The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1151 - They're Coming For Your Children And They Aren't Hiding It

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Joe Biden announces his re-election bid. The prospect of another four years of Biden is terrifying because he's a decaying old vegetable, but also because he's an anti-family tyrant. Just yesterday, for example, Biden declared explicitly that your children are not your own. We'll discuss that.

00:00:15.100 Also, we're learning more about the circumstances that led Fox to make the disastrous decision to fire Tucker Carlson. Meanwhile, another cable news host also got the axe yesterday. The difference is that the other one deserved it. And a report details the horrific death of an 18-year-old who suffered complications during a quote-unquote gender transition surgery. This is yet another reason why medical gender transition should be illegal for everyone, not just kids. I'll explain why. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:01.480 This week, the media has been running with a list that purports to rank the 13 most banned books of 2022.

00:02:09.500 And the list has been put out for the second year in a row, actually, by the American Library Association.

00:02:13.480 USA Today reports, quote,

00:02:15.480 It's not your imagination, and it's not fear-mongering. Books, and our free and ready access to them, are under attack in the U.S.

00:02:22.980 The American Library Association has the data to prove it.

00:02:25.360 The ALA today released their list of the 13 most challenged books of 2022, the titles that have been the biggest targets of banning efforts in school and public libraries.

00:02:35.080 The last few years have seen a dramatic uptick in the book banning attempts, an escalation of censorship tactics, and the coordinated harassment of teachers and librarians as political groups and parent associations target works of literature containing what they deem to be objectionable material for young readers.

00:02:49.160 For more information on book banning attempts and how to visit, how to fight against them, go to this website, so on and so forth.

00:02:54.580 Anyway, books are under attack, they say.

00:02:58.500 Okay, that's books themselves.

00:03:00.400 Like, the concept of books are under attack.

00:03:04.080 There are people out there who oppose books, who hate books, and want to just ban books.

00:03:10.800 And it just so happens that the anti-book faction especially has it out for these 13 books, and they list them.

00:03:17.960 Here's the list.

00:03:19.160 Now, if you know something about these books, you'll notice that these books, many of them, first thing you'll notice,

00:03:47.840 is that many of them are explicitly sexual.

00:03:51.720 Genderqueer, flamer, this book is gay, all contain graphic sexual depictions and pictures. 0.63

00:03:58.440 Lawn Boy has a passage, at least one passage in the book, describing a sexual encounter between two 10-year-old boys.

00:04:06.900 That's what's in the book.

00:04:09.300 None of the articles lamenting these bans will mention any of that.

00:04:13.720 And they also won't mention that the book bans aren't really book bans.

00:04:18.440 Okay, the books aren't being banned from distribution in the United States, which is what a book ban would be,

00:04:24.400 though some of them probably should be banned from distribution.

00:04:27.700 Rather, in some cases, they're being kept out of grade school libraries.

00:04:33.180 That's it.

00:04:33.780 That's what they consider a book ban.

00:04:36.060 Simply saying, we're not going to take this book that depicts sex acts between 10-year-old boys and put it in the library at the elementary school so that a fourth grader can read it.

00:04:46.920 If you do that, they cry, this is book banning, we're burning books.

00:04:51.960 It's Nazi Germany all over again. 0.89

00:04:54.920 Calling this a book ban, it's like saying that a movie has been banned because it landed an R rating.

00:05:01.720 It's exactly the same kind of thing.

00:05:03.100 It really is that absurd.

00:05:04.180 It's like saying that we still live in the Prohibition era because 11-year-olds aren't allowed to buy whiskey at the liquor store.

00:05:11.040 The claim doesn't make any sense, but that's because, as always, the people making the claim aren't being honest about their true concerns.

00:05:19.600 They aren't upset about any fictional attack on books.

00:05:23.220 They're upset because we're trying to exercise control over the material that our children are exposed to.

00:05:30.400 That's what they're upset about.

00:05:32.380 They don't want us stepping in between children and them.

00:05:38.840 That's what it's all about.

00:05:39.900 President Biden made the agenda clear during a speech in the Rose Garden yesterday meant to honor the 2023 National and State Teachers of the Year.

00:05:49.120 And during this speech, he made one especially startling statement.

00:05:53.940 Listen to this.

00:05:55.160 Rebecca put a teacher's creed into words when she said, there's no such thing as someone else's child.

00:06:01.920 No such thing as someone else's child.

00:06:04.680 Our nation's children are all our children.

00:06:06.880 There's no such thing as someone else's child.

00:06:10.480 Your child is not your child. 0.99

00:06:12.100 Your child belongs to everyone, he's saying.

00:06:14.680 Now, you might like to think that Biden doesn't mean this literally, that it's just kind of a meaningless platitude.

00:06:20.700 But remember that he belongs to the same party that just passed this law in Washington state.

00:06:26.520 The New York Post has the report, quote,

00:06:28.300 A Washington state bill that would strip parents' rights to intervene on their kids' medical care in certain circumstances passed the House on Wednesday, clearing its pathway to being signed by the governor.

00:06:38.740 An act relating to Supporting Youth, or Senate Bill 5599, allows host homes for runaway youth to house youth without parental permission.

00:06:47.900 Furthermore, the host homes do not need to notify parents about where their kids are or if they're getting medical interventions if there's a compelling reason not to, which includes a youth seeking protected health services.

00:07:01.500 The protected health services include gender-affirming care, quote, unquote, which for minors arbitrarily included anything prescribed by a doctor to treat gender dysphoria, the bill said.

00:07:10.700 Quote, gender-affirming treatment can be prescribed to two-spirit, transgender, non-binary, and other gender-diverse individuals, the bill said.

00:07:19.320 Okay, so if a two-spirit child runs away from home and ends up at a host home, then they can undergo gender transition to become two-spirit.

00:07:30.220 It's an entirely made-up concept, obviously.

00:07:33.260 Another compelling reason, quote, unquote, not to notify parents about kids staying in a host home

00:07:37.000 was circumstances that indicate notifying the parent or legal guardian will subject the minor to abuse or neglect.

00:07:44.020 So, in other words, when this bill is signed into law, if a child in Washington State decides that he wants to undergo a medical gender transition

00:07:50.720 and his parents object to it, all he has to do is run away from home and land at one of these host homes,

00:07:57.040 and from there, his parents will be stripped of all rights to protect him from being sterilized and butchered.

00:08:02.580 Keep in mind that refusing to affirm your child's gender confusion, because that is what they're saying you should affirm, 0.99

00:08:10.120 so if you refuse to affirm the confusion of the child, if you tell him that he's really a boy even though he thinks he's a girl and so on,

00:08:18.200 that counts as abuse and neglect, according to the people who write laws like this.

00:08:22.580 And this is how they will and have already begun to strip rights away from parents across the country

00:08:28.620 and induct children into the gender cult by force.

00:08:32.660 First, they set the stage by declaring that a lack of affirmation is abusive,

00:08:38.200 and then they come to the rescue by extracting the children from those abusive homes

00:08:43.900 and leaving them in the arms of a state, where they can be shaped and molded in a literal, physical sense

00:08:51.580 and made into the sort of person that the system wants them to be.

00:08:56.500 So who exactly is consenting to the procedure in a case where the parent's been cut out of the picture completely?

00:09:03.780 Well, the child cannot consent.

00:09:06.540 The parent does not consent.

00:09:08.700 The parent, who's authorizing this?

00:09:11.440 The answer is that the parent is authorizing it because a new parent, a new parental figure, has been appointed.

00:09:19.760 You know, Joe Biden said that our nation's children are all of our children,

00:09:23.180 but we already know from extensive experience that when anyone on the left uses the term our or us or we,

00:09:32.040 they don't mean it in a general, collective sense.

00:09:35.340 Okay, this is an us that doesn't include you.

00:09:39.360 Or me.

00:09:40.660 Us means the system, the institutions, the powers that be.

00:09:44.440 Our nation's children are all of our children means that our nation's children are the system's children.

00:09:51.720 It will raise your child. 0.76

00:09:52.920 It will decide what is best for him.

00:09:54.840 It will take charge of his formation or deformation, both physical and moral.

00:10:01.580 As should be clear to everyone by now, if it isn't already, the family unit is the greatest threat to the system.

00:10:12.740 I mean, it's the left's greatest enemy.

00:10:14.860 The left, in general, hates local authority.

00:10:21.220 It militates against localization in every form.

00:10:24.820 It wants you to be totally subject to overarching, inhuman, bureaucratic powers.

00:10:31.900 It wants your life to be run by institutions that don't know you, don't love you, don't recognize you as a distinct individual.

00:10:39.840 And the most localized structure, the most local form of authority of all is the family.

00:10:45.160 In a healthy family, the members of the family, they look primarily to each other for love and guidance and purpose.

00:10:54.160 They're not looking out to the institutions and to the system and the media and Hollywood and all that.

00:10:59.600 They're looking to each other.

00:11:03.000 This is a problem for the system because it makes them much harder to influence, harder to control.

00:11:07.720 So the family must be destroyed.

00:11:10.200 And all of the vibrant and fulfilling bonds that define the family, the bond between husband and wife,

00:11:15.720 the bond between parent and child must be severed and replaced by the lifeless, empty bond between subject and system,

00:11:23.220 where the subject can be unmade and remade in the image of the institutions that wish to control his life.

00:11:30.960 That is what they intend to do to you and especially to your children.

00:11:35.120 And it's why we have to hold our children close and never allow it.

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00:12:57.480 Yesterday we had news of Tucker Carlson abruptly leaving Fox News.

00:13:01.800 And we now know that he was, as seemed kind of obvious yesterday, but it wasn't confirmed, he was fired.

00:13:08.780 The reasons are still murky.

00:13:10.880 Reports in the LA Times and other places suggest that Rupert Murdoch made the decision to get rid of Tucker.

00:13:18.420 Some in the media are suggesting it has to do with different lawsuits, a discrimination lawsuit that was filed by a former Tucker producer.

00:13:25.300 But I find that hard to believe, given that, well, Fox itself says that that particular lawsuit has no merit, which we would expect them to say.

00:13:36.540 And just based on the details that have been reported, it certainly seems, from my perspective, to have no merit.

00:13:42.520 I mean, this woman complains, for example, about a jokey picture of Nancy Pelosi that was hanging on a wall in an office somewhere. 0.94

00:13:51.780 That's the kind of thing she's offended by and filing a lawsuit about. 0.98

00:13:54.880 So I don't think that's the reason.

00:13:57.340 I think that there may have been many things that contributed to it, but I think that basically they pushed Tucker out because of what he stands for and what he says.

00:14:08.100 That's really what it comes down to. Tucker is not, not a neocon, corporatist, milquetoast Republican.

00:14:16.460 Because he's not that. He's not welcome on Fox.

00:14:21.260 They're looking for a reason to get rid of him for that reason alone.

00:14:23.840 I really think it's that simple.

00:14:25.200 Tucker is also interesting, and they seem to have a problem with interesting people.

00:14:30.060 I mean, that goes all the way back to when they fired Glenn Beck, who committed the crime of being interesting.

00:14:34.260 There's something else to be said about Tucker, too, which is that he's not only a great talent, and he is a great talent.

00:14:42.860 Like I said yesterday, his monologues make news.

00:14:45.640 He does monologues on the news, and he makes news with them.

00:14:49.140 This is a rare talent.

00:14:51.000 Nobody else at Fox is doing that.

00:14:53.540 Nobody else in cable news has that kind of talent.

00:14:56.240 It's, as I said, a rare talent.

00:14:57.900 But aside from the talent, Tucker's also a good guy.

00:15:02.280 So just one, and people are sharing different stories about their encounters with Tucker Carlson.

00:15:06.960 So here's one quick personal story, and I think it tells you a lot about him.

00:15:11.940 So years ago, this is maybe, I don't know, this is maybe four years ago, maybe five years ago.

00:15:18.740 Tucker texted me one day out of the blue to tell me that he appreciates my work,

00:15:23.740 and he was encouraging me to keep going.

00:15:27.640 Now, keep in mind, I had a much smaller profile back then.

00:15:31.200 This was when I believe I was still doing my podcast out of my car,

00:15:34.440 and there was about 30 people who were watching it.

00:15:38.820 So relatively obscure, especially compared to now.

00:15:42.820 I didn't think that Tucker even knew who I was,

00:15:44.840 and yet he took the time to track down my phone number and send me a text,

00:15:49.340 even though I obviously had nothing I could give him in return.

00:15:53.240 It's not like he needed me to promote his work or something like that.

00:15:58.320 It was just something that he felt compelled to do, and he did.

00:16:01.760 That is, I cannot stress enough how rare that sort of thing is,

00:16:07.700 probably in any business, but especially in this business.

00:16:11.640 People will be nice to you.

00:16:13.580 People will be nice to you, but it's usually because they want something from you.

00:16:17.660 They're being nice to you because they want, and oftentimes they want you to promote something.

00:16:21.980 They want you to put them in touch with someone who you know.

00:16:25.320 It's like that sort of thing.

00:16:26.560 So it's very transactional, very mercenary.

00:16:29.540 It's extremely rare that somebody would just kind of reach out to encourage you

00:16:35.820 when you have nothing that you can give them in return.

00:16:40.120 And so that alone, I think, tells you a lot about him.

00:16:44.560 And the question now is what he does next.

00:16:46.400 Personally, I think the Daily Wire is the best place for him.

00:16:49.780 I'm a little bit biased, but I do really believe that.

00:16:53.060 You know, I think if you're Tucker Carlson, you've got, you know, basically two options.

00:17:00.300 Or I guess there's a third.

00:17:01.520 You could just decide you want to get out of the rat race completely.

00:17:04.080 I hope he doesn't do that.

00:17:05.040 But aside from that, you can go off and do your own thing.

00:17:09.640 Or you can join another institution.

00:17:12.700 And I think that, you know, there are other institutions in conservative media that do great work.

00:17:18.460 But I don't think there's any other place like the Daily Wire.

00:17:21.120 So that would be my pitch to him, but we'll see what he does.

00:17:25.140 Of course, there was a lot of celebrating over this on the left, as you can imagine.

00:17:29.940 Probably don't need any examples of that.

00:17:31.920 But here's just one example from The View as they first learned the news that Tucker Carlson had been fired.

00:17:38.020 And here's how they reacted to that.

00:17:40.160 Word has just come down that Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.

00:17:49.180 We thank you for your service to the network and host for the prior contributor.

00:17:54.580 Wave.

00:17:59.940 You know, we'll talk more about it tomorrow because, but we wanted to make sure that we let you know what was going on.

00:18:06.800 Well, can I, can I ask the audience if they'll help me do something?

00:18:11.300 Come on, folks.

00:18:12.600 Na, na, na, na.

00:18:14.400 Na, na, na, na.

00:18:16.880 Hey, hey, hey.

00:18:19.240 Goodbye.

00:18:21.300 Na, na, na, na.

00:18:24.220 I mean, sayonada.

00:18:26.580 Yeah, I don't think anyone likes to celebrate the demise of someone's career.

00:18:30.280 All right, that's good.

00:18:31.480 Yeah, we don't, well, we don't want to celebrate the demise of someone's career, but we're going to.

00:18:36.860 But it's, fortunately, it's actually not the demise of Tucker Carlson's career at all.

00:18:42.580 I think this is going to work out better for him in the end to be out from under Fox News and go to a place where there's no one trying to control what he says, whether that's out on his own or somewhere else.

00:18:54.560 So it's certainly not the demise of his career.

00:18:57.200 You have to understand, too, that so much of this, the reaction to Tucker Carlson, especially from other members of the media, is driven by pure jealousy.

00:19:06.260 Megyn Kelly, I think, made this point yesterday, and it's true, especially in reaction to this clip by The View.

00:19:12.540 Like, lots of people in media, obviously, they hate him on ideological grounds.

00:19:16.200 He is one of the most effective advocates for true conservative principles in media.

00:19:25.160 And so they hate him for that.

00:19:27.660 But they hate him all the more because he gets ratings and he can go on his own and host his own show and carry a show by himself.

00:19:40.580 And millions of people will tune in to watch it and they'll talk about it.

00:19:45.360 So that alone is enough reason for especially the hens on The View to hate him.

00:19:51.840 Because they're all a bunch of, you know, they're all a bunch of sidekicks.

00:19:55.160 They could never take any one of those women individually.

00:19:58.960 And many of them have attempted to host their own shows and they're all failures.

00:20:02.760 It could never, you could never take one of those women and put them on their own show and expect millions of people to tune in to listen to what they have to say. 1.00

00:20:09.660 It will never happen.

00:20:11.680 So the fact that Tucker Carlson can be compelling on his own, commanding a presence, sitting in front of a camera, and they could never do that, reason enough for them to hate him.

00:20:22.960 But there was other news in cable news yesterday, going from a guy who didn't deserve to be fired because he was the dominant figure and he's getting in cable news and getting all the ratings.

00:20:33.340 So that's Tucker Carlson.

00:20:34.600 Then we go over to a guy who certainly did deserve to be fired.

00:20:37.020 He's been deserving it for like 15 years.

00:20:38.880 Don Lemon was terminated.

00:20:41.860 And it was pretty devastating to me because I found out like right after we finished filming yesterday that Don Lemon was fired, which just meant that I didn't have a chance on the air to make fun of him for it.

00:20:55.040 But, you know, at least now we can.

00:20:57.980 So CNN decided to get rid of him.

00:21:01.000 He was not happy about it.

00:21:02.560 He put out a statement bashing the network, which they then responded to.

00:21:05.880 And it seems like the two parties don't like each other.

00:21:08.520 That's my expert media analysis of this situation.

00:21:12.140 As to what led to it, there are many people who are speculating that this awkward exchange, which we'll play a little bit for you, between Don Lemon and Vivek Ramaswamy on Friday may have been the final straws.

00:21:27.820 Obviously, it was not the thing that on its own determined that he was going to be fired.

00:21:31.840 But this is kind of the last thing that Don Lemon did before he did get fired.

00:21:36.520 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:21:38.560 The very policies that we implemented in this country in the name of helping black Americans have actually been disastrous for black Americans and all Americans.

00:21:47.640 And I think that that's something that we need to wake up to.

00:21:49.780 In 1865, you're talking about the black codes, right?

00:21:52.420 That's right.

00:21:52.900 Past enacted to make it a crime for a black person to carry a gun in the South.

00:21:57.540 But you're equating that to the current president.

00:21:59.980 You're referring to economic chains.

00:22:01.460 What are you saying?

00:22:02.260 Well, I was referring to Joe Biden's, I think, ill-chosen expression to say they're the party that wants to put you back into chains.

00:22:08.240 What I'm actually saying is that if you look at the policies of the modern Democratic Party.

00:22:11.940 You just said that about Democrats.

00:22:12.820 Absolutely.

00:22:13.420 So what I'm saying is that actually it's policies like that of Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden that are actually holding black Americans back.

00:22:20.160 Lyndon Johnson's the war on poverty?

00:22:21.940 Yes.

00:22:22.300 And in particular, his great society where he actually created incentives in the family where if you're a family, you could actually get more money by not having the father in the home.

00:22:31.320 You get what you pay for.

00:22:33.580 I think it's been really bad for the black community.

00:22:35.140 I think it's really bad for all Americans.

00:22:36.520 Do you have anything on this before I move on to Cheyenne?

00:22:38.500 I don't see what one has to do with the other, but go on.

00:22:41.420 I took up a lot of time with Fox News.

00:22:42.740 Oh, it's fine.

00:22:43.240 We have time.

00:22:43.620 I don't really see what one has to do with the other, especially considering using the Civil War to talk about black Americans.

00:22:50.820 That war was not fought for black people to have guns.

00:22:53.440 That's not...

00:22:54.600 That war was fought for black people to have freedoms in this country.

00:22:57.360 Actually, that's why the Civil War was fought.

00:22:58.920 Okay.

00:22:59.280 But that wasn't fought for black people to have guns, I think.

00:23:03.160 Actually, you know, a funny fact is black people did not get to enjoy the other freedoms until their Second Amendment rights were secured.

00:23:10.580 And I think that that's one of the lessons that we learned.

00:23:12.440 Black people still aren't allowed to enjoy the freedoms as well in this country. 1.00

00:23:14.500 I disagree with you on that, Don.

00:23:16.120 I disagree with you.

00:23:16.900 I think you're doing a disservice to our country by failing to recognize the fact that we have the quality before the lawsuit.

00:23:22.020 If you live in this country and you live in this country, then you can disagree with me.

00:23:25.080 But we're not.

00:23:25.580 You mentioned that we have three different shades of melanin in here.

00:23:27.560 Don, I think we have to be able to talk about these issues in the open regardless of the color of our skin.

00:23:31.640 Black Americans today to say that... 0.50

00:23:33.000 Okay, so Don Lemon is offended.

00:23:36.460 We can stop that.

00:23:37.420 Don Lemon is offended and you're not a black American. 0.99

00:23:39.820 You can't say this.

00:23:40.680 People are claiming that this is part of the reason he got fired.

00:23:44.280 I don't buy that for a second.

00:23:45.700 I mean, since when is a left-wing cable news going to fire one of their anchors for playing the race card?

00:23:55.540 Is that what's happening now at CNN?

00:23:58.440 You're not allowed to play the race card?

00:24:01.160 Well, then they have to fire everybody.

00:24:02.880 I mean, everyone's gone in that case.

00:24:06.940 So I don't really buy it.

00:24:08.540 There's also this from the Daily Wire saying it's less about playing race cards and all that and more about misogyny and sexism.

00:24:18.280 Daily Wire posts an article.

00:24:20.280 CNN insiders took aim at former CNN anchor Don Lemon after he was fired on Monday.

00:24:24.220 Lemon was unceremoniously sacked, prompting him to issue a statement in which he complained that CNN's management did not have the decency to tell me directly, adding that he was stunned.

00:24:31.600 And then CNN disagreed with that and said that it was that we did tell him and whatever else, who cares?

00:24:42.160 One source told the Daily Mail, Don was given every indication when he made the fake ass apology for his disgusting comments and still no one wanted anything to do with him.

00:24:51.880 This is after I think the comments he's talking about is when he made the he said about Nikki Haley that she's Pastor Prime.

00:24:59.600 No one owes him anything.

00:25:00.440 Knowing he should have had the decency to not be a misogynistic, sexist POS, Don truly believed he was going to always get out of jail free card because he's black and gay, which worked to his advantage until it couldn't.

00:25:14.500 It doesn't matter what color you are or what your sexuality is, the source continued.

00:25:18.240 He lost the respect of all the women on staff and no one wanted to work with him.

00:25:22.320 Even after this, he still acted no differently and would give the women he worked with attitude because he could sense that they felt a certain way.

00:25:28.420 Good riddance and good luck getting a job elsewhere.

00:25:32.620 Sources from CNN previously told the Daily Mail that women upset at Lemon's misogyny told management that either Lemon had to go or they would.

00:25:39.380 One source said people are hurt by his actions and are not going to let this go.

00:25:43.360 It's like every woman over 50 in America has taken this as a personal insult. 1.00

00:25:46.820 The female staffers at CNN definitely have. 1.00

00:25:48.780 He needs to make his vacation a permanent one.

00:25:53.440 Lemon's various denigrations of women have included suggesting to Bill Cosby sexual assault accuser Joan Tarshish that she could have, she should have bitten Cosby's penis.

00:26:05.300 What?

00:26:06.820 Intimating politician Nikki Haley was past her prime because she was 51 years old. 1.00

00:26:10.480 As he stated, a woman is in her prime in the 20s and 30s, maybe 40s, and also asking panelists S.E. Cupp whether she was suffering from mommy brain.

00:26:19.960 So those are his sexist indiscretions, apparently.

00:26:26.660 You know, especially the last two, and we talked about this at the time, the thing when he said Nikki Haley's past her prime, that's not, it was incoherent and it was stupid, but it wasn't driven by his hatred of women.

00:26:44.980 Saying S.E. Cupp, something about a mommy brain, you know, that's like, that's an expression people use.

00:26:49.640 It's not, it's not sexist, okay?

00:26:51.200 And even on the right, we shouldn't pretend because we're happy that, hey, it's fine to be happy that Don Lemon got fired, but we shouldn't jump on this bandwagon by saying, oh yeah, talking about a mommy brain.

00:27:03.060 Well, that's, that's, that's unthinkable.

00:27:06.740 That's sexist, that's misogynistic.

00:27:08.720 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:27:11.940 No, Don Lemon, and this is not a defense of him, by the way, at all.

00:27:16.780 It's not that he's misogynistic, it's not that he hates women.

00:27:21.200 That he's talking over women and he's treating women, so he treats everybody that way. 0.69

00:27:26.260 He's just an a-hole, he's a jerk, he's a, he's a narcissist, like so many in the business.

00:27:31.280 That's what he is, and he's also a partisan, untalented hack, and he has been for years.

00:27:37.120 That's why he deserves to get fired.

00:27:40.040 He doesn't, he doesn't even drive ratings.

00:27:43.220 Should have been fired a long time ago, on that basis alone.

00:27:47.180 That's why he should have been fired, it's, but it is, it's, there's some poetic justice in the fact that, though he has been a partisan, untalented, untalented hack for years, and never got fired.

00:28:01.720 This is what takes him down, when they pin some bogus sexism charges on him.

00:28:09.320 This is actually an example of the left eating their own, and I, and I think it's great.

00:28:15.180 You know, this is, it is a, it is a fitting end to his career, and I think for him, now this is not, as we said, this is not the end of Tucker Carlson's career,

00:28:22.640 because he's got a huge base of support around him, and whatever he does next, millions of people will go with him to that next endeavor.

00:28:29.920 We know that.

00:28:30.920 For Don Lemon, there's no one, no one is sitting around saying, I gotta see what Don Lemon does next.

00:28:36.460 Whatever Don Lemon goes, I'm going with him.

00:28:39.240 Like there is, for Don Lemon, it's difficult for anyone to start their own media empire.

00:28:45.120 Tucker Carlson could do it.

00:28:46.620 It'd be hard, but he could do it.

00:28:48.020 Don Lemon could never do that.

00:28:50.180 Okay, he's not, he can't start Lemon News or something, and it's Don Lemon 24-7, people are gonna go tune in.

00:28:57.160 So, that doesn't exist for him.

00:29:01.720 And therefore, in his case, this is essentially the end of his career.

00:29:07.140 Especially because he got the misogyny, sexist label on the way out the door.

00:29:11.800 It's also interesting to see, and I don't know, and maybe we don't want to make too much of this,

00:29:15.920 but as you know, I'm someone who studies, I'm kind of a student of the left's victim hierarchy,

00:29:23.580 and this kind of complicated equation that determines who the uber victim is.

00:29:28.780 And when you've got competing victim claims, how do you decide who triumphs in that situation, who the true victim is?

00:29:37.800 And on the left, victimhood is power.

00:29:39.280 So, the higher you are on the victimhood hierarchy, it's kind of this, it's really sort of like an inverse pyramid.

00:29:44.160 Because the higher you are on it, it means the more victimized you are, but the more victimized you are, the more power you have.

00:29:49.600 That's the way that it works on the left.

00:29:51.720 And normally, in fact, as this source at CNN points out, I mean, normally, being black and gay,

00:29:59.980 that gives you a lot of intersectional victim power.

00:30:06.160 And the only person who could be above you on the hierarchy is someone who's trans. 0.95

00:30:10.500 That's usually the way it works.

00:30:12.000 And for a long time, women have been, you know, they're not as far down as white men on the victim hierarchy, 0.99

00:30:16.860 but they're pretty far down.

00:30:20.700 So, pretty much any victim claim that a woman makes can be superseded by someone who has more victim power than the woman. 0.97

00:30:27.940 Yet, in this case, you have someone who's black and gay, 0.65

00:30:32.200 and they're being taken out by victim claims being made by women. 0.98

00:30:36.460 So, that's interesting.

00:30:38.420 Has there been an upheaval in the victim hierarchy?

00:30:42.940 Are women climbing up the ladder once more? 1.00

00:30:46.300 I don't know.

00:30:47.740 We'll have to pay attention, see what happens next.

00:30:52.100 All right, Joe Biden has officially announced his re-election campaign.

00:30:56.440 He put out a video this morning announcing it.

00:30:59.360 We'll watch a little bit of that.

00:31:08.420 Freedom, personal freedom, is fundamental to who we are as Americans.

00:31:17.120 There's nothing more important, nothing more sacred.

00:31:20.040 That's been the work of my first term, to fight for our democracy.

00:31:23.880 This shouldn't be a re-election.

00:31:27.120 To protect our rights, to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally,

00:31:31.040 and that everyone is given a fair shot at making it.

00:31:33.760 But, you know, around the country,

00:31:37.420 MAGA extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms. 0.80

00:31:40.940 Cutting Social Security that you've paid for your entire life

00:31:44.140 while cutting taxes for the very wealthy.

00:31:46.300 Dictating what health care decisions women can make. 0.99

00:31:48.980 Banning books and telling people who they can love.

00:31:52.740 All while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote.

00:32:03.760 When I ran for president four years ago,

00:32:07.200 I said we're in a battle for the soul of America.

00:32:09.900 And we still are.

00:32:12.140 The question we're facing is whether in the years ahead,

00:32:15.280 we have more freedom or less freedom.

00:32:17.540 More rights or fewer.

00:32:19.420 I know what I want the answer to be, and I think you do too.

00:32:22.920 This is not a time to be complacent.

00:32:29.620 That's why I'm running for re-election.

00:32:31.140 Because I know America.

00:32:36.880 I know we're good and decent people.

00:32:39.740 I know we're still a country that believes in honesty and respect

00:32:42.360 and treating each other with dignity.

00:32:45.040 That we're a nation where we give hate no safe harbor.

00:32:48.380 We believe that everyone is equal.

00:32:50.180 That everyone should be given a fair shot to succeed in this country.

00:32:53.580 Thank you for choosing us.

00:32:54.720 Every generation of Americans have faced a moment

00:33:01.380 when they have to defend democracy.

00:33:04.040 Stand up for our personal freedom.

00:33:05.900 Stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights.

00:33:13.600 And this is our moment.

00:33:14.920 So if you're with me, go to joebiden.com.

00:33:41.040 Let's finish this job.

00:33:46.920 I know we can.

00:33:48.060 Because this is the United States of America.

00:33:50.600 There's nothing, simply nothing we cannot do if we do it together.

00:33:53.700 All right.

00:34:04.620 So there you go.

00:34:05.220 Joe Biden is running for re-election.

00:34:08.060 A not unexpected turn of events.

00:34:11.820 And this is, the timing's pretty funny.

00:34:13.320 Because it was just yesterday that the media had this report.

00:34:15.940 President Joe Biden may be 48 hours away from announcing his re-election bid.

00:34:19.360 But nearly three out of four Americans are hoping he has a last minute change of heart.

00:34:22.760 According to a new poll put out Sunday from NBC News.

00:34:26.980 Okay.

00:34:27.140 So this is not a Fox News poll.

00:34:28.600 This is not a poll from some right-wing source.

00:34:31.720 NBC News.

00:34:32.520 70% of Americans do not want Biden to run for a second term compared to only 26% who do.

00:34:38.780 Among those who don't want the 80-year-old president to pursue a second term,

00:34:41.600 69% cite age as a reason why, with 48% calling it a major reason.

00:34:48.240 And that, in fact, is all the reason you need.

00:34:52.760 It's all the reason you need.

00:34:54.520 But we also don't need that reason at all when it comes to Joe Biden.

00:34:57.420 Because as it happens, he is this decaying, old, dementia-riddled husk of a person.

00:35:03.880 A vegetable.

00:35:05.060 And that's true.

00:35:06.480 But he's also run, and these things are not unrelated,

00:35:08.940 but he's also run the most disastrously incompetent administration,

00:35:13.660 presidential administration, potentially in American history.

00:35:16.560 And it's certainly in the running.

00:35:17.700 Before we can declare it the most disastrous presidential administration in history,

00:35:23.560 we need to see the effects of this administration for years into the future.

00:35:28.160 But it's certainly in the running.

00:35:29.240 I mean, it's one of the worst presidential administrations in American history.

00:35:33.660 By every conceivable measure, no matter what you're looking at,

00:35:38.460 whether we're talking about the situation globally,

00:35:40.620 we're talking about our economy, cultural situation, crime,

00:35:46.120 everything has been on the decline under Joe Biden.

00:35:52.720 There's really no, there's not one single marker that Biden can point to and say,

00:35:58.940 look, you see, that got better under my watch.

00:36:01.760 Literally everything got worse.

00:36:03.740 And that's enough reason.

00:36:06.960 But then also, he's going to be 82 years old.

00:36:10.440 If he takes office again, he'll be 82 years old.

00:36:13.000 If he survives his second term, which is a big if, you know, I mean, you got to put,

00:36:18.240 if he wins reelection, the possibility that he makes it to the end of that term,

00:36:24.680 it's not more than 50%.

00:36:27.100 It couldn't be more than 50%. 0.73

00:36:29.340 The average life expectancy for a man in modern America is, I think, 85, 86.

00:36:36.860 So you're right there on the cusp of it.

00:36:39.900 But you also happen to be, you know, most men at this age are retired

00:36:45.240 and they're, you know, living a kind of relaxing life.

00:36:50.100 When you take someone that age and you put them in one of the most stressful jobs in existence,

00:36:54.580 that's not going to increase your life expectancy.

00:37:00.060 Now, we've all seen the pictures of relatively young men, whether it's George Bush, Barack Obama,

00:37:05.260 who went into the White House and then you see what they look like eight years later.

00:37:09.180 They aged eight years, but it looks like they aged 30 years.

00:37:13.120 The only person that wasn't the case for is Donald Trump.

00:37:16.720 If anything, he looks slightly younger at the end of it somehow.

00:37:19.840 But for everyone else, that's how much it ages you.

00:37:21.880 If you go into it already in your 80s, by the time you get out, you're 500 years old in president years.

00:37:31.900 Which is why we, you know, I will know that we maybe are on our way to being a somewhat serious country again

00:37:38.120 when there's an actual conversation about putting laws in place to prohibit anyone over a certain age from running for office.

00:37:48.180 As I've been saying forever, okay, I've been making this case long before Joe Biden even ran for president.

00:37:56.920 Listen, we have a lower age limit for the presidency of 35.

00:38:02.020 Obviously, there should be an upper age limit. 0.99

00:38:04.680 We can't claim that age is irrelevant.

00:38:07.400 Obviously, it's not irrelevant.

00:38:08.320 And if we're saying that, you know, someone who's 28 years old is automatically not fit to be president

00:38:15.080 simply because they're 28, which I agree with, by the way.

00:38:17.740 I don't want a 28-year-old president.

00:38:20.640 Then, of course, we can do that on the upper end as well.

00:38:22.640 There are just physical realities to being a human being.

00:38:26.780 We are mortal.

00:38:28.480 And what that means, and it's a scary thing to think about,

00:38:30.660 but what that means is that our minds and our bodies decline as we get older.

00:38:35.160 They just do.

00:38:36.020 And that obviously is happening with Joe Biden, which is also why it could not be.

00:38:43.660 And I know that every single presidential election, you have both sides saying,

00:38:47.440 this is the most important election in history.

00:38:48.880 If we don't win this, America's over.

00:38:51.120 I'm not saying that America's over if we don't win it.

00:38:53.300 But this, in fact, is going to be one of the most important presidential elections in American history

00:38:59.020 for a lot of reasons.

00:39:00.760 But, look, if you can take this decaying 82-year-old dementia-plagued husk,

00:39:07.820 this vegetable, who has been a total failure on every level,

00:39:14.100 and if he can win,

00:39:16.620 and who 70% of Americans don't even want him to run for re-election,

00:39:20.620 and then he wins anyway,

00:39:22.200 well, then that's just, that really is,

00:39:25.580 how does the Republican Party,

00:39:27.660 how is there any opposition party after that?

00:39:29.680 How does the Republican Party recover from that?

00:39:32.360 That's just the end of the Republican Party.

00:39:33.900 It's over at that point.

00:39:36.520 So we absolutely need to run someone who can beat him.

00:39:39.740 That's why I told you that for me, in the Republican primary,

00:39:43.840 I'm a single-issue voter in the Republican primary.

00:39:47.700 And my single issue is whether the Republican can beat Biden.

00:39:55.240 Beat him handily.

00:39:57.100 Okay, I don't even want a close victory.

00:39:58.980 I don't want you to squeak out,

00:40:00.340 I don't want you to edge out a victory.

00:40:02.200 Beat him handily.

00:40:03.900 That's the only thing that matters in the primary.

00:40:06.040 We have to nominate the person who has the best chance of beating this guy.

00:40:12.660 Whoever you support in the primary,

00:40:14.540 that's the argument you need to be making.

00:40:16.360 I don't care about any other argument.

00:40:18.660 For right now, the only argument you need to make is,

00:40:21.700 well, here's why my guy has the best chance of beating Biden.

00:40:27.120 All right, Post Millennial has this report,

00:40:29.120 a 2016 medical article documenting the tragic death

00:40:32.740 of one of the participants in the linchpin Dutch study,

00:40:35.560 upon which the entire child sex change experiment is based,

00:40:39.420 indicates that puberty suppression was to blame for the young person's death.

00:40:43.480 The case is that of an 18-year-old trans-identified male

00:40:45.920 whose puberty was blocked by the Dutch researchers at a very early stage,

00:40:49.920 meaning there wasn't enough penile tissue for surgeons to use to create a neo-vagina. 1.00

00:40:55.060 Therefore, a more risky procedure using a section of the patient's bowel was necessary,

00:40:59.340 which resulted in fatal necrotizing fasciitis.

00:41:02.400 The manuscript begins by saying that,

00:41:06.180 the absence of a functional vagina has a negative effect on the sexual quality of life 0.98

00:41:10.040 of transgender women and explains that multiple surgical procedures

00:41:13.900 have been described for vaginal reconstruction in these patients.

00:41:19.060 The patient is described as being a healthy 18-year-old

00:41:21.500 for whom standard vaginoplasty surgery was not feasible

00:41:25.000 due to having undeveloped genitals as a result of early puberty suppression. 0.77

00:41:28.080 Quote, transgender women with early-onset gender dysphoria 0.63

00:41:31.520 treated with puberty-suppressing hormones

00:41:33.100 report fewer behavioral and emotional problems

00:41:35.080 and an improvement of general functioning.

00:41:38.240 Readers are assured at this point.

00:41:40.640 Major complications began within 24 hours of surgery,

00:41:43.900 and necrotizing fasciitis was confirmed in the days that followed.

00:41:47.440 Despite large doses of intravenous antibiotics

00:41:49.620 and repeated surgical interventions,

00:41:52.520 the previously healthy patient went into multiple organ failure and died.

00:41:55.800 Once again, after this harrowing account of a young person's needless death,

00:42:00.960 the researchers assure the reader that vaginal reconstruction

00:42:03.740 has a positive influence on the quality of life

00:42:05.940 of non-transgender and transgender women,

00:42:08.760 but cautions that physicians and patients need to be aware

00:42:11.540 of serious complications that may arise.

00:42:15.040 The investigation into the young person's death

00:42:16.780 revealed that the deadly strain of E. coli

00:42:18.680 most likely came from the patient's own intestines,

00:42:21.460 but not from a hospital setting,

00:42:23.140 meaning that the more risky vaginoplasty surgery

00:42:25.780 necessary due to early puberty suppression

00:42:27.780 almost certainly caused the fatality.

00:42:29.940 All right, so this is one case.

00:42:32.480 And keep in mind, this is something that happened in 2016.

00:42:34.580 We're just now hearing about it

00:42:35.560 because the post-millennial had this report.

00:42:39.280 We are...

00:42:41.580 It's unlikely that we're going to be told

00:42:45.560 about all of the cases where somebody dies from complications

00:42:48.320 from these Frankenstein procedures.

00:42:51.360 But there's very good reason to think that it happens,

00:42:55.000 that it is not a...

00:42:56.580 You know, this is certainly not the only case.

00:42:59.880 Okay?

00:43:00.140 This is not an aberration.

00:43:03.000 You are taking, in this case,

00:43:05.960 you're taking a male, 0.99

00:43:08.740 and you are trying to

00:43:12.380 mutilate his genitals 0.99

00:43:16.960 in a way to create the approximation of a vagina. 1.00

00:43:21.240 But, of course, you can't actually make that.

00:43:23.440 It's not possible.

00:43:25.640 So, instead, it's all cosmetic.

00:43:28.740 You're trying to create something that looks like it,

00:43:30.620 but will never be that.

00:43:32.760 And there are physical consequences to doing that.

00:43:35.360 And none of the physical consequences are good.

00:43:38.420 It's all bad.

00:43:42.300 This is why, as I've been saying for a long time,

00:43:46.680 it should not be legal for doctors to do this to anyone.

00:43:51.060 Yes, we should protect children, most of all,

00:43:53.420 because they can't consent to it.

00:43:55.000 And to do it to a child is especially abhorrent.

00:43:59.300 But once we've done that,

00:44:01.520 the next step is to protect everyone from it.

00:44:05.360 Now, I know that the response,

00:44:07.740 even from many conservatives,

00:44:09.040 they say, well, it's a step too far.

00:44:11.780 Don't do this to kids,

00:44:13.220 but adults can do what they want with their own bodies.

00:44:16.940 Well, first of all, no, that's not true.

00:44:20.260 Okay, if you're a conservative

00:44:21.300 and you're still using slogans like this,

00:44:23.480 do what you want with your own body.

00:44:26.400 What you have to understand is that

00:44:27.780 you have bought into,

00:44:29.760 you are making a leftist argument.

00:44:31.560 You have bought into the left's ideas fully

00:44:35.240 when you're making arguments like that.

00:44:36.500 It's not true that you could just do it.

00:44:39.000 That's not the case.

00:44:40.480 At least it shouldn't be.

00:44:42.620 So, for example,

00:44:43.980 if there was a person mentally ill

00:44:46.580 and they're trying to cut off their own leg,

00:44:50.080 should we just let them do it?

00:44:52.800 Should we let a mentally ill person 1.00

00:44:54.680 mutilate themselves in this way?

00:44:56.880 Or should we intervene and prevent it?

00:45:00.100 Even if that means putting them

00:45:01.160 in some kind of asylum

00:45:02.120 to stop them from hurting themselves.

00:45:04.620 Well, obviously we should.

00:45:06.320 I think most people would say,

00:45:07.980 if you have someone who's cutting,

00:45:11.120 who's self-mutilating,

00:45:12.560 are you just going to stand off?

00:45:14.980 If someone's right in front of you

00:45:16.240 cutting themselves,

00:45:17.260 are you going to stand off to the side

00:45:18.320 and say, well, do what they want with their own body?

00:45:22.220 What if they're going to kill themselves in front of you?

00:45:23.900 What if someone's about to jump off of a bridge

00:45:25.600 right in front of you?

00:45:26.380 Are you going to stand there and watch it?

00:45:28.560 Just eat some popcorn,

00:45:29.880 watch them kill themselves?

00:45:31.680 Man, it's an adult doing what he wants with his body.

00:45:34.380 Or are you going to try to prevent it?

00:45:36.120 Are you going to try to stop it?

00:45:36.720 Are you going to intervene?

00:45:39.000 Because this person is not thinking straight.

00:45:42.620 They're not thinking clearly.

00:45:43.880 They're about to destroy themselves.

00:45:46.020 And sometimes we need to do that for people.

00:45:47.760 We need to intervene to stop them

00:45:49.400 from doing things to themselves.

00:45:52.620 Obviously we should.

00:45:53.480 So no, it's not true

00:45:56.000 that people should be able to just do

00:45:57.940 whatever they want with their own body.

00:45:59.640 And in general,

00:46:01.680 the argument,

00:46:03.940 because I want to,

00:46:05.840 that is never a good enough reason

00:46:08.220 to justify something on its own.

00:46:11.000 The simple fact that you want to do something,

00:46:13.240 that a person wants to do something,

00:46:14.300 that on its own

00:46:15.600 is never a good enough argument

00:46:17.900 to justify anything.

00:46:20.000 But that's all basically irrelevant, in fact.

00:46:23.480 Because we're not talking about

00:46:25.460 what people do to their own bodies.

00:46:27.940 That's a separate conversation.

00:46:29.900 We can have that conversation.

00:46:32.040 But that is not what's happening here.

00:46:34.280 When it comes to gender transition surgeries,

00:46:37.120 it is not a case of people doing things

00:46:40.300 to their own bodies.

00:46:41.220 This is something that a doctor

00:46:44.420 does to a person's body.

00:46:47.440 So when I say it should not be legal,

00:46:49.680 that gender transition surgery

00:46:51.020 should not be legal for anyone at any age,

00:46:53.680 which is what I believe,

00:46:55.260 it should be illegal across the board.

00:46:57.680 When I say that,

00:46:58.960 that's not a restriction.

00:47:00.220 That is not, in fact,

00:47:00.960 a restriction that we're putting on

00:47:02.300 the gender-confused person.

00:47:04.440 That's a restriction we're putting on the doctors. 0.99

00:47:06.240 What we're saying is that

00:47:09.100 it should not be legal for doctors

00:47:11.060 to do that to anyone.

00:47:14.740 It should not be legal for doctors

00:47:16.640 to perform this experimental,

00:47:19.280 you know, Nazi science, 0.84

00:47:23.280 Frankenstein surgery butchery on anyone. 0.99

00:47:26.980 It should not be legal to do that to someone.

00:47:29.600 And especially when somebody is mentally ill 1.00

00:47:31.520 and they're coming to the medical,

00:47:33.980 you know,

00:47:34.720 they are going to a doctor,

00:47:37.540 they're going to a medical institution

00:47:38.940 because they're mentally ill 0.92

00:47:40.280 and they're confused.

00:47:41.940 It should not be legal for doctors

00:47:44.260 to exploit that confusion

00:47:45.780 for financial gain.

00:47:49.380 When someone is confused

00:47:51.480 and they want something done to them

00:47:54.460 that will harm them,

00:47:56.280 it is never okay for the doctor to say,

00:47:58.420 okay, well, I'll do that to you, sure.

00:48:01.320 If you can pay for it

00:48:02.420 or if your insurance can pay for it,

00:48:05.400 obviously that shouldn't be legal.

00:48:09.220 Obviously that defies

00:48:11.260 any kind of medical,

00:48:13.700 any coherent medical standard.

00:48:16.800 So if you're saying that,

00:48:17.660 well, we should never make that illegal for adults,

00:48:20.840 are you saying there should be

00:48:21.620 no legal standards for the medical industry?

00:48:24.560 Is that really what you think?

00:48:25.600 Because if you think that it should be legal

00:48:29.180 to do this to anyone,

00:48:29.940 what you're saying is that there are no,

00:48:31.280 we cannot impose any coherent standards

00:48:34.000 on the medical industry at all.

00:48:35.780 Because if there are any standards,

00:48:37.780 starting with what's supposed to be

00:48:39.240 the overarching kind of philosophical standard

00:48:40.940 of do no harm,

00:48:42.060 you know,

00:48:42.780 I think that that should be something

00:48:44.420 that we legally enforce

00:48:45.780 in the medical industry.

00:48:46.540 You don't harm people.

00:48:48.680 That's the one thing you never do.

00:48:50.060 You never intentionally harm people.

00:48:51.740 And this gender, 1.00

00:48:55.280 quote unquote,

00:48:55.740 gender transition surgery

00:48:56.780 is intentional harm

00:48:58.400 being inflicted on people

00:49:00.740 who are confused.

00:49:03.400 Clearly it should not be legal.

00:49:06.460 All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:49:08.820 Do you know their name?

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00:50:08.640 A Man says,

00:50:10.120 the concerning part is that

00:50:11.080 as an ordinary person,

00:50:12.040 you never think

00:50:12.720 that these people are serious.

00:50:14.000 You always think

00:50:14.460 this is just surface-based monologue

00:50:16.140 and that they don't,

00:50:17.440 that they wouldn't turn it

00:50:18.420 into a real threat to your life.

00:50:19.800 However, the past five or so years

00:50:21.200 and more,

00:50:22.140 especially recent times,

00:50:23.460 it's evident that these people

00:50:24.480 genuinely wish harm to you.

00:50:27.420 Stay safe.

00:50:29.740 Yeah, I think,

00:50:30.400 well, listen,

00:50:32.340 we're talking on an individual basis.

00:50:34.020 because the average person

00:50:37.440 who will send you a death threat,

00:50:40.040 for example,

00:50:41.200 they're not serious.

00:50:43.380 They're just saying it.

00:50:44.660 They're hiding behind their computer

00:50:46.460 in their mom's basement,

00:50:48.220 all the cliches.

00:50:49.080 Very often,

00:50:49.700 that's actually true.

00:50:51.660 And they're not going to do anything.

00:50:55.160 It's just a lot of bluster.

00:50:56.820 So that's,

00:50:57.560 on an individual basis,

00:50:58.400 that's correct.

00:50:59.740 But generally,

00:51:02.440 you know,

00:51:02.720 the left generally,

00:51:03.980 they are serious.

00:51:07.100 When they think

00:51:08.060 if you oppose them,

00:51:10.860 you basically have,

00:51:12.160 as far as they're concerned,

00:51:13.040 you have no right to anything.

00:51:14.860 You have no right to

00:51:15.900 express yourself.

00:51:17.500 You have no right to a platform.

00:51:18.840 You have no right to be heard.

00:51:21.920 And also,

00:51:22.720 you have no right to live.

00:51:24.440 I mean,

00:51:24.600 they really do believe that.

00:51:27.160 That is a,

00:51:27.900 I know we don't want to

00:51:30.320 accept this

00:51:31.660 because of what it says

00:51:33.660 about so many of our

00:51:35.060 fellow Americans,

00:51:36.240 but it is actually the case

00:51:38.360 that for many people on the left,

00:51:40.320 if you oppose them,

00:51:41.880 especially on these kind,

00:51:43.260 you know,

00:51:43.500 on issues related to gender

00:51:45.860 and sexuality,

00:51:46.840 the things that are closest to them,

00:51:48.540 that they,

00:51:49.400 you know,

00:51:49.640 the most important parts

00:51:50.640 of the leftist religion,

00:51:51.580 if you oppose them on that,

00:51:53.060 they honestly,

00:51:54.120 many of them think

00:51:54.900 that you don't,

00:51:55.800 that your life is,

00:51:56.740 is meaningless,

00:51:58.360 that there's nothing

00:51:59.780 that could happen to you

00:52:00.740 that would be tragic,

00:52:02.280 that would be undeserved.

00:52:05.640 Ashley says,

00:52:06.380 I find it so disgusting

00:52:07.160 that someone hacked Matt's information

00:52:08.400 and now has access

00:52:09.140 to private photos of his family.

00:52:10.520 DMs are one thing, 0.87

00:52:11.280 but having access

00:52:11.780 to his family's photos

00:52:12.840 and information

00:52:13.420 is so much worse.

00:52:14.660 That was the thing

00:52:15.640 that was the most upsetting

00:52:16.880 is,

00:52:17.400 you know,

00:52:19.700 I know that

00:52:20.280 it's like when I,

00:52:21.460 they got into my Twitter

00:52:22.280 and there's a lot of people

00:52:23.300 on the left,

00:52:23.620 oh,

00:52:23.820 I got to see the DMs.

00:52:24.760 Well, the DMs out there

00:52:25.860 because they're expecting,

00:52:27.000 you know,

00:52:27.200 they're expecting that

00:52:28.140 they just assume

00:52:29.680 that there must be

00:52:31.420 all kinds of scandalous stuff

00:52:32.740 in the DMs.

00:52:33.340 There just isn't at all

00:52:34.720 because

00:52:36.560 that's just,

00:52:39.060 I'm just a normal boring guy.

00:52:41.280 Like,

00:52:41.700 in reality

00:52:42.840 and in my personal life,

00:52:43.820 that is actually who I am.

00:52:45.820 So the dad in a flannel,

00:52:47.900 that's not a,

00:52:48.440 it's not a put on,

00:52:49.160 it's not a character,

00:52:49.900 just who I am.

00:52:50.500 But the most upsetting thing,

00:52:54.120 yeah,

00:52:54.320 it's just

00:52:54.900 private

00:52:56.140 photos of my kids,

00:52:58.820 just,

00:52:59.120 you know,

00:52:59.380 things like that,

00:53:00.220 just private,

00:53:01.260 my private life.

00:53:03.380 And that is,

00:53:04.340 that is certainly

00:53:07.520 the thing that makes you feel

00:53:09.960 sort of,

00:53:10.520 that's the greatest violation

00:53:12.200 in a situation like this.

00:53:13.980 But as I said yesterday,

00:53:15.000 you know,

00:53:15.280 I also,

00:53:16.420 and I've thought about this

00:53:17.140 a lot over the last

00:53:18.040 several days,

00:53:18.940 the fact that

00:53:20.640 because of the position

00:53:22.820 I'm in,

00:53:24.360 you know,

00:53:24.600 the fact that I had

00:53:25.540 a team around me

00:53:26.280 and we were able

00:53:27.040 to respond to this

00:53:27.880 so quickly

00:53:28.340 and get a hold

00:53:28.860 of the right people

00:53:29.540 and,

00:53:30.000 you know,

00:53:30.420 try to put out

00:53:30.940 all the fires.

00:53:32.660 I'm grateful for that

00:53:34.500 and I do think a lot about

00:53:35.520 what happens if you're,

00:53:36.880 if this happens to you.

00:53:37.660 People get hacked

00:53:38.420 all the time,

00:53:38.980 they have identities stolen.

00:53:40.700 If you don't have

00:53:41.560 those kinds of resources,

00:53:42.760 what do you do?

00:53:44.020 Like I said yesterday,

00:53:44.760 you're stuck

00:53:45.180 calling 1-800 numbers.

00:53:46.960 It's even more

00:53:49.080 of a nightmare.

00:53:49.580 I can't imagine it.

00:53:50.180 Now,

00:53:50.340 of course,

00:53:51.040 if I wasn't in the position

00:53:51.980 that I'm in,

00:53:52.900 I wouldn't have been

00:53:53.500 a target in this

00:53:54.240 particular case.

00:53:55.400 But it still happens

00:53:57.200 to people

00:53:57.480 even if they're

00:53:57.880 not on a profile,

00:53:58.540 obviously.

00:54:01.600 Miles says,

00:54:02.300 if there was ever

00:54:02.740 a push to get me

00:54:03.360 to become a Daily Wire

00:54:04.160 Plus subscriber,

00:54:05.120 this is it.

00:54:05.680 I'm with you

00:54:06.240 till the end, Matt.

00:54:07.080 I appreciate that,

00:54:08.180 Miles.

00:54:09.480 Holly says,

00:54:10.240 if we all donate

00:54:10.980 a dollar a month

00:54:11.820 for Matt's show,

00:54:12.600 we could keep him,

00:54:13.420 his family,

00:54:13.980 and Daily Wire

00:54:14.820 taken care of,

00:54:15.780 making the money

00:54:16.840 needed to continue

00:54:17.660 our fight.

00:54:20.040 Instead of sending

00:54:20.820 death threats

00:54:21.320 like the demonic heathens,

00:54:22.420 someone start a fund,

00:54:23.320 please,

00:54:23.560 and I will donate

00:54:24.260 the first $1.

00:54:25.080 No,

00:54:25.320 please don't start a fund.

00:54:26.340 I don't need any GoFund.

00:54:27.840 I appreciate it.

00:54:28.580 I appreciate the sentiment.

00:54:29.360 I really do.

00:54:30.080 It is very meaningful.

00:54:31.800 But I don't need

00:54:32.600 any GoFundMe.

00:54:33.400 I don't need any

00:54:34.000 charity work.

00:54:35.260 Trust me on that.

00:54:36.220 However,

00:54:37.640 I don't want charity,

00:54:39.460 but I would like to,

00:54:42.860 I would like you to

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00:54:46.220 in return,

00:54:46.820 which is a Daily Wire

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00:54:48.920 That's not charity work.

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00:54:53.500 and you're supporting

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00:55:34.160 Now let's get to

00:55:34.740 our Daily Cancellation.

00:55:39.720 The Daily Cancellation,

00:55:40.960 as you know,

00:55:41.240 is like an onion,

00:55:42.180 partly because it is acidic

00:55:43.520 and obnoxious,

00:55:44.280 but also because it has layers.

00:55:45.920 Sometimes a person

00:55:46.640 is initially canceled

00:55:48.020 for one reason,

00:55:49.140 but when we look closer,

00:55:50.420 we see whole new reasons

00:55:51.900 to cancel them.

00:55:53.020 And that brings us

00:55:53.600 to this viral video

00:55:54.860 of a black man

00:55:56.420 at a restaurant in Georgia

00:55:57.580 accusing a white man

00:55:59.420 of racism

00:56:00.040 for telling him,

00:56:01.540 the black man,

00:56:02.040 to turn his phone down.

00:56:04.000 Apparently,

00:56:04.480 this alleged racism victim

00:56:06.260 was playing something

00:56:07.120 loudly on his phone

00:56:08.140 at a restaurant,

00:56:08.840 but the bad guy

00:56:10.600 is the other patron

00:56:11.820 who asked him

00:56:12.520 to lower the volume a bit.

00:56:14.800 Here it is.

00:56:15.560 Watch.

00:56:15.700 Racism is still real

00:56:18.100 in Georgia.

00:56:18.860 I can't believe

00:56:19.700 Bob tried me like that.

00:56:20.920 What was it that you

00:56:24.240 was asking me

00:56:25.860 before you interrupted

00:56:26.820 me with my dinner?

00:56:29.840 Because I turned it

00:56:30.680 all the way down

00:56:31.400 for you.

00:56:33.520 Okay,

00:56:33.940 but what was it

00:56:34.440 that you was asking me?

00:56:36.840 Is there a reason

00:56:37.660 why you were asking me

00:56:38.420 to turn my phone down

00:56:39.720 when there's a band

00:56:40.580 playing music

00:56:41.320 that I don't give a

00:56:41.880 about hearing?

00:56:44.280 Do you think

00:56:44.940 it's appropriate

00:56:45.420 for you to ask me,

00:56:46.860 a 33-year-old,

00:56:48.120 a black man

00:56:48.880 to turn his phone down?

00:56:50.600 That's a fact.

00:56:51.340 You shouldn't know,

00:56:52.160 you shouldn't say

00:56:52.600 a thing to me.

00:56:54.480 That's a fact.

00:56:55.840 That's a fact.

00:56:56.580 My hand shouldn't be shaking

00:56:57.880 while I'm eating

00:56:58.260 my fucking chicken.

00:57:03.160 Now what you better do

00:57:04.200 is talk a dude

00:57:04.680 to you over there

00:57:05.320 and leave me

00:57:05.820 the fuck alone.

00:57:12.500 You're going to ask

00:57:13.120 another black man

00:57:13.800 to turn his

00:57:14.140 phone down

00:57:14.920 no time stone again.

00:57:17.140 Now,

00:57:17.660 so many questions

00:57:18.460 immediately present themselves,

00:57:20.160 but the first

00:57:20.580 and most important one

00:57:21.380 is why this man

00:57:22.300 is using his knife

00:57:23.400 upside down.

00:57:24.280 He's holding it

00:57:24.900 by the blade

00:57:25.600 and moving the food 0.97

00:57:26.480 around on his plate

00:57:27.380 with the handle.

00:57:28.640 That's reason enough

00:57:29.380 to kick him out

00:57:29.860 of the restaurant

00:57:30.260 and ban him

00:57:30.980 from ever eating food

00:57:31.840 in public ever again.

00:57:33.040 I'm also wondering

00:57:33.740 what other

00:57:34.420 basic motor skills

00:57:36.660 is he yet to master?

00:57:39.160 Does he brush his teeth

00:57:40.240 by jabbing himself

00:57:41.200 in the eye

00:57:41.680 with the toothbrush?

00:57:42.840 Does he put on his pants

00:57:43.840 by, I don't know,

00:57:44.660 eating them?

00:57:45.960 How do you get

00:57:46.580 to the age of 33

00:57:47.360 without ever learning

00:57:48.520 how to use

00:57:49.180 eating utensils?

00:57:50.620 I was going to ask

00:57:51.220 if he knows how to tie his shoes,

00:57:52.120 but I think we can assume

00:57:52.900 that they're probably Velcro.

00:57:54.420 But let's not get hung up

00:57:55.340 on these details.

00:57:55.900 As I said,

00:57:56.420 this is a cancellation onion

00:57:57.740 and we have only seen

00:57:58.760 the first layer.

00:57:59.480 The next layer

00:58:00.120 is the most obvious one.

00:58:03.620 Here is yet another person

00:58:04.720 who has been conditioned

00:58:06.080 to view everything

00:58:07.340 through the lens

00:58:08.240 of victimhood.

00:58:09.120 And in this guy's mind,

00:58:10.260 the only reason

00:58:10.980 why anyone would ask him

00:58:11.940 to turn his phone down

00:58:12.960 is because they're racist.

00:58:15.240 This kind of conditioning

00:58:16.220 for many people

00:58:16.760 in modern society

00:58:17.340 has become as deeply ingrained

00:58:19.440 and in many ways

00:58:20.680 has supplanted,

00:58:21.520 I think,

00:58:21.880 what psychologists

00:58:23.300 have called

00:58:24.220 agency detection.

00:58:25.940 Okay?

00:58:26.240 And I'm going to take

00:58:26.860 a little detour here,

00:58:27.640 so stay with me.

00:58:28.200 But agency detection

00:58:29.920 is supposed to be

00:58:30.800 an instinct or inclination

00:58:32.140 developed in all sentient beings,

00:58:34.160 including humans,

00:58:34.980 to assume

00:58:36.480 that there is

00:58:37.400 conscious agency

00:58:39.480 behind things

00:58:41.180 that we observe around us,

00:58:42.280 even when there isn't one.

00:58:43.280 So, for example,

00:58:45.620 classic example,

00:58:46.520 when you hear

00:58:47.360 the floorboards

00:58:48.140 creaking at night,

00:58:49.080 if you're sleeping

00:58:49.820 in an old house

00:58:50.500 or something

00:58:50.880 and you assume

00:58:52.020 that there's an axe murderer

00:58:53.200 out in the hallway

00:58:53.880 about to kill you, 0.92

00:58:54.940 that is agency detection.

00:58:56.480 There's no axe murderer,

00:58:58.000 unless there actually

00:58:58.540 is an axe murderer. 0.69

00:58:59.200 I mean, there could be.

00:59:00.160 But if there isn't,

00:59:01.180 you invented the story

00:59:02.500 of a conscious

00:59:03.280 and usually nefarious agent

00:59:04.920 who's caused an event

00:59:06.760 to happen

00:59:07.560 that was really just

00:59:08.380 the house settling

00:59:09.560 and making sounds,

00:59:10.360 the kind of sounds

00:59:11.040 that houses make.

00:59:12.600 Some psychologists

00:59:13.300 have extended this idea out

00:59:14.600 and they've come up

00:59:15.220 with a theory called

00:59:16.000 hyperactive agency detection,

00:59:18.080 which is when someone

00:59:18.720 is constantly

00:59:19.460 and falsely attributing agency

00:59:21.340 where there isn't any at all.

00:59:23.560 As you might expect,

00:59:25.020 this theory has been used

00:59:26.260 erroneously and absurdly

00:59:27.740 to explain away

00:59:29.080 the development of religion.

00:59:30.400 In fact, that's why,

00:59:31.120 I think that's why

00:59:32.180 they came up with this

00:59:33.640 as a way of explaining

00:59:34.860 the quote unquote

00:59:35.480 evolution of religion.

00:59:37.080 Anyway, here's my point.

00:59:38.760 I would like to borrow

00:59:40.020 from this concept

00:59:40.960 and coin a new term,

00:59:43.140 hyperactive racism detection.

00:59:45.320 A person with this

00:59:46.300 mental affliction

00:59:47.120 is prone to detect racism

00:59:49.320 in every negative experience.

00:59:50.900 He hears the floorboards

00:59:51.860 creaking at night

00:59:52.520 and assumes

00:59:53.080 it's not only an axe murderer,

00:59:54.480 but a racist axe murderer.

00:59:56.000 And if you tell him

00:59:56.540 that there is no axe murderer,

00:59:57.920 that it's just

00:59:58.380 the house settling,

00:59:59.260 then he'll insist

00:59:59.840 that the house is racist.

01:00:01.740 Every bad thing is racist.

01:00:03.180 No other explanation

01:00:04.040 is even entertained.

01:00:05.860 The only thing

01:00:06.740 that isn't racist

01:00:07.520 in the mind of the person

01:00:08.500 suffering from HRD

01:00:09.680 is the person himself.

01:00:12.180 Everyone else's actions

01:00:13.040 can be explained by racism,

01:00:14.360 but never his own.

01:00:15.820 And this is in spite of the fact

01:00:16.620 that he is almost always

01:00:17.720 the most racist person

01:00:19.100 in the room

01:00:19.760 and very often

01:00:20.840 the only racist person

01:00:22.080 in the room.

01:00:23.020 The person with

01:00:23.560 hyperactive racism detection

01:00:24.740 can detect racism everywhere

01:00:26.780 except in the places

01:00:28.880 where it actually is,

01:00:29.960 like in his own heart,

01:00:31.020 for example.

01:00:32.040 In an alternate universe,

01:00:33.480 there might be psychologists,

01:00:34.820 there would be psychologists

01:00:35.560 writing papers

01:00:36.260 about hyperactive racism detection,

01:00:38.180 probably prescribing drugs

01:00:39.260 to fix it.

01:00:40.420 I'm not really in favor

01:00:41.320 of the medicalization

01:00:42.260 of every human character flaw,

01:00:43.460 so I wouldn't actually

01:00:44.320 want that to happen,

01:00:45.280 but it is an interesting thought

01:00:46.580 anyway.

01:00:48.240 But there's another layer

01:00:49.500 underneath this one.

01:00:51.860 This man is canceled

01:00:53.020 because of how he holds

01:00:54.460 his eating utensils,

01:00:55.780 and he's canceled

01:00:56.620 because he's obsessed

01:00:57.520 with finding racism everywhere.

01:00:59.180 He's also canceled

01:00:59.840 because he was playing

01:01:01.000 something on his phone

01:01:02.300 loudly in public.

01:01:04.680 This is the most egregious

01:01:05.860 offense of all,

01:01:06.740 by far.

01:01:07.740 Somehow even worse

01:01:08.500 than holding your knife

01:01:09.180 upside down.

01:01:10.540 At least this guy

01:01:11.540 is the only human

01:01:12.540 on the face of the earth

01:01:13.300 who uses his knife

01:01:14.300 like that,

01:01:15.120 but he's certainly

01:01:15.620 not even close

01:01:16.800 to the only person

01:01:17.580 who uses his phone

01:01:18.500 like that.

01:01:18.980 This has become

01:01:19.420 an epidemic, okay?

01:01:20.920 I mean,

01:01:21.360 I see this everywhere.

01:01:22.380 Everywhere I go,

01:01:23.400 there are people

01:01:23.720 on speakerphone,

01:01:25.060 FaceTime.

01:01:26.440 I was just at the airport

01:01:27.420 the other day,

01:01:28.180 and there was someone

01:01:28.600 standing next to me

01:01:29.240 on FaceTime

01:01:30.580 having a conversation

01:01:31.960 with some person.

01:01:33.300 We could all hear it.

01:01:35.540 People are listening

01:01:36.320 to music.

01:01:37.040 They're playing videos

01:01:37.840 all out in the open

01:01:38.820 for everyone to hear.

01:01:40.180 So I want to make

01:01:41.880 this very clear.

01:01:43.180 Okay, this is the rule.

01:01:45.000 I should never have

01:01:46.240 to hear any sound

01:01:48.240 that your phone makes.

01:01:50.340 I never want to hear

01:01:51.460 any sound that it makes.

01:01:53.280 So actually,

01:01:53.980 I have this rule

01:01:55.160 for phones and for dogs.

01:01:57.220 Those two things,

01:01:57.940 I don't want,

01:01:58.560 I never want to hear,

01:01:59.200 you can have it?

01:02:00.220 That's fine.

01:02:01.020 I don't want to hear

01:02:01.500 any sounds from it,

01:02:02.920 ever.

01:02:03.480 There is zero tolerance

01:02:04.720 for any sounds

01:02:05.860 being emitted

01:02:06.400 from your dog

01:02:08.440 or a phone

01:02:08.840 if I'm anywhere in earshot.

01:02:11.400 I don't want to hear

01:02:12.160 the conversations

01:02:12.780 you're having on your phone.

01:02:14.080 I don't want to hear

01:02:14.640 the crappy music

01:02:15.360 you're listening to

01:02:15.980 on your phone.

01:02:16.740 I don't want to hear

01:02:17.440 the videos you're watching

01:02:18.580 on your phone

01:02:19.100 unless you're watching

01:02:19.980 one of my videos,

01:02:20.800 in which case

01:02:21.220 exceptions can be made.

01:02:22.700 God made earbuds

01:02:23.700 for a reason

01:02:24.420 and if you don't have earbuds,

01:02:25.840 that's your problem.

01:02:27.080 Use subtitles.

01:02:27.860 I don't know.

01:02:28.500 I don't care.

01:02:29.500 Just as long as

01:02:30.180 I never have to hear

01:02:31.300 any sounds emitting

01:02:32.540 from that little box

01:02:33.460 you carry around

01:02:34.020 in your pocket

01:02:34.520 or better yet,

01:02:35.640 if you're sitting

01:02:36.280 at a restaurant

01:02:36.880 and you're alone,

01:02:39.980 nothing wrong

01:02:40.360 with that by the way.

01:02:41.400 I'm a big proponent

01:02:42.120 of eating alone

01:02:42.960 at a restaurant

01:02:43.360 can be very therapeutic

01:02:44.640 but if you find yourself

01:02:47.200 in that situation

01:02:48.040 and you don't have earphones

01:02:49.880 and there's no way

01:02:51.780 to listen to something

01:02:52.560 or watch something

01:02:53.360 on your phone

01:02:53.800 without being

01:02:54.200 a monumental jerk

01:02:55.340 to everyone around you,

01:02:57.420 well have you considered

01:02:58.160 the possibility

01:02:58.720 that you don't need

01:02:59.740 to be on your phone

01:03:00.920 at all?

01:03:02.520 Have you thought

01:03:03.260 about just sitting there?

01:03:06.080 Have you considered

01:03:06.860 sitting there

01:03:08.900 and eating

01:03:09.820 and not doing

01:03:11.540 anything else

01:03:12.520 but those two things?

01:03:14.360 Like,

01:03:15.040 this is something,

01:03:15.800 I mean,

01:03:17.020 I think for a lot

01:03:17.580 of people in modern society

01:03:18.300 they've never done this.

01:03:19.440 Have you ever just

01:03:20.000 sat somewhere

01:03:20.760 and all you're doing

01:03:22.060 is sitting?

01:03:22.980 You're not doing anything,

01:03:23.560 you're not looking

01:03:23.960 at anything,

01:03:24.800 you're not listening

01:03:25.600 to anything,

01:03:26.160 you're just sitting.

01:03:29.240 This is,

01:03:30.440 you know,

01:03:30.660 a lot of people

01:03:31.420 in modern society

01:03:31.860 can't believe this

01:03:32.400 but this was like

01:03:32.880 a normal occurrence

01:03:34.700 for people

01:03:35.520 all throughout

01:03:37.300 human history

01:03:37.800 up until right now.

01:03:39.720 There would be

01:03:40.320 many occasions

01:03:41.000 where you're just

01:03:41.440 sort of like

01:03:42.000 sitting somewhere

01:03:43.360 and you're not

01:03:44.060 doing anything else

01:03:45.200 and so then

01:03:46.340 you're thinking

01:03:46.800 and that's the benefit,

01:03:49.420 you can actually

01:03:50.020 develop your own thoughts.

01:03:52.860 So I would suggest that.

01:03:54.760 Maybe try not

01:03:55.820 injecting noises

01:03:56.900 and images

01:03:57.500 and content

01:03:58.300 into your skull

01:03:59.340 every second

01:04:00.400 of every day.

01:04:01.500 Have you considered

01:04:02.600 just allowing yourself

01:04:04.000 to be with your own thoughts

01:04:06.280 for maybe

01:04:06.780 three minutes at a time

01:04:09.140 to start?

01:04:11.140 I suppose you can't

01:04:11.760 be with your thoughts

01:04:12.280 until you develop

01:04:13.000 the ability

01:04:13.540 to have thoughts

01:04:14.480 but you can't do that

01:04:16.040 unless you take a break

01:04:17.080 from your phone.

01:04:18.620 Who knows?

01:04:20.080 You might even

01:04:20.760 become smart enough

01:04:21.500 to properly use a knife.

01:04:23.780 Anything is possible.

01:04:25.360 But for now,

01:04:26.560 the guy in that video

01:04:27.240 is cancelled.

01:04:29.140 And that'll do it

01:04:29.520 for the show today.

01:04:30.320 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:31.080 Have a great day.

01:04:32.000 Godspeed.

01:04:32.320 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 25, 2023

Ep. 1151 - They're Coming For Your Children And They Aren't Hiding It

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