The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1332 - The Media Panics As More And More Women Choose To Dump Their Birth Control

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wall Show, more and more women are choosing to dump their birth control pills.

00:00:03.760 This has caused a panic among the media and big tech platforms.

00:00:06.900 They're accusing these women of spreading misinformation, 1.00

00:00:08.940 but why are they so determined to keep women on the pill?

00:00:11.440 We'll discuss also, a Democratic congresswoman claims that banning men from women's sports will hurt women.

00:00:16.540 How can that possibly be true? It can't, but we'll talk about it.

00:00:19.020 And some red states are looking to put chaplains in public schools.

00:00:22.260 I like the idea in theory, but I think it will do more harm than good in practice.

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00:00:26.960 And the president of Mexico says that it's not Mexico's fault that it ships fentanyl and other poison into the United States by the ton.

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00:02:09.600 The Washington Post, as you may know, has been hemorrhaging subscribers and web traffic for years.

00:02:15.420 Late last year, the paper conducted yet another round of layoffs impacting hundreds of employees.

00:02:20.700 Jeff Bezos purchased the paper for $250 million a decade ago, and last year alone, it managed to lose roughly $100 million.

00:02:28.260 So this is not a profitable venture, and in normal circumstances, businesses that lose this much money don't stay around very long.

00:02:35.460 But the Washington Post has stuck around.

00:02:37.520 Jeff Bezos has kept it on life support to fulfill a specific mission, which is to harangue and censor independent voices on behalf of Jeff Bezos' donors in the Democratic Party.

00:02:47.440 A couple of days ago, that mission was on full display.

00:02:49.780 On March 21st, the Washington Post published an article entitled,

00:02:53.080 Women Are Getting Off Birth Control Amid Misinformation Explosion.

00:02:56.740 The Daily Beast ran a similar story warning ominously of an explosion of women who are ditching birth control amid a misinformation blitz.

00:03:04.760 Now, first of all, it needs to be said, of course, that, as we know, any time the media collectively decides to label something misinformation,

00:03:12.760 they really mean information that we find personally or politically inconvenient.

00:03:17.740 They're not interested in proving you wrong.

00:03:19.720 They're interested in shutting you up, and that's exactly what's happening here.

00:03:23.080 Quoting from the Washington Post piece, Brett Cooper, a media commentator for the conservative Daily Wire,

00:03:28.660 argued in a viral TikTok clip that birth control can impact fertility, cause women to gain weight, and even alter whom they are attracted to.

00:03:35.940 It racked up over 219,000 likes before TikTok removed it following the Post's inquiry.

00:03:41.440 Now, the piece goes on to describe other similar videos that the Post also wants to be deleted from the Internet.

00:03:46.960 For example, there's this one from Ben Shapiro's show a year ago. Watch.

00:03:52.560 Yeah, I mean, the actual story here, I mean, I'm a New Yorker.

00:03:55.280 I'm not in some sort of conservative bubble, and I wanted to go off the pill myself after thinking more critically about it during the pandemic

00:04:01.960 and thinking about what taking these exogenous hormones might mean.

00:04:05.440 And as soon as I started telling my friends, I realized virtually all my young female friends, including my progressive ones,

00:04:11.220 were having the same thoughts, because, of course, taking an exogenous pill of hormones every single day

00:04:16.740 would affect the way that you see the world around you, the way that your brain works.

00:04:21.040 And the more that I went down this rabbit hole, I realized that there is this wealth of information

00:04:25.280 and researchers who have been looking into the effects of the hormonal birth control pill on women's psychology.

00:04:31.080 And it's been completely just untouchable.

00:04:34.720 And like, as you mentioned, the third rail, because, of course, there was the Dobbs decision recently.

00:04:38.960 And there's a sense that if you criticize birth control at all, period, you're you're criticizing it as an idea,

00:04:44.180 which, of course, I'm not.

00:04:45.620 But I think that there is attention that needs to be paid to giving women as much information as possible

00:04:50.640 to make the best choices for themselves.

00:04:53.400 Now, it's hard to imagine it's hard to imagine a more anodyne clip than that.

00:04:57.140 This is not a woman making up crazy, unhinged conspiracy theories about birth control, whatever those would be.

00:05:02.700 She's not expressing some dangerous, unscientific opinion, if an opinion can even be dangerous.

00:05:08.440 She doesn't even appear to be political.

00:05:09.840 She's just articulating a very reasonable, increasingly common concern,

00:05:13.040 which is that taking unnatural hormones might have some unexpected and unwanted effects on the human body.

00:05:19.000 Even if you don't know anything about the scientific data on this point, that's not a crazy thing to believe.

00:05:23.920 I mean, it just seems intuitively true that there are going to, at a very minimum, be side effects when you do something like that.

00:05:33.140 But as the clip goes on, they do talk about some of the research on this point.

00:05:37.000 And none of this is quack science.

00:05:39.060 It's widely accepted in medical literature.

00:05:40.900 For example, a recent study out of Denmark published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that, quote,

00:05:45.760 hormonal contraception use doubles the risk of suicide attempts and triples the risk of suicide.

00:05:50.580 The study specifically found that, quote, the association between hormonal contraception and primary outcomes peaked at two months,

00:05:56.840 but continued even after the cessation of hormonal contraception for some years.

00:06:00.760 The researchers also reported that hormonal contraceptives were connected with a 70% increase in rates of depression.

00:06:06.260 Now, before I get into the specifics of what other studies have found,

00:06:10.560 it's important to pause here and take another look at how the Washington Post is framing this story.

00:06:15.440 So here's the first paragraph, quote,

00:06:16.700 Now, the implication of what the Post wrote is that it's misinformation to say that birth control is related to depression and anxiety,

00:06:46.440 but that's not true.

00:06:48.020 At no point in the Washington Post article did they debunk the study from Denmark.

00:06:52.120 They don't even mention it.

00:06:53.060 Instead, they simply state, as a matter of fact, that you're crazy if you link birth control to weight gain, infertility, depression.

00:07:00.700 They claim the only significant side effects of birth control medication are blood clots,

00:07:04.520 but they're just wrong on all accounts.

00:07:07.880 And one of the main reasons they're wrong is that hormonal birth control inhibits the body's natural reaction to stress.

00:07:12.880 As a UCLA health study put it late last year, quote,

00:07:16.540 Researchers at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research found

00:07:22.540 contraceptive users and non-users process stress differently at the molecular level,

00:07:28.520 with contraceptive users also reporting a more negative psychological response to stress compared to non-users.

00:07:34.340 Now, is it possible that disrupting the body's natural stress response might lead to weight gain,

00:07:40.960 given that weight gain is one of the most common symptoms of stress?

00:07:44.720 The Washington Post thinks you're a science denier, if you even suggest that.

00:07:49.260 They'll have you pulled off TikTok if you even mention the possibility.

00:07:53.560 And that's kind of weird because less than a year ago, NBC News ran this report,

00:07:56.880 in which their medical experts explain that weight gain and hair loss are among the symptoms of hormonal birth control.

00:08:04.300 Watch.

00:08:06.540 In a post-Roe world, contraceptives like birth control are taking center stage. 0.99

00:08:11.600 I'm officially off my hormonal birth control.

00:08:14.940 But online, a chorus of voices are taking to platforms like TikTok to talk about why the pill might not be for them,

00:08:21.140 even if they don't want to get pregnant.

00:08:22.960 A few quick updates for you.

00:08:24.140 25-year-old Erica Hong says she first got on the pill at 16 as a way to not only prevent pregnancy,

00:08:30.340 but also manage what's called polycystic ovarian syndrome,

00:08:33.680 presenting in symptoms like acne and irregular menstruation.

00:08:37.060 And it really, truly helped me with a lot of my symptoms.

00:08:40.080 But then I experienced new side effects.

00:08:42.560 Side effects like mood swings, weight gain, and even hair loss.

00:08:46.040 In a nutshell, that repeated over and over again for about five different pills over a span of almost 10 years.

00:08:51.700 Her experience with birth control is unfortunately not uncommon, according to doctors.

00:08:56.400 What are some of the common side effects that you see with people who take birth control?

00:09:00.020 So when we look at side effects from starting a particular type of contraception,

00:09:04.420 that can be anywhere from nausea, headaches, or even some weight gain.

00:09:08.980 There are some people that note some hair changes, whether that's hair loss or sparseness in hair.

00:09:14.300 I think I'm getting hair loss.

00:09:15.960 For Ali Vaccaro, hormonal changes like hair loss came after she got off the pill.

00:09:20.780 It scared me at first. I did not even know that was a side effect.

00:09:25.700 Wow, what an explosion of misinformation you just saw there.

00:09:29.180 And I guess we're expected to believe that at some point between May and this week, the science changed.

00:09:34.500 But, of course, it didn't.

00:09:36.700 Going back to the UCLA study, researchers confirmed existing research which found that, quote,

00:09:40.820 hormonal contraceptive pills may increase women's risk for chronically elevated inflammation,

00:09:45.120 which carries the long-term risk of developing illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular disease,

00:09:48.740 and autoimmune disorders, as well as potential mood disorders, including depression.

00:09:52.400 The lead author at UCLA added that, quote,

00:09:54.440 cortisol gets a bad rap but increases in cortisol in response to stress help the body manage stressful situations.

00:10:00.100 If women on the pill are having these increases in cortisol but their mood is getting worse,

00:10:03.780 it could mean that the pill is preventing their bodies and minds from returning to normal following stress.

00:10:09.440 Now, the truth is that hormonal birth control does come with all kinds of risks and side effects.

00:10:14.180 All drugs do.

00:10:15.720 And drugs that suppress the normal, healthy functions of the body are always going to be especially risky.

00:10:22.420 Drugs that you're taking that are meant to cure something that is not a disease,

00:10:29.600 such as, like, the natural fertility, a woman's natural fertility, that's not a disease. 0.75

00:10:34.640 It's not an illness.

00:10:36.440 And so when you're taking something that is suppressing a part of your body that is not defective,

00:10:41.100 it's going to have an impact on your body.

00:10:45.260 And that includes potential impacts on fertility as much as The Washington Post doesn't want to admit it.

00:10:49.520 Like, right now, if you go to the Planned Parenthood website,

00:10:52.240 you'll find that they recommend a method of hormonal birth control known as the Depo shot.

00:10:57.400 Quote, the Depo shot is an injection you get once every three months.

00:11:00.160 It's a safe, convenient, and private birth control method that works really well if you always get it on time.

00:11:06.100 Now, what Planned Parenthood doesn't mention on their website is that the Depo shot

00:11:10.300 has clear and proven impacts on fertility.

00:11:12.680 This is from the WebMD website, rather, which on most days, The Washington Post agrees, is a reliable source.

00:11:19.500 But here's what they say.

00:11:20.220 Quote, injectable birth control, unlike other forms of hormonal birth control,

00:11:24.520 it may be harder to get pregnant after you stop getting these shots. 1.00

00:11:27.280 It may take 10 months or more before you ovulate again.

00:11:30.720 For some women, it will take up to 18 months for periods to start again. 1.00

00:11:35.060 So this is a method of hormonal birth control that does impact fertility after you stop taking it.

00:11:41.160 In fact, it can make women infertile for a very long time. 1.00

00:11:45.120 This isn't some conspiracy theory, and neither is the idea that hormonal birth control can contribute to weight gain, depression, suicide.

00:11:52.600 The same sources that the left tells us to trust at every opportunity, established medical researchers are very clear on this.

00:11:59.440 But the trust the science crowd has suddenly become very distrusting of science when it comes to this.

00:12:04.640 And that's not the only platitude that they're abandoning in order to censor anyone who speaks critically about birth control.

00:12:09.960 You may recall, my body, my choice.

00:12:13.460 And these people really believed in the my body, my choice mantra.

00:12:16.800 They would celebrate or at least accept that an increasing number of young women are choosing to forego birth control.

00:12:24.200 But they can't celebrate it, and they can't even accept it.

00:12:26.740 And they can't even allow women to talk about it in public on these platforms because birth control is central to their cultural agenda. 1.00

00:12:34.860 With fewer women on the pill, more women will become mothers. 1.00

00:12:40.100 Some of them will drop out of the workforce and discover fulfillment and happiness as wives, as homemakers.

00:12:44.960 And this is the real crisis that the Washington Post and the other left-wing rags are worried about.

00:12:52.220 The last thing that the elites want to see is a movement of women fully embracing their own womanhood and men fully embracing their manhood. 0.81

00:13:01.340 A move back towards the family, away from materialism, away from self-preoccupation, towards marriage, towards parenthood.

00:13:12.520 That's what they don't want to see.

00:13:13.700 These people have been waging a war on the family for decades.

00:13:17.720 And the birth control pill was their nuclear bomb. 0.85

00:13:20.480 The family is the greatest threat to them.

00:13:24.760 And a society full of families, of intact, happy families with attentive mothers and strong fathers,

00:13:30.600 that is a society that has rendered these people basically powerless.

00:13:35.820 That is their fear.

00:13:37.840 And they fear it like they fear nothing else.

00:13:41.640 And then politically, of course, we know that unhappy career middle managers at Citibank

00:13:46.680 are one of the core constituencies of the Democratic Party.

00:13:49.380 And if those people rebel, well, Democrats will have real trouble winning another election.

00:13:55.500 And they're willing to do anything, including lying to women about the serious and even fatal drug side effects of birth control and so many other drugs,

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00:15:18.160 So there was a hearing late last week, a hearing about a bill that would ban males from competing in female sports.

00:15:25.080 And the other side of the debate, the people who want men to compete against women,

00:15:29.200 the people who have taken a totally indefensible position,

00:15:33.320 embarrassed themselves thoroughly, as you would expect.

00:15:37.720 But nobody behaved in a more humiliating way than Representative Pramila Jayapal.

00:15:42.560 And there are several clips of her circulating from this hearing that are all really embarrassing for her.

00:15:48.640 If she had the capacity to be embarrassed.

00:15:51.200 But this one in particular, for reasons we'll talk about, I think was the worst.

00:15:55.360 Here it is.

00:15:56.760 The way this bill targets trans people in the name of gender equality is simply insulting.

00:16:03.360 Don't believe for a second that this is about protecting women and girls.

00:16:08.260 My amendment would require a report on the impacts of this bill on all female athletes 0.93

00:16:14.200 since categorical bans on trans women harm all women.

00:16:19.460 That is why women's organizations across the country, including the Women's Sports Foundation, 0.98

00:16:24.160 have denounced categorical bans on trans athletes for promoting fear, dangerous stereotypes,

00:16:30.080 unfair scrutiny on high-performing female athletes, and sex discrimination based on misinformation.

00:16:37.120 And just think about this for a second.

00:16:38.560 How are you going to enforce this ban?

00:16:42.980 How do you verify a girl or a woman's, quote, reproductive anatomy?

00:16:49.580 We have already seen horrific sexual abuse against girls and women in sports.

00:16:54.460 If a woman or a young girl, if your daughter, your daughter doesn't look feminine enough, 0.92

00:17:02.320 is she subject to an examination?

00:17:04.980 This is absurd and insulting.

00:17:08.920 Okay, so a few things here.

00:17:11.200 First of all, you should know, if you don't already, that Jayapal has a quote-unquote trans kid.

00:17:15.280 She is therefore in the process of helping her, I think it's her male child, her son, transition into a female.

00:17:25.820 So she's already abusing her child in this way, which means that she's incapable of being even remotely honest about this issue.

00:17:33.060 She just can't be.

00:17:33.680 Now, granted, almost all elected Democrats are incapable of being honest about this or any other issue.

00:17:38.940 But for her in particular, to be honest would be to admit to herself that she's ruined her child's life.

00:17:46.820 And she can't do that.

00:17:48.500 That's not something that most people are willing to do.

00:17:50.580 That's the sort of honest self-analysis that only a very strong and courageous person could engage in.

00:17:56.220 But the problem is that a strong and courageous person wouldn't trans their kid in the first place. 1.00

00:18:00.600 So the only people capable of being honest about transing their own kids are the people who would never trans their own kids in the first place. 1.00

00:18:08.060 And so that's the dilemma here.

00:18:10.060 And it's an important point to understand because it explains one of the reasons why a lot of these people push transgenderism.

00:18:15.960 It seems like an obvious reason.

00:18:19.580 But it also explains why so many social media platforms ban or demonetize you for talking about it.

00:18:24.380 It's because the adults who run these platforms, the adults who hold these political offices, many of them have children who identify as trans.

00:18:34.480 Or they have powerful friends or bosses who have children who identify as trans.

00:18:38.060 So, you know, you could just imagine a meeting at some big tech company where they're discussing the speech policies when it comes to transgenderism.

00:18:48.760 And if 15 people are in the room, or however many, how many of those people have, quote unquote, trans kids themselves?

00:18:58.840 Probably more than one.

00:19:02.020 Enough that it's just impossible that any kind of honest conversation will take place.

00:19:08.080 And it's very unlikely that anybody in the room will have the guts to speak up and say, yeah, this is crazy.

00:19:15.040 They're not going to do it.

00:19:15.860 And the second point about what Jayapal said is, well, she says that these bans hurt all women.

00:19:26.380 But in what way?

00:19:29.440 I mean, that's an interesting claim.

00:19:31.440 Can you be specific?

00:19:32.600 Like, let's just take an actual specific female athlete. 1.00

00:19:39.500 Tell me how she specifically, personally, is hurt by not allowing males to compete against her.

00:19:47.680 What is the damage that is done by not allowing males to compete against female athletes?

00:19:54.160 And whatever that damage is, you're telling me that this damage, that this is damage that was being done to female athletes since the, you know, inception of women's sports up until very recently.

00:20:08.540 So this is, they love to use the phrase real world harm, you know, but then they proceed to talk about harm that isn't happening in anything resembling the real world.

00:20:19.200 So what is the harm?

00:20:21.140 She can't tell us because it's nonsense.

00:20:22.760 And third, finally, this is my favorite.

00:20:24.520 My favorite point from the anti-reality side when it comes to this issue is when they say, well, how can we tell?

00:20:32.660 How can we tell who is trans and who isn't? 0.98

00:20:36.140 How can we possibly tell?

00:20:38.180 It's impossible.

00:20:39.100 We need to conduct some kind of intrusive exam to figure out who's trans and who isn't. 1.00

00:20:48.220 That's what they claim.

00:20:49.020 It's like if a furry in a dog costume were to sneak into the dog pound and then, you know, you came in the next day and you know that someone broke it and you're looking around at all the dogs and you're like, how can we tell?

00:21:01.720 How can we tell which one is the furry?

00:21:03.420 It's impossible.

00:21:04.940 There's just, there's no way.

00:21:06.500 Well, I'll tell you how we can tell who the trans person is by looking at them, by glancing at them for two seconds is how you can tell.

00:21:17.460 It doesn't even take two seconds.

00:21:19.340 Like as long as it takes to just look over and go, oh, okay.

00:21:22.540 Just that right there.

00:21:23.880 That's how we tell.

00:21:24.760 That movement.

00:21:25.920 Glancing over.

00:21:27.120 Yep.

00:21:27.280 There he is.

00:21:30.140 That's how we tell.

00:21:32.260 In the vast majority of cases, quote unquote trans women do not even come close to passing, as they say.

00:21:41.000 Like not even close.

00:21:42.280 Not within a hundred miles of it.

00:21:44.660 So this is not a problem.

00:21:45.860 And especially because many of these trans women athletes, quote unquote, were men who identified as men like three weeks ago.

00:21:56.400 So Leah Thomas was a guy named Will Thomas for his whole life until one day he decided to be Leah.

00:22:03.900 So how, even if he could, you know, present himself convincingly as a female, which he couldn't. 0.50

00:22:12.860 Even if he could, we all know.

00:22:15.440 It's like, oh, well, that's Will Thomas.

00:22:16.620 He just, he comes, he's in school.

00:22:18.420 He was in school as Will.

00:22:19.520 His whole, we all know him.

00:22:20.840 And here he is as Leah.

00:22:23.200 It's not confusing.

00:22:24.200 So the only, I'm just trying to imagine, how could it be that anyone would really be confused about this?

00:22:29.840 The only way that people could be confused about whether, let's say, Leah Thomas is a woman. 0.97

00:22:37.020 The only person that could be confused is, first of all, it has to be a blind person.

00:22:39.840 And deaf, because you can tell when they speak.

00:22:44.800 So you need a blind and deaf person. 0.96

00:22:48.060 You would need Helen Keller.

00:22:49.020 So if Helen Keller was assessing them.

00:22:51.380 And also, if Helen Keller was convinced that Will Thomas, the person previously known as Will Thomas, disappeared, was like raptured or something.

00:23:03.260 And then a brand new person called Leah Thomas, who looks suspiciously identical to him, appeared out of thin air.

00:23:10.660 Right?

00:23:11.020 That's what will be required for people to be confused about it, which is to say that no one's confused, that enforcing these rules would not be difficult in the vast majority of cases.

00:23:24.620 Now, what about the very, very, very rare case of a quote-unquote trans woman who can sort of pass as a woman according to the eye test?

00:23:40.120 Like, I can't even think of a case like that off the top of the head.

00:23:44.040 But let's just, you know, from a statistical perspective, they're probably, let's just pretend that every once in a while, you know, you're going to run across a trans-identified male who, according to the eye test, you know, you can't really tell.

00:23:57.260 So, let's take this hypothetical person.

00:24:01.640 What about him?

00:24:03.340 And what if, for whatever reason, we didn't know or couldn't know that he had been enrolled in school as a boy for years prior to this?

00:24:11.480 Like, so, whatever reason, all that is out the window.

00:24:14.960 What do you do then?

00:24:17.620 Like, how do you weed those people out?

00:24:21.280 Do we need to have invasive exams?

00:24:24.540 No, we don't.

00:24:25.660 What happens in that case?

00:24:27.980 Well, I guess in that case, that would be a boy who could get away with cheating.

00:24:35.140 That's it.

00:24:35.740 I mean, that's the answer.

00:24:37.160 So, you pass these laws.

00:24:39.300 No one is suggesting any invasive exams to figure out who is a female and isn't.

00:24:45.500 It is not even close to necessary in almost all cases.

00:24:50.460 And in the cases where it is confusing, well, what do you do then?

00:24:53.720 You know, well, that's a cheater.

00:24:54.800 That's someone who can succeed at cheating, unfortunately.

00:24:59.900 There's always going to be people who can get away with cheating.

00:25:02.320 Steroids are illegal in sports, but some people find a way to use them anyway.

00:25:06.020 Like, you know, in sports, you'll go to a certain extent to figure out who's using steroids, but there's not, there's a limit to how far you'll go to enforce any, you know, whatever.

00:25:18.980 There's all kinds of rules in sports and all kinds of different ways to break the rules.

00:25:25.180 And depending on what the sport is, there's a certain length you'll go to prevent people from breaking the rule.

00:25:32.400 But then you'll only go that far.

00:25:34.980 You're not going to go farther than that, because at a certain point, it just becomes completely unreasonable.

00:25:38.040 And what does that mean?

00:25:40.900 It means that, yeah, you're just sort of acknowledging that if someone is really determined, there might be a few people who can successfully cheat.

00:25:49.280 And it's unfortunate, it shouldn't be allowed, it's bad, that person is doing something wrong.

00:25:56.000 You put measures in place to stop people from cheating.

00:25:59.140 The fact that some cheaters are devious enough to get around the measures is not an argument against the measures themselves.

00:26:09.480 Especially when you're putting measures in place that will weed out 99.9% of the cheaters.

00:26:16.400 And in this case, if you just say men are not allowed, we're not going to do anything special.

00:26:23.120 We're not going to do anything special to figure out who's a man or not.

00:26:25.160 Other than just look at them, like just from across the room.

00:26:28.320 Right there.

00:26:30.000 Yep, that's Will Thomas.

00:26:31.100 We all know that's who it is.

00:26:33.500 Obviously, there's nothing.

00:26:34.720 And so he's not allowed.

00:26:36.260 That's all we're going to do.

00:26:38.340 And if you do that, again, 99.9% of the male cheaters, that's enough to get rid of them.

00:26:43.820 And the 0.1% or fewer who sneak through, well, they're cheaters.

00:26:49.620 And it's wrong.

00:26:50.800 And they shouldn't be allowed to.

00:26:51.920 I mean, they shouldn't be doing it.

00:26:54.940 But they are.

00:26:55.880 You're always going to have cheaters.

00:26:57.180 That's just the answer.

00:27:00.680 All right.

00:27:03.460 This is an interesting story.

00:27:05.420 This is from MSN.

00:27:06.340 Lawmakers in mostly conservative states are pushing a coordinated effort to bring chaplains

00:27:11.260 into public schools, aided by a new legislation crafting network that aims to address policy

00:27:16.180 issues from a biblical worldview.

00:27:18.420 And by a consortium whose promotional materials say chaplains are a way to convert millions

00:27:26.060 to Christianity.

00:27:26.760 The bills have been introduced this legislative season in 14 states inspired by Texas, which

00:27:31.480 passed a law late last year allowing school districts to hire chaplains or use them as

00:27:37.520 volunteers for whatever role the local school board sees fit, including replacing trained

00:27:42.100 counselors.

00:27:43.180 Chaplain bills were approved by one legislative chamber in three states, Utah, Indiana, and

00:27:49.000 Louisiana, but died in Utah and Indiana.

00:27:51.700 Bills are pending in nine states.

00:27:52.920 One passed both houses of Florida's legislature and is awaiting the governor's signature.

00:27:58.680 So these are bills that are, as you heard, going to put chaplains in public schools, which

00:28:04.440 is an interesting idea.

00:28:06.320 I think it's a bad one, though, and I'll explain why.

00:28:11.000 It's not because I have any problem with bringing Christianity into education.

00:28:15.500 I'm in favor of that, in principle, anyway.

00:28:19.460 I think there should be prayer in the classroom.

00:28:21.640 I think that the constitutional argument against prayer in the classroom is absurd because it

00:28:28.560 hinges on the separation of church and state, which, as I hope you know, is not really a

00:28:34.540 constitutional idea.

00:28:35.720 It cannot be found anywhere in the Constitution.

00:28:37.920 That was an opinion expressed in a letter by Thomas Jefferson, who, by the way, was worried

00:28:44.600 about the state's corrosive effect on religion, not the other way around.

00:28:49.080 What the First Amendment forbids is the establishment of a state religion by Congress.

00:28:56.400 But kids or teachers or both praying in a classroom, let's say, that is not a congressional

00:29:03.000 act, and it's not the establishment of a state religion.

00:29:07.000 It's not either of those things.

00:29:08.920 So it should be allowed.

00:29:10.560 And also, of course, religion and the state can never be fully separated.

00:29:16.560 Our country was founded on a religious doctrine, which is the doctrine of inherent human rights

00:29:25.460 endowed by the creator.

00:29:27.380 It's one of our foundational ideas.

00:29:29.880 It's a religious idea.

00:29:31.940 It's a religious doctrine.

00:29:33.220 And anyone who takes exception to that, like, what else would you call it if you wouldn't

00:29:39.180 call it a religious doctrine?

00:29:41.420 Inherent human rights endowed by a creator.

00:29:44.020 What is that if it's not a religious idea?

00:29:46.020 Is it scientific?

00:29:48.060 Can you go and find evidence of human rights, of divinely endowed human rights in science

00:29:56.000 somewhere?

00:29:56.540 Can you go in a laboratory and locate it?

00:29:59.300 Well, yeah, there are the human rights right there.

00:30:01.100 Found them.

00:30:01.460 Find them in a petri dish?

00:30:03.600 You can't.

00:30:04.740 It's a religious idea.

00:30:05.960 It just is.

00:30:07.880 Anyone who goes around talking about human rights, that is a religious idea. 0.98

00:30:14.140 So the state will always be religious. 0.55

00:30:16.560 Ours was Christian.

00:30:19.580 Now it's not anymore.

00:30:21.940 And it's grounded, but it's still religious.

00:30:24.300 Our government now is not anymore grounded in Christian doctrine, but it is grounded in

00:30:30.020 the religion of leftism, which is secular Satanism.

00:30:33.400 So we don't get to decide.

00:30:36.100 It's not possible to have, really, to have a truly secular government in that sense.

00:30:42.860 That's not, that's just not possible.

00:30:48.620 It's just a question of what religious ideas is the government grounded in.

00:30:57.140 And, um, so I think all that is true.

00:31:04.100 I still don't like the idea of chaplains in public school.

00:31:07.520 And the reason is, is simple.

00:31:10.280 Um, do we have any reason to believe that these ministers will actually know the gospel

00:31:17.560 and teach it?

00:31:19.420 Like, do we have, do we have any confidence in that?

00:31:23.420 I don't.

00:31:24.820 In fact, um, what I'm confident in is the fact that you start bringing these chaplains in

00:31:31.460 and I don't care if it's in Texas, if it's in Florida, it, you know, it will still be

00:31:34.860 the same situation most likely.

00:31:37.240 Let's say they start bringing chaplains into public school.

00:31:40.200 Well, who are those chaplains going to be?

00:31:42.280 They're going to be liberals who preach the gospel of tolerance.

00:31:46.400 And how do I know that?

00:31:48.060 Well, I know that because that's what you find in most churches.

00:31:52.660 And the idea that you'll find something better in public school is absurd.

00:31:59.500 So that's what it could be.

00:32:00.680 It'll be chaplains, I'll tell you right now, who, um, these are not going to be like maybe

00:32:05.720 with rare exception, these are not going to be conservative Christian, you know, Christians 0.99

00:32:14.780 who are very grounded in scripture.

00:32:17.420 And that's not what it's going to be.

00:32:18.340 It'll be chaplains who teach the kids that, uh, you know, God wants them to be tolerant

00:32:22.620 and accept everybody for who they are.

00:32:24.640 And there's no such thing as sin.

00:32:26.800 And, you know, we shouldn't feel ashamed of anything that we've done.

00:32:29.760 And, um, and, uh, we certainly shouldn't feel, we shouldn't, we certainly shouldn't feel

00:32:34.600 ashamed of anything that we call our identity.

00:32:37.040 You know, if we, if we claim anything as an identity, then automatically we shouldn't be ashamed

00:32:41.780 of it.

00:32:42.060 Like, this is what, uh, we shouldn't be judgmental.

00:32:44.660 Let's not judge anyone or anything.

00:32:46.420 Let's not engage in any judgment.

00:32:47.820 This is what it's going to be.

00:32:49.680 And the thing is, and, and, you know, I would rather have schools, um, ignore Christianity 0.99

00:32:56.660 or even preach against it rather than preach a perverted form of it.

00:33:05.300 All of those options are bad.

00:33:06.880 I don't like any of those options, which is the reason my kids don't go to public school.

00:33:10.500 Because those are, those are really, like right now, if you said your kid at public school,

00:33:16.360 when it comes to Christianity, it's going to be one of those three. 0.60

00:33:18.520 That's all you're going to get.

00:33:20.440 Either they're in an education system that completely ignores your child's faith or that

00:33:26.680 actively like militates against it, which is most of the time what's happening.

00:33:31.840 Or I, you know, if this starts happening, then you're probably going to end up in a scenario

00:33:36.480 where, uh, where they pretend to embrace it, but they are embracing and therefore teaching,

00:33:43.660 uh, something that they call Christianity, but that is not.

00:33:47.480 And so, again, all three of those options are bad.

00:33:50.200 I think the first option of ignoring it is the least bad.

00:33:53.020 Uh, militating against it is, is the second worst option.

00:33:58.360 And the worst of all, because it's the most confusing for the child, um, and the most likely

00:34:04.480 to, to, you know, settle in and, and, uh, make an impact is the preaching of, uh, a perverted

00:34:13.800 form of it.

00:34:14.500 So, you know, it's, if it sounds sort of like a lose-lose situation with the public school

00:34:19.580 system, that's because it is.

00:34:21.620 It's, it's again, why I don't send my kid to public school.

00:34:24.600 It's the same thing.

00:34:25.440 I've, I've made a similar case about, uh, sex education.

00:34:29.720 And, you know, this reminds me a little bit, it's like a little bit of a version of, uh,

00:34:34.160 what you still find in, in some states and in some areas of the conservative movement,

00:34:39.440 where they, they say that, you know, uh, we need to have sex ed, that we need to have

00:34:44.440 an abstinence focused sex ed education.

00:34:47.440 That's what we need to have.

00:34:48.320 Um, but I don't really want that either.

00:34:53.540 Now, I don't want the comprehensive sex ed, the so-called comprehensive sex ed, you know,

00:35:00.080 that was, uh, of which Alfred Kinsey, the degenerate quack is, is the godfather.

00:35:05.780 I, I, I certainly don't want that.

00:35:07.980 In that case, that's the worst option, but I don't really want, uh, Mike, I don't want

00:35:13.960 to send my kids to school to have a, an abstinent sex ed either.

00:35:16.800 And the reason is that I don't trust some health teacher in some public school to handle

00:35:24.360 that subject matter in the way that I think it should be handled.

00:35:28.560 I don't trust them to teach that.

00:35:31.580 I think it's important to teach abstinence.

00:35:33.360 It's important to think, to teach, uh, chastity.

00:35:35.980 Do I trust any public school teacher, frankly, to teach that effectively, to teach, to teach

00:35:43.260 it appropriately, to teach it in the right way?

00:35:47.300 No.

00:35:49.840 Do I think it's, it's the role of any stranger out there to teach those things to my kid?

00:35:54.880 I don't.

00:35:55.540 Um, it's just, that, that, it just shouldn't come up at all.

00:36:03.960 In that case, that's something that shouldn't come up at all.

00:36:06.440 There shouldn't be any sex education at all. 0.92

00:36:08.980 Let's talk about actual, uh, academic subjects.

00:36:12.460 All right.

00:36:13.060 Uh, I wanted to briefly mention this as well, if I can find it.

00:36:19.840 Fox News says this, the Boston Task Force on Reparations called on white churches to step

00:36:25.360 up and pay the black community back for racial inequities that root back to the transatlantic 0.79

00:36:30.400 slave trade.

00:36:31.700 According to reports, the Boston Globe reported that black and white clergy members met in

00:36:36.340 Roxbury for a press conference intended to be held outside.

00:36:38.860 It was instead held in the basement of the Resurrection Lutheran Church on Saturday because

00:36:42.760 of rain.

00:36:44.020 The commission was established through a 2022 Boston City Council ordinance and made up

00:36:48.840 of 10 members, including two from the youth community.

00:36:52.080 In February, the Boston activists called for the city to fully commit to writing checks and

00:36:57.560 for a $15 billion payout since the city's wealth was built on slavery, they argue.

00:37:04.620 Um, which by the way, just isn't true at all.

00:37:09.460 The idea that whatever wealth Boston has right now is built on slavery is ridiculous.

00:37:14.640 But anyway, um, Kevin Peters, Reverend Kevin Peterson said, quote, we call sincerely and

00:37:22.160 with a heart filled with faith and Christian love for our white churches to join us and

00:37:26.620 not be silent around this issue of racism and slavery and commit to reparations.

00:37:31.540 Peterson as a minister is trying to rename, uh, Faneuil Hall because of its ties to the slave

00:37:37.280 trade in the 18th century, Peterson said, we point to them in Christian love to publicly

00:37:43.740 atone for the sins of slavery.

00:37:45.500 And we ask them to publicly commit to a process of reparations where they will extend their

00:37:49.640 great wealth, tens of millions of dollars among some of these churches into the black

00:37:53.940 community.

00:37:54.320 Okay.

00:37:56.880 A few things here.

00:37:57.820 I mean, you, you've heard my speech against reparations many times.

00:38:00.740 I don't need to repeat it.

00:38:01.940 And you'll probably hear it many more times before all is said and done.

00:38:04.400 Uh, uh, the idea that, uh, that these churches have great wealth.

00:38:11.640 Now there are some churches that do like mega churches, Joel Osteen, you know, those kinds

00:38:16.060 of churches that are not really churches.

00:38:18.760 Um, those are churches that have a lot of money to throw around.

00:38:22.260 Most churches do not, you know, and I, that's just, if you, if you have ever been to a church,

00:38:28.600 unless you're going to one of those mega church type places, um, where the pastor is really,

00:38:34.900 uh, Tony Robbins, you know, it's really like a motivational seminar disguised as a church.

00:38:40.060 Unless you're going to one of those, uh, you know, that these are, you go into most churches

00:38:44.640 and you look around and these are not places that are, that are, that are, that have, you

00:38:50.160 know, money falling out of the ceiling.

00:38:51.840 It's far from it.

00:38:53.000 But putting that aside and putting aside all the many arguments against reparations and

00:39:00.340 the claim that, you know, Boston's wealth is built on, uh, slavery, all that is ridiculous.

00:39:08.080 Um, when you cloak this in Christianity as just like when you cloak any wrong idea in Christianity,

00:39:15.400 it's especially offensive, uh, because this is not Christianity.

00:39:23.000 And this, and you as a Christian, if you are, if you are pointing to somebody else in the

00:39:30.060 name of Christ and calling on them to, to atone and apologize to you and then give you something

00:39:40.260 that, that is not Christianity.

00:39:43.160 That is, that's satanic is what that is.

00:39:45.180 That is a satanic perversion of the gospel.

00:39:47.260 Now, call on your fellow Christians to atone for their, to, to, uh, uh, be sorry for their 0.99

00:39:54.780 sins and atone for them, throwing yourself into that, right?

00:40:00.940 As the, as the greatest sinner among them, if you're, if your message is, we should all

00:40:04.680 atone for our sins.

00:40:05.540 We should all beg forgiveness for our sins.

00:40:08.680 That is a Christian message.

00:40:10.020 The problem is that in most churches, you don't really hear that.

00:40:15.660 You don't hear a lot about sin these days.

00:40:18.840 And now if you do hear it, it's going to be in the context of this racial sin, not a sin

00:40:25.040 that we all share, you know, not original sin, not, not, uh, not sins that are based on,

00:40:30.660 on, on the, the, the wrongdoing that we, that we all are guilty of.

00:40:34.560 Um, but it's a racial sin where you've got one group looking to the other group and saying,

00:40:41.280 apologize to us, not even, not even to God, but to us and then, uh, and give us something.

00:40:53.260 That is, uh, that is not Christianity, not even close. 0.94

00:40:58.620 All right.

00:41:02.260 Speaking of sins that need to be atoned for, uh, I have unfortunately, finally a deeply

00:41:07.300 unsettling, uh, tragic, really disturbing video to play for you.

00:41:12.840 And, uh, I don't like playing stuff like this on a Monday.

00:41:14.920 It just starts the week on a bit of a sour note, but I feel, I feel duty bound to talk

00:41:21.880 about this, to bring it to light.

00:41:23.840 If you have kids in the room, I would maybe send them out of the room before I play this

00:41:27.980 cause it's not appropriate for kids.

00:41:28.860 It's not even appropriate for adults, honestly, but, um, but here it is.

00:41:35.960 This New Zealand startup is making ice cream out of cauliflower and they're on a mission

00:41:40.800 to help the world eat differently.

00:41:42.900 This plant-based ice cream is made without any dairy, gluten, nuts, or soy.

00:41:48.740 The two female founders, Millie and Jenny came up with the idea and started making ice cream 0.56

00:41:53.900 here in New Zealand using cauliflower, which would otherwise go to waste.

00:41:57.600 because it wasn't the right shape or size for supermarkets.

00:42:01.240 The tubs are certified home compostable, which means you can just chuck them in your home

00:42:05.020 compost and they can return to the earth.

00:42:07.800 Eat Kinda is stocked in one of the largest supermarket chains in New Zealand and they have their sights

00:42:12.240 set on expanding overseas.

00:42:14.560 So comment below where you think they should be stocked and what countries they should expand

00:42:18.640 to next.

00:42:19.720 Save this post and send it to someone who you think would love some cauliflower-based ice cream.

00:42:24.140 It's so creamy.

00:42:26.300 Wow, that's so good.

00:42:27.140 You can't taste cauliflower there.

00:42:28.600 Yeah, no, not at all.

00:42:33.940 Cauliflower ice cream.

00:42:37.740 This is simply not okay.

00:42:40.780 It's just not okay.

00:42:42.440 And you know that I'm not joking when I say that that should be illegal.

00:42:47.420 I really believe that.

00:42:48.460 It should be illegal.

00:42:49.200 It should be illegal.

00:42:50.060 Certainly to sell it as ice cream, to put that, like, false advertising, you know, is

00:42:55.400 supposed to be illegal.

00:42:57.320 It's fraud.

00:42:58.080 I would argue that it's fraud.

00:43:00.700 And much of the vegan food industry, it's all fraud.

00:43:06.720 And it's a worse kind of fraud.

00:43:08.220 This is like Bernie Madoff, you know, times 10.

00:43:11.520 It's the worst kind of fraud.

00:43:14.520 And it should be illegal.

00:43:16.740 Punishable by a $50 fine and death.

00:43:20.220 It should be illegal for you to market anything as ice cream if it's not made with milk.

00:43:25.440 And by that, I mean regular milk.

00:43:29.820 And when I say regular milk, everyone knows I mean cow's milk, okay?

00:43:34.340 Milk from a cow, from the udder of an animal that goes moo, okay? 1.00

00:43:39.580 That's what I mean.

00:43:41.180 And anything outside of that is not milk.

00:43:43.920 It's not ice cream.

00:43:44.700 It's not anything.

00:43:46.500 You know, this ice cream, what it actually is, is liquefied cauliflower.

00:43:52.260 And imagine putting that on the carton.

00:43:54.520 Imagine putting on the carton.

00:43:57.500 Here's some mint chocolate chip flavored liquefied cauliflower.

00:44:03.120 But, you know, you would never do that because nobody would buy it.

00:44:05.920 And what does that tell you?

00:44:06.760 When you're selling a product that nobody would buy if you told them what it actually was.

00:44:12.620 What does that tell you?

00:44:14.500 But they don't say it because they're not honest.

00:44:16.960 And that's what gets me the most.

00:44:17.780 That's why I think that the vegan infiltration of all of these different food products, I think it's a moral issue.

00:44:25.720 I think it's one of the great moral issues of our time.

00:44:28.220 And it's a moral issue because they're lying.

00:44:31.140 And they don't have the guts to be honest with us.

00:44:33.500 And they don't have the guts to be honest with themselves.

00:44:34.840 So they say, oh, this is ice cream.

00:44:38.400 This is butter.

00:44:39.160 This is milk.

00:44:40.860 No, be honest.

00:44:41.980 You've given up ice cream, butter, and milk.

00:44:44.240 The three major food groups.

00:44:46.500 Okay?

00:44:46.820 You've given it up.

00:44:48.060 And you want us to give it up.

00:44:49.320 And you want to sell us something that you call ice cream, but that is minus the one thing that makes it what it actually is.

00:44:57.480 And rather than just admit that, rather than be straightforward, you lie.

00:45:02.220 And that's what I don't like.

00:45:03.180 I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being a vegan.

00:45:04.880 Well, there is something wrong with being a vegan.

00:45:06.740 Obviously.

00:45:07.380 That should be illegal too.

00:45:08.460 But we can only do one thing at a time here.

00:45:11.520 So put it another way.

00:45:13.660 It's bad enough to be a vegan.

00:45:15.600 But if you're going to be a vegan, just be a vegan.

00:45:17.220 And if you're some other made-up thing, like lactose intolerant, then just be that.

00:45:25.420 And yes, I'm seriously arguing that lactose intolerance is made up.

00:45:29.640 I don't believe in it.

00:45:31.600 Media matters.

00:45:32.440 You can run with that.

00:45:33.140 Matt Walsh says that lactose intolerance doesn't exist and is satanic.

00:45:38.920 Well, that's not true.

00:45:39.780 Veganism is satanic. 0.99

00:45:41.300 Lactose intolerance is just made up.

00:45:42.720 Here's how I know it's made up.

00:45:43.580 I know it's made up because it's not possible to live without dairy product.

00:45:48.700 I don't think it's possible.

00:45:50.240 I don't think I've ever eaten anything that doesn't have some kind of dairy product involved.

00:45:54.440 I don't think I ever have.

00:45:56.220 I don't think I've eaten one thing that does not involve dairy.

00:45:59.740 So I don't think it's possible.

00:46:01.360 That's my theory.

00:46:02.040 Anyway, the main point is that is just revolting.

00:46:08.880 And everybody involved should be executed.

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00:47:14.320 The Divided States of Biden with Ben Shapiro has its second episode out focused on how fentanyl has become America's silent epidemic.

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00:47:29.640 The Biden administration is completely silent.

00:47:31.900 In fact, Biden's policies make it easier for fentanyl to be distributed and sold across the country, allowing it to fall into the hands of any American, many of them very young.

00:47:39.160 Ben Shapiro uncovers the fentanyl crisis in one of the city's most affected in the latest episode of The Divided States of Biden.

00:47:44.620 Watch The Divided States of Biden, Fentanyl, America's silent epidemic, now exclusively on Daily Wire+.

00:47:50.380 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:47:52.000 For our daily cancellation today, we have the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a man who, among his other problems, has far too many names.

00:48:07.320 His bigger problem, or the bigger problem for the citizens of Mexico, which means by extension that it's a bigger problem for us,

00:48:12.780 is that President AMLO is absurdly corrupt and resides over one of the most corrupt regimes in the world.

00:48:17.960 And on Sunday, he was interviewed by 60 Minutes.

00:48:20.940 The conversation spanned many topics, most of them centering around immigration and related issues.

00:48:24.820 But there was one brief 45-second exchange that deserves a special highlight, I think.

00:48:29.960 The anchor asks the Mexican president about all of the fentanyl being produced and shipped into America by the Mexican cartels.

00:48:36.820 And the president, unsurprisingly, looks to shift the blame immediately.

00:48:41.100 And here's what he says.

00:48:41.980 One of the DEA says cartels are mass-producing fentanyl, and the U.S. State Department has said that most of it is coming out of Mexico.

00:48:52.200 Are they wrong?

00:48:54.180 Yes.

00:48:56.580 Or rather, they don't have all the information, because fentanyl is also produced in the United States.

00:49:03.180 The State Department says most of it's coming from Mexico.

00:49:06.100 Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico.

00:49:11.460 And the chemical precursors come from Asia.

00:49:14.940 You know why we don't have the drug consumption that you have in the United States?

00:49:20.320 Because we have customs, traditions, and we don't have the problem of the disintegration of the family.

00:49:26.640 So, Mexico's crooked president is asked about the fentanyl that his country is exporting into our country by the ton.

00:49:35.160 And he accepts no special blame for the problem.

00:49:37.080 Instead, tries to pretend that Canada is as much a contributor to the drug epidemic as Mexico.

00:49:42.320 And he also points out that there is fentanyl produced within America as well, which may be true, but doesn't answer the question.

00:49:48.200 Then he points, finally and correctly, to the disintegration of the nuclear family in the United States and the loss of our culture and traditions. 0.97

00:49:53.840 He says that Mexico doesn't have the same drug consumption problem, even if they do have a rather large drug production problem,

00:50:00.720 because they generally keep their families together and they maintain their customs and value their culture.

00:50:07.400 Now, this answer should tick you off rather severely.

00:50:10.820 And in case the reasons aren't obvious, I'll explain.

00:50:13.480 First of all, he presents Mexico as a superior country, one with a healthy family unit and a vibrant culture.

00:50:20.740 But he doesn't explain why his people want to come here if that's the case.

00:50:25.700 If our country really is so bad, then stay in yours.

00:50:29.120 Why come here and add extra strain on a nation that is already strained, according to you?

00:50:33.860 And second, the point he makes about the collapse of the nuclear family and the culture, our culture in America, is true. 0.98

00:50:39.360 And I'll get back to that in a moment.

00:50:40.460 But it doesn't answer the question.

00:50:42.640 No matter what our problems are, the fact remains that this guy runs a country that he doesn't actually run.

00:50:46.640 The cartels are in charge and they're poisoning the entire hemisphere and beyond with fentanyl and myriad other drugs

00:50:52.640 that together kill more Americans in a single year than were killed in every war we fought over the past 60 years combined.

00:51:00.460 That's the fact that he just wants to sort of gently step around.

00:51:03.500 And third, yes, the American family is in a state of rapid disintegration.

00:51:07.620 What he doesn't mention is that the drugs imported from Mexico have something to do with that problem.

00:51:14.060 Having Mexico to our south is like having a giant sewage line spewing filth and poison into our country by the bucket load every second of the day. 1.00

00:51:23.360 And the poison, the drugs, have a corrosive effect on everything that they touch, especially the family.

00:51:28.800 And as to the loss of our culture and customs, that can even more so be tied back to the invasion coming from his country and its neighbors. 1.00

00:51:41.040 You know, he's proud of Mexico for celebrating its customs and traditions, but it would not have those customs and traditions anymore

00:51:47.060 if he had to deal with the entire third world all across the globe sneaking into his country to set up shop. 1.00

00:51:53.240 You know, he may have other third worlders sneaking in, but that's only because they're on their way here to our country. 1.00

00:52:01.900 Earlier in the interview, he said that he doesn't think we should build a wall.

00:52:06.120 The fact that the president of Mexico doesn't want us to have a wall is about as good an argument for building one that anyone can possibly make.

00:52:12.360 But the point is that he doesn't want us to enforce our borders, even as he criticizes us for problems that can be tied directly back to the lack of enforcement on our border.

00:52:21.140 So these are all reasons to be irritated at the Mexican president for his dismissive response to the fentanyl crisis that he is helping to facilitate.

00:52:29.400 But you can only be so angry at him. After all, he's the president of a foreign country.

00:52:32.940 He doesn't care about our country, only vaguely pretends to.

00:52:37.540 Although we can blame him for being corrupt and useless, we can't really blame him for his lack of concern for America, seeing as how he's not American. 0.75

00:52:44.000 But that's why that little clip makes me even angrier at our own political leaders, the ones who live here and supposedly represent our people and our interests.

00:52:55.020 We should be angry at them, not only because they're failing to stand up to people like the Mexican president, but because most of them would never say what he just said. 0.57

00:53:04.100 Leaving aside the hypocrisy, the shirking of responsibility, all of that.

00:53:09.220 He is, again, completely correct that our national drug problem has everything to do with the collapse of the family unit and the loss of our culture and traditions.

00:53:18.540 The president of a foreign country is willing to speak that truth, however self-servingly it might be.

00:53:25.480 But our own president would never, and most of our politicians at every level of government, would never and have never said that.

00:53:34.520 There is a vanishingly small collection of American politicians who would point out and have pointed out that the nuclear family has been destroyed and every societal problem can be traced back to its destruction.

00:53:46.700 This should be a point that all of our leaders speak about constantly and work urgently to address.

00:53:51.700 It should be treated as a five-alarm fire, as a national emergency, because that's what it is.

00:53:56.620 But not only will most of them not treat it as an emergency, most of them won't even acknowledge it, or else they'll flat-out deny that it's happening.

00:54:04.800 Now, as to the loss of our culture and our traditions, I think there's an even smaller collection of American political leaders who will ever discuss that.

00:54:13.960 And an even smaller collection still would ever draw a connection between that and a real-world problem like the drug epidemic.

00:54:25.020 But there is a connection.

00:54:26.460 There's a glaringly obvious connection.

00:54:28.960 Culture is identity.

00:54:30.360 Identity is meaning.

00:54:31.820 Without meaning, there is despair.

00:54:33.440 And in despair, people turn to drugs.

00:54:35.420 Not because it will give them meaning, but because it will numb their minds and their souls to the pain of a life lived without it.

00:54:41.460 You know, we were not losing tens of thousands of Americans every year to drug overdoses back when America had a cultural identity.

00:54:49.300 Back when we had our own customs and traditions.

00:54:51.400 Back when we knew our history and valued it and celebrated it.

00:54:55.760 Now we have none of that, at least not on a collective level.

00:54:59.780 And instead, we have the tens of thousands of drug deaths.

00:55:03.360 This is not a coincidence.

00:55:05.020 But it's a point that almost none of our leaders have ever made or will ever make.

00:55:12.160 They leave it to the president of Mexico to point that out.

00:55:16.320 And for that reason, he, and also they, are today canceled.

00:55:22.200 That'll do it for the show today.

00:55:22.940 Thanks for watching.

00:55:23.460 Thanks for listening.

00:55:24.140 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:55:24.900 Have a great day.

00:55:25.840 Godspeed.

00:55:26.180 Bye.

00:55:36.920 See you tomorrow.

00:55:37.960 Bye.

00:55:46.620 Bye.

00:55:47.040 Bye.

00:55:47.300 Bye.

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The Matt Walsh Show - March 25, 2024

Ep. 1332 - The Media Panics As More And More Women Choose To Dump Their Birth Control

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