Private property rights are under severe assault all across the country. Increasingly, the laws and courts are protecting home invaders and giving them more rights than homeowners. Also, Joe Biden claims that the election is not a referendum on him, instead, he says it s a vote on the guy who hasn t been in office for four years. And a new study says Americans are more unhappy than they ve ever been. Why is that? Plus, Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, speaks out about the evils of misgendering. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
00:05:27.680Unlawful eviction is what they call it, though.
00:05:29.880It's what they call it when you call the police because there's a home invader in your home.
00:05:34.180That's what you get if you're not willing to wait two years or more for New York's completely overloaded housing court to review your case.
00:05:40.880And by the way, even once New York's housing court does review the case, there's no guarantee they'll side with the homeowner.
00:05:46.640This is a city that has outlawed the right of self-defense, after all.
00:05:49.560And once that's gone, good luck getting them to enforce any of your other rights.
00:05:52.720This is the norm in left-wing jurisdictions now.
00:05:55.000It's not just that the police don't care about squatters with zero documentation whatsoever.
00:05:59.640It's also the fact that the courts don't enforce the law, even when you bring flagrant crimes like this to their attention.
00:06:06.120In Washington State, as I mentioned yesterday, a judge just granted a restraining order against a landlord whose tenant hasn't been paying rent for years.
00:06:14.340The landlord organized a protest to bring attention to the situation.
00:10:23.580She didn't want to talk to us, but a short time later, the Sheriff's Department was called.
00:10:28.340The deputies have confirmed to us that they are investigating the squatting situation.
00:10:33.680But for now, this has remained a civil matter, much to the chagrin of the neighborhood.
00:10:38.940Well, what's been frustrating is that I have a 12-year-old that I don't even let walk across the street to her best friend's house without watching her.
00:10:46.400The ownership company says it has filed eviction papers, but our experience covering these stories shows sometimes it can take six months to a year for the process to work through the courts.
00:10:57.560So we could spend all day going from city to city showing you footage like this.
00:11:00.660There's footage from rural jurisdictions as well that I could show you.
00:11:04.880These kinds of home invasions are so common that one handyman has opened up a business advising homeowners how to regain access to their own homes when squatters show up.
00:11:14.500Basically, the idea is that you need to generate your own lease so that you can show it to the police officers who are now trained to respect your squatters' rights over your rights in your own home.
00:11:32.900So I called local law enforcement, and as soon as they saw that there was furniture in the house, they said that I had a squatter situation, and they had basically no jurisdiction, and they couldn't do anything.
00:11:46.880So I, you know, I dissected the laws over a weekend.
00:11:50.280I basically figured out that until there's civil action, the squatters didn't have any rights.
00:11:56.440So if I could switch places with them, become the squatter myself, I would assume those squatter rights.
00:12:01.580And just in case they had a fake lease, like I hear some do, I had my mom devise, you know, write me up a lease.
00:28:08.900All but one of the 100 cities with the world's worst air pollution last year were in Asia.
00:28:15.600So 99 of the 100 worst polluters are in Asia.
00:28:19.040With the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide,
00:28:24.280the vast majority of these cities, 83 were in India, 83 of the 100 worst polluters, according to this report, are in India.
00:28:34.900And all exceeded the World Health Organization's air quality guidelines by more than 10 times.
00:28:39.860The study looks specifically at fine particulate matter, which is the tiniest pollutant, but also the most dangerous.
00:28:46.280Only 9% of more than 7,800 cities analyzed globally recorded air quality that met the World Health Organization's standards,
00:28:56.240which says average annual levels of PM2.5 should not exceed 5 micrograms per cubic meter.
00:29:04.280And I definitely know what all that means.
00:29:06.080Or maybe I don't, but I do understand the basic fact here that almost all, by this measure,
00:29:17.460the World Health Organization, however much you trust them, almost all of the worst polluters are in Asia.
00:29:24.860And we add to that something we talked about recently when the subject came up of plastic straws again, I believe.
00:29:31.640But you add to that, that almost all of the pollution in the ocean is coming from Asia, and then you also throw in Africa.
00:29:42.840But Asia and Africa together are causing almost all of the pollution in the ocean.
00:29:48.080And the reason for that is pretty simple.
00:29:52.340You know, all you have to do is look at an image or a video of rivers in a lot of these third world countries.
00:29:57.660And the rivers themselves are, you know, basically treated like conveyor belts where they just dump the trash right into the river and ferries it out into the ocean.
00:30:09.880So water pollution, the pollution in the ocean, plastics in the ocean, all the, you know, all the poor sea turtles that are getting whatever plastic straws stuck in their nose.
00:30:19.180Because most of that, almost all of that, almost all of it happening because of Asia and Africa.
00:30:23.740And then we're told air pollution also, that's almost all Asia, the vast majority of it, with India contributing most of all.
00:30:31.680And yet, even though we get these reports from the media from time to time, usually most of the scolding and the lecturing on so-called climate change goes to us.
00:30:49.440But the reality, on top of everything else, on top of the fact that, you know, man-made climate change is a myth, on top of the fact that, you know, we in fact don't control the weather, that the sun is what calls the shots on our planet, no matter what we do.
00:31:05.720But even aside from all that, like, the reality is that in the United States, we could stop driving cars completely, we could give up on cars, we could just decide that we're going to walk and ride bikes everywhere, we can get rid of all of our plastic straws, which we essentially have, get rid of all the plastic, get rid of all the plastics, get rid of everything.
00:31:32.700All pollution out the window, at least any pollution that comes from technology, you know, we can't do anything about the cows, like, we could kill all the cows too.
00:31:43.180We could do all of that, and what difference will it actually make?
00:31:48.240When you've got the vast majority of the pollution coming from the other side of the world, and coming from countries that, again, treat their rivers, their waterways, like garbage dumps.
00:32:36.980A steady supply of studies has found that Americans feel glum about issues ranging from loneliness to the economy and the country's political leadership.
00:32:44.420It's the first time since the report launched 12 years ago that the U.S. did not rank among the world's 20 happiest countries.
00:32:53.200And we had another study like that, that we talked about recently, coming to a similar conclusion, that we are an unhappy country and becoming unhappier by the day.
00:33:05.000Today, I think there's a, in fact it was just yesterday we talked about wokeness, how people who are, who are woke tend to be the most depressed and the most anxious.
00:33:17.160And so there's a, there's a connection here.
00:33:23.420Now I'm, I'm skeptical of any study that claims to measure happiness in this way.
00:33:28.800Happiness is not the kind of thing that can be measured in a quantitative way.
00:33:36.180And the only way that you can really measure it is just with self-reported data, just by asking people whether or not they're happy.
00:33:45.400So what you're really reporting is, what are the countries where people are more likely to report that they are happy?
00:33:51.660But there's a, there's a disconnect between the number of people reporting that they're happy and the number of people actually are happy.
00:33:58.680I mean, somebody could say that they're happy and they're not really, or they could have an idea of what happiness is that isn't exactly correct.
00:34:08.280So, you know, I'm skeptical about that.
00:34:11.760I'm skeptical of the, of, of, of any ability to actually quantify these things.
00:34:15.700But even so, it does ring true that we are, you know, are a more unhappy country than we've been in the past.
00:36:10.780That we're, it would seem, less happy than we've ever, we've ever been.
00:36:15.980But we're also more focused on being happy than we've ever been.
00:36:20.880In fact, that might be the answer people give you.
00:36:25.320If you ask them, what's, what's the, what does your life mean?
00:36:29.240If they have any answer at all, it will probably be something like, well, you know, just try to be happy.
00:36:35.640That's what life is, just trying to be happy.
00:36:37.420But what we discover is that the more you make that the central focus of your life, the more that, that, that happiness in and of itself, for itself, is the goal, the less happy you become.
00:36:54.240Because happiness, in reality, if you actually attain it, it is a, as a byproduct of doing what is right.
00:37:03.380It's a byproduct of finding meaning in your life.
00:37:06.940It's a, it's a byproduct of, of living with actual purpose and direction.
00:37:12.320It's a byproduct of living for something other than yourself, living in service to others.
00:37:19.900And so, all of that, you do all of that, and then, and you're living your life, and you're living that way, and then you turn around one day and you say, well, look at that, I'm, I'm happy.
00:37:29.460Um, and it's not going to be a permanent feeling, you can't hold on to that feeling every second of the day all the time, but you'll experience it a lot more as a byproduct of living the right way.
00:37:43.820Uh, okay, I wanted to mention, uh, this case briefly, and I've sort of been putting this off because it's so horrifying.
00:37:52.320Um, but there's a video circulating, and we're not going to play the video.
00:37:57.760So, uh, but it's a video of a, of a woman who doesn't speak English, um, being, you know, in court, um, being given her sentence, and the sentence is, uh, life in prison without parole.
00:38:13.700And we also hear her through a translator making excuses for her behavior, um, and talking about how she's depressed, and she's suffering, and nobody cared.
00:38:24.660Uh, the crime that this woman committed, her name is Crystal Candelario, is that she went on a 10-day vacation, um, to Puerto Rico, and I think a couple other places.
00:38:39.220And she left her 16-month-old daughter in a playpen while she went on vacation.
00:38:53.600Jalen's cries echoed through the quiet streets of Cleveland in the dead of the night.
00:38:58.100The toddler whimpered and howled, but no one came to her rescue.
00:39:00.820Her mother, Crystal Candelario, was away on a 10-day summer vacation and had left Jalen alone in a playpen with a few bottles of milk, prosecutors said.
00:39:09.960A neighbor's doorbell camera captured the 16-month-old's frequent screams, uh, including one around 1 a.m. two days after the mother left.
00:39:19.020But Candelario was hundreds of miles away in Puerto Rico with a male friend.
00:39:23.840After a few days at the beach and another stop in Detroit, she returned home on June 16th last year to find her daughter dead.
00:39:34.780Candelario pleaded guilty last month to one count of aggravated murder and one count of child endangering.
00:39:40.160Um, at her sentencing on Monday, which is from the video I mentioned, forensic pathologist Elizabeth Mooney told a Cleveland courtroom that, uh, children experience the most extreme separation anxiety between 9 and 18 months.
00:39:54.700She recounted Jalen's excruciating final days.
00:39:58.140Um, but the child died of, uh, she starved to death and she died of dehydration.
00:40:03.340While this mother was on vacation, was sitting on the beach, enjoying her time, fully aware that her daughter was not just dying, but dying like the most excruciating death that it's possible for a human to experience.
00:40:23.820Like, starving to death is, when it comes to physical suffering, starving to death is pretty much as bad as it gets.
00:40:34.880And, uh, that is the death that she condemned her 16-month-old daughter to because she wanted her to go on vacation.
00:40:44.580And I guess my only point in bringing this up, my first point is just that it's so horrifying that I don't, I,
00:40:49.680I, I feel as though it should be mentioned for that reason alone.
00:40:56.140But also, um, you know, not to jump up on this soap, soapbox again, but this is why, this is why you just need the death penalty.
00:41:07.300This, this is, this is why right here, this is all the other arguments that are made for it.
00:41:12.640And we've talked about it many times in the past and what the arguments are.
00:41:15.660And there are plenty of arguments, plenty of academic arguments about why you need it and about the deterrence factor and about all these other things.
00:41:23.920Um, but I think, I think all those arguments sort of fade away.
00:41:27.780You don't, you don't, you don't even need them.
00:41:40.900Uh, she got life in prison without parole, but everybody, I think everyone who hears a story like this and finds out what the penalty was, that she's going to prison.
00:41:53.340I think everyone kind of just, I don't care where you stand or where you think you stand on the death penalty.
00:41:58.540In theory, you hear a story like this and you know, you know in your bones that going to prison is not enough.
00:42:10.360And so anything about deterrence, any of these other sort of academic theoretical things, that's not the point.
00:42:18.420Um, the first point is not like, well, how do we deter other women from condemning their children, you know, to, to, to death by starvation?
00:42:28.240Yeah, we do want to deter that, obviously.
00:42:32.920But of course, the truth also is that when you have someone capable of evil at this level, uh, there's not a lot you can do to deter them.
00:42:44.560When they're that evil, when you have someone who's a soulless monster, how do you stop a soulless monster from behaving like a soulless monster?
00:42:52.380It's like, well, the only way you do it is by putting them in jail, but if they're not in jail yet, it's, it's, you know, it's almost impossible.
00:43:13.880It's right there in the name punishment.
00:43:15.260But even people who argue for it, they argue for, for every aspect of it, except the thing that's in the name, which is that it's for punishment.
00:49:02.220I said that they were groomers and also pedophiles.
00:49:07.000There were actual pedophiles working there, as we talked about,
00:49:10.160who were arrested for child sexual abuse.
00:49:14.660And then most of the rest of them who did not fall into one of those camps were cowards.
00:49:19.940And as I said, you always need, you know, anytime you have a scandal that comes out about years of this kind of behavior going on behind the scenes at some company or some institution,
00:49:30.320you always have the perverts and the degenerates that are doing the disgusting things.
00:49:34.900But then you also always need an army of cowards who sit by and let it happen.
00:51:31.620But now, as an adult, and especially seeing some of these revelations, I can now see that my parents, as adults, were noticing, like, this is not, this, some of this stuff is weird.
00:51:41.820This is not, this is not normal for this stuff to be in children's entertainment.
00:51:45.420And I guess at the time, you know, if you were an adult that had a problem with Nickelodeon, you were a, quote, unquote, schoolmarm, but schoolmarm's vindicated yet again.
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00:52:16.840Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:52:17.940The actress Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page, is back in the conversation again.
00:52:28.940She's been doing the interview circuit to promote her new film, something called Close to You, which tells the story of a, quote, unquote, trans man, that is a woman who identifies as a man, on her way to see her family for the first time since transitioning.
00:52:43.160And the movie has a 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is very bad.
00:52:46.380A score that's even worse when you consider that mainstream critics would want, of course, to give a film like this every benefit of the doubt.
00:52:55.120So if the left-wing media is panning a heroic tale about a trans person, that must mean that the movie is really, really bad.
00:53:02.700So bad that movie critics can't even fabricate a reason to praise it.
00:53:06.820You know, it's like if you're starring in the school play and your mom comes to watch it, and afterwards the only positive thing she can say is,
00:53:13.760wow, it looked like you were really trying hard up there.
00:53:17.020But Paige has bigger problems than one bad movie.
00:53:20.500Those problems were put on display again in clips that are circulating from her interview with Channel 4.
00:53:25.140Here she is talking about the trauma of being misgendered.
00:53:30.840And is it something you can relate to in your own life, kind of that slight unease in certain family situations or with certain groups of friends?
00:55:08.300So here we see the, we see the usual attempt by a trans-identified person to try and make herself seem like the reasonable one.
00:55:15.220She says that so-called misgendering is not a big deal so long as you apologize and fix it.
00:55:19.580That is, she wants you to apologize for telling the truth and fix it by telling a lie.
00:55:24.220But of course, any misgendering, i.e. correct gendering, done intentionally is, she says, automatically awful.
00:55:31.120So in Paige's world, like with any other trans activist, it's not just, it's just not plausible.
00:55:36.240It's not even theoretically possible that a person could intentionally use biologically correct pronouns for reasons that are not sinister.
00:55:43.640Millions of people in this country feel morally obligated to use correct pronouns, regardless of what a trans person might prefer, because using incorrect ones would be a lie.
00:55:50.820And we don't want to participate in a lie.
00:56:20.320But I cannot sympathize with self-obsessed egomaniacs who believe that their perception of reality, however demented and confused it might be, is the only valid one.
00:56:42.020And it is just as dire and devastating as what you hear from any detransitioner.
00:56:47.900Detransitioners who, by the way, I do sympathize with.
00:56:51.320But Page herself has not detransitioned, not yet.
00:56:54.700But she still inadvertently reveals the true unbridled evil of the gender transition industry.
00:57:00.980And of all of the sort of high-profile, quote-unquote, transitions, I think this one most of all reveals that.
00:57:08.300Because consider to begin with, again, the movie that she's promoting.
00:57:12.360As mentioned, against all ideological odds, the film has been crushed by critics, which is probably inevitable because it's just not possible to make trans propaganda into a good film.
00:57:22.420It's like trying to construct a stable house out of popsicle sticks.
00:57:26.380The raw material isn't solid enough to build a story around.
00:57:29.720But tragically for Page, these kinds of movies are the only movies she can make anymore.
00:57:35.560Now, back before she tried to become a man, she was a bona fide Hollywood star.
00:57:39.220She had lead roles in successful films like Juno and X-Men and Inception.
00:57:44.400But now her options are severely limited.
00:57:47.840She can't, and I assume wouldn't want to, play a female character in a film.
00:57:51.640She also can't, as much as she might want to, play a male character.
00:57:55.900All she can do is play a trans person.
00:57:58.560And her transness is so obvious, it's so glaring, that the movie has to be about the fact that she is trans.
00:58:05.680It would be distracting to stick her into some other film about something else and, you know, just have her there being trans, even though that's not what the subject is about.
00:58:17.880By comparison, you know, if you're going to make a, if you're going to put a guy in a giant chicken costume into one of your movies, then every scene that he's in has to be about the fact that he's in the chicken costume.
00:58:30.660You can't just have the guy in the chicken costume show up in a scene without anyone mentioning or noticing the elephant in the room or the chicken in the room in this case.
00:58:38.520You can't, for instance, have a police procedural where one of the detectives just so happens to dress as a chicken.
00:59:29.060She still has the mannerisms of a woman.
00:59:31.360There's nothing masculine about the way she looks, sounds, or carries herself.
00:59:34.940And there's a reason that no Hollywood director is knocking on her door to have her play the male lead in the next big action movie franchise.
00:59:42.060She isn't going to be the next Jason Bourne or John Wick.
00:59:45.140She doesn't have her feminine charm anymore, but neither does she have any masculine grit or presence.
00:59:51.580So she doesn't pass as a man, not even close.
00:59:54.840But she also doesn't look much like a woman.
00:59:56.500She's stuck out in the gray zone, in the fog.
00:59:59.320Still as much a woman biologically as she was before, but having destroyed most of her femininity without successfully replacing it with masculinity.
01:00:08.340And this is the trans trap, you might say.
01:00:11.460They lure you out into the cold and they leave you there.
01:00:15.120So if you'll excuse a little parable, imagine a young lady sitting in her home one night.
01:00:38.320It's better in a number of mostly unspecified ways.
01:00:42.300And he tells her that she can go live there instead, in that house, in the better house.
01:00:46.740And she's resistant at first, but then thinking more about the fact that there's a better house out there, she starts to feel worse and worse about her own house.
01:00:54.740And before the guy knocked on the door, she liked her house.