The law banning child mutilation has now been passed by the Tennessee legislature. Meanwhile, crazed drag queens and trans activists are getting more desperate, threatening violence and claiming that they re victims of genocide. These are the scare tactics that have worked in the past, but no longer. Also, video services of HHS Secretary Rachel Levine demanding that he be not only tolerated, but celebrated, and says that explicitly Donald Trump visits East Palestine. A day later, the Biden administration s most notorious luggage thief has apparently been on the prowl for much longer than we thought. Finally, a far-left race activist finds out, to her horror, that she has descended from a pilgrim on the Mayflower. How quickly does the oppressed become the oppressor?
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, the law banning child mutilation has now been passed by the
00:00:04.060Tennessee legislature. We are fighting back and we are winning. Meanwhile, crazed drag queens and
00:00:08.740trans activists, as they lose, are getting more desperate, are now threatening violence and
00:00:12.460claiming that they're victims of genocide. These are the scare tactics that have worked in the
00:00:16.000past, but no longer. Also, video services of HHS Secretary Rachel Levine demanding that he
00:00:21.160be not only tolerated, but celebrated, and says that explicitly. Donald Trump visits East
00:00:25.920Palestine. Pete Buttigieg follows behind him a day later. The Biden administration's most notorious
00:00:30.760luggage thief has apparently been on the prowl for much longer than we thought. Finally, a far-left
00:00:35.760race activist finds out, to her horror, that she has descended from a pilgrim on the Mayflower.
00:00:40.780How quickly does the oppressed become the oppressor? All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:01:45.220That's epicwill.com slash Walsh. Today, House Bill 1, called the Protecting Children from Gender
00:01:51.620Mutilation Act, finally passed the Tennessee House of Representatives. It's legislation that will ban
00:01:56.360doctors from giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children or performing gender,
00:02:01.940quote-unquote, gender reassignment surgeries on children. This law, which will soon be signed by the
00:02:06.460governor and then officially enacted, will actively save kids from one of the most sinister forms of
00:02:12.560child abuse the world has ever known. Laws, just like it, are being passed all across the country,
00:02:17.020which means not only that countless children will be protected from this evil, but also
00:02:20.820that the cultural tide is turning in a very real and measurable way. And that's
00:02:25.900not something that happens by accident. It's true, as the saying goes, that culture is upstream from
00:02:31.700politics. And so this bill in Tennessee and others around the country are in large part a response to
00:02:37.240cultural changes. And those cultural changes are not incidental, but rather the direct result of work
00:02:43.440that has been done by many people in many places, including us here, of course, at The Daily Wire.
00:02:48.420As for myself, you know that I've been fighting against gender ideology for many years, yet for
00:02:52.920much of that time, fighting, like it does so often for me, for much of that time, fighting meant
00:02:58.300simply, you know, talking about it. And there is value in talking about things, of course, but
00:03:03.380our problem as conservatives is that too often, we just leave it there. We talk and talk and talk,
00:03:09.840and we're in the talking phase the whole time. And when that doesn't work, we talk some more.
00:03:14.780It feels fruitless after a while, and it is, if there's no escalation, no next phase. Talk is
00:03:21.340impotent if it isn't coupled with action. And so a couple of years ago, I decided that it was time
00:03:26.320for action. And a short time later, we published Johnny the Walrus. You know, we've had a lot of
00:03:30.080fun with the very hilarious fact that I'm a bestselling LGBT children's author. And the book
00:03:34.360itself is funny and meant to be, but it also has a serious purpose. It's an actual children's book
00:03:39.380meant for children, which has now been read by and to many children, and which is supposed to be
00:03:45.220an antidote to the gender ideology and indoctrination that pervades the children's section in nearly every
00:03:51.000bookstore in America. The book would go on to sell over 100,000 copies in a few months.
00:03:56.260We were not the first conservatives to publish a children's book with a quote-unquote conservative
00:04:00.600outlook on a current issue, but ours was certainly at least among the most successful in that category.
00:04:06.720Now, when the book was published, we had already begun filming What is a Woman? And in January of 2022,
00:04:12.200though the movie wasn't complete yet, we had filmed enough to be sure that we had something
00:04:16.820significant on our hands. And that's when I announced publicly that 2022 would be the year
00:04:22.040when we wage an all-out assault on gender ideology. And I promised that we would be dealing
00:04:27.500at some major blows that year. And I wanted to call the shot so that people would know that this
00:04:33.380is all part of a plan. I wanted our allies to know that. I wanted our enemies to know that.
00:04:38.040That month, my episode of Dr. Phil was released and went viral a few months later. What is a woman
00:04:41.860came out, took the country by storm. And then in the fall, with all the momentum we had built up,
00:04:45.640we set out to expose and shut down Vanderbilt's child mutilation clinic. A few weeks after that
00:04:50.340report, clinic was shut down. We're holding a rally in the state capitol. Thousands of people
00:04:55.140were there. Several lawmakers attended the rally, announced that they would work on legislation to
00:04:59.760ban the practice in Tennessee. And this week, that bill passed and now awaits the governor's signature.
00:05:05.500While similar bills work their way through the legislatures in many other states,
00:05:09.260or in some cases have now been passed. Now, lots of people on the right talk about fighting
00:05:14.740and call themselves fighters. But when I say that we're fighting here at the Daily Wire,
00:05:19.080this is what I mean. And of course, none of this is possible without our members. The films,
00:05:24.080the books, the investigative work, the rallies, everything else. Can't do any of that or achieve
00:05:29.060any of the victories without people who support us and support our work. And by supporting it,
00:05:34.460contribute to it. So I use the word we when I talk about all these things, because this truly is a
00:05:40.160we operation. Like I said already, I was talking about this for many years, but only talking.
00:05:44.640I can talk on my own. I don't need anybody else for that. I can talk all day. But I needed the
00:05:49.660Daily Wire and all of you to actually do all of these things. That's why your membership is so
00:05:54.320important. And this work becomes all the more important as the other side continues its own
00:06:00.540escalation. So for example, there's another bill soon to be passed here in Tennessee, which would
00:06:05.580outlaw sexual performances for children. This would have the effect of primarily banning
00:06:11.580family, quote unquote, family friendly drag shows. And the reason that I say it would primarily ban
00:06:16.480those is that drag queens are the primary ones who are most eager and insistent on performing in front
00:06:23.260of kids, which is all the more reason. So it's a little bit like if I said that stealing is illegal
00:06:30.900and that primarily affects kleptomaniacs. Well, it's not a bill that says only kleptomaniacs can't
00:06:37.940steal. But if you have a compulsion to steal, then in a certain way, you might say that you're more
00:06:44.000affected by that bill. But that's because of you. That's a you problem. It's your own fault.
00:06:49.460And it's the same thing here. So the drag queens who feel targeted by a bill that won't let them
00:06:55.180sexualize children. Well, if it targets you, that's only because you have this apparently by
00:07:02.220your own confession, this special compulsion to engage in that kind of behavior, which is all the
00:07:09.220more reason why you shouldn't be allowed to. But a leftist activist and drag queen who goes by the
00:07:14.020name of Bella DuBall addressed a crowd here in Tennessee a few days ago. And he had his own
00:07:20.960suggestion for how the opponents of this bill ought to respond. Leftists on social media have
00:07:26.300applauded this speech, called it defiant and brave. And it is at least one of those things,
00:07:32.600the former that is. Let's watch. This is an attempt to erase drag in Tennessee.
00:07:40.800This bill will further harm trans people who are literally just living their lives.
00:07:47.240I need you to contact your house representative and tell them this will not stand. Urge them to
00:07:56.460both know, because if they don't, this will make public pride illegal this year. Now, if you don't
00:08:03.540know, we've been having public drag in Tennessee for over 50 years. And pride began to commemorate the
00:08:10.220events of Stonewall. Back in Stonewall, we weren't allowed to do drag. It was criminalized. And so what
00:08:16.680happened when the cops came in and tried to beat us down, we picked up them bricks and sent them packing.
00:08:23.940The original pride was a riot. And if this year we need to remind them that we will fight for our
00:08:32.100liberation. 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.
00:08:56.300Thank 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.
00:09:08.280So 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
00:09:15.540important grooming is to this groomer. He would rather kill than be deprived of his right to sexualize small
00:09:21.600children. But why is this so important to him? Why can't he just be satisfied to perform his whole
00:09:29.800weird and depraved routine in front of adults behind closed doors? There was no movement to outlaw drag until you brought
00:09:35.700children into it. So why can't you just leave them out of it? The answer is partly that they get a sexual
00:09:42.280thrill, apparently, out of cross-dressing and dancing for kids. It's part of the fetish for them. And they will
00:09:49.360kill to protect their fetish because their fetish is their whole identity. It's all they have. It's all they are.
00:09:53.720That's all they've chosen to be. The other answer is that drag shows for kids are part of their master
00:10:00.980plan for indoctrinating and desensitizing the youngest generations. They can't convince the kids to enjoy
00:10:06.940this stuff, but they can condition them to accept sexual perversion as normal. And the sooner they're
00:10:14.640exposed to it, the easier that is to do it. That's a large part of the point. The third part of the
00:10:19.960explanation, this is an essential thing to understand if you're trying to figure out why these people
00:10:23.660would threaten to murder others because you're not going to let them strip for children.
00:10:28.640The other part is simply that they are raging narcissists who have never been told no until now.
00:10:35.880We have been a disastrously permissive culture, convinced that the worst thing we can ever say
00:10:40.940to anyone, especially an LGBT activist, is no. And now they've become convinced that they have the
00:10:49.060right to never be told no because they've never been told no. Gender ideology,
00:10:53.660LGBT activism, is all just sexualized narcissism anyway. They've made narcissism their entire
00:11:01.040worldview. And they're reacting as any narcissist does when you tell him, no, you can't do that.
00:11:08.120You cannot do whatever you want. There are rules you will follow. It doesn't matter if you don't like
00:11:12.660it. Your desires do not supersede the law, whether the laws of man or of God. Your desires do not
00:11:20.480supersede either. They can't handle this news. They don't know what to do with it.
00:11:26.900Keep in mind, these people honestly believe that they have the right not just to be tolerated,
00:11:31.020but to be celebrated. I've made this observation many times, but don't take it from me.
00:11:37.580Here's a trans HHS official, Rachel Levine, in a resurfaced video that went viral this week,
00:11:42.520stating this point explicitly. Listen.
00:11:46.780You know, what I like to say is, you know, in terms of diversity, I mean, diversity is so powerful
00:11:52.320for any organization and diversity in all of its different aspects, including for sexual and gender
00:11:58.220minorities. And, you know, you don't want to have a tolerant environment. You know, gee, thanks for
00:12:04.160tolerating me. I really appreciate that. And, you know, an accepting environment is good, but you really
00:12:09.800want to work on it on a welcoming and even a celebratory environment for diversity in all of
00:12:15.220its aspects, including for LGBTQ individuals. And so, you know, Hershey approached that.
00:12:22.380We must celebrate him, he tells us. Long gone are the days of leave us alone, let us have our privacy.
00:12:28.060That was always a bait and switch, obviously, because now actually to leave them alone would be an attack
00:12:32.900on them. That's an attack. It is your obligation to not leave them alone, but rather to lift them on your
00:12:39.520shoulders like Rudy at the end of the movie and parade them around while the crowd cheers.
00:12:45.260This demand for celebration is, again, partly a tactic, but it's also a sincere expression of their
00:12:50.780overwhelming, suffocating narcissism. For people who demand celebration and who claim the right to do
00:12:59.480literally anything they want, up to and including holding sex shows for toddlers, is it any wonder that
00:13:04.980they react with such demonic fury when we not only don't celebrate, but actively fight against their
00:13:11.420agenda? Yesterday, the trans activist Aaron Reid published a tweet thread which garnered 40,000 likes
00:13:18.180in which he claims that the laws being passed in places like Tennessee and elsewhere represent an
00:13:25.800actual genocide against trans people. And he meant it literally, even provided the UN definition of
00:13:31.520genocide to prove his case. But of course, the definition disproves his case, but that's not the
00:13:36.460way he sees it. It's not meant as hyperbole when these people talk this way. They actually see it as
00:13:43.600equivalent to genocide if anyone tells them no. If any limitations are placed on the trans activist or the
00:13:50.640LGBT activist at all, if any attempt is made to control any of their behavior, it is genocide.
00:13:57.480Murdering an entire group of people and tossing their bodies in a mass grave is on the same moral
00:14:03.440playing field as telling Aaron Reid that he can't strip in front of kids or chemically castrate
00:14:09.120a 12-year-old. Indeed, calling Aaron Reid him, as I just did, in the first place is genocide,
00:14:17.180an act of evil indistinguishable from the Holocaust. This is what they honestly believe.
00:14:22.600And it's what happens when self-obsession becomes identity and identity becomes religion.
00:14:30.320And their rage only increases all the more as they realize that this kind of hysterical yammering,
00:14:35.780along with the threats of violence and the attempts at deplatforming and shouting bigot and labeling and
00:14:40.720all that, as they begin to realize that this isn't going to work anymore, it did work for a long time,
00:14:45.300but it doesn't work anymore. Because they're now dealing with adversaries who cannot be manipulated
00:14:50.560or cowed into silence that easily, or at all. And that's why I will conclude here by assuring you,
00:14:59.380you, Aaron Reid, and you, the drag queen threatening violence, and the rest of your ilk, that we aren't
00:15:05.120even remotely done. Okay? This is honestly only the beginning. We've got a lot more in store for you.
00:15:13.140I promised you a year ago that we were going to war here, and I kept that promise. I'll keep this one,
00:15:17.360two. 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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00:16:22.140details. We have to start with this. I don't know if it's the most important story in the country right
00:16:26.680now. I mean, it's not, but it is at least the funniest. And so you know all about Sam Britton.
00:16:32.760He's the former Biden energy official who liked to cross-dress and called himself they-them and
00:16:40.000was also into bestiality role play and all kinds of other sick and insane things that none of us
00:16:45.720needed or wanted to know about, but we do now. And he's also the guy who got fired after stealing
00:16:51.920luggage from what we thought was only two women on two separate occasions stole their luggage right
00:17:00.340out of the airport out of the baggage claim. Now, I told you at the time that, you know, this guy,
00:17:06.980pretty clear to me, stealing the luggage, he's not stealing it because he wants the luggage, right?
00:17:12.580Nobody needs that much baggage, especially someone like him who already comes with so much baggage
00:17:17.160to begin with. But it's very clear that he is doing this and he's targeting women because it's all part,
00:17:23.420again, of the sick, twisted fetish. He has a thing for stealing and wearing women's clothing.
00:17:28.440That was clear to me. And that brings us to this tweet from a woman named Asya Kamsin,
00:17:35.020I think. We'll just call her Asya. Hopefully she's okay with that. Here's the tweet. And
00:17:40.600let me see, can we pull the tweet up? There it is.
00:17:45.180So my name is Asya, Tanzanian fashion designer based in Houston, Texas, USA. I lost my bag in 2018
00:17:52.260in the DC airport. Recently, I heard the news on Fox News about Sam Britton luggage issue.
00:17:56.980Surprisingly, I found his images where he wore my custom made outfit, which was in the lost bag
00:18:03.740in 2018. And then you can see the dated photo of her in the dress in 2018. And then you also can see
00:18:13.340Britton in the exact same outfit. So it's a rather distinct outfit. It's very distinct because she
00:18:20.320made, she custom made the outfit. She's a fashion designer. And her luggage goes missing in 2018,
00:18:24.860four years ago. And then Britton turns up wearing her custom clothing. You know, it's pretty close
00:18:31.060to a case closed on this thing. So what this means is that, there he is. And apparently he's also
00:18:38.440wearing this wrong. He's wearing it, I think he's wearing it backwards or something. He doesn't even
00:18:41.600know how to wear the outfit. What this means is that Britton, the baggage bandit, has been patrolling
00:18:49.820our airports for years. He's been lurking in the baggage claim area, like some kind of predatory,
00:18:56.700you know, forest creature on the prowl. This is like when all the small dogs and cats in a neighborhood
00:19:02.440start going missing and you know that there must be a coyote in the woods. Except this coyote steals
00:19:07.180women's luggage and then parades around in their clothing. So when we say, here's what makes this
00:19:14.100so apt, is that when we say that these men are appropriating the female identity, well,
00:19:20.220he was literally doing that, right? I mean, we were saying that about Sam Britton when he was first
00:19:24.260hired and we were supposed to applaud him. And I know I said, many of the people said that he's
00:19:29.280making a mockery, he's appropriating womanhood and all the rest of it. We didn't realize how
00:19:33.540literally correct we were. He's actually stealing their clothing and putting it on.
00:19:38.040Yet nobody ever connected the dots. That's what's interesting. At least we don't think they did.
00:19:42.360You know, I like to imagine that there was maybe one detective somewhere out there who was at the
00:19:48.460station late one night, smoking cigarettes and drinking black coffee and pouring through all
00:19:52.640these missing baggage cases. And then, you know, he realized that it was all done by one man and
00:19:58.040that there was a criminal mastermind on the loose. And he had the bulletin board up with all the
00:20:02.320newspaper clippings and the, you know, and the, and the lines connecting them and all that. And he
00:20:07.460realized that it was Sam Britton the entire time. And he tried to make the arrest, but the brass
00:20:11.580at the station stopped him. That's what I like to imagine happened anyway. And if it didn't happen,
00:20:16.140then someone should make a movie where something like that does happen. All I know is that now,
00:20:23.740like we are seeing the beginning of a, of a new me too movement, except that in this case,
00:20:30.280it's just women coming forward because Sam Britton stole their baggage. It's going to be,
00:20:34.040it's a whole me too thing. Now, Sam Britton is the Harvey Weinstein of cross-dressing baggage
00:20:41.420thieves. He's the, uh, he's the Bill Cosby of baggage claim is Sam Britton. And I just hope
00:20:47.680that more women have the courage to speak out. It is like, it's, it all seriousness, it's pretty
00:20:53.200disturbing too. Can you imagine that you lose your baggage and then, and then this creep,
00:20:58.580then this creep turns up wearing it. Um, so stay tuned more on that. I will say if you're a woman,
00:21:09.000if you're a woman who has lost your baggage at any point in the last decade, anywhere within the
00:21:14.320continental United States, or probably, or probably anywhere else in the globe, we don't know how far
00:21:18.220this conspiracy stretches, but if you were in that category, I would start looking through,
00:21:23.180well, let me stop myself. I was going to say, I would start Googling images of Sam Britton to
00:21:28.840see if you can find him wearing your clothing. But if you do that, you're going to see a lot of
00:21:32.220other things about Sam Britton that you don't want to see. So nevermind. You know what? Maybe
00:21:36.300it's better just not to know. You probably don't want to know. And all you could do now is move on
00:21:41.400with your life. All right. WKBN in Ohio reports, former president Donald Trump spoke to those in East
00:21:47.020Palestine after a short stop at a little Beaver Creek on Wednesday, telling locals, you are not
00:21:51.740forgotten. Trump landed Wednesday afternoon at the Youngston Warren Regional Airport. He met briefly
00:21:57.160with local leaders at Little Beaver Creek before making his remarks to the media. Details of his
00:22:02.200visit had not been released to the public in advance, but several of Trump supporters were in
00:22:05.900the area to greet him with cheers. Some other supporters chanted, we love you, Trump, at USA.
00:22:11.340Trump spoke to a small group of local leaders, first responders, and the media at the local fire
00:22:14.780station. He said he's donating thousands of bottles of cleaning supplies and pallets of bottled water to the
00:22:19.500area that were collected through his Trump organizations. And he, you know, he walked around
00:22:24.320the town. He also went to McDonald's and bought McDonald's for all the firefighters and first
00:22:28.980responders there. And he, as mentioned, he gave a speech. We have a little bit of the, of that speech.
00:22:33.840Let's listen. To the people of East Palestine and to the nearby communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania,
00:22:40.200we have told you loud and clear, you are not forgotten. You are not forgotten. We stand with you,
00:22:46.160we pray for you, and we will stay with you in your fight to help answer. And the accountability that
00:22:52.340you deserve, we'll have that accountability. It'll all be out there very clearly.
00:22:59.220Now, while he's giving this speech and he's in Ohio, Biden is in Ukraine. And this is the
00:23:06.240advantage that Trump has. It's one of the, one of the key differences between him and Biden,
00:23:10.400really between him and many in DC, if not almost everyone in DC, is that, and you can see this in
00:23:17.960the visit, that he connects with normal Americans. He just, he does. And the media has been perplexed
00:23:23.680by this for years. They don't like it. They, they've tried all, they've tried all different kinds of
00:23:29.080methods to sever this bond between normal Americans and this connection between normal Americans and
00:23:35.580Trump. But, but really, well, I said that they've tried, they've tried many different strategies.
00:23:41.120Really, it's just the one, the one strategy, which is to yell at everybody, to yell at everyone and call
00:23:46.280you a bigot and call Trump a bigot. And that's the only strategy they've used. Surprisingly, that hasn't
00:23:51.480worked. But he connects with normal Americans. And that has a lot to do with the fact that he doesn't
00:23:58.200have contempt for them the way that Biden does and the way that Pete Buttigieg does and all of these
00:24:05.400DC swamp creatures do. And, you know, I've made this point many times about Trump that you, you look at,
00:24:13.240he's, he's seen as this hostile figure that's always attacking people and getting into fights and all the
00:24:19.240rest of it. Of course, that's part of his appeal. But you look at everyone that Trump has attacked.
00:24:24.340Okay. And it's a long list. Oftentimes he's attacking in response to being attacked, but it's a, it's a
00:24:29.640long list. Um, but it's almost always other politicians, people in media, uh, celebrities,
00:24:38.440public figures. That's like, that's everyone. That's the entire list. It's all people in that world.
00:24:44.720Now Biden, on the other hand, and the Democrats, they attack Americans. Okay. They attack normal people,
00:24:52.480just citizens. Labeling them bigots and racists. Uh, you know, is the justice department infamously
00:25:01.700labeling parents at a PTA meetings and school board meetings, terrorists. Trump never does that
00:25:10.660because he doesn't actually hate normal people. Whereas Biden really does. These people really do.
00:25:17.160Um, and it, it, it turns out that when you have basic respect for people and you treat them like
00:25:28.220human beings, they respond in kind. Shockingly. Now, Pete Buttigieg also showed up. Uh, he showed up
00:25:35.120today. So it's a day later. He finally comes and we have one clip. I haven't watched this clip yet,
00:25:39.440but he's confronted by a reporter. Uh, and let's watch this. Sorry, Pete. I just have a quick
00:25:45.760question. Uh, the American public doesn't seem to be very confident in your ability to do your job.
00:25:50.820Will you be resigning anytime soon? I'm not here for politics. I'm here to make sure the community
00:25:54.780can get what they need. Will you apologize for the response, for the slow response, taking your time?
00:26:00.780One of the big things. Let's, let's go in here and get away from me. Nope. No apology.
00:26:10.300Mary, why did it take you an entire universe to get here to respond to East Palestine? Will you
00:26:16.080apologize to the residents of this city? Uh, he's not there for politics. Really? Well, what are you
00:26:22.320there? Well, first of all, of course you're there for politics. That's that, that's, uh, the only
00:26:27.580reason that you're there. I mean, are you there because they actually need you for the cleanup?
00:26:32.240Um, and if they did, you're three weeks late, which is why Buttigieg showing up three weeks late.
00:26:38.460It's really the worst possible thing, especially a day after Trump. Okay. Because you're, you're,
00:26:43.380you're coming in a day after him and the optics are that you only came because Trump came, which is,
00:26:49.300those are the optics. And that's also the reality. He came because Trump went and he also went because,
00:26:54.120uh, because he's, he's been harangued and, and, uh, yelled at. And finally he said, fine, I'll go.
00:27:01.020Um, but I think that just from a pure optics and politics standpoint, showing up three weeks late
00:27:08.020is pretty much the worst of all possible worlds. Uh, you're better off not going at all. If you're
00:27:13.860going to go three weeks late, you're better just not going because then now that's not a good option.
00:27:18.520Best option is to be there on the scene shortly after to show that you actually care about this
00:27:25.320and that this is on your radar. Because yeah, again, it, nobody thinks that Pete Buttigieg is
00:27:30.480actually practically needed there to do anything any more than, than Trump is like Trump's not there
00:27:36.500to help with the cleanup and to clean up all the, uh, train cars that are still laying all over the
00:27:40.960place. But the, the practical benefit of anyone showing up, especially someone who's currently in
00:27:49.540the government is to send a message to the people there in the town that you are, that you care about
00:27:55.740this, that you're aware of it, that you're working on it, that it's on your priority list.
00:28:02.680And instead for three weeks, the people in that town have felt totally abandoned by the federal
00:28:07.780government because they have been. So what, again, what's the benefit of showing up three
00:28:12.660weeks late? Everybody knows you're only there because you have to be. Um, it's, it's, you can't
00:28:19.920pretend that it was an urgent priority because it took you three weeks, but the fact that you're going
00:28:25.520at all now, it's just, it just advertises that, uh, you know, it's, it's low down the list of
00:28:29.600priorities. If you're, if, if you're, if it's, if three weeks have passed and no one from the
00:28:34.320Biden administration, uh, has showed up, then it's a really bad situation politically, but your best
00:28:41.900option, I think then is to not go at all and then make some excuse about how, well, we're not, we've
00:28:47.460decided, we decided not to do that because that would be political showmanship and, uh, we would
00:28:52.040be getting in the way and it wouldn't be appropriate. It like make some kind of claim
00:28:54.880like that. I mean, total, totally bogus, but at least you could go with that, um, excuse.
00:29:00.380That excuse is out the window because you did still show up and of course, claiming that, uh,
00:29:07.720they don't want to make it into a political theater that, that, that wouldn't, that, that
00:29:10.520wouldn't work anyway because, uh, Biden and Biden officials, they will show up at the scene
00:29:16.240of tragedies. If it's a tragedy, if it's a tragedy, a catastrophe that they find politically
00:29:22.100useful to them. I mean, they'll send, they'll send the vice president to a funeral of someone
00:29:30.140that no one in the administration remotely knew if they think it's politically useful
00:29:34.600to them, but they figured that this was not politically useful. I said this from the very
00:29:39.500beginning where some people upset about it, but it's just, it's obviously true that this
00:29:45.100happened in a, this happened to a small town in Ohio. These are white working class people
00:29:49.700for the most part. And so they just don't rate very high. They're, they're, Biden administration
00:29:55.140doesn't care about them. Um, they're not in the base and they figured that it's just not like
00:30:02.520that. That's white working class. People are exactly the kind of people that if you're in DC,
00:30:08.080if you're in the media, you, you ignore and they've gotten used to ignoring them and they
00:30:11.500figured they could do that here, but it didn't work out that way for them. I wanted to play this
00:30:19.060clip from CNN. Um, CNN had this report on the problem of there not being enough black doctors
00:30:27.800play a little bit of this right now, fewer than 6% of doctors in the U S identifies black or
00:30:34.920African-American. That's despite the fact that the community makes up 12% of the country's total
00:30:40.280population. And that's raising concerns about the impact on public health. CNN health reporter,
00:30:45.120Jacqueline Howard joins us now. So Jacqueline, what is being done to rectify this? That's the thing
00:30:50.300beyond a more needs to be done to make sure that our physician workforce here in the U S reflects the
00:30:54.960diversity seen among patients. Now, what has been done so far, we've seen more efforts to get STEM
00:31:00.060programs in grade schools at the medical school level. We've seen more mentorship programs,
00:31:04.900particularly for students of color. But when you look at the physician workforce right now,
00:31:10.180active doctors at this moment, we're still seeing 5.7% are black or African-American. And that's
00:31:17.100compared with, as Victor said, 12% of the U S population. When you look at native Americans,
00:31:22.860less than 1% of doctors are native American. And that's compared with up to 2% of patients.
00:31:28.720When you look at Hispanic or Latino physicians, 6.9% are doctors compared with up to 18% of the U S
00:31:36.900population. So those differences are what's concerning here. And experts say we need to do
00:31:41.440more to make sure our doctor workforce reflects the diversity seen among patients. Yeah. We need
00:31:47.500to do more because the research shows, and we've discussed this before the benefits of a more diverse
00:31:52.520workforce, uh, often, um, sometimes, uh, doctors will dismiss the concerns or symptoms of a certain
00:32:00.900demographic. Uh, explain what the studies show. Exactly, Victor. And research shows that when
00:32:06.700we have a more diverse physician workforce, there's more understanding and more trust between the
00:32:12.180patient and the doctor. If the doctor has an understanding of the patient's cultural experiences,
00:32:17.880cultural background, lived experiences, especially when it comes to racism or discrimination.
00:32:22.760Okay. Yeah. If you want to treat someone's medical condition, you need to have a, you need to have an
00:32:26.580appreciation of their lived experience of racism, right? If somebody has, uh, I don't know,
00:32:31.360a brain tumor, uh, well, how, how is a doctor going to treat the brain tumor if he doesn't first
00:32:37.960understand the lived experience of racism? You know, you got to take that into account.
00:32:42.440That's why if you go in and you have a brain or any kind of medical condition,
00:32:45.360you know, doctor, I have diabetes and they'll, they'll ask you, well, what's your lived experience?
00:32:50.000Have you experienced racism? Tell me about your lived experience.
00:32:54.500This is what we hear from. There's a couple of points about this. First of all,
00:32:57.840you always see the left's elitism with these kinds of things, but they're worried about
00:33:03.300diversity among, anytime you hear a report about a problem of, uh, there not being enough diversity
00:33:10.160in a certain workforce, it's always going to be, oh, uh, it needs to be more diversity among doctors
00:33:16.660and surgeons. There needs to be more diversity among, uh, you know, Hollywood actors. There needs
00:33:23.320to be more diversity and with NFL head coaches, right? It's always these like high paying,
00:33:28.780very visible jobs, the kind of jobs that they being the elites respect because this is it because
00:33:36.840these are the elites themselves. Um, but they, they never do that. They never do this with working
00:33:43.300class jobs. If you've noticed, they never, they never, they never, you never see a report like this
00:33:48.460and they're bringing up some, you know, a working class profession and say, well, we need more
00:33:53.260diversity. This needs to reflect the diversity of the, uh, of, uh, of, of the community.
00:34:00.940Or I should say they very, they very rarely do that. And when they do do something like that,
00:34:07.480because we did hear from Pete Buttigieg a couple of, a couple of weeks ago about how there's not
00:34:11.200enough, uh, diversity among construction workers. So if they do bring it up, they, it can be
00:34:16.720guaranteed. They bring it up in a way that's totally divorced, divorced from reality because
00:34:20.220there's already a lot of racial diversity among construction workers, but even then it's very,
00:34:23.080it's very limited. So for example, um, how many female roofers are there? Like in, in what sense does
00:34:34.640the, does the roofing profession reflect the, uh, demographics of the country? Certainly if you break
00:34:44.980it down along gender lines, it's not reflective at all. Same for, let's say trash collectors
00:34:52.020or plumbers. Definitely. If you break it down along gender lines, not going to be not, not going,
00:35:00.380not going, it's not going to reflect, you know, all the people that are working on roofs,
00:35:04.320that workforce does not really reflect, uh, the identities of, of the people that are living under
00:35:10.560those roofs. They're not as worried about that though, are they? Right? My second question is,
00:35:19.600if you are going into surgery, let's say for, for anything, um, what do you want to know about
00:35:29.460your doctor? What's going to make you feel, feel better? What's going to make you feel more confident?
00:35:34.060Is it his skin color? Like, what do you want to know? Do you, do you, what would you, what do you,
00:35:41.440what do you want to be sure of? Do you want to be sure that he, um, got into this position because
00:35:47.200he's the best of the best and because he got there by merit, right? And he's, he's the best qualified
00:35:54.800based on his merit, based on his skill, based on all that, his experience, his training. Do you want
00:36:01.100to know that right as your eyelids start to get droopy from the anesthetic? Do you want to have
00:36:05.560that thought in your head that these people, they're there because they're the best and that's
00:36:09.500it. And they, and they, they earn that spot. And so I'm in good hands or do you want to think, wow,
00:36:15.560this is a very diverse operating room. Is that going to make you feel good as you drift away?
00:36:22.520Potentially for good, you know, to not wake up again, because that's, what's going to happen more
00:36:27.100and more as diversity in these kinds of professions is prioritized over just simply who's
00:36:32.880the best. Speaking of workforces, Daily Wire has this report. Amazon employees are furious as the
00:36:40.080company rolls back remote work arrangements with some threatening to quit and others drafting
00:36:44.560petitions in reaction to a recent announcement that they must report to the office at least three
00:36:48.780times per week. Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to employees on Friday, but the company believes
00:36:54.800teams tend to find ways to work through hard and complex trade-offs faster when they're in the
00:37:00.660same physical location. Shortly after the announcement, hundreds of Amazon staffers started
00:37:04.680joining an internal Slack channel called Remote Advocacy, where they were, there were more than
00:37:11.04014,000 members of the channel as of Tuesday. Nearly 80% of the workers of the channel claim that they
00:37:15.320would start to look for another job because of the new policy. So if they had to actually go to work
00:37:19.420physically, then they would look for another job because this is a deep, this is a, you know,
00:37:23.580this is an affront against them. One disgruntled employee wrote, this is going to be absolute
00:37:27.940chaos and make everyone's work distracted for probably a quarter, maybe longer. It's hard to
00:37:32.000be productive with so much uncertainty injected into our lives. The shift towards more traditional
00:37:36.040work arrangements, however, comes as Amazon seeks to downsize amid macroeconomic tumult and a decline
00:37:41.800in consumer demand that followed the lockdown-induced recession. Amazon dismissed some 18,000 employees
00:37:47.760over the past several months. Employees in the Slack channel nevertheless drafted petitions against the
00:37:53.440return to the office, to office policy. Says, we, the undersigned Amazonians, are responding by
00:37:59.820petitioning for the right to choose where to work, including remote locations. The petition included
00:38:05.980survey data which found 56% of Amazon employees desire monthly sync-ups in the office, while 31% want to
00:38:11.980work in the office one or two days per week. You know, there's, when I hear about these controversies
00:38:18.800about, you know, there's still these companies and corporations that have not gotten back to working
00:38:25.840in the office. And so there's these employees that think they have a right to stay home and work from
00:38:32.360home. It reminds me of this Louis C.K. bit where he talks about his first experience years ago using
00:38:38.340Wi-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,
00:38:45.220cause it's, it's a brand new thing that they just had. It goes away and the guy's mad about it.
00:38:50.580And Louis C.K. points out that like, how, how quickly does the world owe you something that you didn't
00:38:55.840even know existed until 10 seconds ago? And I think that remote work is a, is a little bit like that.
00:39:01.440Where people feel entitled to work and earn a living without ever even leaving their beds.
00:39:08.000And that's, that's, that's an option that didn't exist until 10 seconds ago. Now you can point out
00:39:15.740all you want is people often do in this conversation that the nine to five job, you know, leaving your
00:39:21.700house and driving across town or to another town, or maybe going to another state in some cases to go
00:39:27.880work in a different building for, for eight to 10 hours a day and coming home. You can point out that
00:39:32.020that is also a comparatively new phenomenon. That's an invention of the industrial age.
00:39:37.940And that's certainly the case. Sure. And there was a time when family units, um, in effect,
00:39:45.500you know, like they, they didn't, they didn't have to leave their homestead or their home in order to
00:39:51.820work. But, but if you go back before the invention of the 95, they weren't just sitting around on their
00:40:00.160couch all day. Okay. They had to leave. They were still doing work, uh, you know, go out and work
00:40:07.200in the fields or something. So the idea that you should be able to earn a living without ever even
00:40:14.380leaving your bedroom, that you should be able to do that, that you have like the right to do that.
00:40:20.900That is as modern as it possibly can get. And to me, it's pretty clear that, uh, I mean, does it,
00:40:28.520does it, we can talk about whether it helps, you know, is it, is it good for your job? Is it good
00:40:35.600for the company you work for when everyone lives all scattered throughout the country and they're not
00:40:41.160physically working together? Is that good for, you know, does it, does it make you work better? Does it,
00:40:46.260does it improve the, the, the kind of work that you're doing? Is it better for, uh, for especially
00:40:51.080things like creative collaboration? I think obviously not. But then there's also the question
00:40:55.500of, is this good, is it just, is it a good thing for the country? You know, to take an, to, to isolate
00:41:02.420people even more than they already are and to take yet another, um, another piece of like human to
00:41:11.840human in-person interaction and to take that away and to replace it with screens? Is that,
00:41:17.480is that actually, is that a good development for society? It's hard to imagine how anyone could
00:41:22.140argue that it is. So get back to work. If you work for Amazon, that's what I'm trying to say.