The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1219 - Tyrannical Leftist Woman Tries To Abolish The Second Amendment

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the governor of New Mexico attempts to suspend the Second Amendment under the guise of a public health emergency.

00:00:05.840 This is the next phase in our bureaucratic tyranny, but the stage has been set for a long time, I'll explain.

00:00:11.040 Also, a mayor in California goes to a drag show and gets spanked.

00:00:14.860 And speaking of California, a new law would give courts the right to take custody away from parents who don't affirm their child's, quote, gender identity.

00:00:22.100 All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:43.820 If you were creating a short list of luminaries in the field of public health, you wouldn't think that someone named Michelle Lujan Grisham would appear on that list.

00:01:53.680 At no point in her life did Grisham receive any training in medicine or science.

00:01:58.220 Instead, she has a Bachelor of Arts degree in something called University Studies.

00:02:02.760 And for the uninitiated, a degree in university studies is what people get when they don't want to study in a university.

00:02:09.620 Then Grisham earned a law degree, which, of course, also has nothing to do with public health.

00:02:13.360 And afterwards, for several years, Grisham worked at a state department dealing with aging and long-term services.

00:02:18.900 And she eventually directed that same department. 0.92

00:02:22.240 Those were Michelle Lujan Grisham's credentials when, in 2004, she became the highest-ranking public health official in the state of New Mexico.

00:02:28.680 Presumably, the fact that she came from a prominent political family in the state didn't hurt her chances of getting the job.

00:02:35.800 But whatever the case, Grisham's tenure as the state's secretary of health was unremarkable.

00:02:41.080 She only had the post for a couple of years before moving on. 0.70

00:02:43.640 But many years later in 2020, the incoming Biden administration took a very close look at Michelle Lujan Grisham.

00:02:50.360 For reasons that remain unknown, the Biden administration apparently believed that Grisham's limited experience in the field of public health

00:02:57.080 from more than a decade ago qualified her to run the Department of Health and Human Services at the federal level.

00:03:03.960 This is the department that oversees all public health issues in the entire country.

00:03:08.260 Biden's aides publicly courted her for the job. 0.93

00:03:10.780 They said that she was under careful consideration.

00:03:13.760 Ultimately, though, Grisham decided to remain as governor of New Mexico.

00:03:17.240 So she didn't want the job.

00:03:18.440 Now, in that capacity, from the beginning, Grisham has governed less like a politician and more like a public health bureaucrat with limitless power.

00:03:28.380 For the past three years, Grisham has ruled the state under an indefinite public health emergency protocol.

00:03:34.040 As recently as late last year, when most of the country had moved on from COVID, Grisham was issuing orders requiring that state workers and hospital employees wear masks

00:03:43.180 and take a regular schedule of COVID shots.

00:03:46.120 Grisham often cited experts like herself to justify these unlawful and increasingly untenable mandates.

00:03:54.180 But by March of this year, the people of New Mexico finally had enough.

00:03:58.920 Grisham, lacking the political will to sustain yet another extension of her public health powers, formally ended the COVID-19 emergency in the state.

00:04:07.400 Now, it took long enough, but Grisham's authority to issue unilateral edicts was finally gone at that point.

00:04:16.200 Now, put yourself in Michelle Lujan Grisham's position at that very moment.

00:04:21.100 How would you handle the reality that you can no longer rule your state like a dictator?

00:04:26.920 Now, if you're a well-adjusted person who cares about your constitutional oath of office,

00:04:31.580 you'd probably be thankful that the emergency is over, even if it was fake to begin with.

00:04:35.780 Well, suffice it to say that that was not Michelle Grisham's reaction.

00:04:45.040 Instead, she immediately began ruminating about other ways that she could expand her emergency powers.

00:04:51.720 In May, in a conversation that didn't receive any attention from the media,

00:04:55.740 Grisham spoke to Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health about her plan to expand the field of quote-unquote public health

00:05:02.020 to encompass everything, every imaginable policy issue would fall under public health.

00:05:08.980 And she announced this publicly.

00:05:11.580 This is footage that should have set off a lot of alarm bells, but nobody even noticed it or talked about it.

00:05:17.820 Here it is. Watch.

00:05:19.520 Everything is a public health issue.

00:05:21.540 Gun violence is a public health issue.

00:05:23.820 Poverty is a public health issue.

00:05:25.700 Environmental consequences from energy is a public health issue.

00:05:30.060 All of these disenfranchised populations, all of the equity barriers are all public health issues.

00:05:37.360 And when we address those, our economy is better, our families are stronger, our risks are fewer.

00:05:43.760 If we want to save the planet and we want to make families independent, we want to eradicate poverty and injustice,

00:05:53.320 it's going to take a whole new class of young, dedicated professionals who are ready to take on the mantle.

00:06:01.900 So I'm thrilled that they're watching and listening, and I'm ready to have you work in New Mexico.

00:06:08.120 And there are many other states, including your own home states, who deserve you and need you.

00:06:12.920 So let's go fix the world.

00:06:15.720 Everything is a public health issue, says Michelle Lujan Grisham.

00:06:19.280 She says poverty, climate change, gun violence, all public health.

00:06:24.740 Let's go fix the world, Grisham says, as the Johns Hopkins lady sitting there, public health lady, nods and grins along.

00:06:32.380 Yes, let's fix the world. That's something we can do. Let's fix it.

00:06:36.800 Now, you might be wondering when it became the goal of the public health industry to, quote, fix the world.

00:06:41.780 Wasn't their gig supposed to be just to make sure the public is healthy?

00:06:46.340 Public health, make sure the public is healthy. That's what I assumed.

00:06:50.160 Not anymore, apparently. In fact, that hasn't been the goal since COVID.

00:06:53.820 You might remember it was a Johns Hopkins public health expert, quote, unquote, named Jennifer Nuzo,

00:06:58.540 who stated that it's a bad idea to riot during the public, during the COVID pandemic, unless you're rioting for George Floyd and BLM, in which case, go for it. 0.61

00:07:08.040 So public health is not the goal anymore.

00:07:10.460 Now the goal is to pursue social justice, which is what they mean when they talk about fixing the world.

00:07:15.360 Now the goal is to correct every problem with the world, and the people who identify the problems are Governor Grisham and other left-wing bureaucrats like her.

00:07:26.300 Now you can think of a variety of terms to describe what's going on here. Mission creep comes to mind.

00:07:31.780 It's also incoherent because if every problem is a public health problem, then public health has outlived its usefulness as a distinct category because it's not a distinct category.

00:07:42.760 If everything is a public health issue, then nothing is a public health issue.

00:07:47.700 Whatever you call this phenomenon we're seeing, it's obvious what Grisham is doing and why she's doing it.

00:07:53.360 Like the rest of the public health establishment, she has realized that she can assume totalitarian powers as long as she can claim that she's addressing some public health matter. 0.99

00:08:03.940 The solution is to label everything a public health matter, and then she can do whatever she wants. 1.00

00:08:08.520 And if she manages to get away with that, then she gets to control everything.

00:08:15.360 That was her approach, and she said it out loud in front of a friendly audience back in May, not even trying to hide it.

00:08:21.880 A couple of days ago, as you may have seen, Grisham put the next stage of her plan into motion.

00:08:26.160 She announced a public health order, quote-unquote, that prohibits residents in so-called high-crime areas, including New Mexico's biggest city, from possessing firearms outside of their homes.

00:08:35.960 And in making this announcement, Grisham admits that criminals are not going to follow the law.

00:08:41.460 The people that are actually committing the gun crime, they're not going to follow this.

00:08:45.920 She admits that.

00:08:47.500 She also acknowledges that she's probably going to get overturned in the courts because she doesn't really have the constitutional authority to do this.

00:08:53.620 But she doesn't care. 0.71

00:08:55.320 Watch.

00:08:55.580 But your point is valid.

00:08:58.340 You took an oath to the Constitution.

00:09:00.180 Isn't it unconstitutional to say you cannot exercise your carrying license?

00:09:06.240 With one exception, and that is if there's an emergency, and I've declared an emergency for a temporary amount of time, I can invoke additional powers.

00:09:17.120 No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute.

00:09:24.480 There are restrictions on free speech.

00:09:26.160 There are restrictions on my freedoms.

00:09:28.240 In this emergency, this 11-year-old and all these parents who have lost all these children, they deserve my attention to have the debate about whether or not in an emergency we can create a safer environment.

00:09:44.360 Because what about their constitutional rights?

00:09:46.520 I took an oath to uphold those, too.

00:09:49.760 And if we ignore this growing problem without being bold, I've said to every other New Mexican, your rights are subrogated to theirs. 1.00

00:10:00.040 And they are not, in my view.

00:10:02.120 Wait a minute.

00:10:02.940 You're talking about crimes.

00:10:04.960 There are already laws against the crimes.

00:10:07.140 So how are there rights?

00:10:08.020 I got it.

00:10:08.380 But again, if I'm unsafe, who's standing up for that right?

00:10:14.900 If this climate is so out of control, somebody should do something.

00:10:21.720 I'm doing as much as I know to do.

00:10:25.360 Madam Governor, do you really think that criminals are going to hear this message and not carry a gun in Albuquerque, on the streets, for 30 days?

00:10:33.440 Uh, no.

00:10:36.000 But here's what I do think.

00:10:37.780 It's a pretty resounding message.

00:10:39.640 Somebody should do something.

00:10:42.520 Someone should do something, she says.

00:10:44.160 That has been the justification for pretty much every tyrannical power grab in recent history.

00:10:50.420 It's always under the guise of, just do something.

00:10:52.820 That was all of COVID, right?

00:10:54.160 It was just do.

00:10:55.120 It doesn't matter what we're doing.

00:10:57.100 We're scared.

00:10:57.980 So just do something.

00:10:59.540 Something.

00:10:59.820 And she's doing something.

00:11:04.380 Will it achieve anything at all?

00:11:06.200 I mean, before we get to the question of whether she has the authority to do it, she doesn't.

00:11:09.760 Will it even achieve anything?

00:11:12.200 Even according to her?

00:11:14.580 She seems skeptical of that.

00:11:16.200 But she says that it sends a resounding message.

00:11:19.360 She's not even pretending that there's any legal merit to this.

00:11:21.880 She doesn't even suggest that criminals will obey it.

00:11:25.740 It's all about the message.

00:11:27.920 Well, what is that message exactly?

00:11:29.300 Superficially, what Grisham is saying is that no right is absolute, in her words.

00:11:35.420 And that part of it, just isolated on its own, no right is absolute, that's basically true, of course.

00:11:41.160 That's why there's a legal process for removing rights. 1.00

00:11:44.940 If you are a convicted murderer, you lose your right to carry a gun, for example.

00:11:50.500 And most people have no issue with that.

00:11:51.900 Certainly, everyone agrees that you can't bring your gun with you into prison.

00:11:55.280 When you go into prison, you lose basically all of your constitutional rights, or most of them.

00:12:01.480 And most people, again, have no issue with that.

00:12:05.100 The problem is that Grisham is attempting to strip everyone's basic constitutional rights all at once, by the stroke of a pen.

00:12:11.200 Basically treating everyone in the city like they are convicted murderers. 0.88

00:12:16.360 And her reasoning to justify that dramatic expansion of her authority is ludicrous.

00:12:22.280 I mean, there's always been gun crime.

00:12:24.600 What exactly makes it a special emergency now?

00:12:26.680 In that clip, you heard Grisham allude to something approaching an explanation, at least in her view.

00:12:32.660 She says that an 11-year-old child was just shot and killed in a road rage incident near a baseball stadium in Albuquerque, which is a terrible travesty, of course.

00:12:42.560 Someone shot 17 times at a moving vehicle, killing the child and critically injuring a woman inside the car.

00:12:47.860 Therefore, Grisham says, because of this emotionally charged episode, we need to punish every law-abiding gun owner in the entire state, or at least in that city, and maybe eventually the entire state.

00:13:01.000 We need to turn them all into criminals or treat them like they are.

00:13:04.760 Now, if road rage is the issue, then you'd think that she would ban cars. 1.00

00:13:09.820 I mean, you could say that, well, that never would have happened if not for guns.

00:13:13.840 Never would have happened without cars.

00:13:16.420 But I guess she doesn't think that she can get away with banning cars yet.

00:13:20.260 So she's settling just for the guns. 1.00

00:13:23.500 Interestingly enough, Grisham doesn't display any curiosity about the assailant in that shooting.

00:13:29.100 At the moment that Grisham issued that order ending the Second Amendment in New Mexico because this 11-year-old was killed, authorities didn't know the identity of the suspect.

00:13:36.980 They didn't know anything about it.

00:13:38.040 They didn't know a single thing about him.

00:13:41.140 That's more than a little strange if you think about it.

00:13:43.420 You have to wonder, what kind of person shoots a moving vehicle 17 times due to road rage?

00:13:50.580 Are we talking about a law-abiding gun owner?

00:13:54.940 Is that what we're talking about?

00:13:56.860 It's possible.

00:13:58.540 Or are we talking about somebody with a criminal history, perhaps?

00:14:01.200 Maybe somebody on probation?

00:14:03.460 Could it be that we're not even talking about an American citizen at all?

00:14:08.040 Those are questions that Grisham very badly doesn't want you to think about.

00:14:12.240 But they're reasonable questions.

00:14:14.460 Especially if you're familiar with the numbers on how many felons and illegal aliens are shooting up the streets of New Mexico right now.

00:14:20.420 There's a lot of them.

00:14:21.260 And thanks in large part to policies that Grisham and her fellow Democrats have enacted.

00:14:26.820 Nearly half of all federal crimes in the entire country are committed in states like New Mexico that sit along the Mexican border.

00:14:32.940 And there's a reason for that.

00:14:34.180 It's not a coincidence.

00:14:34.920 The reason is called open borders.

00:14:37.300 But Democrats in the state haven't done anything about it.

00:14:39.300 In fact, during the Trump administration, Grisham refused to call the border crisis an emergency.

00:14:43.900 So that is not an emergency.

00:14:46.180 But now the Second Amendment is an emergency.

00:14:50.960 And it's not the criminals in her state who are shooting people.

00:14:53.700 They're not the emergency.

00:14:54.540 It's the Second Amendment itself.

00:14:55.880 So, where is this leading exactly?

00:15:00.260 Again, Grisham knows her order is going to get overturned eventually, which is probably why she limits it to 30 days.

00:15:04.780 She's hoping the courts will take longer than 30 days to strike this down.

00:15:07.820 So, what's the real agenda here?

00:15:10.360 Is this order just a trial balloon to introduce this idea to the public so that down the line these kinds of emergency orders are more palatable?

00:15:18.180 Reading between the lines, you can see that the Democrat Party probably views it that way.

00:15:22.500 Following Grisham's order, to the surprise of many conservatives, Democratic Senator Ted Lieu, along with the deeply neurotic anti-gun Harvard kid David Hogg, came out and actually criticized the order as unconstitutional.

00:15:35.140 And they used almost precisely the same language, which tells you that a memo went out somewhere to coordinate left-wing messaging on this topic.

00:15:43.340 So, here's what Lieu wrote.

00:15:44.220 Quote,

00:15:45.020 I support gun safety laws.

00:15:46.540 However, no state in the union can suspend the federal constitution.

00:15:50.440 There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.

00:15:55.140 Hogg wrote basically the same thing.

00:15:56.800 Quote,

00:15:57.280 I support gun safety, but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.

00:16:04.060 Now, first of all, notice how creepy it is that a Harvard brat and a U.S. senator are sourcing their talking points from the same mysterious higher power.

00:16:12.720 And we know that these are talking points.

00:16:14.640 They're saying exactly the same thing.

00:16:16.400 Those posts did not come from Ted Lieu's office or the brilliant mind of David Hogg.

00:16:22.400 They probably came from the DNC, which is providing messaging on how to handle this.

00:16:26.940 And for that reason, it's worth parsing the messages very carefully.

00:16:32.240 Both messages say that there's no state exception to the U.S. Constitution that allows for public health emergencies to supersede constitutional rights.

00:16:39.700 And that sounds good, but of course, it doesn't go far enough, not even close.

00:16:44.940 There's a reason they say state, because they're deliberately leaving open the possibility that the federal government might be able to step in and create such public health exemptions to constitutional rights.

00:16:56.280 They're reserving that power for Congress at some point in the future, even as they say that states can't do it on their own.

00:17:04.040 And that's a big deal, because if you think back to COVID, some of the biggest infringements on civil liberties came from the federal government's assertion of emergency powers.

00:17:11.120 The CDC, we all forget, nationalized the country's rental properties.

00:17:15.340 Unilaterally, on their own, they did this.

00:17:18.900 They made it illegal for landlords to evict tenants, even if the tenants weren't paying rent.

00:17:24.520 Nothing like that has ever happened in this country before, but a so-called public health agency did it on their own.

00:17:31.020 And of course, the Biden administration fired service members who didn't take the shot.

00:17:34.740 In fact, they tried to have more than 100 million workers and private companies fired unless they took the shot or submitted to regular COVID testing.

00:17:41.920 Over and over again, the Fed set the blueprint for COVID totalitarianism, and the states followed.

00:17:47.900 So is that what they're planning for the next emergency, quote unquote?

00:17:53.160 Will the federal government attempt to use emergency powers to supersede the Second Amendment as they superseded all of our rights during COVID?

00:18:00.700 Now, for the moment, thankfully, it doesn't appear that this attempt to unilaterally end the Second Amendment in New Mexico will succeed.

00:18:06.960 For one thing, several law enforcement officials in New Mexico have already come out and said that they're not going to enforce the order.

00:18:11.920 And yesterday, as journalist Ford Fisher documented, protesters, many of them openly caring, showed up in Albuquerque, and the police didn't do anything about it.

00:18:20.900 And on one hand, this is obviously encouraging.

00:18:23.140 It shows why we have the Second Amendment in the first place.

00:18:26.180 It's a self-reinforcing amendment, essentially.

00:18:29.080 When everybody's armed, it's awfully difficult for police to disarm everyone without violence.

00:18:33.920 And that's violence that no politician wants to be responsible for, at least not yet.

00:18:37.660 But at the same time, this is all still profoundly distressing.

00:18:42.600 It shouldn't fall on American citizens to go out in public and risk arrest or civil penalties, or worse, to enjoy a constitutional right.

00:18:51.140 The simple fact that this kind of demonstration is even necessary is a huge win for the left.

00:18:56.400 This is a win for the partisans who want to chip away at our constitutional rights bit by bit until they're gone.

00:19:01.640 And we know that because Grisham, the governor, should be in prison right now.

00:19:08.000 She is conspiring to undermine the federal rights of American citizens, which, according to the precedent set by the Trump prosecutions, is supposed to be a very serious crime. 0.77

00:19:17.760 And unlike Trump, Grisham is openly admitting that she intends to subvert Americans' constitutional rights.

00:19:22.320 She's admitting it.

00:19:23.000 In fact, as of last night, Grisham was openly bragging about all this on Twitter.

00:19:27.560 So why isn't every DA in New Mexico bringing charges against Grisham tonight?

00:19:32.760 Why aren't the, where are the RICO charges?

00:19:36.240 Where are the raids on her mansion?

00:19:39.040 Why isn't she being frog-marched down the street in handcuffs? 1.00

00:19:43.240 Why aren't they trying to throw her in prison for the rest of her life? 1.00

00:19:46.880 That's what she deserves.

00:19:48.600 It's what the left would obviously do if she was on the other foot. 1.00

00:19:51.300 Imagine if a Republican governor tried to, I don't know, unilaterally suspend the 19th Amendment, arguing that women voters are a threat to the country and our way of life. 1.00

00:20:03.400 How do we think Democrats would respond to that?

00:20:07.240 No, they'd be saying, bring the federal government and put that person in jail right now.

00:20:12.980 Remove them from power today because of that.

00:20:17.540 That's not what's happening to Grisham.

00:20:18.980 So if this order was a trial balloon, the response from the right has been woefully insufficient.

00:20:25.960 Tyrants have always used emergencies, whether real or imaginary, to justify their power grabs.

00:20:30.880 COVID was the pivotal moment when most of the country laid down and allowed the government to suspend essentially all of our rights for the sake of protecting us against a cold.

00:20:40.320 Career bureaucrats like Governor Grisham, they took note of that.

00:20:45.700 And now she's taking it to the next level.

00:20:47.820 And she's getting really only minimal pushback.

00:20:51.480 It's not hard to imagine where this goes next.

00:20:53.380 As we showed you in that video from Johns Hopkins, Grisham herself has already outlined the plan from here.

00:20:57.940 So we can probably expect a climate change emergency to justify banning cars, a transphobia emergency to shut down non-affirming speech, a racism emergency to ram through a federal reparations plan, a poverty emergency to redistribute wealth. 0.54

00:21:15.380 You know, since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the left has lost their minds making abortion their official sacrament.

00:21:44.660 But despite this, the pro-life efforts are still booming.

00:21:47.860 You heard that, right?

00:21:48.480 Despite the narrative that pro-lifers, that you hear about pro-lifers, they have not gone away.

00:21:52.080 They've increased in number.

00:21:53.500 As one of the largest pro-life organizations in the world, no one's in a better position than 40 Days for Life to end abortion in each state in a post-Roe America. 0.97

00:22:01.280 40 Days for Life is changing hearts and minds in the most blue pro-abortion states.

00:22:05.280 They've had a record number of locations since Roe was overturned, and they grew in both volunteers and locations.

00:22:10.100 With about 1 million volunteers in 1,500 cities, they hold peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities.

00:22:15.580 You can help them fight the ongoing legal battles by protecting free speech for their volunteers by giving a tax-deductible gift of any amount at 40daysforlife.com.

00:22:24.060 That's 40daysforlife.com.

00:22:26.760 So we begin the five headlines, unfortunately, with something very strange and disturbing.

00:22:30.720 So no change of pace there, I suppose.

00:22:32.780 Libs of TikTok has the report today about Burbank Mayor Constantine Anthony, who attended a drag show last week.

00:22:40.100 And there was a time when that would be enough of a scandal on its own, right?

00:22:44.160 A public health, a public official, rather, elected official going to a drag show would be considered gross and outrageous enough to be disqualifying.

00:22:54.260 But that's not the case anymore, so we have to add in two other details.

00:22:57.980 First, this was a drag show where kids were invited, and we'll have more on that in just a moment.

00:23:02.380 And while at the drag show, Constantine stood up in front of the crowd and volunteered to be spanked by the drag queen.

00:23:11.400 Here's what that looked like, if you're curious, or even if you're not.

00:23:15.580 Here it is anyway.

00:23:16.540 Let's watch.

00:23:16.960 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, macho, macho man, yeah.

00:23:25.380 I've got to be a macho, macho man, yeah.

00:23:32.620 I've got to be a macho.

00:23:35.040 Okay.

00:23:36.320 So, first of all, you know that I firmly believe that sex is biological.

00:23:42.060 It's innate.

00:23:43.100 A man is a man, and nothing can ever make him not a man.

00:23:46.040 But if it were possible, if it were possible for a man to lose his manhood completely, then that's how it would happen. 0.77

00:23:53.580 Then you just watched it happen, getting spanked in public by a drag queen. 0.99

00:23:58.260 You may still be a man technically, biologically after that, but you certainly have now had your man card permanently revoked,

00:24:05.700 and there's nothing that can ever reverse that decision.

00:24:08.300 Now, lives with TikTok called this out, saying that the mayor of Burbank was spanked by a drag queen at an event involving children.

00:24:17.740 And the mayor responded to that by tweeting this.

00:24:20.840 He said, actually, there weren't any children at this private 21-plus event, but of course, lying is totally on brand for you.

00:24:28.140 Well, lives with TikTok then posted the advertisement that the drag queen had previously, the drag queen you just saw there, 0.81

00:24:35.400 had previously posted the advertisement, the poster to Instagram, I think.

00:24:39.960 And here's what the advertisement says.

00:24:43.060 I want you to pay close attention to the wording, okay?

00:24:46.720 Drag queen bingo with Roxy Woods, September 9th, 6 to 8, 30 p.m., admission $50.

00:24:52.240 $50. People are paying $50 for that.

00:24:55.860 That's at least one movie ticket these days.

00:25:00.320 That's like half a movie ticket, but still, way too much.

00:25:02.360 Drink tickets, $7.

00:25:04.740 Raffle tickets, $5.

00:25:06.060 Here's the part.

00:25:07.500 Ages 15 and over, event not suitable for children.

00:25:13.460 Okay, so the mayor says there were no children there.

00:25:18.000 It was an adult event.

00:25:20.000 The ad does say not suitable for children, but it also says ages 15 and over.

00:25:27.200 So what that means, apparently, is that the mayor and the people who put on this drag show

00:25:32.760 do not consider 15-year-olds to be children.

00:25:38.080 And, of course, we already knew this about them.

00:25:39.600 After all, the left continues to claim, they will still claim with a straight face,

00:25:43.400 that children aren't getting gender transition surgeries,

00:25:47.640 even though 15-year-old girls are getting cosmetic double mastectomies all the time. 1.00

00:25:53.000 So the implications are obvious.

00:25:54.780 What they're saying is that, yeah, well, that's not a child.

00:25:59.040 And even more obvious is the fact that including kids, including 15-year-olds

00:26:04.300 in something like this in a drag event is depraved and evil. 0.60

00:26:10.020 Now, with that said, I want to make one other point.

00:26:14.680 And this is a broader point, but it applies to this situation, certainly, specifically.

00:26:19.600 So just using this as an example.

00:26:21.020 I think we make a mistake, like when something like this happens,

00:26:26.600 we make a mistake when we focus entirely on the question of whether children were there.

00:26:32.620 The mayor says there were no kids.

00:26:34.960 The poster seems to suggest otherwise.

00:26:37.620 Was somebody under the age of 18 actually in attendance for this event or not?

00:26:42.340 I mean, I don't know.

00:26:43.380 I have no idea.

00:26:44.060 If so, if there was a minor there, then it's grotesque and everyone involved should be in prison.

00:26:52.320 But let's just say that there was no one under the age of 18 at this event.

00:26:55.860 Let's just say that.

00:26:56.400 For the sake of argument, let's just say that.

00:26:59.000 Is that the end of the conversation then?

00:27:01.920 Do we move on?

00:27:02.840 Is there no scandal here?

00:27:04.720 Is there nothing else to say about it?

00:27:07.800 When you see an event like that with the mayor getting spanked by a drag queen, 1.00

00:27:11.380 is our only question, were there any kids there?

00:27:14.560 And if they say no, then we say, okay, well, no problem.

00:27:18.400 No, I don't think that's the end of the conversation.

00:27:20.960 I don't think we move on.

00:27:23.880 I think that there is still a scandal, even if there were no children present.

00:27:27.940 You know, this is the same thing that I say with the gender transition industry.

00:27:34.060 Obviously, we have to protect kids.

00:27:35.840 Obviously, that's the most important thing.

00:27:37.700 Obviously, mutilating a child is unthinkably, horrifically evil.

00:27:44.300 But that doesn't mean that everything else that happens,

00:27:47.160 everything else that doesn't involve children is automatically okay.

00:27:51.480 So I don't want to make the mistake of implying that all of this stuff is fine

00:27:55.880 as long as there are no kids there.

00:27:59.520 It's a lot worse when there are kids there.

00:28:01.980 But even with none there, we still have a problem.

00:28:06.280 Right?

00:28:06.720 My point is that it should be a scandal.

00:28:09.400 It should be disqualifying for a public official, an elected official, a mayor, 0.97

00:28:14.920 to go to a perverted show like this and get spanked by a drag queen. 1.00

00:28:20.080 That in and of itself, no matter who else is in attendance, is disqualifying. 0.85

00:28:25.880 Why?

00:28:27.800 Many might say, well, there's no kids there.

00:28:29.380 It's consenting adults.

00:28:31.340 It's still degenerate.

00:28:32.860 It's morally disgusting. 0.93

00:28:34.320 It's depraved behavior.

00:28:37.420 And we should be opposed to depraved behavior from everyone, especially public officials.

00:28:42.320 But many on the right have long ago adopted this libertarian belief that, well, as long as they're consenting adults,

00:28:50.460 even if it's depraved, disgusting, outrageous, still, we shouldn't criticize it.

00:28:56.860 Think about Sam Brinton.

00:28:59.980 Before he revealed himself to be a serial luggage thief, before that, back when he was appointed to his position in the Department of Energy, 1.00

00:29:09.620 we still knew that he was a BDSM pervert weirdo who liked to have sex with men dressed like dogs. 0.99

00:29:17.420 Now, as far as we know, thank God, no children were involved in any of that. 0.99

00:29:21.700 I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out otherwise.

00:29:23.800 But as far as we know, there was only adults involved in that with Sam Brinton.

00:29:28.000 But I still would have said, and I still did say, that Brinton never should have been given that job in government.

00:29:36.400 His personal behavior, his personal life should have disqualified him.

00:29:41.080 Yes, it was all consenting adults as far as we know.

00:29:44.580 Okay. 0.96

00:29:46.940 The adults were consenting to doing something disgusting and depraved and demented.

00:29:51.720 How is that not justification enough to, you know, for certain consequences, like being disqualified from public office or positions in government?

00:30:04.600 And again, you know, it wasn't all the long ago when everything I'm saying would have been totally obvious.

00:30:08.900 When a mayor shows up at a drag show and gets spanked by a drag queen, it's like he's getting run out of office the next day automatically.

00:30:17.200 Because we all realize that there are certain standards you have to hold people to, especially public officials.

00:30:25.860 So, the question about whether or not there are kids at these things, again, very important question.

00:30:29.980 We have to talk about that.

00:30:31.960 That's not the end of the conversation, or at least it shouldn't be.

00:30:35.440 Kamala Harris was pressed this weekend about her position on abortion, specifically when the cutoff should be, right?

00:30:41.380 When does a baby go from being a meaningless clump of cells to being a person with rights?

00:30:47.580 That was the question.

00:30:49.060 And here is her answer, or her non-answer, as the case may be.

00:30:53.960 What is it that you believe?

00:30:55.860 I mean, what week of pregnancy should abortion access be cut off?

00:31:00.620 We need to restore the protections of Roe versus Wade.

00:31:04.420 We're not trying to do something new.

00:31:06.600 Well, that was nebulous because it was about viability, which could be anywhere between 20 to 24 weeks.

00:31:12.120 And so, no, no, no, no, no.

00:31:16.140 Let me be very clear.

00:31:17.840 The Women's Health Protection Act that the White House also endures.

00:31:19.980 Let me be very clear.

00:31:22.260 From day one, the president has been clear.

00:31:25.460 I have been clear.

00:31:26.980 We need to put back the protections that are in Roe v. Wade into law.

00:31:33.060 Since the Supreme Court took it, Congress has the power and ability to pass legislation to put those protections back in law, and Joe Biden will sign that bill.

00:31:42.880 So that is what we want.

00:31:44.400 But does it need to be specific in terms of defining where that guarantee goes up to and where it does not, at which week of pregnancy?

00:31:55.020 We need to put back in place the protections of Roe v. Wade. 0.65

00:31:58.380 You know why I'm asking you this question, though.

00:32:00.800 Because we're not trying to do anything that did not exist before June of last year.

00:32:09.000 It wasn't crafted into law.

00:32:12.840 And that's why I'm asking you for the specifics there, because Republicans say the lack of a precise date in cutting it off.

00:32:19.800 You know this.

00:32:21.160 They say that allows Democrats to perform abortions up until, you know, birth. 0.98

00:32:25.980 Which is ridiculous. 0.70

00:32:27.200 Which is statistically not accurate. 0.98

00:32:28.620 And it's ridiculous.

00:32:29.820 I understand that. 0.79

00:32:30.540 And it's a mischaracterization of the point.

00:32:32.960 No, the point is.

00:32:34.040 But do you need to be more precise?

00:32:35.920 I am being precise.

00:32:36.720 We need to put into law the protections of Roe v. Wade.

00:32:42.760 I am being precise.

00:32:43.980 I'm precisely avoiding answering anything remotely resembling that question, she says. 0.98

00:32:49.380 That's ridiculous.

00:32:50.440 That's my favorite part of that exchange there. 0.99

00:32:53.700 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:32:54.940 It's ridiculous that anyone wants abortion up until birth, she says. 0.98

00:32:59.280 And yet she also won't say that she doesn't want abortion up until birth. 0.67

00:33:04.560 So this is always the way these people play the game.

00:33:07.960 When you say, oh, well, you're okay with abortion up until birth.

00:33:12.160 That's absurd.

00:33:13.960 Okay, so you don't want abortion up until birth?

00:33:16.680 Well, that's besides the point.

00:33:19.780 No, that's the whole point.

00:33:20.960 And if we can all agree, like, if you didn't know any better and you watched that clip, you would think, well, I guess we all agree that, apparently, that abortion, you know, aborting children up until birth is insane.

00:33:35.880 You've got fully developed infants who can survive outside the womb.

00:33:42.960 Obviously, this is a person.

00:33:45.600 Like, we can all agree on that. 0.98

00:33:47.180 And if we can all agree on that, and you would think we can based on the way she responded, that's ridiculous.

00:33:54.480 Then where is the cutoff?

00:33:57.540 If the cutoff is not birth, where is it?

00:34:00.280 And she can't answer that.

00:34:01.820 Or she won't answer it.

00:34:04.160 Because her cutoff is, in fact, birth.

00:34:06.620 That is the cutoff for all of these people.

00:34:09.520 If not a little bit after that.

00:34:11.060 That is the cutoff.

00:34:18.360 And they won't say it.

00:34:20.280 They won't say it because they realize how terrible it sounds and is.

00:34:25.900 It sounds terrible because it is terrible.

00:34:27.920 But that is their cutoff.

00:34:29.840 All of them.

00:34:31.880 And it has to be.

00:34:34.240 You know, this is always the point when it comes to the abortion debate.

00:34:39.040 The point is that, obviously, there's a cutoff somewhere.

00:34:46.340 Like, there's a point.

00:34:47.940 You've got an unborn child.

00:34:50.560 Okay, you've got an unborn child here.

00:34:52.680 Over here, you've got a 30-year-old man.

00:34:57.240 Everyone agrees the 30-year-old man is a person.

00:35:00.640 Well, I don't know if the left would even agree with that.

00:35:02.060 But we have a 30-year-old woman over here. 1.00

00:35:04.020 Everyone agrees that the 30-year-old woman is a person.

00:35:06.480 And yet, they raise questions about the, well, the unborn, the fetus, not really a person.

00:35:16.860 Okay, well, at what point, if this quote-unquote fetus is not a person and the 30-year-old woman is a person,

00:35:26.300 then at what, and that 30-year-old woman used to be a quote-unquote fetus in her past, 1.00

00:35:31.360 at what point did she become a person with rights?

00:35:34.960 You have to be able to answer that.

00:35:36.480 You have to be able to.

00:35:40.320 The analogy I've used before is if you can't answer that, if you can't answer it,

00:35:46.000 if you're going to do the Barack Obama dodge, his infamous dodge of, oh, it's above my pay grade, wouldn't person.

00:35:51.420 If that's what you're saying, then you, more than anyone, really, should be opposed to abortion.

00:35:59.000 Because then what you're saying is, well, abortion might be killing a person.

00:36:04.900 I don't know.

00:36:07.860 And then, in abortion, that's like, it's like firing a gun into a dark room. 0.99

00:36:14.260 You might hit somebody and kill someone. 0.60

00:36:16.360 You might not. 0.88

00:36:17.040 You don't know.

00:36:17.560 But if you fire a gun into a dark room without knowing if there's anybody in there,

00:36:22.220 and you kill someone, you're going to jail.

00:36:25.840 That's murder.

00:36:26.720 At least manslaughter.

00:36:29.980 Because you knew that there could be a person there, and you fired the gun anyway.

00:36:36.140 So if you're not willing to answer the question, when does personal begin,

00:36:38.840 or if you're saying you don't know, you can't,

00:36:41.660 then what you're saying is that we might be killing a person.

00:36:47.560 So that just doesn't work.

00:36:52.460 You have to be able to answer the question.

00:36:54.680 And what we find out is that when it comes to personhood, there's only two cutoffs that make any sense.

00:37:00.740 There's only two options that make any logical sense.

00:37:05.080 Really, there's only one.

00:37:07.060 There's only one, which is conception.

00:37:09.740 Because that is when this, you know, that 30-year-old woman, we trace her history back. 1.00

00:37:16.820 We go back and back and back.

00:37:19.260 What we're going to find is there's a certain moment when that person, who's now a 30-year-old woman,

00:37:24.580 came into existence.

00:37:25.680 And that was conception.

00:37:27.360 So there's this unbroken chain.

00:37:29.240 We trace it back, back, back, back, back.

00:37:30.720 Even when she was in the womb, we find there was one moment when she came into existence,

00:37:34.900 and it only makes logical sense to say that she was a person in that moment.

00:37:42.400 If you're going to, if you're not going to say that, then the only other kind of like,

00:37:45.900 at least tangible cutoff would be birth.

00:37:53.720 But then you're claiming that something magical, so that's a tangible like cutoff that we can all

00:38:02.060 understand, but it doesn't make any sense because now you're saying that something magical happens

00:38:07.520 as the child emerges from the birth canal.

00:38:09.920 All that's happening is the child is moving locations from the womb to the hospital room,

00:38:18.620 and something magical happens in that moment to imbue the baby with personal.

00:38:24.380 That doesn't make any sense either.

00:38:27.840 So that cutoff doesn't work, and then we're back at conception.

00:38:32.640 And that's where this conversation always leads.

00:38:35.120 As pro-lifers, we're the only ones, you might not like the answer of when personal begins,

00:38:42.000 we're the only ones who can answer it.

00:38:43.860 We're the only ones who have a defensible, coherent, cogent answer.

00:38:48.020 No one else does.

00:38:50.420 If you're not going to say conception, then you're left with something completely arbitrary

00:38:54.400 that you've just come up with on your own.

00:38:58.320 Even if you say something like, well, let's say 15 weeks, why is that it?

00:39:07.180 So 14 and a half weeks, not a person, at 15 weeks, magically you are?

00:39:10.800 Doesn't make any sense.

00:39:14.960 So she knows all that, but here's the real answer from these people.

00:39:19.060 And this is true of pretty much everyone who supports abortion.

00:39:21.280 And this is also why this conversation never goes anywhere.

00:39:25.160 It can't go anywhere.

00:39:25.860 It can't go anywhere because you can't have a fruitful dialogue when there's one side of

00:39:30.620 the discussion that isn't being honest about what their position actually is.

00:39:34.000 I can't engage with your position or refute it if you won't say what your position is.

00:39:39.980 And what Kamala Harris's position actually is, is that unborn babies are people, 0.99

00:39:47.480 and we should be able to kill them. 1.00

00:39:50.000 That's the position. 1.00

00:39:50.640 Every pro-abortion person, that is actually their position.

00:39:53.780 That, yeah, obviously they're human beings, they're people, 1.00

00:39:55.860 and we should be able to kill them. 1.00

00:39:57.480 We should be able to kill babies. 1.00

00:39:59.640 That's their actual position. 1.00

00:40:01.720 They won't say it out loud.

00:40:03.040 They know they can't say that out loud.

00:40:05.040 So they're left flailing around like Kamala Harris was there.

00:40:08.780 All right, briefly, I want to mention this too.

00:40:10.120 The Hill has this report.

00:40:11.140 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday that he would deport the children

00:40:15.300 of undocumented immigrants with their families despite them already being U.S. citizens.

00:40:18.920 Quote, after a town hall in Iowa, Ramaswamy said,

00:40:23.060 there are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal

00:40:26.360 immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not.

00:40:31.080 Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules.

00:40:34.860 Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office,

00:40:38.620 he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.

00:40:43.300 Despite the GOP candidate's plans, a majority of Americans said the U.S.

00:40:46.760 should continue to provide birthright citizenship in a poll following Trump's announcement.

00:40:50.500 Only a quarter of those surveyed said that it should end, with 15% saying they were not sure.

00:40:56.580 Governor Ron Sanders has also pledged to end birthright citizenship.

00:40:59.000 You know, this to me is, this is treated, so the fact that Ramaswamy said this is getting a lot of headlines.

00:41:06.020 The media is outraged, of course, and it's being treated like some kind of big deal, some sort of extreme position.

00:41:14.640 But it's like we talked about with abortion.

00:41:17.000 You've got to look for just, you know, coherent cutoffs, positions that actually make sense and are defensible.

00:41:22.240 Well, this to me is, is just makes the most sense.

00:41:27.460 Like we are against splitting families up, aren't we?

00:41:33.200 That was the big outrage during the Trump years.

00:41:36.580 And they don't talk about it anymore, of course.

00:41:38.780 Like that was back when, back when, you know, detaining someone at the border was, was putting them in a cage.

00:41:45.320 So there's always been detainment at the border, just like there was under Obama and there is now under Biden.

00:41:52.900 And, and, but now, but for that four year period, it was, we called it putting people in cages.

00:41:59.880 So back then, we were told that what made this so terrible is that you're, you're breaking up families.

00:42:07.420 You're splitting families up.

00:42:08.620 And I agree that we don't want to split families up, you know, as a parent myself, I can't imagine being separated from my children.

00:42:18.500 That's why I would never sneak across a border illegally with my children or without them, but especially not with them.

00:42:25.540 There are a lot of reasons why I wouldn't do that.

00:42:27.060 And one of them is that I wouldn't want to be separated from them and all that.

00:42:30.380 So if we don't want to separate families, then, and you have a family here and they're here illegally and they have defied our laws and you need to deport them. 1.00

00:42:42.780 Not because nothing personal, nothing personal against them, but they broke the law and we have a border.

00:42:51.920 We have to enforce it.

00:42:52.680 And so if you're going to deport them, what, are you going to separate them from their kids?

00:42:57.420 Are you going to keep their kids here and send that, send the parents back alone?

00:43:03.600 That to me is a much more cruel way of going about this.

00:43:08.360 So obviously you deport everyone, including the kids.

00:43:12.360 Now, the, the, the unspoken thing on the left is that, well, they don't want to split the families up.

00:43:17.880 I, not that they care that much about splitting families up in principle, but no, they just want to use that as an excuse.

00:43:22.660 To, to, to deport no one.

00:43:24.940 So that's, that's what they're going for, obviously.

00:43:27.440 All right, let's get to the next segment of the show.

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00:44:42.780 Okay, we got a couple of quick ones here.

00:44:44.640 Garrett says, Matt, please go back to the old show intro.

00:44:47.880 It was so much better than the new one.

00:44:49.580 Well, that, come on.

00:44:51.520 That, you know, there have been a couple of, a few people protesting the new show intro,

00:44:57.480 but this is, it changes hard for people, and one thing you learn in this business especially

00:45:04.220 is that any time you change anything, it doesn't matter what it is, there can be people who complain

00:45:09.760 about it, but just objectively, the new intro is so much better than the old one.

00:45:14.500 Like, come on.

00:45:16.160 Let's be real about this.

00:45:18.260 Joe Sanders says, I selfishly have a wife and kids.

00:45:22.380 Selfish is a good thing, not a bad thing.

00:45:25.460 I've seen, I've seen an interesting number of comments making this exact point, as we've

00:45:30.120 talked last week about, you know, about the effort by the elites in our society to convince

00:45:37.020 people not to have families, not to have spouses, not to have kids, and to live selfishly.

00:45:43.260 And I've heard from many people saying, well, what's wrong with being selfish?

00:45:47.760 No, I don't know what, Joe, I don't know what definition of selfish you're using here,

00:45:51.600 but to be selfish is, it means that you are not concerned, you do not take other people

00:45:59.380 into consideration, right?

00:46:00.360 It means that you are chiefly concerned with yourself, which is, you know, not a surprise,

00:46:07.500 it's right there in the name.

00:46:09.180 That's what being selfish means.

00:46:11.540 So it's hard for me to understand how you would consider that to be a good thing.

00:46:14.840 Unless you mean that, well, unless you understand selfish to be that you're just, you know,

00:46:19.600 you're taking care of yourself, you're taking care of your family, that's not a selfish concern.

00:46:27.080 Selfish means specifically that you are concerned only with yourself to the exclusion of everybody

00:46:32.580 else.

00:46:34.280 And yeah, it's also true, as many people have pointed out, that just because you have a family

00:46:39.720 doesn't automatically mean that you're not selfish.

00:46:44.680 You know, there are a lot of people in therapy right now that are still complaining about their

00:46:48.800 parents and how selfish their parents were.

00:46:50.740 Like, there are plenty of selfish parents out there. 0.98

00:46:52.980 There are selfish spouses.

00:46:54.060 So, and I've acknowledged this all along.

00:46:57.400 It's an important point, too, that just having a family doesn't magically turn you into a better

00:47:04.420 person, but it does give you a unique opportunity to become a better person.

00:47:13.100 It does give you the opportunity every day to focus on people other than yourself.

00:47:19.900 You know, just like you could be childless and single and not be a selfish person,

00:47:24.860 but it's much easier to fall into that.

00:47:28.440 When you're living by yourself, you're concerned only about yourself and your own amusement.

00:47:32.260 There are no other, you know, there's no one else that you really have to take care of.

00:47:37.860 And so that's going to tend to, you know, bring out of people, you know, a certain self-centeredness.

00:47:44.720 Doesn't have to, but it often does have that effect.

00:47:48.440 Because you don't have all the same opportunities every day to really care for other people,

00:47:53.880 especially not in the kind of way you do when you have kids.

00:47:57.360 Old Fred says, depopulation is the rights version of climate change, it seems.

00:48:02.800 So I assume you mean that depopulation, according to you, is a fake conspiracy theory?

00:48:06.940 Well, it's not.

00:48:07.460 I mean, all I can tell you is that the birth rate right now, I think, and you can fact check

00:48:13.580 me on this, I think we're at 1.8 kids.

00:48:17.980 I think it's at 1.8, 1.7.

00:48:21.500 Replacement level is 2.1.

00:48:23.000 So we are currently below replacement level.

00:48:27.380 And when your reproduction level in society goes below replacement level, it means that

00:48:32.800 it's not enough to replace the older people who are dying off. 1.00

00:48:37.060 Which means that eventually your population starts to decrease.

00:48:40.200 There's no question that that's happening.

00:48:41.460 I guess the only question beyond that is whether there's an actual agenda in place

00:48:48.020 to see population levels decrease.

00:48:52.760 And I think the answer to that is obvious.

00:48:58.520 I mean, we could start with these 60 million babies that have been killed by the abortion

00:49:01.660 industry.

00:49:02.840 A lot of depopulating going on there.

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00:49:13.840 That's ridiculous. 0.92

00:49:15.040 I have a lot more than five plaid shirts. 0.93

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00:51:24.580 The state of California has so many bad laws on the books and others working their way to being on the books

00:51:36.680 that it's very difficult to single out any particular one as especially terrible.

00:51:41.260 They all melt together into one big pile of awful.

00:51:44.440 But every once in a while, California manages to outdo itself with a law that's horrific,

00:51:49.220 even by California standards.

00:51:51.180 And that's what they've done with this one.

00:51:52.660 The Daily Wire reports, quote, California may soon require judges to look at whether a parent

00:51:57.120 goes along with a child's gender identity during custody disputes,

00:52:00.660 worrying advocates who say that parents could lose custody if they don't agree

00:52:04.440 with a child's claims to be transgender.

00:52:06.800 The Democrat-backed bill, AB 957, passed the state assembly on Friday and the state senate on Thursday.

00:52:12.660 If signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom,

00:52:15.280 the bill would require judges to consider whether a parent affirms a child's gender identity,

00:52:19.720 among other factors, during custody battles.

00:52:23.100 According to the bill, quote,

00:52:24.320 the health, safety, and welfare of the child includes, among other comprehensive factors,

00:52:28.060 a parent's affirmation of the child's gender identity or gender expression.

00:52:31.620 Affirmation includes a range of actions and will be unique for each child,

00:52:34.940 but in every case must promote the child's overall health and well-being.

00:52:38.860 Assembly member Lori Wilson said that affirmation could mean whether a parent provided gender-targeted toys,

00:52:44.840 nail polish, and hair length, according to the Associated Press.

00:52:49.200 Now, of course, it's hard to know where to begin with all this,

00:52:52.720 so we might as well start at the end and work backwards.

00:52:54.960 Assemblywoman Lori Wilson says that a parent will be required to affirm a child's gender identity

00:52:59.980 or else lose custody.

00:53:01.440 And what does affirmation look like?

00:53:02.900 Well, it means providing nail polish and gender-specific toys.

00:53:07.040 Now, it wasn't all that long ago that the left pretended to be opposed to what they called gendered toys. 0.79

00:53:14.200 Now they say that if you don't give your kids those kinds of toys, you could lose custody of them.

00:53:19.100 They went from toys don't have a gender to if your boy thinks he's a girl,

00:53:25.020 you better give him Barbie dolls or we'll take away your parental rights. 1.00

00:53:28.500 And they made that transition from one to the other over the span of like two years

00:53:32.940 or maybe more like two minutes.

00:53:36.320 And while jumping wildly from one extreme to another,

00:53:39.780 they didn't even for a moment make a brief pit stop at the correct position.

00:53:44.480 They just did a leapfrog right over it.

00:53:48.380 And the correct position is that certain toys, certain colors, clothing,

00:53:54.080 are typically appealing to boys,

00:53:56.220 while other toys, colors, and clothing are typically appealing to girls.

00:54:00.220 This is not entirely arbitrary or societally constructed.

00:54:03.780 Girls, for example, tend to be more nurturing and maternalistic,

00:54:06.760 which is why they gravitate towards baby dolls from a very young age.

00:54:10.200 Boys tend to be more aggressive and energetic,

00:54:11.980 which is why they typically gravitate towards action figures and superheroes.

00:54:16.800 However, some boys will not have that aggressive and energetic tendency,

00:54:21.820 just as some girls will not display that nurturing and maternalistic tendency quite as much.

00:54:27.740 Some boys will prefer toys that girls typically play with and vice versa.

00:54:31.280 That doesn't mean that the boy is a girl or that the girl is a boy.

00:54:35.360 We're talking about what is typical of boys and girls,

00:54:37.880 not what is absolutely always the case for all of them.

00:54:41.020 Broad tendencies are not absolute.

00:54:44.760 There will be outliers.

00:54:46.760 And those outliers do not delegitimize the tendency,

00:54:50.080 nor do they delegitimize the biological sex of the outlier.

00:54:54.900 This is not a hard concept to understand.

00:54:57.720 I shouldn't have to spend five years of my life explaining it.

00:55:00.560 And I especially shouldn't have to explain and don't have to,

00:55:04.580 because most of the leftists who now pretend that a girl transforms into a boy the moment she picks up a G.I. Joe don't really believe that.

00:55:12.800 That's just a pretense they've adopted in order to bring about their desired conclusion.

00:55:16.840 What is their desired conclusion?

00:55:19.160 Well, we're seeing it now in California.

00:55:21.380 This is their end game, or at least the end of one phase of their societal destruction and the beginning of a new one.

00:55:28.000 Remember that these people don't really care about transgenderism.

00:55:30.700 They never have.

00:55:31.280 That was just a convenient vehicle, a Trojan horse, to do the thing they really want to do,

00:55:37.400 which is to destroy Western civilization through the destruction of the family.

00:55:42.680 This soon-to-be law in California will be a major step towards that end,

00:55:46.000 as it not only sets parents against each other and children against parents,

00:55:49.900 but also, and this is entirely intentional, by the way,

00:55:52.540 incentivizes mothers to create gender confusion in their kids. 1.00

00:55:57.600 That's already happening, but now there's an even greater incentive for it,

00:56:02.160 because now a woman, and I say woman because it's almost always women who do this, 1.00

00:56:06.980 a woman who wants to divorce her husband and keep the kids 0.53

00:56:09.820 needs only whisper in her son's ear that he's really a girl,

00:56:13.600 that she'll love him more as a girl,

00:56:15.600 that he'll be better and have more fun as a girl.

00:56:18.780 And as soon as that brainwashing takes hold,

00:56:21.340 she'll know that the boy's father probably won't go along with it,

00:56:24.580 and that's all she's going to need to win full custody. 0.65

00:56:27.740 That's where this is headed, where it's designed to head.

00:56:32.000 Of course, they won't admit that,

00:56:34.000 so instead they'll talk a lot about the necessity to affirm,

00:56:37.360 or as Laurie Wilson put it, the duty to affirm.

00:56:42.220 Watch.

00:56:43.140 Know that parents affirm their children.

00:56:47.680 They have since the dawn of time.

00:56:51.040 Typically, it happens when their gender identity expression

00:56:56.440 matches their biological gender.

00:56:58.720 But what happens is when it doesn't,

00:57:01.500 that's when the affirmation starts to wane,

00:57:03.900 and that's what we're dealing with here.

00:57:07.000 Although it's called the TGI bill,

00:57:09.540 they're not mentioned anywhere in the law.

00:57:12.540 What's mentioned in the law is the child's gender identity and expression,

00:57:17.760 and the parent's affirmation of that,

00:57:20.360 whatever it is,

00:57:22.240 because that is our duty as parents to affirm our children.

00:57:26.840 Now, we've talked a lot about this, obviously,

00:57:30.400 but it's always worth reiterating.

00:57:31.600 Everything you heard there is horribly, tremendously wrong.

00:57:34.480 Our duty as parents is to affirm our children, she says,

00:57:38.040 demonstrating that she is, no surprise, a terrible mother.

00:57:41.040 Not just a terrible mother,

00:57:41.860 but a mother who doesn't understand the fundamental nature of motherhood. 1.00

00:57:46.060 Now, there is one context in which it would be valid to say

00:57:49.060 that our duty as parents is to affirm our children.

00:57:51.760 We should absolutely affirm them in the truth.

00:57:54.380 We should affirm who they are,

00:57:56.860 who they actually, inherently, biologically are.

00:58:00.640 We should affirm them as human beings,

00:58:02.640 as children of God, as male or female.

00:58:07.220 Should I affirm my son if he's confused and thinks he's a girl?

00:58:10.700 Yes, absolutely.

00:58:12.180 I affirm my son.

00:58:13.920 I affirm him as a boy, as a male.

00:58:16.540 I affirm him in reality.

00:58:18.940 I say to him,

00:58:19.760 no, you are not a girl.

00:58:20.880 You are a boy, and that is good.

00:58:22.160 That's what affirmation means.

00:58:26.000 And if Laurie Wilson means that we have a duty to affirm our children in that sense,

00:58:30.700 then she couldn't be more right.

00:58:32.880 But that's not what she means.

00:58:34.240 What she means is the opposite.

00:58:36.280 She means that we have the duty to affirm,

00:58:38.100 to agree with,

00:58:38.940 to validate,

00:58:40.340 to legitimize

00:58:41.480 whatever deluded,

00:58:43.560 confused,

00:58:44.520 inane idea

00:58:45.420 pops into our kid's mind at any given moment.

00:58:47.740 And this is a very dangerous thing

00:58:50.160 because any parent knows

00:58:51.280 that all kinds of deluded,

00:58:53.040 confused,

00:58:54.000 inane ideas

00:58:54.680 pop into our kids' minds

00:58:56.560 every day.

00:58:58.060 So just pulling the most recent example

00:58:59.980 in my own life.

00:59:01.460 Yesterday,

00:59:02.120 my six-year-old,

00:59:03.500 my six-year-old son,

00:59:05.560 he asked me if he could

00:59:06.480 go out back

00:59:07.560 and chop down a tree.

00:59:09.160 So he wanted to take a saw

00:59:10.640 and then cut down

00:59:12.160 a large,

00:59:13.020 50-foot tree

00:59:13.960 by himself.

00:59:15.460 And he said he needed to do this

00:59:16.920 because he needed the wood

00:59:18.020 for the fort that he's building.

00:59:20.080 So my six-year-old

00:59:21.100 apparently identifies

00:59:22.020 as a skilled lumberjack.

00:59:23.580 He believes that he's capable

00:59:24.420 of using very sharp instruments

00:59:26.360 to take down very large trees

00:59:27.920 and he believes he can do it

00:59:28.820 without getting himself crushed

00:59:30.340 or the house crushed

00:59:31.200 or anything else.

00:59:33.520 And he believes all this firmly.

00:59:35.340 I mean,

00:59:35.560 in the deepest parts of his soul,

00:59:37.000 he believes it.

00:59:38.220 Do I affirm that belief?

00:59:40.500 No,

00:59:40.760 that is one of approximately

00:59:41.940 18 million beliefs

00:59:43.480 and opinions

00:59:44.200 and requests

00:59:44.960 and demands

00:59:45.720 from my children

00:59:47.020 that I do not affirm.

00:59:49.200 Because my duty as a parent,

00:59:50.900 despite what Lori Wilson says,

00:59:52.600 is not to affirm

00:59:53.720 whatever my kids say and think,

00:59:55.100 but rather to guide them

00:59:56.960 towards truth and reason

00:59:59.040 so that over time,

01:00:00.840 they'll begin to say

01:00:01.940 and think things

01:00:02.840 that are true and reasonable.

01:00:05.980 That is the duty of a parent.

01:00:08.280 But it's a duty that in California,

01:00:10.100 you'll soon lose your children

01:00:11.300 if you fulfill.

01:00:12.020 which is why 0.85

01:00:14.020 you need to get the hell

01:00:14.780 out of that state

01:00:15.340 if you haven't already.

01:00:17.000 And it's also why

01:00:17.660 California is again today

01:00:19.420 canceled.

01:00:21.360 That'll do it for the show today.

01:00:22.240 Thanks for watching.

01:00:22.780 Thanks for listening.

01:00:23.440 Have a great day.

01:00:24.860 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 11, 2023

Ep. 1219 - Tyrannical Leftist Woman Tries To Abolish The Second Amendment

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