The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1256 - They Want You Dead And They Aren't Trying To Hide It

00:00:00.000 Today, The Matt Walsh Show, a major publication publishes an article claiming that MAGA Republicans, quote unquote, are more dangerous than Hamas.

00:00:06.320 This is all part of a far ranging plan by the left to dehumanize and demonize their political opponents.

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00:00:13.680 Also, a Senate Republican has been holding up senior military promotions in an effort to stop tax money from being used to facilitate abortions for military members.

00:00:21.520 The battle over child gender mutilation finally makes it to the Supreme Court.

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00:02:01.780 For nearly a month now, pretty much every college campus in the country has made it clear that decolonization means basically kill whitey. 0.91

00:02:10.140 It's long been obvious this is always what the left meant by decolonization, as I outlined on this show a few weeks ago.

00:02:15.880 But after Hamas' attack on Israel, activist groups have made it explicit.

00:02:20.220 They want similar murders to happen in this country.

00:02:22.660 They don't view their enemies as human.

00:02:25.040 And they basically want them exterminated.

00:02:26.840 Now, for its part, the establishment left didn't quite join in on these calls for violence, at least not directly and explicitly.

00:02:33.880 But that's all starting to change, especially when you look at what was posted online at the outlet Salon yesterday, which passes for mainstream among leftists, I suppose.

00:02:44.060 And it published an op-ed from a journalist named Brian Karam.

00:02:47.040 Now, in no uncertain terms, the point of this op-ed is to justify the dehumanization of conservatives and, in particular, conservative Christians. 0.70

00:02:55.300 Karam's piece is titled,

00:02:57.060 MAGA and Christian Nationalism, Bigger Threat to America Than Hamas Could Ever Be. 0.99

00:03:02.260 This article went viral the other day.

00:03:04.020 Elon Musk tweeted about it a few times.

00:03:06.380 Caused a lot of outrage.

00:03:08.040 What a lot of people are missing is that this op-ed is just the latest iteration of a long line of op-eds from this same guy in Salon that accused conservatives of being terrorists.

00:03:17.060 In fact, just a month ago, Karam wrote a piece in Salon entitled, Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups.

00:03:24.240 It's just a matter of degree.

00:03:26.280 Now, in that article, Karam asserted, quote,

00:03:28.100 And, of course, you listen to that and you wonder, well,

00:03:56.480 when has Donald Trump held people hostage?

00:03:59.220 What atrocities did he commit?

00:04:02.100 As melodramatic and deranged as that op-ed was, no one paid any attention to it whatsoever.

00:04:07.300 So this week, Karam basically rewrote the same article, except he added a little more bite to it this time around.

00:04:13.780 Before I get any further into specifics of this unhinged screed, it's important to emphasize a couple things.

00:04:19.920 First of all, Karam is not an intern or a random troll or anything like that.

00:04:24.560 But he's the former senior White House correspondent for Playboy.

00:04:28.660 And for years, he's been a credentialed member of the White House press pool.

00:04:33.260 This is one of the most coveted positions among mainstream journalists.

00:04:36.980 Back when we had journalistic standards, it used to mean something to be a White House correspondent.

00:04:42.040 But we don't have journalistic standards anymore.

00:04:44.100 And so Brian Karam is free to publish op-eds saying that his domestic political opponents are worse than Hamas terrorists who kill civilians,

00:04:50.440 while retaining his White House press credentials.

00:04:53.600 In a serious country, if you write something like that, you're not going to be invited into the White House press pool.

00:04:59.240 But again, we're not a serious country.

00:05:01.920 The other important point to emphasize is that while I'm going to refer to Karam's writing specifically in this monologue,

00:05:09.580 he's far from the only prominent figure on the left who feels this way.

00:05:13.100 First of all, whatever editors still work at Salon had to approve his pieces and publish them.

00:05:19.280 But more to the point, the leaders of the Democratic Party have been demonizing their political opponents using these terms and in this way for years

00:05:27.740 and doing it in ways that are not that dissimilar to what Karam is doing.

00:05:31.900 It was just a year ago, who could forget, that Joe Biden all but declared war on quote-unquote MAGA Republicans,

00:05:37.200 calling them a threat to democracy for disagreeing with him.

00:05:39.940 Let's relive that moment together.

00:05:43.620 Too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal.

00:05:49.720 Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.

00:05:59.320 Now, I want to be very clear, very clear up front.

00:06:04.840 Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans are MAGA Republicans.

00:06:09.080 Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.

00:06:13.960 I know, because I've been able to work with these mainstream Republicans.

00:06:19.420 But there's no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.

00:06:28.580 And that is a threat to this country.

00:06:31.980 So there's Joe Biden doing something, by the way, that we're used to it now from him.

00:06:37.220 But that is unprecedented, and that presidents don't generally do, which is openly demonizing, not just political opponents.

00:06:45.380 I mean, that's been done before.

00:06:46.940 But voters, like normal voters.

00:06:49.140 MAGA Republicans, of course, include Donald Trump supporters, and there's millions of them.

00:06:52.680 That's something that Donald Trump himself never did.

00:06:56.460 He never demonized voters.

00:06:58.020 I mean, he demonizes or he attacks people who attack him, especially politicians and celebrities and those sorts of people.

00:07:03.920 He doesn't go after normal voters.

00:07:06.520 Joe Biden does.

00:07:07.780 And so there he is, standing in front of the Marines with the blood-red backdrop, shaking his fists and telling the country that democracy means voting for Joe Biden.

00:07:15.640 Everyone who doesn't vote for Joe Biden, by contrast, is a terrorist.

00:07:20.620 And we saw that kind of rhetoric constantly last year, around the same time as Joe Biden's diatribe about MAGA Republicans, various outlets, including the Daily Beast, labeled me a stochastic terrorist.

00:07:30.740 They use the same term to describe lives with TikTok and many others.

00:07:34.040 And it's a term that means nothing, basically, but sounds vaguely intelligent, I guess, so you hear it all the time now.

00:07:40.780 It also has very clear implications.

00:07:42.500 You know, everyone instinctively agrees that terrorists should be killed.

00:07:47.880 They're a threat to the country.

00:07:49.420 So when you call someone a terrorist, well, it's not hard to connect the dots.

00:07:54.680 But this Salon piece still stands out for how blatant and flagrant it is.

00:07:58.240 Here's how the piece begins.

00:07:59.100 Quote, the House of Representatives, now run by Mike Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm that Holy Rollers have dreamed of for years. 0.96

00:08:07.200 They've renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible but haven't read much of it. 0.76

00:08:16.880 Now, at this point, you're probably wondering, where has that happened?

00:08:20.580 Like, what is he talking about?

00:08:22.360 Where have Republicans done anything that could be remotely compared to the Inquisition?

00:08:25.920 Now, of course, the Inquisition gets a bad rap anyway, but that's a topic for a different day.

00:08:31.260 But in what way is Mike Johnson ushering in a theocracy?

00:08:35.660 Is he proposing making church attendance compulsory?

00:08:38.960 Has he tried to pass a law forbidding the practice of non-Christian religions?

00:08:44.260 Has he burned any atheists at the stake recently?

00:08:47.640 As far as I know, the answer is no on all counts.

00:08:51.140 It appears that he has earned the label of theocrat simply because he's a Christian with conservative political views.

00:08:56.960 And that might not seem like a big deal to you if you're a well-adjusted, sane person.

00:09:00.280 But the left-wing media, of course, is comprised of people who are neither of those things.

00:09:05.360 And for a long time now, Brian Karam specifically has viewed Christians who hold conservative political views as demonic.

00:09:12.500 Here he was in the White House Rose Garden just a couple of years ago during the Trump presidency,

00:09:15.600 explaining that conservatives are, quote, eager for demonic possession.

00:09:20.100 Watch.

00:09:21.400 Don't be sad.

00:09:22.840 Don't be sad.

00:09:24.000 No, I'm just standing around.

00:09:25.580 This is a group of people that are eager for demonic possession.

00:09:28.740 Demonic possession.

00:09:30.960 You're a son of a right.

00:09:34.400 You're calling yourself a girl.

00:09:37.480 You're threatening me now in the White House.

00:09:39.740 In the Rose Garden.

00:09:41.060 You're threatening me in the Rose Garden.

00:09:43.880 You are a punk.

00:09:45.160 You know the journalists.

00:09:46.260 You're a punk.

00:09:47.460 Don't call him.

00:09:48.120 You're a journalist.

00:09:49.380 You're a punk.

00:09:50.340 Hey, it's a punk.

00:09:51.520 Hey, just for the record, he'd kick your punk ass.

00:09:59.020 Oh, and that's a measure of everything.

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00:10:08.240 Now, I'm not exactly sure what eager for demonic possession is even supposed to mean,

00:10:12.280 to be honest.

00:10:13.360 But at the time, you know, a handful of commentators chastised Brian Karam for acting out.

00:10:18.660 They praised Sebastian Gorka for putting him in his place.

00:10:20.720 But in reality, his outburst was a revealing moment.

00:10:23.900 He was echoing an increasingly common view on the left, which is that conservatives, in

00:10:27.500 particular Christians, need to be eliminated. 1.00

00:10:30.420 They need to be exercised.

00:10:31.600 This is a view that wasn't advertised widely a couple of years ago, but you see it all

00:10:35.360 over the place now.

00:10:36.020 A couple of days ago, for example, Rolling Stone ran a detailed hit piece on Johnson,

00:10:40.420 focusing on his work at Alliance Defending Freedom for nearly a decade.

00:10:44.100 In that capacity, Johnson advanced legal positions that are completely consistent with

00:10:48.320 his faith.

00:10:48.760 He opposed his faith.

00:10:49.740 He opposed sodomy.

00:10:51.320 He rejected the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage.

00:10:53.840 And he wrote an op-ed predicting, correctly, that the so-called LGBTQ movement left unchallenged 1.00

00:11:00.000 will be, quote, the harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest

00:11:05.040 republic.

00:11:05.880 Now, you could disagree with Mike Johnson's views, but there's no denying that every single

00:11:09.540 one of them is consistent with a Christian worldview.

00:11:11.640 He was also undeniably correct in that prediction, as recent events have repeatedly shown.

00:11:17.940 In fact, his views are completely consistent with the Democratic Party's platform circa

00:11:23.100 about 2006.

00:11:24.660 The 2008 version of Barack Obama wouldn't take issue with any of it, at least not publicly.

00:11:32.580 And yet, back when most people thought like this across the political spectrum, we were

00:11:37.500 not living, as the media now predicts, in a theocratic, dystopian wasteland.

00:11:42.240 In fact, most people would agree we were living in, by almost every measure, a better country.

00:11:50.660 Now, Karen's piece doesn't grapple with any of this.

00:11:52.720 Instead, in something of a manic rage, he goes on to ramble about everything from Israel

00:11:56.720 bombing a refugee camp in Gaza, to artificial intelligence, to the dangers of climate change.

00:12:01.960 Quote, that is our world today.

00:12:03.820 It took an asteroid the size of a modern city to wipe out the dinosaurs.

00:12:07.260 People, being smarter than dinosaurs, have figured out how to destroy everything all by

00:12:10.740 ourselves.

00:12:11.220 Climate change is slowly creeping up on us, and we are killing each other at an increasing

00:12:15.240 rate.

00:12:16.080 It took a Category 5 hurricane to kill 40-odd people in Acapulco last week.

00:12:20.420 We killed that many in two mass shootings in the U.S. in about the same amount of time,

00:12:24.340 and spared the property.

00:12:25.740 Pogo was right.

00:12:26.640 We have met the enemy, and he is us.

00:12:29.380 Now, Paul's here to note, as I did a few days ago, that when the left talks about mass

00:12:32.680 shootings, they love to imply that it's always, quote-unquote, MAGA Republicans who are

00:12:38.560 doing the shooting get a lot of mileage out of that.

00:12:41.740 But that's almost never the case.

00:12:43.160 And the overwhelming number of cases, including one of the shootings that Karim appears to

00:12:46.640 be referencing there, these mass shootings are taking place in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods.

00:12:51.660 More than a dozen people were shot by a felon at a Halloween party in Chicago just a couple

00:12:55.480 of days ago.

00:12:56.020 You probably didn't hear much about that in the media.

00:12:57.900 But it did happen.

00:12:59.320 That's a mass shooting.

00:13:01.860 But we don't talk about it as much because it's not the result of Christianity or Christian

00:13:06.080 nationalism or Trump supporters or MAGA Republicans.

00:13:10.540 Maybe the reason the media buries any mention of these mass shootings in black communities

00:13:14.080 is that if they covered them, then everyone would realize what an absurd and counterfactual

00:13:18.040 talking point all of this is.

00:13:20.680 But even if you accept everything that Karim says, even if you suspend reality for a second

00:13:24.780 and agree that MAGA Republicans are somehow doing all these mass shootings, it still wouldn't

00:13:28.780 come close to supporting his thesis, which is that conservatives are a terrorist group

00:13:32.300 that are more dangerous to Americans than Hamas. 0.75

00:13:36.380 There are well over 200 million Christians in this country.

00:13:39.380 If you polled those Christians, you would find 0% support for murdering nonbelievers.

00:13:46.060 Like literally 0%.

00:13:47.800 There would not be any enthusiasm at all for gunning down elderly women at bus stops. 1.00

00:13:53.420 By contrast, the founding charter of Hamas calls for genocide.

00:13:58.100 Every single militant of Hamas wants to murder non-Muslims and in particular Jews.

00:14:02.600 And as we've learned recently, some of these militants could easily be entering this country

00:14:06.460 through the southern border.

00:14:08.340 Now, of course, the media knows this.

00:14:09.540 Brian Karim knows that.

00:14:10.840 So do his editors and so does the rest of the media.

00:14:13.540 The reason there will be no condemnation from anyone from the left-wing media to the White

00:14:17.340 House press corps to the Biden administration is that they understand what he's really getting

00:14:20.560 at here.

00:14:21.880 He's not really trying to make any meaningful point about Hamas or artificial intelligence

00:14:26.480 or climate change.

00:14:27.300 He's trying to communicate the same message that Joe Biden did one year ago, except he's

00:14:31.520 putting a finer point on it.

00:14:33.380 And that message is that many on the left want their political opponents to be eliminated,

00:14:38.140 to die.

00:14:38.940 They don't just want them to lose elections.

00:14:41.520 They don't just want to censor them.

00:14:43.120 They want to dehumanize them, criminalize them, and worse, a lot worse.

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00:15:53.120 Here's a report from the New York Times.

00:15:54.660 Senate Democrats are trying a novel strategy to break Senator Tommy Tuberville's blockade of

00:15:59.500 senior military promotions as pressure builds among his fellow Republicans and Defense Department

00:16:04.280 officials to end his months-long hold in protest of the Pentagon's abortion access policies.

00:16:10.160 Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and the majority leader, said on Wednesday

00:16:12.880 that he would seek to temporarily go around the chamber's rules to allow confirmation of

00:16:17.320 almost all military nominees as a block.

00:16:19.500 A vote could take place as soon as next week.

00:16:22.340 That would restore what had been routine practice in the Senate before Mr. Tuberville, an Alabama

00:16:27.160 Republican, in February, held up a package of officer promotions over a Pentagon policy

00:16:31.220 offering time off and travel reimbursement to service members seeking abortions or fertility

00:16:35.820 care.

00:16:37.060 By the way, Tuberville's issue is with the abortion part, not the fertility care.

00:16:43.360 In fact, I'd be quite sure that if there was a deal struck and said, all right, we won't

00:16:46.860 offer reimbursements for abortion, but we still will for fertility treatments.

00:16:50.560 You know, I can be 100% certain that Tuberville will say, okay, because not only are abortions 0.54

00:16:58.780 and fertility care not the same thing, they are, in fact, opposite things.

00:17:06.240 While it's not clear that Mr. Schumer will have the support for his maneuver, he announced

00:17:09.900 that he would attempt it amid mounting frustration among Republicans and at the Defense Department

00:17:13.840 about Mr. Tuberville's nine-month blockade.

00:17:17.120 And this, as it mentions, you know, is frustration that includes Republicans.

00:17:22.560 So Tuberville is holding up military promotions, senior military promotions, because of the

00:17:27.540 military's policy that would offer reimbursements, tax-funded reimbursements to female military 1.00

00:17:32.420 members who want to travel to kill their babies.

00:17:35.760 Now, even if you didn't know the details about the thing that Tuberville is objecting to, even

00:17:41.540 if you had no additional information about it, you would already know that he must be doing

00:17:46.400 something right if the Pentagon, Democrats, and, like, Lindsey Graham object to it.

00:17:52.600 So he has upset the unholy trinity of establishment, sort of the unholy establishment trinity here,

00:17:59.620 which means that he must be really on to something.

00:18:04.220 And then when you find out the details, it becomes even more clear just how right he is.

00:18:10.060 Before we talk more about that, let's listen to Lindsey Graham, as mentioned. 0.99

00:18:15.840 He was on the floor of the Senate this week.

00:18:17.940 He's very upset that Tuberville is blocking these promotions in an effort to stop this policy

00:18:24.620 of funding the abortions.

00:18:26.320 And here is Lindsey Graham issuing this objection.

00:18:29.700 Let's watch.

00:18:30.080 It's about keeping politics, politics out of the military.

00:18:36.140 I did not put it in the military.

00:18:38.260 Joe Biden and Secretary Austin put politics in the military.

00:18:42.740 And it's about the right to life.

00:18:47.020 These are some of the most important things in the world to me.

00:18:50.940 And so, Mr. President, I object.

00:18:55.080 Objection is heard.

00:18:56.100 Mr. President.

00:18:56.620 Senator from South Carolina.

00:18:57.540 Yeah, I'll have another one.

00:18:59.200 Let me respond to my colleague respectfully.

00:19:03.160 We have courts.

00:19:05.220 If you think they've done something illegal, go to court.

00:19:09.560 That's how you handle these things.

00:19:11.820 The Pentagon has issued a legal opinion I disagree with,

00:19:16.060 saying this doesn't violate the Hyde Amendment.

00:19:18.600 I disagree with it.

00:19:19.940 So, here's what's going to happen.

00:19:22.740 You've just denied this lady a promotion. 0.96

00:19:26.340 You did that.

00:19:28.180 All of us are ready to promote her because she deserves to be promoted. 0.99

00:19:33.560 She had nothing to do with this policy.

00:19:36.520 Let me say it again.

00:19:38.100 Everybody in this body could find an issue with any administration they don't agree with.

00:19:45.000 And what we're going to do is open up Pandora's box.

00:19:48.220 Today is abortion policy. 0.51

00:19:51.840 If we take back the White House, we'll go back to the Mexico City policy, limiting dollars to be given to overseas entities that are engaged in the abortion business.

00:20:01.580 Some pro-choice people don't like that.

00:20:04.540 What would happen if they put a hold on all the officers because they don't agree with the Republican administration?

00:20:12.240 Well, first of all, Lindsay, what will happen is, will Democrats do that in response to Tuberville blocking these promotions?

00:20:24.560 No, they'll just do it anyway.

00:20:27.280 If they decide they want to do it, they will do it anyway.

00:20:30.040 They are not waiting for permission from Republicans.

00:20:34.260 They don't need to have the precedent of Republicans doing something in order for them to do it.

00:20:39.020 So if they decide that they want to advance their baby-killing agenda and it will help them in some way, you know, and holding up military promotions as a way that they could do that, then they'll do it. 0.96

00:20:50.320 But, oh, no, it's a Pandora's box.

00:20:54.480 What a disaster.

00:20:55.800 You know, they want to put another middle-aged woman into a senior military position and they won't be able to now for, they haven't been able to for a few months now. 0.98

00:21:04.240 It's the end of the world.

00:21:07.380 Or is it really?

00:21:08.340 Like, what exactly is the implication here?

00:21:10.320 What is the worst-case scenario?

00:21:12.660 How are we greatly endangered if senior military promotions are held up for a little bit?

00:21:17.860 Why does that matter?

00:21:18.760 Don't just tell me that it's a disaster.

00:21:21.940 They're not getting their promotions.

00:21:23.220 So?

00:21:23.940 Why do I care?

00:21:25.600 What does that matter?

00:21:28.140 Some glorified bureaucrats won't get their promotions. 1.00

00:21:30.980 So what?

00:21:33.420 And by the way, senior military officials haven't done much good for this country in, I don't know, decades.

00:21:39.580 These people have actively made the country less safe, more broke, weaker, etc.

00:21:43.920 When's the last time you heard a story about a senior military official doing something good?

00:21:50.380 Like, when's the last time you said to yourself, man, thank God for those senior military officials.

00:21:55.240 They're doing a great job.

00:21:56.400 Now, I don't know who that woman was that he was waving around there. 0.90

00:22:05.380 He says that she earned the promotion.

00:22:08.220 Did she earn it?

00:22:10.300 I don't know.

00:22:11.980 What did she do? 0.80

00:22:12.820 What did she do to earn the promotion? 0.92

00:22:15.360 How did she earn it?

00:22:17.260 Because there are certainly a lot of women earning senior military positions these days. 1.00

00:22:23.880 Almost as if they aren't earning the positions at all, but they're just being given those positions for political reasons.

00:22:28.800 And regardless, even if all of these senior military officials are a bunch of wonderful, competent patriots, and not the left-wing bureaucrats that they almost certainly are,

00:22:42.820 still, that wouldn't change anything or make Tupperville any less right or righteous in his stance.

00:22:49.400 It is an absolute disgrace to force taxpayers to pay for military members to get abortions.

00:22:56.020 We should be paying military members to protect innocent life, not destroy it.

00:23:02.700 And this is not only wrong, but it's the kind of thing that severely compromises whatever moral authority we think we have on the world stage.

00:23:12.300 I mean, is our military supposed to be the guardians of truth and justice and freedom, even as we use tax money to help them murder their own children?

00:23:21.660 It's a joke.

00:23:22.560 It's a sick joke.

00:23:24.460 And you know what?

00:23:25.300 But the justification for this, what we're told by the left, like why we need to have this policy of paying, helping to facilitate the abortions for female service members,

00:23:34.560 we're told that, hey, if we don't have this policy, then it's impossible for women to be in the military. 1.00

00:23:43.000 Now, I don't think that's true, actually.

00:23:44.960 I think that it's quite possible for women to be in the military without having tax funds facilitating their abortions. 0.74

00:23:50.420 But let's go for that.

00:23:53.660 Let's go with that for a second.

00:23:55.060 If you tell me that there is no way to have women in the military without without also paying to facilitate their abortions, if that is a requirement of entry. 0.67

00:24:05.100 Well, then I guess we need to get women the hell out of the military. 1.00

00:24:09.380 Like, that's an easy choice.

00:24:11.460 Pretty easy solution in that case.

00:24:13.160 If you're making me choose between dead babies or an all-male military, well, that's no choice at all. 0.99

00:24:20.440 I'll take the all-male military. 1.00

00:24:21.840 In fact, I'll take that regardless of the abortion issue.

00:24:24.880 But I'll especially take it when you factor this in.

00:24:27.240 So, Tuberville is 100% right.

00:24:32.200 And the fact that he does not have, the fact that he doesn't have 100% support from his fellow Republicans is, just shows you how utterly worthless these people are.

00:24:45.180 This should be obvious.

00:24:47.600 You know, yeah, the stance from every Republican should be, we're not doing a damn thing.

00:24:51.520 If there is one single dime of tax money being used to help facilitate an abortion, we're not doing anything.

00:25:00.660 We're not funding a single damn thing until that's gone.

00:25:06.220 You should consider it a scandal of immense historic proportions for even one dime to be taken out of the pocket of a taxpayer and given to someone to help them kill their kid.

00:25:20.980 That's how you should view it.

00:25:23.940 But most Republicans don't view it that way because they don't care.

00:25:26.520 They just don't care about any of this.

00:25:28.440 Totally worthless.

00:25:30.120 All right.

00:25:30.920 I wanted to mention something about this.

00:25:32.340 There's been a lot of talk on Twitter, though I imagine probably nowhere else, about Ron DeSantis and his boots.

00:25:40.240 And not something I really wanted to talk about either, but it's just, it, it, eventually I get baited into talking about things when I get so annoyed by them.

00:25:48.540 And so here we are.

00:25:51.200 For a long time, DeSantis' opponents have accused him of putting lifts in his boots to make himself taller.

00:25:57.560 And this has been a meme for a while.

00:26:00.480 DeSantis never addressed it.

00:26:02.400 And I don't know if it's true or not, obviously, but that's the claim.

00:26:05.600 And then he appeared on the podcast of Patrick Bet David.

00:26:10.480 And Patrick Bet David brought it up, brought up this issue of the boots and kind of made fun of DeSantis and then made a big show of giving DeSantis new shoes.

00:26:19.700 Right, to make a joke about the lifts and the shoes.

00:26:24.600 And, you know, I have to say, I have no issue with Patrick Bet David.

00:26:29.920 I have no problem with him.

00:26:31.460 But it is a low move to do that.

00:26:35.440 And you're bringing a guy on your show and you're just embarrassing him.

00:26:40.820 And we could be fairly certain that he would never do anything like that if Trump was on the show, right?

00:26:48.480 Like, he's not going to ask Trump about his makeup and then give Trump a gift of makeup remover.

00:26:55.060 He would never do that.

00:26:57.980 Now, if he would, and if he has, then I will amend, you know, if it's just like this, well, yeah, this is what we do on this podcast.

00:27:04.340 And you come on and you're a politician, we're going to embarrass you.

00:27:06.780 That's what we're going to do.

00:27:08.780 And if that's like a general policy, then okay.

00:27:11.700 In fact, I could quite respect that.

00:27:15.380 If it's a general policy and you do it to everybody, when you do it to every politician, rather.

00:27:22.100 But I don't think it is.

00:27:23.440 And I don't think that would ever happen.

00:27:28.120 So that's the first problem.

00:27:31.780 And, you know, here's the other thing.

00:27:32.680 If he did that, most of the people laughing about this boot stuff, you know, the Trump supporters.

00:27:38.560 So imagine Donald Trump goes on a podcast.

00:27:41.240 The podcaster says, hey, what's, you know, people say you wear a lot of makeup.

00:27:44.180 Is that true?

00:27:44.940 Here's a gift I got you.

00:27:46.180 A little gift bag, makeup remover.

00:27:47.580 If a podcaster were to do that, of course, we know that the Trump supporters that are laughing at the boot thing, they would be furious.

00:27:56.260 Like they would be apoplectic about it.

00:28:00.140 They would say that this podcaster is, you know, they would want nothing to do with him.

00:28:06.300 They would say that this is a irrelevant issue.

00:28:08.540 You're mocking.

00:28:09.180 You're being disrespectful.

00:28:10.740 You're only doing that because you don't want to talk about the issues, so on and so forth.

00:28:13.600 So we know all that, right?

00:28:14.680 We know that's how that would go.

00:28:15.640 And that is one of the seemingly kind of unspoken things here that, you know, if it's true that DeSantis wears lifts in his boots, I don't know if it is, it is also definitely the kind of thing that Trump would do.

00:28:30.880 I mean, he wouldn't do that specific thing because he's tall, and so he wouldn't do that.

00:28:34.700 He wouldn't need to.

00:28:35.280 But we all know that just in general, doing something to, you know, accommodate for what you consider to be a physical flaw or whatever, like, sure, Trump would.

00:28:47.240 You know, Trump wears makeup.

00:28:48.600 You know, we know he does something about his hairline.

00:28:50.520 He takes something.

00:28:51.600 That's why he has so much hair at 80 years old.

00:28:53.960 And I don't care about any of that, okay, to be clear.

00:28:56.500 I don't care.

00:28:57.620 And if you're on TV a lot and you're being judged based on appearance, you do things like that.

00:29:03.520 I don't care.

00:29:04.320 It's fine.

00:29:05.900 Just like if it's true that DeSantis wears lifts in the boots, doesn't matter to me.

00:29:09.260 I don't care.

00:29:11.900 I'm just saying that all of these things, the hair, the makeup, the lifts in the boots, if that's even true, they're all in the same category, okay?

00:29:19.960 They're all the same kind of thing.

00:29:22.160 And you're just a ridiculous hypocrite if you laugh about one but pretend that the other doesn't matter.

00:29:26.700 It's all the same thing.

00:29:28.160 It's all the same sort of thing.

00:29:29.640 Anyway, here is DeSantis talking about this on, I think this is Newsmax.

00:29:37.600 Can we do this?

00:29:40.060 Can we get this off the table first?

00:29:42.240 I've been watching over the last, I don't know, maybe 10 days or so, and there are these gotcha people, these people who just want to sit there and they want to talk about how tall you are, whether you're wearing boots with, what do they call it, heel extenders inside?

00:29:55.820 I mean, Governor, the southern border is a disaster.

00:30:00.480 Terrorists are coming across the border.

00:30:02.320 We got two wars that we're kind of funding, and they want to talk about how tall you are.

00:30:08.180 Respond, please.

00:30:09.440 Well, look, Eric, this is no time for foot fetishes.

00:30:13.520 We've got serious problems as a country.

00:30:15.900 We've got war in the Middle East. 0.61

00:30:17.700 We've got terrorists coming across our own southern border.

00:30:20.280 We have an American dream that's out of reach for millions of Americans because of the Bidenflation and the high energy prices.

00:30:27.580 We've got schools that are indoctrinating kids, not educating kids.

00:30:31.420 And we've got cities that are being overrun by crime.

00:30:34.520 And I know people want to try to divert onto other issues.

00:30:37.520 I know Donald Trump and a lot of his people have been focusing on things like footwear.

00:30:42.160 I'll tell you this.

00:30:43.660 You know, if Donald Trump can summon the balls to show up to the debate, I'll wear a boot on my head.

00:30:48.720 This is a time for substance.

00:30:51.180 This is a time for us to debate the issues that matter.

00:30:55.360 And he's right, obviously.

00:30:56.600 This is not even on a list of the top one million most important issues to be discussing.

00:31:01.980 And the best thing that DeSantis can do is ignore it.

00:31:04.180 Obviously, in this case and on the podcast, he was asked about it.

00:31:07.060 So it was brought up.

00:31:08.260 He has to say something.

00:31:10.180 So you can't blame him for that.

00:31:13.640 But the mistake from DeSantis would be to, in any way, lean into this or bring it up himself because he thinks it makes Trump look petty or whatever.

00:31:23.420 I don't think he's going to do that.

00:31:25.520 He hasn't yet.

00:31:27.300 But that's what they're trying to bait him into.

00:31:30.380 It's a very obvious strategy.

00:31:31.740 That's what they're trying to get him off on this kind of topic.

00:31:34.860 And because we know how that worked out in 2016.

00:31:39.960 This is just a replay of 2016 playing the greatest hits.

00:31:43.920 And 2016 was the same thing where Trump would go after his opponents for these petty and ridiculous reasons, making fun of their physical features and everything else, baiting them, trying to bait them to respond in kind.

00:31:57.820 And then we know that when that happened, Rubio in particular, it never worked out well for the non-Trump person.

00:32:05.760 Because in that game, just the way it is, that's a game.

00:32:09.840 If you play it with Trump, he automatically wins.

00:32:13.320 And so that's the strategy here.

00:32:18.280 And look, the other thing is, Ron DeSantis remains the best governor of my lifetime.

00:32:23.860 There are, I don't know who else is even competing.

00:32:29.740 Look, there are a few other governors, past and present, who would be in that conversation.

00:32:37.040 But it's a very, very short list.

00:32:40.600 Okay?

00:32:41.960 It's a list with only a few names on it.

00:32:44.640 And it really tells you everything you need to know about the modern American conservative movement, that the best governor of a generation comes along, and a lot of right-wingers are like, yeah, but he's short, though.

00:32:58.100 Ha! 0.89

00:32:58.580 Got him.

00:33:00.640 Yeah, you've got someone who's, like, moving the ball in really substantial ways.

00:33:05.920 And landing blows on the left, and not just through tweets, not just through media hits, but, like, through legislation, through wielding his power as a governor.

00:33:21.880 And he's doing all that, and then you've got some right-wingers who are saying, yeah, but look how short he is.

00:33:30.300 Ha! 0.89

00:33:31.160 Am I right?

00:33:34.040 You're just not serious about saving the country.

00:33:36.120 You're not serious.

00:33:37.140 It's a game to you.

00:33:38.100 And I can't afford to see any of this as a game, because I have a family to take care of that has to live in this country.

00:33:47.820 But it kind of tells you everything you need to know, I suppose.

00:33:51.460 All right.

00:33:53.980 It's a great situation, isn't it?

00:33:55.280 I mean, we've got establishing Republicans in Washington who are insisting that we have to continue funding abortions, because otherwise, you know, these women will not get their military promotions. 0.86

00:34:10.120 And then we've got other right-wingers who are busy talking about how tall DeSantis is and whether he has lips in his boots.

00:34:16.320 I mean, this is what, this is the state of conservatism right now.

00:34:21.180 It's fantastic.

00:34:21.760 I want to briefly mention this.

00:34:24.340 USA Today says a years-long legal battle over gender-affirming care for transgender young people has reached the Supreme Court, handing the justice an opportunity to resolve a dispute that has divided lower federal courts and emerged as a leading front in the fight for LGBTQ plus rights.

00:34:39.100 The parents of the three transgender children are asking the Supreme Court in an appeal filed Wednesday to block a Tennessee law signed by Republican Governor Bill Lee in March that bans all medical treatment for gender dysphoria in adolescents, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy.

00:34:53.220 This is, this is, this is great.

00:34:58.060 I'm very excited about this.

00:34:59.260 And this was inevitable.

00:35:00.180 We knew this was going to happen.

00:35:01.680 We knew it was going to go to the Supreme Court.

00:35:04.080 And all I could say is like, let's do this.

00:35:07.180 Yeah.

00:35:07.920 This, yes.

00:35:09.700 Let's, let's have this fight in Supreme Court.

00:35:11.660 Um, I'm not, I don't want to get too cocky because I'm not going to pretend that I have a hundred percent confidence in the Supreme Court with its current makeup to get this issue right.

00:35:21.840 But I'm, but I am pretty confident.

00:35:24.660 I'm pretty confident that they will not come down on the side of saying that, um, parents have a constitutional right to have their kids castrated and mutilated.

00:35:37.620 I'm pretty confident that won't happen.

00:35:40.820 Now they could always punt the issue in some ways they could refuse to take it up.

00:35:44.640 I mean, there are a lot of things that could happen that are probably more likely, but if they take up this issue and they issue any kind of actual ruling on it, um, I feel very, I feel substantially confident that, um, that they'll get it right.

00:36:04.980 But, um, and, you know, because in truth, how do the, how, with the rights claims here and, uh, whose rights are being infringed on, well, no, parents do not have any constitutional right.

00:36:21.420 You don't have a constitutional right as a parent to abuse your children.

00:36:25.200 Period.

00:36:26.100 You don't have, that is not a constitutional right that you have.

00:36:29.520 And mutilating and castrating a child is certainly abuse.

00:36:32.620 And so that's not a constitutional right.

00:36:33.640 On the other hand, children have a constitutional right to not be treated that way.

00:36:39.880 Children have a constitutional right, have a human right to be free from that kind of treatment.

00:36:46.360 And I guess, hopefully now this will be an argument that happens in the Supreme Court.

00:36:50.700 But before we get to the next segment, here's a report from an outlet called Atlanta News First, uh, in Georgia, obviously, about a restaurant that has created controversy because of a fee that they have passed down.

00:37:03.140 For bad parenting, let's, uh, in Georgia restaurant going viral on social media for having what's called a parent surcharge on their menu.

00:37:14.160 This is pretty interesting.

00:37:15.240 The charge, according to the restaurant, is for adults who can't parent their children.

00:37:19.880 Atlanta News First reporter Amanda Rose spoke to the restaurant today on Aska Road in Blue Ridge after a bad online review sparked a national conversation.

00:37:28.140 I've never left a review in my life of a business.

00:37:32.740 When I left there, we were leaving reviews.

00:37:35.260 Brian Carciolo is still in disbelief after what he calls a nightmare experience at Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in Blue Ridge.

00:37:44.700 The restaurant now gaining national attention for one-star reviews left by Carciolo's friends online,

00:37:51.140 who say the restaurant wanted them to pay extra for bad parenting.

00:37:56.140 He basically said he has raised his children, he's not going to raise ours.

00:38:01.140 Carciolo, a restaurant owner who lives in Central Florida, says five families, including his own, visited the restaurant on vacation with 11 children,

00:38:11.140 all under the age of eight.

00:38:13.140 After finishing their meal, Carciolo says someone from the restaurant made a surprise visit to their table,

00:38:20.600 saying the group should pay a parent surcharge.

00:38:24.140 The fee is listed on the restaurant's menu, next to $3 signs and the words, unable to parent.

00:38:30.840 Carciolo says he thought it was a joke.

00:38:33.140 The owner tells me he's had this parent surcharge on the menu since the pandemic,

00:38:38.840 but he's never had to enforce it on any of his customers.

00:38:41.360 He wants to emphasize that the charge is not for kids, but for adults who don't know how to parent.

00:38:48.360 The restaurant says they never charge Carciolo and the others the fee,

00:38:52.360 but they told us the group had to be, quote, really bad for them to bring it up at all.

00:38:58.360 A representative for the restaurant went on to say there's nothing wrong with kids and families coming to the restaurant,

00:39:04.360 but kids running wild through the dining room is...

00:39:08.360 So you get the basic idea.

00:39:11.360 I'll admit that's a good line.

00:39:12.360 I raised my own kids.

00:39:13.360 I'm not going to raise yours.

00:39:14.360 Let's try to sort through this.

00:39:17.360 We have the restaurant saying that kids are running wild.

00:39:20.360 We have the parents saying the restaurant owners are rude and nasty and that their kids are not running wild,

00:39:24.360 but they're being discriminated against, you know, because they just because they have a large family.

00:39:28.360 So we'll try to figure this out.

00:39:29.360 The first point is that one of these angry reviews from a parent says that the owner told them that it is a fancy restaurant and you can't have kids acting up in a fancy restaurant.

00:39:41.360 But it's actually an important point that like we saw the outside of this place that ain't fancy.

00:39:46.360 OK, like when you have an ATM sign outside of your restaurant that that's a telltale sign that it is not a fancy place when there's a sign that says ice cream and T-shirts, which there is outside that but and candy.

00:40:00.360 They have a sign saying candy outside of the way that is that's a very good indication that it's not a fancy place.

00:40:07.360 In fact, as a parent, if I am in an unfamiliar area looking for somewhere to eat with my kids, that's the kind of thing I'm looking for to tell me that it is a family friendly, non fancy place.

00:40:19.360 If I'm driving by and I see that place and my kids are hungry and I'm just visiting and I don't know what's around and I see that place, I'm like, oh, yeah, this is we're all day.

00:40:27.360 This is this is where we need to be. I mean, this is obviously a place where you could bring your family.

00:40:32.360 This is not a fancy place. You could just tell from the outside.

00:40:35.360 And and so you just can't have a place like that and then expect that people won't bring their kids.

00:40:42.360 It's like it's like opening up a mini golf course and then getting annoyed when a bunch of kids show up.

00:40:47.360 It's what did you expect? And this is a point for customers, too, by the way, because there are certain kinds of diners who get very annoyed.

00:40:55.360 Sharing a restaurant with children. And that and fine, if you know, if that's how you feel fine.

00:41:04.360 But the point is, you can certainly avoid kids at a restaurant.

00:41:07.360 You just need to go to a place where the entrees are twenty five dollars or more on average per plate.

00:41:14.360 They probably even twenty dollars or more per plate is enough.

00:41:17.360 No kids menu, you know, twenty thirty dollar entrees guarantee you're going to see very few kids in a place like that, because that's just you're not going to bring your family.

00:41:27.360 I'm not going to bring my my kids. I'm not spending two hundred dollars on on a family dinner.

00:41:32.360 So if you want to avoid kids, pay up, go to a more expensive place, go to an actual nice restaurant and then you can.

00:41:39.360 It'll be it'll be it'll be kid free pretty much at any time of day.

00:41:42.360 But you can't go to an affordable place and then get mad when families are there because those places are for us mainly.

00:41:50.360 Well, where else do you expect us to go? We got as we're not supposed to go to any restaurants.

00:41:56.360 Now, that said, if these families were actually being obnoxious, if the kids were running wild, then sure, I support the owners putting their foot foot down.

00:42:03.360 Letting your kids run around a restaurant is crazy. Most parents don't do that.

00:42:09.360 I've I've very rarely seen anything like that at a restaurant.

00:42:12.360 I've been in many restaurants where where there are kids and I've very rarely seen kids literally running around the restaurant like it's a jungle gym every once in a while.

00:42:22.360 But it's pretty rare occurrence.

00:42:25.360 And if that happens, then then then, yeah, I think for the owner to say something is perfectly fine.

00:42:31.360 But here's my question. Why don't you have a surcharge for obnoxious people?

00:42:38.360 OK, why not have a rule a rule that if your table is disruptive, then you will be charged more a disruption fee?

00:42:48.360 I'd be I not only would I be fine with that, I would love to eat at a place that has a rule like that.

00:42:53.360 I'm I would support I'd go to that place every week. OK, I'd give that place money even if I'm not eating there.

00:42:59.360 OK, just a donation. And I've been in plenty of restaurants and other public situations where adults are being disruptive and obnoxious.

00:43:08.360 That happens, too, all the time. So my question is, why are you singling out parents?

00:43:14.360 Why not just if you have an issue of people being disruptive? Just it's a disruptive table. We charge you a fee.

00:43:19.360 It doesn't matter why you're being disruptive. It doesn't matter if it's a kid, an adult, whatever.

00:43:24.360 So the fact that they're singling out parents, that tells me that this guy really does just have a problem with kids.

00:43:31.360 He wants to have his cheap restaurant with the ATM machine and ice cream and T-shirts and candy.

00:43:35.360 But he doesn't really want families, even though without families, his place would go bankrupt.

00:43:40.360 So ultimately, he is the a**. Turned into an M.I. the a**, I guess. Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:50.360 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a bit. Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:44:00.360 Hugh says, I remember Steve Harvey said in an interview that everyone should find a way to fly first class one time.

00:44:06.360 They'll enjoy it so much, they'll work their butt off to be successful and always fly that way.

00:44:11.360 I would recommend the opposite.

00:44:13.360 I mean, if you want to make yourself miserable, even more miserable flying, then you should do that.

00:44:18.360 I understand the motivation that's supposed to be behind it, but it's just that's a high risk situation.

00:44:25.360 Because if you fly first class one time and then for the rest of the time you go back to coach,

00:44:33.360 you've just made coach so much more miserable when you see what you're missing out on.

00:44:38.360 And by the way, first class is not even like first class is just normal.

00:44:42.360 Like first class is what normal should be. It's not even unless you're flying first class on some, you know, overseas international flight where they got the pod and all that.

00:44:52.360 Give you your own pajamas to sleep in and that sort of thing, you know, and they're really pampering you.

00:44:56.360 But usually on just your standard United first class experience, it's it's really just what a flight should be for everyone.

00:45:03.360 It's it's it's you're just treated like a normal person.

00:45:05.360 Really, you have you have a normal human amount of leg room and and maybe they give you some food.

00:45:11.360 They don't even do that a lot of times in first class.

00:45:13.360 So it's actually just what what flying should be for everybody.

00:45:17.360 But that said, it is way better. I mean, it is way better than coach.

00:45:21.360 What I'm saying is that you don't to experience it and then go back to coach makes it so much worse, which is why I tell people this about everything like like don't.

00:45:30.360 Don't go eat even to treat yourself at a super nice steak restaurant.

00:45:39.360 If you can't afford to eat there all the time, because there's what's going to happen once you experience once you like know what a seventy five dollar steak tastes like, you'll never be able to go back to Outback again.

00:45:50.360 You'll have ruined Outback for yourself. If you never experienced that, then Outback is great. 0.76

00:45:54.360 And so let it be great. That's my recommendation.

00:45:59.360 You just you want those you want those kind of frills in life. You want you want to you want to you want those the frills to kind of move up along with your income level.

00:46:07.360 You don't want to jump ahead and then just make yourself miserable is what I would say.

00:46:16.360 Eminem says, Matt, you have repeatedly stated the middle seat and coach has no human rights.

00:46:20.360 This applies to all of coach. Coach passengers are essentially cattle.

00:46:24.360 As you said, if there are no human rights, there are no expectations for etiquette.

00:46:27.360 No, I never said coach passenger cattle. I said they're treated as cattle, treated as cattle. They shouldn't be.

00:46:32.360 No, the middle seat. This is this is I'm not going to allow you to let middle seat off the hook.

00:46:35.360 This is a distinction that belongs to the middle seat. If you live in the middle, if you are sitting in the middle seat, then you have no human rights.

00:46:42.360 You have no right to any armrest. You have no right to anything really in the middle seat. That's just how it is.

00:46:47.360 That's just how it is. And it's got nothing to do. A lot of times you end up with middle seat by accident, like it might not even it's not even your fault.

00:46:53.360 It's just luck of the draw. But that's where you are. And that's.

00:46:59.360 You have to abide by the rules of the middle seat. Andrew says, my guess is thefts have risen so much across the country that the cost of stolen goods is starting to outweigh the cost of cashier salaries.

00:47:10.360 Talking about self-checkout. Well, yeah, this is one of the problems with self-checkout to make it so easy to steal, especially when they make no real effort to check the receipts at all.

00:47:19.360 It's like amazing how lackadaisical these places are about that.

00:47:23.360 Just the other day, I went through the you know, I was leaving. I set off the alarms. I don't know why.

00:47:30.360 And the guy comes over and he glances at the receipt. He does this. OK, I've got I've got probably, I don't know, 25 items in my car.

00:47:40.360 Are you going to make any effort to check? Like I am not even as confident that I didn't steal something as you are.

00:47:47.360 I am more suspicious of myself in this moment than you are, apparently.

00:47:52.360 Especially when you've got kids like you never know, you know, maybe one of your kids took something to put in their pocket.

00:47:58.360 Who knows? So they put something in the in the cart. You didn't see it like those kinds of things can happen.

00:48:03.360 But the problem is you also have people you've got people guarding the doors at these places and they're getting paid minimum wage and they don't care at all whether you stole.

00:48:14.360 It just doesn't matter to them. It's not any skin off their back.

00:48:18.360 And so they have no stake in it. And that's part of the issue here.

00:48:23.360 John says, here's the deal. We live in a society where human interaction is rapidly disappearing.

00:48:27.360 Many people spend their days now doing their jobs at home. These same people now jump into their automobile to go shop for groceries.

00:48:35.360 Jump into their automobile. We just call it a car.

00:48:38.360 Anyway, run through self-checkout, drive home. No meaningful human interaction.

00:48:42.360 We are social creatures. We need to interact with other people before long.

00:48:45.360 We live in a totally automated society where nobody runs anything.

00:48:48.360 We'll be devoid of a large part of what makes us human.

00:48:51.360 Yeah, but still.

00:48:54.360 I mean, you're right, objectively, but I still don't want to talk to people.

00:48:58.360 So you're probably right, though.

00:49:01.360 I just don't want to talk to people.

00:49:03.360 So I you're correct.

00:49:05.360 I actually recognize that this is a this is a net for society and for humanity.

00:49:09.360 The more that things are automated, even when you go into a fast food restaurant.

00:49:13.360 Now you've got the odd, you know, you could go to McDonald's and you go to the they've got the screen there.

00:49:17.360 You just you just do the touch screen and order the food yourself.

00:49:21.360 And, you know, one of the problems there is you're touching the same thing that all these other greasy handed people have touched.

00:49:25.360 And it's disgusting that you're going to eat your food.

00:49:27.360 But so everywhere you go now, everything's automated. Of course, we all know that.

00:49:31.360 And and is this a positive development for society?

00:49:36.360 Almost certainly not.

00:49:38.360 It's fewer jobs for people.

00:49:40.360 And then also, as you point out, it's it's it's less and less human interaction.

00:49:44.360 And but at the same time, I will almost always choose the automated option because I don't actually want to talk to people.

00:49:53.360 But I guess I should probably be forced to like there should be more situations in life where I am forced to interact with people.

00:50:01.360 You have to force me to do it. I can't believe I'm saying that, but it's just it's true.

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00:50:57.360 Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:51:05.360 Today for our Daily Cancellation, we refer again to our dear friends over at the gay news site Pink News,

00:51:10.360 where all of the most important reporting happens.

00:51:13.360 And the big headline this week is no exception.

00:51:15.360 Pink News reports,

00:51:17.360 Only one in six asexual people have had a universally positive experience of being out.

00:51:22.360 New research highlighting the negative experiences of ace people in healthcare work and society has shown.

00:51:27.360 A joint collaboration between Stonewall and asexual activist and researcher Yasmin Benoit.

00:51:33.360 The report entitled, Ace in the UK, focuses on the experience of people who are ace.

00:51:37.360 An umbrella term for asexual people who experience little, fluctuating, or no sexual attraction.

00:51:43.360 And how discrimination has impacted their lives.

00:51:46.360 Yes, this is the oppressive reality that asexual people, ace people as they're called apparently, face in this world.

00:51:53.360 This is how difficult their lives are, how painful.

00:51:55.360 It is so bad that five out of six asexual people have not had a universally positive experience.

00:52:04.360 Can you imagine that?

00:52:05.360 Can you even fathom?

00:52:07.360 Well, actually, yes, you can imagine because this is the experience of literally everyone on earth.

00:52:13.360 In literally all contexts, when it comes to literally all experiences.

00:52:18.360 Nobody has a universally positive experience of anything.

00:52:23.360 There is no such thing as a universally positive experience.

00:52:28.360 That is a type of experience that does not exist in the universe.

00:52:32.360 Life itself is not universally positive, not even close.

00:52:36.360 Life is a mixed bag.

00:52:37.360 All aspects of life are a mixed bag.

00:52:40.360 So welcome to the experience of being human, asexuals. 0.85

00:52:44.360 What did you expect?

00:52:45.360 Can you imagine complaining that your experience is not universally positive?

00:52:50.360 Did you actually think that it would be?

00:52:53.360 Well, maybe they had reason to expect that.

00:52:56.360 Because according to this poll, nearly 20% of asexuals, in fact, do have a universally positive experience.

00:53:01.360 This is an astoundingly high number.

00:53:03.360 That would mean that self-identified asexuals have the easiest lives out of any group on the planet, I guess.

00:53:09.360 Because nobody has a universally positive experience of anything except for these 20% of asexuals. 1.00

00:53:16.360 We're supposed to come away convinced that asexuals are especially persecuted, but really this report has shown very much the opposite.

00:53:22.360 So let's continue.

00:53:24.360 Due to many factors, ace people are less likely than other groups to be open about their identity with friends and family.

00:53:29.360 Negative reactions include inappropriate, intrusive questions about their identity, many of which feel would never be asked if they had a different sexual orientation.

00:53:38.360 Quote, I have definitely had plenty of intrusive questions.

00:53:40.360 You know, things like, do you masturbate?

00:53:42.360 Do you watch porn?

00:53:43.360 And then there was, how do you feel when a sex scene comes on television?

00:53:47.360 You just think that you wouldn't ask anybody else that question, any other kind of sexual identity, so why ask me, another respondent said.

00:53:54.360 In work settings, just under half of ace people, 49%, said that they are not out to their colleagues as far as a far higher figure than the rate for all LGBTQ respondents, which is 18%.

00:54:05.360 Okay, so half of self-identified asexual people are not out to their colleagues, which shockingly means that half of them are.

00:54:15.360 Which means that half of these people have apparently gone up to their colleagues in a work setting and announced, unsolicited, that they don't experience sexual attraction.

00:54:25.360 What the hell kind of thing is that to tell someone at work?

00:54:30.360 Like, what do you want them to say to that?

00:54:33.360 How are they supposed to respond?

00:54:36.360 And why would you be telling them this in the first place?

00:54:39.360 In what conceivable context would a coworker need to know that you do not experience sexual attraction?

00:54:46.360 I'm just trying to play out in my mind, like, what this would look like.

00:54:50.360 So someone comes up to you in the break room.

00:54:52.360 Hey, I don't know if we've met, work in accounting.

00:54:54.360 Anyway, I'm not sexually attracted to anyone.

00:54:56.360 Just thought you should know.

00:54:57.360 Okay, see you later.

00:54:58.360 Is that how it goes?

00:55:00.360 I guess so.

00:55:01.360 I guess so.

00:55:02.360 And then apparently the asexual gets offended when the other person asks basic follow-up questions. 0.88

00:55:07.360 Which is something they probably only do to be polite.

00:55:10.360 You think they actually want to know?

00:55:11.360 They're just trying to be courteous.

00:55:13.360 What else do you want them to do?

00:55:15.360 If you don't want to answer questions about your sex life or lack thereof, the best approach is to just not bring it up.

00:55:21.360 But if you bring it up, the other person might feel that they have to ask about it.

00:55:26.360 It might feel very awkward to hear that announcement about your sexlessness and then simply respond, okay, well, thanks for letting me know.

00:55:36.360 Anyway, now if it were me, I'd respond with something like, why the hell are you telling me that?

00:55:41.360 Why is this information that I needed to know?

00:55:43.360 But most people are more polite, unfortunately, and so they feel like they have to ask.

00:55:48.360 Like, oh, okay, what's that like?

00:55:53.360 Did not have sex with anyone ever.

00:55:56.360 Tell me more about it.

00:55:59.360 But, of course, I know why the asexuals are telling people. 0.94

00:56:02.360 It's because you've convinced yourself that your lack of asexual attraction is itself an identity.

00:56:09.360 Which, even if it is, okay, even if it's true that your lack of sexual attraction is an identity, you still don't need to tell people about it.

00:56:18.360 But it isn't an identity.

00:56:20.360 Asexuality certainly is not a sexual orientation, first of all.

00:56:24.360 It is literally the opposite of asexual orientation.

00:56:26.360 It is the negation of sexual orientation.

00:56:29.360 It also is not an identity.

00:56:31.360 Asexuality is a lack of something.

00:56:33.360 It's the absence of something.

00:56:34.360 It is not healthy or even coherent to find your identity in the absence of a thing.

00:56:40.360 You are defining yourself by what you aren't rather than what you are.

00:56:45.360 It's like if I walked up to somebody and said, hey, I'm Matt.

00:56:49.360 I'm not Chinese.

00:56:52.360 Now, it's true that I'm not Chinese, but it's very strange to lead with that fact.

00:56:56.360 Why would I find my identity in my not-Chineseness? 0.81

00:57:01.360 Am I so lacking in personality that being not Chinese is the most interesting thing about me? 0.99

00:57:07.360 I am a-Chinese.

00:57:09.360 A-Chinese. 1.00

00:57:10.360 A-Chinese. 1.00

00:57:11.360 One word.

00:57:12.360 Of course, the difference is that it's true to say that I am not Chinese.

00:57:17.360 Someone who claims to be asexual, on the other hand, is not only giving you incredibly irrelevant and uninteresting information about themselves that you didn't care to know, but they're also not really making sense. 0.66

00:57:27.360 Because typically in the animal kingdom, asexual means that a certain species can reproduce without mating.

00:57:33.360 Komodo dragons, for example.

00:57:35.360 And if your colleague at work is a Komodo dragon, that would be an interesting fact to know about them.

00:57:40.360 So, I mean, then in that case, if you're a Komodo dragon, you should probably tell people at work, at least it's interesting for them to know.

00:57:45.360 But most likely, if the person is human, asexual doesn't mean that.

00:57:50.360 It just means that they supposedly don't experience sexual attraction.

00:57:53.360 And it is at the very least convoluted to call this asexual.

00:57:58.360 It's not really asexual.

00:58:00.360 Either way, there's no reason to think that a person's lack of sexual attraction at any given moment is some kind of immutable state inherent to their identity.

00:58:08.360 And if it is, that's an indication that something is wrong.

00:58:12.360 Because human beings are sexual creatures, not asexual creatures.

00:58:17.360 A human who has no sexual attraction at all is suffering from some kind of deficiency. 0.74

00:58:21.360 Now, that doesn't make you inferior in any way, but it does mean, again, that it is unhealthy and strange to turn that into an identity in and of itself.

00:58:30.360 It's like making a vitamin C deficiency into your identity.

00:58:33.360 It just doesn't make any sense.

00:58:35.360 It would be better to get the problem fixed if you can.

00:58:39.360 If you can't, then you live with it.

00:58:42.360 But you don't need to live as it.

00:58:46.360 And there is a difference.

00:58:48.360 And those self-identified asexuals who struggle to see that difference are today, for all of these reasons, canceled.

00:58:55.360 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

00:58:57.360 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:58:59.360 Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

00:59:05.360 We'll be right back.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 03, 2023

Ep. 1256 - They Want You Dead And They Aren't Trying To Hide It

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