The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1341 - Viral Video Reveals The True Dehumanizing Horror Of Surrogacy

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, after a new law was passed in Michigan this week, commercial surrogacy is now legal everywhere in the United States, even as it's banned in many other countries.

00:00:07.660 We'll talk about commercial surrogacy and why it is the most dehumanizing practice this side of slavery.

00:00:12.600 Also, conservatives celebrate a Daily Show host for criticizing DEI.

00:00:16.200 That's because they didn't actually listen to his criticism.

00:00:18.860 And Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants to accept Ukraine into NATO, which will bring about a world war and the deaths of millions of people.

00:00:25.220 In our daily cancellation, a major news publication has figured out which group is the most affected by climate change, and it's a very oddly specific group.

00:00:32.760 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:53.660 You know, it's not easy to find examples of practices that are legal everywhere in the United States, but also banned in Canada and most of Europe on moral grounds.

00:02:02.860 Usually it works the other way around.

00:02:04.200 Canada doesn't place any restrictions whatsoever on abortion, for example.

00:02:07.840 The government will actually pay its citizens to kill their children at any point in the mother's pregnancy. 0.61

00:02:12.700 But in the U.S., in many states at least, there are some limits on that kind of barbarism.

00:02:16.940 Meanwhile, in Europe, as I discussed yesterday and in Canada, there's an extremely permissive attitude toward euthanasia.

00:02:23.420 It's easy for young adults to get their doctors to kill them in, say, the Netherlands, even when they don't have any kind of terminal illness.

00:02:30.100 But in the U.S., killing patients for no reason is still frowned upon most of the time by most major medical associations, for now, anyway.

00:02:39.400 So in general, we are more restrictive when it comes to most immoral and unethical medical procedures, with some glaring exceptions.

00:02:47.400 And Canada and Europe take the opposite approach most of the time.

00:02:51.860 But there is, well, there's a few glaring exceptions to that rule, and here's one.

00:02:56.620 It concerns commercial surrogacy, or the act of paying a woman to carry someone else's baby, usually via in vitro fertilization.

00:03:03.880 And this is distinct from so-called altruistic surrogacy, where there's no profit motive,

00:03:08.620 yet still nearly as many ethical problems with the altruistic variety, despite the name.

00:03:13.420 And commercial surrogacy is legally equated with human trafficking by the EU,

00:03:18.260 because it provides significant financial incentives for women to rent out their bodies to strangers. 1.00

00:03:23.720 So they ban it, and the same is true in Canada.

00:03:26.160 But it's not true in the U.S.

00:03:27.980 This week, the state of Michigan says that it became the last state in the Union to decriminalize commercial surrogacy.

00:03:33.300 In other words, in all 50 states, you can now rent a woman's body and use it to carry your child without suffering any criminal penalties for it. 0.97

00:03:40.980 That seems like it can't possibly be true, but it is, according to Michigan's governor anyway.

00:03:45.440 Her office put out a statement saying that Michigan had been, quote,

00:03:47.720 the only state in the nation to criminalize surrogacy contracts.

00:03:51.100 And to be clear, there are still several states that say they won't enforce commercial surrogacy agreements,

00:03:55.640 but broad criminal bans don't apply, as far as I can tell.

00:03:59.520 And that's extremely good news for the surrogacy industry, which is worth around $14 billion as of 2022.

00:04:05.840 In 10 years, a little more than 10 years, by 2033, analysts expect that the surrogacy industry will explode in value to $129 billion,

00:04:14.460 an increase of about 900% in just a decade.

00:04:18.480 Now, for perspective, the global weight loss market, which is obviously gigantic, no pun intended,

00:04:24.020 is valued around $140 billion.

00:04:25.800 So we're talking about surrogacy being roughly as big as the weight loss industry in just a few years' time.

00:04:32.820 So you'll be seeing surrogacy ads as often as you see Ozempic commercials.

00:04:37.760 Now, there are all kinds of reasons why the industry is doing so well.

00:04:41.240 One of them is that infertility is on the rise.

00:04:43.300 Roughly 1 in 10 men and women who are at childbearing age are infertile in this country.

00:04:47.820 In the 1950s worldwide, each woman had an average of five children.

00:04:51.080 That number is now down to two children, and it's falling further.

00:04:54.680 Now, I've outlined some of the reasons for the infertility crisis in the past.

00:04:58.060 Suffice it to say, it's something that most powerful left-wing activist groups in the country, including Planned Parenthood,

00:05:04.440 have been hoping to achieve for quite some time explicitly.

00:05:06.940 They explicitly want to depopulate the earth.

00:05:09.800 So they welcome the fact that sperm counts, for example, have dropped 38% in a decade. 0.96

00:05:14.340 They're happy to see more women killing their children, more men removed from the gene pool. 1.00

00:05:20.720 But the problem here is bigger than infertility, because surrogacy is not an appropriate or moral or justifiable response to infertility in any event.

00:05:31.660 Surrogacy, especially commercial surrogacy, is arguably the most direct form of human commodification this side of slavery.

00:05:40.220 It is the purchasing and renting of human bodies, organs, and body parts.

00:05:45.340 And that's true regardless of your motivation for doing it.

00:05:48.580 And we don't allow that kind of transaction in almost any other context.

00:05:53.640 Federal law prohibits you from, like, selling your organs on eBay.

00:05:57.160 You can't do that.

00:05:57.900 Virtually every jurisdiction in this country outlaws prostitution.

00:06:01.220 People are not chattel, and we generally recognize that.

00:06:03.940 But in this one case, it's allowed, because otherwise we're told that infertile couples and gay men wouldn't be able to have children.

00:06:12.120 Therefore, it's worth the sacrifice of human embryos.

00:06:14.600 It's worth turning a handful of poor countries like Georgia and Ukraine into surrogacy hubs. 0.82

00:06:20.460 The women in those countries, you know, are selling their bodies for rent to foreigners who are looking for a lower rate compared to what they find in the United States. 1.00

00:06:28.220 Because, you know, when you're looking to rent a woman's body, you shop around for the best deal you can find. 0.98

00:06:34.780 And a lot of couples, particularly gay couples, are taking advantage of those discount offers.

00:06:40.940 Now, you might remember that during the gay marriage debate, we heard the familiar line that two consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want.

00:06:47.440 You know, they're not hurting anyone.

00:06:49.420 But that was never true.

00:06:51.340 And it was always obvious that it was never true.

00:06:53.480 But surrogacy now makes that extremely clear.

00:06:55.500 Surrogacy deprives children of their mothers. 0.57

00:06:57.500 It robs them of a connection that is hardwired from birth.

00:07:00.980 A connection that is necessary.

00:07:03.220 No matter how much propaganda you force on children, no matter how many times they hear the lie that having two fathers is completely normal and natural, they know it's not true.

00:07:12.080 No matter how often we insist that, well, you can replace a mom with another man. 1.00

00:07:17.200 A dad and a dad is the same thing as a mom and a dad.

00:07:19.440 It's the same deal.

00:07:21.000 No matter how often we lie about that, it just, it is not true.

00:07:24.680 There's a video circulating online right now that makes this point tragically clear.

00:07:29.700 It's footage of a surrogate mother wishing her child a happy birthday.

00:07:33.740 And this is a mother who apparently sold her eggs a few years ago to a couple of gay guys and only sees her daughter through an occasional video call.

00:07:41.820 And here's one of those calls. 0.72

00:07:43.560 Watch.

00:07:43.720 I wanted to wish you a happy birthday, and so does Malik.

00:07:48.680 He says happy birthday also.

00:07:51.180 I hope you had a wonderful fourth birthday.

00:07:54.220 I really love looking at all your pictures on Instagram, and you're growing up to be such a beautiful and creative, sparkling light.

00:08:01.220 And I know your daddies love you so much.

00:08:03.680 So happy birthday, baby girl.

00:08:05.260 And I hope you have a wonderful day.

00:08:09.720 I'm going to play.

00:08:11.720 What did you say?

00:08:14.640 I love you.

00:08:15.600 Okay, you can say that to her.

00:08:18.220 What do you want to say?

00:08:19.520 I love you, baby.

00:08:21.320 Thank you.

00:08:22.640 Now, as a parent, I have to say that that clip angers me at the deepest levels of my soul.

00:08:29.640 I mean, because the thought of my own children being deprived of their mother is horrifying.

00:08:35.940 You know, for a child to lose his mother would be losing a part of himself.

00:08:40.380 It's like losing a limb, but worse. 0.60

00:08:43.340 And yet this is done to children intentionally, and all for the sake of satisfying the wishes of gay couples. 0.99

00:08:49.020 That clip, by the way, is from Surrogacy Concern, which is a group in the UK that opposes surrogacy.

00:08:55.000 As I said earlier, in the UK, commercial surrogacy isn't generally allowed.

00:08:58.160 Contracts for commercial surrogacy aren't enforceable for the most part.

00:09:00.940 But they still allow so-called altruistic surrogacy, where surrogates don't accept any payment outside of the expenses that are incurred during the pregnancy. 1.00

00:09:09.960 But as you can see from the video, this model isn't much of an improvement over the commercial model.

00:09:15.460 Altruistic surrogacy isn't remotely altruistic.

00:09:17.840 When you consider its impact on both the child and the mother.

00:09:22.460 It's devastating and painful for the mother in ways that she must vividly understand.

00:09:28.560 And it's devastating and painful for the child in ways that she cannot yet fully understand, but one day she will.

00:09:35.560 And yet somehow it's likely that things are only going to get more and more deranged and dehumanizing from here.

00:09:40.520 As we continue to divorce human reproduction from its natural context.

00:09:44.460 The ultimate dream, of course, for many on the left, is to one day make men into surrogates via implanted uteruses.

00:09:53.180 Now, I don't know if this will ever be scientifically possible.

00:09:56.180 It's not even close to scientifically possible right now.

00:09:58.420 I doubt that it will ever be, as sustaining a pregnancy requires a lot more than just a uterus after all.

00:10:02.920 But I do know what some trans activists plan to do with that power, should they ever be granted it.

00:10:09.280 So here's one video, which was surfaced recently by Robbie Starbuck, that gives you an idea.

00:10:14.620 Watch.

00:10:14.860 I will be the first trans woman to have a successful uterus transplant, ovaries and eggs included.

00:10:22.120 And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion. 1.00

00:10:26.920 I will let a doctor who has successfully transplanted a uterine complex before cut the organs out of a willing, healthy, transmasculine donor. 0.85

00:10:36.840 Place them in my body.

00:10:38.940 I will devote myself, heart and soul, to their aftercare. 1.00

00:10:42.940 I will have as much gay sex as it takes with as many trans women as it takes. 1.00

00:10:50.800 And let the transphobes and homophobes scratch their heads, wondering what to make of it. 1.00

00:10:58.500 And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion. 1.00

00:11:04.280 So he's grinning about killing a child and is quite excited about the possibility. 0.99

00:11:15.620 And for the same reason that Leah Thomas grins while beating female swimmers and depriving them of their rightful accolades and opportunities. 1.00

00:11:24.120 Although this is a much darker version of it, obviously.

00:11:27.240 But the reason is the same, which is that he ascribes to an ideology of extreme pathological narcissism.

00:11:32.320 It's reminiscent of the video of that WPATH expert that we played talking about turning people's genitals into abstract art.

00:11:37.880 But above everything else, these people cannot tolerate being told no.

00:11:42.420 They simply have to believe that they can do anything that they want.

00:11:45.960 That they can be the victors, the champions over human biology.

00:11:51.960 And in that sense, the underlying ideas behind trans ideology and commercial surrogacy aren't that distinct.

00:11:57.160 They're both premised on the idea that human beings can be and should be gods.

00:12:02.860 They think people can invent their own genders just as easily as they can invent new ways for two men to have a child, quote unquote.

00:12:10.000 But humans don't have the power to create new genders. 1.00

00:12:13.460 Two men don't have the power to create a child and never will. 0.99

00:12:17.520 No one has the authority to end an innocent human life.

00:12:20.740 The commercial surrogacy industry, like so many other movements we've been told to accept over the past decade,

00:12:25.980 is yet another step towards a dystopia that embraces delusions instead of rejecting them.

00:12:30.540 And as we've seen before, if this is allowed to continue, many children will be irreparably damaged by it, if not killed.

00:12:40.720 They'll be forced to suffer in order to appease narcissists and psychopaths.

00:12:44.900 And as with the trans movement, women, the very people who are supposedly empowered by this approach, 0.93

00:12:49.900 will again be the collateral damage.

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00:13:59.220 Okay, I want to begin here and spend a little bit of time on this,

00:14:01.820 because The Daily Show did a segment on DEI this week.

00:14:05.360 The host was Charlemagne the God, because it—I don't know if he's—

00:14:10.080 it seems like The Daily Show has 340 hosts now.

00:14:12.700 I'm not sure what's going on.

00:14:14.480 Also, as a side note, I don't know how this guy gets away with calling himself The God,

00:14:20.340 and we all just go along with it, and that's—even when there's articles written about him,

00:14:24.380 that name is—it's, like, used like that's his proper Christian name.

00:14:28.940 Now, I'm generally opposed to people giving themselves nicknames at all.

00:14:31.800 I don't think that's the way nicknames should work, but you can't deify yourself with your nickname.

00:14:36.780 Or at least you shouldn't be able to.

00:14:38.800 So anyway, Charlemagne—we'll just stick with the first part of the name—

00:14:42.340 was hosting, and he was talking about DEI and criticizing it.

00:14:48.480 So he was criticizing DEI.

00:14:50.200 And of course, as you would expect, because a guy on the left was criticizing something that people on the right also don't like,

00:14:57.660 many conservatives applauded this segment, shared the clip, celebrated Charlemagne for speaking out.

00:15:04.000 So you've maybe seen this clip being shared around, and you've seen it on social media.

00:15:10.240 And if you have seen it, it's probably because a conservative was retweeting it or reposting it,

00:15:14.620 and, you know, with an amen and smiley emojis and everything else.

00:15:21.160 Because supposedly we agree with the point that he's making. 0.99

00:15:25.040 Now, Charlemagne does say that DEI is, quote, mostly garbage. 0.98

00:15:28.580 And that's the quote that conservatives are repeating and applauding. 0.98

00:15:35.000 But here is where I must once again remind my conservative friends that

00:15:39.040 just because somebody on the left says one single sentence—not even a whole sentence,

00:15:45.960 because the rest of the sentence, you know, the full sentence is, 0.99

00:15:48.880 DEI is well-intentioned, but mostly garbage.

00:15:53.180 The first part of that sentence is completely wrong. 0.96

00:15:54.940 We'll get to that in a moment.

00:15:55.660 It's not well-intentioned.

00:15:56.600 So he didn't even say a full sentence we agree with.

00:16:01.020 He said one part of the sentence, taken in isolation, we agree with.

00:16:05.900 But just because that happens, just because there is a sentence or a phrase

00:16:09.960 that somebody on the left says that we think we agree with,

00:16:13.180 that doesn't mean we should automatically applaud them and celebrate them.

00:16:17.680 In fact, it doesn't even mean that we actually agree with the argument they're making.

00:16:23.800 Just because there's one sentence in the argument that you agree with,

00:16:27.320 it doesn't mean that you actually agree with the whole argument that he's actually making.

00:16:31.940 Because somebody can say one sentence that you agree with in isolation,

00:16:36.400 even in the context of an argument that you very much disagree with.

00:16:41.260 But you have to actually listen to the whole context and then use your head also,

00:16:46.200 which is something that conservatives maybe should start doing more often.

00:16:48.840 So let's do that. Let's listen to some of this segment where, yeah,

00:16:54.280 the guy hosting The Daily Show, a liberal guy, is criticizing DEI.

00:17:00.360 But why? Why is he criticizing it?

00:17:03.180 What is his criticism of it exactly?

00:17:06.480 Let's find out. 0.99

00:17:07.480 The truth about DEI is that although it's well-intentioned, it's mostly garbage. 0.99

00:17:13.480 Okay? It's kind of like the Black Little Mermaid. 0.99

00:17:16.200 Just because racists hate it doesn't mean it's good.

00:17:20.100 And you know I'm right,

00:17:21.540 because every one of you has sat through one of those diversity training sessions 0.97

00:17:25.140 and thought, this is some bulls**t. 0.90

00:17:26.860 And it's not just you. 0.96

00:17:29.820 Over 900 studies have shown that DEI programs

00:17:32.960 don't make the workplace better for minorities.

00:17:35.440 In fact, it can actually make things worse

00:17:37.920 because of the backlash effect.

00:17:39.940 The biggest failure of DEI

00:17:42.040 is that the number of Black people in power at big companies

00:17:45.340 is basically the same as it was five years ago.

00:17:48.880 In fact, maybe the only thing that DEI has accomplished 0.95

00:17:51.800 is giving racist white people cover to be openly racist.

00:17:55.640 And honestly, I'm not surprised these programs didn't work.

00:17:59.140 And here's why.

00:18:00.240 It's just corporate PR.

00:18:02.620 They want good vibes. 1.00

00:18:04.420 And also, they want to cover their ass. 1.00

00:18:06.340 Okay? 0.99

00:18:07.040 Did you know that if a company gets sued for civil rights violations,

00:18:10.800 just having a DEI program will be counted as evidence in their favor,

00:18:15.060 even if the program doesn't do s**t? 0.65

00:18:17.320 Okay? 0.96

00:18:17.800 It's the I have a black friend of the legal system.

00:18:20.460 Right?

00:18:21.560 We don't need corporate DEI.

00:18:24.260 Yes, we want diversity and equity and inclusion.

00:18:28.260 Real DEI is only going to come from black leadership. 1.00

00:18:32.060 I don't know how to do it because I'm not a black leader. 0.78

00:18:34.240 But I do know how to tell if it's working.

00:18:36.720 Just keep an eye on right-wing media.

00:18:38.980 The more they're freaking out, the more progress we're making.

00:18:41.860 Okay, so let's review.

00:18:45.860 Putting aside the fact that this guy's comedic rhythm is totally off,

00:18:50.980 so he needs to work on that.

00:18:53.140 Let's review the argument that Charlemagne is making.

00:18:55.720 While the right claps like train seals at SeaWorld,

00:18:59.860 what is he actually saying?

00:19:01.940 Well, you've got a bunch of conservatives posting this clip and saying,

00:19:05.280 hey, he makes some great points.

00:19:08.760 Listen to him.

00:19:11.080 He'll be voting for Donald Trump in no time.

00:19:14.460 Okay, first of all, he says repeatedly that the right-wing critics of DEI are racist.

00:19:21.160 And this is even more clear in the five-minute full segment.

00:19:24.280 The whole segment is five minutes.

00:19:25.680 Obviously, we're not going to play a five-minute segment.

00:19:27.220 But he makes it very clear.

00:19:28.700 In fact, he plays clips of conservative media figures

00:19:32.520 talking about the problems with DEI, and he labels them all racist.

00:19:37.440 Okay, so he specifically and repeatedly says

00:19:40.340 that the reason conservatives criticize DEI is that they're all racist.

00:19:45.820 And yet many conservatives, despite being called racist by this guy in that segment,

00:19:51.040 still are sharing the segment and applauding it. 0.98

00:19:54.280 So he's saying, you guys are a bunch of racist honkies. 0.95

00:19:56.660 And they go, oh, wow, man, this liberal fellow, he's got a point. 0.98

00:20:01.680 He makes a great point about how I'm a racist. 1.00

00:20:05.600 I mean, it's pathetic. 0.96

00:20:08.600 And what is the actual criticism of DEI that he's making? 0.96

00:20:13.780 Is he criticizing the idea?

00:20:17.180 Is he criticizing the concept?

00:20:20.180 Is he criticizing the goal of DEI?

00:20:22.420 No, not at all.

00:20:24.280 In fact, he says that it's well-intentioned.

00:20:26.660 He says we need DEI.

00:20:28.720 He thinks we need it.

00:20:30.140 His exact words.

00:20:31.860 We need DEI.

00:20:32.620 We need real DEI.

00:20:34.500 Okay?

00:20:35.060 So this is what he's doing.

00:20:36.280 It's like the communism thing.

00:20:37.400 Well, real DEI has never been tried.

00:20:40.380 That is his whole argument, is that, yeah, it's not working.

00:20:44.100 But we need real.

00:20:45.160 This is fake DEI.

00:20:46.160 We need the real stuff.

00:20:48.560 That's what he's saying.

00:20:49.940 Okay?

00:20:50.500 His only problem with corporate DEI is that it has not effectively achieved the goal in his mind of enforcing diversity and inclusion.

00:20:59.000 He's not saying that we shouldn't try to enforce diversity and inclusion.

00:21:01.860 He's saying we need to do it more effectively and that this is not doing that.

00:21:04.920 This is not accomplishing that.

00:21:06.220 He uses an example of a corporation, DEI, where all the leaders are still white men or white people.

00:21:14.540 So that's his point.

00:21:15.480 Well, yeah, they have DEI, but these companies are still mostly run by white people. 0.57

00:21:19.640 And so what's the solution? 0.97

00:21:20.860 It's to have DEI in companies that are run by black people. 1.00

00:21:24.460 It's to kick more of the white people out, replace them with black people, and then have DEI. 1.00

00:21:29.020 That's what he's saying. 0.99

00:21:31.120 That is the opposite of the point that we are making about DEI.

00:21:37.020 He is making the opposite point of you.

00:21:39.840 So if you're on the right and you have shared this clip, okay, and because you think he agrees with you, no, he's making the opposite point.

00:21:49.160 It's not even just slightly different from your point.

00:21:51.540 It is the opposite of your point.

00:21:53.900 And in so doing, he's even calling you a racist.

00:21:56.840 So he's saying you're totally wrong on this issue and you're a racist.

00:22:02.260 So he disagrees with you absolutely and fundamentally on this issue.

00:22:06.760 There is nothing here for us to applaud.

00:22:09.480 I mean, this is like, it's like if somebody carjacks you and then his friend yells at the guy for carjacking you because he says that he should have stole your wallet also.

00:22:27.160 That's why he's mad that, yeah, well, you carjacked that.

00:22:29.300 Why didn't you take his wallet?

00:22:30.120 You kicked him out of the car and didn't take his wallet?

00:22:32.020 What's wrong with you?

00:22:32.640 And then it's like, if you listen to that and say, yeah, exactly.

00:22:36.140 See, he gets it.

00:22:37.000 He's defending me. 1.00

00:22:39.220 No, you moron. 1.00

00:22:40.820 You damned idiot. 1.00

00:22:43.200 He hates you more than the other guy. 1.00

00:22:46.080 He wants to see something worse happen to you.

00:22:48.460 So here's, just to make this as kind of broad and clear as possible.

00:22:58.220 There's a bad thing that has happened.

00:23:02.220 You want the bad thing to stop happening.

00:23:06.740 He wants the bad thing to stop happening in order to be replaced by something worse so that you're not on the same side.

00:23:15.380 Okay, again, you're not even sort of on the same side.

00:23:18.680 You could not be on more opposite sides of this particular issue.

00:23:23.940 But that does require, I mean, it just requires an ability.

00:23:28.820 First of all, it requires taking five, if you're going to, I'm so tired of people doing that.

00:23:32.680 And I don't want to hear the excuses for anybody that posts this clip.

00:23:37.420 Well, I didn't know.

00:23:38.300 I didn't realize.

00:23:38.960 It's five minutes long.

00:23:40.060 I mean, just listen to it or don't, or you don't have to share it.

00:23:43.460 You don't have to react.

00:23:44.240 You don't have to, you can just say nothing about it.

00:23:45.620 You don't, just because people are talking about a clip doesn't mean you have to say something about it.

00:23:49.220 No one cares what your opinion is anyway.

00:23:50.920 But if you feel like you have to say something, watch it first.

00:23:55.440 And watch it with your, with just, and also listen.

00:23:59.640 Don't just watch.

00:24:00.280 Listen.

00:24:00.680 With your, with your ears.

00:24:02.180 Those are the things you're supposed to listen to things with.

00:24:05.980 And it becomes very clear.

00:24:07.000 So, and I know that we, listen, I know we love the idea.

00:24:10.680 We love the idea of the, you know, the reasonable liberal guy, especially if the reasonable liberal

00:24:18.460 is not white.

00:24:19.620 We love that.

00:24:20.760 We love that.

00:24:21.380 We love the concept.

00:24:22.520 We love the idea.

00:24:23.340 We love the, you know, we love the story of the reasonable liberal, the reasonable, not

00:24:29.480 white liberal in particular, who, you know, is, is, is coming to our defense and, and, and all.

00:24:36.200 We love it.

00:24:36.780 We, we love that.

00:24:38.520 The only problem is that almost every time that is a fiction.

00:24:44.180 Okay.

00:24:44.760 Almost every time, almost every time, almost all the reasonable liberals out there, it is, we, that is a fiction.

00:24:52.080 That's a story that we are telling ourselves.

00:24:53.900 That's not true.

00:24:54.560 And very often what those reasonable liberals are doing is that they are, they are, they

00:25:01.280 are at best or at worst, they're trying, they're, they're looking to repackage something.

00:25:09.440 So they, so the reasonable part of it, they're reasonable at all.

00:25:13.420 It's, they, they at least realize that, okay, this, you know, we've got this left-wing agenda

00:25:19.160 item and, and they're saying to themselves, you know, our side is trying to push it through.

00:25:24.580 It's not working.

00:25:25.960 And so most of the time, the reasonable liberal, he's reasonable because he at least realizes

00:25:32.140 that the thing isn't working, that it's not achieving the goal that they want to achieve.

00:25:37.500 But he's not saying that we should get rid of it.

00:25:39.920 He's saying, let's think of it.

00:25:41.300 We got to, this is not a smart strategy.

00:25:42.920 We got to think of a better way to do this. 0.99

00:25:45.320 So those dummies over there don't realize, because those, those racist dummies over there, 1.00

00:25:49.320 they're, they're onto us. 1.00

00:25:52.120 Those, those racist, you know, troglodytes over there, they know what we're doing. 0.93

00:25:57.580 And so we need to figure out a better way to go about this. 0.91

00:26:01.560 That's 99% of the reasonable liberals that we hear about all the time.

00:26:05.020 That is what they're doing.

00:26:06.080 That is their goal.

00:26:06.800 They do not fundamentally disagree with the left on pretty much anything.

00:26:13.700 All right.

00:26:16.100 Washington Examiner has this story.

00:26:17.920 A two-year-old proposal to ban menthol cigarettes may be delayed until after the 2024 election

00:26:23.900 as President Joe Biden weighs a move that could risk eroding his support within the black community.

00:26:29.300 The Food and Drug Administration first proposed banning menthols and flavored cigars in April 2022,

00:26:34.020 but has since missed two deadlines for finalizing the rule, the second of which expired at the end of March.

00:26:39.020 The agency said a statement, the FDA remains committed to issuing the tobacco product standards for menthol in cigarettes

00:26:47.620 and characterizing flavors in cigars as expeditiously as possible, noting the process in its final stage.

00:26:53.820 As we made clear, these product standards remain at the top of our priorities.

00:26:57.600 But some observers say other priorities are behind the delay, namely the lack of support for the idea as the election sharpens into view.

00:27:04.280 Biden's menthol ban has received praise from public health advocates who say it can save hundreds of thousands of lives.

00:27:09.460 The tobacco industry is also accused of disproportionately targeting the black community with its marketing of menthol cigarettes.

00:27:15.900 Now, you know, of course it's funny that a ban on menthol cigarettes is the thing that, you know,

00:27:23.300 supposedly will turn the black community against the Democrats in November.

00:27:27.780 As if there aren't already a hundred other reasons why that should happen. 0.97

00:27:32.180 A hundred other reasons for the black community specifically to hate Democrats. 0.73

00:27:37.160 And the biggest reason is that Democrat leadership has absolutely ravaged and destroyed pretty much every predominantly black neighborhood in the country.

00:27:46.280 I mean, maybe we don't even need to qualify pretty much there.

00:27:49.980 Every predominantly black neighborhood in the country.

00:27:51.840 And I normally reject the disproportionate impact argument.

00:27:57.220 But in this case, it's true that black communities are disproportionately ruined by Democrat policies.

00:28:07.080 And of course, the rub is that this is happening because black people keep voting for leaders who promise to make their lives worse at every turn. 0.98

00:28:16.000 So this is a self-imposed problem in many ways, but it is a major problem.

00:28:22.120 And, you know, that's a very good argument for black people and all people to not vote Democrat.

00:28:28.380 You don't have to like Trump.

00:28:30.340 You don't have to have great faith in the average Republican politician.

00:28:34.900 I don't have much faith in them personally.

00:28:36.820 But all you have to do is think to yourself, how exactly has my life been improved by Democrat policies and leadership?

00:28:44.980 In what ways has my life been improved?

00:28:49.940 And if you run that inventory in an honest way, you will discover very quickly that your life has not been improved at all.

00:28:56.940 But in fact, has been made measurably worse in myriad ways.

00:29:00.760 So that should be the turning point here, you know, or maybe it'll be menthol cigarettes.

00:29:07.220 I don't know.

00:29:08.000 I guess whatever whatever brings about the result is, you know, is good.

00:29:14.080 And putting the racial element aside for a moment, it's also just ridiculous that we are still talking about the dangers of tobacco products in a country with a drug overdose epidemic.

00:29:26.540 Fentanyl all over the streets, weed legalized everywhere, you know, an obesity epidemic.

00:29:35.520 And not just the obesity epidemic, but the fact that the very same people who rant and rave about tobacco products will tell us that we shouldn't be fat phobic and that we should be accepting of all body types. 0.78

00:29:46.140 So all these various ways that the human body is being destroyed, and yet we're still supposed to see cigarettes as this special evil, I think is ridiculous.

00:29:59.400 And with cigarettes, now you know that I don't often, I'm not often persuaded by the libertarian argument that, well, hey, this doesn't affect you, man.

00:30:14.840 It's none of your business, it doesn't affect you.

00:30:16.380 But the reason why I'm usually not persuaded by it is that in most cases, when the libertarians say, this doesn't affect you, or when the liberals say, this doesn't affect you, in most cases, it actually does.

00:30:28.540 There actually is.

00:30:30.240 When we go back to what we talked about at the beginning, gay marriage, you know, one of the greatest examples of this.

00:30:36.260 It doesn't affect you, well, it turns out that trying to redefine, but as a result obliterating, the fundamental societal institution of marriage, it has a devastating impact on all of society.

00:30:51.900 So if something reshapes society in a fundamental way, as a member of society, yes, I am affected by that.

00:30:59.680 Because I'm a human and I live here too.

00:31:01.520 So most of the time, or, you know, when it comes to drug legalization, or as we've talked about recently, marijuana, like all these things, they have a, the effect of deteriorating these communities and society as a whole, which of course affects everybody that lives there.

00:31:20.260 But with tobacco products in particular, this is one time when that argument would actually apply.

00:31:25.780 It really doesn't, if you want to smoke cigarettes, it actually really doesn't have any impact.

00:31:32.560 It genuinely has really no impact on anybody but you.

00:31:38.800 The worst the rest of us have to deal with is the smell.

00:31:41.740 But even that, I mean, the smokers are treated like such lepers these days.

00:31:46.540 I mean, you can walk around smoking marijuana anywhere you want, vaping, whatever.

00:31:50.580 But, you know, cigarette smokers in particular are, you know, if you want to smoke a cigarette, we'll carve out a little space for you out in the cold, way all over there.

00:32:00.080 There's a little circle everyone has to huddle together.

00:32:02.700 So even the smell thing isn't an issue anymore.

00:32:06.920 So it really is, you know, that's, it's really your issue.

00:32:11.560 And, and yeah, you know, probably suffer some health effects for it down the, down the line.

00:32:16.920 But this legitimately is an, is, is an area where I don't see why it should be any interest of mine or the government's, whether someone wants to smoke cigarettes or not.

00:32:30.160 All right.

00:32:31.720 Post Millennial has this report.

00:32:33.240 Report for the Post Millennial.

00:32:34.380 On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, told reporters that Ukraine will become a member of NATO.

00:32:40.600 So, quote, Ukraine, the determination of every country represented here at NATO remains rock solid.

00:32:45.600 We'll do everything we can.

00:32:46.920 Allies will do everything that they can to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs to continue to deal with Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine,

00:32:54.100 an aggression that gets worse with every passing day.

00:32:57.100 Ukraine will become a member of NATO.

00:32:58.860 Our purpose of the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership and to create a clear path for Ukraine moving forward.

00:33:06.020 So that's what Anthony Blinken said.

00:33:08.740 Article 5 of NATO's treaty states that an armed attack against one or more NATO members in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.

00:33:18.020 Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in February that NATO countries must, in the end,

00:33:22.240 understand that all this truly threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and, therefore, the destruction of civilization.

00:33:28.580 Okay, well, this is obviously total lunacy.

00:33:34.060 The United States needs to leave NATO if Ukraine joins.

00:33:39.340 We should leave NATO anyway.

00:33:41.160 And this situation shows exactly why.

00:33:43.760 Because this is psychotic.

00:33:44.940 I mean, this is like supervillain levels of evil.

00:33:47.220 Our government is run by people who would risk or directly bring about the deaths of millions of people, millions of Americans, for no reason, for no good reason anyway.

00:33:57.100 For the sake of Ukraine? 0.97

00:33:59.440 For the sake of some foreign corrupt government? 0.99

00:34:04.960 I just can't put into words how much I detest these people. 0.97

00:34:08.360 To even talk about this right now is madness.

00:34:11.720 To talk about it at all is madness.

00:34:12.900 The whole thing.

00:34:16.060 And, of course, none of these people can explain how any of this is in our interest.

00:34:22.100 How do we benefit by having Ukraine in NATO?

00:34:26.860 How do we benefit by going to war, getting into a ground war with a nuclear power over Ukraine? 0.83

00:34:34.300 Why should we care about Ukraine at all?

00:34:38.000 I've been asking this since this latest conflict began.

00:34:40.840 Again, still have not gotten an answer.

00:34:44.140 Many others have been asking the same thing, of course.

00:34:46.340 Why should we care?

00:34:48.600 Why should it matter to us?

00:34:50.800 So when you tell me, oh, Ukraine's invaded.

00:34:53.940 Okay, I hear that.

00:34:55.760 But why should I care?

00:34:58.720 What has it to do with me?

00:35:01.000 As an American citizen, as a father, a husband, all the things I have to worry about every day, any of us have to worry about,

00:35:06.960 why in the hell should Ukraine make that list?

00:35:11.460 Can anyone explain?

00:35:13.040 Nobody can.

00:35:15.000 And by the way, who's going to fight this war?

00:35:19.100 Who's going to fight your war for Ukraine?

00:35:21.620 Who fights it?

00:35:22.400 There's already a military recruitment crisis in this country.

00:35:25.600 What happens when joining the military means going over to die in a battle over some country that nobody in this country really cares about?

00:35:33.380 And I don't care how many Ukraines in bio, you know, how many bios have Ukraine flags in it.

00:35:38.820 Doesn't matter.

00:35:39.540 However, no one in this country really cares about Ukraine.

00:35:43.420 And yeah, I get it.

00:35:44.920 Going overseas to die for some country nobody cares about, like, it wouldn't be the first time, obviously.

00:35:50.500 But at least with the pointless wars in the Middle East that, you know, we suffered through for the first two decades of this century,

00:35:59.720 there was at least the claim that we were defending ourselves against terrorism or whatever.

00:36:05.660 It wasn't true, but there was the claim, okay?

00:36:10.580 In this case, they aren't even making that claim.

00:36:13.740 When you ask them, why should we do anything?

00:36:17.400 Why should we lift a finger to help Ukraine? 0.91

00:36:19.840 They don't even really, you know, sometimes they might try to make some really tortured argument about how it's in the best interest of our national security or whatever.

00:36:26.360 But most of the time, they don't even say that.

00:36:29.220 They just say that, oh, Ukraine should be free.

00:36:32.800 Hey, the poor Ukrainians need our help. 1.00

00:36:35.820 We should be nice to them.

00:36:38.060 Who's signing up for that?

00:36:41.200 Well, nobody is, and that's the point.

00:36:44.120 And that's why they still have the conscription button that they can push.

00:36:49.060 And if this Ukraine stuff leads to a war, which means a world war, we will see the reinstatement of the draft. 0.91

00:36:56.300 I mean, it's guaranteed because it's the only way they'll be able to get people to fight.

00:36:59.300 And I'll tell you this right now.

00:37:02.640 If any or all of my four sons are 18 or over at that point, that's when I tap out.

00:37:09.460 Like, that's when we tap out.

00:37:12.620 That's when I'm done with America.

00:37:14.820 Goodbye. 1.00

00:37:17.160 My sons aren't going to die on foreign soil at the behest of these damn psychopaths for the sake of some foreign government, some conflict that they have nothing to do with. 1.00

00:37:27.160 Not happening. 1.00

00:37:27.840 It's just not going to happen.

00:37:30.140 And I'm packing on my family, and we're moving somewhere.

00:37:34.100 I mean, at a world war, it's kind of hard to find somewhere to go that way you'll be safe from it.

00:37:37.500 But I don't know.

00:37:39.920 Some island in the Pacific somewhere, anywhere.

00:37:43.080 You know, my oldest son and I, we've always talked about wanting to go explore the Amazon together.

00:37:48.340 And my wife, by the way, loves this plan that I've hatched.

00:37:52.220 And maybe we all go to that.

00:37:53.100 Maybe we move into the jungle.

00:37:54.080 I don't know.

00:37:55.140 Because you know what?

00:37:55.620 I'd rather die there than have my children die for Ukraine. 1.00

00:38:00.620 Or any other foreign country.

00:38:02.860 Honestly.

00:38:04.960 It's just, that's it.

00:38:06.420 And I'll tell you something else.

00:38:07.320 I'm not the only one who feels that way.

00:38:10.540 Try conscripting people's children for this.

00:38:17.820 It's not going to end well.

00:38:18.780 And in the meanwhile, like I said, they just don't, they haven't even bothered.

00:38:30.380 This is how little respect they have for us.

00:38:34.560 That they haven't even bothered.

00:38:36.060 It's one thing, you know, I hate it when, obviously, politicians lie to us.

00:38:40.000 But at least when they lie to us, and there are plenty of lies being told about Ukraine, but at least when they lie to us, there's a certain amount of respect that they feel like they have to, right?

00:38:54.360 Because they're worried to some extent about us finding out the truth.

00:38:57.280 It's even worse when they don't even bother to lie in some ways.

00:39:00.440 And so, that's the thing with Ukraine shipping.

00:39:05.520 We've shipped, of course, billions and millions of dollars over there already.

00:39:10.260 It's like they're, they haven't even come up with a compelling lie to explain to us.

00:39:15.500 I don't know, we, in order for you to be safe, and for your family to be safe, we have to do this.

00:39:22.320 Maybe eventually they'll come up with that lie, but they haven't, they haven't yet.

00:39:26.600 Instead, it's all just, yeah, it's for their sake.

00:39:31.440 We're doing it for the Ukrainians.

00:39:34.580 I don't care.

00:39:36.780 I'm sorry, I don't care about Ukraine at all.

00:39:40.000 I said this from the beginning.

00:39:41.020 If Ukraine, as a country, ceased to exist tomorrow, I wouldn't care. 0.93

00:39:45.120 I wouldn't lose an ounce of, a second of sleep over it.

00:39:49.440 I'd sleep like a baby, I'd be perfectly fine.

00:39:52.160 I don't care if Ukraine exists or not. 0.81

00:39:54.100 Why should I?

00:39:54.700 I wouldn't even notice, okay?

00:39:56.240 That's the thing.

00:39:57.420 You take the, of course, the information age, we all know everything.

00:39:59.960 But take that out of it.

00:40:02.340 If it wasn't for the internet and the media obsessing over it, if Ukraine just like was invaded by Russia and ceased to exist as a country, you'd live your whole life and never know it.

00:40:11.960 You would never know that it happened because it has zero impact on you.

00:40:15.640 And anyone who says that, well, that's cruel, how could you not care?

00:40:21.480 You've got countries all over the world being invaded constantly, fighting over borders and stuff, countries, you know, ceasing to exist, countries coming into existence.

00:40:32.340 You don't care about any of that.

00:40:33.880 You don't care about any of it.

00:40:34.980 If you're a mainstream media consumer, you only care when the media comes along and says, you know, all those conflicts and everything, people dying and all these terrible things happening all over the globe every single day.

00:40:47.980 You don't care about any of it.

00:40:49.360 You don't think about any of it.

00:40:50.500 You never stop for a second to consider any of it at all.

00:40:53.060 Well, here's one little example.

00:40:56.820 Here's one conflict happening across this entire violent globe of ours that you should care about.

00:41:02.340 This one here.

00:41:04.860 If you pretend to care at all, it's only when the media does that.

00:41:09.720 At least I have the honest, at least I can be honest about it and say I just don't.

00:41:14.680 I don't care.

00:41:15.540 I can't.

00:41:19.460 We are not capable of caring deeply.

00:41:23.060 About every single thing that happens in the entire world.

00:41:26.440 We are, as much as we might want to be, we are not gods.

00:41:30.040 Okay?

00:41:31.140 We are not omniscient.

00:41:33.960 We are not capable of infinite mercy and knowing everything and caring deeply about everything that happens all the time.

00:41:43.100 We're human beings.

00:41:44.060 We have sort of a limited scope of influence.

00:41:48.980 You know, we have our little corners of existence.

00:41:54.060 And that's where our focus is supposed to be.

00:41:58.600 You can't do anything about most of what is happening all across the world.

00:42:02.220 And there's no point in caring that much about it, frankly.

00:42:09.360 Alright, let's get to the comment section.

00:42:12.040 If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in A. 0.58

00:42:17.420 We're the sweet baby gang.

00:42:21.860 Okay.

00:42:23.100 Maybe this is supposed to be Was Walsh Wrong, actually.

00:42:25.460 I don't know if this is the right segment.

00:42:26.380 Of course, we announced my new court show called Judged, which is premiering April 9th.

00:42:35.740 That's on Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern.

00:42:38.580 And it is, needless to say, going to be not only the greatest thing The Daily Wire has ever done, but many people are already saying it looks like it's going to be the most important television program that's ever been produced.

00:42:58.080 And I've heard many people, I couldn't give you specific examples, I've just heard it.

00:43:03.960 I've been out and I've heard a lot of people saying this.

00:43:07.460 Well, it's just, you just hear it, you know.

00:43:09.540 But there have been a few who have had some criticisms of the new show, even though they haven't seen it yet.

00:43:19.680 So we'll read a couple of those.

00:43:21.160 Matthew says, the most hilarious part of this is that these are the same people who say judges that rule against Trump and his cronies are making a mockery of the judicial system.

00:43:29.760 Well, yes, those people are making a mockery of the judicial system, Matthew, but you're obviously implying that that's what we're doing with this show.

00:43:39.720 That's what I'm doing.

00:43:41.900 But how could I?

00:43:43.620 It's an absurd claim.

00:43:45.180 It's absurd to say that I'm making a mockery of anything.

00:43:48.100 How could I make a mockery of the judicial system?

00:43:50.600 I can't, I'm a member of the judicial system.

00:43:54.200 Make a mockery of it.

00:43:54.860 I'm the most celebrated and distinguished judge in the country.

00:43:57.620 And yet I'm making a mockery of the judicial system? 0.98

00:44:02.660 It's ridiculous. 0.74

00:44:05.160 Dan says, par for the course with Con Inc., what's next? 0.86

00:44:09.100 Real world Daily Wire?

00:44:12.300 That is a, you know, sir, I would appreciate if you don't spoil my next pitch meeting, but it's actually not a bad idea.

00:44:20.720 Another one says, Matt Walsh is very easy to understand when you realize that his entire life is animated by insecurity,

00:44:26.280 about his total lack of academic and professor achievement.

00:44:31.020 Academic and professor achievement.

00:44:35.240 Did you mean to say professional achievement?

00:44:37.920 Anyway, this show is clearly an excuse for him to cosplay as a high-achieving professional.

00:44:42.820 I don't know how, I think it's, again, this is absurd.

00:44:50.620 It's an absurd claim.

00:44:53.860 Me, of all people, that I could have a lack of, I assume you meant professional achievement.

00:45:00.180 Do I have to run through my resume again for you?

00:45:05.020 I don't, do I, apparently I do.

00:45:06.540 Best-selling, critically acclaimed, children's author, women's studies scholar, judge.

00:45:19.120 Those are three right there.

00:45:20.800 That's just, that's a partial list. 0.74

00:45:25.300 Finally, filthy heathen Kirk says,

00:45:28.340 I find it weird how Ben Shapiro went to Harvard Law,

00:45:32.920 but somehow Matt Walsh is the first DW personality to be a judge.

00:45:38.360 Because I didn't, look,

00:45:40.680 here's what I've found in my, from my experience so far,

00:45:44.480 from my many, from my many, many, many hours spent on the bench.

00:45:48.940 What I've found is that, yeah, I didn't go to, I didn't go to law school like Ben Shapiro.

00:45:55.640 I didn't go to, quote-unquote, college at all.

00:46:00.240 I've never read any legal textbooks, okay?

00:46:06.300 I couldn't cite really almost any court,

00:46:09.780 the number of court cases I could cite off the top of my head are like,

00:46:12.220 there's like three of them, maybe.

00:46:13.180 But that's, because that's not what being a judge is all about, I've found.

00:46:19.540 There's something, you tap into something deeper and more primal.

00:46:25.920 And also, in my courtroom, the Constitution doesn't apply.

00:46:29.340 Basic human rights are not respected.

00:46:31.940 It's just, it's entirely governed by my own whims.

00:46:37.200 So what do I need in law school for that?

00:46:39.740 When you want the best tickets at any sporting event or concert,

00:46:41.980 you have to act quickly, or someone else will get it instead.

00:46:44.540 And similarly, if you're hiring for your business,

00:46:46.340 you want to find the most talented people for your open roles

00:46:48.920 before the competition scoops them up.

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00:47:29.340 Well, as we just discussed,

00:47:30.380 it's no secret that my list of personal and professional accomplishments

00:47:32.980 are both expansive and for so many enviable.

00:47:36.420 A theocratic fascist, hit podcast host,

00:47:39.940 best-selling children's author, acclaimed actor.

00:47:43.020 The truth is, all of these things were mere stepping stones

00:47:45.580 on the road to my true calling.

00:47:47.140 In my new series, Judged by Matt Walsh,

00:47:48.700 premiering April 9th on Daily Wire Plus,

00:47:50.760 real plaintiffs will stand before me with real cases.

00:47:53.740 Would a jury of peers be less painful for these petty claims?

00:47:57.100 Absolutely.

00:47:58.200 Would it be as entertaining, however?

00:48:00.100 Absolutely not.

00:48:00.740 Take a look at the official trailer for my new series,

00:48:03.260 Judged by Matt Walsh.

00:48:04.720 All rise for the Honorable Judge Walsh.

00:48:13.540 Please be seated.

00:48:17.960 Miss Goldstein.

00:48:18.940 Mr. Bentley.

00:48:19.660 Mr. Outerbridge.

00:48:20.800 Mr. Spicer.

00:48:21.340 Your Honor.

00:48:21.620 Mr. Barney.

00:48:22.280 Yes, Your Honor.

00:48:22.700 Ms. Singh.

00:48:23.120 Yes.

00:48:23.480 At 30,000 feet, my lips exploded. 1.00

00:48:25.820 Why would I pay rent to somebody who had sex with my sister? 1.00

00:48:28.360 A dog bit my finger. 0.99

00:48:29.420 He's allergic like the grass.

00:48:31.020 If he didn't want me to drop the car,

00:48:32.140 he would have took the key.

00:48:32.840 I had it with him.

00:48:35.640 Has anyone told you you're the worst negotiator that's ever lived?

00:48:38.380 I've never been more annoyed than I am in this moment. 0.91

00:48:48.460 Not even close.

00:48:49.980 That does it.

00:48:50.900 Please get the hell out of my court. 1.00

00:48:51.860 Well, if you thought our current court system was a joke, wait until you experience real

00:49:03.740 petty court where everything you say can and certainly will be held against you by me.

00:49:09.140 Judged by Matt Walsh premieres Tuesday, April 9th at 8 p.m. Eastern on Daily Wire Plus.

00:49:12.920 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:20.900 You know, one of the fun things about being a left-wing journalist, it seems, is that you get

00:49:24.520 to play Mad Libs every day.

00:49:26.160 In fact, your whole career is one giant game of Mad Libs.

00:49:29.120 What was once a fun, silly game for children is now your entire profession.

00:49:32.500 And that's how we end up with headlines like this one from The Independent.

00:49:35.580 And this headline, it is, I assure you, completely real.

00:49:38.460 It seems so much like a parody that I had to verify it like three times to make sure that

00:49:42.780 I'm not accidentally dedicating a daily cancellation segment to a Babylon B satire.

00:49:47.160 But this is no parody, at least not an intentional one.

00:49:50.640 So here it is.

00:49:52.620 How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers.

00:49:57.880 Now, I assumed that they generate these headlines through a Mad Libs-style game of fill-in-the-blanks.

00:50:03.540 But now that I read it again, I'm wondering if this is more of a sort of a throwing darts

00:50:08.080 at a dartboard situation.

00:50:09.920 So I'm imagining three different dartboards.

00:50:12.440 And one has a selection of cataclysmic existential threats.

00:50:16.460 You know, climate change, racism, income inequality, Donald Trump, etc. 0.62

00:50:20.420 The other has the magical protected groups, black people, fat people, trans people, women, 0.95

00:50:26.280 migrants, disabled people, and so on.

00:50:28.260 And then there's one more dartboard, an optional third category to spice things up a bit with

00:50:32.560 an array of special professions like teachers, journalists, prostitutes, Hollywood actors,

00:50:37.300 and then a number of even more, maybe like specific, very specific and sort of smaller

00:50:41.880 job categories.

00:50:43.100 So you throw a dart at each board and you see where it lands and then you have your article.

00:50:47.380 And you can even throw multiple darts at each board to make it more sort of a niche.

00:50:51.960 And the options are endless. 0.69

00:50:53.300 You know, how racism is impacting gay, black door dash drivers, how Donald Trump is causing 0.99

00:50:58.940 income inequality among disabled migrant teachers, how fat phobia is traumatizing bisexual women 0.99

00:51:04.740 in Hollywood.

00:51:05.360 You know, the combinations are nearly endless.

00:51:07.120 And this time around, the darts landed on climate change, trans, sex workers, and Indonesian.

00:51:13.240 Apparently, this is a fourth dartboard with a list of nationalities.

00:51:16.000 So let's read a little bit of this article.

00:51:17.760 And I know that you, you know, have likely been awake at night, tossing and turning, anxious,

00:51:23.300 fretting, worried about how inclement weather might be affecting Indonesian prostitutes.

00:51:28.060 And well, here's your answer. 0.95

00:51:29.520 Reading now.

00:51:30.820 It says,

00:51:31.200 Joya Patia, a 43-year-old Indonesian transgender woman, first started to notice that changing

00:51:37.260 weather patterns in the mountain-ringed city of Bendung were affecting her income as a sex

00:51:42.000 worker a decade ago.

00:51:43.280 The rainy season was lasting longer across the West Java province.

00:51:46.580 Winds were stronger.

00:51:48.680 And in particularly bad years, Patia lost up to 80% of her earnings.

00:51:52.620 Trans women like Patia are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate

00:51:56.620 change, as well as suffering disproportionately when disaster strikes.

00:52:00.060 Quote,

00:52:00.640 No one is coming out during the longer rainy season.

00:52:03.100 It's very hard to make money during that unpredictable weather.

00:52:05.880 The Indonesian government has a five-year plan setting out its development objectives and

00:52:10.180 how it will manage the impact of climate change.

00:52:12.040 And although this includes provisions for vulnerable groups, trans people are not listed among

00:52:16.240 them.

00:52:17.040 Some trans women are seeking to find their own solution. 0.99

00:52:19.640 To raise awareness about climate change, Sangar Saroja puts on movie nights and fashion shows

00:52:24.500 and hosts discussions with other queer communities.

00:52:26.440 The group also surveyed 80 members of the trans community in Jakarta to find out how climate

00:52:31.000 change affected incomes, frequency of illness, and changes in spending from 2021 to 2022.

00:52:36.100 Nearly 93% of respondents saw decreased income during the rainy season, and 72% had increased

00:52:42.020 expenses.

00:52:43.220 Okay, so that's the story.

00:52:44.580 Deserving of a headline in a major global news publication, no doubt.

00:52:48.140 Apparently, prostitutes are inconvenienced by rain. 1.00

00:52:51.800 Now, trans prostitutes are inconvenienced the most, somehow, for reasons that are never 0.97

00:52:54.680 explained. 0.55

00:52:55.540 I admit that I actually found this element of the story a bit surprising.

00:53:00.940 Does business slow down all that much for prostitutes when it rains? 1.00

00:53:06.060 Perhaps so.

00:53:06.680 I couldn't say.

00:53:07.960 It's far outside my own area of expertise, but if you're the kind of person who likes

00:53:12.060 to go trawling in the streets of the third world for prostitutes, I wouldn't think you'd

00:53:17.140 be dissuaded by a bit of rain.

00:53:19.580 Like, if you're in Indonesia and you're saying to yourself, you know, I want to go down to 1.00

00:53:24.400 this filthy street corner here and, you know, find a prostitute. 1.00

00:53:28.080 Are you really going to look out your window and say, ah, it's raining, never mind. 0.99

00:53:31.120 Forget it. 0.97

00:53:31.620 I only look for impoverished third world prostitutes when it's sunny out. 1.00

00:53:38.600 You know, you'd think like a poncho and an umbrella would seem to solve the problem, but

00:53:42.000 I don't know. 0.96

00:53:43.480 Besides, if the whole idea is that prostitutes, trans prostitutes in particular, are especially

00:53:47.960 burdened by bad weather because they work outdoors, you would think that this is a concern

00:53:52.200 that would apply to a huge number of Indonesians, including those many Indonesians who perform

00:53:56.700 actual productive labor.

00:53:58.060 I mean, tens of millions of people in the country work in industries like agriculture,

00:54:02.100 forestry, mining, fishing, tourism.

00:54:04.780 I mean, regular tourism, not sex tourism.

00:54:07.080 And all of those industries and many more are greatly impacted by weather conditions.

00:54:12.040 And one would think that they are even more impacted than prostitutes.

00:54:16.200 Meanwhile, they are, again, performing actual productive and important jobs, but they don't

00:54:20.500 even get a mention in the independent because the independent is a left-wing rag and left-wing

00:54:25.340 rags hate nothing so much as productive normal people. 1.00

00:54:28.760 But this is all a bit of a moot point because you may notice that the writer of this article

00:54:34.580 never bothers to provide any evidence supporting the foundational premise, which is that climate

00:54:40.020 change has made the weather measurably worse in Indonesia.

00:54:43.660 After all, Indonesia has always had a rainy season for Indonesian prostitutes and everyone 1.00

00:54:48.440 else in the country, but who cares about them, to contend with.

00:54:51.200 And the rainy season, you know, is the rainy season really that much rainier now?

00:54:57.720 We're given no information to support that assertion.

00:55:00.660 The only data point provided is that one 43-year-old trans prostitute thinks that it seems like it

00:55:07.760 rains more now than it did 10 years ago.

00:55:10.180 The anecdotal observation of a single middle-aged prostitute is all the evidence we're given.

00:55:16.220 This is how science is done, apparently.

00:55:18.760 Now, far be it for me to question this prostitute's meteorological expertise, but I did feel the 1.00

00:55:24.220 need to cross-reference the claim.

00:55:25.820 And so here's a chart from Statista.com that shows annual rainfall totals in Indonesia from

00:55:31.840 1901 to 2020.

00:55:33.800 As you can see, leaving aside one big spike in 2010, the totals have been pretty consistent

00:55:39.840 over the past century or so.

00:55:42.340 You know, they had 3,073 millimeters in 1910 and 3,096 in 2020.

00:55:48.760 That's a difference of about one inch of rainfall total in the whole year. 0.68

00:55:53.620 A difference so minuscule that not even a trans prostitute could possibly detect it. 1.00

00:55:58.620 So the whole premise of the article is totally fake and made up, which is probably all that

00:56:03.720 needed to be said about any of this, if anything needed to be said at all, which it didn't.

00:56:08.640 And that is ultimately the reason why The Independent is today canceled.

00:56:13.800 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

00:56:15.340 Have a great weekend.

00:56:16.460 Talk to you on Monday.

00:56:17.720 Godspeed.

00:56:23.620 Godspeed.

00:56:24.220 Godspeed.

00:56:24.240 Thank you.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 05, 2024

Ep. 1341 - Viral Video Reveals The True Dehumanizing Horror Of Surrogacy

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