The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1126 - Cry All You Want, Trans Activists. You Started This Fight.

00:00:00.140 Today on the Matt Wall Show, trans activists have been panicking this week about an imaginary genocide against them.

00:00:05.360 There is no genocide, of course, but we are waging war against their poisonous ideology.

00:00:09.720 And no matter how much they kick and scream, what they have to remember is that they started this fight.

00:00:14.480 Also, Tucker Carlson releases the footage from January 6th that the media in D.C. don't want us to see.

00:00:19.140 Some of it is truly shocking. We'll play some of it for you today.

00:00:21.800 And Walmart will be closing all of its stores in Portland after retail theft drives the entire branch,

00:00:27.060 an entire corporation, out of the city. Plus, Pete Buttigieg claims that you're not a real working class man unless you're a fan of T.J. Maxx.

00:00:34.740 In our daily cancellation, a self-proclaimed fat sex therapist says that we need to build a sex-positive culture that is welcoming to men with rape fetishes. 0.98

00:00:43.320 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show. 0.99

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00:01:51.180 Well, I take comfort in the fact that if on any given day I am not personally being accused of launching a genocidal campaign

00:01:58.000 against marginalized people, then someone else at the Daily Wire certainly is.

00:02:01.280 So on Saturday it was, of course, Michael Knowles who stepped up to the plate delivering a speech at CPAC

00:02:06.160 that landed him in hot water with the media.

00:02:09.600 But as far as the media is concerned, of course, he didn't give a speech at all.

00:02:12.620 He only uttered one single phrase and all the rest of the context, everything else he said, was irrelevant noise.

00:02:19.180 As they breathlessly and hysterically reported, Knowles called for the eradication of transgenderism.

00:02:25.420 Actually, that's not what they reported. 0.69

00:02:26.380 They reported that he called for the eradication of transgender people, according to the headlines and various outlets 0.53

00:02:31.380 and the panicked social media posts of countless trans activists and other leftists. 0.94

00:02:36.480 He had explicitly advocated for the mass execution of the transgender community itself.

00:02:41.940 It was a mask off moment, they declared.

00:02:44.400 The right was finally revealing its true intentions.

00:02:47.420 They're setting up camps as we speak.

00:02:49.160 The extermination is about to begin.

00:02:51.540 And they got all of that from this statement, Munch.

00:02:54.320 There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. 1.00

00:02:59.160 It is all or nothing.

00:03:01.480 If transgenderism is true, if men really can become women, then it's true for everybody of all ages.

00:03:08.780 If transgenderism is false, as it is, if men really can't become women, as they cannot, then it's false for everybody too. 0.84

00:03:17.340 And if it's false, then we should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people.

00:03:29.080 If it is false, then for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion,

00:03:37.320 transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. 1.00

00:03:42.540 The whole preposterous ideology at every level. 0.99

00:03:47.320 Ah, so they lied.

00:03:50.340 It's no surprise that they lied.

00:03:51.860 The media quite often lies.

00:03:53.360 And as I've warned you many times, trans activists in particular lie about literally everything all the time. 1.00

00:04:00.140 They lie to themselves and about themselves and about everything else.

00:04:04.000 So they will certainly lie and say that Michael Knowles pushed for a holocaust of trans people,

00:04:08.880 when in fact he called for the defeat of an ideology, an idea.

00:04:12.680 If he was saying that he wanted to work for the eradication of malaria, that would not mean that he was murdering people with malaria.

00:04:20.460 In fact, the only reason that you would want to eradicate malaria is because you feel compassion towards the people with malaria.

00:04:28.840 If you didn't care about those people, then you say, well, let's let them die of malaria.

00:04:32.720 In the same way, a person who truly loves those who've fallen into transgenderism should want to eradicate the ism for their sake and for the sake of society at large. 1.00

00:04:46.880 But is a term like eradicate over the top?

00:04:49.980 Does it have a needlessly militant tone?

00:04:53.440 No, definitely not.

00:04:55.360 The tone may be militant, but not needlessly so.

00:04:58.740 We are, after all, in a war and lives are at stake.

00:05:02.720 We are in a war against the most deranged ideology ever invented by the human race.

00:05:09.260 Plain and simple.

00:05:10.380 We are fighting to eradicate the ideological equivalent of a parasitic infestation. 0.98

00:05:16.800 And the parasite, gender ideology, seeks to not only brainwash a generation of children, 1.00

00:05:22.340 not only degrade and appropriate womanhood, but also, and manhood, by the way, 0.99

00:05:27.060 but also, and most fundamentally, it seeks to eat away at truth itself.

00:05:32.060 Or if it cannot devour the truth, then at least it will destroy our ability to recognize the truth for what it is.

00:05:40.220 Eradication of gender ideology, total defeat, is the only option because there's no compromise with it. 0.95

00:05:46.220 There's no living side by side with it.

00:05:48.020 There's no finding common ground.

00:05:51.080 The gender ideologue wants to destroy your culture and your children. 1.00

00:05:56.040 You will either rise up against it or lose everything to it.

00:06:00.780 I mean, how do you compromise with someone who wants to sterilize and castrate children?

00:06:05.660 Do you agree to only sexually mutilate half of the kids?

00:06:08.660 Is that the compromise?

00:06:09.380 Or how do you compromise with someone who wants to rewrite biology textbooks to teach students that men can get pregnant? 1.00

00:06:17.360 What is the compromise position between men can get pregnant and men cannot get pregnant? 0.65

00:06:24.160 When it comes to what we're going to tell people, what we are going to teach kids in school,

00:06:30.520 what idea is going to be promoted by society,

00:06:34.660 between those two options, what's the middle ground?

00:06:41.100 There isn't one.

00:06:42.880 That's why this is a zero-sum contest.

00:06:46.140 Either we destroy gender ideology, eradicate it from public life, 0.98

00:06:50.620 utterly defeat it, burn it to the ground and dance around its ashes,

00:06:54.260 or it does the same to us and to our children.

00:06:57.840 That's the point.

00:07:00.040 But there's another point, too, and this is something that I want to say

00:07:03.020 specifically to the trans activists who are now crying and panicking

00:07:08.080 and hysterically ranting about imaginary genocides.

00:07:11.380 I say they're doing that now.

00:07:13.000 They didn't just start doing it now.

00:07:14.420 They've been doing it all along.

00:07:15.540 This is all they ever do.

00:07:17.580 But I want you, if you're in that group,

00:07:18.980 I want you to listen to this part very closely.

00:07:23.360 Please always remember this.

00:07:26.300 You started it.

00:07:29.520 You started it.

00:07:30.560 So, I see you on social media and on the news and out marching the street,

00:07:36.020 crying your crocodile tears and claiming that you're being set upon

00:07:39.260 by fascist right-wingers who won't let you just live your lives in peace.

00:07:44.300 What do we ever do to you, you cry?

00:07:46.700 Why are you so angry at us?

00:07:49.660 Well, let me answer that question.

00:07:51.300 You see, the rest of us were living our lives.

00:07:57.040 We were minding our own business when you came along and demanded that we abandon

00:08:03.480 everything we know about fundamental physical reality for your sake.

00:08:08.380 That's what you did.

00:08:09.480 You claim the right to walk into whatever bathroom you want, whatever locker room,

00:08:14.820 whatever sports team.

00:08:16.160 Nobody else has ever had that right.

00:08:17.880 Nobody else has ever had that right to just do whatever they want, go anywhere they want.

00:08:22.640 But you wanted it. 0.98

00:08:24.400 You came after our children, seeking to suck them into your suicide cult just to make yourselves 1.00

00:08:29.940 feel better. 0.98

00:08:30.820 You tried to restructure human society to make it affirming to you personally.

00:08:37.520 You wanted to force the whole world to bend to your narcissism.

00:08:41.740 You tried to put words in our mouths.

00:08:43.840 You tried to control how we speak, even when you're not in the room.

00:08:48.060 Your ego is so out of control that you even tried to take possession of parts of the English

00:08:53.000 language like you can own them as a pet. 0.99

00:08:56.620 But you waved that hideous, ridiculous flag in our face and wouldn't stop waving it. 0.98

00:09:04.140 You demanded not just tolerance, but celebration. 0.99

00:09:07.360 You did all of that.

00:09:08.780 That was you.

00:09:10.220 And now you cry victim because some of us have simply answered no.

00:09:15.980 You made demands.

00:09:17.800 Many people surrendered to those demands immediately, but some of us, a few of us, are refusing.

00:09:23.540 And that makes you what?

00:09:24.840 A victim?

00:09:25.220 You bullied most people into submission right away, but now you want to compare yourselves

00:09:29.840 to Jews and the Holocaust because a few of us can't be controlled so easily? 0.86

00:09:35.820 Well, that is just a testament to your boundless narcissism.

00:09:40.820 It didn't have to be this way.

00:09:43.240 If you were really interested in privacy, if you really simply wanted the ability to live

00:09:49.220 your life as you wished, then you could have had that.

00:09:54.840 So you could have had that.

00:09:57.020 If you had just said, well, I'm going to live as though I'm the opposite sex.

00:10:01.440 I'm going to tell everyone that I'm the opposite sex. 0.56

00:10:03.420 And I'm going to change my name and how I dress.

00:10:05.880 And I'm going to do all of this because it's what I want to do.

00:10:09.440 And it's how I want to live.

00:10:10.420 Well, if you just said that, you could have done that.

00:10:13.820 I personally still would not have agreed with your lifestyle.

00:10:16.640 And I personally would not have gone along with the charade.

00:10:19.900 And I would not have affirmed the lie.

00:10:22.040 I would not have.

00:10:23.020 But society generally would have left you alone as you claim you want.

00:10:28.980 And I know that because that was already the experience of the very small minority of

00:10:34.780 trans-identified people in this country up until the last decade or so.

00:10:38.040 Prior to this past decade, this tiny group of people basically lived the lifestyle they

00:10:42.900 wanted to live.

00:10:43.520 And there wasn't much intent to stop them from doing so.

00:10:47.660 It wasn't, we didn't really talk about it.

00:10:49.300 It wasn't discussed.

00:10:49.980 It was very much on the fringes.

00:10:55.020 But that wasn't good enough for you.

00:10:57.440 In your vanity, you couldn't be satisfied merely with the ability to live how you want.

00:11:02.560 You demanded the celebration.

00:11:04.320 You needed not just the ability to practice your lifestyle, but you needed a parade following

00:11:09.380 behind you and cheering you on the whole time.

00:11:12.600 And you needed affirmation.

00:11:14.300 My God, your obsessive, unquenchable need for affirmation.

00:11:21.700 Have you noticed that nobody else walks around every day demanding that the entire world

00:11:27.620 affirm them every second?

00:11:30.240 No one ever did that.

00:11:31.940 No one has lived their life that way, walking around looking for affirmation.

00:11:36.500 None of the rest of us even think about that.

00:11:39.760 The idea that you're going to walk out your door and you need to be affirmed by people?

00:11:42.680 How is that anyone's job to affirm you?

00:11:49.680 You decided to do that.

00:11:51.700 You couldn't just believe whatever you believed about yourself.

00:11:54.740 Nobody can stop you from having a belief about yourself.

00:11:57.180 You wanted the rest of us to believe it, too.

00:12:01.960 You wanted to force us to believe it.

00:12:04.100 You wanted society to be restructured around your self-perceptions.

00:12:08.640 And you wanted our children.

00:12:10.680 You wanted to induct countless children into your confusion, baptize them into it, so that 1.00

00:12:16.940 the confusion you foster in them might affirm the confusion you harbor in your own minds.

00:12:22.160 You pretended that you wanted freedom, but you had that.

00:12:28.400 You wanted more.

00:12:31.500 There were no laws saying that if you're a man and you want to put on a dress and walk around,

00:12:39.980 no one was going to put you in jail for that.

00:12:42.080 Now, you had the freedom, but you wanted a lot more than that.

00:12:48.980 You wanted to reshape our entire culture in your image. 0.97

00:12:52.800 You didn't just want your own lifestyle.

00:12:54.540 You wanted us to participate in it with you.

00:12:59.520 That's what this comes down to.

00:13:01.580 You are demanding our participation.

00:13:04.080 And what we are saying to you, some of us, is no.

00:13:10.240 Can you get that through your heads?

00:13:13.040 We are allowed to say no.

00:13:17.180 We are not going to participate.

00:13:21.900 You are the mouse who wanted a cookie, and you were given the cookie, and you ate it,

00:13:27.100 but then you wanted to eat everything else in the house, too.

00:13:29.520 Some people object, finally object, and you break down in tears like a child who has to leave the playground.

00:13:39.000 You push too far, way too far, and now this is the pushback.

00:13:45.780 In summary, you wanted this fight.

00:13:49.320 You asked for it.

00:13:51.320 You demanded it.

00:13:53.640 And now you have it.

00:13:55.880 Now you have it.

00:13:57.900 Whether you like it or not.

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00:15:11.200 So I'm very happy to be here, by the way, to be alive, actually.

00:15:15.360 On Friday, I'd have to tell you, I had one of those airplane experiences where people clap when the plane lands.

00:15:23.820 And that's, I don't think, I think that's the first time I've had that.

00:15:26.880 And that's how you know it was bad.

00:15:29.280 You know, when people are, when people are applauding, because they're applauding that you're not, that we're not all dead in a fiery inferno.

00:15:34.960 That's what they're actually applauding, which is kind of dark when you think about it.

00:15:37.580 We were flying into Nashville in the middle.

00:15:39.300 There's a big windstorm and 60 mile per hour winds and power lines are being knocked down all over the place.

00:15:44.220 We lost power in my house for a day.

00:15:46.700 It almost killed the fish in my fish tanks.

00:15:48.620 We lost the air pump and filter.

00:15:50.120 That was my main concern.

00:15:51.100 I was very concerned about that.

00:15:51.960 But that's a different story.

00:15:53.520 I'll tell you a different time.

00:15:54.700 Anyway, you know, big, big wind gusts.

00:15:57.980 And we were, we were going to land.

00:15:59.520 And then the pilot says, well, we can't land.

00:16:00.700 We got to, we got to circle around because it's not safe right now.

00:16:02.780 And then he comes on and about 20 minutes later and says, and these are his words.

00:16:06.980 He says, this is, okay, folks, we're going to try to land.

00:16:10.500 Try, try to land.

00:16:12.460 And so I'm thinking, you're going to try?

00:16:15.940 This is not, no, this is not a try situation.

00:16:18.260 I don't want to hear try, okay?

00:16:19.900 It's, it's not the effort that counts when it comes to landing the plane.

00:16:22.500 I want to hear, oh, hey, okay, folks, we're going to land the plane now.

00:16:26.240 Instead, it's, well, we're going to give it a, we're going to give it our best shot.

00:16:30.620 And we did get it on the land, on the, on the ground.

00:16:33.260 And, and the plane was shaking all over the place.

00:16:36.620 And it was people were, there was someone behind us throwing up and everything.

00:16:40.420 It was terrible.

00:16:41.180 And then we land, people applaud.

00:16:42.900 And we pull up to the gate and the pilot walks out of the cockpit and he looks frazzled.

00:16:48.660 Like, this is not how a pilot is supposed to look after a flight.

00:16:52.500 And he actually says, and I'm quoting him directly, as he's going, he's going to the bathroom.

00:16:56.840 As he goes in the bathroom, he goes, that was dicey.

00:17:00.820 That dicey?

00:17:02.460 It was dicey.

00:17:04.360 At least he didn't say that over the, the intercom.

00:17:06.680 Okay, folks, it's going to get a little dicey, but we're going to try it.

00:17:09.340 All right, we'll start with this Daily Wire host, Daily Wire reports, rather.

00:17:16.160 Fox News host Tucker Carlson released new surveillance footage from the January 6th riot

00:17:19.760 that appears to show two Capitol Police officers escorting Jacob Chansley,

00:17:23.420 known as the QAnon shaman, throughout the building.

00:17:26.680 Carlson released the footage after being given exclusive access by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

00:17:31.700 to 40,000 hours of video from that day.

00:17:35.840 Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape.

00:17:38.680 Carlson said during the segment, the tape show, the Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley.

00:17:44.240 They helped him.

00:17:44.940 They acted as tour guides.

00:17:45.820 Actually, we have this video, this clip, so we'll play that for you.

00:17:49.180 And this again is, this is the QAnon shaman, the guy with the Buffalo helmet.

00:17:53.960 And what you have to keep in mind as you watch this video is that he got,

00:17:57.700 I think it was three and a half years in prison.

00:17:59.260 He got over three years in prison for what you're about to see in this clip.

00:18:03.820 But let's take a look.

00:18:04.640 Jacob Chansley became the face of January 6th, a dangerous conspiracy theorist dressed in outlandish

00:18:11.700 costume who led the violent insurrection to overthrow American democracy.

00:18:16.580 For these crimes, Chansley was sentenced to nearly four years in prison, far more time

00:18:21.540 than many violent criminals now receive.

00:18:23.380 What did Jacob Chansley do to receive this punishment?

00:18:27.600 To this day, there is dispute over how Chansley got into the Capitol building.

00:18:31.900 But according to our review of the internal surveillance video,

00:18:35.340 it is very clear what happened once he got inside.

00:18:38.860 Virtually every moment of his time inside the Capitol was caught on tape.

00:18:43.320 The tapes show that Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley.

00:18:47.560 They helped him.

00:18:48.360 They acted as his tour guides.

00:18:51.240 Here's video of Chansley in the Senate chamber.

00:18:54.120 Capitol Police officers take him to multiple entrances and even try to open locked doors for him.

00:19:00.420 We counted at least nine officers who were within touching distance of unarmed Jacob Chansley.

00:19:06.420 Not one of them even tried to slow him down.

00:19:10.040 Chansley understood that Capitol Police were his allies.

00:19:13.480 Video shows him giving thanks for them in a prayer on the floor of the Senate.

00:19:17.480 Watch.

00:19:18.240 Thank you, Heavenly Father, for paying the inspiration needed to these police officers to allow us in this building.

00:19:26.760 Okay, so when you look at the footage, and if you're listening to the audio podcast,

00:19:31.700 and you haven't seen the footage, you have to go and find it online.

00:19:33.760 You can see it because the descriptions don't even do it justice.

00:19:37.020 I mean, it looks like if you had no context at all,

00:19:41.920 I'm not sure what you would think.

00:19:43.420 If you had no context and you saw a shirtless man in a Buffalo helmet being escorted through the Capitol building

00:19:48.500 by not just like one officer, but a whole squad of them.

00:19:53.980 I don't know what, without any context, what in the world you would think was happening.

00:19:56.920 But I guess I would imagine that it was a very weird private tour that he was being given of the Capitol.

00:20:06.260 And that's basically what it was.

00:20:07.580 They gave this guy a tour of the Capitol, and they let him in, and they let him walk around.

00:20:14.800 And then they turned around and said,

00:20:16.320 Oh, by the way, that thing that we let you do, and we didn't just let you do it.

00:20:20.240 We facilitated it.

00:20:22.480 Yeah, we're going to put you in jail for three and a half years for that.

00:20:25.540 This is entrapment.

00:20:27.120 This is cruel and unusual punishment, for one thing.

00:20:34.960 It's not as though, okay, it'd be one thing if there was footage of Chansley running in there violently.

00:20:43.020 Maybe he's got a weapon, and he's shooting and everything.

00:20:46.600 And the police officers back down to protect their own safety.

00:20:49.940 And then because of that, he's able to go ahead and do what he wants to do.

00:20:54.180 Well, in that case, yeah, you arrest him, you throw him, and you throw the book at him.

00:20:58.640 But that's not what happened.

00:20:59.880 There was no struggle here.

00:21:01.580 They could have easily stopped him from doing it.

00:21:06.720 Okay, in the footage you see there, it's like 10 against 1.

00:21:09.760 And he doesn't show any propensity for violence at all.

00:21:15.340 And so they let him walk around.

00:21:16.680 Now, should he have known that this is a very strange thing?

00:21:25.580 I shouldn't be here.

00:21:27.060 The fact that they're letting me do this is really weird.

00:21:30.200 I need to get out of here.

00:21:31.680 Should he have known that?

00:21:32.380 Yeah. 1.00

00:21:34.020 Like, obviously, on his part, this was very stupid. 1.00

00:21:36.260 And that's been the case all along with the generosity. 1.00

00:21:39.560 I mean, the whole thing, on the part of the people going into the Capitol, you're walking

00:21:44.180 right directly into a trap.

00:21:47.540 And you're all over security cameras.

00:21:50.400 And it was inevitable from the beginning that they're going to come after you and try to

00:21:54.820 destroy your life. 1.00

00:21:55.400 So it's a very stupid thing to do. 1.00

00:21:57.980 Does that make it the darkest day in the history of our democracy? 1.00

00:22:02.720 No.

00:22:03.180 Does that make it an insurrection?

00:22:04.440 No.

00:22:04.740 Does that mean that our democracy was hanging in the balance?

00:22:07.700 No, not even close.

00:22:09.060 That right there.

00:22:10.360 All of the rhetoric that you hear about how our democracy, it was almost the end of our

00:22:14.380 democracy.

00:22:15.240 They were trying to overthrow our government.

00:22:18.860 You look at that video and tell me, that's what an overthrow of the government looks like?

00:22:23.000 It looks like a guy just casually sauntering through the Capitol building, accompanied by, you know, a whole

00:22:31.480 squadron of armed police officers that have no problem with him being there.

00:22:35.460 They showed him where everything is.

00:22:37.160 One thing we don't have is, what was the conversation like between, what were they saying?

00:22:45.920 They were obviously talking.

00:22:46.800 And it didn't appear that they were saying anything like, get the hell out of here.

00:22:51.560 You're not supposed to be here.

00:22:53.800 They're just strolling around, having a conversation.

00:22:55.880 So this was, what does Jacob Chansley and many of these other January 6ers, what are they

00:23:01.360 guilty of?

00:23:03.460 Well, trespassing.

00:23:04.780 That's what, the big insurrection was in fact a, it was a, it was an episode of trespassing.

00:23:11.280 That's what it was.

00:23:14.960 And it should have been treated with the same severity that they treated all of the many

00:23:22.540 trespassers during the BLM riots, which of course was with no severity whatsoever.

00:23:29.300 Only, well, I should amend that actually, because the BLM riots, the people trespassing

00:23:33.200 there, that was a lot worse because they did, you know, the BLM writers did.

00:23:36.680 And I know we hear this comparison all the time, but it's an important point that we

00:23:41.160 shouldn't lose sight of.

00:23:42.840 The BLM writers, they, for example, broke into a police station in the middle of Minneapolis 0.99

00:23:49.800 and burned it to the ground.

00:23:53.440 Okay.

00:23:54.060 They ran, they went in there.

00:23:55.480 Here's the difference.

00:23:56.680 They went into the police station.

00:23:58.860 The police officers fled for fear of their lives.

00:24:01.820 And then it was in, the building was torched and burned to the ground.

00:24:06.620 Compare that to this where they're walking them through the building.

00:24:11.160 The police officers are walking them through, giving them a tour.

00:24:14.740 But we throw the book at the guy, three and a half years for the guy that was given, you

00:24:19.420 know, what turns out to be an unsanctioned illegal tour.

00:24:23.500 Well, what about those police officers?

00:24:25.960 Is there going to be any consequence for them?

00:24:28.860 Apparently not.

00:24:30.920 Going back, there's a little bit more from the Daily Wire report.

00:24:33.300 Carlson has access to 40,000 hours of footage.

00:24:37.100 So there's a lot more that we're going to find out.

00:24:39.520 He also released footage of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick that he claims was taken

00:24:43.740 after he was supposedly murdered by the mob outside.

00:24:47.200 The New York Times initially claimed in a report that Sicknick was killed when he was

00:24:53.460 struck in the head with a fire extinguisher by rioters.

00:24:55.540 The newspaper later retracted the report after an autopsy found that he died from a stroke

00:24:58.960 the following day.

00:24:59.580 So there's also footage that you can see where Sicknick is, this is after he was allegedly

00:25:07.240 assaulted and killed, is what we were originally told by media reports, while he's walking around.

00:25:11.420 Appears to be perfectly fine, perfectly good health.

00:25:14.600 And then he dies a day later.

00:25:17.680 And there was never any evidence from the autopsy that his death was in any way caused by, you

00:25:25.440 know, any riot or assaulting him.

00:25:27.140 This was not a, this was not, he suffered blunt force trauma to his head, and then he

00:25:31.140 went to the hospital and died a day later.

00:25:32.960 Okay, if that happened, then clearly he was killed.

00:25:35.140 But that's not what happened.

00:25:37.400 He died of a stroke.

00:25:38.480 He died of natural causes the next day.

00:25:42.140 Any attempt to link it to January 6th is tenuous and speculative at best, which is why no one's

00:25:50.740 ever been arrested for murdering Brian Sicknick, because nobody did.

00:25:53.020 Okay, if they were able to tie this to some, if they were able to tie his death directly

00:25:59.680 to somebody, then they would do it.

00:26:02.720 Okay, one thing we know is they're not looking to go easy on these people, to put it mildly.

00:26:07.080 But they can.

00:26:09.940 So, the footage, a lot more footage I think still to come, but it tells an important story,

00:26:15.260 a very different story from what we're told by the media, as always.

00:26:17.880 Yahoo reports, Walmart announced its plan to close its final two locations in Portland,

00:26:23.720 Oregon, at the end of March, following underwhelming financial results.

00:26:28.180 Quote, we have nearly 5,000 stores across the U.S., and unfortunately, some do not meet

00:26:32.760 our financial expectations.

00:26:34.900 While our underlying business is strong, these specific stores haven't performed as well

00:26:38.940 as we hoped.

00:26:39.840 The closures, which will result in nearly 600 employees being laid off, come after a statement

00:26:44.080 by Walmart CEO Doug McMillan in December 2022, noting that record-breaking retail theft had

00:26:50.880 undercut the company's economic performance of late.

00:26:54.280 McMillan told CNBC, theft is an issue.

00:26:56.260 It's higher than it has historically been.

00:26:58.620 Prices will be higher and or stores will close because of the theft.

00:27:03.780 And now, just as predicted by the CEO of Walmart, they are, in fact, closing all of the stores

00:27:10.140 in Portland.

00:27:11.200 Now, think about how much of a hellhole of a city you have to be if you can't even keep

00:27:18.520 your Walmarts open.

00:27:20.960 This is quite a statement.

00:27:23.560 I knew Portland was bad.

00:27:25.180 I don't think I've ever been there.

00:27:26.180 I have no interest in going.

00:27:28.240 This is even worse than I thought.

00:27:30.300 You can't even keep your Walmart open?

00:27:33.540 Any of them?

00:27:34.440 Your Walmart, okay, the Walmart in your town should stay open no matter what happens.

00:27:44.040 Like flooding, storm, hurricane, tornadoes.

00:27:47.960 Walmart stays open.

00:27:49.380 There could be an asteroid strike and Walmart will stay open.

00:27:52.440 There could be a nuclear holocaust and the only two things left alive are cockroaches and 0.88

00:27:57.480 the Walmarts they live in.

00:27:59.640 And that's usually the way it goes.

00:28:01.600 Like nothing can bring down a Walmart.

00:28:03.600 The Walmart will be there forever. 1.00

00:28:06.020 And yet Portland finds a way to kill them. 0.99

00:28:08.160 All of them in the whole city.

00:28:11.660 But this is really a perfect story in many ways because I think it shows a few things.

00:28:15.900 And first, first is that this is social justice on the left.

00:28:21.780 You know, we, the term woke, the woke mob or woke people seems to have supplanted SJW,

00:28:28.020 social justice warrior.

00:28:28.940 But, um, I kind of preferred social justice warrior because, because it, it, it shows and

00:28:36.220 emphasizes the fact illustrates how to them, this is what they considered.

00:28:40.980 This is their, when they talk about justice, this is what they mean.

00:28:43.340 So social justice, justice to them is letting, for example, random crooks and thieves and social 0.98

00:28:50.960 parasites steal. 0.97

00:28:53.080 That's social justice. 0.98

00:28:54.300 We've, we've heard everyone at the highest levels.

00:28:57.680 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez infamously has justified mass looting by saying, oh, they're just looking

00:29:02.740 for bread because they're hungry, even though as always, like the one thing, anytime there's mass

00:29:07.600 looting or mass, uh, uh, shoplifting, the one aisle they don't hit is the bread aisle.

00:29:13.440 I, I, we've seen so many videos in recent years and especially recent months of people walking

00:29:19.220 into these kinds of stores with grocery bags and just throwing things into them and walking right

00:29:23.820 out, strolling right out.

00:29:24.840 So, but you, they never, they're never in the bread aisle.

00:29:28.060 You know, have you noticed that they're never throwing, uh, like potato bread and whole wheat

00:29:32.060 into the bag, maybe grabbing some peanut butter and jelly on the way.

00:29:35.200 They don't do that.

00:29:37.220 But what they're always taking is consumer goods, electronics, uh, alcohol, like makeup,

00:29:44.740 things like that.

00:29:45.340 That's what they're always taking.

00:29:47.300 So, but that's social justice. 1.00

00:29:48.860 Let them, let them do what they want.

00:29:50.320 Let them steal. 0.96

00:29:50.820 And the cost is that it destroys the local economy.

00:29:57.540 It puts thousands of people out of work and it plunges your community further into poverty.

00:30:02.580 That's the cost of this justice.

00:30:05.440 That's how the scales, justice is all about.

00:30:07.820 That's why we, it's, uh, you know, the personification of justice with the scales, you know, justice is

00:30:14.200 all about, so it's always about weighing two things, one thing against another.

00:30:17.660 Um, it, it is always a process of weighing.

00:30:21.420 And in this case, what they're saying is that the desire of random hoodlums to steal outweighs

00:30:29.880 the needs of the community to have a job, to have a place where they can buy goods that

00:30:35.520 they need for their family, to have, you know, economic prosperity.

00:30:38.940 So the need of the hoodlums to just steal whatever they want, that outweighs.

00:30:41.980 That's a, that's, that is a, that is a greater concern, they're saying.

00:30:48.040 Um, and it also shows too that, uh, as much as they want to hide behind, whether it's shoplifting

00:30:55.440 or, or the looting or what, you know, happens during BLM riots, and they, they, they always

00:31:00.380 want to pretend that, well, this is only, this is happening to corporations and they have

00:31:04.300 insurance.

00:31:04.820 And so, yeah, they're burning down, uh, uh, or they're, they're burning down or cleaning

00:31:09.480 out a CVS or Walgreens or Walmart, but these are big corporations.

00:31:12.640 They're run by the wealthy fat cats who fly private jets around.

00:31:16.700 And, and, uh, so who cares about them?

00:31:19.980 And it's true that like, I don't, I don't sit around every day worrying about the financial,

00:31:26.880 um, solvency of the CEO of Walmart.

00:31:32.240 Okay.

00:31:32.880 I don't wake up in the morning wondering how Doug McMillan of Walmart's doing, but the problem

00:31:40.380 is that you're not just going after the corporation.

00:31:45.060 This is not, the corporation is not the victim of mass shoplifting.

00:31:51.860 It's all the people who have jobs there and now they don't anymore because you robbed the

00:31:58.480 place so much that it can't stay open anymore.

00:32:02.240 Okay.

00:32:02.820 Those are the victims.

00:32:05.700 And also, yes, the people that there's a reason why Walmart's thrive is because very

00:32:11.540 convenient.

00:32:12.120 They have everything that you need and they're just cheaper than anything else in town.

00:32:15.920 And, uh, and that's the reality.

00:32:17.780 And so if you're, if you're a low income American, then that's why Walmart is very important to

00:32:24.700 you because you can get what you need, get it all in one place.

00:32:27.160 Uh, and, uh, and you can get it for a much more affordable price than anywhere else.

00:32:32.940 And so you're also victimizing those people who don't have that option anymore.

00:32:36.580 What do you think?

00:32:37.180 Do you think, uh, I, after this story was, uh, posted by Yahoo and I saw people reacting

00:32:42.060 to it.

00:32:42.340 And one thing that I heard a lot is that, um, well, uh, it's okay.

00:32:49.560 So we get rid of Walmart and, and it was mom and pop stores will go in their place.

00:32:54.320 So this is good.

00:32:54.960 This is a good thing.

00:32:55.460 Now we're getting back to the mom and pop stores.

00:32:56.980 It'll be just like the old days.

00:33:00.140 That's not going to, what if Walmart cannot, um, absorb the losses of all the stealing and

00:33:07.580 theft and the way that, that, that the community treats it, you think a mom and pop store can,

00:33:13.640 you think mom and pop stores are going to say, well, Walmart couldn't survive here.

00:33:17.700 So let me set up shop.

00:33:19.840 No, the shoplifters will take out a mom and pop store in like 30 minutes. 0.98

00:33:23.540 It took a few years to take Walmart out.

00:33:27.340 They'll do it to a mom and pop store in less than a day.

00:33:31.300 Oh, well, that's right.

00:33:31.960 No, no.

00:33:32.320 Cause the shoplifters, but they, these are ethical shoplifters and they would never target a small

00:33:36.780 business.

00:33:37.340 They were only going out, right?

00:33:38.460 Yeah.

00:33:38.680 This is a Robin hood situation. 1.00

00:33:40.200 Sure.

00:33:41.900 Now these people don't care about it. 0.89

00:33:43.160 They don't, they, they care about nothing and nobody but themselves.

00:33:48.280 And any small businesses that try to fill the void that they'll be taken out to.

00:33:53.540 In a heartbeat, Jill Biden, PhD was, uh, asked about whether her husband would undergo any

00:34:00.500 cognitive tests before running for office again.

00:34:02.840 And, uh, here's how she responded.

00:34:05.000 Nikki Haley, one of the Republican candidates is calling for mental competency tests for those 0.98

00:34:11.040 politicians over the age of 75.

00:34:13.340 What do you think about that? 0.99

00:34:14.100 Ridiculous. 0.99

00:34:17.480 Would your husband ever take one of those? 0.99

00:34:20.280 I mean, we haven't even discussed, we would never even discuss something like that. 0.99

00:34:26.320 Ridiculous. 0.96

00:34:27.740 Uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's ridiculous that anybody would want to know whether the president 0.98

00:34:33.220 of the United States is cognitively there. 0.95

00:34:38.580 We want to know whether he has a mind at all. 0.92

00:34:40.920 We want to know whether he's a vegetable.

00:34:42.500 We know he's a vegetable.

00:34:43.620 Like to what extent, um, is he even aware of his surroundings? 0.99

00:34:49.500 And if you want to know that it's actually ridiculous, a ridiculous thing to want to know.

00:34:54.220 She was also asked, I think we have this clip, but she was, uh, she was asked more sort of

00:34:59.480 generally about his age and, you know, how, uh, how the voters should interpret that and

00:35:06.460 whether they should be concerned about the fact that he's so old.

00:35:08.300 And here's what she said about that.

00:35:10.080 Now, your husband is 80 years old.

00:35:12.120 If he wins a second term, he would be 82 at inauguration.

00:35:16.600 What do you say to those people who say maybe he's too old to be president?

00:35:20.980 Are those fair questions and conversations to be having?

00:35:23.740 I say, look at what he's done.

00:35:26.700 You know, look at what he's doing.

00:35:29.780 Look at how, um, physically he's got the good bill of health from the doctors through his

00:35:36.740 physicals.

00:35:37.580 But how many 30 year olds could travel to Poland, get on the train, go nine more hours, go to

00:35:47.680 Ukraine, meet with President Zelensky?

00:35:51.560 Morning, Mr. Bruce.

00:35:52.820 His energy level, his level of passion.

00:35:56.740 So look at the man, look what he's doing.

00:36:01.360 Uh, we are, but that's the problem, Jill PhD.

00:36:04.920 We are, we are looking at the man and what he's doing and what he's not able to do, such

00:36:08.980 as speak in full sentences after anymore.

00:36:12.100 Uh, we're looking at all of that and that's what we're concerned about.

00:36:14.440 It is.

00:36:14.940 It's so sad that she, she's doing her best to prove that he's still spry and energetic and

00:36:21.400 with it.

00:36:22.280 And so the best she could do is say, what 30 year old could fly to Poland and get on

00:36:28.020 a train?

00:36:29.800 You know how patronizing that is. 0.70

00:36:31.780 Look, he got on a train all by himself.

00:36:34.380 He rode the choo-choo all by himself. 0.84

00:36:38.320 What 30 year old could do that?

00:36:39.680 Um, I don't know, any, any 30 year old could do that?

00:36:43.860 Who, who could go to Ukraine and meet with President Zelensky?

00:36:46.840 Um, I don't know, like half of the country apparently has been to Ukraine and met with

00:36:51.580 Zelensky.

00:36:51.960 Every left wing celebrity and Democrat, they just said Janet Yellen, treasury secretary 0.99

00:36:57.900 was it, was in, uh, touring Ukraine and talking to the president.

00:37:01.320 Everyone goes, why is Janet Yellen? 0.96

00:37:03.420 Well, we know why she's there.

00:37:04.280 She's in fact, it makes a lot of sense for her to be there because they have so much of

00:37:06.620 our money that now, uh, that she's like the financial advisor now to Zelensky, but everyone

00:37:13.940 goes to Ukraine.

00:37:15.240 And, uh, and so who could do that?

00:37:17.640 Anybody.

00:37:18.920 This is the best she could do.

00:37:20.340 It's not like she's caught off guard by the question.

00:37:23.200 You're getting these questions all the time.

00:37:25.420 So the best she could do to prove that she came in prepared, like I'm going to prove that

00:37:30.640 my husband, he needs another four years and he can work till he's 86 and it won't be a

00:37:35.040 problem.

00:37:35.720 And the best she could do is, well, look at him.

00:37:38.080 He got on a train.

00:37:40.720 He can walk down steps without falling sometimes.

00:37:44.860 His, his, his fall rate on steps is only 17%.

00:37:48.680 All right.

00:37:50.340 Finally from CNN, there is, uh, just one line in this report that I enjoyed.

00:37:54.760 This says, uh, Pete Buttigieg admits he got it wrong on the Ohio train derailment response.

00:37:59.560 But while the criticism is fair, he says the critics are mostly not.

00:38:03.240 It's really rich to see some of these folks, the former president, these Foxos who are literally 0.99

00:38:07.640 lifelong card carrying members of the East coast elite, whose top economic policy priority

00:38:12.540 has always been tax cut for the wealthy and who wouldn't know their way around a TJ Maxx if

00:38:16.640 their life depended on it to be presenting themselves as if they genuinely care about

00:38:20.400 the forgotten middle of the country.

00:38:22.000 The treasury secretary said, you think Tucker Carlson knows the difference between a TJ Maxx

00:38:26.340 and a Kohl's?

00:38:28.220 So that's how you determine whether someone is in touch with the common man.

00:38:32.680 If they can tell the difference between a, between a TJ Maxx and a Kohl's.

00:38:35.820 Well then I guess, I guess no man is in touch with the common man because none of us could,

00:38:42.280 there is no difference.

00:38:43.260 This is a trick question.

00:38:44.140 TJ Maxx, Kohl's, Marshall's, they're all exactly the same and they're always in the

00:38:49.340 same shopping centers together and nobody knows the difference.

00:38:52.840 Like you go to these places and, uh, I used to live where there was a TJ Maxx and a Kohl's

00:38:56.860 right there and it was, it was always bewildering whenever my wife forced me to go into these

00:39:01.100 places and it already, if I'm, if I'm going to, into a retail outlet with her, my, my sense

00:39:06.900 of time and place has already been warped and I don't know exactly what's going on, but

00:39:10.880 I could never tell which store I was in at any given moment.

00:39:13.020 They're exactly the same.

00:39:14.200 They both have clearance racks full of quadruple XL jean shorts.

00:39:18.120 They both have random items strewn all over the place.

00:39:20.940 They both have these, uh, big bins of like socks that look like they've already been worn

00:39:25.440 somehow and they're there.

00:39:27.100 Um, and they both fill me with, they both, they both fill me with the same feeling of

00:39:31.160 despair when I'm, when I'm in any of these places.

00:39:34.280 And this is the illustration that Buttigieg comes up with.

00:39:38.240 It, I must say it is the gayest litmus test I've ever heard. 1.00

00:39:42.460 You couldn't come up with a gayer one.

00:39:44.680 And it's unfair because it's not really testing whether Tucker Carlson is middle class or not,

00:39:49.080 which we know he's not, but it's testing whether he is straight or not, which apparently he

00:39:53.680 is if he can't tell the difference between the two.

00:39:55.020 No straight man of any income bracket can speak with authority about the fine distinctions

00:40:00.700 between TJ Maxx and Kohl's.

00:40:02.820 We enter those places with our wives. 0.99

00:40:05.000 We walk around bored and depressed and despondent.

00:40:08.000 Our wives hold up these, you know, off-brand button downs and say, this would look nice 1.00

00:40:12.220 on you.

00:40:12.900 And we say, yeah, sure.

00:40:14.220 Can we go?

00:40:14.760 I'm hungry.

00:40:15.560 There's the chilies right down the street. 0.99

00:40:17.080 It's, it's already lunchtime.

00:40:18.160 It's going to be busy.

00:40:18.740 Can we go there?

00:40:19.680 That's the kind of relationship that straight men have with places like that.

00:40:23.100 But Pete Buttigieg cannot relate to our lived experience.

00:40:27.080 That's his problem.

00:40:29.100 I'm just wondering, what is he going to come up with next?

00:40:30.880 You know, it'll be like, uh, these elitist white men, you know, they, they don't, they 0.97

00:40:34.880 don't understand normal Americans. 0.92

00:40:36.500 Have these men ever even had a pedicure?

00:40:38.860 They don't know what it's like.

00:40:40.880 I rest my case.

00:40:42.860 Pete Buttigieg.

00:40:43.840 Once in a generation political talent, though, is what we're told.

00:40:47.620 You know, he's going to really play.

00:40:48.820 This guy's going to really play in the, uh, in the rust belt, they tell us.

00:40:52.060 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:40:54.160 Do you know their name?

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00:42:04.200 Mal says, the counter to the bystander effect is the first penguin effect.

00:42:09.580 Penguins will stand on the cliff staring at the water until one dives in.

00:42:12.840 When they're all, when they all start going at that point, the more people see people willing

00:42:17.000 to take action, the more action will be taken.

00:42:19.540 Um, I don't think that's the counter to the bystander effect so much as it is the, it's the,

00:42:25.180 it's like the inverse of the, of the bystander effect, but it's the same psychological principle

00:42:29.520 that people, and you're right though, that, uh, you know, may, if you want to look at

00:42:34.520 that as the, I'm not gonna call it the positive side of it, but, um, yeah, it, it, if people

00:42:42.020 look around and they see that no one's doing anything about something, then they're less

00:42:44.920 likely to do it.

00:42:45.640 But if someone stands up and says, okay, I'll do it, then more people will join in, uh,

00:42:50.280 which, which yes, that, that does encourage us to be, you know, be the, I don't know if

00:42:54.660 I like this slogan exactly, but penguins are not, they don't have quite the, the tough militant

00:42:59.260 sort of reputation that I want for this.

00:43:01.000 But if you want the slogan to be, be the first penguin, then, uh, then I could see that,

00:43:05.980 that someone has to stand up and be the first and then other people will follow.

00:43:10.460 The other thing to do, this is another way of saying, call it the bystander effect.

00:43:13.340 I think we might, we, we might, uh, be better off calling it the follower effect.

00:43:17.880 And most people, most people are inclined to be followers, not everybody, you know, it's

00:43:24.380 relatively rare.

00:43:25.420 Someone with real leadership traits, who is, uh, eager and willing to stand up and be

00:43:31.480 the first to do someone, to be the first in line, to, you know, to, to, to be out on

00:43:35.380 the front lines of any given fight, um, to go out on a limb, to, to say, yeah, I don't

00:43:40.840 know if people are going to follow me down this path, but I'm going to go.

00:43:43.920 And if you follow me, then great.

00:43:46.400 Not very many people typically are willing to do that.

00:43:49.040 Most people are, you know, they follow in, they fall into this follower sort of, uh,

00:43:55.420 pattern.

00:43:57.160 Jake says, if we're affirming everybody, my two-year-old keeps asking to have my beer.

00:44:00.780 I asked if he's old enough and he said, yes, confused on how to handle this.

00:44:04.800 He also wants to drive help.

00:44:08.080 Um, yeah, well, this, this is why I always make the point, uh, with all these, whether

00:44:14.480 it's driving or alcohol or tobacco or, uh, tattoos or purchasing firearms, like all these

00:44:21.260 things at almost everyone agrees that there should be certainly an age limit.

00:44:27.920 And most people agree that the age limit should be 18, should be adult, or if not higher than

00:44:31.860 that.

00:44:33.240 The alcohol example in particular is, uh, I think especially devastating to the, you

00:44:39.240 know, the people that trans kids, the, the, the gender ideologue proponents, the alcohol

00:44:43.080 example is especially devastating because we don't even, it's, it's at least, and this might

00:44:46.880 be different in other, in other parts of the world, in other countries like in Europe, but

00:44:49.460 here, even when you become an adult, you still have to wait three more years before we as

00:44:57.440 society are willing to, uh, you know, give you legal access to, uh, you know, a beer with

00:45:05.480 5% alcohol.

00:45:08.360 Now, obviously a great many, uh, young people access that alcohol anyway, even though they're

00:45:12.860 not legally able to, but, but that's what, that's what the law says.

00:45:17.180 So even when you're eight, you become a legal adult, you are still three years away from

00:45:22.300 being, from us trusting you to legally purchase a Miller Lite.

00:45:30.300 And yet we have the radical life-altering, body-altering, body-destroying surgeries that

00:45:36.880 we, uh, do to kids much younger than 18.

00:45:40.580 Um, let's see, what else do we got here?

00:45:47.700 Becky says, keep saying it, Matt, white men have done amazing things throughout history.

00:45:53.280 Well, they have, we went over some of that last week on the show and, um, we should be

00:45:59.100 able to say, you know, one thing I wanted to say about that is, you know, the response

00:46:06.040 is always that, well, uh, white men have always been celebrated and who hasn't heard about

00:46:10.340 all these, you know, all these, all these people and pioneers and inventors and founding

00:46:15.040 fathers and all the rest of them.

00:46:16.280 And they were white men and we've all heard about them and they've been celebrated.

00:46:19.620 And so, and so that's why we don't need, we don't need a, a, a celebration of white men

00:46:24.000 in particular.

00:46:24.500 We don't need a white history month or a male history month. 0.90

00:46:28.160 That's the response.

00:46:29.200 But, but the answer to that is, first of all, these days, yeah, we hear about these various

00:46:35.300 founders and pioneers and everything, but we hear about how problematic, problematic they

00:46:39.540 were and, uh, and how, well, you think that these were great men, but actually here's the

00:46:43.300 truth. 1.00

00:46:43.620 And they were all scumbag. 1.00

00:46:44.540 That's what we hear. 1.00

00:46:45.500 And we see that their statues are being torn down and all the rest of it.

00:46:48.440 So it's not even true that they're celebrated.

00:46:50.140 They aren't anymore.

00:46:52.080 But also if they are celebrated, it's never, you know, no one ever says, look at this great

00:46:58.640 thing that the white male Benjamin Franklin did, the white male Thomas Edison did.

00:47:04.700 So the fact that they're white male, that is not pointed out.

00:47:08.380 Whereas with anyone else in any other group, they're going to be celebrated, not just for

00:47:15.560 their individual achievements, but it's also going to be pointed out that, hey, look at

00:47:19.760 what this black American did. 0.97

00:47:21.060 Look at what this woman did. 1.00

00:47:23.640 So the identity group is, is identified and pointed out.

00:47:28.860 And then the celebration is not just of the individual, but the entire group.

00:47:33.920 And yet with this one particular group, you're not allowed to do that.

00:47:37.720 And that's what doesn't make any sense.

00:47:38.520 And then finally, the rich meister says, Matt, the only time you should be concerned about

00:47:46.520 a young pilot is if his name is Sum Ting Wong or Wu Wee Too Low, Holy Fook or Bang Ding

00:47:55.080 Ow. 1.00

00:47:58.280 That is so stupid. 1.00

00:48:00.460 And I shouldn't be laughing at that because it is so dumb. 1.00

00:48:02.900 But, um, but also funny and you're also, you're right that we should, you know, I, uh, that's 0.91

00:48:09.400 why I said, I, I, um, I may have some ageism when it comes to pilots.

00:48:14.300 I may have some sexism, but, uh, it's not, it's not a race or ethnicity thing.

00:48:18.520 So I would be perfectly happy with an Asian pilot, as you point out, um, as well.

00:48:23.740 So as long as they're men between the ages of 40 and 65, that's all.

00:48:29.100 Back in 2021, during a five-hour hearing before Congress, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he

00:48:34.480 didn't let his own kids use Facebook.

00:48:36.640 That should have been enough to make you think twice about letting your kids use any social 0.94

00:48:39.620 media, but especially TikTok.

00:48:41.520 Well, there's a new book out, um, published by DW Books, written by Bethany Mandel and,

00:48:46.500 uh, Carol Markowitz.

00:48:47.560 And it drives this point home in, um, I think really compelling fashion.

00:48:51.660 It's called Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. 1.00

00:48:55.820 When I read, uh, this passage, I wanted to basically delete every social media app I have

00:49:01.020 and throw my phone away.

00:49:01.840 Listen to this.

00:49:03.120 This is what they write.

00:49:03.800 TikTok was the center of a 2021 Wall Street Journal investigation, which uncovered how the

00:49:08.040 app targets users with content revolving around sex, drugs, eating disorders, and more, calling

00:49:13.000 it an addiction machine.

00:49:14.740 Investigators created 31 accounts registered to young teens and turned them loose to browse

00:49:19.440 TikTok's For You feed, which is the highly personalized, never-ending feed curated by the algorithm.

00:49:24.940 The article explained, quote, an analysis of the video served to these accounts found that

00:49:29.440 through its powerful algorithms, TikTok can quickly drive minors, among the biggest users

00:49:33.140 of the app, into endless spools of content about sex and drugs.

00:49:36.840 TikTok served one account registered as a 13-year-old, at least 569 videos about drug use, references

00:49:42.800 to cocaine and meth addiction, and promotional videos for online sales of drug products and

00:49:47.420 paraphernalia.

00:49:48.260 Hundreds of similar videos appeared in the feeds of the journal's other minor accounts.

00:49:52.840 Well, that's all in the book.

00:49:53.540 There's a lot more you can find out.

00:49:54.520 Remember, this is by design. 0.96

00:49:56.120 Radicals want your children sick and corrupted. 1.00

00:49:58.640 It's as simple as that.

00:49:59.960 But the good news is, you can fight back if you know how, and you've got to get the book

00:50:03.400 Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation, which comes 1.00

00:50:07.400 out today.

00:50:08.180 Order your copy on Amazon or wherever you get books, but make sure you do it right now.

00:50:12.880 And now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:50:14.320 Last year, Showtime produced and aired a four-part documentary called We Need to Talk About Cosby.

00:50:25.180 And I haven't seen it.

00:50:26.160 I don't plan to see it.

00:50:27.260 And if this clip, which went viral this week after the series aired on the BBC, is any indication,

00:50:32.080 then there's no reason for me to change that policy.

00:50:34.700 I will not be watching it.

00:50:35.720 In the clip, we're treated to some insight from Sona Lee Rachetuar, who is a non-binary

00:50:41.340 sex therapist who goes by they, he pronouns, which means that she's a female.

00:50:46.660 So her personal pronouns are all of the pronouns except the right ones.

00:50:51.680 So she'll take any of them as long as it's not right.

00:50:53.760 And if those credentials don't impress you, though, I should also mention that she is 0.90

00:50:58.900 very fat. 0.99

00:51:00.240 She's a very fat person. 1.00

00:51:02.460 And I can say that because that's how she identifies herself. 1.00

00:51:04.860 She calls herself on her website, the fat sex therapist. 0.93

00:51:08.680 And the website, speaking of, also contains this description of her work. 0.96

00:51:13.800 It says this.

00:51:15.380 Sona Lee Rachetuar is an award-winning clinical social worker, sex therapist, adjunct lecturer, 0.52

00:51:20.240 and grassroots organizer.

00:51:22.160 Based in Philly.

00:51:22.860 They are a, they are a superset, wait, superset, I think I might have put that one.

00:51:29.260 They are a super queer bisexual non-binary therapist and co-owner of Radical Therapy Center,

00:51:35.800 specializing in treating sexual trauma, diet trauma, racial or immigrant trauma, and South

00:51:41.300 Asian family abuse.

00:51:43.980 Okay, so if you suffered from North Asian family abuse, I guess you're out of luck, I guess. 0.88

00:51:47.900 Now, most of this sounds like nonsense to me, but she does deserve credit, at least, for

00:51:53.920 her efforts to fight diet trauma.

00:51:56.380 I mean, as we can see, she has clearly been extremely successful in staving off trauma related

00:52:02.120 to dieting.

00:52:03.120 So if you're worried about being traumatized by dieting, she's definitely the person you

00:52:07.020 want to talk to about that.

00:52:08.120 But that isn't really the point we need to focus on, especially because her website is

00:52:14.280 absolutely filled with this kind of gibberish.

00:52:16.520 Here's just one more sample.

00:52:18.460 Here's what it says.

00:52:19.240 Sexuality is morphed by the pressures of compounding oppressions, which is why I offer solution-focused

00:52:26.000 workshops that affirm the colonized experience and contribute to the radical imagination of

00:52:31.240 our decolonial sexual futures.

00:52:33.760 We must unlearn the ways that we have been forced to exist within what is considered normal

00:52:38.260 and begin to imagine the ways that we can flourish outside of those pressurized systems.

00:52:42.900 By aggregating individual forms of sexual resistance, I am able to weave together workshops explaining

00:52:49.220 broader ideas of collective sexual liberation, centering conversations around pleasure and body

00:52:54.700 liberation, we can better imagine how joy will lead us to revolution.

00:53:00.120 Now that all reads as if it was written by some kind of random woke word generator.

00:53:05.080 Leftist buzzwords are combined with academic-sounding jargon and weird psychobabble, with little

00:53:11.320 attempt made to form them into actual coherent sentences.

00:53:15.080 Which is how you end up with gems like the phrase aggregating individual forms.

00:53:19.220 forms of sexual resistance.

00:53:21.320 Whatever sexual resistance is supposed to be, I'm not quite sure how it can be aggregated.

00:53:26.200 This is what happens when a person with an IQ of 95 uses a thesaurus to try and make her writing

00:53:30.960 sound more intelligent. 0.97

00:53:32.620 It's a common pitfall of a certain type of dumb person, where they are given to believe that in 0.99

00:53:38.420 order to sound intelligent, you must be unintelligible. 0.98

00:53:41.800 Which is like the opposite of how it's supposed to work.

00:53:45.180 But this is perhaps more information than you needed to know about this person, but it does

00:53:49.980 help to put the clip into context.

00:53:53.380 Though the context won't make it any less horrifying than it is.

00:53:56.820 Listen.

00:53:57.220 If we actually grappled with the fact that sex negativity is what causes this type of

00:54:03.560 behavior, then we could create a world where in an idyllically sex-positive world, someone

00:54:12.680 is able to pay conscious women to come and be drugged so that I can get my kink out, my fetish 0.99

00:54:20.900 on having sex with unconscious people. 0.99

00:54:22.640 There's a consensual way to do that. 0.98

00:54:24.120 Oh, there you see.

00:54:26.340 Bill Cosby, he wasn't a serial rapist, as she explains.

00:54:29.600 He wasn't that.

00:54:30.580 Or if he was, it wasn't his fault.

00:54:32.200 He was the victim of a world that isn't sex-positive enough.

00:54:36.540 If only he had had an outlet to, as she says, get his kink out, then he wouldn't have been 0.99

00:54:42.340 forced to drug and rape so many women. 1.00

00:54:44.880 Now, this is, of course, disgusting and depraved. 0.99

00:54:46.800 It's no wonder that a woman with no concept of physical health would also have such deluded 1.00

00:54:51.760 ideas about what is sexually and morally healthy as well.

00:54:55.500 But she does help us to see, I think, two important points.

00:54:58.460 First point is this, that we need to get back to kink shaming. 1.00

00:55:04.760 We're told we're not supposed to kink shame.

00:55:06.000 You don't shame anyone's kink or their fetish.

00:55:07.800 I don't shame it.

00:55:09.140 No, no, no.

00:55:09.620 Actually, we should.

00:55:11.000 There should be a lot of shame being heaped on many of these kinks and fetishes that are 1.00

00:55:16.740 celebrated these days.

00:55:19.400 In our culture, we have this notion that a person's kinks, their sexual habits and desires

00:55:23.940 are automatically above criticism.

00:55:27.020 The worst thing we could ever do is critique or interrogate someone else's sexual proclivities.

00:55:32.820 Sona Lee is simply standing at the logical endpoint of that idea.

00:55:37.860 If we mustn't kink shame, if we must pretend that all sex is good or at least morally neutral 1.00

00:55:43.380 so long as it's allegedly consensual, then even rape becomes its own, as she says, kink 0.99

00:55:50.180 that just needs a healthy outlet. 0.67

00:55:53.300 But this is not true.

00:55:55.780 The premise is fatally flawed.

00:55:58.980 Sex is not a morally neutral playing field.

00:56:02.600 How could it be?

00:56:03.520 Okay, sex is an interaction with another human being.

00:56:09.640 There's no interaction to begin with that's morally neutral.

00:56:13.580 But in this case, it's the most intimate sort of interaction.

00:56:17.100 It involves the most intimate sort of physical contact.

00:56:19.940 You are engaging with someone who is in their most vulnerable state, both physically and emotionally

00:56:24.940 and spiritually and in every other way.

00:56:27.100 Sex is an act laden with consequence, potentially serious consequences.

00:56:34.300 Of course, there are proper ways to go about it and improper ways.

00:56:37.900 It's not just a forum to get your kinks out.

00:56:40.940 The problem with many kinks that we are supposed to accept or even celebrate these days, including 1.00

00:56:45.380 the one that the fat sex therapist is talking about, though certainly not just that one,

00:56:49.740 is that they don't respect the dignity and God-given value of the other person involved. 0.98

00:56:57.780 So often, these are things that are degraded and disgusting and perverse.

00:57:02.220 There are proper ways and improper ways of interacting with someone in even a casual environment.

00:57:11.160 But sex is not casual, no matter how much we try to pretend otherwise.

00:57:14.080 And so if there's a right and wrong way for even casual interactions between humans to go,

00:57:20.000 then how much more must that be the case for sexual interactions?

00:57:24.460 There are right and wrong ways.

00:57:26.180 A kink may be performed consensually, but it can still be deeply disordered and degrading. 0.99

00:57:33.320 And therefore, we should criticize it.

00:57:36.780 Even more, we should ask why. 0.99

00:57:38.520 If you have a weird, gross sexual fetish, you should be asking yourself why you have it. 0.99

00:57:46.900 What is it about this depraved activity that you find so appealing? 0.98

00:57:51.300 You see, we live in a society that is obsessed with desire.

00:57:55.100 All we care about is what someone desires, what they want.

00:57:59.420 So we're obsessed with desire, and yet we're so incredibly incurious about it at the same time.

00:58:04.060 We never ask why a person has a certain desire.

00:58:07.380 All we know is that they desire what they desire, and so they should go off and try to obtain whatever they desire.

00:58:13.420 But there are some desires that should not be pursued.

00:58:15.980 In fact, there are many such desires.

00:58:18.380 And those desires are warning signs. 0.59

00:58:20.960 In the case of a desire to, you know, have sex with unconscious people, as this woman is talking about, 0.53

00:58:26.840 the warning sign is more like an alarm bell blaring at 100 decibels,

00:58:32.500 indicating that something is deeply wrong in the person's mind and soul.

00:58:37.380 We should be investigating what is wrong rather than telling people to ignore it

00:58:41.580 in the mindless pursuit of satisfying whatever disgusting urge enters into their head.

00:58:48.060 Second point.

00:58:48.900 All of this begins to make sense as soon as we realize that consent-based morality,

00:58:56.200 morality that is merely consent-based, is not just wrong but catastrophic to any culture that tries to adopt it.

00:59:05.800 Case in point, our culture.

00:59:07.880 There has to be more to morality, especially sexual morality, than mere consent.

00:59:14.480 Obviously, all sexual activity must be consensual.

00:59:17.640 Obviously, it's a horrible evil to force yourself on someone violating their consent.

00:59:22.280 But the problem is that that is where our culture wants to end the conversation.

00:59:27.660 But it shouldn't be the ending.

00:59:28.980 It's just the beginning of the conversation about what entails, you know, a healthy, good sex life.

00:59:38.580 Okay?

00:59:39.120 But what our culture says is that if the sex is consensual, then that's all there is to say about it.

00:59:43.200 There is nothing else to say about it.

00:59:45.280 All sex is good so long as both people, or however many people, verbally agree to participate in it. 0.77

00:59:52.220 The flaw in this idea is that it emphasizes, it's not that it emphasizes consent, but that it only cares about consent.

01:00:02.040 Consent is the beginning and the end.

01:00:03.840 And that's how you wind up with people like Sona Lee trying to find a consensual way for men like Bill Cosby to sexually violate unconscious women. 0.99

01:00:13.720 That's indeed how you end up with lots of disordered, harmful, damaging sexual behavior that is nonetheless accepted because it's consensual.

01:00:21.660 What we need to finally understand is that consent is not the one and only consideration.

01:00:27.080 While all non-consensual sex is automatically evil, it doesn't follow that all consensual sex is automatically good.

01:00:35.200 Because sex can still be degrading, demeaning, dehumanizing, even when the participants are engaged in the act by choice.

01:00:42.800 We see that consent on its own is a flimsy and insufficient framework for sexual morality.

01:00:49.800 This is also why people will, you know, very often will, these days, will engage in consensual sex with some random person that they met, you know, on Tinder or whatever.

01:01:01.780 And then they'll wake up the next day feeling regret.

01:01:05.240 This happens all the time.

01:01:06.800 They agreed, they consented, and yet now they regret it.

01:01:10.780 In fact, a person engaged in consensual sex not only regret it, but can wake up feeling used and exploited.

01:01:20.220 Because they were used and exploited.

01:01:22.600 They consented to being used and exploited, but they were still used and exploited.

01:01:27.580 And they used and exploited their partner in equal measure. 0.91

01:01:30.360 That's what a lot of consensual sex, casual sex, that's what it is. 0.94

01:01:34.740 It is the mutual agreement for two people to use and exploit each other and then discard them.

01:01:41.540 So you've got consent.

01:01:42.560 There's no question about it.

01:01:43.460 But does that mean we can't say anything else to criticize treating each other this way?

01:01:51.080 Like maybe it's not good for you.

01:01:52.460 Maybe it's not good for the other person.

01:01:54.480 Maybe this is not a path to fulfillment and happiness in life.

01:01:57.160 The thing is, in a situation like that, neither person was raped, but they did indulge in something shallow, loveless, and degrading. 0.95

01:02:05.280 And having casual sex, they allowed a stranger to use them as a glorified masturbatory aid. 0.94

01:02:10.340 They feel embarrassed and vulnerable now. 0.99

01:02:12.300 They feel hollow.

01:02:13.100 They feel despair.

01:02:13.980 They feel regret.

01:02:14.660 But these feelings are inevitable when you divorce sex from love and from devotion and from fidelity and from concepts like dignity.

01:02:27.020 And that should be the framework.

01:02:29.160 Rather than merely asking whether the sex is consensual, we should ask whether it is loving, whether it respects the dignity of the other person.

01:02:36.960 And the great thing is that this framework will obviously include consent, but then it goes much farther beyond that as it needs to.

01:02:51.000 This is something that's obvious to me and obvious to many people.

01:02:54.480 But, of course, to someone like Sona Lee, who makes it her whole life and her whole business to talk about sex, she can't see this insight at all.

01:03:01.040 And that is why she is today finally canceled.

01:03:04.760 And that will do it for the show today.

01:03:07.220 We'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:08.080 Have a great day.

01:03:08.980 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 07, 2023

Ep. 1126 - Cry All You Want, Trans Activists. You Started This Fight.

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