Ep. 1223 - Woke Corporations Are Now Pushing 'Fat Liberation'
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Summary
An alleged beauty brand has partnered with a morbidly obese man who s best known for getting a white student kicked out of school based on false accusations. This is what corporate virtue signaling has come to. Also, Cleveland Catholic schools have banned all things LGBT from their classrooms completely. Plus, John Fetterman has completely lost his mind, but we re not supposed to notice. And Colin Kaepernick wants to try out for the starting quarterback job on the New York Jets. But isn t that a form of slavery, according to him? We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, an alleged beauty brand has partnered with a morbidly obese BLM
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grifter who's best known for getting a white student kicked out of school based on false
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accusations. This is what corporate virtue signaling has come to. Also, Cleveland Catholic
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schools have banned all things LGBT from their classrooms completely. It's a fantastic policy
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that every school should adopt. Plus, John Fetterman has completely lost his mind, but we're
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not supposed to notice, I guess. And Colin Kaepernick wants to try out for the starting
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quarterback job on the New York Jets, but isn't that a form of slavery, according to him? We'll
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talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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that in retrospect was a bit premature. I said that Apple's Mother Nature skit would be by far
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the cringiest example of corporate virtue signaling over the past few weeks. And in case you missed it,
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Tim Cook trotted out an overweight black woman playing Gaia, who was written to be as obnoxious
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and overbearing as possible. And this plus-sized Mother Nature kept harassing a bunch of chubby
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multicultural actors playing Apple executives about their environmental initiatives. And of course,
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the Apple executives being the committed pagans that they are, somehow managed to meet all of
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her demands. And after watching that, in my defense, it didn't seem like any other major
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corporation could one-up Apple in terms of over-the-top, shameless pandering to the most
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unappealing, self-loathing elements of the far left. But as it turns out, Apple was not the only big
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company recently that has been looking to exploit the archetype of a severely overweight black woman
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for political gain. Dove, which is supposedly a beauty company, has just doubled down on that
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strategy. They've hired a morbidly obese BLM grifter by the name of Zyana Bryans. And this effort by them
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in terms of wokeness, it really takes the cake in every conceivable sense of the phrase. Dove's latest
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marketing strategy is not simply cringy. It's not simply calibrated to deliver a very clear anti-white
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message. It's also a window into the logical endpoint of leftism, because it's a manifestation
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of all of the seven deadly sins, really, but especially gluttony and sloth.
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Now, before I get into why this is such a revealing moment, we should begin with the first Instagram
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video that Dove has paid this Zyana Bryant person to make. And this is apparently what companies do now
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when they want to light their reputations on fire. Bud Light did it, and now Dove is getting in on the
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My belief is that we should be centering the voices and experiences of the most marginalized
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people and communities at all times. So when I think about what fat liberation looks like to me,
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it looks like centering the voices and the experiences of those who live in and who maneuver
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through spaces and institutions in a fat body. It looks like making accessible spaces and having
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conversations that are aware of the fact that people have different bodies and that they are
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interacting with space and people and institutions and communities in a different way. Fat liberation
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looks like fully embracing those differences and having those conversations instead of shying
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away from them. To learn more about fat liberation and the campaign for size freedom that Dove is
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supporting, visit dove.com forward slash size freedom. Tap in, join the campaign, support the campaign.
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This is important and we should all be talking about it.
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Beautiful woman, obviously goes without saying. Now, notice also she says we have to center the
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voices of supposedly marginalized people at all times, at all times. So she should be the center
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always. There's never a time when anyone else should be at the center. It's always her. Now,
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this is not the critical point here, but it's always also worth noting the absurd,
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comically pretentious way that these people speak. The woke crowd speaks in something that is not
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really a human language. I mean, nobody talks this way. Maneuvering through spaces in a fat body.
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No normal human being would ever use a phrase like that. Okay. What have you ever heard someone say
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that in conversation? Well, you know, I'm just maneuvering through this space in a body.
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You're not maneuvering through a space in a fat body. You're just a fat girl walking into a room.
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That's what you're doing. But their worldview is so empty. It's so vacuous. It's so lacking in
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any intellectual substance that they have to add 14 extra syllables to every sentence to distract
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people from the fundamental stupidity of everything that they're saying. Anyway, Zion O'Brien is a
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member of a marginalized group, she says, and she's seeking something called fat liberation. Now, you might
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assume that the way to achieve fat liberation is to go for a jog and eat a salad, but that's not what
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she means. And to her, it means that we need to be aware of the fact that people have different
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bodies. Apparently, that was something that most Americans were not aware of. We needed Zion O'Brien
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to tell us people have different bodies. And then we all said, oh, people have, I thought everyone had
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the same body. I didn't realize fat people existed because we somehow didn't notice you when you walked
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into the room. Now, to understand what the actual purpose of this advertising campaign is,
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you need to know more about Zion O'Brien and why she's a hero in leftist circles.
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So that goes back to the summer of 2020, during the BLM riots, when Bryant, who again is supposedly
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a member of a marginalized group, destroyed the life of a white student at the University of Virginia
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named Morgan Bettinger. The details of what happened are outlined in Bettinger's recent lawsuit against
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UVA, alleging anti-white discrimination by the school's administrators who endorsed Bryant's
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lies. This is a lawsuit that hasn't gotten much coverage, but ultimately it could rival the
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landmark litigation against Oberlin by Gibson's Bakery, which Oberlin smeared as racist. We talked
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about that in the past. That lawsuit, as you might remember, ended with a $36 million verdict against
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Oberlin. And UVA may soon face something similar. So here's the background. On the evening of July 17th,
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2020, Bettinger was driving through downtown Charlottesville in her Subaru station wagon. And that's when
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she came across a massive BLM protest that, as BLM protests tend to do, was blocking all of the major
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roads in town. Demonstrators were lying on the roadway, obstructing traffic. And to protect these
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protesters from getting hit by cars, the city of Charlottesville deployed a dump truck to block
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the main road completely. So the city did not arrest the BLM rioters for breaking the law and preventing
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people from going where they needed to go. Instead, the city effectively encouraged them and even
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participated in the riot by blocking the roads to give them space to riot. Which goes back to
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the infamously several years ago, the mayor of Baltimore said that if people want to riot,
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we need to give them space to destroy. And that, of course, is what many cities did during 2020,
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Charlottesville, no exception. So they lent the thugs a dump truck for the purpose of being able to have
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the riot. Now, Bettinger, understandably, didn't know what to do. She was trying to get home from her 12
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hour shift at her summer job, and she didn't know, like, how am I supposed to get home? You blocked
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all the roads. After waiting a bit, she exited her car, approached the dump truck driver to see
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what was going on. And she said the following words to the dump truck driver, or something to this
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effect, okay? She said, quote, well, it's a good thing you're here because otherwise they could be
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speed bumps, referring to the protesters lying in the street. Like saying that, well, it's good you're
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here because otherwise people are going to run over them and they turn into speed bumps. This was such an
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innocuous conversation that when university investigators later asked the dump truck driver
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about it, he had no recollection that Bettinger had said anything to him because it was nothing.
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It was a nothing conversation, and there was nothing threatening in her tone. She was making an idle
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observation to one person about the fact that the dump truck driver was preventing those rioters
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from getting run over by cars. But some of the BLM rioters nearby heard Bettinger's comment,
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and they decided that it was somehow a threat. And they swarmed her car and threatened to kill her.
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One of the BLM activists who didn't hear what Bettinger said, but was nonetheless very offended
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by it, was Zayana Bryant. Bryant wrote a series of viral tweets claiming that Bettinger's statement,
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which she heard about secondhand, amounted to a dangerous act of white supremacy. For example,
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she wrote, quote, email these UVA deans now to demand that Morgan face consequences
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for her actions and that UVA stopped graduating races. Remember, the BLM rioters swarmed her car,
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attacking her, but she's the one who needs to face consequences. In response to this,
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local news outlets accepted Bryant's claims without any hesitation. One outlet, Seaville,
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reported that Bettinger had issued a chilling and violent threat. Several UVA faculty members
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openly mocked Bettinger, as well as Bettinger's faith, and called for her immediate expulsion.
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The school opened not one, but three investigations into Bettinger. And ultimately, UVA kicked her out
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of school, banned her from stepping foot on campus. They released public statements implying that she's
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a white supremacist. Very quickly, under the guidance of a UVA dean, a four-member panel of
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undergraduates convicted Bettinger of misconduct during one of these kangaroo trials at three in
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the morning. This was not exactly a rigorous judicial process. Evidence shows that if the
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panel of undergraduates didn't convict her, they feared that the day's big football game would
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have been canceled by a BLM riot. So under the threat of riots, they convicted her of, they gave the
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rioters exactly what they wanted. Now, around the same time, as the lawsuit lays out, UVA took other
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actions that made it clear that they have a strong and pervasive anti-white bias on campus. To give one
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example, a black student stood up and told white students to leave the common area on campus because
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they're white, and the administration didn't do anything about it. And that incident was caught on
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video. Several more examples just like that one in the suit. It wasn't until more than a year after the
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incident that UVA cleared Bettinger of wrongdoing, although they still treated her like a pariah.
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And Zyana Bryant, at long last, over a year later, admitted that she might have misheard what she was
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told secondhand. And so maybe she was wrong about it. But by that point, the damage was done.
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Bettinger's career prospects were ruined. She wanted to go to law school, but no law school would take her.
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Her employer fired her. She was smeared publicly nationwide as a white supremacist.
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After all the death threats and investigations and the public smear campaign, to this day,
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Morgan Bettinger suffers from an array of serious psychological problems. I mean, real sight, but this is
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actual real trauma that she's suffering from. And just to emphasize the injustice that was done to
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Bettinger, consider that this treatment would have been way, way overboard, even if she had really done
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what they accused her of doing. So even if she had said in a threatening or taunting way that the
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idiots lying in the road would become speed bumps, or even if she said they should become speed bumps,
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even if she got out of her car and yelled and said, you all should become speed bumps. You're lying in the
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road, you morons. Let's say she had said that. She didn't, but what if she did?
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That still would not even come close to justifying anything that was done to her. In that case,
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she would be expressing entirely understandable frustration at the moronic thugs clogging up the
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roads. And she would be saying and thinking what really almost everyone says, or at least thinks,
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when there are a bunch of idiot protesters blocking the road. And she shouldn't face any consequence
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at all for that. But that's not what happened. That's not what she said or did. And her life was
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still destroyed. Zianna Bryant's life, on the other hand, has had a very different trajectory. For
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destroying a white student at UVA based on a falsehood, Bryant has received one award after another.
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In 2021, a year after her lies went viral, Bryant was honored by Al Sharpton's National Action Network,
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which is supposedly a civil rights group. The National Action Network named Bryant as somehow
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the Youth Activist of the Year. And here's part of her acceptance speech. Watch.
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Hello, my name is Zianna Bryant, and I am an activist and organizer in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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I am so honored to be receiving this year's Youth Activist of the Year award.
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I know that young people have always led the way on the front lines of some of our country's most
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progressive issues, and even internationally. Young Black youth are so multifaceted, so gifted,
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so talented, and able to bring together crowds of people of many different ages and many different
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walks of life. Well, Zianna Bryant definitely demonstrated that she can bring people together,
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bring crowds of people together, as she says. That much is clear. What the National Action Network
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is doing here is honoring someone who gathered a lynch mob to harass, threaten, and defame a young
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woman, a young innocent woman, solely because of her skin color. Two years later, Dove is doing the
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same thing. Now, at some level, this isn't surprising. Dove has been on this trajectory for a while.
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They've unleashed one woke advertising campaign after another. This month, the company set up
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billboards in New York's Times Square, showing a bunch of women exposing their unshaven armpits.
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And as Outkick pointed out recently, Dove is owned by Unilever, which owns Ben & Jerry's,
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maybe the single most anti-American corporation you can find outside of Tehran.
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This is a beauty company that is clearly set on promoting ugliness and left-wing propaganda.
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But I repeat myself. But even by the standards of corporate wokeness,
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this latest move by Dove is extraordinary. I mean, it's revolting in every sense, yes. And
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it's a deeply bizarre act of self-sabotage by a brand that's already flailing. But it's also a
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clear sign that we're approaching perhaps the end of the runaway train of leftist ideology that's
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taken hold of this country in recent years. The fat liberation movement that they're embracing
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is, you might say, the logical endpoint of leftism. It's what we've been leading up to after the past
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decade or so. Fat liberation and body acceptance explicitly promote and glorify hedonism. They
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enable the most useless people to feel like martyrs and heroes. I mean, all you have to do is lie around
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and eat. And suddenly you're part of a movement. And once you're that inert and powerless, there's
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not much else you can do. There's not really any more activism you can undertake at that point.
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I expect the fat liberation movement to become more and more popular.
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Like, this is the movement of the future. This is the future of leftism.
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Because it's the perfect opportunity for those who crave victim points.
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All you have to do is nothing, nothing but eat. And you can gain access to a marginalized group,
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along with all the social capital that comes with it. It's no surprise that corporate America is a fan
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of this idea. They want us all to be mindless consumers sitting around sedentary with our mouths open,
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ingesting whatever they shovel in. That's why it's not just Dove that's pushing this. It's why Apple
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selected several overweight actors for their little Mother Nature sketch, as I mentioned. It's why
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Calvin Klein and Abercrombie and Victoria's Secret now throw obese models in our faces. It's why
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Gatorade, supposedly a brand that promotes athleticism, is putting fat yoga instructors in
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its ads, and so on. We see this all over the place. At the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement,
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which was the last time corporate America was truly worried about the left in this country,
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there was a saying that you would hear a lot. Outside of the home of J.P. Morgan's president,
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outside Citibank's corporate headquarters, activists would chant, eat the rich.
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Well, it took a while, but these megacorporations have finally found a way to stop those chants
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outside their offices and ensure that they'll never again come back. The race stuff and the BLM
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propaganda, the trans hysteria, it's a good start. But now they've identified their finishing move.
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They've realized that what they need to do is to convince the left to eat. Not to eat the rich,
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but just to eat. And as of now, that effort is succeeding beyond their wildest imagination.
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They are sleeping soundly in the financial district tonight. That's because they know that
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the fat liberation movement, now unleashed, will soon devour what remains of the left.
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what is supposed to be a controversy, even though there's really nothing controversial here,
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there shouldn't be. Over 100 Catholic schools in Cleveland will no longer tolerate LGBTQ plus
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affiliation or behaviors. The changes come from new guidelines on sexuality and gender issued by
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the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland at the close of last month. In a press release, the diocese
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clarified that the guidelines were a formal policy version of existing church teachings on the subject.
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Quote, since questions of sex, sexuality, and gender identity have become increasingly prevalent in
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our society, it is our hope that the policy will help to ensure these matters are addressed in a
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consistent and authentically Catholic manner across our diocesan institutions and diocesan Catholic
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schools, and that those who serve will have a clear understanding about expectations and
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accommodations related to those matters stated the diocese. Here's basically everything in the policy
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summarized. The policy requires parental notification in the case of minors experiencing gender dysphoria
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or confusion, declares that parental rejection of a child's preferred pronouns don't constitute grounds for
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non-disclosure. In other words, you have to tell the parent if the child identifies as the opposite sex,
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and even if the child says, well, my parents won't accept it, you still have to tell the parents. It continues,
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it bans use of preferred pronouns. It restricts bathroom and facility usage to biological sex. It prohibits
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admission of students to institution programs and activities like sports designated for the opposite sex. It bans same-sex
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dates to school dances and mixers. It requires students to comply with dress codes aligning with
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their biological sex. It bans any celebration or advocacy of LGBTQ plus ideologies or behaviors such as
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pride flags and bans gender transition of any degree, whether social or medical. Just music,
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almost a tear of joy almost comes to my eyes. Music to my ears. This is, well, we'll talk about it in a second,
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but this is exactly, I mean, this is exactly what the policy should be everywhere, right down, you know, to the
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very last detail. But we'll continue. The policy acknowledged the existence of gender dysphoria, but rejected the
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modern belief that feelings determine truth. Quote, this understanding erases those intentional embodied
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distinctions between men and women. As such, this view is contrary to the divinely revealed reality of our true God-given
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human nature, stated the policy. Under the policy, individuals experiencing gender dysphoria or same-sex
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attraction would be admitted into their schools and allowed to participate in activities with the
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contingency that they don't openly express their disagreement with Catholic teaching on sex, sexuality, or
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gender. Reverend Edward Molesich, the Bishop of Cleveland, stated in an accompanying letter that
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biological sex coincides with God's divine plan. He said, quote, the human person is a unity of body and soul.
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We experience the world through our bodies, and it's through the virtuous expression of our bodies that we
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reveal God. Through times of questioning and confusion, we must accompany our brothers and
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sisters in Christ with compassion, mercy, and dignity, so we might lovingly help them navigate the
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confusion and arrive at truth. Molesich directed those with further questions or concerns to contact
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the Diocese of Marriage and Family Office. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb posted on Twitter that he
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believed the policy represented a shocking betrayal of church teachings. Bibb offered his own definition of
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Christian faith sans scripture. Bibb said, quote, for me, faith is about universal love and acceptance.
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Instead, the new policy forces LGBTQ plus kids to hide their authentic selves and attends school in fear
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of persecution for who they are. Ohio's Democratic Minority Leader for the Senate, Nikki Antonio, said the
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diocese should not be given school choice funds over the policy. Quote, I'm extremely disappointed that the
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diocese has chosen to focus on policies of exclusion over acceptance. State taxpayer dollars should not
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subsidize exclusionary education, and if these policies stand, then the diocese should not accept
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state-funded vouchers. Okay, so first of all, to reiterate what has already been said, this is obviously a
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fantastic policy. Every part of it is absolutely what needs to be in place. Every Catholic school, every
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Christian school of any denomination should adopt this policy. And if you're sending your kid to a
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private Christian school and they don't have exactly this policy, then you should be going to
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the administrators and saying, like, show them this article and say, why isn't this policy in place
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at this school? Put it in place or I'm taking my kid out. I mean, if you're paying money for a private
00:23:51.040
Christian school, these kinds of schools oftentimes are not cheap, and you're paying money for that to
00:23:57.020
send your kid to a school that's supposed to be, why are you sending them there? For the Christian
00:24:02.980
culture, the Christian education. If you don't want that for your kid, then you're sending them to the
00:24:08.420
wrong school. And if you do want that and they don't have a policy like this, then you're wasting your
00:24:16.100
money. You might as well have them in a public school. At least you could do that for free.
00:24:22.400
So every Christian school should have this. Every school period, including public schools,
00:24:29.260
should have a policy like this. Because what is the policy really? It's like sexuality, LGBT,
00:24:37.220
all that stuff does not belong in the school. That is not for the school. That has nothing to do
00:24:44.100
with what the school is supposed to be doing. And certainly, the school is supposed to be a place,
00:24:51.880
any school, any educational environment is supposed to be a place of clarity and truth,
00:24:58.660
which means that we teach biological sex. That's all that exists. That's all we teach.
00:25:07.760
And we don't affirm confusion. If any kid is confused about it, we try to help them through
00:25:16.520
that confusion. We don't affirm the confusion. This again, any educational environment, that's what
00:25:23.920
it should be. But this is also, on top of just being what every school should adopt, this is a very
00:25:35.300
simple, extremely basic distillation of Catholic teaching. And there is no disputing that. I mean,
00:25:45.040
you can dispute it. Like the mayor, what was it, the mayor of Cleveland? Yeah, the Cleveland mayor,
00:25:49.720
Justin Bibb. Bibb might try to dispute it. Oh, this is not Catholic teaching. Yes, it is.
00:25:58.720
And that's not ambiguous. Okay? Like when we're talking about what Catholic teaching is on things
00:26:06.220
like sexuality, gender, it's actually not ambiguous. Now, if you listen to many of your average sort of
00:26:17.260
Novus Ordo priests in America, it may seem somewhat ambiguous. I mean, they're not going to talk about it
00:26:24.420
at all, most of them, because many of them are cowards. And so they're not going to approach these
00:26:28.820
issues at all. And so you might think based on that, that it's ambiguous. And even what you hear
00:26:36.060
from the Pope sometimes might make it sound like there's some gray, there's not. That's the beautiful
00:26:42.800
thing here when it comes to these teachings. They are written out. Okay? You could pick up a catechism
00:26:48.380
and it's the Catholic church saying, here's the Catholic teaching on these subjects. And it is
00:26:54.280
very detailed and very clear. And there is no room for ambiguity.
00:27:02.860
So even putting aside the fact that this is just right, this is the correct, you know,
00:27:06.980
these policies are correct by any objective measure. There is certainly no way that a reasonable
00:27:15.660
person could deny that they are at a minimum, actually the Catholic church's teachings.
00:27:22.900
Because again, it's all written out and it's right there. And if you want, you can read it.
00:27:29.460
And if you're not, if you oppose Catholic teaching, well, you're allowed to in America,
00:27:37.040
don't send your kid to a Catholic school. Okay? If you're sending your kid to a Catholic school
00:27:42.400
and you fundamentally oppose Catholic teaching, well, then you're an idiot. That's your fault.
00:27:50.160
No one is required. There's not any law saying that you have to send your kid to a Catholic school.
00:27:54.600
You're not being forced to do it. In fact, you have to pay money for the privilege.
00:27:59.040
So you're going to the Catholic school and saying, here's money. I really want to send my kid here.
00:28:04.480
And they're telling you, okay, we're a Catholic school. It's right there in the name.
00:28:09.880
So we go by Catholic teaching here because it's a Catholic school.
00:28:16.100
And you have the opportunity there to either say, oh, well, I'm not interested in that. I'll take
00:28:19.720
my money elsewhere. Or you could say, okay, I'm on board. You know, by sending your kid there and
00:28:25.920
paying the money, that is you agreeing that you're on board. You can't then turn around and whine
00:28:31.780
that the Catholic school is Catholic. It's no different from going to a mosque
00:28:43.400
and then complaining that you're hearing Muslim teaching at the mosque. It's exactly the same kind
00:28:52.180
of thing. It's like walking into the mosque and you hear Muslim teaching, Islamic teaching,
00:28:57.460
and then you complain. Well, what is this? I don't want to hear this. I'm not a Muslim.
00:29:02.620
I don't want to hear this stuff. Why'd you walk into the mosque then?
00:29:09.220
So that all is very clear. The second point to the mayor Bibb's claim, he says, for me,
00:29:18.720
faith is about universal love and acceptance. Okay. Well, the first part of that can be correct
00:29:27.520
if you have the appropriate understanding of love. So Christian faith, is it about universal love?
00:29:36.120
Yes. But what do you mean by love? If you mean love the way that it's understood in Christian
00:29:44.980
teaching, the love to willing the good of the other, that's what means to love someone. It means
00:29:50.300
you want what is good for them and you want to help them achieve the good in life and to be good
00:29:59.060
people, then yes, we should want the good for everybody. That's not how he means it though,
00:30:09.700
because then he adds on acceptance. And the Christian faith, to be very clear about this,
00:30:17.020
the Christian faith is certainly not about universal acceptance. It is, if anything,
00:30:25.280
the opposite of universal acceptance. That is not what you get from the Christian faith. It's not
00:30:32.500
what you're supposed to get. I mean, you can't get universal acceptance anywhere actually from any
00:30:40.880
belief system, any belief system, any religion, any ideology, anything like that, any political
00:30:51.320
system, any system of beliefs. There's never going to be universal acceptance. As part of the beliefs,
00:30:57.800
there are going to be things that we believe and things we don't believe. We have our principles,
00:31:04.120
we have our worldview, we have our teachings, we have our moral teachings, and then we have the
00:31:09.720
things that are not, that are outside of that. If we accept everything, then it's nothing. The moment
00:31:16.900
that any belief system accepts everything, it ceases to become a belief system. It evaporates,
00:31:23.640
it disappears. So if Christianity, as this ridiculous mayor says, if Christianity was really
00:31:31.940
about universal acceptance, that's just another way of saying that Christianity doesn't exist.
00:31:39.940
Christianity would destroy itself, would commit suicide if it was really about universal acceptance.
00:31:46.440
But that's not what it is. No, we're not opening our arms and accepting everything that everybody
00:31:58.640
does and says and believes. No. It's the same thing when you hear that churches should be welcoming.
00:32:09.420
Churches should be universally welcoming. Yes, churches should be welcoming.
00:32:12.440
We should be welcoming. We should be ready to welcome anyone who wants to come in the doors of
00:32:18.840
the church. But you have to come in ready for repentance, ready to change, ready to accept what
00:32:26.300
you hear, to accept the teachings and beliefs that are going to be offered at the church.
00:32:33.180
If you're not ready to accept that, so it's really the burden of acceptance. You have all these
00:32:38.760
people. I want to be accepted. The burden of acceptance is on you. You have to be willing
00:32:45.560
to accept that there are changes that you need to make in your own life. And we all do.
00:32:56.340
So that's where the acceptance comes in. It's not what this guy is talking about. All right.
00:33:03.560
Here's something from the website Market Watch. It says, Bill Maher and Drew Barrymore recently
00:33:09.940
announced plans to resume their shows amid the Hollywood's writers and actors strike,
00:33:14.500
drawing backlash from union officials and public figures alike. Maher hosts real time with Bill
00:33:19.380
Maher on HBO, while Barrymore is behind the syndicated Drew Barrymore show. Maher, who announced
00:33:24.400
his decision Wednesday, said in a post on Twitter that it's time to bring people back to work and that
00:33:29.260
much of his staff is struggling mightily. But Maher also said that he will honor the spirit of the
00:33:33.220
strike by not doing a monologue or his popular new rules segment. In other words, elements of the
00:33:37.720
show that require writers. Still, union leadership didn't take kindly to Maher and Barrymore's decision.
00:33:43.680
The Writers Guild said Wednesday that Maher's plan to return was disappointing, and the union has
00:33:48.400
already picketed tapings of Barrymore's show. Frank Lieberman, an entertainment executive,
00:33:54.200
told Market Watch that there's no question that some people in the industry are indeed hurting
00:33:58.040
financially and need to find work. But he also thinks that the decisions by Maher and Barrymore go beyond
00:34:02.960
that. It's all about greed, he said. Okay, so I have this story. It's worth mentioning, I thought,
00:34:10.200
but I have no dog in this fight, of course. I don't care either way. If the Hollywood writers get
00:34:17.620
everything they want in this dispute that's been going on for however many months now, they get
00:34:23.040
everything they want out of it, then fine. If they get nothing that they want out of it, that is also
00:34:28.720
fine. Don't care either way. It's hard to assess who deserves what, because on the one hand,
00:34:35.960
you've got the Hollywood studios, and they are, they're the ones, they are who the strike is
00:34:42.380
targeting. And the Hollywood studios, it's not like anyone has any sympathy for them. I mean,
00:34:48.220
they're godless cesspools. On the other hand, Hollywood writers these days are awful,
00:34:53.020
unoriginal, unoriginal, untalented. I mean, in many ways, they could not have timed this strike
00:35:01.720
worse. There could not be worse timing, because most of them are so bad at their job. I mean,
00:35:08.260
the writing in Hollywood is just terrible these days. So all you can really do in this match,
00:35:15.260
I guess, is root for injuries, metaphorically. Metaphorically, I mean, this is a game where you're
00:35:19.180
just rooting for injuries, because you can't, you can't root for either side. That said, you do see
00:35:23.020
the kind of inherent selfishness of these sorts of strikes and organized labor protests, and why it's
00:35:31.700
always absurd when you hear from these people that, that they care about, you know, the working man,
00:35:38.440
and this is all about justice and all the rest of it. No, it's not. The people, the writers picketing
00:35:45.460
outside, they don't care about justice. They don't care about helping people who are hurting. They don't
00:35:50.940
care about any of that. Because you've got thousands of other people who are not part of
00:35:59.700
this strike, and are not going to benefit from any of the concessions that you may extract, and all of
00:36:07.340
them are out of work. I mean, Bill Maher's show, there's dozens of other people who are not writers
00:36:15.340
who work on that show and rely on it for an income, obviously. You know, and, and they're not making an
00:36:26.460
income right now, and they don't benefit at all from any of this. And if the writers get whatever they're
00:36:32.220
asking for, and I don't even know what they're asking for, because I don't care, but if they get whatever
00:36:35.740
they ask for, these other people are not going to see any of those benefits. And so they want to get
00:36:40.880
back to work so they can feed their families. And then the, the, the writers on strike have the audacity
00:36:47.660
to be angry about it. They're saying, how dare you feed your own families? I'm trying to get a raise
00:36:54.900
over here. That's what a strike is. Like, you want a raise, you want your own money, and so you're going to
00:37:03.300
make everybody else suffer. Not the bosses, like the Hollywood studio bosses, they're not, they don't
00:37:08.920
care. They obviously don't care. That's why they're not, that's why they're going to let this strike
00:37:12.820
continue. They got, they got money to burn. You're not hurting them any. You're hurting everybody else
00:37:19.660
who are not millionaires. Many of them make less money than you do as a writer on these shows.
00:37:24.860
They have no concern about that at all. They don't care.
00:37:30.980
All right. John Fetterman has made the mistake of speaking on camera a few times lately. And,
00:37:38.280
you know, he kind of, he got into office, then he was in an institution for mental problems for
00:37:48.280
several weeks. And, you know, and we were supposed to have no issue with that whatsoever, right? Because
00:37:54.580
he said it was depression. And, and anytime someone talks about depression, there's supposed
00:37:58.700
to be sort of hushed silence and reverence around it. And when no one is allowed to make any criticisms
00:38:05.260
whatsoever. And so we couldn't point out that like, this guy was just elected to Senate and now he's in
00:38:09.100
the hospital for psychological issues. Is that, is that okay? We're just okay with that? For a
00:38:18.020
senator? And that happened and he finally got out of the hospital. We haven't heard much from him,
00:38:23.860
but he's finally, he's, he's appearing in front of camera, in front of the camera again recently.
00:38:28.580
He has a few times. And, and if you're wondering if things have gotten any better for him, they haven't.
00:38:33.900
So here, here he was, uh, a few days ago, earlier in the week when asked about the possibility of a
00:38:42.820
I was asking about this news that, uh, Speaker McCarthy has formally launched an impeachment
00:38:47.260
in, or has said he's going to. Oh my God, really? Oh my gosh. You know, oh, it's devastating.
00:38:54.500
Ooh, don't do it. Please don't do it. Oh no. Oh no.
00:38:59.220
Okay. So there he was a few days ago. And if somehow, uh, you might think it can't get any
00:39:06.380
weirder than that, but it can, because there was a few days later, another journalist followed up
00:39:12.120
with him on this question. And this time he's, for reasons that are unclear, he's wearing a, uh, a Bob
00:39:22.680
Casey mask, Senator Bob Casey. He has a mask of Senator Bob Casey that he's wearing and that's
00:39:30.140
never explained. Um, and here's how he responds. You basically dared house Republicans to launch
00:39:38.940
this impeachment inquiry. Now they have regret it. No, please don't do it. It's just like those
00:39:45.780
dangerous man over there. You know, the, the cheap thrills and everything. I don't know. It's just,
00:39:51.220
to me, it's, it's just like, if they got to do it, they got to do it. You know, it's a political
00:39:55.940
loser. So his response was just like those dangerous man over there, the cheap thrills
00:40:04.720
and everything. If you got to do it, you got to do it. And I, I watched that clip several times
00:40:12.080
because I, I'm look, I want to believe I wish the best for, uh, for Fetterman. I want to believe
00:40:17.840
he's, he's getting better. I want to believe just for my own sake as an American citizen
00:40:21.840
that, um, that we don't have a sitting U S Senator who has completely lost his mind entirely. So I
00:40:31.240
would like to believe that he's getting better and can speak coherently, uh, at least. And so I
00:40:38.140
listened to that clip a few times and I'm like, okay, let's give him the benefit of the doubt.
00:40:41.180
So, you know, maybe, maybe that made sense. Let's try to make sense of it.
00:40:49.360
Just like those dangerous man over there, the cheap thrills and everything. I, that does, I can't,
00:40:54.620
I can't, I can't make sense of it. That doesn't mean anything. So he's, he's, he's babbling
00:41:01.260
nonsensically. He's walking through the halls of Congress, wearing a mask of a different Senator,
00:41:09.920
babbling nonsensically, and no one knows what he's even trying to say.
00:41:16.460
And this is okay. This is an okay situation for all of us.
00:41:27.660
Uh, yeah, we talked about this earlier in the week, but this is, we are just not a serious country.
00:41:33.620
We are not a serious country. When you have people like this running it, we are not a serious
00:41:39.560
country. Um, okay. We got to get to the next segment here, but there's a couple other stories
00:41:44.360
I wanted to mention briefly if we have time, which we don't, but I will anyway. Um, I do want to
00:41:49.380
mention this for Sports Illustrated. So I've had this for a couple of days. Uh, it says the intrigue
00:41:53.580
surrounding the Jets quarterback position following Aaron Rogers, week one injury quickly picked up steam.
00:41:58.680
Aaron Rogers, of course, if you don't follow football, he left the Packers and went over to the Jets.
00:42:02.580
At the age of, I don't know how, I think he's 38 or 39 now. Went over to the Jets and it's getting a lot
00:42:09.680
of hype in the off season. Aaron Rogers is going to revitalize his career. Uh, finally, the Jets are
00:42:16.360
going to be relevant, you know, for the first time in 600 years, maybe the Jets will, uh, have a chance
00:42:21.540
at a Superbowl. And then Aaron Rogers runs out of the tunnel and, uh, for the first series on offense
00:42:27.520
on Sunday. And within about 75 seconds, he's torn his Achilles. He's out for the, he's out for the
00:42:33.100
season. Uh, which is, I mean, it's, it's terrible. Um, but in a very, in a very dark way, there's a
00:42:44.000
certain humor to it because this is just the Jets. If you know anything about football, the Jets really
00:42:49.460
are cursed. And, uh, it, it, it, it's exactly what we all kind of expects. It's shocking, but also
00:42:57.720
exactly what you expect. And it's also why I could, when they announced that Aaron Rogers was going to
00:43:03.620
the Jets, I couldn't, it's like, of all, why would you do that? Of all the places you could go when
00:43:09.980
you're Aaron Rogers, there's got, there have to be other options, including just going to the golf
00:43:14.620
course and retiring. You can do that too. You're going to go to the Jets. That always ends in tragedy
00:43:21.100
for everyone. Every person who's ever gone to the Jets, it ends in tragedy. Why would you do it?
00:43:28.380
That's exactly what happened here. So anyway, he went down with the injury. He's gone for the season.
00:43:31.900
Um, and continue with, uh, Sports Illustrated. While we know Zach Wilson is the team's starting
00:43:37.640
quarterback and there won't be any form of competition. There's plenty of debate over
00:43:40.240
the backup job. Things took an interesting twist on Tuesday when it was reported that former 49ers
00:43:45.360
quarterback Colin Kaepernick had entered his name into the conversation. According to NFL reporter
00:43:49.420
Jordan Schultz, who said he spoke with Kaepernick directly, the 30, 35 year old agent reached out to
00:43:54.540
the Jets about an NFL return following the injury to Rogers. Um, quote Schultz said, I just spoke with
00:44:01.020
Colin Kaepernick who tells me his agent has reached out to the Jets about his desire to make an NFL
00:44:05.100
return. Kaepernick remains on the West coast working out. Uh, but 24 hours later, the Jets
00:44:10.380
made it clear that they're not interested in Colin Kaepernick. Um, now anytime you get a story like
00:44:17.540
this about every single year, it's the same thing. It's been the tradition now going on seven years
00:44:21.780
that a starting quarterback goes down with an injury and then there's all the speculation. Oh,
00:44:25.440
maybe they'll call it Colin Kaepernick. Um, and the first thing you always have to point out is
00:44:30.360
that Colin Kaepernick is the guy, uh, infamously in his Netflix special who, who said that NFL owners
00:44:37.860
are, are like plantation owners and being on an NFL squad, being a starting quarterback for an NFL team
00:44:45.060
and making millions of dollars plus millions more with endorsement deals is like slavery. It's just
00:44:50.300
like being a slave. It's just like being forced to pick cotton in the fields in the, in the 1840s.
00:44:55.700
Exactly the same. He said, and yet somehow this guy is eager to get back on the plantation. He wants
00:45:02.600
to be owned again. He wants to be enslaved again. Very interesting thing. But I also love, I love this
00:45:09.700
tradition of the Colin Kaepernick speculation because it always shows the people who know football and
00:45:15.580
the people who don't. Um, and so this time around it was people like Jamil Hill. She's always in the,
00:45:22.040
in the mix. He was out there pushing for the jets to, to pick up Colin Kaepernick and putting
00:45:28.840
everything else aside about Kaepernick, right? Like if you know, if you have even basic football
00:45:35.020
knowledge, you know, that there's just zero to 35 years old. He hasn't played football in seven years
00:45:42.980
and he was already on, he was already past his prime when he left the NFL. He, he, he was on the
00:45:52.960
bench. He'd got kicked out of his, uh, his starting job for, for Blaine Gabbert before he left. And now
00:46:00.440
he's been gone for seven years making a shoe commercials and you think he can come back at 35 and, uh,
00:46:09.700
and succeed in the NFL. We'll just kind of shows, shows us what your, uh, the extent of your football
00:46:16.520
knowledge, I suppose. All right, let's get to, was Walsh wrong?
00:46:29.700
That is the, uh, just kidding. It's the comment section today. The comment section lives on, uh,
00:46:34.600
on Fridays, as I explained, uh, recently. So, uh, I've got a few comments we'll read through from,
00:46:40.840
um, the shows this week. White Squall says, I used to be a hundred percent confident that,
00:46:46.100
uh, Matt was trolling everyone, especially Ben Shapiro about his certainty that aliens exist,
00:46:51.040
but now I'm not so sure. Well, obviously I'm not trolling at all. I'm a hundred percent serious,
00:46:56.420
but everything I say when it comes to aliens, um, but at the same time, I will admit that,
00:47:01.820
you know, I have you exactly where I want you. This is exactly what I want. I want you to be unsure
00:47:06.480
if I'm serious about anything that I'm saying, everything that I'm saying, all of it could just
00:47:12.520
be one. It could be one big, this could be performance art, the whole thing. You never know.
00:47:17.600
You never know. Um, Jay Bird says there was this documentary called The Secret a decade ago or so
00:47:26.160
that had basically this message about manifestation, but combined with the idea that the powers that be
00:47:31.640
are hiding this knowledge from us. It was for some reason, a huge success where I live and I was
00:47:36.260
dumbfounded at the amount of seemingly normal people who bought into that nonsense. Yeah.
00:47:39.800
We talked about the manifestation trend, which is a, especially popular on Tik TOK. Of course,
00:47:43.640
a lot of people brought up this thing called The Secret, which I'd never actually heard of before,
00:47:48.680
but I was aware that, you know, manifestation, as I said, during that segment, it's just,
00:47:53.900
it, it, it is itself a manifestation of earlier trends going back years and years and years.
00:47:58.480
So, so it always just pops, something like this pops up and becomes trendy every decade or so
00:48:03.340
has its own version of the same basic thing. Why is it? It's not hard to see why it's appealing
00:48:08.460
to someone. First of all, when it comes to The Secret, you know, the idea that there is some
00:48:13.860
deep, dark, uh, secret about the universe that is being hidden from you and that, that, that,
00:48:21.660
you know, you, you can obtain this knowledge somehow. That's very appealing to people.
00:48:25.900
Um, it appeals to people because, uh, for one thing, it's like a movie. It's very cinematic
00:48:31.400
and everyone wants to feel like they, you know, people live dull lives and they want to feel like
00:48:35.060
they're living in a movie. Um, it appeals to your ego as well. Oh, I know the secret.
00:48:41.460
It's like the manifestation Tik TOKers. I know this. I know the secret. I know the trick.
00:48:46.020
I know the secrets of the universe. I know how to make everything work. I know when you don't,
00:48:49.660
I can tell you. And then when I tell you, you'll know it and other people won't.
00:48:52.740
So it appeals to ego. But most of all, most of all, it appeals to, uh, laziness and that as always,
00:49:00.520
you know, for any trend to really, uh, pick up steam these days, it has to first and foremost
00:49:08.760
appeal to people's lazy side. It has to be something that they can do by doing nothing.
00:49:16.020
And manifestation is perfect for that. You do nothing at all except think something and everything
00:49:23.580
in your life gets better. Um, Travis says, my daughter said stuff like this and I asked her
00:49:30.220
to concentrate on heat really hard and manifest a fire. And then she saw the stupidity. Sometimes
00:49:36.140
kids need to be reminded that life can be harsh. Um, but working through that harshness is what
00:49:41.580
creates success. You and your efforts, not the universe to the universe. You are like a bacterium
00:49:47.580
on a dust speck. Well, that's exactly right. The universe, as we said, the universe doesn't,
00:49:53.480
the universe has no feelings about you whatsoever. Uh, the universe will, you know, the earth,
00:50:00.240
the sun will explode one day and incinerate the entire solar system and the universe won't care at
00:50:07.160
all. It won't mean anything to the universe because the universe is, is, is a big mindless vacuum.
00:50:11.520
So if you're appealing to the universe, then you're already on the, uh, the wrong side of things.
00:50:16.200
Um, life starts now says, Matt, I love the new intro. I don't know why it's getting so much hate
00:50:22.140
being that you were kind enough to grace us with some beautiful banjo music, of course,
00:50:25.960
played by you, I'm sure. Well, thank you. At least one person has the right feeling about the intro,
00:50:30.840
which is again, objectively better than the old one. And yes, uh, did, uh, am I the one who plays the
00:50:37.100
banjo in the, in the intro? Of course I do. In fact, I play it live every single show. You don't
00:50:42.040
see it cause we don't, we're not, but I'm that, that is all live music. Every show me playing the
00:50:46.240
banjo. It's true. Uh, and then a bunch of comments about my upcoming appearance on Dancing with the
00:50:51.140
Stars. Cornbread Oracle says, I really admire Matt for taking the time to keep giving us great content
00:50:56.520
while he's busy with his new Dancing with the Stars gig. Truly stunning and brave. Um, yeah,
00:51:01.520
that, that's something that, that's, uh, obviously I had to take some time off in the summer
00:51:06.280
because I was, you know, I was doing a lot of dance practice, but, um, for the most part,
00:51:12.920
I'll be able to keep doing the show. Uh, I wake up early in the morning. I, I do, uh, some dance
00:51:17.420
practice, but I've always done that. I wake up first thing I do in the morning is I dance, um,
00:51:22.440
for about an hour. And so I'll be able to do that, get off the show, go to the dance studio. So I'll be
00:51:28.360
able to fit all this in and hopefully I won't miss too many shows. Um, Dream Weaver says, I can't wait to
00:51:34.400
watch Matt twirls way down the stage and leave us all in awe of his grace and talent. Jay Journey
00:51:40.600
says, Victor Korkiglyov choreographed Madonna's Material Girl video in 1987. He also worked with
00:51:45.840
Janet Jackson. He mentioned Matt in an interview last year saying the Matt Walsh, he good for the
00:51:50.100
dance. Like vodka, he melt ice cube. Make him proud, Matt. Um, that's, uh, that's true. In fact,
00:51:57.160
if you, if you research, uh, the, the, uh, choreographer, uh, you'll, you'll find that exact
00:52:02.820
quote. Um, and finally, absolutely love the way you milked this on Twitter for days. The negativity
00:52:09.260
just kept coming and coming and you just kept replying and replying. I was laughing my off and
00:52:14.660
you're still doing it now. Kudos dude. Chef's kiss. Well, sir, keep your on because, uh, I was not
00:52:20.500
joking. No part of this is a joke and I don't know what else you need. I think we showed the
00:52:27.000
evidence, didn't we? Variety reported that Matt Walsh is going to be on Dancing with the Stars.
00:52:32.180
I don't know what else, what else do you need to understand that this is not a joke at all.
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Today for our daily cancellation, we turn to a publication that we haven't mentioned in a while,
00:53:47.340
but has historically provided a lot of fodder for this segment. And that would be the Gay
00:53:51.300
News site, Pink News, which makes its way back onto our radar today with a recent article titled
00:53:55.680
Same-sex couples feel like second-class citizens and face gay tax trying to start families. Now,
00:54:02.040
this may be the first time you've ever heard of the gay tax, given that it doesn't exist. But
00:54:06.360
let's read on to find out more about this fictional phenomenon. Quote,
00:54:10.120
for Whitney and Megan Bacon-Evans, having a family has always, was always in the cards. But the
00:54:15.480
influencers, like other queer couples, say they never imagined the gay tax they'd face
00:54:19.600
on their fertility journey. Now, just another side note here, and not to get too technical,
00:54:23.980
but having a family is most certainly not ever in the cards for two women or two men.
00:54:29.860
The word have, in this context, usually means create or make. It means that the two of you
00:54:35.540
together are making a family, creating children, becoming mothers. But that's not something that
00:54:40.460
two women can ever actually do. One woman can create a baby with an anonymous man who loans his sperm
00:54:46.040
for the purpose. And she would be the mother of the child. But the other woman is not anything at
00:54:52.000
all in relation to the child. And this is actually not just a technicality. It's the whole point. But
00:54:57.220
we'll get back to that in a minute. Reading on, quote, the couple who have been together for almost
00:55:01.420
15 years knew within six months that they wanted to have children together one day, even picking
00:55:05.820
out names for their future kids. Whitney tells Pink News that the couple was really in the dark
00:55:10.220
because there were no examples of families that looked like theirs who accessed fertility treatment
00:55:14.500
through the NHS. Then when they finally got an NHS consultation, they were given the wrong
00:55:19.040
information. The couple, known collectively online as Wegan, were told that they needed to go through
00:55:24.120
at least six cycles of intrauterine insemination, IUI, in the clinic before they're eligible for NHS
00:55:30.220
in vitro fertilization, IVF. But they later found out that, in fact, it was actually 12 cycles,
00:55:35.560
which costs upwards of 1600 euros, I suppose, for each cycle. They say, quote, they say six of which
00:55:43.840
had to be at the clinic, but you can't do home insemination with sperm from a sperm bank. So 12
00:55:48.540
of which would have to be IUI in the clinic, Megan says. So you're looking at around 25,000 euros to
00:55:55.520
50,000, potentially depending on tests, the cost of sperm, which is expensive as well, let alone anything
00:56:00.780
else that goes with it. Now, as you listen to this, you may still be waiting for the part where they
00:56:05.080
explain how gay couples are specifically penalized or taxed. Well, you'll be waiting around forever
00:56:11.300
because they never do get around to that because, again, it doesn't exist. Continuing, we were just
00:56:16.900
really shocked because we're like, hang on a minute. There's clearly a big unfair financial burden that's
00:56:21.440
been placed on same-sex female couples in this situation because the criteria for a cis heterosexual
00:56:26.060
couple is two years of unprotected sex. So while we know that it takes its toll and it's not a fun
00:56:32.360
process for anyone to go through trying to conceive, there's no evidence required and there's
00:56:36.360
no financial cost. There's just a clear divide where there's a gay tax, if you will, being put
00:56:41.620
on lesbian couples. Whitney says she felt like a second-class citizen, that the couples weren't
00:56:45.900
worthy of having a family as a result of this unequal treatment. So in 2021, they launched a
00:56:51.500
landmark judicial review into these hurdles, campaigning for fertility equality across the UK.
00:56:57.320
While sharing their story and campaign online, Megan and Whitney heard from other couples facing this
00:57:01.960
challenging situation with one saying they spent €100,000 but still didn't meet the criteria from
00:57:08.740
the NHS. Now, the rest of this story is that after Megan and Whitney went to the courts, they, of course,
00:57:16.260
got what they wanted. An NHS group called the Frimley Integrated Care Board stepped up to, quote,
00:57:22.180
volunteer to give same-sex couple, female couples, the same access to fertility treatment as heterosexual
00:57:27.300
couples, as The Guardian reported a few weeks ago. So they whined about it, and the people they were
00:57:32.120
whining at caved immediately, as expected. And they're now free from the burden of the fictional
00:57:38.140
gay tax. But what is the gay tax exactly? You know, it's hard to tell what they're even talking about
00:57:45.240
in this article. I read, unfortunately, two other articles on the case, and they always leave it
00:57:50.360
somewhat vague. But here's the crux of it. If you live over in the UK, the healthcare system there,
00:57:56.120
the NHS, will help fund your fertility treatments if you're a couple having problems with your
00:58:01.280
fertility. So the two years of unprotected sex line in the article refers to the requirement that
00:58:06.060
a couple, a man and a woman, try to conceive naturally for two years. And if they can't,
00:58:11.880
then the assumption is that they're suffering from infertility, and the NHS will help them obtain
00:58:16.320
treatment. The problem is that two women or two men cannot conceive naturally to begin with.
00:58:25.460
They are, in principle, by their nature, unable to have kids. Whitney and Megan and many other gay
00:58:32.880
couples in the UK say that that means that they should automatically get free IVF. But the NHS,
00:58:40.220
prior to folding like a lawn chair, had a different view. The funding for IVF was supposed to go to
00:58:45.540
people who have fertility disorders of some kind. So if lesbian couples want that funding,
00:58:51.420
they have to prove that one of them has a fertility disorder. Being lesbian is not a fertility disorder.
00:58:58.340
If two women try to get together and get pregnant, and they're unable to, that doesn't prove that they
00:59:02.660
have a fertility disorder. It's like trying to toast a piece of bread with a toaster unplugged,
00:59:09.380
So the old NHS rules were actually holding lesbian couples to the same standard.
00:59:15.340
But the lesbian couples wanted a special new standard, and they got it. Or they're in the
00:59:20.600
process of getting it as the wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly. So that's why this story is relevant.
00:59:27.260
It's a perfect encapsulation of our culture, and especially of the LGBT movement.
00:59:31.500
Same-sex couples claim that they want the same rights as everybody else, but really they want
00:59:36.900
new rights. They want special rights. They want special privileges that nobody else gets.
00:59:44.120
The NHS had offered fertility treatment funding for people with infertility problems.
00:59:51.540
And those people had to prove that they were infertile. There was a process.
00:59:55.640
And then the lesbian couples come along, and they declare they should get funding right away
01:00:01.360
automatically, even if they aren't infertile. They want a rule where straight couples have to
01:00:08.880
be infertile to get funding, but they get funding whether they're infertile or not. So in the name of
01:00:15.460
equal rights, they demand special rights. It's a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the LGBT
01:00:21.660
movement itself. So to understand this dynamic, you have to understand its underpinnings.
01:00:29.480
Traditionally, the Western world has viewed a human right as something fundamental to our human
01:00:35.200
nature. By our nature, we have rights. All men are created equal, endowed by their creator with
01:00:41.020
certain unalienable rights. So through the creator, by our nature, we have rights. This is what's always
01:00:48.860
been meant by the doctrine of human rights. But the LGBT movement comes along, and they reject this
01:00:55.180
idea completely. They do not claim the rights that we possess by our nature as human beings. They claim
01:01:02.400
rights over and above nature. They claim rights over nature itself. In fact, they say that our nature,
01:01:11.420
rather than giving us rights, actually infringes on our rights. And so they demand rights that
01:01:16.980
transcend nature itself. Nature, or really nature's creator, has decided that new human beings can only
01:01:26.200
be conceived by one male and one female. By our nature, two women can never create a child, can never
01:01:34.420
make a family, just as two men can never create a child, can never make a family. That's just how it
01:01:39.220
is. This is the way it's been set up. Claiming to be persecuted by this fact is like claiming that
01:01:45.520
you're persecuted because you can't fly or you can't breathe underwater. It might be nice to fly.
01:01:51.780
It might be nice to breathe underwater. You might wish that you could. But the fact that you can't
01:01:57.220
isn't any kind of infringement against you. It's simply reality. It is what it is. You might have
01:02:04.560
the desire to sprout wings and fly, but you don't have the right to sprout wings and fly.
01:02:09.720
But the LGBT movement says that it somehow has the unalienable and fundamental right to do things
01:02:18.500
that are impossible. It has the right somehow to transcend nature itself. A man declares that he has
01:02:26.240
the right to be a woman. Two women declare that they have the right to conceive children.
01:02:31.240
But the man cannot be a woman. And the two women cannot conceive children. Because it's impossible.
01:02:38.880
It's just impossible. It's not how nature is set up, whether you like it or not. It just isn't so.
01:02:49.520
So then they insist that if they can't do these things, society must step in. We in society must
01:02:56.320
help them pretend that they can do what they really can't do. It's our responsibility to
01:03:02.680
call the man a woman, even though he isn't. It's our responsibility to fund fertility treatments for
01:03:09.060
the two women so that they can create a baby in a petri dish and pretend to be a family.
01:03:14.400
Nature itself has deprived them of the ability to do what they feel they have the right to do,
01:03:18.740
and so society must compensate. This is what the LGBT camp always means when it talks about rights.
01:03:26.160
It is the fundamental arrogance and entitlement that underlies the entire movement.
01:03:31.940
It's what our friends Whitney and Megan are really demanding. And it's also why they are today
01:03:37.400
canceled. That'll do it for the show today and this week. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.