The Matt Walsh Show - May 13, 2024


Ep. 1367 - Women Are Having Temper Tantrums And Calling It A 'Rage Ritual'


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00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, something called a rage ritual is gaining popularity.
00:00:03.980 It sounds stupid and insane, and it is, but you have to see and hear it to fully appreciate it.
00:00:09.060 Also, the polls have shifted so dramatically in Trump's favor that even CNN is admitting that Biden has a major problem.
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00:01:58.400 Usually I begin the opening monologue with a preamble to set up the topic that we're going to discuss,
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00:02:06.140 I'm going to play you a video without context, and then we'll circle back around and fill in the blanks.
00:02:11.720 Here's the clip from USA Today that went viral over the weekend.
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00:02:52.860 Now, if you're watching the video podcast on Daily Wire, YouTube, Rumble, or Twitter,
00:03:08.080 you're probably pretty confused. If you're listening to just the audio podcast on Apple
00:03:12.900 or Spotify, then you're very extremely confused. Your mind is conjuring all kinds of images to go
00:03:17.960 along with the psychotic assortment of sounds that you just heard. You might imagine that,
00:03:22.340 you know, it was a video of a bunch of rabid spider monkeys at the zoo, or maybe it was footage
00:03:27.820 of an exorcism. And if you guessed either of those top two possibilities, then you weren't too far
00:03:33.400 off, it turns out. Actually, that was a glimpse into something known as a rage ritual. Here's
00:03:38.980 the USA Today headline on the accompanying article, quote, women are paying big money to scream
00:03:44.040 smash sticks in the woods. It's called a rage ritual. Now, you hear that and you may be
00:03:50.880 wondering, uh, what? And huh? And why? And more specifically, why would you pay big bucks to go
00:03:59.120 into the woods and bang sticks on the ground? If ever there was an activity that you could do for
00:04:04.340 free, like, wouldn't that be it? Unfortunately, no satisfactory answer to any of those questions
00:04:09.920 will be provided, but we'll read on anyway. Quote, Kimberly Helmus still gets chills thinking
00:04:15.420 about her first rage ritual. Two and a half years ago, after her divorce, the cybersecurity
00:04:19.620 engineer embarked on a retreat to Scotland with Maya Banducci, an author and self-described
00:04:24.420 spiritual fairy godmother, better known online as Mia Magic. As part of the retreat, Banducci held
00:04:30.100 a rage ritual, a ceremony in which participants scream and beat large sticks on the ground in the
00:04:34.560 woods. Participants are encouraged to think of people and experiences that have wronged them
00:04:38.800 and to scream and swing the sticks for at least 20 minutes or until they can no longer move
00:04:43.520 their arms. Rage rituals have garnered attention on TikTok where they have resonated, particularly
00:04:47.280 with women. In comments, women describe how moving it is to see other women embody their anger and
00:04:52.000 emotion experts say society often discourages women from expressing. Quote, there's no place where you
00:04:56.760 can see women be able to be angry like that and it not be condemned, Helmus says. She's just hormonal.
00:05:02.200 She's just unhinged. She's just crazy. She's just on her period. She's just whatever. This was a place
00:05:07.700 where you were probably for the first time in a really, really long time, if ever, able to scream out loud
00:05:12.920 things about how you felt. Now, that's true. In polite society, you are not encouraged to roll
00:05:21.080 around on the ground screaming at the top of your lungs. That is a temper tantrum. And we try our best
00:05:27.540 to prevent three-year-olds from engaging in temper tantrums. An adult having a temper tantrum is and
00:05:33.160 should be viewed with bewilderment and disdain. Like, do these people actually think otherwise? Do they
00:05:39.660 really think that it would be better if adults were encouraged to have psychotic screaming spasms
00:05:44.980 of rage in public in front of people who did not sign up for the opportunity to witness such a
00:05:50.240 spectacle? Like, how do they think we should react if we were just walking down maybe the sidewalk in
00:05:59.160 the park one day and we saw a woman with a stick just beating it and screaming? Like, how are we meant to
00:06:06.340 react to that? Well, we'll return to that point in a moment, but here's one more quick passage from the
00:06:11.760 USA Today piece. Quote, Banducci has led rage rituals for several years and began doing them first for
00:06:17.720 herself, then for friends, and eventually as part of her days-long retreats, which include other
00:06:22.440 activities and can range in price from around $2,000 to $4,000. Her one-day version, she says, costs $222
00:06:30.360 per ticket. The process of a rage ritual is pretty simple. First, Banducci says participants gather large
00:06:35.480 sticks while conjuring to mind every person who's ever crossed you, who's ever hurt you, who's ever
00:06:40.240 ignored your boundaries or taken advantage of you or abused you in any way. After some warm-up breaths,
00:06:45.300 the screaming and swinging begins. The ritual is held in the woods, so participants can make noise
00:06:49.480 without fear of bothering people nearby. Banducci isn't the only person who leads events dealing
00:06:53.940 with rage. Secret Sanctuary will host a sacred rage ceremony in Alberta, Canada in July, and Jessica
00:06:59.780 Ricchetti, an author and self-proclaimed mystic, will host a sacred rage women's retreat in North
00:07:05.020 Carolina in June. Quote, when people do this and give themselves permission to release their anger,
00:07:08.900 their capacity for joy actually expands. They're able to feel more happiness and pleasure, and they
00:07:14.600 go home to their families with more gratitude and ease and peace. So these women pay over $200
00:07:22.360 per ticket for the privilege of screeching maniacally and banging sticks on the ground.
00:07:29.040 In a way, you almost have to respect the grift, I guess. Like, I'd like to say that whoever first
00:07:36.640 saw a toddler having a tantrum in the grocery store and thought, I bet I could get middle-aged
00:07:41.500 women to pay me thousands of dollars so that they could do that in the middle of the woods
00:07:46.220 is a marketing genius. But I may be giving them too much credit because, in fact, the rage ritual scam
00:07:52.520 isn't especially unprecedented. Rage has been a booming business for a while now. Rage rooms have
00:07:57.940 been around for years, offering paying customers the opportunity to go into a room clad in helmets,
00:08:03.260 goggles, and protective gear, and break stuff. For a generous fee, of course. Here's a Canadian
00:08:09.700 media report from several years ago about the rage rooms. Watch.
00:08:12.520 Having one of those days? So cool. This may be the place for you. Toronto's first rage room. The idea
00:08:25.000 is from Serbia. I've never seen anything like this. And in everyday life, you get stressed out,
00:08:32.620 so I said, you know, let me check it out. It seems like a cool concept. I need more stuff to smash.
00:08:37.260 For $200, you get 30 minutes in the rage room. And you also start off with five plates and the
00:08:44.420 protective gear you need. Okay. After you're geared up, it's time to choose a weapon. We have a golf club,
00:08:53.860 a crowbar, a baseball bat, and even a hockey stick. You know, a crowbar meets a ball.
00:09:00.860 And that's a strike. Christine Pankoski, now she hit a homer. Are you less angry?
00:09:10.560 Yeah, I feel like I could hit a couple more plates, but yeah, I think I definitely released some stress.
00:09:16.300 Was that one guy wearing a gas mask for this? I mean, they've got full-on, like, COVID,
00:09:22.040 not even, they've got full-on, like, it's like they're going into Chernobyl after the meltdown with
00:09:27.280 protective gear. I cannot think of anything lamer than getting in your car and driving to a special
00:09:33.220 venue where you pay money and wear protective gear to smash plates with a baseball bat.
00:09:40.400 But this is what some people are doing. And in fairness, they don't always pay money for the
00:09:44.480 privilege. A couple of weeks ago, a TikTok influencer documented her own rage ritual, which,
00:09:49.900 and this went very viral, in fact. Lots of women were responding to it with how emotional it made
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00:10:30.720 Daddy, the ice tray is empty and mommy is screaming in the bathroom.
00:10:51.040 Well, yes, son, she's doing it again.
00:10:53.080 Mommy's just a bit mentally unbalanced.
00:10:55.020 Nothing to worry about.
00:10:55.740 Now, we've mostly seen examples so far of women having allegedly therapeutic tantrums.
00:11:02.880 And I should mention that tragically, tragically, this is not a trend relegated only to the female sex.
00:11:09.360 Indeed, there are many workshops available for men who wish to get in touch with their feelings by paying hundreds of dollars to humiliate themselves in this fashion.
00:11:17.480 Here's just one.
00:11:25.740 Now, those shirtless dudes screaming at a waterfall are apparently part of something called the amend movement.
00:11:45.560 And the organization's website provides this explanation, quote,
00:11:47.940 Now, as a man myself, I can say that the last thing in the world that I'm looking for
00:12:13.500 is a safe and nurturing space to express my built-up emotions.
00:12:18.080 That sounds like a nightmare.
00:12:20.000 I can honestly say that I would rather be drowned in that river than gather there with a bunch of men to get in touch with my emotions or whatever.
00:12:27.600 But not all men share my preferences.
00:12:29.480 In fact, some men are apparently willing to pay $250 to do what you just witnessed.
00:12:36.140 Now, there's probably no point in debunking the science behind banging sticks and breaking plates and throwing ice or screaming at waterfalls.
00:12:42.500 But I will take just a moment to point out that there is no evidence that anyone's mental health is improved by these embarrassing spectacles.
00:12:50.660 In fact, it's pretty obvious that our mental health is harmed this way.
00:12:54.460 Extreme, random, broad, undirected bursts of rage are not healthy.
00:13:00.520 And indulging that impulse only makes you feel the impulse even more.
00:13:05.580 This is a basic fact of human psychology that everyone should understand, but few people in our culture seem to.
00:13:10.560 Indulgence leads to more indulgence.
00:13:15.300 You aren't venting or getting it out of your system.
00:13:17.700 You're introducing it into your system.
00:13:20.020 You're feeding the urge, which makes it grow stronger.
00:13:24.300 What adults need to learn, what these adults in particular need to learn,
00:13:29.300 is how to channel your anger and frustration in a useful, constructive way.
00:13:33.680 A successful, well-adjusted person knows how to harness that energy and use it as fuel in the pursuit of a goal.
00:13:41.400 If you need a more immediate and physical outlet, then, especially if you're a man, go to the gym and lift.
00:13:48.120 Don't scream and cry while you're lifting.
00:13:50.080 Just lift.
00:13:51.160 And you're at best wasting, you know, you are at best, I would say, wasting that energy with fruitless, futile expressions of blind, uncontrolled, untempered emotion.
00:14:00.460 And at worst, you are training yourself to act like a toddler.
00:14:03.580 Well, there's one other point that needs to be made, and we hear from the advocates of these forms of, quote-unquote, therapy,
00:14:10.100 just as we hear constantly from the culture at large these days that, you know, our society is, they say, repressive.
00:14:18.440 And too often encourages people to suppress their emotions and put on a false front and fake a smile and pretend that everything is okay.
00:14:27.460 You know, we just heard that on the website for the amend movement, you know, when people ask you how you're doing, we just say this is, that we're fine, but really we're not.
00:14:38.140 But actually the opposite is obviously the case.
00:14:41.700 There has never been a society in the history of the world more open to and welcoming of emotional expression than ours.
00:14:49.420 If you think that the pressure to suppress your emotions in our culture is too great, you would have hated living literally anywhere else at any other time.
00:15:00.580 Because historically, most societies, civilized ones anyway, have been governed by rules of dignity and decorum.
00:15:07.800 And those are two words that are barely even used today.
00:15:10.440 You don't even hear those concepts brought up verbally.
00:15:14.000 When's the last time you heard anyone condemned for not having dignity or a sense of decorum?
00:15:20.040 Like, it's almost never said.
00:15:22.640 There is simply no doubt that we live in the most emotionally open society that has ever existed on the planet.
00:15:28.540 And yet, it turns out that people are not happier and are not more fulfilled, are not reaping the rewards that were supposed to come from this emotional honesty.
00:15:39.720 When people are encouraged to wear their emotions on their sleeve and dump their feelings on everybody constantly, holding nothing back, and making sure that everyone knows how sad and angry and put upon they are all the time, it turns out this only makes them feel more sad and angry and put upon.
00:15:57.660 So we should try going the other way.
00:16:01.260 Bring back a sense of stoicism.
00:16:03.700 Learn how to suffer silently.
00:16:05.780 At least some of the time.
00:16:07.200 Now, that doesn't mean that we should be emotionless robots.
00:16:11.300 It does mean that we should get in the habit of shouldering our burdens with poise and dignity and strength.
00:16:17.980 Control our emotions rather than allowing them to control us.
00:16:22.340 Because, yeah, even if you feel angry and sad, you should still walk through the world acting like you don't.
00:16:29.360 That's not phoniness.
00:16:30.860 It's called maturity.
00:16:32.520 It's called being an adult.
00:16:33.760 And the great thing is that if you get in the habit of acting like a mature, emotionally stable person, eventually you'll actually become one.
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00:17:53.420 Daily Wire has a report, as many as 100,000 people flooded the Jersey Shore to attend former President Donald Trump's rally in Deep Blue, New Jersey, on Saturday, according to official estimates.
00:18:03.380 Spokeswoman for the city of Wildwood, New Jersey, which hosted the Trump rally, told the Associated Press that based on viewing the crowd and comparing it to dozens of other events in the same place,
00:18:11.560 she believes there were between 80,000 to 100,000 people in attendance to see the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
00:18:17.740 New Jersey Republican Representative Jeff Van Drew called the rally the biggest political gathering in state history.
00:18:23.420 Wildwood is in New Jersey's second district, with Trump won in 2016 and 2020, after Barack Obama previously carried the district.
00:18:32.060 Here is Trump at this rally addressing the crowd watch.
00:18:36.860 So many people here.
00:18:39.320 There's so many people here.
00:18:41.580 Man.
00:18:43.600 Over 100,000 people.
00:18:46.400 This is supposed to be, you know, they thought they'd hit 40.
00:18:50.640 So they more than doubled it.
00:18:52.200 But you can't even see the end.
00:18:53.760 I wish we didn't have the press here.
00:18:55.100 I wish we moved them the hell back so they'd have, because they can't see in the back.
00:19:00.460 You know, I always tell the press, turn your cameras around to show the audience, okay?
00:19:05.900 They never do it.
00:19:07.020 Look, look, fake news.
00:19:09.280 They never do it.
00:19:12.560 They never do it.
00:19:13.900 So Trump is always heckling the press, which is great, never gets old, and it's always very well deserved.
00:19:23.880 And now, you know, this huge turnout in New Jersey has prompted some people on the right, on social media in particular, to claim that, you know, New Jersey is a winnable state for Trump.
00:19:35.960 It isn't, by the way.
00:19:37.440 You know, we don't have to get hung up on this, but let's just be clear about that.
00:19:40.420 Trump lost New Jersey by double digits in the first two times.
00:19:45.260 Every Republican has lost New Jersey since 1992.
00:19:47.920 And I'm not looking to rain on anyone's parade, but it is important from a strategic standpoint that, you know, because doing the rally is great, drawing a big crowd is great.
00:19:58.640 It does, you know, that helps you far beyond New Jersey.
00:20:03.440 But it should go without saying that Trump shouldn't waste any real resources on trying to actually win New Jersey because he won't.
00:20:10.660 He doesn't need to.
00:20:11.380 So this election will come down to a small handful of states, and New Jersey isn't one of them.
00:20:17.420 You don't need it.
00:20:18.220 So forget about it.
00:20:21.760 Although, again, the rally is great.
00:20:23.840 Even so, you can see the enthusiasm.
00:20:25.660 And the really terrifying thing, if you're a Democrat, is that there is none of that enthusiasm, obviously, for Joe Biden.
00:20:31.700 Just like in 2020, all of the enthusiasm for Biden is really enthusiasm related to Trump.
00:20:38.220 Now, negative enthusiasm in that case, like people are going to vote for Trump because they like Trump.
00:20:45.100 And people are going to vote for Biden because they don't like Trump.
00:20:48.620 Nobody is voting for Biden because they like Biden.
00:20:52.640 Like a true Biden voter, someone who really loves Biden and wants more Biden, I've never met that person.
00:20:59.660 I've never heard from that person.
00:21:00.780 I don't know who that person is.
00:21:01.780 Which is why even Biden's surrogates, which includes all of corporate media, their argument for Biden is always just, well, he's not Trump.
00:21:12.400 Like it all comes back to Trump.
00:21:14.300 And everyone knows that there's really nothing you can say in Biden's favor on his own.
00:21:22.400 That's why there are no big Biden, there are big Trump fans, obviously, there are no big Biden fans.
00:21:27.540 This is a realization that is starting to slowly dawn on some of the leftists in the corporate press, much to their horror, which is very amusing to watch.
00:21:36.680 For example, listen to this from, and this is like a four-minute monologue that he gave.
00:21:41.960 And it's all worth listening to, if only because you just very rarely hear this from anybody on CNN.
00:21:50.140 But we'll play about a two-minute clip of it.
00:21:51.580 This is Fareed Zakaria on CNN, again, slowly starting to realize what's happening and very distraught about it.
00:22:02.400 Let's listen.
00:22:04.180 I admit, none of this is playing out as I thought it would.
00:22:07.300 Trump is now leading in almost all the swing states, but behind those numbers lie even more troubling details.
00:22:15.880 As someone worried about the prospects of a second Trump term, I think it's best to be honest about reality.
00:22:23.260 I understand that polls are not always accurate, but in general, they have tended to underestimate Donald Trump's support, not overestimate it.
00:22:31.400 I doubt that there are many shy Biden voters in the country.
00:22:35.240 The economy has been in a robust recovery for more than two years now, with unemployment hitting a 54-year low in 2023 and increasing only slightly since then.
00:22:47.580 But Biden is getting little credit for it.
00:22:50.440 The shift here is stark.
00:22:52.040 On the question of who voters trust more to deal with the economy, Trump has a 22-point lead over Biden, according to an NBC poll from January.
00:23:00.820 This marks a 15-point bump for Trump compared to the same poll in 2020.
00:23:07.600 Perhaps this is because inflation is a far more pervasive problem than unemployment, affecting all Americans every day.
00:23:15.320 Perhaps it's because people's views on the economy now are largely derived from their broader attitudes towards the candidates.
00:23:22.260 But whatever the reasons, it's a stunning reversal in the midst of a relentless stream of good economic news.
00:23:27.740 The one that troubles me the most is on the question of who was the more competent.
00:23:34.160 Joe Biden led Donald Trump by nine points in 2020, but Trump now leads by 16 points in January 2024.
00:23:42.400 That 25-point shift could be a reflection of people's sense that the president's age is affecting his capacity to govern.
00:23:53.400 And there's very little that Joe Biden can do now to change that perception.
00:23:57.960 So, yes, the numbers are very bad for Biden.
00:24:01.200 And when even CNN is admitting that, then that's bad news, even more bad news for Biden.
00:24:06.840 Admitting that the election has swung wildly in Trump's favor, so is public opinion.
00:24:12.140 It takes a lot for them to admit something like that, but it's true.
00:24:14.620 And why is it happening?
00:24:15.840 Well, there are several factors.
00:24:18.500 Zacharias is correct that none of them are fixable for Biden.
00:24:21.820 One is, as you mentioned, his age.
00:24:24.840 Trump's only a couple of years younger, but he sounds and appears like someone who still has his mental and physical faculties, whereas Biden doesn't.
00:24:32.360 And everybody knows that.
00:24:33.720 And, you know, that is the main thing, I'm pretty certain.
00:24:37.140 Biden is mentally and physically falling apart, and everyone can see it.
00:24:40.420 It's unmistakable.
00:24:41.020 And, of course, that's going to affect him gravely in an election.
00:24:46.940 Also, the economy.
00:24:48.080 You know, the Biden campaign brags about the unemployment rate, but inflation is the problem.
00:24:52.000 Inflation impacts everyone, as he mentioned there.
00:24:54.680 Whether you have a job or not, you know, quality of life for everybody suffers.
00:24:59.120 And Biden hasn't done anything to fix that problem.
00:25:01.560 Also, immigration, a major problem that Biden not only doesn't take seriously, but is actively trying to make that problem worse.
00:25:10.840 And thereby make everyone's lives worse.
00:25:13.840 Crime is another one.
00:25:15.240 I mean, all these things.
00:25:16.940 People are looking and saying Biden has either done nothing on these issues or most of the time has taken active steps to make it worse.
00:25:27.200 And then on top of that, the media has spent, of course, years now relentlessly attacking Trump.
00:25:37.080 And their attacks just aren't landing.
00:25:39.600 Like nobody, partly because so much of it is sort of baked into the cake now.
00:25:43.380 And so, you know, maybe seven years ago you could get some, a little bit of traction by saying, oh, listen to this offensive thing that Trump said.
00:25:53.260 It just doesn't matter anymore.
00:25:54.400 It's all baked in.
00:25:55.120 Nobody cares.
00:25:55.600 And also they, from the very beginning, they decided that their primary narrative about Trump is going to be that he's a fascist dictator in league with Putin.
00:26:10.220 And he wants to, you know, he wants to usher in a handmaid's tale dystopia and all that.
00:26:19.580 Like that, they decided from the very beginning that's going to be their narrative.
00:26:22.740 And it just doesn't, it doesn't work.
00:26:24.800 It didn't work in 2016.
00:26:25.800 It doesn't work now because we all, at least in 20, at least before Trump was elected, you know, it was, it was all speculation.
00:26:35.600 So we couldn't really, even though it was absurd to claim that he's some sort of fascist, racist dictator and he wants to oppress everybody.
00:26:40.920 It was absurd back then, but we had nothing, we couldn't prove that it was false because he hadn't been president yet.
00:26:47.400 But now we have four years of him being president.
00:26:50.420 And so when they're telling us, oh, this is what it's going to be like under a Trump presidency, they're doing that.
00:26:55.940 And they want us to forget the fact that he actually was president.
00:26:58.600 So we can go back and look and he was the opposite of a dictator.
00:27:02.220 As I've said many times about Trump, I think the real criticism of him is the opposite of that, is that he went too far on the other extreme of not getting involved enough and not wielding his power enough.
00:27:18.060 So if there's any criticism, it's that, but that's not the criticism they're making.
00:27:22.280 And they can't pivot to that now, it's way too late.
00:27:25.060 So instead, they want us to believe that he's some sort of dictator.
00:27:32.240 And also, as part of the fact that he was president for four years, we can all remember that time and we can remember that it was pretty good.
00:27:43.140 Wasn't a utopia, but it's never going to be.
00:27:45.240 It was pretty good until COVID.
00:27:48.520 Now, I've been critical of Trump's response to COVID.
00:27:52.000 But also, people can look and say, well, Biden wouldn't have been any better.
00:27:56.900 In fact, he would have been worse.
00:27:59.100 All the worst things about Trump's response to COVID, what made them bad is that it was what the Democrats wanted.
00:28:05.100 So if he had an actual Democrat in office during that time, it would have been so much worse.
00:28:09.480 As we saw when Biden actually did take over.
00:28:12.220 So that's what they're running into.
00:28:14.940 It is unfixable.
00:28:15.660 And then probably on top of all that, too, that's all that really needs to be said.
00:28:21.960 Those are all the problems.
00:28:23.080 But I think even on top of that, the fact that Biden is the incumbent in general probably hurts them.
00:28:31.840 I know it hurts him.
00:28:33.100 I know the accepted wisdom is that the incumbency helps a candidate.
00:28:36.560 And I guess that's been true historically with presidential elections.
00:28:40.360 But I wonder if that's changed.
00:28:42.780 And not just because of the state of the country this time around.
00:28:45.200 I mean, that's the main reason why him being the incumbent doesn't help him.
00:28:47.840 But I wonder if we're also at a point where, you know, just people can't pay attention to anything for very long.
00:28:56.320 We always want things to change.
00:28:57.640 We just get bored with things.
00:28:58.700 And so I wonder if, in general, being the incumbent actually hurts you.
00:29:06.040 I wonder if, you know, when we look, let's say it's 2060.
00:29:09.940 We'll look back in the year 2060 and we will be saying then that even in 2060, the last president to win re-election was Obama in 2012.
00:29:21.820 Not that this is an excuse for Biden, of course.
00:29:24.020 He's a decrepit vegetable.
00:29:25.440 His poll numbers should be 0% across the board.
00:29:29.120 So this is more of an academic point, but be that as it may.
00:29:32.960 All right.
00:29:33.560 Yesterday was Mother's Day.
00:29:35.020 So happy belated Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, the real moms, actual moms.
00:29:39.840 And yet because this is the year of our Lord 2024, Mother's Day cannot just be about mothers anymore.
00:29:45.100 There are non-mothers, men, trying to infringe on the territory.
00:29:49.480 And so on Sunday, there was a deluge of videos and Reddit posts and everything else and TikToks from self-identified, quote unquote, trans women, men, who were demanding that they be celebrated as well.
00:30:04.580 And let's watch just one of those videos.
00:30:07.440 Here it is.
00:30:07.740 This Mother's Day is especially significant for me because it's the first Mother's Day that I am celebrating since coming out as trans and starting HRT.
00:30:16.920 So it's kind of special.
00:30:20.460 At church this Sunday morning, they gave all the moms carnations and letters saying, Happy Mother's Day.
00:30:28.040 And I was happy to be a recipient of one of those.
00:30:30.980 I took it home and showed my daughter and who is eight.
00:30:36.900 And she said, But you're not a mom.
00:30:39.400 I said, Well, yes, I am.
00:30:41.480 She said, No, you're not.
00:30:43.640 And the reason she said that is because my wife doesn't allow her to call me mom.
00:30:49.320 I'm known as parent.
00:30:51.760 So not dad, not mom, just parent, which seems kind of makes me sad.
00:30:57.740 I wish she would call me mom, but she doesn't.
00:31:00.980 So I said to her, Well, I'm a mom, whether you acknowledge that or not.
00:31:06.640 I am still a mom.
00:31:08.800 And to all those who are going through a similar situation, I see you.
00:31:15.040 You are valid.
00:31:16.060 If you are trans female and have kids, you're a mom.
00:31:21.260 You're no less a mom than anyone else.
00:31:24.760 Okay, so insist upon your identity.
00:31:28.000 If you are a mom, you are valid.
00:31:31.200 That is who you are.
00:31:32.140 Okay.
00:31:33.140 Shut up.
00:31:35.300 No, you're not valid.
00:31:37.080 And, you know, just a general rule of thumb.
00:31:40.800 If you have to insist upon your identity, think about that phrase, insist on your identity.
00:31:46.600 You know what?
00:31:47.200 I've never had to insist on my identity as a man.
00:31:50.060 I've never had to insist on it one time ever in my life.
00:31:54.880 Least of all, is it like a constant struggle all the time to get everyone to recognize and affirm me as a man because I just am.
00:32:03.420 It's just it.
00:32:04.060 I don't have to insist on it.
00:32:04.960 Not one time have I had to insist on it.
00:32:08.000 So if you find yourself insisting on your identity, it's a pretty good indication that it is not your identity that you're insisting on.
00:32:15.540 And, you know, I want to kind of laugh at the prospect of this based eight-year-old making this man cry, which is great.
00:32:23.540 But, of course, there's actually nothing funny about this.
00:32:25.540 And the sad reality is that this eight-year-old child, although she knows now that the trans stuff is silly and nonsensical,
00:32:35.220 and she's just naturally responding to it that way because that's anyone, if they haven't been indoctrinated yet, that's how they'll respond to it.
00:32:43.760 But, you know, she will lose that recognition over time if this man goes to work on her with the intense psychological manipulation and indoctrination, if that happens.
00:32:53.400 And that's not a comment about this girl specifically, like she can't withstand it.
00:32:57.660 This is a comment about all eight-year-olds that have ever existed.
00:33:01.820 If they're put in an environment where they are relentlessly manipulated into believing something, they will believe it.
00:33:07.360 It's just that simple.
00:33:08.500 And that's true, in fact, of most people of any age, let alone third graders.
00:33:12.840 Now, the advantage this young girl has is that for now, apparently, her mother, her actual mother, seems to at least be partially on team sanity with this.
00:33:21.400 And hopefully the mother is in the process of getting a divorce and getting out of there.
00:33:26.300 And you know me.
00:33:27.020 I'm as anti-divorce as a human can possibly be.
00:33:29.960 But, you know, if your husband announces that he's a woman, then you need to divorce and move on and keep your child away from him as best you can.
00:33:39.080 Every day you spend in the house with him is another day where severe damage is inflicted on your children and yourself and you need to get out.
00:33:46.260 So, and this is one time when the fact that family courts are stacked against men, well, it would be one time where that actually works to your advantage because you should try to take full custody of the children.
00:34:02.120 Now, but because the man pretends to be a woman, he actually, the court system probably would favor him even above actual women.
00:34:07.600 And so it's all confused.
00:34:08.520 But that's what you should do.
00:34:11.360 And this is also why I think it should be illegal for an adult with children to transition.
00:34:17.160 And as you know, I believe that all medical and surgical transitions of anybody of any age should be banned.
00:34:24.100 But that's a prohibition, as I've tried to explain many times, that that's a prohibition on the medical industry.
00:34:29.080 Doctors should be banned from doing that to patients, no matter their age.
00:34:35.900 But I would go a step further.
00:34:37.300 What I'm saying is that an adult with a child, a father and a mother, a father or a mother, if you're an adult and you have a child,
00:34:48.660 then you should be legally barred from any kind of quote unquote transition, including the so-called social transitions.
00:34:56.680 You should be legally barred from claiming to be a woman if you're a man, from identifying as a woman, anything.
00:35:04.200 Because it is a form, it is a severe form of child abuse.
00:35:08.920 You are damaging your children in profound ways.
00:35:12.420 And you're also trying to force your child to participate in your fetish, in your fantasy.
00:35:21.080 It is also a form of sexual abuse of a child.
00:35:23.820 It's every form of abuse, actually, of a child that you are inflicting on your child all at once, all at the same time.
00:35:33.080 And it just should not be allowed in a sane society that would just be illegal.
00:35:40.540 You cannot be a father and go around saying that you're a woman.
00:35:43.800 You can't even say it.
00:35:44.780 You can't even say it because you have a child.
00:35:47.560 And society should force you to put your child first before anything else.
00:35:54.560 If I have freedom to express myself, no, it doesn't matter.
00:35:57.620 Your child comes first.
00:35:58.920 That is your obligation.
00:36:01.960 And in most other circumstances, we recognize that if a parent refuses to put their child first, refuses to do the bare minimum to care for their child,
00:36:09.220 we put them in prison.
00:36:10.500 You go to prison for that.
00:36:11.320 And it should be no different here.
00:36:17.700 All right.
00:36:18.520 NPR has this report.
00:36:22.000 The Shenandoah County School Board in Virginia will restore the names of Confederate Generals Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby to two local schools.
00:36:32.640 The controversial reversal comes nearly four years after the name was changed.
00:36:36.840 Mountain View High School will revert to its former name, Stonewall Jackson High School.
00:36:40.740 And Honey Run Elementary School will go back to being Ashby Lee Elementary School.
00:36:45.880 The board approved the change by a five-to-one vote with supporters saying the Confederate figures' names had been taken off the schools in 2020 in a knee-jerk reaction amid protests of George Floyd's murder by police.
00:36:56.160 I'm going to put scare quotes around murder, but it's not in the report.
00:36:58.520 But opponents, including some current students, warned the board that Confederate names would brand the schools and their county as a haven for backward racist thinking.
00:37:09.820 But they changed it back anyway.
00:37:11.980 Now, I'm glad they're changing the names back.
00:37:15.720 Everyone should be happy about that.
00:37:17.200 Though, now, of course, I know not everyone will be happy, but you should be because, first of all, even if you object in principle to schools being named after Confederate generals or to statues or whatever else,
00:37:32.460 the fact is that this change was made, like so many similar changes, in obedience to the mob.
00:37:37.280 It was a panicked, cowardly move done to appease a mob, and that is never okay.
00:37:41.940 You should never do anything at all in accordance with the demands of a mob.
00:37:47.360 I don't care what it is.
00:37:48.720 I don't care if it's something that would be otherwise justified.
00:37:52.220 I don't care if it's something purely neutral.
00:37:55.800 Like if there's a pitchfork mob for some reason demanding that you wear a blue shirt today, then you should wear a red shirt just to spike them.
00:38:05.560 Then, normally, putting on a blue shirt would have no moral significance whatsoever.
00:38:09.740 But in that case, putting on the blue shirt means that you are, it's an immoral act all of a sudden because you are appeasing and encouraging the mob.
00:38:19.440 It is your moral obligation to defy pitchfork mobs at every turn and to defy mob mentality.
00:38:26.860 Mob mentality is always bad.
00:38:28.720 It is always an evil every single time.
00:38:33.880 So that's reason enough to change it back, and that's the reason they're giving.
00:38:36.960 The reason they're giving is that we did this not because we thought it was the right thing.
00:38:41.380 Like that's a separate debate maybe we could have, but we did this because of the George Floyd case, which has nothing to do with the name of our school.
00:38:52.060 But so that's the reason that's all that needs to be said about it.
00:38:55.660 But I suppose that's the safest thing to say about it.
00:39:00.120 You know, if you're going to publicly support changing a name back to be named after a Confederate general, the safest grounds for defending that decision is what I just said about the mob mentality.
00:39:11.780 But I also think that even on the merits, those were good names for schools.
00:39:16.800 Stonewall Jackson in particular, Robert E. Lee also.
00:39:22.160 Some of the greatest generals we've ever had.
00:39:24.820 Great men, brave men, brilliant men.
00:39:28.220 And in their estimation also not fighting to preserve slavery.
00:39:32.680 And this is a distinction that for many years after the Civil War, people understood.
00:39:39.840 It's only in the last few years that they don't.
00:39:42.560 Because as I've remarked before, somehow people today, and this will never cease to be somewhat mind-boggling, that people today are more bitter about the Civil War, are somehow more resentful about it, are more emotional about it than Americans were 100 years ago.
00:40:03.640 Like, back when many Americans had grandfathers who actually fought and in many cases died in the Civil War, back then, Americans across the country, North and South, were less emotional about it, were more able to think rationally and in a nuanced way about the conflict than they are today.
00:40:25.560 How is that possible?
00:40:26.740 I mean, how can we have people who are in their, like, 20s, you know, running around in modern-day America, they were born after the turn of the millennium, and act like you can't even bring up the Civil War around them without them flying into a rage.
00:40:43.040 You can't have any conversation about it unless the only thing you're saying is, oh, yeah, they were all terrible.
00:40:47.920 The Confederates are terrible people, every single one.
00:40:49.300 They are incapable of hearing anything else.
00:40:53.480 You are not allowed to be that emotionally attached to this.
00:40:58.760 Sorry, you're just not.
00:41:00.200 Like, you can be, but we're not going to take that seriously.
00:41:02.580 At least we shouldn't.
00:41:04.260 Your emotional performance about a subject like the Civil War will not be taken seriously.
00:41:12.040 Okay, it was, it happened far too long ago to justify, like, you need to be able to think rationally about it and have a conversation about it, and you need to be able to say more about it than, Confederates, bad, Union, good.
00:41:29.200 The end.
00:41:31.340 No serious academic, no serious scholar, no serious historian who's looked at this has that view.
00:41:38.540 Okay, none of them do.
00:41:40.900 It's not a serious viewpoint.
00:41:43.820 And especially now, like, if you get emotional, it's too painful to talk.
00:41:49.620 Why is it, it's not painful for you.
00:41:50.860 What's painful about it?
00:41:53.040 Like, how connected are you to this, to this historical event that might as well have happened in ancient history at this point?
00:41:59.980 Especially in a culture, this is what makes it even more confusing.
00:42:02.900 We live in a culture now where stuff that happened six months ago may as well have been 6,000 years ago.
00:42:08.540 And yet, this one event that happened a century and a half ago is, it's like, it might as well have just been yesterday with the way we talk about it.
00:42:17.840 It's ridiculous.
00:42:18.920 Okay, it's just ridiculous.
00:42:22.960 So there is a distinction here.
00:42:24.300 There's a distinction between the political reasons for the war, of which slavery played a major part, but certainly not the only part,
00:42:31.420 and the personal motivations of the men who fought it, and the men who fought it were not fighting it from their personal perspectives to abolish or defend slavery.
00:42:43.540 Like, most of the guys, most of the young men from the North, most of the Yankees fighting for the Union,
00:42:52.900 they weren't coming down South, in their estimation, to fight a war to free the slaves.
00:42:57.700 That's not how they looked at it.
00:43:00.100 And I got news for you, most of them wouldn't have been there if they thought they were fighting for that.
00:43:03.920 And most of the young men who were fighting for the Confederate side, they didn't see it as them fighting to preserve slavery.
00:43:13.900 Here's how they looked at it.
00:43:15.940 On the Union side, they looked at it as, we are fighting to preserve the Union.
00:43:19.480 We are fighting to preserve our nation.
00:43:22.420 I mean, that's something people will fight and die for.
00:43:24.000 Even in the year 1861, especially in the year 1861, men would fight and die for that.
00:43:34.960 There were just not a lot of, there weren't a lot of people in the year 1861
00:43:39.700 who necessarily would consciously fight a war just to free slaves.
00:43:48.800 And that's, across the entire world, that's the case.
00:43:54.000 And then on the Confederate side, how did they perceive it?
00:43:59.160 Well, they perceived it as they were fighting to defend their homeland.
00:44:03.220 And certainly men like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, that's how they saw it.
00:44:09.460 That's how they, that's how they, that's the calculation, that was the equation for them.
00:44:13.700 Robert E. Lee, as everyone knows, could have fought commanding the armies of the North,
00:44:20.460 but he, but he chose not to, and his reason was not that, oh no, I gotta, I gotta, no,
00:44:27.780 we have to keep blacks enslaved, and so I have to fight for that.
00:44:30.660 That was not his reason.
00:44:32.020 His reason was simply Virginia is my home.
00:44:33.940 Virginia is my country.
00:44:35.140 That's how they looked at it.
00:44:36.520 It's my, this, this, my state is my country, essentially.
00:44:40.660 And I'm not gonna draw my sword against my homeland, and I'm not gonna draw my sword against my children and my family.
00:44:47.040 You know, because if I do that, then if I fight for the North, I'm going to be killing my own family.
00:44:52.640 That's what's gonna end up happening.
00:44:54.100 And he wasn't gonna do that.
00:44:55.160 And, and, um, I don't know, you, you, again, all these many years later, we should be able to look at that and at least understand the thinking a little bit.
00:45:08.280 We should at least be able to, in a non-emotional kind of removed way, we should be able to look at that and say, well, yeah, I mean, especially in the, you know, back, back in those days,
00:45:17.380 the mentality of someone in 1860, 1861, um, faced with a choice like that, like, fight against your homeland or for it, fight, march against your own community, your own family.
00:45:29.360 Like, that, that's a, can we not at least admit that's a, that's a really difficult choice to make.
00:45:36.280 Um, and also, by the way, you know, some of these men were actually among the most uncomplicated and least problematic.
00:45:45.980 Of historical figures from that era or before.
00:45:51.560 Uh, because if you go back 150, 200 years, you're not gonna find any historical figure anywhere on the planet who does not have what we would consider now to be racist views.
00:46:05.900 Uh, bigoted views about race.
00:46:07.200 They all did everywhere on earth.
00:46:08.500 And if you go back, especially 200 years and before that, almost everyone was, had views about slavery that we would abhor today.
00:46:18.100 And most of them were, were totally in favor of slavery.
00:46:22.280 Um, so that's just shared by almost all historical figures, uh, if you go back mid-19th century and before.
00:46:29.420 Um, but then there are many great historical figures that, that we admire today who, who even beyond that, uh, in their personal lives and in some of their behavior were, were, uh, you know, sometimes brutal people.
00:46:44.760 Uh, this is, these are, these are, these are some of the, the, the, uh, flaws that come with being, uh, you know, historically came with being a great figure.
00:46:53.200 Um, and, you know, someone like Stonewall Jackson in particular was a very buttoned up person, loyal family man, so on and so forth.
00:47:06.300 Um, so, we, we should be able to recognize that.
00:47:11.480 And, uh, the fact that we can't is just, I, I just have no patience for it.
00:47:16.260 I really don't.
00:47:18.380 Finally, we premiered our new animated series, our first animated series on Daily Wire on Sunday.
00:47:24.160 Uh, Mr. Burcham, Adam Carolla Show.
00:47:26.840 A lot of great feedback on the series.
00:47:28.300 Very, very funny stuff.
00:47:29.280 But there was one moment from the series that, uh, the series premiere, rather, that I think really put the show over the top.
00:47:36.300 And, uh, I, I think that, that's been the critical consensus about the show, is that there's one moment, one scene that makes it stand alone.
00:47:48.800 In the history of, of television, many have argued.
00:47:52.240 Let's watch that scene.
00:47:53.800 But we need to ask ourselves one simple question.
00:47:57.900 Is it okay for one of our faculty members to exploit students while the rest of us have to follow the rules?
00:48:03.740 Great question.
00:48:04.780 Because what are the rules, really?
00:48:07.420 Miss Bodica, were you following the rules when you had me fix your grandfather's dresser?
00:48:13.440 I used it to teach my students to do half-blind dovetail joints for the drawer.
00:48:18.140 And, Ms. Molina, I seem to remember something about you, my students, in a spice rack.
00:48:25.100 And, Mr. McCorkle, it seems like only yesterday you asked Brad Higginstaller to carve you a doorstop that looked like Lady Gaga.
00:48:32.780 Poker Face, best song ever.
00:48:35.820 I had to look up this Lady Gaga.
00:48:38.260 Turns out she's not even a baby.
00:48:40.000 Or a lady.
00:48:41.040 I'm teaching kids how to build things while I'm building their character.
00:48:44.700 Yeah!
00:48:45.420 Yeah!
00:48:46.540 That's what America is all about.
00:48:49.080 Building things.
00:48:50.160 Or at least it was.
00:48:51.340 For the kids, Birch.
00:48:52.680 Way to go, Mr. P.
00:48:53.800 Now, I don't know if you could tell, but that was me.
00:49:04.800 I gave that line.
00:49:05.860 It's pretty subtle.
00:49:07.280 That was my voice acting.
00:49:08.860 And I know what you're thinking.
00:49:11.420 You're thinking, wow, Matt.
00:49:14.900 You're a terrible voice actor.
00:49:17.160 Let's be honest.
00:49:18.340 I'm pretty bad.
00:49:19.120 I can't even pretend otherwise.
00:49:20.780 I like to think I have some skills in this business, but voice acting isn't one of them.
00:49:25.140 And so, I mean, I'm not going to deny it.
00:49:28.100 I have just a really bad voice.
00:49:29.420 It's a strange thing.
00:49:30.680 You think, like, it must be easy to do because it's just your voice.
00:49:34.660 Or at least if you're dumb like me, you might think it's an easy thing to do.
00:49:37.820 But then when you're sitting in the little booth room and they give you a line to read,
00:49:40.540 you realize, like, there's some actual, there's some real skill that goes into this,
00:49:43.560 and I don't have it.
00:49:44.680 But everybody else was very good.
00:49:47.720 The good news is I only appear in the series one time.
00:49:49.740 That was it.
00:49:50.160 So you don't have to listen to it again.
00:49:51.940 And my crabby voice acting actually stands out because everyone else killed it.
00:49:56.480 Even like Megyn Kelly, who's not a trained voice actor, did a stellar job.
00:50:01.020 Tyler Fisher's tremendous.
00:50:02.220 Brett Cooper's great.
00:50:03.040 Adam Krola, of course.
00:50:04.780 And then, so all that great.
00:50:06.120 And then there's me.
00:50:07.500 So anyway, the show is very good aside from that.
00:50:10.600 And you have to be a Daily Wire subscriber to watch it, though.
00:50:13.660 So go to dailywire.com right now and sign up.
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00:51:54.200 You know, there have been a lot of very forced, heavy-handed efforts over the past few years
00:52:04.540 to engineer a new George Floyd-type situation.
00:52:07.140 We've talked about some of them.
00:52:08.560 None of these attempts from Jacob Blake to Dexter Reed to many in between ultimately have worked out,
00:52:12.560 probably because nobody trusts anything the media or BLM says anymore.
00:52:15.960 That doesn't mean that the left has given up on their dream of trying to create a new folk hero
00:52:20.080 to gin up racial resentment in this election year.
00:52:22.740 Instead, they're adjusting their strategy a bit.
00:52:24.900 Specifically, they're going back in time about 70 years for inspiration.
00:52:29.200 In the most ham-fisted way imaginable,
00:52:30.960 they're currently doing their best to create a new Rosa Parks out of thin air.
00:52:34.780 So instead of George Floyd 2.0, they're actually going for a Rosa Parks 2.0.
00:52:38.640 Except this time, Rosa Parks wasn't told to go to the back of the bus.
00:52:41.300 She was told to go to the back of an American Airlines plane.
00:52:44.900 The drama began back in February.
00:52:46.860 Watch.
00:52:47.120 A retired black female judge on an airplane harassed by a flight attendant.
00:52:53.220 It is a hell of a story.
00:52:54.220 Put up the picture full mask.
00:52:55.780 A lot of twists and turns here.
00:52:57.100 Per Atlanta Black Star, they did great reporting on this.
00:52:59.320 Pamela Hill Viola, a retired black circuit court judge from Chicago,
00:53:05.780 is now suing American Airlines for racial discrimination,
00:53:10.440 claiming a male flight attendant told her to, quote,
00:53:14.300 use the bathroom in the back of the plane, even though she was booked to fly in first class.
00:53:20.940 The federal civil complaint against the airline alleges that the flight attendant,
00:53:25.260 whose name and race were not disclosed, racially profiled her during a flight from Chicago to Phoenix.
00:53:30.600 This happened on February 10th.
00:53:32.400 The incident recalls the historical injustice of Rosa Parks being told to move to the back of the bus.
00:53:37.840 That was almost 70 years ago, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott,
00:53:41.580 Gavanaugh's civil rights movement.
00:53:43.260 And despite the passage of more than six decades since the situation involving parks,
00:53:47.280 incidents like this continue in 2024,
00:53:49.800 highlighting ongoing challenges with racial equality in the United States.
00:53:52.840 So a male flight attendant allegedly told this esteemed black judge named Pamela Hill Veal
00:53:58.680 to use the bathroom in the back of the plane, even though, quote,
00:54:01.220 she was booked to fly in first class.
00:54:03.040 And therefore, according to a report in something called the Atlanta Black Star,
00:54:06.360 we have a new Rosa Parks in our hands.
00:54:08.140 Before I go more deeply into the facts of this case,
00:54:09.780 let's just pause for a second to analyze what we've learned so far.
00:54:12.240 First of all, it's not clear what booked to fly in first class means.
00:54:16.160 Presumably, it means that she was also seated in first class
00:54:18.580 and didn't get bounced from her seat before the flight boarded,
00:54:20.920 although we don't know, it's phrased in a way that,
00:54:24.080 and it's important to the case, like, was she actually in first class?
00:54:29.940 From the way it's phrased there, you would think she was.
00:54:31.960 There's been some other reporting that makes it a little bit unclear
00:54:33.840 where she even was seated on the plane.
00:54:35.120 But anyway, also, she's going from Chicago to Phoenix,
00:54:37.940 which is less than a four-hour flight.
00:54:39.980 That's a detail that will become important later.
00:54:41.940 And during this flight, she was, quote, racially profiled,
00:54:45.680 but a flight attendant who told her to use the bathroom in the back of the plane.
00:54:49.740 It's a hell of a story with many twists and turns, we're told.
00:54:52.740 And I'll get into some of those twists and turns in a moment
00:54:54.540 because they undercut the claim that this retired judge is making.
00:54:57.820 But already there are some red flags.
00:54:59.320 For example, why doesn't the complaint state the ethnicity of the flight attendant?
00:55:04.700 I mean, this is a claim about racial discrimination.
00:55:07.320 Surely the flight attendant's race isn't a secret.
00:55:10.060 So what did he look like?
00:55:11.600 Why aren't they telling us that?
00:55:13.480 We could be pretty sure that if the flight attendant was a white guy,
00:55:16.140 that that would be the headline of the story.
00:55:17.920 They'd make sure to tell you that.
00:55:19.680 They'd certainly include that detail in the federal complaint.
00:55:22.840 But we can only guess, apparently.
00:55:24.620 The anchor at the Young Turks doesn't seem bothered by this little omission in any way.
00:55:29.540 And neither does NPR, which wrote up a sympathetic article about this passenger.
00:55:33.240 So let's continue with the allegations against this mystery flight attendant
00:55:36.960 because here's where it really gets good.
00:55:39.560 Listen.
00:55:39.740 The lawsuit claims that the flight attendant accused the judge of slamming the laboratory door.
00:55:48.240 Slammed it.
00:55:50.120 When she used it the first time and began hounding the woman as she continued to use the same restroom,
00:55:56.400 even as she was rightfully seated in first class with members of her family.
00:56:01.240 Quote, the flight attendant stopped me as I was returning to my seat and told me I slammed the restroom door
00:56:07.720 and I was not to do it again since passengers were sleeping on the plane.
00:56:12.760 The judge told NPR during a recent interview about the incident.
00:56:16.280 The flight attendant's insolence didn't provoke Judge Hillville,
00:56:22.600 who said she ignored the remark and proceeded to walk back to her seat,
00:56:27.460 believing the man was simply mistaken because she knew she had not slammed the door behind her.
00:56:32.380 So this is the first twist and turn of this mile-high bathroom drama, apparently.
00:56:36.400 It turns out that this woman, according to the flight attendant, slammed the bathroom door in first class,
00:56:41.260 and that's what bothered passengers who were sleeping.
00:56:43.200 So the flight attendant told her not to do it again.
00:56:44.760 The passenger apparently understood that because she didn't say anything in response,
00:56:48.440 and she thinks he's wrong or whatever.
00:56:50.220 In any event, it seems like the incident is over, but it wasn't over,
00:56:53.120 because for some reason, on a flight that lasts less than four hours,
00:56:56.100 this retired judge had to use the bathroom again,
00:56:58.300 and that led to a second encounter at the lavatory watch.
00:57:02.460 Later during the flight, the judge got up to use the restroom again,
00:57:07.040 leading to a second encounter with the male flight attendant,
00:57:09.720 who attempted to dress down the judge again as she left.
00:57:14.760 The restroom and headed back to her seat, the complaint says.
00:57:20.820 However, this time, the reprimand was more severe and had clear racist undertones.
00:57:26.920 He began to berate me by pointing his finger at me toward my face, saying,
00:57:31.620 I told you not to slam the door.
00:57:35.540 So from now on, you are to use the restroom in the back of the plane.
00:57:40.600 While he pointed in the direction of the restroom and coach, the judge said.
00:57:44.820 By now, the judge says she felt the flight attendant was clearly using the restroom
00:57:49.040 as a pretext to harass her.
00:57:50.520 Now, I find it quite interesting.
00:57:52.940 Sir, whoever the flight attendant is,
00:57:55.080 if the issue is slamming the door and people need to be able to enjoy their flight
00:58:01.700 or get rest on the flight,
00:58:05.980 why would you not care about those at the back of the plane who are resting?
00:58:09.900 I just don't understand the logic here.
00:58:13.260 Well, you don't understand the logic because it's pretty clear that so much of this is totally made up,
00:58:18.060 at least from my perspective.
00:58:19.420 If I had to guess, the idea that a flight attendant is shaking his finger in her face,
00:58:23.940 I told you not to do that, go to the back of the plane.
00:58:26.380 Now, if that actually happened, like I would love,
00:58:28.600 I've never been on a plane and seen anything like that before.
00:58:32.260 There's so many of these, like, especially viral incidents and stuff that you see on planes,
00:58:35.480 and I've never seen that.
00:58:36.620 I kind of want to, you know, just to break up the boredom a little bit,
00:58:40.100 it'd be boredom a little bit, it'd be nice to see something like that happen.
00:58:43.100 I wish that I'd be on a plane where the flight attendant was that strict about enforcing
00:58:47.960 just basic decorum so that people aren't acting like jerks to those around them.
00:58:52.280 I don't see that very often.
00:58:53.660 But here we have the alleged smoking gun.
00:58:56.100 The black woman supposedly slams the door again, and that does it.
00:58:59.180 The flight attendant has had enough.
00:59:00.500 He tosses her like an umpire, except instead of throwing her out of a baseball game
00:59:05.300 or out of the plane in this case, he's just tossing her from the first class lavatory.
00:59:09.640 And so far, nothing about this is remotely racist,
00:59:11.600 even if you assume that all of these facts are true.
00:59:14.620 There's not even a claim that the flight attendant said anything derogatory
00:59:17.180 about the woman or her skin color.
00:59:18.840 He just told her to stop slamming the door, and she kept slamming the door,
00:59:22.280 and so he told her to use the other lavatory.
00:59:24.180 But apparently, we're supposed to believe that properly closing a bathroom door
00:59:27.720 is a dog whistle for white supremacy, alongside timeliness and respect for authority
00:59:31.900 and everything else that you could possibly do.
00:59:34.300 Because he pointed at her and told her to stop using the bathroom,
00:59:37.640 the flight attendant is clearly racist, we're supposed to believe.
00:59:39.400 The whole bathroom thing is just a pretext.
00:59:42.000 So he was just sitting there waiting for an excuse
00:59:44.300 to stop this black woman from using the bathroom.
00:59:46.360 Of course, any time you get a claim like this, you always think like,
00:59:50.780 so this is a racist flight attendant who stops black people from using the first class bathroom.
00:59:56.600 Does he do that on every flight?
00:59:58.300 How does he still have a job if that's the case?
01:00:00.660 And why is this the first time we're hearing about this?
01:00:03.760 Now, in an attempt to support that non-argument,
01:00:05.500 the anchor jumps in to claim that it makes no sense to banish this woman to the back bathroom.
01:00:10.220 After all, aren't people sleeping back there, he asks?
01:00:13.080 You can tell he thinks this is sort of a gotcha moment.
01:00:14.820 He's exposed the secret Klansman lurking in the ranks of American airline flight attendants.
01:00:20.360 But his argument doesn't really work.
01:00:21.500 I mean, maybe fewer people are sleeping in the back of the plane.
01:00:24.060 Maybe the back of the plane is empty.
01:00:26.140 Maybe the bathroom door in the back is farther removed from passengers.
01:00:29.680 Maybe first class passengers pay extra money so that they're not disturbed in their sleep
01:00:33.600 by angry entitled women looking for victimhood.
01:00:35.960 Maybe the door has something wrong with it.
01:00:37.320 And this woman clearly hasn't figured out how to use it.
01:00:39.140 Like, there's a bunch of explanations, all of which are more plausible before you get to, he's racist.
01:00:45.740 And these news outlets are skipping past all of these possibilities and landing at the most unlikely scenario,
01:00:50.380 which is that American Airlines has a raging white supremacist flight attendant,
01:00:54.420 who, by the way, probably isn't even white.
01:00:56.520 Because again, they would have told us if he was.
01:00:58.000 And he's choosing to take out his rage on this black woman using the lavatory as a pretext, supposedly.
01:01:04.580 But if you thought the saga ended there, you'd be wrong.
01:01:06.840 Turns out that on this four-hour flight, our modern-day Rosa Parks, with an overactive bladder,
01:01:11.460 had to use the bathroom a third time.
01:01:13.400 Watch.
01:01:14.700 She said she never noticed any other first-class passengers complaining about the restroom or the door being slammed.
01:01:20.480 She also pointed out that white passengers used the same first-class restroom without ever being confronted.
01:01:27.200 However, she said the intensifying clash with the flight attendant ultimately caused the other passengers to become annoyed with her.
01:01:33.140 The judge said she felt the flight attendant was singling her out for no other apparent reason than her skin color
01:01:38.160 and believes, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the confrontation was racially motivated.
01:01:42.260 The flight attendant got back in the judge's face a third time when she used the first-class restroom again
01:01:51.260 about 30 minutes before the flight landed, defying his earlier command for her to use the lavatory at the back of the plane.
01:01:59.040 This time, while walking back to her first-class seat, the judge said the flight attendant shadowed her
01:02:05.860 and then put his hands on her before vowing that she would be arrested as soon as the plane reached the airport.
01:02:17.320 The judge said she withheld any response and walked back to her seat.
01:02:21.420 The complaint states that the flight attendant didn't like the way Hillville talked to him
01:02:26.160 and accused her of assault, which the judge denies.
01:02:29.620 Quote, this was a complete fabrication.
01:02:32.340 So there's an amusing detail in there.
01:02:35.120 The intensifying clash with the flight attendant caused the other passengers to become annoyed with her.
01:02:39.980 Well, good luck with the lawsuit or federal complaint or whatever it is.
01:02:42.560 If the whole plane hates you and wants you to stop slamming the door,
01:02:45.520 it's probably going to be pretty tough to convince a jury that the flight attendant is a white supremacist
01:02:49.020 who just uses the bathroom door as a pretext to reenact Jim Crow.
01:02:54.400 It's also going to be tough to argue that he put his hands on you and not the other way around.
01:02:58.560 That's especially true given that this retired judge is not some esteemed jurist, despite what we're told.
01:03:04.980 In fact, she has a reputation, apparently, for having a temper and grossly overreacting in court.
01:03:09.800 Quoting from a 2012 article in the Chicago Tribune,
01:03:12.340 Judge Pamela Hill Veal refused to cooperate with Bar Association evaluations,
01:03:16.820 a signal she's counting on clout, not voters, to keep her on the bench.
01:03:20.340 Four years ago, the appellate court admonished her for wrongly jailing an attorney for contempt of court.
01:03:24.720 The Judicial Performance Commission of Cook County, which evaluates judges with an eye towards improving their effectiveness,
01:03:32.080 says that her reputation for bad temper is undermining her ability to function as a reputable jurist.
01:03:37.540 The commission recommended anger management counseling and mentoring by a peer,
01:03:41.980 but added that it wonders whether Judge Hill Veal's judicial performance can be remedied by such a plan.
01:03:47.740 On top of all this, the judge was found to be not qualified by a majority of Bar Association evaluators.
01:03:52.920 And these kinds of findings are extremely rare.
01:03:55.360 You don't often see judges who are deemed incompetent by their peers and told to take anger management courses.
01:04:01.180 This is the woman that NPR and the Young Turks are telling us is a serious judge who was racially profiled by American Airlines.
01:04:08.680 They won't tell you that she was told to get anger management classes because she's incapable of controlling herself.
01:04:13.520 And this is apparently a case on the airplane where conflict escalated, and she's claiming it was the other guy who escalated it.
01:04:21.320 And yet what they don't tell us, the media reports, is that she has a history of doing exactly that.
01:04:26.680 But there are some extra details that the media will add to the story, apparently in an attempt to bolster their hit job against American Airlines
01:04:33.780 and further this narrative of rampant white supremacy, watch.
01:04:39.160 American Airlines faced two discrimination accusations just last year, 2023.
01:04:44.700 One was involving track star, Sha'Carri Richardson, and the other involving musician, David Ryan Harris.
01:04:53.480 Richardson was kicked off an American Airlines flight January 2023 after an alleged verbal altercation with a flight attendant
01:05:02.320 whom she claimed was harassing her for filming a video.
01:05:05.120 American Airlines has faced accusations, discriminations against black travelers, of discrimination against black travelers.
01:05:11.240 In 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory urging black people to not fly American Airlines due to complaints.
01:05:19.640 Sharon, thoughts here.
01:05:20.640 My thoughts are that if people keep saying American Airlines is being racist towards them, American Airlines is being racist.
01:05:29.780 Well, of course, yeah.
01:05:30.840 I mean, where's the flaw in that logic?
01:05:33.100 If enough people make a claim against a company, then it must be true.
01:05:39.980 Never mind the fact that we have a culture where people are conditioned to find racism everywhere they go.
01:05:46.560 So you condition people to find racism everywhere they go.
01:05:48.820 And then if enough people do find racism everywhere they go, that is proof that the racism is there.
01:05:53.320 That's the way it works.
01:05:54.340 That's the entirety of the logic on display here, as you heard.
01:05:56.940 There's no need to look closely into any of the claims.
01:05:59.220 If you have enough claims, then you're racist.
01:06:01.480 Sorry, American Airlines.
01:06:02.500 Those are the rules.
01:06:03.500 Open up your checkbook or the NAACP will declare travel advisory against you.
01:06:07.860 This is how mob rule works.
01:06:09.140 They make these rules, of course, because they know that pretty much all of these claims are meritless.
01:06:13.620 They know they wouldn't withstand any scrutiny.
01:06:15.120 For example, you heard in that clip that American Airlines is supposedly racist in part because of an incident involving a track star on one of their planes.
01:06:21.620 This is also one of the incidents that NPR cites in their article in Rosa Parks 2.0.
01:06:25.380 Here's how they spin it.
01:06:26.120 In 2023, American Airlines was targeted after two separate incidents, one involving track star Sha'Carri Richardson, another with musician David Ryan Harris, made headlines.
01:06:34.460 Richardson was forced off her American Airlines flight following an argument with a flight attendant who said the athlete was harassing her and trying to intimidate her, Axios reported.
01:06:42.140 In September, Harris, who was traveling with his two biracial children, was stopped in question at Los Angeles International Airport after an American Airlines flight attendant suspected he was trafficking the children.
01:06:51.080 That second allegation is supposed to bother us for some reason, even though it's evidence of only one thing, which is that the airline at least attempts to stop child trafficking.
01:06:59.100 It's a process that inevitably is going to involve some amount of profiling because you're looking for patterns.
01:07:04.400 When you're looking for human traffickers, you look for adults and children who don't appear to be related.
01:07:08.840 That's what happened in this instance.
01:07:09.860 And apparently it was a, it turns out that that was not the case, but generally speaking, it's like we want people to be looking out for this kind of thing, but then if someone's wrong, then supposedly they're racist.
01:07:22.620 But the first allegation is really the incredible one because it's on video.
01:07:26.200 Sha'Carri Richardson recorded herself causing a scene on a plane that had nothing whatsoever to do with her race.
01:07:31.380 Watch.
01:07:31.640 Place it all the way under the seat, in front of you.
01:07:35.880 Lying.
01:07:36.620 Larger carry-on luggage.
01:07:38.520 Flying, not working today.
01:07:40.040 If you have small hand-poken persons, such as cell phones, tablets, and smart watches.
01:07:45.440 Please switch them.
01:07:46.480 I'm recording me, but you jumped in my video, so I caught you because you jumped in my video.
01:07:51.040 You're harassing me at this point, so I think you should stop.
01:07:53.920 I think you should stop.
01:07:55.600 I think you should stop.
01:07:57.180 You see him, right?
01:07:58.040 Y'all see him, right?
01:07:59.560 Y'all see him, right?
01:08:00.560 Okay.
01:08:01.640 Okay, but I'm sorry.
01:08:03.000 It's not me.
01:08:03.940 Talk to him.
01:08:04.900 No, no, ma'am.
01:08:05.700 Don't talk to me like that.
01:08:06.640 Do not talk to me like that.
01:08:08.620 Do not talk to me like that.
01:08:09.780 Tell him to stop.
01:08:10.880 If you do not know what's going on, do not yell at me.
01:08:13.360 You can stop recording.
01:08:14.420 No, I'm not going to stop recording because I was making a video to myself.
01:08:16.980 You can stop on recording.
01:08:17.700 I'm going to not stop recording.
01:08:19.700 And this video will show what you're doing, so I f***.
01:08:24.120 Who the f*** are you talking to, ma'am?
01:08:26.080 We don't need other people to get involved.
01:08:27.280 Thank you.
01:08:28.040 No.
01:08:28.560 I want to talk to the captain because he was very uncomfortable.
01:08:31.560 I'm professional.
01:08:33.500 I notice how she tries to get the rest of the passengers on board with her.
01:08:38.080 Like, you see what he's doing to me, guys?
01:08:39.800 You see this?
01:08:40.540 But they're all against her, of course.
01:08:41.980 So she pivots away from that very quickly.
01:08:44.140 She accuses the flight attendant of getting in her video, even though she clearly pointed
01:08:47.020 her camera at him.
01:08:48.000 And then she won't stop screaming.
01:08:50.040 This is supposedly evidence that American Airlines is a racist cesspool.
01:08:53.460 But it's not evidence of that, of course.
01:08:54.760 It's evidence of extreme entitlement and a victimhood complex.
01:08:58.680 And at the time, the media pretended otherwise, and American Airlines kind of rolled over and
01:09:01.920 took it.
01:09:02.940 So this nonsense is continuing.
01:09:04.680 Now, I've reached out to American Airlines to see if this retired judge with anger management
01:09:07.920 issues actually sued them, or if she filed something like a DOJ civil rights complaint
01:09:12.700 instead.
01:09:13.520 As of last night, I couldn't find her complaint in the federal court system in Illinois, which
01:09:17.180 is a shame because I really wanted to know what the requested damages were going to be.
01:09:20.840 What's the dollar value attached to having to use a back bathroom because you kept slamming
01:09:25.920 the front one?
01:09:27.040 Probably a few hundred million dollars, we can assume.
01:09:29.760 But if that works for this retired judge on these non-existent facts, then it could work
01:09:35.140 for anyone.
01:09:35.680 And that would be a disaster for the flying public, as beleaguered as they already are.
01:09:40.140 Many more lavatory doors will be slammed in first class as a result of this woman's complaint.
01:09:44.940 It'll be the new slip and fall type of accident, endlessly repeated all over the country
01:09:48.980 for a quick payout, and it'll make flying an even less appealing proposition than it already
01:09:54.640 is.
01:09:54.980 And for that reason, retired judge Pamela Hill Veal and all the media outlets who have nominated
01:09:59.420 her to be the next Rosa Parks are today canceled.
01:10:03.660 That'll do it for the show today.
01:10:04.480 Thanks for watching.
01:10:05.060 Thanks for listening.
01:10:05.700 Talk to you tomorrow.
01:10:06.240 Godspeed.