The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1299 - The Supreme Court Declares That Texas Has No Right To Defend Its Own Borders

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the liberals on the Supreme Court, with the help of some of our

00:00:03.280 quote-unquote conservative justices, have just declared that the Biden administration has the

00:00:06.920 right to tear down Texas's border fencing, allowing illegal criminals to invade their 0.77

00:00:11.580 communities. Our basic right to self-defense and sovereignty is evaporating by the day. We'll

00:00:15.400 discuss also a trans-identifying male golfer competes against women while acknowledging that

00:00:19.920 men do have advantages over women. How does he square that circle? We'll find out. Plus, 0.52

00:00:24.360 a CNN reporter is reduced to tears of admiration and awe as she gazes upon Kamala Harris.

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00:02:01.520 Well, at this point, you don't need to be an avid court watcher to know that the right of self-defense,

00:02:06.060 one of the most fundamental rights that exists, has effectively been suspended in major cities

00:02:10.320 across this country. The cases of Kyle Rittenhouse, the McCloskeys, George Zimmerman,

00:02:15.760 Daniel Penny, George Alan Kelly, Jose Alba, Daniel Perry, and so on, all make it clear that defending

00:02:21.980 yourself generally means that the government will try to destroy your life and sometimes succeed.

00:02:26.660 At the behest of wealthy foreigners, billionaires like George Soros, who don't live anywhere near

00:02:31.120 the carnage they're inflicting on American cities, prosecutors now seek to make an example out of

00:02:35.480 anybody who takes action to defend their life or property, and they have the full support of Joe

00:02:40.500 Biden's DOJ as they do it. This is the reality of living in any jurisdiction controlled by leftists

00:02:45.740 who can easily select sympathetic juries and secure a conviction. Defend yourself and you'll be accused

00:02:51.720 of breaking the law. Most people are aware of that now. What most people probably don't know is that

00:02:57.140 conservatives are now helping the left neutralize the right of self-defense. But yesterday's ruling by

00:03:03.300 the U.S. Supreme Court is proof that's exactly what's happening. It's undeniable. By a 5-4 vote with

00:03:08.040 two supposedly quote-unquote conservative justices in the majority, the Supreme Court gave the Biden

00:03:13.420 administration the green light to terminate the right of self-defense along the southern border

00:03:17.540 with Mexico. And this ruling is maybe the single most significant attack on your right to defend

00:03:22.660 yourself and your property that we've seen in at least a decade. And it's happening because of the

00:03:27.620 quote-unquote conservative majority on the Supreme Court that we're supposed to be so, so grateful for.

00:03:32.920 So here's the upshot of the ruling. Supreme Court allowed the Biden administration to remove razor

00:03:37.800 wire fencing placed by the state of Texas on private property with the consent of private property

00:03:43.520 owners in order to keep hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants from flooding across the border

00:03:48.180 every single month. So to restate, the Supreme Court is letting the Border Patrol destroy border

00:03:54.140 fencing set up by Texas. This is the kind of ruling that's so incompatible with the fundamental

00:04:01.180 principles of self-defense and self-determination and common sense and not to mention national

00:04:06.720 sovereignty that it defies explanation really. And appropriately enough, the Supreme Court did not

00:04:11.600 provide an explanation. There was no majority opinion explaining their reasoning here. But if you

00:04:16.660 look at the docket from the lower courts, it's not hard to see what might have convinced the justices.

00:04:21.140 In one filing, the Biden administration's solicitor general argued that the razor wire fencing

00:04:26.380 endangered the lives of criminals who are swimming in the water and trying to sneak into this country.

00:04:33.640 If you have the fencing there, it's going to endanger their lives. So here's what the

00:04:37.200 solicitor general, Elizabeth Preleger, told the court. She said that the fencing prevents agents

00:04:42.220 from, quote, accessing or getting near the border along the 2.5 mile stretch of the river and therefore

00:04:47.580 effectively prevented agents from monitoring the border to determine whether a migrant requires

00:04:51.900 emergency aid. Now, what was left unexplained in the solicitor general's filing is why anyone in the

00:04:58.180 U.S. has any obligation to provide emergency aid to foreign criminals who are trying to invade this 0.96

00:05:04.420 country illegally. You're not going to find that requirement in the constitution or in any federal

00:05:08.320 or state law. It's just invented out of thin air. We are now responsible for making sure that Mexicans 1.00

00:05:14.100 and Haitians and Guatemalans get top-notch medical care as they swim across the Rio Grande, apparently.

00:05:19.180 Which is to say it is our responsibility to provide medical care to non-citizens who are injured while

00:05:25.360 in the process of attempting to break our laws. But if it's anyone's responsibility, why isn't it

00:05:31.240 Mexico's or Haiti's or Guatemala's? Why don't we simply tell them to take care of their own people? 0.82

00:05:37.820 There's an idea. And what are they going to say? Well, we can't. That's not practical. We can't do it.

00:05:42.620 Oh, but it's practical for us? Now, these are all good questions that the Supreme Court decided

00:05:48.600 are irrelevant somehow. Now, it goes without saying that this is the inverse of the right of self-defense.

00:05:54.660 The Biden administration and now the Supreme Court is saying that you don't have the right to protect

00:06:00.140 yourself from foreign criminals. Instead, you have an obligation to protect these foreign criminals 1.00

00:06:05.600 from themselves. It's obscene. But obviously, Joe Biden's solicitor general doesn't mean anything she's saying.

00:06:14.060 It's been clear for months now that the Biden administration wants to tear down the razor wire

00:06:18.360 fencing so that it can import as many foreigners into this country as possible. This is not about 1.00

00:06:22.380 emergency medical aid. Back in October, the outlet BorderHawk captured live footage of federal border

00:06:28.460 patrol agents using heavy machinery to lift the razor wire fencing installed by Texas authorities

00:06:33.700 at Eagle Pass, Texas, so that hundreds of migrants could stream across. Now, watch this footage,

00:06:39.700 and you will notice a distinct absence of illegal aliens in need of quote-unquote emergency aid. Watch.

00:06:47.300 I'm Efrain Gonzalez, correspondent with BorderHawk News. These are exclusive imagines of how most

00:06:52.940 crossings of hundreds of migrants are being carried out in recent days at Eagle Pass,

00:06:58.660 raising the barbed wire with machinery. This huge caravan of around 300 migrants crossed into

00:07:05.620 Eagle Pass thanks to Border Patrol agents lifting the barbed wire. The hundreds of migrants crossed in

00:07:12.340 a few minutes, this being the four massive crossing that our cameras witnessed in the last days of October.

00:07:19.140 Previously, these caravans are sent to uninhabited areas of the Rio Grande, where Border Patrol

00:07:25.540 awaits them with four lift tractors. Given these facilities, migrants say they prefer to cross the river 1.00

00:07:32.820 instead of processing legal entry.

00:07:47.220 Somehow, these large groups of migrants are informed about the place and time when the forklifts raise the barbed wire to cross in drops. 0.98

00:07:56.100 And what you didn't hear there, if you're listening to the audio podcast, he was asked to two of the illegal immigrants,

00:08:05.280 you know, if they would rather just come in legally and go through the legal process or cross the river.

00:08:10.720 And they both said, well, they want to cross the river because it takes too long to do it legally.

00:08:14.680 And this is an argument that apparently we find compelling, but it takes them too long. They don't feel

00:08:20.360 like waiting around. So we'll just, we'll just send in heavy machinery to lift the border fence for them. 0.74

00:08:28.400 The only thing missing there was the, it was an actual red carpet being laid out for them.

00:08:32.860 Now, as the reporter with Border Hawk notes, quote, somehow these large groups of migrants are informed 0.95

00:08:36.480 about the place and time when the forklifts raise the barbed wire to cross in groups.

00:08:40.980 And it's almost like the solicitor general was lying, but we all knew that. We all know the

00:08:45.500 Biden administration wants to destroy the razor wire for the same reason it sued Arizona for

00:08:49.020 building a makeshift wall out of shipping containers along the border. They want to transform the

00:08:53.360 population. They want to lead all these people into the country with fake asylum claims, give them 1.00

00:08:58.320 court dates 10 years in the future and forget all about them. That's obvious. What's less clear by

00:09:03.300 contrast is why Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts, two justices who were once, we were once told were

00:09:08.620 conservative, would go along with this fraud. Now, right at the outset, it's important to clarify

00:09:13.660 that this case is still making its way through the court system. On February 7th, the Fifth Circuit

00:09:18.760 Court of Appeals based in New Orleans is going to hear arguments on the issue of whether the Biden

00:09:23.260 administration has the legal authority to cut razor wire along the southern border. So this is still a

00:09:27.620 live issue. What happened is that before it heard those arguments, the Fifth Circuit entered a

00:09:31.920 temporary injunction prohibiting the Biden administration from cutting any more wire while the case was

00:09:36.480 proceeding. The Biden administration filed an emergency appeal of that injunction because they

00:09:40.920 really want to cut the wire as quickly as possible and get all these immigrants, i.e. future voters, 1.00

00:09:45.680 into the country. And the Supreme Court, in a five to four vote, lifted the injunction and allowed the

00:09:50.880 fence cutting to continue. So basically, the Supreme Court is saying, yeah, just keep cutting the fences

00:09:54.440 until we figure out whether it's legal for you to do that or not. Now, three of those five votes were

00:10:00.000 always in the bag for the Biden administration. That's because unlike Republicans, Democrats know how to

00:10:04.280 appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will faithfully carry out the objectives of their

00:10:08.660 party. But Republicans are incapable of doing that. So John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, who we were

00:10:13.540 told was a major win for conservatives when Trump appointed her. You know, we're still told that this

00:10:18.780 is with a grand achievement of Trump's administration was these three justices, even though only one has

00:10:25.380 proven to be somewhat dependable. But they voted with Kentonji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor,

00:10:30.880 and Elena Kagan. Now, we all know why John Roberts would do that. He's openly admitted that he's

00:10:36.260 preoccupied with making sure the court appears nonpartisan rather than applying the law. And

00:10:42.080 but why would Amy Coney Barrett join the leftist judges? Now, whatever the explanation, and I'll get

00:10:50.000 into that in a moment, I have one theory as to why that might be. But this is becoming something of a

00:10:55.800 pattern. An analysis by the Washington Examiner found that in 2020 and 2021, Barrett voted similarly with

00:11:00.620 liberal justices in just over half of the cases heard. And she's continued to side with them

00:11:05.520 ever since. Last year, for example, Barrett and John Roberts sided with the court's leftists to

00:11:10.000 ban the sale of so-called ghost guns, which is an invented term that's intended to criminalize the

00:11:16.180 transportation of firearm parts. Just a few weeks ago, Barrett rejected a challenge to Illinois'

00:11:21.140 ban on so-called assault weapons, which is a category of firearms that also doesn't actually exist.

00:11:26.760 And she also blocked a challenge to Indiana University's requirement that all students

00:11:30.900 and employees take the COVID shot. And as Daniel Horowitz pointed out, during COVID, Barrett had

00:11:36.400 no problem with the state of Illinois locking down its own citizens. She indicated that under the

00:11:40.820 constitutional police power, states can close businesses and schools to protect public health.

00:11:46.940 What's odd about Amy Coney Barrett's reasoning is that it apparently doesn't apply to the state of

00:11:52.200 Texas or any citizens living there. They don't have a right to invoke the police power to prevent

00:11:56.800 foreigners from streaming across the border, according to Amy Coney Barrett. Even though many

00:12:00.900 of those illegal immigrants do have communicable diseases, this isn't an invented concern. It's very

00:12:08.640 real. You can go to pretty much any hospital near the border, and you will see that they are

00:12:12.960 completely overwhelmed. Here, for example, is the Yuma Regional Medical Center. Look at this.

00:12:19.140 I'm Dr. Robert Trenchel. I'm the president and CEO, and I've been here for seven and a half years.

00:12:26.260 We have a 406-bed hospital. We've had a significant number across the border when it was announced

00:12:32.420 that the borders were open. And we've had a multitude of patients come to our doors and needing medical

00:12:41.780 care. We're the only hospital here, so it's not like we can distribute to other hospitals in the

00:12:48.940 area. We're the closest hospital that does what we do is 180 miles away. So the hospital has been

00:12:54.920 impacted greatly because none of the migrants have a payer source, and that's our biggest issue. 0.97

00:12:59.980 They've come to our doors, and we give them the same level of care we'd give anybody else. If

00:13:04.000 President Biden walked through the door or if a migrant walks through the door, they're getting the 1.00

00:13:07.700 same level of care. We don't treat anybody any differently, and we take a lot of pride in that.

00:13:12.500 Our concern is that we've delivered over $20 million in uncompensated care to these individuals

00:13:20.060 just over a six-month period. That's an unsustainable model to have that unexpected

00:13:25.800 expense without any revenue to offset it.

00:13:28.240 This is a hospital that was set up for the benefit of American citizens, and because the

00:13:33.040 Biden administration is deliberately flooding this nation with diseased foreigners, it may have 1.00

00:13:37.200 to shut down, and it's losing millions of dollars. And if it does shut down, obviously that would

00:13:41.740 impact the public health in Yuma. But the conservative swing votes on the Supreme Court don't

00:13:45.880 care, apparently. It's only American citizens who have to endure quarantines and lockdowns in the

00:13:50.520 name of public health. This isn't just happening in border towns, by the way. Hospitals in large

00:13:55.320 cities like New York, which, of course, is nowhere near the border, are also overwhelmed by the surge

00:14:00.260 of migrants. Watch. We're back now with a record number of migrants crossing into the U.S., pushing 1.00

00:14:06.020 resources to the limit in many American cities. Now hospitals are sounding the alarm, saying they're

00:14:12.020 also overwhelmed, including some far from the border. Julia Ainsley has our report.

00:14:18.640 Tonight, the border crisis surging. Officials telling NBC News there were over 200,000 illegal

00:14:24.800 crossings at the southern border last month, and a record 3 million migrants crossed the border in

00:14:30.420 the last year. Now a new warning, 1,000 miles away in New York City, where officials tell us

00:14:36.520 resources are overwhelmed. Across public hospitals in New York City over the last year, nearly 30,000

00:14:42.760 visits by migrants and 300 new babies born to migrant moms. Staff here at Bellevue Hospital tell us

00:14:49.520 they're eager to help, but the numbers are tough. This has been the hardest work that I've ever done,

00:14:54.140 but it's been the most impactful work that I've ever done. And most of the visits to the taxpayer-funded

00:14:59.020 legal clinic here are by migrants. Our clinics are full, and there are waiting lists, and people

00:15:04.940 are turning people away or referring them to other places. So these are hospitals in the largest cities

00:15:11.020 in the United States, which is thousands of miles from the southern border, and they can't handle

00:15:15.920 all of these illegal migrants. How is this not considered a massive threat to public health 1.00

00:15:20.940 exactly? Where are all the schools of public health that lecture us about the importance of

00:15:25.620 wearing masks, worshiping George Floyd, and forcing our children to look at iPads all day?

00:15:31.480 They're all silent, strangely enough. Again, so is Amy Coney Barrett, who supposedly cared a lot about

00:15:37.720 public health just a few years ago. It's not clear what explains the way Amy Coney Barrett is voting. 0.99

00:15:43.940 One possibility is that she believes that the Constitution gives total authority to the

00:15:48.840 executive branch to handle immigration matters to the point where the federal government can

00:15:52.720 totally ignore immigration and asylum laws passed by Congress and import millions of illegal aliens

00:15:57.940 without any vetting whatsoever. That seems dubious, which is probably why four conservative justices

00:16:03.720 didn't go along with that reasoning. Another possibility is that it's not a coincidence that all of the

00:16:09.220 women on the court, plus Roberts, who is close enough, sided against Texas's border wall. The argument 0.87

00:16:16.460 against border enforcement has always been a purely emotional one. So maybe it's not a surprise that

00:16:22.920 all the women on the court find the emotional argument to be more compelling than most of the men do.

00:16:30.100 But being guided by emotions is one thing, and it's bad enough for Supreme Court justices.

00:16:35.520 The problem is that, one of the big problems, is that all of the sympathy, you know, all of the

00:16:41.920 sympathetic emotions are being directed towards the illegal immigrants, and no sympathy is being

00:16:48.000 directed towards the American families that this invasion is destroying. And that's odd, because at

00:16:52.640 this point, the federal government isn't just failing to defend our border and uphold our sovereignty.

00:16:57.480 They're taking active steps to ensure that we have no borders at all, and no sovereignty.

00:17:02.140 And very soon, our critical infrastructure will fail because of it. It's often said that

00:17:07.880 civilizational decline is a choice, and that's true. And we've never seen a clearer case of it than

00:17:14.180 this. There's just no other way to spin the story when the Biden administration is literally going to

00:17:18.560 court to get permission to destroy border fencing. Without a border, you don't have a country.

00:17:24.720 One of the most basic responsibilities of the government is to ensure that we have a border

00:17:28.680 and we enforce our laws. And our government's not doing that anymore. In fact, they are doing the

00:17:35.000 opposite. They are actively doing the opposite. This is not, we've moved beyond just mere negligence,

00:17:41.300 okay, which is the failure to enforce the border. Now they're actively preventing anyone from

00:17:47.680 enforcing it. If this continues, the solution is obvious, which is that red state governors will 0.54

00:17:54.600 need to ignore the Supreme Court and do what needs to be done to protect their citizens and the border.

00:18:01.260 All of these rules that have sustained this country for so long can be broken. I mean, we've seen that.

00:18:08.620 They all operate in the end on a sort of mutual agreement. I mean, you proceed through traffic lights

00:18:14.400 when they're green on the assumption that everyone perpendicular to you is going to stop on red.

00:18:20.120 But once people start going through the reds in large numbers, you have no reason to pay any 1.00

00:18:26.340 attention to your own traffic light. Everyone's on their own at that point. Once one side decides that

00:18:32.940 law and border no longer matter, then everybody else is released from their obligations to obey the

00:18:39.060 federal court system. I mean, you can't obey it anymore. To obey it is to usher in your own destruction.

00:18:45.280 That's what happens. It's happened before in this country's history and it's, it can happen again.

00:18:53.260 And you know, the thing is the Supreme Court can't enforce its own rulings.

00:18:58.520 So once red states decide not to go along with them, if the red states say, okay, I don't care what

00:19:04.120 you think. We're going to do it anyway. What happens then? What happens when federal agents try to

00:19:10.100 destroy border fencing and state troopers stand in their way? Does Biden send in the military at that

00:19:14.640 point? These might not be hypothetical questions for long. The last civil war was unimaginable

00:19:22.160 until it wasn't. That was a lesson this country learned in the middle of the 19th century. And

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00:20:47.080 That's proviahair.com slash Walsh. We begin with a guy named Haley Davidson who identifies as

00:20:54.080 transgender and says he's a woman and has been competing against women in golf. And Davidson sat

00:20:59.860 down with Good Morning Britain a couple days ago to talk about his journey as a golfer in the female

00:21:06.320 circuit. But during the course of this conversation, he made a rather interesting admission. Let's

00:21:13.020 listen. Of all the shots that she has hit over the years, Haley Davidson never expected to find

00:21:20.420 herself at the center of a political storm around transgender athletes competing against women in elite

00:21:26.920 sport. For a lot of people, because you were born a man, you clearly have an advantage. Do you accept

00:21:33.660 that? Honestly, I 100% agree. You know, the men do have advantages. You know, say you get a trans 0.99

00:21:39.580 person on hormones for a year, no surgery, nothing. Of course, for the most part, yeah, they're going to

00:21:47.240 have an advantage. I don't believe trans people should be banned from sports, but I do believe there 1.00

00:21:52.240 need to be guidelines in effect. Why do you think people have such a big problem with you competing

00:21:57.920 in women's golf in particular? I don't understand that. I don't get what the fear of me, one person

00:22:04.680 is doing. The 31-year-old who was the first male-born golfer to win a professional women's event

00:22:10.920 is speaking out exclusively after revealing she's received a number of death threats just days after

00:22:17.260 winning this women's tournament. Are you worried about your safety? A little bit, yeah. I

00:22:22.220 don't go out and do a ton much because of that. I'm not, you know, going out at night. You know, I

00:22:26.220 watch myself when I sit in a restaurant. You know, I'll always have my back to a wall. Three years on

00:22:30.720 from her gender reassignment surgery, and Haley's determined to keep going and hopes to one day

00:22:35.880 qualify for the Scottish Open. Well, there's a woman, right? I mean, you look at that person, listen to

00:22:43.040 them, and all you see and hear is a woman who's apparently 31 years old. That, I know this is, this is

00:22:50.460 rich coming from me as I have looked like I'm 52, you know, my whole life. But that 31, like, you don't

00:23:01.280 look like a woman, but you do look like a 47-year-old out-of-shape man. And nobody on earth

00:23:09.880 thinks that Haley Davidson is a woman. You know, nobody does. He doesn't even think that. He's not

00:23:17.400 even really making any attempt to appear that way. I mean, at least grow your hair out. Like,

00:23:22.320 it makes the smallest bit of effort. Not that that makes you a woman even slightly, but like,

00:23:28.220 you're just doing nothing. You're not doing anything at all to even pretend to appear as a

00:23:32.220 woman. You put on some hoop earrings, and that's it. So nobody thinks it. Everyone knows it's a farce.

00:23:41.060 Everybody knows that this is, without exception, right? Every single person. And if you're on the

00:23:47.360 left and you see a clip of what I'm saying right now, well, you too, look, you also know when you

00:23:52.540 look at that person that that is a man. You know that. You know that. I know that you know that.

00:23:58.780 We all know it. So this is not a debate between people who believe in the farce and people who

00:24:05.260 don't believe in it. It's a debate between people who willingly go along with the farce and want the

00:24:09.420 rest of us to go along with it and those of us who are not willing to go along with it. And that's

00:24:13.240 the entire debate. Now, before we break down what Davidson said here, let me give you the rest of

00:24:20.900 the story. Because later in the interview, Davidson said this. My whole philosophy behind all this is

00:24:26.500 I don't believe trans people should be banned from sports, but I do believe there needs to be 1.00

00:24:29.420 guidelines in effect. Going back even four years ago or even before I had surgery, I definitely had

00:24:33.960 an advantage. I would 100% agree with that. But the difference is now that years have gone on,

00:24:38.760 three years after surgery, my physical capabilities now compared to back then are night and day.

00:24:43.680 So again, honestly, I 100% agree that men do have advantages. Say you get a trans person on 1.00

00:24:48.400 hormones for a year or no surgery, nothing. Of course, for the most part, yeah, they're going

00:24:53.100 to have an advantage. Okay. So he's a trans identifying male athlete who admits that males have

00:24:59.840 advantages. He also says in the same interview that we just heard, he says that he can't figure out

00:25:06.760 why people are mad at him for competing against women. Well, you just said it, dude. You explained

00:25:13.300 why. Yourself, you explained it. You explained why people are mad. They're mad because men have

00:25:19.180 advantages, as you just acknowledged. I mean, these people are so fundamentally dishonest that they 0.65

00:25:24.200 can't keep their own narrative straight. They contradict themselves 10 different times in a 30-second

00:25:29.300 span. It's amazing. Now, Davidson claims that he personally no longer has those advantages because

00:25:36.540 he got the surgeries and he takes the hormones and his capabilities now are severely diminished.

00:25:43.640 Which, think about that for a moment. Okay. Really think about that. This is a guy

00:25:48.940 who got the gender transition procedures and now says about those same procedures,

00:25:55.460 and he says this as if it's a positive. He says this as a selling point that he is significantly

00:26:01.160 weaker and less physically capable than he used to be. And he also, I don't even say it as a joke,

00:26:08.760 like he looks like he has aged. He started taking the hormones or whatever a few years ago,

00:26:12.540 and they really quickly showed that picture of what he looked like before. And before, yeah,

00:26:18.780 he looked like a 27-year-old dude. And now he's 31, and he looks like he's aged 20 years.

00:26:25.460 Um, so this is a medical, quote-unquote, procedure that even according to the people who get it,

00:26:33.920 destroys you. It destroys your body. That's what he's, that's what he's saying. He's saying,

00:26:39.520 don't worry, my body's totally destroyed. Yeah, I'm useless now. It's all good. 0.94

00:26:44.980 Um, it, it, it has the effect of vastly diminishing your physical capabilities,

00:26:48.660 which is, which is just another way of saying that the procedures are harming you. They are making

00:26:54.660 you weaker, more brittle, more frail. And that is, needless to say, the exact opposite of what

00:27:01.340 medicine, real medicine, is supposed to do. I mean, do no harm. That, that's right in the

00:27:07.640 Hippocratic Oath. It's, it, medicine is supposed to do the opposite of harm you. And so if you're

00:27:13.360 doing something that is harming you physically, then that's not medical.

00:27:16.020 And then the people who've been harmed use it as a selling point.

00:27:24.340 Now, it's okay, guys. I'm a real woman now. I'm so much weaker and feebler than I used to be.

00:27:29.220 Seriously, seriously, I'm totally debilitated. Look at me. Just like a woman. 1.00

00:27:33.220 Now, um, I mean, the, the irony is overwhelming, but ignoring all that for a moment, let's put all

00:27:43.160 that to the side. It is true that Davidson has made himself weaker, has enfeebled himself,

00:27:50.260 uh, with these procedures, but he's still a man and still has advantages. He's still bigger on average

00:27:57.320 than women. He still has the skeletal structure of a man. He still has the heart of a man. He has the 0.70

00:28:03.140 lungs of a man. Um, a man's physical advantages over women are not based solely on testosterone.

00:28:10.340 That's only one part of it. His whole body is designed to be stronger and faster. And a man who

00:28:17.360 has transitioned still has his body. And just pointing out that you have disabled yourself

00:28:23.220 in one, in one particular way, as if that makes you a woman, it's like, it's no different than if the

00:28:32.280 guy, uh, cut off one of his legs and then said, well, I'm a woman now. Cause I, I can't, I'm not as

00:28:39.560 fast as I was cause I only have one leg. So it's basically, you know, you know, one legged man is

00:28:44.600 basically a woman. None of this is insulting to women, by the way, not at all. Like that's not the

00:28:50.180 least bit of a man saying that he's a woman now because he's so much weaker than he used to be.

00:28:53.940 That's not insulting. Is it? Um, so he still has a man's body, which means he has many advantages,

00:29:02.480 but all of that is irrelevant also because, uh, and this is, this is why,

00:29:07.440 you know, I think people on the right have made a mistake, uh, on this particular issue by,

00:29:15.040 by focusing so much on the question of physical advantage. And I can see why it, this is a mistake

00:29:22.780 that's easy to make. I mean, I've just been talking about it for, for the last eight minutes, but

00:29:28.020 it's easy to make because the claim they're making about how men don't have an advantage, 1.00

00:29:32.420 it's so ridiculous that you can't help, but engage them and say, what are you talking about? 0.97

00:29:37.160 That's insane. But I do think it's a, it's a mistake to make that the, the focus of our argument 0.84

00:29:46.620 against men competing against women in sports. If we make it all about, well, you have advantages 0.97

00:29:51.420 because if that was the only thing, if that's all that mattered was just about the advantages,

00:29:56.420 then yeah, they'd have an argument that, okay, well just give the man enough drugs that he's like

00:30:02.760 a shell of himself physically, and then he won't have the same advantages.

00:30:10.300 But that doesn't work because the primary reason, really the only reason, the only reason that should

00:30:17.860 matter why men don't belong in women's sports is that men are not women. That's it. That's all 0.96

00:30:23.320 advantages, no advantages. It doesn't matter that you're just not a woman. You know, you could be 1.00

00:30:30.760 the weakest, most pitiful, most out of shape, most physically pathetic man in the world. 1.00

00:30:36.680 And you still would not be, should not be allowed to compete against women because you aren't one. 1.00

00:30:41.680 And that's all there is to it. Like, I don't care if my 10 year old daughter could beat you in arm

00:30:48.000 wrestling as a man. You, you, you're still a man. You might, you're a pathetic man. You're, you're 0.72

00:30:54.540 embarrassing to be around and to look at, but you're still a man. And that's it. That's, 0.98

00:31:00.420 that is, that's the end of the, our argument. That's our entire argument, actually. You can

00:31:06.300 summarize it in one sentence. Men shouldn't compete against women because they aren't women. 1.00

00:31:11.900 That's it. That, that, that's all there is. And, and maybe you could even make it more specific.

00:31:20.400 Men should not compete against women as women because they aren't women. Now, if you wanted 1.00

00:31:29.920 to have some co-ed league, if you wanted to create a co-ed tennis league where men and women are

00:31:36.220 competing against each other, you know, we could debate how valuable that really is or whatever,

00:31:40.000 but that's, that's, you know, there's, there's, there's, there's nothing fundamentally dishonest

00:31:44.300 about that. Uh, it might be kind of pointless and it might be silly, but that's not what's

00:31:52.260 happening here. Like they're not trying to make co-ed leagues. They are effectively doing that,

00:31:56.300 but they're not saying they're doing that. They're making them co-ed while claiming that it's not.

00:32:00.640 And so it's that, it's that the lie, it's the crazy, insane lie at the core of all of this,

00:32:07.840 that is the whole reason we oppose it. Everything else is downstream of that.

00:32:17.320 All right. Kamala Harris is, uh, out on the campaign trail. I want you to listen to this.

00:32:22.900 Uh, I can't even call it an interview, uh, whatever this is, this exchange between Harris

00:32:28.740 and a CNN reporter. Listen, let me ask you one more question. I'm struck just in your presence.

00:32:34.740 The, I was watching you on stage, watching the reactions from the crowd, looking you in the eye

00:32:41.160 with your passion that you were displaying and talking about so many issues. And yet you hear

00:32:48.520 candidates suggesting that a vote for president Biden because of his age is somehow a vote for you.

00:32:55.600 And that is hurled as an insult. It's intended to demonstrate some negative viewpoint towards you.

00:33:04.740 What is your reaction to this thought that with your background in particular, with your career,

00:33:11.940 that there is some thought that you are incapable?

00:33:16.400 Well, I think that, um, most women who have risen in their profession, 0.98

00:33:23.240 who are leaders in their profession have had similar experiences. Um, I was the first woman

00:33:29.600 to be elected district attorney. I was the first woman to be elected attorney general in the state

00:33:34.920 of California, and I'm the first woman to be vice president. And I love my job.

00:33:43.860 I'm struck in your presence. She says she is in awe. She practically has tears welling up in her eyes.

00:33:50.500 She's in awe in the presence of Kamala Harris. Um, I mean, you, you cannot

00:33:59.220 overstate just how laughably ridiculous that statement is when applied to Kamala Harris of all 0.91

00:34:06.660 people. One of the most unimpressive people in a government filled to the brim with midwits and 0.99

00:34:13.660 mediocrities. You're in awe. It's like saying you're, I don't know, you're struck by the beauty

00:34:20.060 and grandeur of a potato. It just doesn't, how can you have that emotion in the presence of that

00:34:26.900 thing? It's like, you're sitting, staring at a potato on the table and sobbing in tears,

00:34:33.380 tears of joy as you stare at the potato. I can't, how do you conjure up those emotions,

00:34:39.220 um, in the presence of something like that? But nevermind all that you, you are a reporter. Uh,

00:34:46.140 you are a journalist. And yet this exchange, it's indistinguishable from like what you might hear a

00:34:50.980 reporter in North Korea say to the Supreme leader of North Korea, the total lack of skepticism, um,

00:35:00.040 of criticism from the media to our political leaders continues to be shameful and disgusting

00:35:07.660 to behold. And I know that we talk about it all the time. Everyone complains about it.

00:35:11.900 So it's, it's nothing new, but it is, uh, it's only getting worse. And honestly,

00:35:16.600 it's a problem on both sides. It it's worse on the left, but you could find it all over the right

00:35:22.720 too. Um, you know, if you're a Republican politician, you know, where you can go and

00:35:27.500 you can't go on CNN, but, um, well, some Republican politicians could even go on CNN and get,

00:35:32.580 and get, and get lavish praise as well. Um, but you know, you, you know, where you can go in

00:35:39.180 media somewhere in Fox news and you can get, you can get, uh, uh, coverage that is almost as

00:35:45.000 fawning as that. How many people in media can you name that we can rely on to hold a politician's

00:35:52.880 feet to the fire, regardless of party or politics? How many, like how many people are in media right

00:35:57.560 now, reporters, journalists who actually not only are willing to, uh, be skeptical of politicians and

00:36:07.520 to hold their feet to the fire and hold them accountable, but like enjoy doing it because

00:36:10.740 that's the thing that, that, that should propel you to get into that line of work in the first

00:36:14.440 place. Should. Of course, it's clear. That's not what's happening. Is there anyone? That's an

00:36:21.860 honest question. Is there anyone you can think of in media who, who, uh, is in a position of

00:36:27.060 interviewing politicians and stuff all the time and covering the news and you could rely on them

00:36:31.860 no matter who the person is. They're going to ask tough questions. There might be a few,

00:36:38.560 but it's, it is a vanishingly small number. Um, and, uh, but this is, this is even worse than

00:36:47.180 usual. And actually what the framing of the questions is kind of funny that we just heard

00:36:51.660 because it sounds almost passive aggressive. It's not because this person really is, this reporter

00:36:59.660 actually is like the president of the Kamala Harris fan club. She's the president and also the only

00:37:05.180 card carrying member, but it does sound passive aggressive, aggressive. You know, she's, she's 0.53

00:37:11.400 saying, you know, everybody, everyone in the world apparently thinks that a big argument against Joe

00:37:17.160 Biden is the fact that you're second in line. Why does everyone think that? It's a, it sounds like

00:37:22.480 a passive aggressive kind of argument or question. And of course, Kamala immediately reaches for the 0.89

00:37:27.860 sexism card. She says it's because she's a woman when in reality, it's because she's an insufferable, 1.00

00:37:33.600 incompetent, phony, fraudulent woman who has never accomplished a single thing in her life on her own 1.00

00:37:39.860 merit. That that's the part that people don't like. It's not, it's not the woman part. It's all the 0.99

00:37:45.880 stuff that comes before that. It's all the, it's all the additional descriptions that we can apply to

00:37:50.400 you before we get to woman. But she says, because it's a woman, which is of course the expected 1.00

00:37:56.480 response. And it seems to me like this kind of self-victimization, the pulling the sexism card

00:38:02.160 stuff, it's becoming more and more common. We talked a few days ago about how Republican women 0.99

00:38:07.940 are doing this constantly now. Nikki Haley, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, just in the last like

00:38:12.440 week have had their own moments where they say, I'm only being interrupted because I'm a woman.

00:38:17.700 What? A woman can't speak? So here's another question. We just had that question about, 1.00

00:38:22.620 are there any truly honest journalists left? Is there a female politician

00:38:28.560 in existence who will not pull the sexism card when given the chance?

00:38:35.380 Maybe there is. So I'm sincerely asking for an example because there are plenty of black and

00:38:42.680 racial minority politicians on the right anyway, who will specifically repudiate the racism card.

00:38:48.540 Vivek Ramaswamy did it many times. Even somebody like Tim Scott. Now he'll play,

00:38:52.600 the race card sometimes, but on occasion he'll also refute it, I guess, depending on how he's

00:38:57.700 feeling that day. But the whole you're attacking me because I'm a woman thing, I'm genuinely asking,

00:39:04.280 is there a single female politician who doesn't make that move when given the opportunity? 1.00

00:39:09.820 Is there a single female politician who, if you ask her, do people doubt you because you're a woman, 1.00

00:39:15.060 will respond by saying, what? No, but women are not persecuted in this country. Women are doing fine.

00:39:19.920 Women, in fact, are doing better than men by every available metric. The whole women are being 0.99

00:39:26.660 oppressed thing is done. It's over. If you want to make that claim, you have nothing to hang it on.

00:39:33.540 Is there any female politician who will say that? I hope there is. But this stuff is, it's so pervasive 0.97

00:39:42.280 now. I don't know. Marsha Blackburn, she's one. I've never heard her play the sexism card. So 1.00

00:39:49.240 there's one. We got one. Does she stand alone? I don't know. Okay.

00:39:54.520 Staying on Kamala Harris just for a moment, to quote Willie Brown, she also appeared on The View, where she 0.99

00:40:03.440 enjoyed being the smartest person in the room for once, which is a joke that I have just stolen directly

00:40:10.100 from the Babylon Bee, full on plagiarism. But she was on the show and she tried to explain what she thinks

00:40:16.500 is the top concern of parents everywhere. And here's what she says.

00:40:20.980 What they are telling me in state after state is that they are concerned about the future of our country.

00:40:31.100 Many of us often think about the future of our country in the context of our children.

00:40:36.940 And so they talk about their concern that if their daughter is going to college, will she go to a state

00:40:43.600 where she will have access to the health care she might need, including reproductive health? 1.00

00:40:48.900 So this is the top concern of parents is that, is quote unquote reproductive health. We know what

00:40:54.320 that means. And that of course is a horrific thing to say, that the top concern of parents is that

00:41:01.680 their kids are able to kill their own kids. And listen, maybe that's true for some parents. Maybe

00:41:08.420 there are some mothers who will say to their college age daughters, hey, you know, you can't go to 0.99

00:41:15.540 college there because if you conceive my grandchild there, you will not be able to immediately kill 0.93

00:41:21.320 him. I'm sure there are some parents who do say that or words that mean the same thing to their

00:41:29.040 kids, but it is just horrifically, demonically evil. And this is why we can never surrender this

00:41:35.860 issue or de-emphasize it or stop talking about it or any of the things that the cowardly conservatives

00:41:42.380 in our midst wants to want us to do. This is something that some conservatives who are maybe

00:41:47.780 what we would call casual pro-lifers, um, but are not really invested in the movement. This is

00:41:54.560 something they don't understand. And if you're in that category, if you're one of these pro-life

00:42:00.560 casuals who, uh, now have the opinion that, especially as we get into the election season,

00:42:05.460 you know, let's, let's not go too far. Let's not talk about it very much. You know, having a heartbeat

00:42:12.080 bill, it's way too far. We can't do that. And what is with the rest of you conservatives? Why can't

00:42:18.700 you just stop talking about it? Well, what you don't understand is that those of us in this movement,

00:42:24.620 we are here because we have seen what abortion is and we can't unsee it. We can't. And when I say

00:42:32.700 we've, we've seen it, I don't necessarily mean that we have personal experience with it, although

00:42:36.820 there are plenty of post-abortive women who are in the pro-life movement. And I don't necessarily mean

00:42:41.580 that we've seen the victim images of, of what, of what the babies look like after having been killed

00:42:46.820 by abortion. Although most of us have seen those. What I mean is that we have intellectually allowed

00:42:54.480 ourselves to face abortion and see it for what it is, which is the actual killing of human life.

00:43:02.700 So that when we say abortion kills babies, and you say abortion kills babies, we really mean it. 1.00

00:43:12.360 Okay. And, and once you do that, once you see it for what it is, you, you can't unsee it. You can't

00:43:19.120 pretend you didn't see it. So once you really say, you really truly say and see and believe that this

00:43:28.760 is the violent destruction of human children, there's no coming back from it. You can't.

00:43:37.300 Because then you have realized that this is the greatest evil being perpetrated in the world today.

00:43:43.080 And you will never be able to convince yourself that the economy or taxes or whatever are more

00:43:50.060 important. You cannot do it. It's not possible. So that, so that is, that's, that's the difference,

00:43:57.220 right? As someone, someone who's really in the pro-life movement and someone who's just casually

00:44:02.700 Republican doesn't really care. The difference between us and you is that on abortion, we basically

00:44:08.500 say the same things, but we believe it. You only pretend to.

00:44:13.560 And, and, and, and so the disconnect between our two factions can be explained that way.

00:44:21.600 Because once you really believe that this is a Holocaust of the unborn that has claimed 60 0.73

00:44:28.900 million lives, like the idea that we should move on from it is absurd. It's like, if it wasn't so

00:44:35.200 morbid, you would laugh at it. Move on. What are you talking about? How, to what? What's, what's more

00:44:41.620 important? Um, and you can't, you can't answer that. So that's what we are. Okay. Uh, finally,

00:44:53.360 this weekend, I, uh, happened to see a, a post pop up on my Twitter feed from a guy named Joseph

00:45:01.180 Massey, who's apparently a poet. And I don't know anything about Joseph Massey's work, but I do know

00:45:06.600 that he's a poet who knows how to spot bad poetry, at least, and is willing to call it out when he

00:45:11.580 does. And that already puts him ahead of like 99% of people working in the arts, generally any art

00:45:18.960 today. So Massey posted a poetry sample from a guy named Jason Allen Paisant, who just won the T.S.

00:45:26.160 Elliott award for poetry. And, um, I don't know anything about the T.S. Elliott award, but I do

00:45:31.020 know that it comes with a $25,000 prize and also the prestige of, of winning an honor named after one

00:45:36.800 of the greatest poets of the 20th century. So this is a, uh, this is an award winning poet, right?

00:45:42.880 And, and, uh, uh, 25,000 might not seem like a lot, you know, compared to like what other people

00:45:48.360 and other arts make, but for poet poetry, that's, you know, that's, uh, you might as well have won

00:45:53.060 25 million. So does Jason Allen Paisant deserve to be recognized this way? Well, well, here's the

00:46:00.000 sample of his work that, um, uh, uh, Joseph Massey posted. And this, this is a, this is a piece

00:46:08.860 called, And You. This was written by, again, an award winning poet. So this is like, this guy's at

00:46:15.000 the top of the game for poetry these days. And here's the poem. I will, I will recite it to you.

00:46:22.280 A little poodle runs to show you love. You like the feel of the animal's body on your leg. It's

00:46:29.040 something of an acceptance. So you smile and are not the least bit bothered. You even hope

00:46:34.240 it'll jump. Though the lady yells, no jumping, Sam, no jumping. And when she adds, you know, he

00:46:40.740 just loves everybody. Why should you suddenly feel tears coming? It's just that everybody,

00:46:47.060 how do you explain this? There's nobody to explain it to. Why she needed to take away from you this one

00:46:54.740 feeling of special. How could she know it was the most human moment of your day? The most human

00:47:01.440 moment in weeks. Now, the less discerning listener may be fooled into thinking that that poem is better

00:47:11.040 than it really is because of my beautiful, raw, uh, nuanced performance, which elevated the material.

00:47:17.540 Uh, but if you can look past my unmistakable talents as a slam poet, you'll see that this

00:47:24.420 is just absolute dreck. And, you know, we're, we're, we're looking entirely past the fact that

00:47:30.540 nobody should ever under any circumstance, write the phrase, you like the feel of the animal's body

00:47:35.680 on your leg. Uh, that's, that's weird enough, but even without that one particularly creepy note,

00:47:41.700 the rest is like vapid and empty. It would, it would be a compliment to call it a rudimentary

00:47:47.600 or juvenile poem. It doesn't even meet that standard. I would say because it's not poetry.

00:47:52.520 Okay. I'm not a, I'm not a poetry expert. I admit, but even I know that there are supposed to be

00:47:58.940 form to poetry. You can't just write a run on sentence and then break the lines up randomly

00:48:03.840 and throw in a few arbitrary semicolons and call it a poem. But that's what passes for poetry these days.

00:48:09.200 Like that's, it's the same strategy used by the award-winning, uh, highly touted, you know,

00:48:14.600 most praised poet of our time, Amanda Gorman, who's the, performed at Joe Biden's inauguration.

00:48:20.560 Same exact thing. That's what poetry is now. You just, you write a run on sentence,

00:48:26.640 no rhyme, no form, no rhythm, no substance, none of that matters. Just any sentence at all.

00:48:34.440 And, and, but you break it up rant, like not even in a way that gives it rhythm, but just,

00:48:38.680 just make sure you break up the lines before a sentence ends. And then, and then like,

00:48:44.420 so you have a whole sentence and then the last two words of the sentence are on the line underneath it

00:48:48.060 before you start the next sentence. And then, you know, and you repeat that. And if you do that,

00:48:52.240 that's, that's poetry. That is, it's, that's brilliant. You'll win awards. It's brilliant.

00:48:57.140 People will watch it. And, and it's, it's similar in some ways to what we just said about, about the,

00:49:05.440 uh, the, the trans agenda where like everyone knows no one would see poetry like that and actually

00:49:13.260 think that it's good. You know, that thing with about the poodle, no one is going to hear that and

00:49:18.340 say, well, that, that's amazing. That's the best part. I've never, that's, I mean, that's incredible.

00:49:21.480 That is art. No one thinks that, but the difference is that there are, that, that some

00:49:28.460 people have been convinced, and we find this in all the arts, you know, films, everything, um, music,

00:49:34.440 people have been convinced that they're supposed to pretend that they like it because it will make

00:49:40.920 them seem sophisticated. And so, uh, it all, it all rests on that as the celebration of mediocrity

00:49:50.220 and every facet of life, uh, continues like the bland, the ugly, the insipid, the uninspired,

00:49:56.700 all elevated everywhere you look. But the good news is that it means that any one of us now could be

00:50:02.040 a genius artist if we want to be. Let's get to was Walsh wrong.

00:50:11.180 First comment says, uh, both Matt Walsh and Moms for Liberty missed the most important point. The books

00:50:15.760 aren't being banned. They're just not going to be at school libraries. If parents want those books for

00:50:21.160 their children, they can easily buy them from Amazon and give it to them. Um, I don't think I

00:50:25.740 missed that point. I think I've made that exact point many, many times, but you are exactly right,

00:50:30.280 of course, that, uh, for all the talk of book bans, you know, if you didn't know any better and you

00:50:35.520 heard that there were book bans of you, if you, um, yeah, just climbed out of a cave and you didn't

00:50:40.340 know anything about modern American culture. And the first thing you did was read an article in NBC

00:50:44.040 News about, about the proliferation of book bans, then you would imagine that, that there have been

00:50:50.600 laws passed, uh, saying that all of these books are not allowed to be in publication. They're not

00:50:56.000 allowed to be sold or rented out or, or, or anywhere, because that that's what a book ban means. It means

00:51:00.880 that the thing is banned. It means it's prohibited. Okay. Like if any other area of life, if you hear that

00:51:13.260 thing is banned, that's what it means. But if the banned thing is being given away for free as it is

00:51:22.060 at a library, then it, it's not banned. It's the opposite of banned. Giving something away for free

00:51:28.060 is the opposite of banning it. It's like the exact opposite. So, um, none of these books have been

00:51:34.720 banned. There are no book bans, period. They don't exist. It's not a thing. It's not true. It's totally

00:51:39.320 false. It's a lie. All of these books that are allegedly banned are available anywhere. You can

00:51:44.240 get them on Amazon, you can get them at Barnes and Noble, you can get them at the library. They're

00:51:47.120 everywhere. The only question is which books are in schools. And as I have explained, and I know I

00:51:54.900 said again yesterday, there's only a small selection of books that will be in schools. Most of the books

00:52:02.140 that have ever been written will not be in any particular school. So schools are, are making

00:52:07.160 decisions about what of all the books to put in. Does that mean that they're banning every other

00:52:12.040 book that's not in their library? Of course not. It's just that a school is a particular kind of

00:52:18.560 place and it's, it specifically has kids. And so it's an educational place for kids. And so you're

00:52:24.140 looking for books that are educational for kids. And any book that is not educational for kids

00:52:30.060 is not going to be in your school library, or at least it should not be. It doesn't mean that it's

00:52:33.640 banned. And I think anyone with two brain cells understands that. In DeSantis, we had the best

00:52:41.360 candidate since Teddy Roosevelt on a silver platter, but the demoralized GOP prefers bread and circuses

00:52:45.980 over competent leadership. I will never unite with the MAGA cult and their own geriatric, orange geriatric.

00:52:52.520 My principles and love for God won't allow it. Listen, I agree that in DeSantis, we had,

00:53:00.300 whether he would be the best candidate since Teddy Roosevelt, you know, that, that I'm not sure if I

00:53:07.440 would go that far. Um, but, and especially as a candidate, like in many ways, just as a candidate,

00:53:16.020 you know, he's sort of the opposite of Teddy Roosevelt in certain ways, but, um, but I agree

00:53:21.880 that he would have been, you know, this, this is the, the, the great frustration for a lot of DeSantis

00:53:27.660 supporters. And I appreciate, you know, I've seen some Trump supporters who are not supporting

00:53:33.320 DeSantis in the primaries who've been, uh, who've been gracious, you know, and then I've seen others

00:53:39.420 who have certainly not been gracious and want to rub it in the faces of the DeSantis supporters. But,

00:53:45.340 you know, and if that's the approach you want to take, then you want to be childish and stupid. 0.99

00:53:49.100 Then, you know, you're perfectly, uh, you know, it's, you're, you're allowed to be that way if 0.99

00:53:54.580 you want to be. Um, it's certainly not constructive at all, but maybe if you want to actually understand

00:54:03.340 why there are DeSantis supporters that feel this way, it's because like they see in Ron DeSantis,

00:54:09.060 same thing I saw, which is that he clearly would be a great president. There's just no,

00:54:13.900 even the people who decided during the campaign that they hate Ron DeSantis, even they, most of

00:54:20.200 them won't deny that. Like obviously would be a great president. He's been a great governor.

00:54:24.800 No one denies that. Even his most fervent haters on the right will still admit that he's been

00:54:31.460 maybe the best governor we've seen in a generation, at least. And so, uh, if you're good in the executive

00:54:39.180 branch in Florida, like all points now it's to be a great president is a, is a tougher task. It's a

00:54:44.380 bigger ask, but all available evidence points to him being a really good president. Um, and so that

00:54:53.940 is the, the, the frustration that people have. And, um, I think it's obviously understandable now

00:55:01.660 with that said on the other end of it, you know, you're saying I'll never unite and, and this and that.

00:55:09.180 Um, okay, well then, then you are going to help Joe Biden get four more years. Like that, that's,

00:55:17.420 that's it. That's what you're going to do. Uh, and if he gets four more years, I'm not gonna say

00:55:22.140 it's going to be entirely because of, of you and your one vote that you have withheld. Um,

00:55:27.260 but that is, you, you, you, you are now, uh,

00:55:33.360 part of a movement that is helping Biden get elected. Like it, because that's the reality,

00:55:38.660 you know, and I, and I believe at the end of the day in facing reality for what it is. I'm a big

00:55:45.640 believer in that. Uh, we have to, we have to operate within reality and we can be disappointed

00:55:51.880 that the reality is not what we want it to be, but then, but after you have been disappointed

00:55:58.080 and you have, uh, vented your frustrations, okay, but now it's time to face reality for what it is.

00:56:04.440 And the reality is Ron DeSantis is not gonna be president 2024. He's out of the race. It's not

00:56:09.480 going to happen. That's not an option. It's not in the realm of possibility. It's just not

00:56:12.860 the only possibility is that it's going to be Trump or Biden. That's it. That is the reality.

00:56:20.360 And what I hear from this comment is that, uh, you want to live in a fantasy world

00:56:26.940 and, you know, take your ball and go home. And I can never support that

00:56:31.960 because you must realize that like of the two options, obviously Trump is superior to Biden.

00:56:42.860 the four years before Biden clearly much better than the years we've had under Biden.

00:56:52.020 Um, and it's a, so it's a, it's a, it's a simple choice or it should be.

00:56:57.900 Uh, and you say your principles, but I don't see this as principles. I see this as a, as a temper

00:57:02.820 tantrum, you know, and maybe in this exact moment, he just dropped out a couple of days ago.

00:57:07.900 I can be sympathetic with that. You know, I can sympathize with, with feeling emotional about it,

00:57:14.800 but, uh, I hope you come to your senses quickly and start operating actually on principles and not,

00:57:23.860 uh, resentment and emotion, which is what's coming through in your comment.

00:57:28.200 If you're a man listening right now, and the biggest concern on your mind is what to buy

00:57:32.100 for your wife on Valentine's day, your priorities are out of order. In fact, as I've said before, 0.98

00:57:37.440 men don't buy Valentine's day gifts in January. I've made this very clear. If you want the truth,

00:57:42.300 uh, men don't buy Valentine's day gifts more than 72 hours before Valentine's day. I've been very clear

00:57:47.520 about this. However, there's only one reason to buy one now. And that is if you're giving your money

00:57:53.360 to us because Jeremy's is offering a 20% discount on all Valentine's day bundles. So right now Jeremy's

00:57:59.800 has a 20% discount on all Valentine's day bundles. So you can get her chocolates, razors, even the

00:58:04.540 leftist tears tumblers altogether for 20% off. I would wait until January is up because you know

00:58:10.160 what happens if you buy it in January. I've already explained this, but still I'm being forced to read

00:58:15.700 this. I don't know what's happening in your life to make Valentine's day so urgent, but lucky for you,

00:58:19.420 20% off is happening. Now go to jeremysrazors.com and order your Valentine's day bundle. If you're

00:58:26.040 ready to face the consequences. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. A few weeks ago, as you may

00:58:36.700 remember, we were talking about DEI destroying the airline industry and how these forced diversity 0.99

00:58:41.200 policies have left us with incompetent pilots, flying planes that had been shoddily assembled.

00:58:45.260 And at the time I said that things are getting so bad so quickly that soon enough, we're going to

00:58:50.540 find ourselves at a point where the passengers will have to inspect the planes themselves before

00:58:54.840 takeoff. Kind of like how you quickly rifle through your bag of fast food as you pull out of the

00:58:58.960 McDonald's drive-thru just to make sure they got the order right. Inevitably, of course, they will

00:59:03.200 have gotten the order wrong in about five different ways, and you'll have to decide if it's worth getting

00:59:06.560 back in line to complain about, and then you'll decide that it's probably not. So you'll just take

00:59:09.640 whatever wrong order they gave you. These are the kinds of decisions you'll one day have to make

00:59:14.400 as an air traveler, I predicted. And by one day, I meant apparently in about 12 days, because the

00:59:21.480 day has finally arrived. Like two weeks after I said it, here we are. From the New York Post,

00:59:27.460 quote, a New York-bound Virgin Atlantic flight was canceled just moments before takeoff last week

00:59:31.880 when an alarmed passenger said he spotted several screws missing from the plane's wing. British

00:59:37.940 traveler Phil Hardy, 41, was on board flight VS-127 at Manchester Airport in the UK on January 15th

00:59:45.320 when he noticed the four missing fasteners during a safety briefing for passengers and decided to alert

00:59:49.840 the cabin crew. Quote, I'm a good flyer, but my partner was not loving the information I was telling

00:59:54.680 her and started to panic, and I was trying to put her mind at rest as much as I could. Hardy told the

00:59:59.940 Kennedy News Agency of the moment he spotted the missing fixings, quote, I thought it was best to

01:00:04.800 mention it to a flight attendant to be on the safe side. Engineers were promptly called out to carry

01:00:09.220 out maintenance checks on the Airbus A330 aircraft before its scheduled takeoff to John F. Kennedy

01:00:15.020 International in New York City, according to a Virgin Atlantic rep. Okay, now the concerned traveler,

01:00:21.300 Hardy, took video of the engineers working on the wing of the plane, which, by the way, is just

01:00:27.780 something you never want to see at all. Like, you don't want to see while you're sitting in the plane

01:00:32.540 anyone fixing the wing, but you especially don't want to see it when it looks like this. Watch.

01:00:50.460 Now he's just spreading them out.

01:00:55.440 First of all, as a casual viewer who is not at all an expert in aircraft engineering or any other kind

01:01:00.740 of engineering, it did appear to me that he removed the screw from one hole and then screwed it into a

01:01:06.680 different hole. And maybe I'm misinterpreting what we just watched there. Hopefully I am.

01:01:12.040 I must also say that it's rather disturbing to see the guy using a regular Phillips screwdriver.

01:01:16.800 I guess I always assume that they use very powerful, like, industrial-grade electric

01:01:20.720 screwdrivers that you can't even find at Lowe's, you know, to fasten all the screws and bolts on the

01:01:26.720 plane. But watching the guy apparently spreading the screws around because he doesn't have enough

01:01:32.240 and using a regular manual screwdriver that he found in his junk drawer,

01:01:38.480 like, it looks like, he looks like me clumsily trying to assemble a side table from Ikea.

01:01:45.500 And I'm terrible at assembling anything that is not made out of Lego blocks. So it's deeply

01:01:49.980 concerning that I can relate so much to a video of a guy working on the wing of a passenger aircraft.

01:01:54.660 And it gets worse. Here's more from the New York Post, quote,

01:01:58.420 Hardy said airline staff repeatedly reassured him there was no safety issue with the wing,

01:02:02.180 but his fear was heightened given the recent ordeal in which an Alaska Airlines plane

01:02:05.580 lost its door plug and a chunk of its fuselage flew off mid-flight.

01:02:10.200 Both Virgin and Airbus stressed there was no impact to the safety of last week's aircraft,

01:02:13.860 despite the missing fixings. The Virgin representative said the flight ended up being

01:02:18.520 axed to provide time for precautionary additional engineer maintenance checks,

01:02:22.560 which allowed our team the maximum time to complete their inspections. The safety of our

01:02:26.800 customers and crew is always our top priority and it was not compromised at any point. We always work

01:02:31.500 well above industry safety standards and the aircraft is now back in service. This is according to Neil

01:02:36.940 Berth, the Airbus local chief wing engineer for A330 added that the affected panel was a secondary

01:02:44.520 structure used to improve the aerodynamics of the plane.

01:02:51.020 Okay, got it. They canceled the flight and brought a team out to fix it, but there was no problem and

01:02:57.620 nobody's safety was in jeopardy. Makes total sense. Besides, I mean, we didn't even need that panel,

01:03:02.460 you know, the one that was only partially screwed on. We didn't even need it. That panel was lame anyway.

01:03:06.460 That panel? Who needs it? Matter of fact, we don't want that panel. We want it to fly off.

01:03:10.860 It was supposed to become dislodged mid-flight. You see, that was supposed to happen. It was going to be

01:03:15.340 an exciting surprise for the passengers. And now you've ruined it, you party pooper. You dork all worried

01:03:20.960 about the screws. This appears to be the excuse they're going with. Now, prefacing this again with 0.99

01:03:28.800 an admission that I am not an airline safety expert, but then again, apparently nobody is anymore.

01:03:32.900 I have to ask, even if the panel was not structurally necessary to keep the plane in the sky,

01:03:38.400 wouldn't it still potentially jeopardize passengers on the plane, not to mention people on the ground,

01:03:44.160 to have a large metal chunk fly off the aircraft when it's 35,000 feet in the sky and traveling 400

01:03:49.660 miles an hour? Like, I don't know. Perhaps I'm just naive. And even something like helping the plane be

01:03:59.460 aerodynamic, isn't that like important? Isn't it? Oh no, that's fine. It's just to make the plane

01:04:06.480 aerodynamic. What happens if the plane is not aerodynamic? Oh, well, you know, it crashes. Oh.

01:04:14.880 So this is where we are. We have officially moved into the phase where you need to check yourself to

01:04:19.100 make sure all the pieces of the plane are screwed on properly. You know, maybe you should actually

01:04:24.440 bring your own screwdriver too, in case the airline can't find theirs. Because I assume they all have

01:04:29.020 one. They only have one screwdriver. Maybe bring a couple rolls of duct tape as well, just in case.

01:04:34.900 Now, look, it's easy to blame the situation on DEI, and we should. There's simply no question

01:04:41.620 we've seen a rapid decline in standards and quality as DEI has taken over every industry.

01:04:46.360 And if you're prioritizing anything but skill and merit in your hiring process, if you're doing

01:04:50.120 anything but trying to get the most competent people, regardless of demographic, then you will

01:04:54.740 end up lowering the standards. It doesn't matter what the DEI apologists say. It doesn't matter

01:04:58.360 what these industries claim. You know, of course, none of them are going to come out and actually

01:05:03.380 admit that they're lowering the bar in order to get more people who are not white males involved.

01:05:07.620 But that's what has to happen to achieve the goal. And it is what is happening. There's no way around

01:05:13.320 it. But it's also true that this problem is bigger than DEI. And you can trace its roots to long before

01:05:20.340 DEI existed as a concept. The diversity police are exacerbating the problem. They're spreading the 1.00

01:05:26.420 disease around and making it worse. But the fundamental sickness runs deeper than DEI.

01:05:34.460 Now, as I've been talking about for a long time, a large number of the workers in basically every field

01:05:40.140 that exists do not take pride in their work anymore. I mean, that's what it comes out. Like,

01:05:46.880 the basic effort to do things correctly, just for the sake of doing them correctly,

01:05:56.040 that is becoming a rare mentality. You know, we complain about this in the customer service

01:06:01.600 industry all the time. As a customer, no matter what store or business you're dealing with,

01:06:05.380 it's very hard to find someone who cares about providing you with good service or solving whatever

01:06:11.180 problem you're having. And most of the frustration you experience as a customer is due to the fact

01:06:15.780 that you're dealing with people who just, they just don't care about your problem. It doesn't

01:06:20.640 matter to them. And maybe they'll help you solve it. Maybe they won't, but they don't care. And that's

01:06:27.100 it. You rarely get the sense that any of the customer service representatives you're interacting

01:06:31.060 with are emotionally or mentally invested in the interaction you're having with them or in ensuring

01:06:36.280 a favorable experience for you. And this is why customers everywhere are frustrated all the time,

01:06:41.080 which makes them rude, which makes customer service representatives ruder in turn.

01:06:44.820 And the cycle goes on. But, you know, this is not a dynamic found only in the customer service

01:06:50.340 realm. I would argue that you can find it everywhere, in every field, in the field that I'm in,

01:06:56.560 definitely, in every industry. Like, just ask yourself how often in a given week or month

01:07:02.580 you encounter someone and you think to yourself, wow, this person really takes pride in their craft.

01:07:09.480 This person really cares about their craft. Now, you do run into people like that,

01:07:15.160 but they always stand out like shining diamonds in the rough because most people don't take pride

01:07:21.140 in their craft or really don't have a craft at all. This is the thing underlying the problem that DEI

01:07:27.560 has made significantly worse at every turn. And why does this underlying problem exist? Where is it

01:07:32.160 coming from? Well, that's a whole other conversation entirely. For now, the point is simply that people

01:07:38.500 are demoralized and checked out, which is really annoying when you're trying to order fast food or

01:07:46.020 you're in the checkout line at Walmart. But it's terrifying when you're sitting on an airplane

01:07:50.840 and getting ready for takeoff, which is why the, well, I guess the airline industry is once again

01:07:59.160 today canceled. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great

01:08:03.980 day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 23, 2024

Ep. 1299 - The Supreme Court Declares That Texas Has No Right To Defend Its Own Borders

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