The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1370 - Chaos Erupts In Congress Because Our Politicians Are The Dumbest Dimwits To Ever Exist

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, mayhem breaks out during a congressional hearing. 1.00

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00:00:07.380 We'll go through it today. 1.00

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00:02:00.400 Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee gathered for a very important hearing.

00:02:04.440 Mediate reports on the purpose of the hearing.

00:02:06.520 Quote, the committee met to discuss a resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt

00:02:11.200 of Congress for refusing to comply with the congressional subpoena.

00:02:14.200 That subpoena demanded that he turn over the recorded deposition of President Joe Biden

00:02:17.940 as questioned by former special counsel Robert Herr.

00:02:21.200 Herr investigated Biden's retention of classified documents from his time as a senator and vice

00:02:25.320 president.

00:02:26.220 Ultimately, the special counsel declined to prosecute Biden, stating that a jury would

00:02:29.560 likely view him as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.

00:02:35.220 Now, as you probably recall, Joe Biden was judged by the special counsel to be mentally

00:02:39.980 unfit to stand trial for his mishandling of classified documents.

00:02:44.440 The poor old man was just confused, Robert Herr determined.

00:02:46.980 And there may be some merit to that excuse, maybe, because he is senile, if not for the

00:02:54.160 fact that Joe Biden is also, you may have noticed, the president of the United States.

00:02:59.460 And if he is not mentally competent enough to stand trial, how is he mentally competent

00:03:03.380 enough to sit in the Oval Office?

00:03:06.220 That's a very good question.

00:03:07.380 And another question is this, just how embarrassing and troubling was Joe Biden's performance in

00:03:12.460 that deposition that it led to this conclusion?

00:03:14.880 Well, as a way of getting to the bottom of that, Congress has attempted to obtain the

00:03:20.100 audio recording of Biden's deposition.

00:03:22.300 But the Biden administration, as you just heard, is refusing to comply with the subpoena

00:03:25.540 on the grounds that they don't want Biden to look bad.

00:03:28.560 Now, that's not the reason they're giving, but it is the actual reason, as we all know.

00:03:32.420 And this is why the House Oversight Committee was meeting last night.

00:03:35.660 Very important subject, one that requires a seriousness of mind and purpose.

00:03:41.020 We could all probably agree. 0.99

00:03:44.320 Unfortunately, however, in the current year, Congress happens to include some of the dumbest 1.00

00:03:49.600 human beings who have ever been born on planet Earth. 0.99

00:03:52.880 Voters in this country have scoured the nation from sea to shining sea, looking for the most 0.98

00:03:58.440 obnoxious dimwits they can find. 0.95

00:04:00.600 And then they have elected those people and put them into positions of power. 0.99

00:04:05.700 Now, of course, we have been electing clowns to Congress for many years, but we have now 0.94

00:04:10.080 reached critical clown mass, I would say. 0.92

00:04:12.820 As philosophers and scientists have long warned, when you reach critical clown mass, total

00:04:18.180 dysfunction follows.

00:04:19.660 And that's what we saw at this hearing on Thursday night.

00:04:23.340 So let's go through this.

00:04:24.520 It all began with Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who made a little 0.90

00:04:30.000 dig at Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett. 1.00

00:04:33.520 Here's what she said.

00:04:35.340 I don't think you know what you're here for.

00:04:37.840 Well, you're the one that's talking about.

00:04:39.280 I think your fake eyelashes are messing up.

00:04:41.740 No, I mean, nothing.

00:04:42.340 Hold on, hold on.

00:04:44.460 Order, Mr. Chairman.

00:04:45.720 That's beneath even.

00:04:46.940 Order.

00:04:47.800 Okay, so that was the fuse. 1.00

00:04:49.200 That was the spark in the tinderbox of stupid that was about to erupt. 1.00

00:04:55.280 Marjorie Taylor Greene makes fun of Crockett's fake eyelashes. 1.00

00:04:59.120 Now, you know that I am not exactly a sensitive soul when it comes to this kind of thing, or

00:05:05.240 any kind of thing.

00:05:06.280 I've been known to throw out insults myself on very rare occasion.

00:05:10.400 It almost never happens, but on occasion, I'll insult someone.

00:05:13.140 And it's true that Crockett does seem to have fake eyelashes.

00:05:17.160 But come on.

00:05:18.360 I mean, is a congressional hearing really a place for catty little insults like that? 1.00

00:05:24.240 How does a comment about another representative's eyelashes help us obtain the recording of

00:05:28.560 Joe Biden's deposition, which is supposed to be the purpose of the hearing?

00:05:33.020 It does not help us.

00:05:34.560 Instead, it takes things wildly off course.

00:05:37.120 And that's exactly what happened.

00:05:39.780 Watch.

00:05:41.660 Motion table.

00:05:43.460 Now the chair recognizes Ms. Green for four minutes and 21 seconds.

00:05:48.940 Mr. Chair, point of order.

00:05:53.660 It's me.

00:05:54.460 Ms. Crockett.

00:05:55.360 I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling.

00:05:58.180 If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built,

00:06:04.300 butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?

00:06:07.500 A what now?

00:06:10.720 Chairman, I make a motion to strike those words.

00:06:13.880 I don't think that's a part of it.

00:06:15.740 I'm trying to find clarification on what quality.

00:06:18.100 Chairman, motion to strike those words.

00:06:19.600 I have no idea what you just said.

00:06:21.160 We're not going to do this.

00:06:22.800 Look, you guys earlier literally just-

00:06:24.700 You just voted to do it.

00:06:27.040 God did it first.

00:06:27.800 So you don't want to talk about it.

00:06:28.920 You just voted to do it.

00:06:29.680 Order, order.

00:06:30.580 I'm trying to get clarification.

00:06:31.920 Look it, calm down.

00:06:33.340 Calm down.

00:06:33.720 No, no, no, no.

00:06:34.360 Because this is what y'all do.

00:06:36.280 So I'm trying to get clarification.

00:06:37.160 Hey, Ms. Crockett, you're not recognized.

00:06:38.880 Ms. Crockett.

00:06:39.160 I can't hear you with your yelling.

00:06:40.380 Calm down.

00:06:41.740 No.

00:06:42.000 Can you please calm down?

00:06:42.640 Don't tell me to calm down.

00:06:43.660 Calm down.

00:06:44.020 Because y'all talk noise.

00:06:45.700 And then you pay attention.

00:06:46.560 You're out of control.

00:06:47.180 Because if I come and talk about her, y'all don't have a problem.

00:06:50.860 Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman.

00:06:52.320 All right.

00:06:54.700 Order, chair now recognizes Ms. Crockett for four minutes and 21 seconds. 0.99

00:07:01.720 Okay, it might be hard to discern anything that's being said over noises that sound like

00:07:05.820 feral cats fighting in a back alley.

00:07:07.800 So please allow me to provide a brief but fully accurate and verbatim transcript of Jasmine

00:07:12.820 Crockett's remarks.

00:07:14.260 She said, and I quote, y'all want to play games with me. 0.87

00:07:18.540 Don't tell me to calm down.

00:07:19.780 Y'all talk noise and then you can't take it.

00:07:21.700 Because if I come and talk about her, y'all going to have a problem.

00:07:26.340 That is an actual statement made by an elected member of the United States Congress during

00:07:31.300 a House Oversight Committee hearing.

00:07:33.860 And I think we can safely say that it is the first time in American history that any member

00:07:38.300 of Congress operating in an official capacity has ever used the phrase, y'all talk noise.

00:07:44.060 It's also, I'm guessing, the first time that the phrase talk and y'all want to play games

00:07:49.440 has ever been uttered during a congressional hearing.

00:07:51.580 It's never happened before.

00:07:53.020 So we're making history here in all of the wrong ways.

00:07:56.980 And that was not the only history making moment.

00:08:00.240 Listen to this exchange in the same hearing between Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC.

00:08:05.920 How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person?

00:08:11.880 Are your feelings hurt?

00:08:12.920 Move her words down.

00:08:14.240 Oh, girl, baby girl.

00:08:16.780 Oh, really?

00:08:17.640 Don't even play with me.

00:08:19.540 Baby girl, I don't think so.

00:08:20.920 We are going to move and we're going to take your words down.

00:08:25.460 Again, the transcript.

00:08:27.120 Oh, girl, baby girl, don't even play. 0.98

00:08:29.240 There is another statement that we can assume with some measure of certainty has never been

00:08:34.660 stated on the record at any congressional hearing ever in history.

00:08:39.040 It is another historic first.

00:08:40.760 We are witnessing history in the making.

00:08:43.580 Now, if you read just the transcript of these exchanges without any context, you would assume

00:08:49.400 that this was perhaps an argument between groups of people at a Waffle House, or maybe

00:08:53.420 it's a few that broke out in the parking lot of a Bojangles fast food restaurant at 2 a.m.

00:08:57.780 If you just arrived here in a time machine from 30 years ago or any time prior, you simply

00:09:03.320 would not believe that this was an exchange between members of Congress.

00:09:06.240 I would not be able to convince you.

00:09:07.800 You wouldn't believe it.

00:09:09.620 And if I did convince you of the fact, you would immediately get back in your time machine

00:09:13.060 and go back to your own time to warn the world of the impending collapse of our collective

00:09:17.660 IQ.

00:09:18.280 And if for some reason you couldn't go back in your time machine because it ran out of gas

00:09:21.000 or something, you would probably elect to throw yourself into the sea rather than stay

00:09:24.840 here and live through this with us.

00:09:26.600 And I couldn't blame you.

00:09:27.780 Now, we should note that the Democrats were not the only ones humiliating themselves in

00:09:33.460 this exchange.

00:09:34.060 Marjorie Taylor Greene is no better, or if she is better, only slightly so.

00:09:37.960 And this dispute between Greene and AOC continued as AOC demanded an apology for the random insults

00:09:42.940 that Greene kept throwing onto the pile.

00:09:45.160 Ms. Greene agrees to strike her words.

00:09:48.840 I believe she was apologizing.

00:09:50.840 No, no, no.

00:09:51.180 Ms. Greene, okay, hold on.

00:09:52.580 Then after Mr. Perry's going to be recognized, then Ms. Greene...

00:09:55.080 I'm not apologizing.

00:09:56.400 Well, then, you're not striking your words.

00:09:58.580 I am not apologizing.

00:10:00.620 No, let's go.

00:10:01.320 Come on, guys.

00:10:02.800 Why don't you debate me?

00:10:04.740 Mr. Chairman, the minority...

00:10:07.540 I think it's pretty self-evident.

00:10:08.460 The chair recognizes...

00:10:09.240 You're not...

00:10:09.620 Yeah, you're not...

00:10:10.480 You're out of order.

00:10:10.500 You're out of order.

00:10:11.800 The chair recognizes Mr. Perry.

00:10:13.800 Okay, move to strike the...

00:10:15.220 I'd like to strike those words as well.

00:10:16.880 I'd like to strike those words as well.

00:10:16.900 I'll move to strike those words as well.

00:10:19.140 I'll move to strike those words as well.

00:10:19.820 That's two requests to strike.

00:10:21.720 That's two requests to strike.

00:10:22.740 Oh, they cannot take the words.

00:10:23.860 There's another motion to strike her words again.

00:10:25.860 Please get your members under control.

00:10:27.000 Here's the correct apology.

00:10:29.200 Ms. Green, do you agree to unanimous consent to strike your words?

00:10:34.940 I repeat again for the second time.

00:10:37.240 Yes, I'll strike my words, but I'm not apologizing.

00:10:39.520 Without objection.

00:10:43.120 Why don't you debate me, she says.

00:10:45.000 Well, I very much hope she doesn't, because I think we've already seen what a debate between

00:10:49.680 AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene would consist of.

00:10:52.840 Here's what the debate would be. 1.00

00:10:54.040 You're stupid. 1.00

00:10:55.000 No, I'm not. 1.00

00:10:55.620 You are. 1.00

00:10:56.440 And you're ugly. 1.00

00:10:57.500 No, you are. 1.00

00:10:58.380 No, you.

00:10:59.920 And so on for seven and a half hours.

00:11:02.980 And this catfight felt like it went on for that long during the hearing as the men sat there

00:11:07.660 bewildered and stuttering, trying meekly and ineffectually to get the hearing back on track.

00:11:13.620 So it's a very, you know, you had the women screaming at each other and the men just standing

00:11:17.940 in the middle like, come on, guys.

00:11:20.360 It was a microcosm of American culture in many ways and in all the worst ways.

00:11:24.640 Now, by contrast, and really you could choose any time at random, but back in the year 1858,

00:11:32.300 there were a series of presidential debates between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen

00:11:35.840 Douglas.

00:11:36.220 And these were highly contentious, emotionally charged, often involved bitter personal attacks.

00:11:42.180 After all, this was only three years before the country would erupt in a brutal civil war

00:11:45.460 that would kill 700,000 people on both sides.

00:11:47.460 And yet, these men expressed their disdain for one another in eloquent and intelligent ways.

00:11:53.940 So eloquent and intelligent that we can't even imagine politicians in the modern age speaking

00:11:59.700 this way.

00:12:00.840 So here's just one very brief example pulled at random.

00:12:03.920 In the first debate, Douglas spoke first.

00:12:06.680 And Lincoln, when it was his turn, felt that Douglas had lied about him and misrepresented his

00:12:11.200 anger, his record, rather.

00:12:13.360 And he was angry about that.

00:12:14.240 So here was his way of accusing Douglas of dishonesty.

00:12:18.440 This is just one sentence.

00:12:19.620 One sentence will be enough to make the contrast clear.

00:12:22.480 He said, quote,

00:12:23.560 My fellow citizens, when a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him.

00:12:28.200 At least, I find it so with myself.

00:12:30.340 But when misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.

00:12:34.940 So in other words, he's saying, you lied about me so much that I'm not even angry.

00:12:41.320 It's actually, it's absurd how much you're lying.

00:12:44.880 Now, compare that to how that same sentiment would be expressed by politicians today.

00:12:50.460 Instead, it would be something like this.

00:12:51.880 Oh, baby girl, don't play with me. 1.00

00:12:53.640 You best stop talking that noise with your lying ass. 1.00

00:12:55.780 Now, the intelligence of our leaders hasn't just declined. 1.00

00:13:00.960 It has plummeted like a meteor out of the sky and formed a crater in the ground that goes five miles deep into the earth.

00:13:10.120 But it doesn't have to be this way.

00:13:12.140 We know that because it never was this way until now.

00:13:15.440 Now, there was a time when our nation was led by men, and it used to be mostly men, let's face it,

00:13:21.380 who were articulate and intelligent and dignified and composed and perhaps most importantly, boring.

00:13:29.720 They were boring people.

00:13:32.400 Now, I'm not saying that they were always good at their jobs or always made wise decisions.

00:13:36.000 That certainly wasn't the case.

00:13:37.560 But I'm simply trying to emphasize the fact that it is highly unusual from the perspective of history

00:13:42.940 to have a Congress with an average IQ of 85.

00:13:47.440 Okay, when we can watch this and we know, like most of the people watching this,

00:13:51.240 we are certainly smarter than the people that we hear in that exchange. 1.00

00:13:55.420 These are very dumb people. 1.00

00:13:58.280 But of course, you know, the average IQ of the country has collapsed too, 1.00

00:14:00.820 so we would expect, I guess, the country's representatives to follow suit.

00:14:04.460 My only hope is that voters get tired of this.

00:14:08.120 And I think many are.

00:14:08.920 Now, too many are not tired of it.

00:14:11.300 If you go on Twitter right now, you're going to find people on both sides

00:14:13.960 who are like, you know, cheering on whoever their side was in this thing and pretending,

00:14:21.300 oh, she got her.

00:14:22.260 Did you listen to that?

00:14:24.080 Oh, wow.

00:14:24.900 That was a good one. 1.00

00:14:26.720 So there are still absolute morons, just bottom of the barrel morons, 1.00

00:14:32.340 who are still somehow impressed with this kind of thing. 1.00

00:14:35.760 But my hope is that most people aren't, because we don't need to be entertained by politicians.

00:14:44.840 We really don't.

00:14:46.300 I don't want to be.

00:14:47.880 I want to turn on C-SPAN or whatever hearing and just be bored out of my skull.

00:14:54.900 That's what I want.

00:14:56.980 Because they are not here to amuse us.

00:14:59.720 We have enough amusement.

00:15:01.500 Do we need more?

00:15:02.700 Everywhere you go, there's amusement.

00:15:04.160 Okay?

00:15:04.480 Everywhere you go, there are things out there that want to amuse.

00:15:07.600 You can pick up your phone anytime, and it's just nothing but amusement.

00:15:11.200 Constantly.

00:15:11.880 Do we need it from politicians also?

00:15:15.280 Do we need it from committee hearings?

00:15:16.940 We need them to amuse us also?

00:15:19.620 Like, is anyone allowed to just be serious?

00:15:21.700 Can we have serious people doing anything anywhere?

00:15:23.920 Now, these people are not there to go viral.

00:15:28.260 These are not social media influencers.

00:15:31.420 We should have serious people leading us.

00:15:34.600 Now, we need more than seriousness from them.

00:15:36.700 We should also want them to be competent and have integrity and always put America first,

00:15:42.160 put America's people first. 0.55

00:15:44.140 And of course, we have almost no one who checks any of those boxes individually, let alone all of them.

00:15:49.480 But before any of that, they need to be serious people who take the job seriously.

00:15:54.780 Because none of the rest matters if they're not.

00:15:56.320 It doesn't matter.

00:15:56.860 They claim to be, it doesn't matter.

00:15:57.840 Even if they do claim they put America first, even if they appear to supposedly be competent and intelligent, 0.85

00:16:03.040 if they're not serious people who are actually serious about doing the freaking job that they've been assigned to

00:16:08.880 and that they have applied for and been accepted for, 0.88

00:16:12.680 if they're not serious people, then none of it matters because it's not going to do anything.

00:16:14.960 But we can only get serious kinds of leaders if we have serious voters who take the job of voting seriously.

00:16:24.180 Because ultimately, you get the leaders you deserve.

00:16:28.140 And as sad as it is to say, this is what we deserve.

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00:17:24.300 Okay, let's start here. 0.97

00:17:26.560 By now, you've likely heard all about the controversy, the incredibly stupid controversy, 0.98

00:17:29.760 surrounding a speech given by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker 0.99

00:17:32.900 at a commencement ceremony for Catholic students at a Catholic school.

00:17:36.240 And he's been viciously condemned by the left, the media, Democrat politicians.

00:17:41.800 The NFL has condemned him.

00:17:45.160 He's been doxxed.

00:17:46.360 He's been threatened.

00:17:47.280 He's been harassed. 0.83

00:17:48.160 Just an insane, rabid, vicious, psychotic response from so many people,

00:17:55.240 all because he gave a speech as a Catholic man at a Catholic school to Catholic students

00:18:00.420 where he articulated Catholic teaching.

00:18:03.560 That was the whole speech.

00:18:05.240 It was an excellent speech.

00:18:06.340 He was right about everything he said.

00:18:08.020 And everything he said, again, was totally consistent with Catholic teaching.

00:18:10.920 The idea that there would be any controversy about a Catholic message at a Catholic school

00:18:15.420 is just preposterous, but also not terribly surprising, of course.

00:18:19.920 And meanwhile, as many people have pointed out, there are NFL players who have been charged

00:18:24.280 with domestic abuse and drug possession and assault and so on and so on.

00:18:28.880 And none of them get the kind of treatment that Harrison Butker has gotten for saying a bunch

00:18:33.400 of Catholic stuff at a Catholic commencement speech.

00:18:36.500 Where, again, he was hired to go and give his perspective. 1.00

00:18:39.260 So there have also been plenty of morons on social media who have said, 0.98

00:18:43.720 well, is Harrison Butker going to get drummed out of the league the way that Colin Kaepernick was? 0.99

00:18:51.120 What about all the conservatives who told Colin Kaepernick to just shut up and play football?

00:18:56.160 Why aren't they saying the same thing to Harrison Butker? 1.00

00:18:59.040 Well, you idiot, it's because there's a few reasons. 0.99

00:19:03.200 Number one, Harrison Butker is a star at his position, is one of the best in the league at 0.99

00:19:07.380 his position, which is field goal kicker, which is a very important, is a very important position

00:19:13.420 on the field. 0.90

00:19:15.020 And Colin Kaepernick was way past his prime, was a mediocre bum, and he was, and he had 0.95

00:19:23.960 already lost his starting job. 0.98

00:19:25.520 He couldn't, he was bad, he was bad.

00:19:26.840 He was a bad, he was bad at playing football.

00:19:28.780 Which is like the actual reason why he flunked out of the league, because he couldn't play

00:19:35.460 the game.

00:19:36.660 Nobody wanted to hire him.

00:19:40.920 Now, was he good enough back in, whenever it was that he left the league, back in 2015

00:19:46.060 or 16 or whatever it was, what, was he good enough to at least be a backup somewhere, or

00:19:52.400 even a third string, or at least be on a practice squad?

00:19:55.380 Yeah, probably.

00:19:57.280 But he didn't want that job, first of all.

00:19:59.780 And second, the baggage he brought with him was not enough, his talent was not enough to

00:20:07.020 override all of the baggage he brought with him.

00:20:09.620 So that was the problem.

00:20:11.000 If he was more talented, he'd still be in the league now, probably.

00:20:15.120 But the bigger, the most important distinction between the two, which should be very obvious,

00:20:21.700 is that Colin Kaepernick was using the football field itself during the games to make his political

00:20:31.420 statements.

00:20:32.680 So as a football player on the football field, he was using that as a forum to make political

00:20:39.060 statements.

00:20:40.160 Harrison Butker, in the off season, was invited to a Catholic school as a Catholic man to give

00:20:46.920 his perspective in a speech, and that's what he did.

00:20:49.400 And then there's the third distinction, which is probably the most important, which is that

00:20:53.060 Harrison Butker is right, and Colin Kaepernick was wrong about everything he said.

00:20:56.400 So I think there's enough there to draw the, to make the distinctions clear.

00:21:01.280 So anyway, a lot of controversy.

00:21:05.180 But then there's one clip, of course, that's gotten by far the most attention, and it's the

00:21:08.480 short portion of the speech where he addresses the women in the crowd.

00:21:11.180 And it is a short portion.

00:21:12.200 The speech is like 20 minutes long, and he spends like a minute, if that, talking to the

00:21:17.840 women in the crowd.

00:21:20.840 And I was looking quickly for a clip of just that part, and this is the only one I found

00:21:26.800 when I was looking quickly.

00:21:28.160 Somebody edited it to put clips of A Handmaid's Tale into the clip of the speech.

00:21:34.140 And I'm going to play this version, actually, mainly because I want you to hear what he said,

00:21:37.400 but also because, actually, the Handmaid's Tale imagery, along with what Butker is really

00:21:42.400 saying, only serves to show how absurd the moral panic over his remarks actually is.

00:21:48.380 So let's watch that.

00:21:49.880 For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment.

00:21:56.120 You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives.

00:21:59.900 I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had

00:22:04.840 the most diabolical lies told to you.

00:22:07.180 How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about

00:22:11.400 all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career?

00:22:14.180 Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess

00:22:18.900 that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will

00:22:23.360 bring into this world.

00:22:24.960 I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly

00:22:29.740 started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.

00:22:34.740 I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into

00:22:40.380 her vocation.

00:22:41.500 I am beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated

00:22:46.720 that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school

00:22:53.580 would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles

00:23:02.880 of all, Hallmaker.

00:23:11.500 Wow, how terrible.

00:23:15.180 This man deeply loves and appreciates his wife.

00:23:18.160 He actually gets choked up talking about how much he loves his wife.

00:23:20.760 What an awful thing that we should be upset about.

00:23:24.520 I mean, honest to God, if you actually watched the clip, how can you manage to have those kinds

00:23:30.940 of negative emotions watching that?

00:23:33.500 Really?

00:23:33.900 Really?

00:23:34.000 Maybe that upsets you?

00:23:38.800 And on top of that, he's daring to tell the women in the audience that family life is

00:23:42.760 good and will bring them joy and fulfillment. 0.98

00:23:44.620 What a monster. 1.00

00:23:45.580 What a monster this man is. 0.99

00:23:48.260 Now, in all seriousness, what is there to be upset about? 0.99

00:23:51.180 He doesn't say that no women should ever work outside the home.

00:23:54.280 He didn't say that.

00:23:55.720 He didn't say that Hallmaker is the most important title of all that anyone could ever have.

00:23:59.200 He said it's one of the most important titles.

00:24:03.260 Is anyone disagreeing with that?

00:24:04.700 You don't even think it's one of?

00:24:05.860 It can't be one of the most important?

00:24:07.860 You're upset about that?

00:24:10.180 Are we allowed to agree?

00:24:11.160 Like, women that stay home and raise their kids, they do one of the most important jobs? 1.00

00:24:17.680 So if you're upset, then I assume that what you're saying is that it's not even one of

00:24:21.020 the most important.

00:24:22.380 Being a mother and raising your kid is not even, it doesn't belong in that category.

00:24:25.820 It's not even top five, according to you.

00:24:27.480 Like, to me, that is the radical position, not what he is saying.

00:24:35.280 He doesn't say that women who work outside the home are evil or bad or should be arrested 0.89

00:24:39.380 and stoned to death.

00:24:40.300 Okay, he didn't say that.

00:24:41.580 He didn't imply it.

00:24:42.400 He didn't get anywhere close to it.

00:24:44.540 He simply says that most of them, most of the Catholic women at a Catholic school will

00:24:51.820 find their greatest calling in family life, which they will.

00:24:57.480 That doesn't even mean that most of them will solely be, you know, mothers and stay-at-home

00:25:05.120 moms, but that most of them will find their greatest calling, will find their greatest 0.91

00:25:10.300 vocation in raising families, which is true.

00:25:15.680 And the same could be said of the men.

00:25:18.200 In fact, he does say it about the men.

00:25:20.760 He says it about himself.

00:25:21.840 He says that he wouldn't be who he is without his wife.

00:25:25.060 Is that offensive?

00:25:26.020 Is what he just said about himself offensive to men?

00:25:28.700 Because I can guarantee you something.

00:25:29.740 If he had said the opposite about women, the feminists would be having an even greater 1.00

00:25:33.820 conniption fit.

00:25:34.440 But he says about himself, I wouldn't be the man I am today without my wife.

00:25:41.760 What if he had said, you know, women who get married, they wouldn't be the women they 1.00

00:25:46.620 are without their husbands? 0.96

00:25:48.240 Can you imagine if he had said that?

00:25:50.360 The explosion of, it would be a nuclear explosion of outrage.

00:25:54.640 We would all be incinerated right now.

00:25:57.080 And if not dead with that, or, you know, have radiation poisoning from the nuclear explosion

00:26:03.020 of feminist rage, if he had dared to say that. 1.00

00:26:07.380 Yet, he said it about himself.

00:26:08.960 He said it about men.

00:26:11.260 The men who get married, they wouldn't be the same men if they didn't have their wives. 0.99

00:26:15.560 So my point is, like, if what he said about women is insulting for women, then isn't what

00:26:19.140 he said to men insulting to men?

00:26:20.840 But no one's insulted by that.

00:26:22.000 Why is that?

00:26:22.440 Because that'd be crazy to be insulted by.

00:26:26.860 And when it comes to men, you're allowed to talk about the importance of family life.

00:26:30.600 But for some reason, to bring it up around women at all is offensive.

00:26:34.000 How dare you discuss families to women? 1.00

00:26:37.700 How dare you?

00:26:40.920 Now, and of course, he's promoting family life to both men and women, because you need

00:26:46.960 both to be involved in order to have a family in the first place.

00:26:52.440 So he's right.

00:26:54.380 You will find more purpose and fulfillment and happiness in your family than in your

00:26:57.760 job.

00:26:58.740 Most jobs, most jobs don't have much deeper meaning beyond the fact that you're doing

00:27:04.540 it to make a living, which is fine.

00:27:05.960 I mean, that in itself is important.

00:27:09.400 But if you're working middle management in some corporate office somewhere, there's not

00:27:13.940 a whole lot of meaning underneath that.

00:27:15.540 There just isn't.

00:27:16.000 Most jobs in the country are, again, this is not true of all of them, but most jobs in

00:27:23.420 the country, or at the very least, a large number of them, again, don't have much deeper

00:27:28.420 meaning beyond just you're doing the job and you're making, and that's why you do it.

00:27:31.460 Like most people who have jobs, the reason they have the job, it's not really because

00:27:35.480 they're so passionate about what they're doing.

00:27:36.880 It's because they need to make a living, which means that if you make that the center

00:27:45.280 of your life, if you make it the focal point, if that is your life, your life will inevitably

00:27:51.340 have little meaning to you.

00:27:53.620 It will have little meaning to you.

00:27:55.720 You will struggle to find meaning in your own life.

00:27:59.500 Now, finding meaning in family life is different.

00:28:01.400 You can find meaning in family for its own sake, and then it also gives meaning to everything

00:28:08.200 else you do, so that when you go out and do your job, now hopefully you can find meaning

00:28:14.200 in your job also to some extent for its own sake.

00:28:16.640 Hopefully you enjoy what you do and you feel like you're contributing to the world in some

00:28:21.160 way, but whether or not you feel that way about your job, the fact is that you're doing

00:28:25.600 it to provide for your family, and so that gives it even greater meaning.

00:28:31.400 And this is true of men and women, but what he's saying is especially true of women, even

00:28:39.420 though it's true for both.

00:28:43.100 And why is that?

00:28:45.240 Well, because, and if you're in the outrage mob going after Butker, I want you to listen

00:28:50.080 closely here.

00:28:50.720 Just listen to this, come in a little bit closer, and listen to what I'm going to say,

00:28:53.480 because I need you to really try to let this sink in.

00:28:55.920 Men and women are different.

00:29:03.240 I'll say it again in case you lost me.

00:29:06.100 Men and women are different.

00:29:09.340 They are different.

00:29:11.800 Okay?

00:29:12.660 They're not the same.

00:29:14.740 That's what different means.

00:29:16.780 That's why they have, we have different words for them, or at least we used to.

00:29:20.580 They're two different groups.

00:29:22.980 They are different biological categories.

00:29:26.040 And so not everything is exactly the same.

00:29:27.460 So when Butker told the women in the audience that many of them are excited about getting

00:29:31.700 married and having babies, it was true. 0.74

00:29:36.060 Like, they applauded him.

00:29:38.680 Did we not notice that?

00:29:39.760 They applauded.

00:29:40.540 So you might be offended on behalf of the women in the audience, but apparently many

00:29:45.500 of them were perfectly fine with it.

00:29:49.040 I'm sure they're very glad that you're white knighting for them, but they weren't offended.

00:29:54.040 Because it's true.

00:29:56.480 You know, in fact, many of them have been excited about that their whole lives, essentially.

00:30:04.480 Little girls play with baby dolls.

00:30:06.800 You know, little boys don't generally play with baby dolls.

00:30:08.880 Girls from a young age like to pretend to be the mommy, right? 0.98

00:30:13.920 They, you know, my own daughters have been sort of playing mom, playing like they are

00:30:18.380 the mommy since they were 18 months old.

00:30:22.380 When you start, when they start gravitating towards the baby dolls and the kitchen play

00:30:26.980 sets and all that sort of thing.

00:30:30.280 And girls all over the world, since time immemorial, have had versions of this.

00:30:35.760 Okay, you can go to other, you can go to ancient cultures and far, you know, far-flung parts

00:30:42.260 of the globe, and you'll find ancient versions of dolls and that sort of thing.

00:30:48.720 Because girls have been playing, partaking in a childlike way in these sort of domestic 1.00

00:30:53.300 duties since time immemorial.

00:30:56.420 My four-year-old daughter just the other day was telling me all about her baby doll and

00:31:00.100 its name and its favorite color and what it likes to eat and, you know, all that sort

00:31:05.920 of thing.

00:31:06.900 My boys have never done that.

00:31:08.760 My boys aren't thinking about that.

00:31:11.460 Very few people have boys that are.

00:31:13.880 And that's because boys and girls are different.

00:31:15.800 Men and women are different.

00:31:17.600 So yes, young women graduating college, unless they've been conditioned otherwise, will oftentimes

00:31:22.880 desire to get married and have babies.

00:31:25.580 Now, why didn't Harrison Butker, even though he had plenty of messages for men that were

00:31:32.720 similar in theme, right, why didn't Butker say the same exact thing to the young men?

00:31:40.860 Why didn't he say to the young men, well, I know many of you are most excited about getting

00:31:45.340 married and having kids?

00:31:48.480 Because it wouldn't be true is why he didn't say it.

00:31:51.880 He didn't say it because it wouldn't be true.

00:31:53.500 It wouldn't make any sense for him to say, I know many of you men here are thinking X,

00:31:58.120 Y, and Z, when he knows that they're not thinking that.

00:32:02.240 Because boys don't grow up, most of them, dreaming about being husbands and fathers.

00:32:09.280 Most of them don't.

00:32:10.900 They don't play with dolls.

00:32:12.720 You know, boys dream about going out into the world and being explorers and adventurers

00:32:19.380 and warriors, right?

00:32:22.260 This is, this is not, this is not, uh, despite what people on the left say, this is not social

00:32:28.580 conditioning.

00:32:29.240 Okay.

00:32:29.840 It's, it's, this is visceral.

00:32:33.020 This is instinctive.

00:32:34.480 So it's not, when I observe that my daughters are playing with dolls and my sons are outside

00:32:41.240 with sticks pretending to sword fight, this is not some kind of like arrangement that I

00:32:47.520 have set up because I'm, I'm, uh, uh, so old fashioned.

00:32:52.200 And this is the same dynamic that billions of people across the world and through history have

00:32:58.680 observed from the youngest of ages.

00:33:04.200 We are the first society in history to try to deny this, these basic realities, these basic

00:33:10.780 differences that everyone has always noticed.

00:33:13.800 And so those young men in the audience, that's what they're thinking about.

00:33:20.960 They want to go out, right?

00:33:23.440 They want to go out into the world.

00:33:24.760 They want to go out on an adventure.

00:33:27.040 That's what they're thinking about.

00:33:28.880 That's how men are wired.

00:33:31.840 Men want to discover and eventually they'll discover the joys of family life, but it's hard

00:33:37.280 for men to understand that joy, even conceptually until they experience it.

00:33:41.100 It's easier for women to understand it and desire it before they've experienced it. 0.95

00:33:47.460 Because again, men and women are different. 0.98

00:33:49.500 Women are wired differently. 1.00

00:33:51.200 When I was college graduation age, even though I didn't go to college, but when I was that

00:33:54.980 age or I would have graduated, had I gone, um, I absolutely did not want to get married

00:34:01.080 or have kids.

00:34:02.540 I wasn't opposed to it in principle.

00:34:04.680 You know, it just, it just, it just wasn't something I felt myself deeply desiring.

00:34:08.120 It wasn't, there are many things that I desire.

00:34:10.320 There are many ambitions and goals that I had that occupied my mind pretty much 24 seven.

00:34:16.180 But I didn't sit around much thinking about how great it would be to be a dad.

00:34:19.640 I just didn't, I didn't think about it.

00:34:22.120 Most young men don't.

00:34:24.120 Then I met a woman who I loved and I wanted to be with her.

00:34:26.900 And through my devotion to her, I discovered the joys of being a husband and then a father.

00:34:30.800 And now that I am one, I can't imagine life without my kids.

00:34:33.940 Now I can't get back into that.

00:34:35.760 I can't even conceive of that.

00:34:37.440 I can't, I, it's, I cannot, you know, put myself back in that mentality.

00:34:44.600 It's, it's just, it's, it's sort of inconceivable, but, um, this is the way it's always worked.

00:34:51.860 Men get married and they have kids because they fall in love with a woman. 0.69

00:34:55.600 And that's what you're supposed to do when you fall in love with a woman.

00:34:59.340 Women get married and have kids because they want to get married and have kids. 1.00

00:35:02.440 And so, so now when you remove that sense of, of duty from men, that sense that like, okay, well, this is what I'm supposed to do.

00:35:10.660 I've met the woman that I love.

00:35:12.640 That was sort of the easy part.

00:35:13.960 Uh, what I'm supposed to do now is I'm supposed to be a man and I'm, and now I'm supposed to take on these new duties and responsibilities.

00:35:20.420 When you take that away from men and you try to convince women not to desire family life and marriage and family life anymore, you end up with what we have now. 0.55

00:35:30.580 Which is people aren't having kids anymore and everyone is miserable and everyone's confused and nobody knows what the hell they're doing.

00:35:37.340 There's just no question at all that historically throughout the world, women have generally been wired to desire family life and to find purpose and meaning in that vocation.

00:35:48.760 Uh, the question that we are asking in this society is whether that wiring can be changed at scale society wide.

00:36:00.580 Uh, because Harrison Butker is not trying to convince the women of anything.

00:36:03.120 Did you notice that?

00:36:03.620 He's not saying you should do this or that.

00:36:05.900 He's saying, well, I know many of you want this and that's a great thing to want it.

00:36:11.100 Now on the left, the message is different.

00:36:12.660 What they're saying to the women is no, you shouldn't even want that. 1.00

00:36:14.380 You shouldn't want, you shouldn't want to have babies and all that kind of stuff. 1.00

00:36:16.420 You should want to be a CEO.

00:36:17.520 You should want this because there's a society wide effort to change the inherent instinctive, uh, both biological and spiritual wiring of men and women.

00:36:30.340 So that they want different things than what they have always wanted since the beginning of the human species.

00:36:39.660 The question is whether that can really be changed at scale.

00:36:45.080 And, and whether we should even try to, whether it's worth trying to change it.

00:36:51.000 And I say, no, it can't really be changed ultimately.

00:36:56.180 And no, absolutely.

00:36:57.240 We shouldn't try.

00:36:57.940 Why?

00:36:58.640 What was wrong with how it has always been since forever?

00:37:02.360 Uh, why do you need to convince women that they should want to be CEOs? 1.00

00:37:09.740 Why?

00:37:10.700 How does that benefit anybody?

00:37:13.760 That's not to say that no woman should ever be allowed to be a CEO. 1.00

00:37:17.140 But why is there this decades long intentional effort to convince women that they should want that, even if naturally they don't? 0.96

00:37:25.580 If Harrison Butker was criticizing anything, he was criticizing that.

00:37:31.360 I don't know.

00:37:31.800 If you can't see that, I think it's because you don't want to see it.

00:37:35.740 All right.

00:37:36.340 The Post Millennial has this.

00:37:37.380 Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a full pardon and restoration of rights for Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant who was found guilty of murder for the fatal shooting of Garrett Foster during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, while Perry was an Uber driver.

00:37:50.520 Abbott said in a statement,

00:37:51.320 The Texas Board of, uh, Board of Pardons and Paroles conducted an exhaustive review of U.S. Army Sergeant Daniel Perry's personal history and the facts surrounding the July 2020 incident and recommended a full pardon and restoration of full civil rights of citizenship among the, uh, voluminous, voluminous, voluminous, anyway, uh, reviewed by the board.

00:38:14.100 They consider it information provided by the Travis County District Attorney, the full investigative report on Daniel Perry, plus a review of all the testimony provided at trial.

00:38:22.400 Texas has one of the strongest stand-your-ground laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive district attorney.

00:38:27.740 I thank the board for its thorough investigation.

00:38:29.380 I approve their pardon recommendation.

00:38:31.140 Uh, Perry, who was driving an Uber, for Uber at the time, encountered an armed BLM group that had taken over the streets of Austin.

00:38:37.160 Perry originally faced one count of murder, one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

00:38:40.480 The jury did not find him guilty of the second charge.

00:38:42.920 The Austin police said that a car turned onto Congress Avenue near 4th Street at 9.51 p.m.

00:38:47.560 Protesters who were marching in the area surrounded the car, and Foster, who was part of the group, was armed with a rifle.

00:38:53.660 And, uh, Perry told a 911 operator, I made a wrong turn.

00:38:56.140 A guy pointed a freaking weapon at me, and I panicked.

00:38:58.580 I didn't know what to do. 0.86

00:38:59.500 I'm just an Uber driver.

00:39:00.360 I made a wrong turn.

00:39:01.140 I've never had to shoot someone before.

00:39:02.840 They started shooting back at me, and I got out of the area.

00:39:05.240 Okay, so, now that's, he's been pardoned.

00:39:08.280 And I got to say, Greg Abbott fluctuates between big W's and big L's more than maybe anyone else in public life.

00:39:15.280 And this, of course, is a big W, a huge W.

00:39:18.280 Obviously, this was the right decision.

00:39:19.820 Perry never should have been convicted, much less sentenced to 25 years in prison.

00:39:23.740 Total travesty.

00:39:25.420 And the case is very simple.

00:39:27.920 This guy was driving along, just trying to, uh, you know, doing Uber, trying to make a living.

00:39:33.880 And he finds himself surrounded by an armed mob.

00:39:38.040 Multiple people in the mob are armed, including Foster, who was open carrying an AK-47.

00:39:45.120 Now, um, the left defended Foster by saying, well, open carry is legal in Texas,

00:39:53.380 which is the only time they have ever favorably cited open carry laws.

00:39:58.280 It was, you never hear that.

00:39:59.820 But in this case, it's people on the left saying, well, open carry is legal.

00:40:03.340 He has a right, he has a right to, to, uh, uh, you know, exercise his Second Amendment rights.

00:40:08.780 But that's irrelevant.

00:40:09.980 Because just because you have the right to carry doesn't mean you have the right to surround a car

00:40:14.240 that's trying to drive down the street.

00:40:16.460 You have no right to do that.

00:40:19.480 This is really the point.

00:40:20.580 They surrounded the car and tried to stop it from moving.

00:40:24.680 You can't do that.

00:40:26.160 You cannot do that.

00:40:27.920 I know left-wing protesters have trouble, uh, understanding this, but actually just because

00:40:33.600 you're mad about something doesn't mean you get to just shut down a street because you're mad.

00:40:38.180 It doesn't, we don't care that you're mad.

00:40:40.280 And people that are trying to drive on the street, that shouldn't be their problem.

00:40:44.860 Well, but we're really mad because this happened.

00:40:46.640 I don't care who's with, that's your issue.

00:40:48.400 Why do I have to care about that?

00:40:49.680 But this guy's trying, he's, he's driving Uber.

00:40:53.040 He's trying to pick somebody up.

00:40:55.280 Um, and when you surround somebody's car like that, they have every right to, uh, uh, take

00:41:03.080 that as a threat to their lives.

00:41:05.220 And then Foster also pointed the rifle at Perry.

00:41:08.120 So according, according to Perry, and, and so it's a slam dunk, slam dunk cell defense case

00:41:13.280 just based on that.

00:41:14.100 But even if he hadn't pointed it, it wouldn't matter.

00:41:16.860 You're surrounding the car and you're armed.

00:41:20.300 Perry, again, had every right and reason to think that, that his life was in danger. 0.99

00:41:26.660 And I also have to say, this is also why open carry is stupid, by the way. 0.99

00:41:31.380 And, uh, maybe an unpopular opinion with our audience. 0.99

00:41:35.340 I'm actually not sure if it is or not, but, um, I don't know either way.

00:41:40.780 And I'm, I'm as big a supporter of the second amendment as you'll find. 0.64

00:41:44.600 And, and I will still say that open carry is ridiculous.

00:41:48.920 It's just, most of the time.

00:41:50.860 Now there are circumstances, you're out on the ranch or something, or obviously if you're

00:41:54.400 hunting or whatever.

00:41:55.980 Um, so I'm not saying there are no circumstances where open carry might make sense, but in most

00:42:00.800 circumstances, it doesn't make sense.

00:42:02.200 In a populated urban environment, to walk around intentionally showing off your weapon to everybody, 0.98

00:42:08.460 it's ridiculous.

00:42:09.540 I don't know any serious gun owner who does that or thinks it's a good idea. 0.82

00:42:14.600 The very few occasions that where I've met someone who opened carries in this kind of 0.99

00:42:19.360 environment, um, they're always, always irresponsible idiots who are super impressed with the fact 0.99

00:42:27.740 that they're carrying a gun and they want you to be impressed with it. 1.00

00:42:30.520 And so they're walking around with it like a fashion statement.

00:42:34.140 Every case I've encountered of someone who opened carries like this, it's just, it's, it's

00:42:39.640 like they're showing off.

00:42:40.800 They, they, they're really impressed.

00:42:41.980 They think it's really cool that they have a gun and they want people to know it.

00:42:44.600 And that is not, you know, serious gun owners.

00:42:48.360 That is not how they view their gun.

00:42:50.440 And that's not how they would treat it.

00:42:51.820 It's not a fashion statement.

00:42:53.020 They're not trying to impress anybody.

00:42:55.700 Um, responsible gun owners and people who carry responsibly, they don't want you to

00:43:00.940 know that you, that, that you have it on you or, or where you have it.

00:43:07.080 Why would they want the, there's no real advantage to the public knowing that.

00:43:11.220 And any argument that, uh, cause the one argument you hear in favor of it is, well, if, if, if

00:43:18.040 a bad guy, if a potential bad guy knows that someone else is carrying, uh, cause he's open

00:43:23.580 carrying, then he's less likely to do a bad thing.

00:43:26.220 But I think that's just not true.

00:43:27.720 Like, I don't think there's any evidence that it works that way.

00:43:30.040 And in fact, there's evidence that it goes the other way.

00:43:31.660 And this case is, is, is, is, is that sort of evidence because by, by presenting your

00:43:38.140 weapon, if you, if you're open carrying and you're letting everyone, Hey, everyone, look,

00:43:41.980 look, I got, look, I'm carrying.

00:43:43.200 Like when you do that, if you find yourself in a confrontation, you have automatically

00:43:48.180 escalated that confrontation because everybody involved in it knows that you're armed.

00:43:54.140 And so you, you have brought a, an element into this confrontation that will not deescalate

00:44:02.760 it.

00:44:03.080 And it may well go the other way.

00:44:05.200 You are increasing the chances that something bad happens.

00:44:08.400 If you're carrying, you should want to have control over when and if your gun is presented.

00:44:15.640 And that's the way most people will carry.

00:44:17.260 That's the way they look at it.

00:44:18.880 Like, I don't, I'm not this, the fact that I have a weapon on me is, is not going to,

00:44:24.460 if that becomes public knowledge is because something's happening and, and it has now, now

00:44:29.940 I have to respond. 0.73

00:44:31.600 Um, but otherwise just walking around, as I said, as a fashion statement is ridiculous. 0.63

00:44:39.800 And, and, and why did this guy have it?

00:44:42.500 Like, why was he carrying a rifle around at what, what do you, you're, you're at a protest.

00:44:46.720 You claim that you have no violent intent and you're open carrying a rifle.

00:44:50.840 Like why?

00:44:52.240 Uh, and you're stopping cars, carrying a rifle.

00:44:58.200 How, what is that?

00:45:00.160 What can that do other than create a horrible situation, which is exactly what it did for

00:45:07.240 this guy.

00:45:07.640 And he's dead and it's his fault.

00:45:09.680 And, um, I'm glad that, uh, that Greg Abbott made the right decision there.

00:45:16.840 Okay.

00:45:18.600 Well, we've had this, this, I don't know, this is not even worth playing, but we will anyway.

00:45:21.480 Vice President Kamala Harris, uh, was in a conversation with the comedian Jimmy O. Yang

00:45:29.020 and, uh, she let a little, little F-bomb slip.

00:45:33.160 She's very impressed with that about herself.

00:45:35.840 Uh, here's that moment.

00:45:38.220 We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open.

00:45:43.640 Sometimes they won't.

00:45:45.980 And then you need to kick that door down.

00:45:51.480 Excuse my language.

00:45:59.640 We're going to make t-shirts with that saying, kick the door down. 0.99

00:46:03.860 She is so impressed with the fact that she used an F word.

00:46:09.080 She was so excited to use it.

00:46:10.820 So impressed with it.

00:46:12.820 And, uh, obviously, as you know, the F-bomb moment was planned ahead of time. 0.89

00:46:15.940 Like, obviously it was the least convincing slip of the tongue that I've ever heard.

00:46:21.080 And the funny thing is that Kamala Harris is putting the F-bomb aside, um, which by the

00:46:28.260 way, look, uh, there's no point even complaining about it at this point, given what we started

00:46:32.900 the show with and the way that these elected officials are behaving.

00:46:35.780 Something like this is, is, uh, small potatoes, but, but really it is like, it's, it's, it's

00:46:43.000 not, it's not cute.

00:46:44.200 It's not, it's not impressive.

00:46:45.940 It's just, I, I really would like public officials to just comport yourself with some dignity and

00:46:53.280 grace.

00:46:53.860 Really?

00:46:54.360 Can you just do that?

00:46:55.560 Is it that hard to do?

00:46:57.940 Um, but in any case, Kamala Harris is the worst example of the mentality that she's promoting. 1.00

00:47:06.240 Sometimes you got to kick the door down, but she didn't kick any door down. 1.00

00:47:10.420 The door was open for her, not because of her own merits or hard work, but purely because 0.69

00:47:13.940 she's a woman and, and she's sort of black. 1.00

00:47:16.860 And that's the reason why the doors were open.

00:47:18.460 She didn't have to kick anything down.

00:47:20.220 And the shame is that there is, there's an essence of a message in there that is actually

00:47:24.260 true and important.

00:47:25.920 The problem is that she's cloaking it in this left-wing identity politics and victimhood culture. 1.00

00:47:30.340 And that's where a lot of the rest of the conversation went.

00:47:32.060 Uh, she's presenting it as though these alleged victim groups are the ones who especially have

00:47:37.200 to go out and kick doors down and, you know, um, and, and all of that.

00:47:41.920 When in fact, they are the ones who actually have doors open for them.

00:47:45.820 But if we can get past all of that, then there could be a message in there for young people,

00:47:51.640 especially, um, about, you know, when you have goals, you have to go out and, and pursue

00:47:57.380 it, be single-minded, be with, you know, be passionate, have, have, have seriousness of

00:48:03.040 purpose, intensity, and going out and pursuing your goals.

00:48:07.860 It's not the, it's not the most breathtaking wisdom that anyone's ever heard, but there,

00:48:12.860 it is actually an important message.

00:48:15.620 Um, it's just that Kamala Harris is the worst possible person to deliver it.

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00:50:50.380 There was an episode of the NBC mockumentary Parks and Recreation that involved Amy Poehler

00:50:55.320 officiating the wedding of a couple of gay penguins at the zoo.

00:50:58.860 Now, it was all a big misunderstanding.

00:51:00.000 She thinks she's marrying a male and female penguin, only to be told by a zookeeper after

00:51:04.700 the two penguins start mating that they were both, in fact, males.

00:51:07.880 And then the camera cuts to a close-up of Amy Poehler looking confused because, honestly, 0.94

00:51:12.560 gay penguins, how absurd. 1.00

00:51:14.760 The concept is crazy and, therefore, mildly amusing. 0.93

00:51:16.800 And it was a laugh line in 2009 when that episode aired.

00:51:19.920 But we're a much more cultured people now, so the idea of homosexual penguins simply isn't

00:51:24.560 funny anymore. 0.96

00:51:25.060 We're told that, just like gay people, gay penguins deserve our acceptance, not our mockery. 0.78

00:51:31.080 In fact, more than that, we're supposed to model our behavior around the life choices 0.81

00:51:35.320 of these flightless birds.

00:51:37.540 And that's why gay penguins are front and center in a new documentary that's coming out soon

00:51:41.860 on NBC's streaming service, Peacock.

00:51:44.120 This time around, the gay penguins aren't a gag, and the documentary isn't a comedy.

00:51:48.500 Not intentionally so, anyway.

00:51:49.780 It's all very real and very dead serious.

00:51:51.900 The show is called Queer Planets, and, of course, it's coming out in time for Pride 1.00

00:51:56.320 Month.

00:51:57.020 Here's the trailer.

00:51:59.760 Our planet is home to over 11 million species.

00:52:09.740 The paparazzi really are everywhere.

00:52:12.400 Everything you were taught as a kid is wrong.

00:52:14.300 You make me wanna dance. 1.00

00:52:15.840 Gay penguins. 1.00

00:52:16.940 Bisexual lions. 1.00

00:52:18.540 Sex-changing clownfish. 1.00

00:52:20.260 This is a queer planet. 1.00

00:52:22.840 Queerness has always existed. 0.99

00:52:24.860 It's only in humans that we have such a stigma about it.

00:52:27.360 The idea of just having two fixed sexes is clearly out of style.

00:52:32.980 Mother nature is pretty open-minded.

00:52:37.260 Sex is not just for reproduction.

00:52:40.040 It's clear that no matter where you look on our planet, nature is full of queer surprises. 1.00

00:52:45.900 To be honest, we should all probably get laid a little more than we do.

00:52:50.020 Well, it's exactly what Alex Jones warned us about so many years ago. 0.94

00:53:03.780 They're making the frogs gay, along with every other animal. 0.99

00:53:06.740 Supposedly, the existence of gay penguins and sex-changing clownfish is a sign that the 0.98

00:53:11.020 animal kingdom is queer, quote-unquote, and that everything you were told as a child is 0.98

00:53:14.580 wrong.

00:53:15.560 Queerness has always existed. 0.99

00:53:16.660 It's only in humans that we have such a stigma about it.

00:53:19.040 Nature is full of queer surprises, we're told. 1.00

00:53:21.640 Apparently, David Attenborough was not available to narrate.

00:53:24.320 Neither was the Honey Badger guy, even though his voice was enough of a queer surprise that 1.00

00:53:28.320 it racked up about 100 million views back in the day.

00:53:31.220 So instead, according to IndieWire, quote,

00:53:33.240 The upcoming film is narrated by Girls5eva actor Andrew Reynolds and is billed as a first-of-its-kind

00:53:46.000 nature documentary that focuses solely on the queer creatures in the animal kingdom.

00:53:51.300 Before I go into detail about the trailer, the big picture is pretty clear.

00:53:54.760 The left is truly anti-human in the most literal sense of the term.

00:53:58.180 You know, you must think that humans are on the level of these animals in order to justify

00:54:03.600 human behavior by pointing to supposedly analogous animal behavior.

00:54:07.840 And when the documentary equates queerness in humans to queerness in animals, that's what

00:54:12.480 they're doing.

00:54:13.100 They're saying that if animals do it, then we can learn from them because we're no better

00:54:16.360 than animals.

00:54:16.840 Now, if we're playing that game, the ramifications seem pretty clear. 0.98

00:54:21.260 It would mean that, like, rape and cannibalism and killing and devouring your own young would

00:54:25.720 also be justified, because these are all, quote-unquote, natural behaviors also.

00:54:30.960 To give just one recent example, earlier this year, scientists documented what they called

00:54:34.460 a stunning discovery in the waters off Maui.

00:54:37.720 For the first time in recorded history, photographers captured images of two male humpback whales having

00:54:43.100 sex.

00:54:43.420 And this was presented by LGBT activists as a big win, because supposedly it proves that

00:54:47.840 they're all completely normal.

00:54:48.980 So here's just one example of a common reaction to the news from something called Extra Magazine.

00:54:54.680 Watch.

00:54:55.920 So a pair of humpback whales were photographed getting it on for the very first time.

00:54:59.960 And guess what? 0.98

00:55:00.860 They were gay. 0.99

00:55:02.020 Gay whales. 0.99

00:55:03.860 Shout out to these copulating kings who were spotted making sweet whale love off the coast 0.93

00:55:07.400 of Hawaii back in January of 2022.

00:55:10.080 A new study published this week confirmed that the sighting marks the first time humpback

00:55:13.400 whale intercourse has been observed at all, let alone homosexual relations.

00:55:18.000 According to the paper, our two horndogs right here approached and circled a private boat off 0.75

00:55:21.340 the coast of Maui before engaging in sexual activity about three to five meters below the

00:55:25.080 vessel.

00:55:25.680 So apparently whales are exhibitionists, too.

00:55:28.040 Now, researchers have studied humpback whale social behavior for decades, but observance

00:55:31.640 of their sexual behavior has been, like, super rare.

00:55:34.500 Whales are mammals, so reproduction happens much the same way as with humans, and they've

00:55:38.720 got, you know, similar parts.

00:55:40.340 During the intimate moment in Hawaii, researchers say one of the whales was seen to be holding

00:55:43.940 the other one in place with its pectoral fins while penetrating it. 0.97

00:55:47.220 Now, we've got tons of explanations and reasoning for homosexual behavior in other

00:55:50.440 animals. 0.99

00:55:51.100 We love you, gay penguins. 0.74

00:55:52.520 But little is actually known about humpback whales in this area.

00:55:55.380 Researchers weren't able to conclude a motive for why the whales were doing like they do

00:55:58.480 on the Discovery Channel.

00:55:59.840 It could be practice for reproduction, a show of dominance, or a form of social bonding. 0.85

00:56:04.640 Still, I'm more than happy to add gay whales to the long list of proven gay animals. 1.00

00:56:09.100 Now, that person is more than happy to add humpback whales to the list of gay animals because 1.00

00:56:15.960 it supposedly validates everything gay activists have been saying.

00:56:19.340 But there's just one problem. 0.98

00:56:20.460 One of the humpback whales in this scenario was clearly raping the other. 0.74

00:56:24.280 Here's the breakdown for NBC News' gay division called Out News.

00:56:27.280 They're summarizing a report from researchers who made this discovery.

00:56:30.100 Quote,

00:56:30.220 The encounter occurred between one male whale who apparently appeared unhealthy or injured

00:56:35.000 in a strong and healthy male whale.

00:56:37.180 The whale that received penetration was visibly emaciated and covered in whale lice that can

00:56:41.700 proliferate on humpback whales that have lost mobility.

00:56:44.540 The emaciated whale may have approached the photographer's friend's boat to seek cover from

00:56:48.480 the other whale.

00:56:49.360 The emaciated whale circled the boat and attempted to swim away from the healthier whale. 0.91

00:56:53.160 The healthier whale then held the other in place. 0.88

00:56:54.640 And then we know what happens next.

00:56:56.780 Okay, so somehow those details didn't make the cut for Extra Magazine's report.

00:57:02.500 There's no word yet on if they're still happy to say that the humpback whale rapist represents 0.93

00:57:07.080 the behavior of the gay community. 0.90

00:57:09.240 But using the logic of NBC's queer planet, I guess we're supposed to conclude that indeed, 1.00

00:57:14.120 this discovery is a major win for all the humans out there who aspire to be rapists. 0.91

00:57:18.460 Because you're supposed to feel seen and validated because rape is as natural as queerness. 0.92

00:57:22.500 It's in the animal kingdom too.

00:57:24.920 That's what they're apparently saying.

00:57:26.840 And they're saying the same thing about cannibalism because, of course, we see animals eat one

00:57:30.260 another within the same species all the time.

00:57:31.920 Alligators do it. 0.99

00:57:33.660 Lions do it.

00:57:34.480 Chimpanzees, hamsters, leopards, spiders, toads.

00:57:37.320 There's also evidence of many adult animals routinely mating with prepubescent animals. 0.98

00:57:42.660 Bonobos, for example, are straight up pedophiles.

00:57:45.380 Here's a paragraph in the book Bonobo, the Forgotten Ape, published by University of California 0.94

00:57:48.900 Press.

00:57:49.160 It's a real page-turner, quote, Bonobos engage in sex in virtually every partner combination,

00:57:53.840 male-male, female-male, female-female, male-juvenile, female-juvenile, and so on.

00:57:58.480 Now, that's not even getting into infanticide and harems and et cetera. 1.00

00:58:03.100 So if NBC is justifying transgenderism and homosexuality because they happen in nature,

00:58:07.440 then they're justifying everything else that happens in nature too.

00:58:10.080 And there's some pretty unsavory stuff happening in nature, to put it mildly.

00:58:14.740 This is not difficult to see.

00:58:16.040 There's no way around it.

00:58:16.820 It's the obvious, logical conclusion of what they're peddling.

00:58:20.920 And of course, maybe that's the whole point.

00:58:22.820 I mean, we've seen over and over again how the left's sexual agenda necessarily results

00:58:26.080 in the sexualization and abuse of children.

00:58:28.340 We also know that the same people pushing this ideology also support unrestricted access

00:58:31.960 to abortion. 0.52

00:58:33.180 And with that context, it's pretty safe to conclude that the point of this documentary

00:58:37.500 is to advance the same exact narrative.

00:58:40.140 It's just another front of a much larger war that they're waging.

00:58:43.820 Now, fortunately, it's all extremely clumsy.

00:58:46.160 And as you saw, the documentary tries to justify gender ideology, transgenderism, gender fluidity,

00:58:50.900 because these things supposedly exist in the animal kingdom.

00:58:54.400 But that's just completely false.

00:58:57.120 In the animal kingdom, there are only males and females.

00:58:59.720 Now, in some species, a male can become a female or be both a male and a female.

00:59:05.360 But that doesn't make that true of the human species.

00:59:08.840 So, for example, the documentary brings up clownfish as an example of a transgender fish 1.00

00:59:12.980 that can change between male and female. 1.00

00:59:14.880 The implication is that clownfish change their pronouns and take hormone therapy,

00:59:18.980 just like humans do, I guess.

00:59:20.140 But clownfish change genders by transforming into females biologically.

00:59:25.060 They're all born male, like many other fish.

00:59:28.220 Then they have the capability of naturally transforming to females, at which point they can't go back. 0.85

00:59:33.400 They can't pick and choose which gender they prefer to be at any given day.

00:59:37.800 They don't require any artificial surgery or any external hormones at any point of this process.

00:59:43.300 They are completely unlike humans in many, many ways.

00:59:47.200 And they are completely unlike humans identifying as transgender in every relevant respect. 1.00

00:59:51.720 Put another way, some species of animals can fly.

00:59:55.420 Some can breathe underwater.

00:59:57.340 That is not evidence supporting the assertion of any human being who claims to have those capabilities.

01:00:03.200 And this is so basic and so obvious that it shouldn't need to be said, but apparently it does.

01:00:08.680 Now, fortunately, in this case at least, it seems that most people have caught on to how absurd this is.

01:00:13.380 The near universal mockery that's greeting this documentary

01:00:16.120 shows why most companies, I predict, will be much more reserved and quiet about their Pride Month celebrations this year.

01:00:24.020 This whole movement has become a parody of itself.

01:00:27.740 A literal recitation of a sitcom joke from a decade ago.

01:00:32.740 And that is why queer planets and everyone else who wants to pretend that animal sexuality justifies human behavior at all 1.00

01:00:40.640 are today canceled.

01:00:44.040 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

01:00:45.640 Thanks for watching.

01:00:46.460 Thanks for listening.

01:00:47.040 Talk to you on Monday.

01:00:48.860 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - May 17, 2024

Ep. 1370 - Chaos Erupts In Congress Because Our Politicians Are The Dumbest Dimwits To Ever Exist

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