The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1129 - Ungrateful Brat Colin Kaepernick Throws His White Adoptive Parents Under The Bus

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, professional victim Colin Kaepernick has a new book to promote,

00:00:04.120 which means it's time to complain about oppression again.

00:00:06.580 Except this time, it's not just his country he throws under the bus, it's his parents, too. 0.55

00:00:10.960 Also, Glenn Youngkin is confronted by a quote-unquote trans man during a CNN town hall.

00:00:16.100 Ayanna Pressley struggles to explain why abortion is a valid medical treatment. 1.00

00:00:19.820 The journalists who publish the Twitter files testify in front of Congress,

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00:01:28.220 I would say that Colin Kaepernick is the Meghan Markle of the sports world, but that wouldn't be quite accurate. 0.94

00:01:34.340 Sure, like Markle, he's a wealthy, privileged brat, just as white as he is black, but nonetheless obsessed with his entirely imagined racial victimhood. 0.85

00:01:42.480 So that's similar, but there are some crucial caveats.

00:01:45.240 First, for one thing, Kaepernick can't really be the Markle of the sports world because he isn't an athlete,

00:01:51.100 unless you count the oppression Olympics as an actual sport, which perhaps it is or one day will be.

00:01:56.900 And for another, to his credit, he didn't have to marry into his victimhood.

00:02:00.840 Unlike Markle, Colin Kaepernick isn't riding anyone's coattails. 0.96

00:02:04.060 He achieved his status as faux martyr and insufferable obnoxious prick all on his own.

00:02:10.480 Actually, the more I think about it, we might say that Kaepernick is sort of Meghan and Harry combined. 0.96

00:02:16.160 If you mix the two royal whiners together and you combine their powers, you end up with Kaepernick. 0.84

00:02:22.660 He's like the self-victimizing megazord. 0.92

00:02:25.680 He has Markle's fake racial grievances, but he also has Harry's disloyalty and his penchant for throwing his own family under the bus

00:02:33.640 and driving over them and then backing up and driving over them again and then again and again and again.

00:02:38.620 He is such a perfect amalgamation of the two, such a manifestation of the worst aspects of both of them,

00:02:44.380 that you almost wonder whether by some strange time warp he might actually be their child.

00:02:50.280 Is Kaepernick the adult son of Harry and Meghan who has come back in time to experience and exploit this era of woke victimhood?

00:02:58.860 That's a possibility we need to discuss.

00:03:01.120 There's a conspiracy theory I could get on board with maybe.

00:03:04.360 Or at least it's just a screenplay someone should write at the very least.

00:03:07.140 But assuming that Kaepernick is not a victimhood-chasing time traveler,

00:03:12.240 then the real story is that he was conceived by a white woman and a black man,

00:03:17.720 and he was then abandoned by his black father, put up for adoption as an infant, and taken in by a white couple.

00:03:24.460 His white adoptive parents raised him, gave him a blessed and comfortable life, supported him, loved him.

00:03:30.820 And now, after all of that, they find themselves somehow the objects of their adopted son's animosity.

00:03:39.420 That is, whenever he has something to promote, at least.

00:03:42.720 And this week, he's promoting a new book, which means they're going right under the bus yet again.

00:03:47.540 Here's the New York Post report.

00:03:48.680 It says,

00:03:48.820 Well, storied athletic career, it's maybe a little bit overstating it,

00:04:16.240 that heavily centers around his lack of choice in his future.

00:04:19.560 His parents, particularly, tried to steer him in a direction they thought was best,

00:04:23.080 which led to several fights between them and their adopted son.

00:04:27.200 Can you imagine that?

00:04:28.060 Parents trying to steer their child in the direction they think is best?

00:04:32.120 What parent would ever do that?

00:04:34.560 Here's a clip of the interview.

00:04:36.160 Check it out.

00:04:37.160 Who's spreading a message of empowerment in his new graphic novel, Change the Game.

00:04:42.020 Written with author and University of Chicago professor, Eve L. Ewing.

00:04:46.640 I love how you depict yourself in this book, not as some big shot hero,

00:04:51.480 but as a shy, insecure high schooler like we all were.

00:04:55.460 I mean, I'm speaking for you, but...

00:04:56.800 Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, absolutely.

00:04:59.460 Growing up, I was a...

00:05:01.500 I think still am a pretty introverted person.

00:05:03.900 I hope it's true to form, and that's just kind of how I navigate the world.

00:05:07.340 It's his true high school coming-of-age story, his journey embracing his blackness,

00:05:12.820 despite resistance from many, including his white adoptive parents.

00:05:17.460 I know my parents loved me, but there were still very problematic things that I went through.

00:05:23.280 I think it was important to show that, no, this can happen in your own home,

00:05:27.620 and how we move forward collectively while addressing the racism that is being perpetuated.

00:05:33.180 He took cues from his icon, basketball star Allen Iverson,

00:05:37.500 who he said wore his blackness like a suit of armor.

00:05:40.960 And teenage Kaepernick wanted cornrows to match.

00:05:44.060 He's getting what roles, his mom asked?

00:05:46.420 Oh, your hair's not professional. 0.99

00:05:48.480 Oh, you look like a little thug. 0.99

00:05:50.520 Your mom said that to you. 1.00

00:05:52.500 Yeah.

00:05:53.300 And those become spaces where it's like, okay, how do I navigate this situation now?

00:05:58.340 But it also has informed why I have my hair long today.

00:06:01.920 The grown-up version of Eve wanted to go back in time and give young Colin a lot of hugs.

00:06:08.020 And I was really moved and saddened by the level of kind of self-awareness

00:06:13.640 that he had to develop at a very young age without a lot of guidance.

00:06:17.420 Now, I certainly am not making any excuses for this guy. 1.00

00:06:21.720 He's a scumbag of the lowest kind. 1.00

00:06:23.820 There's no getting around that. 1.00

00:06:25.720 But you can also tell that the man has been severely brainwashed.

00:06:29.080 And as time goes on, with each successive interview, he sounds more and more like a 55-year-old

00:06:34.580 white woman holding a corporate diversity seminar.

00:06:37.560 I mean, just listen to the words and the phrases that he uses.

00:06:40.440 Problematic.

00:06:42.240 Perpetuating racism.

00:06:43.980 Move forward collectively.

00:06:46.100 And then my favorite, navigate these spaces.

00:06:49.380 How do we navigate these spaces?

00:06:51.080 No human being naturally speaks that way, okay?

00:06:55.460 A former athlete especially does not speak that way.

00:06:58.960 You aren't going to hear a football player in the locker room saying to his teammates,

00:07:03.120 listen, fellas, there's a lot of problematic behavior going on in here.

00:07:06.580 We really need to figure out how to navigate these spaces so we can move forward collectively.

00:07:11.360 Respecting each other's lived experiences so that we can unpack our oppression

00:07:15.420 and curate an understanding of our intersectional realities and together come up with solution-oriented

00:07:21.660 perspectives liberated from our post-colonial trauma.

00:07:25.880 It's just not how human beings speak, okay?

00:07:27.620 Rather, it's how a DEI diversity, you know, robot is programmed.

00:07:33.560 And that's what Colin Kaepernick has become, basically.

00:07:35.920 So what is his complaint against his parents?

00:07:40.500 Yes, they took him in.

00:07:41.400 Yes, they raised and loved him.

00:07:42.480 Yes, they gave him a wonderful and privileged life.

00:07:44.660 Yes, they supported him and they set him up for success.

00:07:47.320 Yes, they did everything for him.

00:07:49.680 But they criticized his hairstyle.

00:07:52.680 So all of that is irrelevant.

00:07:55.140 I mean, that is a resentment he holds with him today.

00:07:58.760 He still determines how he styles his hair today based on what his parents told him not to do

00:08:05.320 when he was a teenager.

00:08:08.920 Now, he has a point, though, I will admit.

00:08:10.580 I mean, it really is unprecedented for parents to complain about their children's hairstyles.

00:08:16.860 It's not like literally every parent on earth has this kind of conversation with their teenage

00:08:21.740 children.

00:08:22.600 It's not like every parent.

00:08:23.920 I mean, literally every parent, white or black or whatever color, has to at some point give their

00:08:28.680 child a lecture about the importance of maintaining a professional haircut and appearance.

00:08:35.320 But actually, come to think of it, it's not entirely unprecedented.

00:08:39.060 So I guess Colin Kaepernick went through this.

00:08:40.660 And then the only other person in the history of the world was me.

00:08:45.100 Because I can remember when I first started developing facial hair.

00:08:48.880 So I would have been about three or four at the time.

00:08:51.440 And I wanted to grow a goatee.

00:08:53.520 But my dad, he took one look at what I was trying to do there. 0.97

00:08:57.480 And he told me that it looks ridiculous and unacceptable. 0.88

00:09:00.000 His words exactly. 0.94

00:09:01.320 And forced me to shave.

00:09:02.320 So when is CBS going to interview me so I can tell my story?

00:09:07.520 Where is my book deal to unpack my trauma?

00:09:11.280 But then again, I wouldn't take that book deal, even if it was offered, because I'd rather

00:09:16.200 be broke and homeless than earn money by publicly stabbing my own family in the back.

00:09:23.060 Of all the ways to earn money, that is among the most disgraceful. 0.82

00:09:26.340 It's worse than prostitution. 1.00

00:09:28.040 Perhaps it's a type of prostitution, actually. 1.00

00:09:30.440 Colin Kaepernick is a whore in his own way, prostituting himself by selling his integrity, 1.00

00:09:37.220 selling out his own family in exchange for victim points. 0.99

00:09:42.060 Now, it's well established, of course, that Kaepernick's victimhood narrative is totally

00:09:48.720 fanciful.

00:09:49.640 He grew up comfortable.

00:09:50.760 He became a professional athlete.

00:09:52.460 He decided to transition to social justice warrior after his playing career had taken a

00:09:57.520 nosedive, based on his poor performance, after he got benched for Blaine Gabbert, which is

00:10:05.580 pretty much the worst humiliation a football player can possibly experience.

00:10:10.920 And then that happens, and he becomes a social justice warrior.

00:10:13.920 And through his social justice charade, finds wealth and fame far beyond anything the NFL

00:10:19.660 could ever provide for him.

00:10:22.020 He has not been disadvantaged by his quote-unquote blackness, but rather he has profited immensely

00:10:30.500 from it.

00:10:31.620 Here's an indisputable fact.

00:10:33.200 Okay?

00:10:33.320 This could not be disputed.

00:10:34.660 If everything about Kaepernick was the same, except that he was fully white rather than just

00:10:40.620 half-white, okay, if his deadbeat biological father was white instead of black, let's say, 0.74

00:10:45.500 then Kaepernick would today, at the age of 35 or 36, however old he is, he would today be an

00:10:51.660 obscure, washed-out, backup quarterback with a net worth and profile barely a fraction of what it

00:11:01.320 currently is. 0.87

00:11:02.700 He wouldn't have any endorsements.

00:11:04.260 He wouldn't have any book deals.

00:11:05.720 He wouldn't have any Netflix series.

00:11:07.540 At the very best, he'd appear on ESPN occasionally to debate the other talking heads about whether

00:11:14.220 Joe Burrow has a higher ceiling than Patrick Mahomes or whatever.

00:11:18.800 More likely, he'd have drifted off into complete obscurity by now, and maybe he'd own a strip

00:11:24.680 mall or a car dealership or something.

00:11:27.680 His blackness has opened up very lucrative doors that wouldn't exist without it.

00:11:34.920 That's indisputable. 0.78

00:11:36.020 So the fully white version of Colin Kaepernick is in a much worse spot today than the half-white 0.98

00:11:43.680 version.

00:11:45.760 So we don't need to analyze his victimhood claims.

00:11:48.940 They're utterly bogus. 0.59

00:11:50.360 They're laughable on their face.

00:11:52.680 Instead, what we should focus on when it comes to Kaepernick is his absolute lack of gratitude.

00:11:58.900 And in this way, he is a microcosm or one symptom of a culture-wide epidemic, and that epidemic

00:12:05.340 is ingratitude.

00:12:07.640 You cannot have a functioning society without a rich atmosphere of gratitude.

00:12:13.060 Gratitude felt and demonstrated by the younger generations towards those who came before and

00:12:19.400 gave them everything that they have.

00:12:20.780 And this gratitude should be especially extended to and begin with your family and your direct

00:12:26.940 benefactors.

00:12:28.160 But it should go beyond that to your nation and your nation's forebears.

00:12:31.720 Now, this doesn't mean that you have to pretend that your family was perfect or your country

00:12:36.880 is perfect.

00:12:38.560 Gratitude doesn't require perfection.

00:12:40.640 It shouldn't require it.

00:12:41.660 What it means is that you recognize what was built for you, what was provided to you,

00:12:48.320 what sacrifices were made for you and for your sake, and that this recognition breeds respect

00:12:56.120 and loyalty and humility and a palpable sense of thankfulness.

00:13:03.340 Where would Kaepernick be if not for his adoptive parents?

00:13:06.900 Where would he be if he'd been born in another country?

00:13:08.880 I mean, you take either his adoptive parents or his country out of the equation, is there

00:13:15.660 any chance he'd have a better life right now?

00:13:18.460 That's inconceivable.

00:13:20.360 There's a very good chance he'd be living in the gutter or dead in it without the very

00:13:25.580 people and the very nation he can't stop complaining about.

00:13:29.220 Does he ever acknowledge that?

00:13:31.360 Ever?

00:13:31.960 Does he ever say it out loud?

00:13:33.820 Do any of these self-victimizing drama queens ever acknowledge that? 1.00

00:13:38.880 Of course they don't.

00:13:41.240 Gratitude destroys the grift. 0.92

00:13:44.160 And it's much more profitable to be a rotten, disloyal little punk than it is to be grateful 0.87

00:13:49.520 and humble. 0.93

00:13:51.760 Much more profitable to be a spoiled child who's never satisfied, no matter how much he

00:13:56.140 has given, no matter what anyone does for him.

00:14:00.020 And that is Kaepernick in a nutshell.

00:14:01.740 But he is right about one thing.

00:14:03.920 This country does have some serious problems, big problems.

00:14:08.000 And one of the biggest, one of the biggest problems is that it produces people like him.

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00:15:37.880 Glenn Youngkin did a CNN town hall last night where he was pressed on education issues

00:15:44.540 and various things came up.

00:15:45.580 CRT came up.

00:15:46.980 Then, of course, the gender issue also came up.

00:15:48.980 I want to play one piece of that exchange for you.

00:15:53.400 Here it is.

00:15:54.820 Governor Youngkin, your transgender model policies require that students play on the sports

00:15:59.280 teams and use the restrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth. 0.92

00:16:03.000 Look at me.

00:16:03.960 I am a transgender man.

00:16:06.780 Do you really think that the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a

00:16:09.880 restroom with me?

00:16:10.620 So, first of all, Nico, thank you for, again, asking the question and being here tonight

00:16:16.180 and engaging in this important discussion.

00:16:19.660 I believe, first, when parents are engaged with their children, then you can make good

00:16:23.940 decisions together.

00:16:24.860 And I met your dad.

00:16:25.720 And I'm glad that you're both here together.

00:16:27.240 That's really, really important.

00:16:28.620 I also think that there are lots of students involved in this decision.

00:16:34.980 And what's most important is that we try very hard to accommodate students.

00:16:40.840 That's why I have said many, many times, we just need extra bathrooms in schools.

00:16:46.140 We need gender-neutral bathrooms. 1.00

00:16:47.780 And so people can use a bathroom that they, in fact, are comfortable with.

00:16:51.040 I think sports are very clear.

00:16:54.040 And I don't think it's controversial.

00:16:55.920 I don't think that biological boys should be playing sports with biological girls. 1.00

00:17:00.760 There's been decades of efforts in order to gain opportunities for women in sports. 0.97

00:17:06.860 And it's just not fair.

00:17:08.760 And I think that's pretty, that's non-controversial and something that I think is pretty well understood.

00:17:14.820 Again, I think these are very difficult discussions.

00:17:17.780 And I am very, very glad to see you and your dad here together.

00:17:22.060 Okay, so I didn't like this answer from Youngkin at all, really.

00:17:25.260 And I understand he's a politician.

00:17:27.240 And so there are some realities to that.

00:17:29.440 And so you can't, it's not always smart to answer questions exactly how I would answer them

00:17:35.400 if I was in that position.

00:17:37.000 But even with that consideration, still not a good answer.

00:17:42.000 First of all, we really got to stop calling this a difficult conversation.

00:17:47.880 It's actually not.

00:17:49.880 Okay, it is not a difficult conversation.

00:17:54.480 When you call it difficult, you are conceding already ground to the other side.

00:18:00.860 Because you're acting like there are complexities, right, and nuances that make the answers hard

00:18:08.000 to determine when it comes to these kinds of questions.

00:18:11.720 But there aren't.

00:18:13.540 Girls are girls.

00:18:14.300 Boys are boys.

00:18:15.320 The girl that was talking to Glenn Youngkin is a girl.

00:18:19.580 And so we have a girl's room for you. 0.97

00:18:22.720 And there's a boy's room for the boys.

00:18:25.480 Not a hard thing to figure out.

00:18:27.880 Are you a girl?

00:18:30.040 Are you a female? 0.99

00:18:32.560 Are you a girl?

00:18:33.420 Yes.

00:18:33.920 Well, then here's the room for you.

00:18:36.000 It's not hard.

00:18:36.700 It's actually very, very easy.

00:18:39.600 And so when we say, well, it's very difficult.

00:18:42.260 We're, you know, this is really something that we have to talk about and we have to debate.

00:18:46.760 The moment you say that, even if you land on the right answer, the moment that you've

00:18:51.680 pretended that it's actually a difficult conversation, you've surrendered.

00:18:56.000 You've given them more ground than you ever should have.

00:19:00.480 And not to keep beating this dead horse, but this is yet again why being direct to the point

00:19:06.700 sometimes of even harshness is a better approach than trying to be so gentle by pretending that,

00:19:16.540 this is so really difficult.

00:19:17.960 We need to talk about it.

00:19:18.980 We need to accommodate.

00:19:19.700 Because once you start saying that, once you have conceded that there's anything complicated

00:19:27.120 about this, then you've either lost the conversation or you are on your way to losing it.

00:19:34.560 It's not complicated.

00:19:36.520 She's a girl.

00:19:37.280 She belongs in a girl's room. 1.00

00:19:40.820 But, okay, in her particular case, going into the girl's room is uncomfortable and maybe it 0.75

00:19:47.420 makes the other girls uncomfortable because she is presenting herself as a male. 0.56

00:19:53.220 And she still doesn't, she doesn't look like a male.

00:19:55.220 She doesn't.

00:19:55.840 But she doesn't look exactly like a female either. 0.96

00:19:58.620 And so that creates discomfort.

00:20:03.180 And it creates discomfort in the girl's room and it creates discomfort for the other girls perhaps. 0.97

00:20:09.380 The actual, and this is something we hear, this is the response from trans activists and trans people

00:20:15.940 very often, when this conversation about bathrooms comes up and you get this answer all the time.

00:20:23.120 And this is supposed to be a sort of a, you know, a bulletproof argument.

00:20:29.700 Or a trans person will come along and say, well, look at me. 0.73

00:20:33.060 I look like the opposite sex. 0.99

00:20:34.760 Are you saying that I should go in this bathroom?

00:20:36.380 Well, the actual answer to that, and this is the part that I can understand as a politician.

00:20:42.020 You don't want to put it exactly like this.

00:20:44.600 But you need to find a way to say it.

00:20:47.360 Because the actual answer is that you have chosen to present yourself this way.

00:20:53.980 Okay?

00:20:54.560 You have chosen to present yourself this way.

00:20:57.060 And so, this is a problem that has been, that you have created for yourself.

00:21:07.600 Now, in the case of a child, I'm not going to put the onus on the child.

00:21:12.480 So it's a problem created by the people that brainwashed her. 0.96

00:21:16.360 Because as I am always insisting, children cannot actually consent to this.

00:21:22.160 But it is a problem.

00:21:23.400 If it's an adult, then it's a problem you've created for yourself.

00:21:25.740 Because if it's a child, it's tragically a problem that's been created by the people that have brainwashed you into this.

00:21:33.340 But one way or another, you know, it is a problem on the gender ideology end of it. 1.00

00:21:43.080 So maybe that's the way we put it.

00:21:44.060 It's a problem that gender ideology has created. 1.00

00:21:47.680 Okay?

00:21:48.080 It's not a problem that's created by the basic and sensible segregation of male and female bathrooms. 0.96

00:21:56.400 That's not the source of the problem, you see?

00:21:59.620 The fact that you are presenting yourself this way, which makes it uncomfortable in the bathroom that you belong in,

00:22:05.140 that's not a problem created by the sex segregation of bathrooms. 1.00

00:22:10.560 It's a problem created by gender ideology and by the way that you are presenting yourself.

00:22:16.020 Whether you have chosen it or been brainwashed into it.

00:22:18.500 That's the source of the problem.

00:22:22.320 And so what is the solution to that problem?

00:22:26.240 Well, the solution is reality.

00:22:28.160 The solution is to stop presenting yourself that way.

00:22:30.920 The solution is for a child to counsel them and help them to embrace reality.

00:22:37.700 So that they're more comfortable in the bathroom where they belong in.

00:22:42.780 And other people are comfortable with them being in there.

00:22:44.960 That's the solution.

00:22:46.580 The solution is not go into the opposite sex bathroom. 0.99

00:22:50.960 The solution is not let's create a third bathroom just for you to accommodate this.

00:22:55.640 No, we don't want to accommodate delusion.

00:23:00.720 We don't accommodate confusion.

00:23:02.300 We don't accommodate brainwashing. 0.98

00:23:04.800 What we want to do is counteract all of that.

00:23:08.640 That's the solution.

00:23:09.820 And Republican politicians need to find a way to say that without surrendering all kinds of ground that we cannot afford to surrender.

00:23:27.600 Article from the Post Millennial says,

00:23:29.180 Twitter files journalist Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger appeared before the newly formed Weaponization of Government Committee on Thursday.

00:23:35.740 And during congressional questioning, Democrats on the committee demanded that Taibbi reveal his sources for the Twitter files.

00:23:42.740 He refused.

00:23:43.260 During questioning, delegate to the U.S. House from the Virgin Islands and Ranking Committee member Stacey Plaskett questioned Taibbi about who gave him access to documents.

00:23:52.280 They would later use as the basis for his reporting on the inner workings of Twitter, which became Twitter files.

00:23:57.080 Taibbi had said that a source contacted him and asked him if he'd be interested in seeing those documents.

00:24:02.560 And then she wanted to know who the source was.

00:24:04.440 Let's watch that exchange.

00:24:07.160 How many emails did Mr. Musk give you access to?

00:24:10.900 I mean, we went through thousands of emails.

00:24:14.880 Did he give you access to all of the emails for the time period in which?

00:24:18.060 Yeah, I never had a single request denied.

00:24:21.700 And not only that, but the amount of files that we were given were so voluminous that there was no way that anybody could have gone through them beforehand.

00:24:28.640 And we never found an instance where anything, there was any evidence that anything had been taken out.

00:24:33.360 Okay, so you would believe that you have probably millions of emails and documents, right?

00:24:40.100 That's correct, would you say?

00:24:41.440 I don't know.

00:24:42.120 No, I think the number's less than that.

00:24:43.620 Sounds too high.

00:24:44.240 Okay, 100,000?

00:24:45.960 That's probably closer.

00:24:47.380 Probably close to 100,000 that both of you are saying.

00:24:49.740 Yet, in the Twitter files, Mr. Taibbi, you've produced only 338 of those 100,000 emails.

00:24:58.760 Is that correct?

00:24:59.840 That's correct, yes.

00:25:00.740 And then who gave you access to these emails?

00:25:04.600 Who was the individual that gave you permission to access the emails?

00:25:08.400 Well, the attribution for my story is sources at Twitter, and that's what I'm going to refer to.

00:25:12.900 Okay.

00:25:13.680 Did Mr. Musk contact you, Mr. Taibbi?

00:25:16.640 Again, the attribution for my story is sources at Twitter.

00:25:19.200 Mr. Schellenberger, did Mr. Musk contact you?

00:25:22.580 Actually, no.

00:25:24.500 I was brought in by my friend Barry Weiss, and so this story, there's been a lot of misinformation

00:25:29.320 or disinformation about that.

00:25:31.200 So, Mr. Weiss brought you in.

00:25:31.220 Mr. Taibbi, Ms. Weiss, thank you.

00:25:33.300 Mr. Taibbi, have you had conversations with Elon Musk?

00:25:36.820 I have.

00:25:37.640 Okay.

00:25:38.500 Mr. Taibbi, did Mr. Musk place any conditions on the use of the email?

00:25:42.400 Would the gentlelady yield for a second? 1.00

00:25:44.160 As long as my time is not used.

00:25:45.760 Are you trying to get journalists to use their sources?

00:25:47.020 No, I'm not trying to get.

00:25:48.080 No, I'm not.

00:25:49.240 I am asking.

00:25:49.960 Well, if you will let me finish, and you had conversations with him, not what you said

00:25:56.000 you weren't going to agree to who your sources were.

00:25:58.640 I'm not asking your source.

00:26:00.160 I'm asking you if you had conversations with the owner of Twitter.

00:26:03.760 And did Mr. Musk place any conditions on the use of the emails or documents?

00:26:07.500 No.

00:26:08.920 In fact, I was told explicitly that we were given license to look at present-day Twitter as

00:26:16.340 well as past Twitter.

00:26:19.100 Okay.

00:26:20.300 Mr. Taibbi, who was your source of these documents?

00:26:22.920 Are you asking him to reveal sources?

00:26:24.280 No, I'm not saying that.

00:26:25.340 That's obviously exactly what she was doing.

00:26:28.680 And it is outrageous and actually quite chilling to watch that exchange when you understand

00:26:38.860 what she's trying to do.

00:26:40.500 She wants to know sources.

00:26:42.600 She's trying to get at a congressional hearing, she's pressuring a journalist to reveal his 0.78

00:26:49.820 sources.

00:26:50.320 And other points in the questioning, Democrats were, there was one of the Democrats there

00:26:55.040 in the committee referred to him as a so-called journalist, the questioning whether he's really

00:26:59.160 a journalist at all, which of course he is.

00:27:03.340 Like, he is, and he's also, Matt Taibbi, he used to work for Rolling Stone.

00:27:08.000 He is not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

00:27:12.980 He's actually, he's a liberal journalist.

00:27:15.920 And I think that he would not take any issue with that, with that, with that categorization.

00:27:23.740 At the very least, he's not, he's not a right-wing journalist at all.

00:27:28.760 And if you could, I remember when he, when he used to write for Rolling Stone, if you could

00:27:31.660 go back, you know, seven or eight years and like tell someone that Matt Taibbi,

00:27:38.000 of the Rolling, of Rolling Stone magazine is going, in the future, will be accused of

00:27:42.540 being a right-wing propagandist, they would laugh at you because it is, it is absolutely

00:27:47.060 absurd.

00:27:49.220 But here's, here's where the confusion lies, that he is, he's definitely not right-wing.

00:27:56.720 He would seem to me to be much more on the left, but he is an actual journalist.

00:28:02.880 And because he's an actual journalist, that's why the left accuses him of being right-wing.

00:28:09.300 Because an actual journalist is supposed to be skeptical, is supposed to ask questions.

00:28:15.100 You're supposed to want to chase stories and reveal things, especially about powerful institutions.

00:28:21.940 Twitter is one of them.

00:28:23.100 A real journalist, if a source at one of these major big tech companies says, hey, we have

00:28:32.320 evidence of things that were going on behind the scenes and bias and political partisanship

00:28:37.620 and all these, you know, unfair, the terms of service not being, not being a force fail,

00:28:43.540 things being done to influence elections.

00:28:46.500 And we have, we have evidence of this.

00:28:48.760 We want to give you access to any real journalist would say, yeah, of course I want to see that.

00:28:52.620 This is, this is, I exist for this, that my profession exists for moments like this.

00:28:59.560 And that's what confuses them because on the left, although there are a lot of liberal quote

00:29:04.400 unquote journalists, um, they don't engage in actual journalism.

00:29:08.520 So when they see it happen, they assume, well, this must be a, this is some, this is a secret

00:29:12.260 agent for conservatives.

00:29:13.540 And the other thing about that we know about Democrats is that they really, they get very,

00:29:19.860 they become very afraid when information is revealed.

00:29:25.180 They don't like information coming out to the public.

00:29:29.480 That's why we've got just in the last week, two examples of this.

00:29:33.800 Trying to shut down Tucker Carlson from releasing unseen footage from January 6th, more information.

00:29:42.040 They don't want that.

00:29:43.380 And they also don't want more information about what happened behind the scenes at Twitter

00:29:46.820 to be released.

00:29:49.400 Staying in Congress, unfortunately, Ianna Pressley on the floor of Congress, once again, passionately 0.91

00:29:54.320 defending the murder of children.

00:29:55.920 Let's, um, haven't heard anyone make a good argument for this yet, but let's see how she

00:29:59.600 does.

00:30:01.020 I rise today on behalf of the people across our nation seeking access to abortion care.

00:30:07.100 While there are many forces and people at work who seek to spread lies and misinformation,

00:30:13.780 let me set the record straight.

00:30:16.680 Abortion care is routine medical care.

00:30:20.360 Abortion care is safe. 0.99

00:30:22.720 Abortion care is a fundamental human right.

00:30:27.340 Abortion care is health care. 0.58

00:30:29.480 And one in four women in this country seek it. 0.99

00:30:33.480 Women that you know, love, work, and worship with. 0.99

00:30:39.900 Right now, a pending court case in Texas aims to restrict access to medication abortion across

00:30:46.020 the entire nation.

00:30:47.880 Over 40% of abortion care in this nation is medication abortion, a simple and safe protocol

00:30:54.440 where patients are prescribed two medications to end a pregnancy.

00:30:59.580 A single man, a far-right Trump-appointed judge in Texas, stands to make a decision that

00:31:06.160 could strike down the FDA's approval of one of these drugs and restrict access to care

00:31:11.020 to millions.

00:31:12.720 A frightening precedent.

00:31:14.880 Imagine for a moment if a judge was poised to strike down access to another safe and effective

00:31:20.220 drug routinely used as part of medical care, like Tylenol or Advil, we would call it out

00:31:26.600 for exactly what it is, inappropriate overreach.

00:31:32.260 You know the difference between Advil or one of these other medicines is that

00:31:37.360 medicines are designed and they are prescribed and administered to treat ailments.

00:31:50.220 That's what a medicine does.

00:31:52.360 That's what medicine is.

00:31:54.580 That's what it's supposed to be.

00:31:57.380 That's what a doctor is supposed to do, to treat ailments, illnesses, diseases, injuries.

00:32:06.980 That's what medicine exists for that.

00:32:10.180 And really not for anything else.

00:32:12.420 That's all it's supposed to do.

00:32:14.340 That's a lot though.

00:32:16.000 Illness, ailment, disease, injury.

00:32:18.880 Medicine, the medical industry and medicine itself, the actual medicines that are prescribed,

00:32:26.140 that all exist to treat those things, treat ailments.

00:32:32.280 Abortion is not medicine because it doesn't do that. 0.95

00:32:37.420 And there's no way around this. 0.62

00:32:38.540 Even if you still support abortion and you think it's a good idea to kill babies, you're 0.98

00:32:42.100 obviously horrifically wrong about that.

00:32:44.660 But you should at least admit that this is not medicine.

00:32:49.080 Just because it happens in a hospital or in a clinic that looks a little bit, that has a

00:32:55.520 medical look to it and this is a very sanitized kind of look and you wait in a waiting room

00:32:59.180 and maybe there's somebody in a white coat that performs the, quote, procedure.

00:33:03.660 That doesn't make it medicine because there's no, there's no ailment.

00:33:06.960 There's no illness being treated.

00:33:09.040 Pregnancy is not an illness.

00:33:11.260 A baby is not a disease.

00:33:14.240 We might treat the baby like a, like a cancerous tumor, but the baby is not a cancerous tumor.

00:33:18.860 It's the baby is a baby.

00:33:21.240 Again, there's no way around this.

00:33:22.680 It is not medicine.

00:33:23.840 Pregnancy is not an ailment.

00:33:25.920 It is not something to treat and get rid of like a disease.

00:33:32.080 Now, we should treat, we provide treatment to pregnant women to facilitate their pregnancy 1.00

00:33:39.260 and to deal with problems that come up during the pregnancy, but the pregnancy itself is not

00:33:45.040 an ailment.

00:33:46.940 It might be inconvenient, but an inconvenience is not a sickness.

00:33:55.920 And this is another, you know, this is a, this is a, a, a common source of confusion

00:34:01.980 in our culture today.

00:34:02.980 It goes beyond actually the abortion industry or anything that's inconvenience, anything

00:34:08.880 that interferes with our lifestyle becomes automatically a sickness, but that's not what

00:34:14.380 a sickness actually is.

00:34:17.400 So, uh, Ayanna Pressley, that's, that's why it's not, that's why it's not a medicine.

00:34:21.240 And as far as she says, you know, it's a, it's a human right.

00:34:25.140 Abortion's a human right. 1.00

00:34:26.460 Of course, not surprised to hear her say that this is their position, but I've, I've yet

00:34:31.900 to hear them, um, explain that.

00:34:34.860 What do you mean it's a human right?

00:34:37.600 How do you know it's a human right?

00:34:40.120 And where, where do you, where does this human right come from?

00:34:43.440 Where does it originate?

00:34:45.940 Where do rights come from in general?

00:34:49.180 You know, the, the founders of our country believe that human rights are rooted in, in,

00:34:55.200 uh, the supernatural and God.

00:34:56.640 They come from the creator, right?

00:34:59.320 We are, we, um, we have our human, our natural rights by virtue of the fact that we are human

00:35:06.120 beings.

00:35:07.420 And do we are endowed with them by the creator?

00:35:11.100 Is that what you believe?

00:35:13.380 So then are you then claiming that we have a natural God given right to kill our children? 0.98

00:35:17.700 So God creates the baby, but then also create, gives us the moral right to kill those babies 0.98

00:35:23.540 that he creates.

00:35:25.920 Is that the argument you want to make?

00:35:28.960 And if the right doesn't come from God, then where is, what are you talking about?

00:35:31.860 What do you mean?

00:35:32.240 Where does it come from?

00:35:33.700 How do you know it exists?

00:35:36.560 The only other option is that the right comes from the government.

00:35:39.020 That's where all rights come from.

00:35:40.120 And it's just something that the government comes up with basically arbitrarily.

00:35:44.180 It's, uh, the rights are rooted, rooted in the whims of the government.

00:35:46.680 But the problem then is that if the government says, okay, we're taking that right away, then

00:35:51.060 it doesn't make any sense.

00:35:51.780 You have nothing to appeal to beyond the government.

00:35:53.440 You have nothing beyond or above the government to appeal to.

00:35:55.540 So it doesn't make any sense to say, well, no, that's a right.

00:35:57.580 You can't take it away.

00:35:59.680 Well, the government decides what a right is.

00:36:01.240 So if the government says it's not a right anymore, then it's not.

00:36:03.980 What you should then be arguing, all you can argue is that this should be a right.

00:36:10.660 Here's why I think this should be a right.

00:36:13.480 But you can't say that it is because according to you, a right is determined entirely by whatever

00:36:18.040 the government says.

00:36:19.920 Now, they never have this.

00:36:21.540 Speaking of difficult conversations, here's one that they don't have.

00:36:24.280 On the left, they are constantly talking about rights, human rights.

00:36:28.640 They never explain where they're getting any of this from or what they think or who they

00:36:34.680 think the right is rooted in.

00:36:37.780 What or who is the source of that right?

00:36:41.680 This is not some complicated, well, it might be so uncomplicated, but it's not a, it is not

00:36:49.080 a purely philosophical exercise.

00:36:50.940 It's not a purely academic question about where our rights come from.

00:36:54.480 It is a, it's, it's, it is a fundamental, critical question that needs to be answered.

00:37:03.620 No surprise.

00:37:04.400 Of course they can't define, of course they can't define a term like human rights, which

00:37:09.760 is abstract.

00:37:11.680 Of course they can't define that.

00:37:13.080 They can't even define what, you know, what a woman is. 1.00

00:37:15.720 No big surprise there.

00:37:16.720 All right, before we get to the comment section, one other very important conversation to have

00:37:22.960 here.

00:37:24.220 New York Post, a newly resurfaced video of a DoorDash driver who refused to give a man

00:37:28.760 his food after he only tipped her $8 for delivery in 2021 has gone viral.

00:37:34.780 The video, which has been viewed nearly 1 million times on YouTube, shows ring camera footage

00:37:38.440 of the woman yelling at the man for the seemingly measly tip when she went on a 12 and a half

00:37:44.460 mile trip for the food.

00:37:46.840 I think we have that DoorDash ring camera footage.

00:37:50.920 Let's watch.

00:37:52.320 I used to leave it, thank you.

00:37:56.120 I used to leave it.

00:37:58.700 No, I could speak to you actually.

00:38:03.980 I'm sorry?

00:38:05.640 I need to speak to you.

00:38:06.880 I don't think you realize where they're coming from, so I need to speak to you.

00:38:11.240 Where what's coming from?

00:38:15.760 Where the food you ordered is coming from.

00:38:17.820 I don't think you realize the distance that it's coming from, because then you would never

00:38:22.780 actually have given what you gave.

00:38:25.540 So, I think you can come and see face-to-face.

00:38:32.060 Because I drove 40 minutes.

00:38:33.860 I drove 40 minutes, and it was extremely far, and I got it to you early.

00:38:39.100 So, I don't think you realize where you were from.

00:38:42.540 So, she's complaining.

00:38:43.640 And then, actually, she takes the food and drives away.

00:38:45.500 She doesn't give him the food.

00:38:46.540 Because he only gave it, only gave an $8 tip?

00:38:49.420 That's what blows my mind about this.

00:38:50.720 I mean, people are bold.

00:38:52.140 People are bold in certain, like, in the worst kinds of ways.

00:38:54.520 There are times when it's good to be bold, and even good to be confrontational, and stand

00:39:01.100 up, and speak out.

00:39:03.160 But, these days, people aren't very bold in those sorts of situations.

00:39:06.280 It's like someone's being assaulted on the subway.

00:39:08.840 And that's when we get into the bystander effect, and everyone sits around, maybe they're

00:39:13.000 recorded, they don't do anything.

00:39:14.380 But, if you don't get a tip for yourself that you think is good enough, now there are people

00:39:19.720 are willing to speak out about that.

00:39:21.240 I can't even imagine this.

00:39:25.520 I mean, I did.

00:39:26.180 I delivered pizzas for a while when I was younger.

00:39:28.900 And I got bad tips plenty of times.

00:39:31.200 The idea that I would knock on the door and say, excuse me, this tip's not good enough.

00:39:35.820 I need more.

00:39:36.680 I need you to give me more money.

00:39:39.060 Never would have even occurred to me.

00:39:40.640 Only because I would have been embarrassed to do that.

00:39:43.920 I would have felt like a panhandler doing that.

00:39:48.860 But, people aren't embarrassed about panhandling these days.

00:39:50.840 That's the other problem.

00:39:51.840 I mean, you see people that, I think we talked about this in the Daily Cancellation once,

00:39:56.120 many moons ago.

00:39:57.080 But, people, they put their cash app, or Venmo, or whatever, on their windshield of

00:40:02.640 their car.

00:40:03.120 So, just asking anyone who happens to drive by for money.

00:40:06.760 That kind of thing.

00:40:07.380 So, I guess it's no surprise to see this.

00:40:10.140 But, $8, an $8 tip is really good, especially for Uber Eats or DoorDash.

00:40:17.200 And this is a problem now.

00:40:18.460 I know if you're an Uber Eats driver, DoorDash driver, you know, you don't get to.

00:40:24.860 It's not like all the money that's spent is going directly to you, obviously.

00:40:30.440 And so, I don't know how much they actually make from, you know, from Uber.

00:40:36.180 I don't know how much of the service fee goes to them versus the tip.

00:40:39.440 But, yeah, they need the tip in order to make this profitable for them.

00:40:42.140 But, at the same time, it's a real problem because of the additional service fees and

00:40:48.820 everything.

00:40:50.520 If you order, like, a $40 meal for two or something on Uber Eats, it's up to $65 before

00:40:58.140 you even add the tip in.

00:40:59.260 So, it's a problem.

00:41:02.880 And it is bringing me more and more steadily to the conclusion that we just need to be done

00:41:08.160 with tipping completely.

00:41:09.360 It's gotten way out of hand.

00:41:11.580 Everyone asks for a tip now.

00:41:14.200 But, at the same time, so tipping is expanding.

00:41:17.220 It's becoming much more ubiquitous than it's ever been before.

00:41:20.620 Everyone's asking for a tip.

00:41:21.500 But, at the same time, everything's becoming more expensive alongside it.

00:41:25.680 Something's got to give.

00:41:26.420 I think we just got to get rid of tipping, be done with it.

00:41:29.600 You know, many other countries and cultures, they don't do the tipping thing.

00:41:32.640 I think we just need to get with the times on this one.

00:41:36.500 I don't see any other solution.

00:41:38.060 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:43:03.280 Orange Banana says,

00:43:04.960 Hey Matt, my city decided to paint a hideous rainbow at a crosswalk and it cost nearly $30,000

00:43:10.380 to do so.

00:43:11.580 Meanwhile, one block away is an entire park and cluster of houses completely infested with

00:43:15.840 drug and gang violence, which a local PD refuses to address.

00:43:18.900 All of our major roadways are home to cauldron-sized potholes and inches-wide fissures. 0.99

00:43:23.980 The city would rather spend millions on stupid, useless symbols and public art installations 0.98

00:43:29.340 to signal a culture-mindedness, while the citizens and people who actually need help 0.99

00:43:33.240 are entirely neglected.

00:43:34.900 This stuff bothers not for its direct symbolism, but the indirect symbolism that regular people

00:43:39.300 don't matter to the regime.

00:43:42.940 Well, why not both?

00:43:45.100 You raise a good point, but it's both.

00:43:46.680 It's the direct symbolism, which is the political statement.

00:43:52.940 This is a political statement that governments, local governments, state governments, the federal

00:43:56.900 government is endorsing and promoting a political statement.

00:44:01.540 It really is, it's not much different than if they, you know, if there was a flag with, 0.97

00:44:08.620 a Democrat party flag with like the donkey, Democrats are the donkeys, right? 0.97

00:44:13.840 The elephants are, yeah. 0.98

00:44:16.080 It would be like that.

00:44:18.060 It's like a state, local, federal government flying a Democrat party flag right next to

00:44:25.280 the American flag.

00:44:26.400 It's a political statement.

00:44:28.020 That's what the pride flag is.

00:44:29.700 And so the direct symbolism is a problem.

00:44:33.240 But also, as you point out, the indirect symbolism, which is only barely indirect, that

00:44:38.220 they only care about this.

00:44:40.840 They care about signaling to their preferred groups.

00:44:43.780 They care about supporting or at least pretending to support their preferred groups, but not anybody

00:44:49.680 else.

00:44:51.400 Masked Music Man says, want to hear what's really sad?

00:44:55.400 Matt Hunter was once a Christian conservative YouTuber.

00:44:57.740 Yeah, so the guy we canceled yesterday in the Daily Cancellation, responding to his arguments

00:45:01.960 about child castration, I'd never heard of him before.

00:45:05.340 And then I saw this in the comments.

00:45:06.260 Apparently, he used to be a Christian conservative YouTuber with a larger following than he has

00:45:10.900 now.

00:45:12.020 And then he, so from what I was told, he's like this total implosion.

00:45:19.320 And now he's this leftist whack job.

00:45:22.200 I find that, especially on the gender stuff, I find that very interesting. 0.97

00:45:28.300 You know, it's one thing to have someone who had unformed opinions to begin with, get sucked

00:45:36.420 into the gender cult and led into it. 0.50

00:45:40.180 And they're not really thinking much about it.

00:45:41.840 And so that's one thing. 0.98

00:45:44.520 But to have someone who knew better, like you understood that gender ideology is ridiculous. 0.94

00:45:52.220 You understood all of this.

00:45:54.540 And then you were what, convinced?

00:45:56.820 What did anyone say to convince you? 1.00

00:45:59.640 So at one point you understood that men have penises, women have vaginas, that men can't 1.00

00:46:05.240 have babies, but now you think otherwise? 0.99

00:46:09.360 What argument was presented to you that made you go, oh, you know what?

00:46:13.760 I think I'm totally wrong about this.

00:46:16.000 This thing that I knew for sure and that the entire world knows for sure and has always

00:46:20.400 known.

00:46:20.940 Yeah, I think I'm wrong.

00:46:21.580 I think you're right.

00:46:22.120 I think it turns out all that.

00:46:24.200 What could have possibly been, what argument could have possibly been made that would cause

00:46:29.700 that conversion to happen?

00:46:32.860 I'd really love to know.

00:46:33.700 It's fun to see you all be pro-vandalism all of a sudden.

00:46:38.900 I remember a time when Matt would have preferred to see vandals have their hands cut off or

00:46:42.920 something.

00:46:44.640 Well, the vandals, in the case of the pride murals on the road, they didn't use their hands,

00:46:49.500 first of all.

00:46:50.460 They used tires.

00:46:53.000 So that wouldn't be appropriate anyway.

00:46:55.580 And also, look, not all vandalism is made equal.

00:47:00.780 That's just the reality.

00:47:02.340 Not all vandalism is made.

00:47:03.600 I thought I'm encouraging vandalism.

00:47:05.060 I'm encouraging it.

00:47:06.120 Okay.

00:47:07.140 I couldn't do that.

00:47:08.980 I couldn't do that on this show.

00:47:10.680 So I'm not encouraging it.

00:47:12.500 But it's not all made equal.

00:47:15.560 I'm sorry.

00:47:15.860 It's just not.

00:47:16.380 Someone driving over a political statement, a political symbol that's been put on the roadway

00:47:22.380 by the local government, put in the roadway, someone driving over it and leaving tire marks,

00:47:26.160 even if they left the tire marks on purpose, that is not the same as, say, a vandal who

00:47:32.020 is part of the BLM mob and burns down a store. 0.50

00:47:35.700 Or even just like your petty vandals who are destroying their community, local businesses

00:47:42.040 and buildings and places where people live, you know, and making it ugly and dirty and 0.99

00:47:48.860 disgusting.

00:47:49.760 You know, there's that kind of vandalism, which I think should be treated much more harshly

00:47:54.720 than it is.

00:47:56.220 And then there's this, where you have citizens who are rightly upset by political statements

00:48:07.040 being made and endorsed by their government.

00:48:11.320 And the government that is, that it's not that the vandal's making the city uglier.

00:48:17.220 It's the mural that's doing that.

00:48:20.920 That's the other thing about vandalism is that usually it's, you're making your own community 0.98

00:48:24.040 uglier and dirtier and more disgusting. 0.96

00:48:27.480 But the person who puts the pride flag mural up, the trans pride flag, which is totally 0.99

00:48:33.640 hideous and puts that so it's 30 feet long in the middle of the road, they are actually

00:48:40.080 the vandals.

00:48:42.640 It's not the person who drives over the flag that's vandalizing.

00:48:45.100 It's the person who puts the flag in the road that's vandalizing.

00:48:49.840 So that's how I would parse that.

00:48:51.940 But finally, let's see.

00:48:55.380 It says, Matt, looting is a Robin Hood situation.

00:48:58.940 It's the hoods doing the Robin.

00:49:01.160 We are really coming on strong with the vaguely racist dad jokes in the comment section recently.

00:49:06.440 And I'm okay with it.

00:49:10.000 I'm okay with it.

00:49:11.380 You know, we live in a culture of such permissiveness that there is no such thing as excessive anymore.

00:49:16.660 The seven deadly sins are no longer sins, right?

00:49:18.980 Anything goes.

00:49:19.600 Well, if you want the best life for yourself, it might not be the best idea to get into every last temptation.

00:49:25.560 It might sound controversial in today's age of indulgence, but it's actually not.

00:49:29.680 In fact, it's the smartest thing you can do.

00:49:32.540 Jordan Peterson touches on this in his new five-part series called Vision and Destiny on Daily Wire+.

00:49:38.180 Here's a clip.

00:49:39.180 Check it out.

00:49:39.480 You have to learn to regulate temptation, right?

00:49:42.680 Alcohol use, drug use, sexual misbehavior, defined by the engagement in sexual activities that cause your life to deteriorate.

00:49:52.840 If you need a definition of what constitutes sexual pathology, that's it.

00:49:57.360 And so you might want to have a strategy.

00:50:00.640 Say, do you like to drink?

00:50:02.100 It's like, okay, how much?

00:50:05.340 You know, do you really need to drink 40 beer in three days or two days?

00:50:09.080 Maybe that's a bit much, especially if it's an iterated process because it's going to take you downhill.

00:50:14.760 It's like, well, you want to have a drink now and then.

00:50:17.260 Well, how much and when?

00:50:20.020 Optimally, not as a constraint set against yourself, but if you were going to use it properly, what would proper look like?

00:50:26.360 And then maybe you'll be able to regulate your behavior because you're not tyrannizing yourself into abstinence.

00:50:33.240 You're saying, well, if I want to have a well-balanced life, it might include a bit of the disinhibition that I get from alcohol and the social sociability that comes along with that.

00:50:42.800 And, you know, the community that's part of the local pub, let's say, it's like, fair enough, man. 0.97

00:50:48.000 But why don't you do that like a conscious visionary instead of a dimwit drunk? 0.80

00:50:56.560 The fourth episode of Vision and Destiny is out today. 0.89

00:50:59.040 New episodes are releasing every week, but it's all exclusive for Daily Wire Plus members.

00:51:02.800 You can join now at dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch Vision and Destiny.

00:51:06.220 And I'd really recommend that you do that.

00:51:07.460 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:08.860 Today for our daily cancellation, in the interest of efficiency, we'll be responding rapid-fire style to TikTok videos attacking me just over the past two weeks or so.

00:51:21.440 So we're going to go through a number of rebuttals here.

00:51:24.020 In the interest of time, I had to choose only four from the options my producers sent to me.

00:51:28.880 And there were a lot more, though.

00:51:30.720 And I say this will be rapid-fire, but take that with a grain of salt.

00:51:33.080 I'm not Ben Shapiro, so rapid-fire is relative.

00:51:36.820 Anyway, let's go through these.

00:51:39.760 I wouldn't really call this an apology.

00:51:42.140 And make no mistake, Dylan Mulvaney is our enemy.

00:51:45.360 He is an open, visible, active, and passionate advocate for the abuse of children, the war on fundamental truth, the destruction of human society as we know it.

00:51:53.540 No, Dylan Mulvaney does not advocate for child abuse, and gender-affirming care isn't child abuse anyway.

00:51:58.660 Because it's been found that not providing trans healthcare to youth is actually closer to a form of child abuse.

00:52:03.700 Trans kids who are rejected from their family were nearly 60% more likely to commit suicide, 73% more likely to end up in prison, and 68% more likely to suffer from substance abuse.

00:52:13.960 One study found that 73% of trans youth experience psychological abuse, and 39% physical abuse.

00:52:20.320 So we can clearly prove that trans people are not committing child abuse.

00:52:23.240 But for the other two claims, I don't know what to do about that.

00:52:25.400 They're so over-the-top and dramatic.

00:52:27.200 War on truth, the downfall of society.

00:52:29.160 How can you prove or disprove that?

00:52:30.900 And this is where I think Matt Walsh's resentment has a little bit more to do with envy. 0.93

00:52:34.740 I mean, I resent Matt Walsh because I think he's a fascist.

00:52:37.000 But I do also envy him.

00:52:38.400 I envy his status, his platform, the fact that people might take him more seriously than they'll take me.

00:52:42.880 But what, if anything, does Matt Walsh envy about queer people?

00:52:45.620 Does he envy Dylan because she grew to such popularity so fast?

00:52:48.740 Is he envious of the fact that she got invited to things like fashion shows, different events, that she's met the president?

00:52:54.660 Now, we've already dealt extensively with the claim that gender transition decreases suicide rates.

00:53:00.560 And we talked about it for 15 minutes yesterday.

00:53:02.820 So you can go and refer to that video to see me break down why that part of what he said is totally nonsense.

00:53:10.160 To the charge that I am envious because Dylan Mulvaney gets to go to fashion shows,

00:53:15.320 I don't know what to say except that attending a fashion show would be my actual hell.

00:53:19.900 I mean, almost as bad as going to a WNBA game.

00:53:22.380 And I'm already going to be forced to do that.

00:53:24.060 So a man can only take so much.

00:53:26.140 As for meeting the president, yes, I admit that I would be very eager for a chance to sit across from the president with the cameras rolling.

00:53:32.620 But for very different reasons.

00:53:33.940 So overall, no, I'm not envious of Dylan Mulvaney.

00:53:38.520 I mean, in order to elicit envy, he would need to have something that I want or embody some sort of trait that I find admirable.

00:53:47.200 Instead, he has none of the things I want out of life and embodies everything that I want to be the opposite of.

00:53:53.440 So what we've learned here, as you even admitted to your credit, I suppose, is that you are driven by envy.

00:53:59.520 And so you assume that everyone else is too.

00:54:02.440 And this is what we call projection.

00:54:04.600 Now, the next video is from the same guy.

00:54:06.240 So let's continue. 0.99

00:54:07.760 Matt Walsh is a fascist who is promoting violence against trans people. 0.99

00:54:11.780 His language is inflammatory and factually incorrect. 0.98

00:54:15.040 The idea that being trans is the result of some kind of social contagion has been disproven so many times.

00:54:20.060 The theory of rapid onset gender dysphoria comes from a survey of 256 parents of trans children and not from the trans children themselves.

00:54:28.660 The article has been removed and criticized for bad methodology.

00:54:31.640 After being peer reviewed, it was found that rapid onset gender dysphoria isn't even a formal medical diagnosis.

00:54:36.940 It was found that between 2017 and 2019, the rates of teenagers identifying as trans didn't even increase.

00:54:43.040 Well, where to begin?

00:54:43.940 Again, you say that the survey about rapid onset gender dysphoria was invalid because they interviewed parents rather than the children themselves.

00:54:53.200 Well, yes.

00:54:54.740 If a child is sucked into a social contagion, he's not going to report that he's been sucked into a social contagion.

00:55:01.140 Are you actually trying to prove that children aren't being indoctrinated by arguing that the indoctrinated children say they haven't been indoctrinated?

00:55:08.320 Is that what you're going with?

00:55:10.340 Yes, I mean, if you go to your local Scientology Center and you ask anyone there whether they've been brainwashed, they're all going to say no.

00:55:18.600 I guess that proves that there's no brainwashing happening there either.

00:55:21.360 I mean, they didn't say they were brainwashed, so I guess they weren't.

00:55:24.760 Now, if you don't like the term rapid onset gender dysphoria, you can call it whatever you want.

00:55:29.460 If you prefer something less clinical sounding, then just call it, wow, look at all of these kids calling themselves trans all of a sudden syndrome. 0.76

00:55:37.220 The point is that according to data compiled by the Williams Institute, for example, nearly one in five people who identify as trans are between the ages of 13 and 17.

00:55:48.140 Only half a percent of all adults in this country identify as trans, while the number for kids between the ages of 13 and 17 is 1.4%.

00:55:55.120 That's nearly three times higher.

00:55:57.760 And the numbers are even more striking when you break them down by generation.

00:56:00.480 There was a Gallup poll that found that there are twice as many trans identifiers in Gen Z as there are among millennials.

00:56:08.080 And there are many more among millennials than among baby boomers.

00:56:10.960 For baby boomers, it's 0.2% identify as trans.

00:56:14.920 For Gen Z, it's nearly 2%.

00:56:18.160 0.2% versus 2%.

00:56:21.060 That is a 10x increase.

00:56:24.440 You think this happened by accident?

00:56:25.760 Or perhaps you would say that there have always been this many trans people in the world, but they weren't free to live their truth or whatever. 0.91

00:56:32.040 Well, the trouble with that theory is that there's absolutely not even one single shred of evidence to support the dramatic claim that there have always been millions upon millions of closeted trans people through history.

00:56:44.980 So here's how this breaks down.

00:56:46.000 All of the available data, all of it, tells us that there are many, many, many, many, many, many more trans identifying people in the youngest generation than in any other generation in human history.

00:56:58.600 Now, you can either believe what the data tells you, what all of it tells you, all of it, or you can invent a story, entirely unsupported, completely built on your imagination,

00:57:10.340 about millions and millions and millions of theoretical trans people in older generations who don't show up in the data.

00:57:16.900 This is what you're reduced to.

00:57:18.520 Because you don't want to accept what your eyes tell you and tell all of us that trans identification has skyrocketed in recent years. 0.94

00:57:25.640 You're left then theorizing about invisible trans people in other generations, even though you have no evidence that they even exist.

00:57:35.300 All right, let's move on.

00:57:36.320 I had an unfortunate experience today when I logged onto Facebook and I saw this post by Matt Walsh.

00:57:41.900 I'll be honest with you, I thought it was satire.

00:57:44.100 I thought Matt Walsh was either making a joke or that he had been hacked.

00:57:48.220 But upon further investigation, this was serious.

00:57:51.800 So let's read it together.

00:57:53.220 All a man wants is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children who are glad to see him and dinner cooking on the stove.

00:58:04.700 This is literally all it takes to make a man happy.

00:58:09.140 We are simple.

00:58:10.480 Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.

00:58:14.160 The only truth in this entire post is where he says we are simple.

00:58:17.540 You're right.

00:58:18.260 You guys are simple minded little.

00:58:20.360 It gets better when he moves to the comment section because people obviously give him a bunch of.

00:58:24.240 If your husband is unhappy, consider whether you have ever given him this one thing he wants.

00:58:31.880 There's a good chance the answer is no.

00:58:35.220 Oh, the outrage.

00:58:36.880 Obviously, every situation is different.

00:58:39.140 Maybe there's a situation where both spouses have to work, especially in this economy. 0.99

00:58:42.680 Maybe the man works different shifts. 1.00

00:58:44.700 Basically, yeah, I know I'm a idiot. 0.97

00:58:46.620 I don't know if I've told y'all this story about when I was being abused in my marriage and I'm not to like toot my own horn. 0.99

00:58:54.460 I was a pretty good wife.

00:58:55.700 Like I was the wife who stayed fairly fit after two C-sections.

00:59:00.060 I kept the house clean.

00:59:01.780 I did the laundry.

00:59:02.920 I made the dinner.

00:59:04.260 The kids were happy and well behaved and disciplined.

00:59:07.400 And I tried my hardest because this is how I was raised.

00:59:10.360 Okay, this is I was raised by a stay at home mom.

00:59:12.240 I was raised with kind of the mindset of like this is your job is to like make him know that like he's appreciated and that his house is taken care of and yadda yadda yadda.

00:59:20.960 On top of all that, I did all the fun little things in the bedroom he wanted me to do.

00:59:24.800 I would send him dirty pictures at work and try to keep the spice alive. 0.60

00:59:27.880 I would buy new lingerie.

00:59:29.760 Everything that you can think of.

00:59:32.360 I was like I'm going to be a good wife.

00:59:33.980 Like I am going to make this work.

00:59:35.780 And I got more and more desperate to try to be a better wife the worse it got.

00:59:41.100 Because I was taught, like this Matt Walsh post, that if it failed, if the marriage failed, if we weren't happy, if he wasn't happy, it was on me.

00:59:50.400 It was because I wasn't grateful enough.

00:59:51.780 It was because dinner wasn't ready soon enough.

00:59:53.420 It was because I wasn't fun enough.

00:59:54.920 I wasn't spicy enough.

00:59:56.060 And he still abused me.

00:59:57.960 He still cheated.

01:00:00.680 Well, I'm sorry you had that experience in your marriage.

01:00:03.420 I am.

01:00:03.880 Never should have happened.

01:00:04.580 But you're making a mistake that many people make these days of assuming that a general principle is wrong because of your own personal experience.

01:00:13.240 So it's like if I said that you should lock your doors at night and use an alarm system to prevent break-ins.

01:00:17.960 And you responded that my advice is bad because you did that and still had a break-in.

01:00:23.760 Okay, but does that mean that you shouldn't lock your doors and use an alarm system?

01:00:26.880 If a certain strategy isn't totally foolproof and perfect, does that automatically make it bad?

01:00:34.360 What I'm recommending is that women should be grateful and loving towards their husbands.

01:00:38.000 That's it.

01:00:38.980 That's all I'm saying.

01:00:40.520 Now, it's true that you could be grateful and loving to your husband and still end up in a terrible marriage because he's a terrible person.

01:00:45.420 That can happen.

01:00:46.040 Terrible people exist in the world, and there are people who end up married to terrible people.

01:00:49.540 It does happen.

01:00:50.560 And it happens on both ends.

01:00:52.240 Okay, because there are terrible women and terrible men. 1.00

01:00:53.560 But does that mean that wives shouldn't be grateful and loving? 1.00

01:00:58.200 I mean, are you recommending ingratitude and resentment?

01:01:01.140 Is that a better strategy?

01:01:02.320 Is that more likely to produce positive marital results?

01:01:05.740 You could be faithful to your spouse and still find that he is unfaithful.

01:01:08.960 But does that mean that we should tell people to be unfaithful from the start on the assumption that the others will be too?

01:01:16.360 Of course not.

01:01:17.800 But maybe your point is that we shouldn't put it all on the wife.

01:01:21.120 We should tell the men to be grateful and loving too.

01:01:22.820 Well, here's the good news.

01:01:23.820 I never suggest otherwise.

01:01:25.080 In fact, I frequently encourage men to love their wives and be faithful and good to them.

01:01:28.420 I say that all the time.

01:01:29.720 I just didn't happen to make that point in that particular statement that you read.

01:01:33.520 There are many points that I didn't make because I was only making the point that I did make.

01:01:37.760 I can't say everything every time I say anything.

01:01:40.480 And that limitation does not give you the right to invent a whole series of opinions and statements I never expressed,

01:01:46.080 which is what you just did.

01:01:48.120 All right.

01:01:49.220 Last one.

01:01:49.840 Let's watch it.

01:01:50.300 You cannot be something and also the negation of that thing at the same time.

01:01:56.060 Matt Walsh is just going to be upset with people using micro labels.

01:01:59.620 See, he wants to have it both ways where he hates the oversaturation of language with micro labels.

01:02:05.360 Yet when something is not 100% consistent and precise enough, he gets mad at that too.

01:02:10.900 You can't have it both ways.

01:02:12.820 Either we have to use umbrella terms, which are not going to be exactly precise.

01:02:16.960 Yet as long as we understand that if somebody says bisexual and asexual,

01:02:22.040 they're probably referring to a romantic attraction to both genders or perhaps a little sexual attraction to both genders.

01:02:28.260 If this is the position that Matt Walsh is taking, it is going to be logically inconsistent for him to later take issue with micro labeling.

01:02:36.040 Five minutes later.

01:02:37.420 Fart sniffing mumbo jumbo.

01:02:38.860 And now he's taking issue with micro labeling, despite earlier complaining that macro labeling is not specific enough.

01:02:46.120 Well, thank you for reminding me about my fart sniffing mumbo jumbo line.

01:02:50.080 I'm quite proud of that.

01:02:51.300 Now, my issue is not with the act of labeling.

01:02:54.180 There is some amount of labeling that's necessary and normal.

01:02:56.700 Human beings label things so that they can communicate coherently with each other about those things.

01:03:00.880 But coherence is the point here.

01:03:03.220 When the labels create incoherence, then they defeat the purpose of the entire exercise.

01:03:09.220 If the label doesn't clarify, but rather creates more confusion, then it's not even a label.

01:03:14.760 It's more of an anti-label.

01:03:16.260 It's an attempt to make it harder for people to understand what something is, not easier.

01:03:21.680 My issue with the labeling that you people do is that you label obsessively and constantly, but your labels don't make sense.

01:03:28.440 And they don't cohere.

01:03:29.540 They contradict themselves.

01:03:31.400 And you can't define any of them.

01:03:33.420 That's the problem.

01:03:34.300 Case in point.

01:03:35.240 You mentioned someone who identifies as both bisexual and asexual.

01:03:38.800 That doesn't make sense.

01:03:40.340 I'm not being pedantic.

01:03:41.440 I'm not engaging in a game of gotcha here.

01:03:43.160 It just doesn't make sense.

01:03:44.760 It is a logical contradiction.

01:03:46.620 It is the definition of something that doesn't make sense.

01:03:49.300 Calling yourself a bisexual asexual is exactly like calling yourself a meat-eating vegan. 0.90

01:03:56.660 Now, you say that perhaps asexuals experience a little sexual attraction to both sexes, 0.66

01:04:01.800 and that somehow justifies calling an asexual of that sort a bisexual asexual.

01:04:07.720 But that's like saying that a meat-eating vegan is a vegan who eats only a little bit of meat.

01:04:14.520 Well, by definition, if you eat a little bit of meat, then you eat meat, which means you aren't a vegan.

01:04:18.640 You may be a less enthusiastic meat eater or a reluctant meat eater or an occasional meat eater.

01:04:23.840 Or maybe there's some other adjective you can affix there.

01:04:26.380 But a vegan is someone who doesn't eat meat, period.

01:04:31.300 You eat meat, you aren't a vegan.

01:04:33.660 An asexual experiences no sexual attraction.

01:04:36.900 If you experience sexual attraction, you're not asexual.

01:04:40.020 See, this is the other problem with your compulsive and incoherent labeling.

01:04:43.380 You don't allow for variations within the labels.

01:04:47.340 You pretend that you do.

01:04:48.600 You pretend that you're all about variation.

01:04:50.800 You embrace all kinds of variety, you claim.

01:04:53.620 But you don't.

01:04:54.600 Because the moment you notice a variation within a category,

01:04:58.880 you create a whole new category for that variation.

01:05:03.400 So rather than just allowing for the fact that sexual people, heterosexual, homosexual,

01:05:09.720 people who experience sexual attraction,

01:05:11.860 rather than allowing for the fact that there are varying sexual appetites

01:05:16.280 and there are, you know, people that have greater appetites than others,

01:05:21.660 rather than just allowing for that,

01:05:23.520 you carve out anyone with a lower appetite and you put them in the asexual box. 0.63

01:05:27.840 You've removed them from this box and put them in this one instead.

01:05:31.740 And you do this kind of thing everywhere, in every context.

01:05:35.260 The most obvious example, of course, is how you've eliminated masculine women from existence, 0.99

01:05:39.860 tomboys we used to call them. 0.79

01:05:41.280 You've erased that variation by labeling them trans men.

01:05:44.360 See, this is the worst part about the way that you label.

01:05:49.500 It's not just that it's incoherent.

01:05:51.560 It's bad enough. 0.74

01:05:53.240 It's also that it's so damned limiting. 0.72

01:05:57.640 And furthermore, you're canceled.

01:06:00.620 All of these people, in fact, are today, unfortunately, I must say, canceled.

01:06:05.400 That'll do it for this portion of the show.

01:06:06.640 As we move over to the members block,

01:06:07.640 you can become a member today by using code Walsh at checkout

01:06:10.220 for two months free on all annual plans.

01:06:12.700 Hope to see you over there.

01:06:13.320 If not, talk to you on Monday.

01:06:15.020 Godspeed.

01:06:15.380 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 10, 2023

Ep. 1129 - Ungrateful Brat Colin Kaepernick Throws His White Adoptive Parents Under The Bus

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