The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1170 - From Bud Light To Target, We Are Making 'Pride' Toxic For Brands

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Target has suffered massive losses as conservatives boycott over their literally satanic pride campaign.

00:00:06.460 We're succeeding in making pride toxic for brands, but how did it get to this point, and where do we go from here?

00:00:11.400 We'll answer those questions today.

00:00:13.060 Also, Ron DeSantis crashes the servers at Twitter during his campaign launch event.

00:00:17.300 A new report shows how Google searches related to sexual orientation and gender identity have risen 1,300% since 2004,

00:00:23.660 and a Republican state senator in Louisiana single-handedly kills a bill that would have banned the castration and mutilation of children,

00:00:29.440 turns out that he gets a lot of donations from Big Pharma.

00:00:32.380 Must be a coincidence.

00:00:33.240 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:45.340 One of the hardest things to do is take a step back and put news stories into a larger context.

00:01:50.320 It's hard mainly because corporate media outlets do everything they can to make it hard.

00:01:54.600 They don't want you thinking about what this country was like just a few years ago

00:01:58.200 because if you did that, you might think to yourself,

00:02:00.480 wow, you know, life was a lot better back then.

00:02:03.000 And if you started thinking like that, you might do something radical like, you know,

00:02:06.100 wage war on the companies they depend on for ad revenue.

00:02:09.440 You might join a boycott and bud light their revenue stream.

00:02:12.320 So they want you as disoriented as possible to prevent that from happening.

00:02:16.420 And with that in mind, it's been interesting to read some of the media coverage on Target's

00:02:20.880 new effort to sexualize children.

00:02:23.300 In case you're not up to speed on the story, Target recently decided to stock its stores 0.81

00:02:26.560 with a variety of disturbing and perverted items, including gay pride apparel for children, 0.71

00:02:32.680 swimsuits designed for tucking, and merchandise with literal satanic imagery 0.95

00:02:37.420 designed by an actual avowed satanist.

00:02:40.000 And tucking, for the record, is a practice that can cause urinary tract infections,

00:02:44.860 inflammation, et cetera, in addition to being, you know, demented.

00:02:48.940 But Target's all for it.

00:02:50.840 And here's the background that Fox News provided in their article on this story.

00:02:54.640 Quote, many Target locations across the country feature massive June Pride Month displays

00:02:58.860 on an annual basis.

00:03:01.240 Now, set aside Fox's sterile descriptions of large crotch swimsuits for young boys

00:03:06.120 who are suffering under the mental delusion that they're really girls,

00:03:08.460 notice what Fox said about Pride Month there.

00:03:11.480 They said, on an annual basis.

00:03:14.200 You know, Target sets up these Pride Month displays.

00:03:17.500 Like so much else in the news media, that's a technically true statement that misleads the reader

00:03:22.380 by failing to provide any context whatsoever.

00:03:25.400 The report doesn't mention when exactly this supposedly annual tradition at Target started.

00:03:30.040 How new is this exactly?

00:03:33.220 When did they change their strategy and why did they do it?

00:03:36.480 Those are questions you never see asked.

00:03:39.000 All big media outlets are spitting the story just like this, by the way.

00:03:41.920 It's not just Fox.

00:03:43.080 Here's ABC, for example.

00:03:46.000 Target is pulling some LGBTQ merchandise following some confrontations between customers and workers.

00:03:52.380 Eyewitness News reporter Mark Cotoroblis is live in Pasadena with the latest on this.

00:03:56.320 Mark.

00:03:56.620 Yeah, Rachel Leslie, good morning.

00:04:00.140 And Target saying that this all comes down to employee safety after some employees say that

00:04:04.600 they have been threatened and targeted by this Pride merchandise in the stores.

00:04:08.880 And so Target now moving forward by removing some of the Pride items that have caused the most

00:04:13.960 confrontational behavior.

00:04:16.300 Target has been offering these Pride products for more than a decade.

00:04:19.800 But when this year's collection rolled out, Target saying its employees experienced threats

00:04:25.180 impacting their sense of safety and well-being while at work.

00:04:28.320 Now, everything you heard in that clip is nonsense, especially the stuff about Target employees

00:04:32.260 having their safety jeopardized.

00:04:34.280 And even if that were true, by the way, the fault would lie with Target itself for deciding

00:04:39.360 to carry merchandise so repulsive and outrageous that its employees are put in danger just by selling it.

00:04:45.580 But again, it's not true.

00:04:47.840 It also isn't really true that, as the reporter claims, Target has been offering these Pride

00:04:51.560 products for more than a decade.

00:04:53.680 Because Target hasn't been working with satanic clothing designers for a decade. 0.71

00:04:57.720 The partnership began this year, actually.

00:05:00.320 And Target hasn't been stocking their stores with tuck-friendly swimsuits for a decade.

00:05:04.440 Because a decade ago, you know, tucking was something that the serial killer in the

00:05:07.560 Silence of the Lambs did.

00:05:08.600 It wasn't a subject that came up while you were shopping for swimsuits.

00:05:13.020 In fact, a decade ago, Target didn't dare to stock any Pride merchandise in their stores.

00:05:17.740 And we know that because they tweeted this in 2013, quote,

00:05:21.960 Our Pride merchandise is only available online.

00:05:25.280 That's the first tweet that Target's account ever made about Pride, by the way.

00:05:29.240 Prior to 2013, they never even mentioned the word.

00:05:32.900 So you're not crazy.

00:05:34.360 You're just being lied to.

00:05:36.700 They're not just lying about Target.

00:05:38.600 At some point in the last 10 years, every major corporation decided to shove

00:05:42.520 Pride propaganda in your face and in your kids' faces, even when it makes absolutely no sense.

00:05:49.080 10 years ago, for example, this is what advertisements for the outdoor recreation company

00:05:53.140 North Face looked like.

00:05:55.000 And you can see there a picture of a rugged-looking guy doing outdoorsy stuff in France.

00:06:00.560 He's living on the edge, according to the ad.

00:06:03.160 It's logical.

00:06:04.360 Clearly designed to make you want to buy North Face's products for outdoorsmen.

00:06:08.600 For comparison, here's what the North Face's advertisements look like this year. 0.91

00:06:13.200 Hi, it's me, Patagonia, a real-life homosexual.

00:06:17.460 And today, I'm here with the North Face. 0.77

00:06:19.320 We are here to invite you to come out in nature with us.

00:06:24.400 Wow, this is nice.

00:06:26.360 We like to call this little tour the Summer of Pride.

00:06:30.520 This tour has everything.

00:06:33.040 Hiking, community, art, lesbians, lesbians making art.

00:06:37.500 Last year, we gay-sah-shayed across the nation and celebrated Pride across the nation with hundreds

00:06:43.160 of you across the nation.

00:06:45.140 This year, we're back, back, back again with two new stops.

00:06:48.680 Atlanta, GA.

00:06:50.140 Why?

00:06:50.940 Because you're there.

00:06:52.300 In Salt Lake City, we're coming for you.

00:06:54.880 Howdy, can we go?

00:06:56.320 Of course.

00:06:57.540 This year, all these fabulous speakers will be coming from inside this TV to a nature near you.

00:07:03.280 So come outside and celebrate the beautiful LGHGTV community. 0.79

00:07:08.380 That's pretty gay. 0.97

00:07:13.440 Now, you can bet that North Face isn't running that ad in China, where they now make a lot of money. 0.82

00:07:18.200 But in the U.S., that's an actual North Face personality.

00:07:21.640 Go on their website.

00:07:22.440 You'll find this invitation next to a picture of Patty the Drag Queen, quote,

00:07:26.420 Join us for a day of hiking, drag, community, and more.

00:07:30.820 It's pretty clear that the North Face now considers sexual perversion to be central to its identity

00:07:34.940 as a brand for outdoorsmen.

00:07:36.800 How long has this been going on?

00:07:39.020 As far as I can tell, they went completely unhinged about a year ago

00:07:41.640 when they released this ad featuring the same drag personality.

00:07:46.500 Nature lets you be who you are. 0.98

00:07:49.680 Even gay. 0.61

00:07:51.340 Hi!

00:07:57.000 Ladies and gentledems, you are cordially invited to the Summer of Pride with my friends at the North Face.

00:08:03.500 We're traveling all the gay across America. 1.00

00:08:06.100 And everyone's invited.

00:08:08.440 That means you.

00:08:09.560 Me!

00:08:10.080 And you.

00:08:11.040 Hello!

00:08:11.520 And you.

00:08:12.340 Wow!

00:08:13.320 Not you, though.

00:08:14.200 You're too cute! 0.66

00:08:15.160 Okay, just kidding.

00:08:23.580 You can come.

00:08:25.080 Put on your boots and come out.

00:08:27.580 Side with us.

00:08:29.440 See you there, besties.

00:08:32.940 Don't you think this is all a little intense?

00:08:35.720 I mean, look at you.

00:08:37.660 You're in a literal tent right now.

00:08:39.860 But no, this event will not be intense.

00:08:41.760 Everyone is invited.

00:08:42.860 Everyone is welcome.

00:08:43.460 It's going to be so fun.

00:08:45.660 Now, as you've probably guessed by now, a company that thinks it's a good idea to employ someone like that

00:08:49.700 is also very interested in sexualizing children. 0.62

00:08:52.700 It's almost like, you know, the natural endpoint of these deviant and satanic ideologies is to target kids.

00:08:59.260 It's not almost like that.

00:09:00.480 That's just the fact.

00:09:02.560 Here's the North Face's out-in-nature clothing line designed for kids aged 2 to 7 years old.

00:09:08.580 As far as I can tell, this out-in-nature line didn't exist on the North Face's website until last year.

00:09:13.680 So this is new as well.

00:09:15.520 A few years ago, major clothing lines would not dare sell gay pride apparel for toddlers.

00:09:22.300 Now it's becoming more the rule than the exception.

00:09:26.220 What explains the change?

00:09:27.320 In the case of the North Face, it could be financial desperation.

00:09:30.300 The stock price for VF Corporation, which owns the North Face, is down around 80% in the last five years.

00:09:35.820 They desperately need more interest from investors.

00:09:38.220 And one way to do that is to earn a high ESG score or environmental, social, and governance score.

00:09:44.160 These scores became immensely popular on Wall Street about three years ago.

00:09:47.620 And according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, companies that advance diversity and equity and inclusion goals,

00:09:53.440 they go a long way towards improving their ESG scores and, quote,

00:09:57.940 improving their reputation and gaining greater interest from investors.

00:10:01.860 That includes investors like George Soros, who has donated more than $100 million to the so-called Human Rights Campaign, or HRC.

00:10:09.180 HRC, as we've talked about recently, is a chronically dishonest organization.

00:10:12.700 And yet, somehow, every corporation, except for maybe firearms manufacturers, from the North Face to Fox News,

00:10:27.120 bends over backwards every year to appease the HRC.

00:10:29.460 Why? Well, because HRC maintains the Corporate Equality Index.

00:10:35.220 And if you want a good ESG score, then you want a high score from HRC.

00:10:40.500 What we're seeing is yet more social engineering, funded to a large degree by a man who has a well-established reputation

00:10:46.500 for destroying countries for profit.

00:10:49.780 None of this is organic.

00:10:52.080 That's why corporate media is lying about pride.

00:10:55.480 They want you to think that it's some kind of organic, month-long holiday, but it's not.

00:11:00.220 For decades, Pride Month used to be a single day.

00:11:02.840 They called it Christopher Street Liberation Day.

00:11:05.660 And it commemorated the riot by gay white men at Stonewall Inn in New York City. 0.64

00:11:10.040 It wasn't until 30 years later, in 1999, that the sexual deviant who occupied the White House at the time 0.70

00:11:15.300 declared that, for some reason, we need a Pride Month. 0.82

00:11:18.860 For a while, it was strictly about homosexuals, but now that's changed.

00:11:22.400 According to the New York Times, Pride Month actually commemorates the actions of brave, quote, trans women at Stonewall.

00:11:27.700 Quote, transgender women of color led the uprising at Stonewall Inn 51 years ago on Sunday,

00:11:32.920 but they were never put at the center of the movement they helped to start.

00:11:36.920 That claim is sourced to Sylvia Rivera, who witnesses said was high on heroin and asleep on a bench when the riot began. 0.98

00:11:43.900 Not exactly a credible claim.

00:11:46.100 Mark Hemingway debunked it years ago for the Daily Signal.

00:11:48.740 But it's one you're now expected to accept as gospel.

00:11:52.360 Like everything else about Pride, you're told what you're being told is true is simply not true.

00:11:58.660 But stop asking questions.

00:12:00.140 But finally, after many years of sitting back and watching this progressive degradation of culture

00:12:07.200 and this flagrant rewriting of history, the right is fighting back.

00:12:12.180 Target is backing down, not entirely, but noticeably.

00:12:15.680 They're moving their perverted clothing line out of some stores.

00:12:18.360 In many other stores, they're moving their entire Pride collection to the back out of sight,

00:12:22.620 whereas it used to be right in the front as soon as you walk in the doors,

00:12:25.000 because they're worried about becoming the next Bud Light, and they should be.

00:12:29.800 Bud Light has reached truly a point of full-on crisis.

00:12:33.180 Their sales cratering week after week.

00:12:35.440 NBC News has an article this week quoting industry insiders who are flummoxed by the backlash.

00:12:41.340 Quote, nobody imagined it would go on this long, they say.

00:12:45.740 Bud Light's brand is in shambles with no signs of recovery.

00:12:49.220 And it's true. 0.56

00:12:50.200 Nobody in the corporate world saw this coming.

00:12:52.600 They have been totally blindsided.

00:12:55.000 You can see why.

00:12:55.940 Corporations kept ramping up their Pride festivities for years with little pushback from the right.

00:13:00.780 It was an easy gig.

00:13:02.020 Wave the rainbow flag, repeat the slogans, trans women are women, etc.

00:13:06.020 Appease the left, pump up those ESG scores,

00:13:08.880 and let your conservative customers roll their eyes, but keep buying your stuff anyway.

00:13:13.240 That's the way it went for a long time.

00:13:15.840 That's the way they expected it to always go.

00:13:18.820 But things are changing now.

00:13:21.000 And these people aren't ready for it.

00:13:22.620 I said on Twitter yesterday that the ultimate goal for us, those on Team Sanity,

00:13:29.280 those on Team Decency, has to be to make pride toxic for brands, radioactive.

00:13:35.000 If these companies want to shove this garbage in our face, they must pay, and pay dearly.

00:13:42.820 Whatever they think they'll gain from the stunt, we must ensure that it's not worth the cost. 0.95

00:13:47.680 We need to give them something to think about, something to weigh.

00:13:53.260 You know, the left has, as I mentioned yesterday, this concept of problematizing,

00:13:56.960 which means making something into a problem when it really isn't.

00:14:00.800 Well, now the right needs to get into that.

00:14:03.320 Needs to get into the problematizing game.

00:14:06.500 We need to problematize pride, except that we are making something into a problem that already should be a problem.

00:14:12.300 The pride movement is fundamentally political, polarizing, radical.

00:14:19.360 All we have to do is treat it that way.

00:14:22.020 Treat it as it should be treated.

00:14:25.000 My comments about this on Twitter resonated enough that I was trending for most of the day on the platform,

00:14:29.860 though that was thanks partly to those on the left who were furious at me for daring to say that we should make pride toxic.

00:14:36.340 And this prompted a rather hilarious, if somewhat grotesque, spectacle of leftists passionately defending the poor, put-upon, persecuted brands.

00:14:47.140 One journalist accused me of harassment.

00:14:50.060 That is, he accused me of harassing multibillion-dollar megacorporations.

00:14:55.520 Others said that I was bullying.

00:14:57.780 I'm bullying the brands.

00:14:59.280 Leave the brands alone, they cry.

00:15:00.880 Won't someone think of the brands?

00:15:02.360 But I did appreciate this response from one leftist commentator who tweeted this, quote,

00:15:08.360 Matt Walsh has been at the front of a very deliberate effort to train their base to go ape on brands.

00:15:13.720 They're 100% transparent that this is what they're doing, and they're promising to do more of it in June.

00:15:18.660 And this is about changing the Overton window.

00:15:20.980 If they can create an environment where brands are afraid to do anything slightly inclusive or progressive,

00:15:25.180 if they can get them to take their pride flags down, they've dramatically changed the culture without casting a vote or firing a shot. 0.73

00:15:34.460 Well, all I can say to that is, you're damn right.

00:15:38.160 That is exactly what I aim to do.

00:15:42.160 That is exactly what we're doing.

00:15:44.460 Shift the Overton window.

00:15:46.000 Every pride flag that a company takes down or hides in the back of their store in shame is a victory. 1.00

00:15:55.220 And as you say, we aren't firing a shot.

00:15:57.320 We aren't engaging in any kind of violence. 0.53

00:15:59.540 And we also aren't waiting around for useless politicians to do the work for us because we know they won't.

00:16:05.820 We are using the power that we have to demand and affect change.

00:16:09.880 We are using many of the same tactics that the left has used with great success for decades.

00:16:16.040 In fact, what we did with Bud Light and now with Target comes straight from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. 0.80

00:16:21.980 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.

00:16:26.460 The left has been doing this again forever.

00:16:29.380 The only difference is that they wield this tactic for evil.

00:16:32.600 We are getting in on the game, but for good.

00:16:36.020 And they get to see what it's like on the receiving end, and they don't like it.

00:16:39.880 And I'm glad they don't like it.

00:16:41.680 I really am.

00:16:43.720 Some conservatives are still skeptical, you know, that we can make a difference.

00:16:46.680 Well, we can't boycott every woke company, they say.

00:16:49.660 They're right.

00:16:50.920 But the good news is that we don't need to.

00:16:53.640 We need only pick a few strategic targets.

00:16:56.420 Focus on them until they are begging us to leave them alone.

00:17:00.420 Pleading with us to stop bullying them.

00:17:03.700 And when they start begging and pleading, we laugh in their faces and keep going.

00:17:07.840 Okay, we make them suffer.

00:17:10.220 We make them pay.

00:17:11.540 We make an example out of them.

00:17:13.540 We show no mercy.

00:17:16.600 That will be enough to make wokeness a lot less appealing to the corporate world. 0.98

00:17:21.100 They're not going to abandon it immediately.

00:17:23.080 Okay, that's not going to happen.

00:17:24.060 Of course not.

00:17:25.520 But they'll start thinking twice.

00:17:26.620 You think other beer companies now are really thinking twice before endorsing transgenderism?

00:17:34.840 I'd say so.

00:17:36.820 We can't bring down the whole line of dominoes at once.

00:17:39.960 But we can start with one.

00:17:42.360 And then the next.

00:17:43.760 And then the next.

00:17:45.420 Bud Light may never recover.

00:17:46.900 Target has lost $9 billion in market value just in the past week.

00:17:51.220 We have a lot more power than we ever thought we did.

00:17:56.840 We just have to know how to use it.

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00:19:13.360 Daily Wire reports Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday evening on Twitter that he's running for president of the United States.

00:19:19.980 DeSantis filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission earlier in the afternoon, released his initial official launch video at 6 p.m. Eastern time on the platform, which glitched initially as hundreds of thousands of users attempted to tune in.

00:19:31.520 DeSantis said in a video, our border is a disaster, crime infests our cities, the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet, and the president flounders.

00:19:40.100 But decline is a choice, success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for.

00:19:46.180 DeSantis also joined a special event on Twitter with the platform's owner, Elon Musk, which Musk said received so much interest that it crashed the event due to the servers being overloaded.

00:19:54.340 And the servers are straining somewhat, Musk said at one point, as 700,000 people logged into the event.

00:20:01.120 And so that was kind of the story.

00:20:03.740 DeSantis announced they did their Twitter event, Twitter Spaces.

00:20:07.860 It was the biggest Twitter Spaces event ever.

00:20:10.280 Crashed the servers, causing some headaches and hiccups early on.

00:20:13.740 Now, of course, DeSantis' opponents, his critics, both those on the left and in Trump's camp, tried to spin this as like a huge disaster.

00:20:23.100 The fact that the servers were having trouble is a huge disaster.

00:20:27.580 And I saw someone tweet that the DeSantis campaign is over.

00:20:32.040 It's over because of this.

00:20:33.340 It's done.

00:20:34.000 It's finished.

00:20:35.620 Is that true?

00:20:36.640 Well, obviously not.

00:20:37.720 I mean, it's absurd.

00:20:38.520 And this is one of the reasons why I dread these political seasons, campaign seasons, because we have to deal with this sort of thing all the time.

00:20:46.880 People taking every little thing that a politician does and trying to blow it out of proportion as much as possible.

00:20:53.760 Say, this is the end.

00:20:54.660 This is going to be it.

00:20:55.220 And meanwhile, as I'm constantly reminding people, okay, by the time people have a memory, in American society these days, in Western society generally, the average memory is about 14 and a half seconds, I think we're down to.

00:21:16.080 So anything that happened before 14 and a half seconds ago doesn't matter.

00:21:19.680 If it happened months ago, it might as well have not happened.

00:21:22.400 Okay, it might as well have happened in the Middle Ages.

00:21:25.220 So by the time the primaries start, the idea that anyone remembers, well, you know, I was going to vote for DeSantis, but that campaign announcement was a little glitchy.

00:21:35.840 I'm not sure about that.

00:21:38.100 It's just not going to happen.

00:21:39.940 Primary voters aren't going to be making their decisions based on whether a Twitter Spaces event months earlier went well or anything else.

00:21:47.300 But this is true in general.

00:21:49.720 It's like most of what happens right now doesn't matter for any of these guys.

00:21:55.940 What matters is what happens directly before the voting actually starts, because that's the only thing anyone's going to be thinking about.

00:22:02.780 And I think the one thing that we take from this, like the actual event itself doesn't matter.

00:22:13.400 What he said doesn't matter.

00:22:15.120 Politically, it doesn't matter.

00:22:15.980 Because again, nobody's going to remember.

00:22:17.140 Nobody cares.

00:22:18.120 Nobody remembers any campaign launch announcement.

00:22:20.920 You know, there might be Donald Trump coming down the escalator.

00:22:25.880 Like that's an image that people remember.

00:22:28.160 But as far as what's actually said and all that, it's rare that anyone really remembers that or cares.

00:22:33.560 At least I'll say that.

00:22:35.560 The one takeaway from this is that there was a lot of interest.

00:22:38.720 There was a lot of interest that crashed the servers.

00:22:41.100 And that's what matters.

00:22:43.660 What we know is that if any other non-Trump Republican, if any other non-Trump Republican nominee did the same kind of event and did a Twitter Spaces event,

00:22:53.620 and probably they'll all do one at some point, they aren't going to crash the servers, right?

00:22:59.120 Nikki Haley or Tim Scott or Mike Pence, you're not going to have 700,000 people trying to get in on the action here, what Mike Pence has to say.

00:23:07.620 Only DeSantis can do that and only Trump can do that.

00:23:11.020 Those are the two Republicans in the race and probably the two Republicans, period, on the political scene who could potentially crash the servers because so many people want to hear what they say.

00:23:21.380 And that's why they're the only two who really matter in this race. 0.98

00:23:25.300 And for Trump, this is the first time that he's facing a primary challenger who actually draws that kind of attention and interest.

00:23:32.360 He's never had that before.

00:23:34.060 There was nobody else in 2016 that anyone cared about or was paying attention to.

00:23:38.060 Trump sucked up all the oxygen in the room. 0.89

00:23:39.840 He still sucks up a lot of the oxygen, but not all of it. 0.99

00:23:42.040 And part of the reason is that the left hates DeSantis arguably even more than they hate Trump.

00:23:51.660 They despise him because of the policies he's put in place in Florida.

00:23:54.680 They hate him for all the reasons that many of us like him.

00:23:57.380 And this, again, is something that Trump hasn't really dealt with before, so it'll be interesting.

00:24:02.960 What does that mean?

00:24:03.840 You know, there are people saying that this primary between Trump and DeSantis will be good.

00:24:09.860 It'll be good for both guys and for the right generally because iron sharpens iron and all of that.

00:24:15.160 And I would agree.

00:24:16.480 Okay, I would agree that this is good if it means that Trump and DeSantis are going to try to outmaneuver each other to the right.

00:24:26.240 If this is a primary that ends with both men going farther to the right, becoming even more conservative, then great.

00:24:35.220 If they're trying to out-conservative each other and taking positions that are ever more to the right, then I'd say that works out well for us.

00:24:44.940 That's great.

00:24:46.720 Whoever wins in the end, it's good for us.

00:24:48.500 But my fear is that it won't go that way, and instead, you're going to have some in the Trump camp who go to the left.

00:24:57.320 We've already seen some of that happening with the Trump camp siding with Disney, for instance, coming out against the Bud Light boycott and so on.

00:25:05.140 And if that happens, then we have a fracturing of the movement with part of it going to the left, and that will be a very bad thing.

00:25:11.420 No matter who wins.

00:25:12.720 It's just bad.

00:25:14.200 And my main concern is the conservative movement.

00:25:17.100 It's the work we're trying to do in the culture.

00:25:20.300 It's why I led the show today with the target boycott and not Ron DeSantis and his presidential announcement, because I think that other stuff matters more.

00:25:33.080 And that's what I care about.

00:25:34.400 Yeah, I support DeSantis, but if Trump wins, then I'll vote for him in the general.

00:25:37.520 The main thing I care about is the fight in the culture, and at least staying united on the issues.

00:25:44.100 So that's what it comes down to for me, right?

00:25:45.780 If we can stay united on the issues, but then yell at each other about which politician is better, great.

00:25:56.840 That's fun.

00:25:57.240 You know, that's fun.

00:25:57.840 We could have fun with that.

00:25:58.640 That's perfectly fine.

00:25:59.640 Who cares about that?

00:26:00.440 My fear is that we lose the unity on the issues.

00:26:06.100 And you start having people saying, well, I don't know, I don't agree with this anymore because, you know, because in an attempt to pull some kind of political maneuver and stay loyal to one politician or another, they start abandoning their position on the issues.

00:26:19.280 And if that happens, then it becomes catastrophic for everybody involved.

00:26:29.240 Just for example, here's Laura Loomer, a big-time Trump supporter, interviewing some Trump supporters who are picketing outside of the DeSantis campaign kickoff event.

00:26:38.800 So, so far, that's fine.

00:26:41.680 You like the other guy.

00:26:42.520 You don't like this guy.

00:26:43.260 So you're out there, you know, sticking up for your guy.

00:26:45.920 Perfectly fine.

00:26:47.820 But listen to what is said in this interview.

00:26:50.660 I'm here outside of the Four Seasons Resort in Miami on Brickell Avenue with Maurice from Blocks for Trump.

00:26:58.160 So what are you doing here today outside of DeSantis' presidential announcement? 1.00

00:27:02.240 I'm here to destroy DeSantis because he's a bastard from hell. 0.97

00:27:06.060 I'm here to let him know that I helped you only because Trump asked us to actually go out and help. 0.99

00:27:13.600 We stopped Barbara Grant from cheating on you and Rubio and a few others, and this is how you repaid Trump. 0.99

00:27:20.940 Shows me that you are a traitor, no good bastard from hell. 1.00

00:27:25.200 So what I'm going to do is make sure that you don't win and that everybody knows that you are rhino Republican racist. 1.00

00:27:33.820 Because those are the racists. 0.98

00:27:35.880 Republicans and deplorables are not racists. 1.00

00:27:38.680 The ones that make everybody look racist is you damn rhinos like you, Ronnie. 1.00

00:27:44.440 So I'm against the racist rhinos for Ronnie. 1.00

00:27:49.620 Okay, so first of all, the stuff about he betrayed Trump, he's disallowed Trump.

00:27:56.260 Nobody cares about that. 0.96

00:27:57.800 That's, I mean, it's ridiculous, first of all.

00:27:59.660 The idea that he owes, what exactly is the idea? 0.66

00:28:04.880 Trump is owed the presidency, that DeSantis owes him something, he can't run for president.

00:28:09.440 I mean, it's absurd.

00:28:11.020 But it's also, that's not, that can't be the message.

00:28:15.460 Okay, Trump is very powerful when he's talking about the people and he's sticking up for the people.

00:28:20.740 And he's making the people that have been forgotten by the corporate media and by the system.

00:28:27.420 And he's making them feel seen and heard and like we actually care about you.

00:28:30.560 And that is Trump's superpower.

00:28:33.700 But when the message becomes, well, it's not about you guys, it's about, it's about Trump.

00:28:37.860 And we have to do this for his sake and to defend him.

00:28:40.620 That's not nearly as powerful.

00:28:42.160 You're not going to get people to go into the polls.

00:28:43.860 It's like, go to the polls to defend the people, not to defend this individual. 0.97

00:28:48.320 But putting that aside, Ron DeSantis is a racist. 0.91

00:28:55.540 They're throwing the racist. 1.00

00:28:57.440 He's a racist.

00:28:59.280 The real Republicans aren't racist. 0.97

00:29:01.500 This is a, this is a leftist attack. 0.99

00:29:06.720 I mean, this is, it's also completely ridiculous and false. 0.95

00:29:10.120 It's a full on leftist attack and criticism is an attack from the left, all the way from the far left. 0.93

00:29:17.700 And this is the kind of thing I'm worried about.

00:29:21.680 Not that this one clown standing outside the event represents any kind of larger group, but it's the kind of thing I'm worried about.

00:29:29.660 This is, this is the kind of thing we don't want to see where we scramble over to the left. 0.99

00:29:34.100 He's the racist.

00:29:35.300 So yeah, you support whoever you want. 0.98

00:29:37.160 But what we can't do is support people based on this lame leftist, these lame leftist tactics.

00:29:47.500 He uses the word rhino there.

00:29:48.840 I don't think he understands even what he's saying.

00:29:50.460 But rhino, by rhino we mean kind of like fake, squishy, milquetoast conservatives. 0.66

00:29:55.900 That is fake, squishy, milquetoast conservatism right there.

00:29:59.140 What you just heard from. 0.99

00:29:59.980 Dems are the real racists.

00:30:02.020 We're not racist. 0.92

00:30:02.840 You are.

00:30:03.260 So that can't be the tactic.

00:30:08.100 It's not going to work.

00:30:10.100 You know, it's not going to work.

00:30:11.680 Certainly not going to work in the general.

00:30:13.100 And all it's going to do is, is rip the movement apart.

00:30:19.260 All right.

00:30:20.120 Daily Wire has this report, which is interesting.

00:30:23.000 With schools busy teaching everything LGBTQ plus nowadays, children are more confused than ever. 1.00

00:30:27.500 A new study finds.

00:30:28.520 Google searches about sexual orientation and gender identity have soared 1,300% since 2004, according to an analysis from the Cultural Currents Institute.

00:30:38.760 The questions on the search engine include questions such as, am I gay, am I lesbian, and am I trans?

00:30:45.720 Other searches include the term non-binary, the analysis found.

00:30:48.560 The Institute wrote, quote,

00:30:50.520 The evolution of social attitudes around sexual orientation and gender identity over the last two decades has been profound, surprising even some of the foremost political consultants and public affairs practitioners who observe opinion in the space.

00:31:02.520 The researchers said, quote,

00:31:03.360 The analysis found that Utah, Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Hampshire are the top states for the query, am I gay?

00:31:29.640 Utah, Utah, Connecticut, Kentucky, Washington, and Colorado were the top states for, am I lesbian?

00:31:37.380 And then there were also, as it mentions, questions, many questions, am I trans?

00:31:42.540 Am I non-binary?

00:31:43.840 All the rest of it.

00:31:45.840 And this is how, this is exactly how you end up with this skyrocketing percentage of people, especially younger people, identifying as LGBT.

00:31:57.180 Like, how did the LGBT camp go from a very small minority to among the youngest generations, you know, 20% or more and growing?

00:32:10.320 How did that happen?

00:32:11.360 Well, there's a lot that goes into it.

00:32:15.120 There's the deliberate indoctrination in the schools, from the media, from Hollywood, and all the rest of it.

00:32:20.300 But then there's also this.

00:32:23.060 There's the internet and social media.

00:32:26.120 Because what happens is you have, you know, you have especially younger people who don't really understand.

00:32:32.420 They have questions.

00:32:34.480 They're hearing a lot of these terms.

00:32:35.680 They don't really know what they mean.

00:32:37.500 And especially term like non-binary.

00:32:39.600 That's why non-binary identification. 0.94

00:32:41.740 And I'm assuming, and I don't see this here in the report, but if you go back to 2004, how many people were searching, am I non-binary?

00:32:50.400 I'm going to guess that the answer is like none.

00:32:52.540 There's pretty much zero people questioning that in 2004.

00:32:55.900 Because the concept hadn't really been invented yet.

00:32:58.740 And if it had been invented, if there were, it was still in the kind of academic realms where they would use phrases like non-binary in 2004.

00:33:05.020 And it had not caught on in the mainstream the way that it has now.

00:33:12.220 So especially words like that, terms like that, they don't really mean anything to begin with.

00:33:17.640 And so you have people, you have kids that hear these terms.

00:33:21.240 And they don't really know.

00:33:22.040 And they're, you know, they're going through phases in their life.

00:33:24.300 And they're asking questions.

00:33:25.280 And they don't really understand their own feelings about things.

00:33:27.620 They don't understand the world.

00:33:29.560 It's all very normal and natural for young people.

00:33:32.320 So, and they hear these terms.

00:33:35.860 And then they go online and they say, well, am I that?

00:33:38.600 I don't know what that is.

00:33:40.340 And they're immediately presented with this framework.

00:33:46.560 It is a, the internet presents a framework for understanding, for them to understand themselves.

00:33:53.720 They have certain feelings.

00:33:55.100 They have certain discomforts.

00:33:56.740 You have adolescent girls that feel uncomfortable in their own bodies, uncomfortable with themselves.

00:34:01.400 Adolescent boys, too, going through puberty, very natural, very normal.

00:34:06.620 20 years ago, that did not result in all of these kids coming out as trans because that framework didn't really exist in the mainstream.

00:34:16.020 And it certainly wasn't accessible the way that it is now.

00:34:18.440 Now it does.

00:34:20.600 They take all that confusion, that fog of confusion that comes with adolescence and puberty and teenage years.

00:34:26.360 And they bring it to the internet.

00:34:28.180 And they say, how do I make sense of this?

00:34:31.260 And the internet is there to say, well, here you go.

00:34:33.580 Here's what all that means for you.

00:34:34.960 And they glom onto it.

00:34:39.840 Like they desperately, they desperately, they grab onto it.

00:34:43.420 Like it's debris floating in the ocean.

00:34:45.880 And they just survived the shipwreck.

00:34:49.160 Because they're confused.

00:34:50.280 And they say, well, anything that gives me an answer that feels like it makes sense of how I'm feeling, I'm going to grab onto that.

00:34:57.440 That's my identity now.

00:34:58.800 And if I let go of it, I'm going to sink.

00:35:01.580 And none of that is true.

00:35:03.600 It's not their identity.

00:35:04.900 And they don't need this.

00:35:05.780 And it doesn't actually make sense of anything.

00:35:07.220 It only makes them more confused.

00:35:08.340 But they feel like it makes sense of it.

00:35:12.420 And that's how we end up with 20% LGBT and all the rest of it. 1.00

00:35:17.180 Speaking of the way things have changed over the years.

00:35:19.380 You go back to 2004, it's almost 20 years ago.

00:35:21.520 It's a long time.

00:35:22.800 You don't have to go back that far, though, to see the way that things have changed.

00:35:27.860 YAF posted this video yesterday.

00:35:29.360 And it's a fascinating video.

00:35:31.040 And it proves some points that I've made in the past.

00:35:33.360 Those are my favorite kinds of videos that prove points that I've made.

00:35:36.300 This is our friend Dennis Prager on Bill Maher's show in 2019.

00:35:40.460 So this is 2019, not all that long ago.

00:35:44.520 Bill Maher is now celebrated by many on the right as a voice of reason, a bastion of sanity, one of the good ones on the left.

00:35:54.500 But let's see what happened in 2019, only a few years ago, when Dennis Prager was on the show and brought up some concerns about gender ideology.

00:36:07.120 Let's watch.

00:36:08.200 To say that men can menstruate is a lie.

00:36:12.580 And that is now, that is what is said.

00:36:15.740 Wait, wait, wait, where did that go?

00:36:17.540 I never heard it.

00:36:18.400 You never heard it.

00:36:19.300 Right, okay.

00:36:20.040 Check it out.

00:36:20.880 Anyone who says a man cannot menstruate is considered transphobic.

00:36:24.760 I missed this whole story.

00:36:26.760 You did?

00:36:27.520 I did.

00:36:28.040 I agree you did.

00:36:28.280 Tell me where you're getting this.

00:36:30.160 Just Google it.

00:36:30.920 Can men menstruate? 0.89

00:36:31.760 Who is saying this?

00:36:32.940 You're talking about a very small percentage.

00:36:34.880 Oh, really?

00:36:35.360 Dennis, I remember you in the old show, you were a little more reasonable.

00:36:42.880 What did I say that wasn't under you?

00:36:45.240 You said that we think that men menstruate and no one does.

00:36:48.880 We never heard.

00:36:49.600 Have you heard about it?

00:36:50.700 I'm a doctor.

00:36:51.180 I missed that one, I confess.

00:36:52.320 And this is one of the premier reporters.

00:36:54.360 I mean, he knows everything.

00:36:56.880 These people are very, he's a doctor.

00:36:59.960 I would make a friendly bet that the LGBTQ normative statement is men can menstruate. 1.00

00:37:07.600 2019.

00:37:08.980 Who's saying that?

00:37:10.060 Men can menstruate? 0.96

00:37:10.960 No one's saying that. 1.00

00:37:12.640 You dumb clown. 1.00

00:37:14.420 Who's saying that? 1.00

00:37:16.920 Well, who's saying that, Bill?

00:37:18.400 Every major medical organization in the world is saying that now, or at least in the West.

00:37:23.620 Nearly everyone on the left is saying that.

00:37:25.900 The president of the United States is saying that.

00:37:28.180 Every elected Democrat is saying that.

00:37:30.820 You know?

00:37:33.620 Your kid's pediatrician would probably say that.

00:37:37.140 Everybody on your side is saying that.

00:37:40.180 Everybody.

00:37:41.680 That's who's saying it, Bill.

00:37:45.280 In 2019, it was, there were fewer, a little bit fewer.

00:37:48.440 But it was, it was, to anyone paying attention in 2019, it was very obvious where this was headed.

00:37:57.300 By 2019, those of us who were aware and cognizant and sane, by 2019, we had, you know, the fight over gender ideology had been going on for a while.

00:38:10.440 We had, we had, we had long since jumped into those waters.

00:38:14.100 By 2019.

00:38:15.100 So as recently as 2019, Bill Maher, who's the, who's supposed to be the reasonable one, one of the good ones, but as recently as 2019, he was laughing at the very idea that this is a concept we have to oppose or argue against.

00:38:31.260 And the whole crowd was too.

00:38:33.620 You know what happens now, though?

00:38:37.080 You know, the people in the crowd, people in the audience are not innocent here.

00:38:41.820 Because take those, take that exact same audience, okay?

00:38:44.980 That exact same audience.

00:38:46.380 And you put them in that room again, right now in the year 2023.

00:38:50.460 And you, you put Dennis Prager in front of them and Dennis Prager says, men can't menstruate, rather than them laughing because it's an absurd concept that doesn't need to be said, they would boo him.

00:39:04.060 How dare you, bigot? 0.93

00:39:05.640 Those same people in a few years went from laughing at the very notion of it to they want to kill you if you say it because it's that offensive.

00:39:15.740 Now, does this show, on Bill Maher's part, ideological inconsistency or an inconsistency on the issue?

00:39:27.600 Well, you could argue not really.

00:39:30.180 It's not like in 2019 he was saying that men can menstruate, right?

00:39:33.560 He was just laughing at the idea that anyone needs to, to argue against that.

00:39:40.260 He was, he was dismissive of the issue.

00:39:42.480 He wasn't on the other side of the issue a few years ago.

00:39:45.940 He was dismissive of it.

00:39:48.160 So, in that sense, sure, it's not a, it's not a, it's not an intellectual inconsistency.

00:39:53.740 It's not exactly hypocrisy.

00:39:56.640 What it shows is that this guy's oblivious. 0.69

00:40:00.140 What it shows is that he doesn't notice anything until it is punching him directly in the face, okay?

00:40:07.160 He doesn't see anything.

00:40:08.560 Like, if, if, if the thing is this close to his face, he still doesn't see it.

00:40:12.260 It needs to smack him directly in the face.

00:40:16.900 So, gender ideology, you know, back in 2019, it was, it was about this far away.

00:40:24.200 So, the ball being hurled at his face, in 2019, it was like right here, and he still couldn't see it.

00:40:30.060 Like, no one's throwing anything at me.

00:40:31.480 What are you talking about?

00:40:32.020 He needed it to smack him in the face, and then he could say, well, what was that?

00:40:36.360 That came out of nowhere. 0.84

00:40:38.300 So, what we see is, he's obliviousness, vanity, arrogance.

00:40:44.760 You had people like Dennis Prager, and any other, quote unquote, social conservative with a platform.

00:40:51.420 We were all trying to warn you. 1.00

00:40:53.640 We tried to tell you, idiots. 1.00

00:40:55.740 We tried to tell you, and you laughed at us. 1.00

00:41:00.780 And you still do about other issues.

00:41:02.660 See, that's the problem.

00:41:04.200 We warned you about gender ideology. 0.84

00:41:06.220 We told you where it was headed.

00:41:08.200 We told you years ago.

00:41:09.740 We were screaming it from the rooftops, and you wouldn't listen to us.

00:41:15.780 But now you do, but you pretend like it was your idea.

00:41:18.180 You don't even acknowledge.

00:41:19.680 You don't apologize.

00:41:20.800 You don't acknowledge.

00:41:21.340 You don't say, hey, look, I got blindsided by this.

00:41:23.120 I should have been paying attention.

00:41:23.900 I laughed at you guys when you warned me about it.

00:41:27.200 You know, I was, and I shouldn't have.

00:41:30.080 There's none of that, right?

00:41:31.580 There's no mea culpa.

00:41:33.220 There's no acknowledgement.

00:41:35.460 I can forgive people.

00:41:37.500 I can forgive Dennis, or Bill Maher, if he were to come out and say, you know, I should have noticed this.

00:41:41.820 I was wrong. 1.00

00:41:42.620 It was stupid. 0.70

00:41:43.940 I'm sorry about that. 0.98

00:41:44.960 I'm trying not to make that mistake again.

00:41:47.660 He says that, I could say, all right, well, that's progress at least.

00:41:52.000 This is not progress.

00:41:55.040 But then the other part of it is that he's still, these supposed good liberals are still reacting this way to us on other issues.

00:42:07.700 When we try to tell you about other things in the culture, and we say, look, here's where it is right now, but here's where it's going to be.

00:42:17.740 If we accept this thing now, and if we accept these arguments in principle, here's where it leads.

00:42:25.520 And it's not even this is where it leads.

00:42:27.520 It's more when you accept this argument in principle, this is what else you have accepted.

00:42:32.620 Not down the line.

00:42:33.620 You've accepted it now.

00:42:36.200 We're telling you that.

00:42:37.280 We're telling you that with plenty of other issues.

00:42:40.900 Marriage, abortion, euthanasia, things like that.

00:42:43.420 And the good liberals still laugh at us about that.

00:42:49.020 Maybe five years from now, we'll get a, they'll have caught on and once again pretend like it was their idea.

00:42:57.520 All right.

00:42:58.800 We'll play one other quick thing.

00:43:00.600 This is Joy Behar had some thoughts about Tim Scott's campaign announcement.

00:43:04.440 And he's one of these guys who, you know, he's like Clarence Thomas, black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, 0.75

00:43:13.040 rather than to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country and other minorities.

00:43:19.520 He doesn't get it.

00:43:20.700 Neither does Clarence.

00:43:22.280 Right.

00:43:22.600 And that's why they're Republicans.

00:43:24.280 Yeah.

00:43:27.120 I know.

00:43:29.280 Yeah, that's, that's been making the rounds. 0.72

00:43:31.080 And for, for obvious reasons, you have this old white lady who's telling, uh, two black men that they, that they can't relate to the experiences of, uh, of black people.

00:43:41.180 So she will tell them what it's like to be a black person in America because, uh, because they can't, they don't know. 0.99

00:43:48.520 Um, which is, which is absurd.

00:43:51.260 I mean, all you can do is laugh at that.

00:43:52.600 It's not worth getting angry about.

00:43:53.840 It's just, it's absurd. 0.98

00:43:55.060 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:43:57.080 It's silly. 1.00

00:43:57.760 You know, I'm, I'm happy when people like Joy Behar make these kinds of statements because it makes them look so stupid. 1.00

00:44:04.380 And for Joy Behar, everything she says makes her look stupid. 1.00

00:44:07.160 But, um, this is, it's, it's, it's good. 0.99

00:44:10.660 You want to go with that?

00:44:11.460 Go with that.

00:44:13.980 If this is what you want to go with, uh, that, that you, you know, you can speak more as an old liberal white woman to the experiences of black Americans than Clarence Thomas can.

00:44:27.760 Yeah, sure.

00:44:28.240 Run with that.

00:44:30.380 The more insidious thing is the, uh, the bit about pulling yourself up by the bootstrap.

00:44:36.320 She says, well, because, because, you know, they believe you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps. 0.78

00:44:39.360 So they're not real black people. 0.96

00:44:40.960 So the very, the very notion that a person can have any control over their own lives, that a person can, um, you know, to a large extent control their own fate.

00:44:55.680 Um, she says that, that if you, if you think that way, if you try to take control of your own life, then you're no longer even really black.

00:45:07.280 You don't count as black anymore. 0.98

00:45:08.500 Because according to Joe, to Joy Behar, to be black is to be helpless. 0.99

00:45:14.600 It is to be infantilized. 0.95

00:45:17.040 And if you are not helpless and infantilized, then you're not even really a member of the race. 0.89

00:45:22.460 That is how, that is how fundamental being a helpless infant is fundamental to being a member of the black race, according to Joy Behar. 1.00

00:45:31.520 That's the really sinister stuff. 0.82

00:45:33.200 All right, let's get to the comment section.

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00:46:31.180 Kay Wagner says, I'm blind and I sure the heck got to get one of the matte baby dolls.

00:46:37.440 Well, in your case, maybe that's the only time I could recommend buying the baby dolls.

00:46:42.140 If you're blind and you can't see it anyway and see how disturbing it is, then that's the only time that it can be potentially safe.

00:46:52.080 Stephanie says, or no, sorry, Garrett says, step one, classify normal behavior as a mental disorder.

00:47:01.920 Step two, make MAID readily available and acceptable for mental disorders. 0.96

00:47:06.380 Step three, total societal collapse.

00:47:09.480 Yes, that is exactly the process.

00:47:11.220 I'm glad that you see it.

00:47:12.120 More people need to see it.

00:47:13.660 And it's not just with euthanasia.

00:47:15.240 Okay, using mental illness as a pretext for taking people's rights away and also taking their lives away. 0.57

00:47:25.620 This is the same thing with red flag laws.

00:47:29.280 So what people need to understand is that that is red flag laws, euthanasia for mental illness.

00:47:34.300 That's step two in the process.

00:47:36.760 Step one, as you point out, is to classify every kind of human behavior and thought and proclivity and emotion as a mental disorder.

00:47:49.280 That's step one.

00:47:50.180 Step one is medicalize, disease-ify the entire human condition, make everything into a mental disorder, 0.60

00:47:58.120 make sure that everybody potentially is classified as mentally disordered.

00:48:01.320 We're already there.

00:48:02.200 You know, if you, 20% of, I believe Americans now have been classified as, have been diagnosed with at least one mental disorder.

00:48:12.880 But if you have not been diagnosed, it's only because you haven't gone through the process of getting a diagnosis.

00:48:18.260 But anyone, because of the DSM-5 and how expansive it is, and with every new addition, it expands all the more,

00:48:27.180 it means that anyone could get a diagnosis.

00:48:29.240 If you want one, you can get one.

00:48:30.400 Maybe that's actually step, maybe that's step two. 0.98

00:48:33.140 Step one is make everything a mental disorder.

00:48:36.800 Step two is make mental disorder somehow appealing and trendy so that people want to be able to categorize themselves as mentally ill.

00:48:45.700 We've checked that off.

00:48:47.240 And then step three is use that as a pretense for taking rights away, taking lives away.

00:48:54.000 That's what we're experiencing.

00:48:57.220 Jacob says, if you accept maid, then we should just allow any form of consensual murder.

00:49:02.380 If I didn't believe in the sanctity of human life, I would want my family to take me out behind a barn like old Yeller and save $700, 700 bucks on medical bills.

00:49:10.160 I can't believe do no harm is being ignored.

00:49:13.220 Well, you raise a good point that I've often thought myself, but it's hard to express out loud without sounding cruel or like you're encouraging suicide, which is the opposite of my actual point and your actual point.

00:49:24.560 But yes, if you don't object to euthanasia, then that means that you don't object to suicide.

00:49:30.200 So then why do we need euthanasia?

00:49:33.100 That's one of the things that doesn't make sense on the surface.

00:49:36.740 Like, why do you need to wait on a waiting list and pay money and all of that when anyone can kill themselves easily and cheaply and painlessly?

00:49:45.880 Right? 0.99

00:49:46.120 A bullet to the head is effectively painless. 0.53

00:49:48.280 Turning the car on in the garage is painless and less messy. 0.97

00:49:51.420 See, this is grim.

00:49:53.580 I mean, it's gross to talk about, but there's an important point here, which is that first of all, if you support euthanasia, you shouldn't bulk at what I'm saying.

00:50:01.200 You support suicide.

00:50:02.840 That's what it is. 0.99

00:50:04.360 You're supporting suicide.

00:50:05.740 And so if the idea of like encouraging someone to go into their garage and shut the garage and turn the car on so they inhale the carbon monoxide and die, if that idea is repulsive and repugnant to you, that you would encourage anyone to do that, and it should be, then you should not be a supporter of euthanasia. 0.98

00:50:26.880 It's the same damn thing. 0.84

00:50:28.520 It is suicide just by lethal injection instead of carbon monoxide poisoning. 0.99

00:50:32.860 What's the difference?

00:50:36.460 And if you're a suicidal person, why do you need to wait on the waiting list?

00:50:39.660 I mean, why do we hear from some of these maid applicants that they need access, right? 1.00

00:50:47.080 The media runs these stories about medical assistance and dying applicants, and they've been turned down, and it's so terrible, and they've been denied access.

00:50:56.360 What do you mean denied access?

00:50:57.420 We all have access to suicide any time.

00:51:01.740 Well, here's the reason.

00:51:02.500 Because euthanasia is a way of hiding from the reality of suicide.

00:51:08.540 It allows society to lie to itself.

00:51:10.800 It allows the individual to lie to himself.

00:51:13.980 Euthanasia is euphemism.

00:51:15.540 It is a product of a culture terrified of death.

00:51:18.240 This is always the paradox of modern culture, is that we're terrified of death, and we also worship it at the same time.

00:51:26.160 We are a death-fearing, death-worshiping society.

00:51:30.620 How can that be the case?

00:51:32.300 Well, because we sanitize it.

00:51:34.400 We make it accessible in that way.

00:51:36.860 It's not honest.

00:51:38.540 And this is one of the great evils of euthanasia.

00:51:40.860 You know, if you, here's the point, if you wouldn't kill yourself, except for euthanasia, if you need euthanasia in order to access suicide, then that tells me that you don't actually want to kill yourself.

00:51:53.620 And that's, that's good.

00:51:55.100 That's good.

00:51:56.020 It's good that you don't want to.

00:51:58.100 Euthanasia is suicide for people who wouldn't otherwise commit suicide.

00:52:02.280 It's a way of making suicide accessible to people who wouldn't otherwise do it, which is another way of saying it's a way of making suicide to people, suicide accessible to people who aren't even really suicidal.

00:52:14.540 Why would we want to do that?

00:52:15.640 It's like, it's like if somebody says, you know, I'm depressed and I want to kill myself.

00:52:19.220 And then you go, oh, oh, well, no, if someone, if someone said, I'm depressed, but I don't want to kill myself.

00:52:24.800 Would you respond, oh, well, you don't want to kill yourself?

00:52:26.780 Well, here's a new way that you can do it that may be more appealing and accessible to you. 0.94

00:52:32.280 How in the hell would that be the compassionate response?

00:52:35.680 So that's what all of this is. 0.54

00:52:37.880 It's about taking suicide and making it accessible and appealing and sanitized to the individual person so that more people are encouraged to do it, who wouldn't otherwise do it, who wouldn't otherwise kill themselves.

00:52:50.560 They would continue living, which is good.

00:52:53.220 So it makes it sanitized and appealing and accessible to the individual and to society.

00:52:57.740 Because society, all the euthanasia proponents, okay, very few of them would actually, you know, directly encourage or support someone who said, I'm going to shoot myself today.

00:53:15.440 All these euthanasia proponents say, well, death with dignity, take your, you know, you should go out on your own terms.

00:53:20.400 Yet if a suicidal person went up to you and said, I'm going to go home and shoot myself, even though you just said all that stuff about death with dignity and go out on your own terms, you would probably say to the person, no, don't do that.

00:53:31.600 Here's a hotline.

00:53:32.280 Call this per talk to somebody, right?

00:53:34.400 You would respond like a, like a decent person, like any, like any decent person would.

00:53:37.820 And yet if that same person says, I have an appointment for maid today, you'll say, well, that's great.

00:53:45.100 That's, that's, you know, going out on your own terms.

00:53:46.700 That's a celebration.

00:53:48.540 Are you excited?

00:53:49.500 Remember the video yesterday, a woman asking her grandmother if she's excited?

00:53:54.680 Somebody said they're going to shoot themselves.

00:53:56.000 Would you say, oh, really?

00:53:56.940 Are you excited?

00:53:57.620 You excited? 1.00

00:53:59.340 If you heard someone respond that way, you'd think you're, you're, you're a, that's psychotic. 1.00

00:54:03.100 You're a monster. 1.00

00:54:04.100 And yet for euthanasia, it's okay. 1.00

00:54:09.700 It's the exact same thing.

00:54:12.220 Suicide is suicide.

00:54:13.560 You know, murder is murder.

00:54:15.100 Even when there's a doctor administering it, that's the lesson we all need to absorb.

00:54:22.200 All right, this, uh, and I'm not joking.

00:54:24.360 This is the last time I'm going to do this copy.

00:54:25.840 So I'm, I'm just, this, I'm just warning you right now.

00:54:27.960 I'm not, we're not doing this anymore.

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00:55:17.660 People sometimes ask me what the cancellation and the daily cancellation actually means.

00:55:22.040 I mean, what happens to a person who's canceled during this segment?

00:55:24.860 And what am I saying should happen to them?

00:55:27.480 When I say you're canceled, do I mean it like the left means it?

00:55:30.140 Do I mean that I want this person to be fired and shamed and disgraced and ostracized and

00:55:34.100 alienated and marginalized by society?

00:55:36.080 Do I want their livelihood taken away?

00:55:37.880 Do I want their lives ruined?

00:55:40.340 In many cases, no, not exactly.

00:55:42.180 Cancelled is more of a symbolic designation.

00:55:45.440 Something to be taken seriously, but not literally.

00:55:48.140 And probably not seriously either, most of the time.

00:55:50.600 But there are exceptions.

00:55:51.780 There are people who should be canceled in the full, literal sense of the term.

00:55:57.240 Cancelled as the left cancels.

00:55:58.820 Cancelled with great prejudice.

00:56:01.460 And today is one of those exceptions.

00:56:03.740 Here is Fred Mills. 0.98

00:56:05.460 Now, if you're watching the video podcast, I want you to see what this cowardly little weasel 0.99

00:56:09.700 looks like. 0.94

00:56:11.020 Fred is a Republican state senator in Louisiana.

00:56:13.140 He's the chairman of the Health and Welfare Committee.

00:56:15.120 And he's also the reason why children in Louisiana can still be butchered, mutilated, castrated,

00:56:20.680 and sterilized today.

00:56:22.300 Fred is apparently a big fan of this most insidious form of child abuse.

00:56:26.440 Such a big fan that he, despite being a Republican, decided to block a bill that would have banned

00:56:32.320 these barbaric practices in the state.

00:56:34.280 The Daily Wire reports, quote, a Republican state senator in Louisiana joined Democrats on

00:56:38.020 a vote to kill a bill that would ban transgender surgeries on children in the state.

00:56:41.680 Republican state senator Fred Mills joined Democrats in a 5-4 vote on the Health and Welfare Committee

00:56:46.980 to block the advancement of a bill that would have banned using cross-sex hormones, puberty

00:56:50.520 blockers, and surgery to alter a minor's appearance in an attempt to validate a minor's perception

00:56:54.800 of his sex if the minor's perception is inconsistent with his sex.

00:56:58.140 The bill had previously passed the House in a vote of 71-24 before it was moved along to

00:57:03.880 the Republican-dominated state senate.

00:57:05.900 Included in the bill was a prohibition on transgender surgeries, including those that artificially 0.77

00:57:09.560 constructs tissue, having the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor sex, including

00:57:14.400 metoidoplasty, metoidioplasty, I think is how it would go, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty.

00:57:20.120 It was sponsored by Republican Representative Cabe Ferment and called the Stop Harming Our Kids

00:57:24.440 Act.

00:57:25.580 Now, just to remind you, and not to get too graphic, but a phalloplasty is when they rip the skin 1.00

00:57:30.380 off of your arm and use it to construct a fake penis. 1.00

00:57:32.920 A vaginoplasty is when the penis and scrotum are cut open, turned inside out, and then 1.00

00:57:39.140 turned into an open wound that the patient can pretend is a vagina. 1.00

00:57:43.220 These procedures are not only barbarous and deranged, but also highly experimental, extremely 0.62

00:57:48.440 dangerous, and they leave the patient prone to infection and all manner of other side effects,

00:57:53.180 ensuring that the patient will be a patient for life.

00:57:55.500 The new fake genitals do not function like the genitals they're trying to emulate. 0.69

00:58:01.180 They never will. 0.95

00:58:02.820 The patient is left with the gross, fleshy, mutilated remnants of what their body is supposed

00:58:08.080 to look like.

00:58:10.020 The bill in Louisiana would have banned doctors from doing that to kids, but Fred Mills said

00:58:15.900 no.

00:58:16.720 He believes strongly in a doctor's right to peel the skin off of a girl's arm to create a 1.00

00:58:20.500 fake penis. 1.00

00:58:20.980 He defends the medical community's God-given right to carve a boy's penis into pieces to 1.00

00:58:26.120 turn it into a fake vagina. 1.00

00:58:28.220 He doesn't want these procedures banned. 0.99

00:58:30.500 And of course, he doesn't want the chemical castration drugs for prepubescent kids banned.

00:58:35.120 He doesn't want the sterilizing cross-sex hormones banned.

00:58:38.460 He wants to keep all that.

00:58:40.120 This was the reason he gave at the hearing.

00:58:42.300 Quote, I've always in my heart of hearts believed that a decision should be made by a patient and

00:58:46.860 a physician.

00:58:47.760 I believe in the physicians in Louisiana.

00:58:49.440 I believe people that are licensed by the Board of Medical Examiners are well-regulated.

00:58:55.180 Fred's argument is that doctors should be able to do this to kids because doctors do this to kids.

00:59:02.020 The fact that doctors do it means that doctors should be able to do it.

00:59:06.820 Fred cannot conceive of the possibility that doctors might do things they shouldn't do.

00:59:12.340 Fred apparently doesn't realize that doctors used to lobotomize people as a treatment for

00:59:16.280 mental illness.

00:59:18.100 All manner of archaic savagery has, at various points in history, been endorsed by the medical

00:59:23.040 community.

00:59:24.700 In fact, Fred should know this considering the fact that he calls himself pro-life.

00:59:29.100 Fred should know that doctors, many of those physicians he believes in so deeply, will

00:59:34.420 deliberately kill unborn infant children, all while insisting that unborn infants don't count

00:59:39.840 as people because they haven't been born yet.

00:59:43.360 So doctors can be wrong about things, Fred.

00:59:46.760 They've often been wrong.

00:59:49.100 Catastrophically, horrifically wrong.

00:59:52.200 And yet Fred's entire argument is based on the assumption that they cannot be wrong.

00:59:57.280 Doctors should be able to do it because doctors are doing it, he insists.

01:00:00.300 This is the level of thought that has gone into his position.

01:00:05.260 And that's probably because Fred has certain incentives to arrive at this position.

01:00:09.260 As journalist Greg Price pointed out yesterday, Fred Mills, a pharmacist himself, has received

01:00:13.660 many donations from Big Pharma.

01:00:15.860 The pharmaceutical industry makes billions of dollars off of the gender transition racket, 0.98

01:00:19.680 which means the politicians they own are required to defend the racket and keep it going.

01:00:24.660 I can't say this for sure, but, you know, it's also possible that on top of the financial

01:00:30.060 motives, maybe Fred has more personal motives as well.

01:00:33.560 Greg Price also reports that Fred Mills apparently used to enjoy dressing in drag while filming

01:00:38.320 bizarre commercials for his own pharmacy.

01:00:41.520 See if he can make sense of this.

01:00:42.880 Watch.

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01:01:06.060 See, Fred, watch our baby.

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01:01:12.840 Thank you.

01:01:14.320 At Cashway Pharmacy, service is our promise to you.

01:01:17.540 Excuse me.

01:01:19.640 The pharmacy, can I help you?

01:01:20.860 Yes, chef. 1.00

01:01:21.320 My pal is big and pussy. 1.00

01:01:23.220 Taunt pills. 1.00

01:01:23.800 I'm sorry to hear your hemorrhoids inflamed again.

01:01:26.600 Are you using your stool softeners, I advised you?

01:01:29.020 No, my lazy boy.

01:01:30.400 Are you avoiding spicy food?

01:01:32.120 I'm slowing down.

01:01:32.940 You may have to let your doctor look at this problem.

01:01:34.800 No, chef.

01:01:35.360 You're going to look at it.

01:01:38.420 Cashway Pharmacy.

01:01:39.300 I'm not sure what's going on there or why, but we don't have the time to run a full psychological analysis.

01:01:49.000 All we know is that this is the guy who decided to keep the child mutilators and castrators in business in Louisiana.

01:01:53.980 And if you have any questions about this decision or if you'd like to give Fred Mills your feedback, he would love to hear from you at 337-845-4240.

01:02:03.760 You can also call 337-365-8484.

01:02:06.980 Again, it's 337-845-4240 or 337-365-8484.

01:02:12.800 You can also email him at millsf at legis, L-E-G-I-S dot L-A dot gov.

01:02:19.700 Now, you might, you know, want to try to contact him through all of those methods.

01:02:24.160 And if you don't get a response, keep trying and keep trying and keep trying.

01:02:27.920 Fred would appreciate your persistence.

01:02:29.400 He wants to hear from you.

01:02:30.580 So just make sure you keep trying until he really appreciate it.

01:02:35.900 Now, I would say that this is the end of Fred's political career, except that he is term limited and will be out of office soon anyway.

01:02:41.860 Probably why he thought he could get away with openly selling his soul to Big Pharma for the sake of protecting child butchers.

01:02:47.860 He figured perhaps that he has nothing to lose, so he might as well do it.

01:02:52.020 But there's always more to lose, Fred.

01:02:54.780 Like respect and your reputation and your good name. 0.88

01:02:58.880 We may be deprived of the satisfaction of making sure that this gutless worm is voted out of office. 0.97

01:03:03.660 But we can at least ensure that his name and face are forever tarnished. 1.00

01:03:07.560 That he is from here on out known as the pathetic weakling who caved to the child butchers. 1.00

01:03:14.020 We can make sure that he is branded as the whore who hopped in bed with Big Pharma at the expense of our children. 0.99

01:03:20.420 And if he did have any other political ambitions, we can certainly make sure that those are now over. 0.99

01:03:25.500 He has disgraced himself.

01:03:26.880 And we will make sure that he carries that disgrace with him forever.

01:03:33.220 And that is what I mean when I say that Fred Mills is today canceled.

01:03:39.680 That'll do it for this portion of the show.

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01:03:45.520 Hope to see you there.

01:03:46.140 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:47.840 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - May 25, 2023

Ep. 1170 - From Bud Light To Target, We Are Making 'Pride' Toxic For Brands

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