The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1120 - The Biden Administration Boasts About Its Rampant Anti-White Bigotry

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the White House is becoming less and less white, in fact,

00:00:03.880 and this is a fact we're supposed to celebrate.

00:00:05.540 We'll discuss the left's obsession with diversity and how diversity is really a code word for

00:00:09.780 anti-white bigotry.

00:00:11.240 Also, Ron DeSantis orders the execution of a twice-convicted murderer who stabbed a young 0.97

00:00:15.660 woman to death. 0.99

00:00:16.720 According to the media, DeSantis is the real bad guy in that story somehow.

00:00:20.640 Plus, Liam Neeson has his own Me Too moment while appearing on The View.

00:00:24.880 A new study shows that hormone therapy for trans-identified people is having a disastrous

00:00:29.040 impact on their health.

00:00:30.380 Who would have possibly thought that's the case?

00:00:32.660 In our Daily Cancellation, a teacher tries to explain why parents shouldn't have any real

00:00:36.460 say over what their kids are taught.

00:00:37.960 All that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:36.460 You may believe that the Biden administration has been nothing but a parade of incompetence

00:01:43.140 and catastrophe.

00:01:44.160 You may look around and see financial devastation, inflation, crumbling infrastructure, a non-existent

00:01:48.680 border, rampant crime, an epidemic of drug overdoses, a failing education system, our

00:01:53.060 unnecessary entanglements and conflicts overseas, which may lead to a global nuclear war potentially.

00:01:58.180 And all of this while Chinese spy balloons float casually over our heads.

00:02:02.260 And you may, after surveying this rather discouraging scene, come to the conclusion that the people

00:02:06.960 leading our country have performed in a manner that may be described as less than adequate.

00:02:12.220 You may think all of that and you may even be right.

00:02:14.760 In fact, you are right.

00:02:15.540 But the White House is here to tell you that none of that matters because what really matters

00:02:19.620 is diversity.

00:02:21.220 And when it comes to the diversity contest, they will take second place to no one. 0.69

00:02:27.700 Indeed, White House Press Secretary Karen Jean-Pierre, herself a woman who checks multiple

00:02:31.420 diversity boxes, took another opportunity to tout the administration's diversity record.

00:02:35.880 And this was in response to a question from the ever vigilant press and the press that is

00:02:40.160 always focused on what the American people care about.

00:02:42.840 And it was a question about the appointment of the next Federal Reserve vice chairman or chair

00:02:47.720 woman or chair person or chair them. 0.98

00:02:49.660 And the reporter wanted to know whether they would be looking for diverse applicants, because

00:02:53.980 obviously it's very important that the Federal Reserve vice chair person represents a marginalized

00:02:59.040 group.

00:02:59.940 This will be a source of inspiration for all the people in that group who had always dreamed

00:03:04.700 since childhood of becoming the Federal Reserve vice chair person.

00:03:08.420 And if you're in such a group and had such a dream as so many have, then this response from

00:03:13.740 Karen Jean-Pierre should be very encouraging.

00:03:16.280 Listen.

00:03:16.400 But I want to take the opportunity to lay out what how diverse the president's cabinet has

00:03:22.840 been, how diverse the president's administration has been.

00:03:25.080 The cabinet is majority people of color for the first time in history.

00:03:28.820 The cabinet is majority female for the first time in history.

00:03:31.860 A majority of White House senior staff identify as female.

00:03:34.820 Forty percent of White House senior staff identify as part of the racially diverse communities.

00:03:40.260 And a record seven assistants to the president are openly LGBTQ plus.

00:03:44.180 So, again, this is something that the president prides himself on, that he actually has taken

00:03:49.560 action to show the diversity of this administration.

00:03:54.000 You know, just an impromptu question from the press that she happened to have a written

00:03:58.420 speech ready for with, you know, all the statistics and the exact number of racial minorities that

00:04:04.940 are in the Biden administration.

00:04:05.680 She just happened to have that on hand for this question from the press.

00:04:08.680 And by the way, maybe she really did.

00:04:10.560 You know, I maybe she actually does have that information on him.

00:04:13.780 Maybe she just goes to every press conference and has all that information. 1.00

00:04:17.100 We've got 40 percent, you know, gay people.

00:04:19.820 We've got because that from the Biden administration's perspective, that could be an answer to any question

00:04:25.740 at all.

00:04:26.280 I mean, the question could be, what are we gonna do about the price of eggs?

00:04:28.740 Well, you know, here in the Biden administration, we have here's the number of polysexuals we have. 0.94

00:04:34.480 They just they see that as the somehow the solution to every problem. 0.82

00:04:39.860 So in other words, all that is to say, the most incompetent administration in American history

00:04:45.620 is also the most diverse.

00:04:48.460 Make of that what you will.

00:04:49.820 In fact, it's impossible to think of an example of an organization, institution, profession

00:04:55.400 that has become more effective as it has become more diverse.

00:05:00.600 There's lots of institutions we can think of that have become more, quote unquote, diverse.

00:05:05.100 But how many of them have been improved by that in any measurable way whatsoever?

00:05:10.860 We hear that diversity is our strength, but there isn't any evidence anywhere of diversity

00:05:17.460 producing anything that would qualify as strength.

00:05:20.560 In fact, what we see nearly across the board is institutional decline coinciding with the diversifying

00:05:27.680 of those same institutions.

00:05:30.000 Make of that what you will too.

00:05:33.020 But here's what you should make of it.

00:05:35.580 And it's this, that diversity as an end in itself will always produce decline as an end 0.55

00:05:43.140 in itself.

00:05:44.420 No institution, no community, no country will prosper by focusing on diversity for diversity's 1.00

00:05:51.560 sake.

00:05:51.820 Diversity, the sort that the Biden administration touts anyway, should be a byproduct, not an

00:05:58.480 aim.

00:05:58.960 In other words, if you recruit people because they're the most qualified, the most skilled,

00:06:04.340 the most effective, which is the only reason you should be recruiting anyone for anything

00:06:08.800 really.

00:06:10.640 And as a byproduct of that approach, you end up with a more, quote unquote, diverse organization,

00:06:16.340 then fine.

00:06:16.880 Though it would also be fine if the approach resulted in an organization that was predominantly

00:06:21.420 white or predominantly male, as long as by the end of it, the organization is best able 0.94

00:06:26.180 to accomplish whatever it's designed to accomplish, because that's what matters.

00:06:33.020 Okay?

00:06:33.440 Because, and then if you have that, the demographic makeup, whatever that happens to be, is good

00:06:38.640 because it was the result of a merit-based recruitment strategy.

00:06:42.540 But the problem is that diversity is rarely a byproduct in our society.

00:06:46.300 It is not organic.

00:06:47.880 It's not something that just happens.

00:06:50.180 It's always, almost always, engineered.

00:06:53.080 And engineered diversity is never good.

00:06:55.860 Engineered diversity is the work of bureaucrats who stand above, you know, the mass of common

00:07:00.880 people and declare from on high that certain races have exceeded their allotted percentages.

00:07:06.440 So other races must be shipped in and installed to fix the problem they have decided. 1.00

00:07:11.340 Now, all of this is arbitrary, and it's completely dehumanizing.

00:07:16.940 You know, you're taking away people's humanity, reducing them to statistics.

00:07:21.120 A white person is not a white person, according to the White House.

00:07:23.700 Because he's a faceless representative for his race, which is apparently running some sort

00:07:29.540 of surplus.

00:07:31.060 The supply exceeds the demand, as far as they're concerned, anyway.

00:07:35.180 And so we've got to clear out the stock and then restock with more valuable demographics,

00:07:40.600 is essentially the approach.

00:07:43.660 So this is essentially how our social engineers view the problem, which is only a problem in

00:07:48.060 the first place, because they've decided to call it a problem.

00:07:51.360 And notice also that the allotted percentages are not based on representation in the population.

00:07:58.700 See, the diversity proponents, they always say that institutions should reflect the communities

00:08:03.540 they serve.

00:08:04.180 We just heard that yesterday from CNN about the medical profession.

00:08:07.080 They were saying we need more black doctors because there are a lot of black patients and

00:08:10.120 it has to reflect, we have to reflect the diversity of the population. 0.98

00:08:15.300 Now, even that would be ridiculous and arbitrary.

00:08:17.220 There's no reason why every institution should reflect the racial makeup of the larger community 1.00

00:08:21.880 or nation.

00:08:22.560 Again, it should reflect whatever is the result of merit-based recruitment.

00:08:27.140 But this is especially the case when this demand for representation is only applied to industries

00:08:32.220 and organizations that the elites in our culture consider admirable or desirable or useful.

00:08:37.740 So, for example, only 10% of car mechanics are black, which is actually an underrepresentation

00:08:46.040 compared to the overall population.

00:08:48.260 But you rarely hear them raise that as a problem.

00:08:51.120 Because the people who raise these kinds of problems don't happen to respect car mechanics

00:08:55.260 or consider it to be a desirable profession.

00:08:58.300 In spite of the fact that car mechanics belong to one of the most important professions in existence

00:09:02.680 right now, because without them, modern society ceases to function, basically.

00:09:07.320 But when it comes to the desirable professions, the professions that the elites consider desirable

00:09:12.940 anyway, percentage-based representation, as ridiculous as that would be on its own, is not actually

00:09:19.620 what they're after, of course.

00:09:21.520 They say they want these institutions to reflect the diversity of the American people.

00:09:26.080 But if it did, that would mean that they would shoot for 13% black and 60% white. 0.58

00:09:33.980 If the White House really reflected the American people, it would not be, as Gene Perr says,

00:09:39.600 a majority people of color.

00:09:41.260 Because the populationism, that's not representation.

00:09:44.580 That is a considerable over-representation.

00:09:48.260 Yet, of course, over-representation is the actual goal.

00:09:51.640 Because diversity is not the actual goal.

00:09:53.840 Diversity is a smokescreen.

00:09:56.080 I mean, there's a reason why, these days, leftists have taken to, I'm sure you've noticed,

00:10:00.900 referring to diverse people.

00:10:03.740 Or rather, a diverse person.

00:10:07.060 So it's not just that the ethnic makeup of a group of people can be considered diverse.

00:10:12.720 It's an individual human being can be diverse.

00:10:16.640 You know, you could have a diverse person and then a non-diverse person.

00:10:20.180 This makes no sense from a definitional perspective, because diversity means variety and difference.

00:10:26.300 One individual cannot be a variety.

00:10:29.920 Collections of people can have variety.

00:10:32.220 Individuals in a vacuum cannot.

00:10:33.720 So what does it mean to describe a person as diverse?

00:10:37.700 Well, it means, obviously, that the person isn't white.

00:10:42.100 That's all it means.

00:10:43.960 And especially that the person isn't a white, straight male.

00:10:47.180 Diversity is code for non-white. 1.00

00:10:50.100 And so anytime they talk about making something more diverse, what they're saying is,

00:10:54.400 they want fewer white people, fewer males, and fewer straight people.

00:10:57.780 Now, I know we've grown accustomed to this kind of bigotry, 0.74

00:11:02.680 but we shouldn't fail to appreciate how twisted and ultimately terrifying it is

00:11:06.620 that the White House is openly boasting about discriminating against whites.

00:11:12.780 This is racial bigotry brought to the highest levels and paraded around in the open.

00:11:19.000 That's a very concerning development.

00:11:22.960 That's why our reaction to this sort of thing should no longer be, as it has been for so long,

00:11:27.780 to just scoff at it, you know, like it's a silly thing.

00:11:32.860 The goal to make institutions, especially governmental institutions, more diverse

00:11:36.960 is not merely a bunch of politically correct nonsense, though it is also that.

00:11:42.940 But it is mainly, you know, actively racist. 0.99

00:11:47.300 It is an actively racist campaign against whites and an actively sexist campaign against males.

00:11:53.380 It is a direct effort to marginalize a group of people

00:11:57.480 that the powers that be despise.

00:12:00.760 That's how we should see it.

00:12:02.440 Because that's what it is.

00:12:03.900 And we should react accordingly.

00:12:06.460 Any effort to make any institution less white and less male 0.99

00:12:09.880 is not only pointless and silly, but disgusting and morally repugnant. 0.98

00:12:14.780 As would be entirely clear to everyone, if an institution we openly endeavor to make its members 0.99

00:12:21.100 less black or less brown or less female.

00:12:25.080 And this is not just about complaining about a double standard here.

00:12:27.900 You know, I know we do plenty of that.

00:12:29.600 I'm saying that we need to start calling things what they are,

00:12:31.920 which means that we must say that our government is run not by champions of diversity, 0.97

00:12:38.700 but by anti-white bigots. 0.97

00:12:41.540 Plain and simple. 0.96

00:12:43.580 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:13:52.820 We'll begin with this because the media found a new line of attack against DeSantis last night.

00:13:57.480 The line of attack is that DeSantis had a man killed, if you can...

00:14:02.720 A poor, innocent man was killed by Ron DeSantis, and that man's name is Donald Dilbeck.

00:14:09.980 Of course, it turns out this poor, innocent man was not either of those things.

00:14:15.780 Well, he might be poor, but he's not innocent.

00:14:17.620 He's a murderer on death row.

00:14:19.020 But here's how the Huffington Post reported on this story, okay?

00:14:23.680 This is their headline.

00:14:25.460 Florida executes man used as political pawn by Ron DeSantis.

00:14:31.400 Subheading, I know I hurt a lot of people when I was young.

00:14:34.340 I really messed up, said Donald Dilbeck, who was sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury.

00:14:38.880 But I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse.

00:14:41.360 Um, no.

00:14:44.280 He hasn't done worse than you as a convicted murderer on death row.

00:14:49.900 Although there's no point of addressing Donald Dilbeck now because he's, you know, dead as well he should be.

00:14:56.920 Reading now from the article, it says,

00:14:58.200 Florida on Thursday executed 59-year-old Donald Dilbeck, who was sentenced to death 32 years ago by a non-unanimous jury under a death penalty statute that has since been found unconstitutional.

00:15:07.580 Dilbeck was found as, uh, was killed as punishment for fatally stabbing a woman named Faye Van, uh, and was the first person executed in Florida since 2019.

00:15:15.640 The timing of his execution appears to be part of a push by Governor Ron DeSantis to bring back death sentences by non-unanimous juries.

00:15:22.040 DeSantis, who was expected to run for president, signed Dilbeck's death warrant last month on the same day that he floated changing state law to allow non-unanimous juries to impose death sentences.

00:15:32.180 Maybe eight out of 12 have to agree or something.

00:15:34.460 And Dan DeSantis suggested at a Florida Sheriff's Association conference just before ordering the execution of a man with that exact jury split.

00:15:43.020 Uh, I know I heard people when I was young, I really messed up, uh, Dilbeck said.

00:15:45.680 We already heard that, but I know Ron DeSantis has done a lot worse.

00:15:47.840 He's taken a lot from a lot of people.

00:15:49.660 I speak for all men, women, and children.

00:15:51.560 He's put his foot on our necks. 0.73

00:15:53.740 Ron DeSantis and other people like him can sexual expletive.

00:15:58.160 No, no, uh, uh, you, you don't speak for Donald, you don't speak for all men, you don't speak for me at all. 0.99

00:16:07.680 You're a convicted murderer who's now, um, dead and, uh, decomposing in an unmarked grave, as you well deserve.

00:16:14.600 And so you don't speak, you don't really speak for, for any normal, decent person.

00:16:17.900 Uh, in a written statement, Van's children, Tony and Laura Van, thanked DeSantis for carrying out the execution.

00:16:24.560 Quote, we were robbed of years of memories with her and it has been very painful ever since.

00:16:27.900 However, the execution has given us some closure.

00:16:30.160 Shortly after DeSantis' jury suggestion, Republican lawmakers filled, uh, filed a set of bills that would replace the unanimous jury requirement with an eight to four threshold

00:16:38.780 and allow a judge to overrule a jury to impose a death sentence.

00:16:42.440 I'm not minimizing what Dilbeck did to people, Florida Capitol defender Allison Miller told the Tallahassee Democrat, but he is most definitely a political pawn.

00:16:52.960 DeSantis has cited the outcome of the trial for Nicholas Cruz, who killed 17 people in a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, as a reason to bring back non-unanimous jury verdicts.

00:17:02.580 Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without parole after jurors split nine to three over the death penalty.

00:17:07.840 And that's an important detail that I think maybe some people get confused about with this.

00:17:12.440 Um, they're not talking about, you know, the, the conviction is, is, uh, non-unanimous.

00:17:21.300 What they're saying is that the decision you, that you could be executed, even if the entire jury doesn't agree that although you're guilty, you should be executed for the crime.

00:17:33.120 And of course, Rhonda Santis is entirely right about that.

00:17:36.520 And why, why do you need the entire jury to agree on that?

00:17:39.040 And then we're told more.

00:17:41.920 There's something missing from, as we read through this entire report, and this is Huffington Post, but the rest of the corporate media, it's been the same kind of thing as they're telling us a story about Donald Dilbeck.

00:17:50.700 Um, and, uh, then they get to a little bit of Dilbeck's background.

00:17:56.640 Like most people sentenced to death, Dilbeck endured extreme abuse as a child.

00:17:59.980 His birth mother drank 18 to 24 beers per day throughout her pregnancy, resulting in a catastrophic effect on Mr. Dilbeck's intellectual and adaptive functioning.

00:18:08.640 His lawyers wrote in a petition requesting the Supreme Court review of the case, that Mr. Dilbeck suffers from neurobehavioral disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure, is thoroughly medically documented, unrebutted, and factually beyond dispute.

00:18:21.100 The lawyers continue.

00:18:21.960 And then they, and then they go on.

00:18:22.860 They go on for another several paragraphs telling us the poor story of this poor man, poor guy.

00:18:27.460 But do you notice something how we, that, uh, something that's missing?

00:18:31.160 We've, we've got several paragraphs into this.

00:18:33.560 And what's missing is they still haven't given us the precise details of what Dilbeck did to earn his lethal ejection.

00:18:40.940 They briefly mention it in one sentence, but they don't really give us the full story.

00:18:45.020 And this is always the case with these kinds of articles about criminals executed by the state.

00:18:49.900 They always bury the reason, the full reason, at the bottom, when that should be, like, the very first thing you tell us.

00:19:01.060 Okay, before you tell us about fetal alcohol syndrome and he had a bad upbringing and his parents were abusive, but we don't need that.

00:19:07.060 I want to know what he did.

00:19:08.220 I want the full story of what he did.

00:19:09.880 Well, the full story is that Dilbeck shot and killed a sheriff's deputy, went to prison for it, escaped, and then found a woman in the parking lot, Faye Van, in the parking lot of a, of a store, and stabbed her to death, really for no reason.

00:19:27.680 Not that there could be a good reason.

00:19:29.540 Stabbed her to death and left her two children without a mother. 0.93

00:19:33.420 And that's how he got the death penalty. 0.99

00:19:35.360 So killing the first person, not enough. 0.92

00:19:37.620 Second person, now you're getting the death penalty.

00:19:40.560 And that's why, like, I can have all the sympathy in the world for people who experience trauma in their lives, who are abused as children, like, who can't, who's not sympathetic to that.

00:19:51.940 But once you victimize someone else, then the sympathy goes away.

00:20:00.360 Because, you know, part of it is that the buck has to stop somewhere.

00:20:04.720 And, okay, Donald Dilbeck was abused as a child.

00:20:08.260 Terrible thing.

00:20:09.880 Well, what about the parents who abused him?

00:20:11.380 I bet you we could trace back and see that, well, they were abused too.

00:20:14.760 Right?

00:20:15.180 I'm sure horrible things happened to them when they were, when they were, horrible things happened that would lead a mother to drink 18 beers a day when she's pregnant.

00:20:21.680 Like, we can guarantee that she had not a great life.

00:20:24.560 I think we can, without even knowing anything else about her, we were pretty sure that's the case.

00:20:28.820 And then what about the people that did that to her?

00:20:30.560 And then her, and then her. 0.99

00:20:31.220 So you just, you just keep, you keep passing the buck down generations and generations.

00:20:34.800 Turns out no one is responsible for anything.

00:20:38.180 It's got to stop somewhere.

00:20:39.380 And actually, it stops with each individual.

00:20:42.300 Stops with each individual.

00:20:43.140 Each individual is responsible for their own actions.

00:20:45.060 And if you are horribly victimized as a child or any other time, again, sympathy.

00:20:54.480 But when you decide, when you make the decision to pass that victimization on to someone else, right, to try to, in whatever weird, twisted way, alleviate your own suffering or reclaim some, you know, semblance of power and control in your own sick mind, by passing that suffering and that victimization on to someone else, now there's no more sympathy for you.

00:21:19.840 Because now you're as bad, in fact, probably worse now than the person who victimized you. 0.99

00:21:26.960 You are also a monster. 0.99

00:21:29.700 So all that goes out the window. 0.99

00:21:34.180 And this is just justice.

00:21:37.020 Right?

00:21:37.440 We could talk about, as we've talked about with the death penalty, you know, things like deterrence, that is a factor.

00:21:45.560 Okay, they'll tell you, the studies show it's not a deterrent.

00:21:47.760 Um, first of all, it's, it's, it's actually impossible to, common sense tells us that obviously the death penalty has a deterrent factor.

00:21:58.800 Because most people don't want to be executed.

00:22:01.840 So it's got to have, it's got, obviously it does.

00:22:04.340 It's hard to go beyond common sense because it's actually impossible to measure.

00:22:07.120 So when they tell you that there are studies, it proves that there's no deterrence.

00:22:09.320 Well, that would, that would, that would require you to know all of the people who would have done something bad, but then didn't.

00:22:19.200 So you would have to, that's how, that's the only way to measure deterrence.

00:22:21.980 You're measuring all of the people who didn't do something.

00:22:27.480 How could you possibly know that?

00:22:29.120 It's impossible to, to know.

00:22:30.180 And then also the way that we carry out the death penalty.

00:22:34.340 I mean, this guy was on death row for decades.

00:22:36.960 And so there's still a deterrence factor, but that deterrence is obviously going to be incredibly mitigated because we don't execute very many people at all.

00:22:43.320 It's very rare.

00:22:44.160 And when we do, it's decades in the past, in the, in the future.

00:22:46.680 They get all kinds of appeals and everything.

00:22:47.900 And so that's going to mitigate the deterrence factor.

00:22:49.780 There is still going to be the deterrence factor.

00:22:51.340 It's going to mitigate it though.

00:22:54.220 And, and yeah, so the, the, the deterrence thing, you could talk about that.

00:22:59.360 You could talk about the kind of societal self-defense argument that there are people who are just so dangerous that we have no choice but to, but to segregate them permanently from all of society in the most, in the most ultimate sort of form of segregation, which is to, which is to execute them.

00:23:15.520 So that argument's fine.

00:23:16.400 But, but it's, but really it comes down to justice.

00:23:18.720 And there are things in life that you can do that, that simply call out, they cry out for the harshest response and punishment.

00:23:28.140 And this is one of those things.

00:23:30.620 And, and it, that doesn't change your, your, your, your experiences growing up, what you suffered through.

00:23:40.080 That's not, that doesn't change the nature of the act that you committed.

00:23:44.980 Ultimately though, this just makes me like DeSantis more.

00:23:49.500 A convicted killer used his last moment on earth to curse the name of Ron DeSantis.

00:23:55.760 That's supposed to make, make us like him less?

00:23:58.720 Not for me.

00:24:01.360 All right, moving on.

00:24:01.940 The ladies of The View discussed the East Palestine situation.

00:24:05.320 You know, you're going to get some really intelligent commentary from these ladies and let's watch. 1.00

00:24:13.480 Regulations for a second, because it seems to me that the Republicans are obsessed with this notion of the free market and they don't like a lot of regulations.

00:24:21.540 Because it means profit.

00:24:22.980 We need to deregulate to get profit.

00:24:24.760 But they, I know.

00:24:25.860 Part of deregulation is reducing workers.

00:24:27.860 For example, there were very few plane crashes.

00:24:29.860 Thank God.

00:24:30.860 And that's because the industry is highly regulated.

00:24:33.560 We have to pay for regulations and safety standards.

00:24:37.200 Otherwise, where are we?

00:24:38.680 We're all going to go up in flames.

00:24:40.380 Norfolk Southern gives as much to Democrats as Republicans.

00:24:42.740 It's a very powerful lobby that is trying to block regulation.

00:24:45.520 And this train, to Sarah's point, two miles long with two full-time employees and a trainee on it.

00:24:50.920 And they didn't even need to.

00:24:52.920 Because the last administration rolled it down to only one worker.

00:24:56.600 They happened to have two.

00:24:57.880 One thing I just want to say is I do think this was an unforced error by President Biden.

00:25:01.980 It was 20 days before we had Secretary Buttigieg go down, 10 days before he put out a statement acknowledging it.

00:25:08.680 This is Trump country.

00:25:10.220 He won by 40 points.

00:25:11.900 He is a president for all Americans, I believe that.

00:25:14.280 But he needs to show that he is.

00:25:15.660 It was time for him to be heard.

00:25:16.620 I don't know why they would ever vote for him for somebody who, by the way,

00:25:21.040 he placed someone with deep ties to the chemical industry in charge of the EPA's Chemical Safety Office.

00:25:26.420 That's who you voted for in that district.

00:25:29.060 Donald Trump, who reduces all safety.

00:25:31.840 He did.

00:25:32.300 He showed up at McDonald's and those voters saw something on the ground that probably resonates in a way that they need to do.

00:25:38.100 But they need to look past the photo ops, these people.

00:25:41.040 And say, who's doing the job here?

00:25:43.220 Forget about the photo ops.

00:25:44.380 Showing up is a big thing.

00:25:45.420 Showing up, I think, is big as a community.

00:25:46.420 I think this is Donald Trump's fault.

00:25:49.560 Of course, it's Donald Trump's fault.

00:25:51.260 Everything that happens in the Biden administration is Donald Trump's fault.

00:25:53.700 And it's even just Donald Trump's fault that not only that this happened, but that the Biden administration didn't show any concern for it whatsoever until they were forced to.

00:26:02.760 And even then, it was clear that it was only a symbolic concern.

00:26:05.620 The fact that the transportation secretary didn't show up there until three weeks and then walked around for a little bit looking like a dork in his construction outfit.

00:26:15.180 It looked like a child dressing up as a construction worker.

00:26:17.760 All that is Donald Trump's fault.

00:26:19.920 So we know that this is why I told you that they, and when I say they, I mean the media, the government, the elites.

00:26:30.120 They don't care about this story because they don't care about these people.

00:26:35.240 And it really is that simple.

00:26:37.160 And they don't care about these people because they don't belong to an accepted, you know, preferred group because they're largely white working class people.

00:26:47.080 And also because they tend to vote Republican.

00:26:51.040 And you just heard it from Joy Behar.

00:26:52.920 This is who you voted for.

00:26:54.140 Referring to them as these people, this is who you voted for.

00:26:57.220 However, you notice she would never, ever, ever say that about the crime-ridden, hellscape inner cities all across country.

00:27:12.100 Just plagued with crime and violence and drugs and people walking around looking like zombies, fentanyl zombies walking all around.

00:27:20.380 What she's never going to say is, you know, these people in those cities, they voted for this, what you voted for.

00:27:25.140 Or, I'm not going to say that.

00:27:28.060 She will say that about white working class people in Ohio, though.

00:27:31.780 They don't care about the people.

00:27:34.360 Like, it wouldn't matter.

00:27:35.320 I mean, the honest truth is that, and this hopefully is not news to you, but it's a tough truth.

00:27:41.560 That if everyone in that town died from chemical poisoning, the Joy Behar's of the world, she wouldn't care.

00:27:50.060 In fact, she'd probably be happy about it. 1.00

00:27:51.440 Like, she sees you as utter scum. 1.00

00:27:58.160 And it's the same thing for the Biden administration. 1.00

00:27:59.640 They don't care.

00:28:00.560 Speaking of The View, it's a little bit of a less important topic, but I wanted to mention this because this was also making the rounds yesterday.

00:28:09.220 Here's the article in the New York Post.

00:28:10.340 It says,

00:28:10.480 It looks like Liam Neeson will not be returning as a guest on The View.

00:28:13.940 The Irish actor, 70 years old, described his appearance on the ABC talk show last week as embarrassing, telling Rolling Stone the entire segment left him feeling uncomfortable.

00:28:21.900 During his appearance on the show, co-host Joy Behar couldn't help but air out her longtime crush on the Taken actor.

00:28:28.200 In fact, the segment included a montage of clips that showed Behar making bizarre on-air comments.

00:28:32.420 Um, Neeson said, I was in the dressing room, drinking a cup of tea, turned the TV up, and I thought, oh, this will be great.

00:28:38.960 We're talking about gun violence in America.

00:28:40.440 I agree that it's an American problem.

00:28:42.200 I go on stage and join the ladies during the break, and I was congratulating them on this discussion.

00:28:46.500 Then our segment starts, and it's just all this BS with Joy and Liam Neeson and having a crush.

00:28:50.460 Uh, and he says, I'm uncomfortable in those situations, and he said it was embarrassing.

00:28:57.800 So, that's how he said it.

00:28:58.820 He doesn't want to go back.

00:28:59.620 He feels embarrassed by it.

00:29:01.180 Uh, and, uh, and here's the, we'll play a little bit of the clip of these women hitting on Liam Neeson. 0.99

00:29:08.620 Please welcome Liam Neeson.

00:29:11.320 We talk about you so much, I feel like you've been here.

00:29:13.800 That's what I thought.

00:29:16.040 You talk about it.

00:29:19.120 Don't blow my cover.

00:29:20.180 Joy wants to get taken by you. 1.00

00:29:22.960 I will find you, and I will kill you. 1.00

00:29:25.560 I love it. 1.00

00:29:29.940 I got this Valentine from you today.

00:29:34.040 Happy belated Valentine's Day, Liam X.

00:29:37.640 And then I, and I was like, oh.

00:29:39.280 And then I find out you gave it to all of us.

00:29:41.180 Well, she will believe anything that you say, because it's no secret that Joy thinks you're the hottest and the greatest.

00:29:50.160 In case, in case there was any doubt, we have a few times she brought you up over the years.

00:30:02.840 I think we have some video.

00:30:04.460 I would just like to have my ashes sprinkled over Liam Neeson.

00:30:07.960 There's room in my heart for Steve and for Liam Neeson, let's say.

00:30:15.800 I mean, Liam Neeson right now, are those kidnapping movies that he does get me so aroused?

00:30:21.160 I can't even watch this.

00:30:22.560 I can't even sit through this.

00:30:24.040 This is like a human rights violation.

00:30:26.280 This is, I mean, you couldn't even do this to someone at Guantanamo Bay.

00:30:31.320 This is like, this is, and Liam Neeson, yeah, he's a leftist.

00:30:37.000 He was complaining about it because he wanted to go talk about gun violence.

00:30:40.180 Gun violence is only an American problem, doesn't it?

00:30:42.320 Right?

00:30:42.980 Gun violence doesn't exist.

00:30:44.040 Did you know that?

00:30:44.760 Did you know that there's no gun violence anywhere else in the world?

00:30:47.480 We're the only country where people get shot.

00:30:49.720 It only happens here.

00:30:51.340 So he's all that.

00:30:52.400 But even so, you got to feel some sympathy for the guy.

00:30:54.420 I mean, this is like, can you imagine a worse nightmare?

00:31:00.080 I mean, this is a worse punishment.

00:31:01.480 This is worse than what happened to Donald Dillbeck last night.

00:31:06.120 Having to sit with the ladies of The View, being sexually harassed.

00:31:10.100 Sitting next to Joy Behar, being not only sexually harassed by her in person,

00:31:14.320 but then you have to sit there and they put the reaction.

00:31:15.860 So they've got the clips of her making all these creepy sexual comments about Liam Neeson.

00:31:20.160 And then the reaction of him live, having to watch this, while sitting next to her.

00:31:24.980 It's just, that's not right to do that to someone.

00:31:26.760 And this is sexual harassment, right?

00:31:29.300 Now, I know we said in the opening, the whole imagine that the situations were reversed thing.

00:31:34.720 It gets lame after a while because there are so many double standards.

00:31:37.800 And we spend all day on the right pointing out double standards.

00:31:40.160 Even so, this is, we should still note, obviously a double standard.

00:31:47.160 Like, you know, if we were to imagine a scenario where it was a bunch of men on some kind of talk show

00:31:54.200 and a woman comes on and it's the same sort of thing, talking about he wants to be taken by you

00:32:02.040 and then playing a montage of sexual comments made up.

00:32:07.140 It would be, everybody involved would be fired.

00:32:09.960 It would be, me too, everyone's fired.

00:32:12.000 And yet, one of the most grotesque women in the country gets away with it. 1.00

00:32:20.400 So, my sympathy does go to Liam Neeson.

00:32:25.040 All right.

00:32:26.940 Also, this important report from a daily wire.

00:32:29.140 Transgender patients who undergo hormone therapy have a significantly increased risk of serious health problems

00:32:34.000 such as stroke, heart attack, and pulmonary embolism, according to a new study.

00:32:37.560 A new study presented at an American College of Cardiology conference found that transgender patients

00:32:42.680 who take cross-sex hormones had an increased risk of dangerous blood clots

00:32:45.760 that can create blockages in the brain, heart, and lungs.

00:32:48.440 The study found the subjects had nearly seven times the risk of stroke,

00:32:52.600 six times the risk of the most severe type of heart attack,

00:32:55.500 nearly five times the risk of pulmonary embolism,

00:32:58.320 compared to those with gender dysphoria who never used hormone therapy.

00:33:02.700 Dr. Ibrahim Ahmed said,

00:33:05.180 It's all about risks and benefits.

00:33:07.380 Starting transitioning is a big part of a person's life and helping them feel more of themselves.

00:33:11.100 But hormone replacement therapy also has a lot of side effects.

00:33:13.660 It's not a risk-free endeavor.

00:33:16.340 Who would have thought?

00:33:18.340 Who would have thought just injecting hormones into someone 0.91

00:33:22.240 to bring their perception,

00:33:26.400 to try to bring their body into a line with their perception of themselves,

00:33:30.560 who would have thought that it would have catastrophic long-term health effects?

00:33:35.580 So everything we've heard from the media and from the medical establishment,

00:33:40.040 they've been insisting this for years.

00:33:42.360 They've been telling it to parents and kids and patients also who are not kids.

00:33:47.500 They've been saying it's entirely safe.

00:33:53.100 It's completely safe.

00:33:56.240 It's all nonsense. 0.52

00:33:58.960 They are lying.

00:34:00.000 As I've always been saying,

00:34:02.400 they couldn't even,

00:34:03.840 there's no way for them to know that in the first place,

00:34:07.740 because this is experimental, what we're doing right now.

00:34:13.160 And it's never been done on this scale,

00:34:15.520 anything close to this scale before in history.

00:34:18.040 And so the people that we're doing it to now,

00:34:20.240 undergoing, they're undergoing the quote-unquote medical transition,

00:34:23.700 they are the test subjects.

00:34:25.660 So we know to begin with,

00:34:26.780 anything they say about it's safe, it's long-term,

00:34:29.500 there's no way to know that.

00:34:30.500 You can't possibly know that.

00:34:32.900 However, we can know, again, using our common sense,

00:34:35.160 that it's obviously dangerous to do.

00:34:36.880 And there are consequences.

00:34:37.600 Anytime you put a chemical into somebody's body,

00:34:40.140 there are consequences for it.

00:34:41.200 It's never consequences.

00:34:42.280 So whenever you hear a claim,

00:34:43.840 yeah, there's no problem at all, no consequences.

00:34:47.200 That's a huge red flag.

00:34:48.620 Run the other direction.

00:34:50.480 Because there are always going to be consequences.

00:34:54.340 There are side effects of taking Tylenol.

00:34:56.700 There are dangers of taking Tylenol.

00:34:58.580 And when you're injecting hormones in yourself,

00:35:00.400 of course there are going to be consequences.

00:35:04.080 Obviously, it's not a risk-free endeavor.

00:35:06.840 Not anything close to that.

00:35:07.940 But now, since we've been doing this to people

00:35:11.740 at a pretty large scale for several years now,

00:35:16.100 that's when we're now going to really start to see.

00:35:18.220 So now they have, you know,

00:35:19.200 they've got their crop of test subjects,

00:35:21.300 and now we're starting to get the results.

00:35:24.120 And this is only just the beginning.

00:35:27.160 And it only is going to get worse from here.

00:35:30.880 All right.

00:35:32.340 One other quick thing before we get to the comments section.

00:35:35.920 CNET has this report.

00:35:37.940 Plant-based milk alternatives can keep calling themselves milk,

00:35:42.720 according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday.

00:35:46.300 So plant-based milk is allowed to still refer to itself as milk,

00:35:49.920 says the FDA.

00:35:51.280 The agency commissioned and conducted focus groups

00:35:53.900 and found that the term milk is strongly rooted

00:35:56.340 in consumers' vocabulary when describing and talking

00:35:58.560 about plant-based alternatives.

00:36:00.440 Consumers are aware that plant-based milks

00:36:02.300 are different from dairy milks, research found.

00:36:04.680 They also use the plant-based alternatives

00:36:06.180 in the same way people use dairy milks

00:36:07.900 and cereals, coffee, and more.

00:36:09.660 Although many plant-based milk alternatives

00:36:11.180 are labeled with names that bear the term milk,

00:36:13.480 they do not purport to be,

00:36:14.840 nor are they represented as milk.

00:36:16.480 Oh, really?

00:36:17.900 They don't purport to be milk?

00:36:19.160 When it says milk on the carton,

00:36:20.760 that's not purporting to be milk?

00:36:22.060 So they're allowed to continue this lie.

00:36:25.500 The FDA, no surprise, the FDA gets it wrong again.

00:36:30.200 This is nonsense.

00:36:31.140 I'm sorry.

00:36:31.480 Look, you trust consumers to know that it's not actually milk?

00:36:35.660 They don't know that.

00:36:37.320 And besides, when did these bureaucrats 0.79

00:36:39.740 start trusting consumers to know things?

00:36:43.280 I mean, that's why they have warning labels on mattresses

00:36:45.760 saying don't use it as a flotation device, right?

00:36:48.280 Don't bring this to the beach

00:36:50.860 and try to float on in the Atlantic Ocean.

00:36:52.780 That's why they put signs on the highway

00:36:54.640 saying that the roads are slippery when it's wet.

00:36:57.060 That's why they have, you know,

00:36:58.320 there's a million examples.

00:36:59.100 They have warning labels on sleeping pills

00:37:01.500 saying warning may cause drowsiness.

00:37:03.660 So they don't have any faith

00:37:06.580 in the ability of consumers to know things

00:37:10.040 and to figure things out.

00:37:11.040 And yet suddenly when it comes to this,

00:37:12.400 they're like, eh, people will figure it out.

00:37:13.880 They know.

00:37:14.200 Now, since when do you have that sort of faith in people?

00:37:19.320 And this is the one area

00:37:20.580 where they actually should have the warning label.

00:37:24.760 Warning, this coconut milk is not milk.

00:37:27.700 Coconuts do not lactate.

00:37:29.020 This is a liquid secretion from a fruit.

00:37:30.900 It is not milk.

00:37:31.420 Something like that.

00:37:32.820 Because that's honest.

00:37:34.480 And it also pays due respect to actual milk,

00:37:37.000 which is something that's important to me.

00:37:38.780 As you know, as someone who

00:37:39.940 is the opposite of lactose intolerant,

00:37:43.880 I don't believe in lactose intolerance.

00:37:46.480 We are a lactose welcoming household.

00:37:50.240 And yet there are all these products

00:37:52.660 appropriating the lactose identity

00:37:55.440 when in fact they are merely

00:37:57.280 discharge emitted from fruits and nuts,

00:38:01.760 which is not milk.

00:38:02.440 I've already explained this to you many times, okay?

00:38:03.940 Almond milk, that's not milk.

00:38:05.440 That is nut discharge.

00:38:07.340 That's what it is.

00:38:08.080 You might not like it, but that's what it is.

00:38:10.840 And you ought to know that

00:38:12.060 and you ought to say it on the card.

00:38:15.620 FDA fumbles the ball yet again.

00:38:18.620 Big surprise.

00:38:19.360 Let's get to the comment section.

00:38:21.080 Who's safe between you after leaving there

00:38:23.540 just for a day?

00:38:26.600 There's someone to thank.

00:38:29.880 He leads the sweet baby gang.

00:38:34.120 The control room is complaining

00:38:35.520 because I called almond milk nut discharge.

00:38:37.840 Well, this is what this week's been all about, right?

00:38:41.300 It's been all about being blunt and honest

00:38:43.460 and we've had this conversation

00:38:45.000 and I believe calling something,

00:38:48.020 you know, we call a thing what it is.

00:38:50.480 You know, that's my,

00:38:51.560 it's one of my most important principles in life.

00:38:54.820 And yes, and we should apply it.

00:38:57.380 We should especially apply it

00:38:58.560 to the things that are in our refrigerator.

00:39:00.120 You should know what you're consuming.

00:39:02.260 That's all I'm trying to say.

00:39:03.660 But Patrick says,

00:39:05.440 Steve Harvey has to be one of the GOAT game show hosts.

00:39:08.720 I'm curious how Matt would rank them.

00:39:11.120 It's an interesting question.

00:39:12.020 So game show hosts,

00:39:14.100 Alex Trebek obviously is number one.

00:39:16.160 You know, I don't think that that's controversial.

00:39:19.240 I'm going to put Pat Sajak number two

00:39:21.000 because he's been in this game for a long time.

00:39:23.500 And he even, you know,

00:39:25.200 Alex Trebek's still my number one.

00:39:26.620 Pat Sajak is like,

00:39:27.600 is even more though the prototypical game show host.

00:39:30.440 When you think of a game show host,

00:39:31.300 I think you think of Pat Sajak.

00:39:33.000 He even has a great game show host name.

00:39:35.720 And then number three, I put Bob Barker.

00:39:38.560 I think he put him in.

00:39:39.460 And then maybe Steve Harvey would be number four.

00:39:41.860 And then number five, maybe Regis Philbin.

00:39:45.020 So he's in the top five, not top three.

00:39:46.960 He's not, but he's not, he's not,

00:39:47.960 he's not GOAT yet.

00:39:49.020 He's not at that status.

00:39:50.220 And I don't think anyone's ever going to beat Alex Trebek.

00:39:56.040 Magnificent Ginger Snap says, 1.00

00:39:58.140 one perk of being a tomboy,

00:40:00.200 Sam Brinton will never steal my luggage.

00:40:02.100 If my Adidas duffel did happen to catch his eye,

00:40:04.820 his euphoric thrill of stealing it would fade quickly

00:40:08.120 when he realizes it's full of Carhartt and flannel.

00:40:11.620 Well, you know, maybe this,

00:40:12.360 this is like the one good argument for gender bending. 0.99

00:40:15.120 If you're a woman, I guess,

00:40:16.900 you make a good point.

00:40:19.060 Because it's for women, 0.71

00:40:20.380 this is the only Sam Brinton deterrent.

00:40:22.920 It's the only way just pack a bunch of men's clothes. 0.62

00:40:25.480 It's the only way to guarantee that Sam Brinton

00:40:27.840 won't get you at the baggage claim.

00:40:29.660 So there's an argument for that.

00:40:33.520 Jacqueline says,

00:40:34.940 Matt, maybe you didn't realize how big is getting the movement

00:40:37.540 that you started against child mutilation.

00:40:39.040 But on February 9th,

00:40:40.980 a member of the Mexican Congress introduced a bill

00:40:43.880 to make child mutilation, castration,

00:40:45.840 and prescription of hormones to children illegal in our country.

00:40:48.740 I know this is thanks to you.

00:40:50.100 You started this in Tennessee

00:40:50.900 and now it's happening in Mexico.

00:40:52.320 Thanks so much for everything you do.

00:40:53.560 Well, it's thanks to a movement of which I'm a part,

00:40:58.620 but I'm not certainly far from the only person.

00:41:02.360 But I am very happy to see that.

00:41:04.200 Yeah, we've talked about how it's spreading

00:41:05.160 across the United States,

00:41:06.040 not just the United States, though.

00:41:07.240 It also is a global movement

00:41:09.700 as more and more countries,

00:41:11.040 we see this in Europe also,

00:41:12.920 more and more countries are beginning to pull back

00:41:17.880 from a lot of this stuff.

00:41:19.980 Took too long.

00:41:21.320 Never should have happened to begin with.

00:41:23.560 But at least it's happening now.

00:41:26.280 Then, the greatest thing about this week

00:41:28.460 is that Matt got all the grifters on YouTube

00:41:30.820 to expose themselves by attacking him.

00:41:34.680 I've seen a lot of comments like this.

00:41:36.220 And to be clear, that's not what happened

00:41:39.820 because the people who criticize me are not grifters.

00:41:43.460 And this has become a point of annoyance for me.

00:41:46.260 I mean, I appreciate that you're supporting me

00:41:48.040 when you say that, but not everyone's a grifter.

00:41:52.000 Like, a grifter doesn't mean someone you disagree with.

00:41:55.240 Somebody could be wrong about everything,

00:41:56.840 and that doesn't make them a grifter.

00:41:58.680 That's not what grifting is.

00:42:00.380 There are plenty of grifters out there,

00:42:02.760 especially in the media space.

00:42:04.520 But the people I addressed this week,

00:42:06.940 people I was addressing specifically in, you know,

00:42:10.040 of that video, are not grifters.

00:42:13.360 So Jeremy from the quartering and Tim Pool

00:42:15.340 and Amala Eknobi, Sidney Watts,

00:42:17.840 and none of them are grifters.

00:42:18.740 In fact, I appreciate all their work.

00:42:20.600 You should subscribe to their channels,

00:42:22.100 and you should follow their work as well.

00:42:23.800 We disagreed on this one issue, which is fine,

00:42:26.320 but they still have lots of valuable things to contribute.

00:42:30.480 You know, it is possible.

00:42:31.680 It's possible to not only disagree,

00:42:33.300 but disagree passionately, as I obviously did,

00:42:36.420 without saying, oh, you know,

00:42:37.940 this person has no integrity. 1.00

00:42:39.380 They're totally worthless. 0.99

00:42:41.440 Now, if I think that about someone, 0.56

00:42:43.940 if I think they have no integrity,

00:42:45.120 that we shouldn't listen to anything they say,

00:42:47.140 you know I'm not going to hesitate to tell you that.

00:42:49.400 There are people, plenty of people,

00:42:50.540 who I feel that way about, and I will tell you.

00:42:52.320 That's not the case for these people.

00:42:56.320 What is a, what's a grifter?

00:42:58.760 A grifter is someone, just to be clear about this,

00:43:01.920 grifter is someone who, 0.99

00:43:03.620 it's just another word for hypocrite. 1.00

00:43:04.820 It's someone who pretends to believe things 0.97

00:43:07.120 they don't believe, and in the media space,

00:43:09.320 they're pretending it because they want to,

00:43:11.100 they're trying to get attention,

00:43:12.000 they're trying to get clicks,

00:43:12.900 and they want to monetize it.

00:43:14.320 So they're pretending to be something they aren't.

00:43:16.320 They're pretending to believe things they don't believe.

00:43:18.780 That's grifting, and yes,

00:43:20.700 there's a lot of it that happens in the media.

00:43:22.520 There's a lot of it that you can find on social media.

00:43:24.160 There's a lot of it among, you know,

00:43:26.340 self-proclaimed quote-unquote influencers.

00:43:29.980 But it has nothing to do with disagreement.

00:43:32.460 It also has nothing to do necessarily with being wrong.

00:43:34.180 If you're wrong,

00:43:35.480 if you express a viewpoint that happens to be wrong,

00:43:38.120 but you really believe it,

00:43:40.720 then that's not a scam or a con or a grift.

00:43:43.620 It's just, you're just wrong.

00:43:44.740 Well, Jordan Peterson has a new five-part series out

00:43:49.820 on Daily Wire Plus called Vision and Destiny

00:43:52.040 that is designed to help you find clarity and direction

00:43:55.040 considering the chaos most of the world seems to be in

00:43:58.220 with mental health issues skyrocketing,

00:43:59.940 especially among teenagers.

00:44:01.540 I would dare say it couldn't have come at a better time.

00:44:03.640 So here's a clip from Vision and Destiny.

00:44:06.160 Check it out.

00:44:07.320 There's an infinite number of gender identities. 1.00

00:44:09.860 It's like, yeah, if you want to play it that way,

00:44:11.900 that's true because the amount of variability

00:44:15.600 in a five-dimensional space is,

00:44:17.540 it's unbelievably large.

00:44:19.940 You could say with no reason to be contradicted

00:44:23.740 that every single person on the planet,

00:44:27.180 in some sense, has a unique gender identity

00:44:30.580 if you associate gender with temperament

00:44:33.820 because every person is unique

00:44:35.860 in their particular constellation of personality.

00:44:39.300 personality, and so if you want to conflate

00:44:43.600 those two things, then you can.

00:44:47.160 It starts to become very problematic

00:44:48.920 when you additionally conflate them with sex.

00:44:51.740 It's like, well, sex and gender and temperament,

00:44:54.280 they're all the same thing.

00:44:55.480 It's like, well, actually they're not,

00:44:57.120 and the reason they're not is because,

00:44:59.060 to say it again, you need a man and a woman 0.99

00:45:02.640 to produce a child.

00:45:04.340 Yeah, you know, I'm excited to watch that entire thing

00:45:07.820 because this is actually, this is,

00:45:09.340 if you watch What is a Woman? 0.99

00:45:10.200 Of course, one of my favorite interviews to do

00:45:12.660 is with Jordan Peterson.

00:45:13.840 We talked about this exact issue

00:45:15.180 where this conflation of personality and gender identity,

00:45:18.580 and people talk about gender identity,

00:45:20.400 what they're really trying to describe.

00:45:21.740 If they're trying to describe anything at all,

00:45:22.840 they're trying to describe just their personality.

00:45:25.080 Of course, you don't need the term gender identity

00:45:26.540 to describe that.

00:45:27.660 So we had a long conversation about that in the film,

00:45:30.200 but, you know, this is a film,

00:45:31.340 so you've got to cut everything down.

00:45:32.360 It ends up being just a couple of minutes.

00:45:34.860 So here's an opportunity to hear

00:45:36.080 all of those things fleshed out,

00:45:37.900 and it's definitely going to be worth watching.

00:45:40.860 I know I'll be watching.

00:45:41.560 The first two episodes are out right now,

00:45:43.260 and new episodes are coming online every single week,

00:45:45.840 but it's all exclusive for Daily Wire Plus members.

00:45:48.080 You can join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe

00:45:50.100 and watch Vision and Destiny.

00:45:52.300 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:45:57.760 We begin the daily cancellation with Senate Bill 1700,

00:46:00.840 which is currently making its way

00:46:02.260 through the Arizona legislature.

00:46:03.940 This bill is definitely not what we're canceling today,

00:46:06.180 as it is a good and necessary piece of legislation.

00:46:08.980 The Arizona State Senate provides this fact sheet

00:46:11.520 about the proposed law.

00:46:13.160 Reading now says,

00:46:14.340 the bill requires the Arizona Department of Education

00:46:16.900 to maintain a list of books

00:46:18.100 that public educational institutions

00:46:19.300 may not use or make available to students,

00:46:21.240 including books that are lewd or sexual,

00:46:22.740 promote gender fluidity or gender pronouns,

00:46:24.620 or groom children into normalizing pedophilia,

00:46:27.280 grants parents the right to request removal

00:46:29.060 of school district or charter school library

00:46:30.860 or classroom materials,

00:46:32.380 extends public review periods

00:46:33.980 for library materials and district textbooks,

00:46:36.360 and removes exceptions from district curriculum approval

00:46:39.080 and school library access requirements.

00:46:42.180 So in summary,

00:46:42.980 it takes overtly sexual books out of the schools,

00:46:45.740 pornographic books out of the schools,

00:46:47.200 and gives parents a say in the material

00:46:49.960 that their own children are exposed to.

00:46:51.540 This is, of course, basic common sense,

00:46:53.860 and the only problem with the law

00:46:56.820 is that it's not a law already.

00:46:58.360 That's the only issue.

00:46:59.340 Like, this should already be the law.

00:47:01.100 But as we've seen,

00:47:01.780 there's nothing more likely to stir up controversy

00:47:03.700 and outrage than basic common sense,

00:47:05.580 which is why this bill in Arizona,

00:47:07.720 just like similar bills in Florida and other places,

00:47:10.500 have been met with furious protests from the left.

00:47:14.880 At a hearing this week,

00:47:15.880 a teacher named Alicia Messing stood up 1.00

00:47:18.180 and made her own case against the bill.

00:47:20.660 She apparently believes that it is crucially important

00:47:23.400 for elementary school students

00:47:25.060 to read books about masturbation and gender fluidity.

00:47:29.360 And although she can't explain why it's so important,

00:47:31.920 she can explain why we should all listen to her opinion,

00:47:34.860 whether her opinion makes sense or not.

00:47:36.780 And the reason is that she has a master's degree.

00:47:39.600 Listen.

00:47:40.840 I have a master's degree

00:47:42.560 because when I got certified,

00:47:44.380 I was told I had to have a master's degree

00:47:46.380 to be an Arizona certified teacher.

00:47:48.480 We all have advanced degrees.

00:47:52.300 What do the parents have?

00:47:53.840 Are we vetting the backgrounds of our parents?

00:47:56.840 Are we allowing the parents to choose the curriculum

00:47:59.820 and the books that our children are going to read?

00:48:02.700 I think that it's a mistake.

00:48:04.920 I'm just speaking from the heart.

00:48:07.220 The one line that I love is,

00:48:09.680 we must remember that the purpose of public education

00:48:12.340 is not to teach only what parents want their children to be taught.

00:48:17.040 It is to teach them what society needs them to be taught.

00:48:21.740 You know, this meme is overused and cliched at this point, obviously.

00:48:25.660 But listening to that,

00:48:26.400 it's the one time when I'm tempted to respond,

00:48:29.980 ma'am, this is a Wendy's.

00:48:31.160 Mainly because I'm sure this woman

00:48:33.220 even presents her academic credentials

00:48:34.820 when in line at the drive-thru.

00:48:36.160 You know, like, yeah, hi, I have a master's degree.

00:48:38.180 Also, I'd like a number three meal and a chocolate Frosty.

00:48:40.580 Sorry, ma'am, we're out of Frosties.

00:48:41.760 What? Did you hear me?

00:48:42.720 I have a master's degree.

00:48:44.140 I have a master's degree.

00:48:45.880 You would dare to withhold a Frosty

00:48:47.420 from a woman with an advanced degree? 1.00

00:48:49.740 You scoundrel. 0.98

00:48:51.500 But you can't blame Alicia, I suppose. 1.00

00:48:53.280 Her master's degree is utterly useless.

00:48:55.660 It's not good for anything.

00:48:57.020 So she'll try to use it as a trump card in arguments 0.59

00:48:59.380 because she has to get something out of this piece of paper

00:49:01.700 that she bankrupted herself to purchase.

00:49:03.920 Now, I say that the master's degree is useless

00:49:05.680 because it is.

00:49:07.180 In the vast majority of cases,

00:49:08.380 master's degrees are nothing but money-making scams

00:49:11.680 for the university system.

00:49:13.020 And this has become so clear

00:49:13.960 that even left-leaning sites like Slate, for example,

00:49:17.260 are publishing articles declaring,

00:49:18.760 as they did last year,

00:49:19.800 that master's degrees are one of the biggest scams

00:49:22.520 in higher education.

00:49:23.360 CBS News finally clued into this issue

00:49:25.900 in May of this past year,

00:49:27.300 publishing a report with this headline,

00:49:29.340 quote,

00:49:30.060 many graduate programs are scams

00:49:31.700 according to higher education policy analysts.

00:49:34.540 The report begins,

00:49:35.380 some 3 million Americans will enroll in graduate programs

00:49:38.960 this year only to work towards degrees

00:49:40.700 that often aren't worth the time or money,

00:49:42.480 according to an education policy analyst.

00:49:44.880 Many undergraduates earn their bachelor's degree

00:49:47.840 and go straight to graduate school

00:49:49.120 in hopes of gaining a new degree or skills

00:49:50.900 that will make them more attractive

00:49:52.380 to prospective employers.

00:49:54.280 Well, they're already off on the wrong foot

00:49:55.560 if they're trying to find skills.

00:49:56.700 You know, you don't, you don't,

00:49:57.780 that's, gaining skills is the one thing

00:50:01.360 that you don't do in, quote, unquote,

00:50:04.960 higher education.

00:50:06.160 It's one of the big problems with it

00:50:07.540 is that you're spending a lot of time

00:50:08.980 in early adulthood not learning skills.

00:50:13.480 Quote,

00:50:13.740 the reason people go makes sense.

00:50:15.580 They go to get a job and make more money,

00:50:17.920 said James Murphy, senior policy analyst

00:50:20.300 at advocacy group Education Reform.

00:50:22.320 Now, the recent research shows

00:50:23.740 that 40% of master's programs in the U.S.

00:50:25.540 have no positive return.

00:50:27.780 If you take in the cost of attending

00:50:28.940 and the time spent not working,

00:50:30.480 what you get out of the master's degree

00:50:31.740 doesn't even pay for itself,

00:50:33.760 Murphy told CBS News.

00:50:35.700 Of course, you should note,

00:50:37.840 higher education itself is usually also a scam.

00:50:41.100 Master's degrees aren't even close to worth

00:50:43.520 the investment in a large number of cases,

00:50:45.300 but that is increasingly becoming true

00:50:46.660 of all college degrees,

00:50:47.840 including undergraduate degrees.

00:50:49.960 The scam simply becomes more obvious

00:50:51.980 and more financially costly

00:50:53.460 as you move up the educational ladder.

00:50:55.380 That's why half of all student debt

00:50:56.900 is now held by people with graduate degrees.

00:50:59.980 And these are mostly people who,

00:51:01.740 you know, they want to stay in college.

00:51:03.360 They want to stay in the college system

00:51:04.680 because they don't know what else to do.

00:51:06.780 And they're afraid to actually start

00:51:08.840 living their adult lives

00:51:10.240 and, you know, getting to the point

00:51:11.780 where they actually have to learn skills.

00:51:13.180 They don't want to do that,

00:51:13.820 so they just stay in the system.

00:51:15.780 Or they do it because they've been convinced

00:51:17.640 that it's a smart strategy

00:51:19.700 to spend the first decade of adulthood

00:51:21.940 stacking degrees,

00:51:23.140 even if you don't know

00:51:23.980 what you're going to do with them.

00:51:25.320 Or because, as was the case with Alicia,

00:51:27.560 she says, the teacher in the clip,

00:51:29.500 they have to get a master's degree

00:51:31.160 in order to get into their chosen line of work.

00:51:34.720 Now, this third case,

00:51:36.840 where they get it because they have to,

00:51:38.700 that doesn't make it less of a scam,

00:51:40.240 but in fact, more of a scam.

00:51:41.820 Like so many other professions,

00:51:43.360 hers comes with an entirely arbitrary

00:51:45.160 barrier to entry.

00:51:46.680 It requires her to sink herself 0.96

00:51:48.640 even further into debt

00:51:49.920 to obtain what amounts to

00:51:51.920 nothing more than

00:51:52.640 extremely expensive calling card,

00:51:55.240 you know, signaling that she's a,

00:51:56.440 she's a member of the club.

00:51:59.360 That's why I wouldn't make fun of her

00:52:01.760 for getting the degree

00:52:02.860 if it's what she needed to do

00:52:04.720 in order to get the job she wanted. 0.99

00:52:06.960 But the problem is that

00:52:07.680 she's now pretending

00:52:08.580 that this symbolically significant token

00:52:10.920 has actual significance.

00:52:13.060 She says that parents aren't qualified

00:52:16.020 to determine which books

00:52:17.020 are appropriate for their own children

00:52:18.320 because the parents don't have

00:52:19.820 the magical piece of paper that she has.

00:52:21.960 That's not how it works, Alicia.

00:52:23.560 If the parents don't have a master's degree,

00:52:25.580 it only means that they weren't suckered

00:52:27.240 or coerced the way that you were.

00:52:29.320 That doesn't make them less qualified.

00:52:31.400 If anything, it makes them more qualified.

00:52:32.820 After all, you don't need a degree

00:52:34.440 to determine what is appropriate for children.

00:52:36.360 All you need is common sense

00:52:37.660 and powers of discernment.

00:52:40.880 And we must immediately suspect

00:52:42.420 that people who blew their money

00:52:43.700 on a useless advanced degree

00:52:45.200 are probably lacking in both of those things.

00:52:49.500 But again, this is not really

00:52:50.740 a question of qualification.

00:52:52.780 It is a question of the proper ordering of things.

00:52:56.720 It's a question of

00:52:57.680 who's the primary earthly authority over a child,

00:53:01.380 the parent or the government?

00:53:02.700 Who's the primary caregiver?

00:53:04.980 Who has the parental rights? 1.00

00:53:07.320 Does my child belong to me or the state?

00:53:09.400 Is my child my child?

00:53:11.960 Or is he the state's child?

00:53:13.660 The state's property?

00:53:15.620 And I'm just there as backup?

00:53:18.140 These are the fundamental questions at play here.

00:53:20.260 And these questions have nothing to do

00:53:21.820 with academic credentials.

00:53:24.220 And the answer right down the line is the parent.

00:53:28.940 The reason that we give primary authority

00:53:30.820 to the parent

00:53:31.420 is not just because it's the parent's right,

00:53:33.980 though it is,

00:53:34.600 but also because

00:53:36.140 that's what's best for the child.

00:53:38.840 And you notice how she says at the end

00:53:40.360 that we shouldn't consider

00:53:43.600 what the parent wants the child to be taught,

00:53:45.420 but rather what society needs

00:53:47.500 the child to be taught.

00:53:49.620 But when she says society,

00:53:51.180 she means, of course,

00:53:51.980 the institutions that run society.

00:53:54.340 And those institutions will decide

00:53:56.080 what they need the child to be taught

00:53:58.000 based on what sort of person

00:53:59.280 they need the child to become.

00:54:01.420 In the case of the institutions

00:54:03.280 in charge of our society today,

00:54:05.080 they, quote, unquote,

00:54:05.940 need our children to be morally

00:54:07.920 and intellectually vacuous vassals of the state

00:54:10.800 with no firm sense of self,

00:54:13.740 no understanding of their own identity,

00:54:15.860 who could be easily placated and manipulated.

00:54:19.600 Those are the sorts of people they need.

00:54:21.800 And so they want them to be educated

00:54:23.420 in a way that will produce those results.

00:54:25.540 But here's an alternative idea.

00:54:28.580 What should we teach the child?

00:54:30.200 Well, maybe we should teach the child

00:54:33.900 what the child needs to know, okay?

00:54:37.580 It's not what society needs the child to know.

00:54:40.400 It's what the child needs to know.

00:54:42.240 Maybe you should take the child's needs

00:54:44.340 into account first and foremost.

00:54:47.160 Rather than teaching based on the needs of society,

00:54:49.660 i.e. the institutions,

00:54:51.360 perhaps we should be teaching based on the needs

00:54:53.140 of the actual child, the student.

00:54:55.880 And the fact that this option

00:54:57.140 wasn't even mentioned by the teacher,

00:54:58.960 that she hadn't so much as considered this,

00:55:02.160 tells you all you need to know.

00:55:04.980 And as far as what kids need to know,

00:55:07.720 well, we certainly know that they don't need to know

00:55:11.240 about gender ideology and gender fluidity

00:55:13.600 and whatever else this teacher

00:55:15.380 wants to shove into their minds.

00:55:16.860 They don't need to be exposed to that.

00:55:19.940 In fact, they need to not be exposed to it.

00:55:23.580 And that is ultimately why this teacher

00:55:25.960 and her master's degree are today canceled.

00:55:29.880 That'll do it for this portion of the show

00:55:31.240 as we move over to the members block.

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00:55:38.080 If not, talk to you on Monday.

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00:55:41.220 Amen.

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