The Matt Walsh Show - January 16, 2024


Ep. 1294 - The Deep State Announces Its Plan To Destroy The Next Trump Administration


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1 hour and 1 minute

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676

Misogynist Sentences

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Summary

On the heels of Trump s win in the Iowa caucus, the left has been very clear about its plan if Trump wins the presidency again. They have now announced openly a deep state plot to usurp his authority. Also, disturbing images reveal that the CEO of United Airlines is a drag queen in his spare time. And finally, a group of exhibitionists in Phoenix held something called No Pants Light Rail Day. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, on the heels of Trump's win in the Iowa caucus, the left has
00:00:03.960 been very clear about its plan if Trump wins the presidency again. They have now announced
00:00:09.160 openly a deep state plot to usurp his authority. Also, disturbing images reveal that the CEO of
00:00:15.220 United Airlines is a drag queen in his spare time. But does that actually matter? Well, yes,
00:00:20.420 it does. And Gen Z often complains that they have it much worse economically than their parents and
00:00:25.200 grandparents did. Is that true? And if so, what do we make of it? And finally, a group of
00:00:29.360 exhibitionists in Phoenix held something called No Pants Light Rail Day, which is exactly what it
00:00:34.640 sounds like. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:10.340 and as expected, Donald Trump won overwhelmingly. He is effectively the Republican presidential
00:02:15.440 nominee at this point. And just like in 2016, Trump is leading in pretty much every poll in every
00:02:20.560 state. In fact, he's doing better this time around than he was in 2016. So from a historical
00:02:26.240 perspective, this is a unique moment in American politics. It's rare for a former president to run
00:02:32.460 for office again and also have a serious chance of winning. It's only happened a handful of times in
00:02:38.880 the history of this country. And that leads to some, shall we say, quirks in the process. And here's one
00:02:45.320 of them. We're starting to see the same attacks against Donald Trump that we first saw all the
00:02:51.040 way back in 2016. And even when these attacks make absolutely no sense eight years later, after we
00:02:57.920 saw him in office, they're still trotting them back out. Now, you might remember that in 2016,
00:03:03.800 the big concern about Donald Trump, one of them anyway, was that aside from him, according to the
00:03:09.080 left, being a racist and a transphobe and a sexist and all the phobes and ists and everything else.
00:03:13.980 But one of the big ones that they brought up a lot was that Donald Trump would have control over
00:03:19.220 the nuclear codes. And we had to worry about this because there's no telling what he would do with
00:03:24.540 the nuclear codes. And he might just launch a nuclear attack against a country because he's
00:03:30.300 having a bad day. He might launch a nuclear attack against his own country. Who knows?
00:03:34.440 Well, that's what they said. And needless to say, just to review recent history,
00:03:39.440 he got into office and he didn't launch any nukes, actually. None at all. Zero nukes were launched.
00:03:45.760 And now Donald Trump is back on the ballot. And because his political opponents aren't terribly
00:03:50.800 creative, we're once again hearing a slightly warmed over version of the old hits. You're not
00:03:57.140 hearing about the nuclear codes quite as often now, but we are hearing something similar to that.
00:04:03.420 And this time around, instead of warning about nukes, they're going with something a little bit
00:04:08.120 more generalized, you know, a little more vague. And that's where the left loves to live. They love
00:04:15.600 to live in an area that's vague and abstract and can be interpreted any number of ways. So now they're
00:04:19.760 saying that if Donald Trump wins in November, then he's going to do some non-specific, but also very bad
00:04:27.660 things with the military. Could that involve launching a nuclear attack? It could, but it could be
00:04:33.160 anything, just something bad. A lot of bad things, actually. This headline comes to us from NBC News,
00:04:38.800 which as usual is laundering the talking points of intel agencies and the Defense Department.
00:04:44.000 Quote, fears grow that Trump will use the military in dictatorial ways if he returns to the White House.
00:04:51.220 Well, what does that mean? Well, specifically, according to NBC News, quote, Donald Trump is sparking
00:04:55.740 fears among those who understand the inner workings of the Pentagon, that he would convert the
00:04:59.900 nonpartisan U.S. military into the muscular arm of his political agenda as he makes commitments,
00:05:06.580 or rather comments, about dictatorship and devalues the checks and balances that underpin
00:05:11.240 the nation's two-century-old democracy. So just to reiterate, people who understand the inner workings
00:05:21.540 of the Pentagon are the brain trust behind this article. Who are those people? Well, it's not really
00:05:28.060 clear who they are. It could mean Pentagon officials. It could be retired Pentagon officials. It could
00:05:33.860 be current Pentagon officials. Maybe it's just people who think about the Pentagon a lot. We don't
00:05:39.840 know. They're people who understand the inner workings. That's all you need to know. But that
00:05:45.160 makes them experts. And NBC News says that we should trust these anonymous experts when they predict
00:05:50.960 that Donald Trump will convert the nonpartisan U.S. military into the muscular arm of his political
00:05:57.120 agenda. We should just trust them. There's a lot to think about here. And for one thing,
00:06:02.900 really the first thing that comes to mind when you hear about this fear that Donald Trump will take
00:06:07.100 the nonpartisan military and make it partisan, first thing that comes to mind is that, well,
00:06:12.820 the nonpartisan military doesn't exist. So even if Trump wanted to do that, he couldn't,
00:06:18.080 because there is no nonpartisan military to work with. The military is not nonpartisan anymore.
00:06:25.240 And that's why they can't recruit anyone. That's one of the reasons anyway.
00:06:29.300 They've spent so long demonizing the left's enemies, white males specifically, for political
00:06:35.220 reasons, that they can't even meet their recruiting goals. And so it's not nonpartisan. But despite all
00:06:40.960 that, NBC News and the Pentagon, well, no, not the Pentagon, but people who understand the inner
00:06:47.020 workings of the Pentagon want you to believe that the military is functioning perfectly right now.
00:06:53.940 And it's Donald Trump who's going to come along and make the military political and dysfunctional.
00:06:59.120 And he's going to do that, we're told, by converting the military into an arm of his political agenda.
00:07:04.740 And this is, of course, another attack that would have been fit right in to the 2016 narrative,
00:07:11.940 might have been even effective in 2016. But anyone who's been alive for the past decade
00:07:16.360 knows that it just doesn't make any sense now. And that's because almost every president
00:07:24.300 in modern history has used the military to advance their political agenda.
00:07:29.860 And in fact, Donald Trump's perhaps greatest achievement by far is that he didn't carry
00:07:38.340 on with that tradition. He didn't turn Libya into an open air slave market so that Hillary
00:07:44.600 Clinton could feel like a strong and independent woman. He didn't invade Iraq on some phony intelligence
00:07:50.980 about weapons of mass destruction. He didn't pull a Clinton and bomb Sudan to distract from a domestic
00:07:55.980 scandal. So, I mean, really, you can make the case, really strong case, that Donald Trump was
00:08:01.020 the single most restrained president in modern history when it comes to the use of the military.
00:08:08.100 In all four years, the only time Democrats really became upset about Trump and his use of the
00:08:12.400 military is when he visited the bombed out church just outside the White House during the BLM riots.
00:08:16.900 And that's the best hit they had. They said Mark Milley shouldn't have been in Trump's entourage
00:08:24.620 or something like that. And for about five news cycles, they pretended to be really outraged by
00:08:28.740 that. Of course, they didn't care about the BLM rioters torching the church or injuring dozens of
00:08:33.900 police officers and Secret Service agents. They didn't care about that. They were laser focused on
00:08:38.400 this one incident because it's the only example they could think of to make the case that Donald Trump
00:08:43.060 had somehow co-opted the military to serve his own political ends. But again, there are many real
00:08:52.640 cases of recent presidents in this country, in fact, every single recent president, doing exactly
00:09:00.120 that. Donald Trump was the one guy who didn't. But they have to lie about this, just like they lied
00:09:05.420 about the nuclear codes in 2016. And the reason for the lie is the same. Just like in 2016, the point of
00:09:11.280 the slander is to delegitimize the Trump administration and lay the groundwork for
00:09:15.160 undermining it from within. Eight years ago, all the warnings about Trump's instability and nuclear
00:09:21.440 codes and so on gave the FBI an important pretext to launch an indefinite investigation into his
00:09:27.040 campaign. And we know how that turned out. If you convince millions of Americans that Donald Trump
00:09:32.040 wants to be a dictator, a willing servant of Putin, then it's a lot easier to justify illegal wiretaps of
00:09:39.980 his campaign and everything else they did. The only difference is that back in 2016, nobody admitted
00:09:44.600 any of this out loud. Like nobody came out and said that they were actively working to undermine his
00:09:49.780 authority. And now they're just coming out and saying it. Quoting from the NBC News article,
00:09:54.580 now bracing for Trump's potential return, a loose knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers
00:09:59.780 is quietly devising plans to try to foil any efforts to expand presidential power,
00:10:05.240 which could include pressuring the military to cater to its political needs.
00:10:10.060 Now, if you're wondering what an insurrection or a coup looks like, well, it looks exactly like that.
00:10:18.160 I mean, and the media is openly bragging about it. They're openly bragging about a deep state plot to
00:10:23.100 usurp the president's authority. The article goes on to explain that, quote,
00:10:27.260 those taking part in the effort told NBC News that they are studying Trump's past actions and 2024
00:10:31.960 policy positions so that they will be ready if he wins in November. That involves preparing to
00:10:37.820 take legal action and send letters to Trump appointees spelling out consequences they'd face
00:10:42.720 if they undermine constitutional norms. Because, you know, there's nothing these people care more
00:10:49.100 about than constitutional norms, of course. So a bunch of left-wing activist groups are going to
00:10:56.220 threaten Trump and threaten Trump appointees if they undermine, quote, unquote, constitutional norms,
00:11:02.500 which are, you know, what are the norms? Well, those are the norms as they are defined by these
00:11:07.680 left-wing activist groups. The left-wing activist groups will tell us what is constitutionally normal,
00:11:12.120 and if you venture outside of that, then you should be in prison. That's the general approach.
00:11:16.700 What would be interesting to know is how many of these activist groups ever threatened the Biden
00:11:22.800 administration. You know, when the White House nationalized the rental properties or tried to
00:11:30.340 force millions of people to take the COVID shot or tried to implement a mask mandate on airplanes,
00:11:35.940 even though all available science said it was ridiculous, did any of these defenders of
00:11:40.700 constitutional norms have any issue with that? No, of course they didn't. Now,
00:11:46.380 in this article, NBC News is careful not to admit too much. You know, they're saying that the deep
00:11:52.480 state is just going to file lawsuits and send letters. But, I mean, everyone knows that's not
00:11:58.380 all they're going to do. At multiple points during the Trump administration, career officials in the
00:12:02.940 Defense Department and the intelligence agencies openly defied the president and subverted his authority.
00:12:09.300 As Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu reported for Axios, quote,
00:12:14.300 once in office, Trump's ambitions to withdraw from Afghanistan and other countries were subdued,
00:12:18.100 slow-rolled, and detoured by military leaders. Now, to give one example, in the case of Syria,
00:12:25.680 officials routinely lied to Donald Trump about the number of troops in the country, which is something
00:12:31.800 much more serious and direct than sending letters and filing lawsuits. Jim Jeffrey, the former U.S.
00:12:38.220 envoy to Syria, stated in an interview that, quote, we were always playing shell games to not make
00:12:42.920 clear to our leadership how many troops we had there. And he said that in reality, the U.S. had a
00:12:49.660 lot more than the 200 troops in northern Syria, which Trump had agreed to. And they lied to him.
00:12:56.720 And that's like a direct quote. It's a Trump administration official admitting that they all just lied to the
00:13:04.640 commander-in-chief about troop levels in Syria because they wanted to undermine his actual constitutional
00:13:13.760 authority. Now, keep in mind, Donald Trump publicly ordered a full pullout from northern Syria. And there were a
00:13:20.880 bunch of articles documenting this. But Jeffrey and the Pentagon just ignored it. As Jeffrey put a
00:13:27.540 quote, what's Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal because they were just going to
00:13:34.140 ignore him. Now, call it the deep state, call it whatever you want. These people conspired to prevent
00:13:40.580 Donald Trump from governing. And then they gloated about it. And this happened again and again.
00:13:45.800 At one point, the New York Times played up this, you may remember, this op-ed from an anonymous Trump
00:13:53.080 official saying that there's a, quote, resistance movement against Trump that was operating within
00:13:59.920 the federal government. That's where the whole, you started hearing all this cringy stuff about
00:14:03.980 the resistance. And that's where it came from. Except it came from someone who was supposedly inside
00:14:09.320 the White House. Quote, like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his
00:14:15.220 worst inclinations, according to the official. And leftists absolutely loved that. They also loved
00:14:20.620 it when Mark Milley pledged to warn the Chinese government if Donald Trump ever ordered an attack
00:14:25.420 that would affect Chinese interests, which last I checked is treason. I mean, it's among the most,
00:14:33.780 not such as treason, it's one among the most obvious, you know, cases of treason that you can
00:14:38.680 imagine. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tipping off an adversary about possible U.S.
00:14:45.040 military action. I mean, that's, you literally don't get more treasonous than that. But again,
00:14:52.320 the media and Democrats celebrated it. So what these career operatives did is far more akin to
00:14:59.400 dictatorship. I mean, far more than anything Trump ever did. Because for one thing, Americans elected
00:15:07.460 Trump. Nobody elected these people. No one gave them the authority to keep U.S. troops in countries
00:15:14.080 when the president wanted them gone. Nobody gave them authority to thwart everything Donald Trump
00:15:19.260 attempted to do. And when he was acting on the agenda that he ran on, so this is what the voters
00:15:27.400 wanted. And you're supposed to care about that if you care about democracy. They just went ahead
00:15:31.380 and sabotaged him again and again. They kept subverting the will of the democratically elected
00:15:35.700 president. It's what happened when Trump cut off weapons shipments to Ukraine, which naturally angered
00:15:42.340 the weapons manufacturers. There was testimony at Trump's first impeachment hearing that the defense
00:15:46.980 industry began flooding the Pentagon with phone calls shortly after the Trump administration suggested
00:15:51.440 it would cut off these weapons shipments. And what do you know? Within weeks, the CIA operative in the
00:15:57.220 White House, whose name you were never allowed to know, leaked a classified call to Adam Schiff and
00:16:02.480 kick-started an impeachment. And that's the phone call where Trump made the mistake of mentioning the
00:16:07.160 Biden family's corruption in Ukraine. And yet again, none of these defenders of democracy who are so
00:16:12.540 upset about a second Trump term said a word about any of this. And that's because they're planning to
00:16:18.400 do it again. And that's why the media will again paint Trump as a dictator so that they can prevent
00:16:23.700 him from governing. Last night as the Iowa caucus results came in, there were many media members
00:16:31.100 that were on TV pushing this narrative against. Rachel Maddow was one of them. Watch.
00:16:37.200 The big picture takeaway from that, and I don't mean to be, again, too dark, as you said, on this, but
00:16:42.040 it is not, if we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, we are worried about
00:16:48.040 potential rise of fascism in this country. We're worried about our democracy falling to an
00:16:52.880 authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government. The leader who is trying to do that
00:16:58.620 is part of that equation. But people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation.
00:17:04.180 And the American electorate is made up of two major parties. One of those parties has been flirting with
00:17:10.020 extremism on the ultra-right for a very long time. They've brought them in in a way that they haven't
00:17:15.880 been central to Republican electoral politics ever before. And I know because I've been studying this.
00:17:21.160 But once you have radicalized one major party so that those are the preferences of the people who
00:17:26.080 adhere to your party, the leader is interchangeable. As a side note, that clip is interesting. It's one
00:17:32.080 of the rare instances of Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes being spotted in the same room at the same time.
00:17:38.660 And sometimes it's not clear if Chris Hayes is just Rachel Maddow in drag or vice versa. We really
00:17:43.660 don't know. But anyway, they're there together. And as for what Rachel Maddow said, of course,
00:17:49.240 she's just further advancing the corporate messaging of NBC News. She wants NBC viewers to
00:17:53.300 think that authoritarianism is coming. And so to prevent it, we need to imprison Donald Trump
00:17:58.800 and kick him off the ballot. Because if you're worried about authoritarianism,
00:18:02.340 the best way to prevent that is to imprison the top political rival of your favorite politician,
00:18:11.340 you know, of your guy. Like that's how you prevent authoritarianism. And of course,
00:18:15.920 this was never a compelling argument. But it's especially unconvincing after Trump has already
00:18:21.300 served as president for a whole term. And during that term, as Ron DeSantis has correctly noted,
00:18:29.200 as I've said many times, far from being a dictator, Trump's problem when he was in office was exactly
00:18:39.080 the opposite of that. It was exactly the opposite of being authoritarian. Trump, in fact, was as far
00:18:45.940 on the other end of that scale as you can be. He was way too far on that end of it. Because if
00:18:54.140 anything, Donald Trump was reluctant to use his power, he didn't wield his authority in situations
00:19:00.700 where it was necessary, and would have been perfectly legal to do so. He didn't even fire
00:19:06.400 Tony Fauci for completely botching the COVID response. And, you know, when you ask him why he
00:19:14.660 didn't fire him, he'll tell you that it's because he didn't want the media to be mad at him. So that's
00:19:21.160 not what a dictator says. That's not how a dictator behaves. And that's how non-dictatorial he was to
00:19:27.880 his detriment. Now, at some level, it's clear that these propagandists are aware of how flimsy
00:19:33.960 their case is. That's why last night, for the most part, they didn't allow their viewers to see
00:19:38.760 or hear Donald Trump's victory speech. I mean, this is the presidential frontrunner who just won the
00:19:44.600 Iowa caucuses. You're a news channel. No matter how you feel about it, this is news. It's the
00:19:52.160 biggest thing happening in politics right now. But CNN cut away from Trump's speech the moment he began
00:19:57.240 talking about the southern border. MSIBC made a big show of hiding the footage from their viewers. Watch.
00:20:04.280 At this point in the evening, the projected winner of the Iowa caucuses has just started giving his
00:20:11.640 victory speech. We will keep an eye on that as it happens. We will let you know if there's any news
00:20:17.420 made in that speech, if there's anything noteworthy, something substantive and important. The reason I'm
00:20:22.560 saying this is, of course, there is a reason that we and other news organizations have generally stopped
00:20:28.580 giving an unfiltered live platform to remarks by former President Trump. It is not out of spite. It
00:20:34.300 is not a decision that we relish. It is a decision that we regularly revisit. And honestly, earnestly,
00:20:42.420 it is not an easy decision. But there is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting
00:20:49.160 untrue things. That is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are. And so his remarks
00:20:54.760 tonight will not air here live. We will monitor them and let you know about any news that he makes.
00:21:03.340 Now, you notice that you can't even mention Donald Trump's name at first, right? It's the whole
00:21:07.400 Voldemort thing. She refers to him as the winner of the Iowa caucuses. And then she lectures her
00:21:14.240 viewers about how important it is to muzzle him. She appears to claim with a straight face that MSNBC
00:21:19.880 might be sued if they air the victory speech of the presidential frontrunner.
00:21:26.420 And by the way, if that's true, which it's not, any real journalist would welcome that lawsuit.
00:21:33.780 I mean, you'll win that lawsuit in 45 seconds. But nobody at NBC is pretending that they're real
00:21:40.740 journalists anymore. And again, this is all right out in the open now. So it's pretty clear after last
00:21:47.060 night that the corporate press and their allies and intelligence agencies aren't going to change
00:21:51.700 their strategy. But it's also clear by extension that if Donald Trump wants any chance of actually
00:21:55.980 governing this country, he's going to have to change his strategy and his approach. He's going
00:22:03.840 to have to command the military instead of allowing the military to command him. He's going to have to
00:22:08.480 get rid of the prosecutors and the bureaucrats who spent the last four years trying to imprison
00:22:13.280 his supporters and do things even worse than that. He's going to have to stop making any effort to
00:22:21.320 try to get these people to like him, whether these are the people of New York Times or NBC or anywhere
00:22:26.520 else. He's going to have to embrace being hated by them. It should be hard to do because you have no choice
00:22:33.580 anyway. If Donald Trump becomes president after last night's results in Iowa, it's looking more and more
00:22:39.960 likely than he only has one option. Not that he should become a dictator, but that he should actually
00:22:47.380 wield his lawful power and do it effectively and ruthlessly to advance the agenda that he's running
00:22:55.380 on. And that if he's elected, he will be elected to advance. Which means that in that way, this time
00:23:04.060 around, he's going to have to give these fear mongers precisely what they fear. Now let's get to our five
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00:24:25.060 reading from Daily Wire Report, just some of the numbers here anyway. Former President Donald Trump
00:24:31.200 has won the Iowa caucuses. Trump led the field sitting at 51% with around 90% of the vote
00:24:36.820 counted Monday night, according to Decision Desk headquarters. DeSantis was sitting in second
00:24:42.080 with 21.3%. And Haley was in third with 19%. Vivek Ramaswamy was in fourth at 7.7%.
00:24:50.060 And the race was called with an unusually low percentage of the vote counted as multiple
00:24:55.980 outlets, including Fox News, CNN, NBC News, and Associated Press all called the race for Trump
00:25:00.720 with just 1% of the vote counted. With that 1% of the vote in, Trump stood at 53.6%.
00:25:07.640 DeSantis was in second place at 20%. Vicky Haley was in third at 17%.
00:25:11.860 Okay, so Trump wins by huge margins. And the results basically tracked with the polling.
00:25:23.140 And that led to Vivek dropping out and endorsing Trump, which he did very quickly after the results
00:25:28.560 came in. DeSantis is still in the race. Nikki Haley is also still in the race. Not only is,
00:25:34.100 by the way, Nikki Haley still in the race, but she actually has, she basically declared victory
00:25:38.000 yesterday. Listen to this. I can safely say, tonight, Iowa made this Republican primary
00:25:48.380 a two-person race.
00:25:50.300 So it's a two-person race, she says. And it's a two-person race, I guess, presumably with
00:25:59.680 her and Trump being the two people. But she came in third. Okay. So she's delusional and
00:26:08.340 she's staying in. What's my take on the Cox's in general? My take is not very interesting because
00:26:16.200 it's what most people are saying. The primary is effectively over. It was always a very long shot
00:26:22.180 that anybody would beat Trump in the primary, as of course, you know, I'd said the whole time,
00:26:27.440 most people said, of course, it's a long shot. Now, I personally think, I still think DeSantis
00:26:32.080 will make an excellent president. But he didn't really compete in Iowa in terms of the results.
00:26:39.140 Now, he competed, he tried to compete, he focused most of his primary campaign on that state.
00:26:47.680 But the results tracked with the polling. And the polling also has Trump winning almost
00:26:53.140 everywhere. So, you know, it's over. It just is. Trump is essentially the incumbent of this race.
00:27:01.880 Because, you know, he has more name recognition. He doesn't just have more name recognition than
00:27:08.980 the other candidates. Of course, he has a lot more. But he has more name recognition than probably
00:27:13.820 anyone else alive on earth. I think if you were to list the most famous people on the planet today
00:27:20.700 alive, Trump is at least in the top three. I think he's probably number one. I don't know who you put
00:27:29.160 ahead of him. So, and he's got, of course, a very committed, built-in base of support. So it would
00:27:37.000 take, you know, it would take some kind of genius, historically innovative, massively brilliant
00:27:49.580 campaign, the likes of which we've never seen before, to even have a chance of knocking him out
00:27:55.780 in the primary. I mean, the deck is stacked against you so much that it's not like it was
00:28:02.300 impossible. Like, nothing is impossible. Especially in politics, you never know exactly what's going to
00:28:07.880 happen. But that's the kind of campaign you'd have to run. And nobody ran that kind of campaign.
00:28:14.080 You know? And there's been a lot of criticism of the way that DeSantis ran his campaign.
00:28:21.560 I mean, and I've echoed some of that criticism. But also, I think we should acknowledge it's kind
00:28:28.360 of hard to blame them for not being historic political geniuses, which again, is what they
00:28:34.980 would have to be. I'm not a historic political genius either. So, you know, I don't really have
00:28:39.960 a lot of room to talk. Most people don't. You know, I guess it could really come down hard on
00:28:47.280 DeSantis and the way he, and his campaign. If, you know, if you yourself knew how to beat Trump
00:28:56.760 and you could have done it, and, you know, then maybe you have some room to talk. But then I would
00:29:04.180 say, like, well, why weren't you running then? If you could be president, why didn't you run?
00:29:08.120 So now we're left with the general election. And even as the primaries play themselves out in
00:29:12.460 mostly symbolic fashion at this point. And what we know, and I long ago, because I'm not a historic
00:29:22.200 political genius, I long ago got out of the business of making any political predictions
00:29:26.620 whatsoever. So I won't make any, except this one. This is one that I will make, which is that
00:29:34.000 one way or another, we know that something unprecedented is going to happen in this election.
00:29:42.580 And that's because the Democrats know that they only have two ways to give themselves a good shot
00:29:49.220 of beating Trump. And one of them is to put him in prison, although even then he could still win.
00:29:55.400 But that would certainly be an incredibly historic moment in the history of American politics
00:30:01.560 in all of the wrong ways. And the other thing that they could do is to swap out Biden for someone
00:30:07.540 who is not a decrepit vegetable. And also someone who, by the way, can wipe their hands clean
00:30:15.860 of the disaster that has been the last, you know, three years. So they could try to do that. Or they
00:30:23.800 could do both of those things. Now, under normal circumstances, you would say that neither of those
00:30:30.320 things are going to happen because things like that just don't happen in this country. Like an
00:30:35.780 incumbent president running for re-election getting swapped out, you know, less than a year before
00:30:42.680 the votes are cast, it just doesn't happen. A presidential candidate, a leading presidential
00:30:51.440 candidate in a general election going to jail also, of course, just doesn't happen.
00:30:55.140 But it seems like if the Democrats want to give themselves a shot, they're going to have to do
00:31:00.940 one of those things. Or both of them. Because the third option for the Democrats is to just watch
00:31:09.040 as Trump beats an incumbent Democrat president and waltzes into the White House. And one thing that
00:31:14.800 we know, like we just covered in the opening monologue, they are simply not prepared to do that.
00:31:19.120 I guess there is another option for them, in fact, which is what we talked about in the opening
00:31:26.680 monologue, which is to say, okay, he's going to win, and then do everything you can, and then stage
00:31:35.540 what they are planning, which is essentially a coup while he's in office to undermine him
00:31:39.920 and destroy him from within. So, you know, there's the, to actually win the election, there's those two
00:31:49.180 options. I guess there are some offshoot, but even then, like no matter what, we have, we are entering
00:31:58.500 into unprecedented and very dangerous waters as well. Because we're dealing with, you know, an enemy
00:32:10.100 that does not abide by, as much as they talk about standards and norms, they don't abide by any
00:32:17.200 whatsoever. You know, the only, the only standard that matters is the, is power, is gaining power and
00:32:28.740 holding on to it. That's the only standard they care about. All right, the Post Millennial has this
00:32:32.820 report. The United Airlines CEO, Scott Kirby, who went viral for championing DEI measures for pilots
00:32:39.060 of the company, is also a drag queen in his spare time. In photos revealed by libs of TikTok, Kirby is
00:32:44.860 seen dressed in drag and other events sponsored by the company, had queens, drag queens attending.
00:32:51.660 The bombshell comes as a video of Kirby in an interview with Axios talking about DEI measures
00:32:55.480 the company has been implementing, has gone viral. We played that yesterday. And so now we have these
00:33:02.660 photos that were posted by libs of TikTok, reportedly images of the United CEO dressed in drag.
00:33:08.980 Now look, just because, just because a man dresses in drag, just because he, he cross dresses in his
00:33:17.660 spare time, just because he has a thing apparently for presenting himself as a woman, does that
00:33:23.740 necessarily mean that he's unfit to be the CEO of an airline? Yes. Okay. That's, that's exactly what it
00:33:32.220 means. Yes, indeed. It means that. And this is one of the most absurd fictions that, that many
00:33:39.140 otherwise reasonable people have come to believe is that you can't judge a man for what he does in
00:33:48.180 his private life. So you hear this all the time. Now you hear from people on the right also that,
00:33:54.040 well, you do that in the private, we can't judge someone based on that. Whatever you do in your
00:33:58.820 private life is your business. But no, not only can you judge someone for what they do in their
00:34:05.360 private life. And that is to say, when I say judge them, right? I say, what I mean is we can make
00:34:11.280 judgments about them, right? That's what I mean by judging. So there's the sort of spiritual sense
00:34:20.860 of judging where we are judging what's inside someone's soul and heart and what their intentions
00:34:27.200 are and that sort of thing. And we say that only God can judge. Well, it's only God can judge in that
00:34:32.680 sense because only God can see inside your heart and make judgments based on that. But we can make
00:34:41.520 judgments about people based on their behavior, based on the things that they say, based on how they carry
00:34:49.660 them. So based on a whole bunch of things, we can make judgments about them. And so not only can,
00:34:55.520 in that sense, can you judge a man based on his private life, but that is the main thing
00:35:00.680 that you can judge him based on. Like what he does in his private life is the most revealing thing.
00:35:10.180 It tells you a lot more about him. You know, it tells you the most about his character and
00:35:16.520 competence or lack thereof. So we need to normalize once again, judging people for their private lives.
00:35:23.960 Especially considering that for most people, everything you do is part of your quote unquote
00:35:31.820 private life. In the sense that if you're a private citizen, your whole life, you could argue,
00:35:39.500 is your private life. So if you can't make judgments about someone based on their private life,
00:35:44.900 that means you can't make any judgments about them at all. It means that we're, you know,
00:35:48.360 we're walking around like we're all brain dead, like Joe Biden, unable to draw any conclusions at all
00:35:53.680 about other human beings around us, which is of course absurd. So what judgments can we make about
00:36:01.140 a guy who dresses in drag? Well, we can know that this is someone who is unbalanced, who is disturbed,
00:36:09.800 who is, this is a bizarre sort of person. A bunch of other descriptions that you certainly don't want
00:36:18.620 applied to the guy who runs one of the largest airlines in the world. You know, if you had to
00:36:23.680 choose between having an airline run by a crossdresser or not, then you're going to take not because the
00:36:31.720 crossdressing carries all of that additional baggage. And that's a judgment that can be made.
00:36:35.820 Um, it's also, by the way, a judgment that before we talk about whether or not you can make,
00:36:43.440 I was like almost everyone does make that judgment. The question is whether they say it out loud.
00:36:48.100 That's the other point about all this conversation about judging. Well, should you judge someone based on
00:36:52.300 we are all judging each other all the time anyway. Um, that's part of being a human being. It's part of
00:37:00.240 having discernment is that we're all making judgments about other people all the time for,
00:37:05.820 for better or worse. So if you're talking about not judging what you're, what you're really saying
00:37:12.560 is, well, well, don't say any of that out loud, but why shouldn't we say it out loud? That's my
00:37:16.720 question. All right. This is from Daily Wire. A popular Florida realtor explained how hard it has
00:37:24.860 become for today's younger generation to live a middle-class lifestyle, declaring that the old
00:37:29.740 American dream no longer exists. Freddie Smith and Orlando realtor with a popular TikTok account
00:37:36.220 where he posts about the financial struggles of millennials and Generation Z to his 422,000
00:37:40.780 followers said young people need a much higher salary than their parents did to live the same
00:37:45.080 lifestyle. Uh, Smith told Fox News this week, a lot of us grew up in the middle class and we watched
00:37:50.480 what middle class was in the eighties and nineties as millennials. And nowadays, what has moved the goalposts
00:37:56.520 more than anything is the housing market. Um, Smith explained that younger Americans trying to
00:38:02.000 start their lives are often priced out of the housing market. I think most of us in America would
00:38:07.240 define the middle class as someone who can work a 40 hour week career and can have the income to
00:38:12.460 purchase the average home in America. Uh, and he says that, you know, young people today don't have
00:38:17.400 that. So, you know, there's kind of this debate that goes on and you've got one side that says that
00:38:24.860 today's Gen Z and millennials are whiny and weak and unable to deal with normal challenges and
00:38:31.180 hardships. Then you got the other side that says that, well, economically anyway, Gen Z and millennials
00:38:37.140 actually do have it harder than previous generations, especially baby boomers. Well, what's the answer?
00:38:42.740 Who's right about that? Um, well, it's kind of the worst of all, all worlds because both sides are
00:38:48.060 basically right. And, uh, focusing on, on the latter for a moment, it's true that today's young
00:38:55.220 adults are in a significantly worse spot than their parents were. Everything you see about the things
00:39:03.720 that, that younger people, that people, my age, and if I can call myself a young adult at this point,
00:39:07.760 but the things that people, millennials and Gen Z complain about here, it's true. It used to be
00:39:14.760 that you could have a single income household on a salary under a hundred thousand dollars a year
00:39:20.540 and still own a nice house with three or four bedrooms, two and a half baths, you know, a little
00:39:26.340 piece of property in a safe neighborhood. Plus you could have your two cars, you know, you have the
00:39:32.020 one car it takes to work and then a minivan for, you know, and that was, and that was normal
00:39:36.120 for a lot of people under 40 today. That just, it just doesn't exist. And so the baby boomers had it
00:39:43.080 very easy in that respect. But I think what we're missing in the conversation is that the boomers
00:39:49.520 are probably historical outliers. You know, modern industrial society itself is relatively new
00:39:59.340 in the grand scheme of things. And I, I always like, anytime we're talking about things like this,
00:40:04.080 I always like to take, you know, you try to take a wider view of the situation first before you can
00:40:09.680 kind of narrow and focus in. And when you do that, you see that, that, um, well, certainly before
00:40:16.000 modern industrial society and for thousands of years before that, if you were not extremely wealthy,
00:40:24.220 then you would have lived what would seem to us to be an unthinkably difficult life.
00:40:30.560 One that for us would, would just be unimaginable drudgery and hardship. You know, that's for
00:40:36.840 thousands of years. The, the people who were not the absolute richest of the rich, uh, everybody else,
00:40:42.600 like by our standards today, lived just, uh, I mean, suffering that, that, that we can't even imagine.
00:40:50.960 Now, for them, a lot of that was just everyday life, but for us and the comforts that we're used to,
00:41:00.160 we would, we would consider it to be like torturous suffering. And, and that was the case for millennia.
00:41:06.680 And then, um, the way that we all live started to change with the industrial revolution and a few
00:41:12.160 generations into it, the baby boomers got to have their single, you know, family homes with a
00:41:19.000 half acre of property, one income under six figures. And, um, you know, they, they could,
00:41:26.200 they could go to the grocery, they could do things like go to the grocery store and buy, uh, groceries
00:41:31.000 for a week for the family and it wouldn't bankrupt them. Like they could afford to buy all the groceries
00:41:36.700 and it was okay. And they had as a generation, probably the easiest life that any generation of
00:41:44.180 humans have ever enjoyed in the whole history of human existence. You know, the baby boomers like,
00:41:51.160 that's right in that window right there. That was kind of the sweet spot. And that is
00:41:57.260 the easiest life. It's like, that's it. That's for any generation of humans, they got the easiest,
00:42:04.380 uh, they, they, they got the best, uh, they, they pulled, they pulled the best card. Um, but
00:42:10.320 they didn't really make any effort to maintain that for future generations. In fact, they have
00:42:14.620 actively squandered it. And now here we are, you know, they, I'm speaking collectively here. This
00:42:20.840 doesn't apply to all of them, of course, but anytime you're talking, you know, you're talking
00:42:23.620 about generations or you're, you're, you're speaking collectively. And, um, so collectively
00:42:29.580 speaking, the baby boomers had a very easy life that was, that was passed down to them. Um,
00:42:35.300 they squandered it and they're primarily interested in holding onto it for themselves
00:42:40.140 until they kick the bucket. Um, there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of interest in making
00:42:46.380 sure that, you know, future generations can prosper financially. And, um, so what happens to the rest
00:42:54.580 of us? We're kind of headed back down towards the version of the sort of life that most humans have
00:42:58.940 lived. Uh, the fun times and prosperity didn't last because the people who enjoyed it
00:43:04.060 didn't care at all about preserving that experience for anyone but themselves. And, uh,
00:43:09.980 and that's how I understand all of this. So that, that's where we are. I don't, this isn't leading
00:43:16.200 to like a solution. I'm just saying that this, this is a situation that we're in. One other thing
00:43:21.860 I wanted to mention, okay, this is, uh, just why not? I'm just going to make everyone hate me again
00:43:28.640 because I apparently, uh, enjoy it. I don't know. There's a New York Post, an Ohio Humane Society,
00:43:36.480 uh, let's see, an Ohio Humane Society put pet owners on blast last week in a viral social media
00:43:44.420 post as it struggles to keep up with the number of callers asking to abandon their dogs at the
00:43:49.520 shelter. The Fulton County Humane Society issued a biting rant in a recent Facebook post where it urged
00:43:55.900 pet owners to get their act together and be better humans to their four-legged friends.
00:44:01.200 Now this post has gone, uh, very viral, I guess. Apparently posts on Facebook still go viral.
00:44:07.180 I didn't, I didn't, I honestly, I'm not trying to be funny. I didn't even know that that
00:44:09.840 existed. I didn't know that viral, I didn't know. I haven't heard about viral posts on Facebook in a
00:44:15.000 very long time, but, uh, so this one did, I guess, and it got some coverage and people were cheering
00:44:19.100 it on. Um, here's a little bit of what it says from this, from this animal shelter, from the Humane
00:44:25.340 Society in Fulton County. We are long overdue to address some things with the community. The number
00:44:30.480 of messages we're getting every week from people wanting to surrender their dogs because they don't
00:44:34.080 have time for it anymore, or it killed our cat, or it bit my child, or I can't have it where I live,
00:44:39.020 is out of control. The dog you chose to get and now don't find so darling because it isn't a puppy
00:44:43.480 anymore is not our problem. A dog that bit a child can't be placed with another family and just hope for the
00:44:48.160 best you need to contact your veterinarian, not us. Be responsible pet owners. Dogs are a commitment.
00:44:53.740 If you think you won't have time for it in a year, don't get one. If you know your landlord says you
00:44:57.540 can't have a dog and yet you get one anyway, then expect us to take it. When you're getting evicted,
00:45:02.980 think again. Some dogs require hiring a trainer. Be financially prepared to do so.
00:45:07.920 Owning a dog means having the time, money, and patience for it. We can't take dogs with a bite history.
00:45:12.640 We can't take dogs with major behavioral issues because we will not irresponsibly place them with someone else.
00:45:18.160 Research your breeds. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay. And then they go lecturing and
00:45:21.960 lecturing. I just have two quick points. First of all, this is kind of, no pun intended, but it's
00:45:28.380 kind of a pet peeve. Like this thing where people get a job doing something and then they just complain
00:45:35.540 about being asked to do the job they signed up to do. So for this animal shelter, like calm down a
00:45:43.440 little bit, it's perfectly reasonable for people to call a shelter because their dog killed the cat
00:45:49.220 or bit a child or they're moving and the new place doesn't allow animals. Like that's,
00:45:54.720 okay, we have this thing where surrendering an animal or giving up. It's like the worst thing.
00:45:58.540 How could you do it? It's like giving up a child. It's like, no, no, it's not. It's not. And that's
00:46:03.220 perfectly reasonable. Like I would think if I was in any of those situations, the first thing I would
00:46:08.440 think to do is call a shelter. Like it seems like a perfectly reasonable first move to make.
00:46:14.420 And if you don't want to deal with those calls, then you shouldn't be working at an animal shelter.
00:46:18.080 You're working at an animal shelter. People are going to call you. They might, they have an animal,
00:46:21.740 they don't know exactly what to do and they call you. And then you have an attitude about it. Like
00:46:25.820 this is your job. So I always love these people and whatever job they work where again, they get
00:46:30.600 angry and indignant if they're required to do the job they signed up for. It's like a waiter who gets
00:46:35.440 annoyed when someone has a complaint about the food. And I'm not somebody who complains about the
00:46:41.080 food very often, but you know, that's your job to deal with that kind of stuff. It's what you're
00:46:45.500 there for. You punch the clock. So just deal with it. We don't need to hear your whining or the
00:46:49.460 Starbucks baristas who complain about, you know, I think we've talked about this before the Starbucks
00:46:53.780 baristas that they, they'll even go on social media or Tik TOK. And because the Starbucks baristas,
00:46:58.900 they're not, they're not doing Facebook. So they're on Tik TOK, but they do the same thing,
00:47:03.660 like giving rules to the customers. Hey, attention. Don't give these complicated drink
00:47:09.420 orders. No, you know what? Shut up. This is your, this is what you're hired to do. You're
00:47:12.960 there anyway. What do you not want to do? Not do anything. So someone has a complicated
00:47:17.220 drink order. Just do, do it. This is, this is what you're paid to do. It's like everything
00:47:23.740 you're asked to do is not going to be, you know, it's like, yes, you're gonna be asked to
00:47:27.880 do tedious things. That's part of the job. You do tedious things over and over again. And so
00:47:33.040 if you work at an animal shuttle, part of your job is to deal with the public and answer questions
00:47:36.460 like this. Stop bitching about it. Get another job if you don't like it. And by the way, let's
00:47:43.240 be honest about the other options. Okay. If you have a dog who attacked a child, what are
00:47:48.360 the options? Like I can tell you this, if I had a dog that attacked one of my kids, that
00:47:52.800 dog is gone. I mean, it's one way or another, that dog is gone. It's gone today. And that's
00:47:58.040 it. Uh, nothing to talk about, nothing to think about. My kids are a million times a
00:48:03.300 priority over any animal so that I don't even have to think about it. Like this is not, it's
00:48:06.860 not even a sad thing. It's just, okay, well that animal's gone. Attack my child, you're
00:48:11.120 gone. Um, and, uh, and you know, probably if I was in that spot, the first thing I would
00:48:16.380 do is call a shelter. Silly me. I would probably think that's the first, I mean, I haven't been
00:48:22.220 in that situation, but I probably think that I should do that. Not knowing that these animal
00:48:27.720 shelters are going to get an attitude about it. What are you, what are you calling us
00:48:31.080 for? What do you think we are? Some kind of place that shelters animals? So, um, anyway,
00:48:37.140 if you can't give the dog to the animal shelter, then, um, what's your other option? You're not
00:48:42.320 going to keep the animal with a, you know, a dangerous animal as shown aggression to your
00:48:46.400 child. Can't give it to an animal shelter. Doesn't leave a lot of options. And so,
00:48:52.220 you know, unless we're talking about euthanasia, you should at least be honest that that's what
00:48:55.360 you're actually advocating for. And anyway, all that said, it is true that way too many people
00:49:03.080 are in fact getting pets these days. And, uh, so that's really what they're complaining about.
00:49:08.460 And you hear this complaint a lot about people getting pets and they don't want to take care
00:49:13.780 of them. And then they get bored of them. You know, um, and you know, I get a lot of grief
00:49:18.180 for being anti-pet and anti-animal, which I'm not really, I am anti-pet, but I'm not anti-animal.
00:49:23.760 I got nothing against animals, but I have a realistic view of these things. Animals require
00:49:28.580 care and attention. You know, you have to take care of the thing every day. And, and, and the only
00:49:35.140 way that that care is not a burden is if you love the animal. Like I, I take care of my kids every day.
00:49:42.800 Um, I'm happy to do it because I love them. And so it's, it's, you know, yes, it can be a stress
00:49:49.200 sometimes, but it is a, it is a, it's a burden you're willing to bear. Now, if I was some kind
00:49:55.840 of sociopath and I didn't love my kids, then the amount of care they require would absolutely be
00:50:00.700 a crushing burden. But I don't love animals the way I love kids, which means that, um, I don't want
00:50:07.440 to live my life taking care of an animal. You know, we do have pets in the house, but I don't
00:50:12.600 take care of them. They're my kids' pets and they take care of them and it's fine. And it, I mean,
00:50:17.080 realistically, I do end up taking care of them a lot, but even when I'm doing that, I'm doing it
00:50:20.700 because for my kids, it's like my, the love that I have for my, for my kids is what makes that somewhat
00:50:25.980 tolerable for me. Um, the point is that people should have a realistic view of, uh, of pets and animals
00:50:32.760 and what caring for an animal entails. The amount of hostility I get for my attitude towards pets
00:50:38.900 only shows how unrealistic most people are because my attitude that I don't want to care for an
00:50:45.620 animal. I don't love animals. Like I love my children. I'm definitely not alone. It's like
00:50:51.260 most people actually share that view when it comes down to it, but they aren't realistic about it.
00:50:56.340 So they go get the pets anyway. And then, uh, and then they get bored of them because they realize
00:51:00.900 that, Oh, actually, I don't want to, you know, you know what, really? I, yeah, the pet is cute,
00:51:05.380 but like, I don't want to live. I don't want to have to take every day. I got to take care of this
00:51:09.400 animal. That's not contributing anything to the house. I don't want to have to do that.
00:51:13.080 And, um, and then you end up with a situation the animal shelter is complaining about. So this is a
00:51:17.360 long way of saying that, that, uh, that I'm right in the end. That's how it all works out.
00:51:22.420 This year is going to be one for the history books and, uh, you know, no one can predict what's going to
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00:51:51.080 Well, today for our daily cancellation, uh, I will tell you that I very nearly had to cancel my wife
00:51:56.120 again. She is, I think like a six time returning champion of the daily cancellation segment. And,
00:52:02.240 uh, she almost earned a seventh for her latest infraction. Now as viewers of the video podcast,
00:52:08.760 uh, can see, I am once again today in my home office after the mega winter vortex snow apocalypse
00:52:16.900 dropped like five inches of snow in Nashville and shut down all the roads for the next 17 days,
00:52:22.020 at least. Um, and nobody plows and nobody treats the roads around here because they always say that,
00:52:28.260 well, we don't have to plow and treat because we never get snow. And I've been hearing that every,
00:52:32.540 every winter for the last four years that I've been here and every winter we've gotten snow.
00:52:36.020 So I'm starting to think that we get snow. Maybe you should learn how to treat. Anyway,
00:52:39.200 so we're stuck here. Uh, none of that is my wife's fault. That's not what I'm blaming for.
00:52:42.820 What is her fault is that she apparently put a, um, well, we were just talking about pets and she
00:52:50.080 apparently, you know, if you can see this, but this is a framed picture of the cat. Um, it's not
00:52:56.840 my cat is my daughter's cat. Uh, this, this, this is, this is her pet just to be clear, but this is
00:53:02.840 the frame picture. It's a nice frame. It's not on the bookshelf anymore. She apparently put that
00:53:08.140 on the bookshelf behind me right in the shot yesterday. And I didn't notice it until after
00:53:15.780 I'd finished recording the show. So any eagle eyed viewer on Monday could have watched the show
00:53:22.400 and mistakenly come to the conclusion that I'm the sort of man who keeps a framed picture of the cat
00:53:28.720 on his bookshelf. Um, I think the glare from the light might have saved me. So I'm not even sure how
00:53:35.480 visible, so I might just be outing myself for this in a way that I didn't need to. Um, but if someone
00:53:40.720 had seen that, they might've come to the conclusion that I live some sort of double life, like publicly
00:53:45.700 pretending to be relatively normal while privately, I'm some sort of cat obsessed freak. And, and her
00:53:51.540 plot is made all the more sinister by the fact that as she well knows, you know, I pay absolutely no
00:53:56.560 attention to any of the decor in any room that I'm sitting in. I mean, she could have removed the
00:54:01.600 bookshelves behind me entirely and replaced them with like a 900 pound giant cat sculpture. And I
00:54:08.180 probably would not have noticed like it would have taken me a few minutes at least. It's only by the
00:54:12.800 grace of God that I caught the cat picture. Um, though I did, I did so a day late. Um, and all that said
00:54:19.780 as devastated as I am and as worried as I am about getting the reputation, um, an unfair reputation
00:54:28.420 as a cat person, I have to admit, it's a pretty decent prank. You know, I mean, it's, it will require
00:54:35.060 some retaliation, uh, you know, but, but, uh, of course, but I respect it all the same. And for that
00:54:42.540 reason, I'm not going to cancel her today. Also because another group of much, much, much more worthy
00:54:48.920 candidates have revealed themselves. And, um, when I say reveal themselves, I mean, literally they have
00:54:54.880 in fact revealed far too much of themselves. A few days ago, Valley Metro, the public transit agency
00:55:00.260 in Phoenix played willing host to something called no pants light rail day. Now, as the name would
00:55:07.900 seem to indicate, no pants light rail day is a day when people ride the light rail in Phoenix without
00:55:14.860 any pants. Um, the Phoenix new times advertised the event last week. You can see a screenshot of their
00:55:21.100 article, which I want you to see so that you can make note of the very clear LGBT branding that
00:55:27.320 they're giving this thing, because of course they are. Because of course, if there's an event where,
00:55:30.900 uh, you know, uh, people are running around without their clothes on in public, you automatically know
00:55:36.160 that there's some LGBT attachment to this thing. And, uh, sure enough, there it is. So here's what the
00:55:41.780 article says. After a four year wait, Valley residents have an excuse to take their pants off in public
00:55:47.600 again. Phoenix's no pants light rail ride returns this weekend for the first time since 2020. As
00:55:53.240 the name of the event implies, it involves locals hopping aboard Valley Metro rail without any pants,
00:55:58.000 skirts, or shorts. Participants are dressed in underwear, tops, and shoes though. The infamous
00:56:02.040 event equal, uh, equal part flash mob, an urban prank is scheduled for Sunday. It's one of Phoenix's
00:56:07.520 unique and cheeky events, earning its underwear clad participants, stares, glares, and smiles from
00:56:12.580 onlookers or fellow light rail passengers. During its original run, it was also quite popular.
00:56:17.600 Phoenix's no pants light rail ride dates back to 2009. Um, and then there were spinoffs in other
00:56:24.460 cities and they stopped doing it during the pandemic. Um, so that was at least one positive
00:56:32.300 from that whole experience. And now they're back to it. So, and this is something that apparently
00:56:36.660 happens in cities across the country. Baltimore had its own, uh, pantless public transit day on Sunday.
00:56:42.100 So if you were already concerned that the seats on public transportation were covered in a thick
00:56:47.860 coating of the most putrid and potentially infectious germs imaginable, well, this should
00:56:52.820 pretty much confirm those suspicions. Um, but it's all just a prank. We're told it's a, it's a prank,
00:56:58.060 a silly prank. You know, indecent exposure is okay. As long as it's done under the guise of a prank,
00:57:03.340 we're supposed to believe. But if you look at the images from this event, you will see that this does
00:57:08.280 not appear to be a band of merry pranksters, but rather a group of exhibitionists and fetishes.
00:57:15.400 Um, as you might expect, you know, there were people taking part in this who were in furry
00:57:19.660 costumes, people in fetish gear, people there clearly not as a prank, but because they enjoy
00:57:24.960 exposing themselves in public, exposing themselves to who? Well, I can tell you that there were children
00:57:30.580 in attendance. Um, and when I say in attendance, at the very least, they were on public transportation
00:57:35.780 that day, presumably with their parents, whether their parents brought them for this event. I don't
00:57:40.680 know, but there were children there, as you can see here. Um, at least two young children were on
00:57:47.400 the light rail car, uh, standing next to a guy with no pants, wearing high heels and leather underwear
00:57:53.020 with the word fetish written on the front. And this was allowed to happen out in the open on public
00:57:59.440 transportation. While the city of Phoenix, to my knowledge, has never said a word against it or made
00:58:03.940 any attempt to stop people from taking off their pants in front of toddlers on the light
00:58:07.800 light rail. It's not like they didn't know it was happening, like it's announced and advertised
00:58:11.300 ahead of time. They, they, you know, you could speak up and say, uh, no, do not do you. You're
00:58:17.400 not allowed to ride public transportation without pants on. You could have said that and they did.
00:58:21.120 Now, needless to say, in a sane country, all of the adults involved would be in jail for at a
00:58:25.600 minimum indecent exposure. Um, but just as needless to say, we don't live in a sane country. So none of
00:58:32.300 these adults will face any consequences for this disgusting degeneracy at all. And perhaps worst of
00:58:37.760 all, even if they will not experience any legal penalty as they should, um, they also will not
00:58:44.180 feel shame. And, and that is the big takeaway from really everything that happens in our culture these
00:58:52.060 days, but especially from a nationwide event that involves fetishists riding public transportation
00:58:57.720 in their underwear. Um, not to be mistaken with like cracked out homeless people that ride in their
00:59:04.840 underwear every day for other reasons, or maybe for the same reasons, I don't know. But the big
00:59:11.200 takeaway is that this can only happen and, and will inevitably happen in a culture without shame.
00:59:17.460 And we've worked very hard to remove shame from our society. We have declared that, um, shaming,
00:59:24.180 you know, is a universal evil. It's the worst thing you can do is to shame someone. We've decided that
00:59:29.620 being unashamed is a universal good. And all of that is very wrong because shame serves a critical
00:59:36.880 role for human beings. It's, it's not, it's not very dissimilar from the role of the pain receptors
00:59:41.520 in your brain without the ability to feel pain. You know, you, you'd be able to keep your hand on a hot
00:59:47.100 stove without knowing that you're burning yourself. And this will be very bad because although you don't
00:59:51.480 feel any pain from the burn, you are still being burned. Your body is being damaged. The pain is
00:59:56.280 meant to alert you to that fact so that you can protect yourself. Pain is unpleasant to feel,
01:00:01.480 but the alternative is much worse. It's also, you know, it's a, just like it's unpleasant to hear
01:00:06.000 smoke detectors blaring. You know, nobody wants to hear that, but it's even worse and even more
01:00:12.440 unpleasant to not know that the fire has started in your kitchen until it's too late. So shame is the
01:00:18.860 same idea. You know, it is the, the unpleasant feeling you get when you have behaved in a way that
01:00:25.220 is disgraceful and embarrassing and gross and otherwise loathsome. If you don't have the capacity
01:00:31.300 to feel shame, or if you have trained yourself to ignore the feelings when they come, then, you know,
01:00:37.480 you may be spared the immediate unpleasantness of the shameful feelings, but you will be doomed
01:00:42.340 to disgrace and to debase yourself repeatedly until you have, you have obliterated every semblance of
01:00:50.060 your own dignity and self-respect. You know, you may not feel the burn, but you are disfigured by it
01:00:57.120 all the same. Only it's even worse in this case because your disfigurement also contributes to the
01:01:04.540 disfigurement of society. Your shamelessness is like a disease. It spreads and we're all dragged into
01:01:11.020 it. And before you know it, you're standing pantless on the subway while the rest of us
01:01:16.300 recoil in horror. An eventuality that, that could have been avoided if you had been shamed in the
01:01:23.720 past and made to feel that shame. But shame itself has been shamed out of society. And now we have a
01:01:31.380 whole lot of shameful behavior without any of the shameful feelings that should go with it.
01:01:37.400 So then it is up to me to say to the pantless riders in Phoenix and everywhere else in the country,
01:01:46.880 you are all canceled. And that'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for
01:01:51.900 listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.