The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1166 - The Real Reason Why Americans Are More Depressed Than Ever

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a new study shows that Americans are more depressed than ever.

00:00:03.960 We talk a lot about mental health in our culture, but the problem only gets worse.

00:00:07.080 So what's really going on here, we'll discuss.

00:00:08.580 Also, Harry and Meghan try out their own Jussie Smollett hoax.

00:00:11.640 A new drug that turns people into zombies with rotting flesh is spreading through our cities.

00:00:15.800 And a special needs student tells her story of being harassed and punished for not respecting her teacher's pronouns.

00:00:21.260 And our Daily Cancellation, Caitlyn Jenner, has tried to position himself as the voice of reason on the gender issue.

00:00:26.780 But is his view actually reasonable?

00:00:28.880 Not at all.

00:00:29.500 We'll talk about all that and much more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:39.340 We're often told that we need to have more conversations about mental health in America.

00:01:43.820 This is a point of consensus, really, across both the left and the right.

00:01:46.960 Everybody on all sides agrees that mental health is a serious issue, and we need to talk more about it.

00:01:51.740 And we do talk about it.

00:01:53.180 We talk about mental health.

00:01:55.100 We talk about talking about mental health.

00:01:57.020 We talk about the ways that we should talk about mental health when we do talk about mental health.

00:02:00.760 We say a lot of things about mental health.

00:02:03.380 We talk about our own mental health.

00:02:05.080 We talk to each other and to our friends and to our therapists.

00:02:07.360 In fact, there have never been more people talking about this subject and talking to therapists about their own mental health.

00:02:14.340 According to a poll released a few weeks ago, the number of Americans who are seeking mental health treatment and counseling has doubled over the past 20 years.

00:02:22.480 In 2004, it was only about 13% of Americans that said that they had visited a therapist or counselor or psychiatrist over the past year.

00:02:29.800 And now that number is close to a quarter of all American adults, and it's rising fast.

00:02:34.900 But we aren't just talking.

00:02:36.580 We're also taking drugs, lots and lots of drugs.

00:02:40.120 Antidepressant usage has also increased precipitously over the past couple of decades.

00:02:44.140 And right now, last I checked, around 65 million Americans have been prescribed at least one psychiatric drug a few years before that.

00:02:53.380 A few years ago, the number was about 40 million.

00:02:55.480 So these numbers are also increasing rapidly, which means that Americans aren't just talking about their mental health problems.

00:03:01.920 They're trying to medicate those problems away.

00:03:04.220 And yet, despite all of this talking and all of this medicating, mental health has only gotten worse.

00:03:10.940 So here's the latest from Gallup.

00:03:12.580 This was reported just yesterday by CNN.

00:03:15.260 Quote, depression is more widespread than ever in the United States, according to a new report from Gallup.

00:03:19.520 About 18% of adults, more than one in six, say that they are depressed or received treatment for depression, a jump of more than 7 percentage points since 2015, when Gallup first started polling on the topic.

00:03:30.340 Nearly 3 in 10 adults have been clinically diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime, according to the survey, which is also a record high.

00:03:37.720 According to the Gallup poll, young adults reported higher rates of depression than any other age group, and the greatest increase in recent years.

00:03:44.160 Nearly a quarter of adults under 30 say that they're currently depressed.

00:03:47.420 Lifetime rates of clinical depression are significantly higher among women, with rates rising twice as fast as in men.

00:03:54.080 More than a third of women say that they've been diagnosed with depression at some point in their life, compared with about a fifth of men, according to the survey.

00:04:00.500 Also, for the first time, lifetime rates of clinical depression among black and Hispanic adults matched or surpassed the rate among white adults.

00:04:09.060 Well, there's the racial equity we're looking for, at least. 0.80

00:04:12.320 It's not all bad news.

00:04:13.300 In fact, this isn't really news at all.

00:04:15.240 Well, every few months, it seems, there's another study or survey showing that Americans are increasingly depressed and anxious and lonely.

00:04:22.980 I think we all kind of get the point by now.

00:04:24.480 We all understand that.

00:04:26.060 And the important question is, why?

00:04:28.160 Okay, why are we such a depressed, anxious, lonely culture?

00:04:32.560 And the next most important question, once you've answered those, is, what can we do about it?

00:04:37.420 This is where most commentary on the subject seems to fail.

00:04:41.500 The media will publish study results.

00:04:44.500 They'll do TV segments about it.

00:04:46.760 They'll bring in a TV doctor to opine for a few minutes about the fact that everyone's depressed.

00:04:52.460 And that'll be it.

00:04:53.320 There's never any serious attempt to grapple with the why.

00:04:57.160 Like, why is this happening?

00:04:59.100 What is going on?

00:05:00.040 Case in point, here's Good Morning America, yesterday morning, talking about this Gallup poll and bringing in their own expert, their chief medical correspondent, Dr. Jen Ashton.

00:05:10.980 And here's what she had to say.

00:05:12.540 As you guys know now, the key after you find a number like this is, what do you do about it?

00:05:18.000 Right, exactly.

00:05:18.540 That's the question.

00:05:19.100 What do you do about it?

00:05:20.160 Well, I think the first thing is awareness, not only in the health care field, but, you know, asking patients about it.

00:05:26.020 But we should ask ourselves.

00:05:27.120 We should be doing, as I like to say, a checkup from the neck up, just as we do with our physical health.

00:05:32.600 And then we have to change our approach to mental health and wellness and not only jump in when there's an issue or when we're struggling, but prevention.

00:05:41.040 And that, I think we're starting to get on the right path with that.

00:05:45.060 But we have a long road.

00:05:47.480 Okay.

00:05:47.960 Well, thank you, doctor.

00:05:48.680 We need to be aware.

00:05:50.020 I think we basically have that step covered.

00:05:52.880 Everyone needs to be aware.

00:05:54.200 Raise awareness.

00:05:55.760 And then we need to prevent.

00:05:57.280 And how do we prevent depression exactly well?

00:05:59.080 By preventing it.

00:06:00.240 You know, the best prevention is prevention.

00:06:02.180 So that's it.

00:06:03.660 That's what we need to do.

00:06:04.720 Become aware of it and then prevent it.

00:06:07.680 Quite simple, you see.

00:06:09.220 And this is about as deep as the analysis goes.

00:06:11.460 And that hasn't changed either over the past year.

00:06:13.480 Even after the most popular theory of depression, the theory propagated by those TV doctors and especially by the pharmaceutical industry, was blown completely out of the water last year.

00:06:24.760 I mean, for decades, we were told that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.

00:06:29.260 Antidepressant drugs were prescribed with the promise of healing or correcting this imbalance.

00:06:34.900 Those 65 million people that have taken these drugs, it's been on the, and not all of them are antidepressants, but many of them, it's been on the promise that if you take the drug, it's going to correct the imbalance and then everything will be fine.

00:06:47.520 But a major study, if you recall last year, which reviewed previous studies on the subject, found that there isn't now and never was any good evidence that this chemical imbalance exists.

00:06:59.080 It was all a myth, a scam that big pharma used to peddle its drugs.

00:07:04.160 And yet somehow this revelation has not prompted any introspection on the part of the medical field or so-called mental health experts.

00:07:10.380 Much of what they've said about depression over the past many decades was grounded in falsehood.

00:07:15.440 And yet they've made no serious attempt to grapple with that fact.

00:07:19.580 Their approach and their talking points haven't changed.

00:07:23.240 That's because most of these people are married to a strictly materialist view that we are nothing but a collection of chemicals.

00:07:31.080 We are an assemblage of cells and everything must be explained and every problem must be addressed on that level.

00:07:37.760 And when those explanations and solutions fail, they have nothing else to offer.

00:07:42.260 Because if it's not a mere chemical problem to be fixed with more chemicals, then they won't be able to fix it at all.

00:07:50.180 The medical industry has medicalized the entire human condition and now can only address these issues on that level.

00:07:56.780 The result is that they so often miss the point entirely.

00:07:59.960 So when it comes to the skyrocketing rates of depression, I think that there are, much can be said about it, but there are three major points that are often missed.

00:08:10.240 Three potential causes that don't often factor into these discussions.

00:08:15.260 The first one that I think is one of the most obvious ones, but worth mentioning, is that our lives have been taken over by screens.

00:08:24.000 Yesterday I saw a chart that somebody posted on Twitter when I was staring at my own screen showing how the U.S. birth rate has declined by 20% since 2007.

00:08:34.640 And that is a, to say that's a steep decline is quite an understatement.

00:08:41.180 Really, if you look at the chart, it's the birth rate was rising and then you hit 2007 and it just hits, it's like diving off a cliff.

00:08:49.980 Well, guess what else happened in 2007?

00:08:53.780 The first smartphone was released.

00:08:56.340 I don't think that's a coincidence.

00:08:57.660 The proliferation of screens and along with it, pornography, social media, everything else, has impacted every facet of our lives to a degree that we will likely never completely understand.

00:09:08.940 And this has also impacted our quote unquote mental health and certainly not in a good way.

00:09:13.480 People are reporting feeling isolated and lonely and all these things because increasingly we are, because our lives revolve around these screens.

00:09:22.140 Second, at a deeper level, we are a culture that has lost its sense of purpose and meaning.

00:09:27.180 Church attendance is declining along with the birth rate, two things that are not unrelated.

00:09:32.080 Religious affiliation is on the decline as agnosticism and atheism ascend.

00:09:36.160 And it makes sense that depression would rise along with all of this because the godless life is a despairing life.

00:09:44.540 It is a life of pointless suffering and misery.

00:09:47.800 In a world without God, what is there to feel but despair?

00:09:50.840 We are dust and our existence amounts to nothing and leads to nothing.

00:09:55.280 There's no real beauty or joy or redemption, certainly.

00:09:59.440 We are careening helplessly back into the abyss from which we came.

00:10:02.580 When we die, we will dissolve into the ether and all we are and all we've done, everything we've done, everyone we've loved will be nothing.

00:10:09.940 Life itself is nothing.

00:10:11.120 There is no real point to anything.

00:10:12.580 There's no transcendent meaning.

00:10:14.540 So it's not a surprise that a society which increasingly holds this view of life would also experience increasing rates of depression.

00:10:21.020 Now, that isn't to say that religious people can't be depressed, obviously. 1.00

00:10:25.020 Clearly they can.

00:10:25.800 It's just to say that despair and meaninglessness go hand in hand.

00:10:30.360 And as our culture loses the faith that used to serve as its foundation, it also loses meaning.

00:10:36.800 The third factor is that, that certainly is not, is almost never discussed, but I think plays into this, is that we think about our own feelings obsessively.

00:10:51.180 You know, the doctor on Good Morning America recommended this as a solution when really it's part of the problem.

00:10:56.640 She recommended we spend more time doing internal assessments of our own mental health and well-being.

00:11:03.260 You know, we need to sit around, we need to spend more time sitting around and thinking about our feelings.

00:11:08.580 But one of our problems is that we already spend way too much time assessing those things.

00:11:13.660 We are constantly asking ourselves how we feel and how we feel about how we feel and how we feel about our feelings about our feelings.

00:11:22.180 It becomes this kind of infinite regression.

00:11:24.860 We can't get out of our own heads.

00:11:26.640 We're circling the drain of our own ego.

00:11:30.800 There are different ways to live.

00:11:32.480 And this is a very modern and unique way of living.

00:11:35.560 I mean, it's hard for us to understand that because it's all we've ever known.

00:11:39.460 But it is a very modern phenomenon to have people walking around constantly thinking about their own feelings and assessing their own feelings.

00:11:47.740 When we visited the Maasai tribe in Kenya for what is a woman, I remember, I think I've mentioned this before, asking one of the tribe's women if she was happy with her life.

00:11:57.080 And I asked her if she ever experienced depression, even in spite of having a husband and children.

00:12:27.500 And she said, no, we don't have that here.

00:12:30.300 And everyone else seemed to agree that they don't have depression in their tribe.

00:12:33.720 It doesn't exist.

00:12:34.580 That's a Western thing, they seem to think.

00:12:37.860 Now, of course, that doesn't mean that they live lives of perfect bliss.

00:12:41.840 In fact, their lives are quite a bit harder and more brutal by most measures and not a life that I would want to live.

00:12:46.840 But when she claimed that they don't have depression, I think what she was trying to say is that they don't spend time thinking about their own feelings.

00:12:55.060 They don't think about those things as much.

00:12:58.140 They're absorbed in their duties and their responsibilities.

00:13:01.360 And if they're doing what they're meant to do and they're filling their role in their families and in their society, then they're happy.

00:13:09.060 Those two things are inextricably linked in their minds.

00:13:13.880 And this is how most people across the world lived historically until modern times.

00:13:18.440 If you go ask your great-grandfather, if you go back in time to your great-grandfather, your great-great-grandfather,

00:13:24.900 and ask him if he's happy, he would probably respond in a very similar way to how the Maasai tribe responded,

00:13:32.500 by saying something about the things that he does.

00:13:34.440 Like, well, yeah, I have a family and I provide for my family.

00:13:36.640 Of course I'm happy.

00:13:37.820 What do you mean am I happy?

00:13:39.440 Because this is how most people live.

00:13:41.580 You're absorbed in the things that you do rather than being absorbed in your own mind.

00:13:46.540 It's like putting your duties and your responsibilities and actions first and then feelings follow

00:13:52.700 instead of putting feelings first.

00:13:54.980 And we've got to feel right.

00:13:56.080 We have to feel the right way.

00:13:56.840 And then we can start acting.

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00:15:27.240 All right, this is a story that has mostly passed me by.

00:15:32.940 I haven't really paid close attention to it, as important as it obviously is.

00:15:37.800 So I'm kind of learning about it as we read.

00:15:40.940 And maybe you're learning about it as well.

00:15:44.520 Here's the latest from Deadline.

00:15:46.660 Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Markle's mother, Doria Ragland, were involved in a near-catastrophic car chase.

00:15:55.160 Near-catastrophic.

00:15:57.040 Involving paparazzi photographers last night, according to a spokesperson for The Prince.

00:16:01.660 We're told the trio did not go to the hospital and that they're doing okay.

00:16:04.720 Well, that's good.

00:16:05.820 That's very worried.

00:16:06.420 The incident has been reported by Reuters and Sky News and allegedly happened after Harry and wife Markle attended an awards ceremony in New York on Tuesday,

00:16:14.080 during which Markle received a Woman of Vision Award.

00:16:17.960 What is her vision exactly?

00:16:20.820 That's the real news here.

00:16:22.160 A Woman of Vision Award?

00:16:26.380 Where is there evidence that Meghan Markle has a vision that extends beyond her reflection in the bathroom mirror?

00:16:32.540 That's the only vision I think she's thinking about.

00:16:34.200 In a statement from The Prince's representative, it says,

00:16:36.540 Last night, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Miss Ragland were involved in a near-catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi.

00:16:44.440 This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians, and two NYPD officers.

00:16:54.320 While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone's safety.

00:16:59.260 The incident, which comes just over a week after Harry attended his father, King Charles' coronation in London,

00:17:05.640 has horrible shades of the way in which Harry's mother, Princess Diana, died in the late 1990s in Paris.

00:17:10.280 Some media blame the erratic behavior of the paparazzi as the cause of the fatal crash.

00:17:16.180 And so it's almost as if it happened again, we're told, with this high-speed car chase in New York City.

00:17:23.520 Now, when I just, first reaction, reading up on this story, a number of problems immediately arise.

00:17:36.600 The first one is, what do you mean near-catastrophic?

00:17:40.240 Okay, what you're saying is nothing happened.

00:17:42.800 There was no collision.

00:17:44.800 But you're saying it was nearly a catastrophic.

00:17:47.260 How could it be?

00:17:47.780 It's one thing to say, I almost got into an accident, but it was not only to almost get into an accident, but it was almost catastrophic.

00:17:54.240 So nothing happened.

00:17:56.080 It's like you've got nothing, and then you have catastrophe, and you've skipped over all the things in between and gone right to, it was almost a catastrophe.

00:18:05.840 So that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

00:18:07.200 And then also, how would that work exactly?

00:18:12.600 You know, I've spent more time in New York City than I have ever wanted to spend.

00:18:18.960 And one of the many things about New York City that's just god-awful is the traffic and the fact that, you know, if you have to go somewhere and it's a mile and a half away,

00:18:30.740 and usually you would think, oh, it's a mile and a half away, I'll get in the car, you know, five minutes ahead of time, I'll be there on a time.

00:18:38.920 No, a mile and a half is going to take you about six and a half hours.

00:18:42.740 So with traffic that jammed up, how could there be a high-speed chase, and especially one that lasts for two hours?

00:18:53.700 This would have to be, I mean, we're talking about Fast and Furious type of thing.

00:18:59.660 Like, this is an action movie.

00:19:01.740 I guess there's a way to do it.

00:19:03.060 There's a way to engage in a high-speed chase, but you have to be like a professional stunt driver in order to find, to weave your way in and out of New York traffic.

00:19:11.900 So it sounds like a little bit of an odd story.

00:19:15.320 In fact, it sounds completely unbelievable.

00:19:17.020 And then all the updates start coming in with other people who were around this and saw this, and pretty much all of them are saying, no, it was totally fine.

00:19:26.700 They were in a cab for part of this high-speed chase, and the cab drivers come out and said, no, it was basically normal.

00:19:33.060 It was fine.

00:19:33.820 Everything was fine.

00:19:35.500 Daily Wire has an update from the New York Police Department.

00:19:37.920 So the New York Police Department responded on Wednesday to reports that Prince Harry's wife, Meghan Markle, and her mother, Doria Ragland, were involved in a near-catastrophic car chase.

00:19:45.380 NYPD Deputy Commissioner Public Information Officer Julian Phillips issued a statement to the Daily Wire confirming that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were escorted by officers while in the city, but said that there were no collisions or injuries involved in their transport.

00:19:59.140 Quote, on Tuesday evening, May 16th, the NYPD assisted the private security team protecting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

00:20:04.560 There were numerous photographers that made their transport challenging.

00:20:07.840 The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived at their destination, and there were no reported collisions, summonses, injuries, or arrests in that regard.

00:20:14.640 And other witnesses have said, including the mayor of New York has come out and said that it's hard to believe that that would have happened.

00:20:27.780 Again, anyone who's familiar with New York City knows that there are no two-hour high-speed car chases happening in the middle of New York City.

00:20:36.380 So this is a story that they invented, not the first time that they've invented a story, but it is really extraordinary that they feel the need to stoop to this level.

00:20:53.700 I mean, this is full-on Jussie Smollett.

00:20:58.200 This is basically a Jussie Smollett moment.

00:21:01.680 And what makes it Jussie Smollett is it's not so much the thing that they're claiming.

00:21:07.620 It's a different sort of thing.

00:21:09.620 And as far as I know, they're not claiming that the paparazzi had MAGA hats and were chasing them down and saying this is MAGA country.

00:21:16.260 So they're not saying that, but it's similar to Jussie Smollett in just how unbelievable it is.

00:21:21.160 Like, if you're familiar at all with the area, anyone who knew anything about Chicago, even if you didn't spend a lot of time there, if you've spent any time in Chicago, you immediately knew, as soon as you heard the Jussie Smollett story,

00:21:32.020 okay, 2 a.m. in the winter in Chicago and you're walking for a sandwich, that doesn't make any sense.

00:21:40.380 Trump supporters in MAGA hats hanging out outside in Chicago at night also doesn't make any sense.

00:21:46.120 And same thing here with this story in New York.

00:21:48.460 If you have any common sense at all, especially if you're familiar with these areas, the story doesn't even begin to hold water.

00:21:56.100 And yet they make up the story anyway because they are so desperate to be victims.

00:22:04.960 And this psychological pull towards victimhood for Harry and Meghan is overwhelming.

00:22:14.240 They can't see outside of it.

00:22:17.040 When, in reality, it's like they have really nice, comfortable lives, the kind of lives that most people, most people would kill to have a life like this.

00:22:30.400 Like, you're rich, you don't have to do anything.

00:22:33.420 You can just, like, your whole job is just to be famous and rich.

00:22:38.020 Live in a beautiful house, all these things.

00:22:40.320 And you would think, well, why can't you just accept that?

00:22:47.100 Why can't you accept the fact that you have a nice, easy, comfortable life?

00:22:50.920 Why can't you accept that?

00:22:52.940 Stop denying it.

00:22:54.520 Acceptance is the only path to happiness here.

00:22:59.860 This is true for anyone.

00:23:01.200 You know, if you want to be happy in life, you have to, it has to begin with acceptance.

00:23:04.380 You have to accept, you have to, you know, realize where you are in life and accept reality for what it is.

00:23:11.520 But for a lot of people, they struggle to accept reality for what it is because sometimes the reality can be quite painful.

00:23:18.540 You know, it's like if you just got diagnosed with a terminal illness or something.

00:23:21.820 And, well, it doesn't mean that you can't have happiness, but it has to begin by accepting.

00:23:25.480 You have to accept the fact that that happened and not try to hide from it.

00:23:28.680 And it makes sense that it would be difficult to accept things that are hard.

00:23:34.340 But for Harry and Meghan, they have difficulty accepting the good stuff.

00:23:39.800 That you have a good life and a comfortable, luxurious life.

00:23:48.020 But a lot of this is also cultural.

00:23:49.860 And we know that in our culture, prestige and power comes from victimhood.

00:23:55.920 And prestige and power is what they both crave most of all, especially Meghan.

00:24:02.460 And she knows that she can't really have it without also being a victim.

00:24:06.220 And so she will try anything to attain that victimhood status. 0.99

00:24:11.040 All right, Chris Ruffo posted this to Twitter.

00:24:13.020 This is his caption.

00:24:14.680 A psychiatrist working with Texas Children's Hospital Child Sex Change Program

00:24:18.900 explains how he circumvents parental rights concerns by telling families

00:24:23.140 that if they do not affirm their child's preferred name and pronoun,

00:24:26.420 they will increase the risk of suicide.

00:24:29.320 Let's watch the video.

00:24:31.380 So really, the mother asked me, you know, what about my parental rights?

00:24:34.880 My rights as a parent, you know, really asking me,

00:24:39.020 can you call my child their preferred name and pronouns?

00:24:43.820 I had a student with me, and I said, you know, ma'am, you do have many parental rights,

00:24:53.500 but I have to adhere to my own ethical standards as a physician.

00:24:59.040 And I know the best thing to do for this child, their mental health,

00:25:03.100 and really even their risk of suicide is to provide,

00:25:07.280 is to show them that respect of using the pronouns they go by,

00:25:12.560 using the name they go by.

00:25:15.000 And I'm often kind of working with families in the sense that,

00:25:18.560 you know, I'm not here to kind of question your entire worldview

00:25:22.160 or belief system, but to work with you as a consultant,

00:25:26.560 I can tell you both from experience and from the research,

00:25:30.160 your child is less likely to both attempt and die by suicide

00:25:36.180 if we use a supportive terminology with them and an open mind.

00:25:42.200 And they're much less likely to have morbidity from anxiety, depression,

00:25:47.220 and a number of other psychiatric issues if we use this affirming model.

00:25:52.800 Well, as you know, if you've watched this show at all,

00:25:55.440 you know that everything you just heard there is totally false.

00:26:00.160 It's completely fraudulent.

00:26:01.480 There is no evidence for it whatsoever.

00:26:04.200 And all the evidence runs the other way.

00:26:07.060 Because, of course, the evidence runs the other way.

00:26:08.880 Because, of course, you cannot,

00:26:11.440 you're not going to increase someone's well-being,

00:26:14.180 whether their physical or mental well-being, 0.95

00:26:16.300 by mutilating and drugging and castrating them. 0.85

00:26:18.820 And taking away things, taking things away from them 0.97

00:26:26.120 that they don't even understand.

00:26:28.540 So, for example, you put a child on cross-sex hormones, 0.72

00:26:31.860 you are sterilizing that child. 0.67

00:26:34.360 And that means that the child, as he becomes an adult,

00:26:37.220 is never going to be able to have children of his own.

00:26:39.420 And he's sacrificing that without understanding what he's sacrificing.

00:26:44.040 I mean, you can tell him,

00:26:45.800 if the children are even told that this has the effect of sterilizing.

00:26:48.740 But if you did, if you told a 14-year-old,

00:26:51.000 we're giving you these drugs and it's going to sterilize you, 0.93

00:26:53.480 you'll never be able to have kids of your own.

00:26:54.740 Or, yeah, a 14-year-old will say, well, that's fine.

00:26:56.680 I don't want to have kids.

00:26:57.840 But he's 14.

00:26:59.980 He's not going to feel that way 10 years from now, 15 years from now.

00:27:04.000 So decisions are being made

00:27:05.820 that the adult version of that child will have to live with forever.

00:27:12.080 And the child version might agree to it as a child,

00:27:18.940 when children are not psychologically capable of actually consenting.

00:27:22.560 But the adult version does not.

00:27:26.620 So, of course, when you do that,

00:27:28.580 you're not going to stave off depression, suicide.

00:27:31.940 You're just going to create more opportunities for it.

00:27:38.060 And that's exactly what happens.

00:27:40.540 So we know that they use this method,

00:27:43.260 but this kind of emotional blackmail,

00:27:45.260 we've seen it many times.

00:27:47.360 But that doesn't make it any less horrific every time we see it.

00:27:52.920 And it goes to show that, you know,

00:27:56.060 this is why the parental rights aspect of this issue

00:28:01.480 is very important.

00:28:02.800 But it is far from the be-all and end-all.

00:28:07.240 So we don't want to get too hung up

00:28:09.260 on just focusing on parental rights.

00:28:13.860 Yes, if a child is being transitioned

00:28:16.760 without the parent's knowledge and approval,

00:28:20.600 that is a horrible thing

00:28:23.960 and an egregious injustice

00:28:26.220 against both the parent and the child.

00:28:28.520 But if you have parental consent,

00:28:33.400 that doesn't suddenly make it okay.

00:28:37.500 And we know that there are many parents

00:28:39.140 that will go along with it

00:28:39.860 because they are abusive 0.97

00:28:41.020 and deranged people themselves. 0.94

00:28:44.280 But then there's this other category of parents

00:28:46.260 who, yeah, they agree to it,

00:28:49.680 but under great duress.

00:28:52.560 Okay?

00:28:53.220 It's essentially at gunpoint

00:28:55.500 that they agree to it.

00:28:56.640 And worst of all,

00:28:58.320 the gun is not being pointed at them.

00:29:00.760 The gun's being pointed at their child.

00:29:03.580 And they are told that,

00:29:05.820 hey, you know, you have parental rights.

00:29:07.340 You can say no to this.

00:29:08.240 But if you do, 0.98

00:29:10.080 the child's going to kill himself 0.98

00:29:11.120 and it's going to be your fault.

00:29:14.400 Most parents, when they hear that,

00:29:16.100 especially if they go in

00:29:17.300 and they're not prepared

00:29:18.040 for this kind of psychological manipulation,

00:29:20.920 if they're not prepared for it,

00:29:22.080 they don't know what's going to happen,

00:29:23.600 it knocks them off their feet

00:29:24.900 and it backs them against the wall.

00:29:26.420 They don't know what to do.

00:29:28.040 And now they're terrified.

00:29:30.940 Of course, the worst,

00:29:33.140 you know, a child committing suicide

00:29:34.300 for a parent is the ultimate worst nightmare.

00:29:37.320 It's the worst.

00:29:38.900 It is the worst thing that can happen

00:29:40.700 to a person,

00:29:43.280 to have a child who commits suicide.

00:29:44.980 It does not get any worse than that.

00:29:47.300 And they are taking that worst possible thing

00:29:49.760 and throwing it at these parents.

00:29:51.920 Parents who are already in great distress

00:29:54.480 and are confused

00:29:55.680 and are, you know,

00:29:57.060 they don't know what to do.

00:30:03.320 And this is what they do.

00:30:05.280 So they're going to respect the parental rights,

00:30:08.100 but they're also going to manipulate the results

00:30:11.820 by using these emotional blackmail techniques.

00:30:15.200 All right.

00:30:17.640 Here's another update to a story.

00:30:21.560 Fox News has this about Jordan Neely.

00:30:25.660 I'll just read a little bit of this.

00:30:26.720 A retiree who witnessed Marine veteran Daniel Penny

00:30:29.380 fatally choke an erratic homeless man

00:30:31.360 on a train earlier this month

00:30:32.620 called him a hero

00:30:33.900 and slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg

00:30:36.920 for prosecuting him.

00:30:38.200 He's a hero, said the pastor,

00:30:39.380 who has lived in New York City for more than 50 years.

00:30:41.220 The witness who described herself as a woman of color

00:30:43.320 said it was wrong for Bragg to charge Penny

00:30:45.900 with second degree manslaughter.

00:30:47.760 It was self-defense.

00:30:48.780 And I believe in my heart

00:30:49.580 that he saved a lot of people that day

00:30:51.180 that could have gotten hurt.

00:30:52.460 She told Fox News Digital.

00:30:54.640 Jordan Neely, 30,

00:30:55.560 who suffered from mental illness,

00:30:56.760 stormed onto the northbound F train

00:30:58.260 at around 2.30 p.m. on May 1st,

00:31:00.180 screaming and threatening passengers.

00:31:02.480 The woman recalled, quote,

00:31:04.020 I'm sitting on a train reading my book

00:31:05.800 and all of a sudden

00:31:06.400 I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. 0.98

00:31:08.140 He said, I don't care if I have to kill. 0.98

00:31:10.320 I will, I'll go to jail. 1.00

00:31:11.820 I'll take a bullet, 0.99

00:31:13.680 recalled the woman who was in her 60s.

00:31:16.100 The terrified pastors crowded towards the exit doors.

00:31:19.400 Quote, I'm looking at where we are in the tube

00:31:21.100 in the sardine can,

00:31:22.120 and I'm like, okay,

00:31:23.240 we're in between stations.

00:31:24.420 There's nowhere we can go.

00:31:26.260 The people on that train,

00:31:27.180 we were scared.

00:31:27.820 We were scared for our lives.

00:31:30.260 Penny stepped in

00:31:31.120 when Neely started using the word kill and bullet.

00:31:35.280 The woman added, quote, 1.00

00:31:36.440 why in the world would you take a bullet?

00:31:37.920 Why?

00:31:38.680 You don't take a bullet

00:31:39.360 because you've snatched something

00:31:40.340 from somebody's hand. 0.99

00:31:41.060 You take a bullet for violence. 0.71

00:31:43.860 The witness said it was clear to her

00:31:45.260 that Penny waited until the last minute

00:31:47.020 to intervene for the sake

00:31:48.060 of his fellow passengers.

00:31:50.620 And this is just the latest passenger

00:31:52.640 to come out with a story like this.

00:31:56.260 And as far as I know,

00:31:58.380 there hasn't been anyone on the other side

00:32:00.740 who actually witnessed this.

00:32:01.740 As far as I know,

00:32:02.760 there hasn't been any passenger

00:32:04.940 who was on the train when it happened

00:32:05.940 who's come out and said,

00:32:07.560 oh no, I think it's terrible

00:32:08.340 what Daniel Penny did.

00:32:09.280 That was totally unjustified.

00:32:11.440 It was,

00:32:11.840 this was a,

00:32:12.880 this was an unhoused street performer.

00:32:14.720 He was performing Michael Jackson dance moves

00:32:16.460 and he was murdered.

00:32:20.560 Now, it appears that

00:32:21.780 all the people on the train,

00:32:23.080 including,

00:32:23.560 including not just the ones

00:32:25.160 who spoke to the media,

00:32:26.160 but the people that the NYPD interviewed

00:32:29.640 immediately after this,

00:32:32.400 they all had the same story,

00:32:34.340 which is why they let

00:32:35.220 Daniel Penny go initially

00:32:36.720 and didn't charge him with anything.

00:32:40.460 Because everybody on the train,

00:32:41.680 people that were actually there,

00:32:43.560 telling the same story.

00:32:44.600 This guy was erratic.

00:32:45.700 He was making threats.

00:32:47.080 We're stuck in a,

00:32:48.300 in a sardine can,

00:32:49.680 as she says,

00:32:50.340 where there's nowhere to go.

00:32:51.560 We're stuck with this guy. 0.98

00:32:53.900 He's saying he's willing to kill. 0.93

00:32:55.480 He doesn't care if he goes to jail. 0.95

00:32:56.800 Like that only means one thing.

00:33:00.900 And Daniel Penny stepped up

00:33:03.700 and did what he,

00:33:05.700 what he felt he had to do for,

00:33:08.440 for, you know,

00:33:08.720 and by the way,

00:33:09.580 this wasn't even for,

00:33:12.100 it's not even for his own sake.

00:33:13.200 Yeah, this was also self-defense

00:33:14.360 because he was there.

00:33:16.480 But as a young man,

00:33:19.280 you know,

00:33:19.540 if this guy,

00:33:20.340 if,

00:33:20.640 if Jordan Neely

00:33:21.760 really went off the handle

00:33:23.040 and started assaulting people,

00:33:24.200 Daniel Penny

00:33:26.880 probably wasn't going to be

00:33:28.160 the one most at risk.

00:33:30.580 It's going to be

00:33:31.280 those older women, 1.00

00:33:32.520 you know,

00:33:32.740 and,

00:33:33.100 and other people on the train

00:33:34.680 who are more physically vulnerable.

00:33:36.960 So really,

00:33:37.580 he stepped up

00:33:38.280 primarily not for himself,

00:33:40.000 but for other people.

00:33:42.720 And that's why

00:33:43.580 they want to crucify him for it.

00:33:45.800 So we can't allow that.

00:33:47.520 And we can't allow

00:33:48.200 people in a community

00:33:49.600 to actually watch out

00:33:50.780 for each other,

00:33:51.400 look out for each other.

00:33:52.240 We don't,

00:33:52.400 we don't want that.

00:33:54.200 All right,

00:33:55.780 I've had this clip

00:33:56.420 for a few days

00:33:57.220 that I wanted to play for you.

00:33:58.220 This is,

00:33:59.200 see if I can pull it up.

00:34:00.640 A special needs student

00:34:01.760 at a California high school

00:34:02.940 was allegedly called a bigot

00:34:05.120 by her teachers

00:34:05.940 for mistakenly

00:34:06.760 not using preferred pronouns

00:34:08.340 and objecting

00:34:09.540 to participating in a lesson

00:34:10.400 about scissoring,

00:34:12.000 quote unquote,

00:34:12.980 and refusing to get undressed

00:34:14.300 near male teachers.

00:34:15.760 So this is a,

00:34:17.140 it's kind of a long clip.

00:34:18.640 We'll play a little bit of it

00:34:19.400 at least.

00:34:20.440 But this is

00:34:22.040 at a California high school

00:34:22.940 as a special needs student,

00:34:25.400 you know,

00:34:25.880 a girl,

00:34:26.620 talking about

00:34:28.840 how she has been

00:34:30.700 penalized and punished

00:34:32.960 for not wanting

00:34:36.460 to get undressed

00:34:37.060 around men

00:34:37.900 and not wanting to,

00:34:39.260 and not even,

00:34:39.860 it's not even not wanting

00:34:40.720 to participate

00:34:41.280 in the preferred pronoun thing,

00:34:42.500 but also not,

00:34:43.260 not understanding it.

00:34:45.020 Let's listen to her testimony.

00:34:48.980 I got in trouble one time

00:34:50.960 for calling this girl,

00:34:55.860 Kenny, a girl.

00:34:58.760 I said, well, she, 0.97

00:35:01.020 Kenny and I,

00:35:02.680 I used the word she 1.00

00:35:04.280 when I was using my assignment

00:35:06.620 because we were working together.

00:35:08.100 I was also

00:35:11.820 in the girls' locker room.

00:35:13.940 I don't like to dress out

00:35:15.060 at all,

00:35:15.980 and that's not okay.

00:35:19.480 Well, I got in trouble

00:35:20.740 for it because

00:35:21.780 I did not dress out

00:35:25.380 in front of other people.

00:35:27.520 I didn't dress out

00:35:28.780 for many reasons.

00:35:30.640 One, there's male teachers 0.98

00:35:32.080 inside of the girls' locker room

00:35:34.000 talking to my,

00:35:37.640 Miss Lewis.

00:35:38.980 They go to the same,

00:35:41.400 there's the girls' locker room

00:35:43.880 and then there's

00:35:44.520 Miss Lewis' office. 0.85

00:35:46.480 Miss Lewis has her door open

00:35:48.600 and then there's male teachers

00:35:51.180 inside of her office.

00:35:55.480 I never wanted to see that.

00:36:00.180 That's why I don't dress out

00:36:01.720 to PE.

00:36:04.000 I was scared.

00:36:07.940 I was terrified.

00:36:09.360 And then,

00:36:11.260 because I was afraid

00:36:12.120 of somebody scaring at me,

00:36:13.600 a male,

00:36:14.520 an adult male,

00:36:16.680 staring at me

00:36:17.800 while I'm changing.

00:36:19.940 That's why I don't change.

00:36:21.540 And then,

00:36:22.340 it was another issue.

00:36:26.480 I am in the special day classes

00:36:28.840 and I have a one-on-one aide.

00:36:31.620 My one-on-one aide

00:36:33.000 was Cameron,

00:36:34.620 but they called him Cam.

00:36:37.220 I asked it,

00:36:38.740 I guess I was mistaking

00:36:40.420 or corrected

00:36:41.360 by calling Cameron

00:36:43.980 Miss Cam.

00:36:46.320 My parents had always taught me

00:36:48.680 that adults,

00:36:51.040 a male is Mr.

00:36:53.660 and their last name

00:36:54.840 or their first name.

00:36:55.960 female is Miss 0.71

00:36:58.840 or Mrs.

00:36:59.700 if they're married

00:37:01.080 and of their first name

00:37:03.580 or their last name.

00:37:06.420 With Cameron,

00:37:07.700 I called him,

00:37:08.640 yeah,

00:37:09.800 I called him Miss Cameron

00:37:11.900 because I saw the breath.

00:37:13.680 I'm not saying

00:37:15.340 that I can see

00:37:16.360 what their

00:37:19.000 private parts are

00:37:19.960 because that would be

00:37:21.000 kind of weird.

00:37:22.040 I saw breath.

00:37:24.140 I called him

00:37:25.040 Miss Cameron.

00:37:27.940 Many times,

00:37:29.980 more than one time,

00:37:31.300 I have been

00:37:32.520 ignored

00:37:34.820 by my own teachers

00:37:36.200 because I called them

00:37:38.280 by their own pronouns.

00:37:39.400 This makes me so angry.

00:37:46.120 How can it not?

00:37:48.980 Imagine watching that video

00:37:50.800 and not being on

00:37:54.720 that girl's side. 1.00

00:37:56.080 Being on the other side

00:37:57.060 of this.

00:37:59.760 You have to be total,

00:38:00.800 you have to be soulless. 0.82

00:38:01.500 You don't have a soul.

00:38:07.340 And this is,

00:38:08.140 this is a,

00:38:09.400 one of the things

00:38:11.180 that makes it so infuriating

00:38:12.080 is that

00:38:12.720 she is like these,

00:38:14.740 this mind games

00:38:15.900 that we're playing

00:38:16.560 with people.

00:38:17.960 Yeah,

00:38:18.140 this is a special needs student,

00:38:19.240 but really any kid.

00:38:20.900 It's like we're playing

00:38:21.320 these mind games with them

00:38:22.480 where she is made to think

00:38:25.520 that she's confused

00:38:27.360 and wrong

00:38:28.360 when she's not.

00:38:30.260 She's explaining,

00:38:31.120 my parents taught me,

00:38:32.440 if it's a woman, 0.90

00:38:33.240 you say Miss.

00:38:33.980 If it's a man,

00:38:34.700 you say Mr.

00:38:36.400 That's what I thought.

00:38:37.400 She wasn't trying

00:38:39.100 to make any point.

00:38:39.960 She was just doing

00:38:40.420 what she thought was right

00:38:41.260 and what is actually right.

00:38:45.040 And apparently

00:38:45.840 the teacher ignores her

00:38:47.540 because she didn't,

00:38:50.420 because she's misgendering. 0.99

00:38:52.100 So she gets ignored

00:38:53.500 and shunned.

00:38:55.020 So just to review,

00:38:55.800 this is a special needs student

00:38:56.880 who,

00:38:57.720 because she is not

00:38:59.000 cooperating fully

00:39:01.020 with the demands

00:39:02.760 of gender ideology,

00:39:03.600 is ignored in her class

00:39:05.600 by her own teachers,

00:39:07.360 screamed at,

00:39:08.760 and forced to disrobe

00:39:10.860 in front of men.

00:39:14.540 Even though she's,

00:39:16.500 or lectured or punished

00:39:17.940 if she doesn't.

00:39:20.040 And this is all,

00:39:20.840 this is all happening.

00:39:23.260 All of this is happening

00:39:24.460 for the sake of,

00:39:28.100 you know,

00:39:28.500 the feelings

00:39:29.260 of these other people.

00:39:30.680 This is,

00:39:31.080 this is like,

00:39:31.580 it's a contest

00:39:32.540 of feelings

00:39:33.860 because we know

00:39:35.220 that the actual facts

00:39:36.220 don't matter.

00:39:36.920 Facts have been

00:39:37.280 thrown out the window.

00:39:39.680 And now it becomes

00:39:40.700 a contest of feelings.

00:39:43.500 And what we hear

00:39:44.180 from the left

00:39:44.660 is that,

00:39:45.180 well,

00:39:45.300 when you've got a teacher

00:39:46.040 who is a,

00:39:48.040 I guess this was

00:39:48.480 a female teacher

00:39:49.320 who identifies

00:39:50.480 as a man

00:39:51.200 and makes her feel bad

00:39:54.120 if somebody calls her

00:39:55.360 Miss.

00:39:58.480 A special needs student

00:39:59.660 who feels confused

00:40:01.560 and afraid

00:40:02.260 and all the rest of it,

00:40:03.560 you know,

00:40:03.840 she has feelings too,

00:40:04.680 but those feelings

00:40:05.080 don't matter.

00:40:07.340 It's the feelings

00:40:08.240 of the trans identified

00:40:09.220 person take

00:40:10.700 or have primacy

00:40:12.660 all the time.

00:40:14.340 All right,

00:40:14.880 here's one other story.

00:40:16.180 I was looking for something

00:40:16.680 a little bit,

00:40:17.160 a little bit lighter,

00:40:18.700 but I didn't find it,

00:40:19.760 so we're stuck with this.

00:40:20.840 Los Angeles officials

00:40:21.500 are trying to spread the,

00:40:22.680 stop the spread

00:40:23.480 of the flesh eating drug

00:40:24.780 zilazine,

00:40:27.640 I guess,

00:40:28.520 X-Y-L-I-Z-I-N-E 1.00

00:40:30.700 that's taken over the city.

00:40:32.060 The zombie drug,

00:40:33.260 a veterinary tranquilizer

00:40:34.880 approved in the U.S.

00:40:35.700 for cows and horses,

00:40:37.380 is now flooding

00:40:38.540 the illicit U.S. drug market

00:40:39.960 with dealers often

00:40:40.740 cutting it

00:40:41.240 with cocaine and heroin.

00:40:43.500 So these are cow tranquilizers

00:40:45.120 that are now,

00:40:46.200 have made their way

00:40:47.040 to the city streets.

00:40:48.740 But it's most often used

00:40:49.860 to cut fentanyl,

00:40:50.840 the lethally potent

00:40:51.720 synthetic opioid

00:40:52.640 that already kills

00:40:53.520 tens of thousands of Americans

00:40:54.380 every year.

00:40:55.120 The drug has spread

00:40:55.780 to Los Angeles of late

00:40:58.000 with news crews

00:40:59.560 capturing people

00:41:00.180 hunched over and on the ground,

00:41:01.920 strung out on the drug.

00:41:03.400 The problem,

00:41:03.940 Los Angeles County

00:41:04.500 sheriff's officials say,

00:41:05.420 is that the drug

00:41:05.980 is technically a legal substance.

00:41:08.060 The county is now

00:41:08.740 desperately trying to track

00:41:10.020 its presence

00:41:10.520 throughout the city.

00:41:11.660 The DEA

00:41:12.100 and the county's

00:41:12.560 health department

00:41:13.020 have both issued

00:41:14.200 urgent warnings

00:41:14.960 against the use of the drug.

00:41:17.320 Quote,

00:41:17.780 when combined with opioids

00:41:19.260 like fentanyl,

00:41:20.220 as it is frequently the case,

00:41:21.960 it enhances

00:41:22.640 the life-threatening effects

00:41:23.980 of respiratory depression,

00:41:25.320 slowing or stopping

00:41:26.020 of breathing,

00:41:26.860 caused by opioids,

00:41:27.780 increasing the risk

00:41:28.420 of overdose and death.

00:41:30.280 Tracking the drug officials

00:41:31.060 say will allow them

00:41:31.740 to get a sense

00:41:32.240 of just how bad

00:41:33.080 the problem is

00:41:33.840 and the best practice

00:41:34.860 is to cut it out.

00:41:37.140 Nurses have described

00:41:37.900 the wounds caused

00:41:38.840 by this drug

00:41:39.480 as appearing as though

00:41:40.500 something is eating away

00:41:41.700 at your flesh

00:41:42.500 from the inside out.

00:41:46.000 That's where it gets

00:41:47.020 the name zombie drug.

00:41:49.140 Zombie drug

00:41:49.800 because it gives people

00:41:51.020 the appearance

00:41:51.860 of having their,

00:41:52.400 like their flesh

00:41:53.000 is rotting away

00:41:53.640 like a zombie

00:41:54.180 and also because

00:41:54.960 it turns them

00:41:55.620 into zombies

00:41:56.300 wandering around.

00:41:58.300 And this is

00:41:59.420 yet another reason

00:42:01.500 why

00:42:01.880 we should really

00:42:04.920 be talking about

00:42:05.860 much more severe

00:42:08.280 penalties

00:42:08.740 for

00:42:09.520 the people

00:42:10.820 who are responsible

00:42:11.600 for putting

00:42:12.660 these kinds of drugs

00:42:13.400 out in the market.

00:42:14.960 Okay.

00:42:15.500 The people that are

00:42:16.120 actually selling

00:42:16.780 this stuff.

00:42:17.280 the people that are

00:42:19.060 responsible for

00:42:20.780 turning our cities

00:42:21.800 into zombified

00:42:23.680 wastelands,

00:42:25.180 we should be discussing

00:42:26.640 much more severe

00:42:28.480 penalties for them.

00:42:30.320 And when I say

00:42:31.640 much more severe,

00:42:32.440 I mean the most

00:42:33.260 severe penalties.

00:42:34.720 The death penalty.

00:42:38.200 You know,

00:42:38.440 I think eventually,

00:42:40.120 eventually I think

00:42:42.580 many conservatives

00:42:43.860 will come around

00:42:44.440 to acknowledging

00:42:45.620 that this at least

00:42:46.640 should be a conversation.

00:42:49.560 It certainly isn't

00:42:50.440 something we should

00:42:50.900 recoil from,

00:42:51.920 you know,

00:42:52.360 just as if it's

00:42:53.400 an insane idea.

00:42:54.440 You know,

00:42:54.560 when I brought this up

00:42:55.380 a few months ago,

00:42:57.220 I took a lot of heat

00:42:58.220 even from conservatives

00:42:59.200 who,

00:43:01.640 they didn't just disagree

00:43:02.320 with executing drug dealers.

00:43:03.400 They thought it was a,

00:43:04.100 it's like a crazy idea.

00:43:05.540 It's like we shouldn't

00:43:06.060 even entertain the notion.

00:43:08.860 I mean,

00:43:09.020 all you have to do

00:43:09.600 is look at the effects

00:43:10.480 of these drugs.

00:43:11.220 This is,

00:43:11.760 it's,

00:43:11.980 it is a form of murder.

00:43:13.760 You're giving these drugs.

00:43:14.500 So the fact that they want it

00:43:15.540 doesn't make it any different,

00:43:16.820 doesn't make it better. 0.99

00:43:19.100 You are killing people 0.63

00:43:20.880 in mass

00:43:21.520 and the distributors

00:43:22.220 of these drugs 0.95

00:43:22.840 are mass murderers.

00:43:24.180 There's no,

00:43:24.520 there's no question

00:43:25.380 about that

00:43:26.020 and they should face

00:43:27.580 the penalties prescribed

00:43:29.180 for people like that.

00:43:30.780 All right,

00:43:31.000 let's get to the comment section.

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00:44:49.580 Jess says,

00:44:50.440 my father who's a boomer

00:44:51.600 has been telling me

00:44:52.360 his generation ruined 1.00

00:44:53.360 the country for years.

00:44:54.520 He's disgusted

00:44:55.240 by what we're dealing with now.

00:44:58.300 But it's good to know

00:44:59.420 that there are some boomers,

00:45:01.280 some people in that generation

00:45:02.260 who are willing to admit

00:45:03.480 the failures of that generation.

00:45:05.320 I mean,

00:45:05.740 the blame game

00:45:06.560 only goes so far,

00:45:07.520 and there's not a lot

00:45:10.720 that comes of it

00:45:11.860 where we're just

00:45:12.260 pointing fingers

00:45:12.920 back and forth.

00:45:15.500 But a little bit

00:45:16.820 of introspection

00:45:18.520 would be nice.

00:45:20.320 And the thing that,

00:45:21.680 and it's good that your dad

00:45:22.460 can engage in that.

00:45:24.500 Because what makes it

00:45:27.240 so frustrating

00:45:28.020 is that very often

00:45:29.420 people in the boomer generation

00:45:31.780 will quite enjoy

00:45:34.920 pointing fingers

00:45:35.860 at the younger generations

00:45:36.940 and blaming them

00:45:37.800 and talking about

00:45:38.220 how terrible they are.

00:45:39.340 And yet there doesn't seem

00:45:40.520 to be any moment

00:45:41.240 of pausing

00:45:42.060 where they go,

00:45:42.800 wait a second,

00:45:43.700 where did they come from?

00:45:44.860 Oh, those are our kids

00:45:45.880 that are acting that way.

00:45:49.520 It's almost like

00:45:50.160 they're asking, 1.00

00:45:50.680 oh, these damn millennials, 1.00

00:45:51.740 who raised them? 1.00

00:45:52.640 Well, you did?

00:45:53.720 You raised them?

00:45:56.560 But then the problem

00:45:57.140 is that once you get

00:45:57.840 into the generational

00:45:58.540 blame game,

00:45:59.400 then it's sort of like,

00:46:00.840 well, where does it end?

00:46:02.140 It doesn't really end

00:46:02.800 because then we can say,

00:46:03.620 well, the baby boomers, 0.83

00:46:04.460 they caused all the problems.

00:46:05.380 They were a much worse generation 1.00

00:46:07.900 than the generation 0.87

00:46:08.320 that came before them.

00:46:09.140 Well, then what about

00:46:09.680 the generation that raised them?

00:46:11.980 What about the generation

00:46:12.820 that raised the kids

00:46:14.300 who started the sexual revolution? 1.00

00:46:17.300 You know,

00:46:17.600 so it just becomes,

00:46:20.000 what we discover

00:46:20.960 is that we are

00:46:21.600 a fallen race of beings 0.99

00:46:23.120 and none are perfect.

00:46:25.760 but it does,

00:46:27.360 it is helpful anyway

00:46:28.700 to maybe

00:46:30.180 identify certain unique ways

00:46:33.900 that different generations

00:46:34.860 have royally screwed things up

00:46:36.400 and there are several ways

00:46:37.880 that boomers have done that. 0.78

00:46:43.760 Photobombing Cow says,

00:46:45.160 character is built

00:46:45.840 from the raw material,

00:46:46.640 photobombing Cow,

00:46:47.840 character is built

00:46:49.120 from the raw material

00:46:49.920 of suffering.

00:46:50.640 Boomers did less of it 1.00

00:46:51.580 than any generation

00:46:52.320 in U.S. history

00:46:53.100 and then we endlessly

00:46:54.340 hovered over our kids

00:46:55.520 and turned millions of them

00:46:57.460 into hothouse flowers

00:46:59.220 as well.

00:47:02.220 Turtle Ski says,

00:47:03.160 just as a random anecdote

00:47:04.200 regarding time wasting

00:47:05.160 in school,

00:47:05.700 I remember the first time

00:47:06.500 I told my parents

00:47:07.240 I was going to skip school

00:47:08.060 it was because we were

00:47:08.680 having a field trip

00:47:09.580 to the movies.

00:47:11.040 My parents,

00:47:11.880 bless their heart,

00:47:12.380 agreed to let me skip

00:47:13.300 and I instead went fishing

00:47:14.340 with my dad.

00:47:15.980 Yeah,

00:47:16.220 many different ways

00:47:17.080 that time is wasted

00:47:17.820 in school.

00:47:18.120 I mean,

00:47:18.260 a field trip to the movies,

00:47:19.140 I wish that,

00:47:20.260 we took field trips

00:47:21.040 to like the post office

00:47:22.000 and that sort of thing

00:47:22.660 when I went to school.

00:47:24.100 Field trips to the movies

00:47:24.660 would have been a lot of fun.

00:47:25.600 Although we did,

00:47:26.340 as mentioned yesterday,

00:47:27.160 we didn't take field trips

00:47:28.700 to the movies

00:47:29.200 but we watched movies

00:47:30.340 in class constantly,

00:47:32.060 I can remember.

00:47:33.520 And at the time,

00:47:34.960 I never would have complained

00:47:36.160 about it.

00:47:36.480 I loved it at the time

00:47:37.560 because I didn't want to have

00:47:38.980 to do any school work.

00:47:40.260 But one of the things

00:47:40.920 is when you have a teacher

00:47:42.460 that decides,

00:47:43.180 oh yeah,

00:47:43.480 we're going to take this movie

00:47:45.080 and this is going to be

00:47:45.900 a really good lesson

00:47:46.560 for all you kids

00:47:47.460 to watch this movie.

00:47:48.500 Well,

00:47:49.040 it's like 30 to 45 minute period

00:47:51.280 so that ends up being

00:47:52.520 almost a whole week.

00:47:53.580 That's like almost

00:47:54.380 an entire week

00:47:55.320 of a movie

00:47:56.100 in this class

00:47:57.200 is what you're dedicated to.

00:48:00.680 And it's not just that.

00:48:01.800 There's just,

00:48:03.080 and some of it

00:48:03.720 with the time wasting

00:48:04.420 that happens

00:48:04.760 in the public school system,

00:48:06.140 it's not all the fault

00:48:07.780 of teachers.

00:48:09.000 Some of it is just

00:48:09.560 baked in to the pie.

00:48:11.400 Like there's the time

00:48:13.400 spent between periods,

00:48:14.880 you know,

00:48:15.160 between classes.

00:48:15.820 You got to walk

00:48:16.620 in the hallway

00:48:16.940 from there to there.

00:48:17.860 You got lunch.

00:48:18.860 You've got all these

00:48:19.260 different things.

00:48:20.920 So some of it is just

00:48:22.240 the fact that you've got

00:48:24.680 hundreds of kids

00:48:25.400 in one building

00:48:26.020 and you're trying

00:48:26.380 to educate them

00:48:27.080 in this kind of

00:48:27.700 factory assembly line style.

00:48:29.440 There's going to be

00:48:30.220 a lot of time wasting

00:48:31.100 already built in.

00:48:32.500 And that's why it is

00:48:33.640 when you decide

00:48:34.540 to homeschool,

00:48:35.800 it's really amazing.

00:48:37.460 Like you almost feel guilty

00:48:38.520 at first when you see

00:48:40.000 how little time

00:48:41.140 you actually need

00:48:41.780 to spend in a day

00:48:43.140 with formal instruction.

00:48:45.480 It's definitely

00:48:46.200 not six hours.

00:48:47.640 It's like a few hours

00:48:48.860 at most.

00:48:50.660 And if you're actually

00:48:52.400 teaching during that time

00:48:53.940 and your kids

00:48:54.360 are doing real work

00:48:55.260 and you're educating them,

00:48:56.340 then you're done.

00:48:57.300 It's like sometime

00:48:57.700 around lunchtime.

00:48:58.520 You're done for the day.

00:49:02.340 And then finally,

00:49:03.240 hey Matt,

00:49:03.520 can you please go

00:49:04.020 into more detail

00:49:04.620 about how abortion

00:49:05.540 to save the mother's life

00:49:07.020 isn't really a thing?

00:49:08.100 I don't doubt

00:49:08.960 that conclusion,

00:49:09.780 but it's hard to find

00:49:10.460 any info about it online.

00:49:12.020 Thank you,

00:49:12.520 SBG for life.

00:49:14.080 Yeah, certainly.

00:49:15.120 So when someone

00:49:17.440 talks about abortion

00:49:18.280 that saves the life

00:49:19.080 of a mother,

00:49:20.160 there are a few scenarios,

00:49:23.620 you know,

00:49:23.960 if there are a few scenarios

00:49:25.500 they might have in mind

00:49:27.100 when they talk about that.

00:49:29.960 And in all of these scenarios,

00:49:32.440 it would not be necessary 0.83

00:49:35.120 to directly kill the child. 0.77

00:49:40.600 So I'll just give like one example 0.99

00:49:42.440 that comes up is,

00:49:44.040 okay, what if a woman is pregnant 0.99

00:49:48.420 and then she's diagnosed

00:49:50.540 with an aggressive form of cancer

00:49:52.520 and she has to undergo,

00:49:54.720 and she's told by the doctors,

00:49:56.360 you know,

00:49:56.600 you have to undergo cancer treatment.

00:49:59.140 And if you don't,

00:49:59.860 if you wait till the pregnancy's over

00:50:01.000 to undergo cancer treatment,

00:50:01.800 it might be too late.

00:50:02.380 But if you undergo cancer treatment,

00:50:05.580 it could kill the child.

00:50:08.780 You know,

00:50:08.900 these are the kinds of things

00:50:11.100 that have happened in real life

00:50:12.240 and women have been confronted 0.88

00:50:13.580 with these kinds of choices.

00:50:16.480 And so what we would be told

00:50:18.740 is that if the woman says, 0.97

00:50:20.400 okay, I'm going to take

00:50:20.940 the cancer treatment,

00:50:22.060 even though it might have

00:50:23.260 the effect of killing my child,

00:50:24.820 we'll be told that, 1.00

00:50:25.800 well, that's an abortion. 1.00

00:50:26.620 That's a life-saving abortion, 1.00

00:50:27.800 but it's not.

00:50:29.240 Okay, that's the principle

00:50:30.080 of double effect.

00:50:30.820 That's, you know,

00:50:31.460 you're doing something

00:50:32.520 with the intent,

00:50:33.940 with a good intent,

00:50:34.960 which is to cure,

00:50:36.220 treat the cancer,

00:50:37.420 knowing that it might have

00:50:39.800 this very tragic side effect.

00:50:42.040 But that,

00:50:42.740 but it is a side effect.

00:50:43.820 It's not the intention.

00:50:44.980 You're not doing it deliberately.

00:50:47.960 And that is not splitting hairs.

00:50:50.120 That is a very important distinction.

00:50:53.800 So there could be situations like that.

00:50:55.460 And if a woman is, 1.00

00:50:56.160 is,

00:50:56.640 is diagnosed with cancer

00:50:57.580 when she's pregnant,

00:50:58.200 that's,

00:50:59.880 you know,

00:51:00.300 I,

00:51:00.640 that's a decision

00:51:01.980 that she's going to make

00:51:03.080 about how to handle it.

00:51:03.640 There are women who, 1.00

00:51:04.840 you hear cases where they decide,

00:51:06.440 I'm not going to go

00:51:06.860 for the cancer treatment.

00:51:08.520 And then sometimes they end up,

00:51:10.000 you know,

00:51:10.320 then giving their lives

00:51:11.260 so that their child can live,

00:51:12.440 which is quite heroic.

00:51:14.180 But I think if the woman 0.94

00:51:14.880 decides to get the cancer treatment,

00:51:16.380 I would not consider that

00:51:17.800 an abortion.

00:51:18.240 It's not.

00:51:19.200 Abortion is,

00:51:20.040 again,

00:51:20.340 directly and intentionally

00:51:22.220 taking the life

00:51:24.160 of a child.

00:51:24.760 And there are many other scenarios

00:51:28.740 that we hear,

00:51:29.280 especially late in pregnancy.

00:51:31.400 We'll hear other kind of

00:51:32.620 medical scenarios

00:51:33.420 where the pregnancy

00:51:34.580 has to end.

00:51:35.860 You know,

00:51:36.020 something has gone

00:51:36.620 catastrophically wrong,

00:51:38.300 either with the mother

00:51:39.540 or the baby,

00:51:40.740 or both,

00:51:41.660 and the pregnancy

00:51:42.400 has to end.

00:51:43.900 And if they don't end

00:51:44.760 the pregnancy,

00:51:45.760 then the mother will die 0.99

00:51:47.400 and potentially the child

00:51:48.220 will die too.

00:51:49.600 So these are rare cases,

00:51:51.480 but they do happen.

00:51:52.960 And yet again,

00:51:53.400 in those sorts of situations,

00:51:54.480 that's where we're going

00:51:55.360 to be told

00:51:55.900 that this is why

00:51:57.060 we need abortion. 1.00

00:51:58.640 Well,

00:51:59.060 that doesn't work

00:51:59.600 because late in a pregnancy,

00:52:02.300 you can end the pregnancy 0.96

00:52:03.820 without killing the child.

00:52:06.040 You deliver the child.

00:52:08.740 Will the child be able

00:52:09.820 to survive outside the womb?

00:52:11.100 You certainly hope so.

00:52:12.040 Children can,

00:52:12.980 as low as 22 weeks now,

00:52:14.440 I think,

00:52:15.000 a child can survive

00:52:15.720 outside the womb

00:52:16.280 with the miracle

00:52:18.580 of modern medicine.

00:52:19.900 But either way,

00:52:23.180 if you deliver the child

00:52:24.700 with the intent

00:52:25.780 of preserving

00:52:27.080 the child's life,

00:52:28.360 doing everything you can

00:52:29.500 to preserve the child's life,

00:52:30.500 that is not an abortion. 1.00

00:52:32.700 An abortion is an extra step. 1.00

00:52:34.420 It's, okay,

00:52:35.000 we're going to 1.00

00:52:35.780 kill the child first 1.00

00:52:37.280 and then deliver the child. 1.00

00:52:40.880 Which,

00:52:41.360 that doesn't make any sense

00:52:42.080 because the baby

00:52:43.280 has to be delivered

00:52:43.960 either way.

00:52:45.100 Even if you get an abortion,

00:52:46.020 you still have to,

00:52:46.900 late in pregnancy,

00:52:47.540 there's still going

00:52:48.000 to be a delivery.

00:52:48.720 It's just that now

00:52:49.660 it's a delivery

00:52:50.220 of a dead child.

00:52:51.260 There's no way

00:52:51.900 that that extra step

00:52:53.540 of killing the child 1.00

00:52:54.800 first before delivering him 1.00

00:52:56.560 will somehow,

00:52:57.440 will somehow be necessary

00:52:58.600 to save the mother's life.

00:53:01.260 So that's what

00:53:02.080 it comes down to.

00:53:02.940 It may be necessary

00:53:03.900 to end a pregnancy,

00:53:06.700 especially later in pregnancy,

00:53:08.040 to preserve

00:53:09.340 the woman's life. 0.81

00:53:10.380 But that does not mean

00:53:12.220 that you have to 0.98

00:53:13.060 kill the child. 1.00

00:53:13.940 You could deliver 1.00

00:53:14.520 the child alive

00:53:16.200 and do everything

00:53:18.120 you can to preserve

00:53:18.700 the child's life.

00:53:19.720 With Father's Day

00:53:20.600 coming up,

00:53:21.060 I've been thinking

00:53:21.560 about how grateful

00:53:22.160 I am that my father

00:53:23.720 did not become a woman.

00:53:25.100 For all his accomplishments,

00:53:26.160 the greatest might be

00:53:27.480 me, my own life.

00:53:28.840 Without him,

00:53:29.840 I wouldn't be here.

00:53:30.620 And while that might be

00:53:31.500 a strange thing to say,

00:53:32.460 we live in strange times.

00:53:33.580 So we shouldn't take

00:53:34.780 the simplest gifts

00:53:35.600 for granted.

00:53:36.260 Show your appreciation

00:53:37.100 and gratitude

00:53:37.600 for your dad,

00:53:38.580 making the bold choice

00:53:39.620 to remain the gender 0.99

00:53:40.600 he was assigned at birth

00:53:41.600 with a gift

00:53:42.160 from Jeremy's Razors.

00:53:43.320 And right now,

00:53:43.980 they have a 30% off sale

00:53:44.920 on select bundles

00:53:45.720 and razor starter kits.

00:53:47.300 They're 100% woke free

00:53:48.500 and they're unashamed

00:53:49.580 to celebrate masculinity.

00:53:50.700 So this Father's Day,

00:53:52.140 don't just give him

00:53:52.820 any gift.

00:53:53.440 Give him Jeremy's Razors,

00:53:54.660 the gift that says,

00:53:55.760 thank you, Dad,

00:53:56.560 for being and staying a man.

00:53:59.040 Thank you for manzitioning.

00:54:02.020 Come on.

00:54:02.800 Go to jeremysrazors.com today

00:54:04.280 to take 30% off your razors,

00:54:05.980 not 100% off your Benitalia.

00:54:08.680 Let's get to the daily cancellation.

00:54:09.500 There are certain people

00:54:14.860 who have over the years

00:54:16.160 circled around

00:54:17.420 the daily cancellation,

00:54:18.400 come very close

00:54:18.980 on many occasions

00:54:19.640 to being canceled

00:54:20.320 yet have never actually

00:54:21.200 been canceled

00:54:22.380 during this segment.

00:54:23.220 But everyone's time

00:54:23.940 must come eventually.

00:54:24.960 And so today,

00:54:25.600 it is finally

00:54:26.300 Caitlyn Jenner's turn.

00:54:28.120 I believe this is the first time

00:54:29.460 he'll be featured

00:54:30.080 on the daily cancellation,

00:54:31.320 but maybe it's not the first.

00:54:32.440 To be honest,

00:54:32.840 I don't really keep track.

00:54:34.060 Either way,

00:54:35.040 Jenner,

00:54:35.460 at the age of 73,

00:54:36.700 has recently been attempting

00:54:38.120 to reinvent himself again.

00:54:41.100 There's been many reinventions

00:54:42.200 of Jenner.

00:54:43.680 He was born a man

00:54:44.600 and still is one,

00:54:45.760 became a legendary Olympian,

00:54:47.680 later in life,

00:54:48.480 downgraded to a reality TV star.

00:54:50.480 And then famously,

00:54:51.020 he came out as a woman

00:54:51.820 and was awarded the honor

00:54:52.880 of woman of the year

00:54:53.680 and was celebrated for a time

00:54:55.420 as an LGBT icon.

00:54:58.200 But that goodwill

00:54:59.360 from the left

00:54:59.840 dried up rather quickly

00:55:00.840 when Jenner came out 1.00

00:55:01.700 sometime later

00:55:02.400 as a Trump supporter

00:55:03.260 and then eventually ran

00:55:04.140 for governor of California

00:55:05.140 as a Republican

00:55:05.700 in a bid that was,

00:55:07.040 of course,

00:55:07.220 doomed to fail

00:55:07.920 from the beginning.

00:55:09.120 Like so many failed

00:55:10.000 Republican candidates

00:55:10.640 before him,

00:55:12.300 Jenner's next move

00:55:13.120 was to become

00:55:13.520 a Fox News contributor

00:55:14.700 where he has now found

00:55:16.640 a new niche somehow

00:55:17.740 as a voice of reason

00:55:19.540 on the trans issue.

00:55:21.500 He has now rebranded himself

00:55:22.920 as a fierce defender

00:55:24.360 of women's sports

00:55:25.480 and an opponent

00:55:26.760 of child transition,

00:55:28.600 even though he had taken

00:55:29.400 both sides of these issues

00:55:30.500 in the past.

00:55:31.580 He also fashions himself

00:55:32.640 as a MAGA loyalist

00:55:34.600 hanging out down

00:55:35.280 in Mar-a-Lago

00:55:35.900 and repeating

00:55:36.600 whatever talking points

00:55:37.480 are issued to him.

00:55:38.420 For example,

00:55:38.900 when the Trump camp

00:55:39.540 decided a couple weeks ago

00:55:40.540 that conservatives

00:55:41.540 shouldn't be boycotting

00:55:42.600 Anheuser-Busch

00:55:43.240 because the company

00:55:43.960 donates to Republicans,

00:55:45.540 Jenner dutifully spoke out

00:55:47.140 against the boycott.

00:55:49.240 Now, you might say

00:55:50.100 that most of this

00:55:50.780 is relatively harmless.

00:55:52.140 He's just another person

00:55:52.980 in the media

00:55:53.440 struggling desperately

00:55:54.300 to remain relevant,

00:55:55.520 and that might be the case.

00:55:57.180 But there's a reason

00:55:58.200 why outlets like Fox News

00:55:59.540 have embraced Jenner

00:56:00.980 and why some Republicans

00:56:02.020 want him to be

00:56:02.680 our official spokesman

00:56:03.840 on gender issues.

00:56:05.340 And that reason

00:56:05.840 was laid bare

00:56:06.500 yesterday on Twitter

00:56:07.300 when Jenner responded

00:56:08.960 to a leftist

00:56:09.640 who was accusing him

00:56:10.400 of aligning himself

00:56:11.200 with people who,

00:56:12.200 are trying to erase you

00:56:13.560 and deny your right

00:56:14.500 to body and identity autonomy.

00:56:16.720 Jenner responded with this,

00:56:17.660 quote,

00:56:18.920 wrong.

00:56:19.500 There are a few fringe people

00:56:20.840 that say trans isn't real,

00:56:22.280 but that's not the GOP.

00:56:23.900 The GOP and MAGA

00:56:24.840 is the big tent party

00:56:26.100 and believe in common sense,

00:56:27.380 principles,

00:56:27.860 no men and women's sports,

00:56:28.820 parental rights,

00:56:29.420 protecting children, etc.

00:56:30.820 Sorry we don't fit

00:56:31.600 your narrative.

00:56:32.140 The left is by far

00:56:33.000 the most exclusionary,

00:56:34.280 discriminatory group

00:56:35.060 of people out there.

00:56:37.660 Fringe people, he says.

00:56:39.380 And by that, of course,

00:56:40.140 he means me

00:56:40.980 and everyone here

00:56:41.960 at the Daily Wire

00:56:42.600 and nearly every conservative

00:56:43.900 who has been fighting

00:56:44.700 against gender ideology

00:56:45.820 in any meaningful way.

00:56:47.720 We are all fringe,

00:56:49.080 says Jenner,

00:56:49.700 says Jenner, rather,

00:56:51.460 while he represents

00:56:52.480 the mainstream conservative

00:56:53.960 position on the topic.

00:56:55.720 Of course,

00:56:56.280 everyone agrees

00:56:57.040 that trans-identified people

00:56:59.080 exist,

00:56:59.700 so trans is real 0.91

00:57:01.980 in the sense

00:57:02.580 that transgenderism

00:57:03.780 exists as a concept

00:57:05.280 and many people

00:57:06.640 claim it as their identity.

00:57:08.920 But trans is not real 1.00

00:57:10.640 in any kind of objective

00:57:11.820 or scientific sense.

00:57:13.740 Trans is not a valid 1.00

00:57:15.080 category of being.

00:57:17.680 So I would say

00:57:18.620 trans is not real 1.00

00:57:19.620 and that's what I mean.

00:57:20.340 It's not a valid category.

00:57:23.140 And when Bruce Jenner

00:57:24.340 says that trans is real, 0.55

00:57:25.940 he's saying that

00:57:26.480 it is a valid category.

00:57:27.760 But you cannot actually

00:57:29.880 be trans

00:57:30.960 as being trans

00:57:32.200 means existing

00:57:33.040 literally beyond gender.

00:57:35.840 A transgender person

00:57:36.840 claims to transcend

00:57:38.100 the sex binary,

00:57:39.820 but that's not possible.

00:57:40.900 It's not real.

00:57:41.760 It's a false claim.

00:57:43.800 And there is no way

00:57:44.460 to effectively oppose

00:57:45.620 trans ideology

00:57:46.520 and all of its consequences

00:57:47.700 without opposing it fundamentally.

00:57:50.480 You cannot legitimize

00:57:52.000 its fundamental claims

00:57:53.080 while pretending

00:57:53.760 to be an opponent

00:57:54.480 of it at the same time.

00:57:56.340 It doesn't make any sense.

00:57:57.760 This is the needle

00:57:58.600 that Republican establishments,

00:58:00.200 people, to include Jenner,

00:58:01.960 have been trying

00:58:02.560 clumsily to thread.

00:58:04.400 They want to validate

00:58:05.540 transgenderism

00:58:06.440 while still protecting

00:58:08.080 women's sports

00:58:08.920 and shielding kids

00:58:10.240 from medical transitions.

00:58:11.280 But that doesn't make any sense.

00:58:12.860 If transgenderism is valid, 1.00

00:58:15.520 then a man who identifies

00:58:16.580 as a woman

00:58:17.100 actually is a woman. 0.98

00:58:18.660 And if a man who identifies

00:58:19.620 as a woman

00:58:20.100 is a woman,

00:58:21.360 then he should be able

00:58:22.020 to compete against women 0.98

00:58:22.820 in women's sports.

00:58:24.040 The only reason

00:58:24.980 to oppose his intrusion

00:58:26.140 in women's sports, 0.99

00:58:26.800 the only way

00:58:27.240 that we can even say

00:58:27.960 it is an intrusion

00:58:28.820 is if we reject

00:58:30.360 the logic

00:58:31.060 behind transgenderism 1.00

00:58:32.600 to begin with,

00:58:33.340 which means

00:58:33.880 that we would be saying

00:58:35.340 trans isn't real. 1.00

00:58:38.240 Okay?

00:58:38.520 You say that you're a woman,

00:58:39.760 but that's not real.

00:58:40.680 It's not a real thing.

00:58:41.580 It's just a thing

00:58:42.160 you're saying.

00:58:43.280 It's a perception

00:58:44.280 that you have

00:58:44.920 about yourself

00:58:45.580 that is false.

00:58:48.460 But if trans is real, 1.00

00:58:49.840 we have no argument

00:58:50.580 against any of this stuff.

00:58:51.860 If it isn't real,

00:58:54.640 then the fact

00:58:55.140 that it isn't real

00:58:55.860 is our whole argument.

00:58:58.800 Jenner wants to have 1.00

00:58:59.540 his trans cake

00:59:00.520 and eat it too.

00:59:01.100 His position

00:59:01.480 is totally unintelligible.

00:59:03.380 I responded

00:59:03.840 to his tweet yesterday

00:59:04.620 and tried to explain

00:59:05.400 that to him.

00:59:05.800 I said,

00:59:06.180 quote,

00:59:06.820 your position

00:59:07.300 is completely unintelligible.

00:59:08.360 You assert the validity

00:59:09.080 of transgenderism.

00:59:10.100 You claim that you're a woman.

00:59:11.360 You accepted the woman

00:59:12.240 of the year award

00:59:13.120 and yet you declare

00:59:13.800 that trans women 0.66

00:59:14.740 and women's sports

00:59:15.340 are actually men

00:59:16.100 and don't belong there.

00:59:17.140 It's total incoherence.

00:59:19.080 To this,

00:59:19.600 Jenner responded,

00:59:20.120 I've never claimed

00:59:21.420 to be a biological woman. 0.79

00:59:22.600 That would be

00:59:22.860 a factually incorrect.

00:59:24.080 I am trans

00:59:24.820 and biologically male.

00:59:26.420 I'm using my platform

00:59:27.280 to be a voice of reason,

00:59:28.360 an advocate for fairness,

00:59:29.560 a trans example,

00:59:31.380 and not force my thoughts,

00:59:32.900 beliefs,

00:59:33.160 or identity onto anyone.

00:59:35.400 Now, wait a second.

00:59:36.540 He never claimed

00:59:37.220 to be a biological woman? 0.99

00:59:39.580 I mean,

00:59:40.100 he literally walked down

00:59:41.200 a red carpet

00:59:42.160 and accepted

00:59:42.980 a woman of the year trophy.

00:59:45.220 He goes by she,

00:59:46.380 her pronouns.

00:59:47.360 He dresses like a woman. 1.00

00:59:48.780 He identifies as a woman.

00:59:50.120 And yet he's never claimed

00:59:51.080 to be one?

00:59:52.680 How are we supposed

00:59:53.440 to make sense of that?

00:59:55.440 Well, we can only assume

00:59:56.600 that Jenner has invented

00:59:58.140 in his head

00:59:58.740 some sort of distinction

00:59:59.860 between a woman 0.95

01:00:01.060 and a biological woman.

01:00:03.660 But if he is a woman,

01:00:05.780 yet not a biological woman,

01:00:07.760 then what kind of woman is he?

01:00:09.860 For that answer,

01:00:10.680 we have to go back

01:00:11.300 to the first interview he did

01:00:12.800 way back in 2015

01:00:13.920 when he first announced

01:00:16.000 his new identity

01:00:16.900 to the world.

01:00:17.760 Let's watch that again.

01:00:18.540 Are you a woman?

01:00:24.420 Yes.

01:00:24.980 For all intents and purposes,

01:00:26.280 I am a woman.

01:00:27.100 People look at me differently.

01:00:29.480 They see you

01:00:30.300 as this macho male.

01:00:33.060 But my heart

01:00:33.840 and my soul

01:00:34.320 and everything

01:00:34.700 that I do in life,

01:00:35.920 it is part of me.

01:00:38.740 That female side 1.00

01:00:39.820 is part of me.

01:00:41.140 That's who I am.

01:00:42.240 I was not genetically

01:00:44.160 born that way.

01:00:47.820 As of now,

01:00:49.220 I have all the male parts

01:00:50.940 and all that kind of stuff.

01:00:52.860 So, in a lot of ways,

01:00:54.500 we're different, okay?

01:00:56.760 But we still identify

01:00:58.760 as female.

01:01:01.180 Hmm.

01:01:01.320 Is he referring to himself

01:01:05.240 as we

01:01:05.720 in that interview?

01:01:07.680 You know,

01:01:07.900 we really can't

01:01:09.380 understate

01:01:10.420 what a significant moment

01:01:12.280 this interview was.

01:01:14.220 And the Vanity Fair cover

01:01:15.640 and Woman of the Year,

01:01:16.760 you know,

01:01:16.920 that was a period in time

01:01:17.980 when it was

01:01:19.920 a seminal moment

01:01:21.360 in American culture

01:01:22.660 in all the wrong ways.

01:01:24.700 and transgenderism

01:01:27.880 kind of exploding

01:01:29.360 into the mainstream

01:01:30.540 of American culture

01:01:31.300 is largely because of this.

01:01:35.080 Okay?

01:01:36.060 Transgenderism

01:01:36.580 was not a,

01:01:38.180 you know,

01:01:41.220 prevalent topic

01:01:42.180 of conversation

01:01:42.800 before Jenner.

01:01:45.120 And my point is

01:01:45.700 that Jenner himself

01:01:47.220 is more than

01:01:49.300 any single person

01:01:51.100 on the planet today

01:01:52.560 is responsible

01:01:54.440 for what we're witnessing

01:01:56.100 in our culture today

01:01:56.860 with all the gender confusion.

01:01:58.900 He has done more than,

01:02:01.260 arguably more than

01:02:02.020 any other single individual

01:02:03.480 who currently lives

01:02:04.920 on the planet.

01:02:07.380 And yet now,

01:02:08.320 he's embraced

01:02:08.900 as some sort of

01:02:10.340 hero of the other side

01:02:11.720 without ever disowning

01:02:13.360 any of that,

01:02:13.880 by the way.

01:02:14.840 Now,

01:02:15.020 it would be one thing

01:02:15.920 if he apologized

01:02:18.300 for that

01:02:19.100 and he repudiated it

01:02:21.300 and he rejected it.

01:02:22.240 He said,

01:02:22.460 I was wrong about all that.

01:02:23.540 I wish it never happened.

01:02:24.440 I'm giving back

01:02:25.320 the woman of the year award.

01:02:26.320 I'm not really a woman.

01:02:27.220 I shouldn't have done this.

01:02:28.080 It was a terrible thing.

01:02:30.080 Now,

01:02:30.500 if he were to do that,

01:02:31.660 it would be quite powerful.

01:02:33.320 But he's not.

01:02:34.240 He stands by all of that.

01:02:37.200 At no point

01:02:38.120 has he confronted it

01:02:39.580 and confronted

01:02:40.380 his own role

01:02:41.540 in all of this.

01:02:43.420 And yet,

01:02:43.740 he gets the Fox News

01:02:44.680 contributorship

01:02:45.840 and hangs out

01:02:47.960 with all the Republicans.

01:02:50.260 And he says,

01:02:50.900 for all intents and purposes,

01:02:52.180 he is a woman.

01:02:53.860 But he says

01:02:54.420 he's not a biological woman.

01:02:56.380 So,

01:02:56.720 what does it mean

01:02:57.440 to be a woman

01:02:57.940 for all intents and purposes

01:02:59.620 and yet not a woman

01:03:01.080 biologically?

01:03:03.220 Would this distinction

01:03:04.020 make sense

01:03:04.520 in any other context?

01:03:05.960 Imagine that I came up to you

01:03:07.100 and said,

01:03:07.480 wow,

01:03:07.760 you know,

01:03:08.020 I just saw an elephant

01:03:08.920 walking down the street.

01:03:10.440 And you said,

01:03:10.960 really?

01:03:11.180 You saw a real elephant?

01:03:12.880 And I responded,

01:03:13.520 well,

01:03:13.940 it was an elephant

01:03:14.780 for all intents and purposes.

01:03:16.420 It might not have been

01:03:16.960 a biological elephant,

01:03:18.100 you see,

01:03:18.340 but it was an elephant

01:03:19.180 in every other way.

01:03:21.380 Would you be able

01:03:22.020 to make heads or tails of that? 0.69

01:03:24.020 In what other context

01:03:25.000 could a thing be something

01:03:26.320 and yet not be that thing

01:03:28.020 at the exact same time?

01:03:30.200 This is a sort of

01:03:30.900 mental disconnect

01:03:31.920 that Jenner wants us

01:03:33.520 to accept.

01:03:35.320 Indeed,

01:03:35.680 he says that

01:03:36.200 this is the mainstream

01:03:37.700 conservative position.

01:03:40.700 Even though it is,

01:03:41.760 if anything,

01:03:42.400 even more incoherent

01:03:44.000 and less intelligible

01:03:45.700 than the mainstream

01:03:46.960 liberal position

01:03:47.740 on the subject.

01:03:49.060 And this is the real reason

01:03:50.280 why Jenner is propped up

01:03:51.540 by Fox

01:03:52.180 and by the Republican

01:03:52.860 establishment.

01:03:53.820 It's what makes him

01:03:54.700 in many ways

01:03:55.400 a far more dangerous figure

01:03:57.000 than Dylan Mulvaney

01:03:58.400 or any other

01:03:58.980 left-wing trans activist.

01:04:00.540 Jenner is the 0.97

01:04:01.540 trans Trojan horse 0.99

01:04:02.940 whose goal

01:04:03.580 is to get us

01:04:04.740 to ultimately accept

01:04:06.020 gender ideology

01:04:06.820 by embracing

01:04:08.000 what is allegedly

01:04:08.840 a slightly less

01:04:10.240 radical version

01:04:11.060 of it.

01:04:12.860 The goal is to

01:04:13.760 pry us away

01:04:14.660 from the one

01:04:16.700 and only

01:04:17.280 sensible,

01:04:18.280 consistent,

01:04:19.260 truthful position.

01:04:20.840 The position

01:04:21.620 which says

01:04:22.280 very simply

01:04:23.000 that there are

01:04:24.120 only men and women

01:04:24.820 in the world.

01:04:25.920 Every man

01:04:26.440 is a biological man.

01:04:27.520 Every woman

01:04:27.860 is a biological woman.

01:04:29.260 Biological is not 1.00

01:04:30.140 a qualifier

01:04:30.960 that we can apply

01:04:31.880 to some women

01:04:32.720 and not others.

01:04:33.720 If you are a woman,

01:04:34.960 then you are

01:04:35.280 a biological woman.

01:04:36.160 If you are not

01:04:36.660 a biological woman,

01:04:37.360 then you are

01:04:37.660 not a woman 1.00

01:04:38.080 in any sense

01:04:38.920 at all.

01:04:39.560 Not for any intent

01:04:40.700 and not for any purpose.

01:04:43.160 Jenner is a man

01:04:44.140 through and through

01:04:45.040 in every way

01:04:45.720 and nothing

01:04:47.580 will ever

01:04:48.060 change that.

01:04:49.560 And that is

01:04:50.200 the only position

01:04:51.340 that makes sense.

01:04:52.580 It's the only

01:04:53.520 conservative position.

01:04:55.160 It is the truth

01:04:56.140 that we are

01:04:56.540 trying to conserve.

01:05:01.040 And if it's not

01:05:02.020 a truth that he

01:05:02.500 stands by,

01:05:03.060 then he's not

01:05:03.560 a conservative

01:05:03.940 and we don't

01:05:04.340 need him.

01:05:05.600 And he is also

01:05:06.320 today, finally,

01:05:07.180 for all those

01:05:07.660 reasons.

01:05:08.380 Cancelled.

01:05:09.700 That will do it

01:05:10.080 for this portion

01:05:10.820 of shows.

01:05:11.140 We move over

01:05:11.420 to members block.

01:05:12.100 Hope to see you there.

01:05:12.660 If not, talk to you

01:05:13.240 tomorrow.

01:05:13.760 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 18, 2023

Ep. 1166 - The Real Reason Why Americans Are More Depressed Than Ever

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