Ep. 1342 - Prominent Women's Basketball Coaches Are Too Cowardly To Defend The Existence Of Women's Sports
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One of the most prominent women s basketball coaches in the country was asked over the weekend whether she thinks males should be allowed to compete against females in women s sports. Her answer was about as cowardly as it gets. Also, protesters in Michigan shout Death to America which should be a one-way ticket to deportation. Plus, Huffington Post puts out another hit piece on me. We ll see what scandalous thing I ve done this time. And a gay news site tries to prove the validity of transgenderism by using slugs and snails. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, one of the most prominent women's basketball coaches in the
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country was asked over the weekend whether she thinks males should be able to compete against
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females in women's sports. Her answer was about as cowardly as it gets. Also, protesters in
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Michigan shout death to America, which should be a one-way ticket to deportation. Plus, Huffington
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Post puts out another hit piece on me. We'll see what scandalous thing I've done this time.
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And a gay news site tries to prove the validity of transgenderism
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by using slugs and snails as examples. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Welcome to Eclipse Day 2024, everybody. By the time you watch or listen to this,
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the eclipse will likely have already happened, which means presumably that a large portion of my
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audience will have been raptured. Because from what I understand, based on my research on Twitter,
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the rapture is scheduled for today as well to coincide with the eclipse for whatever reason.
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So, if you're hearing this, it means that you, like me, have been left behind to walk the earth and
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await your eternal destruction. That's the bad news. The good news is that you'll still get to
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watch the premiere of my new show, Judge, tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern. Now, you may not be in the mood
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for judgment-related entertainment, given the circumstances, but you might as well watch it
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anyway, because what else do you have to do? Now that we have that out of the way, let's get on
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with the show, because what else can we do? We're all doomed. Don Staley is the head coach of the
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NCAA champion South Carolina Gamecocks, a gold medal Olympian several times over,
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a Hall of Famer who's widely considered one of the best players in the history of the WNBA,
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as low as that bar might be. And this is a resume that sports journalists describe as historic.
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She's supposedly a basketball icon, a role model, one of the greatest coaches alive, they say.
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And what's often left unsaid, even though everybody knows it's true, is that Don Staley's resume would
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have looked a lot different if she had been forced to compete against men at any point in her career.
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If it weren't for Title IX and the creation of exclusive sports that barred men from competing,
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Don Staley would probably be selling insurance right now or conducting tedious DEI workshops
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somewhere. Instead, she's a multimillionaire, and you're instructed to think that she's a very
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impressive person. All this is to say, if anybody should be an evangelist for women's-only
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sports leagues, Don Staley fits the bill. Because without these leagues, Staley would have precisely
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zero professional accomplishments to speak of. But leftism is an ideology that necessarily involves
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a lot of ladder pulling. Once they get to the top, it's vital for leftists to deny that they received
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any kind of special help based on their identity along the way. We see this all the time from
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Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris. And the other day, in a comical press conference ahead of the
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NCAA National Championship, we saw it again from Don Staley. Now, a reporter from OutKick asked Staley
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a simple question. He wanted to know what she thought about the idea of men competing against
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women in sports, especially in college basketball. And as a prominent coach in college basketball,
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you'd think that she would have an opinion about this. You'd think it'd be something that she's thought
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a lot about. And she would have something to say about. But here's how she responded. Watch.
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Dan Zakrzewski, OutKick coach. You just talked about what a massive weekend this is, obviously,
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for women's basketball, women's sports in general. One of the major issues facing women's sports right
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now is the debate, discussion topic about the inclusion of transgender athletes, biological males
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in women's sports. I was wondering if you would tell me your position on that issue.
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Damn, you got deep on me, didn't you? I'm under the opinion of, if you're a woman, you should
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play. If you consider yourself a woman, and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should
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be able to play. That's my opinion. Do you want me to go deeper?
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Do you think transgender women should be able to participate in college basketball?
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That's the question you want me to ask. I mean, you want to ask. I'll give you that. Yes.
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Yes. So now, the barnstorm of people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me
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on one of the biggest days of our game. And I'm okay with that. I really am.
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Now, the first thing you notice about that reply is how nervous Dawn Staley is. You know, she takes a
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big gulp of water, drawing laughter from some of the reporters. And then she says, damn, you got deep
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on me, even though it's really not a deep question at all. Should men be able to compete against women
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in women's sports? It's not a deep question. In fact, it's like, it's a very, it's a very simple
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question. Very easy question. And she stutters for a few more seconds until she finally delivers
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maybe the least grammatical sentence she possibly could have. She says, quote,
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I'm under the opinion of if you're a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman
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and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play. Now, I don't want to get
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into semantics here. I'm not sure what vice versa refers to in that sentence. If you're a woman and
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you want to play sports or vice versa. So if you're a woman and you want to play sports or
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if you're a sport and you want to play women, is that what she's saying? Anyway, incoherence
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aside, if Dawn Staley actually believed what she was saying, then there would be no nervousness
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whatsoever. She would confidently tell the reporter that yes, she has no problem with men competing
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against her all women's team. She would demand that the Olympics and the NCAA change their current
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policy on trans identifying athletes, which sets some, some arbitrary testosterone threshold
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that prevents many men from competing. There'd be no need for, for any of the, the stalling
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or stammering. But Staley did stall and she did stammer because she doesn't believe a
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word of what she just said. I mean, that's pretty clear. That's why her answer makes no
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sense. She lumps women and people who consider themselves women into the same category. But
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in doing so, she's acknowledging that they are indeed different categories. Actual women
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don't consider themselves women. They're, they're, they just are women. You would never refer
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to an actual woman and say, well, there's someone who considers themselves a woman. That's
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just a woman. So if you feel the need to add the qualifier, consider themselves, then you
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obviously recognize that they are not women. When you're talking about two different groups
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of people, women and those who consider themselves women, well, you have already acknowledged that
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those are two different groups of people. There's something very different about them.
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Something that we recognize for all of recorded human history until about 15 seconds ago, which
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is why Staley had the career that she did, because up until this point, we've always recognized
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the difference. But Staley doesn't want to admit that anymore. And at the end of her answer,
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she suggests that she's being brave because she's going to, you know, anger all the right-wing
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barnstormers on social media, whoever they are. But it's not hard to see what she's actually worried
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about. Staley knows that the NCAA has already said that it, quote, firmly and unequivocally supports
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the opportunity for transgender student athletes to compete in college sports. She knows the NCAA
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has already bent the knee to activist groups like GLAAD. And she's aware that the NCAA is now
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being sued for Title IX violations by female athletes like Riley Gaines for allowing men to
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compete against them. And on top of that, the University of South Carolina has trans pride
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flags all over its website. So if she affirmed that biology is real, there's a good chance she'd be
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fired, or at least she would lose her status as America's favorite female coach. She knows exactly
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where she's supposed to stand on this issue. And indeed, with her answer, Staley predictably
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received a bunch of fawning headlines from left-wing activists. GLAAD posted a thank you note and
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declared that Staley is the best in the business. Pink News declared that Staley's response was
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legendary. It was a legendary response, what you just heard there. And the advocate called her
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transformative. Now, by contrast, here's how supposedly conservative media outlets responded.
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Fox News ran this headline. South Carolina's Dawn Staley draws strong reactions over remarks about
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trans participation in women's sports. Now, at this rate, Staley could announce a roster of five
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men next year, and Fox News would probably applaud her. Maybe that's the plan. In any event,
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this is the dynamic that weak people like Staley respond to. She knows she'll be applauded for saying
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the opposite of what she knows is true. And she would be condemned or worse if she said what was
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actually true. And in that respect, she wasn't alone. Iowa's coach, Lisa Bluter, took a similar
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approach. Here was her response to the same question from the same reporter.
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Coach Bluter, this morning I asked Coach Staley about the issue of allowing transgender women,
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biological males, to play women's sports. I wanted to give you an opportunity to give your opinion on
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that topic as well. Well, thank you for the question. You know, I understand it's a topic that
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people are interested in. But today my focus is on the game tomorrow, my players. It's an important
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game we have tomorrow, and that's what I want to be here to talk about. But I know it's an important
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issue for another time. Well, yeah, we don't have time to talk about that. I mean, you know, you have
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one of the problems with them using that excuse, well, now is not the time. You've had all the time
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before now. I mean, you've had, there have been, there have been several off seasons when this issue
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was still a live issue. And you could have talked about it. You could talk about it at any point up
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to now. And you stayed quiet because you're a coward. And really, this is an answer that's worse
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in some ways than Staley's. At least Staley said something as insane as it was. Lisa Bluter is too
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afraid to even do that. She says she's focused on the big game. But if men could compete against
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women in college basketball, there would be no big game, at least not for her. All women's sports
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would cease to exist. Both of these coaches know that. You know, if they had to compete against any
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of the top-ranked men's teams or any of the men's teams at all, they would be destroyed. If they had
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to compete against a respectable high school team, they would be destroyed. But somehow that doesn't
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concern, you know, Staley or Bluter, they can't bring themselves to say the obvious. So the
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nonsense continues. There's a lot of that going around lately, as you may have noticed. A few
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days ago, the reporter Jonathan Cho broke the story that in Seattle, a mentally imbalanced man with
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comically enhanced breasts has been working as a public defender for several years. And if you
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remember the Canadian woodshop teacher with the size Z prosthetic chest, you know, remember that?
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Well, it's a bit like that, except in a courtroom setting instead of a high school. And also,
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My comment about my client? Yeah. I just met her. She's really nice. She's really smart. She sounds
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like she's got the right idea about things. I really support what she's up to. And I think
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it's fabulous. How about that? She's accused of, what is it, criminal trespass?
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In the first degree, yes. Is she innocent or guilty?
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She's innocent, of course. She's innocent, okay. Well, she's caught on video being arrested and
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protesting and allegedly protesting. So I'm trying to get all sides.
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Well, my client is pled not guilty. My name is Stephanie Mueller. I'm in the directory for the
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Washington State Bar Association. You can look me up. Okay. Stephanie, thank you for your time. At
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this point, your client is being arraigned, though. It's all just happened. Her hearing is over.
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Got it. It's done. All right. Do you know when her next court date is?
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Do you? I'd like to maybe just keep tabs if they're, uh...
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So, just because the guy is eight and a half feet tall and has a voice deeper than James Earl Jones,
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apparently that hasn't stopped him from trying to be a woman. Now, just imagine this for a moment.
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Imagine you show up to court to meet your public defender. And naturally, you're going to have kind
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of low expectations. Get what you pay for and all that. And then this guy shows up. Like a character
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out of Portlandia. How would you respond? How would the judge respond? Well, apparently in this case,
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everybody just acted like this was normal. The defendants didn't have an issue with it. And
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that's not entirely surprising, since apparently the defendants are left-wing activists in Seattle
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accused of interrupting a city council meeting to yell something. They probably requested the
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trans lawyer, which might not be a bad strategy in a Seattle court. I mean, after all, if you have to
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win your case, you have to, you know, you kind of have to win your case if a trans lawyer is
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representing you. Otherwise, it would be transphobic. And needless to say, then the judge had no issue
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with this either. A man shows up with skin-tight leather pants, boots, and fake eyelashes, the
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ridiculous fake lips and everything. Not exactly courtroom-appropriate attire. And the judge doesn't
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say a word about it. Of course, ironically, if he had actually been a woman who looked exactly like
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that, there would have been an issue. Even in Seattle, you know, courtrooms aren't burlesque
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shows, at least not yet. It would be frowned upon for a woman to come dress like some sort of
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cartoonish hooker to court. But because this guy says he's transgender, it's magically acceptable.
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Now, a few times on the show, I've mentioned the rebel news reporter David Menzies. A few months ago,
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he was the only journalist in all of Canada to report on the fact that a 50-year-old man was allowed
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to compete against teenage girls in various competitions throughout the country. And for
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reporting on that and other reports like that, Menzies has been arrested multiple times by the
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Canadian government. Just this weekend, he was assaulted and arrested again by police for covering
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pro-Hamas protests in Toronto. And it's all on video, but Menzies persists anyway. It's quite a
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contrast with what we've seen this week in this country, which is, you know, story after story of
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Cowardice. I mean, think about it. If there was ever a weekend for women's sports to have its
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moment, it was this one. It was ever a weekend for people to speak up in defense of it. Well,
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now was the time. Instead, the coaches of the top two teams declared at a press conference
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that they apparently don't even know what women are. They also made it very clear from their ambivalence
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that they don't really care if women's sports sticks around anymore. Now, they'll probably change
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their mind about that when the money dries up, when they lose their jobs and are made irrelevant.
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But, you know, it requires some foresight to see that and courage to speak up about it.
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And sadly, those two things are in short supply. Now, let's get to our five headlines.
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Daily Mail has this report. Chance of death to America and death to Israel rang out during a
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protest in a Michigan city that is recently dubbed the jihad capital of the United States
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by a Wall Street Journal columnist. Demonstrators gathered in the city in commemoration of Al-Quds
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Day, an international day to express support for Palestine and oppose the Israeli occupation of
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Palestinian territories. The protest came less than a week after seven aid workers from World Central
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Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, drawing global outrage and condemnation.
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A video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute shows Tarek Bazi, a local activist,
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delivering remarks at a podium as chants of death to America sound in the background.
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Let's watch a little bit of that video. Here it is.
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We've been asked in the past, why are our protests on the International Day of Quds,
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why are they so anti-America? Why don't we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about
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America? Gaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-America. Because
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it's the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we
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just heard about. And this is why Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Day of Quds,
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this is why he would say to pour all of your chants, all of your chants and all of your shouts
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we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth. It's not genocide
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Joe that has to go. It's the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such
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atrocities and such devilry to happen and would support it, such a system does not deserve to
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exist on God's earth. And so when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist, the chant
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So the chant, and if you're just listening to the audio podcast, you may not have picked up on that,
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but the chant that you heard from the crowd, that was them chanting death to America. While the
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speaker talks about very explicitly why he is anti-American and why our system does not deserve
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to exist on God's earth. Now, I'm going to try to give these people the thoughtful, well-considered,
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polite response that they deserve. And as you would expect me to give, which is why I will say to them,
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shut up, you ungrateful, disgusting brats, and get the hell out of our country. You don't deserve to
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be here. Get the hell out. We don't want you here. You don't deserve to be here. You don't deserve to
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live here. Any foreigner who comes here and then calls for the destruction of our country,
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foreigners who come here and declare themselves to be explicitly anti-American
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should be deported immediately, no questions asked. That should be automatic. Like the buses
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should be rolling up at that protest, put everybody on the bus, you're gone, and that's it. We'll send
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you, you know, we won't even stop so you can pick up your stuff from your house. We'll ship it to you
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at some point or just throw it away, probably more likely. You don't deserve to be here. We don't want
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you. You apparently don't want to be here. So we have mutual interests now, right? Our opinions align
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on this point. So you despise America. We despise you as a foreigner who despises America. A foreigner
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who comes here and despises America, I despise you for that. And you despise me. So leave. Pretty simple.
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Which, by the way, is exactly what any non-Western country would do. It's how any non-Western country
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would handle this. Basically, any of the countries where these people originate,
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that's how they would handle it. Like what happens, let's consider, what happens if I move to the
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Middle East to an Arab country and then I get up at a podium and call for the death of that country?
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What happens if I stand up and I say I am anti that country? I'm calling for the death of that
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country. How long do I last? And that's not deportation, okay? They're not going to just
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send me back to America. I would be thrilled if that was the response, right? I would be lucky. I would
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be so lucky if that's all they did. Rather, I think I would not be deported from the country. I
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would be deported from Earth via a hole in the ground, which is not even marked by a tombstone.
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So when I say that these people should be deported, that's me being very nice. That's me calling for
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leniency, in fact. That is generosity and compassion. Because you could certainly make an argument that
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calling for death to America is, you know, you can make an argument for treating anyone who says that
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as a traitor and giving them the punishment prescribed for that crime. You can make that
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argument. That is a declaration of war against the country, after all. It's a call for violence.
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You know, and if that had been a white, just think about if he had said that more specifically,
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like if this had been a white speaker chanting, let's say, death to Muslims, it would be treated
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as a hate crime. You would not be legally allowed to do that. Because they would say it's a hate
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crime. They would say it's an incitement to violence. Which, by the way, it would be.
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So when you say it about the entire country, that is you declaring war on the country. That is a call
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for violence against the country. And we all know that. And listen, I criticize this country all
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the time. I would never say death to America or call myself anti-American. I love America. I'm
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America first. But sure, I criticize the country. But this is my home. You know, I was born here. My
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kids were born here. My parents and grandparents were born here. So when I criticize America, or when
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you do, that's one thing. Again, saying death to America is not acceptable for anybody to say. But
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criticisms is one thing. But, you know, when some foreigner comes here and starts immediately
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complaining and about our country, that's an entirely different story. It's like, you know,
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you might have a family member who you don't really get along with. And, you know, there's some
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tension there. And you get into arguments. And maybe you even, maybe you even, you get
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into some, some, some rather passionate arguments. You've said some unkind things to each other,
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whatever it is, the relationship is strained. But when some stranger who's not in your family
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comes along and insults that family member, well, you don't allow that. Or even if it's a family
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member you have a strained relationship with, you don't allow that. Or you shouldn't. Because
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your response to that is, hey, hey, you know, hey, it's one thing for me to say that. But,
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but who the hell do you think you are? You're not in the family. No, no, no. You don't get
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to say that. You don't get to treat my family that way. And that's the attitude you should
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have about your family. And that's the attitude we should have about our country. You don't get
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to be a foreigner coming here saying these things. Although in this case, obviously, again,
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this isn't just criticism. Here they're saying something that would be outrageous and disgusting
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no matter who was saying it. My only point is that in general, I'm just sick to death of
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foreigners coming here and then insulting our country. You would not tolerate it in your own
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country. And you know, you wouldn't, you know, you wouldn't. And yet you think we should tolerate
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it here. But you would dare to get like offended when you say things like this and people respond
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in an angry way. And you would have dared to get defensive about it. When you know for damn
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certain that if, that if the shoes on the other foot and I go to the country you're from, and I
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say the same thing, you would not tolerate it for a second. I'm just tired of it. Just get the hell
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out. Nobody asked you to come. That guy, like who asked you to come here? We didn't ask you to
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come. We don't need you. Did anyone extend you an invitation? Did anyone say, oh, please,
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please come here for it? No, no one said that. You could never come here. We'd be fine. We'd be
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fine without, in fact, we'd be better off without you. So just leave. I mean, anyway, what kind of
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hypocrite are you? What kind of disgusting hypocrite are you that you think America, you know, is the
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greatest evil in the world, that it's responsible for all these, it's responsible for all the terrible
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things happening in the world. And yet you come here and live here and you live off of the
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privileges that this country affords you. What kind of disgusting, you're a traitor on multiple
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levels now. Like at least have the courage of your convictions, you weak, pathetic coward.
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You hate this country this much, but you have no problem living here and basking in the luxury
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that it affords you. I mean, you're the worst of all worlds. Like it's one thing for you to actually
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live somewhere else and go around screaming about how America should die.
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Yeah, that's one thing. Not, I would, that's, that still pisses me off to hear anyone saying that
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no matter where they live, but you don't live here. You live somewhere else and that's how you feel.
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What are you doing still living here? You know, because you want to go back to your air-conditioned
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home, don't you? You want to go back to your air-conditioned home and you want to have all the
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privileges, all the luxuries. You know, you go back into your home and you sit down and you watch
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your Netflix and you have your smartphone and all that. A lot of these people are probably on
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government assistance as well. So not only that, but like a lot of these people are living off of
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the system that they say should not exist on the planet. That's why, you know, if we were a country
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run by serious people, we would have a very stringent selection system for deciding who gets to come
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here. I, you know, I think there should be a moratorium on all immigration for a period of
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time, but whenever it opens up again, we should be very, very selective about who we allow in.
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And one of the selection criteria should be a demonstrable love for America and for its
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traditions and its people. You know, you should love America above all else. You should love it more
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than where you're coming from. That's what I think. Because if you don't, then don't come.
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Like I'm not, I'm not saying, I'm not saying that everyone in the world should love America more than
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their own country. Of course not. If you live in another country, you should, you should love your
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country the most. But if you come here, if you want to come and live here, then you should have an
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America first attitude. You should be willing to say that. That should be part of this election
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criteria. You should be willing to say, I put America before any country, including whatever my
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country, you know, whatever the country they come from. They should be, they should explicitly have
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to say, I put my country before this one. If you can't say that, then don't. It's fine if you can't
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say that. Again, I'm not, I'm not saying that everyone, that all eight people, eight billion people
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on the globe should have to get up and say that they cherish America above all else. But just don't
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come here then. No one's forcing you to. And that should be part of the selection criteria. And then,
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and then we should have the understanding that if you manage to sneak through, even though you hate
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us, let's say you're willing to go through the, the, the sort of pageantry of, of pretending to have a love
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for America and its traditions. Well, any, any man who's just sneak, sneak through? Well, the moment you reveal
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your true nature, the moment you reveal that you actually hate America, one strike and you're out.
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Your immigration status is immediately revoked. I don't care how long you've lived here.
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I don't care if you've lived here for 25 years. The moment you get up and you start saying death to
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America, anti-American, okay, you're gone. See you later. You're never coming back. We don't need you.
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You got the whole rest of the world you can live in. All right. Or maybe, you know, a lot of those
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countries won't accept you either. They actually have, uh, standards for who they accept, but that's
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your problem. And nothing, you know, everything I'm saying here, it's like nothing I'm saying should
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be remotely controversial. It should be, it doesn't, it shouldn't even matter where you fall on the
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political spectrum. It certainly shouldn't matter where you fall, how you feel about the conflict,
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um, uh, in Israel right now. That, that should make no difference to anything that I'm saying.
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This is just a very simple thing. If you hate America, don't come here.
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And if you, if you want to see America destroyed, then you do not deserve to live here. Not only do
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you not deserve to live here, but we cannot afford like by, by, for the sake of our, of our self
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preservation as a nation, we cannot afford to allow people like that to live in this country.
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Cause I have kids who are going to live here and inherit this country. Okay. So, so when you're
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saying death to America, you're saying death to my children, you disgusting scumbag. That's what
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you're saying. All right. Anyway, cause the report from a CNBC headline says costs at some colleges
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nearing a hundred thousand dollars per year. Uh, but many families pay a lot less. So they put the
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little positive spin on it. The price tag for a college education has never been higher and it's
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only going up. The cost of attendance at some schools, including a New York university, Tufts,
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Brown, Yale, and Washington university in St. Louis is now nearing six figures a year after factoring
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in tuition, fees, room and board books, transportation, other expenses. Among the
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schools on the Princeton reviews, the best 389 colleges list that have already set their costs
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for the 2024, 25 academic year, eight institutions have a sticker price of more than $90,000 per year
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so far, according to data provided to CNBC. Considering the tuition adjustments average roughly 4% a
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year, those tuitions and others could cross the $100,000 a year threshold as soon as 2026.
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Um, according to an estimate by Brian Alexander, a senior scholar at Georgetown university.
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So this is every few months you see a headline like this, just giving us an update and letting us
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know that lest we forget that our long national psychosis is continuing. Uh, we continue to tolerate
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the university system charging many, many universities in the system anyway, charging basically double the
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average national income per year. So the average national income, I believe is, I think it's at
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around, it's a little less than $60,000 a year at this point. And so a lot of these universities are
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charging a little bit less, or in some cases a little bit more than, than double that per year.
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And keep in mind that the average, uh, tuition is nearly double the average national income,
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even though most college kids are not even earning the average national income. That's the average
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national income. When you factor in everybody together, it's not the, the average income of
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somebody aged 19 or 18. I don't know what the average income is there, but I can tell you it's
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for a lot of them, it's zero. A lot of these kids are making no money at all. And, you know, every time
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we see a story like this, we just have to reflect on the fact that despite all this, still somehow the
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university system itself mostly escapes scrutiny, right? They're the ones who are charging insane
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amounts of money, money that makes a college education not worth it for almost every college,
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for almost every college student. Not, not every, but almost every. So it's a very small percent of
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college students who you could say, Oh yeah, it's, it's worth it for you to pay a hundred grand a year.
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You have no money, but you're going to pay a hundred grand a year and go into debt for
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maybe the rest of your life because of this. It's a very small percent of these kids. Is that,
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is that really worth it? Um, and in spite of that, again, we, the actual university system itself
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for the most part is not blamed for this. Um, and we hear all the, the complaints about greedy
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corporations and greedy rich people and all that kind of stuff. And there are plenty of corporations
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out there that are greedy and that are destructive and deserve a lot of criticism, plenty that deserve
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more criticism than they get. But here you have this system with these extremely, uh, well-funded
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institutions. We've got, they've got millions and millions of dollars to spare and, uh, staffed by
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wealthy people, at least at the, uh, a lot of them at the administrative level, the amount of money
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these people are, are, are paid. And they're just bilking these college kids. And for some reason,
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we never turn, we never turn the, uh, our gaze back to that system itself and say, why are you
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charging all this money? You're the ones doing it. You don't have to do that, but you are.
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So it's an interesting thing because most people will admit at this point that the whole system is a
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scam. So you'll find, you'll find maybe not unanimous, but close to unanimous agreement that
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the system is that the kids are getting scammed by the system. There's a, there's a, there's,
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you know, um, a huge amount of agreement on that point.
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So we'll call it a scam, but the question is, who are the scam artists? Who are the people
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actually running this scam? And yeah, there are various different culprits that we could point to,
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but the system itself escapes scrutiny, which I find very bizarre. Huffington Post was very upset
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about a monologue I did on my show last week. Maybe you remember this monologue. Um, here's
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the headline from Huffington Post. Matt Walsh defends white nationalist organization on Daily Wire
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podcast. The podcast host went to bat for a group that once advocated creating a white ethno state in
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America, calling VDARE's ideas inconvenient. This is the article says, Matt Walsh, one of the most
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listened to podcast hosts in America, defended a well-known white nationalist organization
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on his Daily Wire show this week. On Tuesday's episode of his eponymous podcast, Walsh argued
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that VDARE, a racist nonprofit listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center,
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was being targeted by a government investigation solely because of its inconvenient and unpopular
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beliefs. Um, Walsh was referring to James's ongoing investigation into Letitia James, that is,
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New York attorney general, into whether VDARE's 2020 purchase of a
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$1.4 million castle in West Virginia may have violated its New York nonprofit status. He also
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alluded to the fact that earlier this year, James won a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump for falsely
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inflating his net worth, meaning that the former president could be on the hook for $454 million
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if he loses on the appeal. For Walsh to claim that VDARE merely has unfashionable, inconvenient,
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and unpopular views obscures just how extreme the organization is. As noted by Angry White Men,
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a website that documents white supremacist rhetoric and was the first to report on Walsh's comments,
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VDARE has, quote, defended the racist manifesto of the El Paso shooter who killed 23 people during
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a 2019 anti-Hispanic shooting at a Walmart in Texas. And a video that VDARE published on YouTube
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called for a secessionist movement that would result in the creation of a white ethnostate.
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So they're quoting, there's Huffington Post quoting something called Angry White Men, a website called
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Angry White Men, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a radical left-wing activist group.
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And that's what they're using for this hit piece against me. Now, first of all,
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I have no idea whether Huffington Post's summary of the opinions expressed on VDARE
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is actually correct. Now, I suspect, I strongly suspect that it's at least not entirely correct,
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only because these people tend to lie about everything. So, for instance,
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when I read this hit piece, and they said that VDARE defended the manifesto of the El Paso shooter,
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I had no idea what they were talking about. I think most people have no idea what they're talking
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about. But Huffington Post, they linked to a Media Matters, so in order to support that claim that
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VDARE defended the manifesto. And even that, it's like, I'm not sure, what do you mean defended the
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manifesto? What does that mean exactly? Well, they don't explain what that means. So they link to a
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Media Matters hit piece about VDARE. And that hit piece mentions in one line that a VDARE host,
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at some point in the last few years, called the manifesto's use of the term invasion to describe
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illegal immigration as a, quote, apt term. So that's what they're calling a defense of the
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manifesto. But if you follow the next link, so you got to keep following links, you know,
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going down the crazy left-wing rabbit hole. You follow the next link, it brings you to a video clip
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pulled by Media Matters, which I assume is what this is all referring to. And it's a clip where
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this VDARE host condemns left-wing terrorism and points out that the media gives left-wing terrorists,
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especially non-white ones, a pass and even celebrates them in some cases. And he then says
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that invasion is an apt term to describe what's happening. But while he's saying that, he's not
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at that moment referring to the manifesto. Actually, there's a screenshot of an Ann Coulter article on
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the screen while he's saying that. So it appears to me that if he's quoting anything, when he says
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apt term, he's quoting an Ann Coulter article. That's what it seems anyway. And he proceeds to make the
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point that the media will now claim, due to the El Paso shooter, that anyone who speaks this way,
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which is in an honest way about immigration, will be lumped in unfairly with the El Paso shooter.
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So that seems to be the argument. I don't think that they're, in other words, they're going to use
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this killer as a way to smear everybody else, normal people who are not killers and are saying normal
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things about immigration. So that seems to be the point they're making, which is a point that like
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we all make when these things happen, because it's exactly what the media does. I don't think
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there's any honest way to read that as a defense of the shooter or the manifesto. Rather, it's a
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criticism of the media. And wouldn't you know it, Huffington Post proceeds to do exactly what the
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guy said they would. But all that is beside the point. It's beside the point. Because none of that
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really matters in this case. When I heard about how the New York Attorney General is targeting VDR
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and doing so transparently on political grounds, I didn't go check to make sure that everything
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they've published on their site is something I agree with. I didn't do that because it's not
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relevant. It doesn't matter. My whole point is that they have the right to express their views
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and they should not be targeted by political partisans who are blatantly trying to shut down
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speech and intimidate their political opponents. Okay? I mean, we all know, as the point I made last
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week, that the New York Attorney General would never target, say, BLM in this way, despite we can all
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run through the list of the things that Black Lives Matter not only did but also said, explicitly
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calling for, encouraging violence. I mean, many, many examples of that. And many examples of that in
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general on the left, as we know. And they are not going to be targeted. Why is VDR being targeted?
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Well, it's because the New York Attorney General doesn't like their politics. And you notice that even
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in Huffington Post's hit piece, they don't even really try to spend much time disputing the idea
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that this is a, this is the, you know, politically motivated prosecution. Instead, they spend most of
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their time, basically their argument is that, well, yeah, it might be politically motivated, but these
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guys are really bad. I mean, listen to the stuff they're saying. It's real bad stuff.
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Not even disputing the fact. And the fact is that this is, again, politically motivated and
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should be condemned on that ground alone. Okay, one other quick thing here. Here's an NBC story
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about a case that's gotten some attention over the past few days. Very important controversy having
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to do with a cruise line. Let's watch a little bit of this. A mad dash for passengers to catch
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their cruise ship, triggering a seven-day ordeal. We've flown, it's actually seven countries we've
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been in in 48 hours. Jay and Jill Campbell and six other Norwegian cruise passengers were on a 21-day
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voyage up the coast of Africa. But last Wednesday, it all went wrong for the group after they left the
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ship for a private excursion to the African island country of South Tome and Principe, but didn't make
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it back by the 3 p.m. deadline. And the ship left without them, their passports handed to the local
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port agents. Even though the couple says the private tour operator notified the captain they
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were going to be late. And despite the Coast Guard's attempt to get them on the ship, which was still
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docked. We truly believe that, you know, although there's a set of rules or policies that the ship
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may have followed, they follow those rules too rigidly. The passengers arranged to board again in
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Bonjol Gambia, traveling there on their own expense. But the cruise line says the ship couldn't dock due
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to weather. In a statement, Norwegian Cruise told NBC News, once the guests did not make it back to
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the ship, we worked with them and the local port agent to assist with obtaining the necessary visas
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for them to rejoin at the next available port, noting the group was an hour late when the ship
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initially left without them. Still. So they're an hour late to come back to the ship and the ship
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left without them. You know, unfortunately this story is not nearly as entertaining as I'd hoped
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because when I originally saw the headline, the original headline said something like that I saw
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floating around on social media was that passengers got left behind on an African island or something
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by a cruise ship. And so I immediately imagining, you know, Robinson Crusoe, a castaway, Tom Hanks,
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like something like that. They've been left there for years. They were just spotted by another,
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you know, Disney cruise that was coming by and they found them. They were all bedraggled and
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long beards and everything. That's not what happened at all. They just were, it was an inconvenience,
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basically. It was a relatively mild inconvenience that they went through because they were an hour late
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to get back from their excursion. The ship just left them. Should the cruise line have left these
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people there? You know, were they, were they wrong for leaving them behind? No, they were not wrong.
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Yes, they should have been left. No, they were not wrong. You're an hour late. So this is just
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classic entitled attitude. You want, you want the whole ship to stay, to wait there for you. Not going to
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happen. But, but first of all, so you deserve to get left behind for that. But you deserve to get
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left behind in the first place because you're going on a cruise to begin with. So that's your
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first mistake. Your first sin is to go on the cruise. I've been on one cruise in my life. I cannot
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imagine ever spending the money to go on another one. And a cruise, if you've never been on one before,
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it's, it's, it's, it's something that, you know, it brings out this very weird kind of despair that
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it's almost hard to describe. David Foster Wallace wrote about it in his famous essay in the nineties
00:46:51.280
after he went on a cruise, but it's this weird experience of being on this giant boat where you
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have people catering to you constantly and everything is very structured. Um, but you know, there's a
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schedule, there's a dinner schedule, there's this, there's entertainment, you know, they're kind of
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like ferrying you along from one thing to the next. It's very structured, but it's also very opulent and
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everyone is eating and drinking and everybody is fat and old. Like you don't expect that before you go
00:47:18.940
on a cruise. You don't know that until you get on the cruise. Like everyone here is really fat
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and much fatter than I thought everybody would be. Um, you're worried about the buoyancy of the ship,
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even when you see the size of the passengers, people are a lot older than you think. And you're just
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floating along for no real reason. Um, you're not really going anywhere in particular. And then you
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look out at the vastness of the ocean and the, the, the indescribable depths of the, this giant
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terrifying sea. And there's something about that juxtaposed with like a breakfast buffet filled with
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morbidly obese people that really causes you to contemplate the fragility and futility of life.
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Or at least it did for me and David Foster Wallace. Um, so there's the two of us at least. And I was on
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my honeymoon too. So, you know, not exactly the time for such ruminations, but that's the effect it had
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on me. And I emphasize the food and the fatness because, um, if you've never been on a cruise, you don't
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realize, at least I didn't, that eating is the main thing. That's, that's the main activity that you do.
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You just eat and eat and eat. And then you dock in Jamaica or wherever, and you waddle out there and
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you've been eating and it's, you're gross and it's, and it's humid. And a bunch of Jamaicans try to sell
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you weed and you, you waddle over to a spot on the beach and you go in the water, you get stung by a
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jellyfish. And then you go to excursion to some zip line place and, uh, more Jamaicans try to sell you
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weed and trinkets, lots of trinkets they try to sell you. And you end up buying one of them for way
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too much money because they've pressured you into it. And, uh, you get back on the ship and you eat
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some more and you contemplate your mortality some more, and then you get back to port and they give
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you the bill for the drinks. And it's like all the money that you were given as a gifts for your
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wedding, you just spent on cocktails. So that's what happens. That's what happens to every, I'm not
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being specific. This is not me specifically talking about myself. It's what happens to everybody.
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Uh, I'm quite sure. And anyway, so yeah, they deserve to get left behind. That's where that's
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For our first daily cancellation of the week, we turned to a man named Peter Tatchell, a prominent
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gay activist in the UK. Over the weekend, Tatchell put forward a very bad argument to defend the
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concept of transgenderism. Now, I know what you're thinking. Every argument defending the concept is
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bad. And you're right. Indeed, this specific argument is one that we've dealt with before,
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actually. But this iteration of the argument, this latest attempt to package, uh, this particular
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box of turd so that it looks like something other than a box of turd is so egregiously dumb and
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fallacious that I feel I have no choice but to give it a featured spot on the daily cancellation.
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So here was the tweet from Peter Tatchell. He says, 18 animals you didn't know were biologically
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trans. Gender diversity in the tranimal kingdom blurs the lines of biological sex. These animals,
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quote unquote, biological sex. Uh, these animals show that gender is not a simplistic binary male and
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female. Trans and intersex are real. Get used to it. So that's the caption to an article that he
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links to from a publication called The Gay Times. Now, you'll be shocked and heartbroken to discover
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that Gay Times apparently publishes some rather shoddy journalism. If you're expecting Pulitzer
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quality reporting from Gay Times, well, then you just might get your wish, actually, because this
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does seem like exactly the sort of drivel that would win a Pulitzer these days. But anyway,
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the article begins this way. Transphobes love to cite, quote unquote, biology in their exclusionary
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views. Lesbian separatists, right-wing lobbyists, the Pope, she who must not be named. J.K. Rowling's
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who they're referring to. This shrinking class of gender imperialists use biological sex as a
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pseudo-intellectual trump card to suggest that the gender binary is inalienable due to this perceived
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fact. Yet, these relentless displays of willful obtuseness ignore many facts in order to prove their
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point, such as the fact of intersex bodies, such as the fact of overwhelming support from medical
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institutions and experts advocating for the prosperity of trans people. Take the Endocrine
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Society, the largest and oldest medical organization dedicated to researching hormones, calling out the
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terms biological sex, biological male, and biological female as imprecise and should be avoided.
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Now, just a few problems here right from the start. First, if you find that you feel the need to put
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the word biology in scare quotes, you should step back and conduct a very honest self-assessment.
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Okay? Something has gone wrong here for you because biology is a thing. It's not a right-wing myth. And
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yes, we do love to cite it. We generally enjoy citing biology during conversations related to biology.
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And scoffing at that, it's like scoffing at someone who brings up mathematics during a conversation
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about numbers. It's like putting physics in scare quotes while discussing gravity. Also, as we've
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established many times, intersex people suffer from a physical condition, a deformity. They do not
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disprove the sex binary. And as for those prestigious medical institutions, an argument from authority
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while not offering any evidence as to why they should be considered authorities in this case
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gets you nowhere. Especially when you're claiming that medical institutions show, quote,
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overwhelming support for the prosperity of trans people. Okay? So? I mean, I support the prosperity of
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trans-identified people too. I want everyone to prosper. And for a trans-identified person,
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really prospering means, to begin with, understanding reality and learning to accept it as it is
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and themselves as they are. Which is to say, accept themselves as they biologically are.
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So we aren't off to a great start, but let's keep going. Article continues,
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anyway, enough about humans. Let's learn more about these tranimals.
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Hang on a second. What do you mean enough about humans? Isn't that the topic here? I mean,
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aren't you trying to make some kind of point about human trans people by bringing up these animals?
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That seems to be the point. Which is why this article was published in Gay Times in the first place.
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Yet apparently, we'll be left to our own devices to figure out how exactly any of the rest of this article
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connects to human beings, or what precisely it's supposed to say about transgenderism in humans.
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Now, the author obviously believes that it proves something,
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but he can't for the life of him explain what that is, and doesn't try.
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Instead, we're off to this list of 18 animals who are supposedly trans.
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And instead of reading this whole thing to you, I'll just tell you that the 18 animals are
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clownfish, a bird called the sandpiper ruff, a few other birds,
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the spotted hyena, seahorses, the swallowtail butterfly, the banana slug,
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a few different types of lizards, starfish, jellyfish, and oysters.
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Now, it goes without saying, none of these animals are trans or anything remotely close
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to what we call transgenderism among human beings, because trans is a so-called gender identity.
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Jellyfish don't have any concept of gender identity.
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They probably don't have any concepts of anything at all.
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And most of these animals on this list are hermaphrodites.
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Not in the sense of having genital deformities, which is what it means to be intersex as a human.
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Listen, these animals actually possess, some of them anyway, the functional reproductive capabilities
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There has never been a case of a human being who can both get pregnant and also do the impregnating.
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So banana slugs, though, by their nature, are both male and female at the same time.
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They have the reproductive capacities of males and females.
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And this is a relatively common phenomenon among many of the lesser species.
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That said, plenty of the animals on this list aren't even actually hermaphroditic.
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You know, hyenas, for example, aren't hermaphrodites.
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Females just have sex organs that look similar to males, but actually are not the same.
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The butterfly on the list also doesn't appear to be hermaphrodite, from what I can tell.
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It apparently just has a much more glamorous wing color, which we usually associate with
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And the article calls this, in all seriousness, calls this trans-feminine code-switching.
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And that is how desperate trans-activists are for affirmation.
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They're even looking for allies in the insect community.
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The author of this article doesn't understand the biology of the creatures that he puts
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The existence of different reproductive capabilities among other species does not, even the slightest
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bit, vindicate the claim that human trans people make about themselves as humans.
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A trans-identified male is really a female because banana slugs are hermaphrodites.
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It is the most bizarre kind of non-sequitur you'll ever hear.
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I mean, you might as well argue that the planet Jupiter doesn't exist because cheddar cheese is
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Or maybe you'll claim that Japan is in South America because Tom Hanks was born in 1956.
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I mean, the possibilities are endless when you've decided that a totally nonsensical claim
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can be proven by facts that are completely irrelevant to the claim you're making.
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Imagine an article that tried to prove that humans can fly by listing 18 birds that can
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But it's not just that the article gets many of the basic facts wrong in service to an argument
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that, even if accurately presented, wouldn't prove the point it tries to prove.
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Because actually, if the article does anything, it only makes left-wing gender theory seem more
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After all, you'll notice that even in these hermaphrodite species, even among slugs and jellyfish
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and oyster and all these species that are not humans, there are still only males and females.
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Now, males might become females or vice versa, or they might be both at the same time.
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It's not impossible in humans, but in slugs it is.
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They're still working with the same basic menu of options, male or female, or some combination.
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The sex binary still provides the basic parameters, even for species that actually
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do have more fluidity to move between the two options.
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But even then, there are still just the two options.
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Now, this wouldn't be my go-to argument for disproving transgenderism.
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To do that, I don't need to look outside the human species, given that this is an argument
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But the point is that if non-human species help anyone's argument, they help ours.
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They do nothing to rescue the lunatics who don't believe in biology anyway.
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And that is why gay times, and anybody who cites them, and even those damned hermaphrodite
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