The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1169 - The Shocking Truth About Canada's Euthanasia Program. It's Way Worse Than You Think.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Canada continues to expand its medical assistance in dying

00:00:04.320 program so that more and more of the undesirables are eligible for execution. But the program is

00:00:09.020 far worse and goes much further than you think. And worst of all, our country is now headed in

00:00:13.860 the same direction. Also, Ron DeSantis prepares to officially announce his candidacy and he's

00:00:17.740 announcing it on Twitter. Target is starting to back away from its pride celebration ever so

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00:01:51.480 from you. You're just meeting this doctor for the first time. You're not sure whether she's a good

00:01:55.580 doctor or a bad doctor. You can't tell if she has any morals or not. You're assessing things.

00:02:01.320 And then the doctor tells you about one of the highlights of her year. With a smile on her face,

00:02:05.260 she starts talking about one time, a few months ago, when she killed a clown. We're talking about

00:02:10.400 a man dressed in full clown uniform, a red nose, who was giggling when he died. It was really important

00:02:16.000 for him to be in his clown suit when he died, the doctor says to you. It was a wonderful thing. 0.52

00:02:20.320 Now, at a basic human level, how would you react to that scenario? Would you run out of the doctor's

00:02:26.180 office and call the police? Or would you congratulate the doctor because you're also

00:02:30.380 a murderer who hates clowns? What would you do? At this point, you're probably thinking to yourself, 0.99

00:02:35.220 well, what's with all the hypothetical questions? This is crazy. I mean, what are the odds I'm going

00:02:39.120 to be sitting face-to-face with a clown-killing doctor? As it happens, if you live in Canada, 0.68

00:02:44.480 it's not a hypothetical at all. Meet Dr. Stephanie Green. She's one of the country's leading physicians

00:02:49.560 in the area of medical assistance in dying, or MAID. And she recently sat down for an interview

00:02:54.940 in which she talks about the one time that she deliberately killed a clown. I want you to watch

00:03:00.220 the interviewer ask her about this and listen to her response. Notice the grins on these people's

00:03:06.060 faces as they describe the death of this poor clown. Watch. One of those I absolutely loved was, 0.98

00:03:13.680 I mean, I have to admit to welling up several times while reading the book.

00:03:18.840 Thank you. 0.90

00:03:20.060 About Ed, who was an amateur clown. And I think he was having, you were going to be administering

00:03:28.740 his assisted death. And I think you must have left the room or something, or he left the room and

00:03:33.860 came back dressed in his full clown regalia, including a red nose. And you asked him what

00:03:43.800 that was about, you know, why was it? And he said that he wanted to go out laughing. And I just

00:03:49.920 thought that was so charming. But it does lead into the fact that, from talking to you and other

00:03:55.600 practitioners, it's become sort of socially accepted now that people are having assisted deaths.

00:04:03.860 Everyone is so individual. And what's important to one person may not be as important or differently,

00:04:09.700 you know, important to someone else. So for Ed, it was really important that he be in his clown suit

00:04:15.480 and, you know, have this atmosphere, you know, with him at this final moment. And somebody else might

00:04:22.340 find that ridiculous. But there's a real beauty in recognizing that for Ed, this was key. And it was

00:04:29.200 such a wonderful thing to be able to facilitate this with Ed. You know, for someone else, like you

00:04:34.740 say, it might be an event with champagne. A wonderful thing to facilitate with a clown. 0.97

00:04:40.760 So usually when you talk about facilitating something with a clown, you're talking about 0.96

00:04:44.620 inviting a clown to a birthday party, let's say. But in this case, she's talking about facilitating

00:04:50.040 his execution. That's one of the creepiest videos you'll ever see, but it's the cutting edge of

00:04:56.820 state-run medicine in Canada. They are killing people and they are celebrating it. Before we

00:05:02.200 really get into things, let's review a few points. First, in Canada, doctors do not just execute the

00:05:09.720 terminally ill, as awful as that alone would be. Thanks to a recent court decision and a new law in

00:05:14.740 Canada, doctors can kill pretty much anyone. Watch the creepy clown-killing doctor explain the 0.86

00:05:20.040 standard of care that determines who is actually eligible for execution now. Watch. 0.54

00:05:26.060 Our law never required terminal illness. It never required a prognosis of six months. It always

00:05:31.240 required, originally, that the patient be on a trajectory towards their natural death with no

00:05:36.580 time limit around that, allowing more of a flexible clinical interpretation. But even that

00:05:43.400 fact was challenged because that wasn't in our original constitutional decision by the Carter case.

00:05:50.040 And so for three or four years after the law was passed, it was looked at in a provincial court and

00:05:58.960 it was decided that that also needed to be struck out of the law. And with the removal of that, it opened

00:06:04.840 up access to assisted dying for those who weren't necessarily dying.

00:06:10.800 A trajectory towards death is already an incredibly permissive standard for euthanasia, given the

00:06:18.160 fact that we as mortal creatures are all on a trajectory towards death. I hate to tell you.

00:06:25.140 But even that vague limitation has been lifted. Now there's basically no limitation at all.

00:06:29.820 And that's why last year, a Canadian doctor named Joshua Tapper was able to authorize the killing

00:06:33.780 of a 23-year-old man named Keanu. And why was Keanu killed? Well, according to the substat,

00:06:39.640 common sense, Keanu was depressed, he was diabetic, and he had lost one vision in one eye. And on top

00:06:45.600 of that, he, quote, didn't have a girlfriend. On those grounds alone, the doctor authorized the

00:06:50.100 state to kill Keanu. There are many more stories like this. There's Amir Farsud, who was approved

00:06:55.320 for MAID because he was homeless. There's the army veteran Christine Gothier, who was told by the

00:07:00.420 Canadian government to consider euthanasia rather than endure the wait for a stairlift in her home.

00:07:05.760 And so on. Many cases like this. Now this is eugenics. It's the kind of thing the medical 0.93

00:07:11.620 community thought long and hard about after World War II. Doctors wondered, you know, how do we make

00:07:16.000 sure that medicine is never again used to kill the weakest and least desirable members of society?

00:07:21.300 Well, doctors no longer asked that question. Eugenics is making a comeback. Why is that? If you look at

00:07:28.960 this as a purely political issue, it makes sense. Several years ago, Canadian politicians realized that they

00:07:34.380 had a big problem. The health care system, which they run, wasn't able to keep up with the need

00:07:38.900 for organ donors. It's a big, big political problem. Thousands of people were dying, waiting

00:07:44.160 for transplants. So the government set out to find new ways to get more organs. And that's when they

00:07:50.120 passed the first law legalizing euthanasia. Now, if you think it sounds crazy to make this connection,

00:07:55.480 well, the Canadian media drew this connection immediately. Here's a headline from the Ottawa Citizen in

00:08:00.240 2020, a few years after MAID was legalized. Quote, medically assisted deaths prove a growing boon

00:08:06.620 to organ donation in Ontario. Very quickly, Canada became the world's leader in harvesting organs from

00:08:12.640 MAID victims. According to the American Journal of Transplantation, doctors in Canada perform almost

00:08:17.420 half of the world's organ transplants from MAID. And they've done that over the past half decade.

00:08:23.240 Ontario sets new records for organ donations every year. So that's one political problem solved.

00:08:28.700 Just like China harvests organs from prisoners, Canada harvests them from homeless people and the 1.00

00:08:34.200 elderly. Euthanasia also solves financial problems. Back in 2017, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

00:08:39.460 ran an article raving about all the money the country could save by simply killing sick people 0.97

00:08:44.740 outright. You know, to take care of sick people is expensive, but if you kill them, then you save a 1.00

00:08:50.460 bunch of money, it turns out. Quote, new research suggests medically assisted dying could result in

00:08:55.000 substantial savings across Canada's health care system. Doctor assisted death could reduce annual

00:08:59.660 health care spending across the country by between $34.7 million and $136.8 million. The

00:09:05.640 savings exceedingly outweigh the estimated $1.5 to $14.8 million in direct costs associated with

00:09:11.600 implementing medically assisted dying. The article goes on to explain that it's very expensive to

00:09:16.880 provide medical care to sick people and elderly people. The more frugal option is to give them a 1.00

00:09:21.040 lethal injection. Problem solved. Who cares about human life anyway when there's money to be saved? 1.00

00:09:27.180 Money to be saved and money to be made. The euthanasia industry is booming in Canada with

00:09:33.060 entrepreneurs finding new and creative ways to get in on the action. As the CBC excitedly reported

00:09:39.420 funeral homes are expanding their brands to include medical assistance in dying, customers can now take

00:09:45.980 the advantage, take advantage of the luxury sort of a full service option, which means that instead

00:09:52.300 of going to a funeral home after you die, you can go there to die. Think of the convenience. Watch.

00:10:00.020 Welcome, follow me. Funeral homes have been in Mathieu Baker's family for generations,

00:10:04.620 but he recently expanded the kind of service he offers. So this is the room where you have the

00:10:11.360 medical aid in dying. Yes, this is where it happens. People who are approved for medical

00:10:17.520 assistance in dying can come here with their doctor and loved ones to end their lives at a cost of at

00:10:23.040 least $700. It's a lot of organization on our part to really make it a respectful and meaningful

00:10:33.420 event for that family. It's what Michel Brunel recently opted for. His family says he had emphysema

00:10:40.080 and his quality of life had deteriorated, but he didn't want to die at home or in the hospital.

00:10:45.280 They're using a room that they have already, decorated it very nicely,

00:10:50.320 allowed us the time we needed to do what we had to do to say goodbye, let him get comfortable. It's

00:10:58.400 just it's just a beautiful option. Suicide rooms in funeral homes. This is real. This is actually

00:11:06.320 happening right now. You know, and if you really want to increase efficiency, maybe they can even

00:11:11.280 allow you to commit suicide while laying in your casket. Saving time, saving money, making money.

00:11:18.080 That's what eugenics has always been about. That's obviously not the entire explanation for what

00:11:22.560 we're seeing. Every country has evil politicians who would kill innocent people for power, but Canada

00:11:27.200 has much bigger problems. And its main problem is that it's a godless hellhole. One that's so far gone, 0.99

00:11:32.720 the prime minister makes excuses for church burnings. Canadians, they don't believe in God

00:11:37.200 anymore, at least not in the traditional sense. They believe that they are gods. They think that

00:11:41.360 they can change their sex just by wishing for it. God doesn't choose whether you're male or female. 0.93

00:11:46.000 You get to choose it. And you can change your sex in literally an instant. That's what they seriously 0.99

00:11:50.880 believe. It's what everyone on the left believes. So it's only natural that a society like that would

00:11:54.560 gradually assume more godlike powers, including the power to decide who dies and when they die.

00:12:00.400 And just like with gender ideology, MAID is becoming a social media cult in Canada.

00:12:05.840 Kids with obvious mental problems are posting TikToks with captions like,

00:12:09.760 things my parents have had to come to terms with, their child choosing medical assistance in dying.

00:12:15.760 Now, if we put the picture up on the screen and you just take a look at this person,

00:12:20.240 your first reaction is that, you know, if you're a sane human being, your first reaction is that

00:12:24.720 whoever that is, some sort of mental health intervention is obviously necessary for this

00:12:30.640 person. But very quickly, that's becoming the minority position. Notice the 26,000 likes on that

00:12:38.400 post. OK, this is a young girl talking about how she's going to kill herself and 26,000 people liked it.

00:12:46.400 By the way, that girl who just yesterday set her TikTok account to private has posted many times

00:12:51.840 about her intention to take advantage of the MAID program. She says that she has a chronic medical

00:12:57.600 condition. Note, not terminal, but chronic. And she also says that she has three, quote,

00:13:03.280 incurable personality disorders. So to be to be clear, doctors are going to kill this girl because, 1.00

00:13:10.560 in part, her personality is disordered. There's many more social media posts like that. 0.99

00:13:16.400 Here's a video of a woman celebrating that a physician is about to kill her grandmother. Watch.

00:13:22.000 I came in quietly. Are you nervous? Are you excited? How do you feel?

00:13:28.880 Looking forward. Just putting an end to being dependent, no control.

00:13:34.000 So as the day approaches, is it something you're thinking about every day?

00:13:37.600 No.

00:13:38.160 Just it's going to happen when it happens?

00:13:40.000 Yeah. When I'll be ready, I'll know.

00:13:42.080 Are you excited, Grandma, about your suicide? That was the question. And this is about as dark

00:13:49.440 as it gets. And once again, these are not one-off videos. Millions of people support this,

00:13:55.200 and not just on social media. More than 25% of Canadians in a poll now believe that the homeless

00:14:00.320 and the poor should be able to access MAID. Nearly half of respondents think mental illness should be

00:14:04.880 a justification for euthanasia. And that's about to be law in Canada. It's expected to be implemented

00:14:09.600 in one year. NPR would like to see that happen. They just ran a segment on someone named John Scully

00:14:15.280 who wants to die because of his mental illness. Listen.

00:14:20.240 The expansion of medical assistance in dying to people with mental illness

00:14:25.040 has been delayed by Canada's parliament for another year. The country already allows medically

00:14:30.400 assisted death for some incurable illnesses. But as Emma Jacobs reports, mental health conditions

00:14:36.400 are still up for debate. Please note, this story does include discussion of suicide.

00:14:42.080 For John Scully, life has literally become a living nightmare.

00:14:45.840 When I wake up, I go, oh God, I've got to stop it. I've got to stop it. I must find a way to stop it.

00:14:52.720 Scully lives in Toronto. He was diagnosed with depression more than 30 years ago and suffers

00:14:58.320 from work-related PTSD and anxiety. He says he has terrible, vivid nightmares.

00:15:04.640 There is no way to stop it. And because of that, I'm also permanently sleep-deprived.

00:15:10.320 He has been watching the progress of the expansion of medical assistance in dying,

00:15:15.200 known by its acronym MAID, very closely.

00:15:18.080 I actually physically got the paperwork for MAID. I have it right here.

00:15:23.040 Canada's medical assistance in dying program was made legally available to some adults with

00:15:28.880 terminal illness in 2016. In 2021, it was expanded to include those suffering with serious and chronic

00:15:36.480 physical conditions. But for many, the plan to extend this to those suffering with solely mental

00:15:43.200 illness raised concerns. We don't have very good ways of defining incurability for mental health problems.

00:15:51.600 Did you catch that? So they just need to figure out which mental illnesses are incurable.

00:15:58.240 And once they figure that out, then they'll know which one should be cured with suicide.

00:16:02.560 This will be a reality soon enough. Suicide offered as a treatment for mental illness. 0.60

00:16:09.280 Now, it used to be that you would go to a therapist to help you not kill yourself in Canada very soon.

00:16:13.360 It may work the other way. And when you consider that 20% of adults supposedly have a mental illness,

00:16:18.320 according to the people who are in charge of determining these things anyway, you begin to see how bleak

00:16:22.880 this picture really is. If mental illness is a legitimate reason to execute somebody, then pretty soon

00:16:28.960 we're all going to be eligible. Now, it's been easy for many people in this country to ignore MAID,

00:16:34.560 because for the most part, it's happening in Canada. But euthanasia is growing in popularity here, too.

00:16:39.920 In fact, just this month, the US got its very first suicide tourism state. The Republican governor of

00:16:46.160 Vermont signed a bill allowing euthanasia customers to come from anywhere in the country to be killed.

00:16:51.840 They'll start putting that in their tourism ads. Hey, you want to kill yourself? Come to Vermont and 0.98

00:16:55.600 do it. As always, culturally, we're on the same track and on the same train as Canada heading over

00:17:01.440 the same cliff. We're just maybe a few train cars back. As I said on Twitter the other day,

00:17:06.240 I should not have to explain, nobody should have to explain why it's bad for doctors to put human

00:17:14.560 beings down like dogs. This is something that everybody should understand intuitively. If you

00:17:20.320 don't understand it intuitively, there's something wrong with you and you need to think about that.

00:17:26.640 Because whatever you think of suicide, and if you have a soul, then what you should think of suicide is

00:17:31.600 that it's bad, and we should try to stop people from doing it. The point with euthanasia is that

00:17:37.520 doctors are prescribing death as a treatment. It is a total inversion of the medical field. It is

00:17:45.920 medicine doing literally the exact opposite of what it is meant to do. But medicine has been inverted

00:17:53.120 in this way in our society for a long time. Euthanasia is just the latest iteration.

00:17:57.440 Some of us have noticed this trend. Some of us, the so-called social conservatives,

00:18:02.800 have been screaming about it from the rooftops for a long time, and we've been right all along.

00:18:07.680 We have been right on every major cultural issue, from abortion to gay marriage to gender ideology.

00:18:14.600 And we're right about this too. Euthanasia is a dystopian abomination. It is a war on human life.

00:18:21.140 It is a cancer. And like any cancer, it will never stay contained. It will never stop. It always

00:18:27.360 spreads. It starts with euthanasia for the terminally ill, and very quickly it becomes

00:18:31.820 euthanasia for 19-year-old girls with personality disorders. This is inevitable. It will always be

00:18:39.660 this way. If you accept medical assistance in dying in principle, you are accepting everything

00:18:46.640 that comes with it and everywhere that it leads. How long until MAID is mandatory for certain undesirable 1.00

00:18:54.240 populations in Canada? How long until it's mandatory here? Now you can laugh at that slippery slope

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00:20:11.020 Daily Wire reports the Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is officially entering the 2024

00:20:15.980 presidential race this week during a special event with Twitter owner Elon Musk. The conversation

00:20:21.160 between DeSantis and Musk will take place on Twitter at 6 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday today.

00:20:25.820 According to multiple reports, the conversation will be moderated by Republican donor David Sachs,

00:20:30.280 who was a supporter of DeSantis and a close ally of Musk. Musk seemingly confirmed the report on the

00:20:35.880 platform by retweeting a Fox News reporter who shared the news. A source close to Musk told NBC News

00:20:40.880 that Musk believes that former President Donald Trump is not capable of winning the White House in 2024,

00:20:44.680 that DeSantis is. The person said, quote, he's interested in the future and he's interested

00:20:49.380 in winning again. So he's going to announce it officially on Twitter. And I think this is a

00:20:56.420 brilliant idea. I mean, it's obviously a good idea. It accomplishes a few things. It's, number one,

00:21:02.000 it's newsworthy because it's different. It's interesting. Just giving a speech, typically for

00:21:08.480 announcing a presidential campaign, we get what we got from Tim Scott. We played the clip yesterday.

00:21:14.020 Say, give a speech at a rally and say, I'm running for president and then give you a little stump

00:21:17.860 speech. And that's fine, but it's not interesting. It's not different. It would still make the news

00:21:23.840 because he's announcing that he's running for president, but this is a bigger deal. And this

00:21:28.220 is what we need from Republican presidential candidates. We need them to, and Republicans in

00:21:32.140 general and conservatives in general, we need them to do new, different, interesting things.

00:21:38.340 And second, the other reason this is a good idea is because it goes around the mainstream media.

00:21:46.200 And this is the major point. Okay. If you do a rally to announce your candidacy,

00:21:50.460 then you're really doing an event for and with the mainstream media because you need them to cover

00:21:55.980 it. Because obviously you're not just announcing your candidacy to the people that are in the room

00:21:59.280 with you. You need to get the word out. And so you need the media to amplify your message.

00:22:03.780 But here DeSantis is going around the media completely. It's newsworthy, so they will cover

00:22:09.600 it, but he doesn't need them. It's an end run around the media. It's going around them and right

00:22:15.360 to the people. And that is a, that's a very good idea. And that's exactly what we should be doing.

00:22:24.060 And Twitter, given that it is the most powerful and arguably the only free speech platform,

00:22:31.140 certainly the only relevant free speech platform on the internet. And it's run by someone who has

00:22:38.380 shown that he does believe in, in free speech. Given that fact, this, this is a, a really potent,

00:22:46.940 really powerful tool that we all need to start thinking about how we can utilize it better.

00:22:53.180 And it makes sense for political campaigns too. The DeSantis camp also put out a short video

00:22:57.380 leading up to the announcement. Let's watch that.

00:23:01.140 They call it faith because in the face of darkness, you can see that brighter future,

00:23:08.800 a faith that our best days lay ahead of us. But is it worth the fight? Do I have the courage?

00:23:17.580 Is it worth the sacrifice? America has been worth it every single time.

00:23:31.140 Solid. I like it. And the thing I like most is that, and it has a little bit of a kind of,

00:23:36.660 it's a little different in that it has somewhat intentional, vaguely kind of ominous tone,

00:23:43.780 which I think is good because the left is terrified. They are, they are peeing their pants

00:23:51.200 in fear because of Ron DeSantis. They've seen what he's done in Florida. They're absolutely petrified

00:23:55.020 that he might accomplish the same thing nationwide. And they'll, they'll tell you that. They'll tell

00:23:59.300 you that they're afraid. And their fear is the best sign of all. Lots of headline headlines like

00:24:04.360 this one from The Roots. This was their headline yesterday. Should black people be afraid now that 0.59

00:24:09.420 Ron DeSantis plans to announce his presidential bid on Twitter? Should they be afraid?

00:24:14.180 Yep. I, I, you know, I guess so, because if Ron DeSantis is on Twitter, then that, from what I

00:24:20.200 understand, it means that people who are members of allegedly marginalized groups and, uh, you know,

00:24:25.740 black people, if they are on Twitter at the same time, they will actually, uh, scientifically, 0.97

00:24:31.000 they'll actually, they'll spontaneously combust is what will happen. So yeah, it's, there's much, 0.89

00:24:37.520 many reasons to be afraid, but really the fragility is just off the charts. These are,

00:24:42.960 the most fragile people in the world. And they're used to getting their way because of it,

00:24:48.520 wielding their hysterical emotions like a battering ram, but they're finally coming up

00:24:53.540 against a faction of the right that won't be manipulated that easily. Um, and we'll have more

00:24:59.780 on that in a second, but there's more news on Twitter. Axios had the exclusive yesterday,

00:25:04.480 quote, the daily wire, a conservative media and entertainment company plans to put its entire

00:25:08.020 slate of podcasts, which are almost all recorded as videos on Twitter beginning May 30th.

00:25:12.960 Um, a company executive told Axios last month, outspoken daily wire host, Matt Walsh said YouTube

00:25:18.660 removed his right to monetize his videos over his comments about transgender influencer Dylan

00:25:22.560 Mulvaney. The daily wire then, then began putting the Matt Walsh show on Twitter. Walsh said he was

00:25:27.200 making a hundred thousand dollars monthly on YouTube. Um, and so that's the lead up to it.

00:25:31.700 And now the daily wire is, well, that's the news. Anyway, I guess I could have just told you that

00:25:34.560 I need to read the Axios report about it. Uh, but we're going to be putting all of our podcasts

00:25:38.200 on Twitter. It started with my show and now all the shows are coming to Twitter. Tucker's show

00:25:42.320 will also be on Twitter. That was the news, uh, last week or two weeks ago. This is exactly what

00:25:46.780 I was hoping for when we made the decision to bring my show to the platform a few weeks ago.

00:25:52.720 And, uh, I remember suggesting it in a, in a meeting right after we got demonetized by YouTube.

00:25:58.360 And it was one of those kind of light bulb moments in that it's a really obvious move.

00:26:02.300 And you wonder why you didn't, why you didn't think of it earlier, like this is clearly the

00:26:06.700 right thing to do. Um, a massive platform with hundreds of millions of daily users.

00:26:13.980 And, you know, they're, they're increasingly trying to ramp up their, um, the video element

00:26:21.640 of the Twitter experience. And so why not take advantage of that in a place where imagine that

00:26:28.620 you can post your content and talk about things and express your points of view.

00:26:35.480 And that's it. You just, you don't have to worry about being censored or having it's,

00:26:41.960 they're not going to come around and say, well, that, that point of view is a little offensive.

00:26:46.160 So that's not going to be allowed. Um, I have an opinion. You have an opinion. We express those

00:26:51.660 opinions. Nobody is harmed in the process. Maybe they get their feelings hurt, but that's as far as it

00:26:57.880 goes. That's what's happening on Twitter. And I think it's a obviously great news. New York post

00:27:03.760 has, uh, some, some, some news. That's also, I think pretty good target on Tuesday said the retail

00:27:09.380 giant will pull some LGBTQ friendly kids clothings from its store after facing customer backlash just

00:27:16.080 days after the company's top executive dismissed the social media uproar. The Minneapolis based chain

00:27:20.800 said, uh, one of the main factors of the nationwide adjustment ahead of pride month was because some

00:27:25.500 customers had violent confrontations with workers. A target spokesperson said, quote,

00:27:30.620 since introducing this year's collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members

00:27:34.220 sense of safety and wellbeing at work. Given these, these, uh, volatile circumstances,

00:27:38.680 we're making adjustments to our plan, including removing items that have been at the center of the

00:27:42.840 most significant confrontational behavior. Target declined to say whether it will remove its tuck

00:27:48.620 friendly women's swimsuit that allows trans women, quote unquote, who have not had gender affirming

00:27:53.320 operations to conceal their private parts. Okay. So target is of course, blaming this decision,

00:27:59.480 uh, on violence and confrontation. And they're making all that up. I mean, that that's not happening.

00:28:05.000 Go. Okay. Nobody's going to target and assaulting the employees. Um, the real reason target is doing

00:28:11.700 this obviously is that they're getting major pushback from their customers. Many of their customers,

00:28:16.820 as it turns out, don't want to walk into target and be accosted by a gay rainbow explosion. As soon as 1.00

00:28:24.120 they walk through the door, they don't want their kids seeing that they don't want satanic merchandise,

00:28:30.600 uh, in the store or sold online. So target is trying to deemphasize the pride stuff by moving it to the

00:28:41.820 back of the store to satiate the customers that they've upset. While at the same time, they're also

00:28:46.960 defaming those customers and accusing them of endangering the safety of their employees. So

00:28:51.740 they're trying to have it both ways and we absolutely should not let them, uh, which is why

00:28:56.120 the boycott is still on target must be crushed for this. But the fact that they, that they are moving

00:29:03.360 the merchandise and making up these excuses, that's a good sign. Um, it shows that our, our pushback is

00:29:09.360 working again, just like it did with Bud Light and target is obviously, uh, there was another report

00:29:16.480 quoting unnamed sources that target doesn't want to be the next Bud Light

00:29:20.020 because they seen what happened with Bud Light. And this, this is why from the very beginning,

00:29:25.660 those of us who were pushing the, the, the Bud Light, uh, boycott, this is one of the reasons why it was

00:29:32.060 so important. This is the point we were trying to make is that it's not just about Bud Light. Yes. Yes.

00:29:37.220 There, there are many companies that have done things that are far more egregious than what Bud Light

00:29:41.660 did, but, uh, we can make an example of them. Okay. That's what it's about. It's about mounting a

00:29:49.660 trophy on the wall as a, as a, a sign to others. So we want other corporations to go and look at that

00:29:57.620 and say, wow, I don't want that to happen to us. You know, the pride month stuff, this is all about 1.00

00:30:04.280 just, uh, this is supposed to be branding and this is about, um, signaling our, our, our, our virtue.

00:30:11.560 This is, this is virtue signaling. This is about scoring some woke points, but I don't want to lose

00:30:16.460 money. Those are the kinds of calculations we want these corporations to start making.

00:30:22.720 And I think that now they are, um, the ultimate goal. And I want to flesh this out a little bit more

00:30:29.020 tomorrow as we really, you know, get, uh, as we really get into the weeds on this, but, you know,

00:30:35.200 we have to look at, I know that a lot of conservatives that are, uh, dreading pride month

00:30:42.180 and complaining about it already. And that's, that's understandable, but I'm not dreading it.

00:30:46.920 Okay. I'm looking at pride month as an opportunity. And we've got, we've got a few surprises in store 0.98

00:30:53.280 for you. Come pride month. We've got, we've got a few things we're planning. Uh, we're going to make 0.67

00:30:57.320 it a big month, but also it's, it's, it's an opportunity for us to fight back against this.

00:31:04.000 And the ultimate goal is to make pride toxic for these brands. We're going to make it toxic for

00:31:12.300 them. Or I should say, we're not making it toxic. It already is. It is toxic. Okay. Promoting, um,

00:31:20.280 this kind of stuff, promoting gender confusion, uh, you know, trying to sexualize kids, all this,

00:31:26.080 that this is already toxic and we are bringing that to fruition. You know, on the left, they have

00:31:36.080 this concept called problematize. And for them, when they say they want to problematize something,

00:31:40.840 it means that they want to take something that is not a problem and they want to turn it into a

00:31:44.380 problem. Well, we need to take a page from that book and we're problematizing things too. But in our

00:31:49.260 case, we are, we are, we're not taking something that isn't a problem and making it a problem.

00:31:52.620 Um, we are taking something that is a problem and we are pointing out that it is a problem.

00:31:57.940 And so, yes, we, we can't, we can't, uh, and I know this, this is the response from conservative

00:32:03.860 skeptics who say, well, what are we going to do? Boycott every brand that does the pride?

00:32:06.800 No, we can't boycott all of them. We can pick out certain ones. We can make examples of them.

00:32:10.780 And for all the rest, you know, we can do, we can't boycott all of them. That's correct. Correct.

00:32:14.200 We can problematize pride. We can make it, we can make sure that it's divisive and controversial.

00:32:19.960 We can make the brand start thinking, is it really worth it? Okay. Yeah. If you're a brand

00:32:26.700 and you go this direction, I'm not going to sit here and promise that every, every brand that does

00:32:31.160 the pride thing is going to go bankrupt. Obviously not. But what I can say is that the winds are

00:32:38.620 changing and you're dealing with a faction of the right that, um, plays a little tougher than what

00:32:47.260 you're used to. And what that means is that now you're not going to go bankrupt if you do the pride

00:32:54.040 thing, but it's, it's going to be an issue. Okay. You're wading into a choppy waters and you need

00:33:03.600 to really think about whether it's going to be worth it. Uh, for so long, you know, the reason that these,

00:33:10.820 these companies have done this and it's gotten to the point that it has is because they could,

00:33:16.600 they could do it. They could shove this stuff in our face. They could express their hatred for their

00:33:21.560 own customer base. Okay. They could do all of that and they would get woke points from the left

00:33:27.720 and on the right, it would be nothing. We'd be a little annoyed about it, but we'd still

00:33:31.700 continue shopping. We wouldn't say anything about it. We just cooperate. And so it was a win-win for the

00:33:35.980 I was like, why not do it as far as they're concerned? Um, for them, it's a, it's a win all

00:33:41.880 around, especially a lot of these companies are run by far left wackos. And so they can use their

00:33:46.640 company as an opportunity to promote this stuff, promote their ideology. They can win some points

00:33:51.600 with their own side. The other side buys from them anyway, everything's fine. Um, but that's changing

00:33:59.220 now. We aren't, we aren't just going to sit quietly and go along with it. All right. Post-millennial

00:34:05.840 has this report. A trans identified male student athlete will be moving on to compete in

00:34:09.680 California's track and field state tournament next week after placing second in the women's

00:34:13.960 1600 meter race, beating out female competitors that will no longer get the chance to compete for 1.00

00:34:17.940 a state title. Athena Ryan, a biological male will be advancing to the California Interscholastic

00:34:22.700 Federation state track and field championships after become, after placing second in the girls

00:34:27.140 varsity 1600 meter race on Saturday, finishing behind, uh, Hanny Thompson of Montgomery and ahead of

00:34:33.120 Ellie Buckley, uh, Fox news reports, Ryan have been competing on this Sonoma Academy's boys track

00:34:39.360 and field team until he transitioned into a female in 2021. And by transition into a female,

00:34:45.420 we mean that he grew his hair out and put it in a ponytail. And like, that's what we mean.

00:34:49.760 That's that's transition. Look, I'm a female. Now my hair is longer. Um, but there were,

00:34:55.700 there was some pushback, uh, quote security removed women from the field seen holding signs in 1.00

00:35:00.560 support of girls in the sectional meet. Many parents were completely unaware. There was a

00:35:03.900 boy competing in girls races. Others were appreciative that they were there. The protesters

00:35:08.380 were there. Um, when they themselves felt silenced, the group wrote on Twitter, sharing photos of

00:35:13.240 women with a banner that reads protect women's sports. Uh, the women holding the banner belonged 1.00

00:35:17.640 to a group called women are real and said that they received praise all evening with members of the

00:35:22.260 crowd, uh, coming up to them and giving them fist bumps and high fives. Of course, when this first,

00:35:27.340 uh, started happening with males competing in female sports, we were assured that the guys,

00:35:32.640 you know, that, uh, that it would never happen that we're just going to allow, uh, the, the boys

00:35:38.660 who are experiencing real gender dysphoria, the ones who are quote unquote, actually trans,

00:35:44.440 whatever that means. Uh, we're going to allow, it's only going to be them. They're going to be the 0.97

00:35:47.500 only ones who we allow to compete. And it's, it's, it's not like you're gonna end up with a bunch of

00:35:50.700 guys who, um, aren't even gender dysphoric in the first place. And they're taking advantage of this 0.99

00:35:55.500 because they can't hack it against the guys. And so they're taking advantage of an opportunity to

00:35:58.660 win some trophies and medals. They wouldn't otherwise win. We were sure that that would

00:36:02.040 never happen, but of course, that's exactly what happened. It was always going to happen.

00:36:06.100 Mediocre male athletes who can't win anything against the guys are switching over to the girls 0.98

00:36:10.340 teams. That's what's happening. And I will say that I'm very happy about, uh, to read in the

00:36:16.380 article about women who showed up to protest this because that is what is needed. Now, you know that

00:36:22.840 I've never been one of, one of the people that claims that, you know, the fight to protect women's

00:36:27.400 sports and women's privacy and womanhood generally, that the fight is a woman's fight entirely. You 1.00

00:36:34.880 know, that it's, it's up to them to deal with. And as men, we don't have to worry about it. Um,

00:36:40.540 I've never believed that I've never said that, which is why I've been in this fight for years myself,

00:36:44.740 but it is true that women need to step up. They need to step up and defend their own spaces. 0.97

00:36:50.580 And it's also true that these spaces have all been compromised because women by and large have 1.00

00:36:56.360 not stepped up by and large. Now there are exceptions to that. There are notable courageous

00:37:02.100 exceptions and they're all, all the more courageous because they are exceptions, but by and large,

00:37:09.480 women have allowed this to happen and we, we need them now. You know, other, others have made this 0.91

00:37:17.760 point. I think it's an important point that going back to Bud Light, um, why is Bud Light being

00:37:23.700 absolutely crushed right now? A bunch of reasons for it. But one of them is that Bud Light caters to

00:37:30.460 a mostly male demographic. And so when this stuff was brought into a male space, okay, like the,

00:37:38.000 the beer cooler, uh, at the liquor store, that's generally a male space. And when it was brought there, 0.97

00:37:44.480 many men said, uh, no, that is what we don't want this stuff here. Get this out of here. What are you

00:37:51.060 doing? Um, that has not been the response when it's brought into female spaces. Okay. That's why 1.00

00:37:59.620 all these cosmetic companies and clothing companies, I mean, like every, the companies that are the worst

00:38:04.900 with the pride stuff and pushing transgenderism, all the companies that are the worst with it for the 1.00

00:38:09.620 most part. These are the companies that have primarily female, predominantly female customers

00:38:14.720 because the women again would are allowing it to happen when it comes to target. You know, 1.00

00:38:24.100 if a target boycott is really going to have an impact, if it's really going to work,

00:38:27.760 that's going to come down to the women. Now, when we talked about this a few days ago, 0.87

00:38:32.740 I admitted that boycotting target is harder. It's harder than boycotting Bud Light.

00:38:36.760 Bud Light requires no sacrifice, no change in lifestyle or behavior at all. Really just grab

00:38:44.040 for a different beer. Easy enough to do. Uh, Bud Light is a, it's terrible anyway. There are plenty

00:38:48.860 of beers that are just as bad, uh, and that are just as cheap if that's what you want to go for.

00:38:54.340 Target is different. You know, it's not one product. It's a, that's a, it is a store that sells a bunch

00:38:59.320 of, a bunch of products. And, um, oftentimes it could be the most convenient option. It could be the

00:39:04.300 cheapest option depending on what you're going for. And so to boycott, it requires a little bit

00:39:08.900 more sacrifice, not much, not much, but a little bit more sacrifice and effort. Um, but the other

00:39:14.360 part of that is that, um, in, in, in most cases, like if, if somebody needs to make a target run in my

00:39:21.980 house, 99 times out of a hundred, it's going to be my wife making the target run. It's not me. And 1.00

00:39:26.940 that's the way it goes in most, most homes. So it's going to be up to the women to actually make 1.00

00:39:31.480 this work. Um, and I think that this is in many ways, target is a good test case. Have we gotten

00:39:40.260 to the point where the women in America are now drawing a line and saying enough is enough. We 0.55

00:39:46.360 don't want this anymore. Um, and if that happens, okay, if that happens, the woke cult is going to

00:39:54.440 have a real problem on their hands. All right, let's get to the comment section.

00:40:12.340 Rogue Conservative says, I'm going to the university that fired people for the pronouns in the fall,

00:40:16.780 and I'm proud of them. You should be proud of them. And as you know, I'm highly skeptical of

00:40:21.400 the university system. And, uh, I, I generally think that college proves to be a waste of time

00:40:27.000 and money, but if you are going to go, then, uh, you, it's, this is a, this is a good place to go.

00:40:33.480 Uh, let's say I'm at university. I think it was Hoag's, Hoag's university, right?

00:40:37.400 So Houghton, Houghton university, Houghton university. Uh, and I know nothing else about this university,

00:40:43.500 except for the fact that they fired two of their employees for putting pronouns in their bio.

00:40:47.620 So that honestly, that tells me everything I need to know. Like I, I already know that this is a

00:40:52.200 extremely solid university. One of, one of the only good ones in the entire country.

00:40:58.220 And, um, it kind of, it, cause it works in, it works in the reverse too, that if somebody puts

00:41:03.320 pronouns in their bio, we know everything we need to know about them. Just that one simple act

00:41:08.240 tells you every last necessary detail about that person. Uh, but it goes the other way also.

00:41:14.280 So river parish says, I don't think this can be said enough. You can't run a conservative

00:41:21.100 media organization with a headquarter in New York city, period. Media staffers skew hard left

00:41:25.940 NYC skews hard left. The mathematics just don't work. You get a bunch of employees sneering at their

00:41:30.980 own product. That's it. And I agree. And that's another reason why the excuses for Fox news don't

00:41:36.260 wash. Uh, this, the excuses that I've heard even from as always some conservatives saying, well,

00:41:42.740 yeah, they have all of these, uh, pro trans policies written into their handbook. They have,

00:41:48.620 they have in their handbook, they have LGBT terminology that they define and they encourage

00:41:53.660 the use of, um, they give males the right to use women's restrooms and vice versa. If it aligns with 0.99

00:42:00.600 their quote unquote gender identity. Yeah, they do all of that. Yes. They have a perfect score.

00:42:04.560 Fox news has a perfect score with the human rights campaign. Um, but it's because they have to,

00:42:11.620 they're just following the law. That excuse does not work because number one, just following orders

00:42:17.500 never works as a, as an excuse to engage in immoral behavior. And also, well, if, if, if, uh,

00:42:26.180 being headquartered in New York in a place in New York, like New York city requires you

00:42:30.160 to be a woke corporation and you don't want to be, then move, go somewhere else. We did it with the

00:42:38.440 daily wires. Why we're here in Nashville. So that's, that doesn't work. And then there's also

00:42:44.260 the fact that as we reviewed yesterday, much of what Fox is doing, they are doing of their own

00:42:49.240 volition. Okay. They're, they're editorial guidelines that require reporters and commentators

00:42:56.120 apparently to refer to people by their preferred pronouns, all the rest of it, you know, putting out

00:43:00.100 stories, promoting the transing of kids. Um, that's not a, that's not a legal requirement.

00:43:04.620 Now I think on the left, they'd like to make that a legal requirement, but at this point it's not.

00:43:09.500 So they're doing that completely on their own. Um, Russ Bly says being banished from Fox should be

00:43:15.300 considered a badge of honor. What Fox CNN and MSNBC have not yet figured out is they're going the way

00:43:20.400 of the buggy whip. Google pictures of downtown New York in 1900, then look at New York in 1915.

00:43:25.980 Today, the metamorphosis is even faster. In the next few years, cable news will just be a memory.

00:43:30.420 So Matt, in essence, you've been booted from a horse and buggy. Enjoy the high performance ride of

00:43:36.400 the future. Uh, that is, that is true. You know, it's, that's true with a caveat, which is that cable

00:43:45.660 news is becoming irrelevant. Um, and that's, it's just a numbers game. Like the only people that are

00:43:53.100 sitting down and watching cable news or watching cable in general are people that are over the age of

00:43:56.420 65 in my generation. I don't know anybody who has cable. Like I, I'm not sure I've met anyone

00:44:02.740 recently in my generation actually has cable. Um, when I, when you go to a hotel or something and

00:44:08.840 they, and they have like basic cable, if you go to a, you know, a mid range hotel that has still has

00:44:14.060 basic cable, uh, and you're flipping through and you have to flip. I was just at a hotel like this

00:44:19.100 recently and I'm sitting there and I have to, I have to flip through the channels to see what's on.

00:44:24.520 Like I want to know what's on TV. I have to actually pick up the remote and flip through

00:44:29.260 the channels. And then if I want to watch something, I have to watch it from the, from the

00:44:33.500 beginning. I have to schedule my night so that I can watch it when it starts. And if I come in 15

00:44:40.760 minutes late, then I'm, I'm just late. I mean, this is, this is, this is like ancient stuff.

00:44:45.460 It's like, it's, it's, even though I grew up with this kind of, uh, this is, this is the,

00:44:49.400 the situation I grew up in. Now it feels very foreign and bizarre. So that's how it's headed.

00:44:56.580 Uh, and in the next 10, 15, 20 years, certainly 20 years from now, cable news will not exist.

00:45:02.940 In the meantime, though, it, it, it is still relevant and cable news and these, uh, and,

00:45:08.880 and the cable news, uh, and the media, the mainstream media in general still has

00:45:14.100 a lot of power and they have the ability to drive the narrative and they have the ability

00:45:19.720 to influence and sway elections. Um, so that is currently still the case, but it won't be for

00:45:28.620 long. Um, Michael says you were not banned from Fox. You were just uninteresting. Now I was definitely

00:45:36.140 banned and I still am. But my other question is, why would you think that being uninteresting

00:45:41.300 would mean that I wouldn't get on Fox? That's like, if anything, that's, that's one of the

00:45:47.140 things they're looking for. Have you, have you, have you watched Fox recently? You think that if

00:45:51.360 you're not interesting, they don't want you on? That's explain a lot of the content that you see

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00:46:40.080 Speaking of the mainstream media, it's hard to imagine this today, but there used to be a time

00:46:44.060 in this country when people took the Washington Post seriously. They probably shouldn't have,

00:46:48.680 you know, they certainly shouldn't have. The country would have been better off if they hadn't,

00:46:51.800 but they did. And yet to be fair, this was, this was long before the Post hired theater kids to make

00:46:56.560 TikToks, before Russia Gay, before Taylor Lorenz. So let's go back to the dark ages of the early 1.00

00:47:01.620 1990s, when everyone got their news from papers like the Washington Post. That's when the Post ran

00:47:06.680 a deep dive into a question that the whole country was asking at the time. Here's the headline,

00:47:10.940 quote, is Prozac really the wonder drug for depression? The answer, according to the Post's

00:47:16.180 rigorous reporting in that piece, seemed to be yes. The science was settled. Depression happens when

00:47:21.060 you don't have enough serotonin. So if you give people more serotonin, they're happy. Plus,

00:47:26.540 there were other benefits too. The Washington Post reported at the time, quote, while other

00:47:29.600 antidepressants have been linked to weight gain, Prozac has been associated with weight loss,

00:47:33.580 an advantage for some depressed people. What a breakthrough. Thanks to Prozac, you can stop

00:47:38.040 wondering if you're sad and obese because of your life choices. You can get rid of both problems with

00:47:42.560 just one pill. It took 30 years until we learned that from a medical perspective, none of that was

00:47:48.340 true. Studies show that nearly half of patients gained significant weight on Prozac, and it turns out

00:47:53.880 that Prozac didn't do much about depression either, which was supposed to be the point of the drug.

00:47:58.120 Compared to 30 years ago, when 45 million Americans weren't taking Prozac, we had fewer suicides,

00:48:04.940 fewer mass shootings, fewer overdoses back then. Why exactly didn't Prozac work as advertised? Well,

00:48:10.500 it took until last year, which is a long time since the early 1990s, until we got some kind of

00:48:14.640 explanation. Turns out that scientists had no clue what Prozac was doing in the first place.

00:48:19.480 One of the leading journals in psychiatry determined that, quote,

00:48:21.840 the main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association

00:48:26.480 between serotonin and depression. That should have been a blockbuster story, but it was out of the

00:48:31.560 news in less than a week. Who cares if we don't know what SSRIs do? They tell you, just shut up and

00:48:37.380 take them. And give some to your kids too. That's their actual argument as of today. They lied about 0.95

00:48:43.200 how it works, and there's no evidence that it does work. Take it anyway. And tens of millions of

00:48:48.500 Americans are still doing just that. What explains that? Like, why are people still taking it? With opioids,

00:48:53.660 there's a clear explanation. People became addicted based on lies from drug companies and doctors.

00:48:58.760 But with Prozac, it's a lot less clear. Why are people of their own volition taking SSRIs to solve

00:49:04.460 all their problems when even the pharma companies admit that the SSRIs don't work as advertised?

00:49:10.340 These drugs have serious side effects, by the way. SSRIs can cause birth defects. They can kill your sex

00:49:15.920 drive. They can make you agitated. And yet people are still taking them for no apparent benefit. Why? 0.80

00:49:21.800 Whatever the answer to that question is, maybe people are desperate. Maybe they're badly

00:49:25.560 misinformed by the billions of pharma ad dollars. Maybe it's something else. Maybe it's a combination.

00:49:30.420 This is not an issue that's going away. Big Pharma's grift is now expanding far beyond SSRIs like Prozac.

00:49:36.560 Consider the current wonder drug named Ozempic. You've probably heard the jingle. If you haven't,

00:49:41.340 I'm not going to sing it for you. Ozempic began as a diabetes drug when it came to market a few years ago.

00:49:46.940 Recently, though, Ozempic has transformed, in the words of NPR, into a blockbuster diet drug because

00:49:53.180 people taking it noticed that they lost a lot of weight. This February, nearly 400,000 Ozempic

00:49:57.820 prescriptions were filled. That's an increase of more than 100% from the previous year.

00:50:02.360 According to NPR, that means Ozempic has had a rise to superstardom. They say it's a hot commodity.

00:50:09.020 Run out and get your prescription today if you want to lose weight. Now, it's worth pausing for a

00:50:13.600 moment to consider the irony of NPR, which runs a segment every day about how fat people are healthy

00:50:18.300 and beautiful, now telling you to buy some Ozempic because, in truth, being fat is a disease that

00:50:23.920 needs to be cured. The entire mainstream media tows this line. Being fat is good, and also being fat

00:50:30.960 is a disorder that happens to you, and you have no control over it. Of course, both approaches are

00:50:35.900 wrong. Fat positivity is a cult that kills hundreds of thousands of people, many of them probably NPR

00:50:40.560 listeners. And being fat is obviously a choice, not an identity. You chose to be fat by eating too

00:50:47.040 much. It's not something that happens to you like scoliosis or spina bifida. So what's really going

00:50:52.660 on here? You know, anytime the media outlets spin two contradictory narratives at the same time,

00:50:57.920 it's worth looking into a little bit further and figuring out why they're doing it. So what's the

00:51:02.480 real reason they're promoting Ozempic? Keep in mind that Ozempic is not some anodyne substance that

00:51:07.920 anyone can try out for a few months without a problem. It can kill you. This is straight from

00:51:12.080 the Ozempic website. Quote, Ozempic may cause serious side effects, including possible thyroid

00:51:16.640 tumors, including cancer. Spend five minutes on Reddit, you'll hear all kinds of stories from

00:51:21.680 Ozempic patients about some of the other terrible side effects. One user wrote, quote, it made my burp

00:51:26.460 smell and taste so ungodly disgusting. Think straight sulfur plus an outhouse at a NASCAR race in summer at

00:51:32.260 the end of a race weekend. I'm not exaggerating that it was complete projectile vomiting out of my

00:51:37.720 nose and mouth. It was an absolutely ungodly, horrible experience. Anna Toonk is a podcaster

00:51:44.260 told one news outlet that she had a similar story on Ozempic. Quote, I had no energy, constant nausea,

00:51:49.400 and what I call power puking. Now you wouldn't think a drug that induces power puking would be

00:51:54.800 promoted by every media outlet in the country, but this one is. Just like Prozac, every day we're

00:51:59.120 hearing about the miraculous Ozempic. The Atlantic is out with a new piece explaining that the wonder

00:52:04.440 drug doesn't just cure diabetes and obesity, it also cures credit card debt and every other problem

00:52:09.700 you can think of. Did scientists accidentally invent an anti-addiction drug, The Atlantic asks.

00:52:15.780 According to the piece, quote, people taking Ozempic for weight loss say that they have also stopped

00:52:20.060 drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting. Basically, it solves everything, but maybe acne.

00:52:25.680 Here's how The Atlantic article begins.

00:52:28.940 All her life, Victoria Rutledge thought of herself as somebody with an addictive personality. Her first

00:52:33.480 addiction was alcohol. After she got sober in her early 30s, she replaced drinking with food and

00:52:37.700 shopping, which she thought about constantly. She would spend $500 on organic groceries, only to have

00:52:42.560 them go bad in her fridge. I couldn't stop from going to that extreme, she told me. When she ran errands

00:52:47.340 at Target, she would impulsively throw extra things, candles, makeup, skincare products into her cart. 0.75

00:52:52.380 Then this woman started taking a version of Ozempic, and suddenly, according to The Atlantic,

00:52:56.500 all her problems went away. Quote, her food thoughts quieted down. She lost weight. But most surprisingly,

00:53:01.960 she walked out of Target one day and realized her cart contained only the four things she came to buy.

00:53:07.340 Another woman, Mary Marr, reported similar results. Marr said that she hopes to stay on Ozempic forever.

00:53:11.780 Quote, it's incredibly validating, she told The Atlantic. It's incredibly validating.

00:53:17.580 Medicine meant to affirm and validate. You know, there's a lot of that going around these days.

00:53:22.380 Now, to be clear, there's no scientific basis that explains what, if anything, is happening here.

00:53:27.600 Ozempic releases a hormone that tricks the pancreas into releasing more insulin, which sends

00:53:31.360 signals to the brain that we don't fully understand. The Atlantic admits that, quote,

00:53:35.620 the exact mechanism of weight loss is still unclear. Most intriguing, it also seems to reach and act

00:53:41.400 directly on the brain. Now, the piece quotes a biologist saying that Ozempic's pseudo-hormones,

00:53:47.380 quote, appear to actually bind to receptors on neurons in several parts of the brain.

00:53:52.380 Prozac, it's supposed to solve a bunch of problems all at once, but no one's really sure how.

00:53:57.220 Before Ozempic, Mary Marr and Victoria Rutledge just couldn't resist putting unnecessary garbage in 1.00

00:54:01.600 their shopping cart at Target. Now they no longer have those inclinations, those thoughts.

00:54:05.940 Those thoughts. Their thought process has been changed by a drug, and nobody seems interested in

00:54:11.860 asking any questions about that. Like, how does that happen? What are the long-term effects of people

00:54:18.480 flooding their bodies with Ozempic for 80 years? What other effects is this having on these users'

00:54:23.860 personality or day-to-day interactions with other people? No one has any idea. There haven't been

00:54:28.840 any long-term studies on this, just like there were no long-term studies on Prozac or cross-sex

00:54:32.520 hormones for children. Ozempic might make people's lives worse in many ways, as Prozac did. We don't

00:54:37.520 know. All we know is that people who are desperate for validation, for assurances that they're not

00:54:42.700 responsible for their own actions, which is what they want validated, are welcome to load up on

00:54:47.720 Ozempic. Take the pill. It'll make you feel better. Don't think about it. That's the pitch from Big Pharma.

00:54:55.980 Now let's think about the implications of this for a moment. Assume that Ozempic works, just as

00:55:00.580 The Atlantic is describing. If this drug stops people from shopping too much, then it has somehow

00:55:06.820 mitigated the desire to shop. But that desire is a conscious thing in the mind, which means that

00:55:13.460 the drug is, in a literal sense, manipulating people's thoughts. And of course, this is nothing

00:55:18.940 new. All psychiatric drugs do this. But the mind itself is still, in many ways, a mystery to science.

00:55:26.540 Like, the doctors that are prescribing things that affect your mind, they can't even tell you what

00:55:30.760 exactly the mind is, or where it comes from, or how it works. Which means the doctors who prescribe

00:55:37.000 this stuff don't know exactly how the drugs work, or what it means. And they can't grasp the full

00:55:42.180 implications. We're treating people like machines, incapable of changing their own behavior, or engaging

00:55:47.200 in self-control. And that's exactly how the system wants you to see yourself. You cannot fix this problem

00:55:53.480 yourself. You know, if you're Victoria Rutledge, somehow, was Victoria Rutledge incapable of going

00:56:01.460 to Target and only buying a couple things? Like, she couldn't, physically impossible? Or did it just

00:56:07.100 require a little bit of effort and self-control that she didn't feel like generating? Think about

00:56:13.260 every drug, and there are many of them, that warn about suicidal thoughts as a side effect. Ironically,

00:56:19.300 Prozac, which is supposed to cure depression, has been known to drive people to suicide instead.

00:56:23.120 This means that a drug is, a drug, here's what it means, that a drug is putting self-destructive

00:56:29.260 thoughts into a person's mind. Suicidal people are not mere animals acting on instinct. They are,

00:56:36.220 again, are conscious agents responding to thought processes. These drugs are in some way causing these

00:56:43.180 thought processes. How does that work? How can a pill make a person want to kill themselves?

00:56:49.460 How can a pill put in a person's mind the thought you should kill yourself? Nobody really knows.

00:56:57.280 And yet they churn out the pills and the prescriptions anyway. You know, in ancient times,

00:57:02.120 before medicine was more about marketing than healthcare, physicians knew to stay away from

00:57:06.820 false panaceas like this. One expression was, leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the

00:57:12.400 patient with food. Well, that's ancient wisdom. It's gone now. Now we heal patients' food problems

00:57:19.260 with drugs from the chemist's pot. And we heal their shopping problems and their drinking problems

00:57:23.880 too. 30 years from now, we might learn what we're actually doing to these people. But for now,

00:57:31.080 Ozempic is canceled. And that'll do it for this part of the show as we move over to the members

00:57:36.280 block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 24, 2023

Ep. 1169 - The Shocking Truth About Canada's Euthanasia Program. It's Way Worse Than You Think.

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