The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1138 - Christian Children Murdered By Trans Mass Shooter

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the community is in mourning after a trans terrorist walked into a Christian school and murdered six people here in Nashville, including three children.

00:00:09.100 The media is playing all of their expected games, even finding a way to blame conservatives for this tragedy.

00:00:14.860 But we'll try to get to the heart of the matter today.

00:00:17.040 I have a lot to say about this, and we'll talk about it all today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:20.540 You've heard about the horrific shooting at the Covenant School here in Nashville yesterday, a tragedy that has hit our community incredibly hard.

00:00:36.560 Six victims, three staff members at the school were killed, and three children who were all nine years old.

00:00:41.680 And this one, I can say, lands close to home for me, literally close to home in the sense that Covenant is just a few miles from the studio and not far from where I live.

00:00:51.140 And because I know people whose children attend that school and, well, I know people whose children attend that school.

00:00:59.820 And I can't fathom what the families of those murdered children are going through, what it must be like to have woken up this morning if you slept at all,

00:01:07.920 knowing that you will face this day and all remaining days without your precious child.

00:01:13.120 It is unfathomable.

00:01:15.200 But there are yet more families today who are forced to experience a form of suffering that the rest of us can't even imagine.

00:01:22.880 There's a lot that needs to be said about this, but let's start with the basic facts as we understand them today.

00:01:28.340 So on Monday morning, Audrey Hale, 28-year-old female who identified as transgender, shot through a locked side entrance of the school building, 0.97

00:01:36.560 made her way to the second floor, and opened fire. 0.95

00:01:39.800 There were no school resource officers.

00:01:42.400 The campus had no armed security of any kind, apparently.

00:01:46.160 Police responded to the scene.

00:01:48.040 Within about 15 minutes, had killed the suspect and sent her to hell, where she will stay forever, as she deserves.

00:01:55.300 But not before six people were slaughtered, including the three children.

00:01:58.580 One of those children, nine-year-old Haley Scruggs, was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, who's the pastor of the Covenant Church.

00:02:04.860 Now, there was unspeakable evil that entered the school on Monday, but it was met with bravery and heroism, which we should acknowledge.

00:02:13.040 Nashville police, thankfully, did not follow in the footsteps of the cops in Uvalde.

00:02:17.980 Instead, they ran to the sound of the gunfire.

00:02:21.880 And in fact, just this morning, the body cam footage was released, and we can see this happening.

00:02:27.360 They go into that school.

00:02:28.380 They go right to where they hear the gunfire, headfirst into the danger, and they kill the monster.

00:02:35.120 Meanwhile, from what I've heard, there were many other scenes of teachers and staff members rushing to protect their students.

00:02:41.440 Incredible courage rising up against the evil, yet the evil made its mark in the most devastating of ways.

00:02:47.880 As for the motive, the police, to this point, as I'm speaking right now, haven't said very much.

00:02:54.400 But they have confirmed that the shooter identified as trans, and they indicated rather strongly, I think, that her trans identification had something to do with motivating the crime.

00:03:04.940 Here's the Nashville police chief.

00:03:06.260 Our investigations tell us that she was a former student at the school.

00:03:12.280 I don't know what grade she's attended or grades, but we do firmly believe she was a student there.

00:03:18.680 Did she identify as trans?

00:03:21.280 She does identify as trans, yes.

00:03:26.180 And no motive at this point?

00:03:27.760 Anything discovered in the apartment or house?

00:03:30.360 No, we have a manifesto.

00:03:32.820 We have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident.

00:03:39.040 We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.

00:03:44.120 There's right now a theory that we may be able to talk about later, but it's not confirmed.

00:03:50.560 And so we'll put that out as soon as we can.

00:03:53.240 And, Chief, is there any reason to believe that how she identifies a person with white?

00:03:57.980 I'm sorry, I knocked someone from Michael.

00:03:59.500 I didn't hear you say that again, sir.

00:04:00.760 Is there any reason to believe that how she identifies has any motive for targeting the school?

00:04:07.780 We can give you that at a later time.

00:04:09.720 There is some theory to that.

00:04:12.420 We're investigating all the leads.

00:04:13.960 And once we know exactly, we'll let you know.

00:04:16.240 So was this a targeted attack?

00:04:18.900 It was.

00:04:21.600 So the shooter identified as trans.

00:04:23.780 She had a manifesto.

00:04:24.840 It was a targeted attack against a Christian school.

00:04:27.180 And there is, he suggests, reason to believe that her self-identification played a role in the attack itself.

00:04:34.520 Now, these details have created confusion in the corporate media, with some outlets simply deciding for the first time in years, and entirely for political reasons here, to ignore trans identification and stick with the biologically appropriate pronouns in this case, and this case only.

00:04:48.980 While other outlets have issued corrections to ensure that their pronoun usage is compliant, USA Today tweeted yesterday afternoon, quote,

00:04:57.120 Police on Monday afternoon said that the shooter was a transgender man.

00:05:00.060 Officials had initially misidentified the gender of the shooter.

00:05:04.740 The New York Times had a similar clarification.

00:05:06.300 There was confusion later on Monday about the gender identity of the assailant in the national shooting.

00:05:10.980 Officials had used she and her to refer to the suspect, who, according to a social media post and a LinkedIn profile, appeared to identify as a man in recent months.

00:05:19.640 So in both cases, basically chastising the police for misgendering this despicable, ghoulish monster.

00:05:26.100 But this is a subject that the left would rather not discuss at all.

00:05:29.740 They'd prefer to skip over the questions of the shooter's identity and motivation, and keep the whole discussion focused on guns.

00:05:36.360 That's where the White House took the issue right away, as we expect, and without any hesitation at all.

00:05:41.900 Listen.

00:05:43.240 We must do more.

00:05:44.680 And he wants Congress to act, because enough is enough.

00:05:49.080 In his State of the Union, the President called on Congress to do something to stop the epidemic of gun violence, tearing families apart, tearing communities apart.

00:06:00.620 How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban?

00:06:11.500 To close loopholes in our background check system, or to require the safe storage of guns.

00:06:20.880 We need to do something.

00:06:23.980 Yes, it's all the Republicans' fault.

00:06:26.300 When a trans person shoots up a Christian school, you know, the only people to blame are Republicans, obviously. 0.98

00:06:32.740 Joe Biden had a similar message.

00:06:34.840 Okay, now let's go over a few details here, a few points.

00:06:38.460 First of all, this is not about guns.

00:06:43.720 And these damned frauds know damn well that it's not about gun.

00:06:49.900 And they know that because guns have existed for hundreds of years.

00:06:53.060 The firearms that they erroneously refer to as assault weapons have been around for decades.

00:06:58.980 And yet, we all seem to agree that only in recent years have these sorts of mass shootings, and in particular school shootings,

00:07:04.740 school shootings seem to have become commonplace.

00:07:08.460 If guns were the cause of the problem, then there's no particular reason why mass shootings should be more common now than they were 60 years ago, or even 100 years ago.

00:07:18.620 But however you measure mass shootings, and to whatever degree they've increased over time,

00:07:23.640 the real question, the big question,

00:07:26.220 the question that actually matters right now, is why?

00:07:29.320 Why do people want to commit these acts?

00:07:34.340 What drives it?

00:07:35.560 What motivates it?

00:07:37.520 If you could take away all the guns, snap your fingers, and make them disappear or float into space,

00:07:42.340 still you would be left with a country infested with homicidal sociopaths who don't value human life.

00:07:49.720 That is not a safe place to be, no matter what weapons are available or not available.

00:07:54.180 So, why?

00:07:56.500 Guns are the tools that many of these murderers use, but why do they commit the murders in the first place?

00:08:02.640 The vast majority of people who own guns and will own them for their entire lives without ever murdering anyone.

00:08:09.320 I own guns.

00:08:10.360 I've never murdered anybody and never will.

00:08:12.340 Why do these people do it? 0.69

00:08:14.600 Okay?

00:08:15.020 Why?

00:08:16.160 That's what matters.

00:08:18.220 If we were going to skip over the why question and discuss only how to mitigate the existing risk,

00:08:24.940 then that conversation should revolve first and foremost around security.

00:08:29.300 The Covenant School, again, had no armed security on campus.

00:08:32.560 It was a soft target.

00:08:33.800 That is, an easily accessible and unsecured location with large numbers of unarmed people,

00:08:39.880 most of whom happen to be children.

00:08:41.500 Every day, millions of parents send their children off to soft targets.

00:08:47.740 And the killers choose them as targets precisely for this reason.

00:08:51.980 In fact, the police chief said as much in the press conference yesterday.

00:08:55.260 Listen.

00:08:56.520 Was this the only school that was targeted?

00:08:59.780 It was the only school that was targeted.

00:09:02.220 There was another location that was mentioned.

00:09:05.160 But because of a threat assessment by the suspect, too much security, they decided not to.

00:09:11.120 And that area was here in Nashville.

00:09:13.280 So we'll continue in with that investigation as well.

00:09:16.180 So did you get that?

00:09:17.480 She wanted to go somewhere else, but decided not to because they had security.

00:09:22.780 So then she went to the place without any.

00:09:25.560 This is not a difficult equation.

00:09:26.900 It's not hard to figure out.

00:09:28.460 Every school should have armed security.

00:09:30.160 There is absolutely no rational argument against it.

00:09:33.640 No sane, decent person can possibly object to our children being protected.

00:09:40.340 The way we protect our money in banks, okay?

00:09:43.400 Nobody objects to having armed security in a bank.

00:09:45.880 Or the way we protect our politicians in the buildings where they work. 0.78

00:09:50.600 Our children deserve at least the same amount of security as we give to our money and our politicians.

00:09:56.600 And I would say quite a bit more, in fact.

00:09:59.620 You would have to be a psychopath to disagree.

00:10:02.160 I mean, it is that simple.

00:10:04.360 But this still does not address the underlying question, which is, again, the why.

00:10:10.100 So let's talk about that.

00:10:12.640 And in this case, we cannot ignore the killer's self-identification.

00:10:16.060 In fact, this is only the latest in a string of mass shootings committed by someone from this identity group. 0.97

00:10:22.600 The Colorado Springs mass shooter identifies as non-binary.

00:10:26.160 The shooter at a Denver charter school in 2019 identified as trans.

00:10:29.220 A mass shooter has shot seven people at a warehouse in Aberdeen, Maryland the year before that, identified as trans.

00:10:35.260 And these are not isolated incidents.

00:10:37.280 These are not random bursts of violence from an otherwise peaceful group.

00:10:42.140 Not remotely.

00:10:44.200 In fact, this happened, this latest shooting happened during a week when trans activists have been calling for, quote,

00:10:50.200 a trans day of vengeance, with at least one suggesting that the day of vengeance should happen outside of the studio where I'm currently sitting.

00:10:59.060 As I have tried to warn for a long time, radical, far-left trans activism is a hateful, violent movement. 0.99

00:11:08.700 It is more hateful and more violent than any other movement in memory.

00:11:12.680 And I know that, okay, I know that, not just because they march, you know, in their rallies holding banners,

00:11:22.620 telling their opponents to kill themselves and making other explicit violent threats.

00:11:26.960 This is at, like, every trans rally you go to, you're going to see this.

00:11:31.520 Though that is what they do, and that's part of the issue.

00:11:36.340 It's not just that.

00:11:38.120 And it's not just because they were on Twitter yesterday justifying the shooting on the basis that,

00:11:42.560 in the words of one trans activist, oppressed minorities are striking back.

00:11:47.960 Striking back by killing children.

00:11:51.480 But it's not just that.

00:11:52.680 I know it also because I've lived through it.

00:11:55.580 Okay?

00:11:55.800 My family has lived through it.

00:11:57.220 We live through it every day.

00:11:58.640 I haven't experienced even a fraction of what these families at the Covenant School are suffering through.

00:12:04.300 Yet I've seen enough firsthand to know that these people will do and say anything to those they consider their enemies.

00:12:14.280 Anything.

00:12:15.500 They will do anything to intimidate and silence you.

00:12:20.120 They will dox you.

00:12:21.820 They will blackmail you.

00:12:23.460 They will threaten you.

00:12:25.520 They will call for violence against you.

00:12:27.620 They will threaten your family.

00:12:29.920 They will threaten your children.

00:12:32.260 They will harass you.

00:12:34.680 They will commit violence against you.

00:12:37.340 This is how the movement operates.

00:12:40.680 And anyone who's taken a serious stand against it and attracted its ire knows that.

00:12:45.560 Now, in this divided culture, you're guaranteed to get intense pushback if you take, you know, any position, well, any correct position, any truthful position anyway, on any topic.

00:12:55.840 But the pushback on the trans topic, it is just unlike anything else.

00:12:59.960 It just is.

00:13:00.820 It's not just pushback.

00:13:02.000 It is a tidal wave of bloodthirsty rage from people who deeply and truly want you dead and they want your family dead.

00:13:11.760 They will tell you that if you ask them or even if you don't.

00:13:17.440 Now, what makes this situation so dangerous is that, aside from the obvious, is that this thirst for vengeance, this rage, is explicitly encouraged by our institutions.

00:13:31.940 You can find many media articles, just like this one from Teen Vogue, calling for us to, quote, stop policing trans rage.

00:13:40.880 In other words, let them act out as violently as they want because they're entitled to.

00:13:46.200 From the very top echelons of our society, from the most powerful people and institutions, we are told that those who oppose gender ideology, those who wish to protect children from being brainwashed into the cult, protect children from being abused and mutilated and castrated, are engaging in genocide.

00:14:03.780 This is the language from, again, this is not the fringes of the movement where we hear this kind of language.

00:14:10.160 It's very much in the mainstream.

00:14:14.840 And when you point to someone who's a critic of gender ideology and you say, they're committing genocide, that is nothing less than an open and direct invitation to commit violent acts against that person.

00:14:30.580 An invitation to do exactly what was done yesterday.

00:14:33.280 You know, the trans activists are assured that somehow those who disagree with them are a threat to their very lives, just by disagreeing.

00:14:43.500 That those who do not affirm their self-identity are engaging in violence simply by not affirming.

00:14:51.380 That the refusal to affirm is essentially an act of murder, okay?

00:14:56.180 Because you're murdering me by not affirming my self-identity because my self-identity is the only identity that matters.

00:15:01.520 And if you make me question my self-identity, then you are basically killing me.

00:15:06.740 That's the logic.

00:15:09.320 And it is a logic that gives a green light to carry out atrocities.

00:15:14.920 It is intended to do that.

00:15:17.500 That is how it is intended.

00:15:20.080 Let's stop beating around the bush and pretending otherwise.

00:15:23.500 This is what they want.

00:15:25.100 Every time someone, someone in the media, someone in D.C., anyone else, points at Christians, at conservatives, at any of us, and says, they want genocide.

00:15:36.140 What they're really saying is, deal with them.

00:15:38.720 Shut them down.

00:15:39.560 Silence them.

00:15:40.280 Take them out.

00:15:42.140 That's how the words are interpreted.

00:15:44.380 Because how else could they be interpreted?

00:15:46.320 After all, if somebody was really carrying out a genocide, then violence would be the appropriate response.

00:15:54.980 But it's not just about rhetoric.

00:15:57.960 You know, at a deeper level, the gender ideology movement breeds hopelessness and depression and self-loathing and destructiveness. 0.97

00:16:06.860 It begins as a suicidal destructiveness, as rage against the self, rejection of the self, and quickly metastasizes into an outward rage, into a desire to destroy not only the self, but to tear down the outside world along with it.

00:16:22.520 The person who's brainwashed into this cult, who falls into this dark vortex, will be conditioned to hate her true identity, to despise her inherent nature, and then to project all of that hatred out onto society, and especially onto those who, for her sake, will not play along with the charade.

00:16:44.440 Those who truly care about her will be the targets of her wrath. 1.00

00:16:48.160 That is gender ideology's built-in defense mechanism. 1.00

00:16:54.540 The hatred and violence are not side effects.

00:16:58.820 They are the intended effects.

00:17:02.700 This is the evil that we are up against.

00:17:06.840 And evil is the point here.

00:17:09.060 Because, you know, no matter who is responsible for the latest burst of demonic violence, what lies at the root is the reality of human evil and a society that fosters this evil and fertilizes it to help it grow.

00:17:26.700 Whether it's a trans person or anyone else carrying out the latest mass murder, the root is always a culture in a state of spiritual and moral decay. 0.99

00:17:36.420 We have become a country filled with numb, detached, empty, desensitized people with no sense of underlying purpose.

00:17:44.120 And we try to fill the gaps with things that cannot solve the problem and will only make it worse a lot of the time.

00:17:48.820 Psychiatric drugs, internet, entertainment, trying to numb the numbness even more.

00:17:56.860 Increasingly, people, especially young people, seeking a sense of identity and belonging, they turn to gender identity for the answer. 0.72

00:18:04.800 But there they find only more of the confusion and despair that they're trying to escape.

00:18:09.820 This is the soil that these tragedies grow out of.

00:18:12.660 It's the landscape where everything is playing out.

00:18:15.540 And it's the whole picture that we need to see and understand and confront.

00:18:23.860 It's also the ground where many innocent people are buried.

00:18:26.700 Six more after yesterday.

00:18:29.260 We pray for them and their families and we keep fighting the evil for their sake.

00:18:35.140 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:18:36.520 Okay, so we have some more on this shooting as we get into the five headlines.

00:18:49.160 And we'll start with this.

00:18:52.080 Trans terrorists massacres Christian children. 1.00

00:18:55.720 But who's the real victim?

00:18:57.660 Now, of course, the real victim, according to our satanic media, are trans people themselves. 0.55

00:19:02.600 They are the real victims.

00:19:03.460 They're the ones we should be concerned about, as this media report tries to argue.

00:19:10.820 Here it is.

00:19:12.200 Audrey Hale, who police say identifies as transgender.

00:19:16.540 That news has already prompted some attacks against the trans community.

00:19:20.780 KPRC News' Bryce Newberry picks up our coverage from here.

00:19:24.500 No place for hate! No place for hate!

00:19:27.520 Demonstrators at the Texas State Capitol Monday fighting against anti-trans bills being considered by state lawmakers as news broke that the Nashville school shooter identifies as transgender.

00:19:38.980 It doesn't excuse anything that happened.

00:19:41.040 I am concerned about how opposition and people who are anti-trans will try to spin this.

00:19:48.740 Concern about tweets like this from GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, writing,

00:19:54.380 How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking? 1.00

00:20:01.040 Everyone can stop blaming guns now.

00:20:03.200 The comparison of they did it because they're trans is very unfair to trans people.

00:20:09.160 Andrea Segovia from the Transgender Education Network of Texas joined Monday's battle at the Capitol.

00:20:14.520 Fighting House Bill 1686, which would block doctors from providing gender transition health care treatment to children.

00:20:23.760 Now with another reason for the Texas trans community to be in the spotlight and at least two months remaining of the legislative session,

00:20:31.140 advocates worry the attacks aren't over.

00:20:33.540 You can't say that because one person did something that's a characteristic or reason to be cruel to trans people.

00:20:43.120 And tonight, while facts about the Nashville shooting are still surfacing,

00:20:47.920 the human rights campaign says trans people are much more likely to be victims of violence rather than perpetrators.

00:20:54.180 Writing in a statement, regardless of the reason for this shooting, the use of violence is reprehensible.

00:20:59.960 And we renew our call for common sense gun safety legislation.

00:21:04.580 In the newsroom tonight, I'm Bryce Newberry, KPRC 2 News.

00:21:07.440 This is why I talk about the reality of human evil, and you're seeing it there.

00:21:13.460 Everybody involved in this, these are just evil people.

00:21:18.120 And they don't care that these people were killed.

00:21:25.780 They don't.

00:21:26.820 And I know it's hard for us to wrap our heads around that.

00:21:29.280 We can't, like, how could you not care?

00:21:31.360 You know, there's six innocent people, including three nine-year-olds.

00:21:35.740 You know, to normal people like us, I mean, I have two nine-year-old children.

00:21:38.500 And so the thought of young children being slaughtered is just,

00:21:47.000 it fills you with anger and sorrow and grief.

00:21:53.280 And when something like that happens, that's the only thing you care about, are the actual victims.

00:22:00.100 And so you and I, as morally, you know, as competent, normal people, that's how we feel about it.

00:22:11.820 So you kind of assume that everybody else must work that way.

00:22:14.920 But what we have to realize is that that's not the case.

00:22:17.260 You know, we live in a culture that is run in many ways, especially from the institutional level,

00:22:24.520 by people who have sold their souls.

00:22:27.720 They've sold their souls.

00:22:29.860 And so they don't even have that instinctive reaction of caring immediately about this.

00:22:34.640 The first thing they care about, the first thing they talk about and think about,

00:22:39.400 is how this is going to impact their preferred, quote-unquote, supposedly marginalized group.

00:22:45.900 We make a joke about it in many other contexts, when we hear about,

00:22:51.420 when they make some sort of claim about climate change is going to kill all of humanity.

00:22:56.940 It's going to be an apocalypse in 12 years.

00:22:59.820 And, you know, women and minorities most affected.

00:23:04.360 And you hear that kind of thing and you laugh about it, it becomes sort of a meme.

00:23:08.580 But what you realize is that under the surface it's not very funny,

00:23:12.020 because this is actually how they feel.

00:23:13.720 They don't care about people.

00:23:18.140 They care about the ideology.

00:23:19.860 They care about the narrative.

00:23:21.600 That's all they care about.

00:23:22.200 And they also don't care about trans people either, by the way.

00:23:23.900 They don't care about trans-identified people.

00:23:25.640 Of course they don't.

00:23:26.760 If they cared about trans-identified people, they would not be pushing this stuff.

00:23:31.300 They would be trying to help trans-identified people

00:23:33.520 to deal with what is the actual source of their despair and all of that.

00:23:39.300 So all they care about is the narrative.

00:23:44.200 Children are killed.

00:23:45.640 And what do we hear?

00:23:46.800 Trans people are most impacted somehow.

00:23:48.920 That's what we have to worry about.

00:23:49.940 You've got trans terrorists murdering Christians in school.

00:23:57.160 You have, as we laid out in the opening monologue, calls for further violence.

00:24:03.840 And so, but we're not the ones, as Christians and conservatives,

00:24:07.940 we're not the ones who have reason to be concerned, right?

00:24:11.560 It's the trans people.

00:24:13.100 It's the trans activists who are carrying out this kind of stuff.

00:24:16.580 They're the ones who we need to be worried about.

00:24:20.800 And also what you heard at the end there from the human rights campaign,

00:24:24.660 the trans people are much more likely to be victims of violence.

00:24:28.920 Now, if the insinuation there, which this is what is being insinuated,

00:24:32.740 if the claim is that they're much more likely to be violence,

00:24:37.040 if they're much more likely to be targeted for violence because they are trans,

00:24:40.860 if that's the claim, then it is totally bogus.

00:24:45.820 Because we hear so much about trans people being killed, genocide.

00:24:50.320 They're being targeted because they're trans.

00:24:52.300 It almost never happens.

00:24:55.600 Okay?

00:24:56.160 It almost never happens.

00:24:59.480 There is no epidemic of it.

00:25:02.080 There's nothing like that.

00:25:04.240 Which is why, as we've been over many times,

00:25:05.980 when they try to support this claim of a genocide or hate crime epidemic against trans people,

00:25:11.660 the most they can ever do is just give you the number of trans people who are homicide victims,

00:25:19.080 period, throughout the entire year.

00:25:21.340 So they'll tell you about, you know, whatever it is,

00:25:23.320 50 trans people were victims of homicide throughout the year.

00:25:27.400 Okay, yeah.

00:25:28.180 I mean, you take any demographic group,

00:25:30.220 and there's going to be homicides within that group.

00:25:32.120 Because we're all mortal human beings living in this society.

00:25:35.600 The question is, how many of the homicides were because they're trans?

00:25:40.280 How many of them were targeted because of their identity?

00:25:45.240 And when you ask them that, you're going to get a lot of,

00:25:47.420 well, that does that.

00:25:49.100 It's not the point.

00:25:51.060 And if you actually look into it, you look at FBI data,

00:25:52.940 you're going to see, you know, two, three.

00:25:56.340 Very small handful.

00:25:57.340 So there is no such epidemic.

00:26:02.360 Yet here we have real death and suffering.

00:26:04.940 This is something that actually happened.

00:26:09.360 On this same note, the so-called Trans Resistance Network,

00:26:13.620 I want to read this to you.

00:26:15.220 This is a group of trans activists.

00:26:19.980 And this is the statement they put out.

00:26:22.920 And it appears that this statement is real.

00:26:24.760 Now, I couldn't independently confirm it

00:26:27.860 because this group has shut down their Twitter.

00:26:31.360 They've locked up their Twitter page.

00:26:33.860 And so you can't go to their Twitter page to see it.

00:26:35.820 But this is apparently a screenshot from their Twitter page.

00:26:38.440 You can't go to their Twitter page to confirm it

00:26:39.960 because they've locked it down.

00:26:42.020 Which seems to be pretty good confirmation that it's real.

00:26:44.380 Because if it wasn't, they would unlock the Twitter page

00:26:46.500 and tell everyone, hey, by the way, that thing's not real.

00:26:48.380 Instead, they've locked it down.

00:26:49.340 They've gone into hiding, basically, on cyberspace anyway.

00:26:51.760 So this is what the statement says.

00:26:55.820 The Trans Resistance Network has been notified

00:26:58.760 the shooter involved in today's church school shooting in Nashville

00:27:01.340 was a person identifying as transgender,

00:27:03.780 known from online profiles as Aiden or Aubrey Hale.

00:27:08.040 It's actually Audrey.

00:27:10.000 While it is not our policy to engage publicly with news media,

00:27:12.700 we believe this moment calls for thoughtful response from our collective.

00:27:15.660 We point out that today's incident in Nashville, Tennessee

00:27:18.880 is not one tragedy, but two.

00:27:21.900 The first tragedy today is the loss of life of three children and adults.

00:27:25.560 We extend our deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers

00:27:27.700 to those families dealing with loss of loved ones.

00:27:30.520 There is nothing we can offer that will comfort the hurt

00:27:32.620 or ease the sorrow we mourn with you.

00:27:35.460 The second and more complex tragedy is that Aiden or Aubrey Hale,

00:27:39.380 who felt he had no other effective way to be seen

00:27:42.320 than to lash out by taking the life of others and, by consequence, himself.

00:27:47.640 We do not claim to know the individual

00:27:49.080 or have access to their inner thoughts and feelings.

00:27:51.240 We do know that life for transgender people is very difficult

00:27:53.880 and made more difficult in preceding months

00:27:55.680 by a virtual avalanche of anti-trans legislation

00:27:58.620 and public call-outs by right-wing personalities and political figures

00:28:02.120 for nothing less than a genocidal eradication of trans people from society. 1.00

00:28:06.340 Many transgender people deal with anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide,

00:28:11.840 PTSD from the near-constant drumbeat of anti-trans hate,

00:28:15.260 lack of acceptance from family members and certain religious institutions,

00:28:18.760 denial of our existence, and call for detransition and forced conversion.

00:28:23.120 And on and on and on.

00:28:23.900 I can't even keep reading this tripe.

00:28:26.920 Here we have it from a group of trans activists laid out explicitly clear

00:28:30.660 that Audrey Hale, the demonic monster who murdered children, 0.58

00:28:37.480 not to mention three adults who are also innocent victims in this,

00:28:41.780 who murdered six people, is one of the victims here

00:28:46.360 because she felt bad.

00:28:49.020 Society made her feel bad.

00:28:52.360 Well, I'll tell you one thing.

00:28:54.860 I don't give a damn how this person felt.

00:28:58.680 I don't care that her feelings were hurt.

00:29:03.340 I don't care that she was suffering.

00:29:05.200 I hope she suffered.

00:29:07.160 I hope she suffered a lot in her final moments.

00:29:09.500 That's what I hope.

00:29:11.520 That's how we're supposed to feel about monsters who murder children.

00:29:15.820 Oh, she felt bad.

00:29:16.980 Good.

00:29:18.580 She feels bad now, burning in hell also.

00:29:21.720 And I'm glad for that because it's justice.

00:29:25.560 Now, here's another thought too.

00:29:26.760 Um, not that this is even something that we need to engage with,

00:29:32.000 but, you know, as much as we hear about how trans people are so devastated

00:29:37.940 and, you know, in such bad shape, you know, psychologically

00:29:43.260 because of not being affirmed by society and all that,

00:29:46.200 this is what we hear.

00:29:47.680 They're suffering so much emotionally, psychologically,

00:29:50.660 because of not being affirmed.

00:29:51.800 We hear this, um, meanwhile,

00:29:55.340 all of our major institutions in society

00:29:59.740 are bending over backwards every second of every day

00:30:04.660 to suck up to this group of people,

00:30:07.540 affirm them, make them feel good.

00:30:09.440 And so maybe we should stop to consider

00:30:13.780 that first of all,

00:30:16.480 if you're in a position where you need

00:30:18.480 everyone in society

00:30:21.200 to agree with you and affirm you

00:30:24.680 and, and, uh, you know,

00:30:27.320 prop up your, your self-perception and all,

00:30:29.760 if you need everyone

00:30:31.100 to the point where you could have

00:30:33.360 all of the major institutions

00:30:34.780 constantly celebrating you,

00:30:36.900 constant parades,

00:30:38.280 flags waving,

00:30:39.240 you're great, you're special,

00:30:40.780 and you can have all of that

00:30:43.080 and yet you hear a few voices saying,

00:30:46.320 I don't agree with that,

00:30:47.040 and that, like, destroys you, 0.53

00:30:49.840 maybe there are some issues,

00:30:54.260 some deeper issues going on.

00:30:56.940 But maybe it's not the fault

00:31:00.300 of those few voices

00:31:01.680 who are, um, who are, uh,

00:31:05.280 presenting a counter-argument

00:31:08.640 from everything we hear

00:31:10.000 from all the major institutions.

00:31:12.740 Just a thought.

00:31:15.160 Meanwhile, uh, there's this

00:31:16.820 from an NBC reporter,

00:31:18.200 which has been deleted.

00:31:19.680 Uh, the, the media,

00:31:21.100 I mean, as expected in the wake of this thing,

00:31:22.660 just covering themselves in glory.

00:31:24.740 So, Benjamin Ryan

00:31:26.100 is an NBC reporter

00:31:27.520 and, uh, also, uh,

00:31:29.520 an obsessed fan of mine

00:31:30.860 and of The Daily Wire.

00:31:32.300 Uh, he's, you know,

00:31:33.060 he spends much of his day

00:31:34.860 tweeting about us.

00:31:35.780 He's basically, I, he's,

00:31:36.960 he's, uh, angling for a job

00:31:38.900 at Media Matters, I think.

00:31:39.940 He's very well qualified

00:31:40.660 for Media Matters

00:31:41.320 just in his obsession

00:31:42.340 with The Daily Wire.

00:31:43.400 So this is what he tweeted.

00:31:44.640 He said,

00:31:45.020 NBC has ID'd the Nashville

00:31:46.560 school shooter as Audrey Hale, 28,

00:31:48.660 who identifies as transgender

00:31:49.760 and had no previous criminal record.

00:31:52.020 Nashville is home

00:31:52.640 to The Daily Wire,

00:31:53.400 a hub of anti-trans activity

00:31:55.180 by Matt Walsh,

00:31:56.840 Ben Shapiro,

00:31:57.560 and Michael Knowles.

00:31:59.680 Now,

00:32:00.300 some people read that

00:32:02.320 he deleted the tweet

00:32:03.040 and, of course,

00:32:03.840 took no accountability for it,

00:32:04.800 didn't apologize for it.

00:32:06.180 Uh, but

00:32:06.840 many people read that

00:32:09.440 as him blaming us

00:32:10.860 for the attack.

00:32:13.100 And that is one way

00:32:14.000 to read it,

00:32:14.420 and the media was also,

00:32:15.480 has also been doing that.

00:32:16.460 They've been blaming us,

00:32:17.720 blaming The Daily Wire,

00:32:18.520 blaming conservatives.

00:32:19.420 Because here's the thing,

00:32:20.720 you know,

00:32:20.960 if there's a mass shooting

00:32:22.660 and it's someone

00:32:24.760 who they can claim

00:32:25.760 is, you know,

00:32:26.440 quote-unquote

00:32:27.000 on our side,

00:32:28.160 someone who they can claim

00:32:29.080 is, quote-unquote,

00:32:29.820 right-wing,

00:32:30.960 then they blame us.

00:32:32.440 But if it's somebody

00:32:33.160 on the other side,

00:32:34.340 they still blame us.

00:32:35.780 So literally,

00:32:36.680 no matter who commits

00:32:37.600 the mass shooting,

00:32:38.380 it doesn't matter,

00:32:39.840 it's always our fault.

00:32:41.940 And there was,

00:32:43.060 there was quite a bit of that,

00:32:44.460 including this media report,

00:32:45.900 which, you know,

00:32:46.540 attempts to,

00:32:47.460 attempts to hint at it,

00:32:49.200 kind of offers the hint-hint,

00:32:50.560 wink-wink,

00:32:51.040 nudge-nudge thing 0.54

00:32:51.800 in a very unsubtle way,

00:32:53.860 connecting conservatives

00:32:55.160 to this attack.

00:32:57.100 Let's listen to this.

00:32:58.620 That is Police Chief

00:33:00.020 John Drake of Nashville,

00:33:01.660 who is briefing reporters

00:33:03.040 on the deadly

00:33:03.780 grade school shooting

00:33:05.100 in Nashville

00:33:05.800 at the Covenant School

00:33:06.780 there this morning.

00:33:08.240 The police confirming

00:33:10.100 six dead,

00:33:11.660 three children,

00:33:12.960 one eight years old,

00:33:14.240 two nine years old,

00:33:15.800 and three adults,

00:33:17.260 including Catherine Kuntz,

00:33:18.600 who is the head

00:33:19.340 of the Covenant School.

00:33:20.980 The police chief

00:33:21.860 also said

00:33:23.320 that the shooter

00:33:25.120 has been identified

00:33:26.000 as 28-year-old female.

00:33:28.280 Audrey Hale,

00:33:29.760 said she's a former

00:33:30.640 student of the school

00:33:32.020 and confirmed

00:33:32.800 that Audrey Hale

00:33:34.040 was identified herself

00:33:36.200 as a transgender person.

00:33:39.040 The state of Tennessee

00:33:40.400 earlier this month

00:33:41.540 passed and the governor

00:33:42.440 signed a bill

00:33:43.200 that banned

00:33:44.280 transgender medical care

00:33:46.120 for minors

00:33:46.960 as well as

00:33:48.240 a law that prohibited

00:33:49.520 adult entertainment,

00:33:51.000 including male and female 0.86

00:33:52.260 impersonators

00:33:53.080 after a series

00:33:53.840 of drag show controversies

00:33:55.280 in that state.

00:33:57.960 So,

00:33:58.680 very unsubtle hint.

00:34:00.180 I mean,

00:34:00.360 what does that have to do

00:34:01.320 with anything?

00:34:03.620 Well,

00:34:04.240 obviously,

00:34:05.100 the connection he wants,

00:34:07.720 and some people

00:34:08.520 immediately being more

00:34:09.120 explicit about it,

00:34:09.700 but the connection

00:34:10.120 he wants us to make

00:34:10.780 is that somehow

00:34:11.300 this was our fault,

00:34:12.560 which going back

00:34:14.080 to the Ben,

00:34:15.220 Benjamin Ryan tweet,

00:34:16.760 you know,

00:34:17.100 you could interpret it

00:34:18.800 that way,

00:34:19.920 saying that,

00:34:20.880 well,

00:34:21.180 this crime was carried out

00:34:23.320 in Nashville,

00:34:24.200 by the way,

00:34:25.520 home to a hub

00:34:26.660 of anti-trans activity

00:34:27.880 by Matt Walsh,

00:34:28.860 Michael Lulz,

00:34:29.240 and Ben Shapiro.

00:34:29.940 Ben Shapiro,

00:34:30.400 by the way,

00:34:30.680 doesn't even live

00:34:31.140 in Nashville.

00:34:33.680 So,

00:34:34.160 you could interpret

00:34:34.660 the tweet that way.

00:34:35.400 I interpreted it

00:34:36.040 another way,

00:34:36.580 this one from

00:34:37.280 Benjamin Ryan anyway.

00:34:39.100 I think the other way

00:34:39.640 of interpreting it

00:34:40.340 is rather than blaming us,

00:34:44.100 instead sending

00:34:45.380 the militants after us.

00:34:47.280 You know,

00:34:47.440 kind of a way of,

00:34:48.580 it's another

00:34:49.120 hint, hint,

00:34:50.820 wink, wink situation,

00:34:52.540 saying,

00:34:53.600 oh yeah,

00:34:53.980 trans terrorists 1.00

00:34:55.380 shot a bunch of Christians. 0.93

00:34:57.480 Hey,

00:34:58.160 by the way,

00:35:00.200 not just down the road

00:35:01.680 from there,

00:35:02.560 there are some more

00:35:03.460 anti-trans people.

00:35:06.680 That to me

00:35:07.360 is pretty clearly

00:35:08.180 the implication.

00:35:11.160 Because again,

00:35:11.840 they don't value

00:35:12.420 our lives.

00:35:13.480 They think we deserve

00:35:14.160 to die.

00:35:14.620 All of us.

00:35:15.500 That's what they believe.

00:35:17.300 Biden,

00:35:17.860 as we saw,

00:35:18.320 addressed the shooting

00:35:19.120 by politicizing it.

00:35:20.520 But before he got

00:35:21.440 to that part

00:35:22.520 of his remarks,

00:35:25.040 it started

00:35:26.240 with this.

00:35:27.780 And you can't even

00:35:28.720 appreciate the full,

00:35:30.020 just morbid

00:35:31.140 absurdity of this

00:35:32.360 if you don't see

00:35:33.520 the video.

00:35:34.220 Because Fox

00:35:35.100 and other media outlets,

00:35:36.440 they cut to Joe Biden

00:35:37.880 who came to address

00:35:38.600 the media.

00:35:39.580 And then you can see

00:35:40.580 down at the bottom

00:35:41.160 of the screen,

00:35:41.740 the lower third,

00:35:42.320 it says that Joe Biden

00:35:43.980 is going to address

00:35:44.820 the mass shooting

00:35:46.380 in Nashville.

00:35:48.020 But while it says

00:35:50.360 that on the screen,

00:35:51.440 here's how he actually

00:35:52.640 begins his remarks.

00:35:53.620 My name is Joe Biden.

00:35:58.280 I'm Dr. Joe Biden's

00:35:59.600 husband.

00:36:02.240 And I ate Jenny's

00:36:03.300 ice cream,

00:36:03.860 chocolate chip.

00:36:05.780 I came down

00:36:06.660 because I heard

00:36:07.000 there was chocolate

00:36:07.500 chip ice cream.

00:36:09.380 By the way,

00:36:10.140 I have a whole

00:36:10.560 refrigerator full upstairs.

00:36:12.260 I think I'm kidding.

00:36:13.300 I mean,

00:36:17.640 if it were

00:36:20.220 any other topic,

00:36:21.480 you know,

00:36:21.860 if it was something else

00:36:23.100 we could laugh about it

00:36:23.960 just as those hyenas

00:36:25.300 in the crowd

00:36:25.840 are laughing hysterically.

00:36:26.860 Oh,

00:36:26.980 he said he likes

00:36:27.520 ice cream.

00:36:29.860 But we can't even

00:36:30.920 laugh about it

00:36:31.500 because

00:36:32.020 this is a school

00:36:34.580 shooting

00:36:34.900 and he starts off

00:36:36.540 by saying,

00:36:37.140 I like,

00:36:37.560 my name's Joe Biden

00:36:39.020 and I like ice cream.

00:36:40.200 And this is,

00:36:43.840 it's not surprising though.

00:36:44.960 This is the consequence

00:36:45.720 of having a mentally

00:36:46.840 deranged

00:36:47.580 dementia patient

00:36:50.380 as president.

00:36:52.360 That is what

00:36:53.040 we actually have.

00:36:54.120 I think,

00:36:54.320 I think somehow

00:36:54.860 even after,

00:36:55.780 you know,

00:36:56.400 three years,

00:36:57.240 it still hasn't totally,

00:36:59.680 I don't know,

00:37:00.460 I'm not sure how much

00:37:01.040 it sinks in for people

00:37:02.520 that we actually,

00:37:04.760 it's not,

00:37:05.080 it's not a joke.

00:37:05.960 It's not just something

00:37:06.540 that we laugh about.

00:37:08.640 It is actually true 0.54

00:37:10.180 that the president

00:37:10.920 of the United States

00:37:11.600 does not have

00:37:12.840 his mental wits about him

00:37:13.700 and has dementia.

00:37:15.180 And that is the only way

00:37:16.700 to explain

00:37:17.340 how he could

00:37:19.020 come out for the media

00:37:20.780 to address a school shooting

00:37:21.860 and start off

00:37:22.560 literally by saying,

00:37:24.080 my name's Joe Biden

00:37:24.840 and I like ice cream.

00:37:28.580 We can't call that

00:37:29.360 a gaffe

00:37:30.040 or a flub.

00:37:31.880 This is just

00:37:32.620 a mentally deranged 0.66

00:37:33.760 old doddering fool

00:37:35.480 who has no idea

00:37:36.760 where he is

00:37:37.620 or what's going on.

00:37:40.180 And not only

00:37:40.800 is he in the White House,

00:37:41.560 but he is actually

00:37:42.680 going to run

00:37:43.040 for re-election

00:37:43.520 and might actually

00:37:45.460 be elected.

00:37:47.760 All right.

00:37:51.520 We have a couple

00:37:52.240 other stories

00:37:52.860 that are,

00:37:53.280 you know,

00:37:54.060 hitting some other

00:37:54.820 news items

00:37:55.620 that we'll talk about.

00:37:57.920 Briefly,

00:37:58.340 this is from

00:37:59.260 The Daily Wire.

00:38:00.580 It says,

00:38:00.640 an organization

00:38:01.180 that Representative

00:38:02.140 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:38:03.380 is a member of

00:38:04.200 has accepted

00:38:05.000 sizable donations

00:38:05.980 from ByteDance,

00:38:07.800 the Chinese parent company

00:38:08.840 of the social media

00:38:09.500 platform TikTok,

00:38:10.780 which the Democrat

00:38:11.340 socialists recently

00:38:12.200 defended from a possible

00:38:13.340 nationwide ban.

00:38:15.920 Jake Denton,

00:38:16.620 a technology policy expert

00:38:17.900 at the Heritage Foundation,

00:38:19.200 noted that

00:38:20.020 Ocasio-Cortez

00:38:20.800 is a member

00:38:21.280 of the Advisory Council

00:38:22.480 for the Congressional

00:38:23.200 Hispanic Caucus Institute.

00:38:24.840 In non-providentity,

00:38:25.620 they received $150,000

00:38:27.720 at the end of last year

00:38:28.820 from ByteDance,

00:38:30.040 according to a lobbying

00:38:30.960 contribution report.

00:38:33.040 What a coincidence,

00:38:33.860 Denton said on social media.

00:38:35.820 Cesar-Cortez

00:38:36.360 recently remarked

00:38:37.000 on TikTok

00:38:37.360 that a ban

00:38:38.100 of the platform

00:38:38.580 over national security

00:38:39.600 and privacy concerns

00:38:40.540 would be unprecedented

00:38:41.320 and said that

00:38:42.300 such a move

00:38:42.960 does not really address

00:38:44.080 the core of the issue,

00:38:45.340 which is the fact

00:38:45.820 that major social media

00:38:46.620 companies are allowed

00:38:47.380 to collect troves

00:38:48.220 of deeply personal data

00:38:49.980 about you

00:38:50.760 that you do not know about.

00:38:52.940 She added that

00:38:53.460 the lawmakers

00:38:53.860 should instead

00:38:54.420 pass a broader

00:38:55.060 data privacy bill

00:38:56.160 for social media firms.

00:38:59.820 So we were talking yesterday.

00:39:01.180 We played some

00:39:01.640 of the clip of her.

00:39:02.860 She responded

00:39:04.020 to this move

00:39:05.120 to potentially ban TikTok

00:39:06.200 by starting

00:39:06.820 her own TikTok account

00:39:07.860 and trying to describe

00:39:09.900 why she objects to it.

00:39:11.340 And she said,

00:39:11.940 it doesn't feel right.

00:39:13.300 So now we know

00:39:13.860 where those feelings

00:39:15.020 are coming from.

00:39:15.560 We know why

00:39:15.920 it doesn't feel right

00:39:16.800 for her

00:39:17.220 because her organization 0.89

00:39:19.680 is receiving money

00:39:20.460 from parent company

00:39:21.320 of TikTok.

00:39:23.760 I mean,

00:39:24.040 this is the kind of,

00:39:24.660 this kind of open corruption

00:39:26.020 that should be investigated.

00:39:27.400 And of course,

00:39:29.460 it won't be.

00:39:29.920 And even if it is,

00:39:30.560 nothing will be done about it.

00:39:32.240 But that's what it is.

00:39:33.920 And by the way,

00:39:36.020 should we look at

00:39:37.320 passing

00:39:38.460 a broader

00:39:40.540 bill

00:39:41.680 that has to do

00:39:42.400 with data privacy

00:39:43.680 and reining in big tech

00:39:45.440 and all the rest of it?

00:39:46.120 Sure,

00:39:46.380 we should do that.

00:39:48.980 There are many of us

00:39:50.000 who have been

00:39:50.560 crying out for that

00:39:52.280 for years.

00:39:53.340 big tech

00:39:59.800 should not exist

00:40:00.700 in this

00:40:01.380 zone,

00:40:03.320 in this magical

00:40:04.180 law-free zone

00:40:06.120 where they can just

00:40:06.880 do whatever they want.

00:40:09.700 But that's the way

00:40:10.500 that it's gone

00:40:11.000 for a lot of

00:40:11.600 the big tech companies.

00:40:13.840 And it extends out

00:40:15.000 to the porn industry

00:40:16.460 as well.

00:40:18.320 Some of the

00:40:19.040 basic regulations

00:40:20.260 that any other industry,

00:40:21.700 any other company

00:40:22.340 would have to abide by,

00:40:23.960 somehow it doesn't

00:40:24.580 apply to them.

00:40:25.260 So, yeah,

00:40:26.020 let's talk about that.

00:40:28.100 But there's no reason

00:40:29.100 why we can't start

00:40:29.760 with this bill.

00:40:31.620 Which to me

00:40:32.280 is clearly

00:40:32.740 a good bill.

00:40:35.400 And finally,

00:40:36.120 quickly,

00:40:36.380 I wanted to mention this

00:40:37.200 on lighter news,

00:40:41.040 I guess

00:40:41.260 a little bit lighter,

00:40:42.800 another celebrity divorce.

00:40:45.020 And there's one line here

00:40:45.940 that interests me.

00:40:47.680 Actress Reese Witherspoon

00:40:49.220 just announced

00:40:49.760 that she and her husband

00:40:50.480 for 12 years,

00:40:51.180 Jim Toth,

00:40:52.380 are getting divorced.

00:40:53.180 The 47-year-old mom

00:40:54.000 of three broke the news

00:40:55.400 via her Instagram page

00:40:56.520 on Friday,

00:40:57.060 just days before

00:40:57.620 the couple's anniversary

00:40:58.460 on Sunday.

00:41:00.440 Says,

00:41:00.720 we have some personal news

00:41:01.360 to share with

00:41:01.720 a great deal

00:41:02.260 of care and consideration

00:41:03.020 that we have made

00:41:03.480 the difficult decision

00:41:04.220 to divorce.

00:41:05.280 We have enjoyed

00:41:05.780 so many wonderful years

00:41:06.680 together and are moving

00:41:07.480 forward with deep

00:41:08.260 love, kindness,

00:41:09.620 and mutual respect

00:41:10.280 for everything

00:41:10.840 that we have created.

00:41:12.180 Our biggest priority

00:41:13.160 is our son

00:41:14.200 and our entire family

00:41:15.480 as we navigate

00:41:16.200 this next chapter.

00:41:18.220 And that's the one note

00:41:19.040 that I want to make

00:41:19.560 about this.

00:41:20.380 We talked about

00:41:21.060 the celebrity

00:41:21.840 justifications

00:41:23.540 and excuses

00:41:24.140 for divorce last week

00:41:25.380 when it was Giselle Bunchen

00:41:27.060 giving her reasons

00:41:29.080 for divorcing Tom Brady

00:41:30.260 and it was a lot

00:41:30.940 of this self-help,

00:41:32.860 self-actualization

00:41:33.960 jargon

00:41:35.120 about how,

00:41:36.300 well, I have to

00:41:36.560 discover myself.

00:41:39.780 I'm on a journey

00:41:40.640 and I have to

00:41:41.680 discover myself

00:41:42.840 and whatever it was.

00:41:43.600 And here it's another

00:41:46.940 common thing

00:41:47.740 that we always hear

00:41:48.380 from these people

00:41:48.980 which is that

00:41:50.260 we're getting divorced,

00:41:51.700 we've made this decision,

00:41:53.800 it's a mutual decision,

00:41:54.860 never mutual by the way,

00:41:55.840 it never is,

00:41:56.600 mutual decision,

00:41:57.340 we've decided to do this,

00:41:58.400 we've decided to embark

00:41:59.240 on this new journey

00:42:00.340 separately,

00:42:01.600 but our top priority,

00:42:03.280 our top priority

00:42:04.280 is our son,

00:42:05.420 is the children.

00:42:08.380 Well, no,

00:42:09.120 I know that's not the case

00:42:10.340 because if your top priority

00:42:12.560 was your child,

00:42:14.240 you wouldn't be

00:42:14.960 getting divorced.

00:42:16.500 Okay?

00:42:16.780 This is exactly

00:42:17.680 what you do

00:42:18.360 when your top priority

00:42:19.440 is not your child.

00:42:22.720 Which actually,

00:42:24.080 you know,

00:42:24.420 by the way,

00:42:25.960 in a marriage,

00:42:27.180 that's not even supposed

00:42:28.820 to be your top priority.

00:42:30.900 Okay?

00:42:31.080 Your number one priority

00:42:32.100 is supposed to be

00:42:32.660 the marriage itself.

00:42:34.700 Your number one priority

00:42:35.860 is the marriage

00:42:37.100 because that is,

00:42:39.900 that's,

00:42:40.160 if you actually

00:42:40.980 love your children

00:42:42.100 and you do prioritize

00:42:45.780 their well-being,

00:42:47.060 then they need

00:42:47.820 the marriage

00:42:48.280 to stay intact.

00:42:49.160 They need the family

00:42:49.860 to stay intact.

00:42:51.540 So,

00:42:52.240 that is largely

00:42:53.120 how you prioritize

00:42:54.460 the children

00:42:55.560 is by

00:42:56.480 prioritizing the marriage.

00:43:01.320 But either way,

00:43:02.800 if you're prioritizing

00:43:04.900 your children,

00:43:05.540 then you wouldn't be

00:43:06.540 dissolving the marriage

00:43:07.340 because this is what

00:43:08.220 they need.

00:43:08.640 They need their family.

00:43:09.280 you're going

00:43:11.200 your separate ways

00:43:11.760 or you need a divorce,

00:43:12.540 not because you're,

00:43:13.280 because obviously

00:43:13.840 you don't prioritize

00:43:14.480 the marriage,

00:43:15.040 you don't value

00:43:15.480 the marriage,

00:43:16.320 and you don't

00:43:18.080 prioritize your children.

00:43:19.000 You prioritize

00:43:19.480 yourselves

00:43:20.200 and your own

00:43:21.420 individual desires

00:43:22.740 and wants

00:43:23.420 and all of that

00:43:24.400 and your convenience

00:43:25.480 and your lifestyle

00:43:26.380 and that's what

00:43:29.440 you prioritize.

00:43:30.180 That's what it leads to.

00:43:30.960 All right,

00:43:31.880 let's get to the

00:43:32.500 comment section.

00:43:33.680 Do you know

00:43:34.300 their name?

00:43:36.980 They're the sweet

00:43:37.760 baby gang.

00:43:41.460 A person says,

00:43:42.840 I'm sure Matt

00:43:43.420 has said this before

00:43:44.220 about the gender

00:43:44.980 affirming drugs,

00:43:45.960 quote unquote,

00:43:46.440 are even worse

00:43:47.060 than just having

00:43:47.640 harmful side effects.

00:43:48.680 The point of them

00:43:49.500 is to cause harm.

00:43:50.620 The point of them

00:43:51.440 is to prevent

00:43:51.920 the normal,

00:43:52.580 healthy,

00:43:52.920 physical development

00:43:53.540 of a child.

00:43:54.760 Just think that needs

00:43:56.220 to be said more often.

00:43:57.640 You're exactly right.

00:43:58.200 I have made that

00:43:58.920 point many times

00:44:00.180 but it always

00:44:02.100 stands repeating

00:44:02.940 that we could talk

00:44:04.160 about the side effects

00:44:04.840 of the drugs.

00:44:05.300 We should talk

00:44:05.680 about the side effects

00:44:06.240 of the drugs

00:44:06.680 but the real issue,

00:44:09.420 the first and foremost issue

00:44:10.200 is the intended effects

00:44:11.500 of the drugs.

00:44:12.340 The intended effect

00:44:13.200 as you point out

00:44:14.040 is to prevent

00:44:17.420 the normal,

00:44:21.060 healthy development

00:44:22.600 of a child.

00:44:24.180 I'm just restating

00:44:25.120 exactly what you said

00:44:25.920 but I think you're right.

00:44:28.200 Mauricio says,

00:44:29.780 it must be torture

00:44:30.520 hearing Matt pronounce

00:44:31.580 gif so many times

00:44:33.060 to people who clearly

00:44:34.040 hold the wrong opinion.

00:44:36.140 Yeah, this one is,

00:44:37.080 there is a wrong

00:44:37.820 and a right here.

00:44:38.760 You know,

00:44:39.060 it's not a matter

00:44:40.060 of opinion

00:44:40.500 whether you say gif

00:44:41.300 or jif.

00:44:42.720 Gif stands for,

00:44:44.200 right,

00:44:44.500 it stands for

00:44:45.160 graphics interchange format.

00:44:48.020 Isn't that what

00:44:48.400 it stands for?

00:44:49.360 So the first word

00:44:50.380 is graphics,

00:44:51.700 g,

00:44:51.980 graphics,

00:44:52.880 gif.

00:44:54.220 That's it.

00:44:54.820 That's the end

00:44:55.220 of the conversation.

00:44:56.760 I've heard people

00:44:57.620 that,

00:44:57.800 well,

00:44:58.080 the guy who invented

00:44:59.660 the gif,

00:45:00.220 he says that it's

00:45:00.800 pronounced jif.

00:45:01.720 I don't know

00:45:02.200 if that's true or not

00:45:02.860 but it doesn't matter

00:45:03.960 because he's wrong about it.

00:45:04.880 Like,

00:45:05.020 he might have invented

00:45:05.720 this format.

00:45:07.520 He didn't invent

00:45:08.160 the English language

00:45:08.860 and the way that

00:45:09.360 words are pronounced.

00:45:12.140 Graphics,

00:45:12.940 g,

00:45:13.720 gif,

00:45:14.420 that's it.

00:45:15.180 That's all there is to it.

00:45:18.920 If we at least

00:45:19.680 move on from that,

00:45:20.380 we can't move on

00:45:20.800 from very many controversies

00:45:21.900 in this society

00:45:22.580 but maybe that's one

00:45:23.400 at least that we can

00:45:23.960 move on from.

00:45:24.360 Ativa says,

00:45:28.820 so when a black person 0.75

00:45:29.820 uses the meme

00:45:30.540 of Tony Stark

00:45:31.320 rolling his eyes,

00:45:32.280 is that white face?

00:45:33.940 Well,

00:45:34.140 of course not

00:45:34.540 but that is also

00:45:35.420 the funny thing

00:45:36.500 we talked about yesterday,

00:45:37.780 the digital black face

00:45:40.720 which is when a white person

00:45:41.860 uses a meme

00:45:42.640 or a gif,

00:45:43.580 a gif

00:45:44.060 of a black person

00:45:45.640 that's digital black face

00:45:46.640 but in this article

00:45:48.160 that lays out

00:45:50.040 this lengthy article

00:45:51.540 on what was it,

00:45:52.140 CNN,

00:45:52.860 laying all this out,

00:45:53.900 digital black face,

00:45:55.120 he doesn't even acknowledge

00:45:56.360 this issue.

00:45:58.240 He never even

00:45:59.460 attempts to grapple

00:46:02.300 with the question

00:46:03.040 of well,

00:46:03.720 what about black people

00:46:04.440 who use white people

00:46:05.060 as gif

00:46:05.380 and the reason

00:46:06.780 he doesn't acknowledge

00:46:07.340 it is because

00:46:07.680 it's just,

00:46:08.200 it's assumed

00:46:09.880 at this point.

00:46:10.380 There's no,

00:46:10.660 you don't even need

00:46:11.300 to acknowledge it.

00:46:12.400 They don't even need

00:46:13.140 to say it out loud.

00:46:14.320 We already know.

00:46:15.820 We're supposed to

00:46:16.460 already know

00:46:17.140 that well obviously

00:46:18.020 a black person

00:46:20.280 can use gif

00:46:21.180 of white people

00:46:21.700 all they want.

00:46:23.140 It's like

00:46:23.780 the racial double standard

00:46:26.240 is assumed

00:46:26.980 at this point.

00:46:28.000 So they don't feel

00:46:28.960 the need to

00:46:29.680 acknowledge it

00:46:30.640 or explain it.

00:46:31.580 It's just assumed

00:46:32.760 and you're supposed

00:46:33.380 to go along

00:46:34.620 with that assumption

00:46:35.260 and accept that

00:46:36.480 and adopt

00:46:37.320 that assumption yourself.

00:46:41.240 Maggie May says

00:46:42.420 you're so funny Matt

00:46:43.200 there's always method

00:46:44.080 to Trump's madness.

00:46:44.960 It's a waste of time

00:46:45.860 to even talk about

00:46:46.620 the Trump-DeSantis charade.

00:46:49.380 I understand

00:46:50.520 that to Trump's

00:46:51.660 most devoted supporters

00:46:52.860 that's what you tend

00:46:55.080 to believe

00:46:55.640 that everything he does

00:46:57.940 even if it appears

00:46:58.800 to be a mistake

00:46:59.440 or it appears

00:47:00.160 to be a misstep

00:47:00.900 or it appears

00:47:01.360 to be the wrong strategy

00:47:02.720 it's always the right strategy.

00:47:05.320 This is where

00:47:05.900 the 4D chess

00:47:07.520 meme comes from.

00:47:09.060 But that's

00:47:12.240 look

00:47:12.600 that's not the case

00:47:14.240 okay for Trump

00:47:15.480 it's not the case

00:47:16.600 for Trump

00:47:16.820 there's not always some

00:47:18.140 well it seems like

00:47:19.320 this is the wrong thing

00:47:20.300 it seems like

00:47:20.820 this is bad

00:47:21.160 but it's

00:47:21.880 really

00:47:22.400 there's a plan

00:47:23.840 trust the plan

00:47:24.740 right?

00:47:26.000 No

00:47:26.440 no

00:47:26.740 it's like

00:47:27.060 that plan's not there

00:47:28.960 it's

00:47:29.360 when it appears

00:47:30.080 to be a mistake

00:47:30.680 or misstep

00:47:31.120 it just is

00:47:31.960 but that's also

00:47:33.680 true of anyone

00:47:34.340 that's true

00:47:35.600 of all of us

00:47:36.480 like everyone

00:47:37.260 makes mistakes

00:47:38.100 and missteps

00:47:38.600 okay

00:47:39.840 so

00:47:40.280 and it's

00:47:41.160 so if you were to take

00:47:42.580 any random person

00:47:43.700 any mortal being

00:47:44.700 who exists on earth

00:47:45.760 and insist that

00:47:46.960 everything they do

00:47:48.160 is right

00:47:48.880 and that they can

00:47:49.760 never make a mistake

00:47:51.000 and there's all

00:47:52.040 even if it appears

00:47:52.820 to be a mistake

00:47:53.220 there's a plan

00:47:53.960 behind it

00:47:54.580 and it's really

00:47:55.120 this is a chess move

00:47:56.040 that's not the case

00:47:57.680 for anyone

00:47:58.380 okay

00:47:59.940 because we're all flawed

00:48:00.820 so

00:48:03.940 when you attempt

00:48:05.680 to make Trump

00:48:06.340 into some sort

00:48:06.920 of like

00:48:07.540 superhero

00:48:08.100 type figure

00:48:09.240 that's always

00:48:11.000 going to be

00:48:11.660 a mistake

00:48:12.280 for anyone

00:48:13.340 it's always

00:48:14.620 going to be

00:48:14.900 a mistake

00:48:15.280 for a politician

00:48:16.560 to approach

00:48:17.820 a politician

00:48:18.460 that way

00:48:18.960 so I'm

00:48:20.740 always preaching

00:48:21.620 this about

00:48:22.020 politicians

00:48:22.520 that our

00:48:23.080 our support

00:48:24.360 I don't want to

00:48:24.740 hear anything

00:48:25.020 about loyalty

00:48:25.680 okay

00:48:27.060 I hate

00:48:27.480 I hate

00:48:28.200 the word

00:48:28.720 loyalty

00:48:29.240 when applied

00:48:30.100 to politicians

00:48:30.700 we do not

00:48:31.920 owe them

00:48:32.640 loyalty

00:48:33.560 goes the other

00:48:35.300 way

00:48:35.580 they owe

00:48:36.380 it to us

00:48:37.280 and they have

00:48:38.260 to prove

00:48:38.700 themselves

00:48:39.100 to us

00:48:39.460 not the other

00:48:39.840 way around

00:48:40.200 and our

00:48:40.800 support for

00:48:41.300 politicians

00:48:41.680 should always

00:48:42.540 be conditional

00:48:43.460 always be

00:48:44.900 conditional

00:48:45.320 okay

00:48:46.640 it's not like

00:48:47.140 I would never

00:48:47.680 say that about

00:48:48.300 you know

00:48:48.820 your support

00:48:49.380 for your spouse

00:48:50.140 or your child

00:48:50.920 that's not

00:48:51.840 conditional

00:48:52.180 but we're not

00:48:53.360 married to these

00:48:53.980 people

00:48:54.300 we're not

00:48:55.280 in their

00:48:55.500 family

00:48:55.880 so we

00:48:57.920 support them

00:48:58.480 because we

00:48:58.860 like what

00:48:59.280 they do

00:48:59.740 and if we

00:49:00.600 don't like

00:49:00.880 what they

00:49:01.100 do

00:49:01.240 we are

00:49:02.240 always prepared

00:49:02.800 to withdraw

00:49:03.180 that support

00:49:03.740 and maybe

00:49:04.620 we give

00:49:05.320 the support

00:49:05.620 back

00:49:05.960 when they

00:49:06.300 change

00:49:06.760 what they've

00:49:07.200 done wrong

00:49:07.560 you know

00:49:07.860 that's the way

00:49:08.560 it should work

00:49:09.020 and I apply

00:49:10.340 that to anyone

00:49:10.740 I apply

00:49:11.080 even though I

00:49:11.920 support DeSantis

00:49:12.500 I certainly

00:49:13.040 apply to DeSantis

00:49:13.800 I'm perfectly

00:49:15.560 willing to

00:49:15.880 criticize him

00:49:16.360 in fact I

00:49:16.680 did just

00:49:17.000 last week

00:49:17.420 so this is

00:49:19.760 how we should

00:49:21.040 approach all

00:49:21.520 politicians

00:49:21.940 to include

00:49:22.780 Trump

00:49:25.140 Leroy says

00:49:26.220 episode 737

00:49:27.160 is our

00:49:27.640 area 51

00:49:28.500 let the

00:49:29.140 merch

00:49:29.380 commence

00:49:29.880 I like

00:49:31.980 that idea

00:49:32.480 because this

00:49:32.960 would be

00:49:33.300 the most

00:49:34.260 obscure

00:49:35.260 insular

00:49:36.440 merchandise

00:49:37.080 possible

00:49:37.760 that nobody

00:49:39.220 would understand

00:49:41.100 even people

00:49:41.860 who are

00:49:42.340 kind of

00:49:42.880 casual fans

00:49:43.940 of the show

00:49:44.220 wouldn't understand

00:49:44.860 so that's why

00:49:45.800 we need that

00:49:46.300 merchandise

00:49:46.660 we need a t-shirt

00:49:47.440 that says

00:49:48.000 something like

00:49:48.500 we just need a t-shirt

00:49:49.120 that says

00:49:49.440 episode 737

00:49:51.060 does not exist

00:49:51.860 that's what we

00:49:52.460 need the t-shirt

00:49:52.840 to say

00:49:53.220 no context

00:49:54.480 it can't even

00:49:55.200 say the

00:49:56.280 Matt Wall

00:49:56.580 show or

00:49:56.980 anything on it

00:49:57.680 there's no

00:49:57.980 other indication

00:49:58.480 of what it

00:49:58.840 even refers

00:49:59.380 to

00:49:59.740 and that's

00:50:01.640 it

00:50:01.780 we just need

00:50:02.240 that on a

00:50:02.580 t-shirt

00:50:02.860 and maybe

00:50:05.600 we'll sell

00:50:06.020 five of them

00:50:06.560 but that's

00:50:07.340 alright

00:50:07.740 it'll be

00:50:08.760 the five

00:50:09.480 most loyal

00:50:10.140 SPG

00:50:10.660 members

00:50:11.020 anyway

00:50:11.300 let's get

00:50:12.300 to the

00:50:12.500 daily

00:50:12.660 cancellation

00:50:13.040 it'll be

00:50:17.520 a brief

00:50:18.000 daily

00:50:18.560 cancellation

00:50:19.000 to be

00:50:19.500 totally

00:50:19.760 honest

00:50:20.100 with you

00:50:20.540 I

00:50:21.720 considered

00:50:22.100 not

00:50:22.360 doing

00:50:22.720 this

00:50:23.000 segment

00:50:23.220 at all

00:50:23.540 because

00:50:23.720 I

00:50:23.800 try

00:50:23.940 to

00:50:24.040 make

00:50:24.200 it

00:50:24.280 a

00:50:24.360 more

00:50:24.600 humorous

00:50:25.380 part

00:50:25.540 of the

00:50:25.700 show

00:50:25.900 where I

00:50:26.320 can

00:50:26.600 but

00:50:26.900 I'm

00:50:27.300 not

00:50:27.440 much

00:50:27.660 in the

00:50:27.840 mood

00:50:28.000 for

00:50:28.260 that

00:50:29.420 today

00:50:29.700 yet

00:50:29.880 I'm

00:50:30.040 not

00:50:30.160 going

00:50:30.260 to

00:50:30.360 let

00:50:30.620 the

00:50:30.800 mood

00:50:31.040 dictate

00:50:31.360 how I

00:50:31.660 do

00:50:31.740 the

00:50:31.880 show

00:50:32.020 so

00:50:32.200 we

00:50:32.340 turn

00:50:32.560 to

00:50:32.920 NPR

00:50:34.200 and

00:50:34.660 their

00:50:34.820 frantic

00:50:35.200 attempts

00:50:35.600 to

00:50:35.860 stake

00:50:36.260 out

00:50:36.420 a

00:50:36.520 position

00:50:36.880 on

00:50:37.200 the

00:50:37.340 issue

00:50:37.680 of

00:50:38.040 men

00:50:38.500 in

00:50:38.660 women's

00:50:39.000 sports

00:50:39.260 the

00:50:39.440 post

00:50:39.620 millennial

00:50:39.940 reports

00:50:40.280 quote

00:50:40.540 NPR

00:50:41.520 has

00:50:41.740 deleted

00:50:42.060 a tweet

00:50:42.420 claiming

00:50:42.760 that

00:50:42.940 there

00:50:43.060 was

00:50:43.340 limited

00:50:43.680 scientific

00:50:44.140 evidence

00:50:44.560 of

00:50:44.760 physical

00:50:45.060 advantage

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00:51:15.240 scientific

00:51:15.640 research involving elite trans athletes. The initial tweet, as well as the republished tweet,

00:51:20.940 were hit with community notes in which Twitter users noted studies on the exact subject,

00:51:25.320 showing plenty of scientific evidence that males are stronger, faster, and more likely to beat

00:51:29.060 women on the playing field. NPR issued a correction tweet following the republishing of their tweet,

00:51:34.140 writing, quote, correction. An earlier tweet incorrectly stated there is limited scientific

00:51:38.280 evidence of physical advantage. Existing research shows that higher levels of testosterone do impact

00:51:43.620 athletic performance, but there's limited research involving elite trans athletes in competition.

00:51:50.180 Okay. This is already incredibly embarrassing for NPR, or would be if they were capable of

00:51:56.100 embarrassment, which they aren't, but even their correction is riddled with errors and misdirection.

00:52:01.020 So three points here. First, starting with the last sentence and working our way back.

00:52:06.060 We don't need research on, quote, trans athletes. This is the red herring that they use to distract 1.00

00:52:13.000 from the actual issue. When they say that there isn't any research or that when they correct

00:52:18.080 themselves and say there isn't enough research to declare that males have an athletic advantage over

00:52:22.320 females, what they mean is that there haven't been very many studies specifically analyzing the 1.00

00:52:28.820 performance of trans-identified males. But that's because we don't need to analyze trans-identified

00:52:35.980 males. The point isn't how trans people perform, it's how men perform, however they identify. 0.55

00:52:44.020 Whether the man sees himself as a woman or sees himself as a man or sees himself as a tomato plant,

00:52:49.620 that is entirely beside the point. Self-perception has no impact one way or another on the inherent

00:52:56.720 physical traits that give men a significant edge over women in sports. We don't need to study trans 1.00

00:53:03.260 people for this because their alleged transness is completely and totally irrelevant to the issue

00:53:10.660 at hand. So this is like if I said that tall people have an advantage in basketball and you responded

00:53:18.700 that, well, that might be true, but we need more research before we can determine whether a tall

00:53:23.460 person whose favorite color is blue would also have an advantage. Well, no, we don't need that research

00:53:29.840 because his color preference has no bearing on this particular question. Just as a man's gender

00:53:36.780 identity, his perception of himself has no bearing on the issue of men and women's sports.

00:53:44.000 Second, yes, as NPR was forced to acknowledge, testosterone impacts athletic performance.

00:53:51.480 But this is another misdirection. They want the entire conversation to be focused on testosterone

00:53:57.400 as if that's the only thing that gives men an advantage. But it isn't, not even close.

00:54:03.580 Women not only have less testosterone, but also 20% less muscle mass in their legs, 0.98

00:54:08.120 smaller fast twitch muscle fibers, smaller lungs, smaller hearts, weaker bones, shorter legs,

00:54:13.000 a more limited capacity to produce oxygen when they're exerting themselves, etc.

00:54:17.560 The advantages for men involve nearly every part of the body. It is a physiological reality that

00:54:22.580 cannot be summed up by hormones. You can inject a man with estrogen, but that will not even out

00:54:30.240 most of these differences, or really any of them. Third, even if it could even out the differences,

00:54:40.040 okay, which it can't and it never will. But if it could, I mean, there was something you could do to

00:54:44.440 like neutralize all of this. That wouldn't matter. I still would not support men and women's sports. 1.00

00:54:52.320 And this is where the women's sports issue threatens to derail our side, the side of sanity. 0.95

00:54:57.620 Because by focusing so much on the physical differences between men and women, and the

00:55:01.540 unfair advantages that men have in sports, we run the risk of conceding that hypothetically,

00:55:08.300 if these differences could be mitigated or minimized to a significant degree,

00:55:11.880 then we would tolerate men and women's sports. But no, we still wouldn't, or shouldn't,

00:55:18.580 because our actual argument against a man and a woman's sport is not merely that he's stronger and

00:55:25.200 more athletic, but that he is a man. Okay, as always, our main concern is not preserving the

00:55:33.060 integrity of women's sports or even any overarching issue like fairness or privacy. I mean, we are

00:55:38.720 concerned with all of that, but that's not the main point. The main point is simply truth. We oppose

00:55:45.300 men in women's sports because men are not women. And pretending that they are women is an assault on

00:55:50.940 truth. It's also an assault on women's sports, but the far, far greater concern is truth itself. So 0.95

00:55:56.120 I am worried about the impact that somebody like Leah Thomas has on the female competitors who 1.00

00:56:02.200 he stole trophies from. I'm even more worried about the societal impact of accepting Leah Thomas as a

00:56:09.620 woman. That is the crux of it. And it's really the only point that matters. Why don't we want men and 1.00

00:56:17.140 women's sports? Is it because it's unfair? Is it because men have more testosterone and they have more 1.00

00:56:20.820 strength and all the rest? Yes, yes, yes. But that is all merely an offshoot. It's an outgrowth

00:56:27.040 of the real point, which is that men are not women. And it's as simple as that. And that's all. 0.53

00:56:34.560 And that's why NPR is today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over

00:56:39.580 to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, we'll talk to you on tomorrow. Godspeed.

00:56:57.040 Thank you.

00:57:02.560 Thank you.

00:57:04.560 Thank you.

The Matt Walsh Show - March 28, 2023

Ep. 1138 - Christian Children Murdered By Trans Mass Shooter

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