The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1174 - Twitter Censors ‘What Is A Woman’

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, it's the first day of Pride Month and the one-year anniversary of

00:00:03.580 What is a Woman, which is why we've decided to release the film for free for everybody

00:00:07.360 on Twitter tonight. The only problem is that Twitter, which professes to be a free speech

00:00:11.720 platform, has already told us that the film will be labeled hate speech and suppressed.

00:00:16.480 So a lot to talk about. We're going to talk about all that today. Also,

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00:01:44.320 info kit on gold. Again, text Walsh to 989898. Today marks the beginning of what millions of

00:01:51.400 Americans and all major corporations consider to be the single holiest month of the entire year. It is

00:01:57.640 Pride Month, of course, and as you've probably noticed, the observances are well underway. Maybe

00:02:02.320 you've seen a bunch of pride flags everywhere. Maybe you've noticed all of the pride-themed

00:02:06.780 advertisements. Maybe there's a pride parade marching down your street at this very moment, full of 1.00

00:02:11.420 naked people exposing themselves to children. If you're in San Francisco, that's a year-round 0.75

00:02:15.720 activity, of course. Whatever the case, pride is here. And for decades, it used to be that pride

00:02:20.940 was just one day, sort of like a transgender day of remembrance or the intersex awareness day or

00:02:27.100 pansexual pride day, international pronouns day. But now pride is four weeks long. Can't avoid it if 1.00

00:02:33.400 you try. It's the literal celebration of one of the seven deadly sins, and it simply can't be

00:02:38.680 ignored. It's all-encompassing. So last year, on June 1st, we decided to join in and mark the

00:02:45.780 occasion. My documentary, What is a Woman?, premiered at the Daily Wire one year ago today

00:02:50.640 to start off Pride Month. It was a very deliberate choice by us to start the month with this film.

00:02:57.480 For the film, my team and I, as you know, traveled all over the world asking that simple question in

00:03:01.780 the title. Just a few years ago and throughout all of human history before that, the question would not

00:03:06.860 have stumped a single person. If we had made a film called What is a Woman? in the year 2010 and gone

00:03:12.660 around asking this question, everybody would be very confused, but confused for a different reason,

00:03:16.840 confused about why we're asking such an obvious question to begin with. But we found that in 2022,

00:03:22.980 it was a real mind twister. To be sure, some people had no problem telling us what a woman is. The 1.00

00:03:28.360 tribesmen we met in Kenya could answer the question easily, for example. So could the Vietnam veteran in

00:03:33.640 Washington State who runs his own store selling Star Wars memorabilia? But we found that the kind

00:03:39.340 of people who celebrate Pride Month, the identity obsessed members of Congress, the gender studies

00:03:44.720 professors, the physicians who make a lot of money mutilating children and so on, they could not give

00:03:49.540 us an answer. In fact, they couldn't give us anything resembling an answer. They couldn't get close

00:03:55.240 to an answer. They just started dissembling. And in many cases, they ran away or they screamed at us or

00:03:59.940 both. These are the activists, the medical experts who will tell you without hesitation that trans

00:04:06.460 women are women. They'll have you fired from your job, ostracized for the rest of your life if you 1.00

00:04:10.880 disagree with them. But they can't even define the word. What is a Woman was an international success 0.90

00:04:16.780 because most people recognize how absurd this is. I mean, don't we have free speech in this country?

00:04:22.140 Isn't this what the country was founded on? Isn't it the basis for the First Amendment to our

00:04:26.140 Constitution? What's the point of all that exactly if it can't protect us when we speak openly and

00:04:30.760 honestly about whatever we want to talk about? And in particular, what's the point of all of that

00:04:34.960 if we can't even ask a question about the most fundamental and immutable aspect of our identity?

00:04:41.440 Something that's embedded at the chromosomal level, which is our sex.

00:04:45.720 This is way beyond free speech.

00:04:47.500 Okay, this is an attack not just on speech, but on the ability to speak basic fundamental truth.

00:04:58.420 In a country where speaking the truth, not your truth, but the truth, has somehow become a

00:05:05.440 revolutionary act, it makes sense that What is a Woman became a revolutionary film and one of the

00:05:09.700 most influential and one of the most talked about documentaries of the century. We've screened the

00:05:14.360 film all over the country. Every time we've gotten a massive response, we've shown it at colleges

00:05:18.720 that don't allow dissent on this issue in the classroom. And since the release of the film,

00:05:23.780 we've done even more to expose the damage that's being done by activists who deny the reality of

00:05:28.340 biology, including at Vanderbilt Medical Center, where they abuse children for profit. Of course,

00:05:32.500 we've seen laws being passed all across the country. And the film, we're proud to say,

00:05:37.420 was a catalyst for a lot of that, helped to be a catalyst for a lot of that. But the incredible

00:05:42.920 positive response to the film was met with fury and rage on the other side. The film has been banned

00:05:48.520 from major big tech platforms, denounced as hate speech, reviled by many of the worst people in

00:05:54.900 our country. It also made me personally public enemy number one to many of these trans activists,

00:05:59.600 a title that I am proud to still hold and one that I intend to keep for as long as I live.

00:06:05.060 I am very much proud to be hated by these kinds of people. I don't mind the hatred. What I do mind

00:06:11.920 is the censorship, the fear, the refusal to even engage. And that's why we've been excited to see

00:06:19.160 the changes to Twitter this past year under new management. For the first time, the owner of a

00:06:23.540 major social media platform didn't just promise to respect the freedom of speech of all the users.

00:06:30.140 He seemed to really mean it. Elon Musk lifted the previous regime's political bans on thousands of

00:06:34.960 users, including the former president of the United States. Musk also, it seemed, eliminated,

00:06:39.520 it seemed, eliminated Twitter's rules, which require that you respect the fake pronouns and

00:06:44.620 gender identities of other users. And Musk promised transparency in Twitter's algorithm so that people

00:06:49.800 with unfavorable opinions wouldn't be shadow banned anymore. They wouldn't be suppressed.

00:06:54.880 And it was for all those reasons this year that we reached out to Twitter about distributing what is

00:07:00.480 a woman on their platform for free, you know, for all users. This is how we plan to mark the one year

00:07:07.100 anniversary of the film. And it's how we wanted to ring in Pride Month 2023. We wanted to take the

00:07:11.980 movie that LGBT cultists hate the most and put it out in its entirety for free on one of the most

00:07:19.220 traffic social media platforms on the planet. And we wanted to do it on the first day of Pride Month.

00:07:24.980 That was the plan. Now, as The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boring wrote earlier today, Twitter was initially

00:07:32.420 receptive to this idea. In fact, they were excited about it. They pledged to set up a custom landing

00:07:37.540 page just for the film so that everybody could find it easily. This is something that we were

00:07:41.840 happy to pay for. This is a privilege that we were going to pay Twitter for. Twitter signed an

00:07:46.700 agreement to that effect. Then, after all that, they asked to review the film because they wanted to

00:07:52.660 screen it for any content that might, quote, trigger users on its platform because they wanted to know,

00:07:57.500 how they were going to respond when the film proved to be controversial. Now, that was a giant red flag,

00:08:04.460 obviously. Since when do free speech platforms talk about trigger warnings to begin with?

00:08:09.240 And indeed, after reviewing the film, as you might have seen, Twitter suddenly changed its mind,

00:08:15.220 switched course. Instead of promising to promote the film, Twitter informed us that they would

00:08:19.680 dramatically restrict its reach. They labeled it as a hateful content. And they were going to make it as

00:08:26.120 hard as possible to find without outright banning it. So all the shadow bans that we heard about in

00:08:32.600 the past under the old regime, and we were told the shadow bans were gone, were now being told by

00:08:37.960 Twitter that they will do that to this film when we post it. Because it is hate speech, they said.

00:08:44.240 They would ensure that it would not appear in people's feeds. The algorithm would crush it

00:08:48.620 completely. We were told by Twitter that that is what they're going to do. Now, how could that be,

00:08:53.500 we asked? What hateful content were they talking about exactly? What's the hateful part of the film?

00:09:01.120 I mean, I made the movie. I'm in it. I don't remember any hateful content. Twitter directed us

00:09:07.400 to two clips in particular from What is a Woman that they said are hateful content. And because of

00:09:14.600 these segments of the film, it becomes hate speech, and they're going to restrict its reach

00:09:19.700 on the platform. Now, I'm going to show you both of these clips because it's hard to believe that

00:09:24.780 they're really saying this. It's hard to believe anyway if you took their new commitment to free

00:09:27.880 speech seriously. If you took that seriously, then this will be shocking to you. In the first clip,

00:09:33.440 a father in Canada tells us that he was arrested and he was fined $30,000. His crime was referring to

00:09:40.400 his 14-year-old daughter as a she. The father tried to prevent doctors from pumping his daughter full of 1.00

00:09:45.480 hormones and tried to protect his daughter from mutilation and butchery. So the Canadian government

00:09:53.560 destroyed his life. And now Twitter is calling this father hateful, and they're saying that you

00:10:00.580 shouldn't hear what he has to say because of this clip, which we will play right now. Listen.

00:10:05.400 Hello? Hey, is this? This is, yes. Hey, it's Matt Walsh. Are you, where are you right now? I'm in

00:10:14.840 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada right now. Are you, can, are you able to leave? I'm not able to

00:10:21.500 leave BC. I can't even go to another province in Canada right now. And it's because I'm technically

00:10:26.500 out on bail. What happened exactly? How exactly did, did this get into the courts to begin with?

00:10:36.480 Right. So what happened is we set up a meeting with BC Children's Hospital. And according to the

00:10:41.080 BC Children's Hospital website, there's going to be a thorough evaluation. And I'm thinking, good,

00:10:45.680 this is going to be the end of it all. They're going to clearly see that my child is not the

00:10:49.500 opposite sex. So my ex-wife brings my child into BC Children's Hospital. I get a call less than an hour

00:10:55.900 into that appointment is that they were going to pump her full of cross-sex hormones within the 1.00

00:10:59.720 hour. And I put a halt to that. I said, no. They agreed to stop for the moment. They figured, well,

00:11:05.960 let's get the dad on board too. This is all going to be better. Let's just get everybody on the same

00:11:09.360 page. I said, it's not going to happen. So I get a letter from BC Children's Hospital in December of

00:11:14.340 2018. And it says that under the BC Infants Act, they will start injecting my child with cross-sex

00:11:20.140 hormones. And I have two weeks to respond with legal action if I so choose. And so that's how I

00:11:25.740 ended up in court because I didn't respond with legal action.

00:11:28.360 So you called your daughter a she and you went to jail for that?

00:11:34.620 It's considered criminal violence to not use the preferred pronouns. It is no different than,

00:11:40.080 let's say, I were to take a broomstick and whack one of my kids over the head. So they were treating

00:11:44.660 it in a similar fashion that misgendering, mispronouning my child was the equivalent of family

00:11:50.320 violence.

00:11:51.540 Is she on the hormone pills now? 0.86

00:11:53.120 She is. The court ordered that she could do whatever she wanted. 1.00

00:12:01.960 Now, what happened to the man in that clip is becoming common in Canada. Fathers are now often 0.95

00:12:06.520 required in a supposedly free country to stay quiet as doctors castrate their children.

00:12:12.440 And that's exactly what these off-label hormones do. They sterilize girls and women. 1.00

00:12:17.340 They cause all kinds of other problems too, including early onset osteoporosis.

00:12:20.960 We spoke to one person in the documentary who experienced some truly horrible

00:12:24.200 symptoms, but according to the court system in Canada, fathers have no right to protect their

00:12:29.880 daughters from any of that. They want to shut those parents up. And now apparently Twitter agrees

00:12:35.800 with the courts in Canada. By the way, that father has a sentencing hearing this week and may be on

00:12:42.300 his way back to jail. Back to jail in a case that began with him simply wanting to raise his daughter

00:12:49.140 as his daughter and refer to her as such. Began with a father not wanting his daughter to be

00:12:56.440 sterilized. So I want you to think about what Twitter is doing here. They're not even accusing me of hate

00:13:04.040 speech, right? They're actually accusing this father, a man who's already been arrested, tried,

00:13:10.880 jailed, had his life destroyed. They're accusing him of committing hate speech against his own

00:13:17.200 daughter simply because he acknowledges that she is a girl. Now that was one clip. There's another clip

00:13:23.220 that Twitter objected to as well. This clip features the aforementioned shop owner, a Vietnam War veteran,

00:13:28.160 who used biologically accurate pronouns in response to a trans activist who was accosting him in his

00:13:34.440 store. And here's what that hateful content looks like. How long have you been running the shop here?

00:13:48.040 25 years. Wow. Now you had an incident here a little while ago that went really viral online.

00:13:53.600 Lots of reaction in the public. Aberdeen councilwoman Tiesa Meskis confronted owner Don

00:14:00.000 Sucker about a sign he posted in his store. One day I just put the sign up over here and

00:14:06.240 he came around the corner and I thought, okay, I recognize him. I says, oh, I recognize you.

00:14:12.440 You're our new city councilman. He says, no, I'm your new city councilwoman. So it was,

00:14:18.360 it was kind of on from there. You know what? It's . No, what you're spouting is . No,

00:14:24.960 it's not. Trans women are women, sir. That sign is . I've been doing this 25 years.

00:14:31.640 I've never had a problem with anybody, whether they're gay, trans, sex, anything. Now you're 1.00

00:14:37.380 saying councilman, he, this individual was saying I'm a woman. Right. And you said you're not a woman.

00:14:44.580 How do you know that that person's not a woman? How do I know? Yeah. Well, uh, common sense.

00:14:51.860 Trans women are women. Doesn't, doesn't the science say that if someone identifies as a woman, 0.98

00:14:59.500 then they are? No, no. Now that's completely bogus. I don't care if you think you're a sheepdog

00:15:06.960 and you come into my store, it don't matter to me. Just don't come in and try to shove that 0.97

00:15:13.640 down my throat. If it makes someone feel better, what about their, their feelings? I don't give a

00:15:18.440 about their feelings. I'm old. What about in the Star Wars universe? Jar Jar Binks? Pansexual, 1.00

00:15:24.940 do you think? Transgender? Um, why would I, why would I even care? It's, if it's his truth. 1.00

00:15:34.200 Well, it ain't true. You're not a scientist. You're not a gender studies major. Or are you?

00:15:38.660 No. Okay. How do you know that you're a man? How do I know that I'm a, I guess because I got a

00:15:44.020 well, I guess Don isn't overthinking it. He admits he's not a gender studies major

00:15:51.960 or at the very least a doctor. Now, not that this really matters, but how many Americans in

00:16:00.400 this country do you think agree with that store owner? If you ran a poll and said, can men transform 0.92

00:16:06.100 into women in an instant? What results do you think you'd get? Now I asked a poll that says,

00:16:12.080 can men become women? That's the question. Not a poll that asks, do you believe in gender

00:16:16.880 affirming care? When most people have no idea what that means. If you phrase it simply to people,

00:16:24.360 so they understand the question, well, what kind of results do you think you'd get? Of course,

00:16:29.500 most people would agree with the store owner. The only difference is that most Americans are too

00:16:34.020 afraid to be honest about it because of exactly what happened to that store owner. Store owner was not

00:16:40.580 honest, was, was, was not afraid to be honest. So a mob of activists tried to ruin his life.

00:16:46.840 And now Twitter is once again, trying to silence him. And I have to continue to emphasize

00:16:51.200 what makes this so egregious is that it's not simply speech. Okay. It's not that the Star Wars

00:16:58.240 shop owner, Don Sucker, it's not that they were, that he was just giving his opinion about something.

00:17:03.040 This is not his opinion. It's bad enough to silence people who are giving their opinions. We should have a

00:17:08.840 society and we should have big tech platforms where you can have an opinion. You can have any

00:17:12.960 opinion about anything and you can voice that opinion. If other people don't like it, they can

00:17:16.560 voice their opinions. Then you have a, you have a debate about it. That's the way it's supposed to

00:17:19.500 work in a free society. But my point is that this is not his opinion. This is just the truth.

00:17:26.380 And so, yes, they're suppressing free speech, but more importantly, they are suppressing the truth.

00:17:32.220 Now we reached out to Twitter about their objection to these clips. We've had,

00:17:35.640 we've had extensive conversations with them. In fact, behind the scenes about this.

00:17:41.020 So that's the other thing you need to know is that on Twitter's end, this is not some algorithmic

00:17:44.820 glitch. Okay. This is a very intentional decision on their part. When they told us that they're going

00:17:49.920 to suppress it and label it hate speech, this was a decision that was made. We know that because we

00:17:54.680 talked to them. And when we talked to them, they said that it's, that it, that it's violates their

00:18:01.120 misgendering policy. Now we asked them, didn't Twitter remove its misgendering policy? Because

00:18:06.680 it was a misnomer. You know, misgendering just means you're correctly gendering someone.

00:18:10.980 Didn't they allow Twitter users to once again refer to others with accurate pronouns instead of

00:18:15.200 inaccurate ones? They did take that language off of their policy. That happened recently.

00:18:20.760 But Twitter told us that actually misgendering is still considered abuse and harassment on the

00:18:24.360 platform. And they just, they just don't specify it anymore. So they asked us to edit our film to

00:18:31.060 comply with this new rule, this new unspoken rule against using accurate pronouns. And of course we

00:18:37.340 refused. We're not going to do that. I mean, obviously we're not going to do that, which means

00:18:41.460 that the daily wire is still going to distribute what is a woman tonight, starting at 8 PM Eastern.

00:18:46.960 We're going to make it available on Twitter for everyone to see for free. It's going to stream

00:18:50.880 tonight at 8 PM Eastern. It'll be available thereafter for 24 hours. Whether Twitter will

00:18:55.940 let you see it or not, that's what remains unclear. You know, whether they actually tag it with the hate

00:19:02.560 speech label and suppress it, that's the part that we're going to find out. This is a documentary that

00:19:08.720 more than a year after its release is still being suppressed. I mean, think about that a year later

00:19:14.280 and they're still suppressing it. They are still terrified of this movie. They do not want you to

00:19:21.200 see it. The reason for that is obvious. They know that it's effective. They know that they can't answer

00:19:26.920 even the most basic questions about their ideology. And that's the reason that sane people aren't calling

00:19:33.700 for, you know, bans on trans activists, by the way. We're not returning the favor. When Elon Musk took

00:19:40.740 over Twitter, we weren't saying ban all the trans activists. We aren't, we're not trying to kick them

00:19:44.060 off of the platforms and silence them. On the contrary, we want to debate them. We want them

00:19:48.300 to speak. We want them to be able to speak. We want, we want us to be able to speak. We want you to hear

00:19:54.080 the contrast. In fact, that's one of the great ironies of this whole thing. Twitter's attempt to

00:19:59.520 suppress us, all the other censorship that we faced. What makes it so ironic is that for most of the film,

00:20:04.860 we allow the trans activist side to speak. They're constantly complaining. Let us speak. Let our

00:20:11.120 voices be heard. And this movie is us saying, okay, here you go. Hey, the stage is yours. Let's hear

00:20:20.440 your side. Most of the movie consists of them speaking. We give them the floor. We give them

00:20:27.520 the camera and the microphone because we want people to hear them. We want their ideology to be fully

00:20:34.340 exposed. And if that ideology is going to hang, we want it to hang itself. And we want you to see

00:20:42.320 it hanging itself. And it did. And that's the main reason why they hate this movie so much.

00:20:50.260 Because we didn't go around arguing with them and yelling at them. We just asked them questions and

00:20:55.820 said, here you go. Tell us all about your position. And they humiliated themselves. All the supposed

00:21:03.440 experts, the doctors, the doctors, all these people that were told, trust the experts. Well,

00:21:07.480 we went to the experts. We put cameras in front of their faces. And we said, okay, experts, give us

00:21:14.240 your spiel. And they came off like idiots and maniacs. That's not our fault. That's on them. 1.00

00:21:23.600 If Twitter's ever going to be a free speech platform, which Elon Musk says he badly wants it to be,

00:21:28.400 then these people cannot be allowed to suppress speech. Twitter likes to throw out the freedom

00:21:35.320 of speech is not freedom of reach argument, but that's a cowardly dodge. It's no different than

00:21:41.160 Idi Amin's famous quote, there's freedom of speech, he said, but I can't guarantee freedom after speech.

00:21:47.900 Now, there's still time for Twitter to reverse this decision. If it wants to be a free speech platform,

00:21:52.360 it must reverse this decision. This is a time for choosing. Twitter has to pick a side. Everyone has

00:21:57.780 to pick a side. Either you are fully on the side of sanity and freedom and common sense, or you are

00:22:03.580 against it. You got to choose. It is one or the other. There's no middle ground. One or the other. It's

00:22:11.440 always been that way. Now, as for us, in the meantime, no matter what happens, we are not going to

00:22:16.420 self-censor, and we are definitely not going to bow to the censors in Silicon Valley. We hope you'll

00:22:22.280 watch the film tonight at 8 p.m., introduce it to as many people as you can, watch it, share it,

00:22:27.060 make sure people see it. And we hope you'll continue to check The Daily Wire and its Twitter feeds and

00:22:32.440 everything we're doing throughout Pride Month, because we have a lot planned. And if Twitter's

00:22:36.380 actions this week tell us anything, it's that this fight is, if anything, even more important today

00:22:42.100 than it was a year ago. It also shows that we are winning. We are winning. And they are scared.

00:22:50.620 And that's why they try to silence us. But we will not be silenced, no matter what.

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00:24:43.100 by its LGBTQ merchandise. Target CEO Brian Cornell stated to employees last week, quote,

00:24:49.080 while you've seen in recent days went well beyond discomfort, it's been gut-wrenching to see what

00:24:52.640 you've confronted in our aisles. And that was him, you know, trying to make themselves the victim of

00:24:58.080 this, the victim of their own choices and their own behavior and their own decision to push the LGBT 0.98

00:25:04.960 stuff and the trans stuff on kids. And now they are, they're suffering the consequences of this. 1.00

00:25:12.180 I mean, this is, look, the Bud Light boycott was a really big deal because it was the first.

00:25:18.820 And because it was a, you know, because of the symbolic nature of it. And that's the argument

00:25:26.540 that, as you know, I made all along. It's not just about Bud Light, it's the symbolism here.

00:25:32.900 Okay. Basically, we take Bud Light and we put its head on a pike, okay, on the, you know, 1.00

00:25:41.380 at the entrance of the town to show the other woke corporations, this is what we can do.

00:25:47.380 This is what, this, we can actually do this to you. We can, we can destroy you. 0.98

00:25:54.040 And if you show contempt for us, as you have for so many years, and you spit in our face, 0.99

00:25:59.800 and you, you, you try to shove this stuff in our face and in our kids' faces, 0.82

00:26:05.400 this is what we'll do to you. So that, that was the great significance of the target,

00:26:08.940 of the Bud Light boycott, rather. Target boycott also has incredible symbolic significance,

00:26:15.660 but then, but it's on top of that, just the, the, the fact that, you know, a company like this,

00:26:22.820 Bud Light is one thing, it's a big victory, but Bud Light is a product, just one product,

00:26:29.780 easily replaced by any, many other products that taste just as bad as it, or just as cheap.

00:26:35.260 Um, target, different deal though. You know, target is, um, is a much bigger fish to fry.

00:26:43.380 And the fact that they've sustained this kind of damage this quickly is, uh, I mean, it, it, it,

00:26:50.540 it would be hard to overstate the significance of it. Now, just like we said with Bud Light,

00:26:56.620 it only really matters if we sustain it. So if conservatives are happy with this and they say,

00:27:03.420 well, we got the purely symbolic victory and now we'll go back to shopping at Target again.

00:27:08.560 You know, if we do that, then it doesn't really mean anything. In fact, the symbolism at that

00:27:11.480 point works against us because then the woke corporations can see that, okay, yeah, if you do

00:27:15.960 the woke stuff, uh, you'll upset them for a few weeks and they'll be mad about it. And, you know,

00:27:20.160 maybe they won't shop their free fees, but they'll, they'll always come back. That's the message that

00:27:25.560 we would send. Um, but I feel pretty confident. I think it's different. Things are just different

00:27:34.340 now. Um, and I don't, I think there are a lot of people and I've talked to many, uh, many people

00:27:41.300 in this boat, just normal people with families, you know, moms and dads talk to many of them and

00:27:47.460 say, we're just done with Target. We're not going back to Target. Okay. For, for a lot of families,

00:27:52.700 it's like Target is very much a part of the weekly routine. You end up going to Target once or twice

00:27:56.960 a week. Um, but then when you say, okay, I'm cutting Target out, we're going to figure out how

00:28:01.880 to live without Target. You discover pretty quickly that, okay, yeah, it's actually pretty easy to,

00:28:06.480 well, we don't need Target. We can place other places we can go. And once people figure that out,

00:28:12.740 that they don't really need you, um, then you're in trouble. And Target has also sustained the kind

00:28:19.480 of brand damage that Bud Light sustained. Now, I think for a lot of people, they wouldn't want to

00:28:27.460 be seen walking into a Target. Uh, you wouldn't want to be seen carrying Target bags around.

00:28:35.440 I mean, to be, to be, to be seen walking out of a Target, carrying the Target bag with the Target

00:28:39.320 symbol. Uh, it's like, you're a groomer too. That's the kind of branding. It's embarrassing.

00:28:44.560 It's humiliating. And, uh, I think that kind of branding has set in and that's a,

00:28:50.200 that's a major problem for Target. Hard to recover from that. So things are different now.

00:28:57.540 Um, and they're different for a lot of reasons. One of them is just sheer exhaustion.

00:29:02.940 After a while, people get fed up and the LGBT activists, they've been running roughshod over 1.00

00:29:10.860 the culture for years and they've been getting everything they want and getting more bold about

00:29:18.440 it and more outlandish and more egregious and more grotesque. Uh, and they keep pushing it and

00:29:27.320 keep pushing it and keep pushing it. And then eventually people say, I mean, even a lot of the

00:29:32.020 people that went along with it because they were too afraid or they didn't care, they were like,

00:29:35.600 you know, they were, they were, uh, uh, apathetic about it. Many of them are now saying, this is

00:29:42.640 too much. I'm, I'm sick of it. I'm tired of it. I'm exhausted with it. Just stop, leave us alone.

00:29:49.640 And the thing is, once the back, once people get sick of it, you know, they don't really,

00:29:54.320 they don't end up drawing the line at the most recent, most egregious thing that you did.

00:29:58.780 They draw it all the way back at the beginning and they say, we don't want any of this. Just

00:30:02.460 leave us alone. Get it all out of here. Which is why now there's an attitude by many people on the

00:30:09.340 right that, um, yeah, we don't want, uh, anything that promotes gender ideology or transgenderism to 0.91

00:30:16.640 kids. We don't want the really super, uh, extreme stuff, satanic merchandise for kids. We don't want

00:30:23.420 that. We also, you know what we're saying now? We don't even, we don't want pride flags at all.

00:30:27.740 We don't, don't even, we don't even want to see the pride flag. We don't want any of it. 1.00

00:30:32.680 That's what many on the right are saying. And I'm glad they are.

00:30:35.960 I mean, I, that's where I've been all along, but, uh, I'm glad that, um,

00:30:40.360 this is becoming the mainstream view on the right. And you know whose fault it is. I mean,

00:30:46.040 it's all their fault. If you're an LGBT activist and you're feeling very persecuted by this

00:30:50.280 and you're saying, what happened? Now we can't even fly a pride flag without you. Well,

00:30:55.460 yeah, it's your fault. Yeah. You couldn't, if you had, uh, just stopped at like where you were

00:31:02.720 at say in say the year 2017. Okay. If you had stopped there and you said, okay, we've basically

00:31:08.820 won and you just stopped, then probably none of this would happen, but you kept going and you kept

00:31:15.180 pushing and now you're reaping the consequences of that. And I'm so glad that you are, uh, more

00:31:22.600 evidence of the consequences. Newsweek has this report, an anti-target song topped the iTunes sales

00:31:28.600 chart on Tuesday, prompting cheers from conservatives despite negligible performance on streaming apps

00:31:32.880 like Spotify. Okay. So they're always, I don't know why I'm bringing the Newsweek article about

00:31:36.100 this. So the real story is that this is an anti-target rap song that is the number one song on all of

00:31:44.220 iTunes. And of course, Newsweek tries to say, well, it's the number one on iTunes, but, uh, but it's

00:31:48.220 not streaming as much on Spotify. You know, yeah, that's, that's cope. The fact is that this is a,

00:31:54.780 this is a, a rap song calling target, accusing target of grooming kids, accusing them because

00:32:01.940 that's what they're doing. And it's the number one song on iTunes. Let's, uh, let's listen to that

00:32:06.100 song a little bit. Here it is.

00:32:07.100 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tengenal shoppers. Tengenal shoppers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a cleanup on 0.95

00:32:12.920 every aisle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Target is targeting your kids. Yeah. They put a target on

00:32:20.520 my back, but they target in your kids. They don't even need to ask cause you all know what it is.

00:32:25.760 Yeah. That's why I keep a strap and I'm always by my bed. This agenda gotta stop. Yeah. You know,

00:32:30.900 we gonna win when they target target. Yeah. They target and target target. Yeah. They target

00:32:37.920 kids. Target target. Yeah. They target and target target. Yeah. They target. There's a little clip

00:32:44.500 of that. That's the anti-target song. I love the fact that they recorded this in a target. I don't

00:32:49.660 know how that, you know, every time I see these, uh, where it's a music video or you see this with

00:32:54.560 TikTok videos a lot where they go into these stores and they record big musical numbers. And, um,

00:32:59.760 I don't know how, like, how do you even, well, I was going to ask, how do you get away with that?

00:33:03.660 But then again, like you can go into these stores and just fill your cart with merchandise and not

00:33:08.860 pay for it. You can go into these stores with a, with a, with a black plastic trash bag and fill

00:33:15.040 it with merchandise and walk out and they're not going to stop you. So I guess, yeah, you can record a

00:33:18.480 music video. So I love the fact that they went to a target to record an anti-target music video and

00:33:23.860 nobody stopped them. Uh, and that's fantastic, but this shows how far reaching this is. This is not

00:33:29.680 just a Twitter phenomenon. Um, you know, the dip in the, in the stock price and the sales and the,

00:33:37.360 the dip in sales and all that obviously shows that as well. But, um, this shows that this is a,

00:33:42.040 this is a cultural phenomenon and the real terrifying reality for the left is that on the right,

00:33:51.060 we figured out how to move these things from Twitter and social media and the podcast world

00:33:58.080 into the quote unquote real world. That's always been the key. You know, we've always been able to

00:34:05.640 talk about these things on podcasts and get a lot of attention that way. Uh, talk about it on social

00:34:10.720 media, as long as a big tech, you know, even working around censorship from big tech. So we've always

00:34:17.680 been able to do that. But then the, uh, the disconnect was how do you take it? You take something

00:34:22.280 that among conservatives is a big deal, you know, in that space and the kind of cyber bubble. How do

00:34:28.120 you take it from there and bring it out to the, to the rest of the world, to the physical world?

00:34:34.920 And what the left is seeing is that we're starting to figure out that formula and they are, they're

00:34:39.940 very frightened by that and they should be. All right, let's move to this. You know, we know that

00:34:47.360 safe, legal, and rare, um, the, those days of the pro-abortion movement are long, long gone, long since

00:34:53.940 gone. And every day we get more evidence of that, including this new video from Planned Parenthood.

00:34:58.620 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:35:01.300 Hi. Hi, my name is Lucky. I've had an abortion and I get gender affirming care from Planned Parenthood.

00:35:08.940 I wound up in a very, very difficult relationship. And within three months, I found out that I was

00:35:15.720 pregnant. I was like, Oh, no. My abortion was one of the greatest acts of compassion I had ever committed.

00:35:27.140 It was an easy decision. And it was a decision that for the friends I had told I was trans, they were like,

00:35:33.720 get it. You know, that's fine. Like, great. You know, that's your decision. You want to finally begin your life.

00:35:42.140 And it was just one of the best decisions I had ever made, ever in my life. I wish that more people

00:35:53.660 understood that abortion is healthcare, plain and simple. It's important to talk about abortion in a

00:36:02.120 healthcare setting because I think that when we don't, we see abortion as this very, very uncommon,

00:36:08.660 isolated thing. And it's not. It needs to be shared and it needs to be out there, just like any other thing that

00:36:17.500 people go through. I tell my abortion story because people need to understand that it's not just a women's

00:36:25.180 rights issue. It is a people's rights issue.

00:36:29.140 Okay. Abortion is not a women's rights issue. Well, that's news to the feminists. 1.00

00:36:38.760 You might want to let the feminists know about that because, of course, they've been saying for decades 1.00

00:36:42.580 that not only is a women's rights issue, but if you're not a woman, then you have no right to have 1.00

00:36:46.720 an opinion about it. And now, so those days are over. We know those days are over. As soon as we

00:36:52.700 get to the point where we can't define the word woman, as soon as the people who are making that claim,

00:36:56.960 well, you can't talk about this unless you're a woman. If they can't tell you what a woman is, 1.00

00:37:00.100 then that doesn't mean anything. So we already know that. But so this is just more, this is more

00:37:05.680 reinforcement of that claim. Every time you hear this from the pro-abortion activists,

00:37:13.020 especially the post-abortive pro-abortion activists, women, and that is a woman,

00:37:19.200 women who've had abortions and are now pro-abortion activists, and that's the case, 1.00

00:37:22.620 the vast majority of pro-abortion activists have had abortions themselves, and that's why they're

00:37:28.480 doing this. That's why they become activists, because they're trying to rationalize their own

00:37:34.480 choices. And anytime you hear them talk, it sounds exactly like conversations we've all had with other

00:37:41.320 people. Maybe not about abortion, but we've all been in conversations with other people

00:37:45.080 people where they're talking to us about something that they've done, you know, a decision that they

00:37:51.560 made, and they're explaining to us why it was good that they did this. And we can tell that they're

00:37:58.860 not really talking to us, right? You've had this conversation like this many times. The person you're

00:38:05.300 talking to, you can tell they're not really talking to you. They're talking to themselves. Everything

00:38:10.000 that they're saying, it's not to you. It's like, you might as well be a mirror. They are talking to

00:38:14.820 their own reflection. They're trying to convince themselves of what they are saying. And so it

00:38:20.640 becomes a mantra. And we find this on the left on nearly every issue, especially when it comes to

00:38:27.600 gender, when it comes to abortion. They have all these mantras that they repeat because they're 1.00

00:38:31.880 trying to convince themselves of something. Abortion is good. Abortion is good. I'm happy I got an 1.00

00:38:37.420 abortion. Abortion is compassionate. Trans women are women. Trans women are women. Trans women are women.

00:38:43.580 I mean, oftentimes you'll hear them literally just screaming the mantra over and over and over

00:38:49.400 again. Desperately trying to convince themselves of something that they don't even believe.

00:38:58.360 And that is always going to be the thing, one of the things that makes the debates about these

00:39:04.200 issues, oftentimes fruitless, if not impossible. It's because there's one side, you know, allegedly

00:39:12.180 you have two sides of an issue. One side believes one thing. One side believes the other. That's not

00:39:17.780 actually the case because one side doesn't really believe what they're saying. And so you're trying

00:39:23.280 to convince them of something. You're trying to persuade them away from a position that they don't

00:39:29.700 really hold. This woman, does she really believe that abortion is compassionate? What the hell does 1.00

00:39:36.120 that even mean? Compassionate by definition means it's something you're doing for someone else.

00:39:43.680 Okay, that's why the co, you have the co, co, co, passion, compassion. That's the etymology of the word

00:39:50.660 co-passion. And passion in this case, suffering. So it is, you are suffering, an actual compassionate act

00:39:57.580 is when you are suffering alongside someone. You're taking on their suffering. You're making

00:40:01.800 a sacrifice for someone. That's what compassion means. And so, abortion was the most compassionate 0.86

00:40:09.980 thing I've ever done. What that tells us, first of all, is that you are a narcissist. You're a 0.93

00:40:16.300 pathological narcissist that you apparently never engaged in any kind of compassion or selfless act 0.97

00:40:20.680 in your life if abortion was the most compassionate thing you've ever done. So if compassion means that

00:40:27.840 you are sacrificing something for someone else, so when you get an abortion, what are you sacrificing 0.50

00:40:35.700 and who are you sacrificing it for? You're sacrificing your child's life for him? You're sacrificing your

00:40:45.640 child's life for his sake? Taking his life away for his sake? You've decided that your child, well,

00:40:50.860 he doesn't need his life. He wouldn't want his life anyway. Well, take it away. I'm doing it for him.

00:40:56.640 You know, you could take the, and someone should really do this, the what is a woman strategy.

00:41:02.600 You could take that and apply it to the pro-abortion movement. There's a whole what is a woman type

00:41:06.360 film to be made about abortion. And you could structure it around what is a person, you know,

00:41:11.860 what is a human, what is a quote unquote fetus. Whatever question you structure it around doesn't

00:41:18.920 really matter. The main point is let these people speak. Ask them questions. Because what you'll find

00:41:26.560 is that they can't, they have mantras and they have slogans and that's all they have. They don't

00:41:30.660 have anything besides that. If you really dig in and you try to get them to elaborate, they'll fall apart.

00:41:38.520 So that woman can sit doing a Planned Parenthood propaganda video and she's talking to no one. 1.00

00:41:46.960 She's talking to a camera and she can say all these things and that's fine. But if you were in

00:41:51.560 the room with her and she was talking to you and you let her speak and she said, well, abortion is a

00:41:56.500 compassionate. If you simply said, well, what do you mean? How so? How's it compassionate?

00:42:02.900 Everything falls apart in that moment. She would not be able to explain what she means by that.

00:42:08.520 And if she did explain it, it would sound horrifying because she would actually have to say, well,

00:42:14.100 it's compassionate for the, for the, you know, for the, for the fetus, quote unquote.

00:42:21.220 Also compassionate, compassionate, killing someone is compassionate for them.

00:42:24.760 All these people can ever do is engage. It's like, all they have is very surface level.

00:42:32.260 They can only engage on the surface. If you go one inch beneath the surface, okay, if you dig in one

00:42:40.180 inch beneath the surface, what you find is horrifying and insane. Speaking of insane, we got to get to the

00:42:48.840 comment section. So we're going to cut the five headlines a little bit, a little bit shorter than

00:42:52.420 usual, but I did also want to mention this. A Washington DC area, this is from Yahoo News,

00:42:56.880 area activist wants anger management treatment for his attacker after he said he was brutally

00:43:01.380 beaten on the street for attempting to be a good Samaritan. Adam Theo, a veteran and a criminal

00:43:05.760 justice reform advocate and former independent candidate for the Arlington County board in North

00:43:09.220 Virginia, tweeted photos of the cuts and bruises to his neck and face. And they said that he incurred

00:43:14.780 when he tried to intervene in a public domestic dispute in Clarendon on Memorial Day weekend.

00:43:19.260 Theo wrote,

00:43:23.720 This evening when walking home, I passed a young guy arguing with, I presume his girlfriend.

00:43:27.240 He starts getting violent with her, pushing around, trying to rip off her clothes. I intervened

00:43:31.380 and got the S beat out of me. I lost count after punch number six. His girlfriend pulled him back

00:43:36.400 long enough for me to stumble away, but not far enough as he broke away from her and went for

00:43:40.120 another series of blows. About 15 in total, I think. Samaritans came to aid and called 911 with the guy

00:43:46.080 dragging the woman away screaming. Last I heard while sitting in Virginia Hospital Center,

00:43:49.360 he'd not yet been caught. Assuming Arlington PD catches him, I want to pursue restorative justice.

00:43:58.200 I want programs to deal with such anger and possibly substance abuse. Jail doesn't fix people. It 0.99

00:44:03.300 releases problems back into society even worse than they went in. So he's remaining committed to this.

00:44:11.600 Some people have said, even begrudgingly, I've seen some conservatives say, well, you got to

00:44:15.080 respect, but at least he's being consistent. And he's assaulted and he's, he, even he is saying,

00:44:19.720 well, let's just do, we need restorative justice for the person who assaults me. I don't respect it

00:44:23.580 at all. I mean, it's, this is absolutely pathetic. This is someone who, um, is, is so depraved in his 0.99

00:44:31.460 thinking that even after he's, okay, he watches a woman get assaulted and her clothes are being ripped

00:44:37.640 off and he steps in. So he's good for stepping in and he gets assaulted and he still can't bring

00:44:44.300 himself to say, yes, this is someone who needs to go to prison. Now he's actually, he's correct that

00:44:50.160 jail isn't going to fix people. Oftentimes it doesn't. I mean, it can, there are people who actually

00:44:56.860 reform themselves in jail, but, uh, it doesn't necessarily work that way. And in many cases it

00:45:01.440 doesn't, and it releases problems back into society. So what's a way to fix that? I mean,

00:45:08.000 there, there, there, so there are two ways that we can respond to that. If it's true that when you

00:45:11.500 take a violent, uh, degenerate person, you put them in jail, uh, and then you release them from jail,

00:45:16.200 they're going to be even worse than they went in and you're releasing a problem back into society.

00:45:19.520 There are two ways of responding to that. One is to say, well, let's not put them in jail at all.

00:45:25.580 And let's keep the problem in society. Let's not even try to do anything about it.

00:45:29.760 The other potential response is, is to say, well, okay, well then let's not release them back into

00:45:36.600 society. Let's keep them in jail. Let's potentially keep them in jail forever. And if the crime is

00:45:45.600 egregious enough, um, let's release them from jail in a coffin because we execute them. 0.99

00:45:52.600 That's the other way of responding. And I think that makes a lot more sense. 0.98

00:45:55.100 This idea is, well, we need to, it's, he needs to work on his anger issues. What is that? What do you

00:46:02.240 mean work on his anger issues? Do you think this person doesn't know that you aren't supposed to

00:46:08.300 brutalize and beat up women and try to rip their clothes off and then beat up a random stranger who

00:46:12.040 tries to stop you? He doesn't know that you think he just needs a counseling. So someone can inform 0.98

00:46:17.480 him. Hey, you know, you're not supposed to do that. Oh, really? I'm not. Why is it? No idea.

00:46:23.560 Or do you think he's an animal and that needs training? He's not a human being.

00:46:29.700 That's probably what you think. Now in reality, here's, here's the thing.

00:46:33.660 This is a, the man who was doing that is a man, a human making a conscious choice. He's choosing to

00:46:45.920 act that way and be that kind of person. He's aware that he shouldn't. He's capable of not acting

00:46:51.980 that way. He could make another choice, but he is choosing to act that way. This is a, this is a

00:46:59.840 moral decision that he has made. And when you start thinking of it like that, you realize that,

00:47:05.360 okay, this is a problem that goes a lot deeper than working on your anger issues.

00:47:10.620 Like this is someone who's corrupted down to their soul, that they would make choices like this.

00:47:16.840 And when you have someone corrupted down to their soul, down to that level, what, what can you do

00:47:20.180 with them? Well, you put them in prison, you put them in a cage and you keep them there for a long

00:47:24.440 time. That's the solution. Maybe, you know, I say it's a solution might not be a solution for them.

00:47:31.720 It's not, it's no guarantee that it's going to make them a better person, but it's a solution for

00:47:35.080 society. All right, let's get to the comment section. Later today, join me live for a signing

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00:48:15.720 slash discuss star. Barbara says, I'm so sick of both sides of this. Can't we all just bloody get

00:48:22.980 along and live? Um, no, Barbara, we cannot, we cannot all simply get along. Um, it would be nice

00:48:31.960 if we could, but that's not the reality. And it's also a cop out to say you're sick of both sides of

00:48:38.480 this. No, it's you've got, you've got one side responding to the actions of the other. I think

00:48:48.200 you were, you were, uh, in particular responding to, um, you know, the subject of the grooming of

00:48:55.600 kids and the promoting of all this degeneracy. Well, you've got one side doing that. And then the

00:48:59.680 other side saying, stop doing that. So when you say you're sick of both sides, what does that mean?

00:49:04.360 Well, no, we can't, we can't get along as long as this kind of evil is being perpetrated.

00:49:11.020 Get along means, uh, ignore that it's happening. See, you can't get along as I'm always trying to

00:49:18.160 explain, um, unity in a, in a, in a country. I mean, I would like to have unity. I would love to

00:49:24.380 have that. If I could flip a switch and magically make a unified country appear out of thin air,

00:49:30.100 I would, I would do it. I would flip that switch for sure. But the problem is that you can't have

00:49:37.340 unity unless you are unified around something. Unity for unity's sake doesn't, isn't real.

00:49:45.140 Okay. Like if you go up to somebody on, on, on the street, some random stranger and you say,

00:49:50.020 Hey, let's be unified. Let's be unified. What's the first question they're going to ask you?

00:49:54.980 They're going to say, what do you mean? Unified for what? They're going to say unified for what?

00:49:59.060 What do you mean? For what reason? What do you mean? What are we, what are we, what are we being

00:50:02.120 unified around? I'm not just going to agree sight unseen to be unified with you in some sort of

00:50:07.620 effort unless I know what the effort is. Um, and that's the case in the country and the culture

00:50:15.700 that in order to be unified, we need to be united around something. I mean, there needs to be some

00:50:20.780 underlying principle, uh, some commonality that we are united around. And when it comes to the culture

00:50:28.300 war, yeah, there can be unity, but it's going to be unity on one side of the other. Unity will come

00:50:32.920 when one side loses and all the stragglers surrender to the other side. That's the only way that unity

00:50:38.760 happens because the divide, the chasm between the two is too deep and too wide. Like there's no

00:50:46.600 middle ground there. So it's just one side of the other wins or everybody loses and civilization

00:50:53.680 collapse, collapses, you know, that, you know, there could be some unity in that as well. So those,

00:50:57.580 those really are the three options. Um, it's not very fun to think about, but that's it.

00:51:02.800 Uh, another comment says Anthony Bass is also the husband of the pregnant wife popcorn incident on

00:51:07.680 American airlines a few weeks ago. I knew I'd recognize his name somewhere. So that was it.

00:51:11.760 I, you know, as we were talking about Anthony Bass, I, I, I, I felt as if we had recently talked

00:51:18.080 about him for something else and I couldn't remember what it was, but yeah, that was it. So he was the guy,

00:51:22.440 his wife was, was on a plane with their child and they fed their child popcorn, which is a terrible

00:51:29.980 mistake in the first place to get your children popcorn out in public somewhere, unless you're in 0.53

00:51:33.540 a movie theater because nobody cares if movie theaters are, are gross and disgusting and 0.96

00:51:36.860 destroyed. Uh, and the child left the popcorn debris all over the plane and the flight attendant

00:51:44.640 asked the, the mom to pick it up and she was traumatized by that. So that's Anthony Bass.

00:51:50.100 Now it all sort of makes sense. And we're just going to skip finally this, this comment. I thought

00:51:55.420 it was important. Matt, can you do a fast food tier list? That would be a great watch.

00:52:01.160 I can. And thank you for that question. Um, so fast food tears, right? Well, not tears,

00:52:06.220 but I could do a ranking. And the first thing to keep in mind is that when we want to rank fast food,

00:52:10.800 a lot of people get this wrong, but you want to separate fast food from fast casual. Big mistake

00:52:15.020 people often make in the fast food ranking game is to, uh, is to include fast casual places in the

00:52:22.140 fast food category, which isn't really fair because obviously five guys would win. It'd be the number

00:52:27.760 one fast food place, but it's not really fast food. It's fast casual. Uh, Panera bread is, you know,

00:52:32.340 fast casual, not fast food. Although Panera bread is disgusting. Chipotle, you know, not in it. So I'm

00:52:37.720 taking fast casual out of it. I'm also taking sub shops out of it for including sub shops. Jersey

00:52:43.860 bikes would be number one, but I'm not including them and they're out of it. And then we're left

00:52:49.600 with kind of like your standard drive through fast food chains. And here's the top three counting down

00:52:55.620 from a three to one, three is McDonald's and it's a classic. Um, it's a staple, relatively reliable.

00:53:03.020 I didn't say it's good. It's relatively reliable. You know what you're going to get. It's more reliable

00:53:06.940 than, uh, than the Burger King. It's also better than Burger King. And the other reason that I put,

00:53:11.040 uh, that I put McDonald's in the top three is that it still has the best breakfast.

00:53:15.120 Nobody has managed to beat the sausage McMuffin. Um, it still remains, it still reigns as the king of,

00:53:21.580 of fast food breakfast. So McDonald's is number three. Number two is Chick-fil-A.

00:53:28.160 Putting all the wokeness aside, just judging based on the food. It is number two. Um, and number one,

00:53:33.240 and this is the thing that people often get the most wrong. Number one is Arby's. Arby's is

00:53:39.420 the best fast food place. Hands down. They have the best fries. Um, I'll take their roast beef sandwich

00:53:45.340 over any of the fast food burger options. And it's not really up for debate. So that's it.

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00:54:44.680 The public school system gets a lot of criticism for grooming and indoctrinating children. And for

00:54:49.400 good reason. It's guilty on both counts. But perhaps the greatest problem, the greatest problem

00:54:53.760 of the public school system, one certainly not unrelated to the first two issues that I just 0.99

00:54:58.940 mentioned, is that it makes people dumber. You know, Americans are actually becoming dumber over 0.99

00:55:03.560 time. This has been objectively observed. And the public school system is largely to blame for this 0.99

00:55:08.100 intellectual decline. It must be to blame for it. It is the education system. It is the system we have

00:55:12.040 come up with to educate people en masse. And if people are getting dumber, that is always going to be 0.97

00:55:17.980 an indictment first and foremost on that education system. This week provides us with an example, 0.95

00:55:23.680 another example to illustrate the entire scope of this problem, indoctrination, intellectual decline,

00:55:30.460 and how the two are linked. So this comes to us from a group called the Skeptic Research Team,

00:55:36.020 which published a report that begins with this introduction, quote, for decades in the U.S. and

00:55:41.340 particularly in the last few years, journalists and intellectuals have suggested that white people

00:55:45.520 are socially or morally deviant. Time Magazine, for example, published the claim that white

00:55:50.040 supremacy is the foundational principle of the culture in the U.S., preventing non-whites from 1.00

00:55:55.040 having perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect grades, or regarded as a perfect employee and colleague.

00:56:00.120 In 2020, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture claimed

00:56:03.860 rational thinking and hard work are white supremacist ideals that oppress non-white people.

00:56:09.140 In a recent opinion editorial, Savala Nolan, the executive director of the Center for Social Justice at 0.97

00:56:13.600 UC Berkeley School of Law, said, white people disappoint me. They frustrate me. They make 1.00

00:56:18.400 me sad. Meanwhile, books describing the immorality of white people, such as caste, 0.98

00:56:23.400 how to be an anti-racist, and white fragility have all soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller 0.79

00:56:27.040 list. Given these opinions, in this report we ask, what does the public really think about the

00:56:32.580 apparent immorality of white people? So that's what they're trying to explore. And to come up with an 0.78

00:56:38.660 answer to that question, they conducted a study and they asked respondents a series of questions.

00:56:44.000 The answers to all of the questions were quite concerning, but I just want to focus on one.

00:56:48.760 This is one of the questions they asked. They asked various groups of people how much they agree

00:56:54.020 with the following statement. And the statement is this. Prior to the arrival of the European settlers,

00:57:00.680 Native American slash indigenous tribes lived in peace and harmony. That was the statement.

00:57:07.380 Let's see how the answers break down along various demographic lines. The majority of those who

00:57:12.820 self-identified as liberals agreed with this statement. 71% of those who call themselves

00:57:17.800 very liberal agreed with it. 59% of political moderates agreed to some extent with the statement

00:57:24.180 that Native tribes lived in peace and harmony. While even self-identified conservatives and even

00:57:29.240 very conservative people agreed at a rate of nearly 50%. You look at the question along racial lines,

00:57:35.120 we see that 75% of black respondents agreed with 20% strongly agreeing. 63% of Hispanics agreed along with

00:57:42.440 45% of whites. The generational breakdown gives us similar percentages. Gen Z agreed at a rate of 71%.

00:57:49.920 For millennials, for millennials, it's 65%. Gen X, it's 57%. And boomers was 41%. So all in all, we see that

00:57:58.200 huge percentages of Americans believe that the tribal people who lived here before first contact with

00:58:04.820 Europeans were angelic, peaceful creatures who did not know war or strife or violence. This entire

00:58:13.180 hemisphere was a place of love and peace and kindness. And all the tribes sat together around the fire,

00:58:19.020 holding hands and singing songs of togetherness. Basically, these people think that Disney's

00:58:24.780 Pocahontas was a documentary. They probably even believe that the natives could talk to trees and

00:58:29.540 animals. That appears to be the prevailing point of view, thanks in large part to the public school

00:58:37.040 system, because this is what the public school system basically teaches. Now, what can we say about

00:58:42.440 all this? Well, first, we must say that these people are wrong for the record. Stupendously

00:58:47.980 breathtakingly wrong. I shouldn't need to clarify or explain this, but apparently I do. Native tribes 1.00

00:58:55.380 did not live in harmony, and they certainly didn't live in peace, unless we're spelling peace,

00:59:01.200 P-I-E-C-E. I mean, they did live or at least die in pieces after getting hacked apart, dismembered, 0.99

00:59:07.620 scalped by their enemies. So if you mean peace in that sense, you would be sort of correct, but that's

00:59:12.920 not what it's meant in this context. These poll respondents think that native tribes existed in a

00:59:18.600 state of perfect kinship and tranquility. If they had a disagreement, they would resolve it, I suppose,

00:59:23.780 with sternly worded letters, which actually wouldn't have been possible anyway, because native tribes

00:59:28.400 never invented a written language, or the wheel for that matter. And there wasn't much kinship or

00:59:33.060 tranquility either. On the contrary, these tribes existed in a state of constant warfare. They fought

00:59:38.540 all the time. They didn't just have wars. They had a war and then a period of relative peace. It didn't

00:59:45.460 work that way. Instead, they were always at war. They were always fighting. And this is an important

00:59:52.400 point, too. The fighting was more brutal, more barbaric, more deadly than the kind of warfare that

00:59:59.420 Europeans and other civilized people of the time engaged in. And here, I'm not just referring to the

01:00:04.500 fact that many native tribes scalped, dismembered, and sometimes ate their enemies, or the fact that

01:00:09.180 civilizations like the Aztecs captured prisoners by the thousands and then cut their still-beating 0.60

01:00:13.480 hearts out of their chests as human sacrifices. That's partly what I'm referring to, but that's 0.93

01:00:18.160 not the full story. The other thing that made tribal warfare so uniquely brutal, and this is something

01:00:22.900 that Lawrence Keighley explains in depth in his book, War Before Civilization, which is worth reading if

01:00:28.200 you haven't, is that tribes, they didn't fight pitched battles, okay? These were not formal engagements

01:00:36.140 on the battlefield, which especially at the time among European countries, that's what war meant.

01:00:43.480 Like they meet on a battlefield and they charge towards each other and they try to kill each other.

01:00:49.800 Among native tribes, instead, they sent raiding parties, and often at night, and simply slaughtered

01:00:58.700 entire tribes. There's no battle. It's just like they're going to show up in the middle of the night 0.82

01:01:03.880 and when the other side is not armed, not ready, and kill everybody. That's what they did. 0.85

01:01:09.700 Men who were captured would not be held as prisoners of war. They would be murdered on the spot or tortured

01:01:15.300 and then murdered. Women and children were often killed as well, or else they were taken as slaves.

01:01:20.940 And I'm not describing random, rare exceptions or isolated incidents here. This is how the native

01:01:25.720 tribes conducted themselves. It's what life was like for centuries all across the hemisphere

01:01:30.780 before Europeans made contact. It was a brutal, violent, bloodthirsty place. 0.71

01:01:38.180 Now, this is where the guilty, self-loathing modern American quickly responds, 0.98

01:01:41.940 oh, okay, but that doesn't excuse all the violence that white people committed against 0.93

01:01:45.840 indigenous people. But the point is not that we're making excuses. Although, in fact,

01:01:51.700 it does excuse at least some of the violence. Because the point is that the first settlers

01:01:56.740 that came here, they didn't all come with a sinister plan to wipe out the native inhabitants.

01:02:01.740 In many cases, they landed on these shores and they were met with violence,

01:02:06.080 which they then responded to in self-defense. And you also have to see it from, and I know that

01:02:12.740 we're not allowed to say this, if we could see it from their perspective, which is very hard to do

01:02:18.500 500 years later, but from their perspective, they land here, they encounter people in loincloths or

01:02:26.240 fully naked who don't have a written language, don't even have the wheel, are living 3,000 years in the 0.59

01:02:30.720 past from their perspective. And then they see brutality unlike anything they'd ever witnessed

01:02:37.960 in their lives or could even imagine. Okay, like, can you imagine actually seeing someone get their

01:02:45.000 heart cut out of their chest while they're still alive? And so put it, like, can you just try to

01:02:53.340 think of it from their perspective for a moment? They come here, they don't know what they're going

01:02:56.740 to get into, they don't know, you know, they don't know anything. It's like, they don't have the

01:02:59.500 internet. They show up, they encounter these people, these primitive people, they see barbarism, 1.00

01:03:07.560 cannibalism, hearts being ripped out of chest, dismemberment, scalping, and they arrive at certain

01:03:14.840 conclusions about the people that they see doing this. Conclusions that, are we going to say,

01:03:20.840 were totally unreasonable? One of the conclusions that they arrive at is that,

01:03:26.240 well, we need to be, these people are a threat to us. Is that an unreasonable conclusion from

01:03:34.100 their perspective 500 years ago? Well, this is not simply about assigning blame. That's not the

01:03:40.140 question. More importantly, this is about understanding history, not just understanding

01:03:43.280 one historical event, but understanding history in general, understanding the history of the world

01:03:47.420 and of humanity. The people who believe in the noble savage myth are confused about that period of

01:03:53.460 history. They're blinded by their white guilt or their hatred of white people. But what's perhaps 0.97

01:03:57.480 even more troubling is that they have apparently no grasp on the general course of history, which

01:04:02.040 means they have no grasp on humanity, on human nature. And if they don't understand history and

01:04:07.180 they don't understand human nature, then they don't understand themselves. These people are clueless at the

01:04:12.760 deepest levels. In an effort to take all the sins of mankind, sins shared by all, and place them

01:04:18.800 entirely at the feet of the white man. They end up sanitizing history into oblivion. They neuter it.

01:04:24.620 They turn it into a cartoon. And while they demonize white people, in many ways, the non-whites fare 0.92

01:04:29.400 even worse. Because this cartoonish version of native culture, it may succeed in turning native people 1.00

01:04:34.620 into victims. But it also makes them boring and lame and devoid of any identity aside from their

01:04:41.040 victimhood. The truth is that native culture, and there wasn't one native culture, but hundreds,

01:04:46.240 these were warrior cultures. They were fierce and battle-hardened people. Yes, they engaged in the

01:04:52.360 most abhorrent kinds of brutality, but that doesn't make them all cartoon villains any more than Europeans 0.98

01:04:56.800 who also engaged in brutality were cartoon villains. They were simply people who lived in a different

01:05:01.920 time, governed by a very different set of rules, and who had very different assumptions and

01:05:07.940 presuppositions about the world. It is important to understand that if you want to understand anything

01:05:14.140 about history. And that is why the noble savage myth that so many Americans who've been mentally 0.89

01:05:19.640 corrupted by the school system, by the media, is today canceled. And that'll do it for the show

01:05:26.480 today, or rather for this part of the show, because we're going over the members block and become a

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