The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1143 - Trump Is Officially Arrested For Crimes That Don't Exist

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Donald Trump was officially arrested and arraigned on 34 criminal charges in New York yesterday.

00:00:05.960 Yet, even after arresting Trump, the Manhattan DA still has not explained what crime he committed.

00:00:11.520 That's because there is no crime at all.

00:00:13.400 This is not about prosecuting a crime.

00:00:14.780 It's about punishing a political dissident.

00:00:16.920 We'll talk about that today.

00:00:17.880 Also, the people of Chicago threw Lori Lightfoot out and have now chosen to replace her with someone who is even worse in every way.

00:00:24.480 Plus, I had an interesting exchange with a trans EMT during the Q&A portion of my speech in New Mexico last night.

00:00:30.420 We'll play the clip for it.

00:00:31.340 You don't want to miss that.

00:00:32.540 And new polling shows that 60% of Americans agree that Trump should have been indicted, even though none of them knew what he was being indicted for.

00:00:40.380 And our daily cancellation, a new law in Canada would make it a crime to protest drag queen events involving children.

00:00:45.860 I have a lot to say about that, as you can imagine, and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:54.480 We'll be right back.

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00:02:05.660 Yesterday, in one of the most disgraceful and alarming scenes in the history of American politics,

00:02:11.080 former president and current GOP primary frontrunner Donald Trump was arrested and arraigned on 34 felony counts in New York.

00:02:18.940 No president has ever been charged with a crime.

00:02:21.420 And that's certainly not because no president has ever committed a crime in the past.

00:02:25.800 Indeed, crime and corruption have been the norm in D.C. and among our political elites.

00:02:30.300 And yet very few of them, and nobody at Trump's level, at the presidential level, have ever been made to answer for it, except Donald Trump.

00:02:37.640 Now, as I've said before, the treatment of Donald Trump wouldn't be nearly so disturbing to me personally if we lived in an alternate universe where politicians are so despised and so scrutinized that we always look for any excuse to charge them with crimes.

00:02:54.640 I mean, imagine a bizarro world version of the United States where former presidents are constantly getting handcuffed and tossed behind bars, where that's like the going away present for a president is that we end up arresting you for something.

00:03:08.760 And high-ranking politicians are made to live in constant fear that maybe they crossed the line somewhere and they're going to be prosecuted.

00:03:15.060 And that sort of world, that sort of country, I think would be very good and I would enjoy it.

00:03:20.420 But that's not the country we live in.

00:03:23.020 In our reality, the political elites are effectively above the law.

00:03:27.040 They're so above the law, in fact, that's just as one example, a global sex trafficking pedophile can be arrested and then can, quote, unquote, commit suicide, big air quotes around that,

00:03:40.880 in prison, leaving behind a detailed ledger of every prominent figure and politician he ever, you know, sold an underage prostitute to.

00:03:51.740 And none of them are ever charged with a single crime.

00:03:55.480 In fact, the names of the people in the ledger are never released to the public.

00:03:59.800 There is no accountability at all.

00:04:01.980 That is how firmly above the law these people are, except Donald Trump.

00:04:07.360 In his case, they've spent years and years poring through his personal life, rifling through every document they can find, checking his financial records, scrutinizing every jot and tittle until they found something to charge him with.

00:04:21.540 But the only problem is that they actually didn't find anything to charge him with.

00:04:26.100 There's actually nothing there.

00:04:27.280 It turns out that Donald Trump is perhaps the least corrupt politician in American history.

00:04:33.860 And we know that because he's one of the only ones that the system has tried to find something on, has tried to destroy, and they haven't been able to do it.

00:04:44.680 It was clear from the time that the indictment was announced that the Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg had nothing on Donald Trump.

00:04:51.160 He was firing blanks the whole time.

00:04:53.480 Yet the indictment itself remained sealed.

00:04:55.240 And up until yesterday, which left open the theoretical possibility, a possibility that the media clung on to with desperate hope, that maybe there would be some major bombshell, some big surprise that Bragg hadn't yet revealed publicly.

00:05:11.320 Maybe he was only pretending that this was a criminal case centering around Trump paying off some porn star so that she wouldn't go blabbing publicly about an affair during a presidential election, which definitely is not a crime.

00:05:22.240 And maybe in reality, buried in the indictment would be the revelation that Trump also killed someone.

00:05:29.900 Maybe he really did shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue.

00:05:31.780 Maybe that was a confession.

00:05:33.060 Maybe he organized a bank heist or something.

00:05:35.700 Who knows?

00:05:36.700 That was the hope that the left tried to cling to.

00:05:40.740 But all hopes were dashed yesterday as Trump was arraigned and the indictment was finally unsealed and the truth was revealed.

00:05:47.060 This case really is as frivolous and insane as we all suspected and as we all knew.

00:05:53.400 They have nothing on Trump.

00:05:54.760 They have no crime.

00:05:55.520 Now, I'm not a lawyer, I admit.

00:05:57.960 I'm not a legal expert.

00:05:59.760 But based on my limited legal understanding, I'm pretty sure that the whole point of an indictment is to lay out a formal accusation of a crime.

00:06:08.640 That's what indictment is.

00:06:10.200 It's to outline and describe the crimes that were allegedly committed.

00:06:15.120 But this indictment, this historic indictment of a former president, leaves out that part.

00:06:19.960 It is an indictment that forgets to actually indict.

00:06:23.120 The document does not explain what the underlying crime actually is.

00:06:26.380 And to top it off, the statute of limitations has already passed.

00:06:30.080 And to top that off, Bragg is apparently trying to prosecute a violation of federal law.

00:06:35.780 Though, again, we don't really know which law.

00:06:37.480 But even if a federal law was violated, Bragg, as the DA of Manhattan, likely has no jurisdiction to enforce it in the first place.

00:06:47.280 So, there is no crime.

00:06:49.660 But if there was a crime, he can't even prosecute it.

00:06:53.320 That would fall to federal prosecutors.

00:06:55.460 But they already passed on this case because they couldn't find a crime to prosecute either.

00:06:59.740 Now, you may ask, if there's no underlying crime, how does this indictment have 34 counts?

00:07:07.400 How can Trump be indicted on 34 counts of nothing?

00:07:11.840 Andrew McCarthy, the National Review, explains in a piece that was just published.

00:07:16.020 I'll read a little bit of it.

00:07:16.860 It says,

00:07:17.140 The 34 counts are arrived at.

00:07:47.140 By taking what is a single course of conduct and absurdly slicing it into parts,

00:07:52.320 each one of which is charged as a separate felony carrying its own potential four-year prison term.

00:07:58.260 Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen in monthly installments during 2017 for the $130,000 paid to porn star Stormy Daniels

00:08:04.960 right before the 2016 election for her silence about an alleged affair.

00:08:08.840 That, in reality, is a single transaction, Trump paying back a debt to Cohen.

00:08:13.660 Yet, because Trump paid in installments, and each installment includes an invoice from Cohen,

00:08:20.480 a bookkeeping entry by the Trump Organization, and a payment to Cohen by check,

00:08:24.240 Bragg not only charges each monthly installment separately,

00:08:27.620 he subdivides the installments into installments,

00:08:30.680 as if the invoice, book entry, and check were independent criminal events.

00:08:35.460 Voila! 1.00

00:08:36.240 One transaction becomes 34 felons.

00:08:38.860 Okay, this is not even weak sauce.

00:08:42.660 There's no sauce here.

00:08:44.080 This is also, you know, if a prosecutor is confident that there's a crime here,

00:08:49.960 and he's got a slam-dug case,

00:08:52.000 he's not going to feel that he needs to, you know,

00:08:58.820 take one crime and separate it into 34 chunks.

00:09:01.320 That's the kind of thing you do when you know you don't have anything.

00:09:07.080 And so you're throwing everything at the wall that you possibly can. 0.99

00:09:11.460 There's not anything here but a dumb, pudgy, self-promoting district attorney 1.00

00:09:15.980 who will tear the country apart just to make a name for himself. 1.00

00:09:20.340 And on that score, he's already succeeded.

00:09:22.380 He is certainly nationally recognized now,

00:09:24.880 except that he's recognized as a national disgrace.

00:09:27.340 I mean, this case is such a joke that you can even turn on CNN

00:09:31.680 to hear detailed criticisms of it.

00:09:34.480 So just as one example, here's John Bolton,

00:09:36.420 not a Trump fan, to put it mildly,

00:09:38.360 on a CNN panel explaining why the indictment distresses him.

00:09:42.900 Listen.

00:09:44.060 Big picture, what do you think of the indictment?

00:09:46.540 Well, speaking as someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump

00:09:49.960 to get the Republican presidential nomination,

00:09:52.380 I'm extraordinarily distressed by this document.

00:09:54.740 I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be.

00:09:57.900 And I think it's easily subject to being dismissed

00:10:02.040 or a quick acquittal for Trump.

00:10:04.660 Just speaking, going back to the days when I represented Jim Buckley

00:10:07.920 and Gene McCarthy and the constitutional challenge

00:10:10.520 to the underlying federal statute here passed in 1974,

00:10:14.780 I can say there is no basis in the statutory language

00:10:18.160 to say that Trump's behavior forms either a contribution

00:10:21.600 or an expenditure under federal law, the two key definitions at issue here.

00:10:27.480 If it did, it would mean that every single expenditure a candidate made

00:10:31.880 could be taken to have something to do with this campaign.

00:10:35.140 Do I buy a $1 comb to comb my hair or $10 comb to comb my hair?

00:10:39.420 If you can construe the statute to cover this behavior,

00:10:44.580 then I think it violates the First Amendment

00:10:46.540 because you're deeply into territory that makes this statute absolutely,

00:10:52.100 the federal statute, too vague for enforcement.

00:10:55.060 And as what I understood the district attorney to say

00:10:57.760 that he thinks there's a New York election law involved here,

00:11:01.440 all I can say is the Federal Election Campaign Act

00:11:04.120 absolutely preempts any state or local law to the contrary.

00:11:07.800 How could it be otherwise?

00:11:09.400 You've got one law governing corporate finance

00:11:11.640 in a presidential election at the federal level.

00:11:13.980 You're going to have 50 state laws interfering with it.

00:11:16.600 So he's just wrong on the applicability of the New York statute.

00:11:20.880 He thinks there's a New York election law

00:11:24.140 that he can use to prosecute Trump.

00:11:25.500 Even by the most generous possible reading here,

00:11:27.580 Bragg is searching for a law that Trump might have broken.

00:11:31.260 He thinks there might be one.

00:11:33.480 He's still not sure.

00:11:34.380 But he arrested the former president anyway.

00:11:35.760 That's the best possible interpretation, and it's far too generous.

00:11:40.020 Because in truth, Bragg knows that there's nothing here,

00:11:42.500 which is why he couldn't explain the crime in the press conference

00:11:45.560 that he held after the arraignment.

00:11:47.640 Listen to this.

00:11:48.200 Why did Donald Trump repeatedly make these false statements?

00:11:53.680 The evidence will show that he did so to cover up crimes relating to the 2016 election.

00:12:01.360 Donald Trump, executives at the publishing company American Media Incorporated,

00:12:07.260 Mr. Cohen, and others agreed in 2015 to a catch-and-kill scheme.

00:12:13.600 That is a scheme to buy and suppress negative information

00:12:18.980 to help Mr. Trump's chance of winning the election.

00:12:23.460 As part of this scheme,

00:12:25.900 Donald Trump and others made three payments

00:12:28.160 to people who claim to have negative information about Mr. Trump.

00:12:32.240 To make these payments, they set up shell companies,

00:12:37.360 and they made yet more false statements.

00:12:41.240 Oh, dear God.

00:12:42.620 I mean, never mind.

00:12:43.320 I take it all back.

00:12:44.200 Forget everything I said before.

00:12:46.000 You mean to tell me that Trump tried to suppress negative information

00:12:49.760 about himself during a political campaign?

00:12:52.420 You mean that as part of his efforts to get elected to public office,

00:12:55.060 he tried to prevent embarrassing things from being publicized about him?

00:12:58.800 I mean, well, surely he's the first political candidate in the history of the country

00:13:03.200 to ever do something like that.

00:13:05.100 I mean, it's not like literally every political campaign in the entire history of politics

00:13:08.680 has also made efforts to suppress negative information.

00:13:11.620 It's not like that's like an essential part of campaigning.

00:13:15.020 That's part of what campaigning is.

00:13:16.680 No, certainly not.

00:13:17.440 Trump is the first to ever do it.

00:13:20.180 That much we can agree on.

00:13:22.200 But still, what is the crime?

00:13:24.300 OK, is that a catch and kill scheme to buy negative stories,

00:13:29.800 purchase the rights to negative stories, negative information, and then kill it?

00:13:32.960 Is that, is there a crime?

00:13:34.080 What's the crime there?

00:13:35.100 Is there a legal statute somewhere that says you can't do that?

00:13:39.040 Is it a crime to try and win an election?

00:13:41.980 What's the actual crime?

00:13:42.860 Well, Bragg never explained, but he did say this.

00:13:44.920 Listen.

00:13:45.020 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes.

00:13:52.620 These are felony crimes in New York State.

00:13:55.620 No matter who you are, we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.

00:14:04.740 The defendant repeatedly made false statements on New York business records.

00:14:10.680 He also caused others to make false statements.

00:14:15.020 Well, that's exactly the crux of it, because it says, well, he's covering up an underlying crime.

00:14:20.760 But what is the underlying crime?

00:14:23.640 What is he covering up?

00:14:25.660 And somehow that has still not been explained.

00:14:30.040 OK, so Trump has been arrested and charged with doing something to cover up some underlying crime,

00:14:35.260 and no one has explained what that crime is.

00:14:40.880 But, Bragg says, we're not going to normalize criminal conduct.

00:14:45.020 Well, but except that's exactly what Alvin Bragg wants to do.

00:14:49.620 That is his entire mission.

00:14:51.760 And it's the mission of every Soros goblin DA. 0.79

00:14:55.520 There is no better way to summarize their strategy than that.

00:14:59.060 They want to normalize crime.

00:15:01.120 And they've succeeded.

00:15:02.160 Crime has risen sharply since Bragg took office and was already on the rise before he took office.

00:15:06.340 So it's it's even worse than it was.

00:15:09.340 It was bad before.

00:15:10.460 Now it's worse than that.

00:15:13.360 Bragg is doing everything in his power to make sure that violent predators are released back out into the community as quickly as possible,

00:15:20.580 as with light and with light as light punishment as possible,

00:15:24.260 so that he can spend all his energy trying to punish an innocent man.

00:15:28.320 He is very much making crime normal.

00:15:30.940 That's exactly what these people want to do.

00:15:35.840 In fact, as we talked about recently, you know, they will tell you directly that this is a normal part of living in the city.

00:15:46.020 What was it that Seth Rogen said?

00:15:48.240 Getting carjacked.

00:15:49.440 It's just big city life.

00:15:51.060 It's normal.

00:15:53.020 This is the way the system works.

00:15:54.420 We live under a regime that will punish the innocent harsher than the guilty because the guilty, the actual criminals, are not a threat to the system.

00:16:03.120 Far from it.

00:16:03.540 Violent criminals are useful to the system because they terrorize and demoralize the citizenry and they break their spirits and render them bewildered and vulnerable,

00:16:13.320 just as the elites want and need them to be.

00:16:16.000 Besides, violent criminals mostly kill and rob middle and lower class people whose lives have no value to the elites.

00:16:22.320 Okay, criminals are going after random commuters on the subway.

00:16:26.920 They're going after people that work in gas stations and convenience stores.

00:16:32.600 Well, Alvin Bragg doesn't care about them.

00:16:33.820 The political elites don't care about them.

00:16:36.320 But Trump committed the real crime by offending and defying the elites themselves.

00:16:41.180 And that's why they want to take him down.

00:16:43.840 I said earlier that trying to win an election isn't a crime, but actually it is as far as they're concerned.

00:16:49.980 That, in fact, is the crime he's being indicted for.

00:16:53.600 That he tried to win an election and he won it.

00:16:56.820 If you're not on their team and you try to gain political power, you have committed the ultimate crime of defying them.

00:17:04.940 And that is actually what they want to make Trump pay for.

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00:18:30.160 We begin with the Chicago mayoral race, where Brandon Johnson defeated Paul Vallis and became the next mayor of Chicago, after Lori Lightfoot got the boot.

00:18:43.780 Now, there were no conservative Republicans who had any chance of becoming the mayor of Chicago, obviously.

00:18:50.760 That wasn't in the cards, but Paul Vallis was a relatively moderate Democrat.

00:18:55.720 But by, you know, current day standards, a moderate Democrat, which to be a moderate Democrat still means that you're far left.

00:19:02.720 But, you know, he's still, he's the guy that the residents of Chicago would have chosen if they had learned any lessons at all from Lori Lightfoot's disastrous tenure.

00:19:15.620 So he would have been an improvement over her anyway.

00:19:17.460 And that would show that the people in Chicago, a little bit slow in the uptake, but they're finally starting to learn a few things.

00:19:26.240 Turns out, though, they learned no lessons at all, or they learned all the wrong ones.

00:19:30.840 Because instead, they went with a far left radical lunatic, somebody to the left of Lori Lightfoot.

00:19:37.180 So take all the bad things about Lori Lightfoot, who they kicked out, they don't want her. 0.59

00:19:40.720 All the bad things about her, this guy is worse than that.

00:19:47.220 So he takes all those bad things and makes them worse.

00:19:50.720 This is someone, Brandon Johnson, who's called for defunding the police, someone who defended the BLM looters, someone who ran an explicitly racialized anti-white campaign.

00:20:02.100 So to show you what I mean, here's an article in The Guardian from just a few days ago before the election.

00:20:05.940 This is what it says.

00:20:06.680 Brandon Johnson, who now serves as a Cook County commissioner, has joked in the past that he didn't become a pastor like his father or sister because they weren't unionized.

00:20:14.260 But it's clear that his family's work in the church has shaped his commanding presence in secular spaces, as it did on the day that they were profiling Johnson.

00:20:22.700 Quoting Johnson now.

00:20:24.320 This is about black labor versus white wealth. 0.84

00:20:27.780 That's what this battle is about, Johnson said.

00:20:30.340 This is about providing communities access to the very public accommodations which black people fought for, especially after emancipation.

00:20:37.540 It's what the descendants of slaves in this room are fighting for.

00:20:40.780 Public education, public transportation, affordable housing, health care, and access to jobs.

00:20:46.440 So he framed his campaign as a battle, a battle between black and white.

00:20:53.580 And he won.

00:20:57.080 OK, so if you're a white person in Chicago and you choose to still live there, well, that's on you. 0.58

00:21:03.000 The guy elected said this is a battle of black versus white.

00:21:06.860 And the voters lined up to vote for him.

00:21:09.900 In fact, it's on everyone in Chicago.

00:21:12.220 If you choose to still live there, because because here's the thing. 0.99

00:21:15.460 The people of the city, the absolute self-destructive morons who live in Chicago, they chose to elect someone who is worse than the mayor that they threw out. 0.99

00:21:27.640 They are choosing to live, then, amid crime and violence and chaos and tyranny. 1.00

00:21:33.880 This is what they want.

00:21:35.480 They want racial division, violence, crime, and filth. 0.99

00:21:39.720 That's what they want to live in.

00:21:41.300 They want it.

00:21:42.080 So what else can we do except just let them have it?

00:21:45.460 And feel no sympathy for them.

00:21:47.820 This is what you want.

00:21:48.940 You can have it.

00:21:49.660 You know, all the hand-wringing that a lot of us do about the violence in Chicago, we should, you know, and oftentimes we accuse the media of ignoring the violence in Chicago.

00:22:01.140 And they do.

00:22:02.900 But, you know, we should just ignore it, too, now.

00:22:04.860 Because that's, it's your problem.

00:22:07.400 You want this.

00:22:08.200 You ask.

00:22:08.760 You are literally asking for it.

00:22:10.760 I mean, the very people who are, many of them, victimized by the violence in Chicago, they're lining up to vote for people who promise more of it, who want less law enforcement, who want less law and order.

00:22:25.800 And they are saying it. 0.99

00:22:27.100 And then these idiots are lining up and voting for that. 1.00

00:22:33.800 This is what you want. 1.00

00:22:34.860 I mean, at a certain point, we can't save people.

00:22:36.740 We literally, we can't save them from themselves.

00:22:38.460 And this is the hardest thing to, this is one of the hardest realities, you know, to accept, really, in modern political life.

00:22:52.720 It's that the problems start with the voters.

00:22:57.100 Okay, so we can, we can talk about the corrupt elites and the Soros DAs and all that stuff, as I just did.

00:23:07.720 We do all the time on this show.

00:23:10.640 But it's also true that we still do live under a democratic system, which, which means that, you know, this guy is the mayor of Chicago because people voted for him.

00:23:22.640 Now, if, if they had, if they had overwhelmingly, if they had really overwhelmingly rejected everything this guy stands for, he wouldn't be the mayor of Chicago right now.

00:23:34.960 People are getting what they ask for.

00:23:37.520 There's something deeply wrong with many of the voters, many of the people who are voting for this stuff.

00:23:45.460 And, uh, it's at a point, it's been at a point for a long time where there's nothing for us to do except say you can have it.

00:23:55.160 And so, yeah, if you're a, if you're a sane person, if you're a person in Chicago and you value your own life and you care about your children and all of that, then you just got to get out, give up on it, let it, let it fall apart.

00:24:09.840 I think that's our only path now.

00:24:11.220 All right. I spoke at, uh, New Mexico state university yesterday. It was actually a great event. Um, a lot of fun, I thought.

00:24:18.380 And for the first time in a long time, I was directly challenged in the Q and a by, uh, by several people, including several trans people.

00:24:27.120 So this happens every once in a while, somebody will get up during the Q and a, and they'll try to challenge me on this issue.

00:24:31.660 But this is a, this is the first time in a while where, um, you know, most of the Q and a consisted of people on the other side, stepping up one after another to try to, you know, debunk my points or challenge me.

00:24:43.820 And which I, which I think is great. It makes it a lot more fun. And, um, this is also, this is, this is mainly what the Q and a is supposed to be for. 1.00

00:24:50.360 That's why we have, you know, the policy and the Q and a's of these college events, where if you disagree, you get to go to the front of the line.

00:24:56.000 Um, because that's, I mean, it's great to hear from people who are supporters and they agree and they can ask really interesting, interesting questions.

00:25:03.040 But very often then I'm just in the spot of, uh, of, of restating a lot of things I already said in the talk.

00:25:08.980 Um, it's, it's more interesting to hear from people on the other side. So that, that happened here.

00:25:13.120 And I appreciated that it's worth going to Yaf's YouTube page to watch, uh, the whole event.

00:25:18.520 And I think, um, but I want to play one clip. It's kind of long, it's about five minutes, but it's interesting because this is a trans person.

00:25:25.460 Uh, one of, uh, of, of a few that got it during the Q and a who begins by presenting his credentials as an EMT.

00:25:33.680 So he's a, says he's a medical professional. He's trans. Um, so he's, uh, in a, in authority on this, whereas I am not, he says.

00:25:43.720 And, you know, the, the back and forth went on for a long enough. I probably went on for about 10 minutes, but we'll pick this up about halfway through.

00:25:50.060 Um, listen, how would you define a woman? Cause you've asked other, uh, people up here to define how we would define a woman. 0.81

00:26:00.920 How would you define a woman? Mr. Walsh, uh, an adult human female.

00:26:13.120 And how don't trans people, how doesn't a transgender woman fit that definition? 0.61

00:26:19.620 Female. 0.73

00:26:20.980 Because they're not, they're not female. They, they have, they have, you said that you are a biological male, correct?

00:26:30.040 I said I'm transgender. Um, I might be intersex for all we know. About, uh, almost as many people in the world are transgender as intersex.

00:26:40.200 And, well, a lot of people don't know.

00:26:42.820 Well, but that's a different conversation. Intersex, that's a genetic anomaly. That's a medical condition.

00:26:47.040 So let, that's a completely different conversation. That's also not a, that's not a third gender.

00:26:50.540 That's just a, that's a genetic anomaly that occurs within the sex binary of male and female.

00:26:55.040 Um, a, so you, what you're saying is that a quote unquote trans woman is a female?

00:27:05.020 By the definitions I'm familiar with, yes.

00:27:09.940 So how would you define female?

00:27:14.780 Through my training in healthcare, there are several different categories for how we define sex.

00:27:22.200 People bring up chromosomes. People also bring up hormone levels. People bring up all sorts of other categories.

00:27:29.120 Lots of people don't fit neatly into a gender binary. Even people we don't consider to be intersex.

00:27:35.160 It's a complicated spectrum.

00:27:40.080 It's, it's not complicated, but you also didn't, you also didn't define, so what is, what is a woman? What is a female? What do, what do these words mean?

00:27:46.440 It's complicated, and I know you're not going to like that answer, but that's because there are no simple answers in human biology.

00:27:54.480 Let me ask you a question.

00:27:55.000 You guys, well, hang on, I, just, let me finish.

00:27:58.160 You guys like to bring up high school level biology classes a lot. I get that a lot.

00:28:03.380 But people who go on to more complicated biology classes will talk about sex as a spectrum.

00:28:09.900 It's not.

00:28:10.320 It's not.

00:28:12.540 Well, biological researchers would disagree with you.

00:28:15.380 Well, then they're full of the ones that would say that.

00:28:18.120 There are, there are male gametes and female gametes.

00:28:28.640 Oh, I had one, I had one last question.

00:28:29.960 Wait, Mr. Walsh, can I ask a question?

00:28:31.400 I just have one, I have one quick, can we, can we, can you come back for one second?

00:28:34.740 Because I, this is an important question.

00:28:35.900 You said you're an EMT.

00:28:37.360 Yes.

00:28:37.720 Okay, if you're responding, you're responding to a health emergency. 0.99

00:28:43.560 Biological male, somebody with a penis is, is having a medical emergency. 1.00

00:28:50.120 And they say to you, I think I'm having a miscarriage. 0.96

00:28:55.480 Would you, would you check them to see if they're having a miscarriage?

00:28:58.220 Would you consider that a possibility for them?

00:29:00.320 No, but that's because some people don't have body parts.

00:29:15.560 It doesn't mean they're not a woman. 0.92

00:29:17.920 Okay.

00:29:20.300 Sounds like we've established there are some people who, in principle, can get pregnant. 0.99

00:29:24.740 And there are some people who can't.

00:29:28.660 So there's two categories, otherwise known as binary.

00:29:32.360 Lots of women can't get pregnant either. 1.00

00:29:34.760 Yeah, but they're still of the nature to get pregnant. 1.00

00:29:37.940 The only reason...

00:29:38.540 But they can't get pregnant. 1.00

00:29:39.660 Yes, but they...

00:29:40.400 Truth matters, right?

00:29:42.280 It does.

00:29:43.260 That's what I'm trying to explain to you.

00:29:45.080 Truth matters and they can't get pregnant. 1.00

00:29:47.300 That's the truth.

00:29:48.060 So how are they still women? 0.97

00:29:50.200 Because they are...

00:29:52.620 For the same reason, for the same reason that I can rightly say that human beings have two legs.

00:30:03.020 And if a person is born with only one leg, that doesn't call into question the statement that human beings have two legs.

00:30:10.720 Okay?

00:30:11.260 A person being born with one leg doesn't mean that now legs are on a spectrum.

00:30:14.580 And we can't say...

00:30:16.340 We can't say anything at all about how many legs a person has.

00:30:19.900 Who knows?

00:30:20.260 They could be a centipede.

00:30:21.760 You know, they could have a hundred legs. 0.72

00:30:24.040 No, we know human beings have two legs.

00:30:26.720 If a human is born without two legs, something went wrong.

00:30:29.980 They were supposed to have that second leg.

00:30:32.400 Something went wrong.

00:30:33.600 If you meet a person on the street who only has one leg, maybe they had an accident.

00:30:37.520 Maybe they were in war.

00:30:38.700 Maybe they were in a car accident.

00:30:40.820 Maybe they had cancer.

00:30:41.640 A leg was cut off.

00:30:42.300 But you know that something went wrong because by their nature, they're supposed to have two legs.

00:30:47.560 Same thing for a woman. 1.00

00:30:48.560 A woman by her nature can get pregnant. 1.00

00:30:51.020 A man by his nature never can.

00:30:53.180 So if you meet a woman of childbearing age, say she's 28 years old, and she can't get pregnant, 0.92

00:30:57.840 you know automatically that something has gone wrong.

00:31:01.300 And she can go to the doctor and find out what that thing is, even if they can't fix it.

00:31:04.780 So that proves that women by their nature can get pregnant because the simple fact that she can't shows you that there is something wrong. 0.97

00:31:13.200 This is what is known as the exception that proves the rule. 0.92

00:31:15.580 Whereas if a male with a penis can't get pregnant, no doctor on earth is going to run tests to see what's wrong with him. 0.96

00:31:22.440 Because they already know it's that he's a male, and there's only male and female. 0.98

00:31:25.560 Well, those who get pregnant and those who can't. 0.97

00:31:28.360 So that's it.

00:31:33.020 There it is.

00:31:33.620 It turns out. 0.99

00:31:34.900 Now, when you can be stumped on a rebuttal like this or a question like this, you know, a man, somebody with a penis says, I'm having a miscarriage. 0.99

00:31:45.960 Would you take that claim seriously? 0.99

00:31:49.260 Would you actually run tests to see if that was really happening?

00:31:53.420 And you could tell that this was somehow, for this person, this is something that they never, he never really thought about.

00:32:02.900 But he realized, he had to admit, well, of course I wouldn't.

00:32:07.200 Because there are two categories of people.

00:32:11.040 There are people who can get pregnant, and there are people who can't. 0.94

00:32:14.060 There are people who, as I've tried to explain, there are people who, by their nature, can get pregnant. 0.54

00:32:17.540 People who, by their nature, cannot.

00:32:19.280 Those are the two categories.

00:32:21.180 And you could call those categories whatever you want.

00:32:23.840 You know, we say man and woman in the English language.

00:32:26.700 In other languages, they use other words.

00:32:28.200 So the actual words themselves are, words are simply symbols that stand for something.

00:32:35.260 They're verbal symbols.

00:32:37.880 And so it's true that the verbal symbols can change.

00:32:41.340 They change over time.

00:32:42.420 They change depending on your language.

00:32:45.460 But the reality that they are symbolizing, the reality they represent, that doesn't change.

00:32:52.100 There are people who get pregnant, people who can't. 0.73

00:32:55.940 You know, as I was trying to explain there, the way I phrase it is, you know, women by their nature can get pregnant.

00:33:01.160 And I think that that's a technically, scientifically, you know, precise way of putting it.

00:33:10.380 Maybe another way to put it, you know, we say by their nature.

00:33:13.260 Maybe for some people it goes a little bit over their head.

00:33:15.480 It seemed to a bit with the person I was talking to there.

00:33:17.920 So another way of putting it is a woman is someone who is supposed to be able to get pregnant.

00:33:26.180 A woman is someone who's supposed to be able to get pregnant. 1.00

00:33:28.620 A man is someone who is not supposed to be able to get pregnant and can't. 1.00

00:33:35.040 A woman is supposed to be able to get pregnant. 1.00

00:33:36.940 A man never can. 0.99

00:33:38.400 So those are the two things.

00:33:41.440 And then that means that the comeback of, well, what about women who can't get pregnant? 0.70

00:33:47.720 Yeah, but they're supposed to be able to.

00:33:49.720 Even if they can't, they're supposed to be able to.

00:33:55.080 Which is why, as I explained there, a woman in childbearing, you know, in a childbearing age, 0.98

00:34:01.100 a 28-year-old woman, can't get pregnant, goes to the doctor, says, I'm not able to get pregnant. 0.97

00:34:06.240 The doctor is never going to say, well, yeah, you're not supposed to be able to get pregnant. 0.99

00:34:12.160 You know, you just belong to a different category, a person who doesn't get pregnant. 0.98

00:34:16.600 So we're not going to run any tests at all.

00:34:17.920 No, the doctor is going to know, okay, well, that's not how that's supposed to work.

00:34:23.220 You're a woman, so you should be able to get pregnant. 1.00

00:34:25.280 Let's figure out what's going on.

00:34:27.960 And they will always find it.

00:34:30.020 You know, that's the incredible thing.

00:34:31.780 The doctor will know, just based on the fact that this is a woman, childbearing age, can't get pregnant, 1.00

00:34:38.160 he will automatically know there's some kind of medical problem happening here.

00:34:41.780 And they will be able to find it.

00:34:44.720 Whether they can correct it or not, they can find it there.

00:34:46.680 Two categories.

00:34:48.760 That's what we call a binary.

00:34:51.280 All right.

00:34:52.980 The Daily Wire has this report.

00:34:55.040 A new CNN poll found that more than half of all Americans approve of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's decision to indict former President Donald Trump,

00:35:03.720 despite the fact that no one surveyed knew the contents of the still-sealed indictment when they answered questions about it.

00:35:09.640 CNN anchor Jake Tapper broke down some of the results of the poll, which was taken between March 31st and April 1st.

00:35:15.920 It showed that an overwhelming majority of Democrats, 94%, were in favor of the indictment.

00:35:19.600 The majority of independents also supported it, 62%, followed by just 21% of Republicans.

00:35:25.000 Overall, nearly two-thirds, 60% of those surveyed, said that they supported the decision to indict Trump.

00:35:29.800 But as critics quickly pointed out, neither those asking the questions nor those answering it had any idea what specific crimes the former president was actually being charged with.

00:35:39.880 And yet they answered it anyway.

00:35:42.240 So 60% overall said they support the indictment.

00:35:44.600 62% of independents.

00:35:47.500 You know, I think that 21% of Republicans is the biggest concern, for Donald Trump anyway.

00:35:54.480 Maybe not in the primaries, but in the general election.

00:35:58.060 And we know that they said they support the indictment without knowing what the indictment is.

00:36:03.620 And now the indictment's been unsealed.

00:36:05.080 We still don't know what the indictment is.

00:36:06.400 We still don't know what the underlying crime is.

00:36:08.440 Except that it doesn't exist.

00:36:09.560 We know that.

00:36:10.000 All that means, obviously, is that 60% who were polled don't like Trump.

00:36:18.300 That's all.

00:36:19.060 Like, every poll having to do with Donald Trump.

00:36:23.120 But it's, oh, do you support this thing that's happening to Trump?

00:36:26.780 Or do you support this thing that Trump said or did?

00:36:29.440 The details don't matter.

00:36:31.720 Every poll is really just, do you like Trump or not?

00:36:36.080 Because that's how people are going to interpret it.

00:36:38.320 And they're going to answer it along those lines.

00:36:41.320 That's all.

00:36:43.080 And so it shows the problem that Trump will face in the general election.

00:36:48.120 And I'm struggling to see how it's not an insurmountable problem for him.

00:36:56.160 That everything is baked in.

00:36:58.400 Who can be persuaded at this point?

00:37:00.040 Is there anyone left, of all the potential voters in America, in a general election, is

00:37:09.540 there anyone left who's actually on the fence about Donald Trump?

00:37:13.260 Now, I totally believe that there are people who could be swayed either way in the primary.

00:37:17.160 There are tons of people.

00:37:18.100 I talk to people all the time.

00:37:19.180 We're kind of like, I like DeSantis.

00:37:20.800 I also like some of what Trump did.

00:37:23.580 I think he should get a second shot.

00:37:24.960 I don't know.

00:37:25.540 So they're on the fence about it.

00:37:27.020 But there's also been, because of what's happening to Trump now, there's been this rallying around

00:37:30.780 him.

00:37:31.080 His numbers are going up, which is very predictable.

00:37:33.600 That makes a lot of sense in the Republican primary.

00:37:37.180 But these are all people who, they're going to vote for the Republican anyway, in the general.

00:37:42.320 In the general election, in that context, who can be persuaded?

00:37:51.920 Like, is there anyone who, in a theoretical general election between Joe Biden and Donald

00:37:57.980 Trump, is there anyone right now who's on the fence?

00:38:00.700 I don't know.

00:38:01.140 I could go either.

00:38:01.660 I mean, I'm not sure.

00:38:03.020 I'm not sure.

00:38:03.420 I still got to hear these guys out.

00:38:05.260 I got to hear Trump out some more.

00:38:06.720 I might vote for him.

00:38:07.320 I don't know.

00:38:07.680 But I might vote for Biden.

00:38:09.240 It doesn't exist.

00:38:10.400 That's a category that doesn't exist.

00:38:12.800 It's all baked in.

00:38:15.600 There's no one left to persuade.

00:38:18.600 And I don't know how you get over that.

00:38:20.840 I don't, no one has shown me how the math works.

00:38:25.560 How does Trump, in a general election, how does he win?

00:38:29.760 What's the path to victory?

00:38:32.960 I'd be very interested to hear someone explain that.

00:38:35.760 And I haven't seen anyone explain it.

00:38:37.720 And for me, you know, in the primaries, Ron DeSantis hasn't even jumped in yet.

00:38:44.040 So, and maybe, I think it's 90% chance he will, but maybe, you know, maybe he won't.

00:38:51.960 Assuming he does.

00:38:53.900 And I could talk about the reason I like DeSantis.

00:38:56.120 It's his policies, things that he's done as governor.

00:39:00.900 That, for me, is why I like him.

00:39:02.640 But really, I could put all that to the side.

00:39:05.220 Because in the primary, I am a single issue voter.

00:39:09.080 And I think that we all should be, in the primary, a single issue voter.

00:39:12.440 And the single issue that matters in the primary is who can win in the general.

00:39:19.160 That's it.

00:39:19.760 That's the only thing that matters.

00:39:22.140 Because all the rest of it is irrelevant if the person can't actually win the presidency.

00:39:29.260 Only thing that matters is who can win.

00:39:31.980 Now, I don't have a crystal ball.

00:39:33.000 I can't see it to the future.

00:39:33.820 But that's, what I'm saying is, that's what we, that's how we need to think about this.

00:39:40.060 So, when you're weighing the candidates, you know, you're looking at policies, you're looking at personality, you're looking at all those things.

00:39:46.300 But really, you put that to the side.

00:39:48.080 Now, you're running the math in your head.

00:39:49.660 You're thinking, most plausible scenario, who's more likely to win in the general?

00:39:53.680 And that's how we have to make our decisions.

00:39:57.820 Again, from the Daily Wire, representatives for the Bud Light brand, owned by Anheuser-Busch,

00:40:02.220 confirmed a brand partnership with trans-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney after followers speculated the whole thing could be an April Fool's Day prank.

00:40:12.140 Now, if you, by the way, if you were one of those people, we talked, you know, a couple days ago about Bud Light sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney,

00:40:20.500 congratulating him on his day 365 of womanhood, or retina, sorry, girlhood.

00:40:25.180 Because, again, this is a grown adult man who is very specifically pretending to be an underage adolescent girl.

00:40:32.220 So, congratulating him on day 365 of quote-unquote girlhood.

00:40:37.720 We talked about that, and I saw even in the comments there were people speculating that, well, no, this can't be, this is an April Fool's prank.

00:40:43.800 This came out around April Fool's.

00:40:44.800 It must be a big prank from Dylan Mulvaney.

00:40:46.560 I don't, okay, this is still the kind of coping that we have to put to the side now.

00:40:53.560 We have to get past this.

00:40:54.520 Like, if you're still in a position, if you still are, like, it's hard for you to believe that Bud Lights would sponsor Dylan Mulvaney,

00:41:05.420 that just shows me that you really haven't been paying attention, and you need to clue into reality.

00:41:09.740 There is, there's nothing unbelievable about it at all.

00:41:11.900 And these are a lot of the same people who still insist that maybe this whole Dylan Mulvaney thing is all one big prank by him.

00:41:19.280 He's like, he's Andy Kaufman, it's a performance artist, it's all one big troll.

00:41:24.900 I mean, this can't actually be serious.

00:41:27.740 No, it is serious.

00:41:29.720 Now, it's not, he's not actually a woman, obviously, but he is seriously trying to identify as one.

00:41:37.860 He wants to be taken seriously as a woman.

00:41:40.060 It's not a prank.

00:41:41.000 It's not anything like that.

00:41:43.580 And yes, we live in a culture where the major brands are going to line up,

00:41:49.440 and they're going to fall prostrate to the ground and worship at the feet of somebody like Dylan Mulvaney.

00:41:54.000 That's where we live.

00:41:56.160 A spokesperson for the company told Fox News,

00:41:58.580 Anheuser-Busch works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of the many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics and passion points.

00:42:05.880 From time to time, we produce unique commemorative cans for fans and for brand influencers like Dylan Mulvaney.

00:42:13.440 This commemorative can was a gift to celebrate a personal milestone, and it's not for sale to the general public.

00:42:21.060 So yes, this was a real sponsorship, as we should have always assumed.

00:42:26.960 Mulvaney has partnered with multiple national brands for advertising campaigns on social media,

00:42:30.520 including KitchenAid, KindSnacks, Wedding Dress Brand, ASOS, MAC Cosmetics, and others.

00:42:39.900 This guy has, I mean, he really has dozens of corporate sponsorships.

00:42:43.780 Because again, that's the kind of culture we live in.

00:42:46.520 We should probably clue into it by now.

00:42:48.100 And we need to decide, like, when are we as conservatives actually going to make a concerted and real effort to do something about this?

00:43:01.480 That we complain about it.

00:43:02.720 We complain about the fact that all these corporate brands are spitting in our face all the time.

00:43:06.180 And they're, like, going out of their way to alienate their own customer base.

00:43:10.760 And then some more cope, we say, oh, go woke, go broke.

00:43:16.220 No.

00:43:17.500 I wish it was that way, okay?

00:43:19.140 I wish it was that way.

00:43:20.900 Where a company goes woke and then they go broke.

00:43:22.780 That's not how it works, actually.

00:43:25.640 In fact, they go woke and they continue making billions of dollars.

00:43:28.280 That's how it works.

00:43:28.880 Go woke, make billions of dollars.

00:43:31.560 We have the power, we have the ability to make some of these companies go broke.

00:43:35.480 We could do that, but we don't.

00:43:38.720 That's what makes it frustrating.

00:43:40.880 There is strength in numbers, especially in a marketplace.

00:43:47.840 It's true that every major corporation is woke.

00:43:51.340 They all are, right?

00:43:53.320 And so we can't realistically boycott all of them.

00:43:57.860 And if we did that, then you wouldn't even be able to watch this show right now.

00:44:00.760 Because the phone you're using or the laptop you're using to buy it on is made by a woke company. 1.00

00:44:06.100 You bought it from a woke company. 1.00

00:44:07.440 You're using a woke company's internet service provider. 1.00

00:44:13.100 So we boycott all of them and we basically can't live in the modern world.

00:44:18.760 And we also have no way to even organize any kind of boycott like that because all of the mechanisms that we use to organize them are also owned by the woke. 0.74

00:44:29.540 So, yeah, we can't boycott all of them.

00:44:32.460 That's true.

00:44:33.820 But we can pick some of them.

00:44:37.100 Okay, this is something that we talked about this in the backstage episode on Monday.

00:44:42.280 It's something that the left is, they're very good at doing this, where they pick someone, they pick a victim, and they make an example of them.

00:44:53.180 Okay, they pick somebody out, whether it's an individual or a company that has offended them, has crossed them.

00:45:00.480 And they say, we're going to take you down. 0.76

00:45:03.020 We're going to destroy you. 0.95

00:45:04.860 Okay, you have become our personal project. 0.98

00:45:07.440 Not because you're the worst, as far as we're concerned, but just because you're the one we've chosen.

00:45:14.280 And the left will do that, and they'll stay on it until they tear this victim down. 0.62

00:45:20.920 Now, on the right, we could do the same kind of thing.

00:45:26.720 And the only difference is that we're choosing people and companies that actually deserve it.

00:45:32.700 And we'd be wielding this power for good.

00:45:36.680 So, yeah, we can't make all the woke companies go broke, not even close to it. 0.97

00:45:40.140 But we could choose one company that does something outrageous to alienate and spit in the faces of their own customer base.

00:45:51.280 And we could say, okay, we've chosen you, and we're going to bankrupt you.

00:45:57.200 Because in reality, there are millions and millions of us, and you do need us to buy your product.

00:46:02.180 And if we don't, you're going to suffer.

00:46:05.720 Okay, and you've got mass layoffs in your future and all the rest of it.

00:46:11.140 We could do that, but it takes organization.

00:46:15.980 It takes follow-through.

00:46:19.240 It takes a certain, you know, sense of kind of ruthlessness.

00:46:24.160 Because, yeah, if you do that, you take a company down, you, you know, you affect their bottom line to that extent.

00:46:30.480 There are people that work for the company that aren't evil people.

00:46:32.820 They just have jobs, and they're probably going to lose their jobs.

00:46:36.120 And that's, you don't want to see that.

00:46:37.340 It's unfortunate.

00:46:38.180 But these are, these are necessary casualties.

00:46:41.800 So we have to have the willingness, the willingness, we have to have the ruthlessness, we have to have the organization, the attention span, and the follow-through.

00:46:50.780 And on the right, we have none of that.

00:46:55.380 Easily distracted.

00:46:56.520 We move from one thing to the next.

00:46:59.160 And anytime any one of us tries to say, let's focus on this issue, let's focus on this institution, let's focus on this thing right here, and try to make something happen.

00:47:06.100 You're then going to have, you know, 50,000 people who are also on the right come along and say, well, why then?

00:47:11.660 This is, yeah, sure, you'll do that, but then these people over here are just as bad, so what's the point of even trying?

00:47:17.260 We allow ourselves to get distracted by these losers who have no interest in winning, don't know how to win, and we've got to stop doing that.

00:47:24.900 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:47:28.180 Who makes a Twitter mob fly off the handle with rage?

00:47:34.460 Who's to blame?

00:47:37.320 It's a sweet baby gang. 0.98

00:47:42.220 Kanjerisu says, you missed the part where after the man was accosted, some woman screamed, get him, kill him. 0.73

00:47:48.500 We're at war whether you admit it or not.

00:47:50.220 Yeah, I actually did miss that.

00:47:53.540 We played the video on a show on Monday of Chris Elston, known as Billboard Chris, on Twitter and his activism.

00:48:00.960 He was at one of these trans rallies wearing a sign, wearing a billboard that said children can't consent to puberty blockers because they can't.

00:48:10.500 And he was physically assaulted by a man identifying as a woman. 0.99

00:48:17.320 And yeah, there were people, it wasn't just the one trans guy, it was there's people in the crowd, of course, were cheering it on, you know, get him, kill him. 0.98

00:48:28.540 And they really mean it, they do. 0.99

00:48:33.020 Okay, they actually do want us dead.

00:48:38.860 Another tough reality that has to sink in at a certain point.

00:48:42.960 But as far as they're concerned, as you point out, as far as they're concerned, they're at war with us, have been for a long time.

00:48:54.160 Question is, is it going to be one-sided?

00:48:59.160 Guthrie says, this is actually a great point.

00:49:01.400 You want reparations for slavery, but if it wasn't for slavery, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

00:49:05.080 And you're absolutely better off being here than anywhere remotely near the African continent. 0.99

00:49:08.560 You can guarantee that colonialism or not, Africa would still not be a nice and prosperous place to be. 0.99

00:49:12.920 In fact, just like India, Africa is probably better off for having been touched by Europe in some way. 0.92

00:49:21.980 Yeah, that's, I think it's actually worth, I played, I think it's about two minutes of the clip from Dinesh D'Souza back in, what was it, 2002?

00:49:29.600 On NPR, I still can't quite get over that fact.

00:49:33.260 On NPR, 22 years ago, 21 years ago, you can make this kind of point.

00:49:41.420 Defending, well, no, talking about the benefits of colonialism, making arguments against reparations, saying things like the descendants of slaves are better off being here.

00:49:56.080 You know, that was Dinesh D'Souza laying that out on NPR only a couple of decades ago.

00:50:02.080 That was the kind of thing that you could say on NPR.

00:50:05.780 But it's worth going.

00:50:07.160 If you can Google that, you can listen to his entire, you know, his whole statement on this, because it is very interesting.

00:50:14.580 He makes a really good point.

00:50:18.740 Michael Brown says, way to bring it on home, Matt, with a fabulous cancellation.

00:50:22.200 I think social media has played a large role in this phenomenon of good or bad think.

00:50:26.340 It's like people have become a bunch of zombies who only know how to hit thumbs up or thumbs down.

00:50:31.840 People seem to have fallen under the spell of false dichotomy that will not allow their brain to have a thought that is original or nuanced.

00:50:38.960 The perpetual insistence of scrolling through bumper sticker slogans and the erosion of the English language are all contributing factors in this way of thinking.

00:50:46.300 I love listening.

00:50:46.880 Keep up the great work that you do.

00:50:48.620 This episode is definitely going on my greatest hits list.

00:50:52.340 Yeah, it's the inability.

00:50:54.600 It's not so much.

00:50:57.440 Because it is interesting that, you know, it's partly it seems like there's this black and white thinking that people do.

00:51:05.980 But it's not it's not so much that because a lot of these same people, they they won't recognize good and evil in the world.

00:51:12.340 In any other context, they're going to be talking about they want to make everything a gray area.

00:51:16.100 Well, it's impossible to say what's good and what's bad.

00:51:18.080 Um, so it's really it's the problem, as I said on Monday, is that there's one thought, there's one assigned.

00:51:33.300 It's not even a position.

00:51:34.720 It's just one thought, one statement that's supposed to apply to every issue.

00:51:40.920 And sometimes the one assigned thought or statement is correct.

00:51:47.020 So when it comes to slavery, the one assigned thought that we've all been given that we're all supposed to think and say is slavery is bad.

00:51:55.720 And that's correct.

00:51:56.860 It is bad.

00:51:58.500 But the problem is that you're not allowed to go beyond that.

00:52:01.320 That's the only thing you're allowed to say about it.

00:52:03.720 And if you say anything else about it, then you you have begun excusing it. 0.97

00:52:11.220 Which on top of leading to ridiculous policies like like reparations, it also just it makes us it contributes to making us dumber. 0.96

00:52:20.740 So this this situation comes about. 1.00

00:52:25.280 Because we have become dumber as a culture, and then it also feeds that it makes us even make makes us all the more dumb. 0.98

00:52:33.220 Because we're not allowed to have interesting conversations with it, you know, slavery, given the fact that slavery was a universal institution across the entire world for thousands of years. 0.99

00:52:43.960 Because there's like a lot that should be said about it.

00:52:49.740 It's just it's it's one of the critical facts of human history.

00:52:56.080 And so there's interesting conversations we could have about.

00:53:00.060 I mean, why was that?

00:53:01.540 How is it that for thousands of years?

00:53:06.020 Almost everyone in the world was basically OK with slavery.

00:53:11.200 Now, they might not have all owned slaves, but that would have been determined by socioeconomic status.

00:53:16.660 For thousands of years, there really wasn't anything like an abolition movement anywhere.

00:53:22.000 It was an accepted institution.

00:53:23.660 And now today we look at slavery and we automatically recognize, well, of course, that's wrong.

00:53:30.840 You know, we recognize it as one of them.

00:53:32.600 It's it's self evidently wrong to us.

00:53:35.040 And yet for thousands of years, it was that was not evident to almost anyone on.

00:53:43.240 The planet.

00:53:44.920 And that included.

00:53:47.640 Some of the most brilliant minds in human history.

00:53:51.480 So it's not nearly as simple.

00:53:54.200 I think for a lot of people on the left, they would want to say, well, it's because everyone who lived prior to everyone who was born before the 60s, the 1960s, basically, was a backwards, drooling, primitive bigot. 1.00

00:54:08.700 And they're all a bunch of morons. 1.00

00:54:10.760 That's not the case at all. 1.00

00:54:11.760 I mean, some of the most brilliant these these people were in many cases.

00:54:15.140 Again, our IQ scores are declining right now.

00:54:17.180 So if anything, evidence suggests that they're a lot smarter than us.

00:54:21.900 And yet they they couldn't see what to us is self evident.

00:54:26.120 It's a very interesting fact.

00:54:28.320 And I don't have the exact answer for it, but it's something we should probably talk about.

00:54:33.080 But we can't because the only thing we're allowed to say is it's bad.

00:54:36.060 It could be argued with no great effort that the main reason we are where we are as a society is because we are spiritually bankrupt.

00:54:42.900 When you have no relationship with God, you live a life in chaos.

00:54:45.360 But as Ben Shapiro points out in episode 13 of Exodus with Jordan Peterson, it's not just a one way street.

00:54:50.420 God wants to have a relationship with us as well.

00:54:54.380 Check out the trailer.

00:54:55.560 The romantic and tremendous yearning that God has to be among his people is so clear from from this language.

00:55:01.200 Right. He specifically says it's not just I brought you out to the into the wilderness to serve me, which is the language of a king to his subject.

00:55:08.500 It's I brought you out here to live with you, to dwell among you.

00:55:11.100 And it's repeated twice in this second section.

00:55:12.860 I brought you out specifically so that I can dwell among you.

00:55:16.040 He wants the closeness with us.

00:55:17.340 He wants the romance with us.

00:55:18.960 And that's why it's such a tremendous sin against him when the people end up essentially throwing him out.

00:55:24.780 I mean, what they're about to do with the golden calf and the language that you'll see God's response is, OK, well, I'm withdrawing from you.

00:55:29.280 In this episode of Exodus, Ben sits with Jordan and a roundtable group of esteemed scholars, theologians and artists to discuss one of those most seminal books in the Bible.

00:55:39.280 New episodes are coming online every week, and they're all great exclusively for Daily Wire Plus members.

00:55:43.920 But you have to join now at dailywire.com.

00:55:46.260 So subscribe to watch Exodus.

00:55:48.920 Do it now.

00:55:49.500 Let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:50.680 Today, for our daily cancellation, we must once again cancel the country of Canada.

00:55:58.620 Now, it may seem a bit excessive.

00:55:59.900 I acknowledge that every time someone in Canada does something that annoys me, I respond by just canceling the whole nation.

00:56:05.160 In most other cases, I will simply cancel the individual offender.

00:56:08.320 But Canada gets treated differently.

00:56:10.140 They're on a very short leash with me.

00:56:11.800 Ever since they reelected Justin Trudeau again, I realized that I have to adopt a zero-tolerance policy with the entire country.

00:56:19.920 Now, if one Canadian does something cancelable, they all get canceled. 0.65

00:56:23.600 But this is only fair, considering the Canadians in general have allowed their country to slide irrevocably into full-on left-wing, brave new world tyranny.

00:56:31.340 And they've especially surrendered themselves to the LGBT alphabet mafia. 1.00

00:56:35.800 A similar process is underway in the United States, of course, but in Canada, the process is complete.

00:56:39.920 Appeasement and worship of the LGBT cult is the country's number one national priority. 1.00

00:56:45.940 Which brings us to this story from Global News.

00:56:48.500 Quote,

00:56:49.180 Ontario's NDP urged the government Tuesday to create community safety zones that would protect drag artists and LGBTQ communities from harassment and intimidation at their performances.

00:56:59.680 Drag performances have been targeted by organized protests across the United States, but also here at home,

00:57:03.900 said Kristen Wong Tam, who is putting forward a private member bill to designate 100-meter zones around show venues.

00:57:11.740 Wong Tam, the NDP's critic on 2SLGBTQ issues and who uses they-them pronouns, said their bill is designed to keep the community safe.

00:57:21.480 The bill would also allow the Attorney General to temporarily designate addresses such as where a show is taking place as community safety zones and anti-LGBTQ harassment, intimidation, and hate speech within 100 meters would be subject to a $25,000 fine.

00:57:36.700 Yes, of course, Kristen Wong Tam is non-binary, identifies as they-them. 1.00

00:57:40.420 You know, eventually every politician in both Canada and the United States will be non-binary because it's the easiest identity to tack onto your resume and give you, you know, political clout without having to make any changes or do anything in particular to play the part.

00:57:56.600 Non-binary is such an utterly meaningless label that the people who claim it can't tell you what they mean by it, can't explain how or why they decided that they have this identity, and cannot speak about it coherently for even five seconds at a time.

00:58:08.480 Kristen Wong Tam is, I looked it up, 52 years old.

00:58:13.080 Now, I don't know when exactly she discovered her inner non-binary identity, but I can already assume with absolute confidence that it was very recently.

00:58:21.580 She lived her entire adult life in the binary until one day, as a middle-aged woman, she decided that she's actually some sort of mysterious human entity who, in ways she cannot possibly explain, actually exists outside of the male-female binary that has defined all people who've ever lived

00:58:38.320 since the dawn of humanity.

00:58:40.080 But she, just like every other non-binary quote-unquote person, made this startling discovery about herself like 10 seconds ago. 0.99

00:58:47.740 You know, a whole bunch of leftists, all at once, just recently, at the same time, found out that they were non-binary.

00:58:54.520 None of them were saying this about themselves 10 years ago, for most of them, not even five years ago.

00:58:59.260 Just now, right now, they've made this determination.

00:59:04.060 So it's almost like this is a fad, you know, a social contagion, and not an actual legitimate category of being.

00:59:11.100 Almost.

00:59:12.900 Anyway, here's Kristen, they, them, announcing her plan.

00:59:15.840 Listen.

00:59:15.960 This new legislation on Ontario is designed to keep the 2SLGBT community safe.

00:59:23.300 Drag artists, their audiences, the business, and the facilities that host those drag performances have been put at risk.

00:59:30.000 And unless we put forward a strategy to protect them, Ontario's social, economic, and cultural richness is under attack.

00:59:37.640 We have to protect that.

00:59:39.240 The proposed legislation does two things, and I will go through them.

00:59:42.840 Firstly, it enables the Attorney General to create a 2SLGBTQI plus community safety zone to prohibit, within 100 metres of the property,

00:59:54.960 any homophobic, transphobic act of intimidation, threat, offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda within the meaning of the criminal code.

01:00:06.900 It also comes with it a penalty of $25,000 if prosecuted successfully.

01:00:13.560 Secondly, the act creates an Ontario 2SLGBTQI plus safety advisory committee to provide recommendations to the provincial government on how to improve safety for our community and to prevent further hate.

01:00:28.320 Just a quick note here.

01:00:29.840 None of that is true.

01:00:30.920 None of that is close to true.

01:00:31.980 There isn't any rising tide of hate crimes against LGBT people, especially not in Canada, of all places.

01:00:36.760 That's like saying there's a rising tide of fatphobia at Cracker Barrel.

01:00:40.140 It doesn't make any sense.

01:00:41.840 But I do believe that there has certainly been dramatic increases in LGBT people reporting that they are victims of hate crimes.

01:00:49.140 But the increase in reporting is due almost entirely to two things.

01:00:52.600 Number one, a lot of them just fabricate hate crimes out of thin air, lie about it, as we've seen time and time again.

01:00:57.540 Number two, the category of hate crime is increasingly being expanded so that an LGBT person can claim to be a hate crime victim the moment they encounter any statement or opinion they don't like.

01:01:09.480 And this point is proven in that very same clip when Kristen, they, them, tries to prove that hate crimes are a major problem by launching into a list of cities where protests against drag queen groomer events have taken place.

01:01:22.000 So this is what she means by hate crime.

01:01:24.360 Any action or statement taken by, you know, by anyone to oppose or protest anything that any LGBT person is doing is a hate crime. 0.56

01:01:34.940 And this includes, I mean, especially includes, anyone who protests the sexualization of children by gay men in dresses. 0.89

01:01:42.400 Let's continue.

01:01:43.860 Firstly, it enables the Attorney General to create a 2SLGBTQI plus community safety zone to prohibit within 100 meters of the property any homophobic, transphobic act of intimidation, threat, offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest, disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda.

01:02:04.940 Within the meaning of the criminal code.

01:02:08.040 It also comes with it, a penalty of $25,000 if prosecuted successfully.

01:02:14.940 Now, I can help you with that.

01:02:17.560 If you want to prevent further hate, what you could do is leave the kids alone.

01:02:23.520 Just leave them alone. 0.95

01:02:25.140 That's all you have to do.

01:02:26.640 But you refuse to do it.

01:02:28.120 You refuse to stop. 0.99

01:02:29.460 You are addicted to sexualizing children and you can't stop. 0.97

01:02:33.380 Because almost all of the, quote, hate that you're experiencing, the hate you're not, the hate that you're not just making up anyway, is hatred directed at your actions, your behavior. 0.98

01:02:45.360 Okay?

01:02:45.820 That's what we hate.

01:02:46.980 Yes, we are.

01:02:47.720 If you are a leftist LGBT activist, or you are someone like Kristen Day then, and you have picked up that there is hatred being directed at you, you're right. 0.99

01:02:58.900 There is.

01:03:00.500 But the hatred is directed at what you are doing.

01:03:04.020 People hate what you are doing.

01:03:05.860 Specifically in this case, they hate that you are bringing kids into gay clubs so that grown adult men can perform burlesque routines for them. 0.84

01:03:13.900 We hate that. 0.81

01:03:16.000 Absolutely.

01:03:17.520 This is the kind of hatred that Kristen Day then is trying to protect her, quote, community from.

01:03:23.660 Later, speaking of that community, later in the press conference, she brought one of these poor oppressed groomers on stage to tell his story.

01:03:31.780 These threats and intimidation tactics are very real and happening all around us to people we love and care about.

01:03:40.080 Even in recent weeks, I myself have been victim to hate crimes and hate speech.

01:03:43.820 I'm a professional drag queen who loves what I do more than anything in the entire world.

01:03:50.020 Drag is all about spreading love and acceptance and allows people to feel empowered and special.

01:03:56.000 First of all, why are they always dressed like the evil stepmother from a Disney film if the film was directed by Tim Burton?

01:04:01.780 This is their idea of womanhood, obviously. 0.77

01:04:04.660 And you also, we can't skip over the fact that they have made drag queen into a protected category.

01:04:13.380 So drag queens can be victims of hate crimes now, which includes like saying something that I like. 1.00

01:04:19.600 So if you say something to a drag queen, you are committing a hate crime against a protected group, which is, I mean, it's literally the same thing as making actors into protected groups.

01:04:31.840 Where if you do something an actor doesn't like, or even if you beat up an actor, well, now you're not only charged with assault, but you're charged with a hate crime because they are an actor.

01:04:43.460 That's what the drag queen is. 1.00

01:04:45.300 And they don't deny that.

01:04:47.080 They are acting.

01:04:48.140 They're playing the part of a woman, which in and of itself becomes a protected group. 0.93

01:04:52.960 He did say something important there.

01:04:54.400 He said that the drag, you know, drag is all about making the drag artists feel special.

01:04:58.640 And I don't doubt that for a moment. 0.93

01:05:00.380 Of course, it's primarily about giving gay crossdressers an opportunity to act out their sexual fetishes. 1.00

01:05:04.980 And some of them, as we've seen, are particularly excited about acting out those fetishes in front of children. 0.96

01:05:09.720 But it's also about feeling special.

01:05:12.600 That's the centerpiece of the LGBT agenda.

01:05:14.520 It is to protect their right to feel special.

01:05:17.500 I mean, as I explained during my talk last night, we live in the age of the psychological man, which means that people define themselves entirely by their desires and their feelings and their self-perceptions.

01:05:28.320 The self is an amalgamation of an individual's desires, feelings, urges, perceptions, and so on.

01:05:33.920 All that matters is how the individual feels.

01:05:37.700 And the most important human right is the right to feel good, to feel special.

01:05:42.300 Drag queens feel special when they parade around looking like, you know, cross-dressing Edward Scissorhands. 1.00

01:05:47.500 And so they have the right to do that.

01:05:50.680 It is their most important right.

01:05:53.520 And they say they have the right to do it in front of children because it makes them feel special.

01:05:58.640 By this way of thinking, nobody else has the right to do or say anything that would make the drag queen feel bad about this behavior.

01:06:07.020 Which is why they intend to throw free speech entirely out the window and criminalize protests against these drag queen groomer events. 0.70

01:06:12.680 That, of course, is the point of making a safety zone.

01:06:16.520 The zone doesn't protect them physically because they were never in any physical danger.

01:06:20.340 Instead, it protects their feelings.

01:06:22.740 And their feelings are all that matter to them.

01:06:25.920 And they think all that should matter to us.

01:06:28.160 This is what the LGBT cult believes. 1.00

01:06:32.000 And increasingly, countries are writing laws on the basis of this belief.

01:06:37.400 Canada is not the only offender.

01:06:39.160 But it is one of the worst.

01:06:41.120 And that is why it is today, once again, canceled.

01:06:45.600 That will do it for the show today.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 05, 2023

Ep. 1143 - Trump Is Officially Arrested For Crimes That Don't Exist

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