The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1242 - The Left Accidentally Destroys Its Own Narrative With 'National Coming Out Day'

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Wall Show, in the midst of all the chaos in the world, the Biden administration and many corporate media outlets took time this week to celebrate National Coming Out Day, but the occasion actually undercut their own narrative.

00:00:09.240 I'll explain. Also, today is supposedly a day of jihad. How should we respond to these kinds of threats?

00:00:14.460 Vivek Ramaswamy and Sean Hannity get into a heated debate, and Dylan Mulvaney wins a prestigious Woman of the Year award.

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00:02:03.020 Well, we may have missed it by a few days, but it's never too late to celebrate National Coming Out Day.

00:02:09.180 This is a fake holiday that officially took place a couple of days ago on Wednesday, October 11th.

00:02:13.860 And if I'm being honest, it was everything I hoped it would be and more.

00:02:17.680 It's almost like the holiday was invented as a form of performance art by someone who wants to expose the gender cult and demonstrate how absurd the whole thing is. 0.85

00:02:24.780 In fact, that's not a completely inaccurate way to describe the origins of National Coming Out Day, and I'll get to that in a second.

00:02:31.320 But first, it's important to make clear that this holiday was not just some fringe event that nobody cared about.

00:02:38.100 Well, I mean, nobody did care about it, really, but it wasn't fringe because the White House once again celebrated the occasion,

00:02:45.940 held a meeting this time with the Latino LGBTQI plus leaders to mark National Coming Out Day.

00:02:52.640 Various media outlets and social media personalities promoted it.

00:02:55.160 The largest school system in the city of Los Angeles decided to hold an entire week of events to celebrate National Coming Out Day,

00:03:02.620 which doesn't even really make sense.

00:03:03.980 It's supposed to last just one day, but they said, let's make a week out of it.

00:03:07.340 And in any event, the idea behind this day or week of celebration is, of course, to encourage young people to tell everyone that they're gay or trans or non-binary

00:03:16.240 or one of the other infinite sexual identities.

00:03:18.320 Apparently, there was no way that people could have done that during Pride Month or International Pronouns Day or the Trans Day of Remembrance

00:03:25.780 or International Lesbian Day, which was also this week, by the way, or any of the other dozens of days on the calendar set aside specifically for LGBT people.

00:03:34.300 They need a separate day just for coming out in mid-October.

00:03:38.300 And this past Wednesday, we're led to believe a bunch of people did just that for the first time in their lives.

00:03:42.820 I guess that's the idea. They announced to the whole world that they're an L or a G or a B or a T or maybe a plus.

00:03:49.260 So what happened next? What grand consequences resulted from this momentous event?

00:03:54.740 Well, that's the good part. As far as I could tell from reviewing all the available data on this, literally nothing happened at all.

00:03:59.600 There was no discernible response whatsoever.

00:04:01.900 There were no reports that anybody was beaten in the aftermath of National Coming Out Day.

00:04:06.460 Nobody was fired from their job for proudly declaring on social media that they're a non-binary or pansexual or whatever.

00:04:13.580 No homosexuals were accosted. None of them were suspiciously crushed by pianos while they were walking down the street.

00:04:20.140 As far as I know, the world just kept on turning and nobody cared.

00:04:24.520 And that's why I'm finally getting around to celebrating National Coming Out Day a couple days late.

00:04:27.800 In one fell swoop, this holiday has basically debunked every left-wing narrative of LGBTQ oppression that we've been force-fed for the past several years.

00:04:37.920 Consider that it was just a few months ago that we were told by the so-called human rights campaign that there's a nationwide state of emergency because, quote, LGBTQ plus people are endangered, they claimed.

00:04:51.880 Watch.

00:04:52.200 The country's largest LGBTQ plus civil rights group is sounding the alarm tonight, saying their community is in a nationwide state of emergency.

00:05:01.380 CBS 2's Jessica Moore reports on the laws and boycotts prompting the declaration.

00:05:05.960 In the middle of what should be a joyous month celebrating pride, the human rights campaign just issued a first-of-its-kind emergency declaration for the LGBTQ plus community.

00:05:19.500 HRC President Kelly Robinson saying, quote, the multiplying threats facing millions in our community are not just perceived, they are real, tangible, and dangerous.

00:05:30.500 So there's a nationwide state of emergency because there are real, tangible, and dangerous threats to the, quote, LGBT community. 0.99

00:05:39.040 That was just four months ago that they were saying that.

00:05:40.980 They said that, you know, before four months ago.

00:05:43.480 They've been saying that for a long time.

00:05:44.520 And then despite those threats, this week these same activist organizations told everyone to publicly announce that they're part of this supposedly victimized club.

00:05:54.460 And a lot of people did heed that call.

00:05:56.240 In fact, NBC News just published an entire list of celebrities who came out of the closet, not just on National Coming Out Day, but throughout the year of 2023.

00:06:03.900 And this happens every year, and every year there are more and more.

00:06:07.200 Some of them are coming out for the second and third and fourth time.

00:06:10.200 Some are coming out as sexualities that don't mean anything, like Wayne Brady, who we talked about, declared that he's a pansexual recently.

00:06:17.980 And yet none of these people, the celebrities, the random kids on social media, none of them have faced any consequence whatsoever, any oppression.

00:06:24.900 Nobody responded to them with bigotry or violence or any of that.

00:06:29.300 Now, does anyone in the corporate media or at the human rights campaign think that that's maybe a little bit odd?

00:06:34.620 You'd think that they'd be thrilled by this news, actually, despite a supposed nationwide terror campaign against LGBTQ plus people.

00:06:43.620 A bunch of people just publicly declared their sexual orientation or gender identity or whatever, and they were perfectly fine.

00:06:50.220 Nothing happened to them.

00:06:51.320 They somehow survived the week, totally unscathed.

00:06:54.280 How could that be?

00:06:56.220 Now, if you listen to what these activists are saying this week, you won't get an answer to that question.

00:07:00.320 They won't grapple with any of that.

00:07:02.180 They won't stop and say, hey, you know, I wonder, is it actually true that LGBT people are oppressed?

00:07:08.980 They're not going to ask that question.

00:07:10.420 But you will get a very clear window into how they think and how effortlessly they will lie to the public and to you.

00:07:18.700 So here, for example, is one representative of the so-called human rights campaign doing the rounds on local news stations to promote National Coming Out Day.

00:07:25.840 And as part of the shtick, it's explained that the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998 is one of the reasons that the organization is so adamant about promoting National Coming Out Day.

00:07:36.620 And here's that clip.

00:07:37.920 Watch.

00:07:38.080 And tomorrow, marking 25 years since a heartbreaking yet critical moment for the community, in 1998, 21-year-old openly gay college student Matthew Shepard died after he was brutally beaten, tortured, and tied to a fence in Wyoming.

00:07:53.660 His murder shocked the nation, but galvanized change.

00:07:56.760 Can you talk about that change and the work that still needs to be done?

00:08:00.040 Yeah, so many people in the LGBTQ plus and allied community remember where they were when they learned that Matthew Shepard had been murdered.

00:08:08.140 And it's in large part because they could see themselves in Matthew.

00:08:11.900 They could see their families in his families.

00:08:14.580 They could see their parents in his mother's tears.

00:08:17.360 And so it did.

00:08:18.260 It galvanized a community.

00:08:19.660 It reminded us the cost of unbridled hatred in this country.

00:08:23.180 And it created change, right?

00:08:25.020 We ushered in new hate crimes legislation.

00:08:26.880 It helped us to have real conversations about how we want to treat each other.

00:08:30.900 And yes, we've made a ton of progress in the wake of Matthew's murder, but we're also seeing an incredible amount of backlash.

00:08:37.380 And so, as I like to say, we have to honor Matthew not just by remembering him with words or with platitudes, but we have to honor him with action.

00:08:45.160 We have to honor his legacy by creating a world where no one has to be afraid that they're going to face violence or discrimination simply for being who they are.

00:08:52.640 And that's our work right now is to honor him, again, not just with words, but with action.

00:08:57.560 Now, if you were to parse what the anchor lady and the HRC spokesman are saying, it becomes very clear what's going on here.

00:09:03.800 Neither one of them explicitly states that Matthew Shepard was murdered because he was gay.

00:09:08.580 They imply it.

00:09:10.000 They don't come out and say it.

00:09:11.620 What that tells you is that they know that they're lying.

00:09:14.060 And I talked about this case the other day on the show.

00:09:16.420 But the basic facts of the case are, as you heard me talk about a couple days ago, are completely different from what the leftists at HRC and the corporate media will tell you.

00:09:24.300 Many years ago, an investigative journalist named Stephen Jimenez looked into the Matthew Shepard case, and he found that Shepard was a high-value meth dealer and prostitute who was killed by one of his gay lovers.

00:09:35.420 So, the whole narrative lionizing Matthew Shepard, which Bill Clinton and the entire news media pushed at the time, and the left has not stopped pushing, all of that was false.

00:09:44.800 And yet, decades later, activists are still citing his case and implying that he was murdered because he was gay.

00:09:50.900 When they know that that is not the case, they know that that's not true.

00:09:54.200 All of corporate media is doing the same thing.

00:09:56.180 The other day, the Associated Press ran an article, which was picked up by NBC News and other outlets, stating the death of Matthew Shepard was, quote, or rather has been, quote, memorialized as an egregious hate crime.

00:10:09.120 Now, again, they're playing with language.

00:10:11.340 And on the left, they're very good at this because this is all they ever do.

00:10:14.400 Now, they know that Matthew Shepard's death was not a hate crime, but they're telling you it was memorialized as one, and they're refusing to give you context.

00:10:23.340 It's actually a clever trick because even I would have to admit that that statement is true.

00:10:28.680 If I had to do a fact check on that statement, I would have to say, true, but missing context, as Snopes would like to say.

00:10:36.520 Because it was indeed memorialized as a hate crime, that's true. 0.91

00:10:40.020 It's just that it wasn't actually a hate crime.

00:10:42.200 So what's the point of all these lies?

00:10:45.340 They're lying about the dangers faced by LGBTQ plus youth, quote, unquote. 1.00

00:10:50.320 They're lying about Matthew Shepard, lying about everything.

00:10:53.320 What's the goal?

00:10:53.880 Where is all this leading to?

00:10:55.840 Well, a year ago, the president and CEO of GLAAD, in her attempt to promote National Coming Out Day, spilled the beans as it were about that.

00:11:03.220 And here's her explanation of what this whole charade is really all about.

00:11:07.840 Watch.

00:11:08.040 So it's a really important day for us to continue to come out, to continue to share our stories.

00:11:16.400 And, you know, for this year, for me at least, what I'm putting out there is not only is it important to come out,

00:11:23.500 it's also to come out for the vote, really important at this moment in time.

00:11:28.860 Today is the final day to register to vote in over 12 states.

00:11:34.560 You can visit GLAAD.org to find out what those states are.

00:11:39.340 So don't just come out, says the CEO of one of the largest gay activist groups on the planet.

00:11:45.080 Come out to vote.

00:11:47.480 It's, of course, incredibly transparent.

00:11:49.960 They can't hide it.

00:11:50.740 They're not even trying to.

00:11:51.640 This isn't about anyone's sexuality or oppression or whatever.

00:11:54.220 It's about marshalling more votes for the Democratic Party.

00:11:57.320 It's about reinforcing the left's ideological stranglehold on the culture.

00:12:00.600 It's as simple and as cynical as that.

00:12:02.480 Now, to be fair, later in the interview, the same woman, the CEO of GLAAD,

00:12:06.120 does attempt to offer another reason as to why National Coming Out Day is so important.

00:12:09.560 And she manages to dig an even deeper hole for herself in the process. 0.80

00:12:14.140 Really, she completely blows up the whole premise of National Coming Out Day without even realizing it.

00:12:20.360 Watch.

00:12:22.460 It's not an equal playing field yet.

00:12:27.500 And I think that we're trying to get there.

00:12:29.900 And one day we will.

00:12:31.420 I know we will.

00:12:33.040 And then we won't have to come out.

00:12:34.560 And then it won't be a big deal.

00:12:36.380 But unfortunately, I continue, even as the president and CEO of GLAAD, no matter where I go,

00:12:41.500 I'm continually coming out, telling people that I'm married to my wife and that we have two children.

00:12:47.140 So it's an ongoing journey for us in the LGBTQ community.

00:12:53.600 Well, first of all, the two of you don't have two children.

00:12:56.460 One of you has children.

00:12:58.160 So not to get technical, but you don't both have those children because that's not physically possible.

00:13:02.940 But what this GLAAD woman is otherwise describing is just normal human interactions.

00:13:07.140 That's not coming out.

00:13:08.460 So the entire idea of National Coming Out Day, according to the CEO of GLAAD, is really complete nonsense.

00:13:13.700 It's designed to solve a problem that doesn't even exist.

00:13:17.100 These people aren't even pretending to be persecuted or they're pretending, but they're pretending very unconvincingly.

00:13:21.940 They're just complaining about having to introduce themselves.

00:13:25.680 So it's reasonable to ask, how did this fake holiday even come about in the first place?

00:13:29.380 Who came up with the idea?

00:13:30.900 Well, that's kind of interesting.

00:13:32.240 Elsewhere in that interview, the GLAAD CEO briefly goes into some of the details about the history of National Coming Out Day.

00:13:38.880 She lies about it, so there's no point in showing that to you.

00:13:41.820 But if you dig into National Coming Out Day, you find that it was actually founded by a woman named Jean O'Leary.

00:13:47.740 Who is Jean O'Leary?

00:13:48.840 Well, she was a feminist who, as it happens, really didn't like transvestites or drag queens. 1.00

00:13:55.300 And we don't have to guess about that.

00:13:56.400 She actually set it on film at a rally in 1973.

00:13:59.860 And it's a little bit hard to hear some of this audio, but the whole thing is pretty interesting.

00:14:03.000 So watch this.

00:14:03.880 When men impersonate women for reasons of entertainment or profit, they insult women.

00:14:18.640 We support the rights of every person to dress in the way that she or he wishes.

00:14:27.160 But we are opposed to the exploitation of women by men for entertainment or profit.

00:14:33.880 Men have been telling us who we are all our lives.

00:14:40.420 They have tried to do it with scholarship, with religion, with psychiatry.

00:14:45.380 When all else fails, they have used humor to tell us, and each other, who and what we are.

00:14:52.640 What we have just seen today is another instance in which men laughing with one another

00:14:57.940 at what they present as women are telling us who they think we are. 0.95

00:15:02.940 We all want to know.

00:15:06.160 Men have never been able to show us ourselves.

00:15:09.640 We are coming into a time and a place as women at which we can and do show one another

00:15:15.180 who we are.

00:15:16.120 Now, a few seconds later, Jean O'Leary there was forced off the stage by a couple of guys 1.00

00:15:23.880 in drag.

00:15:24.860 And there's a lot of feminist gibberish in what she was saying, but the substance of what 1.00

00:15:29.480 she says, it's worth repeating.

00:15:31.340 She said, quote, we're opposed to the exploitation of women by men for entertainment or profit.

00:15:36.600 Men have been telling us who we are for all our lives.

00:15:38.680 Men have never been able to show us ourselves.

00:15:40.700 And this is what the founder of National Coming Out Day stood for just a few decades ago.

00:15:46.820 She said at the time, men with fetishes are not, in fact, women.

00:15:51.000 That's what she was saying.

00:15:52.440 And she couldn't have been more clear about it.

00:15:54.160 Of course, now, later in life, she recanted and she bent the knee to the trans mob. 0.87

00:15:58.940 But that's what she stood for at the time.

00:16:01.700 And now the gender cult is papering over that little inconsistency. 1.00

00:16:05.080 They're lying about the history of this fake holiday, just like they lie about what happened

00:16:08.060 in Stonewall, just like they lie about Matthew Shepard, just like they lie about the national 0.76

00:16:13.220 state of emergency facing their supposedly marginalized fan base, just like they lie about literally

00:16:17.680 everything all the time.

00:16:19.660 And they're lying so much and so desperately because the truth could not be more obvious.

00:16:25.160 The LGBT club is not oppressed.

00:16:27.060 A country does not have 50 fake holidays to celebrate a group of people that it is oppressing.

00:16:33.500 Generally, if a country is oppressing a people, it has no holidays to celebrate them whatsoever,

00:16:37.620 certainly not 50 of them or however many it is now.

00:16:40.880 And celebrities don't go out of their way to be a part of a truly marginalized and bullied

00:16:45.380 community.

00:16:45.960 That's not what celebrities do. 1.00

00:16:47.800 A club does not grow in membership so rapidly like the LGBT club is if being in the club is 1.00

00:16:54.220 a ticket to persecution.

00:16:55.500 No, it goes the opposite way.

00:16:58.120 For the individual identifying as LGBT, it means social capital and cultural influence.

00:17:05.420 And for the powers that be, the more people who identify as LGBT, the more votes they get,

00:17:10.140 just like the glad president said, and the more power they wield.

00:17:14.680 This is what it's all about and has always been about.

00:17:17.460 And now that couldn't be more clear.

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00:18:33.280 So we just talked about the national day of coming out, and today is apparently another

00:18:38.700 holiday called the Day of Jihad or the Day of Rage, which is not related to LGBT, although

00:18:46.560 it could be because, in fact, you may remember a few months ago the trans mob had their Trans

00:18:53.560 Day of Vengeance, so maybe eventually they have their own Day of Jihad, I don't know.

00:18:58.880 But this is from Newsweek.

00:19:00.300 Conspiracy theories are flooding the internet as October 13th was designated a Day of Jihad

00:19:04.300 or Day of Rage around the world by Hamas supporters.

00:19:07.600 On October 7th, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian Milton attack on Israel in history.

00:19:11.260 Khaled Mashal, the Ex-Mas leader who heads the Milton Group's Diaspora office in Qatar this

00:19:17.480 week, advocated for Muslims globally to head to the squares and streets of the Arab and

00:19:21.940 Islamic world on Friday as part of a mass protest supporting Palestinians against Israel.

00:19:27.820 And it was also, there have also been calls for this so-called Day of Jihad that would

00:19:33.020 happen outside of the Arab world.

00:19:35.540 And, look, there's been a lot of hype on social media around this Day of Jihad thing.

00:19:41.820 I'm not sure, people who don't spend a lot of time on social media, I'm not even sure

00:19:44.660 if they're aware of it.

00:19:46.560 But on social media, and especially on Twitter, a lot of hype around it.

00:19:51.560 Some Hamas terrorists called for it.

00:19:53.480 And now a lot of people, at least on social media, seem to be very afraid of it.

00:19:58.320 I've seen people online recommending that you stay out of cities today, that you keep your

00:20:03.420 kids home from school, and all of that.

00:20:06.540 And, look, maybe a bunch of horrible things will happen today.

00:20:10.420 I don't know.

00:20:11.460 Maybe by the time you listen to what I'm saying right now, horrible things will have already

00:20:15.480 happened.

00:20:15.860 Maybe a big terrorist attack will have already happened in the United States.

00:20:20.060 And then you can turn around and accuse me of, that I should have taken it more seriously

00:20:25.340 or whatever.

00:20:26.840 And if that happens, then it does.

00:20:28.260 But, and I don't know, I mean, horrible things happen, can happen any day.

00:20:33.920 They do happen every day, actually.

00:20:36.320 So who really knows what's going to happen.

00:20:38.640 But it does trouble me to see the fear, you know, that we're advertising to terrorists that

00:20:46.700 all they have to do is make some arbitrary threat.

00:20:49.160 And apparently some people will start adjusting their daily movements around it, living in

00:20:57.000 fear because of it.

00:20:59.060 That you could have some Hamas terrorist in the Middle East says, there should be a day 1.00

00:21:02.720 of jihad.

00:21:03.280 And the next thing you know, it's trending nationwide in the United States on social media.

00:21:09.300 Oh, did you hear about the day of jihad that's coming?

00:21:11.680 It's just, it's a, it's a really bad precedent, I think.

00:21:14.780 Um, and so what, what can you do when you hear about a day of jihad?

00:21:20.980 Well, you continue living your life is what you do.

00:21:23.060 Take normal precautions that you should be taking all the time anyway, and live your life.

00:21:27.300 I mean, staying out of cities, if you can, if you can help it, is just, that's just a

00:21:30.660 good way to live always.

00:21:33.360 And, uh, and it's also true that today and any other day, if you're going to encounter violence

00:21:37.760 in the city, it's almost certainly not going to be from a terrorist, but from the, uh, everyday

00:21:43.460 average criminals and thugs who live in those cities.

00:21:46.780 And I also have to say this, that there is in general, a day of jihad aside, there's a

00:21:55.020 lot of anger and fear out there right now.

00:21:57.360 A lot of it, obviously people are very emotional.

00:22:01.080 Uh, I see this on the right, you know, people who are usually on the same side, culturally,

00:22:07.320 tearing each other to pieces right now.

00:22:09.260 And this has been going on all week, uh, people getting ripped to shreds for being reasonable

00:22:15.080 and thoughtful.

00:22:17.920 You know, we'll play a clip from, uh, Vivek Ramaswamy in a minute.

00:22:22.140 And he's, he's getting crucified by some on the right for basically not wanting world war

00:22:29.740 three.

00:22:30.920 Lindsey Graham, on the other hand is out there.

00:22:32.960 He wants to bomb everyone. 0.90

00:22:34.280 He wants to just bomb Iran. 1.00

00:22:35.400 Doesn't matter. 0.67

00:22:35.820 Just, just level, level the entire Middle East as far as he's concerned.

00:22:39.920 And, um, and that sentiment is definitely very strong right now. 0.99

00:22:43.300 Just, you know, Hey, bomb everyone, kill everyone, bomb Iran, whatever. 0.99

00:22:46.420 World war three, it doesn't matter. 0.98

00:22:48.600 And the thing is, I can think of, uh, a couple of times in my life when the country was overcome

00:22:55.820 by fear and anger, really two other times that come to mind, COVID, the early days of COVID.

00:23:02.140 And then, uh, and then right after 9-11 and in both of those cases, it was the same thing.

00:23:08.400 People were swept up in emotion.

00:23:10.320 They were demanding extreme action, uh, and they were less concerned about the long-term

00:23:17.800 effects of those actions.

00:23:19.160 They just wanted action.

00:23:20.300 Just do something, something, something must be done right now, right this minute.

00:23:23.760 Now, do it.

00:23:25.700 And, um, and in both of those cases, I can remember that anyone who said,

00:23:31.320 Hey, uh, wait a second.

00:23:34.680 Let, let, let, let's think about this.

00:23:36.820 I, let's talk about what the consequences of this might be.

00:23:42.080 Anyone who said that was attacked as if they were proposing some sort of radical, dangerous

00:23:46.520 course of action.

00:23:47.380 When really, when they're, when they were proposing the opposite, they were just saying,

00:23:50.900 let's, let's think about this.

00:23:52.460 Let's talk about it.

00:23:53.480 Let's be thoughtful.

00:23:54.920 Let's, um, let's not simply act out of anger.

00:24:02.600 And in both cases, COVID and 9-11, we ended up national, on a national level, we ended up

00:24:08.660 responding in ways that proved disastrous.

00:24:11.180 Uh, 20 years of war after 9-11, and then we all remember what happened with COVID.

00:24:18.380 And I am, I am worried about the same thing happening right now.

00:24:21.560 I'm worried about the same thing playing out.

00:24:23.940 Um, I am worried about, uh, World War III actually happening.

00:24:29.940 In, in, in part because of, although it wouldn't be entirely this, but in part because of the

00:24:36.820 sentiment by some in the United States, uh, led by the Lindsey Grahams of the world, that,

00:24:44.000 hey, we're angry, this horrible thing happened.

00:24:45.660 Let's, let's just jump in and, and do something.

00:24:53.800 And if that happens, you know, five years from now, 10 years from now, people are going

00:24:56.600 to look back on it and say, how, how did we get so caught up in that?

00:24:59.620 Why didn't anyone speak up and stop that?

00:25:02.980 Why didn't anyone?

00:25:04.540 The thing is, there are always people speaking up.

00:25:06.820 There are people who spoke up after 9-11, people who spoke up in the early days of COVID.

00:25:11.740 And the thing is that they are ignored or not just ignored, they are castigated for not

00:25:18.760 being as emotional as everybody else, for trying to be more thoughtful than emotional.

00:25:26.240 And that's my, that's my worry, uh, right now.

00:25:32.420 Speaking of which, moving on to this, as alluded to, Sean Hannity and Vivek Ramaswamy had an interesting

00:25:36.760 debate last night, uh, Ramaswamy is, is getting some heat from some on the right, um, as I

00:25:41.380 mentioned, because of his, his stance on the Israel situation.

00:25:43.980 But his stance to me is totally reasonable.

00:25:47.020 He condemned the attacks.

00:25:49.120 Uh, I haven't listened to every single thing he said about it.

00:25:52.540 So if he said something horrible or delusional or deranged about the situation in Israel,

00:25:58.760 uh, I haven't heard it.

00:25:59.980 All I've heard him say is that is to condemn the attacks, um, say that Israel has every 0.85

00:26:05.500 right to defend itself, but he wants to avoid world war three and he, and he doesn't want 0.59

00:26:10.780 America to needlessly get involved and potentially make the situation worse and bring in other 0.97

00:26:17.440 world powers.

00:26:18.240 And then you have a world war three, which is also my stance happens to be correct. 1.00

00:26:23.300 I think, but even if you disagree with it, for some reason, I mean, even if you think

00:26:28.360 that, uh, that, uh, America should put boots on the ground, even if you are with Lindsey 1.00

00:26:33.120 Graham, let's go bomb Iran, you should still admit that the Ramaswamy approach, the non 1.00

00:26:38.400 intervention approach, it's at least reasonable and rational and worth taking into consideration.

00:26:44.160 It's not a crazy point of view.

00:26:47.920 Uh, yet some Republicans are quite mad at him, including Sean Hannity.

00:26:51.420 And I want you to listen to a little bit of this exchange, um, between Hannity and

00:26:55.940 Ramaswamy.

00:26:56.420 Listen needs to be a party where if your campaign is principally being run by super PACs, people

00:27:02.240 can give unlimited amounts of money to your campaign.

00:27:04.640 I don't think that befits the Republican party.

00:27:07.320 I think we need to be better than that.

00:27:09.000 So Sean, you and I may have a different view on that.

00:27:10.840 But my view is if you're making money off your time in government, then I don't think

00:27:14.740 you're fit to be president of the United States.

00:27:16.560 Well, more importantly though, what's our policy stand with our allies while avoiding

00:27:20.740 world war three.

00:27:21.620 And that's where I'm at.

00:27:22.720 A lot of people don't think you're qualified because you weren't even a Republican or voting

00:27:26.240 Republican until what?

00:27:27.300 2020?

00:27:28.640 Well, Sean, I think it depends on what your objectives with this interview are.

00:27:32.540 I voted libertarian in my first election.

00:27:34.440 I voted Republican in 2020.

00:27:35.840 You're right.

00:27:36.160 I'm not a partisan hack.

00:27:37.320 I come in from the outside.

00:27:38.420 I'll forgive you for your screw up.

00:27:39.320 I'm an independent minded patriot who speaks the truth.

00:27:41.020 Well, it's to me like you just want to jump from the private sector yourself where you

00:27:45.280 made a lot of money.

00:27:46.300 By the way, I applaud capitalism.

00:27:48.220 I applaud successful people.

00:27:49.820 Sean, I applaud you for being so transparent about your objectives.

00:27:51.900 I actually think that people working in the defense of our country and the defense industry

00:27:55.600 are playing a vital role for the cause of freedom.

00:28:00.580 So I don't really call it a corrupting influence or suggest that somehow that's a corrupting influence.

00:28:05.320 I actually like the experience that goes along with working for defense contractors.

00:28:10.620 But I've got to listen.

00:28:11.620 One of the things I loved about that interview with Tucker, one of the things I loved about

00:28:14.700 the interview with Tucker was we were actually able to have a thoughtful conversation and

00:28:18.140 go deep into issues rather than this kind of political gotcha.

00:28:22.540 The point is this.

00:28:23.920 You go on these interviews.

00:28:26.560 Yeah, I have nothing but nice things to say.

00:28:29.620 But here's your problem.

00:28:30.760 People should watch it.

00:28:31.400 You go on these shows.

00:28:32.120 People quote your exact words and you deny your own words.

00:28:35.960 And I'm going to pause it.

00:28:37.340 I do love the fact that Vivek brought up his interview with Tucker Carlson.

00:28:42.480 That was great.

00:28:43.580 And forcing, I think that's the first, that's got to be the first time since Tucker left

00:28:48.320 that anyone at Fox has even said his name, that anyone has openly acknowledged his existence

00:28:55.260 and said his name.

00:28:56.960 And it's great that the person who says his name is Sean Hannity.

00:29:01.160 Sean Hannity, who pretends to like Tucker Carlson.

00:29:04.780 But I think we all, I mean, you could even, you could tell when Tucker was there, just

00:29:08.240 the handoff between the two.

00:29:11.000 Sean Hannity could barely contain his disgust with Tucker Carlson.

00:29:16.320 But putting that aside, I will say on Sean Hannity's part that, you know, takes a lot of courage.

00:29:25.400 I think we should applaud his courage and his boldness to speak up for the, you know, for

00:29:31.340 marginalized communities, to speak up for people who are really victims, the powerless in our

00:29:37.820 world.

00:29:38.460 And in this case, he's speaking up for defense contractors and career politicians.

00:29:44.280 I applaud defense contractors.

00:29:46.320 They defend freedom.

00:29:49.160 This is, here's what I love about Sean Hannity.

00:29:51.780 And I use the word love and I mean the opposite of it.

00:29:54.240 But, uh, he, his, he's just been saying the exact same thing since like 2002, but it's

00:30:04.140 not the kind of consistency that you applaud.

00:30:07.220 Okay.

00:30:07.840 It's not, it's not the kind of consistency where you say, well, he was stuck by his principle.

00:30:11.260 No, it's just basic, you know, early two thousands, neocon establishment, Republican talking points.

00:30:22.620 And he just sticks to it.

00:30:24.280 No matter what happens, he sticks to them.

00:30:27.320 They don't change.

00:30:29.060 And it's only ever talking points.

00:30:32.460 Have you ever in your life, this is a serious, I mean, this is a sincere question.

00:30:37.280 Um, Sean Hannity has been on air for, I don't know, 25 years.

00:30:43.720 Have you ever heard him offer anything approaching an actual insight?

00:30:50.560 Have you ever heard him say anything even remotely interesting?

00:30:55.740 Have you ever heard him offer something that sounds like an actual thought and isn't just

00:31:00.560 talking points that he printed out from, uh, from the RNC?

00:31:05.520 Have you ever heard that?

00:31:07.280 Have you ever thought to one time?

00:31:08.620 I mean, in 25 years, have you ever thought to yourself, wow, Sean Hannity made a great

00:31:11.760 point.

00:31:12.920 Have you ever heard, if you've ever said to someone else or heard them say to you, you

00:31:15.940 know, uh, Hannity had a great insight the other night.

00:31:18.340 It was, and then they, have you ever heard that?

00:31:20.660 Never, never.

00:31:21.620 And it's kind of a, it's an amazing, again, consistency, not, not a consistency that we

00:31:25.780 applaud, not the kind of consistency we applaud, but it's still an amazing consistency that

00:31:28.660 he's been talking for 25 years and has never said one interesting thing.

00:31:32.040 You would think that in 25 years of talking, you would accidentally say a few interesting

00:31:36.120 things and he never has.

00:31:38.440 Um, it's, it is very similar to, as we've marveled before over someone like Trevor Noah, who was

00:31:44.000 on air for, for, he wasn't, he wasn't on air for as long as Sean Hannity, but still he was

00:31:47.820 on air for six or seven years and a comedy show never managed to say one funny thing.

00:31:52.160 And that was also pretty impressive.

00:31:53.980 So it's kind of a similar, similar situation.

00:31:56.760 Um, so what do we hear from Hannity there?

00:31:59.940 He's sticking up for defense contractors and career politicians.

00:32:03.040 And, and, uh, and he's also implying that Vivek is unqualified because he's coming from

00:32:12.500 the private sector.

00:32:13.360 God forbid, God forbid he had a real job and he's been out in the private sector.

00:32:17.680 And he's had success there and now he wants to, you know, and, and, and, uh, now he's

00:32:21.420 entering politics.

00:32:23.640 Um, so he's getting attacked, uh, for that and also for not voting Republican in the past,

00:32:30.900 which, but who does that remind you of?

00:32:35.840 Does that remind you of a politician, a current politician who Sean Hannity has, is, uh, has

00:32:43.500 professed himself to be a big, big fan of a big supporter of for years now, like Donald Trump.

00:32:49.380 Donald Trump got into politics.

00:32:51.260 He was not a career politician.

00:32:52.720 He was, came out of the private sector.

00:32:53.980 He came from the private sector right into running for president.

00:32:56.760 Same thing for Ramaswamy.

00:32:58.500 And, um, he was voting, not just libertarian, but voting Democrat.

00:33:04.560 Um, up until the, the, a few years before he ran for president.

00:33:12.240 You don't hear Sean Hannity criticizing Trump for that, do you?

00:33:17.940 But the real issue here, even putting all that aside, the real issue is like, what is,

00:33:26.200 what's the problem exactly with what Vivek has said about the situation in the Middle East?

00:33:32.840 is, again, unless he said something that I haven't heard, that was, that's truly, uh, crazy.

00:33:40.980 Um, all I've heard from him is just, listen, uh, what happened is terrible.

00:33:46.960 Condemn it.

00:33:47.500 It's awful.

00:33:47.980 It's evil.

00:33:48.780 Israel has to defend itself.

00:33:50.900 Um, in the United States of America, we have to continue always to put our own security,

00:33:56.840 put our own people first, always, because this, this is our country, and the people that run our country

00:34:03.660 are supposed to be representing our people, and so we have to put our people first.

00:34:07.680 And, uh, what that means is not that we don't care about what's happening to other people.

00:34:11.060 It doesn't mean that we don't condemn evil when it occurs anywhere, elsewhere in the world.

00:34:15.220 It just means that we can't do something, um, that's going to needlessly put our own people

00:34:20.100 in harm's way, or harm our country in some other way.

00:34:23.380 That's it.

00:34:25.820 Not only is that not controversial, but that is actually the baseline

00:34:29.020 position that every American should have, and certainly every American politician should have.

00:34:35.860 And that baseline position doesn't mean that we never go to war under any circumstance.

00:34:43.240 Like, I don't think anyone's saying that there's never been a justified war that America's been

00:34:46.500 involved in.

00:34:48.780 It's just a matter of what are our priorities.

00:34:53.360 And are we going to be cautious and thoughtful, or are we going to be Lindsey Graham just running

00:34:59.700 over there and bombing everybody?

00:35:01.760 All right.

00:35:04.080 The Hill has, uh, this report.

00:35:06.600 President Biden edged out former President Trump in a poll released this week, leading

00:35:10.640 by just one point.

00:35:12.580 Uh, Biden support is between 45% and 49% against each Republican running for the White House,

00:35:17.940 including the narrow lead over Trump.

00:35:19.940 Florida, uh, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, however, has a two point edge over the sitting

00:35:24.820 president, according to a Fox News poll.

00:35:26.460 And former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tops Biden by four points, the survey shows.

00:35:31.760 Fox News also noted that, uh, the poll results published Wednesday marked the first time the

00:35:35.920 cycle that Trump has fared worse against Biden than the other candidates vying for the GOP

00:35:40.840 nomination.

00:35:42.360 All right.

00:35:43.080 Now, so that's just the latest poll.

00:35:45.220 And this one, uh, the headline on this is what I just read that it has Trump losing to

00:35:52.060 Biden by narrow margin.

00:35:53.620 And it has two other Republicans beating Biden by a slightly bigger margin.

00:35:58.880 Now, Trump supporters, of course, will ignore this poll and they'll declare that it's bunk.

00:36:03.240 Trump critics will say that it's a hundred percent accurate.

00:36:05.700 Uh, the five or six Nikki Haley fans out there are going to love this.

00:36:10.040 Um, for my part, I don't know how accurate is it is for sure.

00:36:13.920 I'm always skeptical of all polls.

00:36:16.000 We're still months out from any kind of voting going on.

00:36:18.900 And so you take it all with a grain of salt.

00:36:21.900 Um, uh, I'm highly skeptical, highly skeptical of a poll that puts Nikki Haley at the very

00:36:27.740 top.

00:36:28.160 And anyway, it doesn't even matter.

00:36:29.500 Okay.

00:36:29.820 Even if Nikki Haley in the polls was beating Biden by 20%, uh, it, it makes no difference

00:36:35.960 because she's not going to win the primary. 0.65

00:36:36.980 Like that just simply is not going to happen.

00:36:39.060 It's not there.

00:36:39.880 The path, there's no path for her.

00:36:41.520 It's not going to happen period.

00:36:43.760 Um, so it doesn't even matter, but the poll having Trump losing to Biden to me, that makes

00:36:51.880 sense.

00:36:52.220 And as I've said all along, you know, I, I don't see for Trump what his path to a general

00:36:59.780 election victory is, um, regardless of what the polls say.

00:37:03.980 Some of them have him winning.

00:37:05.060 Some of them have him losing, you know, it's razor thin margins one way or another.

00:37:09.200 Uh, I'm not saying he'll lose in a landslide.

00:37:11.800 I'm not saying that he would definitely lose either.

00:37:13.840 I can't say for sure, but if I had to put my money on it, I think chances are that, that

00:37:20.680 he loses and I, I don't see what exactly his path to a general election victory is.

00:37:25.000 And I've been asking this for months.

00:37:26.480 I haven't had any Trump supporter really explain to me what the path is.

00:37:31.260 Um, and for me, just break it down this way.

00:37:34.900 Like, okay, each party has its baseline support, its baseline voters.

00:37:42.080 So no matter who, no matter who the Democrat nominee is, no matter who the Republican nominee

00:37:46.280 is there, there, there, there's a certain group of people who will vote for the Democrat

00:37:51.440 or vote for the Republican regardless, like the baseline voters and Democrats probably

00:37:56.700 have more baseline voters, um, than Republicans do.

00:38:01.760 But once you get past the baseline, that's when you start asking questions like, and for

00:38:06.820 me, the, the, the, the, the basic question is this, are there more people who will vote

00:38:17.600 against Trump than will vote for him?

00:38:22.480 That's, you know, it's obviously, this is not any great, on my part, this is not any great,

00:38:26.140 unlike Sean Hannity now, this is not much of a, of a, of a brilliant insight, but that

00:38:30.220 is the question.

00:38:30.780 Are there more people who vote for him more than against him?

00:38:32.920 And, um, another way of phrasing that is at this point, we know that Trump mobilizes.

00:38:42.140 We know for a fact that he mobilizes voters.

00:38:43.900 There's no doubt about that.

00:38:45.580 And he mobilizes people to a degree that we've never seen before in modern political history.

00:38:53.260 Uh, maybe that's never been, been seen before in American history period.

00:38:58.060 So he's a very unique figure in that way.

00:39:02.920 He mobilizes voters.

00:39:04.880 But the question right now, as we're getting into 2024, does he, does he mobilize, the problem

00:39:09.980 is that he mobilizes voters for him and against him.

00:39:12.420 And does he mobilize more against him than for him?

00:39:14.460 That's the question.

00:39:16.400 And I think at this point, the answer is probably, uh, that he mobilizes, that more are mobilized

00:39:23.560 against him than for him.

00:39:24.500 Um, and, uh, if he's the nominee that I certainly hope that I'm wrong about that, it does also

00:39:32.340 trouble me that, you know, of the Trump supporters who are definitely going to support him in the

00:39:36.480 primary, when we get into this question of the general election, like, how is he going

00:39:40.380 to win the general?

00:39:41.280 How does that work?

00:39:42.740 What is his path?

00:39:43.800 The fact that Trump supporters are reluctant to even have that conversation, that troubles

00:39:48.900 me.

00:39:50.240 It's almost like some of them are saying, well, I don't know, you probably will lose,

00:39:53.340 but we don't care.

00:39:54.920 Let's see.

00:39:55.420 One other thing before we get to the comment section, I think this is probably the most

00:39:59.380 important news of the day.

00:40:00.820 This is from a New York post.

00:40:03.140 Critics are bashing star ballerina, Misty Copeland, who started a petition to add more

00:40:08.040 inclusive shades of color to the traditional pink apple ballet shoe emoji.

00:40:12.360 Copeland, 41, the first black woman to put, to become a principal dancer at the American

00:40:17.900 ballet theater.

00:40:19.020 You probably already knew that.

00:40:20.840 I know I did.

00:40:21.760 You hear Misty Copeland, you immediately know that she's the first black woman to become

00:40:25.000 a principal dancer at the American ballet theater.

00:40:27.060 If you didn't know, now you do.

00:40:28.900 Uh, but she posted about the, the initiative to her 1.8 million Instagram followers.

00:40:32.600 So this is a petition she's starting to get different shades of, uh, the, uh, ballet shoe

00:40:37.900 emoji on Apple.

00:40:38.920 It's very important.

00:40:39.500 Um, I think we have the video for talking about this petition.

00:40:42.540 Do we have it?

00:40:42.820 I think we do.

00:40:43.220 Let's play that.

00:40:44.740 For my entire 25 year career, I have pancaked my pointe shoes to match my skin color.

00:40:51.540 Until recently, the only color option for pointe shoes was European pink.

00:40:57.100 I am so happy that several of the pointe shoe brands have expanded to include a wide range

00:41:04.220 of flesh colored pointe shoes that are more reflective of the variety of skin color tones

00:41:11.340 that dance ballet.

00:41:13.200 We've seen enough of that.

00:41:14.620 So there it is.

00:41:16.000 Got this petition going.

00:41:17.040 I don't know how many people have signed it.

00:41:18.380 I think thousands have signed it.

00:41:19.880 This is very important.

00:41:20.920 And this is mostly, this is mostly what we're used to, right?

00:41:22.920 People desperate to be victims because of the social capital that comes with it.

00:41:27.260 Uh, and also because it gives their lives meaning, uh, you know, feeling victimized gives

00:41:32.100 their lives meaning, but the demand for racism exceeds the supply.

00:41:34.740 So they're stuck with complaining about a lack of options with ballerina emojis or whatever.

00:41:39.820 Um, but here, here's the thing.

00:41:43.600 We, we live in a very safe and insulated society, relatively speaking, becoming less safe all

00:41:49.600 the time, but still generally safe, generally insulated, generally prosperous, also becoming

00:41:57.640 less prosperous all the time, but still prosperous.

00:42:00.600 What we've discovered is that people who live in this kind of bubble and don't have any underlying

00:42:11.100 sense of meaning in their lives because they don't have faith.

00:42:15.060 Um, they don't have any even real coherent worldview.

00:42:19.080 Uh, they don't have purpose.

00:42:21.220 You take those people, you make them very safe and comfortable.

00:42:24.200 Um, they get really bored and they start to kind of fetishize suffering.

00:42:30.600 And they come up with all of these kinds of, uh, sort of luxury fears and concerns, and

00:42:36.940 they start petitions over emojis and so on.

00:42:39.560 And this can only happen in our very comfortable Western bubble, but the bubble is not, well,

00:42:47.240 it's not bulletproof literally or figuratively.

00:42:50.560 And, uh, if it ever pops completely, it's very disturbing to think how unprepared we will

00:42:56.880 be, how shocked and helpless.

00:42:58.660 I know I just said we shouldn't live in fear and we shouldn't, but this is a reality that

00:43:03.740 I see coming in the future.

00:43:04.800 And it's just, it's a, it's a very interesting contrast when you do see war and death and

00:43:11.100 destruction, uh, happening right now, but not in this country.

00:43:15.120 And then you've got people here worried about ballet shoe emojis.

00:43:19.560 And if ever these worlds really do collide and these realities do collide, I think there's

00:43:23.520 a lot of people that are not going to be prepared for that.

00:43:25.660 So let's get to the comment section.

00:43:27.960 If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in hay with a sweet baby gang.

00:43:37.580 Okay.

00:43:38.140 A few comments here.

00:43:39.100 We talked about, uh, uh, living with your parents.

00:43:42.060 The adults just to live with their parents. 0.50

00:43:43.480 And here's some comments about that.

00:43:45.380 Risen 2258 says, living with, with your parents and living under your parents are two

00:43:49.680 completely different things.

00:43:51.100 It's a good way of putting it.

00:43:52.780 I spent 14 and a half minutes talking around the issue, but I think that's basically, I

00:43:58.400 think that pretty much sums it up.

00:44:00.060 Um, this cash, this cache says, it's so nice to hear a father that feels as I do about the

00:44:05.860 children, not just going away because they are grown up multiple functional families under

00:44:10.380 one roof is not the crisis that it seemed to be in the sixties and seventies.

00:44:14.680 Yeah.

00:44:15.040 I just now look my kids, my oldest kid, but we haven't gone through the teenage years

00:44:18.820 yet, uh, that all parents always complain about.

00:44:21.740 Um, but, uh, even so after, you know, we've got 11 years under our belt of being parents

00:44:26.480 and six kids, it, when, when I, this kind of like typical parent thing of, ah, I can't

00:44:32.380 wait for my kids to leave the house and get the, get them the hell out of the house. 1.00

00:44:35.280 I don't, I don't relate to that at all.

00:44:38.620 And I've always been, the parents keep telling me ever since I, we first had kids, the parents

00:44:44.000 have insisted that, oh, you'll, you'll understand one day.

00:44:46.140 You won't be able to, you know, you'll be so excited to get these little brats out of 1.00

00:44:49.720 the house.

00:44:50.600 And, uh, 11 years later, I still don't, I still don't relate to it.

00:44:53.600 Um, I don't, not that I want my kids to, like we talked about, I want them to stay in

00:44:57.660 a, in a state of perpetual adolescence and be helpless, um, over become adults.

00:45:02.900 And they're still overgrown children sitting in my house and playing video games and watching

00:45:07.000 TV all the time, like that's not going to be allowed.

00:45:08.920 So that's not what I'm talking about, but I don't have any, like the idea that they turn

00:45:13.520 18, I just want them to get the hell out of the house. 0.97

00:45:15.100 I don't want to be around them anymore.

00:45:16.440 Um, that, that to me, you know, that's not, that's how you feel.

00:45:20.580 It's not because you really, uh, because you think it's the best approach for your kid.

00:45:28.880 It's just because you don't like being a parent and you're kind of selfish.

00:45:33.060 That's what it is.

00:45:33.780 Um, and, uh, I, I like the idea.

00:45:36.580 I'd love to keep my whole family.

00:45:39.160 And it's, it doesn't mean it's going to work out this way, of course.

00:45:42.760 And, uh, in my case, I'm, you know, I live in Tennessee and the rest of my family lives

00:45:46.260 800 miles away.

00:45:47.700 So who am I to talk?

00:45:49.220 But still, uh, you know, if, if I could, if I could script it out exactly as I would want,

00:45:53.020 I'd love for my whole family, all my kids, you know, they become adults, they get married,

00:45:57.360 they have kids and we all stay close by, you know, we have our own, you know, and, and,

00:46:02.200 we, uh, have our community.

00:46:04.600 And I think that that's, that's the way it has usually been done historically.

00:46:08.340 And I think that that's, um, the way it should be.

00:46:12.580 Uh, Psyche 8187 says, I think it makes sense for a young woman to live with her parents until 1.00

00:46:17.400 she gets married.

00:46:18.120 Meanwhile, developing her skills, her place in the broader community and contributing to

00:46:21.660 the management of the home.

00:46:22.880 You bring up a good point too, because when we talk about this issue of should kids move

00:46:25.900 out of the house or not, or should they stay, uh, in their parents' house until they

00:46:30.040 get married themselves?

00:46:31.640 Um, we, we kind of, we, we talk about, uh, men and women, we're going to lump everyone 1.00

00:46:37.580 together, but I think, I think you're right that there is also a difference.

00:46:41.460 There are many differences between men and women, as we know.

00:46:44.160 And, um, on this issue, there's a difference as well.

00:46:47.840 I think there's more, that there's probably more value in your son reaching adulthood and

00:46:58.500 then going out and living on his own somewhere and finding his way in the world for a few

00:47:03.300 years before he gets married.

00:47:05.520 Um, there's probably more value for that for a young man than there is for, uh, a young 0.99

00:47:11.980 woman.

00:47:12.460 All right.

00:47:13.500 On the issue of, uh, feminism and women, uh, feminists wanting to split the bill on dates 1.00

00:47:17.860 as we talked about a couple of days ago, David says, my wife claims to be a feminist. 0.99

00:47:21.840 It's cute and frustrating at the same time because the debate always ends the same way.

00:47:26.240 I present facts.

00:47:27.680 She gets frustrated and exits the conversation claiming that I just don't understand because

00:47:31.460 I'm a man and I don't understand a woman's struggle. 1.00

00:47:35.120 Well, I'm glad that you could be positive about it and call it cute because, uh, if my

00:47:39.960 wife, I can't imagine my wife saying something like that to me unironically. 1.00

00:47:45.240 You don't know a woman's struggle, but, uh, I don't know that I would find it cute. 1.00

00:47:50.080 Frustrating is more, I think, probably a more accurate description.

00:47:56.240 Although I will say my wife is not a feminist in the slightest bit, but she did a couple 1.00

00:48:02.980 of days ago, drop the term mansplaining on me.

00:48:07.080 And, uh, I just stopped, I just stopped in my tracks and did you just, did you just use

00:48:12.160 the phrase mansplaining?

00:48:14.140 Did that really just happen in the Walsh household?

00:48:18.380 And then I realized, of course, that she said it because she knows how much it would annoy

00:48:20.940 me.

00:48:21.940 So I, I, I have to respect that at least.

00:48:24.540 Uh, and on Jada Smith, uh, comment says, when you look at a relationship from the outside,

00:48:30.140 that consists of a pathological narcissist and their victim.

00:48:32.920 It always looks crazy from the outside.

00:48:35.100 Will Smith is unable to stand up to what is happening to him because when your life force

00:48:39.080 is being drained and your soul is being mined, your mind doesn't belong to you.

00:48:44.080 If he dares to pull back the curtain, Jada's mask will crumble and her evil will become 0.96

00:48:48.420 even more obvious.

00:48:50.160 It's hard to understand, uh, unless you've lived this nightmare yourself.

00:48:55.440 Okay.

00:48:55.960 Well, she doesn't have magical powers. 1.00

00:48:57.700 Okay.

00:48:57.960 This is not, she's not Voldemort.

00:48:59.420 Uh, even, even if she kind of looks like it, uh, she's not. 0.52

00:49:04.200 And, and so I think you're, you're, you're letting Will Smith off the hook.

00:49:07.620 You're way too much.

00:49:09.200 Jada Smith, as we, as we discussed, certainly worst wife in America. 1.00

00:49:13.040 She has earned that title.

00:49:14.460 I think she deserves it.

00:49:15.340 She should win that award. 0.98

00:49:17.340 But the issue is that she has no respect for her husband and is a resentful, awful person, 0.91

00:49:25.200 always humiliating Will Smith. 1.00

00:49:28.240 And at the same time, he is this cuckolded, pathetic man who is allowing this to happen to 1.00

00:49:35.720 himself. 0.99

00:49:36.060 Um, and I think it's actually much more simple than you make it out to be, right?

00:49:43.860 It's any one of us, we can watch a video of Jada Pinkett Smith and we can hear her talking

00:49:50.760 about, especially when she talks about her relationship, but really anything, you can

00:49:53.800 watch any video of her for like a minute and you've got her figured out.

00:49:57.400 You know what kind of person this is.

00:50:00.020 Uh, did Will Smith not realize that when he married her?

00:50:04.840 And I think, of course he did.

00:50:06.080 I think that most, and there are exceptions to this.

00:50:08.640 There are men who get married, uh, to a woman who they think is a wonderful woman and she

00:50:15.100 was fooling him the whole time and she was hiding what she's really like.

00:50:19.440 And she, she, she hit all of that.

00:50:21.220 And then there might be also cases of someone who's married to a woman and she's a wonderful

00:50:24.300 woman and then she becomes a horrible person. 1.00

00:50:25.840 And it can also happen with men too.

00:50:26.960 So like that does happen.

00:50:27.940 But I think most of the time, if somebody is just a bad person, then they were probably

00:50:32.980 a bad person before you married them.

00:50:34.660 And also if you are at all perceptive, you were probably at some level aware of it.

00:50:41.520 Um, yet you made the decision to marry them anyway.

00:50:44.300 And I think a lot of men make that decision, not because they, they're the victims of some

00:50:50.840 kind of magical mind control.

00:50:53.220 It's much more simple than that.

00:50:54.560 It's just, you know, they're with a woman.

00:50:57.360 They can tell that she's terrible and all these things, like they can still, all the red, 0.82

00:51:01.500 all the red flags are there.

00:51:02.720 They can see them, but they're physically attracted to the woman. 0.87

00:51:06.340 And so they decide to overlook all of that.

00:51:10.180 And I think most of the time, that's what ends up, ends up happening.

00:51:13.060 Most of the men who end up with a Jada Pinkett Smith type of woman, uh, they knew at some level

00:51:18.160 going in and they did it anyway because they were attracted to the woman and they decided

00:51:23.240 to put that concern above all the rest.

00:51:27.020 Never a good idea as Will Smith is, uh, discovering.

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00:52:02.880 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:05.780 Well, it's been a while since we've talked about our old friend, Dylan Mulvaney.

00:52:13.720 Uh, he hasn't even made an appearance in the daily cancellation in quite some time.

00:52:16.940 Surprisingly enough, Mulvaney was all over the place in the early part of this year,

00:52:20.780 ubiquitous cultural presence.

00:52:22.280 But then Bud Light got involved and we all know how that worked out for them.

00:52:26.040 And we know how it worked out for Mulvaney too, who responded to the controversy by dropping

00:52:30.860 off the map for a while.

00:52:32.420 It was a much needed respite for, for all of us.

00:52:34.980 And now Mulvaney is back in action.

00:52:37.060 In fact, he has just won a prestigious award.

00:52:39.660 Fox News reports, quote,

00:52:41.080 A British LGBTQ magazine and Virgin Atlantic recently named trans woman, Dylan Mulvaney,

00:52:46.200 woman of the year.

00:52:47.000 Mulvaney received the recognition at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards in the United Kingdom

00:52:51.240 on Wednesday, an award show put on by LGBTQ Attitude magazine and sponsored by the British

00:52:56.100 airline company.

00:52:57.000 At the podium, Mulvaney marveled at receiving the award, noting that it had only been 560 days

00:53:02.800 since the biological male influencer came out as trans.

00:53:05.600 The influencer noted how grateful she was to receive the honor from a queer publication-like 0.97

00:53:09.480 Attitude, saying that it means so much more to me.

00:53:12.100 In an Attitude magazine piece recounting the winners from the evening, the outlet profiled

00:53:16.820 Mulvaney, stating,

00:53:18.440 Through her Days of Girlhood series, Dylan Mulvaney shared the everyday highs and lows of her

00:53:23.980 transitioning experience with the world and gained 12 million followers in the process.

00:53:28.660 Fame, advertising campaigns, and controversy followed.

00:53:31.320 While speaking, Mulvaney said hateful people had made things a struggle.

00:53:36.280 Okay, well, this isn't the thing that we're going to focus on, but I do have to note once

00:53:38.820 again how Fox uses the she, her pronouns for Mulvaney.

00:53:43.660 Fox continues to try and have its trans cake and eat it too. 0.99

00:53:48.000 The only reason they're reporting on Mulvaney's woman of the year award in the first place

00:53:51.980 is that it's absurd, right?

00:53:53.800 That's the only reason why it's newsworthy. 0.97

00:53:55.300 It's because how ridiculous it is. 0.97

00:53:56.920 And they know that their entire audience will find it ridiculous and outrageous, rightfully 0.98

00:54:00.700 so. 0.95

00:54:01.060 So on one hand, this is red meat to their conservative audience.

00:54:04.980 But on the other hand, they're undercutting criticism of the award by referring to Mulvaney

00:54:10.280 as a woman.

00:54:11.840 Fox wants to be able to point and laugh and mock men who win woman of the year awards and

00:54:17.120 go into women's bathrooms and so on. 1.00

00:54:18.680 But they also want to affirm the womanhood of those same men. 1.00

00:54:21.800 They want to have it both ways because they are disgraceful, embarrassing cowards. 0.99

00:54:27.120 Too afraid to tell the truth. 0.99

00:54:29.020 Too chicken to just come out and be fully pro-trans. 0.80

00:54:32.220 But by not telling the truth, they are effectively pro-trans anyway. 0.93

00:54:36.020 They have backed, they've kind of backed into that position passively in a defensive and whimpering

00:54:41.620 way rather than just embracing it and letting their trans flag fly.

00:54:45.820 And the end result is the same, however.

00:54:48.020 Fox has totally sacrificed any shred of journalistic legitimacy that it might have had.

00:54:52.480 And they have done this by denying reality and by denying the rules of the English language

00:54:56.920 in support of an ideology that it pretends to reject.

00:55:00.040 And for that reason, Fox is today canceled.

00:55:04.740 But it's not the subject, actually.

00:55:07.040 Back to Dylan Mulvaney.

00:55:07.940 He, and notice how I say he, because it's really not that difficult to say, he was on

00:55:14.440 the scene to accept this Woman of the Year award and honor bestowed on him after just

00:55:19.540 a year and a half of pretending to be a woman.

00:55:21.800 There are about, I think, 4 billion women on planet Earth. 1.00

00:55:26.180 4 billion actual real women, I mean. 1.00

00:55:29.660 And they've all lived as women their entire lives. 0.98

00:55:31.860 They've experienced the world as women.

00:55:33.820 They are women. 1.00

00:55:34.640 And yet, none of them were deserving of this honor, apparently.

00:55:37.080 All 4 billion women were disqualified, and the award was handed to a man who plays dress 1.00

00:55:42.740 up.

00:55:43.000 And here's what that man had to say.

00:55:45.980 Hello, London!

00:55:51.020 I am so honored to be here with you all tonight.

00:55:54.800 And, you know, some see me as the Woman of the Year.

00:55:57.960 Some see me as a Woman of a Year and some change, as I only publicly came out online 560 days

00:56:05.860 ago, and some people don't see me as a Woman at all.

00:56:12.900 I know.

00:56:13.940 Which is why receiving this honor from a queer publication-like attitude means so much more 0.89

00:56:20.140 to me.

00:56:21.280 Because here's what I've realized.

00:56:23.220 You ready?

00:56:23.500 Okay.

00:56:24.300 So, no matter how hard I try, or what I wear, or what I say, or what surgeries I get, I

00:56:32.320 will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people's standards.

00:56:37.040 Well, yes, that's exactly right, Dylan.

00:56:40.460 Just swap out the word sane for hateful, and you're right on the money.

00:56:44.240 According to us sane human beings, yes, it doesn't matter what you wear, or what you say,

00:56:49.300 or what surgeries you get, your fundamental biological identity remains the same.

00:56:53.100 Reality remains the same.

00:56:55.140 And womanhood remains something more than the fashion statement and the charade that you want 1.00

00:57:01.500 it to be.

00:57:01.820 So, you're correct about that, Dylan.

00:57:03.940 More correct than you realize, or want to be, actually.

00:57:07.040 Let's continue with a little more of this.

00:57:08.440 Watch.

00:57:09.340 I came to London on holiday this summer after months of feeling isolated.

00:57:14.300 And when I arrived, I didn't feel that baggage that I was carrying back in the U.S.

00:57:19.420 And I didn't feel like the trans beer girl.

00:57:23.060 You know, I didn't walk into rooms and wonder, oh, does that person hate me?

00:57:28.300 I was just another gal walking around in a Burberry trench on her way to a West End musical.

00:57:34.020 And, you know, I romanticized this country as a safe place.

00:57:38.480 And as dangerous as it is for trans people here right now, like the hate that was spewed

00:57:44.440 last week, maybe it's less about where we are and more about who we're with.

00:57:49.980 And that if I'm surrounded by people like you all, that this still can be one of my safe

00:57:55.740 spaces.

00:57:56.200 So when you have a win for trans rights, that's a win for us back in the States, too.

00:58:04.400 And I think if we all just adopt a girl's girl mentality and we say goodbye to the scarcity 0.99

00:58:09.460 complexes, that we have a better chance of getting through this.

00:58:14.080 OK, so we've heard enough of that.

00:58:15.820 We didn't really need to hear any of it, honestly.

00:58:17.620 But I wanted to get to that scarcity complex part because I'd never heard that phrase before.

00:58:22.300 So I had to look it up.

00:58:22.980 And according to Google, a scarcity complex or scarcity mindset is when you obsess over

00:58:28.480 what you lack, you know, what you don't have.

00:58:31.340 And usually this refers to people who worry overly much about not having enough money or

00:58:35.360 other material goods.

00:58:36.980 But it's an interesting phrase coming from Dylan Mulvaney because he's not worried about

00:58:40.820 money.

00:58:41.340 He's been able to do pretty well for himself.

00:58:42.940 He's been able to monetize his faux womanhood to an extraordinary extent. 0.83

00:58:46.940 Women don't often get paid just for being women. 1.00

00:58:49.260 But this man does get paid for pretending to be one.

00:58:53.020 So it's not money that he lacks.

00:58:54.360 Instead, it is womanhood itself. 0.97

00:58:56.880 He lacks all the things that make someone a woman. 0.99

00:58:59.420 He feels insufficient or lacking in his womanhood.

00:59:02.280 And that's because he is insufficient and lacking. 0.96

00:59:04.880 He has no womanhood. 1.00

00:59:05.880 He is not a woman. 1.00

00:59:06.960 And that is the source of his what he calls scarcity complex.

00:59:10.760 We also hear again about the hate that Dylan says he encounters back in the U.S.

00:59:17.720 And that's because in this country, there's a powerful movement against gender ideology 0.98

00:59:23.540 that has been gaining ground every day for the past couple of years.

00:59:27.580 And Mulvaney calls us all hateful.

00:59:30.000 And, you know, I said a moment ago that we should swap the word sane for hateful.

00:59:36.240 And because that's really what he's talking about.

00:59:39.200 And that's true.

00:59:40.340 You know, when he talks about, when anyone on the LGBT, the trans, the trans activists,

00:59:44.560 you know, when they talk about hateful people, what they're actually referring to is our sane people.

00:59:48.940 And so anytime they use the word hateful, you can just, in your mind, sub in the word sane,

00:59:53.760 and the sentence makes sense.

00:59:55.220 But also I think it's worth saying that we don't need to swap the words out, actually.

01:00:01.620 In fact, you could keep the word hateful in there because hateful works too.

01:00:07.600 We do hate.

01:00:09.840 We do have hatred. 0.99

01:00:11.700 We hate the lies of the trans agenda. 0.99

01:00:14.960 We hate what it does to children. 0.99

01:00:17.280 We hate the grotesque, degrading caricature of womanhood that people like Dylan put on display. 0.99

01:00:22.720 We hate his entitlement and his arrogance. 0.97

01:00:26.920 We hate everything about his worldview and everything he does to promote and spread it like a virus through the culture. 0.99

01:00:34.220 We hate lies. 0.92

01:00:35.940 And we hate lies as much as he hates truth.

01:00:39.960 See, there's nothing wrong with hatred as long as it's directed at things worthy of being hated.

01:00:44.640 Now, the good news for Dylan is that these things that we hate, you know, we hate the things that he's choosing to do.

01:00:54.640 Which means that he can stop doing them at any time.

01:00:57.520 And he won't feel the hate anymore, at least not from us.

01:01:00.520 He can stop appropriating womanhood. 0.64

01:01:02.920 He can stop lying to the world and to himself.

01:01:05.600 He can stop making himself a mascot for a deranged and dangerous ideology.

01:01:09.380 He can stop doing those things and then we'll stop hating what he's doing.

01:01:13.940 In fact, he could have gone up on that podium and he's never done anything heroic in his entire life.

01:01:22.140 But he had a chance for some real, maybe not heroism, but at least a moment of the most bravery he's ever displayed in his entire life.

01:01:29.260 If he had gotten up at the podium and said, listen, I can't accept this award.

01:01:35.040 It wouldn't be fair for me to call myself woman of the year when there are so many real women who deserve that accolade. 0.63

01:01:40.280 I won't take what doesn't belong to me.

01:01:43.160 He could have said that.

01:01:45.500 And the people he considers hateful would have praised him for it.

01:01:49.200 But that would require the kind of humility and honesty that he simply doesn't possess because he chooses not to possess them.

01:01:55.920 And so this sort of hate will continue coming his way, directed at the things that he's doing and saying.

01:02:04.780 And he will deserve all of it.

01:02:07.460 And that is why he is today, once again, cancelled.

01:02:12.280 And that will do it for the show today and this week.

01:02:14.920 Have a great weekend.

01:02:16.240 Talk to you on Monday.

01:02:17.660 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 13, 2023

Ep. 1242 - The Left Accidentally Destroys Its Own Narrative With 'National Coming Out Day'

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