The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1281 - The Military Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Wokeness

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matwell Show, the military is struggling to attract new recruits,

00:00:03.140 while the ones they do attract are busy on TikTok complaining about being in the military.

00:00:07.140 We've reached a crisis point as the military is smaller now than it's been since before World War II,

00:00:11.540 but all of this was totally foreseeable.

00:00:13.860 Also, the media reports that Pope Francis has given priests permission to give blessings to same-sex unions.

00:00:19.320 Is that true?

00:00:20.240 Well, no, not exactly, but there's a lot more to it we'll discuss.

00:00:23.120 The state of Minnesota is getting rid of their state flag as they contemplate replacing it

00:00:26.600 with something that looks suspiciously like the Somali flag.

00:00:28.940 And a former NFL player makes waves when he demands that white people stop offering football analysis.

00:00:34.400 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matwell Show.

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00:01:54.200 In October of 2020, Major General Ed Thomas, who at the time was the commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service,

00:02:01.000 wrote an op-ed for Yahoo News, and it was entitled,

00:02:03.900 86% of Air Force Pilots are White Men.

00:02:06.940 Here's why this needs to change.

00:02:09.160 In about 800 words, Major General Thomas outlined his plan to recruit pilots

00:02:14.800 without regard for their competence or fitness or their loyalty to the United States.

00:02:18.720 Instead, Thomas explained, the most important thing for the Air Force to focus on was the skin color of its recruits.

00:02:24.820 He said that hiring more black and brown recruits was vital in order to keep pace with Russia and China.

00:02:30.920 You know, they're busy developing hypersonic missiles that can fly at like 20 times the speed of sound.

00:02:36.920 But the general wrote, you know, and, you know, the real, the real secret sauce for us that keeps us competitive is diversity.

00:02:42.920 And according to Ed Thomas, quote, our goal is to get in front of every demographic group in America

00:02:48.240 and show them someone who wears a flight suit every day that they can look up to and say, that could be me.

00:02:55.100 Now, three years after he wrote that op-ed and launched the Air Force's anti-white recruitment plan,

00:03:00.860 Major General Ed Thomas retired.

00:03:02.520 So he inflicted his DEI recruitment strategy on the Air Force, and then he quickly left.

00:03:07.860 So he doesn't have any reason to care about the consequences.

00:03:11.740 But especially as World War III seems more plausible by the day, the rest of us have an important question to ask,

00:03:16.620 which is, how did this DEI strategy turn out exactly?

00:03:21.320 Thomas' replacement, a general named Christopher Amerheim, testified this month before the Senate Armed Services Committee,

00:03:27.740 and he informed Congress when he testified that for the first time in 24 years,

00:03:32.480 the Air Force has failed to meet its basic recruitment goal.

00:03:36.760 And I'll say that one more time.

00:03:38.460 For the first time in more than two decades, the Air Force didn't hit its recruiting objective.

00:03:43.680 So they were trying to expand their recruitment.

00:03:46.720 We were told they were expanding it to reach more people, and in response, they got fewer people.

00:03:55.260 In fact, it was off by around 10%, which is a major miss.

00:04:00.780 And they're not alone.

00:04:01.620 Amerheim went on to testify that the Army and Navy, which also put a new emphasis on recruiting minority candidates,

00:04:06.760 also fell far short of their projections in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in September.

00:04:12.220 He testified that, quote,

00:04:13.480 we've seen a steady decline in the military even being an option for our youth as they contemplate the future.

00:04:19.160 Now, if you crunch the numbers, you'll find that that's actually a massive understatement.

00:04:24.840 In total, the military missed its recruitment goal by more than 40,000 individuals.

00:04:28.840 The Army now has about 450,000 active duty soldiers, its smallest size since 1940, before the U.S. entered World War II.

00:04:36.720 In all, the U.S. military currently has around 1.4 million active service members.

00:04:41.140 And by comparison, China's military has more than 2 million.

00:04:45.980 Now, as alarming as all those statistics are,

00:04:50.080 the news gets even worse when you consider the quality of the few people who are still signing up to serve this country.

00:04:56.200 The Daily Mail reported this week on what it calls a TikTok mutiny among recruits

00:05:01.220 who are increasingly posting videos online to complain about the conditions they're shocked to encounter in the military.

00:05:07.860 These are people in the military in full uniform making TikTok videos complaining

00:05:12.820 and often recording themselves inside U.S. military bases,

00:05:17.360 whining that the pay is bad, the food isn't up to their standards, and many other types of complaints.

00:05:23.000 Here are just a couple of those videos. Check it out.

00:05:25.180 These are my top five reasons on why you shouldn't join the military.

00:05:30.200 Reason number one is pay. We do not get paid enough for what we do.

00:05:33.340 I'm not here to say that we get paid pennies.

00:05:35.160 I'm just saying that we don't get paid enough to perform the mission that is tasked to us.

00:05:39.420 Reason number two, family. You will not see your family often.

00:05:43.200 You might see them on holidays, and that's about it. I can elaborate.

00:05:48.460 Reason number three, schooling.

00:05:50.220 Now, I know you're like, whoa, that was a benefit, but it's requirements you have to meet first to be able to get to that schooling.

00:05:56.880 So if you're thinking about joining because of schooling, just go to school.

00:06:00.380 Reason number four, if you're a parent.

00:06:02.120 Now, if you join single and get married and then have kids, that's one thing.

00:06:05.260 But if you're already having a child and you're thinking about joining, don't.

00:06:08.580 You got to think about it.

00:06:09.600 Bootcamp is between six to eight weeks.

00:06:11.340 After bootcamp, you go to school.

00:06:12.380 That's between 10 days to a year.

00:06:14.120 After that, you go to deployment.

00:06:15.620 That's between eight months to nine months.

00:06:18.740 Think about how much time you miss with your child.

00:06:21.460 Reason number five, you do not have 100% say on what you want to do.

00:06:24.380 Five reasons why you shouldn't join the army. 0.97

00:06:41.780 Five reasons why you should not join the f***ing army. 0.96

00:06:46.860 Number one, I know what y'all want to hear to pay. 0.98

00:06:50.140 Like, starting off, like, first, like, you won.

00:06:55.620 I'm pretty sure you're making, like, $1,600 a paycheck.

00:06:57.740 And that's, like, not.

00:06:58.620 I can cut it there.

00:06:59.300 You see, you get the idea.

00:07:00.940 It goes on and on and on.

00:07:01.800 The reasons are all the same, too.

00:07:03.120 And these are all things that, I guess, surprised these guys.

00:07:05.360 Like, they didn't see that coming.

00:07:08.500 The fact that you're not going to be able to see your family when you're at bootcamp.

00:07:11.000 Was that, like, did you not know that?

00:07:13.780 And you'll notice that nowhere in those TikTok videos do any of the soldiers,

00:07:17.900 and there's a lot of them out there,

00:07:19.340 a lot of these TikTok videos.

00:07:21.820 Nowhere do they talk about, like, their pride in the country

00:07:24.480 or their family's history of service

00:07:26.700 or their desire to ensure a safe and prosperous world for their grandchildren.

00:07:31.140 They don't talk about any of that because none of that applies to them.

00:07:34.420 A recent poll by Gallup found that only 1 in 10 young liberals

00:07:38.300 were extremely proud in their country.

00:07:40.680 1 in 10.

00:07:42.060 And since most young people are liberal,

00:07:44.360 well, this is what you get.

00:07:45.360 Now, on the bright side, it is a diverse group of soldiers in these clips.

00:07:50.820 And you watch any of these videos from the TikTok mutiny.

00:07:54.280 It's very, very diverse.

00:07:56.540 Lots of non-white males, lots of females as well making these kinds of videos. 0.88

00:08:00.700 There's no denying that.

00:08:02.000 Very diverse.

00:08:03.320 So that's at least one objective that our Pentagon has successfully completed.

00:08:07.980 Unfortunately, all of these diverse recruits are saying pretty much the same thing, though.

00:08:13.900 They're not making enough money.

00:08:15.620 They're not getting enough respect.

00:08:17.340 They can't see their families as often as they'd like to.

00:08:20.140 So on and so on.

00:08:21.460 Now, of course, all of these complaints have always applied to life in the military.

00:08:25.840 The food has never been, from what I've told, five-star quality.

00:08:30.160 The pay has always been abysmal.

00:08:31.960 You've always had very little control over your life

00:08:34.080 because, you know, the military decides what you do and where you go.

00:08:38.580 The difference is that now we're filling the ranks with the sorts of people

00:08:41.180 who would not only whine about it,

00:08:43.100 but whine publicly, in uniform, on video, for clicks.

00:08:48.840 These are the kinds of recruits that we're told are going to help us

00:08:51.540 defeat China and their hypersonic missiles. 0.63

00:08:55.320 This is what equity looks like in the armed forces.

00:08:58.480 And no one's allowed to point out what a disaster it's been.

00:09:02.580 But it has been a disaster.

00:09:04.080 But the issue isn't just diverse recruitment efforts and TikToks.

00:09:10.360 There are much deeper problems with the military's leadership.

00:09:14.200 And a handful of recent incidents give us clues as to what these deeper problems are.

00:09:18.080 So last December, the Washington Times reported that the Defense Department

00:09:21.100 launched an investigation into two Army soldiers who, quote,

00:09:25.040 took sexually explicit photos in uniform while wearing dog masks and bondage gear.

00:09:30.740 Now, some of those photos were apparently taken on an airfield.

00:09:34.080 As well as inside a locker room with nameplates for Joint Base Pearl Harbor.

00:09:38.920 Nothing ever came of that investigation.

00:09:40.900 In fact, we mentioned it on this show.

00:09:43.040 But as far as I could tell, the military just buried it and nothing came of it.

00:09:47.880 That same month, a high-ranking commander in New Jersey named Chris Schilling,

00:09:52.260 who was stationed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst,

00:09:55.840 threatened a mother on Facebook because she complained about gay propaganda that her seven-year-old daughter was learning at school.

00:10:01.940 So here's what the mother, Angela Redding, wrote on Facebook.

00:10:04.600 Quote,

00:10:04.780 Now, her post continued along those points and along those lines, and it makes a very valid, very good point.

00:10:25.540 At no point did she threaten anyone.

00:10:28.180 But in response, Chris Schilling wrote this, quote,

00:10:30.080 Now, in this case, the military never explained why Chris Schilling was posting publicly on behalf of a military base

00:10:49.640 and intimidating a mother who was expressing her views on social media.

00:10:54.260 They certainly didn't publicly fire Chris Schilling, which would have been obviously appropriate.

00:10:59.740 Again, they just buried the story.

00:11:02.940 Now, each of these incidents, as egregious as they are,

00:11:05.780 point to the transformation of the U.S. military from a fighting force into a political tool.

00:11:12.060 Their goal now is the same as the goal of every federal agency under the Biden administration,

00:11:15.660 which is to promote a perverse cult and root out any nonbelievers.

00:11:21.180 That's why three years ago, the Pentagon commenced a political purge that was thinly veiled as a COVID mandate.

00:11:26.900 In just the past few years, more than 8,000 military service members were discharged for refusing to take the COVID shot.

00:11:33.080 Could that be one of the reasons why the numbers are down?

00:11:37.040 Now, only around 40 of those service members ever return.

00:11:40.360 They're mostly gone for good.

00:11:42.300 Because the point wasn't really to keep service members from dying of COVID.

00:11:45.260 It was to punish people with wrong political views.

00:11:49.360 And now, you know, the people who want to sign up are, as we see in some of these TikTok videos,

00:11:53.880 many of them are sort of entitled and lazy.

00:11:57.280 You know, it's easy to make this into a commentary on Gen Z.

00:12:00.640 And that's what some, a lot of the, you know, analysis on this has been focused on that. 0.85

00:12:06.680 Gen Z, they're all lazy. 1.00

00:12:08.580 This is how they are. 0.86

00:12:09.860 And to some extent, sure, it's a commentary on them.

00:12:11.820 But it's more a commentary on our institutions that have created people like this and a military like this.

00:12:19.640 The biggest problem for the military right now, and it is a very major problem,

00:12:23.780 is that they're not only light in numbers, but in the quality of the recruits they're bringing in.

00:12:30.100 You know, it used to be that the military would actively recruit young men

00:12:34.760 and call them to come and sacrifice themselves in defense of their country.

00:12:39.640 They were looking for men who could kill the enemy. 0.99

00:12:43.700 Like, they're looking for people who are going to, who are going to go out and kill the bad guys. 0.77

00:12:47.680 And they didn't hide from that fact.

00:12:49.620 Full Metal Jacket is a fictional film, obviously, but by all accounts,

00:12:52.660 its depiction of Marine Corps boot camp 50 years ago isn't too far from accurate.

00:12:56.660 And in one iconic scene, the drill sergeant tells the recruits that they need to become killers

00:13:02.140 and then gives Charles Whitman and Lee Harvey Oswald as examples of effective Marine Corps assassins.

00:13:08.440 Now, that's not the kind of speech that we would want drill sergeants giving in reality. 0.93

00:13:12.920 Mass murderers aren't really the best role models.

00:13:15.540 But the point is that the military didn't used to hide from the fact that it was calling men to violence.

00:13:22.120 Violence for a good cause in service to their country, but violence.

00:13:26.780 So you see here three things that are now missing from the way the military recruits and trains people.

00:13:31.220 They used to look for, one, men, who were, two, motivated by higher ideals like patriotism

00:13:37.120 and were, three, eager and willing to kill bad guys.

00:13:41.740 The military's current recruitment strategy specifically avoids all of that.

00:13:46.660 Now they put out recruitment ads that look like Disney movies

00:13:49.100 or, you know, the kinds of videos you might see in a corporate HR seminar.

00:13:52.560 So here, for example, we played this on the show a long time ago,

00:13:56.760 but just one recent recruitment ad from the Army.

00:13:59.480 It specifically targets women who are motivated not by patriotism,

00:14:04.140 certainly not by a desire to go out and kill the enemy, but really by narcissism.

00:14:08.900 Watch.

00:14:09.240 This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's Patriot Missile Defense Systems.

00:14:21.400 It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.

00:14:26.920 Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.

00:14:45.460 I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age.

00:14:48.640 When I was six years old, one of my moms had an accident that left her paralyzed.

00:14:56.100 Doctors said she might never walk again.

00:14:58.920 But she tapped into my family's pride to get back on her feet, 0.99

00:15:03.200 eventually standing at the altar to marry my other mom.

00:15:07.240 With such powerful role models, I finished high school at the top of my class

00:15:11.520 and then attended UC Davis, where I joined a sorority full of other strong women.

00:15:18.140 But as graduation approached, I began feeling like I'd been handed so much in life.

00:15:23.680 A sorority girl stereotype.

00:15:26.180 Sure, I'd spent my life around inspiring women. 0.95

00:15:29.440 But what had I really achieved on my own?

00:15:32.760 One of my sorority sisters was studying abroad in Italy.

00:15:36.160 Another was climbing Mount Everest.

00:15:38.700 I needed my own adventures.

00:15:42.140 Okay, so you get the idea.

00:15:43.900 And that recruitment ad is a couple years old, I think, at this point.

00:15:48.700 So you see this drop-off in recruitment that now the Pentagon is telling us about,

00:15:53.640 and it's a real crisis.

00:15:55.980 And it's like right around when that ad went out is when things started to plummet.

00:16:02.500 And you can see why.

00:16:03.580 This is an ad.

00:16:04.880 First of all, that video, you can take that exact video, the way it looks, sounds, everything,

00:16:10.180 and that could easily be a video that maybe they'd show you if you work at Target about how they recruit people for their management program at Target.

00:16:19.800 Except this is the military.

00:16:22.680 So we see a strong and independent woman raised by two lesbians to become a left-wing social justice activist. 0.90

00:16:30.180 We're told that she grows up, gets hired by the Army, and then later she talks about how she gets to boss men around.

00:16:36.620 She doesn't want to serve her country. 1.00

00:16:38.360 She wants to use her job in the Army to impress her sorority sisters. 1.00

00:16:41.820 And it's all about me and I.

00:16:44.640 It's about my adventure.

00:16:45.620 I want to do something for me.

00:16:48.520 This is the kind of person the military has been targeting, and this is the way they've been targeting them.

00:16:53.540 And it's not just the Army that's been trying to remove all hints of masculinity from its ranks.

00:16:57.480 As Matt Gaetz pointed out this year, Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana recently hosted a Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:17:04.700 So did Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, Joint Base Langley in Virginia all had Drag Queen Story Hours. 0.90

00:17:10.940 This year, amid all the scrutiny, the Pentagon reluctantly announced that the Navy has suspended its formal Drag Queen events.

00:17:17.660 And that led to maybe the single most depressing but perhaps unintentionally hilarious news conference ever delivered by the Department of Defense.

00:17:26.640 Watch.

00:17:27.500 This Drag Queen recruiting initiative, is that strictly a Navy project? 0.92

00:17:33.940 Are you going to have the other services also get involved?

00:17:37.220 Is there going to be an Army Drag Queen, Air Force Drag Queen, that sort of thing? 0.98

00:17:41.000 Is it strictly a Navy project?

00:17:42.300 Well, I would say, first, and at the top, just looking at this holistically, we are incredibly proud of those who decide to serve.

00:17:51.640 And that's every young American who decides to serve and to take the oath to put their line on the line in defense of our country.

00:17:59.120 Again, the program I believe that you're referring to was the Navy Digital Ambassador Program, which was a pilot outreach effort.

00:18:08.940 It was not a recruiting effort.

00:18:10.580 For more information on that, I would direct you to the Navy.

00:18:13.860 But this pilot program has concluded and the Navy is evaluating the program and how it exists in the future.

00:18:20.260 So the Drag Queen initiative was suspended, says the Pentagon lady, but the military never apologized for it.

00:18:27.280 They never reacted with horror that this was going on in the first place.

00:18:31.700 Instead, they've just done what they've been doing the past few years, which is that they buried it, tried to move on, admitted no fault.

00:18:38.920 But then also kind of just kept on doing what they were doing before.

00:18:44.160 And here's the reality, that all this kind of stuff, lowering standards, filling the military with cultists who hate this country, this is not the solution to low recruitment.

00:18:54.580 Everybody knows that.

00:18:55.680 The solution to low recruitment is to, first of all, apologize for firing soldiers because they won't take an experimental shot.

00:19:02.240 Reinstate all those soldiers with back pay immediately, then fire any officer who had any involvement in that decision, including Lloyd Austin.

00:19:10.720 Then the Pentagon needs to repudiate the testimony of former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, who repeatedly lectured soldiers about, quote, white rage.

00:19:18.860 Instead of pretending that white supremacy is the biggest threat we face and making cartoon recruitment videos for narcissistic girl bosses, the Pentagon should do what it used to do, which is reward merit and character.

00:19:30.140 And most of all, if you want to solve your recruitment problem, you need to speak to men specifically and call them to service using language that evokes higher ideals like patriotism and courage and loyalty.

00:19:44.720 And then you need to turn the military, turn it back rather, into a place tailor-made for men like that.

00:19:52.520 Now, under the current administration, of course, the military will do precisely none of that.

00:19:55.920 That's because, from the various highest levels, the Biden administration doesn't believe this country or its values are worth defending.

00:20:04.340 The end result is the crisis that the military currently faces.

00:20:08.420 And it is indeed a crisis.

00:20:10.300 But it's a crisis of their own making.

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00:21:19.860 Okay, so you may have heard that the Pope, Pope Francis, has announced that same-sex couples can now receive blessings in the Catholic Church.

00:21:29.440 You've heard that this is a major change in the Church, and that Church teaching has somehow been changed to accommodate this.

00:21:37.520 And that's what all the headlines are saying anyway.

00:21:40.140 I mean, literally all of them, from the corporate media anyway, all basically say this.

00:21:43.940 But, as you should probably know, well, you can't trust the corporate media on anything.

00:21:51.380 You can't trust their headlines on anything.

00:21:53.100 You especially can't trust them on anything related to the Catholic Church.

00:21:58.460 And so, what really happened?

00:22:01.960 Well, the Daily Wire has a good write-up about it, a little bit from that.

00:22:05.940 It says,

00:22:06.440 The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which exists to defend Catholic doctrine, clarified in a document published on Monday.

00:22:30.700 Okay, the document, called Fiducia Supplicans, was signed by Pope Francis, as well as the Dicastery's new prefect, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez.

00:22:41.300 Priests can give people and same-sex couples a spontaneous blessing, quote-unquote,

00:22:46.500 but the blessing cannot be a liturgical act or resemble the sacrament of marriage, according to the document.

00:22:52.680 A blessing on people and same-sex couples cannot be given in connection with a civil union, 0.97

00:22:56.320 and no clothing, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding can be included in order to avoid any form of confusion or scandal, the document says.

00:23:04.940 Quote,

00:23:05.240 Rites and prayers that could create confusion between what constitutes marriage,

00:23:08.220 which is the exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman,

00:23:12.080 naturally open to the generation of children and what contradicts it are inadmissible.

00:23:18.020 Instead, the Vatican said that a priest can give a blessing in other contexts,

00:23:20.620 such as visiting a visit to a shrine, a meeting with a priest, a group prayer, or during a pilgrimage.

00:23:26.920 In the blessing, the priest can pray for the individuals to have peace, health, a spirit of patience, dialogue, and mutual assistance,

00:23:33.860 but also God's light and strength to be able to fulfill his will completely.

00:23:39.220 Okay, now, you have the corporate media saying that some big changes were made here.

00:23:45.520 You have the Vatican clarifying that there wasn't a change, but then you have guys like Father James Martin,

00:23:55.120 who's a Jesuit, pro-LGBT extremist, but I repeat myself, saying,

00:24:00.680 don't listen to the people who are saying that there hasn't been a change.

00:24:02.860 There has been a change, and it's a very progressive change, and he's very excited about it.

00:24:07.400 So what's really going on here?

00:24:09.700 What's going on is actually quite simple.

00:24:13.220 It's what's been going on all through the reign of Pope Francis.

00:24:17.240 It's more of the same.

00:24:19.200 And his entire tenure has been defined by this kind of thing,

00:24:22.660 defined specifically by making things undefined,

00:24:27.000 defined by this sort of intentional ambiguity.

00:24:29.780 So it's true, you know, it's true that technically, by the letter of the law,

00:24:36.660 no change to church teaching was made.

00:24:39.660 It's true that if you parse the words very carefully, and you're very precise and technical,

00:24:44.620 you'll see that technically, he has not granted permission to bless same-sex unions per se,

00:24:51.040 but rather to bless individuals who may happen to be in same-sex unions.

00:24:54.700 And so all of that is true, which means that a lot of these corporate media headlines

00:25:00.480 saying that church teaching has been changed and all this, those headlines are false.

00:25:07.320 But it's also true that they've gone about this in a confusing way and created more confusion

00:25:12.660 and created a situation where although they have not expressly given permission to bless same-sex unions,

00:25:18.840 there will now be same-sex union blessings in many churches,

00:25:25.740 as many left-wing priests like Father James Martin will take advantage of the confusion to do what they want to do.

00:25:34.120 You know, the James Martins of the world, they didn't need the Vatican to specifically come out and say,

00:25:40.460 yes, you can do that thing.

00:25:42.380 They just need some sort of like fog, some mist to operate in so that everything's a little bit hazy.

00:25:49.660 And they have it.

00:25:52.260 So basically, the Vatican is giving permission to something without giving permission.

00:25:57.180 That's the game.

00:25:58.900 Because, of course, if you really intended not to change anything,

00:26:04.020 then you just wouldn't change anything.

00:26:07.260 You wouldn't do anything at all or issue any kind of statement.

00:26:11.480 Like if there's no change at all, then we don't need a document.

00:26:15.200 Everything's the same.

00:26:16.220 We don't need anything.

00:26:17.260 When people ask you, what's the teaching on that?

00:26:21.700 That's what it's always been.

00:26:23.480 That's it.

00:26:24.100 No change.

00:26:25.780 Thanks for checking in.

00:26:27.740 Teaching is what it has been for 2,000 years.

00:26:29.780 That's what you could say.

00:26:33.680 But instead, we get this whole, you know, we get this whole thing.

00:26:39.900 Like it was already the case that people in same-sex unions could receive blessings in church.

00:26:46.600 Obviously.

00:26:47.500 Like anyone can receive a blessing.

00:26:49.000 If a serial killer goes up to get a blessing from a priest and says, Father, will you bless me?

00:26:55.220 He can be blessed.

00:26:57.780 Obviously.

00:26:58.460 It's not like they're only going to bless non-sinners.

00:27:00.960 If that was the case, then nobody could be blessed.

00:27:02.780 And also, all the people who need to be blessed will not get the blessing.

00:27:05.640 So, obviously, of course, gay people can receive blessings.

00:27:11.140 All people can receive.

00:27:12.760 You know, if you're, no matter what kind of relationship you're in, you can receive blessings.

00:27:19.720 You can pray.

00:27:21.200 You can hear the word of God.

00:27:23.340 You can and should do all of those things.

00:27:26.360 And if that's all you want to happen, then there's no need for this whole big production.

00:27:31.280 There's no need for anything.

00:27:32.780 It's just business as usual.

00:27:35.500 But the Vatican makes something out of nothing because it's confusing.

00:27:39.280 Because the intention is to confuse people.

00:27:42.960 This is the game that Pope Francis plays.

00:27:47.100 And again, he's been playing it through his whole pontificate.

00:27:50.240 Making things that were clear seem ambiguous.

00:27:52.920 Making things that were obvious seem obscure.

00:27:57.720 Essentially, giving the faithful exactly the opposite of what they need, which is clarity and light and direction.

00:28:05.860 Like, I mean, there's nothing wrong with drawing fine distinctions and being nuanced and being very thorough and all of that.

00:28:13.020 But, you know, the left engages in nuance in a way that blurs lines rather than defines them.

00:28:19.160 The whole approach is to mystify.

00:28:23.720 You know, it's to make everything mystify.

00:28:26.040 It's to create doubt and uncertainty.

00:28:28.960 And the great thing for them is that when they create a lot of this doubt and this kind of foggy sort of ambiguous environment,

00:28:35.960 that allows them to pull back whenever they need to.

00:28:39.880 So they can say something that sounds kind of vague, but that also is crazy.

00:28:46.380 And then you can say, wait, are you saying that crazy thing?

00:28:50.720 And then they can pull back and say, what?

00:28:52.140 No, we didn't say that.

00:28:53.180 That's not what we're saying.

00:28:55.040 I mean, there's a million examples of this kind of dynamic.

00:28:57.280 But, I mean, think about what they do with race.

00:28:59.620 I mean, gender, transgenderism is the biggest thing. 1.00

00:29:01.900 But even something like race, you know, they'll say something like, whiteness is a disease that needs to be cured. 0.99

00:29:09.640 And you'll respond by saying, wait, are you saying white people need to be wiped out like a disease? 0.99

00:29:16.280 Like, it sounds like that's what you're saying. 0.99

00:29:18.700 And then they get, again, they can kind of pull back.

00:29:21.100 No, we're not saying that.

00:29:22.880 That's not what we said.

00:29:23.920 But that is what you're saying.

00:29:27.160 Now, true, you didn't say that exactly verbatim.

00:29:31.220 You didn't use those words specifically.

00:29:35.020 That's obviously the intent behind the words.

00:29:38.540 Like, that's the meaning behind the words.

00:29:40.960 What other meaning could there be?

00:29:42.120 Why else would you say that if that's not what you were trying to communicate?

00:29:46.720 And so it's just that tactic over and over again.

00:29:49.280 Pope Francis, being a leftist himself, uses the same approach.

00:29:54.920 And not on race issues.

00:29:57.620 But this is the approach that he uses.

00:30:01.040 Of creating ambiguity, creating confusion, while not technically changing anything.

00:30:11.820 Not changing it technically, not changing it according to a letter of law.

00:30:15.780 But saying things in a certain way so that they are changed in practice.

00:30:22.020 And as I said, it doesn't matter what this document says.

00:30:25.040 There are going to be priests now, these left-wing priests.

00:30:27.800 And there are plenty of them, unfortunately.

00:30:29.860 Who are going to start blessing same-sex unions.

00:30:31.800 Like, blessing the union itself.

00:30:34.240 That's what's going to happen.

00:30:36.120 Everyone knows it's going to happen.

00:30:38.160 The Vatican knows it's going to happen.

00:30:40.400 And we can assume that they want it to happen.

00:30:42.940 But they also know that they can't come out and say that they want it.

00:30:46.480 So it's, I mean, it's true.

00:30:49.440 It's really insidious and sinister.

00:30:52.900 And his whole, this is just all he has done.

00:30:55.760 It's been an absolute disaster.

00:30:58.200 Pope Francis has been.

00:30:59.300 And it's very sad to say that, but it's true. 0.99

00:31:05.640 All right, the Post Millennial has this report.

00:31:07.760 A commission established in Minnesota to redesign the state's flag settled upon a new design on Friday afternoon.

00:31:12.900 The flag features a shape that resembles the general outline of the state on the left with an eight-pointed star in it.

00:31:19.100 And yet to be decided on pattern on the right side.

00:31:21.480 According to the Star Tribune, the committee has until January 1st to make a final decision on whether the flag should have stripes or not and what color the stripes shall be.

00:31:31.000 Chair of the commission, Louis Fitch, told the outlet, the next generation will be raised with a new flag.

00:31:35.760 It's going to happen.

00:31:36.500 He added, we're not going to be able to make everybody happy.

00:31:38.640 The whole idea since day one was to make sure we can create a flag that unites us instead of separates us.

00:31:43.780 The decision to redesign the state flag comes after some have complained that the flag and state seal are offensive to Native Americans in the state.

00:31:50.340 The flag depicts a man plowing his field as a Native American rides away on horseback. 0.92

00:31:58.120 And what is offensive about that exactly?

00:32:01.440 Well, we know, you know, based on a lot of experience now that any depiction of Native Americans, like, in any context is automatically offensive.

00:32:12.240 So this is how, this is the best thing we could do for Native Americans, apparently, is to just erase them from everything. 1.00

00:32:22.600 They were represented on a state flag.

00:32:25.500 And now we're going to erase them from that.

00:32:28.620 In most other cases, we're told that it's all about representation and making sure that all these different identity groups are represented.

00:32:35.320 But with Native Americans, it's a very interesting situation where the opposite, they're telling us to do the opposite. 0.99

00:32:42.380 Like, get rid of all depictions.

00:32:44.680 Do not show them.

00:32:46.740 Do not speak of them.

00:32:48.560 Do not refer to them.

00:32:50.860 Why is that better?

00:32:52.980 Well, I couldn't explain that to you.

00:32:55.900 Because it's not.

00:32:56.700 Anyway, the article contains the committee, which was created by the legislature last session, used its $35,000 budget over a period of four months to sort through 2,600 new designs submitted by the public and eventually narrowed it down to one.

00:33:09.760 One user on X pointed out how one of the designs being discussed looks similar to the Jubaland state of Somalia.

00:33:19.160 Now, we have the actual picture.

00:33:20.840 We can put this up.

00:33:21.380 So this is one, apparently, one of the designs being discussed.

00:33:23.940 There we go.

00:33:24.560 Okay.

00:33:24.740 So you have the state flag that they are proposing, and then on the other side you have the Somali flag.

00:33:36.500 That's one of the designs being proposed.

00:33:39.240 And so, yeah, I mean, that's literally just the Somali flag.

00:33:43.120 That's what they're talking about.

00:33:45.080 And it just so happens that if you think that that's how, well, why would you make it, why would you model it after a Somalian flag?

00:33:50.680 Well, Minnesota happens to be a hub for Somali immigrants, and now they want to apparently redesign the flag to look like their flag.

00:33:58.420 So they took refuge in our country, and now they want to make our country into the country that they fled. 0.99

00:34:04.140 And, you know, there's a lot of that going around and has been for decades.

00:34:09.620 Now, of course, calling Somalia a country is a little bit of a stretch.

00:34:14.260 It's a failed state.

00:34:15.280 It's a humanitarian disaster zone. 0.96

00:34:18.120 It is a third world hellhole.

00:34:21.240 Nobody wants to live in Somalia, least of all Somalians. 1.00

00:34:24.020 You know, it's always interesting when you have people from countries like that that take pride in their country.

00:34:31.760 It's like there's not a lot to be proud of with Somalia. 1.00

00:34:34.520 It's not like Somalia has achieved anything or done anything.

00:34:38.440 Just it's like a terrible place.

00:34:40.220 You know, as a general rule, if your country has no tourism industry at all, it's a pretty bad sign.

00:34:47.260 Because it means that literally nobody in the world wants to go there.

00:34:51.460 And that's Somalia.

00:34:52.780 Like, that's why no one is going to Somalia on their honeymoon.

00:34:56.260 And yet you have this really bizarre situation where, you know, you have people from a country like Somalia who take pride in their national heritage.

00:35:05.780 Which, by the way, I don't begrudge them that.

00:35:09.260 I think everyone should take pride in their heritage.

00:35:11.900 Now, I think if you're fleeing a country, if you want to get the hell out of a country, it doesn't make a lot of sense to act like you're proud of the country you're fleeing from.

00:35:19.720 Like, for the sake of your family's lives, you have to leave and yet you're proud of that country?

00:35:23.840 Like, why?

00:35:24.860 What are you proud of?

00:35:26.160 But if you live in a country and that's your home and that's where you live, you should be proud of it.

00:35:32.120 Now, as an American, I also, from my perspective, I can look at some of these countries and say, I don't know, I don't see it.

00:35:39.940 Like, I don't see what there is to be proud of, personally.

00:35:42.860 But, you know, you're entitled to that perspective.

00:35:47.020 But it's just an odd situation where you have people from a place like Somalia fleeing, yet at the same time taking pride in their national heritage.

00:35:57.540 While Americans, who are from the place that the Somalians want to come, are not supposed to have any pride in theirs. 0.96

00:36:06.400 So there's no better illustration of that kind of dichotomy than a state flag being changed to resemble the Somali flag.

00:36:14.880 It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:36:16.040 It's like if you were, if you welcome a homeless guy into your house and he sits there reminiscing wistfully about the cardboard box that he lived in before.

00:36:28.140 Like, not thanking you for allowing him into your house.

00:36:33.340 Not doing that. Instead, he just sits there talking about how great the box was.

00:36:38.540 And meanwhile, you're not allowed to talk.

00:36:40.140 It's like he's proud of the box that he came from.

00:36:42.680 You're not allowed to be proud of your home.

00:36:45.940 Certainly not like the history of your home and your family heritage.

00:36:48.920 You're not allowed to have any of that.

00:36:51.340 Meanwhile, people that come from countries that are so terrible, those same people want to get the hell out of those countries can be proud of their country. 1.00

00:36:57.680 So that's the whole dynamic here.

00:37:01.100 All right. One other thing, a viral controversy yesterday erupted on social media as a former NFL running back by the name of Rashard Mendenhall tweeted something extremely racist.

00:37:14.420 He tweeted, I'm sick of average white guys commenting on football.

00:37:18.460 Y'all not even good at football. 0.70

00:37:19.860 Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an all black versus all white bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who's good at football? 0.96

00:37:27.700 I'm better than your goat.

00:37:30.200 I think he means goat like greatest of all time, not an actual goat on a farm.

00:37:35.900 Although he did not, he wrote in the lowercase, so I don't know.

00:37:40.980 Now, again, obviously very racist.

00:37:43.540 It's also funny coming from this guy.

00:37:45.500 Like he's complaining about average white guys, but during his NFL career, he was the epitome of average.

00:37:51.760 He played for six years, which is like, and then he washed out of the league, which is pretty average.

00:37:57.400 Yards per carry for his career was less than four, about 3.9 yards per carry, very average.

00:38:03.340 He had like maybe one or two good years and the rest were unremarkable.

00:38:06.520 And, and that's, you know, and it's like it all equals out to very average.

00:38:11.860 He's best known for fumbling the ball in the Super Bowl, costing the team the game, costing his team the game, Steelers.

00:38:19.580 And it was a fumble that was caused by a hit from a white defender.

00:38:23.680 So I don't know if that's maybe where all this animosity is coming from.

00:38:26.620 I don't know.

00:38:27.880 And it is also worrying when you see tweets like this.

00:38:30.100 Like it's worrying to see just how open and casual people are with their anti-white racism these days.

00:38:35.780 Like it's getting worse over time.

00:38:37.440 And that's all by design, of course.

00:38:39.780 And that, that's really the headline here.

00:38:41.400 If there is a headline to be found in some washed up former NFL player being racist, that's the headline. 0.91

00:38:48.600 With that said, though, since he brought up the subject, I have to say, and, and like many others, you know, I was kind of, I was actually thinking about this.

00:38:56.540 And, and all black versus all white game would be kind of interesting.

00:39:03.240 And, you know, I think our roster would be much more impressive than most people seem to think.

00:39:10.500 I kind of like our squad.

00:39:11.800 I got to be honest.

00:39:12.420 Like, I kind of like it.

00:39:13.580 I mean, you know, starting quarterback, we got Josh Allen.

00:39:18.280 Obviously running backs, Christian McCaffrey is probably going to be the MVP or should be the MVP.

00:39:22.440 He's the best running back in the league.

00:39:24.000 So already we've got Allen and McCaffrey back there.

00:39:25.860 So the whites are doing pretty well as far as that goes. 0.95

00:39:28.400 The O-line is no problem. 0.95

00:39:30.620 You can easily fill that out.

00:39:32.500 You get out and then you get to tight end, the tight end position.

00:39:35.980 And it's just, it's an embarrassment of riches.

00:39:38.440 I mean, Kittle, Kelsey, Mark Andrews, if he's healthy, Hawkinson, Laporta.

00:39:43.300 So we're going to run three and four tight end sets all game.

00:39:46.400 And we're a little more thin at the wide receiver position.

00:39:49.100 Cooper Cup, though, we're going to have him there.

00:39:51.820 And we'll be compensating, though, with a lot of tight ends.

00:39:53.900 We'll also have Christian McCaffrey running routes out of the backfield.

00:39:57.040 So I think we're in pretty good shape.

00:39:58.560 And you flip it to the other side of the ball, I think the front seven of the all-white squad is going to be good. 0.72

00:40:04.340 We're in real good shape with the pass rush because we'll have the Bosa brothers, Watt, Crosby.

00:40:10.260 So we're getting to the quarterback all day long on the white squad. 0.71

00:40:14.360 The big issue, obviously, is going to be on the back end, like the defensive backfield.

00:40:19.260 There are, and I checked just to make sure, there are no white cornerbacks in the league at all.

00:40:26.860 Like, they don't exist.

00:40:29.340 I think the last one was in, like, might have been Jason Sehorne in, like, 2002 or something.

00:40:35.620 It's been a long time.

00:40:36.800 So we're going to have to get creative in the backfield, find some guys on a practice squad,

00:40:41.180 throw some linebackers back in coverage.

00:40:44.900 You know, and we're going to have to get to the quarterback is what we're going to have to do.

00:40:48.200 It's just not, it's like he's going to have to get rid of the ball quickly because we're going to have to get to the quarterback,

00:40:52.880 put a lot of pressure on him.

00:40:54.660 But keep in mind something else.

00:40:56.800 Championship squad has to be great in all three phases.

00:41:00.400 Defense, offense, special teams.

00:41:02.380 And I think the white squad's doing well in special teams.

00:41:06.320 Like, we've got, so the whites, we don't have any cornerbacks. 0.60

00:41:10.140 Black squad, you have no kickers. 0.99

00:41:11.640 So you're in trouble.

00:41:12.420 You got no field goal kickers.

00:41:13.340 You got no punters.

00:41:14.280 We got all that.

00:41:15.100 We got kickers and punters all day.

00:41:18.360 So black squad gets into a situation where they got, you know,

00:41:22.040 where they're deep in their own, in their own, on their own side of the field.

00:41:25.240 And they got to, you know, it's fourth and 10 or something.

00:41:28.160 What are they going to do?

00:41:28.800 They can't punt.

00:41:30.220 So they're going to be in, they're going to be in four down territory the entire game.

00:41:34.020 Maybe that works in their favor.

00:41:35.060 Maybe it doesn't.

00:41:35.980 I'm looking at a high scoring game.

00:41:37.140 I think it's probably 47 to 40.

00:41:40.120 Who has the 47?

00:41:41.220 I think it could kind of go either way.

00:41:44.360 There are some question marks here though.

00:41:45.880 Like, what do you do about Pacific Islanders?

00:41:52.360 There's like one Asian guy in the NFL.

00:41:54.600 He's a kicker also.

00:41:56.400 Where do you put them?

00:41:58.420 I think probably they just can't play.

00:42:01.320 I think we have to just exclude them.

00:42:04.060 And so it could be a bonding moment for the black and white squads.

00:42:07.080 Because like, they're going to come together to discriminate against these other two groups.

00:42:10.880 Which that doesn't happen very often.

00:42:12.260 So, you know, there's that opportunity there.

00:42:14.040 I think we got to, they just, you know, for this game, I think like, it's not fair to put them on either side.

00:42:19.000 So they're not going to be involved.

00:42:21.920 Real interesting question is the biracial players.

00:42:24.200 Like, what do you do about Patrick Mahomes?

00:42:25.880 Biracial.

00:42:26.840 Both teams are going to want him.

00:42:28.240 What do you do about that?

00:42:29.840 I think the fairest thing is whatever race the player's mother is, is what team they're on.

00:42:37.720 So white mom means they're on the white team. 0.69

00:42:39.400 Black mom means they're on the black team. 0.73

00:42:40.580 Which I think means that the white squad gets Patrick Mahomes, I'm pretty sure.

00:42:45.240 And here's the best part of all.

00:42:47.420 That coming off the bench for the white team could be Colin Kaepernick. 0.99

00:42:54.200 Now, I wouldn't want him to throw the ball at all because he sucks. 0.98

00:42:56.860 But I just want him to have one snap on the white team. 0.97

00:43:00.340 Just because that'd be hilarious.

00:43:02.000 And it'd make the whole thing worth it.

00:43:04.220 And you imagine the situation.

00:43:05.220 That's the Rudy.

00:43:06.240 That's the Rudy moment.

00:43:07.320 That's the twist ending.

00:43:09.340 Imagine the white squad wins in the racial scrimmage. 0.70

00:43:13.700 And Colin Kaepernick is carried out triumphantly on the shoulders of the white team.

00:43:20.920 It'd be a lot of fun.

00:43:22.220 You have to admit it. 0.98

00:43:24.140 So, Rashard Mendenhall is a terrible racist.

00:43:28.620 But at the same time, it's not the worst idea in the world. 0.83

00:43:33.040 Let's just be honest.

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00:44:29.840 Okay, a few comments here.

00:44:31.860 First one, the monument was to Confederate soldiers.

00:44:35.260 It never should have gone up in the first place, and the remains of those traitors ground into ashes and dumped in the ocean. 1.00

00:44:42.240 F the Confederacy and all you traitor cucks still crying that your ancestors' asses got kicked by Yankees. 0.99

00:44:47.860 Another one says, Not sure why you and others keep claiming it's the Reconciliation Monument. 1.00

00:44:53.240 The fact that it is referenced dozens of times in the letters, decrees, speeches, and official documents as the Confederate monument is pretty clear.

00:44:59.880 Reconciliation is the symbolism.

00:45:03.320 Another comment says, The same people mad about Confederate monuments being taken down are the same ones making jokes about giving everyone participation trophies. 0.99

00:45:09.400 And finally, Any more lies you want to spew, racist traitor? 0.95

00:45:15.340 Nobody's a racing history traitor. 1.00

00:45:17.740 You're trying to honor treason and slavers because you're a traitor who wants to own slaves.

00:45:23.480 Okay, yeah, you're right.

00:45:27.140 I mean, the only possible reason why I could possibly object to taking down a monument in a cemetery 100 years after it was put up is because I want to own slaves.

00:45:37.380 That's the only, what other reason could a person have? 1.00

00:45:41.500 Okay, so once again, we see a lot of performative anger from these idiots. 1.00

00:45:47.520 They should have burned them, burned their ashes, and dumped them in the ocean. 1.00

00:45:54.200 Effing Confederates. 0.97

00:45:55.380 Like, why are you acting like you're actively mad about a thing that happened 150 years ago?

00:46:00.700 So that's the first thing.

00:46:02.080 Okay?

00:46:03.040 Like, calm down, drama queen.

00:46:05.920 Stop pretending. 1.00

00:46:07.520 Burn their ashes to the ground. 0.99

00:46:08.820 Like, this happened 150 years ago. 0.99

00:46:10.540 Take it easy.

00:46:11.680 Okay?

00:46:11.940 Like, you don't, you're not mad about it.

00:46:13.800 Stop pretending that you are.

00:46:15.500 We should be able, this is my whole point yesterday.

00:46:18.000 We should be able to have a conversation about this without you getting all emotional, cupcake.

00:46:24.060 Second, if you don't want to honor slavers, as you say, or racists, I certainly hope you don't honor literally any human who lived anywhere on the planet prior to the 19th century.

00:46:37.880 I especially hope you don't honor anyone who lived anywhere in Africa or Asia or the Middle East for that entire time. 0.84

00:46:45.960 As those regions of the world practice slavery and practice it much longer, in fact.

00:46:51.400 So I hope that you apply that standard equally. 0.97

00:46:54.540 Secondly, but I know that you don't because you're a historically illiterate circus clown, and so you're not going to practice it equally. 1.00

00:47:02.200 Third, I don't expect the people who left these comments to understand this because, you know, they're morons. 0.99

00:47:08.540 But the southern states were not fighting to overthrow the government, okay? 0.99

00:47:14.140 They were trying to secede from a union that they thought was freely entered into and could therefore be freely left.

00:47:25.420 They were seceding, which, if that sounds familiar, it's because this is exactly what the Founding Fathers did.

00:47:34.540 The Founding Fathers were slave owners who fought a war to secede from their government. 0.65

00:47:41.200 And if they had lost that war, they would have been executed as traitors, and that's how they would be remembered. 0.93

00:47:46.260 Now, it's true that slavery as an institution didn't play the role in the Revolutionary War that it did in the Civil War.

00:47:56.600 Because at the time of the Revolutionary War, slavery as an institution was, you know, basically taken for granted, as it was all across the world for thousands of years.

00:48:05.800 But my point is that if you think that—so I'm not saying that the two cases are exactly analogous or exactly the same thing.

00:48:13.000 Obviously, they're not. They're two different historical events.

00:48:16.260 But if you think that seceding is, in principle, treasonous, then you are saying that—first of all, you're saying that the central government owns you and owns your land and your community, and it's never okay to leave it.

00:48:35.260 That's what you're saying.

00:48:37.020 And if you're saying that, then it also means that this country shouldn't exist in the first place.

00:48:41.980 Like, that's the awkward thing here.

00:48:44.220 The American government was formed through secession, and like 90 years later, some states tried to secede from it, and they were informed that they no longer have that right, which is the right that our country is literally founded in.

00:49:00.640 Without that right, if that right doesn't exist, then the country doesn't exist.

00:49:03.660 Now, however you parse all of that, and you could certainly argue that secession was justified for the founders but not for the Confederates.

00:49:14.220 You can obviously argue.

00:49:15.140 That's a perfectly coherent argument.

00:49:16.620 It's not like if you support one secession, you have to support all of them.

00:49:21.420 This is not a package deal.

00:49:23.480 That's not my point. 0.96

00:49:24.400 My point is simply that the whole question of secession is much more complicated than dumb comments like the ones I just read make it seem.

00:49:36.260 And I guarantee that none of these people have thought through any of that. 0.69

00:49:42.260 They haven't even thought about it. 0.99

00:49:43.580 And that's how you end up with just, again, morons who, you know, they can see the government tearing down a monument in a cemetery and doing it illegally, by the way. 1.00

00:49:59.400 And then you have these morons saying, yeah, tear it down. 1.00

00:50:02.960 Like, you idiots, just you don't, you don't, you don't, you do not understand what you're talking about. 1.00

00:50:08.400 You don't understand what's actually happening and why it's happening. 1.00

00:50:12.620 You think the Biden administration is doing this because they really care about racial justice?

00:50:17.940 You think that's what it is?

00:50:19.800 You think that's their, that's their pure motivations?

00:50:22.520 Is that the symbolism you take away from tearing down something that is called the reconciliation monument?

00:50:27.360 In fact, one of those comments even admits that, well, no, reconciliation monument, that's just what it symbolizes.

00:50:33.020 Yeah, exactly.

00:50:34.080 That's what it symbolizes.

00:50:35.660 That's what it's supposed to symbolize.

00:50:38.860 And defying the law and the congressional mandate and federal law to rip this thing down.

00:50:46.480 Desecrating graves in the process.

00:50:50.640 Like, if you don't, if you aren't smart enough to be at least troubled by that.

00:50:57.360 Then there's nothing to talk about.

00:51:03.200 And, you know, usually I wouldn't just sit here and insult you the whole time.

00:51:08.100 But there are some people that just deserve to be insulted.

00:51:12.600 And if you see something like this, what the, you know, what the Biden administration is doing here is so outrageous and egregious.

00:51:18.760 That if you can't see that, then I just, I don't have any respect for you at all.

00:51:27.920 So, all right.

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00:54:36.120 Yeah, we talk a lot about the modern dating scene on this show

00:54:40.380 And the primary conclusion we've drawn is that the modern dating scene is, to put it gently, a disaster zone, a toxic waste dump.

00:54:48.080 I don't want to be overly negative or discouraging about it, but it is an unmitigated disaster.

00:54:52.120 It's a radioactive meltdown.

00:54:54.100 It's the, you know, sort of the dating equivalent of Chernobyl.

00:54:56.720 And if that was not already clear enough, Tinder has, according to an article in the New York Post, released their annual year in swipe report.

00:55:06.240 And this tells us that, this tells us about the state of the date, as they're calling it, according to one of the biggest and worst dating apps in the world.

00:55:15.220 And the results are pretty bleak.

00:55:16.940 So here's what the report says.

00:55:18.160 Quote, young singles are no longer doggedly pursuing their happily ever after, new data has revealed.

00:55:24.560 According to Tinder's annual year in swipe, which shares the state of the date in 2023,

00:55:28.980 singles are less concerned about where their relationships are headed and more interested in creating opportunities to have new memorable experiences.

00:55:36.120 This year in particular marked a major shift where the journey is more important than the outcome, Tinder chief marketing officer Melissa Hobley said.

00:55:43.280 Quote, this new generation of daters is showing us what it means to date for the possibilities, freeing themselves from traditional expectations, allowing them to write their own worthwhile stories.

00:55:54.120 Gen Z, Tinder Australia spokesperson, Kirstie Dunn agreed, continue to usher a renaissance in dating.

00:56:01.860 And this generation is certainly straying away from labels and the more traditional expectations.

00:56:06.900 Quote, 69% of young singles agree that dating standards need refreshing to fit a more modern and diverse society.

00:56:16.180 Now, apparently this modern and diverse approach to dating has a clever little acronym to go with it.

00:56:22.940 And that acronym is NATO.

00:56:25.060 Quote, Tending military buffs, no, it does not stand for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, at least in the context of modern love.

00:56:32.600 Instead, it's an acronym for not attached to an outcome, an approach to dating that's been embraced by Gen Z this year and helps open up the possibilities of any and all connections instead of being fixated on a specific end game.

00:56:45.860 Now, quick side note, it is yet another sign of how low the bar has has gone in society that you can call yourself a military buff if you simply know what NATO is.

00:56:54.780 But I digress.

00:56:57.740 Continuing, users are not looking for anything.

00:56:59.880 They're not pursuing, they're not putting pressures on themselves or others by setting that expectation of only looking for a relationship or only looking for something casual, she said.

00:57:08.040 It's very much in line with what we've been seeing over the last couple of years, particularly last year, as situationships become increasingly more prevalent.

00:57:15.400 They're focused on getting to know someone, being in the present and living in the moment.

00:57:18.660 They're leaving it open-ended so that they can explore whatever path they want, which can be quite freeing and liberating.

00:57:25.220 Now, in other words, apparently now there are two different types of NATO that need to be disbanded.

00:57:29.740 Granted, I never know with these kinds of articles whether they're just inventing these buzzwords and acronyms on the spot.

00:57:36.160 I find it somewhat hard to believe that any actual 22-year-old woman is out on a date saying, you know, I take more of a NATO approach.

00:57:43.280 But whether the acronym was invented by the media or not, the approach that it describes is certainly very real and very common and very, very wrong.

00:57:53.360 An open-ended approach to dating, where there's no end goal or purpose or intention in mind, is a bad idea for much the same reason that it's a bad idea to take the approach like that to anything in life. 0.89

00:58:05.640 You know, platitudes about living in the moment and being in the present, they may seem appealing if you're kind of stupid, but intelligent people know that you have to have some idea about where you're going in each present moment and why. 0.54

00:58:23.340 This is the case, again, no matter what you happen to be doing. 0.98

00:58:26.500 Even if you're just taking a walk around the neighborhood, you need to know where you're going.

00:58:31.600 The difference between an enjoyable stroll and getting horribly lost and then ending up getting stabbed in the chest when you're wandering down the wrong back alley is simply knowing where you're going.

00:58:42.000 That's the difference.

00:58:43.500 You don't have to have every step planned out.

00:58:45.540 You can and should be prepared to change course if need be.

00:58:49.120 But you need to have a direction, a purpose, a sense of where you want to end up.

00:58:53.340 Now, going for a hike in the woods is fun, but if you're living in the moment the entire time and keeping things open-ended with no idea where you want to go or where you should go or what direction you ought to be heading, then it will become progressively less fun until eventually you're completely lost and you die alone of starvation and hypothermia.

00:59:10.780 And that's basically how the dating scene works, more or less.

00:59:13.340 Dating is not an exception to the general principle that you should always have a reason and a purpose behind your actions rather than just kind of ambling around aimlessly and blindly, sort of bumping into things like some sort of malfunctioning Roomba.

00:59:28.860 Not only is dating not an exception to that principle, but it is, if anything, the very best example of it.

00:59:35.720 Because before you venture warily into the dating scene, you should be able to answer some basic questions like, one, why am I doing this?

00:59:45.660 Two, what do I hope to achieve?

00:59:48.140 Three, where do I want this to go?

00:59:50.400 And again, those are questions you should be able to answer no matter what you happen to be doing in any given moment.

00:59:57.900 And if you cannot answer any of those questions about dating, then you just shouldn't be dating.

01:00:03.360 You probably shouldn't even be driving. 0.94

01:00:05.860 Like, you are so indecisive and apathetic as to barely qualify as sentient.

01:00:10.080 And if you wander out into the dating world like that, it's guaranteed that either you'll end up feeling used and manipulated and heartbroken, or the person you date will end up feeling that way.

01:00:21.040 Or most likely, both of you will.

01:00:23.640 But there is zero chance of a good outcome.

01:00:27.220 That's the way life works.

01:00:28.200 If you're vacillating too much to pursue a specific outcome, then life will pick an outcome for you.

01:00:35.980 And it won't be one that you like.

01:00:37.880 Because there's going to be an outcome one way or another.

01:00:40.700 You can either have one in mind that you're chasing down, or you could just let chance decide for you.

01:00:46.480 And again, usually when chance decides, it's not going to be in your favor.

01:00:51.300 Now, as you've heard me preach many times, the proper outcome to pursue in any dating relationship is marriage.

01:00:56.780 That's what dating is for. 0.61

01:00:58.480 It's why it exists.

01:01:00.060 Dating isn't something that we should be doing simply for its own sake.

01:01:03.220 That's because dating requires another human being. 0.99

01:01:06.100 And that human being is a human being, not an object for you to use recreationally and then discard.

01:01:12.480 There's nothing really casual about dating, no matter what you might try to tell yourself.

01:01:17.340 It's always going to be the lead up to something.

01:01:20.200 Like, it's a path that ends somewhere.

01:01:21.680 And that place that it ends up will either be heartbreak or marriage.

01:01:28.040 There's really no third option.

01:01:30.400 And dating without the intent to marry is dating with the intent to break up.

01:01:36.180 That's the choice you make when you venture out into the dating scene.

01:01:40.020 Like, what are you looking for?

01:01:41.600 Are you looking for someone to marry?

01:01:44.240 Or are you looking for someone to break up with?

01:01:47.140 Which outcome would you prefer?

01:01:48.360 Because it's going to be one or the other.

01:01:52.540 And only one is really worth pursuing.

01:01:55.340 But you have to pursue something.

01:01:58.120 Which is why NATO dating, if that's what anyone actually calls it, is today canceled.

01:02:04.560 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:05.340 Thanks for watching.

01:02:05.820 Thanks for listening.

01:02:06.340 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:06.940 Have a great day.

01:02:07.900 Godspeed.

01:02:08.220 Godspeed.

01:02:08.280 Godspeed.

01:02:08.380 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 19, 2023

Ep. 1281 - The Military Is Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Wokeness

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