The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1193 - Congressional Hearing Puts The Incoherence Of Trans Ideology On Full Display

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, both sides of the trans debate had a chance to present their views during a congressional hearing on child mutilation this week.

00:00:06.340 And once again, like every other time when the two views are allowed to be presented out in the open, the trans ideologues humiliated themselves.

00:00:12.740 Also, the fake controversy over Florida's curriculum about slavery continues, with Republicans now jumping on the race-baiting dogpile.

00:00:19.640 And a staggering number of Americans say that they are not proud of their country.

00:00:22.980 Does this make them unpatriotic?

00:00:25.000 Not necessarily, I'll explain.

00:00:26.200 In our daily cancellation, there has been yet another high-profile attempt to answer the great question of our time, what is a woman?

00:00:32.160 And this one might be the most hilarious attempt yet.

00:00:34.660 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:47.700 It used to be that if you wanted to hear a debate from both sides of a political issue, you had one option of last resort that was always available.

00:00:54.860 You could turn on your TV and flip on a cable news channel.

00:00:57.940 And for the most part, nothing you'd find would be particularly interesting, but at least they'd make an attempt at presenting a diversity of thoughts.

00:01:04.780 CNN had Crossfire, and for a short period of time, they had Parker Spitzer.

00:01:08.960 Fox News had Hannity and Combs.

00:01:10.660 And for its part, MSNBC aired a program called The Cycle, which had at least one token Republican at all times.

00:01:16.000 The point of all these shows was to present two neatly packaged opposing points of view side-by-side for mass consumption, and that was the business model.

00:01:25.020 But somewhere along the line, all those networks canceled all of those shows and every show that resembled them in any way.

00:01:31.160 They were replaced by productions that didn't even bother with the pretense of actual debate.

00:01:35.960 And then coincidentally enough, a short time after that, you weren't allowed to have an open debate either.

00:01:41.620 The largest social media companies on the planet, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, began the practice of content moderation, quote-unquote.

00:01:48.880 If you had heterodox opinions about mass shootings or big pharma or national elections or gender or anything else, then you'd simply vanish, as surely as those cable news shows did.

00:01:59.420 As always, these major changes occurred without any kind of real discussion or referendum or analysis of what effects it would have on civic life or on our democracy that you hear so much about.

00:02:11.020 Even so, it's worth asking, what happens when the largest power centers in the country decide, seemingly on a whim, that debate is intolerable?

00:02:19.640 What effect does this kind of thing have on day-to-day life in America?

00:02:22.820 It's hard to say, honestly, but as of now, at least one of the consequences is obvious, if unexpected.

00:02:29.420 And that is that hearings on Capitol Hill have become a lot more interesting.

00:02:34.100 That's, you know, they're not just for C-SPAN addicts anymore.

00:02:36.920 It turns out that Congress, for all its many, many, many faults, still permits, on occasion, every once in a while, two sides of an issue to talk in public at length.

00:02:47.860 And there's no better way to find out the truth about something than that.

00:02:51.160 The more people are allowed to advance an argument, followed by a rebuttal, the more that that argument's strength or its weaknesses become clear to everybody watching.

00:03:00.200 That's the whole point.

00:03:01.540 That explains why trans activists and the politicians who support them are apoplectic about yesterday's hearing at the House Judiciary Committee.

00:03:08.300 At the hearing, both sides of the so-called trans debate had the opportunity to discuss the issue.

00:03:14.960 They had the chance to call the best witnesses they could find in the entire country in defense of their position.

00:03:21.760 And yesterday, everyone on the side of transgenderism and on the side of child mutilation, as expected, was totally and completely humiliated. 0.89

00:03:29.660 So, we'll start at the beginning of the hearing.

00:03:32.540 The whole thing was a disaster for the pro-trans side.

00:03:35.200 But we'll start with Mary Gay Scanlon, who's the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. 1.00

00:03:40.440 And she came out with an opening statement in which she talked about the importance of parental rights, above all.

00:03:47.020 You don't often hear Democrats talking about parental rights.

00:03:49.220 They only talk about it in very limited circumstances, as we'll see.

00:03:52.300 But she argued that parents should be able to do whatever they want to their children, including sterilizing them. 0.98

00:03:57.440 Because parents always know best, she says.

00:04:00.540 Watch.

00:04:02.180 Holding a hearing to substitute far-right ideologies for parental judgment exposes the rank hypocrisy of the party claiming to value individual freedom and small government.

00:04:13.080 And so, here we are before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and limited government.

00:04:20.320 Now, Mary went on like that for a few minutes. 0.95

00:04:23.360 And her point is that it's wrong for the government to deny parents the right to castrate their children or cut off their breasts. 1.00

00:04:29.660 After all, she says, no one cares more about children than their parents.

00:04:34.360 Therefore, whatever parents say goes.

00:04:37.420 Now, this is not much of an argument, obviously.

00:04:39.460 Rational people understand intuitively that parents don't have absolute control over the lives of their children.

00:04:46.100 Parents can't consent to their kids' execution, for example.

00:04:49.800 Parents can't have their kids' limbs chopped off because they're being disobedient or whatever.

00:04:54.820 So, why can parents consent to a child's castration?

00:04:59.060 Parents have rights.

00:05:00.960 It's also possible for parents to be abusive and neglectful.

00:05:04.660 In those cases, we usually recognize that not only should we not respect the parent's right to treat the child that way,

00:05:10.960 but that, in fact, the parent should lose all of their rights because they have treated the child that way.

00:05:16.160 That's because the only real absolute right of a parent is to see to their child's well-being.

00:05:23.180 As a parent, that is the one absolute moral right you have is to see to your child's well-being.

00:05:30.160 This is both a parent's sacred right and sacred responsibility.

00:05:33.640 It would be oppression for the government to prevent a parent from fulfilling that right and responsibility.

00:05:40.500 But a parent who, by their own actions, rejects this right and responsibility and works to destroy their own child,

00:05:46.660 rather than preserve and advance his well-being, should be met with the harshest punishment.

00:05:52.320 That's the way that this is all supposed to work, and it's not a difficult concept for most people to understand.

00:05:57.000 Back to the hearing, at least one representative, California Congressman Tom McClintock,

00:06:02.160 was listening closely to Scanlon's argument.

00:06:05.060 So a little later on, he called her out on it.

00:06:07.560 McClintock pressed Scanlon to support the logical conclusion of what she was saying.

00:06:13.600 Specifically, McClintock wanted to know whether Scanlon opposed laws in leftist states like Oregon and California,

00:06:20.280 which allow minors to be mutilated and castrated without any parental supervision whatsoever.

00:06:25.080 After all, Scanlon cares so much about parental rights, doesn't she?

00:06:29.500 She thinks parents know best.

00:06:31.600 So why wouldn't she sponsor legislation to ban the practice of child castration if there isn't any parental involvement? 1.00

00:06:40.520 Now, obviously, it should be banned across the board.

00:06:43.480 But the question to Mary Scanlon is, because you believe so much in parental rights,

00:06:46.880 can we at least start by agreeing?

00:06:48.820 Can we get to point A here and agree that if there's no parental consent, it shouldn't happen at all?

00:06:54.760 Can you at least agree with that much?

00:06:56.800 The exchange is worth watching in its entirety.

00:06:58.900 Watch.

00:07:00.300 And it seems to me there are two issues here.

00:07:02.500 The first is the effort in states like California to bypass parents' judgment and subject their children to transgender procedures 0.99

00:07:10.420 against the parents' judgment or even to hide this from the parents.

00:07:14.100 That's going on in California right now.

00:07:15.840 So I want to be sure I understood the subcommittee's ranking member correctly.

00:07:19.220 It sounded like she, too, opposes government replacing parents' judgment over the decision on transgender procedures for their children.

00:07:26.760 Am I correct on that?

00:07:28.340 That's you, Ms. Scanlon.

00:07:29.600 Yeah.

00:07:31.340 Am I correct on that?

00:07:32.800 I yielded to the gentle lady to answer.

00:07:34.380 I'm sorry.

00:07:35.440 I was...

00:07:35.840 It sounded like you opposed government replacing parents' judgment over the decision of transgender procedures on their children.

00:07:44.920 Am I correct on that?

00:07:46.820 What I said was that parents have the ultimate right to make the decisions concerning appropriate medical care for their children.

00:07:54.460 I think we're in agreement.

00:07:55.380 We can take that off the table.

00:07:56.480 So both parties oppose the government, any government, making decisions over whether a child will be subjected to transgender procedures contrary to the wishes of the parents.

00:08:06.300 Do I understand that correctly?

00:08:07.660 I believe that's generally the legal standard.

00:08:10.180 Okay.

00:08:10.400 That's great.

00:08:11.260 Then we need to take the...

00:08:12.320 The dispute is over what is appropriate, apparently.

00:08:14.600 If both parties support a law that forbids performing these transgender procedures on a minor without the full and informed consent of the parents,

00:08:22.660 then, Mr. Chairman, I believe we should advance such a bill right away.

00:08:25.920 I think that would address the fears that I hear from a lot of parents that their desire to protect their child is at risk from various state governments like California who are trying to usurp that decision.

00:08:36.940 We have complete agreement on that.

00:08:38.900 I think you're mischaracterizing the complete agreement.

00:08:43.480 Well, I thought we had just arrived at that agreement until it comes down to actually doing it.

00:08:48.200 And then you seem to have a change of heart.

00:08:49.640 But, Mr. Chairman, let's put that to the test.

00:08:51.820 I see I'm out of time.

00:08:53.560 But I think the sooner we move that, the better.

00:08:55.920 Very keen observation.

00:08:59.740 You're mischaracterizing the agreement, she says.

00:09:01.900 This is always the way it goes.

00:09:02.880 Remember, the left, they're relativists.

00:09:04.600 So nothing they say in one moment necessarily has any purchase the next moment.

00:09:08.860 It's all situational.

00:09:10.960 But, of course, they don't present it that way.

00:09:12.460 They present it as if they are advancing universal principles.

00:09:15.900 And so when it comes to a parent who wants to have their child castrated, and if the government steps in, like in Tennessee, and says you can't do it, you can't do that to your child, then the left will say, well, what about parental rights?

00:09:26.540 The parents have the right to make this decision.

00:09:27.920 And then if you respond and say, well, parents have the right to make that decision, then can we at least agree that this should not happen to a kid without parental consent?

00:09:37.380 I mean, it shouldn't happen at all, but let's start with it.

00:09:39.720 Well, no, we can't agree on that.

00:09:40.920 It's just like they do with every issue.

00:09:42.740 It's like on abortion.

00:09:43.440 The left says, well, a woman who's raped or life of the mother is threatened.

00:09:51.660 I mean, there should be – you need to have an abortion in that case. 1.00

00:09:55.520 Okay, well, what about if that's not the case?

00:09:57.280 Can we agree then?

00:09:58.140 So if we're talking about these hard cases, that's all you want to talk about?

00:10:00.480 So it sounds like we agree that in all these other cases where there is no rape and the life of the mother is not threatened, can we at least agree there that there shouldn't be?

00:10:07.280 Well, no, no, we can't agree.

00:10:08.040 Well, okay, then why are you bringing that up?

00:10:11.100 So this is an amazing moment.

00:10:12.480 The National Review's Caroline Downey observed that during this cross-examination, Scanlon's aide passed her a note to help her answer McClintock's question.

00:10:20.600 But it didn't help because her answer ultimately makes no sense.

00:10:23.920 It's effectively this.

00:10:24.940 Parents know best, and any medical decision involving children should involve the parents.

00:10:29.300 At the same time, kids should be able to castrate themselves without consulting their parents.

00:10:34.160 That's the position.

00:10:35.540 The whole hearing went on like this. 0.96

00:10:37.240 The incoherence and the insanity of transgenderism was on full display. 1.00

00:10:40.820 It's an ideology that survives no scrutiny whatsoever. 0.53

00:10:45.120 The moment you put this ideology side by side with sanity, trans ideology collapses. 0.93

00:10:50.720 And that's what kept happening over and over again as the hours went on.

00:10:54.400 So take a look at this testimony from 19-year-old Chloe Cole, for example.

00:10:58.040 So-called doctors gave Chloe puberty blockers of testosterone when she was 13 years old.

00:11:02.960 That's enough to sterilize her and cause her early-onset osteoporosis, just to begin with. 0.99

00:11:08.580 But that wasn't enough for these doctors.

00:11:10.080 So when she was 15, they cut her breasts off. 0.91

00:11:12.480 Any rational person recognizes that this barbarism is barbarism, that it's barbaric, it's savage.

00:11:17.940 Here's Chloe explaining what happened to her. 0.96

00:11:20.100 Watch.

00:11:20.260 I came out as transgender in a letter I sent on the dining room table.

00:11:26.660 My parents were immediately concerned.

00:11:28.660 They felt like they needed to get outside help from medical professionals.

00:11:32.080 But this proved to be a mistake.

00:11:34.120 It immediately set our entire family down a path of ideologically motivated deceit and coercion.

00:11:38.740 The gender specialist I was taking to see told my parents that I needed to be put on puberty-blocking drugs right away.

00:11:47.140 They asked my parents a simple question.

00:11:49.580 Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son? 1.00

00:11:54.100 The choice was enough for my parents to let their guard down. 0.80

00:11:57.220 And in retrospect, I can't blame them.

00:11:59.620 This was the moment that we all became victims of so-called gender-affirming care.

00:12:03.820 I was fast-tracked onto puberty blockers and then testosterone.

00:12:06.380 The resulting menopausal-like hot flashes made focusing on school impossible.

00:12:11.940 I still get joint pains and weird pops in my back.

00:12:14.660 But they were far worse when I was on the blockers.

00:12:18.120 A month later, when I was 13, I had my first testosterone injection.

00:12:22.360 It's caused permanent changes to my body.

00:12:25.060 My voice will forever be deeper.

00:12:27.280 My jawline sharper.

00:12:28.680 My nose longer.

00:12:29.560 My bone structure permanently masculinized.

00:12:33.120 My Adam's apple more prominent.

00:12:34.660 My fertility unknown.

00:12:36.760 I look in the mirror sometimes and I feel like a monster.

00:12:43.220 I had a double mastectomy at 15.

00:12:46.160 Now, watching that, it's clear that despite the horrors that have been inflicted on her,

00:12:50.200 Chloe Cole is rational. 0.59

00:12:51.560 She's calmer than the vast majority of people would be under those circumstances.

00:12:55.200 Certainly calmer than I would be.

00:12:56.500 And she's making a point that every human being on this planet would have agreed with just a decade ago or five years ago.

00:13:02.180 Which is that sexualizing and butchering children is one of the greatest crimes imaginable. 0.79

00:13:07.360 Now, Chloe Cole was not the only witness to expose the derangement of the transgender movement. 1.00

00:13:10.980 There was also testimony from a former UPenn swimmer, Paula Scanlon.

00:13:14.900 And Scanlon, as you know, if you watched my interview with her, both in What is a Woman, the film What is a Woman and the follow-up interview we did, Scanlon was forced by UPenn to share a locker room with Will Thomas, the mediocre male swimmer who now pretends to be a woman named Leah Thomas.

00:13:29.760 And that's also, that whole testimony is something worth watching.

00:13:33.620 So this mentally disturbed male gets to go into the bathroom and locker room and watch women undress.

00:13:39.620 And if any UPenn swimmers complained about the obvious absurdity of this, as Paula explained, then the school would call them insane.

00:13:46.100 They are the ones who had psychological problems that needed to be worked out.

00:13:50.040 Like Chloe Cole, Paula Scanlon is composed in her testimony.

00:13:52.940 She's testifying about her firsthand experience.

00:13:55.340 And what she's saying is, you know, objectively horrifying.

00:13:57.960 So how did Democrats respond?

00:14:01.280 What witnesses did Democrats present to rebut Paula Scanlon and Chloe Cole's testimony?

00:14:06.300 What evidence did the supposed party of science offer up in response to justify all of this?

00:14:12.800 One of Democrats' star witnesses yesterday was a woman named Miriam Reynolds. 0.79

00:14:16.820 Reynolds testified that it's possible for anyone to change their gender, even young children.

00:14:21.460 It doesn't matter how old they are.

00:14:23.080 But Reynolds didn't base this conclusion on any scientific data or any kind of coherent argument whatsoever.

00:14:27.500 Instead, Reynolds testified that she knew her own 11-year-old daughter was really a boy, contrary to what all the doctors said, because he didn't like the color pink.

00:14:38.160 That's a good quote.

00:14:39.080 He didn't like the color pink.

00:14:40.480 Of course, it's really a she. 1.00

00:14:42.320 And also, she was friends with boys.

00:14:44.540 And she liked to play football.

00:14:46.520 And this all meant that she's really a boy.

00:14:48.840 Watch.

00:14:49.100 I prayed that it was a phase, but already knew that it wasn't.

00:14:53.560 The signs had been there all along.

00:14:55.040 We just didn't understand them.

00:14:56.520 We thought he was a tomboy.

00:14:58.020 He refused to wear anything pink or girly and was the only girl on the boys' football team for many years.

00:15:04.520 His best friends were always boys.

00:15:06.660 There were a lot of signs looking back.

00:15:08.100 A lot of signs. 0.93

00:15:10.720 What a profound contrast between the not only emotionally compelling but also incredibly logical and reasonable testimonies of the mutilation opponents versus the half-baked, ridiculous logic of this mother. 0.53

00:15:20.980 The same people who tell you that gender stereotypes are evil are now telling you that 11-year-olds should be castrated because they don't like the color pink. 0.97

00:15:27.700 It would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic and disgusting. 0.98

00:15:30.440 If there weren't actual children being destroyed in the process, you'd be able to laugh at how ridiculous this is, but you can't. 0.71

00:15:37.480 Now, keep in mind that the proponents of the gender affirmation racket specifically brought Miriam Reynolds to Congress for the express purpose of representing their point of view.

00:15:45.860 This isn't someone who just randomly walked into Congress off the street.

00:15:48.480 Staffers picked this person.

00:15:49.800 They vetted her.

00:15:50.780 This is the best they can do. 0.99

00:15:52.340 We should mutilate kids if they don't like a certain color. 1.00

00:15:56.600 That's the strongest argument they can possibly muster. 0.96

00:15:59.820 What you just heard right there.

00:16:01.400 That is as good as the argument possibly gets.

00:16:05.220 And the argument can get a lot worse as well.

00:16:07.720 Now, inane doesn't even begin to describe this.

00:16:10.520 The contrast between, say, Chloe Cole and Miriam Reynolds, like the contrast between Tom McClintock and Mary Scanlon, couldn't be more pronounced.

00:16:17.760 One side is interested in reason and compassion.

00:16:19.820 The other side represents and presents the most juvenile, self-contradictory arguments imaginable.

00:16:25.520 And as the hearing went on, this continued.

00:16:27.320 I want you to watch Congressman Wesley Hunt's argument against child mutilation.

00:16:31.020 And then after this, we'll show you the Democrats' position on this.

00:16:33.880 But watch.

00:16:35.780 Thank you, brave ladies, for being here today.

00:16:37.760 I greatly appreciate it.

00:16:38.980 And I admire your bravery in these times.

00:16:42.080 Many of my colleagues on the left like to discuss gender-affirming care and claim that puberty blockers and hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery are the only ways to treat gender dysphoria.

00:16:52.940 Once a child expresses a feeling of gender dysphoria, instead of questioning the root cause of that feeling, that child will more likely than not be on a fast track to gender reassignment surgery or otherwise known as genital mutilation.

00:17:08.640 But I want you to imagine something.

00:17:12.880 What would happen if we affirmed every thought that our children have?

00:17:18.660 I'd like to show you a food pyramid.

00:17:21.160 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:17:22.300 This is not the FDA's approved food pyramid, although many of you probably wish it was.

00:17:27.660 This is the food pyramid, according to my four-year-old and my two-year-old daughters.

00:17:34.980 By the way, in the Hunt House, we don't do Ben and Jerry's.

00:17:39.080 It's Blue Bell only.

00:17:42.320 If my children had their way, they would have ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and for every single meal in between.

00:17:50.200 They know the wisdom of children, but in the same country, we know that children are mature enough to make adult decisions that will impact the rest of their lives.

00:18:00.960 That's why we have parents.

00:18:03.840 Children cry for ice cream, but as parents, we have the wisdom to know that ice cream is not in their best interest, particularly their long-term interest.

00:18:16.480 I want to thank my parents, Willie and Diane Hunt.

00:18:19.100 They had three children.

00:18:21.480 All three of us went to West Point.

00:18:23.300 All three of us served our country.

00:18:25.280 All three of us earned multiple master's degrees from Ivy League schools.

00:18:27.840 Do you know why?

00:18:28.800 Because my parents did not give in to the thoughts of an adolescent Wesley Hunt.

00:18:34.640 So this is where we're at.

00:18:35.640 We need congressmen during congressional hearings to explain that you wouldn't want to give your kids ice cream for every meal. 1.00

00:18:41.340 And they do need to explain that.

00:18:42.520 I mean, this is a basic idea that needs to be explained to the Democrats in that room.

00:18:45.920 That just because your child wants something doesn't mean that it's good.

00:18:49.700 You're supposed to have a better understanding of the world and what's healthy and good for them than they do.

00:18:55.100 So what you just saw there was really basic and elementary, but it's also reasonable, well-presented, rational.

00:18:59.580 Everyone who has kids understands what Wesley Hunt is saying.

00:19:02.740 Kids think crazy things all the time.

00:19:05.280 It's the job of parents to correct kids when they, you know, every day you're correcting them.

00:19:10.540 They think things that aren't true.

00:19:12.860 They want to do things that aren't good for them.

00:19:14.300 That's part of being a kid.

00:19:16.560 Now, contrast what Hunt just said with the remarks yesterday from Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen.

00:19:21.480 This verges on parody, if we're being totally honest about it.

00:19:24.360 Steve Cohen, while arguing in defense of transgenders, concedes to Paul Scanlon, the UPenn's winner,

00:19:29.260 that UPenn made a big mistake in its handling of the whole Leah Thomas situation.

00:19:33.980 Cohen admits that UPenn should have set up a, quote, barrier to separate male swimmers like Will Thomas from female swimmers like Scanlon.

00:19:43.780 Just like the ranking member, he clearly doesn't understand the implications of what he's saying, but watch this.

00:19:50.120 Transgender people have been around for a long time, and they have rights, and they need to be respected.

00:19:57.620 I read Ms. Scanlon's testimony.

00:19:59.400 I wasn't here to hear it, and I think Penn didn't deal with your situation like they could have and should have.

00:20:03.980 And putting up some type of different barriers in the women's area of the locker room. 1.00

00:20:12.280 But that's another issue.

00:20:15.000 But things should be dealt with in a different way.

00:20:17.700 This is an easy way for people to try to get points.

00:20:21.320 Pick on a minority group that is the most minority and least understood in our country.

00:20:26.320 The most minority, whatever that means.

00:20:28.220 So according to pro-trans Democrat Steve Cohen, we need, quote, barriers in the locker room to separate men from women.

00:20:34.900 Maybe this barrier could involve walls and a door and signage that reads, I don't know, men's restroom and women's restroom. 0.98

00:20:44.720 And maybe we could keep the people with penises confined to the men's section. 1.00

00:20:48.940 What a revolutionary idea. 0.99

00:20:52.080 Steve Cohen, like so many Democrats, says that he supports transgenderism and trans ideology without understanding the insane demands of the movement.

00:20:58.500 He just reads the cue cards.

00:21:01.500 He repeats the talking points without understanding them.

00:21:05.940 With that, in that sense, Cohen has a lot in common with Congressman Jerry Nadler of New York. 0.88

00:21:11.160 Jerry Nadler also made a familiar argument in which he goes on and on about how, well, we need to allow kids to be castrated because if not, they'll kill themselves. 0.75

00:21:19.520 So on the one hand, you have an impassioned, compelling argument from conservatives that children can't consent to the mutilation of their genitals. 0.81

00:21:26.740 On the other hand, you have one of the most senior Democrats in the House saying that you need to do that, do whatever kids say, or else they'll kill themselves.

00:21:33.580 And he's saying that if you don't affirm their delusions, then you're bullying them.

00:21:39.340 Now, normally when people threaten to kill themselves, we recognize that they need immediate intervention.

00:21:43.820 They're not thinking right.

00:21:45.500 But in this case, Jerry Nadler says when children are suicidal, we need to do whatever they say.

00:21:49.880 We should affirm whatever delusion they've been told to believe.

00:21:53.260 If a child is in despair, he says, we should affirm exactly the delusion that has caused the despair.

00:21:58.860 You'll never find a clearer explanation for why trans activists demand censorship than yesterday's hearing at the House Judiciary Committee.

00:22:07.160 At every turn, when sane people offered carefully considered, rational, common-sense arguments, Democrats flailed.

00:22:13.300 They contradicted themselves.

00:22:14.360 They resorted to one of the most desperate and despicable arguments imaginable. 0.71

00:22:18.160 Stop questioning us or else kids will kill themselves.

00:22:21.500 That's the best argument that a 17-term congressman with the most experienced political staffers in all of Congress could come up with. 1.00

00:22:27.060 It's ludicrous, it's incoherent, it's grotesque and stupid. 0.99

00:22:32.140 It wilts immediately on contact with testimony of young people, people with no political experience, who have seen enough of this barbarism, have experienced it firsthand. 1.00

00:22:41.420 As pathetic as it is, the essence of trans ideology has been exposed yet again for everyone to see. 1.00

00:22:46.860 This happens any time there is any kind of open debate between the two sides on this issue. 0.95

00:22:51.680 And that's exactly why the left is desperate to stop those debates from happening.

00:22:57.340 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:23:00.380 So we're now on the fifth or sixth day, whatever it is, of fake media-driven controversy over Florida's history curriculum on the subject of slavery, which the media and Democrats claim promotes and defends slavery itself.

00:23:17.660 That's what the curriculum does, according to them.

00:23:19.620 This is all totally made up and ridiculous, of course, and I explained why in detail a few days ago.

00:23:23.380 You can go and watch that segment if you want. 0.92

00:23:24.760 Just to summarize in a sentence or two, the curriculum teaches in great depth about slavery.

00:23:29.100 Slavery is mentioned like 150 or 200 times in the curriculum itself.

00:23:32.600 One of those mentions, one, just one, one sentence in the curriculum notes that slaves, after being freed, sometimes utilize skills that they learned while enslaved.

00:23:43.000 The point of including that note in the curriculum is because, for one thing, it's true, and we want to teach kids things that are true.

00:23:50.500 And, for another, obviously, it was meant to be a tribute, a credit to the slaves themselves.

00:23:56.480 Obviously, that's the intention.

00:23:59.500 So, just to illustrate the point, I want to read you a quick passage from the Wikipedia entry for a prominent tailor and clothing designer named Martin Greenfield.

00:24:10.460 Okay?

00:24:10.940 And he was never an African slave, but you'll understand why I'm reading in a second.

00:24:13.820 During his time in Auschwitz, Greenfield learned the power behind clothing.

00:24:18.600 After being beaten for accidentally ripping a Nazi shirt, he stole it, repaired it, and wore it underneath his uniform all throughout his time in the camp.

00:24:25.000 Wearing the shirt made him realize that clothes possessed power.

00:24:27.380 This became an inspiration to Martin, helped him survive the Holocaust.

00:24:30.100 This experience was a contributing factor to how he became one of the most successful and famous men's tailors of America.

00:24:34.180 Now, would anyone read that anecdote and imagine that it's somehow a defense of the Holocaust?

00:24:40.780 Okay?

00:24:41.160 Would anyone imagine that the argument being presented here is that it's good that he was in a concentration camp?

00:24:46.340 No.

00:24:46.600 Obviously, it's supposed to be a credit to Greenfield that his success can be traced back to a moment of such great trial and tribulation.

00:24:53.440 If somebody wrote a biography of this guy and mentioned this fact, not only mentioned it, but probably made it like a central part of his life story,

00:25:01.960 nobody in the world would interpret that as some sort of attempt to minimize the Holocaust.

00:25:05.880 And yet, when it comes to telling the exact same kind of story about some slaves, suddenly it's racist?

00:25:12.480 As if everyone can't immediately understand the point.

00:25:15.540 The whole reason this was mentioned in the curriculum was that it was supposed to be a way of paying tribute to slaves who were able to convert tragedy into triumph.

00:25:22.300 Usually, we respect that kind of thing.

00:25:25.660 That's obviously the point. 1.00

00:25:27.020 If you don't understand that, then you're either incredibly stupid or pretending to be stupid, 1.00

00:25:31.860 or else you've been duped by the leftist media, which makes you pretty dumb as well. 1.00

00:25:36.580 So, no matter what, it's like you're stupid or you're pretending to be stupid. 1.00

00:25:38.620 Those are really the only options. 1.00

00:25:40.500 Speaking of stupid, here's Spike Lee reacting to this whole controversy. 1.00

00:25:44.320 Watch. 1.00

00:25:46.300 He's now saying that there's no agenda here.

00:25:48.760 I don't think he's educated about the enslavement of my ancestors.

00:25:55.820 I just want to read the text again of what Florida is now requiring for middle school students.

00:26:00.240 It says, instructions should include, quote, how slaves develop skills, which in some instances could be applied for their own personal benefit.

00:26:09.160 How can it be for your personal benefit when you're treated as an enslaved person?

00:26:15.080 It's not like, oh, I'm a blacksmith.

00:26:18.260 Okay, I'm going to put a shingle out there and I'm going to be a blacksmith.

00:26:20.800 You were owned.

00:26:23.260 One of the arguments being made by supporters of Governor DeSantis is that schools were teaching kids to hate America by teaching, you know, the history of slavery in this country, the history.

00:26:40.040 You learn to love America by learning the truth.

00:26:46.120 The good and different and bad.

00:26:50.100 That's what America is.

00:26:51.420 This is the level.

00:26:55.180 I mean, this is it.

00:26:55.780 Everything you just watched there, that's the level of discourse on the left.

00:26:58.460 That's what you get from cable news now.

00:26:59.780 That's it right there.

00:27:00.460 I mean, everything you heard. 0.98

00:27:01.500 It's just a combination of straw men, red herrings, total nonsense. 0.96

00:27:06.620 I mean, I don't even know where to start. 0.73

00:27:08.300 Spike Lee doesn't even know what a blacksmith does to begin with, first of all.

00:27:11.720 Okay, blacksmiths, they don't do roofing. 0.97

00:27:13.800 So, I don't think he quite understands that.

00:27:16.940 And no one is saying that the slaves benefited from these skills while they were enslaved.

00:27:21.880 That's not the point, Spike.

00:27:25.520 And then everything Anderson Cooper said at the end is a total lie.

00:27:29.360 The critics of this, you know, the people defending the curriculum say that if we teach about slavery, kids will hate America.

00:27:36.600 No one's saying that.

00:27:38.040 No one is saying don't teach about slavery.

00:27:41.000 No one has ever said that.

00:27:42.600 It's part of American history.

00:27:44.500 I'm a big fan of teaching American history.

00:27:46.340 Teach the whole thing.

00:27:48.460 It shouldn't be the sole focus.

00:27:50.580 And if you're going to teach about slavery, teach the whole story of it.

00:27:54.680 Okay, if kids graduate high school after K through 12, 13 years of formal education,

00:28:00.920 and they think that slavery was unique to America or Western civilization, which many kids do,

00:28:07.420 that's a failure of the education system.

00:28:09.080 You haven't taught them the whole story.

00:28:10.580 It's like a basic fact of human civilization they don't know.

00:28:14.300 So, yeah, absolutely teach about slavery.

00:28:16.260 Teach everything about it. 0.99

00:28:17.460 Teach the whole damn thing. 0.95

00:28:20.060 And then teach the rest of American history, too. 0.99

00:28:22.400 So no one is saying that.

00:28:24.700 But you notice something.

00:28:25.580 Spike Lee never had a problem with this kind of instruction, with these facts about slavery being taught until now.

00:28:31.080 None of these people did.

00:28:31.680 But as the Daily Wire reports, quote, the College Board included a similar goal in its course framework for AP African-American studies for 2023 through 2024.

00:28:38.880 The curriculum identifies as essential knowledge this, quote,

00:28:42.200 In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South.

00:28:50.240 Once free, African-Americans use these skills to provide for themselves and others. 0.99

00:28:54.720 The College Board's AP college prep classes are available in thousands of schools across the U.S.

00:28:59.360 How is that any different from what you hear in the curriculum in Florida?

00:29:04.900 It is not different. 0.89

00:29:05.800 It's the exact same point.

00:29:08.240 It's being taught in AP classes in thousands of schools.

00:29:11.040 And not just this year, by the way, but for a long time.

00:29:14.560 No one ever had an issue with it.

00:29:15.780 No one ever brought it up until now.

00:29:21.660 But, you know, it's one thing to have the left jumping on this bandwagon.

00:29:24.800 The problem is when the right joins in the race-baiting dogpile, which the right has shown an increasingly, increasing willingness to do.

00:29:33.860 First, Representative Byron Donalds, who's a Republican representative, tweeted his general support for the curriculum, but said, quote,

00:29:40.700 The attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong and needs to be adjusted.

00:29:45.300 And then Tim Scott jumped in yesterday with this.

00:29:48.540 Listen.

00:29:48.700 As a country founded upon freedom, the greatest deprivation of freedom was slavery.

00:29:56.160 There's no silver lining in freedom, in slavery.

00:29:59.760 The truth is that anything you can learn, that any benefits that people suggest you had during slavery, you would have had as a free person.

00:30:06.640 What slavery was, was really about separating families, about mutilating humans, and even raping their wives. 0.78

00:30:13.640 It was just devastating.

00:30:15.640 So I would hope that every person in our country, and certainly running for president, would appreciate that.

00:30:22.500 And listen, people have bad days.

00:30:24.520 Sometimes they regret what they say.

00:30:26.040 And we should ask them again to clarify their position.

00:30:29.320 Okay, you are being manipulated, Tim, by the left into explaining why slavery is bad, as if anyone doesn't understand that.

00:30:42.140 And also accusing your own side of not, of what, being pro-slavery or thinking that there are good things.

00:30:48.540 Because this is all from the left.

00:30:52.860 And you, Tim Scott, I just read you the standards for AP college courses.

00:30:59.320 Why didn't you ever say anything about that?

00:31:00.980 You never cared about that.

00:31:01.900 It was never a problem.

00:31:02.920 It wasn't a problem until the left and the media told you, and Kamala Harris told you, that it's a problem.

00:31:07.500 And now it's a problem for you.

00:31:09.620 You know, one thing I've heard from some people on the right who have said, you know, it is a little like, I don't know, I don't like that language in there. 1.00

00:31:15.680 You pathetic morons. 1.00

00:31:19.320 Why is it a focus? 1.00

00:31:20.500 You know, we don't need to focus. 1.00

00:31:21.440 It was not the focus, you idiots. 1.00

00:31:23.940 It was not the focus. 1.00

00:31:24.920 It's one thing mentioned out of 190 things. 1.00

00:31:28.480 The left made it a focus, and you are stupid and going along with it. 1.00

00:31:33.760 Because you haven't learned how these people operate. 1.00

00:31:36.940 And to start with, anytime you hear the left saying anything about anything related to race, never believe it on face value.

00:31:47.340 You assume that they are lying because they always are.

00:31:51.920 If you are saying something about a race-related issue or a gender-related issue or any issue related to any so-called protected class, if you're saying something and it's exactly the same thing as what Kamala Harris is saying, you need to stop and think very hard about that.

00:32:09.500 Because the chances that she's being, that she's right and being honest are infinitesimal.

00:32:15.880 Now, I know that I'm saying all this and, you know, that Tim Scott was being manipulated.

00:32:22.080 I, myself, am being somewhat naive because he's running for president and he probably knows exactly what he's doing.

00:32:27.540 But he's attacking from the left.

00:32:31.340 And if there is one commandment, if there is one rule that we should all follow, okay, it's not, you know, never attack your own side, never criticize your own side.

00:32:41.040 No, that's not the rule.

00:32:42.160 Of course you criticize your own side.

00:32:43.400 I'm criticizing Tim Scott right now.

00:32:44.700 Not that he's really on my side.

00:32:45.680 But you never attack from the left.

00:32:49.080 Ever.

00:32:50.500 Ever.

00:32:51.620 You never go after your own side from the left.

00:32:54.120 Go after them, you criticize them.

00:32:56.240 Never from the left.

00:32:57.600 That is the unforgivable sin.

00:33:00.360 If there is one sin among conservatives, it is attacking your own side from the left. 0.99

00:33:04.000 You do that and you are, you are, you should be dead to us at that point.

00:33:10.000 The moment you did do that, it's over. 0.99

00:33:11.880 However, you adopt the left's talking points to go after your own side, screw you, you're done. 0.96

00:33:18.000 We don't need you.

00:33:19.900 Go join them if you want to play this game.

00:33:22.320 If you want to play the game of pretending that there are, like, conservatives who need you to explain to them that slavery is bad,

00:33:30.260 if you want to play that game, then just go away.

00:33:32.000 Go play it with the left.

00:33:33.200 Go become a Democrat.

00:33:34.200 That's what you are.

00:33:35.680 I have no patience for this. 0.94

00:33:37.120 It's absolutely disgraceful and I hate it.

00:33:39.580 All right.

00:33:40.180 Representative Nancy Mace, a Republican, showed up at a prayer breakfast, hosted by Tim Scott, theme here, and began with this anecdote.

00:33:48.980 Watch.

00:33:50.320 I want to thank you for pulling this together.

00:33:52.780 Another year, another standing room only event.

00:33:56.440 And when I woke up this morning at 7, I was getting picked up at 745.

00:34:00.520 Patrick, my fiancé, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed and I was like, no, baby, we don't got time for that this morning.

00:34:08.660 I got to get to the prayer breakfast and I got to be on time and a little TMI.

00:34:14.340 But he can wait.

00:34:17.480 He's got, we got, I'll see him later tonight.

00:34:19.180 But I was here early today for you, Tim.

00:34:23.160 And I think everybody, everybody was here early for you today.

00:34:28.880 A little TMI.

00:34:32.560 A little, you think?

00:34:34.760 Now, obviously, it's awkward and not appropriate to talk about that at a prayer breakfast.

00:34:38.620 But the real point here is that you see how these establishment Republican types, of which Nancy Mace definitely is one, are so disconnected from the Christian base that they try to pander to Christians.

00:34:49.280 But they don't know how to pander because they don't understand us.

00:34:52.860 They don't really understand us.

00:34:54.820 Nancy Mace is twice divorced, okay, and now going on her third husband.

00:34:58.840 So she's now cohabitating with what will eventually be her third spouse. 0.98

00:35:01.960 So if that's your story, then it's not a good idea to show up to a Christian prayer breakfast and say, hey, guys, funny story, folks.

00:35:11.860 Get this. 0.95

00:35:12.880 I was about to have sex with a man I'm not married to after I divorced my first two husbands. 0.94

00:35:16.580 But then I realized that I need to come here instead. 0.92

00:35:19.280 Isn't that funny?

00:35:20.840 It's not exactly a way to warm up the crowd.

00:35:22.920 But she doesn't realize that because she doesn't really know anything about her own voter base or their values or what they believe in or what they want.

00:35:28.860 And that's what's really going on.

00:35:29.900 It's like going to a meeting for animal rights activists and starting your speech by mentioning that you were at a great steakhouse last night.

00:35:37.740 I mean, in that context, it'd be funny.

00:35:39.480 It's like the kind of thing I would do.

00:35:40.380 But it clearly shows that either you're intentionally trying to troll your audience or you have no idea where you are or what these people are all about.

00:35:49.880 All right.

00:35:50.980 We've got to move on quickly here.

00:35:57.320 I did want to mention this.

00:35:58.480 Axios has a story about a poll.

00:36:01.120 Well, it's a Gallup poll that's getting a lot of attention.

00:36:03.540 It says pride in national identity is the lowest among is at a steep decline.

00:36:07.780 And they say it's lowest among those 18 to 34 illustrates the fracture between young Americans and older generations.

00:36:13.660 In the most recent Gallup poll, Americans 55 and older were nearly three times more likely to be extremely prideful of their nationality than younger generations.

00:36:20.340 Overall, 39 percent of U.S. adults say that they are extremely proud to be American in the most recent poll.

00:36:26.800 Meanwhile, only 18 percent of those age 18 to 34 said the same, that they were proud to be American or extremely proud, compared to 40 percent of those age 35 to 54 and 50 percent of those 55 and over.

00:36:37.520 So overall, it's like a pathetic picture.

00:36:40.020 I mean, there doesn't appear to be a majority of people extremely proud to be American in any age group.

00:36:46.080 Now, in comparison, in 2013, 85 percent of those aged 18 to 29 say they were extremely or very proud to be an American.

00:36:56.040 So I'll tell you the problem here.

00:36:57.340 And yes, it's true that younger generations are not instilled with any kind of gratitude or patriotic love of country and so on.

00:37:03.880 But I'm not going to focus on that.

00:37:05.060 We've talked about that before.

00:37:05.800 My problem with this poll is that we're using extremely proud to be American and patriotic interchangeably.

00:37:12.800 Where we are pretending that the way to find out if someone is patriotic is to ask if they're proud of America.

00:37:21.500 But I don't think that's true.

00:37:23.480 I consider myself to be a patriot.

00:37:26.180 But I am not proud of America right now.

00:37:29.220 I'm not.

00:37:30.200 So you can cast your stones at me if you want, if you must.

00:37:34.000 But I'm not proud of America.

00:37:36.680 I'm not proud to be an American at this moment.

00:37:40.400 Yet I still consider myself a patriot.

00:37:43.240 And I'll explain why.

00:37:45.960 I mean, look at it like this.

00:37:47.920 If I were to look around at my family and I were to see that, you know, I don't know, my dad is a drug addict and my mom's an alcoholic and I have a brother in jail for embezzlement or something.

00:37:57.620 None of this is true of my family, by the way, just to be clear.

00:37:59.540 But if it was, if my family was just a mess with everybody's lives and total disrepair and everything is terrible, would I be proud of my family?

00:38:10.680 Would I be proud to declare myself a member of it?

00:38:12.900 No, I wouldn't.

00:38:13.700 Because there's not much to be proud of.

00:38:15.980 I'd be embarrassed, actually.

00:38:17.000 I'd be pretty ashamed.

00:38:17.860 I'd be heartbroken to see the state that my family is in.

00:38:20.620 But I would still love my family is the point.

00:38:24.060 In fact, my love for my family would make me even more ashamed and heartbroken and embarrassed because I would want my family and my family members to be better people for their own sake.

00:38:34.060 I would want my family to be in better shape. 0.98

00:38:36.860 I love my family and want what's best for it, which means not blithely ignoring all of these problems and just declaring myself proud of everyone in the family, no matter if they act like a bunch of scumbags or not. 0.76

00:38:47.940 That's not love of family. 0.83

00:38:49.680 Loving your family means that you want to be proud of your family.

00:38:53.680 It doesn't mean that you always are.

00:38:56.000 It means that you want to be.

00:38:58.840 Same thing for your country.

00:38:59.960 To be a patriot is to love your country.

00:39:01.600 To love your country is to want your country to be great, which means, first of all, it must be good.

00:39:07.620 You want your country to flourish in every way imaginable.

00:39:11.340 It doesn't mean pretending that all of those things are true when they aren't.

00:39:16.540 So when I look around at America and I see decaying cities and rampant crime and absurd levels of corruption in government and in all of our institutions and kids being butchered and mutilated and on and on and on, I'm not proud.

00:39:28.040 How could I be proud of that?

00:39:30.080 I'm embarrassed.

00:39:31.600 I'm not proud of America right now.

00:39:34.840 There's not much to be proud of.

00:39:36.280 I want to be proud of the country.

00:39:38.520 And that's why if someone said, why don't you just leave?

00:39:40.780 No, because this is my country.

00:39:41.700 This is my home.

00:39:43.720 I want it to be better than it is.

00:39:45.680 I want to fight for it to be better.

00:39:46.880 But I'm not going to pretend that there's no problems to solve, that there aren't really deep and important problems to solve.

00:39:54.400 I'm not going to pretend that.

00:39:56.580 And if you just declare that you're proud of something or someone no matter what, then your pride doesn't mean anything.

00:40:04.000 It's like people say, well, I'm always proud of my kids no matter what.

00:40:06.420 Really?

00:40:06.780 No matter what?

00:40:07.460 No matter what they do, you're proud of them?

00:40:09.600 Well, then it doesn't mean anything to say that you're proud of them.

00:40:11.620 So you're proud of your son, whether he comes home with an A on his report card or, you know, he comes home with an F, like you're proud either way.

00:40:21.120 So your pride in the good grade apparently means absolutely nothing.

00:40:24.780 Just a default position that you've adopted.

00:40:29.680 And that's not really pride.

00:40:31.260 So, yeah, in this case, now, I think a lot of those people that say they're not proud of America, they probably would have very different reasons, you know, for that.

00:40:39.720 They probably explain their feelings in a very different way.

00:40:43.000 But I don't think that they're necessarily wrong in how for how they see it.

00:40:48.140 Let's get to the comment section.

00:41:04.560 Harrison says, Matt, I know you've talked about this plenty of times, but seriously,

00:41:07.360 how do we explain big tech and the media and all these powerful organizations all seemingly at once deciding to try to erase anyone who says the truth about gender?

00:41:15.840 YouTube was fine with discussions about this for years and then suddenly changed its mind.

00:41:19.760 Well, there's all the familiar reasons that we talk about all the time.

00:41:22.820 These institutions are ideologically captured by the left and on and on.

00:41:26.920 So all those reasons are still still apply here.

00:41:30.360 But there's another point, too, that I think is not and we've probably talked about it before, but it's not discussed enough and not understood enough.

00:41:38.580 Which is that these institutions are run by people who at this point, many of them have children who identify as trans or non-binary or whatever.

00:41:55.280 That explains it.

00:41:57.760 That explains, you know, I'm not naming specific cases.

00:42:01.680 I mean, there are specific cases that I know of, of course, but it's just it's a general statement.

00:42:05.560 You know, and this trans and non-binary stuff, it has caught hold, especially in super liberal areas, super liberal urban areas, wealthy areas.

00:42:14.660 Because that's where it's especially prevalent.

00:42:17.540 And that's also where all these people that run these institutions live.

00:42:21.900 And so that's some of what's going on, especially the sudden some of these some of these places, like some of these institutions, organizations that seem like out of nowhere.

00:42:30.260 Just, you know what, you can't talk about this anymore.

00:42:31.480 And I'm willing to bet that in so many of those cases, it's because some of the decision makers in those institutions had a kid who recently came home and said, hey, guess what?

00:42:43.660 Mom and dad, I'm not that there's going to be both mom and dad in the home most of the time, but I'm trans now.

00:42:50.180 That's a lot of it.

00:42:51.360 You know, you can never there's the political motivations.

00:42:53.820 There's the economic motivations and all that.

00:42:57.180 But there's all we've never overlooked just personal.

00:42:59.520 It's very personal for a lot of these people.

00:43:01.980 And so for a lot of these very powerful people, they have kids now who identify as trans and they themselves are facilitating that and going along with it and probably getting the kids on drugs and doing all of it. 0.88

00:43:16.200 And so now it's personal for them.

00:43:19.120 And so if they hear you.

00:43:23.800 Criticizing if they hear me saying all the things that I say on this, they take it as a personal attack on them and their kid.

00:43:28.220 And more than that, you know, when you stand up and say, well, kids shouldn't be parents shouldn't be doing this to their kids.

00:43:33.600 Well, they hear that.

00:43:34.400 And they say, oh, so you're saying that I'm a child abuser?

00:43:36.500 Well, I can't.

00:43:36.960 I can't.

00:43:37.920 I can't listen to that.

00:43:38.920 I cannot listen to that.

00:43:40.640 I can't even consider the possibility that I may have physically ruined my own child forever.

00:43:47.540 And so I'm just going to shut off all conversation about this completely because I can't listen to it.

00:43:54.780 That is a lot of what's going on.

00:43:56.660 I can guarantee you that.

00:43:59.140 Martin says, when I'm bombarded with sensational news stories across the media, the first question I ask myself is, what are they distracting us from right now?

00:44:05.660 And what are they in the process of covering up?

00:44:07.340 Well, Martin, I think I've addressed this distraction.

00:44:11.220 You're just repeat.

00:44:11.840 I hate when people do this.

00:44:14.480 I am a dress like you're asserting something that I have addressed.

00:44:20.560 OK, I have made my argument against what you're asserting.

00:44:23.280 And so you respond by just asserting it again without even trying to address the argument.

00:44:27.280 Carlos says, finally, someone besides me presenting the obvious and logical argument that by denying this phenomena, we're talking about UFOs now, is related to non-human intelligence.

00:44:37.920 One is affirming that someone is hiding unbelievable technology.

00:44:40.840 And that makes it the biggest and most interesting story ever either way.

00:44:43.980 Thanks.

00:44:44.340 It's exactly right.

00:44:45.280 So if you it doesn't make any sense to me, you can take the position that all this UFO stuff is, you know, has nothing to do with space aliens.

00:44:53.640 You can take that position.

00:44:54.660 I don't know how you could possibly know that, but you can take that position.

00:44:57.280 I mean, that's that's a valid position to take.

00:45:01.460 But the position that is not valid is that all of this is irrelevant and uninteresting, because either way, these things are happening and someone's responsible for it.

00:45:10.560 One thing we can confirm now, we can just say for a fact, is that there is highly advanced technology that is present in our skies that's way beyond the capacity, any capacity that we have as far as we know.

00:45:27.940 That's definitely true, because there's enough evidence of it to say it, to put it forward as a fact.

00:45:36.360 Yeah, does that prove that it's does that prove the origin that it proved that it's from some intergalactic or interstellar being?

00:45:41.940 No, it doesn't prove that it proves it's it originates somewhere.

00:45:46.360 And so we probably want to know where it originates from.

00:45:48.480 And it still becomes it's even if it's all earthbound, if there's if there's a very earthbound explanation for all of this, it's still important.

00:45:55.940 It's still important and interesting.

00:45:59.860 Jay Redrum says, yeah, the whole it's a distraction theory just irritates the hell out of me.

00:46:04.480 You're literally the only person I've heard give this story the commentary and fascination that it deserves.

00:46:08.780 How does no one care about this?

00:46:10.320 I'm not the only, but I'm among the only, at least when it comes to, you know, people with any kind of public profile.

00:46:16.780 And I'm with you.

00:46:17.980 But the last thing I'll say on this distraction theory, oh, this is all distraction.

00:46:21.480 And this is an important point because it matter how you feel about aliens, it's important to know how this actually works, because the powers that be, they do use distraction mechanisms.

00:46:33.340 They do.

00:46:34.240 They will, in fact, engage in the whole.

00:46:36.500 Hey, look over there.

00:46:37.480 Look at that shiny thing.

00:46:38.140 Look at that squirrel in order to divert attention away from more important things.

00:46:42.100 They that does happen, certainly.

00:46:44.920 But it's not they don't make up aliens.

00:46:46.940 OK, you know how they distract us.

00:46:49.560 It's happening right now.

00:46:50.420 It's happening this week.

00:46:52.480 They distract us with something like Ron DeSantis supports slavery and has a curriculum that supports slavery.

00:46:59.120 That's how they distract us.

00:47:00.600 And it's a lot more effective because people will actually talk about that and the media will pay attention to it.

00:47:06.420 And people on either side will argue about it.

00:47:09.480 In fact, it's a really good distraction technique for them.

00:47:12.680 Because, you know, someone like myself with a platform, I'm forced to I know part of what they're doing.

00:47:21.280 I know that this is dishonest.

00:47:22.640 I know what they're doing.

00:47:23.720 I know it's all a game.

00:47:24.540 I know I know I know it is also a distraction, but I'm forced to address it because if I don't, then their narrative is allowed to stand unchallenged and it's allowed to just be cemented into the public conscious.

00:47:37.300 And I can't allow that to happen.

00:47:40.220 So that's the kind of distraction that they use with stories like that.

00:47:44.720 Not a story like Aliens that most people don't care about.

00:47:48.580 And even if you do care about it, it's like people aren't having a serious conversation about it.

00:47:52.660 There's no real debate happening, much to my chagrin.

00:47:54.960 So you got to understand how distractions work.

00:47:59.800 And this is it.

00:48:03.280 Ron DeSantis supports slavery.

00:48:05.240 That is a distraction.

00:48:07.080 That's what they do.

00:48:10.180 Finally, Vicker says, I guess this is in response to my stirring tribute to the Democrat representative who went on a hunger and thirst strike that went that last a staggering nine hours.

00:48:24.860 Vicker says, if Matt is giving a public figure over-the-top praise, there's a 75% chance it's sarcasm.

00:48:31.620 Yeah, I wouldn't say 75%.

00:48:32.880 Give me some credit.

00:48:34.140 More like 99.9% of times.

00:48:37.760 But yeah, you're basically right.

00:48:40.000 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:48:45.600 There have been many attempts over the past year or so to answer the question, the great question, the question of all questions, what is a woman?

00:48:52.940 And as you know, if you listen to the show, many of those attempts have landed themselves right here in the Daily Cancellation.

00:48:58.140 Today, we have another worthy addition to this series.

00:49:01.340 The prominent British news magazine called The New Statesman has published a pair of essays attempting to answer what it calls the most vexed question of our time.

00:49:10.140 Now, to its credit, it is offering both perspectives.

00:49:12.520 Richard Dawkins was enlisted to give the biological, that is, the correct view on the subject.

00:49:17.040 While feminist writer Jacqueline Rose has been granted the honor of representing the incredibly wrong point of view. 1.00

00:49:23.480 Now, as you probably recall, one of the most common themes we find in these leftist attempts to answer the what is a woman question is that they do not actually attempt to answer it at all.

00:49:33.940 Because they can't, and they know they can't.

00:49:36.140 And when I say they can't answer it, I mean not that they are unable to answer it or that they don't understand what the answer is, but that their ideology will not permit them to answer.

00:49:45.960 They are literally not allowed to answer the question.

00:49:48.520 It's against the rules.

00:49:49.360 So, in lieu of providing an answer, or even trying to, they will instead say lots of other things which may or may not be true and may or may not be tangentially related to the question at hand, but which do not amount to an actual answer.

00:50:02.280 In other words, they will answer the question by doing everything except answer the question.

00:50:07.760 They'll give you a 10,000-word essay leading up to an answer, seemingly leading up to the point where there will be an answer, and then they will end the essay before they reach the conclusion.

00:50:16.560 Now, I don't mean to spoil the ending, but that is exactly what Jacqueline Rose does here.

00:50:21.740 This essay is a journey with no ending, no destination.

00:50:24.440 It spins itself in circles, ties itself in knots, all for nothing.

00:50:28.240 She hopes to dazzle us with her eloquence and praise we don't notice that she isn't saying anything.

00:50:34.180 Will she succeed?

00:50:35.480 Obviously not, but let's read.

00:50:36.940 Anyway, the first thing to note here is the title of Rose's essay.

00:50:41.320 Quote,

00:50:42.260 The gender binary is false. 1.00

00:50:43.900 We should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.

00:50:49.140 So we're beginning with a startling declaration.

00:50:52.360 The binary is false. 0.97

00:50:54.080 If the binary is false, then that must mean either that there are more than two categories beyond male and female, or that there's only one, or none.

00:51:03.740 So if the binary is false, either there's more than two, there's less, or there's fewer than two.

00:51:08.880 Those are the only options.

00:51:10.540 Given that this is the title of her piece, surely she must, somewhere in this lengthy dissertation, actually provide some kind of evidence to support one of those alternatives.

00:51:21.940 She can't make a statement like that right in the title and then not even attempt to defend or support it, can she?

00:51:27.860 Well, we'll have to keep going to find out.

00:51:30.160 Rose begins, quote,

00:51:30.980 This is happening even though it has always been a central goal of feminism 1.00

00:51:56.540 to repudiate the very idea of womanhood as a form of coercive control that means the end of freedom.

00:52:03.460 Okay, a couple of things here right off the bat.

00:52:05.320 First, not only can she not answer the question, but we discover immediately that she doesn't even understand why it's being asked.

00:52:11.780 The point of what is a woman isn't to suggest that there are multiple valid answers, 0.90

00:52:15.360 but to demonstrate that there is only one valid answer.

00:52:18.520 Only one group has any kind of answer to that question, and that's the group that affirms biological reality.

00:52:24.620 Everybody else has no answer, Jacqueline Rose included, as we'll see.

00:52:29.520 Second, notice here, and this is a theme throughout,

00:52:32.820 Rose, a prominent feminist, absolutely agrees with the argument that I made earlier this week 1.00

00:52:38.620 that feminism sets the stage for gender ideology. 0.98

00:52:41.440 The two are inextricably linked.

00:52:42.700 Rose even says that the goal of feminism is to repudiate the very idea of womanhood. 1.00

00:52:50.060 And on that point, at least, we can definitely agree.

00:52:53.580 Continuing, quote,

00:52:54.300 Ironically, this appeal to the category of woman as a pre-given, unquestionable,

00:52:58.640 is being made in the name of women's safety, another core objective for feminism over the centuries. 1.00

00:53:03.760 Except that now it seems any question about what a woman is or might be

00:53:06.980 must be dropped the moment the threat of sexual violence rears its head, 0.97

00:53:10.640 which suggests that it is the category of woman as much as the safety of women that needs protection. 1.00

00:53:16.940 In the most prevalent version of this argument,

00:53:19.020 trans women, who were once men, must be excluded from women-only spaces, 1.00

00:53:22.980 which they threaten by dint of being deep down still a man,

00:53:25.960 regardless of the lengths to which they have gone to leave that identity behind.

00:53:29.720 They are frauds whom women should fear. 0.99

00:53:32.280 But the case only holds if we're confident that we know what a man or woman is in the first place.

00:53:37.880 Well, I am confident, Jacqueline.

00:53:39.420 I'm confident that a woman is an adult human female.

00:53:42.000 If you want to shake that confidence, you need to explain why I'm wrong in this belief.

00:53:46.680 And so far you haven't.

00:53:47.960 But we'll see if you get around to it, even though we know you don't.

00:53:51.240 Though we aren't off to a great start here because it's clear from this paragraph

00:53:55.900 that you, Jacqueline, don't even understand the position you're supposed to be defending,

00:54:01.040 much less the one you're arguing against.

00:54:03.020 You say that trans women who were once men must be excluded from women-only spaces,

00:54:08.240 which they threaten by dint of being deep down still a man,

00:54:10.700 regardless of the lengths to which they have gone to leave that identity behind.

00:54:14.380 But that is not what your own side asserts, Jacqueline.

00:54:17.580 Rather, your side says that trans women were always women.

00:54:21.620 There is no male identity to leave behind.

00:54:24.280 This is why, again, according to your own side, there aren't any lengths that anyone

00:54:29.200 must go to in order to be accepted as a member of the opposite sex. 0.99

00:54:32.280 That's supposed to be your position.

00:54:34.700 Now, it doesn't bother me if you want to go this other route.

00:54:36.880 They're both equally wrong.

00:54:38.020 But you should know that, according to most of your fellow gender ideologues,

00:54:42.180 your repudiation of transphobia is itself transphobic.

00:54:46.620 So I guess I'll let you deal with that on your own.

00:54:48.960 But moving on, quote,

00:54:49.680 As New York Magazine critic Andrea Long Chu has written in her book Females, 2019,

00:54:55.520 the biological category female, as it is understood today, 0.77

00:54:59.080 was developed in the 19th century as a way of referring to black slaves.

00:55:03.120 A female black slave was someone who was refused the status of social and legal personhood. 1.00

00:55:08.160 To that extent, Chu observes,

00:55:09.720 a female has always been less than a person. 1.00

00:55:12.480 To assume that female is a neutral biological category 0.96

00:55:15.580 is therefore historically naive and racially blind.

00:55:18.780 It not only drastically limits the options, but trails ugly histories behind it. 0.97

00:55:24.700 Well, I don't know what to say about this, other than the fact that it's utter nonsense.

00:55:30.500 The category of female was developed in the 1800s to describe slaves? 0.92

00:55:35.940 What?

00:55:37.340 I mean, let's leave aside the fact that if a female has always been less than a person 0.99

00:55:41.140 because it was applied to female slaves, 0.99

00:55:43.320 then the word male has also always signified someone who's less than a person

00:55:46.800 because that was applied to male slaves. 0.95

00:55:48.740 Slaves of both sexes and slaves across the world in all cultures were depersoned.

00:55:54.180 This was not a situation unique to female slaves. 0.98

00:55:56.420 Regardless, I shouldn't have to explain this, Jacqueline,

00:55:59.500 but the word female long predates the 19th century slave trade. 1.00

00:56:03.760 As best as I can tell, the etymology of the word can be traced back to at least the 12th century,

00:56:08.500 about 700 years before the date of origin that you're suggesting.

00:56:12.240 But that's just the word female. 1.00

00:56:14.540 The concept, the actual biological reality that the word female is signifying

00:56:19.640 has been around since the dawn of human civilization and obviously long, long before that.

00:56:24.540 The entire English language can be traced back to, you know, only about 1,400 years ago.

00:56:31.080 That doesn't mean that every object, idea, or concept the English language has a word for

00:56:35.760 also began only 1,400 years ago.

00:56:38.560 You know, so I can trace the origins of words like rock and cloud and elephant,

00:56:42.700 and I'll find that those English words are quite a bit younger than the things themselves.

00:56:49.880 Okay, Mount Everest was named in 1856.

00:56:52.660 The mountain itself existed for about 60 million years before that.

00:56:58.240 Now, I'm not trying to get hung up on semantics here.

00:57:00.420 You brought this up, and besides, there's an important point,

00:57:03.740 because your side is constantly trying to confuse the word with the concept,

00:57:08.420 the signifier with that which is being signified.

00:57:12.900 All you ever do is play elaborate word games,

00:57:15.580 but you forget that a word is a symbol for some kind of reality outside of itself.

00:57:20.640 You want to talk about the symbol, but never the thing that is being symbolized.

00:57:26.480 Here's what we know.

00:57:28.240 There are two types of gametes, two reproductive cells. 0.95

00:57:30.680 People have one or the other.

00:57:31.940 People fall into one category or the other.

00:57:33.820 There is a group of people who, by their nature,

00:57:37.020 have the capacity in principle to become pregnant,

00:57:39.840 and people who, by their nature, in principle,

00:57:42.580 have the capacity to impregnate the people in the other category. 0.76

00:57:45.540 Call these categories whatever you want.

00:57:48.660 Every language has its own word.

00:57:50.060 It doesn't matter.

00:57:51.680 The fact is that the categories exist.

00:57:53.820 They are real things in the world.

00:57:57.100 When people came up with words for them,

00:57:58.980 they were describing a real thing.

00:58:01.680 We're not imagining them.

00:58:04.880 Of course, Jacqueline has the expected rejoinder to this controversial claim 0.97

00:58:08.020 that males and females exist.

00:58:10.000 And she writes, quote,

00:58:11.680 Where does that leave the women who, for reasons of illness,

00:58:14.140 have their uterus surgically removed?

00:58:15.600 Or the trans man who retains his at the same time as presenting, 0.93

00:58:18.640 to all other intents and purposes, as a man?

00:58:20.740 Who can decide these quandaries on behalf of anybody else?

00:58:24.360 Let me ask you this, Jacqueline.

00:58:26.760 When Isaac Newton formulated the theory of gravity,

00:58:29.500 was he deciding that gravity exists on behalf of the rest of us?

00:58:34.360 Was he imposing gravity on our lives in some way?

00:58:37.880 By noticing it?

00:58:40.000 Was he forcing us into restrictive gravitational boxes?

00:58:44.660 Was he taking away the rights of those who had preferred if gravity did not exist?

00:58:49.140 No, he was simply noticing, explaining, categorizing,

00:58:52.260 and giving name to a physical reality in the world.

00:58:56.240 A person's individual preferences have nothing to do with it.

00:58:59.320 The reality is what it is.

00:59:00.900 Male and females are realities. 0.97

00:59:02.820 And they remain realities even when an individual female gets a surgery

00:59:05.720 to remove a part of her body. 0.91

00:59:07.600 The woman who gets a hysterectomy doesn't lose her female identity 1.00

00:59:10.200 any more than, like, a camel loses its camel identity if you chop off its hump.

00:59:14.520 Now, if I were to ask you to describe a camel,

00:59:16.960 you're probably going to say something about the hump.

00:59:20.140 Because it's a defining camel feature.

00:59:22.140 It's one of the things we all think of when we think of camels.

00:59:23.720 But you also understand that a camel, which by injury or deformity,

00:59:27.740 has lost its hump, is still a camel.

00:59:31.260 You understand these kinds of concepts and distinctions for literally all other life forms on Earth.

00:59:35.960 A bird without wings is still a bird.

00:59:37.560 A shark without teeth is still a shark.

00:59:39.420 And you get all of that, don't you?

00:59:40.980 Well, why do you struggle to understand this concept when it comes to humans

00:59:45.540 who are also life forms on Earth?

00:59:49.060 But we still haven't gotten to an answer to the question.

00:59:52.200 Neither have we been given any sort of defense of or description of

00:59:55.060 the other categories that Jacqueline claims exist outside of male and female.

00:59:59.480 Let's skip to the conclusion to see if she gets around to it.

01:00:02.380 Quote,

01:00:02.560 The end. That's it.

01:00:30.680 Lots of words that all amount to a giant shrug emoji.

01:00:35.420 I don't know.

01:00:36.740 Who can answer the question on behalf of anybody else?

01:00:39.600 Well, I can answer it, Jacqueline, but I don't answer it on behalf of anyone.

01:00:43.760 I just answer it.

01:00:45.680 Okay?

01:00:45.960 I don't answer questions like,

01:00:47.500 What is 2 plus 2 equal?

01:00:48.680 Or,

01:00:49.380 Do fish swim in the water?

01:00:51.720 Or,

01:00:52.120 Is the sun bigger than Mars?

01:00:53.840 On behalf of someone,

01:00:55.080 I just answer it.

01:00:56.500 I tell you the reality,

01:00:57.840 no matter what anyone prefers the reality to be.

01:01:00.680 But as you openly admit,

01:01:02.600 you consider reality something to,

01:01:04.220 Quote,

01:01:04.520 Fight against.

01:01:06.420 Apparently not understanding that this makes your opinion about literally everything irrelevant.

01:01:11.040 If you openly reject reality,

01:01:13.620 If you consider the whole category of reality to be something that we should

01:01:16.600 Deny in principle,

01:01:19.420 Then there isn't anything to talk about.

01:01:21.840 Okay?

01:01:22.200 I'm not going to sit in the passenger seat of your car if you're driving with your eyes closed.

01:01:26.680 You refuse to see the road in front of you.

01:01:28.920 How can you possibly navigate it?

01:01:31.640 You refuse to recognize the reality of the world.

01:01:34.020 How can you possibly have anything worthwhile to say about it?

01:01:36.480 You have made your wrongness your North Star.

01:01:41.140 You pursue wrongness.

01:01:44.220 You want to be wrong.

01:01:46.660 And congratulations,

01:01:48.200 you are.

01:01:49.840 And you're also today,

01:01:51.440 Cancelled.

01:01:52.500 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

01:01:55.060 Thanks for listening.

01:01:56.320 Thanks for watching.

01:01:57.020 Talk to you next week.

01:01:58.020 Godspeed.

01:01:59.000 Godspeed.

01:02:07.440 Godspeed.

01:02:11.120 Godspeed.

01:02:13.080 Godspeed.

01:02:14.600 Godspeed.

01:02:16.320 Godspeed.

01:02:18.200 He has aatee.

01:02:20.960 Godspeed.

01:02:24.940 Godspeed.

01:02:25.760 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 28, 2023

Ep. 1193 - Congressional Hearing Puts The Incoherence Of Trans Ideology On Full Display

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