The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1243 - Harvard Pretends To Support Free Speech

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the president of Harvard refuses to punish her pro-Hamas students,

00:00:04.120 claiming that her university believes in free expression. If only that were actually true.

00:00:07.660 It turns out that Harvard's commitment to free speech is extremely selective, to say the least.

00:00:11.920 Also, Ron DeSantis says that the United States should not accept any refugees from Gaza.

00:00:16.520 He's right, of course, and we'll talk about why. Will Smith responds to his wife's latest

00:00:19.900 public humiliation of him. And scientists now claim that junk food is just as addictive as

00:00:24.400 heroin. So if you're a fat glutton, it's not your fault, they claim. We'll talk about all that

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00:01:58.860 You know, no matter what you may think of Harvard University, one thing you can't dispute is how

00:02:02.960 important the institution used to be in previous generations. It was a Harvard faculty member who

00:02:07.840 first popularized the smallpox vaccine in the United States. Harvard researchers developed some

00:02:12.400 of the world's first computers. A Harvard scientist named James Watson famously modeled the DNA double

00:02:17.820 helix. Harvard was an institution that made real world discoveries that changed the lives

00:02:22.400 of millions of people. And when you heard from Harvard professors and administrators,

00:02:27.240 you took them seriously back in those days. They weren't cynical political actors. They were

00:02:32.500 competent and serious. That was the whole point of Harvard. With that history in mind, it was both

00:02:37.600 depressing and a little bit surreal to watch this recent video message from Harvard's new president,

00:02:43.620 who's a political scientist named Claudine Gay. And in case you missed it, Gay took over as Harvard's 0.56

00:02:49.640 president this year to much fanfare for the simple reason that she is now the first black president of

00:02:54.860 the university. It was her skin color and her gender that were the primary qualifications. And nobody really

00:03:00.960 denies that. It's how Harvard admits students these days, and it's how Harvard selects faculty members

00:03:05.580 and administrators as well. In the video, Claudine Gay responds to nationwide outrage that many Harvard 0.81

00:03:11.180 students have just decided to publicly support Hamas in the wake of its terror attack on Israel,

00:03:16.280 which killed more than a thousand people. In the aftermath of that attack, nearly three dozen

00:03:20.820 student groups at Harvard signed on to a statement saying that Israel was, quote, fully responsible for

00:03:26.240 the massacre of its own people. And this was a big problem for Harvard, as you might imagine, because

00:03:31.180 it's completely and utterly psychopathic. And naturally, a lot of people were calling for Harvard to take

00:03:36.240 action in response to what these students were saying. So after hearing all of that, here's how

00:03:41.620 Claudine Gay, the new president of Harvard, responded. Watch.

00:03:46.080 This is a moment of intense pain and grief for a great many people in our community and around the

00:03:53.080 world. I feel that pain and grief myself. As members of a university community, we have a choice.

00:04:00.920 We can fan the flames of division and hatred that are roiling the world. Or we can try to be a force

00:04:10.620 for something different and better. People have asked me where we stand. So let me be clear.

00:04:20.820 Our university rejects terrorism. That includes the barbaric atrocities perpetrated by Hamas. 0.88

00:04:28.120 Our university rejects hate, hate of Jews, hate of Muslims, hate of any group of people based on their

00:04:36.740 faith, their national origin, or any aspect of their identity. Our university rejects the harassment or

00:04:44.540 intimidation of individuals based on their beliefs. And our university embraces a commitment to free

00:04:52.300 expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous.

00:05:02.340 You know, things are going well when you have to put out a statement saying that you reject

00:05:05.520 terrorism. To be clear, this university rejects terrorism, cannibalism, drowning puppies. We're

00:05:12.920 against all of it, to be clear. Now, first of all, and this needs to be said, Claudine Gay sounds

00:05:19.180 indistinguishable there from a random fourth grade teacher in that clip. I mean, if you watch that

00:05:25.180 footage without any context, you'd have to ask yourself, you ask yourself this, could you tell

00:05:30.040 that that was the president of Harvard? I mean, if you still thought that Harvard was a place for smart

00:05:35.180 people, would you be able to tell that that was the president of Harvard? Probably not.

00:05:39.060 And to prove that point, Helen Andrews at the American Conservative went back and looked at

00:05:43.840 speeches from the president of Harvard from 50 years ago. And Andrews found that Harvard presidents,

00:05:48.980 maybe not surprisingly, used to sound a lot different from Claudine Gay. You could tell that

00:05:53.920 they were the presidents of the leading university in the country just by listening to them. Now you'd

00:05:59.040 have no idea. Claudine Gay sounds like a random middle manager somewhere, like a substitute teacher 1.00

00:06:04.060 at some middle school. She sounds like she should be running the HR department at some 1.00

00:06:08.660 moderately sized company. There's nothing special about what she's saying. It's not intelligent

00:06:13.180 or insightful. It's not especially eloquent or wise. And insofar as Claudine Gay said anything

00:06:19.540 at all, here's the crux of it. She said, quote, our university embraces a commission to a free

00:06:25.280 expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even

00:06:30.540 outrageous. Now, if you take that at face value, it's a reasonable sentiment. Speech on college

00:06:37.820 campuses shouldn't be suppressed or punished, even if it's gratuitously wrong. That's understandable

00:06:43.400 enough. I mostly agree with it. It's why we have universities, allegedly. One of the reasons,

00:06:48.220 I mean, the free exchange of ideas is supposed to be a big part of the program. As long as you're

00:06:53.420 not threatening anybody with imminent violence, then you should be allowed to say what you think.

00:06:58.840 And universities in this ideal world would be places where young people can experiment with ideas,

00:07:05.580 where they can adopt positions that are perhaps radical, and then try to defend those positions

00:07:10.660 intellectually in open debate. That's one of the ways that you can find out that your ideas are wrong

00:07:15.060 is by having them challenged and trying to defend them. And if you're never in a position where you

00:07:20.080 have to defend your ideas, then you may never discover that you are horrifically wrong about

00:07:25.080 everything that you think. So that's how universities should work. Maybe it's how they once did work.

00:07:32.760 It would be nice if they still work that way, but they don't anymore, and that's the point. So the

00:07:37.440 problem, and it's a very big problem, is that Claudine Gay clearly does not agree with her own

00:07:43.820 statement. Like so many leftists, she's pretending to embrace some kind of universal principle of open

00:07:49.360 expression, even though she's more than willing to renege on those principles when it's convenient

00:07:54.620 for her to do so. She embraces free expression if the expression excuses terrorism, but she certainly

00:08:00.420 doesn't embrace speech that contradicts her preferred narratives about, say, gender ideology or BLM.

00:08:07.400 And we don't have to guess about that, by the way. Consider that it was just a year ago that Harvard

00:08:11.460 told students that if they, quote, misgender a fellow student, meaning if they use the appropriate 0.92

00:08:16.360 pronouns to describe a student's gender, if they use grammatically correct language, then they are

00:08:21.420 potentially guilty of abuse. Every undergraduate at Harvard was told that if they use the wrong,

00:08:26.660 quote, unquote, wrong pronouns for a fellow student, or if they do anything to, quote, lower a person's

00:08:31.600 self-worth, then they're subject to disciplinary proceedings. This is all according to reporting from

00:08:38.100 the Washington Free Beacon. But Claudine Gay never issued any impassioned video message in defense of

00:08:43.580 Harvard students' rights to refer to one another by their actual biological sex. She never affirmed the

00:08:49.980 right of Harvard students to express their belief in things like reality and biology. Instead, she sat

00:08:56.840 idly by, approvingly, nodding her head, as students were told that they'll suffer severe consequences unless

00:09:03.480 they affirm the delusions of their mentally ill classmates. There are many other examples of 0.80

00:09:09.160 Claudine Gay's apparent lack of commitment to freedom of speech. To give just one more example, it was just a few 0.82

00:09:14.700 years ago that Claudine Gay oversaw the destruction of a black Harvard professor named Roland Fryer. Fryer ruffled a lot

00:09:21.160 of feathers at Harvard because of his heterodox findings on race and policing. Specifically, Fryer found that there's no

00:09:28.260 statistical evidence that police use disproportionate lethal force against black suspects. Even though this is everything 1.00

00:09:34.300 we've been told by BLM and the race hustlers, what he found is that it's all bunk. It's not true.

00:09:39.960 Fryer also found that black students who perform well in school are often shunned by their black peers for 0.61

00:09:46.040 being, quote, too white. Now, how did Claudine Gay respond to this? Well, she tried to burn the heretic, 1.00

00:09:53.820 of course. Here's the backstory. Fryer fired a staff assistant who then accused him of sexual misconduct.

00:10:00.420 And Harvard's own investigators found that the staff assistant's claims were mostly bogus and they

00:10:05.520 recommended that Fryer receive some HR training and that's it. But Claudine Gay, who saw Fryer as an

00:10:11.400 existential threat because of his views on things, decided to overrule that recommendation from Harvard's

00:10:18.100 own investigators. She wanted Fryer fired. There's a short documentary on YouTube about this case.

00:10:23.240 Here's a relevant piece of it. Watch.

00:10:25.300 One thing the Harvard investigator found was that Roland Fryer never, never sexually propositioned

00:10:33.980 or made sexual advances on a single woman in his office. Not once.

00:10:40.380 Uh, so that's it?

00:10:43.740 Josh, that is it.

00:10:46.540 Harvard's own investigators determined that Roland's punishment should be

00:10:50.540 some training. Some workplace sensitivity training.

00:10:55.720 Okay.

00:10:56.660 I feel like you're about to tell me something a little bit more.

00:11:00.700 He didn't just get training.

00:11:05.620 They passed their recommendation to a small committee of high-ranking administrators.

00:11:10.160 I was only able to figure out the identity of two members of that committee, okay?

00:11:15.100 One of them is Claudine Gay. 0.53

00:11:17.180 The other one is Larry Bobo.

00:11:18.860 Yeah.

00:11:21.700 Like champagne, silver spoon, liberals.

00:11:26.020 Right, right. People whose careers and reputations were directly threatened by Roland's work.

00:11:32.820 Those are the people that get to determine Roland's punishment.

00:11:37.960 What happens next?

00:11:40.600 Larry Bobo came in and he read out the punishment.

00:11:44.080 It started with, the lab is going to be permanently closed.

00:11:48.220 And I was like, what?

00:11:50.340 And then it goes on to, all of the projects that you've been working on have been halted.

00:11:55.580 So this is free speech on the Harvard campus.

00:12:00.420 Claudine Gay and one of her colleagues correctly identified Friar's research as completely contradictory to their own research.

00:12:06.280 Friar was saying that the police aren't racist.

00:12:08.440 And Claudine Gay was saying that we live in a white supremacist terror state.

00:12:11.680 And lo and behold, Gay has a chance to adjudicate a complaint against Friar.

00:12:15.220 So she decides to throw the book at him in contradiction to what Harvard's investigators had recommended based on their own findings after actually doing the investigation.

00:12:24.560 In fact, she petitions Harvard's president to revoke Friar's tenure so he'd never be allowed to step foot on Harvard's campus ever again.

00:12:31.620 This kind of retaliation, this hostility towards disfavored speech, is the norm at Harvard.

00:12:39.180 It has been the norm for a very long time.

00:12:40.900 According to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or Friar,

00:12:45.120 Harvard has a, quote, dismal record of responding to deplatforming attempts, attempts to sanction students, student groups, scholars, and speakers for speech protected under First Amendment standards.

00:12:54.400 Of nine attempts in total over the past five years, seven resulted in sanction.

00:12:58.440 Friar also declared that Harvard had received its, quote, worst score ever in Friar's college free speech rankings, its worst score.

00:13:06.620 Friar specifically notes that, quote, from 2019 to this year, Harvard sanctioned four scholars, three of whom it terminated.

00:13:12.620 In 2020, Harvard revoked conservative student activist Kyle Kashuv's acceptance over comments he made on social media as a 16-year-old, for which he had since apologized.

00:13:21.120 In 2022, Harvard disinvited feminist philosopher Devin Buckley from an English department colloquium on campus over her views on gender and trans issues.

00:13:32.960 Friar's report goes on to explain that, according to survey results, many Harvard students self-censor their political views.

00:13:39.420 They're also subject to hostility if they espouse pro-life views on campus, etc.

00:13:43.800 So it's everything you'd expect.

00:13:45.740 At Harvard, you're allowed to say that men can instantly transform into women or anything along those lines. 0.94

00:13:52.060 But don't you dare suggest that the police aren't hunting down black men and murdering them in cold blood. 0.89

00:13:58.600 That crosses a line.

00:14:00.480 That's because at Harvard and many other so-called elite universities, the only sort of speech they have a problem with is true speech.

00:14:08.140 The war on free speech on campus is a war on truth.

00:14:11.480 Harvard and Claudine Gay simply cannot tolerate the truth, which is much worse than simply not tolerating opposing ideas.

00:14:21.220 What makes the situation on American campuses so dire is not just that speech is suppressed, but it is specifically the type of speech they suppress.

00:14:32.040 True speech.

00:14:32.800 If you're going to suppress any speech, and I'm not saying you should, but if you do, it should be false speech, untrue speech, delusional and crazy, and morally deranged speech.

00:14:45.460 But Harvard, along with many other college campuses, most college campuses, goes the other way.

00:14:50.920 Untrue speech is welcomed.

00:14:52.880 True speech is not.

00:14:53.940 Now, I'm happy to be wrong about all this.

00:14:57.680 I'd love nothing more than to be proven incorrect on this point as it pertains to Harvard.

00:15:02.700 I've already announced that I'd love to come to Harvard and give a talk so that Harvard can really have a chance to prove its free speech bona fides.

00:15:10.980 This is the generous offer I made on Twitter the other day, and I mean it.

00:15:14.240 What better way for Claudine Gay and Harvard leadership to demonstrate their support for diverse viewpoints than to host somebody like me on their campus?

00:15:24.260 And I'd be happy to.

00:15:25.280 I'd be happy to show up.

00:15:26.740 I'll clear my schedule.

00:15:28.440 I'm sure many of my colleagues would as well.

00:15:30.300 Would Ben Shapiro be welcomed at Harvard right now to give the alternative viewpoint to those pro-Hamas student groups?

00:15:37.620 Maybe we could do a whole Daily Wire symposium right on campus.

00:15:42.320 Just a suggestion.

00:15:44.240 If Harvard and Claudine Gay are serious about their commitment to freedom of speech, no matter how odious they think that speech may be, then this should be a no-brainer.

00:15:53.620 I haven't heard back from Harvard since my tweet a few days ago announcing my interest in speaking on campus, so right now I'll ask student groups directly.

00:15:59.680 If you'd like to host me on campus, just say so.

00:16:01.700 I'm ready and willing to show up.

00:16:03.780 And unlike Claudine Gay, my commitment to free speech and debate isn't conditional or opportunistic.

00:16:08.960 You invite me, I show up.

00:16:10.460 It's that simple.

00:16:10.960 And if Harvard students and faculty can defeat me in open debate, then I'll have no problem with that.

00:16:17.340 That's the way it goes.

00:16:19.160 I'm happy with the whole world seeing whatever transpires.

00:16:21.720 I didn't graduate from Harvard or any college like it or any college at all, and yet despite all of that, I will show up.

00:16:28.720 I am nothing more than a high school graduate who is willing to openly debate Ivy League students and faculty live on camera.

00:16:37.240 How could they do anything but jump at that opportunity?

00:16:41.000 I'm not afraid.

00:16:44.200 So I have this simple question for Claudine Gay and all the administrators and student leaders at Harvard.

00:16:48.980 What exactly are you afraid of?

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00:17:41.520 Ron DeSantis appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday where he was questioned over his stance on refugees,

00:17:47.520 specifically his stance that the United States should not take in any refugees from the current Middle East crisis.

00:17:54.560 Let's watch a little bit of that exchange.

00:17:57.760 The 2 million people who live in Gaza, half of them are under the age of 18.

00:18:04.060 Let's take a listen to something you said yesterday.

00:18:07.740 We cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees. 1.00

00:18:13.020 I am not going to do that.

00:18:14.200 If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic. 0.99

00:18:22.820 I'm sure you know all Arabs are Semites, but how can you paint with such a broad brush to say 2.3 million people are anti-Semitic?

00:18:34.620 Well, first of all, my position is very clear.

00:18:39.180 Those Gaza refugees, Palestinian Arabs, should go to Arab countries. 1.00

00:18:43.420 The U.S. should not be absorbing any of those.

00:18:46.880 I think the culture, so they elected Hamas. 0.89

00:18:49.380 Let's just be clear about that.

00:18:50.780 Not everyone is a member of Hamas.

00:18:52.300 Most probably aren't.

00:18:53.860 But they did elect Hamas.

00:18:55.080 In 2006, and then the military occupation happened after that, where they went in and haven't allowed elections since 2007.

00:19:03.480 So in 2006, there was an election.

00:19:04.980 I know, but there was a lot of celebrating of those attacks in the Gaza Strip by a lot of those folks who were not Hamas.

00:19:12.760 But if you look at their education system, this has been an issue for a long time.

00:19:16.120 They teach kids to hate Jews. 1.00

00:19:19.720 The textbooks do not have Israel even on the map. 0.95

00:19:23.480 They prepare very young kids to commit terrorist attacks.

00:19:27.320 So I think it's a toxic culture.

00:19:29.520 And I think if we were to import large numbers of those to the United States, I think it would increase anti-Semitism in this country.

00:19:35.960 And I think it would increase anti-Americanism in this country.

00:19:38.520 And that's something, after seeing those demonstrations pop up in our country, just with blood still flowing amongst Israeli citizens over the weekend,

00:19:48.360 you had people taking to the streets cheering on the barbarism of Hamas in our own country.

00:19:54.200 That was a chilling thing to see.

00:19:57.020 And I don't think that that's something that we should ever think is acceptable.

00:20:00.820 No, but no one's talking about getting Gazan refugees here right now.

00:20:04.400 They can't even get out of Gaza at the moment. 0.99

00:20:06.960 Well, people have mentioned it.

00:20:08.120 I think some of the far left have said this is something that we should do.

00:20:11.420 The U.S. has done similar things in the past.

00:20:14.580 And so I just put my stake in the ground.

00:20:16.960 That's where we're going to be.

00:20:19.060 I love that bit at the end there.

00:20:20.980 Well, the whole thing, but especially, well, no one's talking about this anyway.

00:20:23.940 What do you mean?

00:20:24.160 You're talking about it.

00:20:25.040 You just brought it up.

00:20:27.000 Okay, Governor, let's talk about bringing refugees in.

00:20:29.660 Then he gives his response.

00:20:30.600 Well, no one's talking about bringing refugees in.

00:20:33.020 Except for me right now, bringing up this subject to you in the middle of an interview on national television.

00:20:39.120 You also have to love the anchor there taking issue with Ron DeSantis painting with a broad brush, quote unquote, and saying that he shouldn't be accusing wide swaths of people of being bigots.

00:20:49.800 Because, of course, if he had said that exact same thing about Trump voters or conservatives, CBS would have no issue with it.

00:20:58.660 In fact, they'd make him a paid contributor to the network if he had done that.

00:21:02.440 So they are very selective in the broad brushes that they want people to use.

00:21:07.240 And really, it's kind of like on college campuses, the only kind of speech that isn't welcome is true speech.

00:21:12.380 In this case, the only kind of broad brushes that are allowed are the ones that are not accurate.

00:21:17.680 That's basically the rule.

00:21:18.720 Well, as to DeSantis' position on this, he's obviously 100% correct.

00:21:23.340 He's correct on every part of it.

00:21:25.220 And to begin with, as he points out, there's no reason.

00:21:28.820 And really, we shouldn't have to go beyond this point, which is that Arab countries are right there, right next door.

00:21:37.120 They're all around.

00:21:37.880 So why would they not take the refugees in? 0.98

00:21:42.600 Why would you put the refugees on a plane and fly over that entire region to bring them here? 1.00

00:21:48.980 It doesn't make any sense.

00:21:50.740 And you would think that the refugees themselves and the Middle Eastern countries themselves would prefer that.

00:21:56.480 They prefer for these refugees to stay in the Middle East. 1.00

00:22:01.560 They're much more likely in the Middle East to find a culture and community similar to the one that they had at home.

00:22:07.880 You know, you're not going to find that here.

00:22:10.920 Even if you go to Dearborn or something, where there's a heavy Muslim population, that's still a city in the middle of an American state. 0.99

00:22:19.500 So if you really want them to be able to remain in their own culture, then they would stay in the Middle East. 1.00

00:22:30.820 And by the way, I'm not saying this like sarcastically or facetiously.

00:22:35.360 It's totally sincere.

00:22:36.480 I really do believe it's better for the refugees themselves if they are given safe harbor in a country that has a culture that is much more familiar to them, which shouldn't even be controversial.

00:22:46.860 It's not a bigoted statement.

00:22:48.880 I would say the same thing in reverse.

00:22:50.600 Okay, if there was a refugee crisis in France, for example.

00:22:53.400 I mean, there is one in France.

00:22:54.700 But I mean, if it was going the other way, there was a bunch of French people who had to flee their homes.

00:22:59.160 Then I would say that other European countries should absorb them. 0.95

00:23:02.700 It would be crazy to send them to, I don't know, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or whatever.

00:23:08.660 The goal for refugee settlements should be a place with a culture that they can easily assimilate into.

00:23:14.820 And again, this should not be controversial.

00:23:17.080 It's best for the refugees themselves and it's best for the nation that takes them in. 1.00

00:23:20.520 And so it's a win-win as far as like, it's as much of a win-win as you can possibly have in a situation where there are refugees in the first place. 1.00

00:23:28.520 Also, he's correct, obviously, that a great number of refugees from Gaza probably aren't going to like Jews very much. 0.98

00:23:35.540 And that is not a broad brush.

00:23:37.660 Or if it is, it's an accurate one.

00:23:40.160 But that's also not the only issue here.

00:23:43.420 And it's not the only point that DeSantis made.

00:23:45.360 They just cut the clip off right at that, you could tell he was listing, he was saying they're anti-Semitic.

00:23:50.540 And like, there's more to it, but they cut off right there.

00:23:54.340 Because the bigger problem is that a great number of refugees from Gaza are not going to be big fans of the United States and our culture. 0.98

00:24:04.780 Now, I don't know if anybody has ever conducted a survey in Gaza to measure the pro-America sentiment there.

00:24:10.820 But I think we can assume that it's probably rather low.

00:24:16.900 If you were to go to Gaza and ask people, you know, list like your top five favorite countries on the map right now.

00:24:28.760 I don't think America is going to make it onto very many lists in that part of the world.

00:24:34.880 And, you know, it doesn't even matter the reason for them being anti-American.

00:24:42.060 Justified or unjustified, that's irrelevant.

00:24:45.820 The point is that it's suicidal to bring in a flood of people who come from a very different culture 1.00

00:24:50.920 and actively hate the country that they are settling in.

00:24:55.620 That's not going to be the case for all of them, obviously.

00:25:00.740 You might find a few really pro-American people in there, potentially.

00:25:04.880 But it's the case for a large percentage.

00:25:09.160 So, that's it.

00:25:11.120 It should not, there's no reason why anybody should be looking at us and say,

00:25:15.440 why aren't you bringing in these refugees?

00:25:17.020 What do you mean, why aren't we?

00:25:18.760 Of all the countries in the world, why would we be doing it?

00:25:22.700 It doesn't make any sense.

00:25:25.720 There are dozens and dozens of countries that you should be making that demand of before you even get to us.

00:25:31.940 You should never get to us, actually.

00:25:35.920 Because the onus should fall in all those other countries.

00:25:41.800 And if those countries refuse, and then these refugees have no place to go,

00:25:48.520 where does the moral blame and fault lie?

00:25:54.060 Not with us.

00:25:57.380 Because it's not our responsibility.

00:26:00.000 It doesn't make sense for us.

00:26:01.920 And it's not just not our responsibility, but in fact, our responsibility,

00:26:06.940 the responsibilities of the people who lead our country is supposed to be

00:26:09.880 to protect and preserve American lives first.

00:26:15.060 And you are not doing that by bringing in a flood of refugees 1.00

00:26:17.720 when a large percentage of them are hostile to the country that they're assimilating into.

00:26:23.440 Not everyone agrees with this, though.

00:26:27.220 Of course, the New York Post has this report.

00:26:28.760 Experts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas.

00:26:33.480 And socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them.

00:26:37.400 Representative Jamal Bowman,

00:26:39.440 who was most recently seen pulling a fire alarm in the House Cannon office building earlier this month,

00:26:44.720 said 50% of the population in Gaza are children.

00:26:46.900 The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine

00:26:50.700 while being very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas.

00:26:57.200 How does that work exactly?

00:26:58.440 How do you vet bringing in thousands of refugees?

00:27:01.620 How are you vetting them, Jamal?

00:27:05.800 That's the kind of thing that he knows he has to say.

00:27:08.420 Well, we'll vet them.

00:27:10.020 Really?

00:27:10.980 How?

00:27:13.500 What, are you going to ask them?

00:27:16.600 Well, once they get here,

00:27:17.700 hey, by the way, do you hate America?

00:27:19.360 Are you planning any terrorist attacks?

00:27:22.280 Nope, not at all.

00:27:23.580 Oh, well, okay then.

00:27:24.680 You see, we vetted them.

00:27:27.460 And what, are you going to vet the, what about the children?

00:27:30.000 Do they get vetted?

00:27:31.780 Now, if you've got a 16-year-old male, let's say, from Gaza,

00:27:35.120 who really hates America,

00:27:38.060 is that part of the vetting process?

00:27:41.380 And I just love it anyway when the leftists use this.

00:27:43.980 But think of the children line.

00:27:45.360 American children aren't even welcomed in this country, okay? 0.70

00:27:50.740 We kill hundreds of thousands of American children 0.95

00:27:54.560 before they're even born,

00:27:55.920 before they have a chance to become legal, recognized citizens.

00:28:02.040 Those are some children that could use protecting

00:28:04.180 before we worry about the children all over the rest of the globe.

00:28:07.080 But, of course, those children are killed

00:28:09.980 with the full support and approval of Jamal Bowman

00:28:12.160 and every other Democrat.

00:28:15.100 So, and even aside from that,

00:28:16.820 we see how Jamal Bowman makes no attempt

00:28:20.340 to deal with any of the objections that people raise.

00:28:25.060 And he especially doesn't explain

00:28:26.880 why we would be taking in these refugees 1.00

00:28:29.160 when there are all these other Arab countries 1.00

00:28:31.280 where the refugees would certainly be a better fit.

00:28:35.680 All right, Post Millennial has this report.

00:28:38.820 A federal court struck down a lawsuit

00:28:40.460 backed by the Biden administration

00:28:41.640 which claimed Georgia's new election integrity laws

00:28:44.020 are discriminatory towards black voters.

00:28:48.800 Judge J.P. Bully issued the ruling

00:28:52.320 for the U.S. District Court

00:28:53.460 for the Northern District of Georgia on Wednesday.

00:28:55.340 According to the Federalist,

00:28:56.640 Judge Bully said that the Biden administration,

00:29:00.420 other Democratic groups,

00:29:01.320 failed to show substantial likelihood of success

00:29:03.420 on the merits as to their claims

00:29:05.260 that the provisions intentionally discriminate

00:29:06.820 against black voters 0.96

00:29:07.720 in violation of the 14th Amendment,

00:29:09.260 15th Amendment,

00:29:10.380 and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

00:29:13.580 In other words,

00:29:14.220 the Democrat Party claims

00:29:15.140 that election integrity laws are racist

00:29:16.920 have been found to hold no merits.

00:29:20.400 Let's see.

00:29:21.680 There's one other part of this

00:29:22.720 that I thought was really important

00:29:23.560 I want to find.

00:29:24.300 Okay, he also wrote in his opinion this.

00:29:27.580 However, Judge Bully struck down claims

00:29:29.440 and argued that the plaintiffs presented

00:29:30.860 no evidence that black registered voters

00:29:32.540 failed to have the other acceptable forms

00:29:34.600 of identification allowed by the statute

00:29:36.180 at a statistically higher rate

00:29:37.640 than white voters.

00:29:39.240 He wrote, quote,

00:29:40.340 these other forms of identification

00:29:41.460 include utility bills,

00:29:42.880 bank statements,

00:29:43.860 paychecks,

00:29:44.400 and other government documents

00:29:45.480 that include a name and an address.

00:29:47.480 Ultimately,

00:29:47.980 without this additional evidence,

00:29:49.340 the court cannot find at this time

00:29:50.720 that the identification provision

00:29:52.120 has a disparate impact on black voters.

00:29:55.380 Now, it's great, obviously,

00:29:57.580 that the law was struck down,

00:29:58.900 that the lawsuit, rather,

00:30:00.100 that the lawsuit was struck down.

00:30:02.300 And the judge brings up a point here

00:30:05.600 that I have rarely heard proponents

00:30:07.920 of voter ID laws mentioned,

00:30:10.520 including myself.

00:30:11.300 I don't think that I've ever made this point either,

00:30:14.160 as obvious as it is.

00:30:17.740 I think we tend to overlook it

00:30:19.360 because the left says that it's racist

00:30:20.960 to require people to have IDs,

00:30:22.980 like driver's licenses,

00:30:24.600 because for some reason,

00:30:25.820 they claim black Americans in particular

00:30:28.280 are unlikely to have IDs

00:30:29.940 and are somehow unable to obtain them.

00:30:31.720 Which, by the way,

00:30:33.480 even if that happened to be true,

00:30:35.800 which it isn't,

00:30:37.400 because there's nothing preventing someone,

00:30:39.080 a black person,

00:30:40.040 from getting a driver's license. 0.55

00:30:41.940 But even if it was true

00:30:43.060 that somehow the driver's license requirement

00:30:46.720 had a, quote,

00:30:47.540 disparate impact on the black community, 0.97

00:30:49.640 that would not prove

00:30:51.860 that we shouldn't have the requirement.

00:30:56.120 All that would prove in that case

00:30:57.740 is that there's something going on

00:30:58.960 in the black community 0.62

00:30:59.720 where so many people have trouble

00:31:02.860 doing such a,

00:31:03.780 completing such a basic task.

00:31:06.280 And so there's a problem there.

00:31:10.380 So, either way,

00:31:12.900 the argument doesn't work.

00:31:14.420 But we spent a lot of time

00:31:15.400 knocking down this claim

00:31:16.660 as it pertains specifically

00:31:17.740 to driver's licenses

00:31:18.700 that we forget

00:31:22.260 this whole other point.

00:31:24.840 As this judge points out,

00:31:26.480 that there are other forms of ID

00:31:28.500 that you can use

00:31:29.620 if you don't have a driver's license.

00:31:32.540 Yes, anybody can go to a DMV.

00:31:34.680 Anyone can get a driver's license.

00:31:36.780 If you can't,

00:31:37.760 if you somehow, as an adult,

00:31:39.620 have been unable for years

00:31:41.400 to obtain a driver's license,

00:31:42.420 because that shows 0.98

00:31:43.940 that you are grossly incompetent 0.99

00:31:46.900 and not fit to vote regardless, 0.99

00:31:49.840 no matter what your race is.

00:31:51.800 But it's worse than that

00:31:53.920 because the statute

00:31:56.260 allows for other forms of ID.

00:31:58.360 It actually does not require

00:31:59.460 that you have a driver's license

00:32:00.820 specifically.

00:32:02.020 It's a utility bill,

00:32:03.740 bank statement,

00:32:05.160 paycheck.

00:32:07.520 But are we saying

00:32:08.280 that black people 0.60

00:32:08.900 don't have any of those either? 0.89

00:32:10.580 I mean, this is apparently

00:32:12.860 the claim that the left is making.

00:32:16.080 So black people, 0.98

00:32:17.760 according to the left, 0.96

00:32:18.420 don't have driver's licenses

00:32:19.640 for some reason.

00:32:22.080 And they don't have utility bills

00:32:24.100 and they don't have paychecks

00:32:26.060 and they don't have bank statements.

00:32:27.600 So they just have nothing at all.

00:32:31.120 Because apparently,

00:32:32.220 according to the left, 0.99

00:32:33.040 black people can't drive. 1.00

00:32:34.580 They don't have jobs. 1.00

00:32:36.640 They don't pay their utility bills.

00:32:38.860 And they don't have bank accounts.

00:32:42.500 Which, how are you even...

00:32:46.320 You cannot function

00:32:48.160 as an adult in this country

00:32:50.720 if you don't have any of those things.

00:32:53.260 No bank account,

00:32:54.500 no driver's license.

00:32:58.420 What, do you not have...

00:33:00.220 You don't have utility?

00:33:02.240 You don't have electricity

00:33:03.340 wherever you live?

00:33:04.160 So, the picture that's being painted 0.55

00:33:07.700 is one of black Americans 0.91

00:33:09.520 who are just totally helpless 1.00

00:33:11.000 and incompetent in every way, 0.95

00:33:13.620 according to the left. 1.00

00:33:15.460 Which is ridiculous, obviously. 0.96

00:33:18.600 It's all completely fake. 0.85

00:33:22.160 And anyway,

00:33:23.620 if there is anyone out there

00:33:25.860 who doesn't...

00:33:28.400 Again, it doesn't matter

00:33:29.000 what their race is.

00:33:29.760 If there's anyone out there

00:33:31.420 who doesn't have an ID,

00:33:33.380 doesn't have a bank account,

00:33:35.180 doesn't have a paycheck,

00:33:37.340 doesn't have a utility bill,

00:33:39.200 that is 100% someone

00:33:41.460 who we don't want voting anyway.

00:33:44.060 So, there's no problem here.

00:33:45.520 If you're saying,

00:33:46.500 well, yeah, if we have these...

00:33:47.320 But what about the people

00:33:48.220 who are unable to get

00:33:49.560 any of those things at all?

00:33:52.440 They can't pass a driver's exam.

00:33:54.760 They can't get any kind of job at all.

00:33:56.940 They can't even get a job at Burger King.

00:34:00.160 They can't figure out

00:34:01.060 how to open a bank account.

00:34:03.180 Well, how do we include them

00:34:04.360 in the voting process?

00:34:05.160 How do we make sure

00:34:05.700 that their voice is heard

00:34:07.820 on election day?

00:34:10.780 Well, my answer is,

00:34:12.040 no, we don't want their voice heard,

00:34:15.060 actually.

00:34:16.360 That is a group of people

00:34:18.240 who we do not want their voices

00:34:20.460 on election day.

00:34:22.760 These are...

00:34:23.780 What you will be talking about,

00:34:25.520 regardless of race,

00:34:26.620 you'll be talking about 0.95

00:34:27.340 the most incompetent 0.97

00:34:28.660 and clueless people 0.99

00:34:30.100 conceivable.

00:34:35.040 And if the only effect

00:34:39.040 of these kinds of laws

00:34:40.720 is that it filters out

00:34:43.740 those sorts of people

00:34:44.620 and prevents them from voting,

00:34:46.300 then I would say

00:34:47.040 that's a reason enough

00:34:47.840 to have the law in place.

00:34:50.140 I mean, really,

00:34:50.640 this is about voter...

00:34:52.620 This is about election integrity.

00:34:54.500 This is about avoiding voter fraud

00:34:58.040 and that sort of thing.

00:34:59.980 And I think that it will

00:35:00.900 be relatively successful

00:35:03.180 in that regard.

00:35:04.280 But even if it totally fails somehow

00:35:06.720 in ensuring election integrity

00:35:09.220 and getting rid of voter fraud,

00:35:12.740 even if it failed in that regard,

00:35:14.840 still having the law in place

00:35:16.720 is a good thing.

00:35:17.260 If it prevents just 0.99

00:35:19.760 even like the 10 dumbest people 0.99

00:35:21.860 and most incompetent people 0.99

00:35:23.400 from being able to vote,

00:35:25.260 then that's good.

00:35:26.480 That's a win,

00:35:27.580 I would say.

00:35:29.640 And in fact,

00:35:30.400 that is...

00:35:30.900 That in and of itself

00:35:32.340 is a win for election integrity.

00:35:34.840 Because as I've always argued,

00:35:37.100 when we talk about election integrity,

00:35:38.520 it's not just voter fraud

00:35:41.060 that we should be worried about.

00:35:41.940 Yes, that's a big part of it.

00:35:44.340 But there's also a problem

00:35:47.600 with a lack of election integrity 1.00

00:35:50.300 when you've got abject imbeciles, 1.00

00:35:57.460 incompetent imbeciles, 1.00

00:35:58.980 who are just wandering in there 1.00

00:36:01.800 and casting a vote randomly,

00:36:04.700 having no idea about anything.

00:36:07.100 No clue what's going on.

00:36:09.460 I don't even know

00:36:09.840 who the candidates really are,

00:36:10.880 or what they stand for,

00:36:11.740 or anything like that.

00:36:12.460 Don't know anything about our country,

00:36:13.700 about the government,

00:36:14.720 nothing.

00:36:17.080 And having them just sort of

00:36:18.080 randomly cast a vote,

00:36:19.620 like they're casting,

00:36:20.400 like they're,

00:36:20.760 you know,

00:36:22.040 like it's dice.

00:36:24.180 Like they have a blindfold on

00:36:25.960 and they're throwing a dart

00:36:27.080 at the dartboard.

00:36:27.840 I mean,

00:36:28.020 that is an election integrity problem.

00:36:30.860 Also,

00:36:32.400 in my mind.

00:36:34.140 All right.

00:36:35.000 We talked last week

00:36:36.180 about Jada Pinkett Smith

00:36:37.520 and her never-ending

00:36:38.560 Will Smith humiliation tour,

00:36:40.040 which has been kicked

00:36:41.080 into a new gear recently

00:36:42.980 with the release

00:36:43.540 of her memoir.

00:36:45.100 And in the memoir,

00:36:47.020 she reveals even more

00:36:49.180 embarrassing things

00:36:49.920 about Will Smith,

00:36:50.680 including the fact

00:36:51.340 that she left him

00:36:52.740 in 2016 after,

00:36:54.620 so she was the one

00:36:55.480 who cheated on him

00:36:56.380 and then the marriage

00:36:58.620 broke up.

00:36:59.620 And it's at least

00:37:00.400 heavily implied

00:37:01.040 that she's the one

00:37:01.580 who broke it up.

00:37:02.080 and so then

00:37:04.460 that leads to the conclusion

00:37:05.860 that Will Smith

00:37:06.520 on the,

00:37:07.080 when he did the infamous

00:37:07.880 slap of Chris Rock,

00:37:09.140 he was doing that

00:37:10.020 in defense of a woman

00:37:10.900 who's not even,

00:37:11.660 who's not even living

00:37:12.620 with him anymore

00:37:13.140 and hadn't been for years,

00:37:14.400 which is even more embarrassing.

00:37:15.860 So she brought that out

00:37:16.760 to embarrass him again.

00:37:17.680 And now we have

00:37:18.860 Will Smith's response

00:37:21.620 to all of this.

00:37:23.380 So the New York Post

00:37:24.460 has this.

00:37:26.100 Will Smith has broken

00:37:26.880 his silence

00:37:27.520 about the bombshells

00:37:28.720 dropped by his estranged wife,

00:37:30.260 Jada Pinkett Smith,

00:37:31.100 about their 25-year marriage.

00:37:33.160 The Men in Black star 55

00:37:34.480 sent the New York Times

00:37:35.420 an email

00:37:35.980 saying the revelations,

00:37:37.900 quote,

00:37:38.540 kind of woke him up,

00:37:40.000 adding that Pinkett Smith 52

00:37:41.220 was more,

00:37:42.360 quote,

00:37:42.940 resilient,

00:37:43.700 clever,

00:37:44.040 and compassionate

00:37:44.740 than he'd understood.

00:37:46.980 Quote,

00:37:47.480 when you've been with someone

00:37:48.680 for more than half of your life,

00:37:50.540 a sort of emotional blindness

00:37:51.920 sets in.

00:37:52.860 Smith wrote,

00:37:53.400 according to the Times article

00:37:54.280 published Saturday,

00:37:55.440 and you can all too easily

00:37:56.840 lose your sensitivity

00:37:58.420 to their hidden nuances

00:38:00.100 and subtle beauties. 0.57

00:38:03.040 That was Will Smith's response.

00:38:05.860 So after being publicly humiliated

00:38:08.720 again by his apparently

00:38:11.060 estranged wife,

00:38:12.400 he responds by blaming himself

00:38:14.800 and his emotional blindness.

00:38:18.360 So he's the one

00:38:19.100 who's emotionally blind.

00:38:20.000 She is just ripping him 1.00

00:38:22.900 to shreds in public

00:38:23.720 constantly.

00:38:25.280 No concern for his own emotions.

00:38:28.060 She's the one

00:38:28.500 who brings him on camera

00:38:29.600 to talk about her affair

00:38:31.280 while he sits there,

00:38:32.540 clearly like on the verge

00:38:33.760 of tears.

00:38:34.360 It's an utterly broken man.

00:38:37.060 And she doesn't notice

00:38:38.100 or doesn't care,

00:38:38.960 or both.

00:38:41.100 And yet,

00:38:41.840 Will Smith says that

00:38:42.480 he's the one

00:38:43.020 who is emotionally blind.

00:38:44.340 And then he extols

00:38:46.460 Jada's hidden nuances

00:38:48.060 and subtle beauties. 0.57

00:38:50.780 And it's true,

00:38:51.880 by the way,

00:38:52.320 I don't deny

00:38:52.980 that if Jada Pinkett Smith

00:38:54.280 has any beauty,

00:38:55.580 it is very subtle.

00:38:57.720 Very, very subtle.

00:38:59.060 If there's beauty there,

00:39:00.140 it is extremely,

00:39:02.240 it's so subtle

00:39:02.780 that it's invisible.

00:39:03.880 It's so subtle

00:39:04.300 that it doesn't exist,

00:39:05.680 that nobody can find it.

00:39:07.140 But this is how he responds.

00:39:08.300 It's why,

00:39:10.520 to my point last week

00:39:12.220 about this,

00:39:12.720 it's why Will Smith

00:39:13.800 is not a victim.

00:39:16.820 And I think that's

00:39:17.280 an important point

00:39:17.880 because it seems like

00:39:19.200 the public is mostly

00:39:20.400 against Jada Pinkett Smith. 0.99

00:39:23.420 Maybe surprisingly enough,

00:39:25.080 this is,

00:39:26.240 based on what I've seen,

00:39:28.920 this may be

00:39:30.100 the only bipartisan issue

00:39:32.720 left in America.

00:39:34.220 This might be

00:39:34.680 the only thing left

00:39:36.320 that everybody agrees on.

00:39:38.300 On all sides of,

00:39:40.620 every side of the,

00:39:43.360 of our fractured culture.

00:39:45.980 Everyone seems to agree

00:39:47.140 that Jada Pinkett Smith 0.99

00:39:48.220 is an awful witch. 1.00

00:39:51.680 So, you know, 0.99

00:39:52.640 in a weird way,

00:39:53.640 she's like bringing

00:39:54.740 the country together

00:39:55.640 so that everyone

00:39:57.500 can just hate her.

00:39:58.620 So that's kind of a service

00:39:59.860 that she's providing.

00:40:00.740 Maybe we should thank her for it.

00:40:02.100 Maybe that's the hidden nuance

00:40:03.340 and subtle beauty

00:40:04.140 that Will Smith

00:40:04.700 was talking about.

00:40:06.080 But,

00:40:07.140 and far be it from me

00:40:08.140 to,

00:40:09.060 you know,

00:40:10.740 try to,

00:40:12.900 when we have this kind of unity,

00:40:14.660 I would like to join in,

00:40:15.920 but I would like to say

00:40:16.940 that I think

00:40:18.660 sometimes it goes too far

00:40:20.180 on the other end

00:40:21.240 where people talk about

00:40:22.340 Will Smith

00:40:22.700 like as some sort of

00:40:24.000 helpless victim

00:40:25.580 who's in this

00:40:27.320 abusive marriage.

00:40:29.480 But what we see

00:40:30.280 is that he's not a victim

00:40:31.100 at all, really.

00:40:31.860 I mean,

00:40:32.940 J.D. Pinkett Smith

00:40:33.440 is an awful witch, 1.00

00:40:34.620 no question about it, 0.98

00:40:35.960 but Will Smith

00:40:36.540 is a willing participant

00:40:37.920 in his own humiliation 0.81

00:40:39.320 and degradation.

00:40:41.160 And,

00:40:41.660 uh,

00:40:42.080 I do hold him

00:40:43.200 responsible for that.

00:40:45.380 And now he's encouraging

00:40:46.740 his estranged wife

00:40:47.720 to embarrass him

00:40:49.480 even more

00:40:50.060 and respect him

00:40:51.860 even less

00:40:52.560 by responding

00:40:54.800 in a way

00:40:55.240 that is not respectable.

00:40:56.280 So J.D. Pinkett Smith

00:40:59.320 is going to see his response

00:41:00.340 and just despise him

00:41:01.740 even more

00:41:02.420 and have even less

00:41:04.120 respect for him,

00:41:04.840 which is not a defense

00:41:05.760 of her,

00:41:07.520 but,

00:41:08.600 um,

00:41:10.060 it also just goes to show

00:41:11.980 why Will Smith

00:41:13.340 is not a victim.

00:41:13.960 And this is,

00:41:14.300 this is,

00:41:14.800 like we talked about

00:41:16.500 last week,

00:41:17.020 you know,

00:41:17.160 respect in a marriage

00:41:18.220 is not just important,

00:41:20.700 it's foundational.

00:41:22.640 And especially

00:41:23.540 for the man.

00:41:24.360 The man has to feel

00:41:25.320 respected

00:41:25.780 in a marriage,

00:41:26.640 he has to be respected

00:41:27.560 in his marriage.

00:41:28.540 And if there's no respect

00:41:29.800 in the marriage,

00:41:31.160 then it,

00:41:32.280 then it's a recipe

00:41:34.000 for,

00:41:34.360 for total collapse

00:41:35.280 and disaster.

00:41:37.260 Every bad thing

00:41:38.300 that can happen

00:41:38.740 in a marriage

00:41:39.300 can,

00:41:40.040 will happen

00:41:40.460 from,

00:41:40.960 from that starting point.

00:41:42.540 I mean,

00:41:42.680 that's where you get

00:41:43.240 into infidelity

00:41:43.900 and everything else.

00:41:45.500 Oftentimes it begins there

00:41:46.800 with a,

00:41:47.140 with a lack of respect.

00:41:48.820 But the,

00:41:50.620 there's,

00:41:50.940 there's a calling

00:41:51.560 on both ends here.

00:41:52.900 So the,

00:41:53.600 the wife has called

00:41:55.100 it is her duty

00:41:57.000 and her responsibility

00:41:57.760 to respect her husband

00:41:59.040 and treat her husband

00:41:59.680 with respect.

00:42:00.740 And she has that

00:42:01.580 responsibility regardless.

00:42:03.940 Like there's,

00:42:04.320 it's,

00:42:04.540 it's not okay

00:42:05.440 to disrespect your husband,

00:42:07.940 to treat him

00:42:08.360 with contempt.

00:42:08.940 and you have a responsibility

00:42:11.080 to respect your husband.

00:42:12.000 On the other end,

00:42:12.700 on the other hand,

00:42:13.800 on the other,

00:42:14.160 not on the other hand,

00:42:14.940 but on the other end of it,

00:42:16.460 the husband also has

00:42:18.140 a responsibility

00:42:18.680 to be respectable

00:42:20.000 and to,

00:42:21.900 not just respectable,

00:42:22.960 but to command respect.

00:42:24.780 And there is a difference.

00:42:25.680 I think last week

00:42:26.200 when we talked about this,

00:42:26.980 I said that Will Smith

00:42:27.640 should demand respect

00:42:28.720 in his home

00:42:29.280 or should have,

00:42:30.260 it's probably too late

00:42:31.000 for,

00:42:31.160 they don't even live

00:42:31.560 in the same home anymore.

00:42:32.380 But long ago,

00:42:33.520 he should have demanded

00:42:34.260 respect in his household.

00:42:36.140 And if he had,

00:42:37.280 maybe things would be

00:42:38.160 different now.

00:42:39.860 You know?

00:42:40.720 But I think demand

00:42:41.880 is the wrong word

00:42:43.800 because if you,

00:42:44.500 if you get to the point

00:42:45.320 where you're demanding,

00:42:46.940 that's already,

00:42:48.140 that,

00:42:48.520 that's a sign of weakness.

00:42:49.780 If you have to demand it,

00:42:51.580 I want to be respected,

00:42:52.920 respect me.

00:42:54.100 Now,

00:42:54.500 if you feel that you need

00:42:55.180 to express that

00:42:56.120 and say it out loud,

00:42:56.880 then you should,

00:42:57.280 but that's already a sign

00:42:58.880 that things are not going well.

00:42:59.880 And it's a sign of,

00:43:01.260 it can be a sign

00:43:01.840 of desperation and weakness

00:43:02.780 on your end.

00:43:04.300 What you should be doing

00:43:05.340 as a man in your home

00:43:06.340 is commanding respect.

00:43:08.720 So you don't have to say it,

00:43:10.880 but you're commanding

00:43:11.580 with your,

00:43:11.900 with your presence

00:43:13.200 in the home

00:43:13.860 and the way you conduct yourself.

00:43:16.740 You command it.

00:43:18.720 And it's clear

00:43:19.460 that Will Smith

00:43:19.900 never did.

00:43:21.540 So no excuse

00:43:22.700 for Jada Pinkett Smith

00:43:23.460 at all.

00:43:24.580 No excuse for Will Smith.

00:43:26.320 This is just

00:43:27.120 one of those situations

00:43:28.120 in so many cases

00:43:28.980 when marriages

00:43:29.580 fall apart like this.

00:43:31.160 You know,

00:43:31.280 sometimes you can point

00:43:31.980 to one person and say,

00:43:32.720 well, that person's clearly

00:43:33.360 the bad guy.

00:43:33.940 It's all their fault.

00:43:34.460 But most of the time

00:43:36.360 you can look at both sides

00:43:39.580 and say,

00:43:40.040 you know,

00:43:40.700 it's obvious

00:43:42.220 what you did wrong here.

00:43:43.400 So I think that's the case here.

00:43:45.180 Let's get to

00:43:46.020 Was Walsh Wrong?

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00:44:55.200 Mr. Big Deal says

00:44:56.380 there's a lot of hate 0.92

00:44:57.100 towards gay people 1.00

00:44:57.860 in this country, 0.89

00:44:58.400 so don't say

00:44:59.040 we aren't oppressed.

00:44:59.980 If you want,

00:45:00.600 I can give you

00:45:01.100 many, many examples.

00:45:03.460 Okay?

00:45:05.300 Where are your examples?

00:45:06.760 Actually,

00:45:07.100 I don't need examples

00:45:07.880 because,

00:45:08.560 and I think this,

00:45:09.660 I'm glad you said this

00:45:10.520 because it does,

00:45:11.660 I think,

00:45:12.500 reveal what a lot

00:45:13.300 of the confusion is here

00:45:14.260 when LGBT people

00:45:16.700 talk about being oppressed.

00:45:18.540 Most of the time

00:45:19.420 they're talking about

00:45:19.940 what they're saying

00:45:21.060 what you're saying,

00:45:21.680 which is that,

00:45:22.640 well,

00:45:22.800 there's hate towards us.

00:45:24.640 Now,

00:45:24.860 I don't think

00:45:25.860 that there is

00:45:26.340 a lot of hate 0.82

00:45:26.880 towards gay people 1.00

00:45:27.760 or the LGBT club 0.64

00:45:29.760 anyway.

00:45:31.700 I don't think

00:45:32.240 that there's,

00:45:33.280 you know,

00:45:33.580 you look at all

00:45:34.160 the different groups

00:45:34.780 in America

00:45:35.240 and the amount

00:45:35.720 of hate directed

00:45:37.080 at them,

00:45:38.000 I think that LGBT

00:45:39.220 is actually pretty far

00:45:40.220 down on that list.

00:45:41.460 And there are groups

00:45:42.160 that get a lot more hate,

00:45:43.860 like, for example,

00:45:44.920 straight white men 0.53

00:45:45.660 than LGBT people do. 1.00

00:45:48.040 But insofar as

00:45:52.120 there is hatred

00:45:52.960 towards gay people, 0.89

00:45:54.100 LGBT people,

00:45:54.680 that is not oppression.

00:45:56.820 Okay?

00:45:56.980 Just having people

00:45:57.620 hate you

00:45:58.100 doesn't mean

00:45:59.140 you're oppressed.

00:46:01.180 Doesn't.

00:46:02.240 Like,

00:46:02.660 someone can hate you,

00:46:03.400 that doesn't mean

00:46:03.660 they're oppressing you,

00:46:04.300 they just,

00:46:04.640 they hate you.

00:46:05.760 I'm not saying it's good,

00:46:06.660 but that's,

00:46:07.540 people feel how they feel.

00:46:09.120 And there are going

00:46:09.620 to be people in life

00:46:10.400 who don't like you.

00:46:12.400 No matter what demographic

00:46:13.440 group you fall into,

00:46:14.580 no matter what your

00:46:15.000 sexuality is,

00:46:16.320 there are going to be

00:46:16.820 people in life

00:46:17.280 who don't like you.

00:46:18.440 There are going to be

00:46:18.840 people who hate you

00:46:19.680 for whatever their

00:46:21.600 reasons are,

00:46:23.040 justified or unjustified.

00:46:25.020 It's just,

00:46:25.640 it's part of being a person

00:46:26.740 living in the world.

00:46:28.380 There's a lot of people

00:46:29.080 who hate me.

00:46:30.700 Okay?

00:46:31.140 I guarantee you.

00:46:33.640 A lot more people

00:46:34.420 hate me than hate you

00:46:35.340 or hate any one 0.99

00:46:36.200 individual LGBT person.

00:46:38.240 A lot of hate out there

00:46:39.220 towards me.

00:46:39.700 Does that make me

00:46:40.360 oppressed

00:46:40.960 just because of the hatred?

00:46:43.380 No.

00:46:43.660 It's just,

00:46:44.540 it,

00:46:45.060 it's unplayed,

00:46:47.060 it's an unpleasant fact

00:46:48.520 and not every

00:46:50.300 unpleasant fact

00:46:52.080 about your life

00:46:52.920 is an example

00:46:53.720 of oppression.

00:46:55.720 Oppression

00:46:56.320 is when people

00:46:57.980 in positions

00:46:58.560 of power

00:46:59.740 are using

00:47:01.320 that power

00:47:02.060 to deprive you

00:47:03.280 of rights

00:47:05.200 or persecute you

00:47:06.520 in some way.

00:47:07.880 That's what oppression

00:47:08.920 is.

00:47:10.600 And that is not

00:47:11.560 happening to LGBT people.

00:47:12.940 It's not.

00:47:13.520 There's no legal

00:47:16.060 systematic

00:47:16.980 oppression

00:47:17.860 going on.

00:47:18.740 Period.

00:47:19.200 None at all

00:47:20.020 anywhere.

00:47:24.980 If there's

00:47:25.860 hatred,

00:47:27.260 then

00:47:27.500 I don't know.

00:47:28.700 You just,

00:47:29.020 you deal with that.

00:47:29.920 Like,

00:47:30.120 just deal with it.

00:47:31.220 Stop whining about it.

00:47:32.800 People don't like me.

00:47:33.740 Okay,

00:47:34.120 that's so they don't.

00:47:35.540 It's your problem.

00:47:36.960 Stop crying.

00:47:38.940 But thanks for the comment.

00:47:40.500 Papasalt says,

00:47:41.300 I know your main thing

00:47:42.060 isn't discussing politicians,

00:47:43.180 but your stated viewpoint

00:47:43.880 is literally exactly

00:47:44.760 what DeSantis has said

00:47:45.700 and done it clearly

00:47:46.440 with a presidential voice.

00:47:49.820 Not to mention

00:47:50.500 he flew planes

00:47:51.240 to Israel

00:47:51.740 to get Americans out. 0.95

00:47:53.720 You know DeSantis

00:47:54.300 is the clear choice.

00:47:56.900 Yeah,

00:47:57.120 I think DeSantis

00:47:57.720 has been good

00:47:58.860 on this issue

00:48:00.720 ever since,

00:48:01.680 you know,

00:48:01.900 over the last week,

00:48:02.920 week and a half.

00:48:04.400 And his response

00:48:06.320 has been,

00:48:07.300 you know,

00:48:07.500 whether it's talking about,

00:48:08.580 we just played

00:48:10.500 the clip of him

00:48:11.100 talking about

00:48:11.600 we don't want

00:48:11.920 to bring refugees here.

00:48:13.440 We don't want

00:48:14.080 to get involved

00:48:14.560 in World War III.

00:48:15.440 I know he said that

00:48:16.180 openly as well.

00:48:19.940 I know that

00:48:20.700 Vivek Ramaswamy

00:48:21.800 has expressed

00:48:22.280 similar things.

00:48:23.560 Trump has.

00:48:25.280 But it is a,

00:48:26.520 it's a very troubling thing

00:48:30.380 that there are

00:48:31.940 so few candidates

00:48:33.500 and even more troubling

00:48:35.380 actual politicians

00:48:36.380 who are running

00:48:37.500 the government right now

00:48:38.360 who have,

00:48:39.560 who have come out

00:48:41.380 and said anything like,

00:48:42.580 hey, you know,

00:48:43.020 our first priority here

00:48:44.140 is preserving

00:48:44.880 and protecting

00:48:45.380 American lives.

00:48:46.380 Our first priority

00:48:47.460 amid all the chaos

00:48:48.880 is to avoid

00:48:50.740 getting America

00:48:51.500 involved in a

00:48:52.380 disastrous

00:48:52.940 overseas conflict.

00:48:54.660 That should be

00:48:55.420 the first thing

00:48:56.100 that every politician

00:48:57.220 in the country

00:48:57.860 feels the need to say

00:48:59.540 even if they don't

00:49:00.240 believe it,

00:49:01.500 even if they don't

00:49:02.120 think it.

00:49:03.480 We should just live

00:49:04.700 in the kind of country

00:49:05.400 where if you're

00:49:05.860 a politician,

00:49:06.560 you know you at least

00:49:07.300 have to say

00:49:08.160 that your first priority

00:49:09.600 is protecting America.

00:49:11.560 But very few

00:49:12.360 have even said it

00:49:13.000 because they don't,

00:49:13.580 they don't think

00:49:13.960 that they need

00:49:15.000 to go so far

00:49:16.280 as to pretend

00:49:17.240 that they believe that.

00:49:19.640 Which is quite troubling.

00:49:21.920 Let's see.

00:49:23.260 Zandra says,

00:49:24.460 Matt,

00:49:24.800 I love watching your show

00:49:26.200 almost every day

00:49:26.720 but I feel like you're wrong

00:49:27.660 on one aspect.

00:49:29.460 Two women 0.96

00:49:30.120 can have children together.

00:49:31.540 My wife had our children

00:49:32.720 and they are

00:49:33.440 her biological children

00:49:34.660 and then I adopted them

00:49:36.100 making my legal children

00:49:37.300 our children.

00:49:38.920 Well,

00:49:39.320 I don't know

00:49:39.600 if you're a man

00:49:40.080 or a woman

00:49:40.600 so you could be,

00:49:42.020 I'm assuming

00:49:42.460 from the context

00:49:42.960 you're saying

00:49:43.300 that you're a woman

00:49:44.140 in a lesbian relationship 0.57

00:49:46.500 but I'm not,

00:49:47.000 I don't know,

00:49:47.360 I don't know that.

00:49:48.640 What I will say

00:49:49.280 is that

00:49:49.680 I can only restate

00:49:51.260 what I've already said.

00:49:52.060 Two women 0.96

00:49:52.620 cannot have children.

00:49:56.060 It's not possible

00:49:57.280 in any respect

00:49:59.300 because a child

00:50:01.080 has a mother

00:50:01.680 and a father.

00:50:02.880 Now,

00:50:03.920 someone who is not

00:50:05.520 a biological mother

00:50:06.620 or biological father

00:50:07.420 can step into that role

00:50:09.340 and be the mother

00:50:10.620 or father

00:50:11.060 and sometimes

00:50:12.980 you could have

00:50:13.620 someone,

00:50:14.880 both mother and father

00:50:15.900 who are not biological parents

00:50:16.960 that can step into that role

00:50:17.940 otherwise known as adoption

00:50:19.020 and they are now

00:50:20.680 the parents

00:50:21.200 and there's no

00:50:22.800 asterisk on it

00:50:24.460 there's nothing

00:50:24.940 like that.

00:50:25.760 They're the parents

00:50:26.500 because they are

00:50:29.540 because the biological parents

00:50:32.300 are unwilling

00:50:33.580 or unable

00:50:34.120 for whatever reason

00:50:34.960 to fulfill that

00:50:36.220 their responsibility

00:50:37.780 and then

00:50:39.540 other parents do

00:50:40.880 and now they are the parents

00:50:41.940 mother and father.

00:50:44.720 But there cannot be two

00:50:46.560 in any sense

00:50:50.440 playing the role

00:50:52.760 of mother

00:50:53.180 or playing the role

00:50:53.800 of father

00:50:54.180 because that doesn't

00:50:56.820 exist.

00:50:58.820 That's not the natural

00:51:00.080 order of things.

00:51:02.880 Every child

00:51:03.620 has a mother

00:51:04.080 and father.

00:51:05.400 Most children

00:51:06.180 hopefully are raised

00:51:07.200 by their biological

00:51:08.060 mother and father.

00:51:09.380 In some cases

00:51:10.160 someone else

00:51:10.920 steps in

00:51:11.620 and it's very good

00:51:13.240 when they do.

00:51:15.660 Okay,

00:51:15.900 but that's because

00:51:16.800 there's a vacancy,

00:51:17.960 right?

00:51:18.400 There's a vacancy.

00:51:19.380 So mother and father,

00:51:20.460 one or both

00:51:21.080 are not present.

00:51:22.020 Someone else

00:51:22.440 can step in

00:51:23.180 to fill that vacancy.

00:51:24.180 Okay,

00:51:25.960 but then if you bring

00:51:26.600 a mother

00:51:28.080 and the biological

00:51:28.660 mother is there

00:51:29.440 and then another

00:51:30.020 woman comes in, 0.98

00:51:31.680 there's no vacancy.

00:51:32.820 There's no open

00:51:33.480 spot that she

00:51:34.140 needs to fill.

00:51:36.000 Okay,

00:51:36.560 because she's not

00:51:37.300 a father,

00:51:37.640 she's not a man,

00:51:38.320 so she cannot be

00:51:38.900 the father,

00:51:39.560 cannot be.

00:51:40.520 There already

00:51:40.940 is a mother

00:51:41.640 and children

00:51:42.760 don't have two

00:51:43.220 mothers.

00:51:44.540 So,

00:51:45.380 that's

00:51:45.960 not just

00:51:47.680 my opinion.

00:51:49.600 This is not

00:51:50.080 ideology speaking.

00:51:51.760 It is,

00:51:52.180 again,

00:51:52.260 the natural

00:51:52.720 order of things.

00:51:54.400 And it simply

00:51:54.860 is how it is.

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00:52:08.540 Now let's get to

00:52:09.100 our daily cancellation.

00:52:09.940 The New York Post

00:52:17.000 this week

00:52:17.400 reports some

00:52:18.060 major breaking news.

00:52:19.400 You are basically 1.00

00:52:20.360 a crackhead. 0.99

00:52:21.380 And so am I, 0.96

00:52:22.100 it would seem. 0.99

00:52:22.620 Everyone is a crackhead. 0.99

00:52:23.760 The world is full of 0.99

00:52:24.520 crackheads, 0.93

00:52:25.000 which on second thought

00:52:25.720 might not come as news

00:52:26.780 at all.

00:52:27.880 Though the reason

00:52:28.640 may be a bit of a surprise.

00:52:30.420 It turns out that

00:52:31.180 if you really enjoy

00:52:32.020 eating potato chips

00:52:33.140 and if you struggle

00:52:34.000 to stick to the

00:52:34.800 serving size

00:52:35.380 and the nutrition label, 0.93

00:52:36.160 then you are an addict. 0.97

00:52:38.080 And of course,

00:52:38.740 everybody struggles

00:52:39.360 with that because

00:52:40.040 frankly the serving sizes

00:52:41.080 are a joke.

00:52:42.280 If you look on the back

00:52:43.020 of your bag of

00:52:43.740 Lay's barbecue chips

00:52:44.800 it will tell you

00:52:45.340 that the suggested

00:52:46.160 serving size is like

00:52:47.240 one chip per person

00:52:48.460 per week.

00:52:49.420 But if you struggle

00:52:50.100 to keep your consumption

00:52:50.940 down to that level,

00:52:52.300 you might as well

00:52:52.920 be shooting up heroin

00:52:53.820 according to

00:52:54.640 the science.

00:52:56.320 The New York Post

00:52:56.740 reports the news

00:52:57.620 with this headline,

00:52:58.600 quote,

00:52:59.120 Ice cream and potato chips

00:53:00.220 are just as addictive

00:53:01.360 as cocaine or heroin.

00:53:04.140 Research.

00:53:06.160 That's according to research.

00:53:07.800 Research says that.

00:53:09.120 Reading on,

00:53:10.200 can't put down

00:53:10.820 that bag of potato chips.

00:53:12.260 Science says it's not you. 0.95

00:53:13.480 It's the junk food.

00:53:14.320 Ultra processed foods

00:53:15.320 or UPFs

00:53:16.080 are just as addictive

00:53:17.240 as nicotine,

00:53:18.580 cocaine or heroin.

00:53:19.840 Experts say

00:53:20.440 and more than

00:53:21.240 one in ten people

00:53:22.040 are hooked.

00:53:23.160 A new analysis

00:53:23.720 of 281 studies

00:53:24.780 across 36 different countries

00:53:25.940 have uncovered

00:53:26.400 that a staggering

00:53:27.040 14% of adults

00:53:28.140 are hooked on UPFs.

00:53:30.620 The finding is shocking

00:53:31.520 given that UPFs

00:53:32.540 think sausage,

00:53:33.940 ice cream,

00:53:34.540 biscuits,

00:53:35.380 soft drinks,

00:53:35.920 sugary cereals

00:53:36.700 have previously been linked

00:53:38.080 to cognitive decline,

00:53:39.120 cancer,

00:53:39.900 psychological distress

00:53:40.660 and even an early death.

00:53:42.080 The analysis was led

00:53:42.920 by University of Michigan

00:53:43.780 professor Ashley Gearhart

00:53:45.100 who previously created

00:53:46.680 the Yale Food Addiction Scale

00:53:48.280 by applying the same criteria

00:53:49.620 that experts use

00:53:50.300 to diagnose substance addiction.

00:53:51.980 The criteria includes

00:53:52.840 uncontrollable

00:53:53.400 and excessive consumption,

00:53:54.500 cravings and continued intake

00:53:55.740 despite potential

00:53:56.480 negative health effects.

00:53:57.860 Quote,

00:53:58.060 the combination

00:53:58.520 of refined carbohydrates

00:53:59.500 and fats

00:54:00.100 often found at UPFs

00:54:01.420 seems to have

00:54:02.020 a supra-additive effect

00:54:04.440 on brain reward systems

00:54:06.300 above either

00:54:07.020 macronutrient alone

00:54:08.140 which may increase

00:54:09.120 the addictive potential

00:54:10.340 of these foods.

00:54:11.200 Gearhart and the study's authors

00:54:12.400 wrote in their new findings

00:54:13.360 published in the BMJ.

00:54:16.080 Well, we're then told

00:54:16.860 that scientists

00:54:17.460 want a cigarette-style

00:54:18.980 warning label

00:54:19.720 on processed food

00:54:20.660 cautioning the poor,

00:54:22.120 addicted,

00:54:22.540 helpless consumer

00:54:23.260 that the ice cream

00:54:24.120 he's buying

00:54:24.600 is unhealthy

00:54:25.680 and won't help him

00:54:26.540 achieve his weight loss goals.

00:54:28.480 This is necessary,

00:54:29.540 they say,

00:54:29.840 because the food

00:54:30.420 is addictive

00:54:30.880 just like heroin

00:54:31.700 and cocaine

00:54:32.480 which is, of course,

00:54:33.840 why our streets

00:54:34.420 are riddled

00:54:34.920 with homeless bums 0.86

00:54:36.480 whose lives

00:54:37.180 have been destroyed

00:54:38.540 because of their

00:54:39.320 junk food addiction.

00:54:41.800 You know the stories.

00:54:42.540 You know,

00:54:42.640 first the guy

00:54:43.100 buys a pack of Oreos

00:54:44.300 and next thing you know

00:54:44.940 he's robbing

00:54:45.500 a Cold Stone Creamery

00:54:46.700 and stealing the ice cream 0.51

00:54:48.460 not the cash.

00:54:49.880 In fact,

00:54:50.260 they even made a movie

00:54:51.020 about a man's plunge

00:54:52.200 into ice cream addiction.

00:54:53.280 It was called

00:54:53.740 Requiem for a Cream

00:54:55.340 which is a joke

00:54:56.860 that I saw on Twitter

00:54:57.560 but I wish I'd thought

00:54:58.420 of myself.

00:54:58.980 Anyway,

00:54:59.340 this is a real issue

00:55:00.200 is the point.

00:55:01.100 That's why

00:55:01.700 junk food withdrawal

00:55:03.020 can be so severe.

00:55:04.340 You know,

00:55:04.500 you go to your pantry,

00:55:05.780 find out that you're

00:55:06.320 out of Pop-Tarts,

00:55:07.340 then you start sweating,

00:55:08.560 you have chills,

00:55:09.320 a fever,

00:55:09.840 you begin vomiting,

00:55:11.620 you're on the ground

00:55:12.400 shaking,

00:55:13.100 having a seizure.

00:55:14.940 Many people have died

00:55:16.020 from Pop-Tart withdrawal.

00:55:17.900 You know,

00:55:18.420 because it's just like

00:55:19.120 being addicted to heroin.

00:55:20.720 Exactly the same.

00:55:22.240 I recently read a story

00:55:23.500 about a woman

00:55:23.980 who turned to prostitution

00:55:25.300 just to feed her

00:55:26.120 Pringle addiction. 0.99

00:55:27.560 Pringle prostitutes 1.00

00:55:28.420 they call them 0.99

00:55:28.880 on the streets.

00:55:29.920 Pringle-toots,

00:55:30.840 in fact,

00:55:31.320 is the word.

00:55:32.620 You can find them

00:55:33.200 on the same street corner

00:55:33.940 as the donut dealers

00:55:35.180 selling black market

00:55:36.380 Krispy Kremes

00:55:37.240 to a bunch of

00:55:38.100 strung out

00:55:38.780 junk food junkies.

00:55:40.520 Again, 0.79

00:55:40.980 this is all very real

00:55:42.100 except for the fact

00:55:43.680 that it's entirely made up.

00:55:45.860 And we've talked before

00:55:46.780 about the modern propensity

00:55:48.100 to avoid personal responsibility

00:55:49.720 and deny free will

00:55:50.620 by turning everything

00:55:51.460 into an addiction.

00:55:52.100 There are many made up

00:55:53.600 addictions these days

00:55:55.120 but none of them

00:55:56.080 are as absurd

00:55:57.480 as food addiction.

00:55:59.500 Okay,

00:56:00.600 I'm just going to tell you

00:56:01.480 right now,

00:56:02.460 food addiction

00:56:02.980 is not a thing.

00:56:04.560 You are not an addict. 0.99

00:56:06.320 You're just a glutton. 0.91

00:56:08.500 And despite what psychologists 0.99

00:56:09.820 who want to medicalize

00:56:10.760 every human vice

00:56:11.660 or virtue might claim,

00:56:13.400 gluttony is not the same thing

00:56:15.100 as addiction.

00:56:16.580 Now,

00:56:17.060 how do they justify

00:56:17.800 inventing this

00:56:18.840 food addiction concept?

00:56:21.000 How do they know

00:56:21.520 that food is addictive?

00:56:22.740 I mean,

00:56:22.900 how do they distinguish

00:56:23.580 someone who eats junk food

00:56:25.560 because it tastes good

00:56:26.480 and they like it

00:56:27.200 from somebody

00:56:28.380 who eats junk food

00:56:29.120 because they have

00:56:29.900 a medical addiction?

00:56:32.080 Well,

00:56:32.260 there seem to be

00:56:32.680 two reasons typically given

00:56:34.140 and the first

00:56:34.660 is the bit about

00:56:35.420 reward systems in the brain.

00:56:37.080 An article in Healthline

00:56:38.020 about food addiction

00:56:38.620 puts it this way,

00:56:39.960 when acting on cravings,

00:56:41.120 the brain gets a reward,

00:56:42.500 a feeling of pleasure

00:56:43.620 associated with

00:56:44.340 the release of dopamine.

00:56:45.600 The reward is what

00:56:46.280 cravings and food addiction

00:56:47.260 are all about.

00:56:48.020 People with food addiction

00:56:48.980 get their fix

00:56:50.080 by eating a particular food

00:56:51.360 until their brain

00:56:52.240 has received all the dopamine

00:56:53.420 it was missing.

00:56:55.080 And this is how

00:56:55.540 it always goes, right?

00:56:56.220 Anytime somebody wants

00:56:57.000 to justify a new,

00:56:58.060 newly invented addiction

00:56:59.780 or mental illness,

00:57:00.940 they talk about

00:57:01.560 brain reward systems

00:57:03.000 and dopamine

00:57:03.720 and so on

00:57:04.460 and they expect us

00:57:05.120 to just accept it

00:57:06.200 because it sounds

00:57:07.340 super science-y.

00:57:08.960 But if we use our minds,

00:57:10.640 we might start

00:57:11.220 to question this logic.

00:57:12.500 And for one thing,

00:57:13.900 your brain

00:57:14.580 is supposed to have

00:57:17.280 a positive chemical response

00:57:19.700 to food.

00:57:21.000 We are wired that way

00:57:22.720 for a reason,

00:57:23.640 mainly so we don't starve

00:57:24.820 to death. 0.75

00:57:26.500 Junk food has lots

00:57:27.720 of fat and sugar,

00:57:28.920 which are things

00:57:29.460 that your body needs

00:57:30.440 and craves.

00:57:32.260 And that's why

00:57:32.760 people like to eat it

00:57:34.340 because that's why

00:57:35.740 your body rewards it.

00:57:36.880 Your brain

00:57:38.000 gives you a pleasurable

00:57:39.760 chemical response

00:57:40.760 to those things

00:57:41.540 because you need

00:57:42.220 those things.

00:57:43.760 Now, it's true

00:57:44.480 that junk food

00:57:45.120 has too much fat

00:57:46.220 and too much sugar

00:57:47.060 and the wrong kinds

00:57:48.120 because they're all

00:57:48.860 processed or ultra-processed

00:57:50.760 apparently,

00:57:51.320 but your brain

00:57:52.260 responds positively

00:57:53.120 to it anyway

00:57:53.640 because it tastes good.

00:57:55.740 The taste is pleasurable

00:57:57.040 and that's why people

00:57:57.900 eat more of it

00:57:58.680 than they should.

00:57:59.700 It's really not

00:58:00.440 any more complicated

00:58:01.380 than that.

00:58:02.960 Okay, we don't need

00:58:03.740 300 studies into it.

00:58:05.840 Why do people

00:58:06.620 like to eat potato chips?

00:58:09.040 I can't understand it.

00:58:10.720 Why do people

00:58:11.980 eat chocolate chip cookies?

00:58:13.740 Why do people

00:58:14.200 like to eat cake?

00:58:15.300 Because it tastes good.

00:58:16.160 That's why they eat it.

00:58:16.880 That's it.

00:58:17.400 That's the only reason.

00:58:18.940 End of discussion.

00:58:21.080 In fact,

00:58:21.960 this is the essential reason

00:58:23.240 why people do

00:58:23.820 every bad or unhealthy

00:58:24.960 thing that people do.

00:58:25.920 They do it because

00:58:26.680 it gives them pleasure.

00:58:27.940 They do it because

00:58:28.660 of the brain's

00:58:29.520 reward systems.

00:58:31.440 That is the fundamental

00:58:32.760 carnal motivation

00:58:33.900 that lies behind

00:58:34.800 literally all bad

00:58:36.400 self-destructive behaviors.

00:58:38.280 So if this is a reason

00:58:39.380 to call junk food

00:58:40.320 an addiction,

00:58:41.740 then all bad behaviors

00:58:43.120 are addictions.

00:58:43.940 Anything that a person does

00:58:45.280 that they know

00:58:46.040 they shouldn't do

00:58:46.720 but they do it anyway

00:58:47.340 because it feels good

00:58:48.100 is now an addiction.

00:58:49.780 So everything from

00:58:50.380 eating a bag of Doritos

00:58:51.560 to procrastinating

00:58:52.540 on a school assignment

00:58:53.400 to calling in sick

00:58:54.580 to work when you're

00:58:55.220 not really sick

00:58:55.860 to robbing a bank

00:58:57.960 or having an affair,

00:58:59.520 all bad things,

00:59:01.300 big and small,

00:59:02.320 all of them are addictions.

00:59:03.600 People do them

00:59:04.280 because they derive

00:59:05.320 some kind of pleasure

00:59:06.380 from doing them.

00:59:07.340 If they didn't derive

00:59:08.200 pleasure from it,

00:59:08.800 they wouldn't do it.

00:59:10.880 They do them

00:59:11.680 because in Healthline's

00:59:12.780 phrasing,

00:59:13.400 they get a feeling

00:59:14.080 of pleasure

00:59:14.620 associated with

00:59:15.340 the release of dopamine.

00:59:17.880 Okay?

00:59:18.180 It's not,

00:59:18.660 people talk about dopamine

00:59:19.680 like it's some sort

00:59:20.200 of magical elixir.

00:59:21.440 Oh, well there's dopamine

00:59:22.240 so that must mean

00:59:22.860 it's some kind of

00:59:23.360 medical thing.

00:59:24.420 No, that's it.

00:59:25.100 It's just you like it.

00:59:26.040 That's all it means.

00:59:28.700 If this is reason enough

00:59:29.860 to justify classifying food

00:59:31.420 as an addiction,

00:59:32.200 then it's reason enough

00:59:32.940 to justify all vice,

00:59:34.620 all sin,

00:59:35.580 all bad habits,

00:59:36.600 all bad choices

00:59:37.420 as addiction.

00:59:39.060 The same logic applies

00:59:40.420 to all of them

00:59:41.260 with no exceptions.

00:59:43.500 Now we'll be told

00:59:44.080 that there's a difference

00:59:44.780 though here

00:59:45.240 because an addicted person

00:59:47.980 is so enthralled

00:59:50.420 by the chemical reward

00:59:51.600 that they can't

00:59:52.360 help themselves.

00:59:53.460 A different Healthline article

00:59:54.720 on food addiction

00:59:55.280 quotes a psychotherapist

00:59:56.480 who says this,

00:59:57.540 if you can't stop yourself

00:59:58.360 from eating something,

00:59:59.260 overeat,

00:59:59.720 or if you find yourself

01:00:00.420 being secretive

01:00:01.160 about eating something

01:00:01.720 or even have a withdrawal

01:00:03.500 such as feeling sick

01:00:04.760 or having blood sugar imbalance,

01:00:06.600 that is an addiction.

01:00:08.800 If you can't stop yourself,

01:00:10.440 it says.

01:00:11.120 Well, how does that work?

01:00:12.260 Is there some kind

01:00:12.900 of mystical unseen force

01:00:14.600 compelling you

01:00:15.240 against your will

01:00:15.900 to stuff a chocolate chip muffin

01:00:17.100 into your face?

01:00:18.260 The guy going back

01:00:19.280 for his fourth helping

01:00:20.200 at Golden Corral

01:00:21.080 can't stop himself?

01:00:22.220 He has no free will at all?

01:00:23.920 What is he, possessed?

01:00:25.420 Is he inhabited 0.99

01:00:26.080 by some kind of fat demon 0.99

01:00:28.460 who loves fried chicken? 0.98

01:00:30.880 Really, what do you mean

01:00:31.720 he can't stop?

01:00:32.820 Here are some things

01:00:33.600 that I can't stop doing, okay?

01:00:35.180 I can't stop being six feet tall.

01:00:37.920 I can't stop being someone

01:00:39.640 who was born in 1986.

01:00:42.780 I can't stop obeying

01:00:44.260 the law of gravity.

01:00:46.220 These are all things

01:00:47.200 I literally cannot stop doing

01:00:48.940 no matter how hard I try.

01:00:50.700 Does the Golden Corral buffet

01:00:52.180 fall into this category

01:00:53.540 for some people?

01:00:54.320 Is it like gravity?

01:00:56.080 Is it an inevitability?

01:00:58.020 Is it a thing

01:00:58.580 that exerts control over them

01:01:01.060 so that while they're walking

01:01:02.740 to the buffet

01:01:03.280 if you tried to talk to them

01:01:04.360 they'd have this

01:01:05.340 glossed glazed look

01:01:07.100 in their eyes

01:01:07.600 and it's like

01:01:08.060 there's zombies

01:01:08.800 walking towards?

01:01:10.100 Are they like moths

01:01:11.040 flying into the porch light?

01:01:15.520 No, of course not.

01:01:17.780 I mean, they might look like it

01:01:18.620 and act like it

01:01:19.180 but that's not really

01:01:19.740 what they are.

01:01:20.480 The food addict

01:01:21.380 can stop eating.

01:01:23.460 He can eat healthier.

01:01:24.620 He can put down the fork.

01:01:26.060 He can put down the tray.

01:01:27.120 He can put down the bag of chips.

01:01:28.340 He can.

01:01:29.260 He just doesn't want to.

01:01:30.900 He's not forced to eat.

01:01:32.280 He just really, really wants to eat

01:01:34.100 and he does the thing

01:01:35.400 that he really, really wants to do

01:01:36.880 even though he knows he shouldn't

01:01:38.660 because he is weak

01:01:39.680 and he has very little self-control.

01:01:41.700 He could have more self-control

01:01:42.920 if he put effort into it

01:01:44.340 but he doesn't feel like it.

01:01:45.920 It's a character flaw.

01:01:47.260 It is a moral defect.

01:01:50.280 One of his own making entirely.

01:01:52.620 There's nothing medical going on here

01:01:54.160 except his hypertension.

01:01:55.960 There's no medical addiction though.

01:01:57.800 There's no overwhelming compulsion

01:01:59.420 that overrides his free will.

01:02:01.740 So why do we really have this concept

01:02:03.500 of food addiction?

01:02:04.600 Where did it really come from?

01:02:06.520 Well, that same Healthline article

01:02:07.780 that I mentioned earlier

01:02:08.520 provides the real answer.

01:02:10.440 The chief medical and clinical officer

01:02:11.980 at something called

01:02:12.560 the Eating Recovery Center

01:02:13.900 is quoted as saying this.

01:02:16.560 Quote,

01:02:16.740 in my experience

01:02:17.500 some affected people

01:02:18.560 find the term food addiction

01:02:19.880 validating, empowering

01:02:21.220 and useful for their recovery.

01:02:24.640 There it is.

01:02:25.920 Food addiction

01:02:26.460 may not be an accurate concept.

01:02:28.920 It may not be true

01:02:29.880 but it is validating.

01:02:32.120 It is useful.

01:02:33.080 It is empowering.

01:02:35.220 Why?

01:02:36.200 Because it makes the glutton

01:02:37.240 feel better about his gluttony

01:02:38.660 by pretending that it's not his fault.

01:02:40.540 It gives him an excuse.

01:02:43.020 He's not the one

01:02:43.980 in the Dairy Queen drive-thru.

01:02:45.540 That's his addiction.

01:02:47.180 His addiction is doing all that.

01:02:48.780 His addiction is to blame.

01:02:50.660 Now he gets to drink the milkshake

01:02:52.240 without any of the guilt.

01:02:54.600 Though he still gets

01:02:55.600 all of the diabetes.

01:02:57.560 Because he can't pawn that off

01:02:58.960 on his addiction.

01:03:00.460 Especially because

01:03:01.260 it doesn't exist.

01:03:03.140 And that is why

01:03:03.840 food addiction

01:03:04.840 is today

01:03:06.140 canceled.

01:03:08.220 That'll do it for the show today.

01:03:10.060 Thanks for watching.

01:03:10.820 Thanks for listening.

01:03:11.680 Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - October 16, 2023

Ep. 1243 - Harvard Pretends To Support Free Speech

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