11.980 work in the office one or two days per week. You know, there's, when I hear about these controversies

00:38:18.800 about, you know, there's still these companies and corporations that have not gotten back to working

00:38:25.840 in the office. And so there's these employees that think they have a right to stay home and work from

00:38:32.360 home. It reminds me of this Louis C.K. bit where he talks about his first experience years ago using

00:38:38.340 Wi-Fi on a plane. And the Wi-Fi goes out and a guy behind him gets mad that the Wi-Fi is down. And it's like,

00:38:45.220 cause it's, it's a brand new thing that they just had. It goes away and the guy's mad about it.

00:38:50.580 And Louis C.K. points out that like, how, how quickly does the world owe you something that you didn't

00:38:55.840 even know existed until 10 seconds ago? And I think that remote work is a, is a little bit like that.

00:39:01.440 Where people feel entitled to work and earn a living without ever even leaving their beds.

00:39:08.000 And that's, that's, that's an option that didn't exist until 10 seconds ago. Now you can point out

00:39:15.740 all you want is people often do in this conversation that the nine to five job, you know, leaving your

00:39:21.700 house and driving across town or to another town, or maybe going to another state in some cases to go

00:39:27.880 work in a different building for, for eight to 10 hours a day and coming home. You can point out that

00:39:32.020 that is also a comparatively new phenomenon. That's an invention of the industrial age.

00:39:37.940 And that's certainly the case. Sure. And there was a time when family units, um, in effect,

00:39:45.500 you know, like they, they didn't, they didn't have to leave their homestead or their home in order to

00:39:51.820 work. But, but if you go back before the invention of the 95, they weren't just sitting around on their

00:40:00.160 couch all day. Okay. They had to leave. They were still doing work, uh, you know, go out and work

00:40:07.200 in the fields or something. So the idea that you should be able to earn a living without ever even

00:40:14.380 leaving your bedroom, that you should be able to do that, that you have like the right to do that.

00:40:20.900 That is as modern as it possibly can get. And to me, it's pretty clear that, uh, I mean, does it,

00:40:28.520 does it, we can talk about whether it helps, you know, is it, is it good for your job? Is it good

00:40:35.600 for the company you work for when everyone lives all scattered throughout the country and they're not

00:40:41.160 physically working together? Is that good for, you know, does it, does it make you work better? Does it,

00:40:46.260 does it improve the, the, the kind of work that you're doing? Is it better for, uh, for especially

00:40:51.080 things like creative collaboration? I think obviously not. But then there's also the question

00:40:55.500 of, is this good, is it just, is it a good thing for the country? You know, to take an, to, to isolate

00:41:02.420 people even more than they already are and to take yet another, um, another piece of like human to

00:41:11.840 human in-person interaction and to take that away and to replace it with screens? Is that,

00:41:17.480 is that actually, is that a good development for society? It's hard to imagine how anyone could

00:41:22.140 argue that it is. So get back to work. If you work for Amazon, that's what I'm trying to say.

00:41:27.640 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:42:40.480 today. Terrence says, Matt, I've never felt as much brotherhood with a celebrity as I do with you.

00:42:46.460 Keep, keep it up. We're standing behind you. I hate to tell you this, uh, Terrence, but you still

00:42:52.220 don't have brotherhood with a celebrity because I'm not one, but I appreciate you all the same.

00:42:57.860 Uh, sir, sketchable says, uh, Matt's new strategy to fill 10% of his daily show time with clips from

00:43:04.180 the day before his show. Well, Hey, you know, look, if it works, it works. If they, if they,

00:43:09.340 if that content is presented to me, then, uh, then that's, that's what I'll do. It's not just filling

00:43:14.940 time. Um, you know, maybe it's a little bit like my, when I was in middle school and my book report

00:43:22.500 strategy was to like, you know, it had to be two pages, a page and a half of the book report was

00:43:29.460 just summarizing the book before you make any point about it. Um, Guy says, I completely agree

00:43:39.420 that Matt is telling the truth when he said his best Jeopardy games are the ones when no one is there.

00:43:43.280 He started off shouting alone in his car to barely anyone. And now here he is.

00:43:47.440 Yeah. I think that's probably a lot for a lot of people. It's just the way it goes. You know,

00:43:49.960 you're, you're best playing Jeopardy when you're alone in your living room. It's also when I,

00:43:54.060 when I, this is, this is legitimately when I catch the biggest fish also is when I'm fishing alone and

00:43:59.040 no one else is around. That's when I catch, catch the, uh, it's also, it's when I, when I'm fishing

00:44:04.100 alone and, um, and my phone is dead, so I can't take a picture of the fish. That's when I catch the

00:44:08.660 really big ones. It's just how it goes. Weed, it's just the username is weed. Uh, wasn't Matt

00:44:15.620 saying a few years ago that a national divorce is necessary when that woman comedian, Sarah Silverman,

00:44:21.000 I guess, said something similar on a podcast and Matt agreed if I recall correctly. Yeah,

00:44:26.600 that's why I said I've, I've been along with other mostly conservatives, I think, although Sarah

00:44:31.460 Silverman isn't, but talking about this national divorce idea for, for years. Um, and I've always

00:44:37.960 said that I understand, you know, I understand the argument for it in theory I've given, and I've

00:44:43.380 explained that position. Um, and there was probably a time when I, when I would have, when I would have

00:44:51.020 said, yeah, let's, let's actually try to do it. My, my thinking on it has changed though. Um, for all

00:44:57.460 the reasons that I gave yesterday, you know, beginning with the fact that it's just not possible,

00:45:02.140 you know, and especially in recent years, I've tried to, it's like, we can talk in theory about

00:45:05.860 things. We can talk in the abstract. What would be the best thing? Like what's the most ideal,

00:45:09.720 uh, if we could do anything we wanted, what would it be? There's value in having conversations like

00:45:14.560 that, but I, I do like to focus more now on what is practical and what is actual and what can really

00:45:21.780 happen. And the national divorce for geographic reasons to begin with can't happen. So that's one

00:45:28.220 thing that's changed my thinking on it. And then also what I said yesterday about how, you know, I,

00:45:32.120 I just, it is, it's hard for me to see that as anything but surrender. You're giving up what

00:45:36.940 half the country to these people. I'm not going to do that. And I refuse to do it. Um, so that's

00:45:44.200 when my thinking has changed. Um, MK ultra says my theory is that Gloria Johnson let Fetterman write

00:45:51.620 that tweet for her. See, this is proof by the way that I am nice because, uh, we had that Gloria

00:45:55.640 Johnson incoherent tweet up yesterday and, uh, and, and people say I'm not a nice guy. I almost made a

00:46:00.960 Fetterman joke, but I, but I didn't cause I wanted to be nice. So I switched to a Camilla Harris

00:46:05.560 instead. So I was going to mock one person. I mocked somebody else instead. That's what counts

00:46:10.440 as niceness for me. Callie says you're so right about game shows being such a gamble with a very

00:46:15.860 real possibility of being a viral fail video for the rest of forever. My family was actually on

00:46:20.360 family feud and my brother is the chicken noodle suit guy on there. Basically the prompt from Steve

00:46:26.140 Harvey was what kind of suit is not appropriate to wear to the office. My brother had a brain fart and

00:46:30.360 said chicken noodle. He's now a firefighter in every station he's ever worked at, uh, has known

00:46:35.320 he's has, has known him as soup and even has a Campbell soup sticker on his helmet. When they gear

00:46:40.100 up, the best part about it is that he was convinced that my dad was going to be the one embarrassing

00:46:44.240 the family with some kind of fluke. He even said, dad, pay attention to the prompts. I don't want to

00:46:48.280 end up as some YouTube fail. Now every family feud puts out a best, best fails of the series video.

00:46:54.640 And he always makes the top five just desserts for giving our dad a hard time. If you ask me,

00:46:59.780 well, I have to tell you, I'm sorry to hear about your brother's humiliation,

00:47:03.180 but in order to appreciate how sorry we should really feel for him, because again, I am a nice

00:47:09.380 person and very empathetic. Uh, and I want to know just how sorry should I be? Uh, I also think for

00:47:15.300 the sake of being able to pray for him in this difficult time, this difficult time, which is the

00:47:19.560 rest of his life, I suppose. I think we need to watch that video because I'm not even familiar with

00:47:23.720 this. Um, but here is the video that you're referring to. Guys, here we go. Point values are

00:47:29.720 double. We got top five answers on the board. Name a kind of suit that's not appropriate for the

00:47:35.800 office. Chicken noodle.

00:47:38.840 You don't wear no damn chicken noodle soup in here. 0.99

00:48:02.120 Birthday. Birthday. 0.99

00:48:08.840 That's tough. I'm sorry for your brother. Um, that's a tough one. You know, on one hand,

00:48:24.120 on one hand, it's not as bad. Like it's not as bad as the, as the woman yesterday on wheel of fortune

00:48:29.060 who had the one letter to guess, and it was fresh fruit and she only needed the S and she said G

00:48:34.080 dispel freg fruit. Like it's not as bad as that because it's, he did mishear the question. And so

00:48:40.140 I can understand that, you know, suit sounds like soup, but then why would they be asking about

00:48:46.240 inappropriate soups for the office? Are there is what, and are there office soups and then, um,

00:48:54.840 home soups? And if there is an inappropriate soup for the office, why would it be chicken noodle? I mean,

00:49:00.840 that would be the, that would be the most appropriate soup for the office. Now, when I

00:49:04.660 think about what's an inappropriate soup for the office, um, I guess I would, what comes to mind

00:49:10.500 are soups that are especially pungent in odor. Uh, so you wouldn't want to, you know, heat those up in

00:49:15.460 the break room microwave because they, so then it's like French onion. Okay. So that if you hear it

00:49:21.460 that way, then why wouldn't your answer be French onion? Cause that's obviously the kind of soup that

00:49:24.400 you don't want to bring to the office. It smells bad. It smells too much like onions and you're

00:49:27.440 going to smell like a, uh, but chicken noodle soup, that's the most bland, inoffensive soup there is.

00:49:33.640 And also if it makes, if you make the break room smell like chicken noodle soup, who, who would

00:49:37.540 complain about that? It smells like grandma's home cooking in the, in the office. What's wrong with

00:49:41.060 that? So I want to say that that was not really an enormously stupid answer because it was really 0.98

00:49:47.200 just, he misheard him. But even based on what he thought the question was, it still comes down to 0.94

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00:50:40.740 today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:42.960 Well, it's been about four weeks since the last one. So we're right on schedule for another left

00:50:51.360 wing race hustler activist to be revealed as a secret white woman pretending to be a person of 1.00

00:50:56.300 color. And right on cue, Raquel Evita Saraswati, whose real name is apparently Rachel Elizabeth

00:51:02.860 Seidel, has stepped up to the plate. The post-millennial has the story. A prominent Muslim activist who claimed

00:51:07.940 for years to be a woman of color has been outed as white as the driven snow by none other than her own 0.78

00:51:12.360 mother. Raquel Evita Saraswati, born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel to parents of German, British,

00:51:17.760 and Italian heritage, fooled people into thinking she was South Asian, Arab, and Latina. She even 0.54

00:51:23.200 managed to use her fake ethnic credentials to score a role as the chief equity, inclusion, and culture 1.00

00:51:27.480 officer at the American Friends Service Committee, a progressive Quaker organization that fights for

00:51:31.920 equality and social justice. According to The Intercept, the 39-year-old had converted to Islam in high

00:51:36.200 school and has been masquerading as non-white for nearly two decades. I don't know why she's doing what 1.00

00:51:41.300 she's doing. Saraswati's mother, Carol Perrone, said she's chosen to live a lie, and I find that

00:51:45.640 very, very sad. I'm as white as the driven snow, and so is she. Oscar Pierre Castro, one of the human

00:51:51.660 resources officers who took part in Saraswati's hiring, claimed that she had touched all the points

00:51:56.200 by presenting as a queer Muslim multi-ethnic woman. I definitely feel conned. I feel deceived, 0.99

00:52:01.800 he said, following the revelations that her identity was a lie. Now, Rachel hasn't said much publicly

00:52:06.860 as her story has fallen apart. On Saturday, she tried to stall for time, tweeting, I assure people

00:52:11.660 that as soon as I'm capable, I will provide answers to the recent discussion and attack on me.

00:52:16.020 I understand all the reactions you're having. I'm currently taking the time to get to where I can

00:52:19.780 answer in a way that is most helpful and thorough. Yeah, she needs to go on another journey of self-discovery

00:52:25.540 to find out why she was pretending to belong to five different victim groups. She needs, you know,

00:52:31.040 to get to a place where she can really see the answers to those questions. Well, I can help her with that.

00:52:36.860 Rachel, you did it because you saw it as the easiest way to accrue social capital. It's as

00:52:41.240 simple as that. Like so many other people in our culture today, you are not confident in your

00:52:45.340 ability to succeed based on your own merit. You don't think you have anything of value to offer

00:52:49.920 the world. So instead, you tried to ride a wave of pity and self-victimization. You hope to achieve

00:52:55.060 success and gain esteem through manipulating society's victimhood algorithm. You engaged in the societal

00:53:01.060 equivalent of clickbait. You presented yourself as a victim because you know that these days,

00:53:06.440 victimhood is power. That's the answer. Okay, you're welcome. This kind of story is barely

00:53:13.080 interesting anymore. Rachel Dolezal made the mistake of being slightly out ahead of the trend. 1.00

00:53:18.300 And so her deception was major news for days on end. And even to this day, she remains infamous,

00:53:23.920 like a household name. So, but so many have come after her that now it's become routine. We all,

00:53:31.100 we all already assume that at this point, probably half of the black activists in the country are

00:53:37.020 actually white women. Like we just assume that. And each time a new one is revealed, 1.00

00:53:40.940 it barely leaves a blip on the radar screen. But there was another somewhat similar,

00:53:46.480 though different in key ways, story this week that I find much more fascinating.

00:53:51.420 And, you know, we know how it plays out when a white activist pretends to be black. But what

00:53:56.200 happens when a black activist finds out that she's white, or at least much whiter than she thought 0.96

00:54:03.020 she was or ever hoped to be? That brings us to Angela Davis, who is a Marxist, a former Black Panther,

00:54:09.500 a longtime race hustler, who in recent years has popped up doing things like leading the Women's 1.00

00:54:13.980 March, calling for the abolition of the police and of the prison system. Well, she appeared this week

00:54:18.700 on the PBS show Finding Your Roots, in which prominent people are presented the results of DNA tests,

00:54:24.380 tracing their ancestry back generations to see, you know, where they come from. Angela Davis was not 0.84

00:54:31.480 exactly thrilled with her results. Listen. Any idea what you're looking at? That is a list of the

00:54:38.740 passengers on the Mayflower. No, I can't believe this. No, my ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower.

00:54:47.520 Your ancestors came on the Mayflower. No, no, no. You are descended from one of the 101 people

00:54:55.140 who sailed on the Mayflower. Oof. That's a little bit too much to deal with right now.

00:55:05.320 Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, think that you may have descended from people who laid 0.52

00:55:10.760 never the foundation for this country? Never. Never. Never. Never.

00:55:18.840 Just like that, the oppressed becomes the oppressor. The colonized becomes the colonizer.

00:55:24.900 Now, for a normal person with a healthy mindset, it'd be an exciting and interesting thing to find

00:55:30.260 out that your lineage goes back directly to the Mayflower. I'm pretty certain that mine doesn't,

00:55:34.960 but if it did, I'd be incredibly proud to know that I'm descended from people who, as the host says,

00:55:41.760 laid the foundation. I would also be proud that my roots in this country go that deep.

00:55:47.040 That would be a wonderful thing to find out. Angela Davis, on the other hand,

00:55:50.920 reacts like a deadbeat dad on a daytime talk show, finding out that he really is the father.

00:55:55.500 Like, that's how upset she is. Actually, it gets better because she's descended from a pilgrim on 1.00

00:56:01.720 her father's side. What about her mother's side? Well, as it turns out, her maternal line leads

00:56:07.020 directly back to a man named Stephen Darden, who is a white man, a Revolutionary War soldier who moved

00:56:13.620 to Georgia after the war and became a slave owner. So, Angela Davis has deep roots in this country

00:56:20.520 indeed. It's slave owner and a pilgrim. Finding out all this information, Davis said, quote,

00:56:27.160 I always imagined my ancestors as the people who were enslaved. Yes, well, we know you did, Angela.

00:56:33.040 This has been, to say the very least, a very interesting Black History Month for Angela Davis,

00:56:38.020 as it would seem that her own Black history is far less Black than she expected. And the only question

00:56:44.940 now is, you know, I guess, who does she make her reparations check out to? Herself, perhaps? I don't know.

00:56:51.140 Now, of course, in reality, the details of Angela's family tree are nothing but interesting historical

00:56:58.400 tidbits. As I said, anybody with a healthy perspective on things and who finds out that

00:57:02.400 their lineage traces back to the Revolutionary War and then all the way back to the Mayflower

00:57:06.200 would be fascinated and thrilled and filled with patriotic pride. A healthy person is not upset to

00:57:12.640 find out their ancestors were, quote, unquote, colonizers, especially as there's nothing inherently wrong

00:57:17.740 and often quite a lot that's heroic and virtuous about, you know, starting colonies, especially back

00:57:23.480 hundreds of years ago. So I'm not saying that Angela Davis actually has anything to be ashamed of

00:57:30.140 or to apologize for. But the trouble is that Angela Davis, according to her own ideology, 1.00

00:57:34.860 says that Angela Davis has much to be ashamed of and to apologize for. As a left-wing racial activist,

00:57:41.040 she's a proponent of the idea that oppression trickles down through the generation. She believes

00:57:46.200 that the early settlers of this country were land thieves and evil colonizers. She believes that

00:57:50.880 people who descend from slave owners carry that guilt with them. This is what her worldview professes.

00:57:55.960 And now it's turned against her. And we would have to be soulless to not enjoy the spectacle at least a

00:58:02.780 little bit. But perhaps there's a lesson to be learned here, though. A lesson that Angela Davis and

00:58:07.220 her left-wing race-hustling ilk need to learn. The rest of us already know it, but this is news to them. 0.98

00:58:14.000 And the lesson is that the historical oppression math is much more complicated than they want it to be.

00:58:21.680 Angela Davis descends from slave owners and from people that she would call colonizers. 0.63

00:58:28.700 Many white people in this country descend directly from poor European immigrants who came here

00:58:32.940 a century or more after her great-great-great-great-grandfather bought his first slave.

00:58:38.780 So who's more historically oppressed in that case? If we start handing out reparations,

00:58:43.520 should people who descend from early 20th century immigrants pay reparations to a woman who descends

00:58:48.680 from a slave owner and a pilgrim? See, the picture is rather cloudy, much more cloudy than these people 1.00

00:58:55.200 want to admit. And that's because, obviously, everyone descends from the oppressors. Everyone

00:59:02.160 descends from the oppressed. Everyone has pain and suffering and blood and sweat and tears and heroism

00:59:08.420 and guilt and sin and virtue and failure and achievement all throughout their lineage. If these things can be

00:59:15.520 passed down in the bloodstream, then it's very difficult to tally up the points at the end

00:59:19.620 and figure out who's ahead. Even people who actually descend from slaves may also descend from

00:59:25.900 slave owners and slave traders in Africa if you go back another generation or two.

00:59:30.160 The world was a brutal place and still is. And it's always been funny to me that the people who love

00:59:36.020 to find moral gray areas everywhere who constantly are talking, well, it's a gray area. You know,

00:59:40.520 we can't engage in black and white thinking. Well, somehow, they can't see the gray areas here where

00:59:47.020 there actually is a gray area, where it's just nothing but a giant gray area. When deciding the

00:59:54.140 good guys of history or the bad guys, the oppressed, the oppressor, all you find if you take, if you look

01:00:01.400 through a wide enough lens is a whole lot of gray. And this is not a problem unless you're looking to

01:00:07.260 stand on your ancestors' graves in order to claim victim points today. Then it becomes a problem.

01:00:12.920 That's what Angela Davis and her fellow race hustlers have always done. And that's why 1.00

01:00:16.360 Angela Davis, the granddaughter of slave owners and colonizers, is today canceled.

01:00:24.300 And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block. If you're not

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01:00:31.940 Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - February 23, 2023

Ep. 1119 - Tennessee Passes Law Outlawing The Transing Of Kids

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