Ep. 1267 - The Left Claims There's An Epidemic Of 'Anti-Trans Violence.' Here's Why That Claim Is Total Nonsense.
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The White House and the media commemorated the Trans Day of Remembrance yesterday. They claim that 26 people have been killed in anti-trans violence. I looked into the numbers and you ll be shocked to learn that the claim is total nonsense. Also, the Department of Defense continues to pour more and more money into DEI programs. MSNBC worries that Trump will take office and immediately begin executing his political enemies. And the movement grows to replace Thanksgiving with a day of mourning for the Native American victims of alleged genocide. I ll explain why I still and will always celebrate Thanksgiving in spite of the propaganda.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the White House and the media commemorated the Trans Day of
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Remembrance yesterday. They claim that 26 people have been killed in anti-trans violence. I looked
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into the numbers and you'll be shocked to learn that the claim is total nonsense. Also, the
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Department of Defense continues to pour more and more money into DEI programs. MSNBC worries that
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Trump will take office and immediately begin executing his political enemies. And the movement
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grows to replace Thanksgiving with a day of mourning for the Native American victims of
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alleged genocide. I'll explain why I still and will always celebrate Thanksgiving in spite of the
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propaganda. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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One of the easiest ways to find out what is important to a group of people, whether it's a
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country, a culture, a congregation, or whatever, is to look at who they honor in death. And if you do
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that, you can find out pretty quickly what traits they think are important, what characteristics
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they want to emulate. The ancient Greeks built shrines to heroes and kings who won great battles.
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Nearly every culture until recently has honored people for similar reasons. If you go back through
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history, at least if you ignore satanic cults and fundamentalist terror groups, you'd be hard-pressed
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to find any group of people that goes out of its way to honor the most disordered and destructive
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members of society. The very idea of honoring immoral behavior, immoral people, is counterintuitive to
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most people because it flies in the face of human nature and of common sense. Societies that want
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to survive, which is the most fundamental instinct of all, you would think, don't want to reward thugs
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and criminals and other degenerates. If you do that, you just get more thugs, criminals, and other
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degenerates. That's why what happened at the White House yesterday was both revealing and disturbing,
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though not at all surprising. If you care about the future of this country, at least it's disturbing.
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Joe Biden's press secretary, Karen Jean Pair, announced solemnly that the White House was
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celebrating something called the Trans Day of Remembrance. And here's what she said.
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender Americans who were killed
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this year. Year after year, we see that these victims are disproportionately black women and women
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of color. No one should face violence or live in fear or be discriminated against simply for being
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themselves. Of course, the Trans Day of Remembrance is very important because it had been, you know,
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about three and a half days since the last day set aside to celebrate trans people. And we know we need
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to have at least two a week or it's a genocide. So she says that on the Trans Day of Remembrance,
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we grieve for the 26 transgender Americans who were killed this year. Now, notably absent from
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Karen Jean Pair's statement was any description of what these 26 victims were doing when they died.
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But all the same, she wants you to know that the federal government is honoring the memory of each
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and every one of them. They are secular saints. They are martyrs. They are heroes in the eyes of the
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Biden administration and of the left. They were martyred just for being trans. And in many
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cases, just for being black and trans. Now, just in case there was any doubt about the way that this
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is all being framed, Joe Biden made it explicit or rather Joe Biden's handlers who write all of
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his social media posts, of course, made that explicit. Biden's ex-account put out this statement,
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quote, quote, today on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the transgender Americans
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whose lives were taken this year. There's no place for hate or discrimination in America.
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No one should lose their life simply for being themselves. Now, various media outlets have
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repeated that framing. They've all come out and suggested that 26 people died just for being
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trans or non-binary or one of the other infinite gender identities. New York Daily News, for example,
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published this headline yesterday, quote, at least 33 trans people were killed in the U.S. in the past 12
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months amid a record year for anti-LGBTQ legislation. So they have a slightly different figure from the
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White House. They say 33 trans people died. Well, the White House said 26 trans people died. But
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in any event, the New York Daily News wants you to know that it's been a record year for anti-LGBTQ
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legislation, meaning that the legislation that outlaws, you know, chemical and physical castration
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of children and that the implication here is that that kind of legislation, somehow it's something to
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do with these trans people dying. Somehow legislators are committing murder just by passing laws that are
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overwhelmingly popular and, of course, also moral and necessary. Doesn't make a lot of sense, but the
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USA Today is on board. They joined in in all this and they published an article declaring that this
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White House sanctioned day of remembrance is a way to honor the, quote, lives that have been lost to
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anti-transgender violence. Now, again, what none of these statements from the Biden administration or
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these corporate media outlets ever get around to clarifying is this. Why exactly are we honoring
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these 26 dead trans people who were killed? Beyond the vague platitudes about anti-trans legislation and
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anti-trans violence, what are the specifics? Who are these people exactly? Why did they die?
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What exactly is happening? Well, the White House clearly doesn't want to say, but they know the answer
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because the White House based its statement on about 26 dead trans people on a list that was assembled
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recently by the so-called Human Rights Campaign or HRC. And if you're unfamiliar with HRC, if you listen
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to the show, you've heard about them before. But, you know, think of it like a Media Matters for trans
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activists, even though Media Matters already is the Media Matters for trans activists. And either way, HRC,
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they are dishonest in every possible respect. Like any other trans activist, they lie about everything
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all the time. Their sole purpose following the Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage is to further
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false narratives that demonize anyone in this country who believes in biology, because people
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who believe in biology tend to vote the wrong way as far as they're concerned. So on its website this
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week, HRC explained that this year, 26, quote, trans and gender non-conforming people were killed. HRC states
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that these are people who, quote, did not deserve to have their lives taken from them. So the clear
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implication of all this is that these people died because they were trans somehow. That is what
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is being directly claimed. That's what USA Today said. This is anti-transgender violence. This is all
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the result of hate, Biden claims. And here's the thing about all that. It's not remotely true. Not even
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close. So I went through this list of 26 trans people that were killed. And I went through it one by
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one. And here's what I can tell you. Then you're not supposed to do that. They're just supposed to
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tell you 26 people died. And then you say, oh, 26, 26 anti-trans hate crimes were committed.
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That's bad. That's all you're supposed to think. What you're not supposed to do is actually go and
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look at these cases. And I did that thing you're not supposed to do. And here's what I can tell you
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that there is not a single instance among these 26 so-called trans and gender non-conforming people
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where it has been proven that the killers were motivated by transphobia or for that matter,
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sexism or ableism or any other ism or phobia. Instead, there are a lot of cases like Banco
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Brown's. Now, according to HRC's description, Banco, quote, was killed by an armed security guard
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in San Francisco after an altercation with an armed security guard at a local Walgreens store.
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That's all pretty vague. Now, what exactly was Banco doing with this armed security guard?
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What happened exactly? Well, as it happens, we don't have to speculate about that because it
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was all caught on surveillance tape. And we know from the video that Banco Brown, who's a female,
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I believe, who identifies as male, tried to rob the Walgreens, tried to steal. A security guard
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tried to stop her. And then Banco started fighting with the guard. And then when she turned her back
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towards the guard while threatening to stab him, the guard opened fire. Now, it's not exactly a story
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about a virtuous transgender person who was murdered simply for being themselves,
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as Joe Biden and the HRC have said. Unless we're supposed to believe that, I don't know,
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stealing from Walgreens was some sort of expression of Banco Brown's inner truth.
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Now, to be fair, at this point, you might be tempted to overlook Banco Brown's inclusion
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on the White House list of 26 trans heroes and martyrs. You might want to say that the White House
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and the HRC just made a mistake by including that one person, that one thug who was trying
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to steal. And all the rest, you know, that's just one out of 26. But if you're thinking along those
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lines, you should know that it only gets worse from there. Another so-called trans person on the
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White House list goes by the name Tortuguida, whose real name is Manuel Tehran. Now, who is the
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Manuel Tehran, aka Tortuguida, exactly? Well, according to HRC, he was a, quote, 26-year-old
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indigenous queer and non-binary environmental activist and community organizer. HRC says that
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he was, quote, shot and killed by Georgia state troopers in Atlanta, Georgia on January 18th,
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2023 during an ongoing protest alongside other self-described forest defenders protesting against
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a proposed $90 million, 85-acre police training facility deemed cop city by activists. Now, what
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that description leaves out is that according to the local DA, Tehran was holed up in a tent,
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trespassing at the site of the planned police facility. And then authorities showed up,
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tried to get them to leave, ended up firing less lethal pepper ball rounds at him. And that's when
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Tehran fired four times from his nine millimeter pistol, striking a Georgia state trooper. Now,
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there is body cam footage of this incident, and you can hear the shots. You can kind of hear what's
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going on. Watch. Everybody activate their cameras. Like an infantry squad, APD officers slowly move
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through these woods. They zero in on this tent right here. This is the Atlanta Police Department.
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Please come out with your hands up. And begin to rip it apart. No one's in it, but one officer is
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concerned about what he found inside. Gasoline, anything that can be used to hurt. As they continue
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their patrol, four distinct shots are heard. Listen. And then dozens.
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Is this target practice? Officers appear to be confused until they figure out it's not target
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practice. And gunfire is close by. They take cover behind trees. They can't see what has happened
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and wait to get a clearer picture on police radio. And then they hear this.
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It's GSB SWAT. Is there an active shooter in the woods?
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No active shooter. Subject to barricade in that tent.
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Okay. So you heard the four shots that were apparently fired by Tehran and then return fire. So
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it seems that this person did not die because he was queer and non-binary, quote unquote. Instead,
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he apparently died as a result, first of illegally protesting at the planned location of a police
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training facility. He was trespassing. And that's why they came to Tehran. If you trespass on property
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that doesn't belong to you, you're going to get your tent tore down. That happens. I mean,
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unless you're in San Francisco or something, then that won't happen. And then, most crucially,
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he made the fateful decision to open fire on police officers, nearly killing a Georgia state trooper.
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And when you fire a gun at police officers, you will die. That's what's going to happen.
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The left claims that he never fired any shots, but according to police, forensics prove
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that the gun was his and he did fire it at them. Even still, in the wake of the shooting,
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left-wing activists have claimed that he was actually murdered in cold blood. They say that
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the police just executed this queer, non-binary environmental activist for no reason.
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There's no evidence to support that theory, but it really doesn't matter in this discussion anyway,
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because no matter what happened, it's extremely obvious that Tehran didn't die because the cops
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were transphobic. Even if the shooting was unjustified, which it doesn't at all appear to
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be, it still does not belong on a list of trans people who died for being themselves.
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So why was this person included on a list of 26 trans people that Joe Biden says died just because of
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who they were? It's a good question. Why are they putting Banco Brown and Manuel Tehran on this list
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if it's supposed to be a solemn remembrance of people who died because of their quote-unquote
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gender identity? Starting to look like it may not be an accident. Starting to look like the White
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House and the HRC want to tell us that no matter what trans people do, and no matter how they try to
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kill other people, no matter how they conduct themselves, no matter what crimes they commit,
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if they are killed in the process, it is automatically an anti-trans martyrdom.
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And as you go down the list provided by the HRC and endorsed by the White House,
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that seems more and more likely to be a case. Consider the case of Devani Jarae Johnson,
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who's another one of the 26 trans souls that we tragically lost this year. According to the HRC,
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Johnson, quote, was shot and killed on August 7th, 2023 during an altercation with a security guard
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just one day after her birthday. But again, as with Banco Brown, Manuel Tehran, they don't tell you
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what Johnson was actually doing in that altercation with a security guard just before, quote,
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her birthday. If you go digging for that information, you'll find that Johnson was attacking a security
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guard in a Ralph's supermarket with a fire extinguisher and a screwdriver. And then he was
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shot in self-defense. According to the LAPD, quote, the security guard informed officers that he shot
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the individual as the result of an armed confrontation. The wounded individual had armed
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themselves with a screwdriver and attempted to assault him. The wounded individual was transported by Los
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Angeles Fire Department personnel to a local hospital where they were pronounced dead. Now at this
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point, you have to take a step back and ask, did anyone on this list of 26 trans people die because
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of transphobia? Are any of these murders hate crimes? The media, the Biden administration are presenting
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them all as hate crimes. It's clear that not all of them are, or even most of them. Are any of them? As far
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as I can tell, the answer to that question is no. There's not one proven case the entire year of a trans
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person dying in a hate crime. At least three of these people were committing acts of violence when
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they died. Several others were out walking in the middle of the night in conspicuous locations like
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highways and motel rooms, which of course suggests prostitution might be involved in some of those
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cases. In other cases, it looks like these trans victims died randomly, and certainly not because
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of transphobia or racism or anything like that. One of the quote, unquote, trans victims on the list,
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for example, a 28-year-old black gender non-conforming person named Thomas Tom Tom Robertson was killed in a
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shooting that targeted somebody else. So it was just random. Tragedy. There's no transphobia, though.
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Several other victims on the list, including Camden Ryder, Luis Angel Diaz-Castro, and Sherilyn Marjorie
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were killed by partners or ex-partners. So this is a domestic thing. There's no sign that any of this
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was related to a hatred of trans people, since the killers were voluntarily dating these trans people.
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Another victim on the list, Asia Davis, was shot at night inside a hotel room in Michigan.
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We can speculate about what was going on in that hotel room, but the truth is that no one,
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including the Biden administration, is seriously suggesting or could seriously suggest that it was
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a right-wing bigot who randomly decided one day to hunt down and kill Asia Davis.
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21-year-old Unique Banks, meanwhile, died in a mass shooting. So the odds that Unique Banks was
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targeted for being trans seemed pretty low. But Unique Banks is being mourned by the White House
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as yet another victim of transphobia. A person who goes by the name Coco Didal is also on the
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White House list. And what about this person? Is his killer a MAGA Republican transphobe?
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Only on 11 Alive News, a mother is defending her teenage son. He's charged in the murder of a
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woman in Atlanta. His mom says her son did not pull the trigger. Coco Didal was found shot along
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Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near the Hamilton E. Holmes Marta Station two weeks ago. 17-year-old
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Jamarcus Jernigan is charged with murder. Now Jernigan's mother is refuting many points in the
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investigation, saying they'd never heard of Coco until her son was accused of killing her.
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I don't even know what this person's real name was because all the reporting is calling this person
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Coco Didal, which we can be pretty sure was not his real name. So 17-year-old Jamarcus
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probably didn't kill 35-year-old Coco Didal because he's a right winger. This was some kind
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of domestic issue apparently. And again, you could speculate. You could speculate about what a 35-year-old
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trans-identified male called Coco Didal was doing with a 17-year-old. They probably weren't getting
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together to play chess. We don't know, but it's got nothing to do with the anti-trans hate crimes.
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That much we do know. Now I can go on, but you get the point. But here's the kicker.
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Even if all 26 of these transgender people were killed by right-wing bigots solely because they're
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transgender, it would still in that case be safer to be transgender than any other demographic group
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in this country. There are roughly 1.6 million self-identifying trans people in this country right
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now. That means that if only 26 of them die every year, even if we were to accept that they're all hate
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crimes, which none of them are apparently, then the typical member of the trans community has a
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drastically lower risk of dying or being killed in any given year than the average U.S. citizen.
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By some estimates, they're roughly four times less likely to be killed. So this is a fraud. It is a
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hate crime myth that's been invented out of whole cloth. And none of it's new, by the way. Recently, trans
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activists and left-wing politicians have decided to run this scam every year. Back in 2019, the Federalist
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crunched the numbers on so-called trans violence or anti-trans violence, as reported by the HRC
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from 2015 to 2019. And they found that within this data set, quote, the two largest known categories
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of murders occur as a result of domestic violence and prostitution. The Federalist concluded, quote,
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what we do know from all available resources is that the violence these individuals experience
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occurs to a very broad range of people with diverse backgrounds and identities. It is clearly
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more an issue of high-risk environments than identity-based discrimination.
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But identity-based discrimination, even when it doesn't exist, of course, is all the White
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House wants to talk about. They have engineered a narrative with no basis in reality for the sole
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purpose of defaming the political opponents of the left and of the Biden administration.
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They're so desperate to concoct a trans genocide that they've lied and misrepresented every case they
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can. And yet, even after all that, they're only able to come up with 26 instances of violence against
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so-called trans people, and not a single confirmed case, not one, where the violence was committed
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because the person was trans. In the end, they have only accidentally proven that it is, in fact,
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much safer to be trans in this country than to not be trans. So it's all farcical. It reveals that
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we're governed by people who do not care about anyone, even the, quote, gender non-conforming
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community. They only care about themselves and gaining more power. As the past few days have
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shown, to that end, they're willing to lie about anything. They're even willing to honor thugs who
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try to beat up cops or beat up security guards at supermarkets with fire extinguishers.
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These are the heroes of the Biden administration. These are the degenerates whose legacy they want us to
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honor. They don't care about the Christians murdered by that transgender terrorist. They won't memorialize
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those dead men, women, and children. They won't praise the police officers who stopped more bloodshed by
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rushing into that school. Instead, they'll eulogize Banco Brown and Manuel Tehran. You know, most societies
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throughout all of history would call this kind of celebration a form of cultural suicide, a guarantee
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that the worst among us will be rewarded and propagated until society itself can't exist
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anymore. But the Biden administration, corporate media, trans activists, they have a different name
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for all this. They call it the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Daily Wire has this report. The Department of Defense could drop nearly $270 million in taxpayer funds
00:24:35.160
to further the diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility DEI agenda from fiscal years
00:24:41.320
2022 to 2024. The DOD has scaled up its spending on DEIA in the past. DEIA. What's the A? Oh,
00:24:54.580
accessibility. So we've added an A. I didn't even know we did that. So we added, this is a big moment.
00:24:58.600
We've added a, so we're going to do, so with DEI, we're going to do the same thing we're doing with LGBT.
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So you take any of these initialisms, they just can't, the left, they can't help, but they just
00:25:09.020
keep adding to them. So we've got DEI, now it's DEIA. And spending jumped from $68 million in fiscal
00:25:18.280
year 2022 to $86.5 million in fiscal year 2023. Then the figure surged another $28.2 million to $114
00:25:28.180
million in the Department's initial request for fiscal year 2024. The DOD's initial request for DEIA
00:25:34.960
funding is included in the final legislation. The Department will, if it is, rather, the Department
00:25:41.580
will have spent $269.2 million on diversity initiatives across fiscal years 2022, 23, and 24,
00:25:49.100
which is an average of almost $90 million per year. So this is what the Pentagon's up to,
00:25:55.220
is what the Department of Defense is up to. And it's good news as always, even as the administration
00:26:01.000
seems dead set on getting us involved in every possible foreign conflict, even as we face the
00:26:06.680
possibility of World War III, even as our country is run by these globalists who want to have us
00:26:15.160
traipsing all over the world and policing the entire world. We are at the same time actively weakening
00:26:21.800
our military, actively making it less powerful and weaker and more feminine and focusing on
00:26:30.640
everything that we can besides making it a more effective fighting and killing force, which is
00:26:36.560
what the military is supposed to be. And the people in the military, you know, they signed up to serve
00:26:41.820
their country. And instead they get DEI lectures. And what makes it, I mean, there are a lot of very
00:26:50.960
obvious reasons why this is troubling to see in the military. But one of the worst things about it is
00:26:57.100
that you've got, I mean, literally a captive audience. It's, I mean, it's bad enough when you
00:27:03.880
have this in the corporate world, but at least you could leave your job.
00:27:07.480
Um, it'd be difficult finding another job that doesn't have all this stuff, but you can leave
00:27:13.160
your job. In the military, it's like not nearly that easy. And so you are helplessly subjected to it.
00:27:22.800
And the indignities don't stop there, by the way. Uh, there's another, there's a video that went viral
00:27:27.360
yesterday that, um, has nothing to do with DEI, but it does have everything to do with the way that
00:27:32.640
our government treats the military and the people that signed up to serve the country. So this is a guy,
00:27:37.480
uh, in the army, it's a soldier leaving the service and revealing how, when he went to turn
00:27:43.500
his gear in, they charged him $4,000 that he had to pay them. He had to pay the government for gear
00:27:51.100
that was lost, but it was lost not because he lost it himself. He knows where it is. It's in Afghanistan
00:27:59.180
because he was told by his superiors to leave it behind. And then they charged him for it anyway.
00:28:06.600
It's just like, it's flat out extortion. This is the, the thank you that he gets for serving his
00:28:12.980
country. Let's watch a little bit of that video. I want to share something with you guys today.
00:28:18.400
I want to holler. I want to scream. I want to yell, but it won't do any good. Um,
00:28:25.720
today is gear turn in day for me. I turn in all the gear that I've collected over the last four
00:28:33.580
years of being active duty with the army, with the 82nd airborne division. Two years ago, my unit
00:28:40.700
deployed to Afghanistan for the Afghanistan withdrawal. We spent a few weeks over there.
00:28:46.580
It was hectic. It was chaotic. It was disgusting. And it made me very disappointed in our government
00:28:53.440
today. I'm reminded of how disappointed I am in our government.
00:29:00.300
Go to turn in my gear. They want to charge me 500 to a thousand dollars for gear that I was
00:29:07.760
ordered to leave in Afghanistan two years ago, because as the last two birds were sitting on the
00:29:13.160
tarmac, ready to leave, there wasn't any room for extra gear, extra weight. Therefore we were told
00:29:19.380
to leave it. Some lower enlisted dudes, including myself, were like, no, this stuff is expensive.
00:29:25.760
I'm not leaving this. I'm going to get charged for this when it comes time to leave. Don't worry.
00:29:31.060
We're going to catch you on the back end. You know, we'll flipple it now. It's time to get out of
00:29:38.020
the army and they just want to, they want to charge you for, for that. Meanwhile.
00:29:43.220
So then the video ends with him showing his final bill. I mean, it's for those who served in the,
00:29:50.160
in the, there's a lot of, uh, a lot of comments to this people that were in the military,
00:29:53.800
not at all surprised by this and saying, yeah, this is what they do to you. Um, those of us who
00:29:58.800
do not serve, it's like actually surprising. What do you mean? You have to pay, they give you a bill
00:30:03.500
when you leave that you have to pay. What the hell? Um, which is, which should be crazy regardless.
00:30:11.560
But in this case, when they tell you to leave it behind, then they charge you for leaving it behind.
00:30:16.720
I mean, like I said, it's extortion. This is just extortion. And, um, and he, the video ends with him
00:30:23.940
showing the bill that he got and it tallied up to about $4,000. You know, I have to admit this. I mean,
00:30:29.980
I hate to admit it, but a few days ago, um, I was actually talking to my, to my son who's,
00:30:36.080
who's only 10 and, you know, we have a lot of conversations about what he wants to do when he
00:30:40.640
grows up and he has a lot of different ideas, you know, as kids, that's typical of, of kids, of course.
00:30:47.700
And his latest thing that he told me very few days ago is that he wants to be, uh, he wants to be
00:30:53.360
in the army. He wants to be a soldier. And, uh, you know, he's 10, so he'll probably change his
00:30:59.380
mind in two seconds anyway, but I actually dissuaded him, uh, you know, from, from, from that. Um,
00:31:06.100
I did not say, oh, that's, yeah, you should definitely do that. That's great.
00:31:09.980
Now, I mean, 10 years ago, if you had told me that I would actively try to dissuade my own sons
00:31:15.160
from joining the military, uh, I would not have believed you. Uh, or if I did believe you,
00:31:20.240
I would have assumed that that meant I'd gone insane and turned into some full on full blown
00:31:24.540
lib, but well, I might be insane, but I'm not a, I'm not a lib. And yet I dissuaded him gently.
00:31:31.720
Of course, it's not like I said, no son of mine, no son of mine will do that. I didn't say that.
00:31:36.580
We just kind of talked about it very briefly and it wasn't a big deal. And I sort of redirected him
00:31:40.320
and, uh, and we moved on and, you know, if someone had heard that conversation, it wouldn't
00:31:44.900
have sounded like a big, it wouldn't have sounded like some sort of really serious talk we were having.
00:31:48.180
Um, but to me, it was kind of a big deal because it was a sort of the final moment where I really
00:31:54.860
officially realized that I don't want my own sons joining the military. I don't want them to serve
00:31:59.240
their country. I don't. Um, how could I, at this point, do I want my sons to now, if they become
00:32:09.500
adults and they decide they want to do that and that's what they do, of course, I'll support them
00:32:13.300
and I'll be, uh, proud of them for, um, for pursuing that, that goal. But do I want my sons
00:32:23.300
to sign their lives away where they'll be subjected to this like DEI woke indoctrination and be powerless
00:32:30.600
against it? Do I, do I want that for them? Would I recommend it? No. Like, do I want them to be
00:32:38.700
in a position where they're going to, where they're going to have this crazy left-wing indoctrination
00:32:42.280
and they can't do anything about it? Do I want them to potentially be sent off to die on foreign
00:32:47.380
soil in defense of some foreign nation that has nothing to do with us, a country they've never
00:32:53.640
been to and don't care about at the behest of a, of, of a bunch of corrupt soulless bureaucrats?
00:33:00.460
I don't want that. I respect people who joined, but I, I feel the same way about it as I do about
00:33:07.420
the police. Um, I, if my, any of my kids said they wanted to become police officers, I would say,
00:33:16.280
again, if you're an adult, I can't stop you, but don't do that. Um, not because I hate the cops,
00:33:23.120
but because I don't want my own kid to sign up for a situation where he will be tasked with enforcing
00:33:28.840
the law, but then also told that if he tries to enforce it, he might go to prison.
00:33:36.020
I would be terrified of that. My kid signed up to be a cop at this point.
00:33:39.840
And that's another one that, you know, years ago, if you had told me that as a father,
00:33:44.040
I would not want my own son to be, uh, uh, if they told me they wanted to be in law enforcement,
00:33:48.200
I would try to persuade them not to. I wouldn't, I wouldn't have believed you if you had told me
00:33:52.900
that 10 years ago, but, but I, I would know that they'd be in a situation where, you know, if,
00:33:58.700
if, if they have to enforce the law, they could go to prison for it. So it's a lose-lose situation.
00:34:07.060
I don't want my kids signing up for a lose-lose situation. And, uh, the military is the same kind
00:34:12.180
of thing now, a lose-lose situation in a lot of ways. It shouldn't be, but it is. And, um, I can tell
00:34:23.000
you one thing. I'm certainly not the only parent who, and I don't mean left-wing. I'm talking about,
00:34:27.920
I've talked to many conservatives who have kids who feel exactly this way about it.
00:34:32.560
And that's a problem because we also need cops and we need the military. But as parents,
00:34:39.220
we look at the state of these institutions, not because of the rank and file they sign up for,
00:34:45.560
but because of the people leading it. And we look at that and we say, I don't want my kid anywhere
00:34:49.280
near that. Talk about a lose-lose situation. It creates a lose-lose situation for the country.
00:34:53.560
And there's just no, there's no happy ending to it. I don't know what to say.
00:34:58.580
MSNBC has a dire prediction about what will happen during Trump's second term. And here's what they
00:35:04.360
say. Reverend Allen, people go, oh, you can't compare him to past Nazi leaders. You can't
00:35:10.240
compare him to this past Nazi leader or that past fascist leader because he hasn't done that. Well,
00:35:16.720
what hasn't he done? He hasn't done the things that the American judicial system did not allow him to
00:35:26.180
do last time, but may very well allow him to do this time or a judicial system that will be ignored
00:35:35.140
by Donald Trump and ran over by Donald Trump to create the greatest constitutional crisis of our
00:35:42.200
lifetimes. Just because he hasn't done it yet, doesn't mean he won't do it when he gets a chance
00:35:49.880
to do it. And if he has voted into office, then a lot of these people that are talking about literal
00:35:55.700
or figurative or whatever the hell they're saying, you're going to look like idiots because he will
00:36:02.680
do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute whoever he's allowed to imprison,
00:36:13.680
execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It's not really hard to read. Again,
00:36:23.100
the only thing that stood between him and the destruction of American democracy was the federal
00:36:29.700
judiciary. No doubt about it. So it's funny that they're staying with this line of attack against
00:36:38.160
Trump when it's not even close to the truth. I mean, that's not the fact that they're, can you
00:36:44.740
believe they're attacking Trump by saying things that aren't true? This is unheard of. And that part
00:36:50.020
is not even, certainly not even funny at this point. It's just absolutely par for the course.
00:36:55.920
But it's just the proper, you know, the correct criticism of Trump is the opposite of what they're
00:37:07.920
saying. It's actually the opposite. Trump is the opposite of a dictator. You know, and not that I
00:37:19.240
want him to be a murderous tyrant, that's not what I would want to see happen, obviously. But my point
00:37:29.780
is that his flaw as a leader and what we saw for the four years that he was in office, the flaw is all
00:37:38.100
the way on the other end of that spectrum. The actual reality-based criticism of Trump is that he did not
00:37:47.240
wield his power nearly enough. And there's a lot of room in between, like, what Trump did and being
00:37:55.520
a dictator. He's not even close. Trump was not somebody who ruthlessly used his power to advance
00:38:03.700
his agenda. I wish he was. I don't want to be a murderous tyrant. Nobody wants that. That's why we
00:38:09.620
call the murderous tyrants. But do I want him to, like, use, to wield the power that he has,
00:38:17.380
advance his agenda? And yes, be a little ruthless in doing so. Be calculated and ruthless in wielding
00:38:24.460
power to advance the agenda that you're running on and that the people who voted for you want to
00:38:29.740
see advance. Yes, that's what I want to see. And if he actually did that, then yeah, then, of course,
00:38:37.000
the left would even more. Well, he's a dictator. But they're saying that anyways. This is all the
00:38:42.060
more reasons. Like, you might as well. No matter what you do, if you're Donald Trump, you are Hitler.
00:38:47.340
It doesn't matter what you do. Okay, you go and adopt a puppy. You rescue a kitten from a tree,
00:38:55.480
and you're Hitler for doing it. So no matter what you do, you're Hitler.
00:39:00.080
And so if the concern from Trump, and he is far too concerned about what the media says about him,
00:39:04.480
then he should be. If the concern from Trump is, oh, yeah, if I use the power, if I do this,
00:39:09.940
if I do that, you know, it's like when he's asked why he didn't fire Fauci, he says, wow,
00:39:15.200
they would have, the media would have, they would have killed me over that. Well, they're killing you
00:39:19.920
every day anyway. It's like they already have the level of outrage that they would have had
00:39:26.500
if you fired Fauci, even though you didn't. So like, if you're concerned about their outrage,
00:39:30.640
which you shouldn't be, you might as well do it because you're already at maximum outrage all
00:39:35.820
the time directed at you from the media. So there's really nothing you can do that would
00:39:40.180
increase the outrage. It's at maximum level always. So they are, the media with this criticism,
00:39:47.200
they are obviously completely, it's like they're all the way on the other side of reality with this
00:39:53.080
thing. Um, which again is what we expect, but you know, the thing is a, if they're going to exaggerate
00:40:03.000
and this is like way beyond exaggerating, but if they're going to exaggerate in an effort to
00:40:09.340
criticize Trump, probably a more effective exaggeration would be that one that is on the
00:40:15.460
end of the spectrum where he actually occupied. If they were to say, oh, he didn't do anything the
00:40:20.880
entire time. All he did was watch Fox news. He sat, he laid in bed in his pajamas and didn't do
00:40:25.180
anything. He wore pajamas for the entire time. He spent 14 hours a day laying in bed, watching Fox
00:40:34.580
news. That would be a gross exaggeration of what Trump actually did. But at least you're like
00:40:38.920
on the end of the spectrum that is reality where it's, he did not advance the agenda enough,
00:40:44.380
did not use his power nearly enough. And if Republicans in the white house, whoever that
00:40:51.800
Republican is, uh, they need to be someone who is willing to, who understands the power that they
00:40:57.760
have and, and understands how to use it and is willing to do it no matter how it looks.
00:41:06.780
All right. Um, well, this is kind of a longer one. We don't really have time for it, but we'll
00:41:12.580
touch on it anyway. Uh, New York times has this headline. The headline is this is not the way to
00:41:19.740
help depressed teenagers. And it's a whole, it's a, it is a, uh, an op-ed that it's worth reading the
00:41:25.800
entire thing. Read a little bit of it says Dr. Saxby is a clinical psychologist and professor of
00:41:31.140
psychology at the university of Southern California. Um, ever since the pandemic, when rates of teenage
00:41:35.600
suicide, anxiety, depression spiked, policymakers around the world have pushed to make, uh, mental
00:41:41.940
health resources more broadly available to young people through programming in schools and on social
00:41:47.040
media platforms. Um, the strategy is well-attentioned traditional therapy can be expensive and time
00:41:53.440
consuming. Access can be limited by contrast, large scale, light touch interventions, tick tock
00:41:58.820
offerings from Harvard school of public health, grief coping workshops in junior high aim to reach
00:42:04.500
young people where they are at relatively low cost. But there's now reason to think that this
00:42:08.960
approach is risky. Recent studies have found that several of these programs not only failed to help
00:42:13.320
young people, they also made their mental health problems worse. Understanding why these efforts
00:42:17.980
backfired can shed light on how society can and can't help teenagers who are suffering from depression
00:42:23.340
and anxiety. Consider a social emotional skills training school program called Wise Teens, led by
00:42:29.780
clinical psychologists and training. It consists of eight weekly hour-long classroom sessions in which
00:42:34.360
students learn to manage their emotions with the help of tools and principles drawn from cognitive
00:42:38.880
behavior therapy and Zen Buddhism. Last month, the journal Behavior Research and Therapy published a study
00:42:45.080
of, uh, about a thousand Australian teenagers who were observed from 2017 to 2018. One group participated
00:42:50.640
in Wise Teens, another group participated in standard health class curriculum. And, uh, just to summarize,
00:42:55.860
it turns out that the students who were in this kind of, um, therapeutic environment, uh, fared worse.
00:43:01.600
And then there are other examples that they bring forth of students who are in these kind of
00:43:05.280
therapeutic, uh, uh, programs meant to help them cope with anxiety and depression, but it actually
00:43:10.800
makes them worse. And, uh, why is that happening? Well, there's a few theories that are put forward.
00:43:18.240
It says, first, by focusing teenagers' attention on mental health issues, these interventions may have
00:43:22.420
unwittingly exacerbated their problems. Lucy Foulkes, an Oxford psychologist, calls this phenomenon
00:43:29.640
prevalence inflation. When greater awareness of mental illness leads people to talk of normal life
00:43:35.100
struggles in terms of symptoms and diagnoses, these sorts of labels begin to dictate how people view
00:43:41.000
themselves in ways that can become self-fulfillment, fulfilling. Teenagers who are still developing their
00:43:46.520
identities are especially prone to take psychological labels to heart. Instead of saying, uh, I am
00:43:52.340
nervous about X, a teenager might say, I can't do X because I have anxiety. A reframing that research
00:43:59.680
shows undermines resilience by encouraging people to view everyday challenges as insurmountable. Anyway,
00:44:04.600
okay, so you can read the entire thing. This is, um, what we're starting to see is that more and more
00:44:09.760
people are beginning, only beginning, just barely starting to understand the problems with living in a
00:44:17.160
therapeutic culture, a culture where everyone is encouraged to constantly think about themselves,
00:44:22.000
themselves and their own emotional states and be going to therapy and be taking medicine and
00:44:27.920
everything all the time. A society where the human condition has been categorized and medicalized and
00:44:33.600
diagnosed. Um, I think people are starting to see the issues with it. Now I've been talking about this
00:44:38.720
problem for years. Mostly I've been ignored. I'm still mostly ignored about it, but I think in the coming
00:44:45.220
years, people will increasingly wake up to this and they will see that we have just entirely handed our
00:44:52.700
culture, our country, ourselves, our humanity over to the psychiatric industry, which means that over
00:45:01.460
time people will see that the issues stretch far beyond what the New York times has been talking about.
00:45:05.700
Um, what we've done, you know, focusing just on young people for a moment, what we've done is we, we,
00:45:11.620
we have programmed them to look inwards always. So like they don't see the outside world. They're
00:45:19.600
constantly staring back at themselves, thinking about themselves, thinking about how they're feeling,
00:45:24.880
thinking about how they feel about how they feel and how they feel about how they feel about how they,
00:45:28.400
it creates this like infinite regress of self-obsession and they can't get out of their own
00:45:35.240
heads. And when I say can't get out of their head, their own heads, not in the sense that we used to
00:45:40.400
use phrases like that, you know, we, in the past, if you had said that, oh, that person can't get out
00:45:44.440
of their own head, uh, you might've meant it in the sense that like their heads in the clouds.
00:45:49.240
And this is someone who's say very philosophically minded, a very intellectual person, someone, uh,
00:45:56.220
that can't get out of his own head because he's constantly contemplating the mysteries of the
00:46:02.000
universe, or he's thinking about the nature of consciousness and where it comes from and that
00:46:06.660
sort of thing. Um, there there's that sense in which a person can't get out of their own heads.
00:46:14.460
And the thing is, you know, say what you want about that kind of mentality. It's obviously much
00:46:18.900
better for the individual and for humanity than this sense of not being able to get out of your own
00:46:26.140
head, which is that we've got all these young people and older people who are trapped in their
00:46:31.640
own heads because the, not because they're thinking about something beyond themselves and
00:46:36.520
they're contemplating mysteries of the universe and not because they're, they're, they're too
00:46:40.180
intellectual and not practical enough, but because they're complete, they're just bundles of emotion
00:46:45.120
and they're, they're always thinking about all of their intention is, is turned back within
00:46:51.980
themselves. Um, and this is what the therapeutic are, what I would call our therapeutic culture
00:47:02.040
encourages. It's how people are, uh, uh, are conditioned and we just can't function this
00:47:08.000
way. And then part of that is, and you see this, especially in young people, it's part of
00:47:15.040
what this article is, is, is, is grasping at is that you've got young people that, that don't
00:47:19.940
understand that suffering and discomfort, anxiety, uh, sadness, these are all normal. This is all part
00:47:31.820
of being human and you will never escape them. Um, you just won't. And, and you might say, well,
00:47:43.020
that's not fair. I, uh, so you're telling me that, that, that I will always have suffering and that
00:47:49.180
there'll always be pain and sadness in my life no matter what I do. Yeah, that is just, that's human
00:47:55.520
existence. That's what human existence entails. Um, anxiety, especially, that's why I'm always
00:48:02.360
talking about the fact that we turned anxiety into a disease is so insane. I, I, and I know that most
00:48:11.060
people still are not far enough along here to, this is, this is, I'm going too far for most people
00:48:15.240
when I, even if people that track me up till now, when I say that, when I suggest that this is, that
00:48:19.160
anxiety is not at all a mental illness, that's what, well, no, no, no, that's not true. I, I, I have
00:48:24.080
anxiety. It's different for me. You don't understand. I need medicine. My anxiety is different from
00:48:28.920
yours. It's so much worse. How do you know that? How the hell do you know that? You're not in
00:48:35.440
anybody else's mind. Do you understand you're not in anyone else's mind that you're experiencing
00:48:40.360
these emotions and you're simply assuming that it is so much worse for you than anybody else?
00:48:45.560
Do you understand that that assumption is based in nothing at all? No, anxiety is part of life.
00:48:54.020
Like everyone experiences anxiety at some level, like always. I mean, there's always at least a, a,
00:49:00.400
a, uh, baseline level of anxiety that undergirds all of human experience.
00:49:10.360
Well, that doesn't sound very fun. Yeah. You're not, it's not, I, it's not, I'm not saying it's
00:49:15.340
good. It just is though. And we have now created generations of people who do not understand this.
00:49:22.020
Like they don't understand what it is to be human. That that's what's at stake here. What's at stake is
00:49:28.620
a, is a society of people who don't know what it, they don't know how to be people. They don't know
00:49:33.580
what it means to be a person. Um, and, uh, I'm glad that some people are starting to catch on very
00:49:42.560
slowly to this issue. Um, but we need to speed it up. We need to speed the realization process up
00:49:47.840
because pretty soon we are going to live in a country where literally everybody is on a psychiatric
00:49:52.420
drug and has been numbed into basically unconsciousness. That, that is where we're headed.
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If we don't, uh, if this process of, of realizing that I'm right, uh, does not speed up quite a bit.
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today. First comment says, hi Matt, you would, uh, you said that asking whether legalizing weed would
00:52:10.140
be good for society is the first question to ask when debating the topic. Legalizing weed in limited
00:52:14.540
circumstances would be good for society under a certain set of circumstances. One, you can only
00:52:19.000
get it medically, not recreationally, and only for a verifiable ailment. You can only consume it at home
00:52:24.660
or in designated locations. Um, you can't walk around or drive while obviously under the influence.
00:52:31.640
People who suffer chronic pain, uh, especially people who used to, uh, treat that pain with opiates,
00:52:37.180
but no longer can due to new regulations can get out of that chronic pain with the help of weed.
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Yeah, I, uh, I agree. I agree with that actually. I, um, I would put medicalized marijuana in a
00:52:48.540
separate category. I 100% think that medicalized marijuana. Now, of course, uh, as this has happened
00:52:55.380
with many other forms of medication, when you, you know, it becomes very easy for people to game the
00:53:01.980
system and, and say, Oh, I needed, I have a back pain, you know, cause you can't, it's impossible
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to prove if someone has back pain or not, but you're always going to have that. Um, you're going
00:53:12.240
to have that with any kind of medicine. That's not an argument for having no medicine, obviously.
00:53:15.900
And, uh, so for, for, for medicinal purposes as a painkiller, essentially, um, I think, uh, I think
00:53:22.480
it's, it, it is fine. And if someone has like terminal illness and this is something that, um,
00:53:28.560
eases the pain, then, and you're at a level where, uh, either, you know, you're dealing with the kind
00:53:36.560
of pain, the kind of chronic pain that either we're going to say to that person, you can't take
00:53:40.840
anything and you have to suffer in unimaginable pain. And we don't want to say that, but if we're
00:53:46.360
not going to say that, then, then we're at a level where it's like a Tylenol is not going to do it.
00:53:49.960
And so whatever they're taking is something that's going to, you know, have an effect on
00:53:53.540
their minds. Potentially it's something that's going to be a little bit more hardcore, shall we
00:53:57.440
say? And once you're at that level of painkillers, I think that marijuana is better than a lot of the
00:54:02.180
alternatives. Um, uh, so yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm fine with that, but I think it's really easy to have
00:54:09.220
that as sort of a carve out when we're talking about marijuana. Uh, Devon says a bit disingenuous
00:54:15.440
with the January 6th footage. Here's a, here is a tourist innocently walking through the
00:54:19.800
airport on the morning of September 11th, 2001. It's one of the hijackers who seized a plane that
00:54:25.920
day. I guess he's innocent because he was at, he was peaceful at some point that day.
00:54:32.320
Okay. I'm going to assume that you're just trolling. I'd like to assume that you're just
00:54:37.340
trolling and that's not a serious argument, but I, unfortunately these days I can't assume that.
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Well, tell me, um, this hijacker who was walking around the airport, uh, peacefully, as you say,
00:54:49.440
like what happened? Why was he in the airport? What were his intentions? What did he do
00:54:54.160
sometime later in that day? Did he fly an airplane into a building? Did he participate in the murder of
00:55:00.600
3000 people? Yes, he did. Um, what, and what about January 6th? Was that, did, did, so yes, I, I know
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we showed the people, the videos of people walking around casually and you're right that if they were
00:55:14.100
walking casually on their way to murdering 3000 people, then it would be very stupid for me to show
00:55:21.080
the part where they're walking casually and then say that that proves the whole thing is peaceful
00:55:25.040
because now I'm in, now I'm CNN level stupid where they show, uh, you know, BLM riots and they show
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the parts where people happen to be like walking on their way to burning the building down and they
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say, Oh, it's mostly peaceful. Right. But I'm not doing that because the 3000 murders never happened.
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In fact, uh, the, uh, the, uh, January 6th, um, uh, they didn't murder anybody. The only person who was
00:55:50.320
killed, um, as a direct result of violence on January 6th was Ashley Babbitt who was killed by
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a police officer. Finally, evidence says going to Mars is literally the dumbest and most pointless
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human venture ever. Elon Musk makes fancy toys that do nothing for humanity. I've already, I think
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I've already addressed this. You're really trying to bait me into, I will give the whole speech again.
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I don't care how late the show is going. I'll go, I'll do another 10 minutes on it.
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I would, but I won't. All I'll say is, okay, so Elon Musk is, is not doing anything for humanity.
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Uh, like unlike you, right? What, what are you doing exactly? If you want to know what, what doing
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nothing for humanity looks like, then you can look in the mirror. That's, that's what, that's,
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that's what just like existing and doing nothing and contributing nothing looks like.
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Building rocket ships to go into outer space. I don't care why you're going to, I don't care where
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Well, you know, Thanksgiving is a wonderful time. It's my favorite holiday. It's a time
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for celebration, gratitude, time to gather around the table with your family, enjoy a wonderful meal,
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reflect on all the things that you're thankful for, and that is unless you are a deranged leftist,
00:59:00.500
in which case you will insist that Thanksgiving is not so simple. There are nuances, as you like to
00:59:06.380
say. Thanksgiving is deeply problematic, and that's why every year around this time of year,
00:59:11.980
you'll start seeing articles like this one, which was just published in The Nation, headline,
00:59:16.260
Should America Keep Celebrating Thanksgiving? Now, the article presents two competing perspectives.
00:59:21.320
Both sides of the discussion are put forward, and you have to give The Nation credit at least for
00:59:25.380
giving both sides of the debate. As dumb as you might think the debate is, at least they gave both
00:59:31.360
sides. And, you know, that's honestly more than I would expect from this publication. So here's the
00:59:37.300
first argument presented by a guy named Sean Sherman. Quote, quote, the sanitized version of Thanksgiving
00:59:44.120
neglects to mention the violence, land theft, and subsequent decimation of indigenous populations.
00:59:49.160
Needless to say, this causes tremendous distress to those of us who are still reeling from the trauma
00:59:55.040
of these events to our communities. Thanksgiving's roots are intertwined with colonial aggression.
01:00:00.660
One of the first documented Thanksgivings came in 1637, after the colonists celebrated their
01:00:05.620
massacre of an entire Pequot village. I do not think we need to end Thanksgiving, but we do need to
01:00:12.700
decolonize it. That means centering the indigenous perspective and challenging the colonial narratives
01:00:18.480
around the holiday and every other day on the calendar. By reclaiming authentic histories and
01:00:23.300
practices, decolonization seeks to honor indigenous values, identities, and knowledge. This approach is
01:00:28.820
one of constructive evolution. In decolonizing Thanksgiving, we acknowledge this painful past
01:00:34.520
while reimagining our lives in a more truthful manner. Now, by the way, in case this wasn't clear,
01:00:41.060
that was the pro-Thanksgiving side of the debate. So they have two sides of the debate. That's what
01:00:47.720
the pro-side sounds like. The Thanksgiving defender is a guy who thinks that the European settlers were
01:00:55.600
evil, genocidal colonizers. So if that's what he thinks, here's what the opponent of the holiday has
01:01:03.080
to say. You want to give thanks? Give thanks to native nations who granted settlers some form of
01:01:08.600
legitimacy by entering into treaties, recognizing them to be in our homelands. Those treaties recognize
01:01:13.660
that Americans are now under our spiritual custody and have rights to pass through our country.
01:01:18.980
As soon as Americans were able to impose their will on indigenous nations, the treaties were violated.
01:01:24.460
Some indigenous nations do not have treaties, and legally this means their nation should be intact.
01:01:29.300
Those of us who have treaties have defensible legal claims to lands that are now occupied by private
01:01:34.100
American settlers under U.S. law. November is already Native American Heritage Month.
01:01:39.500
Thanksgiving could be something better, a day to appreciate the truth of a Native American history
01:01:43.480
and Native Americans' contributions to our lives. Let's tell a different story by dropping the lie
01:01:49.300
of Thanksgiving and begin a truth-giving. Yes, let's tell the truth of Thanksgiving, he says.
01:01:56.500
Let's tell the story that no one's ever heard before. And that's why every year around this time,
01:02:01.940
there are dozens of articles and videos talking about the alleged truth that nobody is allegedly
01:02:08.480
talking about. You find this narrative everywhere now. Even the website Delish.com, which is usually
01:02:14.800
a website where you post recipes and cooking tips, well, they have an article titled,
01:02:19.760
The Dark Truth Behind the Origins of Thanksgiving. The Real Story Isn't What You Learned in School.
01:02:25.600
A few years ago, Teen Vogue celebrated the day by gathering around a group of sullen,
01:02:29.700
surly, and Native American girls to scowl at us and tell us, quote,
01:02:38.240
Happy Thanksgiving, America. I'm Donna, and I'm here with my friends to tell you the real
01:02:46.240
Growing up, I knew that what they told you in school about Thanksgiving wasn't true.
01:02:51.180
That's not the true story. The true story behind Thanksgiving was,
01:02:55.040
after every killing of a whole village, these European settlers celebrated it,
01:03:00.560
and they called it Thanksgiving. But it wasn't until Abraham Lincoln became president
01:03:07.940
He ordered 38 Dakota men to be hung for war crimes
01:03:13.760
We take this time to remember our elders who lost their lives due to what really happened.
01:03:23.200
Usually, my mom makes a Native American dish for us, and we pray.
01:03:28.500
Growing up, I would be kind of annoyed that they didn't know what actually happened on Thanksgiving,
01:03:32.920
and that they're actually celebrating the deaths of many people.
01:03:43.540
You think you're celebrating family, togetherness, and all that happy stuff,
01:03:48.020
These unhappy Native American girls, they will tell you what you're celebrating,
01:03:51.800
and they say that you are celebrating murder and death.
01:03:56.240
Which, I mean, you know, how many, I guess they're right.
01:03:58.940
Like, how many times, countless times, that we've all been sitting around the Thanksgiving table,
01:04:04.000
and someone says, you know, let's go around the table and talk about what we're thankful for.
01:04:10.260
And then, you know, everybody says, well, I'm thankful for murder and death.
01:04:20.400
And that's why Thanksgiving has been declared, by some, a national day of mourning.
01:04:25.500
Here's the ABC affiliate in Boston explaining this day of mourning.
01:04:33.820
Raising their voices to be heard after feeling silenced for centuries.
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400 years later, we join to raise our voices high that we are still here.
01:04:50.780
indigenous people of Massachusetts protested the holiday that, for them, is not one to celebrate.
01:04:57.560
Plymouth is rich with history, but not the truth of the Indians.
01:05:01.360
Our presence here is a stark reminder of the true story of Thanksgiving
01:05:04.700
that differs from so much from the fable story shared in classrooms,
01:05:09.200
history books, and celebrations across this nation.
01:05:11.980
Since 1970, the Wampanoag tribe has declared Thanksgiving a national day of mourning
01:05:17.780
for the loss of indigenous people, culture, and land.
01:05:23.100
I think that was, that woman's name was Chief Ladybug, and she was dressed as a ladybug.
01:05:30.400
This is apparently what the day of mourning consists of.
01:05:32.640
First of all, I don't think it's appropriate to wear, to dress up as a ladybug
01:05:38.060
It just feels, that feels, the tonal, the tonal shift there doesn't feel right.
01:05:44.900
You can choose to sit at the table and eat delicious food and have a great time with your family.
01:05:49.040
Or you can take part in the day of mourning, which means listening to various Native American people
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lecture you about alleged atrocities committed hundreds of years ago.
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Do you want turkey, or do you want an ill-tempered lecture?
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Here's what the lecture sounded like at a different day of mourning event last year.
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The Pequot people were burned alive in the middle of their sleep at night in 1637.
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Mass Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Providence Plantation, Mystic Seaport, all English colonies
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banded together to burn women and children while they slept in a village at night.
01:06:39.400
We could smell their burning, rotting flesh for over a mile away.
01:06:50.540
He was so proud, the town of Norwich, Connecticut, had a statue honoring this man up until roughly
01:06:58.240
John Mason, the man who murdered over 700 people, when anyone, the few people who were
01:07:06.340
able to survive that holocaust, they were rounded up.
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I like how he's trying to convince the crowd, you know, that, listen, folks, the white man,
01:07:21.360
It's like, these are people that came to a national day of mourning on Thanksgiving.
01:07:25.640
So I'm pretty sure they're already on your side.
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They're already, they wouldn't be there if they didn't already agree.
01:07:31.100
Now, he says that this country was proud to write that we could smell their burning, rotting
01:07:40.840
This entire country, which didn't even exist as a country at that time, apparently wrote
01:07:45.640
that phrase and committed that alleged atrocity.
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That's why we need to have a national day of mourning instead of a day of Thanksgiving.
01:07:56.660
First of all, it's true that the traditional story of Thanksgiving that they used to tell
01:08:04.820
young children in school decades ago is simplistic.
01:08:09.900
And there's probably a certain element of legend to it.
01:08:21.260
Stories are passed down through the generations.
01:08:27.820
All to preserve the central theme or message in the story.
01:08:34.520
And really, our understanding of all historical events from centuries ago is, at the very least,
01:08:45.000
So we can only go by what people involved said happened.
01:08:49.840
Or what people who talk to people involved said happened.
01:09:00.240
Okay, so every time they say, well, did you know, you know, what they told you in second
01:09:07.260
Of course it's not the whole story, you idiots.
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None of that changes the basic meaning of Thanksgiving or undermines or debunks the basic central story of Thanksgiving.
01:09:23.040
Besides, the old simplistic story of the holiday has now been replaced with a new simplistic story.
01:09:29.360
In the new simplistic version, the native tribes were all a bunch of peaceful tree-hugging hippies in tune with the earth and nature,
01:09:37.060
singing kumbaya when they were viciously slaughtered by the white man.
01:09:42.120
The actual truth is that the native tribes were in a constant state of war long before any white man set foot on these shores.
01:09:48.380
Violence was an integral part of so-called indigenous culture.
01:09:51.580
All indigenous cultures, because it was not just one culture, okay?
01:09:55.500
These were disparate tribes stretched out all over the hemisphere, and violence was an integral part of all of them, no exceptions.
01:10:04.280
As for their contact with European settlers, sometimes the contact was peaceful on both sides.
01:10:09.380
On some occasions, the settlers committed atrocities.
01:10:12.100
On some occasions, the Indians committed atrocities.
01:10:14.780
On some occasions, the atrocities on either side were basically unprovoked.
01:10:18.060
On plenty of occasions, there was mutual combat between the two sides.
01:10:23.920
The Pequot people, mentioned in that last video, were not helpless victims.
01:10:34.240
Such is the law of conquest, which the Pequot, like all Indians, well understood.
01:10:40.320
In fact, and this was a very common occurrence,
01:10:42.280
the colonists had Indian allies in their fight against the Pequot.
01:10:46.380
And the tribes allied with the colonists were the ones that the Pequot had previously conquered and slaughtered.
01:10:52.400
And so they were a little bit miffed at the Pequot.
01:10:54.960
Of course, the Native American dude up on stage for the day of mourning festivities,
01:11:01.480
or any of the rest of them, they don't mention any of this.
01:11:07.100
They never acknowledge even one of the many, many, many countless instances of Indian tribes
01:11:13.320
inflicting horrific, savage violence on innocent colonists, including women and children.
01:11:22.540
They never acknowledge it because they don't want you to realize that this land was not stolen.
01:11:29.280
The previous conquerors of this land were then themselves conquered.
01:11:36.120
Second, you know, even if it's true that most of the settlers were peaceful,
01:11:40.920
and that oftentimes they were the victims of brutal violence by the Indians,
01:11:46.740
and that there was mutual combat between the two sides,
01:11:49.720
and the Indians simply lost the battle, they lost the war.
01:11:59.440
does it justify whatever actual atrocities the settlers committed?
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Are you saying we should just get over and move on?
01:12:24.680
Atrocyies that were committed hundreds of years ago?
01:12:30.760
The guy in the last video was complaining about something that supposedly happened in 1637.
01:12:41.220
You cannot actually be angry about something that happened 400 years ago.
01:12:49.600
You are an insane person if you're actually mad about stuff that happened four centuries ago.
01:12:59.120
We are as close to the pilgrims today as the pilgrims were to the Crusades.
01:13:09.620
And yet we have people in this country so young that 9-11 is ancient history to them,
01:13:14.620
pretending to be distraught and devastated by events that occurred 150 years before the Declaration of Independence was written.
01:13:25.080
Pretending to be actively traumatized about stuff that happened centuries ago is psychotic.
01:13:31.460
Like, imagine if you found me in the corner sobbing and you asked me what was wrong and I said,
01:13:38.800
I'm just really upset about the burning of the Library of Alexandria in 48 B.C.
01:13:50.540
400 years ago, almost everybody's life was brutal and tragic.
01:13:54.820
If we're supposed to be sad about misfortunes suffered by people we never met way back in the distant past,
01:14:02.420
Almost everyone everywhere suffered greatly back in those days.
01:14:06.220
There are plenty of people still suffering greatly today.
01:14:08.520
If you want to empathize with people's pain, maybe choose people who are currently living,
01:14:12.460
not people who had decomposed in the ground 400 years ago.
01:14:17.160
Not people who died 300 years before the automobile was invented.
01:14:22.480
Now, in final analysis, history contains an essentially infinite amount of suffering and atrocities and outrages and injustices.
01:14:31.080
It also contains heroism and sacrifice and courage and achievement.
01:14:35.560
It is up to us to decide which of those things in our national history we will focus on.
01:14:43.300
I contend that the healthiest category to focus on,
01:14:46.020
the thing that you focus on if you want to be a thriving and happy and healthy society,
01:14:52.260
Which isn't to say that we outright deny and never discuss the former.
01:14:55.500
Of course we acknowledge that bad things were done in our history.
01:14:58.240
We shouldn't try to erase that from the history books, and nobody is.
01:15:01.200
But ultimately, you will look back on your history with pride and gratitude,
01:15:12.000
The people of all other nations across the world, or at least the non-Western world,
01:15:16.240
they choose to focus on the triumph of their ancestors,
01:15:19.660
which breeds national pride and patriotism and gratitude.
01:15:23.060
In the modern West, we are the only ones who have decided to basically ignore all of the positive
01:15:33.900
So much so that even our day of Thanksgiving has become, at least in some corners,
01:15:42.640
It's only made us resentful, sullen, depressed, ungrateful.
01:15:45.820
It has made us worse people, and our country a worse country.
01:15:53.140
That's why I will not partake in this historical self-flagellation.
01:15:57.760
Instead, I celebrate the incredible valor and intrepidness of my ancestors.
01:16:06.980
and those who made it possible for this country to exist in the first place.
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I am happy that they came here and that they conquered.
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And for everybody else, I will say, they are today cancelled.
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That'll do it for the show today, and for the rest of this week,
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forget to subscribe to like Disney and I'll see you next week.