Ep. 1325 - The City Of Pittsburgh Takes 'The Purge' As An Instruction Manual
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The City of Pittsburgh has decided that the Black Friday Purge was an instruction manual. They re cutting back on policing to such a drastic extent that they re essentially inviting criminals to do whatever they want. Also, there s controversy over whether a teenage girl who beat a classmate should be charged as an adult. Plus, every single left wing hack at the site Deadspin has just been fired. And a trans activist writes a lengthy cover story arguing that children of any age should be eligible for sex change operations. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the city of Pittsburgh has decided that the purge was an
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instruction manual. They're cutting back on policing to such a drastic extent that they're
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essentially inviting criminals to do whatever they want. We'll talk about all that today. Also,
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there's controversy over whether a teenage girl who beat a classmate nearly to death on camera
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should be charged as an adult. I'll explain why she absolutely should. Plus, every single left
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wing hack at the site Deadspin has just been fired. A glorious day for humanity. And a trans
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activist writes a lengthy cover story for a prominent media publication arguing that children
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of any age should be eligible for sex change operations. We'll talk about all that and more
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about the unfolding crisis in Haiti. The prime minister is stranded in Puerto Rico. The streets
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are now ruled by a warlord named Barbecue. Police officers are nowhere to be found, even at the
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country's national prison complex, where the doors are currently wide open. And all this is relevant
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mainly because for years, leftists have pretended Haiti is salvageable. They didn't do that to simply
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contradict Donald Trump, although that's a big part of it. Their primary motivation is to transform
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this country into Haiti. Unchecked, one-way migration is one way to do that. Another way
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is to adopt Haiti's approach to policing, which is to say, to stop policing entirely. Beginning last
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year, criminals in Haiti understood that they could commit crimes with impunity. No one would
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even attempt to arrest them. As the Human Rights Watch put it in a recent report, quote,
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there have been no prosecutions or convictions of those responsible for killings, kidnappings,
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and sexual violence or their supporters since the start of 2023. That's what a total standdown
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looks like. It was telegraphed, and as expected, anarchy followed. So you have to wonder, especially
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in the aftermath of BLM and defund the police, how long until something like that happens here?
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How long until criminals in America understand that they can commit serious crimes and no police
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officers will even bother to show up? Well, if you follow the news out of Pittsburgh this week,
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you know that this moment has arrived. It is already here. The city has announced that police
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officers will simply stop responding to the vast majority of crimes, including burglary and
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harassment, as long as there's no, quote, in-progress emergency. Additionally, between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m.,
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as few as 20 police officers will be on duty to cover the entire city of 300,000 people.
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This is as close to a real-life implementation of the purge as we have yet seen. Watch.
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Rick, what was the big takeaway today? Yes, Susan, residents of the city will see a major change in
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the way police respond. They will no longer respond to calls that aren't considered in-progress
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emergency. That means calls like criminal mischief, theft, harassment, and most burglary alarms will all
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be handled by an enhanced telephone reporting unit. That means residents will file a police report over
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the phone. Officers will not respond unless it's an emergency. Also, between the hours of 3 a.m. and
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7 a.m., there will be no officers at any of the six stations throughout the city. Call boxes that link
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directly to 911 have been installed for people to use in case of an emergency. And during the overnight
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shift, there will be as few as 20 officers to cover the entire city. The chief said today the data
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supports that. Yes, it's enough to cover the entire city in those hours when we have 8 percent of the
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time people are calling. I'm confident in the decisions that we make that it impacts this bureau
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and the city in a much better way than we have in the past. Now, the chief also acknowledging today
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that some of these changes are due to staffing shortages. He's down to 740 officers, well below
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the 850 they would like to have. Well, don't worry. The enhanced telephone response unit is on the
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case. And what this means is that if somebody breaks into your house in Pittsburgh and you
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call 911, they're not going to come. Even if your alarm is going off and your alarm company is notifying
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the authorities, they don't care. The police chief in Pittsburgh has clarified that for burglaries under
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this new policy, they need some sort of, quote, second verification in order to ensure that the burglar
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is on the premises at the moment. And they need to get that before police will even consider driving
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out to your house. In other words, it's like logging into your bank account. They need two-factor
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authentication so that they can really be sure. In the bank account case, they want to make sure that
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it's you. Well, with a burglary, they want two-factor authentication to make sure there's really a
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burglary going on at the moment when you call. So your alarm counts as one factor. And additional
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factors, according to the police chief, could include video footage of the burglar in your house.
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Or it could be a photo of broken glass with the burglar standing around next to it. Perhaps you
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can get the burglar to pose for a picture holding that day's newspaper. Maybe you could take a quick
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selfie video with the burglar where he looks at the camera and says, hey, folks, just here burglarizing
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the home real quick. Sorry for the inconvenience. But outside of situations like that, the Pittsburgh
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police will just tell you to leave a report with their answering machine. Or I'm sorry,
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their enhanced telephone response unit. Of course, if the burglar is smart and breaks into your home
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between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., then it probably doesn't matter even if you have the
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selfie video because there will only be 20 cops in the entire city who can get to you. So the people
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ransacking your home, they can take their time. This has all been announced publicly by the city of
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Pittsburgh. Now, you have to wonder why anybody in the city would even bother paying their taxes
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at this point, especially since the government in Pittsburgh created this problem in the first
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place. After the George Floyd riots of 2020, the mayor implemented a two-year freeze on all police
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hiring. Now, that's not an overstatement. The mayor at the time, Bill Peduto, just shut down the
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police academies. As CBS News reported in 2022, quote, the sound of bagpipes graduating a new police
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class hasn't been heard in years. And to justify this decision, Peduto appeared on NBC News where,
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for some reason, he answered questions from a bunch of college students. And listen to what he said.
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The vice president of the Pittsburgh Fraternal Order of Police voiced concerns in a letter
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over politicians' lack of support for the police. How do you plan to get the police unit specifically
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on board for further reforms? I was on the receiving end of one of those letters. And basically,
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you know, where the emotional level is right now, we're all, and I don't mean that as elected
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officials, just all of us as a nation, are in a fight or flight mode. And when you're in that type of
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road, long-term rational thought is not always at the forefront. To be a part of that discussion
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requires being a partner in recognizing that that change is inevitable, that we are at a point now
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in this country where it is going to occur. And would you like to be a part of that discussion of
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how it occurs? Or would you rather protest it and try and stop? The train's already left the station.
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There is no going back at this point. And it's only a question of what that reform will end up
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looking like for cities all across this country.
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So it's an amazing clip to watch in retrospect. The mayor tells this random college student that
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emotions are very high post-George Floyd. He recognizes that everybody is not exactly thinking
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rationally, but instead of suggesting that maybe it's a bad idea to shut down police academies,
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he basically issues a threat. He says that police reform, by which he means gutting the police
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department, these are going to happen one way or another. And the only thing the police union can do
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is get on board to minimize the damage on the road to creating this utopia in Pittsburgh. And four
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years later, we see exactly what that utopia looks like. If you listen to officials in Pittsburgh,
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they'll offer another excuse for the breakdown of law and order in their city. They'll say that
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they simply can't afford police officers. And that's really what is behind all this. They'll
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tell you that tax revenues are down because post-COVID, a lot of downtown office spaces
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are vacant and the value of the buildings have plummeted. And that's true to an extent. The
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city has been taking in less revenue because of block down policies, which were implemented by the
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city of Pittsburgh, pretty much every other major city as well. But as an explanation for why there
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are no police in Pittsburgh, it doesn't make any sense. Now, you could take one look at Pittsburgh's
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budget and come to the conclusion that there's a lot of waste that could be trimmed in order to put
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more officers on the street. For example, let's take a look at Pittsburgh's fiscal year 2022 operating
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budget. And I'm no financial expert, but I can take a look at this. It doesn't take me long
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to pinpoint areas that could be cut so you could have more cops. So there's more than $700,000
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budgeted for salaries for something called the Office of Equity. In all, the office's budget
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exceeds a million dollars a year. Among other things, that taxpayer money is used to pay an
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executive director for the Gender Equity Commission, who makes $76,000 a year. It includes a chief equity
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officer making $120,000 a year. It also includes unspecified money for immigration engagement. So when
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people arrive in Pittsburgh from, say, Haiti, they know where to file for welfare benefits. And by the
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way, it's not just the Office of Equity at Pittsburgh that employs equity officers.
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The Office of the City Clerk also has an equity, diversity, and inclusion policy analyst who
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makes something like $662,000 a year. There's also millions of dollars for the Office of City
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Planning, including hundreds of thousands of dollars devoted to saving the climates.
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And that includes tens of thousands of dollars for so-called climate resilience analysts,
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Hello, my name is Sarah Yeager. I'm the resilience analyst with the City of Pittsburgh in the Office
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of Sustainability and Resilience within the Department of City Planning. The City of Pittsburgh
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recently compiled a greenhouse gas inventory that takes a look at all emissions throughout the 55
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square miles of the city of Pittsburgh. Through that profile, we found that about 82 percent of our
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emissions come from buildings and the use of energy within buildings. 17 to 18 percent is through
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transportation emissions, and then 1 to 2 percent comes from our waste. The data collected through
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this emissions profile was compiled to give us a snapshot look at what is happening within the city,
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but then it's also used to develop goals and actions as we look towards mitigating climate change.
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Now, that video is from a few years ago, and not to spoil anything at all, but
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the City of Pittsburgh's Climate Action Plan has not done anything to address alleged climate change in
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any way. In fact, the climate is still changing. Climates change all the time, and there's not a single
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thing that Pittsburgh could do about it. And we know that because even if you removed the entire City of
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Pittsburgh from the planet, which, as a Baltimore Ravens fan, I wouldn't object to, nothing about
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the climate would change. Even using the most unhinged eco-nutcase model, you can find there
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is no conceivable way that the City of Pittsburgh can address climate change. The City of Pittsburgh
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cannot do anything to change the weather. But they hired useless employees like this person anyway
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to categorize all of Pittsburgh's various greenhouse gas emissions. Apparently, that was more important
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than hiring police officers in a city that's down to fewer than two dozen cops in the middle of the
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night. And this is just scratching the surface. Pittsburgh also has an LGBTQIA plus commission,
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which was budgeted tens of thousands of dollars a year. That commission has apparently done nothing
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in three years. According to the outlet Public Source, quote, Pittsburgh's LGBTQIA plus commission,
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created in 2020 by former Mayor Bill Peduto, started with the promise of action on behalf of the
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queer community of Pittsburgh. Three years later, external displays of action have been on the sparse
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side, even at the admission of some of its members. While some fruitful conversations have been held
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to advocate for the LGBTQ plus community within the city, and the commission has made strides in
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developing its internal structure, the commission's 20 meetings thus far have lacked public engagement,
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and it hasn't conducted a single study." So this is a commission that literally does nothing. It just sits
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there and does nothing and gets paid. This is a commission that was established around the time
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that the police academies were closed. And it's all completely dysfunctional. They've wasted all that
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time and money. It goes without saying that the city could shut all of these equity initiatives down
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without causing any harm to any resident of the city of Pittsburgh. And if they had done that,
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they could have saved millions of dollars over the past three years. And when you're down to 20 police
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officers, millions of dollars is a lot of money. It could double the size of your police force,
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if not triple it. But instead of cutting all this garbage, the leaders of Pittsburgh chose to cut
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policing and to fund equity instead. Now, one of the many ironies here is that equity entails an
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obsessive concern with safety. Leftists are always telling us that certain groups are unsafe,
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telling us about how we need to make them feel safer at every opportunity. But they talk about
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safety all the time, but they always mean safety in some kind of esoteric, ambiguous sense.
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Because actual, practical, physical safety isn't valued at all by these people. At least not the
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safety of the average family affected by this kind of insanity. This has gone on for years and major
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cities have become much more dangerous as a result. It's so bad that Taco Bell just had to close all of
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their indoor dining facilities in Oakland, which is which is a pretty stark level of civilizational
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decline when you can't even keep a Taco Bell open. But very soon, Pittsburgh will reach an even deeper
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level of decay. Residents aren't going to be worried about climate change or LGBTQ justice. Instead,
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they'll be worried about their safety in the literal sense. That's because three years after the
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Pittsburgh's mayor promised reforms, change has finally arrived. And especially between the hours
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of 3am and 7am, everybody living in Pittsburgh will know exactly what that change looks like.
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haven't talked about it yet, mainly because it's the kind of thing that makes me so angry that I
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can't really talk about it without saying things that will get me in trouble. So I'll try to control
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myself here. But this is a New York Post report. A Missouri teenager was left in critical condition
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after her head repeatedly was bashed into the concrete during a massive off-campus high school
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brawl that was caught on camera. The fight involving the teenage girl whose identity has
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not been released broke out around 2.30 p.m. Friday at an intersection just north of Hazelwood
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High School. Devastating footage of the melee posted online shows two teenage girls starting
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to hit each other on a residential road when one pushes the other to the ground and punches her.
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The victim can be seen trying to push her attacker away as the girl continues to pummel her while
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repeatedly calling her a b****, quote unquote. The attacker then straddles her victim and repeatedly
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smashes her head into the concrete road as onlookers can be heard yelling, damn. Soon,
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the victim can be seen lying motionless on the ground while others continue to fight around her.
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When the camera eventually turns back around, the victim, seen wearing a white hoodie and blue jeans,
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appears to twitch. By the time police officers arrived, officers found the girl suffering from a
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severe head injury. The victim was taken to a local hospital where she is listed in critical condition.
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Another identified 15-year-old girl was later taken into custody on assault charges.
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I'm not going to play the video. You can easily find it if you want to.
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I'll just say a few things about this. First of all,
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again, what we're seeing in these videos, and this one, one girl on top of the other one,
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pounding her head into the pavement, this is not what any of us, or at least what most of us,
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grew up with. Okay? These are not schoolyard fights. And the media reports that they're fights,
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and even in the report that I just read, we hear brawl, fight, melee. But that's not right,
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because this is not a fight. Okay? Kids have always fought in school. And that's the problem
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with calling these things a fight, is that when you hear that, you think, oh, okay, yeah, kids have
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been fighting for as long as human beings have existed. But that's not this. A fight is one thing.
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Okay? You're always going to have fights. It's not good, but you're always going to have fights.
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But this is different. Getting on top of somebody when they're already lying on the ground,
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and they've been beaten, right? And bashing their head repeatedly into the pavement,
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that's not a fight. That's attempted murder, is what that is. That's you trying to kill someone.
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If somebody's on the ground, and we see these videos so often, someone's on the ground,
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and you've got the group of thugs all around them, kicking their head, pounding their head
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into the pavement, that is an attempt to kill them. You're trying to kill them. You want to inflict
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maximum harm, up to and including death. And as I've explained in the past when we've talked about
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this, not to idolize the past, but that's not how it worked, right? When we were kids growing up,
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and there were fights in school. Now, sure, sometimes it would get kind of brutal. Many of
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us have examples we can think of particularly gruesome episodes. But for the most part,
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the goal was not really to inflict maximum harm on the other person. The goal was performance,
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really. It was like trying to show off to everybody else that you're tough and you beat this person.
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And that's all you're trying to do. But there's not any great desire to make this person feel as
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much pain as you can possibly make them feel. Certainly not any desire to kill them. But that's
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what we're seeing now. And there really is no difference in the mentality of the girl who
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committed this assault and the mentality of a school shooter, right? It's the same kind of mentality.
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It's a total lack of humanity. It's a desire to inflict as much harm as possible just for the
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sake of it. And yet school shooters get a lot of press, a lot of attention. Although they are still
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thankfully rare, not as rare as they should be, but it's still a thankfully rare phenomenon to have
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a school shooting. But this kind of thing that we see in this video, this is common. I mean,
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this is constant. This is every day now. These totally soulless kids who enjoy hurting other
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people and want to hurt them as much as they possibly can. And yes, they may not be using a
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gun. I mean, sometimes they are, but that may not be the weapon of choice. But it's the same kind of
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thing. It's the same kind of phenomenon. And it's constant. And we don't recognize this as the same kind
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of problem, even though it's more pervasive and presents a greater threat because of its greater
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pervasiveness. And I think we don't recognize that for two reasons. One is that it doesn't help the
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gun control agenda because oftentimes there aren't guns being used. And the other is that in these kinds
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of videos, the often unspoken thing that we're not supposed to talk about, especially in the media,
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although it's true, is that in these kinds of videos, the assailants are almost always,
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though not always black. And not always, but almost always. If there's a video of somebody lying on the
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ground and a kid is stomping on that person's head or pounding their head into the pavement,
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uh, before you even watch the video, you can guess it, the assailant is probably a black kid and
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you'll be right almost always. And we all know that. I mean, it's just a fact. It's a reality.
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We all know it. You cannot deny it. You can deny it, but you can't deny it with any credibility.
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And it does matter because it's the main reason why we aren't having the conversation about this
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issue that we should be having. Because it's not useful. Again, to the gun control agents,
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it's not useful to the left. Uh, and then, and then when you factor in the racial element,
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it's not only not useful, but it brings up all kinds of uncomfortable things for them. They don't
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want to talk about. So then we can't discuss, um, why is this happening? Why is this so common?
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What can we do about it? Why are these kids treating each other that way?
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Why are there other kids? Like, what about everybody else sitting around filming it?
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You know, you're watching a girl potentially die right in front of you and you're just filming it.
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You want to have a national conversation about something? It should be about that.
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Uh, the second point about all this is that, you know, speaking of what can be done about it,
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the girl, the attacker needs to face severe consequences. And there's a debate now about,
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well, should she be charged as an adult? Um, of course she should be. And this should be kind of
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simple, right? If you kill someone or you try to kill someone, or you almost kill someone,
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you automatically graduate to adult in the eyes of the court. I mean, that's the way it ought to be.
00:23:43.320
It's not the way it often works. And it probably won't work that way in this case, but it should.
00:23:48.320
Uh, if you commit an adult crime, you get an adult punishment. So sure. I mean, we should take into
00:23:54.800
account that somebody as a kid is a juvenile, if they're arrested for like vandalism or something.
00:24:00.280
And that's not to say that vandalism is not a, uh, you know, it cannot be a serious crime in its own
00:24:05.300
right. But, um, you know, if you have a kid arrested for vandalism, graffiti, you know,
00:24:10.880
knocking over somebody's mailbox or whatever, uh, then, then, yeah, I think it makes sense to take
00:24:15.560
into account that they're a kid. Like if I go at the age of 37 and I throw eggs at somebody's house
00:24:21.500
on Halloween, the penalty for me should be pretty serious because I'm 37 years old. Now, if I did
00:24:26.020
it at the age of 17, which I may or may not have done at 17, uh, the penalty should be far less
00:24:31.220
serious because that's the kind of thing that kids will do because they're young and stupid and
00:24:35.060
they're not thinking about the consequences. And, um, it's not especially malicious, at least it's
00:24:41.000
not intended to be. Uh, so there's no reason to turn it into a serious life altering thing after the
00:24:46.240
fact, but serious violent crimes are a different matter and those need to be dealt with in a
00:24:51.820
different way. And the fact is this, the girl who was slamming the other girl's head into the
00:24:56.600
pavement, um, that girl, let's just be honest about it. She, she's not going to become a contributing
00:25:04.440
member of society. Like, it's probably just, you know, check back at, let's say she doesn't go to
00:25:10.420
jail. Check back in 20 years. What's she up to? Is she a brain surgeon now? Is she, uh, what is she
00:25:17.240
doing? You know, is she a married mother of four and a happy marriage with the same guy and, you know,
00:25:23.400
uh, stay at home mom, almost certainly not. And we all know that, um, she has put herself on a path
00:25:33.020
and that path leads to more crime and more violence. And it just does. And again, everybody
00:25:41.680
knows it. So should we put her back out on the street so that she can walk that path freely and
00:25:47.120
claim however many victims along the way until she does something so heinous that even our, uh,
00:25:54.440
modern court system with its kid gloves has no choice, but to put her away for good. Like,
00:25:59.120
is that what we should do? Or should we head it off at the pass and just throw her in prison for a long
00:26:04.240
time and say, eh, you're 15 or 16 years old, however old she is. You've, you're already trying
00:26:11.560
to beat someone to death with your bare hands. Uh, it's just, that's sorry. You're, you're out.
00:26:20.960
That's a one strike. You're out and you're done. And we're not going to see you for a long time.
00:26:25.380
You're, you're, we, we cannot have you in society. We just cannot have you.
00:26:29.600
You're the kind of person that it's not fair to ask anyone to be around you.
00:26:33.560
And yeah, it's very sad. It's sad. It is very sad. It's sad. First of all,
00:26:37.060
because of what happened to the victim, but it's also sad thinking about the 15 or 16 year old girl
00:26:42.040
that her whole life is, is she's given up, you know, she's squandered it at such a young age.
00:26:48.880
It's a very sad thing, but, um, we just have to ask ourselves, do we want to heap more sad
00:26:56.580
things on top of the one set? It's like the fact that she is that kind of person and that we have
00:27:00.620
to, we have no choice, but to put her, uh, in a cage, um, for many, many years. And she's not
00:27:07.240
going to see the light of day. Like that's sad, incredibly sad. But if you don't,
00:27:12.600
then you still have this person living this sad life and they're going to create a lot of other
00:27:18.100
very sad situations along the way and just accrue tragedy and more victims and more victims until
00:27:24.940
again, you just have no choice, but to put her somewhere. Um, I don't think, I just don't think
00:27:33.340
that's a choice. And again, it's, it's, you can't, it's not fair to everybody else. Like that girl,
00:27:39.700
I don't want to be around her. I don't want my kids around her. I don't ever want to be near her.
00:27:44.940
I don't want to be around that kind of person. I shouldn't be required to be around them.
00:27:49.240
Not fit for society, not fit. So you're gone. That's the way it has to be.
00:27:57.680
Um, and if we all feel very icky about putting kids in prison, which it is an icky thing,
00:28:06.080
then the real conversation we need to be having is like, how are we creating so many kids
00:28:11.640
that need to go to prison? That's the question.
00:28:18.500
Um, all right, let's get to some good news that we could all use some good news.
00:28:24.140
This from Fox News, the liberal sports blog that smeared a nine-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan last
00:28:28.720
year has cut its entire staff after being sold by its parent company. Uh, Fox News Digital has
00:28:34.520
confirmed Deadspin went viral in November for an article accusing a child who wore a red and black
00:28:39.180
face paint with a Native American, uh, headdress of wearing black face and, uh, finding a way to
00:28:45.380
hate black people and the Native Americans at the same time. The nine-year-old boys of Native American
00:28:48.860
heritage, his parents have filed a defamation lawsuit against Deadspin. And now the entirety of
00:28:53.220
Deadspin's workforce, including the writer who smeared the young football fan, have been forced out.
00:28:57.460
According to a memo sent by Deadspin's former parent company, Geo Media CEO, uh, Jim Spanfeller,
00:29:03.240
he sent an email, said, I have some news to share regarding one of our sites in the Geo Media
00:29:08.380
portfolio. Recently, we were approached by the European firm lineup, publishing, expressing
00:29:13.900
interest in purchasing Deadspin to add to their growing media holdings. After careful consideration,
00:29:18.680
the Geo Media board of directors has decided to accept their offer. Uh, and, uh, then he goes on
00:29:23.740
to explain that everyone's getting fired. Um, and so Deadspin is essentially dead. I feel like
00:29:30.560
Deadspin has died. I feel like we've seen this headline like five different times in the last
00:29:34.620
three months. It keeps on dying. And, uh, every time it brings me more joy than the last, uh, all
00:29:40.200
of its employees have now been fired, which is fantastic news. You know, generally you don't,
00:29:45.000
you don't celebrate people losing their jobs, especially in this economy. But in this case,
00:29:49.580
I couldn't be happier about it. Um, these are really terrible people. This, this public,
00:29:54.900
Deadspin is just awful, awful publication filled with awful people. And, uh, if you, you know,
00:30:01.300
if, if there were one or two good people working there, well, um, this has done you a favor because
00:30:08.920
like you don't need to be associated with, with that disgusting rag. You can go somewhere else and,
00:30:13.420
uh, salvage your reputation, but all the rest of them deserved to be fired. It's an awful site
00:30:18.960
staffed by horrible soulless vultures who enjoyed slandering and defaming innocent people to include,
00:30:25.360
as we saw, random nine-year-olds. And, um, and now they're all, uh, unemployed. And of course,
00:30:31.920
most deserving of all is Karan J. Phillips, the writer who was responsible for that article attacking
00:30:36.960
the kid. Um, and even though that's, you know, after this news broke, everybody immediately,
00:30:43.220
you know, brought up this, uh, the, the, the defamation of the nine-year-old because it was so
00:30:48.140
egregious and also it's just the most recent egregious thing that Deadspin has done. But it
00:30:53.860
certainly, it's just a long line. This is all they ever did was that sort of thing. Uh, and this
00:31:00.500
particular writer has a long history of writing the most absurd race baiting diatribes you can
00:31:04.360
imagine. And there are dozens of examples, just pulling one at random that I saw somebody reference
00:31:08.660
a couple of years ago, this guy Phillips wrote an article claiming that the NFL, uh, the NFL rules
00:31:14.920
against taunting are racist because taunting is part of black culture or something. And, uh, this
00:31:23.240
is the level of intellect this guy has. Although in that case, I will say that, you know, he, he had
00:31:28.780
company with that take. This is actually, uh, if you go back, I think it was 2021 when this rule went
00:31:34.880
into place about taunting, you know, you're not allowed to taunt. Um, and there were a bunch of
00:31:40.840
articles published. In fact, I saw one, I think it was in USA today, uh, of a writer who said that
00:31:45.540
the rules against taunting was another example of our culture, uh, policing black bodies is the way
00:31:52.540
it was phrased because they're not allowed to taunt, you know, cause they, there's a certain
00:31:56.940
element of sportsmanship is being enforced. And, but of course, somehow it's racist. And you could tell
00:32:02.760
that this guy, uh, Phillips is a half would anyway, before even reading anything he wrote, just based on
00:32:06.580
the fact that as our producer, Greg pointed out yesterday in his bio, he lists himself as a two
00:32:13.300
time Pulitzer prize nominee. And anytime you see that, if you see somebody listing in their bio as
00:32:21.240
a writer, that they are a Pulitzer prize nominee, then, you know, you're dealing with a pretentious
00:32:27.000
mediocre douche bag because being a Pulitzer prize nominee, it means literally nothing. Anybody can be a
00:32:35.040
nominee. Like all you have to do, this is really it. You can go, there's a certain website you can go
00:32:39.520
to, you go to the link, you pay 75 bucks and you submit your name for consideration. And that's how
00:32:46.220
you become a nominee. So it means that you basically raised your hand and said, I'd like to be
00:32:50.920
considered. And then if you do that, you're a nominee. Um, which also means that even without
00:32:58.300
paying the 75, I can at least call myself a potential Pulitzer prize nominee, you know, I'm
00:33:05.340
not a nominee, but I could be, if I paid the money and if they offered a discount, like half off 75 is
00:33:11.080
a little steep for this. If they offered a discount, you know, if I could get it for 40 bucks, I would.
00:33:16.300
So I'm a, I'm a potential Pulitzer prize nominee. I'm going to put that in my bio. Um, and of course I
00:33:22.900
say all this, but really the jokes on me because, uh, I could, you know, I could totally see the
00:33:28.700
Pulitzer actually being awarded to Coran Phillips. So I make a joke out of the fact that he's calling
00:33:34.500
himself a Pulitzer prize nominee, but it's, it's not like the Pulitzer prize means anything anyway.
00:33:38.980
So, um, you know, I could see him, uh, uh, winning the award for writing an article claiming that
00:33:48.280
gravity is racist or whatever. Uh, so it could happen. Um, but, but still it means nothing.
00:33:57.540
And even so, whether he wins the Pulitzer or not, uh, this dude's going to have trouble finding another
00:34:02.680
job because yeah, I mean, yeah, he, he checks the diversity box and all that. Uh, yes, he's pretty
00:34:09.620
good at engagement bait, but at the same time he got his employer sued and, uh, it doesn't matter how
00:34:16.640
committed your employers are to pretending that they care about diversity. If you're the kind of
00:34:21.720
employee that's going to get, get you get, get me sued as an employer, uh, that's going to cause
00:34:26.280
that is reason enough to pause and reconsider. Okay. You know, we've talked about, uh, granny Madonna
00:34:34.880
and the world tour that she's on right now. Um, and on the one hand, as we've covered, it's pathetic
00:34:39.500
to see this 65 year old woman trying to gyrate and twerk around on stage. Like she's 25 years old.
00:34:44.040
She's, she's 40 years older than she acts, which means that even if she was 25 years younger than
00:34:50.000
she is, she would still be 15 years too old to carry on the way that she does. So it's all rather
00:34:55.440
pathetic, but it has led to some unintentionally, um, entertaining moments. Uh, I think that, that
00:35:02.960
so, so sort of ironically, this tour, this Madonna tour is maybe the most entertaining one that she's
00:35:10.660
ever done because of these moments. And this week we saw the most entertaining Madonna moment yet.
00:35:15.520
It's a moment that, uh, this time has nothing to do really with her pretending that she's in her
00:35:19.340
twenties. In this case, Madonna stood on stage and noticed that somebody was sitting down in the
00:35:24.800
audience. Uh, and sitting down is apparently not allowed at a Madonna concert. I don't know. So she
00:35:30.180
gets very offended that the audience member is sitting down and she calls the person out from the
00:35:34.660
stage. And the problem it turns out is that the person was in a wheelchair. Um, so it's a classic,
00:35:44.080
like Michael Scott moment. And she recovered from it about as awkwardly as you can imagine. So let's
00:35:50.060
watch. There's so much disdain in her voice. Does she, she got hide the disdain she has for this
00:36:19.380
disabled person? Oh, you're one of those. Oh, so glad you're here. Uh, just to be clear,
00:36:25.700
telling a disabled person in a wheelchair to stand is not politically incorrect. It's just incorrect.
00:36:31.300
It's an incorrect thing to say. And, um, and you know, what I'm wondering is how did Madonna not
00:36:38.440
realize that a wheelchair was a possibility? Has she really never had a person in a wheelchair show up
00:36:43.460
at one of her events before at one of her concerts? Like, how is that even possible? And also, even if
00:36:49.780
the person wasn't disabled, you're 65 years old and you're really judging somebody else for needing to
00:36:55.880
sit down. I find that a little bit hypocritical, especially because by the way, uh, sitting down
00:37:02.060
is the right thing. Um, I mean, you know, in this case they had no choice but to sit down, but
00:37:07.600
my only point is that everybody should be sitting. And I feel very strongly about this.
00:37:11.980
This is a general rule that I believe in deeply that if you're at an event, uh, and I've never
00:37:18.020
been to a Madonna concert, but you know, in general, I've been to many events where there are chairs
00:37:24.480
and everybody has a chair that they paid for, but they're not sitting. And I just believe strongly
00:37:31.000
that if you pay for a chair, if it's at, if it's some kind of event, now, if it's an event where
00:37:34.740
everyone says no chairs, then fine. But if there's a chair and everyone's sitting and you, and you know,
00:37:38.760
or you're supposed to be sitting and you paid for a seat, then everybody should be sitting.
00:37:42.540
So when I go, this really comes up when I go to football games and I'm trying to sit in the seat
00:37:47.480
that I paid for to enjoy the game. And I quite enjoy sitting. Sitting is one of my favorite things
00:37:54.160
to do. Like who doesn't like to sit down? And so I pay the money for the chair and then you get to
00:38:00.100
the football game and everybody in front of you is standing for the entire game, which forces you to
00:38:04.020
stand. And, um, and I find that to be, uh, you know, well, I always felt, I always felt put upon
00:38:11.580
by it. I felt, I felt victimized by it in so many ways. Um, but now I'm realizing that it's also ableist.
00:38:18.440
So, uh, you know, uh, in a way I'm a victim of ableism, which I didn't, which I never thought
00:38:24.500
was possible, but anyway, great moment from Madonna. Let's get to was Walsh wrong.
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tnusa.com slash Walsh. Just a couple of comments here pertaining to the opening monologue yesterday
00:39:41.220
and everything happening in Haiti, which as we discussed again is just a failed state and has
00:39:48.380
totally collapsed and is right now being basically run by a warlord who goes by the nickname barbecue.
00:39:55.940
And, um, not everyone appreciated my comments about Haiti turns out. So a couple of those
00:40:01.860
I watched this and this seriously needs to be fact checked. This is not the reason behind the name
00:40:07.820
barbecue. It was because the guy's mom used to sell barbecue chicken. You can research this. I can't
00:40:13.840
believe Elon Musk would share something like this spreading lies and hate on his own network. Haiti
00:40:17.380
deserves better. Uh, so that's someone kind of, cause, uh, Elon, uh, was kind enough to retweet the,
00:40:23.440
um, the show yesterday in the monologue about, about Elon Musk or about, uh, about barbecue,
00:40:29.060
the warlord. Now, uh, so I guess what I'm being, I'm being accused of, of the lies and hate that
00:40:38.340
this person has been said about are being directed at a violent warlord who is executing random people
00:40:45.480
in the street. And so you're worried that I'm spreading hate towards the violent warlord, which is
00:40:50.080
interesting. Um, I, if, if, if, if you need to believe that barbecue got, that this warlord who,
00:41:00.840
it is a fact that he, now there were, there are reports and claims about cannibalism going on in
00:41:05.980
the street. Uh, you know, that's, that's what some people are reporting. I don't know if it's true or
00:41:11.700
not. Um, but what cannot be denied, what is certainly true is that people are being killed and burned.
00:41:18.980
Uh, in the street, you know, and there, there are plenty of mainstream news reports talking about
00:41:24.740
and about the, the stench of, of, uh, of burning flesh that is made, you know, on top of everything
00:41:31.600
else made these communities unlivable. Um, and so that is where the nickname comes from is this guy's
00:41:41.800
propensity for setting people on fire. But if you need to believe that it's because it's not because
00:41:46.880
of that, you know, he already had the, so maybe what you're saying is that he already happened to
00:41:51.320
have the nickname barbecue because his mom made barbecue chicken, which that doesn't even make
00:41:58.880
any sense. Like, why would that become a nickname for you? Because your mom made barbecue chicken
00:42:04.700
and now everyone's calling you barbecue. That'd make a lot of sense. But if you need to believe that,
00:42:08.740
and then I guess because he had that nickname already, and then he, and then he went on to become a,
00:42:14.000
uh, warlord. And then he said to himself, well, I'm already a warlord and I got this nickname
00:42:18.780
barbecue. Um, you know, what, what, so what's my character? What's my motivation? What should I be
00:42:23.720
doing given the fact that I'm a warlord and I have the nickname, but oh, I could set people on fire.
00:42:27.200
Like maybe you think that that was the genesis of everything. Um, but either way, I think the main
00:42:33.340
point is that this is a violent warlord who sets people on fire and he's basically running Haiti now.
00:42:39.140
Um, I just, I have to disagree with you on some of your comments. Absolutely. Some immigrants come
00:42:46.460
to take advantage of our goodwill. The majority come to work their asses off, to pick our fruit,
00:42:50.300
construct our buildings, bake our pizzas, cut our grass, et cetera, et cetera. Please remember that.
00:42:55.220
Uh, first of all, it doesn't matter to me. You know, the, the, the personal motivation of illegal
00:43:02.680
immigrants who come here, I've always said that's not, it doesn't matter. It's not important.
00:43:09.380
You know, it's, it's not relevant to the issue. And I'm, I'm perfectly willing to believe that
00:43:15.220
many of them come here, uh, because they want to take care of themselves. They want to take care of
00:43:21.720
their family. Now there are plenty of other people who come across with much more sinister motivations,
00:43:28.400
drug traffickers, so on and so forth, human traffickers, criminals of all different types.
00:43:33.540
Um, but am I denying that there are plenty of illegals who sneak across the border because
00:43:38.580
they want to get a job? They want to find opportunity. They want to provide for the family.
00:43:42.020
But of course, of course that happens. And I've also said many times that if I lived in Haiti
00:43:45.820
myself, I would want to leave and I'd want to come to America because if I'm looking around
00:43:52.560
in the hemisphere, like places nearby, where can I go? Yeah, obviously the United States
00:43:57.780
of America is going to be the, going to be the, the best place to go. Um, and if I could
00:44:03.820
just sneak across and I could sneak my family across and then even, you know, if I make it
00:44:10.980
in, I could be, could take advantage of welfare and everything else. Would I do that? Probably
00:44:15.280
because in this, in this situation, I'm Haitian. I'm not American. I don't care about America's
00:44:21.880
laws and I don't really care that much about the, you know, the, the, the, uh, prosperity
00:44:28.060
and wellbeing of, of America. It's not my country. I'm looking out for myself. I'm looking out for
00:44:32.660
my family. So I understand all that, but, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't make a difference.
00:44:39.060
Yeah. The illegal immigrants have different motivations and different priorities.
00:44:47.940
But the point is that none of them care. None of them are coming here because they're saying to
00:44:53.460
themselves, I really want to make America a better place. I want to help America become prosperous.
00:44:59.040
That's what I want to do. None of them, 0% of them are coming for that reason, uh, because that's
00:45:04.980
not their priority, but it has to be somebody's priority. It has to be our priority. They can
00:45:11.740
prioritize whatever they want. It doesn't matter. We have to prioritize and our leaders have to
00:45:16.920
prioritize American sovereignty. Yeah. The illegals don't care about that. Of course they don't.
00:45:21.400
We need to care about it. We need to care about our sovereignty. We need to care about the,
00:45:25.560
uh, uh, the, the wellbeing of America and Americans.
00:45:30.880
And what that means is we stop illegals from coming here. And if they come,
00:45:34.240
we round them up and we ship them off, nothing personal. I don't need to see it as a personal
00:45:37.780
thing. These are all terrible people. And I, that's not necessarily case. It's not anything
00:45:44.960
personal against them. It's just, we need to take care of our country. And that means we cannot have
00:45:51.620
hordes of third world immigrants just coming in whenever they want. And then as much, by the way,
00:45:56.600
as much as you say, they all come here and work hard. Uh, many of them in fact come here and then
00:46:00.420
hop right on the welfare rolls. That is a fact. It's one of the, it's one of the primary motivations
00:46:04.960
that brings them here. And we cannot have that. We can't have it. Um, and if we allow that to
00:46:12.780
happen and we allow it to happen too much, eventually we become one of the countries.
00:46:19.340
We become a country that is indistinguishable from the countries that these people are all
00:46:23.100
trying to escape. And that doesn't help anybody. And most importantly, it doesn't help Americans.
00:46:28.520
And the reason why I say that that's most important is because I am an American.
00:46:33.320
And so my priority is my own people and it should be yours as well.
00:46:38.360
Uh, finally, you're very ignorant about how the USA and France have destroyed Haiti and stolen its
00:46:42.480
riches. Haiti was once the richest island in the Caribbean. You should start from there.
00:46:46.540
You're very ignorant about what happened to the former president and why Haiti is now the way it is.
00:46:50.640
Uh, look, Haiti has been, um, essentially, uh, a,
00:46:55.320
a disaster zone for like 200 years. And, uh, you know, you could come up with whatever excuse you
00:47:03.180
want and you could talk about the, um, just parade of atrocities that has been visited upon Haiti.
00:47:11.060
Okay. But yeah, you can, you could keep using that as an excuse and then just use it as an excuse
00:47:19.460
in perpetuity. And then Haiti will remain forever. The disaster zone that it has been for two centuries
00:47:25.380
or, you know, Haitians themselves can seek, take control of their own country and build their own
00:47:35.120
country back. Because just like I said about America, like no one is going to prioritize if
00:47:41.100
Americans will not prioritize America and care about America first and foremost, then nobody will.
00:47:46.220
And then America falls apart. And the same goes for any other country.
00:47:52.520
You need to prioritize your own country and take care of your own country. And if you won't do that,
00:47:58.960
then, then nobody else will. Even with, even with the United States giving out foreign aid to
00:48:05.420
everybody all over and spending billions and billions and billions on foreign aid, you know,
00:48:09.640
even that's not going to be enough. You need to take charge of your own country and, uh,
00:48:15.000
stop falling back on excuses. And if you're not going to do that, like every country needs to be
00:48:19.580
able to stand on its own two feet. And if it won't or can't, then it's just not going to be a country
00:48:23.980
anymore. And, um, you can call it unfair, but it is the way it is. It's the way the world works.
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Well, I'm not one to demand credit or gratitude from the audience. I realize that so many of you
00:49:25.580
live more difficult lives than mine, and I don't expect you to shower me with admiration. But on rare
00:49:31.340
occasion, I do make a sacrifice so great and embrace a suffering so vast and severe that I do think I
00:49:37.980
deserve a little bit of praise for it. And that is the case today after I, for the sake of doing this
00:49:43.820
segment, just read an epically long New York Magazine article by a trans activist arguing
00:49:49.180
for child sex change operations. And this thing, this article, is over 7,000 words long, which is
00:49:56.680
like two chapters in a moderately sized book. I read the entire thing so that I could tell you about it,
00:50:02.160
even though you may not want to hear about it. But you're going to hear about it now because I
00:50:05.720
didn't read the damn thing for nothing. So this article, which is the new cover story for the
00:50:10.500
latest edition of New York Magazine, is titled The Right to Change Sex. It's written by a person
00:50:15.120
named Andrea Long Chu. And just for your reference, this is what Andrea Long Chu looks like. You can see
00:50:21.280
the photo. For those listening to the audio podcast, you don't need to go look up the picture.
00:50:25.880
It's exactly what you think when you imagine a trans activist who argues that children of any age
00:50:30.840
should be allowed to get sex change surgeries. And yes, that is his argument. He is arguing,
00:50:36.520
though without presenting any actual arguments, as we'll see, for the sterilization, mutilation,
00:50:40.620
castration, and surgical butchery of children with no age limit. Now, as you can tell in the photo,
00:50:46.000
and as you may have guessed already, Chu himself is a male who identifies as female and has apparently
00:50:52.300
gone through various physical procedures in an effort to attain what, for him, is an inherently
00:50:56.680
unattainable identity. Now he has basically dedicated his life to retroactively justifying
00:51:02.420
what he has done to himself by defending it as a wonderful choice for anyone of any age,
00:51:06.880
no matter how young. But before we get to the article, I just want to set the stage a little
00:51:10.760
bit more here. And I want you to know two other things about our friend Andrea Long Chu, born Andrew
00:51:15.640
Long Chu. You should know that Chu is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who has written extensively,
00:51:21.600
and as far as I can tell exclusively, about transgenderism and related topics.
00:51:26.680
And yet, cannot offer an even halfway coherent explanation of his own trans identity or his
00:51:33.380
own discovery of his alleged femaleness. To show you what I mean, I want you to, I want to read to
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you a brief excerpt from an interview that Chu gave back in 2018 with something called the New York
00:51:43.600
City Trans Oral History Project. During the lengthy conversation, Chu tried to explain how he first
00:51:53.280
came to realize his own supposed womanhood. And here's what he said. I'm going to read it exactly.
00:51:59.100
Okay. Here's what he said. I was, let's see, gender wise, I think, I mean, like, I don't know. I don't
00:52:06.980
have like a sort of Jan Morris, sort of like, whatever. I knew since I was like three kind of
00:52:11.580
thing. It would be nice. Like, I wish I did, but I don't. If I look back now and reinterpret, which like,
00:52:17.180
who knows how true that is. But if I look back now, I have a sort of sense of, I mean, being smart,
00:52:22.660
I don't know, being smart as a teenage boy in like a sort of rural-ish North Carolina at this
00:52:27.880
little Christian school was like, I don't know, being a nerdy boy is a kind of alternative gender
00:52:32.600
identity, at least when you, when you've got a limited vocabulary with which to think about.
00:52:36.600
And so I think that was like a way of sort of sideways disidentification with masculinity.
00:52:41.620
But I also just, I mean, I loved being around girls. Oh, okay. Well, thanks for clearing that
00:52:49.640
up. Truly, this is a man who makes Joe Biden look downright coherent by comparison. And that is a
00:52:55.240
Pulitzer Prize winning writer and PhD student who cares about nothing but transgenderism and his own
00:53:02.340
transness, and yet cannot speak about it with anything approaching coherence. Now, the next thing to
00:53:08.360
know, and this is important to understand as we get into Chu's thoughts about children and
00:53:11.960
transgenderism, is that Chu thinks of the transgender identity as something explicitly
00:53:17.140
sexual. The website Redux has a report on Chu several months ago, and it includes this revelation,
00:53:22.760
quote, in 2019, Chu's first book, Females, was published by Verso Press. The thesis of the 94-page
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screed was that anyone can become female and that being penetrated during sex defines womanhood.
00:53:35.440
Quote, getting F'd makes you female because F'd is what a female is, Chu writes in the short book,
00:53:41.620
describing himself as once being a sad, pretentious boy, furious about rape, hopelessly addicted to
00:53:46.780
pornography. Chu claims that it was his obsession with pornography that led him to begin identifying
00:53:51.360
as transgender. Quote, almost every night for at least a year before I transitioned, I would wait
00:53:56.040
until my girlfriend had fallen asleep and I'd slip out of my bed for the bathroom with my phone.
00:54:00.440
I was going on Tumblr to look at something called sissy porn. I've discovered it by accident
00:54:04.680
one night scrolling lazily down a pornographic rabbit hole. He continues, quote, pornography is
00:54:10.600
what it feels like when you think you have an object, but really the object has you. It is
00:54:14.760
therefore a quintessential expression of femaleness. Sissy porn did make me trans. At the center of sissy
00:54:20.680
porn lies the a-hole, a kind of universal vagina through which femaleness can always be accessed.
00:54:27.080
Okay. Now the fact that porn is a major driving factor behind the trans phenomenon is one of those
00:54:35.220
things that certain trans activists will say out loud while the rest of them shriek like banshees in
00:54:40.240
the band that none of us ever say that out loud. Of course, these are two, these are not two separate
00:54:44.500
groups. Often the ones who say it out loud will also do the shrieking if they hear you say the same
00:54:51.240
thing out loud. But it is true. It is true that pornography is a major driving factor behind the
00:54:58.900
trans phenomenon. And it's perhaps the only true thing that this man has ever said in his entire
00:55:03.840
life. So with all that established, we can now turn to the article. And it begins with a long
00:55:07.900
dissertation about the gender studies philosopher Judith Butler, who has been writing and speaking
00:55:13.000
for decades and yet has never said a single thing, an interesting, intelligent, or worthwhile,
00:55:17.440
which isn't to say that she's had no impact. Okay. Judith Butler has indeed had an impact,
00:55:23.020
but culturally speaking, it's similar to the impact that a tumor has on your kidney. And we're
00:55:28.580
not going to bother with Chu's lengthy reflection on Butler's work, except to point out that Butler
00:55:32.320
apparently goes by they pronouns now, which Chu, of course, made sure to respect and which led,
00:55:38.940
as it always does, to incredibly convoluted sentences like this. Writing of Butler, he says,
00:55:45.200
quote, but they continue to treat gender as the mere, as the more promising terrain for political
00:55:51.900
struggle. One suspects that even after all these years, Butler is still afraid of sex. They are not
00:55:58.180
alone. Many trans advocates worry that if they can see the significance of biological sex as opponents
00:56:03.880
of trans rights demands they do, this will thwart their political aims. Well, there are three
00:56:10.840
different they's referred to in those few sentences. So you have trans activists, their opponents,
00:56:17.400
and then Judith Butler as an individual. And so it's impossible to tell which they corresponds with
00:56:24.260
which group or individual, except by sort of going back through it and reverse engineering the paragraph.
00:56:30.100
It is totally unintelligible and ridiculous, but unintelligible and ridiculous is, of course,
00:56:34.640
the whole MO of trans activists, as Chu will go on to demonstrate and has already demonstrated.
00:56:39.920
A little while later, he correctly identifies a few of the problems that critics have with the
00:56:44.000
concept of gender identity, especially as it pertains to children. He writes, quote,
00:56:48.040
the public increasingly believes that what the kids call gender is really just trouble, depression,
00:56:53.540
anxiety, autism, family dysfunction, peer pressure, or social media, any of which, not to mention the
00:56:58.560
universal awkwardness of puberty itself, are better explanations for why a child might question their
00:57:03.400
identity. Yes, bingo, you got it right. That's exactly right. But Chu never refutes this idea. I
00:57:12.100
mean, he doesn't agree with it. He puts it forward as a false claim. He doesn't even pretend, though,
00:57:17.900
to explain why it's false, which is an interesting strategy, because usually trans activists will make
00:57:24.160
an absurd straw man out of their critics. And Chu certainly does plenty of that in this piece. But
00:57:28.600
in this particular passage, he's actually given a fair summation of one of the points that his
00:57:34.200
critics make, except that he gives the fair summation and then promptly moves on, never
00:57:40.140
attempting to offer anything resembling a refutation of it. Eventually, he gets around to what appears
00:57:45.680
to be his point, quote, to confront the reality of biological sex is not by definition to swear
00:57:51.240
fealty to that reality. No one knows this better than a child who wishes to have their biological sex
00:57:56.300
changed. We must be able to defend this desire clearly, directly, and crucially without depending
00:58:01.780
on the idea of gender. So he says that we should not swear fealty to reality, which is certainly the
00:58:08.020
trans activist mantra. Trans activists oppose reality in principle. That has always been obvious.
00:58:14.120
It's just that they rarely state the point so frankly. And then he wishes that some children,
00:58:18.280
then he says that some children wish to have their biological sex changed. And he declares that this
00:58:23.260
desire should be defended. But the problem, of course, is that biological sex cannot be changed.
00:58:31.160
It cannot be changed any more than our species can be changed, or the fact that we are three-dimensional
00:58:35.780
beings can be changed. It is a fundamental fact of our reality. But this is another point that
00:58:41.440
Chu never engages with. So he wrote 7,000 words, ostensibly defending the idea that children should be
00:58:48.040
able to change their sex. But he does not spend even one single sentence, even five words of the 7,000
00:58:55.940
dealing with the fact that sex cannot be changed. That is the number one primary argument against
00:59:04.700
everything that he says about changing sex. Even in particular, his claim that we should allow
00:59:14.360
children to get sex changes. Even there, there are many arguments we have against that. But the first
00:59:21.520
argument we have against it is that you can't. And he never spends a second, 7,000 words debunking our
00:59:29.880
side, never spends a second on that. Which is pretty amazing. Continuing, he writes, quote, many Americans,
00:59:38.740
though they may not realize it, already enjoy a limited version of the freedom to alter their sexual
00:59:43.240
biology. What is new is the idea that this freedom can be asserted as a universal right by a group of
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politically disenfranchised as the young. This is why the anti-trans movement is so desperate. It is
00:59:53.900
afraid of what sex might become. We will never be able to defend the rights of transgender kids until
00:59:58.660
we understand them purely on their own terms. As full members of society who would like to change
01:00:03.620
their sex, it does not matter where this desire comes from. He has not explained how our biological sex
01:00:10.280
can be altered. He doesn't appear to understand what biology is or what sex is. But he is sure that
01:00:16.340
many people have changed or altered their biological sex, sometimes without knowing it. Now, he never
01:00:21.180
offers any clear explanation of this idea, a pattern that you're maybe starting to pick up on. But as best
01:00:26.020
I can tell, this Pulitzer Prize-winning PhD student seems to think that women who take hormones for
01:00:31.940
fertility treatments are changing their sex. Chu recognizes no distinction between the treatment
01:00:38.460
of a medical condition and the application of synthetic hormones for the purpose of bringing
01:00:43.260
about cosmetic changes in a person to make them appear like the opposite sex. The glaringly obvious
01:00:49.220
difference between these two applications is apparently still too subtle or nuanced for Mr. Pulitzer to
01:00:54.040
pick up on. And that is far from the dumbest or craziest thing in this article.
01:00:57.780
Quote, sex is real, so is global warming. To believe in their reality is an indispensable
01:01:03.100
precondition for making normative claims about them, as we know from climate activism. But the
01:01:07.720
belief that we have a moral duty to accept reality just because it is real is, I think, a fine definition
01:01:13.680
of nihilism. What trans kids are saying is this, the right to change sex that has been enjoyed for
01:01:19.080
decades by their parents, friends, teachers, coaches, doctors, and representatives, especially if those
01:01:23.320
people are white and affluent, this right belongs to them too. I am speaking here of a universal birth
01:01:28.640
right, the freedom of sex. The freedom consists of two principal rights, the right to change one's
01:01:33.440
biological sex without appealing to gender and the right to assume a gender that is not determined by
01:01:37.860
one's sexual biology. What does this freedom look like in practice? Let anyone change their sex.
01:01:44.100
Let anyone change their gender. Let anyone change their sex again. If we are to recognize the right of
01:01:49.460
trans kids, we will also have to accept that. Like us, they have a right to the hazards of their own
01:01:54.280
free will. Okay, there's a lot of crazy packed into just a little bit of space there. First, Chu says
01:02:01.180
that we should not accept reality just because it's real. The fact that something is real is no reason
01:02:08.520
to accept that it's real, is what he's saying. So we shouldn't accept that a circle is a circle just
01:02:13.560
because it's a circle. We shouldn't refrain from declaring that it's snowing outside just because it's
01:02:18.360
90 degrees and sunny. We shouldn't let the fact that something is get in the way of us claiming
01:02:25.100
and believing that it isn't. This sort of pathologically confused thinking is, it is indeed
01:02:31.660
irrefutable. It is an irrefutable claim. It's not irrefutable because it's intelligent, rather the
01:02:39.380
opposite. It's irrefutable in the way that all gibberish is irrefutable. Okay, if somebody says that
01:02:45.340
two plus two equals five, okay, well, we can explain why they're wrong. We can show them why
01:02:50.340
they're wrong. But if somebody says that two plus two equals blue, there's no way that is so wrong
01:02:56.700
that we can't even explain. There's no starting point here. There's no ground on which we can sort
01:03:03.460
of meet here and have this conversation. It is gibberish and nonsense, and that's all that can be said
01:03:09.620
about it, which is what we get from these trans activists. And from there, we're told that everybody
01:03:16.040
has the freedom to choose their own sex. But as already established, there's no attempt to deal
01:03:20.160
with the unfortunate problem that changing your sex is a physical impossibility. He declares a right
01:03:25.700
to do something that cannot be done. And then he ascribes that right to children, where he proceeds
01:03:30.940
to dismiss the permanent physical damage inflicted on their bodies as, quote, the hazards of free will.
01:03:36.600
And this is where we see, if it was not already incredibly obvious, that Chu is not only
01:03:42.000
intellectually deluded and unable to explain any of his fundamental claims or engage with any of the
01:03:46.660
claims of his opponents, he is also a moral monster. He advocates for the sexual butchery of
01:03:52.760
children, very young children, children of any age, because in his world, children can consent to
01:04:00.460
anything, apparently, no matter how young they are. And this is a fact with extremely disturbing
01:04:06.220
implications that goes far beyond the trans agenda. And it's also a fact that should prompt
01:04:10.900
you to keep your own children as far away from this guy as you possibly can. We'll read just one
01:04:16.640
more passage from this lunatic diatribe. It says, quote, if children are too young to consent to
01:04:23.020
puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty, which is a drastic
01:04:27.020
biological upheaval in its own right. Yet we let this happen every day and not without casualties.
01:04:31.760
I'm not speaking of suicide. I'm speaking of the many opponents of trans rights who observe with
01:04:36.300
horror that they too might have transitioned given the chance. So intensely did they hate being teenage
01:04:41.320
girls. I do not know if they regret their biology today. I do suspect they regret that they never got
01:04:47.220
to choose it. Well, except that nobody gets to choose it. Nobody. Andrea Chu did not choose a new
01:04:56.820
biology when he got his surgery. He has the same biology, the same body, just a damaged version of
01:05:02.880
it. And as for consenting to puberty, that's like asking whether a short man consented to be short
01:05:08.660
or whether a person with two arms consented to not having wings. Of course, the answer is that consent
01:05:14.460
is irrelevant to biology. Your biology is what it is. You did not consent to being human or to being born
01:05:22.420
on earth or to being born in this time period instead of the 1600s or the stone age. You cannot
01:05:28.780
consent to any of that, not just because reality is what it is, but for the even more basic fact that
01:05:34.740
in order for you to consent to anything, there must first be a you to do the consenting. Okay? You must
01:05:41.920
pre-exist any consent that you give to anything. You cannot consent before there is a you to give
01:05:52.120
your consent, which means that the one thing that must exist outside of your sphere of consent
01:05:58.280
is you yourself, the basic inherent reality of you. Now, a lot of other things exist outside of your
01:06:06.280
sphere of consent too. The reality of the Milky Way galaxy, for instance, and about 900 trillion other
01:06:11.700
things or so, but certainly you cannot consent to the basic stuff that makes you you because that has
01:06:21.040
to come first. The trans activist declares the right of self-creation, but he is not a self-created deity
01:06:31.180
no matter how much he wants to be. He cannot create or recreate himself. He can only modify himself.
01:06:38.500
Those modifications can be dramatic, they can be far-reaching, they can be bizarre, they can be quite
01:06:44.340
upsetting to look at, but they are just that, modifications. The basic fact of himself remains
01:06:51.160
and will never change, and any attempt to change it will only ever result in harm and great suffering,
01:07:00.180
especially when it's inflicted on a child who cannot understand any of what we're talking about here.
01:07:06.020
But again, Andrea Chu can't understand it either. The only difference is that the child has an excuse.
01:07:14.180
And that is why Andrea Chu is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for
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watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.