The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1279 - Racial Segregation Is Making A Big Comeback, Thanks To The Left

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the mayor of Boston refuses to apologize about her tax-funded, racially segregated holiday party that excludes white people.

00:00:07.300 This is just the latest example of racial segregation making a big comeback thanks to the left.

00:00:12.220 Also, a concerned citizen takes matters into his own hands and dismantles the satanic temple set up inside the Iowa State House.

00:00:19.160 Some conservatives are uncomfortable with his actions, but I, for one, wholeheartedly approve.

00:00:23.940 Plus, Ron DeSantis shows what law and order looks like when you put it into practice.

00:00:27.580 And the so-called two-spirit community in Montana is challenging a state law that defines sex as male and female.

00:00:34.140 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:19.440 The other day I briefly talked about a racially segregated holiday party that was thrown by the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu.

00:02:25.240 And in case you missed it, the basic idea here is that the mayor's office only wanted to invite the non-white members of the Boston City Council to the event.

00:02:33.400 They wanted to exclude all the white people.

00:02:34.980 And to that end, the mayor's staff sent out a bunch of emails addressed to, quote, electeds of color, 0.92

00:02:39.980 which is yet another example of the fact that leftists are simply incapable of speaking actual English.

00:02:45.460 They're on their way to creating their own language at this point.

00:02:47.900 But there was a problem with the party. 0.97

00:02:49.940 By mistake, the mayor's office sent out invitations to all of Boston City's council members, including the white devils. 0.99

00:02:56.760 It wasn't just electeds of color who got an invite. 0.87

00:02:59.240 And seven white people got one, too.

00:03:02.320 And in an administration that cared about the Constitution or basic morality, this would be a highly embarrassing episode.

00:03:09.820 The mayor would apologize for discriminating on the basis of race.

00:03:13.540 And then she would resign. 0.91

00:03:14.720 But that's not what happened in this case.

00:03:18.300 Instead, Michelle Wu, yesterday, after we talked about this, she did apologize.

00:03:23.040 But not for the discrimination.

00:03:24.980 Instead, she apologized only for accidentally sending the invitation to white people.

00:03:29.840 She says that that was the only error she made was in just sending the invitation to everybody.

00:03:34.960 The crackers weren't supposed to get one. 0.82

00:03:37.600 That's basically her apology.

00:03:39.820 Watch.

00:03:40.060 Tonight, Boston's mayor, Michelle Wu, admits that a mistake was made in an invitation to a holiday party.

00:03:46.820 Members of the Boston City Council received an email invitation to what's called a gathering of electeds of color.

00:03:53.980 Not all members of the council fit that description.

00:03:56.280 I think we've had individual conversations with everyone so people understand that it was truly just an honest mistake that went out in typing the email field.

00:04:08.260 And I look forward to celebrating with everyone at the holiday parties that we will have besides this one as well.

00:04:14.480 So it is my intention that we can, again, be a city that lives our values and create space for all kinds of communities to come together.

00:04:24.520 The mayor apologizing for any confusion that the original email created.

00:04:30.240 Apologizing for the confusion, but not for the fact that she is racially segregating her holiday parties.

00:04:35.680 The mayor also clarified that this electeds of color party has been going on for several years.

00:04:41.420 And it's only now been discovered because of the mistake that her staff made.

00:04:45.260 So rest easy.

00:04:47.080 The racial discrimination is nothing new.

00:04:49.960 She's been doing this forever.

00:04:51.840 That's the position of the mayor's office as of tonight.

00:04:54.200 Now, or last night, rather.

00:04:55.760 Whatever you make of that, there are a few legal experts who have suggested that it might, as you would expect, violate Massachusetts law, which does not allow government officials to use city resources to enforce racial segregation.

00:05:10.480 The Massachusetts Public Accommodations Act bars officials from, quote, making any distinction, discrimination, or restriction in admission to or treatment in a place of public accommodation based on race.

00:05:21.260 This event was held at the Parkman House, which is owned by the city, although it's not open to the public.

00:05:27.360 So maybe that's the out here.

00:05:30.100 I don't know.

00:05:31.240 That seems pretty spurious at best.

00:05:34.320 Maybe the mayor can say that it's legal to discriminate on the basis of race as long as it's in a city building that is not a public accommodation.

00:05:41.420 Although it's a city building, it's not open to the public, so it's not a public accommodation.

00:05:45.300 Maybe that's the legal argument.

00:05:47.740 I don't think it's a very convincing one.

00:05:49.120 But that still doesn't address the question of why Michelle Wu was so intent on keeping white people away from this event to begin with.

00:05:55.800 And it's especially strange, given that Michelle Wu has a white husband.

00:05:59.780 So you might be tempted to think that maybe she just wanted to attend a holiday party without her husband around, and that's why she came up with this whole idea.

00:06:06.200 Maybe that's what's going on here.

00:06:07.100 I don't know.

00:06:07.500 She also has two half-white children.

00:06:09.340 So are they allowed to come to the party?

00:06:11.960 Maybe they can be at the party for half the time?

00:06:13.660 I don't know.

00:06:14.000 Is that how it works?

00:06:14.680 But this is not a completely satisfying explanation, mainly because it does seem that the mayor has a deep-seated disdain for white people in general.

00:06:24.060 For one thing, just a year ago, Wu cracked a joke about how many white problems she's had to deal with in the city. 0.68

00:06:30.320 You might remember this.

00:06:31.480 Watch.

00:06:31.680 Over 100 days, we have connected unhoused residents at Mass and Cass to housing, treatment, and services.

00:06:40.060 We've launched three free bus lines.

00:06:42.640 We've taken some big, bold actions.

00:06:44.660 But I won't lie, this past winter was pretty intense.

00:06:48.740 Trial by snow, trial by fire, fighters' union.

00:06:52.020 I'm getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive, and white. 1.00

00:06:57.400 I'm talking about snowflakes.

00:06:59.040 Snowflakes.

00:06:59.440 I mean, snowstorm snowflakes.

00:07:02.900 Oh, yeah, and I forgot that was at the St. Patrick's Day breakfast.

00:07:05.340 So this is supposed to be a breakfast celebrating Irish Americans, and that's when she makes the anti-white joke.

00:07:12.600 You know, it's like, but I mean, I'm sure that would definitely happen in the reverse. 0.88

00:07:15.500 You know, you can imagine a politician going to a Kwanzaa breakfast and then complaining about all the black problems she has to deal with. 1.00

00:07:22.820 That would totally happen.

00:07:25.400 And this is the point where you have to wonder how someone like Michelle Wu became the mayor of a city like Boston,

00:07:30.920 given that she clearly hates most of the city's residents based on their skin color. 0.93

00:07:33.840 In fact, even though the white population in Boston is declining like it is in every major city,

00:07:37.640 it's still one of the whitest major cities in the country.

00:07:41.080 And yet it has, arguably, the most anti-white mayor in the country, which is a pretty high bar to get over.

00:07:47.080 How does that happen?

00:07:48.940 Well, not a lot of people are asking that question right now, even in Boston.

00:07:51.420 As I mentioned yesterday, even white members of the city council,

00:07:53.980 the very people that Wu excluded from the holiday party because of their skin color,

00:07:57.440 are mostly shrugging this whole episode off.

00:08:00.220 They're suggesting it's an isolated incident, as if that somehow would make racial segregation acceptable.

00:08:05.520 And even though we know it's not isolated, she said herself that she's been doing it a lot.

00:08:09.380 We also know it's not an isolated incident for a lot of other reasons.

00:08:12.500 You know, you don't hear a lot about it, but explicit anti-white discrimination is, well,

00:08:16.720 no longer unusual in this country at all.

00:08:18.720 And I'm not talking about just racial bias or affirmative action admissions.

00:08:22.960 We've talked plenty of that, about that.

00:08:24.760 Racial preferences and hiring and promotions.

00:08:27.440 Everyone knows that that's been going on.

00:08:29.340 I'm talking about policies in government and universities and school systems

00:08:33.340 that overtly ban white people from participating.

00:08:37.020 This is a real thing that is happening all the time.

00:08:40.440 And it's not just happening at the mayor's holiday party in Boston.

00:08:43.920 Racial segregation has made a comeback in this country in a big way.

00:08:48.400 You just don't hear very much about it.

00:08:51.080 And the people who are advocating for it won't call it that.

00:08:55.560 Like, they would never call it a racially segregated holiday party.

00:08:59.020 But that, of course, is exactly what it is.

00:09:00.540 Right now, for example, a school district in Illinois is segregating its English and math

00:09:05.960 classes by race.

00:09:07.000 At Evanstown Township High School, black and Latino students go into one classroom when

00:09:11.860 it's time to learn English and calculus and algebra.

00:09:14.380 And then whites and Asians go into a different classroom. 0.59

00:09:17.600 This is the kind of program that legal experts say is clearly unconstitutional.

00:09:22.440 If anyone sued, it would be struck down immediately.

00:09:25.740 But people are not suing.

00:09:27.220 People are just letting it go on.

00:09:28.500 So the program continues.

00:09:31.000 They even have a name for this whole system of racial discrimination in the school system.

00:09:34.220 The school board calls it Axel.

00:09:36.020 And that means advancing excellence, lifting everyone.

00:09:40.560 Lifting everyone by dividing them.

00:09:43.680 As shocking as it sounds, it's nothing new for Chicago.

00:09:45.880 A couple of years ago, Chicago's mayor at the time, Lori Lightfoot, announced that for

00:09:48.880 one day, she would not talk to white reporters.

00:09:52.240 She just straight up said that she would not deal with any white reporters.

00:09:55.000 Again, there was mostly a collective shrug from reporters in the city when this happened.

00:09:59.460 Watch.

00:10:00.780 Today, Chicago Mayor Lightfoot's two-year anniversary in office.

00:10:04.480 To mark that occasion, Lightfoot announced she would only grant one-on-one interviews to

00:10:08.640 black and brown journalists.

00:10:09.940 WGN political reporter Taman Bradley sat down with her to learn more about that decision.

00:10:15.780 Your office says that you invited black and brown journalists to this round of interview.

00:10:21.480 Why?

00:10:22.300 I'm happy to vouch for Craig Wall, for Heather Sharon, and others.

00:10:25.260 Well, look, I think in this one day, when we are looking at the two-year anniversary of

00:10:32.860 my inauguration, as a one of a color, as a lesbian, it's important to me that diversity

00:10:40.460 is put front and center.

00:10:42.700 Mayor Lori Lightfoot defending her most unusual decision to only invite black and brown journalists

00:10:48.360 to her office for one-on-one interviews.

00:10:50.300 The move infuriated the mostly white City Hall press corps. 0.75

00:10:55.960 Yes, let's make it more diverse by making it less diverse. 1.00

00:10:59.100 Of course, that makes a lot of sense.

00:10:59.960 And Lori Lightfoot never apologized for that.

00:11:01.680 Why should she?

00:11:02.920 She understands that in Chicago, the third biggest city in the United States, open, anti-white

00:11:07.320 race hate isn't just tolerated, it's popular. 0.70

00:11:09.620 It's fine.

00:11:10.940 I mean, they claim there that the press corps was infuriated.

00:11:12.980 No, they weren't really.

00:11:14.200 They weren't really.

00:11:15.860 They certainly did not express any real fury.

00:11:18.440 And of course, there are many more examples.

00:11:20.860 In the wake of George Floyd's overdose, Rice University students demanded the construction

00:11:25.600 of a literal black house on campus, along with segregated housing.

00:11:29.160 And last year, the New York Post reported that an off-campus housing co-op at UC Berkeley

00:11:33.100 had banned white people from the common areas.

00:11:36.880 This is a five-story building called the Person of Color Theme House.

00:11:41.000 And here's an excerpt from the House Rules.

00:11:42.480 Quote, many POC moved here to be able to avoid white violence and presence.

00:11:46.340 So, respect their decision of avoidance if you bring white guests. 0.96

00:11:51.140 White guests are not allowed in common spaces.

00:11:55.080 In fact, some white guests weren't allowed at all in the entire building.

00:11:57.900 As one student reported, quote, I was not allowed to let my dad enter the house because

00:12:01.720 he's white.

00:12:03.200 Now, if you're wondering where Berkeley's administration stood on all this, the answer

00:12:06.820 is that they support it.

00:12:07.740 Of course, anti-white hatred is endemic at the university.

00:12:10.220 Three years ago, in the summer of George Floyd, a third-year student named Seth Smith was

00:12:15.300 shot in the back of the head, execution style, while he was out for a walk.

00:12:18.340 And Smith's killer was a black career criminal who mocked Smith for being white when he was 0.98

00:12:23.120 arrested after he just executed him. 0.93

00:12:26.540 How did Berkeley administrators respond to that incident?

00:12:29.440 Well, the chancellor released this statement, quote,

00:12:31.180 In other words, sorry about the white kid who just got murdered, but isn't the death of George

00:12:50.460 Floyd, a felon with no connection whatsoever to Berkeley, also really upsetting?

00:12:53.960 That's what they said.

00:12:56.520 You know, imagine being one of Seth Smith's friends or family members and seeing that email.

00:13:02.040 You'd understand the message immediately, which is that, you know, he doesn't really matter

00:13:06.020 because he's too white.

00:13:08.380 This is a message that Berkeley has communicated a lot recently in various ways. 0.60

00:13:12.080 For example, the university recently held a blacks-only graduation ceremony.

00:13:16.180 They've been doing this every year for a while now, but earlier this year, one clip from this

00:13:20.980 graduation ceremony went viral.

00:13:22.540 Watch.

00:13:41.080 Air Miss Anderson said, the last shall be first and the first shall be last. 0.75

00:13:46.660 Receiving a bachelor of arts in disciplinary studies field,

00:13:50.020 political economy, legal studies, and African-American studies.

00:13:55.120 He said disbursement and allocation, reparations for African-Americans.

00:14:01.840 So that is a state-funded segregation.

00:14:04.220 There are many more examples of it outside the Bay Area.

00:14:06.440 As of 2019, more than 75 universities in this country offer black-only graduation ceremonies.

00:14:12.080 The actual number by now is probably much higher than that.

00:14:13.980 Harvard still hosts affinity celebrations for graduates, which are subdivided by skin color.

00:14:19.020 White people, of course, are the only racial group that don't get one, but everyone else 0.99

00:14:22.860 gets a specific one depending on what you look like, what your skin color is.

00:14:27.800 What's important to keep in mind is that none of these incidents are national scandals.

00:14:32.600 They obviously should be, but they haven't been.

00:14:35.880 And in many cases, the people being discriminated against don't seem to mind that much.

00:14:39.140 I mean, those impacted by these policies could file lawsuits.

00:14:45.220 And even in our court system, they could easily win many of these lawsuits.

00:14:50.180 Because a lot of this stuff just is not remotely legal.

00:14:53.740 You can't do this kind of thing, especially your government institution, public institution.

00:14:59.580 But nobody challenges it.

00:15:01.760 Nobody sues.

00:15:03.520 Nobody even objects most of the time.

00:15:05.840 And because of that ambivalence, racial equity is rapidly becoming what it was always destined

00:15:13.520 to become, which is the return of racial segregation.

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00:16:29.200 building, and it was put there by the satanic temple as a response to the manger scene that

00:16:34.440 is also inside the Capitol building.

00:16:36.420 The temple claims that it has the religious liberty to set up satanic altars in government

00:16:41.760 buildings if it wants to.

00:16:43.380 And the Iowa state government didn't even attempt to fight them on it.

00:16:47.040 There was no, the only thing the Iowa state government fought them on was that you can't

00:16:51.640 have an actual severed goat's head, but, which is what they originally wanted.

00:16:57.460 But other than that, go ahead, Satanists, set up your altar in the state house.

00:17:03.740 And so they relented right away, and they let this depraved mockery occur.

00:17:07.120 Well, yesterday, a man named Michael Cassidy decided, Iowa residents, a veteran, decided

00:17:16.720 to do something about it.

00:17:18.100 And here's what he did.

00:17:19.140 This is the Post Millennial reporting.

00:17:21.460 A satanic altar erected in the Iowa Capitol building has been torn down and beheaded by

00:17:26.360 a Christian and former military officer.

00:17:28.220 According to the Sentinel, Michael Cassidy pushed over and decapitated the statue, which

00:17:33.000 was placed in the building by members of the Satanic Temple of Iowa after receiving permission

00:17:38.140 and discarded the head of the statue into the trash.

00:17:41.540 Cassidy told the outlet that he destroyed the altar on Thursday to awaken Christians to

00:17:46.360 the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government.

00:17:50.020 Cassidy said, quote, the world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan,

00:17:54.400 but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of satanic altars inside

00:17:58.240 Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment.

00:18:00.460 Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians

00:18:04.820 have largely acted like proverbial frogs in the boiling pots of water.

00:18:10.520 Cassidy turned himself into officers who were present in the building, who confirmed the

00:18:13.620 Satanic Temple of Iowa seeks to press charges.

00:18:16.080 Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief.

00:18:19.700 Cassidy said, quote, I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged.

00:18:22.640 My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree, and so I acted.

00:18:27.060 Just, I mean, awesome.

00:18:31.900 Great response, and great to see it.

00:18:35.920 And by the way, what he said is, everything he said is obviously completely correct,

00:18:40.200 including the point about our founding fathers would not have considered

00:18:43.240 disprotected by the First Amendment, and everybody knows that.

00:18:46.140 Don't even try.

00:18:46.660 Do you really think the founding fathers would have accepted satanic altars inside the state

00:18:57.340 house of any state?

00:18:59.800 Which founding father do you think would have endorsed that?

00:19:03.280 Of course they wouldn't.

00:19:04.120 We all know that.

00:19:04.720 Now, the update here is that there was a legal defense fund set up for Cassidy by the Sentinel,

00:19:11.540 which is the outlet that initially reported on this, and I was happy to chip into his legal

00:19:16.120 defense.

00:19:16.560 TPSA pledged $10,000, I think.

00:19:19.980 They were only looking to raise $20,000, and they raised it in like three hours, and then

00:19:24.440 they paused the campaign.

00:19:25.500 So I'd say this is a win so far overall.

00:19:28.780 Somebody took down the display.

00:19:30.060 They took matters into their own hands.

00:19:31.500 They took the initiative.

00:19:32.260 A bunch of people rallied to support that person, and it's a win.

00:19:37.740 I mean, it's a big win.

00:19:40.280 Now, there have been some on the right.

00:19:45.440 Well, of course, you know, on the left.

00:19:46.880 In fact, I just saw someone tweeted out saying this was a bigoted, this was a bigoted act.

00:19:54.220 Okay, bigoted against who?

00:19:55.760 The devil?

00:19:56.560 Like, this is devil phobia?

00:19:59.540 Satan phobia?

00:20:00.380 Is that, is that, sure.

00:20:01.140 Yeah, you're right.

00:20:05.040 So you had that on the left, as expected.

00:20:06.580 But even some on the right, as you would also expect, have expressed concerns.

00:20:13.200 They're concerned.

00:20:14.960 I don't know I'm concerned, but this concerns me.

00:20:17.560 It's concerning.

00:20:18.940 I'm a little concerned.

00:20:19.900 And so they've accused us, those who support Michael Cassidy, they've accused us of supporting and cheering on what legally qualifies as vandalism.

00:20:31.380 That's what they've accused us of.

00:20:33.780 And yes, that's exactly right.

00:20:37.640 That is what we're cheering on.

00:20:38.700 They also say that the satanic temple has the First Amendment right to set up its satanic altar inside a government building.

00:20:46.520 We may not like it, but, you know, if they want to set up a satanic altar in every state house in the country, there's nothing we can do about it.

00:20:53.820 We can't do anything.

00:20:54.520 We just have to sit back.

00:20:56.340 Every state house can be turned into a satanic, into a platform for worshiping the devil.

00:21:02.080 And there's nothing we can do.

00:21:03.880 We just can't do it for the sake of freedom.

00:21:06.360 This is freedom.

00:21:07.780 This is what freedom is.

00:21:11.460 You know, they say that if we think that it's okay to have a manger scene, then we also have to think it's okay to have a satanic altar.

00:21:20.720 That's the claim.

00:21:23.340 Right?

00:21:23.860 That's the equivalent.

00:21:24.520 So, if we're opposed to BLM rioters torching a CVS, we have to also be opposed to a guy decapitating a satanic altar.

00:21:36.300 And if we support a manger scene, then we also have to support a satanic altar.

00:21:42.620 We have to treat everything equally, these conservatives claim.

00:21:47.380 Because everything is the same.

00:21:49.280 We're not allowed to notice any difference between things.

00:21:52.620 They're all the same.

00:21:53.720 And that's what it means to be free.

00:21:55.580 That's what freedom is.

00:22:00.940 But no.

00:22:02.180 That's not correct.

00:22:04.340 Everything is not the same.

00:22:07.360 You know that everything is not the same.

00:22:10.040 Everyone knows it.

00:22:11.160 We all know that.

00:22:13.260 Okay?

00:22:13.720 You know these things are not the same.

00:22:15.900 We don't have to pretend to believe otherwise.

00:22:21.160 Here's my basic position on this.

00:22:22.580 And I do think, as I've argued, that there is a legal argument here that the satanic altar is not valid religious expression under the First Amendment.

00:22:29.760 As I've been saying all along, according to the Satanists themselves, the whole Satanism thing is essentially a parody, a mockery.

00:22:39.540 They don't even pretend to have a theological belief in the reality of Satan.

00:22:42.880 So I don't think that even by pure legal standards, this qualifies as First Amendment expression.

00:22:50.500 But let's forget that for a second.

00:22:53.300 Because that's not my fundamental point.

00:22:55.820 My fundamental point is this.

00:22:58.540 And this is going to blow your mind.

00:23:00.040 Good things are good.

00:23:06.500 Bad things are bad.

00:23:09.900 That's it.

00:23:10.620 That's what I believe.

00:23:12.060 So I support good things.

00:23:14.940 And I don't support bad things.

00:23:18.360 I think that good things should happen.

00:23:20.560 And I think that bad things shouldn't happen.

00:23:22.380 And so when a good thing happens, I say, that's good.

00:23:27.760 And when a bad thing happens, I said, that's bad.

00:23:32.500 That's how I approach life.

00:23:33.740 And it's revolutionary.

00:23:35.240 I mean, this is a...

00:23:35.740 Maybe to you, if you're a normal, if you're a sane person, this is not revolutionary.

00:23:39.540 But to a lot of conservatives, this is a revolutionary concept.

00:23:43.420 The idea that, oh, you can notice when something is good and treat it as good.

00:23:48.000 And when something is bad, you can treat it as bad.

00:23:50.000 I said, really?

00:23:51.020 I said, no, that's not what the founders would have wanted.

00:23:54.480 That's not what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted.

00:23:57.720 Honestly, I don't care if that's what he wanted.

00:23:59.400 If that's what he wanted or didn't want, I don't care anyway.

00:24:01.760 But you're incorrect in what the founders would have wanted.

00:24:05.320 So the idea that I'm bound by the principle of liberty and human rights to draw no distinction

00:24:10.340 between good and bad is insane.

00:24:12.780 And that is an idea that the guys who came up with the doctrine of human rights,

00:24:19.040 which lies at the foundation of our country, did not believe.

00:24:22.520 So they themselves did not share this modern notion that in order to respect everyone's rights,

00:24:27.240 we have to pretend that everything is the same

00:24:29.120 and be just as welcoming of bad things as we are of good.

00:24:32.340 That is, again, insane. 0.99

00:24:33.460 It's ridiculous. 0.96

00:24:35.220 I want a good society that is ordered towards the good 0.77

00:24:37.780 and where goodness is encouraged and welcomed.

00:24:39.820 And I want a society where, therefore, badness is discouraged and unwelcomed.

00:24:44.840 This is basic stuff.

00:24:47.080 So putting this in practice,

00:24:50.200 if a guy spray paints graffiti on a cop car,

00:24:55.740 you know, he sprays a cab on a cop car or whatever during a BLM riot.

00:25:04.480 And then, you know, you've got that kind of vannels.

00:25:06.360 And then over here, you've got a guy dismantling a satanic altar.

00:25:10.680 Are those the same?

00:25:12.620 Well, no, because the guy with the spray paint is doing something that's obviously bad.

00:25:18.960 And the guy who's getting rid of the satanic altar is doing something that is good.

00:25:26.760 And so I see them as different for that reason alone.

00:25:32.960 Is a manger the same thing as a satanic altar?

00:25:36.200 Are we bound to that?

00:25:38.840 Well, you support the manger.

00:25:40.300 You're stuck with the satanic altar.

00:25:41.740 It's just the way it is.

00:25:42.420 You can't.

00:25:42.700 You're impotent.

00:25:43.180 You are impotent in the face of the satanic.

00:25:44.880 No.

00:25:45.120 Because the manger is good.

00:25:48.820 And the satanic altar is bad.

00:25:52.040 I can make that distinction.

00:25:53.400 So can you.

00:25:53.880 So can everybody.

00:25:57.000 And then you're left.

00:25:57.820 Well, who's to say what's good?

00:25:59.080 Who's to say what's bad?

00:26:02.400 If you find yourself saying that about Satan,

00:26:04.560 well, who's to say that Satan is bad?

00:26:07.220 It's like literally the definition of bad.

00:26:09.080 So, um, who's to say what's good and bad?

00:26:16.600 I don't know.

00:26:17.140 All of us.

00:26:18.000 Like, we all know.

00:26:19.780 This is natural law.

00:26:21.400 You know, these are basic moral insights that everyone has access to.

00:26:27.960 How do we know that a satanic altar in the state capitol is bad?

00:26:31.740 Or, you know, who's to say that?

00:26:33.200 We all know that.

00:26:35.280 Every single one of us knows it.

00:26:37.400 The only difference is that some people pretend they don't know it.

00:26:44.360 All right.

00:26:45.680 Speaking of things that are bad, um, this is from New York Post.

00:26:50.180 One third of US teenagers say that they almost constantly use at least one of the top five

00:26:54.580 social media sites such as YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, according to a study conducted

00:26:58.400 by the Pew Research Center.

00:26:59.860 Uh, YouTube remained the clear-cut favorite for the second year in a row, with 93% of

00:27:05.160 users aged 13 to 17 logging into the Google on-site, according to the survey of nearly

00:27:09.720 1,500 teens published on Monday.

00:27:12.200 Um, TikTok was next to 63%.

00:27:14.580 Um, and that's how it all breaks down.

00:27:18.340 Um, uh, and, and then, uh, let's say TikTok users are even more hooked with 17% saying that

00:27:27.440 they almost constantly scroll through the app each day, despite it being the first choice

00:27:31.500 of 58%.

00:27:32.500 Uh, so, you know, every few weeks we get another one of these studies.

00:27:36.560 And the basic headline of this study, which probably has not shocked anyone, is that,

00:27:42.800 uh, you have millions of young people and teenagers who, as the study, as according to their own

00:27:48.460 responses, apparently to the survey, they are almost constantly scrolling.

00:27:54.500 Um, they're almost constantly on their phone.

00:27:57.380 And I know you guys probably get tired of hearing me drone on about this, but I, I really, really

00:28:01.780 wish that we would all stop and think about what it means, like what this actually means.

00:28:07.580 What does it mean to have kids who are scrolling on social media, quote, unquote, almost constantly?

00:28:14.020 Because almost constantly means, it means basically nonstop.

00:28:17.940 It means you are rarely doing anything else with your time.

00:28:22.760 And of course, nobody denies that plenty of kids and adults are indeed on their phones almost

00:28:27.080 constantly.

00:28:28.820 But I think we don't stop to think about what that means.

00:28:34.640 Because if we did stop to think about what that means, it wouldn't be happening.

00:28:39.580 If we really thought about what that means, every parent would go home and they would take

00:28:44.940 their kid's phone and they would never give it back to them.

00:28:51.100 Most parents aren't doing that, which means that they, they really don't get it.

00:28:54.320 They don't understand.

00:28:58.160 In fact, you know, I think that most, most people tend to think that, uh, the young generation

00:29:05.320 being obsessed with new technology is kind of normal and par for the course.

00:29:09.940 They're not very alarmed by it.

00:29:12.440 And, and, and maybe it is, but, but the obsession is different here because like when I was a kid,

00:29:19.260 uh, the big concern then in the nineties was about people, about TV, people spending way too much.

00:29:27.020 And we'd get all these studies, you know, every year or something, there'd be another study about

00:29:30.640 the amount of time that Americans spend and young people spend and kids spend watching TV.

00:29:36.120 And, uh, and it was a problem.

00:29:37.860 People spent way too much time watching television, but at least your television is at home and,

00:29:43.380 and you have to be at home or at someone's home to watch it.

00:29:47.220 It's like a stationary object and you have to go to it to, uh, to watch it.

00:29:52.760 And, and even if we had a hundred cable channels or whatever it was,

00:29:56.600 there was still a finite amount of content on TV that, that you wanted to watch.

00:30:02.520 So there were, so there were just these built-in parameters.

00:30:04.700 There were these rules for engagement.

00:30:06.440 There were these limiting principles, um, even to that technology that, that certainly

00:30:12.140 did dominate people's lives more than it should and still does.

00:30:16.320 But the phone is different because it goes with you everywhere.

00:30:19.800 You never escape it.

00:30:21.120 And the content is infinite.

00:30:25.060 Um, like it, it never ends.

00:30:27.420 It's not self-limiting in any way.

00:30:29.500 So it grabs hold of you and it grabs this stranglehold of you on you in a way that is

00:30:35.320 simply unprecedented in human history.

00:30:38.200 There's been plenty of technology that has reshaped humanity.

00:30:42.340 Like when cars came along and, and, uh, it, it, humanity, uh, at that point verged off in

00:30:49.560 a different direction.

00:30:50.280 It looks very different now than it would if, if cars were never invented.

00:30:54.580 Um, but there's never been one single device that has become nearly the sole focal point

00:31:03.240 of existence.

00:31:05.600 That is what is unique here.

00:31:08.440 And that's why we're a new territory.

00:31:10.080 And I, and I really wish that people could see that.

00:31:13.360 And I know they can't because like I said, if they did see it and understand what we're

00:31:17.920 dealing with, they would take drastic action to protect their kids from what is currently

00:31:25.680 happening to them.

00:31:26.360 And I'm not exempt from this as a parent, you know, as you know, my kids don't have

00:31:28.840 phones.

00:31:29.220 They don't really have any tech, um, outside of the one TV that we own and share as a family.

00:31:35.960 And, uh, cause I'm just, I just refuse to let phones take over my kids' lives.

00:31:40.060 And, and you know what?

00:31:41.760 Uh, there are, there are people say, well, if you don't give the phone to your kid, then

00:31:46.920 they'll be alienated from their friends.

00:31:48.420 And, and, uh, that's not entirely wrong.

00:31:52.220 I mean, my kids have friends, but, and they are a little bit alienated from them.

00:31:59.120 And, and as like my kids get a little bit older, you feel this more and more, you see

00:32:02.820 this more and more that they don't have that shared kind of frame of reference.

00:32:07.400 Like for all, for most kids, their whole frame of reference for life is the phone.

00:32:12.000 And so then my kids come in and they don't have, they're totally, they, they, they,

00:32:16.920 they have no access to any of that.

00:32:18.300 And so they don't have that frame of reference and you can, and so it is a little bit alienating.

00:32:24.000 Um, which I don't like, I wish it wasn't like that, but it's, it's a sacrifice that

00:32:30.280 is worth it right now.

00:32:31.100 My kids might not see that it's worth it.

00:32:32.700 They don't see that, but I'm the adult.

00:32:34.100 So I'm supposed to be able to see farther than they can.

00:32:38.240 And, uh, and I just am absolutely dead set, uh, in my conviction and my wife's conviction

00:32:49.220 that they are going to have a childhood, whether they like it or not, they're going to have

00:32:52.940 a real childhood that is not consumed by the phone.

00:32:55.880 Um, and, um, but the point is we, we, you know, we do have, we, we've introduced a little

00:33:01.800 bit of this stuff, uh, very, very sparingly.

00:33:04.240 So we, so we do have, uh, we have tablets for the kids, uh, with, with just games and

00:33:09.260 books on them.

00:33:09.700 There's no internet access.

00:33:11.060 And the rule is that on long car trips, they can use the tablets, not the whole time, but

00:33:17.020 like that's something, that's a, you know, that's a, it's a resource we can use in long

00:33:21.180 car.

00:33:21.280 We take a lot of long car trips.

00:33:22.460 We're talking, you know, talking 18 hour car trips type, type, that was when I say long,

00:33:26.880 that's what I mean.

00:33:27.660 And so in those kinds of contexts, like they, they have the, uh, the tablet, uh, for limited

00:33:32.520 times.

00:33:33.300 That's what we've mostly regulated it to relegated it to recently, though, we started to get

00:33:37.700 a little bit more, uh, slightly more relaxed about it slightly.

00:33:42.320 And so we would let the kids for very limited times use the tablets in the house.

00:33:48.620 And, and this is always, you know, it's like no one is exempt from it.

00:33:51.860 As a parent, you're always like, well, okay, this is okay.

00:33:55.340 We're going to, we're not doing this.

00:33:56.880 And then you're like, okay, we'll do it.

00:33:58.100 Okay.

00:33:58.420 We'll do it, but only in this context.

00:33:59.700 And then, and then quit.

00:34:00.340 And this is how it always works with the tech stuff.

00:34:02.680 Um, so, but it's, you know, so every once in a while, so maybe total in like an hour

00:34:08.520 a week total of when they're on the tablets in the house, but not on the internet.

00:34:13.520 And then a few days ago, my youngest son was using the tablet very briefly in the house.

00:34:19.000 Uh, and, uh, we told him the tablet time was over and he had a little bit of a meltdown.

00:34:24.380 Then we took the tablet away.

00:34:27.740 And I've never seen this with my kids before.

00:34:29.860 This was like this, this drug addict withdrawal response from tech.

00:34:35.480 Never seen it with my kids.

00:34:36.860 First time.

00:34:38.120 I've seen it with other kids all the time.

00:34:40.360 This is very common.

00:34:41.700 You know, this is how other kids respond.

00:34:42.960 Take away the video game, take away the phone and they just lose it.

00:34:46.400 First time I've seen it with one of my kids and it was after just a little bit of exposure.

00:34:51.520 And it was a very, you know, it was a, uh, it's one of those, uh, I thought I was already

00:34:56.980 awake to the, it's kind of an awakening moment, but although I thought I was already pretty

00:35:01.160 aware of the problem.

00:35:03.160 So I took the tablet and threw it in the trash and that was it.

00:35:05.980 And I've been thinking ever since, like, man, if my kids can become that attached to the

00:35:10.740 tech from having such a limited access to it, um, what's going on with so many of these

00:35:16.720 other, so many of these other kids?

00:35:18.040 I mean, it's, it's scary.

00:35:18.940 Like just a little bit, it just has this pull.

00:35:23.960 And if you're not careful, that's how it consumes your kid's life.

00:35:30.600 I will say my wife was a little bit annoyed that I threw the tablet away though. 0.96

00:35:33.880 Admittedly, she's like, you could have just put it in a drawer.

00:35:36.220 You didn't have to throw it in the trash.

00:35:38.100 Well, you gotta be a little bit more definitive and dramatic sometimes as a parent.

00:35:43.120 It's, it's, and also this is a, I come from, this is like a, this is a dad tradition that

00:35:46.780 I'm, that I'm carrying on.

00:35:50.140 Anyway.

00:35:51.940 All right, let's go to, there's one other thing I wanted to mention, which is, uh, Ron DeSantis,

00:35:57.640 you know that I support Ron DeSantis and, uh, and you can, you know, all the reasons that I do.

00:36:04.880 This is the kind of thing that, you know, I don't care.

00:36:09.220 You support Trump, you support anybody else.

00:36:10.580 That's fine.

00:36:12.480 Um, but if you don't at least give DeSantis credit for this, which we're going to talk

00:36:17.260 about in a second, if you don't at least give him credit for this, then you're just a fraud.

00:36:21.320 I don't know what to tell you.

00:36:22.180 Um, and if you follow anybody in conservative media and they're not at least giving him

00:36:26.880 some credit for this thing right here, then, then, then you're following a fraud.

00:36:31.620 Uh, because even if you don't want Ron DeSantis to be president, you should be able to recognize

00:36:36.480 this and say, okay, like he's doing something important here.

00:36:43.960 And here it is.

00:36:45.080 This is from, uh, TampaBay.com.

00:36:48.140 In what may be the first case of its kind in the state, central Florida prosecutors said

00:36:51.560 Thursday, they will seek the death penalty against a man accused of sexually abusing

00:36:55.760 a child, making use of a new law that expanded capital punishment to sex crimes against children.

00:37:01.820 The office of state attorney, William Gladson, who, uh, prosecutes cases in five counties

00:37:06.960 northwest of Orlando, filed a notice of intent to seek a death sentence for Joseph Andrew

00:37:11.680 Giampa, who faces charges of sexual battery on a person younger than 12.

00:37:16.220 In a statement, Gladson's office noted the severity of the crime and its impact on the

00:37:20.460 community.

00:37:21.480 Statement read, quote, the decision to pursue the highest penalty reflects the gravity of

00:37:24.740 the charges in the state attorney's office dedication to holding criminals accountable

00:37:27.700 for their actions.

00:37:29.120 Case appears to be the first in modern times in which Florida prosecutors have sought capital

00:37:33.120 punishment for a charge other than murder.

00:37:35.460 It's also a case likely to pose constitutional challenges as U.S. Supreme Court precedent

00:37:39.560 forbids the death penalty for the crime of rape.

00:37:42.220 Um, Giampa's 36 was arrested in November.

00:37:48.160 An arrest affidavit in his case states that Lake County Sheriff's deputies questioned him

00:37:51.940 and his home.

00:37:53.180 During the conversation, Giampa led the deputies to a camper and allowed them to look at a video

00:37:57.400 on a laptop computer.

00:37:59.320 The affidavit describes the video as depicting a man sexually abusing a child while recording

00:38:03.860 the act. 1.00

00:38:04.380 And if you want more details of the case and what a, what a, uh, absolute monstrous scumbag 0.98

00:38:11.020 this guy is, you can first go look that up. 1.00

00:38:12.780 But suffice it to say, this is a man who, uh, desperately deserves, uh, to be killed for 0.99

00:38:19.880 his actions. 0.99

00:38:21.080 And, and, and that might happen to him now.

00:38:24.920 And I say might because while the prosecutors, prosecutors are seeking the death penalty and

00:38:28.920 they have to get it.

00:38:29.440 But then also, uh, it's correct that this probably end up in the Supreme court, um, which, you

00:38:36.760 know, because right now, as the article says, the precedent is that it is a, it's a constitutional

00:38:43.480 violation to give the death penalty to anyone who's not a murderer, which, which we need 0.97

00:38:49.100 to revisit that because that is ridiculous.

00:38:52.920 Like the, the idea that the only thing you can ever do that's warrant that warrants the 0.73

00:38:58.420 death penalty is to kill someone is absurd because there, there are obviously crimes that

00:39:04.600 are at least just as bad as the kind of murders we put people to death for.

00:39:10.900 And I think, I, I certainly would, I think, and I would certainly hope that almost everyone

00:39:17.160 can agree that one of the crimes that's as bad, if not worse than the sort of murders

00:39:23.520 were put people to death for is the rape of a child.

00:39:27.360 You know, that that's like when, when you get to that level, um, you are in the realm

00:39:38.360 of, you have now reached like the basement of, of human evil, which it doesn't get worse

00:39:46.960 than that. 0.90

00:39:47.360 I mean, it could get, you can, you can have child rapists who are also murderers.

00:39:51.620 You can have, you know, then you, you have some, some of these people have more victims

00:39:55.860 than other, others.

00:39:58.260 So now you get like quantity wise, there are more crimes being committed.

00:40:02.960 And then you can have some criminals who are quote unquote worse than others in that sense.

00:40:07.000 But when it comes to the actual crime itself, that, that is, that's, that is the depth you,

00:40:15.180 you, you, you have now made it into the, the, the darkest depths of human evil.

00:40:20.880 And, uh, it seems clear to me that if we're going to have the death penalty at all, which

00:40:25.540 we should, that obviously you should be eligible for it if you have made it all the way into

00:40:32.080 the deepest depths of human evil.

00:40:36.020 Um, and this is something that's made possible because, uh, Ron Santis signed legislation, 0.99

00:40:43.420 which makes these scumbags eligible to be executed. 0.96

00:40:49.300 So, uh, this is, this is law and order. 1.00

00:40:54.480 Okay.

00:40:55.040 This is what law and order looks like.

00:40:56.800 And, um, and it's, it's not just saying things.

00:41:05.640 Okay.

00:41:06.100 And I think Ron DeSantis is, is often judged.

00:41:10.140 And this is not just Ron DeSantis, but this is how we so often judge politicians.

00:41:14.380 It's based on what they say and how well they say it.

00:41:21.800 And I'll be the first to admit that when it comes to that latter point, how well it is expressed,

00:41:26.780 Ron DeSantis isn't always the best in that area.

00:41:31.940 Like he's not the most charismatic politician I've ever seen.

00:41:36.780 He's not the least by a long shot.

00:41:38.480 I put him like, you know, when it comes to charisma and, um, uh, being articulate and all

00:41:45.480 that sort of, I put him, you know, I put him square.

00:41:47.160 I'll give him like a, I don't know, a C plus in that, in that, in that, you know, for that,

00:41:52.160 uh, for that, uh, I think he's, he's sort of right in the middle, probably a little bit

00:41:57.140 above average.

00:41:59.460 But when you think of Ron DeSantis, you don't think to yourself, oh, that's a guy who's just

00:42:03.840 exuding charisma.

00:42:05.280 Nobody thinks that.

00:42:07.640 Yeah, but who cares?

00:42:09.860 That doesn't matter.

00:42:10.940 That's, that's, that's, uh, you know, you could be charismatic and be a terrible leader.

00:42:18.980 You can lack charisma and be a great leader.

00:42:22.920 And it's, you know, in modern society, when we've got 24 hour cable news and we have social

00:42:26.940 media and we're just like constantly, you know, we are seeing and hearing from these people

00:42:33.040 all the time.

00:42:33.980 It becomes even more of an issue where we associate charisma with leadership.

00:42:42.240 It may shock you to learn that, you know, if you were to make a list historically of who

00:42:48.220 you would consider to be the greatest leaders of all time, some of them were quite eloquent

00:42:54.580 and charismatic, but not all of them.

00:42:58.720 There are plenty of the great leaders of history that, that, you know, if you could go back in

00:43:01.940 a time machine and listen to them, give a speech or something, you would say, oh, you

00:43:05.980 know, I was kind of, I was expecting a little bit more than that because all of that, that

00:43:10.240 doesn't really matter in the end.

00:43:12.560 What actually matters as a, as a leader and especially as an executive, it's like what

00:43:16.840 you do, what are you doing?

00:43:18.880 That is what I care about.

00:43:20.280 I only care.

00:43:21.000 That's what I care.

00:43:21.600 What are you doing?

00:43:24.100 I don't need to be your friend.

00:43:25.620 I don't need you to impress me with your rhetoric.

00:43:28.840 Um, I don't need you.

00:43:30.260 I certainly don't need to be entertained by you and the things you say.

00:43:35.500 That's not what I need from you.

00:43:36.620 I need you to do things.

00:43:38.020 I need you to do the right things and do them well and do them competently and do them effectively.

00:43:44.200 And here, this is doing the right thing.

00:43:47.880 That to this point, no other Republican leader, executive governor has been willing to do this.

00:43:55.240 He's the only one.

00:43:55.980 And, uh, and if you won't give him credit for that, then you're just, your priorities

00:44:00.960 are not in the right place to say the least.

00:44:03.920 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:45:22.560 All right, we talked a couple days ago about fatphobia and how they are now actually passing

00:45:29.640 laws.

00:45:30.380 And if you didn't watch that show or hear that monologue, you should go back and listen to

00:45:32.780 it because this is, this, this, I'm telling you right now that this is, you know, of course

00:45:38.520 the fat acceptance thing has been, we've been hearing about that for a while, but this is

00:45:44.120 the next great frontier after the trans stuff. 0.99

00:45:49.020 Not that the trans stuff is going away, it's not that they're abandoning it, but by the

00:45:54.740 next great frontier for the left and with the victimhood, with their victimhood ideology

00:45:59.760 is fat acceptance.

00:46:01.660 And so now there are actual laws being passed against so-called fatphobia.

00:46:05.580 So a few comments about that. 0.98

00:46:07.400 Blake says, it absolutely sucks being morbidly obese.

00:46:09.760 I've lost 60 pounds this year, and though I still have a long way to go, I'm feeling a

00:46:13.260 huge difference.

00:46:13.940 That said, I suggest fat pride marches at least five days a week, 45 to 60 minutes. 0.98

00:46:20.420 That is, you know, you actually raise a good point that this is the one, you know, we hear

00:46:23.720 about fat pride and fat acceptance, but it is interesting.

00:46:28.780 And, you know, you as a, I guess what you're saying is a formerly, formerly obese man, you've

00:46:33.580 brought this up yourself.

00:46:34.720 I didn't want to say it, but it is interesting that that's, this is like the one identity group

00:46:42.600 that doesn't want to go on marches on the left. 0.97

00:46:44.700 So all the other identity groups are constantly organizing marches.

00:46:47.980 It's interesting that, uh, that the, the morbidly obese are not organizing marches to express

00:46:54.040 their fat pride.

00:46:54.960 But you also prove what really shouldn't need to be proven, which is that, um, obesity is

00:47:02.420 a choice.

00:47:02.860 And which means, you know, I know people don't like to hear that because it sounds like we're

00:47:10.480 putting the onus, you know, if someone's obese and you hear obesity is a choice, they don't

00:47:14.300 like to hear that obesity is a choice because it sounds like we're blaming them and we're

00:47:18.120 putting the onus on them and we're putting the responsibility on them.

00:47:22.160 And the answer is yes, it's exactly what we're doing.

00:47:25.400 Yeah.

00:47:25.880 I, I am, I am blaming you.

00:47:27.600 If you are massively overweight, I am blaming you for that. 0.79

00:47:32.120 Like you have all the blame for that. 0.85

00:47:33.600 That is, that is your fault.

00:47:34.680 So I am victim blaming a hundred percent for that.

00:47:37.740 But the good news is that that means that you have the power to do something about it,

00:47:41.680 which, which I would think is good news.

00:47:46.000 So that's the way that I am wired.

00:47:49.840 Like if there's some problem that I'm having, or if there's some issue with me, I want to

00:47:54.920 believe that it's my fault.

00:47:56.420 I want, because, because I want to believe I have control over it.

00:47:59.360 I want to believe that I can change it.

00:48:02.080 You know, if I'm having some issue, the worst thing you could ever tell me is, oh, it's not

00:48:06.440 your fault.

00:48:06.780 You can't do anything about it.

00:48:09.260 I wouldn't see that as a relief.

00:48:12.460 Now you're telling me I'm stuck.

00:48:13.580 I can't do anything.

00:48:14.820 I have no power.

00:48:16.200 That's, that's like, and yet somehow that is, we pretend that that is the empowering message

00:48:21.620 is to tell people they have no power.

00:48:22.820 It doesn't make any sense.

00:48:23.500 Another comment says, how much do you think fat acceptance is related to gender ideology

00:48:29.440 and LGBT?

00:48:30.440 It seems like they all get lumped in with each other.

00:48:33.380 Yeah, they all do get lumped in with each other.

00:48:34.980 Well, part of it is the, the victim, they're all part of the victim pyramid, which we put

00:48:40.240 out a video over the weekend where I, you know, where I explain in great detail how the victim

00:48:45.840 pyramid works.

00:48:46.540 And you should go and check that out on, on YouTube.

00:48:48.480 It's a very, it's very complicated.

00:48:49.920 Well, it seems like a complicated equation, but that's why I break it down because you

00:48:54.240 see once, once you break it down, you see it's, it's simpler than you think.

00:48:57.160 Um, so they all, they're all related in that sense that these are all, these are all, uh,

00:49:03.380 these are all victim groups.

00:49:05.700 Emily says, I had a six hour flight and I was sitting next to an obese man who took up 0.98

00:49:09.140 a half of my seat.

00:49:10.700 He was pressed up against me the whole time.

00:49:12.480 And when he got up after the six hours, my entire right side was soggy from him sweating

00:49:19.380 on me.

00:49:20.740 On these obese people need to buy an extra seat.

00:49:23.060 Good Lord.

00:49:26.360 Uh, well, you say that obese people need to buy an extra seat, but maybe you've heard

00:49:32.160 the latest, which is the latest innovation and Southwest Airlines is getting out ahead

00:49:37.300 of the curve on this one because they are now granting.

00:49:41.720 And I think this is a very new thing that they just started doing, I don't know, in the

00:49:44.880 last few weeks, but they're, they're now giving free seats to obese people.

00:49:49.580 You just, all you have to do is go up to the gate agent and say that you're an obese American

00:49:55.360 or whatever, an American with obesity.

00:49:57.760 However, it's supposed to be phrased and they will give you an extra seat, which I don't

00:50:03.220 know how that works.

00:50:04.080 I don't know how that can work, especially given that like every flight you get on these

00:50:09.880 days is, is full.

00:50:13.300 It's pretty rare to be on a flight that isn't full.

00:50:15.700 So how in the world do they have extra seats to get, does that, are they actually taking

00:50:20.920 a seat away from a normal sized person?

00:50:25.220 Are they, when, when the obese person comes up and says, Hey, I'm real fat.

00:50:28.300 I need an extra seat.

00:50:29.820 And they say, Oh, well, we will make sure you get one.

00:50:34.540 Uh, does that mean that the next move is they have to call somebody else up who's sitting

00:50:38.400 at the gate and say, uh, you know, bad news.

00:50:40.540 We had to bump your flight. 0.94

00:50:41.940 There's a really fat person.

00:50:43.000 There's not room enough for both of you.

00:50:45.640 I don't know.

00:50:46.140 I guess it wouldn't surprise me.

00:50:48.220 And look, generally speaking, I'll say that, uh, and I, anyone who flies a lot has had this

00:50:52.720 experience of flying next to someone who's severely overweight and you're pressed up against

00:50:57.520 them.

00:50:57.800 And look, I will, and I'm not, I'm not someone who is normally, uh, I would, I wouldn't be

00:51:03.060 accused of being like too sympathetic of a person or too empathetic rather.

00:51:07.700 But even in those cases, I, I'll admit, like, I do feel sorry actually for the obese person

00:51:14.620 on the plane.

00:51:15.980 Like in the sense that I, I wouldn't want that to be me.

00:51:20.360 And you're sitting there.

00:51:21.320 It's like, you know, that everyone who comes by, he doesn't want to sit next to you.

00:51:24.480 You know, as soon as you get on the plane that everyone's kind of looking at you and

00:51:27.260 groaning and go like, that's, that's humiliating.

00:51:29.840 Of course, they lose my sympathy the moment they demanded, they, they demand a free seat.

00:51:37.000 And, uh, you start to lose my sympathy if you don't take, it's like, yeah, if you have

00:51:42.260 that moment on the plane and it's humiliating, well, you got to take that as fuel to, uh,

00:51:49.180 change your life.

00:51:49.940 And if you don't, then at a certain point, it's hard to be sympathetic.

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00:53:39.680 Well, back in the spring of this year, Montana passed a law that not all that long ago would

00:53:43.960 have seemed incredibly unnecessary.

00:53:45.440 The Republican governor of the state signed a bill clarifying that there are only two

00:53:49.580 human sexes, male or female, which of course is, I mean, it's like signing a bill clarifying

00:53:54.480 that we live on planet Earth or that gravity exists or that the tooth fairy isn't real.

00:53:58.440 But, and maybe there will come a time when those pieces of legislation will need to be written

00:54:02.340 as well.

00:54:02.980 But for now, for reasons that will be obvious to most people in the audience, it was in fact

00:54:07.780 necessary to make this stipulation about the biological realities of the human species.

00:54:12.720 Now, needless to say, leftists in the state and across the country have not been happy

00:54:17.820 about this law.

00:54:19.020 There is, after all, nothing they hate more than biological reality or really any sort

00:54:23.080 of reality.

00:54:24.000 It was inevitable that there would be lawsuits.

00:54:26.560 The only question is, or was, who would step up to the plate to actually legally challenge

00:54:31.960 the male-female binary?

00:54:35.120 Who would be the first to make a move?

00:54:37.700 And now we have our answer.

00:54:38.660 CNN reports, quote, as they fight to reclaim their history, some in Montana's two-spirit

00:54:43.860 community are challenging a state law that defines sex as binary because it infringes on

00:54:49.220 their spiritual and cultural beliefs.

00:54:51.180 In October, attorneys representing the two-spirit nonprofit Montana Two-Spirit Society, along with

00:54:56.480 a group of transgender, intersex, and non-binary Montana residents, filed a lawsuit challenging

00:55:02.340 the law.

00:55:02.720 They argue the state's definition of sex improperly categorizes many Montanans, excludes others

00:55:09.920 from legal recognition entirely, and deprives them of the benefits and protections of myriad

00:55:14.200 state laws.

00:55:15.920 The complaint also argues that the law violates Montana's individual dignity, equal protection,

00:55:21.860 privacy, and freedom of speech laws.

00:55:24.700 Now, of course, the idea that it violates freedom of speech is totally absurd.

00:55:29.040 I mean, not any more absurd than the rest of it, but still worth noting.

00:55:31.740 The law does not prevent anyone from saying or believing that there are more than two sexes.

00:55:37.220 It doesn't forbid any individual from claiming that he's some made-up sex other than male

00:55:42.160 or female.

00:55:43.040 You can say or believe what you want because you have a right to your own opinion.

00:55:47.140 You do not, however, have a right to your own reality.

00:55:49.740 Reality is what it is, no matter what you may say about it.

00:55:52.900 And the law deals with reality, not with what you say or what you perceive.

00:55:57.920 That's an important detail.

00:55:59.180 But reading a little bit more, David Herrera, co-founder and executive director of the Montana

00:56:04.280 Two-Spirit Society, said it was important for the group to join the lawsuit because limiting

00:56:08.500 gender goes against indigenous traditions and cultures. 0.96

00:56:12.120 Well, we don't ascribe to just simple biological definitions.

00:56:15.540 We acknowledge that there are different genders, and our cultures have always known that there

00:56:19.640 are many more than two genders.

00:56:21.180 In some of the indigenous cultures, there may be as many as four to six different genders.

00:56:24.680 According to Herrera, a 61-year-old who is Two-Spirit and adopted Blackfeet.

00:56:30.820 Now, there's that sleight-of-hand trick again.

00:56:33.900 And if you've listened to the show for any length of time, you're pretty well trained to

00:56:37.360 look out for it.

00:56:38.340 And you know that it's coming whenever the trans ideologues start talking. 0.68

00:56:42.380 So this is a law that deals with sex, male or female.

00:56:45.200 It does not deal with gender, which the left insists is different from sex.

00:56:48.500 Yet the left objects to the law on the grounds that gender is fluid. 0.87

00:56:53.980 But even if we agreed with that claim, what does it have to do with sex, which you say

00:56:59.640 is something entirely distinct?

00:57:02.420 Well, the answer is that words have no objective meaning to these people.

00:57:05.760 Words mean whatever they need them to mean at the moment.

00:57:09.920 And speaking of made-up words, what about this idea of Two-Spirit?

00:57:13.000 Supposedly, Two-Spirit is the Native American version of being trans. 0.64

00:57:15.720 A Two-Spirit person has the soul of both a male and a female.

00:57:19.640 And this is the belief, allegedly.

00:57:21.540 And of course, we've talked about this Two-Spirit concept before.

00:57:23.700 But it's still interesting to listen to the left try to explain what it is.

00:57:26.880 Interesting mainly because of how thoroughly the Two-Spirit thing undermines their own premise

00:57:34.960 about gender.

00:57:36.880 So to show you what I mean, here's an interview with David Herrera, who was mentioned in the

00:57:40.080 article, the head of the Montana Two-Spirit Society, posted on the organization's website.

00:57:44.500 And in this interview, he's supposed to be talking about what Two-Spirit is.

00:57:50.160 So listen to what he says about the origin and meaning of the term.

00:57:55.200 What's Two-Spirit?

00:57:56.640 For me, it's a cultural term more than anything else as it relates to Native and Indigenous

00:58:01.720 tribes and people.

00:58:04.200 The term Two-Spirit came out in 1990?

00:58:06.660 I believe it was about 1988 or 89.

00:58:09.780 Okay.

00:58:09.900 Back then, you know, during the 80s and stuff, HIV was already hitting.

00:58:14.600 So it was already mobilizing a lot of LGB communities around that.

00:58:19.920 So there was talk about wanting to bring together and start like this Native national organization.

00:58:25.320 For the most part, a lot of the Native folks did not identify with the gay LGBT community

00:58:31.980 at all.

00:58:32.860 They were more identified with their tribe.

00:58:35.840 You know, it's like, well, it's like, I'm not a gay, you know, man.

00:58:39.820 I'm, you know, Cherokee or I am, you know, Blackfeet.

00:58:43.220 It was a very foreign concept to create an identity based on your sexual expression.

00:58:49.340 Because every tribe had their own word for what it meant to be kind of like Two-Spirit

00:58:53.820 or, you know, gay or lesbian and stuff.

00:58:55.640 And so we knew like, okay, you know, we can't use, you know, Nadele, you know, the national

00:59:00.040 Nadele, because that was really only referred to Navajo or, you know, Winkta, which would

00:59:05.780 be more of the, you know, the Sioux, Lakota.

00:59:08.600 And so I was like trying to come up with a word that would be an umbrella that everybody

00:59:12.980 would know that this is what we're talking about.

00:59:15.340 So one of the first gatherings that happened was in Minneapolis back in the late 80s.

00:59:21.060 And it was at that gathering that the folks came up with the term Two-Spirit.

00:59:26.440 With that work, was that something that we could all agree on that we could identify with

00:59:30.540 and use that put that out there that when we say Two-Spirit, we are talking about Native,

00:59:35.940 Indigenous, you know, individuals who, you know, identify or maybe, you know, gay, lesbian,

00:59:41.820 what we would, you know, know as gay, lesbian, or trans.

00:59:46.240 Okay, so even by his own omission, Two-Spirit is not some ancient Native American custom.

00:59:52.320 It doesn't signify a traditional Indigenous belief in transgenderism as a concept.

00:59:56.700 It doesn't indicate that transgenderism existed even in ancient cultures, as the left likes 1.00

01:00:00.720 to pretend.

01:00:01.200 According to the head of the Two-Spirit Society, this idea was, as you've heard me say before,

01:00:05.940 invented by gay activists in the late 1980s.

01:00:10.360 I thought it was 1990s.

01:00:11.640 He's claiming it's the late 1980s.

01:00:13.560 Whatever.

01:00:14.620 The point is, if you took a time machine back to the 18th century and landed on the Great

01:00:19.180 Plains, and then you went and talked to some member of the Comanche tribe or the Arapaho

01:00:23.800 or Lakota, and you asked them about their Two-Spirit community, they wouldn't have the slightest 0.98

01:00:30.300 clue what you were talking about.

01:00:32.120 And that's because Two-Spirit is not an ancient Indian idea.

01:00:36.320 It's a modern gay leftist idea, which is yet more evidence that transgenderism itself is 1.00

01:00:43.380 a uniquely modern, uniquely Western invention.

01:00:46.040 It has no precedent in traditional societies.

01:00:48.440 But it gets better, because we hear from our friend from the Two-Spirit Society that although

01:00:53.140 Two-Spirit didn't exist in any Indian tribe, they did have similar identity groups that they

01:00:59.080 recognized.

01:00:59.580 He mentioned the winkta of the Lakota tribe, for example.

01:01:03.900 But winkta comes from the Lakota word, which I will botch, which is winyon kateka. 0.93

01:01:10.380 However it's pronounced, what it means literally is wants to be like a woman.

01:01:16.260 That's what the Lakota word means.

01:01:18.360 Okay?

01:01:19.280 It's analogous to the modern, is that analogous to the modern conception of trans?

01:01:24.560 Well, no, not remotely, because the left claims that trans people literally are the sex that

01:01:30.520 they identify as.

01:01:32.080 A quote-unquote trans woman is not a man who wants to be like a woman. 0.82

01:01:39.000 He is actually a woman.

01:01:41.680 But winkta doesn't mean that.

01:01:44.140 It means that a man, who is in every sense actually a man, wants to be like a woman. 0.90

01:01:50.400 So in other words, this is an effeminate man. 0.99

01:01:54.240 This is a homosexual. 1.00

01:01:55.840 And that's what the word refers to. 0.99

01:01:58.660 It indicates that a man is gay. 0.98

01:02:00.580 That's what it means. 0.99

01:02:01.940 Not that he's a woman, but that he's a gay effeminate man. 0.99

01:02:06.580 Nadley, who as he also mentioned, the other term he mentioned, means something similar. 0.90

01:02:10.320 So these are men who are acting like women, adopting some of the behaviors traditionally 0.99

01:02:18.100 associated with women. 1.00

01:02:20.340 But they are not actually women. 1.00

01:02:23.860 Now, this is the best these people can do to prove that transgenderism has some kind of 1.00

01:02:28.420 historical precedent.

01:02:30.300 But all they've really proven, if they've proven anything at all, is that there were effeminate 0.69

01:02:34.280 homosexuals in ancient societies.

01:02:35.980 Which is a fact that nobody denies.

01:02:39.140 And which doesn't even come close to legitimizing transgenderism, a category that the left themselves

01:02:43.600 would claim has nothing to do with homosexuality. 0.99

01:02:46.200 Unless, of course, the left is finally admitting that trans women are just effeminate homosexuals. 0.99

01:02:51.080 Is that what they're saying? 0.99

01:02:52.640 But they aren't admitting that.

01:02:54.200 At least not on purpose.

01:02:55.900 Now, of course, even if it was true that Indian tribes had a belief in two spirits, that would 0.93

01:03:01.660 still undermine modern leftist trans ideology because two-spirit is clearly a spiritual

01:03:06.480 belief.

01:03:07.720 I mean, it's right there in the name.

01:03:09.480 It's not a belief in the literal reality of a trans woman's womanhood.

01:03:13.700 It's a religious, faith-based concept.

01:03:16.820 And not only that, but it's a religious, faith-based concept that still affirms the male-female

01:03:23.100 binary.

01:03:23.640 Notice that it's two spirits and not three or four or five.

01:03:28.020 And that's because even when you try to get away from the binary, you still can't help 1.00

01:03:33.280 but affirm it.

01:03:34.420 So, to recap, two-spirit is a vague spiritual notion invented recently by leftists as an 0.95

01:03:40.660 umbrella term for effeminate homosexuals in Native American tribes.

01:03:46.140 And on this basis, they seek to challenge the very existence of males and females as categories. 0.87

01:03:54.280 Well, all I can say to that is good luck.

01:03:58.020 And also, you're canceled.

01:04:00.980 And that'll do it for the show today and also this week.

01:04:04.360 Thanks for listening.

01:04:05.780 Thanks for watching.

01:04:06.460 Have a great day.

01:04:07.420 Talk to you on Monday.

01:04:08.560 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 15, 2023

Ep. 1279 - Racial Segregation Is Making A Big Comeback, Thanks To The Left

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