The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1267 - The Left Claims There's An Epidemic Of 'Anti-Trans Violence.' Here's Why That Claim Is Total Nonsense.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the White House and the media commemorated the Trans Day of

00:00:03.980 Remembrance yesterday. They claim that 26 people have been killed in anti-trans violence. I looked

00:00:09.320 into the numbers and you'll be shocked to learn that the claim is total nonsense. Also, the

00:00:13.760 Department of Defense continues to pour more and more money into DEI programs. MSNBC worries that

00:00:18.780 Trump will take office and immediately begin executing his political enemies. And the movement

00:00:22.800 grows to replace Thanksgiving with a day of mourning for the Native American victims of

00:00:27.160 alleged genocide. I'll explain why I still and will always celebrate Thanksgiving in spite of the

00:00:32.500 propaganda. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:04.840 One of the easiest ways to find out what is important to a group of people, whether it's a

00:02:09.400 country, a culture, a congregation, or whatever, is to look at who they honor in death. And if you do

00:02:15.280 that, you can find out pretty quickly what traits they think are important, what characteristics

00:02:19.440 they want to emulate. The ancient Greeks built shrines to heroes and kings who won great battles.

00:02:25.580 Nearly every culture until recently has honored people for similar reasons. If you go back through

00:02:30.460 history, at least if you ignore satanic cults and fundamentalist terror groups, you'd be hard-pressed

00:02:35.500 to find any group of people that goes out of its way to honor the most disordered and destructive

00:02:40.760 members of society. The very idea of honoring immoral behavior, immoral people, is counterintuitive to

00:02:47.440 most people because it flies in the face of human nature and of common sense. Societies that want

00:02:53.040 to survive, which is the most fundamental instinct of all, you would think, don't want to reward thugs

00:02:58.460 and criminals and other degenerates. If you do that, you just get more thugs, criminals, and other

00:03:03.520 degenerates. That's why what happened at the White House yesterday was both revealing and disturbing,

00:03:09.060 though not at all surprising. If you care about the future of this country, at least it's disturbing.

00:03:13.080 Joe Biden's press secretary, Karen Jean Pair, announced solemnly that the White House was

00:03:17.920 celebrating something called the Trans Day of Remembrance. And here's what she said.

00:03:24.060 Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the 26 transgender Americans who were killed

00:03:30.700 this year. Year after year, we see that these victims are disproportionately black women and women

00:03:38.400 of color. No one should face violence or live in fear or be discriminated against simply for being

00:03:46.420 themselves. Of course, the Trans Day of Remembrance is very important because it had been, you know,

00:03:52.840 about three and a half days since the last day set aside to celebrate trans people. And we know we need

00:03:58.120 to have at least two a week or it's a genocide. So she says that on the Trans Day of Remembrance,

00:04:03.520 we grieve for the 26 transgender Americans who were killed this year. Now, notably absent from

00:04:09.900 Karen Jean Pair's statement was any description of what these 26 victims were doing when they died.

00:04:16.800 But all the same, she wants you to know that the federal government is honoring the memory of each

00:04:21.120 and every one of them. They are secular saints. They are martyrs. They are heroes in the eyes of the

00:04:27.500 Biden administration and of the left. They were martyred just for being trans. And in many

00:04:33.360 cases, just for being black and trans. Now, just in case there was any doubt about the way that this

00:04:38.480 is all being framed, Joe Biden made it explicit or rather Joe Biden's handlers who write all of

00:04:43.980 his social media posts, of course, made that explicit. Biden's ex-account put out this statement,

00:04:48.220 quote, quote, today on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we grieve the transgender Americans

00:04:52.560 whose lives were taken this year. There's no place for hate or discrimination in America.

00:04:57.560 No one should lose their life simply for being themselves. Now, various media outlets have

00:05:04.100 repeated that framing. They've all come out and suggested that 26 people died just for being

00:05:09.820 trans or non-binary or one of the other infinite gender identities. New York Daily News, for example,

00:05:14.760 published this headline yesterday, quote, at least 33 trans people were killed in the U.S. in the past 12

00:05:19.940 months amid a record year for anti-LGBTQ legislation. So they have a slightly different figure from the

00:05:26.860 White House. They say 33 trans people died. Well, the White House said 26 trans people died. But

00:05:31.820 in any event, the New York Daily News wants you to know that it's been a record year for anti-LGBTQ

00:05:37.000 legislation, meaning that the legislation that outlaws, you know, chemical and physical castration

00:05:41.540 of children and that the implication here is that that kind of legislation, somehow it's something to

00:05:49.620 do with these trans people dying. Somehow legislators are committing murder just by passing laws that are

00:05:56.600 overwhelmingly popular and, of course, also moral and necessary. Doesn't make a lot of sense, but the

00:06:02.240 USA Today is on board. They joined in in all this and they published an article declaring that this

00:06:08.620 White House sanctioned day of remembrance is a way to honor the, quote, lives that have been lost to

00:06:13.580 anti-transgender violence. Now, again, what none of these statements from the Biden administration or

00:06:20.600 these corporate media outlets ever get around to clarifying is this. Why exactly are we honoring

00:06:27.340 these 26 dead trans people who were killed? Beyond the vague platitudes about anti-trans legislation and

00:06:34.600 anti-trans violence, what are the specifics? Who are these people exactly? Why did they die?

00:06:42.260 What exactly is happening? Well, the White House clearly doesn't want to say, but they know the answer

00:06:47.800 because the White House based its statement on about 26 dead trans people on a list that was assembled

00:06:53.940 recently by the so-called Human Rights Campaign or HRC. And if you're unfamiliar with HRC, if you listen

00:06:59.480 to the show, you've heard about them before. But, you know, think of it like a Media Matters for trans

00:07:03.660 activists, even though Media Matters already is the Media Matters for trans activists. And either way, HRC,

00:07:09.120 they are dishonest in every possible respect. Like any other trans activist, they lie about everything 1.00

00:07:14.860 all the time. Their sole purpose following the Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage is to further 0.70

00:07:19.520 false narratives that demonize anyone in this country who believes in biology, because people

00:07:24.540 who believe in biology tend to vote the wrong way as far as they're concerned. So on its website this

00:07:29.580 week, HRC explained that this year, 26, quote, trans and gender non-conforming people were killed. HRC states

00:07:36.980 that these are people who, quote, did not deserve to have their lives taken from them. So the clear

00:07:42.820 implication of all this is that these people died because they were trans somehow. That is what 0.85

00:07:49.900 is being directly claimed. That's what USA Today said. This is anti-transgender violence. This is all

00:07:56.360 the result of hate, Biden claims. And here's the thing about all that. It's not remotely true. Not even

00:08:04.800 close. So I went through this list of 26 trans people that were killed. And I went through it one by

00:08:11.720 one. And here's what I can tell you. Then you're not supposed to do that. They're just supposed to

00:08:16.180 tell you 26 people died. And then you say, oh, 26, 26 anti-trans hate crimes were committed.

00:08:22.660 That's bad. That's all you're supposed to think. What you're not supposed to do is actually go and

00:08:27.040 look at these cases. And I did that thing you're not supposed to do. And here's what I can tell you

00:08:32.740 that there is not a single instance among these 26 so-called trans and gender non-conforming people

00:08:39.320 where it has been proven that the killers were motivated by transphobia or for that matter,

00:08:44.000 sexism or ableism or any other ism or phobia. Instead, there are a lot of cases like Banco

00:08:50.420 Brown's. Now, according to HRC's description, Banco, quote, was killed by an armed security guard

00:08:55.440 in San Francisco after an altercation with an armed security guard at a local Walgreens store.

00:09:01.600 That's all pretty vague. Now, what exactly was Banco doing with this armed security guard?

00:09:07.540 What happened exactly? Well, as it happens, we don't have to speculate about that because it

00:09:12.200 was all caught on surveillance tape. And we know from the video that Banco Brown, who's a female,

00:09:17.500 I believe, who identifies as male, tried to rob the Walgreens, tried to steal. A security guard

00:09:23.800 tried to stop her. And then Banco started fighting with the guard. And then when she turned her back

00:09:28.760 towards the guard while threatening to stab him, the guard opened fire. Now, it's not exactly a story

00:09:34.040 about a virtuous transgender person who was murdered simply for being themselves, 0.94

00:09:38.280 as Joe Biden and the HRC have said. Unless we're supposed to believe that, I don't know,

00:09:42.860 stealing from Walgreens was some sort of expression of Banco Brown's inner truth.

00:09:49.460 Now, to be fair, at this point, you might be tempted to overlook Banco Brown's inclusion

00:09:53.180 on the White House list of 26 trans heroes and martyrs. You might want to say that the White House

00:09:58.380 and the HRC just made a mistake by including that one person, that one thug who was trying

00:10:02.700 to steal. And all the rest, you know, that's just one out of 26. But if you're thinking along those

00:10:08.740 lines, you should know that it only gets worse from there. Another so-called trans person on the 1.00

00:10:13.380 White House list goes by the name Tortuguida, whose real name is Manuel Tehran. Now, who is the

00:10:20.560 Manuel Tehran, aka Tortuguida, exactly? Well, according to HRC, he was a, quote, 26-year-old

00:10:27.200 indigenous queer and non-binary environmental activist and community organizer. HRC says that

00:10:33.400 he was, quote, shot and killed by Georgia state troopers in Atlanta, Georgia on January 18th,

00:10:37.000 2023 during an ongoing protest alongside other self-described forest defenders protesting against

00:10:43.500 a proposed $90 million, 85-acre police training facility deemed cop city by activists. Now, what

00:10:51.200 that description leaves out is that according to the local DA, Tehran was holed up in a tent,

00:10:56.560 trespassing at the site of the planned police facility. And then authorities showed up,

00:11:01.300 tried to get them to leave, ended up firing less lethal pepper ball rounds at him. And that's when

00:11:05.940 Tehran fired four times from his nine millimeter pistol, striking a Georgia state trooper. Now,

00:11:12.020 there is body cam footage of this incident, and you can hear the shots. You can kind of hear what's

00:11:16.780 going on. Watch. Everybody activate their cameras. Like an infantry squad, APD officers slowly move

00:11:24.700 through these woods. They zero in on this tent right here. This is the Atlanta Police Department.

00:11:30.080 Please come out with your hands up. And begin to rip it apart. No one's in it, but one officer is

00:11:37.980 concerned about what he found inside. Gasoline, anything that can be used to hurt. As they continue

00:11:44.800 their patrol, four distinct shots are heard. Listen. And then dozens.

00:11:53.240 Is this target practice? Officers appear to be confused until they figure out it's not target

00:12:06.340 practice. And gunfire is close by. They take cover behind trees. They can't see what has happened

00:12:15.240 and wait to get a clearer picture on police radio. And then they hear this.

00:12:20.000 And one officer down. What agency is that?

00:12:23.260 It's GSB SWAT. Is there an active shooter in the woods?

00:12:27.020 No active shooter. Subject to barricade in that tent.

00:12:32.080 Okay. So you heard the four shots that were apparently fired by Tehran and then return fire. So

00:12:39.240 it seems that this person did not die because he was queer and non-binary, quote unquote. Instead,

00:12:45.440 he apparently died as a result, first of illegally protesting at the planned location of a police

00:12:49.360 training facility. He was trespassing. And that's why they came to Tehran. If you trespass on property 0.94

00:12:54.880 that doesn't belong to you, you're going to get your tent tore down. That happens. I mean,

00:12:57.940 unless you're in San Francisco or something, then that won't happen. And then, most crucially,

00:13:03.100 he made the fateful decision to open fire on police officers, nearly killing a Georgia state trooper. 0.89

00:13:08.240 And when you fire a gun at police officers, you will die. That's what's going to happen.

00:13:13.420 The left claims that he never fired any shots, but according to police, forensics prove

00:13:17.640 that the gun was his and he did fire it at them. Even still, in the wake of the shooting,

00:13:22.420 left-wing activists have claimed that he was actually murdered in cold blood. They say that

00:13:26.120 the police just executed this queer, non-binary environmental activist for no reason.

00:13:31.940 There's no evidence to support that theory, but it really doesn't matter in this discussion anyway,

00:13:36.860 because no matter what happened, it's extremely obvious that Tehran didn't die because the cops

00:13:43.220 were transphobic. Even if the shooting was unjustified, which it doesn't at all appear to

00:13:48.160 be, it still does not belong on a list of trans people who died for being themselves.

00:13:54.440 So why was this person included on a list of 26 trans people that Joe Biden says died just because of

00:13:59.220 who they were? It's a good question. Why are they putting Banco Brown and Manuel Tehran on this list

00:14:05.640 if it's supposed to be a solemn remembrance of people who died because of their quote-unquote

00:14:10.340 gender identity? Starting to look like it may not be an accident. Starting to look like the White 1.00

00:14:15.560 House and the HRC want to tell us that no matter what trans people do, and no matter how they try to

00:14:21.740 kill other people, no matter how they conduct themselves, no matter what crimes they commit, 0.63

00:14:26.040 if they are killed in the process, it is automatically an anti-trans martyrdom. 0.96

00:14:33.760 And as you go down the list provided by the HRC and endorsed by the White House,

00:14:37.000 that seems more and more likely to be a case. Consider the case of Devani Jarae Johnson,

00:14:43.500 who's another one of the 26 trans souls that we tragically lost this year. According to the HRC,

00:14:47.900 Johnson, quote, was shot and killed on August 7th, 2023 during an altercation with a security guard

00:14:53.060 just one day after her birthday. But again, as with Banco Brown, Manuel Tehran, they don't tell you

00:15:00.520 what Johnson was actually doing in that altercation with a security guard just before, quote,

00:15:04.840 her birthday. If you go digging for that information, you'll find that Johnson was attacking a security

00:15:09.680 guard in a Ralph's supermarket with a fire extinguisher and a screwdriver. And then he was

00:15:15.040 shot in self-defense. According to the LAPD, quote, the security guard informed officers that he shot

00:15:20.860 the individual as the result of an armed confrontation. The wounded individual had armed

00:15:24.700 themselves with a screwdriver and attempted to assault him. The wounded individual was transported by Los

00:15:29.880 Angeles Fire Department personnel to a local hospital where they were pronounced dead. Now at this

00:15:35.720 point, you have to take a step back and ask, did anyone on this list of 26 trans people die because

00:15:41.040 of transphobia? Are any of these murders hate crimes? The media, the Biden administration are presenting

00:15:49.360 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

00:15:57.920 as I can tell, the answer to that question is no. There's not one proven case the entire year of a trans 1.00

00:16:06.000 person dying in a hate crime. At least three of these people were committing acts of violence when

00:16:10.940 they died. Several others were out walking in the middle of the night in conspicuous locations like

00:16:16.400 highways and motel rooms, which of course suggests prostitution might be involved in some of those 0.99

00:16:22.000 cases. In other cases, it looks like these trans victims died randomly, and certainly not because

00:16:26.860 of transphobia or racism or anything like that. One of the quote, unquote, trans victims on the list,

00:16:32.640 for example, a 28-year-old black gender non-conforming person named Thomas Tom Tom Robertson was killed in a

00:16:38.820 shooting that targeted somebody else. So it was just random. Tragedy. There's no transphobia, though.

00:16:46.300 Several other victims on the list, including Camden Ryder, Luis Angel Diaz-Castro, and Sherilyn Marjorie

00:16:52.580 were killed by partners or ex-partners. So this is a domestic thing. There's no sign that any of this

00:16:58.240 was related to a hatred of trans people, since the killers were voluntarily dating these trans people.

00:17:03.680 Another victim on the list, Asia Davis, was shot at night inside a hotel room in Michigan.

00:17:09.360 We can speculate about what was going on in that hotel room, but the truth is that no one,

00:17:13.080 including the Biden administration, is seriously suggesting or could seriously suggest that it was

00:17:17.380 a right-wing bigot who randomly decided one day to hunt down and kill Asia Davis.

00:17:23.220 21-year-old Unique Banks, meanwhile, died in a mass shooting. So the odds that Unique Banks was

00:17:29.240 targeted for being trans seemed pretty low. But Unique Banks is being mourned by the White House

00:17:35.260 as yet another victim of transphobia. A person who goes by the name Coco Didal is also on the

00:17:42.380 White House list. And what about this person? Is his killer a MAGA Republican transphobe?

00:17:48.760 Well, let's see.

00:17:50.920 Only on 11 Alive News, a mother is defending her teenage son. He's charged in the murder of a

00:17:56.860 woman in Atlanta. His mom says her son did not pull the trigger. Coco Didal was found shot along

00:18:02.080 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near the Hamilton E. Holmes Marta Station two weeks ago. 17-year-old

00:18:08.220 Jamarcus Jernigan is charged with murder. Now Jernigan's mother is refuting many points in the

00:18:14.180 investigation, saying they'd never heard of Coco until her son was accused of killing her.

00:18:20.680 I don't even know what this person's real name was because all the reporting is calling this person

00:18:24.720 Coco Didal, which we can be pretty sure was not his real name. So 17-year-old Jamarcus

00:18:31.500 probably didn't kill 35-year-old Coco Didal because he's a right winger. This was some kind

00:18:39.180 of domestic issue apparently. And again, you could speculate. You could speculate about what a 35-year-old

00:18:44.380 trans-identified male called Coco Didal was doing with a 17-year-old. They probably weren't getting

00:18:49.680 together to play chess. We don't know, but it's got nothing to do with the anti-trans hate crimes.

00:18:54.180 That much we do know. Now I can go on, but you get the point. But here's the kicker.

00:19:00.040 Even if all 26 of these transgender people were killed by right-wing bigots solely because they're 0.97

00:19:05.940 transgender, it would still in that case be safer to be transgender than any other demographic group 0.96

00:19:12.640 in this country. There are roughly 1.6 million self-identifying trans people in this country right

00:19:18.360 now. That means that if only 26 of them die every year, even if we were to accept that they're all hate

00:19:24.140 crimes, which none of them are apparently, then the typical member of the trans community has a 0.98

00:19:28.700 drastically lower risk of dying or being killed in any given year than the average U.S. citizen.

00:19:35.020 By some estimates, they're roughly four times less likely to be killed. So this is a fraud. It is a

00:19:41.840 hate crime myth that's been invented out of whole cloth. And none of it's new, by the way. Recently, trans 1.00

00:19:46.780 activists and left-wing politicians have decided to run this scam every year. Back in 2019, the Federalist

00:19:51.960 crunched the numbers on so-called trans violence or anti-trans violence, as reported by the HRC

00:19:57.620 from 2015 to 2019. And they found that within this data set, quote, the two largest known categories

00:20:03.480 of murders occur as a result of domestic violence and prostitution. The Federalist concluded, quote,

00:20:08.520 what we do know from all available resources is that the violence these individuals experience

00:20:12.000 occurs to a very broad range of people with diverse backgrounds and identities. It is clearly

00:20:17.360 more an issue of high-risk environments than identity-based discrimination.

00:20:22.540 But identity-based discrimination, even when it doesn't exist, of course, is all the White 1.00

00:20:26.520 House wants to talk about. They have engineered a narrative with no basis in reality for the sole

00:20:31.060 purpose of defaming the political opponents of the left and of the Biden administration.

00:20:36.020 They're so desperate to concoct a trans genocide that they've lied and misrepresented every case they 0.98

00:20:42.440 can. And yet, even after all that, they're only able to come up with 26 instances of violence against

00:20:49.540 so-called trans people, and not a single confirmed case, not one, where the violence was committed

00:20:55.100 because the person was trans. In the end, they have only accidentally proven that it is, in fact,

00:21:02.540 much safer to be trans in this country than to not be trans. So it's all farcical. It reveals that 0.99

00:21:10.860 we're governed by people who do not care about anyone, even the, quote, gender non-conforming 0.89

00:21:14.760 community. They only care about themselves and gaining more power. As the past few days have

00:21:20.980 shown, to that end, they're willing to lie about anything. They're even willing to honor thugs who

00:21:26.960 try to beat up cops or beat up security guards at supermarkets with fire extinguishers.

00:21:32.400 These are the heroes of the Biden administration. These are the degenerates whose legacy they want us to

00:21:38.380 honor. They don't care about the Christians murdered by that transgender terrorist. They won't memorialize 1.00

00:21:45.100 those dead men, women, and children. They won't praise the police officers who stopped more bloodshed by

00:21:50.460 rushing into that school. Instead, they'll eulogize Banco Brown and Manuel Tehran. You know, most societies

00:21:58.340 throughout all of history would call this kind of celebration a form of cultural suicide, a guarantee

00:22:02.360 that the worst among us will be rewarded and propagated until society itself can't exist

00:22:10.360 anymore. But the Biden administration, corporate media, trans activists, they have a different name

00:22:16.720 for all this. They call it the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:24:28.820 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. 0.69

00:25:03.240 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 0.98

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. 0.85

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 0.58

00:32:47.380 soil in defense of some foreign nation that has nothing to do with us, a country they've never 0.95

00:32:53.640 been to and don't care about at the behest of a, of, of a bunch of corrupt soulless bureaucrats? 0.65

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 0.99

00:36:02.680 do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute whoever he's allowed to imprison, 1.00

00:36:13.680 execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It's not really hard to read. Again, 0.99

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. 0.80

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 0.84

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.

00:49:58.080 If we don't, uh, if this process of, of realizing that I'm right, uh, does not speed up quite a bit.

00:50:05.720 All right, let's get to the comment section.

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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.

00:52:41.820 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

00:53:07.380 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.

00:54:41.940 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

00:55:09.300 we showed the people, the videos of people walking around casually and you're right that if they were 0.98

00:55:14.100 walking casually on their way to murdering 3000 people, then it would be very stupid for me to show 0.79

00:55:21.080 the part where they're walking casually and then say that that proves the whole thing is peaceful 0.99

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 0.96

00:55:30.960 the parts where people happen to be like walking on their way to burning the building down and they 0.97

00:55:35.400 say, Oh, it's mostly peaceful. Right. But I'm not doing that because the 3000 murders never happened.

00:55:40.840 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

00:55:55.800 a police officer. Finally, evidence says going to Mars is literally the dumbest and most pointless 0.98

00:56:03.160 human venture ever. Elon Musk makes fancy toys that do nothing for humanity. I've already, I think 0.95

00:56:10.820 I've already addressed this. You're really trying to bait me into, I will give the whole speech again.

00:56:15.860 I don't care how late the show is going. I'll go, I'll do another 10 minutes on it.

00:56:22.200 I would, but I won't. All I'll say is, okay, so Elon Musk is, is not doing anything for humanity.

00:56:27.320 Uh, like unlike you, right? What, what are you doing exactly? If you want to know what, what doing

00:56:35.680 nothing for humanity looks like, then you can look in the mirror. That's, that's what, that's,

00:56:39.560 that's what just like existing and doing nothing and contributing nothing looks like.

00:56:42.920 Building rocket ships to go into outer space. I don't care why you're going to, I don't care where

00:56:48.200 you're going in outer space. You have already done infinitely more for humanity than, than you have

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00:58:42.440 Well, you know, Thanksgiving is a wonderful time. It's my favorite holiday. It's a time

00:58:47.160 for celebration, gratitude, time to gather around the table with your family, enjoy a wonderful meal,

00:58:53.780 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 0.97

00:59:31.360 sides. And, you know, that's honestly more than I would expect from this publication. So here's the 0.98

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 1.00

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. 0.94

01:01:18.980 As soon as Americans were able to impose their will on indigenous nations, the treaties were violated. 0.64

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, 0.98

01:02:29.700 surly, and Native American girls to scowl at us and tell us, quote, 1.00

01:02:34.260 the real history behind Thanksgiving. Watch.

01:02:38.240 Happy Thanksgiving, America. I'm Donna, and I'm here with my friends to tell you the real

01:02:42.860 history behind this holiday.

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, 1.00

01:03:00.560 and they called it Thanksgiving. But it wasn't until Abraham Lincoln became president

01:03:04.540 that it became an official holiday.

01:03:07.940 He ordered 38 Dakota men to be hung for war crimes

01:03:11.320 after the sacred holiday Christmas.

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.

01:03:37.240 Jeez.

01:03:38.840 Cheer up, ladies. Cheer up a little bit. 1.00

01:03:40.580 This is what you're celebrating, though.

01:03:43.540 You think you're celebrating family, togetherness, and all that happy stuff,

01:03:46.600 but that's not what you're celebrating.

01:03:48.020 These unhappy Native American girls, they will tell you what you're celebrating, 1.00

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.

01:04:14.140 I'm thankful for genocide. 1.00

01:04:15.500 That's what I'm thankful for today.

01:04:18.220 Happens all the time, right?

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.

01:04:30.580 Watch.

01:04:33.820 Raising their voices to be heard after feeling silenced for centuries.

01:04:38.740 Why do we gather today?

01:04:40.680 400 years later, we join to raise our voices high that we are still here.

01:04:45.660 We are not conquered and we are not defeated.

01:04:48.080 As many were enjoying the Thanksgiving parade,

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. 1.00

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.

01:05:21.980 I don't know if you saw there.

01:05:23.100 I think that was, that woman's name was Chief Ladybug, and she was dressed as a ladybug. 1.00

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 1.00

01:05:36.140 for the day of mourning festivities.

01:05:38.060 It just feels, that feels, the tonal, the tonal shift there doesn't feel right.

01:05:43.540 But you can, you know, you can do this.

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

01:05:53.460 lecture you about alleged atrocities committed hundreds of years ago.

01:05:57.740 Do you want turkey, or do you want an ill-tempered lecture?

01:06:01.380 It's a tough choice.

01:06:03.200 Here's what the lecture sounded like at a different day of mourning event last year.

01:06:07.820 Listen.

01:06:07.960 The Pequot people were burned alive in the middle of their sleep at night in 1637.

01:06:18.160 Mass Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Providence Plantation, Mystic Seaport, all English colonies

01:06:24.480 banded together to burn women and children while they slept in a village at night.

01:06:29.620 They barricaded the exit.

01:06:31.460 They did not allow anyone to leave.

01:06:33.300 They wanted them to burn.

01:06:34.420 They were proud that they burned.

01:06:36.180 This country was proud to write.

01:06:39.400 We could smell their burning, rotting flesh for over a mile away.

01:06:43.100 It's written, folks.

01:06:44.400 Please read it on your own.

01:06:45.740 I am not making this up.

01:06:47.640 Stephen King can't make this up.

01:06:50.540 He was so proud, the town of Norwich, Connecticut, had a statue honoring this man up until roughly

01:06:57.300 a decade ago.

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.

01:07:10.320 They were sold as slaves.

01:07:11.840 I like how he's trying to convince the crowd, you know, that, listen, folks, the white man, 1.00

01:07:19.060 they're evil. 0.99

01:07:19.760 I'm telling you. 0.98

01:07:20.360 I'm telling you they're evil.

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.

01:07:27.400 I don't think you need to convince them.

01:07:28.600 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

01:07:36.780 flesh from over a mile away.

01:07:39.020 This country wrote that.

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.

01:07:49.220 That's why we need to have a national day of mourning instead of a day of Thanksgiving.

01:07:53.980 Now, let me make two points about all this.

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.

01:08:13.460 Every country has its legends.

01:08:15.020 Every country has its foundational myths.

01:08:18.080 There is nothing sinister about that.

01:08:21.260 Stories are passed down through the generations.

01:08:23.800 Details are lost over time.

01:08:25.380 Sometimes details are added.

01:08:27.820 All to preserve the central theme or message in the story.

01:08:32.200 Every culture has its legends.

01:08:34.520 And really, our understanding of all historical events from centuries ago is, at the very least,

01:08:40.960 incomplete.

01:08:42.320 We don't have camera footage to review.

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.

01:08:53.280 None of this is revelatory.

01:08:57.400 We all understand this.

01:09:00.240 Okay, so every time they say, well, did you know, you know, what they told you in second

01:09:04.940 grade about Thanksgiving?

01:09:05.880 Did you know that wasn't the whole story? 1.00

01:09:07.260 Of course it's not the whole story, you idiots. 1.00

01:09:09.360 It was in second grade. 1.00

01:09:10.340 I assume it wasn't the whole story.

01:09:11.980 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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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.

01:10:28.100 They were at war with the colonists.

01:10:30.120 They lost the war.

01:10:31.560 They were conquered.

01:10:32.500 Such is the way of history.

01:10:34.240 Such is the law of conquest, which the Pequot, like all Indians, well understood. 0.99

01:10:38.460 They had done plenty of conquering themselves.

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. 0.98

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.

01:11:05.880 They never do.

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.

01:11:19.540 And on each other.

01:11:22.540 They never acknowledge it because they don't want you to realize that this land was not stolen.

01:11:26.760 It was conquered, fair, and square.

01:11:29.280 The previous conquerors of this land were then themselves conquered.

01:11:33.480 That's the way it goes.

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.

01:11:52.480 So it was a war and they lost.

01:11:54.920 Sorry, but you lost.

01:11:57.440 Even if all that's true,

01:11:59.440 does it justify whatever actual atrocities the settlers committed?

01:12:03.800 No, of course it doesn't.

01:12:05.280 Do I deny that such atrocities were committed?

01:12:07.520 No, of course I don't.

01:12:08.360 But here's what I do say about those cases.

01:12:12.960 And I'll put it as gently as possible.

01:12:16.160 Get the hell over it.

01:12:18.240 Move on.

01:12:19.880 Just, yeah, move on.

01:12:22.900 Are you saying we should just get over and move on?

01:12:24.680 Atrocyies that were committed hundreds of years ago?

01:12:26.620 Yeah.

01:12:27.740 Basically, just like, get over it.

01:12:30.760 The guy in the last video was complaining about something that supposedly happened in 1637.

01:12:36.340 That's nearly 400 years ago.

01:12:41.220 You cannot actually be angry about something that happened 400 years ago. 0.98

01:12:47.220 If you are, then you are insane. 0.91

01:12:49.600 You are an insane person if you're actually mad about stuff that happened four centuries ago. 0.99

01:12:57.060 That is 16 generations. 0.98

01:12:59.120 We are as close to the pilgrims today as the pilgrims were to the Crusades.

01:13:06.080 That's the amount of time we're dealing with.

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.

01:13:20.520 Do you realize how crazy that is?

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.

01:13:43.560 I just haven't gotten over it.

01:13:48.720 By the way, I've got news for you.

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,

01:14:00.580 then we will never stop being sad.

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, 0.79

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,

01:14:50.520 is the latter.

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,

01:15:05.440 or with resentment and despair.

01:15:08.540 You will focus on the triumph or the tragedy.

01:15:12.000 The people of all other nations across the world, or at least the non-Western world, 0.99

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

01:15:29.880 and concentrate almost exclusively on the bad.

01:15:33.900 So much so that even our day of Thanksgiving has become, at least in some corners,

01:15:38.400 times of mourning.

01:15:40.620 And what has that strategy gotten us?

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.

01:16:03.960 I take pride in this country's history,

01:16:06.980 and those who made it possible for this country to exist in the first place.

01:16:11.280 I am happy that they came here and that they conquered.

01:16:14.100 I am thankful for their conquest.

01:16:18.200 I will give thanks for it on Thanksgiving.

01:16:21.960 And for so much else.

01:16:24.700 And for everybody else, I will say, they are today cancelled.

01:16:30.440 That'll do it for the show today, and for the rest of this week,

01:16:34.560 I'll take a Thanksgiving break.

01:16:36.220 I'll talk to you next week.

01:16:37.260 Have a great Thanksgiving.

01:16:38.540 Godspeed.

01:16:44.100 I'll see you next week.

01:16:47.900 forget to subscribe to like Disney and I'll see you next week.

01:16:49.920 Bye-bye.

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01:16:52.100 We will talk for a little books.

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 21, 2023

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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