The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1342 - Prominent Women's Basketball Coaches Are Too Cowardly To Defend The Existence Of Women's Sports

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, one of the most prominent women's basketball coaches in the

00:00:03.280 country was asked over the weekend whether she thinks males should be able to compete against

00:00:06.780 females in women's sports. Her answer was about as cowardly as it gets. Also, protesters in 1.00

00:00:11.000 Michigan shout death to America, which should be a one-way ticket to deportation. Plus, Huffington

00:00:15.760 Post puts out another hit piece on me. We'll see what scandalous thing I've done this time.

00:00:20.000 And a gay news site tries to prove the validity of transgenderism 0.99

00:00:22.900 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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00:01:59.700 Welcome to Eclipse Day 2024, everybody. By the time you watch or listen to this,

00:02:04.100 the eclipse will likely have already happened, which means presumably that a large portion of my

00:02:08.500 audience will have been raptured. Because from what I understand, based on my research on Twitter,

00:02:13.260 the rapture is scheduled for today as well to coincide with the eclipse for whatever reason.

00:02:17.940 So, if you're hearing this, it means that you, like me, have been left behind to walk the earth and

00:02:22.800 await your eternal destruction. That's the bad news. The good news is that you'll still get to

00:02:28.260 watch the premiere of my new show, Judge, tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern. Now, you may not be in the mood

00:02:33.820 for judgment-related entertainment, given the circumstances, but you might as well watch it

00:02:38.340 anyway, because what else do you have to do? Now that we have that out of the way, let's get on

00:02:42.760 with the show, because what else can we do? We're all doomed. Don Staley is the head coach of the

00:02:48.380 NCAA champion South Carolina Gamecocks, a gold medal Olympian several times over,

00:02:53.520 a Hall of Famer who's widely considered one of the best players in the history of the WNBA,

00:02:57.500 as low as that bar might be. And this is a resume that sports journalists describe as historic.

00:03:03.600 She's supposedly a basketball icon, a role model, one of the greatest coaches alive, they say.

00:03:09.240 And what's often left unsaid, even though everybody knows it's true, is that Don Staley's resume would

00:03:14.100 have looked a lot different if she had been forced to compete against men at any point in her career.

00:03:19.520 If it weren't for Title IX and the creation of exclusive sports that barred men from competing,

00:03:24.660 Don Staley would probably be selling insurance right now or conducting tedious DEI workshops

00:03:30.540 somewhere. Instead, she's a multimillionaire, and you're instructed to think that she's a very

00:03:35.020 impressive person. All this is to say, if anybody should be an evangelist for women's-only 0.99

00:03:41.340 sports leagues, Don Staley fits the bill. Because without these leagues, Staley would have precisely

00:03:46.700 zero professional accomplishments to speak of. But leftism is an ideology that necessarily involves

00:03:51.960 a lot of ladder pulling. Once they get to the top, it's vital for leftists to deny that they received

00:03:56.720 any kind of special help based on their identity along the way. We see this all the time from

00:04:01.020 Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris. And the other day, in a comical press conference ahead of the

00:04:06.120 NCAA National Championship, we saw it again from Don Staley. Now, a reporter from OutKick asked Staley

00:04:12.880 a simple question. He wanted to know what she thought about the idea of men competing against

00:04:18.560 women in sports, especially in college basketball. And as a prominent coach in college basketball, 0.60

00:04:25.300 you'd think that she would have an opinion about this. You'd think it'd be something that she's thought

00:04:28.480 a lot about. And she would have something to say about. But here's how she responded. Watch.

00:04:35.160 Dan Zakrzewski, OutKick coach. You just talked about what a massive weekend this is, obviously,

00:04:40.000 for women's basketball, women's sports in general. One of the major issues facing women's sports right 0.99

00:04:45.220 now is the debate, discussion topic about the inclusion of transgender athletes, biological males

00:04:50.520 in women's sports. I was wondering if you would tell me your position on that issue.

00:04:54.360 Damn, you got deep on me, didn't you? I'm under the opinion of, if you're a woman, you should 1.00

00:05:22.840 play. If you consider yourself a woman, and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should

00:05:30.060 be able to play. That's my opinion. Do you want me to go deeper?

00:05:37.400 Do you think transgender women should be able to participate in college basketball? 1.00

00:05:41.480 That's the question you want me to ask. I mean, you want to ask. I'll give you that. Yes.

00:05:45.140 Yes. So now, the barnstorm of people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me

00:05:54.320 on one of the biggest days of our game. And I'm okay with that. I really am.

00:06:03.800 Now, the first thing you notice about that reply is how nervous Dawn Staley is. You know, she takes a 0.99

00:06:12.620 big gulp of water, drawing laughter from some of the reporters. And then she says, damn, you got deep 0.99

00:06:18.880 on me, even though it's really not a deep question at all. Should men be able to compete against women 0.99

00:06:23.800 in women's sports? It's not a deep question. In fact, it's like, it's a very, it's a very simple

00:06:28.500 question. Very easy question. And she stutters for a few more seconds until she finally delivers

00:06:33.580 maybe the least grammatical sentence she possibly could have. She says, quote,

00:06:38.280 I'm under the opinion of if you're a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman 1.00

00:06:42.760 and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play. Now, I don't want to get

00:06:48.880 into semantics here. I'm not sure what vice versa refers to in that sentence. If you're a woman and 0.91

00:06:53.580 you want to play sports or vice versa. So if you're a woman and you want to play sports or 1.00

00:06:58.440 if you're a sport and you want to play women, is that what she's saying? Anyway, incoherence

00:07:03.280 aside, if Dawn Staley actually believed what she was saying, then there would be no nervousness

00:07:08.160 whatsoever. She would confidently tell the reporter that yes, she has no problem with men competing

00:07:12.120 against her all women's team. She would demand that the Olympics and the NCAA change their current 0.99

00:07:16.980 policy on trans identifying athletes, which sets some, some arbitrary testosterone threshold

00:07:22.620 that prevents many men from competing. There'd be no need for, for any of the, the stalling

00:07:27.640 or stammering. But Staley did stall and she did stammer because she doesn't believe a 0.89

00:07:32.200 word of what she just said. I mean, that's pretty clear. That's why her answer makes no

00:07:36.040 sense. She lumps women and people who consider themselves women into the same category. But

00:07:41.960 in doing so, she's acknowledging that they are indeed different categories. Actual women 0.97

00:07:46.560 don't consider themselves women. They're, they're, they just are women. You would never refer

00:07:51.860 to an actual woman and say, well, there's someone who considers themselves a woman. That's 0.98

00:07:56.340 just a woman. So if you feel the need to add the qualifier, consider themselves, then you

00:08:02.560 obviously recognize that they are not women. When you're talking about two different groups 0.85

00:08:06.260 of people, women and those who consider themselves women, well, you have already acknowledged that

00:08:10.800 those are two different groups of people. There's something very different about them.

00:08:15.960 Something that we recognize for all of recorded human history until about 15 seconds ago, which

00:08:20.360 is why Staley had the career that she did, because up until this point, we've always recognized

00:08:24.340 the difference. But Staley doesn't want to admit that anymore. And at the end of her answer,

00:08:29.520 she suggests that she's being brave because she's going to, you know, anger all the right-wing

00:08:34.080 barnstormers on social media, whoever they are. But it's not hard to see what she's actually worried

00:08:39.120 about. Staley knows that the NCAA has already said that it, quote, firmly and unequivocally supports

00:08:43.780 the opportunity for transgender student athletes to compete in college sports. She knows the NCAA 0.99

00:08:49.360 has already bent the knee to activist groups like GLAAD. And she's aware that the NCAA is now

00:08:54.600 being sued for Title IX violations by female athletes like Riley Gaines for allowing men to 0.94

00:08:58.960 compete against them. And on top of that, the University of South Carolina has trans pride

00:09:03.480 flags all over its website. So if she affirmed that biology is real, there's a good chance she'd be

00:09:09.200 fired, or at least she would lose her status as America's favorite female coach. She knows exactly 1.00

00:09:15.100 where she's supposed to stand on this issue. And indeed, with her answer, Staley predictably

00:09:20.420 received a bunch of fawning headlines from left-wing activists. GLAAD posted a thank you note and

00:09:25.180 declared that Staley is the best in the business. Pink News declared that Staley's response was

00:09:29.800 legendary. It was a legendary response, what you just heard there. And the advocate called her

00:09:36.000 transformative. Now, by contrast, here's how supposedly conservative media outlets responded.

00:09:41.120 Fox News ran this headline. South Carolina's Dawn Staley draws strong reactions over remarks about

00:09:47.920 trans participation in women's sports. Now, at this rate, Staley could announce a roster of five

00:09:53.740 men next year, and Fox News would probably applaud her. Maybe that's the plan. In any event,

00:09:58.020 this is the dynamic that weak people like Staley respond to. She knows she'll be applauded for saying

00:10:03.000 the opposite of what she knows is true. And she would be condemned or worse if she said what was

00:10:08.600 actually true. And in that respect, she wasn't alone. Iowa's coach, Lisa Bluter, took a similar

00:10:15.720 approach. Here was her response to the same question from the same reporter.

00:10:21.480 Coach Bluter, this morning I asked Coach Staley about the issue of allowing transgender women,

00:10:27.320 biological males, to play women's sports. I wanted to give you an opportunity to give your opinion on

00:10:32.060 that topic as well. Well, thank you for the question. You know, I understand it's a topic that

00:10:39.040 people are interested in. But today my focus is on the game tomorrow, my players. It's an important

00:10:46.280 game we have tomorrow, and that's what I want to be here to talk about. But I know it's an important

00:10:50.700 issue for another time. Well, yeah, we don't have time to talk about that. I mean, you know, you have

00:10:56.080 one of the problems with them using that excuse, well, now is not the time. You've had all the time

00:11:00.880 before now. I mean, you've had, there have been, there have been several off seasons when this issue

00:11:07.760 was still a live issue. And you could have talked about it. You could talk about it at any point up

00:11:11.020 to now. And you stayed quiet because you're a coward. And really, this is an answer that's worse 1.00

00:11:17.780 in some ways than Staley's. At least Staley said something as insane as it was. Lisa Bluter is too 1.00

00:11:22.500 afraid to even do that. She says she's focused on the big game. But if men could compete against

00:11:28.120 women in college basketball, there would be no big game, at least not for her. All women's sports 1.00

00:11:32.680 would cease to exist. Both of these coaches know that. You know, if they had to compete against any

00:11:38.320 of the top-ranked men's teams or any of the men's teams at all, they would be destroyed. If they had

00:11:44.100 to compete against a respectable high school team, they would be destroyed. But somehow that doesn't

00:11:49.580 concern, you know, Staley or Bluter, they can't bring themselves to say the obvious. So the

00:11:54.120 nonsense continues. There's a lot of that going around lately, as you may have noticed. A few

00:11:57.940 days ago, the reporter Jonathan Cho broke the story that in Seattle, a mentally imbalanced man with

00:12:03.700 comically enhanced breasts has been working as a public defender for several years. And if you 1.00

00:12:08.220 remember the Canadian woodshop teacher with the size Z prosthetic chest, you know, remember that?

00:12:13.940 Well, it's a bit like that, except in a courtroom setting instead of a high school. And also,

00:12:18.700 this guy is 70 years old. Watch.

00:12:23.240 My comment about my client? Yeah. I just met her. She's really nice. She's really smart. She sounds

00:12:43.840 like she's got the right idea about things. I really support what she's up to. And I think

00:12:48.320 it's fabulous. How about that? She's accused of, what is it, criminal trespass? 0.99

00:12:53.520 In the first degree, yes. Is she innocent or guilty?

00:12:57.360 She's innocent, of course. She's innocent, okay. Well, she's caught on video being arrested and 0.91

00:13:02.440 protesting and allegedly protesting. So I'm trying to get all sides.

00:13:05.700 Well, my client is pled not guilty. My name is Stephanie Mueller. I'm in the directory for the

00:13:11.660 Washington State Bar Association. You can look me up. Okay. Stephanie, thank you for your time. At

00:13:16.100 this point, your client is being arraigned, though. It's all just happened. Her hearing is over.

00:13:22.180 Got it. It's done. All right. Do you know when her next court date is?

00:13:25.240 I do.

00:13:25.620 Do you? I'd like to maybe just keep tabs if they're, uh...

00:13:29.780 Uh-huh. I think that's a great idea.

00:13:32.360 Could you tell me when that is?

00:13:33.780 No. Take care.

00:13:35.300 Thank you, Stephanie.

00:13:38.360 So, just because the guy is eight and a half feet tall and has a voice deeper than James Earl Jones,

00:13:43.440 apparently that hasn't stopped him from trying to be a woman. Now, just imagine this for a moment.

00:13:48.240 Imagine you show up to court to meet your public defender. And naturally, you're going to have kind

00:13:53.080 of low expectations. Get what you pay for and all that. And then this guy shows up. Like a character

00:13:59.480 out of Portlandia. How would you respond? How would the judge respond? Well, apparently in this case,

00:14:04.040 everybody just acted like this was normal. The defendants didn't have an issue with it. And

00:14:08.160 that's not entirely surprising, since apparently the defendants are left-wing activists in Seattle

00:14:12.000 accused of interrupting a city council meeting to yell something. They probably requested the

00:14:16.140 trans lawyer, which might not be a bad strategy in a Seattle court. I mean, after all, if you have to

00:14:20.820 win your case, you have to, you know, you kind of have to win your case if a trans lawyer is 0.99

00:14:25.840 representing you. Otherwise, it would be transphobic. And needless to say, then the judge had no issue

00:14:29.960 with this either. A man shows up with skin-tight leather pants, boots, and fake eyelashes, the

00:14:36.900 ridiculous fake lips and everything. Not exactly courtroom-appropriate attire. And the judge doesn't 0.93

00:14:41.880 say a word about it. Of course, ironically, if he had actually been a woman who looked exactly like 0.66

00:14:48.080 that, there would have been an issue. Even in Seattle, you know, courtrooms aren't burlesque

00:14:52.500 shows, at least not yet. It would be frowned upon for a woman to come dress like some sort of 1.00

00:14:57.920 cartoonish hooker to court. But because this guy says he's transgender, it's magically acceptable. 0.99

00:15:03.880 Now, a few times on the show, I've mentioned the rebel news reporter David Menzies. A few months ago,

00:15:08.060 he was the only journalist in all of Canada to report on the fact that a 50-year-old man was allowed

00:15:13.100 to compete against teenage girls in various competitions throughout the country. And for

00:15:17.480 reporting on that and other reports like that, Menzies has been arrested multiple times by the

00:15:22.780 Canadian government. Just this weekend, he was assaulted and arrested again by police for covering

00:15:27.200 pro-Hamas protests in Toronto. And it's all on video, but Menzies persists anyway. It's quite a 0.95

00:15:32.940 contrast with what we've seen this week in this country, which is, you know, story after story of

00:15:39.080 Cowardice. I mean, think about it. If there was ever a weekend for women's sports to have its 1.00

00:15:44.740 moment, it was this one. It was ever a weekend for people to speak up in defense of it. Well,

00:15:50.680 now was the time. Instead, the coaches of the top two teams declared at a press conference

00:15:56.220 that they apparently don't even know what women are. They also made it very clear from their ambivalence

00:16:02.780 that they don't really care if women's sports sticks around anymore. Now, they'll probably change 1.00

00:16:08.100 their mind about that when the money dries up, when they lose their jobs and are made irrelevant.

00:16:13.740 But, you know, it requires some foresight to see that and courage to speak up about it.

00:16:20.060 And sadly, those two things are in short supply. Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:17:28.900 Daily Mail has this report. Chance of death to America and death to Israel rang out during a

00:17:34.480 protest in a Michigan city that is recently dubbed the jihad capital of the United States

00:17:38.700 by a Wall Street Journal columnist. Demonstrators gathered in the city in commemoration of Al-Quds

00:17:43.960 Day, an international day to express support for Palestine and oppose the Israeli occupation of

00:17:48.420 Palestinian territories. The protest came less than a week after seven aid workers from World Central

00:17:53.220 Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, drawing global outrage and condemnation.

00:17:58.200 A video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute shows Tarek Bazi, a local activist,

00:18:04.300 delivering remarks at a podium as chants of death to America sound in the background.

00:18:09.480 Let's watch a little bit of that video. Here it is.

00:18:11.620 We've been asked in the past, why are our protests on the International Day of Quds,

00:18:19.200 why are they so anti-America? Why don't we just focus more on Israel and not talk so much about

00:18:25.000 America? Gaza has shown the entire world why these protests are so anti-America. Because

00:18:32.000 it's the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we

00:18:37.040 just heard about. And this is why Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Day of Quds, 0.67

00:18:42.600 this is why he would say to pour all of your chants, all of your chants and all of your shouts

00:18:48.700 upon the head of America.

00:18:59.420 Malcolm X said, and I quote,

00:19:02.700 we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth. It's not genocide

00:19:08.900 Joe that has to go. It's the entire system that has to go. Any system that would allow such

00:19:15.380 atrocities and such devilry to happen and would support it, such a system does not deserve to

00:19:22.640 exist on God's earth. And so when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist, the chant 0.98

00:19:29.260 death to Israel has become the most. 0.99

00:19:32.380 So the chant, and if you're just listening to the audio podcast, you may not have picked up on that,

00:19:42.180 but the chant that you heard from the crowd, that was them chanting death to America. While the

00:19:47.360 speaker talks about very explicitly why he is anti-American and why our system does not deserve

00:19:55.300 to exist on God's earth. Now, I'm going to try to give these people the thoughtful, well-considered,

00:20:02.900 polite response that they deserve. And as you would expect me to give, which is why I will say to them,

00:20:10.000 shut up, you ungrateful, disgusting brats, and get the hell out of our country. You don't deserve to 1.00

00:20:18.600 be here. Get the hell out. We don't want you here. You don't deserve to be here. You don't deserve to 1.00

00:20:22.700 live here. Any foreigner who comes here and then calls for the destruction of our country, 1.00

00:20:31.060 foreigners who come here and declare themselves to be explicitly anti-American 0.96

00:20:35.680 should be deported immediately, no questions asked. That should be automatic. Like the buses

00:20:44.540 should be rolling up at that protest, put everybody on the bus, you're gone, and that's it. We'll send

00:20:49.540 you, you know, we won't even stop so you can pick up your stuff from your house. We'll ship it to you

00:20:55.660 at some point or just throw it away, probably more likely. You don't deserve to be here. We don't want

00:21:02.360 you. You apparently don't want to be here. So we have mutual interests now, right? Our opinions align

00:21:08.860 on this point. So you despise America. We despise you as a foreigner who despises America. A foreigner 1.00

00:21:16.180 who comes here and despises America, I despise you for that. And you despise me. So leave. Pretty simple. 1.00

00:21:23.020 Which, by the way, is exactly what any non-Western country would do. It's how any non-Western country 0.97

00:21:31.540 would handle this. Basically, any of the countries where these people originate,

00:21:37.720 that's how they would handle it. Like what happens, let's consider, what happens if I move to the

00:21:45.220 Middle East to an Arab country and then I get up at a podium and call for the death of that country? 1.00

00:21:54.160 What happens if I stand up and I say I am anti that country? I'm calling for the death of that 0.97

00:21:58.260 country. How long do I last? And that's not deportation, okay? They're not going to just 0.97

00:22:02.820 send me back to America. I would be thrilled if that was the response, right? I would be lucky. I would 1.00

00:22:10.040 be so lucky if that's all they did. Rather, I think I would not be deported from the country. I

00:22:18.660 would be deported from Earth via a hole in the ground, which is not even marked by a tombstone.

00:22:25.600 So when I say that these people should be deported, that's me being very nice. That's me calling for

00:22:30.020 leniency, in fact. That is generosity and compassion. Because you could certainly make an argument that

00:22:39.220 calling for death to America is, you know, you can make an argument for treating anyone who says that

00:22:47.040 as a traitor and giving them the punishment prescribed for that crime. You can make that 0.72

00:22:52.960 argument. That is a declaration of war against the country, after all. It's a call for violence.

00:22:59.960 You know, and if that had been a white, just think about if he had said that more specifically, 0.98

00:23:03.380 like if this had been a white speaker chanting, let's say, death to Muslims, it would be treated 0.96

00:23:09.360 as a hate crime. You would not be legally allowed to do that. Because they would say it's a hate 0.98

00:23:16.080 crime. They would say it's an incitement to violence. Which, by the way, it would be.

00:23:23.900 So when you say it about the entire country, that is you declaring war on the country. That is a call

00:23:28.360 for violence against the country. And we all know that. And listen, I criticize this country all

00:23:34.380 the time. I would never say death to America or call myself anti-American. I love America. I'm

00:23:39.660 America first. But sure, I criticize the country. But this is my home. You know, I was born here. My

00:23:47.280 kids were born here. My parents and grandparents were born here. So when I criticize America, or when

00:23:53.280 you do, that's one thing. Again, saying death to America is not acceptable for anybody to say. But

00:23:59.780 criticisms is one thing. But, you know, when some foreigner comes here and starts immediately 1.00

00:24:06.880 complaining and about our country, that's an entirely different story. It's like, you know,

00:24:11.960 you might have a family member who you don't really get along with. And, you know, there's some

00:24:18.400 tension there. And you get into arguments. And maybe you even, maybe you even, you get

00:24:24.400 into some, some, some rather passionate arguments. You've said some unkind things to each other,

00:24:29.200 whatever it is, the relationship is strained. But when some stranger who's not in your family

00:24:34.460 comes along and insults that family member, well, you don't allow that. Or even if it's a family

00:24:42.900 member you have a strained relationship with, you don't allow that. Or you shouldn't. Because

00:24:48.700 your response to that is, hey, hey, you know, hey, it's one thing for me to say that. But,

00:24:53.000 but who the hell do you think you are? You're not in the family. No, no, no. You don't get 0.97

00:24:57.440 to say that. You don't get to treat my family that way. And that's the attitude you should

00:25:03.720 have about your family. And that's the attitude we should have about our country. You don't get

00:25:09.660 to be a foreigner coming here saying these things. Although in this case, obviously, again, 0.66

00:25:15.720 this isn't just criticism. Here they're saying something that would be outrageous and disgusting

00:25:20.580 no matter who was saying it. My only point is that in general, I'm just sick to death of

00:25:27.140 foreigners coming here and then insulting our country. You would not tolerate it in your own 1.00

00:25:31.780 country. And you know, you wouldn't, you know, you wouldn't. And yet you think we should tolerate

00:25:36.620 it here. But you would dare to get like offended when you say things like this and people respond

00:25:44.360 in an angry way. And you would have dared to get defensive about it. When you know for damn

00:25:49.340 certain that if, that if the shoes on the other foot and I go to the country you're from, and I

00:25:54.300 say the same thing, you would not tolerate it for a second. I'm just tired of it. Just get the hell

00:26:00.140 out. Nobody asked you to come. That guy, like who asked you to come here? We didn't ask you to

00:26:04.700 come. We don't need you. Did anyone extend you an invitation? Did anyone say, oh, please,

00:26:09.500 please come here for it? No, no one said that. You could never come here. We'd be fine. We'd be

00:26:14.060 fine without, in fact, we'd be better off without you. So just leave. I mean, anyway, what kind of

00:26:19.900 hypocrite are you? What kind of disgusting hypocrite are you that you think America, you know, is the 1.00

00:26:24.320 greatest evil in the world, that it's responsible for all these, it's responsible for all the terrible 1.00

00:26:28.020 things happening in the world. And yet you come here and live here and you live off of the

00:26:32.840 privileges that this country affords you. What kind of disgusting, you're a traitor on multiple 1.00

00:26:37.640 levels now. Like at least have the courage of your convictions, you weak, pathetic coward. 1.00

00:26:46.360 You hate this country this much, but you have no problem living here and basking in the luxury 1.00

00:26:52.640 that it affords you. I mean, you're the worst of all worlds. Like it's one thing for you to actually 0.96

00:26:59.320 live somewhere else and go around screaming about how America should die. 0.62

00:27:06.400 Yeah, that's one thing. Not, I would, that's, that still pisses me off to hear anyone saying that 0.77

00:27:11.220 no matter where they live, but you don't live here. You live somewhere else and that's how you feel.

00:27:15.700 Okay, whatever.

00:27:19.020 What are you doing still living here? You know, because you want to go back to your air-conditioned

00:27:22.680 home, don't you? You want to go back to your air-conditioned home and you want to have all the

00:27:26.060 privileges, all the luxuries. You know, you go back into your home and you sit down and you watch

00:27:30.420 your Netflix and you have your smartphone and all that. A lot of these people are probably on

00:27:34.760 government assistance as well. So not only that, but like a lot of these people are living off of

00:27:39.720 the system that they say should not exist on the planet. That's why, you know, if we were a country

00:27:46.200 run by serious people, we would have a very stringent selection system for deciding who gets to come

00:27:52.100 here. I, you know, I think there should be a moratorium on all immigration for a period of 0.99

00:27:57.680 time, but whenever it opens up again, we should be very, very selective about who we allow in.

00:28:03.740 And one of the selection criteria should be a demonstrable love for America and for its

00:28:09.220 traditions and its people. You know, you should love America above all else. You should love it more

00:28:19.080 than where you're coming from. That's what I think. Because if you don't, then don't come.

00:28:24.080 Like I'm not, I'm not saying, I'm not saying that everyone in the world should love America more than

00:28:28.320 their own country. Of course not. If you live in another country, you should, you should love your

00:28:31.560 country the most. But if you come here, if you want to come and live here, then you should have an

00:28:40.500 America first attitude. You should be willing to say that. That should be part of this election

00:28:46.560 criteria. You should be willing to say, I put America before any country, including whatever my

00:28:49.880 country, you know, whatever the country they come from. They should be, they should explicitly have

00:28:55.600 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

00:29:01.300 say that. Again, I'm not, I'm not saying that everyone, that all eight people, eight billion people

00:29:05.480 on the globe should have to get up and say that they cherish America above all else. But just don't

00:29:10.600 come here then. No one's forcing you to. And that should be part of the selection criteria. And then,

00:29:21.580 and then we should have the understanding that if you manage to sneak through, even though you hate

00:29:27.000 us, let's say you're willing to go through the, the, the sort of pageantry of, of pretending to have a love

00:29:36.260 for America and its traditions. Well, any, any man who's just sneak, sneak through? Well, the moment you reveal

00:29:43.060 your true nature, the moment you reveal that you actually hate America, one strike and you're out.

00:29:51.320 Your immigration status is immediately revoked. I don't care how long you've lived here. 1.00

00:29:56.200 I don't care if you've lived here for 25 years. The moment you get up and you start saying death to 0.89

00:30:01.220 America, anti-American, okay, you're gone. See you later. You're never coming back. We don't need you.

00:30:07.160 You got the whole rest of the world you can live in. All right. Or maybe, you know, a lot of those

00:30:12.400 countries won't accept you either. They actually have, uh, standards for who they accept, but that's

00:30:20.020 your problem. And nothing, you know, everything I'm saying here, it's like nothing I'm saying should

00:30:26.200 be remotely controversial. It should be, it doesn't, it shouldn't even matter where you fall on the

00:30:29.780 political spectrum. It certainly shouldn't matter where you fall, how you feel about the conflict,

00:30:36.220 um, uh, in Israel right now. That, that should make no difference to anything that I'm saying.

00:30:43.640 This is just a very simple thing. If you hate America, don't come here.

00:30:50.540 And if you, if you want to see America destroyed, then you do not deserve to live here. Not only do

00:30:57.300 you not deserve to live here, but we cannot afford like by, by, for the sake of our, of our self

00:31:03.240 preservation as a nation, we cannot afford to allow people like that to live in this country.

00:31:12.980 Cause I have kids who are going to live here and inherit this country. Okay. So, so when you're

00:31:19.560 saying death to America, you're saying death to my children, you disgusting scumbag. That's what 1.00

00:31:25.700 you're saying. All right. Anyway, cause the report from a CNBC headline says costs at some colleges

00:31:35.160 nearing a hundred thousand dollars per year. Uh, but many families pay a lot less. So they put the

00:31:41.880 little positive spin on it. The price tag for a college education has never been higher and it's

00:31:46.680 only going up. The cost of attendance at some schools, including a New York university, Tufts,

00:31:51.820 Brown, Yale, and Washington university in St. Louis is now nearing six figures a year after factoring

00:31:57.340 in tuition, fees, room and board books, transportation, other expenses. Among the

00:32:03.080 schools on the Princeton reviews, the best 389 colleges list that have already set their costs

00:32:07.820 for the 2024, 25 academic year, eight institutions have a sticker price of more than $90,000 per year

00:32:13.820 so far, according to data provided to CNBC. Considering the tuition adjustments average roughly 4% a

00:32:19.860 year, those tuitions and others could cross the $100,000 a year threshold as soon as 2026.

00:32:26.460 Um, according to an estimate by Brian Alexander, a senior scholar at Georgetown university.

00:32:31.460 So this is every few months you see a headline like this, just giving us an update and letting us

00:32:37.820 know that lest we forget that our long national psychosis is continuing. Uh, we continue to tolerate

00:32:46.260 the university system charging many, many universities in the system anyway, charging basically double the

00:32:54.840 average national income per year. So the average national income, I believe is, I think it's at

00:33:02.800 around, it's a little less than $60,000 a year at this point. And so a lot of these universities are

00:33:09.580 charging a little bit less, or in some cases a little bit more than, than double that per year.

00:33:16.700 And keep in mind that the average, uh, tuition is nearly double the average national income,

00:33:22.820 even though most college kids are not even earning the average national income. That's the average

00:33:30.240 national income. When you factor in everybody together, it's not the, the average income of

00:33:35.260 somebody aged 19 or 18. I don't know what the average income is there, but I can tell you it's

00:33:42.340 for a lot of them, it's zero. A lot of these kids are making no money at all. And, you know, every time

00:33:50.160 we see a story like this, we just have to reflect on the fact that despite all this, still somehow the

00:33:57.580 university system itself mostly escapes scrutiny, right? They're the ones who are charging insane 1.00

00:34:06.280 amounts of money, money that makes a college education not worth it for almost every college,

00:34:13.900 for almost every college student. Not, not every, but almost every. So it's a very small percent of

00:34:22.980 college students who you could say, Oh yeah, it's, it's worth it for you to pay a hundred grand a year.

00:34:29.380 You have no money, but you're going to pay a hundred grand a year and go into debt for

00:34:33.380 maybe the rest of your life because of this. It's a very small percent of these kids. Is that,

00:34:40.340 is that really worth it? Um, and in spite of that, again, we, the actual university system itself

00:34:50.380 for the most part is not blamed for this. Um, and we hear all the, the complaints about greedy

00:34:59.260 corporations and greedy rich people and all that kind of stuff. And there are plenty of corporations

00:35:04.500 out there that are greedy and that are destructive and deserve a lot of criticism, plenty that deserve

00:35:09.940 more criticism than they get. But here you have this system with these extremely, uh, well-funded

00:35:19.720 institutions. We've got, they've got millions and millions of dollars to spare and, uh, staffed by

00:35:28.820 wealthy people, at least at the, uh, a lot of them at the administrative level, the amount of money

00:35:35.080 these people are, are, are paid. And they're just bilking these college kids. And for some reason,

00:35:44.120 we never turn, we never turn the, uh, our gaze back to that system itself and say, why are you

00:35:49.220 charging all this money? You're the ones doing it. You don't have to do that, but you are.

00:35:55.800 So it's an interesting thing because most people will admit at this point that the whole system is a

00:36:00.600 scam. So you'll find, you'll find maybe not unanimous, but close to unanimous agreement that

00:36:09.500 the system is that the kids are getting scammed by the system. There's a, there's a, there's,

00:36:14.660 you know, um, a huge amount of agreement on that point.

00:36:21.920 So we'll call it a scam, but the question is, who are the scam artists? Who are the people

00:36:25.860 actually running this scam? And yeah, there are various different culprits that we could point to,

00:36:31.660 but the system itself escapes scrutiny, which I find very bizarre. Huffington Post was very upset

00:36:38.740 about a monologue I did on my show last week. Maybe you remember this monologue. Um, here's

00:36:42.880 the headline from Huffington Post. Matt Walsh defends white nationalist organization on Daily Wire

00:36:47.740 podcast. The podcast host went to bat for a group that once advocated creating a white ethno state in

00:36:53.920 America, calling VDARE's ideas inconvenient. This is the article says, Matt Walsh, one of the most

00:37:00.380 listened to podcast hosts in America, defended a well-known white nationalist organization

00:37:03.900 on his Daily Wire show this week. On Tuesday's episode of his eponymous podcast, Walsh argued

00:37:08.640 that VDARE, a racist nonprofit listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center,

00:37:13.700 was being targeted by a government investigation solely because of its inconvenient and unpopular

00:37:18.040 beliefs. Um, Walsh was referring to James's ongoing investigation into Letitia James, that is,

00:37:26.800 New York attorney general, into whether VDARE's 2020 purchase of a

00:37:30.220 $1.4 million castle in West Virginia may have violated its New York nonprofit status. He also

00:37:34.940 alluded to the fact that earlier this year, James won a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump for falsely

00:37:40.220 inflating his net worth, meaning that the former president could be on the hook for $454 million

00:37:44.220 if he loses on the appeal. For Walsh to claim that VDARE merely has unfashionable, inconvenient,

00:37:48.820 and unpopular views obscures just how extreme the organization is. As noted by Angry White Men,

00:37:55.160 a website that documents white supremacist rhetoric and was the first to report on Walsh's comments,

00:38:00.940 VDARE has, quote, defended the racist manifesto of the El Paso shooter who killed 23 people during

00:38:05.820 a 2019 anti-Hispanic shooting at a Walmart in Texas. And a video that VDARE published on YouTube

00:38:12.220 called for a secessionist movement that would result in the creation of a white ethnostate.

00:38:16.620 So they're quoting, there's Huffington Post quoting something called Angry White Men, a website called

00:38:25.700 Angry White Men, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a radical left-wing activist group.

00:38:30.700 And that's what they're using for this hit piece against me. Now, first of all,

00:38:35.660 I have no idea whether Huffington Post's summary of the opinions expressed on VDARE

00:38:41.420 is actually correct. Now, I suspect, I strongly suspect that it's at least not entirely correct,

00:38:48.780 only because these people tend to lie about everything. So, for instance,

00:38:54.940 when I read this hit piece, and they said that VDARE defended the manifesto of the El Paso shooter,

00:39:02.140 I had no idea what they were talking about. I think most people have no idea what they're talking

00:39:05.620 about. But Huffington Post, they linked to a Media Matters, so in order to support that claim that

00:39:11.300 VDARE defended the manifesto. And even that, it's like, I'm not sure, what do you mean defended the

00:39:16.080 manifesto? What does that mean exactly? Well, they don't explain what that means. So they link to a

00:39:21.700 Media Matters hit piece about VDARE. And that hit piece mentions in one line that a VDARE host,

00:39:29.060 at some point in the last few years, called the manifesto's use of the term invasion to describe

00:39:36.520 illegal immigration as a, quote, apt term. So that's what they're calling a defense of the 0.99

00:39:43.360 manifesto. But if you follow the next link, so you got to keep following links, you know,

00:39:50.140 going down the crazy left-wing rabbit hole. You follow the next link, it brings you to a video clip

00:39:54.960 pulled by Media Matters, which I assume is what this is all referring to. And it's a clip where

00:40:03.680 this VDARE host condemns left-wing terrorism and points out that the media gives left-wing terrorists,

00:40:12.920 especially non-white ones, a pass and even celebrates them in some cases. And he then says

00:40:17.780 that invasion is an apt term to describe what's happening. But while he's saying that, he's not

00:40:25.940 at that moment referring to the manifesto. Actually, there's a screenshot of an Ann Coulter article on

00:40:31.180 the screen while he's saying that. So it appears to me that if he's quoting anything, when he says

00:40:37.260 apt term, he's quoting an Ann Coulter article. That's what it seems anyway. And he proceeds to make the

00:40:42.420 point that the media will now claim, due to the El Paso shooter, that anyone who speaks this way,

00:40:49.380 which is in an honest way about immigration, will be lumped in unfairly with the El Paso shooter.

00:40:57.860 So that seems to be the argument. I don't think that they're, in other words, they're going to use

00:41:04.780 this killer as a way to smear everybody else, normal people who are not killers and are saying normal

00:41:11.760 things about immigration. So that seems to be the point they're making, which is a point that like

00:41:15.320 we all make when these things happen, because it's exactly what the media does. I don't think

00:41:21.020 there's any honest way to read that as a defense of the shooter or the manifesto. Rather, it's a

00:41:28.080 criticism of the media. And wouldn't you know it, Huffington Post proceeds to do exactly what the

00:41:33.240 guy said they would. But all that is beside the point. It's beside the point. Because none of that

00:41:40.540 really matters in this case. When I heard about how the New York Attorney General is targeting VDR

00:41:48.460 and doing so transparently on political grounds, I didn't go check to make sure that everything

00:41:54.300 they've published on their site is something I agree with. I didn't do that because it's not

00:41:58.000 relevant. It doesn't matter. My whole point is that they have the right to express their views

00:42:03.260 and they should not be targeted by political partisans who are blatantly trying to shut down

00:42:08.520 speech and intimidate their political opponents. Okay? I mean, we all know, as the point I made last

00:42:15.300 week, that the New York Attorney General would never target, say, BLM in this way, despite we can all

00:42:25.300 run through the list of the things that Black Lives Matter not only did but also said, explicitly

00:42:31.400 calling for, encouraging violence. I mean, many, many examples of that. And many examples of that in

00:42:39.420 general on the left, as we know. And they are not going to be targeted. Why is VDR being targeted?

00:42:49.920 Well, it's because the New York Attorney General doesn't like their politics. And you notice that even

00:42:57.040 in Huffington Post's hit piece, they don't even really try to spend much time disputing the idea

00:43:03.260 that this is a, this is the, you know, politically motivated prosecution. Instead, they spend most of

00:43:10.540 their time, basically their argument is that, well, yeah, it might be politically motivated, but these

00:43:14.740 guys are really bad. I mean, listen to the stuff they're saying. It's real bad stuff.

00:43:19.140 Not even disputing the fact. And the fact is that this is, again, politically motivated and

00:43:27.500 should be condemned on that ground alone. Okay, one other quick thing here. Here's an NBC story

00:43:37.640 about a case that's gotten some attention over the past few days. Very important controversy having

00:43:44.060 to do with a cruise line. Let's watch a little bit of this. A mad dash for passengers to catch

00:43:50.160 their cruise ship, triggering a seven-day ordeal. We've flown, it's actually seven countries we've

00:43:55.820 been in in 48 hours. Jay and Jill Campbell and six other Norwegian cruise passengers were on a 21-day

00:44:01.840 voyage up the coast of Africa. But last Wednesday, it all went wrong for the group after they left the

00:44:07.420 ship for a private excursion to the African island country of South Tome and Principe, but didn't make

00:44:13.280 it back by the 3 p.m. deadline. And the ship left without them, their passports handed to the local

00:44:18.960 port agents. Even though the couple says the private tour operator notified the captain they

00:44:24.200 were going to be late. And despite the Coast Guard's attempt to get them on the ship, which was still

00:44:28.980 docked. We truly believe that, you know, although there's a set of rules or policies that the ship

00:44:35.040 may have followed, they follow those rules too rigidly. The passengers arranged to board again in

00:44:41.840 Bonjol Gambia, traveling there on their own expense. But the cruise line says the ship couldn't dock due

00:44:47.780 to weather. In a statement, Norwegian Cruise told NBC News, once the guests did not make it back to

00:44:52.840 the ship, we worked with them and the local port agent to assist with obtaining the necessary visas

00:44:57.920 for them to rejoin at the next available port, noting the group was an hour late when the ship

00:45:02.960 initially left without them. Still. So they're an hour late to come back to the ship and the ship

00:45:08.940 left without them. You know, unfortunately this story is not nearly as entertaining as I'd hoped

00:45:13.240 because when I originally saw the headline, the original headline said something like that I saw

00:45:17.860 floating around on social media was that passengers got left behind on an African island or something

00:45:24.160 by a cruise ship. And so I immediately imagining, you know, Robinson Crusoe, a castaway, Tom Hanks,

00:45:31.280 like something like that. They've been left there for years. They were just spotted by another,

00:45:36.300 you know, Disney cruise that was coming by and they found them. They were all bedraggled and 0.99

00:45:40.300 long beards and everything. That's not what happened at all. They just were, it was an inconvenience,

00:45:45.080 basically. It was a relatively mild inconvenience that they went through because they were an hour late

00:45:50.240 to get back from their excursion. The ship just left them. Should the cruise line have left these

00:45:55.300 people there? You know, were they, were they wrong for leaving them behind? No, they were not wrong.

00:46:01.660 Yes, they should have been left. No, they were not wrong. You're an hour late. So this is just

00:46:08.940 classic entitled attitude. You want, you want the whole ship to stay, to wait there for you. Not going to

00:46:14.360 happen. But, but first of all, so you deserve to get left behind for that. But you deserve to get

00:46:22.640 left behind in the first place because you're going on a cruise to begin with. So that's your

00:46:26.980 first mistake. Your first sin is to go on the cruise. I've been on one cruise in my life. I cannot

00:46:32.760 imagine ever spending the money to go on another one. And a cruise, if you've never been on one before,

00:46:37.980 it's, it's, it's, it's something that, you know, it brings out this very weird kind of despair that

00:46:45.500 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

00:46:59.360 have people catering to you constantly and everything is very structured. Um, but you know, there's a

00:47:05.660 schedule, there's a dinner schedule, there's this, there's entertainment, you know, they're kind of

00:47:09.120 like ferrying you along from one thing to the next. It's very structured, but it's also very opulent and

00:47:14.000 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

00:47:22.420 and much fatter than I thought everybody would be. Um, you're worried about the buoyancy of the ship,

00:47:28.920 even when you see the size of the passengers, people are a lot older than you think. And you're just

00:47:34.080 floating along for no real reason. Um, you're not really going anywhere in particular. And then you

00:47:40.220 look out at the vastness of the ocean and the, the, the indescribable depths of the, this giant

00:47:46.480 terrifying sea. And there's something about that juxtaposed with like a breakfast buffet filled with

00:47:53.780 morbidly obese people that really causes you to contemplate the fragility and futility of life.

00:48:00.300 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

00:48:06.340 my honeymoon too. So, you know, not exactly the time for such ruminations, but that's the effect it had

00:48:12.200 on me. And I emphasize the food and the fatness because, um, if you've never been on a cruise, you don't

00:48:19.100 realize, at least I didn't, that eating is the main thing. That's, that's the main activity that you do.

00:48:25.900 You just eat and eat and eat. And then you dock in Jamaica or wherever, and you waddle out there and

00:48:32.540 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 1.00

00:48:37.680 you weed and you, you waddle over to a spot on the beach and you go in the water, you get stung by a

00:48:41.860 jellyfish. And then you go to excursion to some zip line place and, uh, more Jamaicans try to sell you 1.00

00:48:47.820 weed and trinkets, lots of trinkets they try to sell you. And you end up buying one of them for way

00:48:52.140 too much money because they've pressured you into it. And, uh, you get back on the ship and you eat

00:48:56.860 some more and you contemplate your mortality some more, and then you get back to port and they give

00:49:01.000 you the bill for the drinks. And it's like all the money that you were given as a gifts for your

00:49:07.720 wedding, you just spent on cocktails. So that's what happens. That's what happens to every, I'm not

00:49:13.260 being specific. This is not me specifically talking about myself. It's what happens to everybody.

00:49:16.420 Uh, I'm quite sure. And anyway, so yeah, they deserve to get left behind. That's where that's

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00:50:16.160 For our first daily cancellation of the week, we turned to a man named Peter Tatchell, a prominent

00:50:21.100 gay activist in the UK. Over the weekend, Tatchell put forward a very bad argument to defend the

00:50:25.760 concept of transgenderism. Now, I know what you're thinking. Every argument defending the concept is

00:50:30.540 bad. And you're right. Indeed, this specific argument is one that we've dealt with before,

00:50:34.220 actually. But this iteration of the argument, this latest attempt to package, uh, this particular

00:50:39.960 box of turd so that it looks like something other than a box of turd is so egregiously dumb and 0.90

00:50:45.600 fallacious that I feel I have no choice but to give it a featured spot on the daily cancellation. 0.97

00:50:49.280 So here was the tweet from Peter Tatchell. He says, 18 animals you didn't know were biologically

00:50:53.740 trans. Gender diversity in the tranimal kingdom blurs the lines of biological sex. These animals, 1.00

00:51:00.760 quote unquote, biological sex. Uh, these animals show that gender is not a simplistic binary male and

00:51:06.620 female. Trans and intersex are real. Get used to it. So that's the caption to an article that he 1.00

00:51:12.320 links to from a publication called The Gay Times. Now, you'll be shocked and heartbroken to discover

00:51:18.000 that Gay Times apparently publishes some rather shoddy journalism. If you're expecting Pulitzer

00:51:23.440 quality reporting from Gay Times, well, then you just might get your wish, actually, because this

00:51:28.160 does seem like exactly the sort of drivel that would win a Pulitzer these days. But anyway,

00:51:32.640 the article begins this way. Transphobes love to cite, quote unquote, biology in their exclusionary

00:51:38.560 views. Lesbian separatists, right-wing lobbyists, the Pope, she who must not be named. J.K. Rowling's

00:51:45.220 who they're referring to. This shrinking class of gender imperialists use biological sex as a 1.00

00:51:50.260 pseudo-intellectual trump card to suggest that the gender binary is inalienable due to this perceived

00:51:55.380 fact. Yet, these relentless displays of willful obtuseness ignore many facts in order to prove their

00:52:01.540 point, such as the fact of intersex bodies, such as the fact of overwhelming support from medical

00:52:06.760 institutions and experts advocating for the prosperity of trans people. Take the Endocrine 1.00

00:52:10.740 Society, the largest and oldest medical organization dedicated to researching hormones, calling out the

00:52:15.060 terms biological sex, biological male, and biological female as imprecise and should be avoided.

00:52:21.180 Now, just a few problems here right from the start. First, if you find that you feel the need to put

00:52:28.560 the word biology in scare quotes, you should step back and conduct a very honest self-assessment.

00:52:34.960 Okay? Something has gone wrong here for you because biology is a thing. It's not a right-wing myth. And

00:52:40.140 yes, we do love to cite it. We generally enjoy citing biology during conversations related to biology.

00:52:47.540 And scoffing at that, it's like scoffing at someone who brings up mathematics during a conversation

00:52:51.780 about numbers. It's like putting physics in scare quotes while discussing gravity. Also, as we've

00:52:57.900 established many times, intersex people suffer from a physical condition, a deformity. They do not

00:53:03.220 disprove the sex binary. And as for those prestigious medical institutions, an argument from authority

00:53:08.160 while not offering any evidence as to why they should be considered authorities in this case

00:53:12.300 gets you nowhere. Especially when you're claiming that medical institutions show, quote,

00:53:16.360 overwhelming support for the prosperity of trans people. Okay? So? I mean, I support the prosperity of

00:53:23.600 trans-identified people too. I want everyone to prosper. And for a trans-identified person,

00:53:29.160 really prospering means, to begin with, understanding reality and learning to accept it as it is

00:53:35.140 and themselves as they are. Which is to say, accept themselves as they biologically are.

00:53:42.260 So we aren't off to a great start, but let's keep going. Article continues,

00:53:46.620 anyway, enough about humans. Let's learn more about these tranimals.

00:53:52.980 Hang on a second. What do you mean enough about humans? Isn't that the topic here? I mean,

00:53:58.500 aren't you trying to make some kind of point about human trans people by bringing up these animals? 0.99

00:54:03.680 That seems to be the point. Which is why this article was published in Gay Times in the first place.

00:54:09.620 Yet apparently, we'll be left to our own devices to figure out how exactly any of the rest of this article

00:54:14.940 connects to human beings, or what precisely it's supposed to say about transgenderism in humans.

00:54:20.680 Now, the author obviously believes that it proves something,

00:54:23.620 but he can't for the life of him explain what that is, and doesn't try.

00:54:28.860 Instead, we're off to this list of 18 animals who are supposedly trans. 0.97

00:54:33.240 And instead of reading this whole thing to you, I'll just tell you that the 18 animals are 0.65

00:54:39.140 clownfish, a bird called the sandpiper ruff, a few other birds,

00:54:43.420 the spotted hyena, seahorses, the swallowtail butterfly, the banana slug,

00:54:50.220 a few different types of lizards, starfish, jellyfish, and oysters.

00:54:54.820 Now, it goes without saying, none of these animals are trans or anything remotely close 0.98

00:55:01.620 to what we call transgenderism among human beings, because trans is a so-called gender identity.

00:55:07.660 Jellyfish don't have any concept of gender identity.

00:55:14.160 They probably don't have any concepts of anything at all.

00:55:18.100 And most of these animals on this list are hermaphrodites.

00:55:22.420 Not in the sense of having genital deformities, which is what it means to be intersex as a human.

00:55:27.620 Listen, these animals actually possess, some of them anyway, the functional reproductive capabilities

00:55:34.520 of both sexes.

00:55:35.880 They can reproduce as either male or female.

00:55:39.480 Okay?

00:55:40.280 Well, that does not exist among humans.

00:55:43.860 There has never been a case of a human being who can both get pregnant and also do the impregnating.

00:55:50.800 That has never existed.

00:55:53.840 So banana slugs, though, by their nature, are both male and female at the same time.

00:56:00.000 They have the reproductive capacities of males and females.

00:56:03.080 And this is a relatively common phenomenon among many of the lesser species.

00:56:06.820 That said, plenty of the animals on this list aren't even actually hermaphroditic.

00:56:10.560 You know, hyenas, for example, aren't hermaphrodites.

00:56:13.100 Females just have sex organs that look similar to males, but actually are not the same. 0.99

00:56:17.060 The butterfly on the list also doesn't appear to be hermaphrodite, from what I can tell.

00:56:22.060 It apparently just has a much more glamorous wing color, which we usually associate with

00:56:27.120 the males of that species.

00:56:28.800 And the article calls this, in all seriousness, calls this trans-feminine code-switching.

00:56:34.300 That's how they describe this butterfly.

00:56:36.740 And that is how desperate trans-activists are for affirmation.

00:56:40.280 They're even looking for allies in the insect community.

00:56:44.260 But this is all beside the point.

00:56:45.340 The author of this article doesn't understand the biology of the creatures that he puts

00:56:50.400 on the list, but that doesn't even matter.

00:56:52.300 The existence of different reproductive capabilities among other species does not, even the slightest

00:56:59.320 bit, vindicate the claim that human trans people make about themselves as humans.

00:57:07.180 So here's the argument the article is making.

00:57:10.360 Just to summarize, the argument is this.

00:57:13.200 A trans-identified male is really a female because banana slugs are hermaphrodites. 1.00

00:57:22.160 It is the most bizarre kind of non-sequitur you'll ever hear.

00:57:26.680 I mean, you might as well argue that the planet Jupiter doesn't exist because cheddar cheese is

00:57:32.100 yellow.

00:57:32.380 Or maybe you'll claim that Japan is in South America because Tom Hanks was born in 1956.

00:57:41.180 I mean, the possibilities are endless when you've decided that a totally nonsensical claim

00:57:45.260 can be proven by facts that are completely irrelevant to the claim you're making.

00:57:50.000 Or perhaps the best analogy is this.

00:57:51.840 Imagine an article that tried to prove that humans can fly by listing 18 birds that can

00:57:59.480 fly.

00:58:01.080 That's what's happening here.

00:58:02.400 Oh, you're saying humans can't fly?

00:58:04.580 Oh, yeah?

00:58:05.100 Well, what about the bald eagle, huh?

00:58:09.980 Checkmate.

00:58:10.460 But it's not just that the article gets many of the basic facts wrong in service to an argument

00:58:16.240 that, even if accurately presented, wouldn't prove the point it tries to prove.

00:58:20.020 In fact, it's worse than that.

00:58:21.420 Because actually, if the article does anything, it only makes left-wing gender theory seem more 0.96

00:58:26.620 asinine and made up than it already did. 0.80

00:58:28.800 After all, you'll notice that even in these hermaphrodite species, even among slugs and jellyfish

00:58:34.200 and oyster and all these species that are not humans, there are still only males and females.

00:58:41.760 Now, males might become females or vice versa, or they might be both at the same time.

00:58:46.500 In slugs, that is possible.

00:58:48.320 It's not impossible in humans, but in slugs it is. 0.73

00:58:51.120 But even then, there's really no third sex.

00:58:53.220 They're still working with the same basic menu of options, male or female, or some combination.

00:58:59.180 The sex binary still provides the basic parameters, even for species that actually 0.85

00:59:04.140 do have more fluidity to move between the two options.

00:59:08.460 We don't have that fluidity as humans.

00:59:11.040 Some of these species do.

00:59:13.020 But even then, there are still just the two options.

00:59:17.200 Now, this wouldn't be my go-to argument for disproving transgenderism. 0.96

00:59:21.040 To do that, I don't need to look outside the human species, given that this is an argument

00:59:24.900 about the human species.

00:59:25.920 But the point is that if non-human species help anyone's argument, they help ours. 0.88

00:59:32.880 Over on Team Sanity.

00:59:35.600 They do nothing to rescue the lunatics who don't believe in biology anyway. 0.99

00:59:40.740 And that is why gay times, and anybody who cites them, and even those damned hermaphrodite 1.00

00:59:47.620 banana slugs, they're getting it too. 0.99

00:59:50.980 They're all today canceled.

00:59:54.000 That'll do it for the show today.

00:59:55.040 Thanks for watching.

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00:59:56.280 Have a great day.

00:59:56.900 Talk to you tomorrow.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 08, 2024

Ep. 1342 - Prominent Women's Basketball Coaches Are Too Cowardly To Defend The Existence Of Women's Sports

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