The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1385 - We Have Some Of The Covenant Shooter's Writings. Here's What They Say.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Daily Wire has obtained several pages of the Covenant

00:00:03.520 shooter's writings.

00:00:04.420 I'm going to show you those pages today.

00:00:05.960 There has been an effort up to the highest levels of government to hide this information

00:00:09.400 from us, and as more and more information about the shooter, her mindset, and her potential

00:00:12.680 motivations comes out, the reason for all the secrecy becomes clear.

00:00:16.260 Also, an activist judge strikes down Florida's law banning gender transitions for minors

00:00:20.000 using the flimsiest reasoning imaginable.

00:00:22.340 Joe Biden gives a gun control speech where he lies three times and babbles incoherently,

00:00:26.340 and that is all in just one minute of the speech.

00:00:28.240 And the birdwatching community has been engaged in a years-long quest to confront the history

00:00:32.520 of racism and slavery among birdwatchers.

00:00:34.900 We'll have an update on that very important story and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:58.240 Over the past year, Joe Biden's FBI has offered two separate justifications for refusing to release

00:01:10.540 the writings of the trans-identifying mass shooter who killed three nine-year-old children

00:01:14.440 and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville.

00:01:18.060 The FBI's first justification, the one that they used in court, was that releasing the documents

00:01:22.040 might interfere with a pending law enforcement investigation.

00:01:24.860 Now, that justification never made any sense because the shooter is dead, and to this day,

00:01:28.940 the FBI hasn't named any additional suspects in the shooting.

00:01:32.340 At the same time, in private communications with authorities in Tennessee, the FBI outlined

00:01:36.100 a different rationale.

00:01:37.320 They warned that releasing the shooter's writings would lead to conspiracy theories and false

00:01:42.220 narratives.

00:01:43.020 Never mind the fact that the FBI's job isn't to police false narratives, and if it were,

00:01:47.320 the FBI would have raided every corporate media office and arrested nearly every mainstream

00:01:51.380 journalist and news anchor in the country by now, the point is that, according to Biden's

00:01:56.040 government, for one reason or another, you're not supposed to see what this shooter wrote.

00:02:01.120 If she had been a white supremacist, of course, you'd see it instantly.

00:02:04.440 But in this case, you're not allowed to see it at all.

00:02:07.520 At least that's the way that they would like to have it.

00:02:10.260 Meanwhile, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which reportedly treated the shooter for psychological

00:02:14.320 problems for more than 20 years, has refused to answer basic questions about what drugs

00:02:19.840 the shooter may have been taking, what kind of treatment she may have been receiving.

00:02:24.740 What this means is that, from the health establishment to the federal government, the privacy interests

00:02:29.500 of a mass murderer are getting priority.

00:02:32.720 The safety of the public is being ignored, and the truth, the full story, whatever it is,

00:02:37.460 is being suppressed.

00:02:39.200 Now, wherever you fall on the political spectrum, this is a national scandal.

00:02:43.340 The point of transparency is not to demonize anyone who may be suffering from mental illness

00:02:48.220 or to, quote unquote, marginalize any particular group of people.

00:02:51.600 The point of transparency in this case is to give the public the information it has a right

00:02:55.240 to know and to likely save people's lives in the process.

00:02:59.780 It's to identify what's not working in the mental health treatment pipeline and to fix it.

00:03:05.220 This is a matter of national importance, urgent importance.

00:03:09.300 As it would seem that when it comes to the medical establishment's approach to mental health,

00:03:13.340 there's quite a lot that is not working.

00:03:15.920 And contrary to what the FBI said, it's the absence of transparency, the absence of it,

00:03:20.820 that leads to false narratives like the ones we've seen in the last year about the Covenant shooting.

00:03:25.520 So that's what brings us to today.

00:03:27.180 I'm going to exclusively show you several pages from the writings of the Covenant school shooter.

00:03:34.080 The Daily Wire obtained these documents, and now I will go through them for the first time

00:03:38.000 on this show.

00:03:40.180 The documents reveal, obviously, newsworthy information about the shooter's possible motivation,

00:03:45.560 information that the government had no good faith basis for hiding from the public.

00:03:50.800 But before I show you the documents, I want to make a few things clear.

00:03:54.740 First of all, for people viewing this podcast on YouTube, you should know that on YouTube,

00:03:59.400 more than other major platforms, it's difficult, if not basically impossible,

00:04:05.120 to discuss sensitive and important topics like this.

00:04:09.080 The censors on YouTube are, as you may have heard, extremely overzealous,

00:04:14.040 especially when it comes to any story relating to trans ideology,

00:04:17.720 and especially when it comes to this story in particular.

00:04:21.320 If you saw my previous coverage of the Tennessee Stars reporting on the shooter's writings,

00:04:26.160 you know that we had to cut the monologue from the YouTube broadcast last week entirely.

00:04:30.380 We're going to try to avoid cutting as much of it this time, but there's no way around it.

00:04:34.420 If you want my unredacted full monologue, you'll probably have to go elsewhere.

00:04:38.120 We post the podcast on Spotify, Apple, Twitter, Rumble, and of course,

00:04:41.760 the Daily Wire's website and app.

00:04:43.860 This is a situation completely outside of our control, but the good news is that

00:04:46.820 you can still get the full monologue and all of the important information

00:04:49.700 I'm going to relate to you.

00:04:51.520 You just can't get it here if you're watching right now on YouTube.

00:04:55.500 And finally, I wanted to note that some of the victim's families have made it clear

00:04:59.900 that they don't want to see the shooter's writings or have them published.

00:05:04.620 That's obviously understandable.

00:05:06.580 Nobody can unimagine what they're going through,

00:05:08.840 and there are real concerns about glorifying or amplifying the words of a mass murderer.

00:05:12.900 If I was in their shoes, I would probably feel as they do.

00:05:16.080 Now, it's my personal opinion that there is a conspiracy to cover up the truth about this

00:05:21.380 shooting and what led to it, but the families, obviously, are not a part of any conspiracy.

00:05:26.360 They have their own totally understandable reasons for not wanting this stuff made public.

00:05:30.820 I sympathize with them.

00:05:32.440 Certainly don't want to contribute in any way to their suffering.

00:05:35.160 The reason I'm going to show you these documents is that I honestly believe

00:05:39.120 that the full truth could save lives.

00:05:42.900 Now, we still don't know the full truth.

00:05:45.860 I'm not claiming to have the full truth right now, but we can get closer to it.

00:05:50.620 Ultimately, as one court in Tennessee has already ruled, and as I'll explain shortly,

00:05:54.720 the public interest in this case is clear and overwhelming.

00:05:58.640 And with that in mind, we're going to go ahead with the story.

00:06:01.960 I will note that we won't be monetizing this episode.

00:06:04.240 I want to simply relay this information.

00:06:05.860 We're not looking to make any money off of it.

00:06:07.420 But we just want to get the information out.

00:06:11.380 So the first entry that we've obtained in the shooter's handwritten writings reads as follows.

00:06:17.180 This part is addressed to someone named Paige.

00:06:19.300 We don't know who that is, but in context, it may refer to a Nashville radio host who

00:06:24.080 previously played basketball with the shooter in eighth grade and who reportedly called the

00:06:27.960 authorities because the shooter messaged her on the day of the attack.

00:06:31.080 Quoting from the shooter's writings,

00:06:32.160 Dear Paige, aren't parents manipulative?

00:06:35.920 It's total ignorance when parents step in and try to change their child's environment,

00:06:40.000 make them go to youth group and force Christian friends in their life 0.99

00:06:42.680 because the old ones were a bad influence.

00:06:45.380 I can't effing stand that.

00:06:47.440 Parents actually believe religion can change nature.

00:06:50.480 That could explain why I don't practice religion anymore.

00:06:53.460 Let kids think for themselves.

00:06:54.600 Listening to parents does no damn good but to mold their premature minds into a preformatted program

00:06:59.400 like clones do, the very manipulative forms teams hate.

00:07:02.860 And rebel too.

00:07:03.860 Kids are not robots.

00:07:04.780 We are the future.

00:07:06.120 That's how it's meant to be.

00:07:07.540 Two idea, one mind.

00:07:08.940 That's all nature needs.

00:07:10.040 And the writing continues, quote,

00:07:12.160 You did life the way you wanted.

00:07:13.440 It was 100% your heart's desire, needs.

00:07:15.720 No one else but you that planned it.

00:07:17.140 Why I admire you, so independent, so young.

00:07:19.500 Me young too. 0.95

00:07:20.220 And what I desire, to die and be with you.

00:07:22.760 My ultimate plan, thought from no one else but me. 0.83

00:07:25.500 I am who I am.

00:07:26.420 You are who we are.

00:07:27.740 Nature is pure, its raw form.

00:07:30.680 Close quote.

00:07:32.160 Now, you might remember that when this shooting took place, there were some reports that the

00:07:36.560 shooter may have had a personal motivation for attacking the Covenant School.

00:07:40.540 Some people suggested without any evidence that the shooter might have been abused by

00:07:44.180 somebody at the school, for example.

00:07:45.460 But from these writings, that doesn't appear to be the case.

00:07:48.960 And there's been no evidence to come out to support that theory.

00:07:52.060 That was, it would seem, a false narrative.

00:07:54.580 But it wasn't the kind of false narrative that the FBI cared about.

00:07:58.400 It's the kind of false narrative that could have been dispelled by releasing the documents.

00:08:03.220 But once again, they kept them, which creates the false narratives.

00:08:05.680 Instead, these documents are evidence that the shooter harbored a more general anti-Christian

00:08:11.060 animus.

00:08:13.060 She says again, quote,

00:08:13.920 Parents actually believe religion can change nature.

00:08:16.100 That could explain why I don't practice religion anymore.

00:08:18.000 Let kids think for themselves. 0.94

00:08:19.040 Listening to parents does no damn good. 0.70

00:08:21.420 Now, immediately you can understand why the media, along with the highest levels of the 0.90

00:08:24.680 FBI and the White House, saw this document as radioactive.

00:08:29.360 This is pretty much a verbatim recounting of what every major media outlet and mainstream

00:08:33.940 politician on the left has been saying for the past decade or more.

00:08:36.920 And this is in addition to the writings from the shooter that Stephen Crowder released last

00:08:40.680 year, in which she describes her own anti-white sentiments, referring to white people as little 0.50

00:08:44.420 crackers with, quote, unquote, white privileges.

00:08:47.280 Of course, that's a popular sentiment on the left these days.

00:08:49.640 So is the idea that children can consent to hormones that cause sterilization, puberty blockers

00:08:54.580 that stunt bone development, even physical castration and other permanently disfiguring

00:08:59.340 surgeries.

00:09:00.180 So is the idea championed by BLM that children don't need a stable nuclear family to thrive.

00:09:04.620 And so is the idea that it's a felony to leave skid marks on a pride mural stenciled

00:09:08.780 on the street, even as it's completely fine for arsonists to torch Christian churches just

00:09:12.760 outside the White House gates.

00:09:14.480 Now, you can call these beliefs what you want, anarcho-tyranny, Marxism, something else.

00:09:18.920 It's what the left now believes.

00:09:20.360 And it's the ideology that, based on these writings, seems to have driven a very

00:09:24.380 troubled adult woman away from her own family.

00:09:27.420 That was her support system, which she obviously needed.

00:09:31.520 The rest of the shooter's writings that we've obtained only reinforce that point.

00:09:35.480 Fragments of these writings have been reported already by the Tennessee Star, but we can publish

00:09:38.780 the full source documents today.

00:09:41.060 This is from an entry dated March 11th, 2023, just a few weeks before the shooting.

00:09:45.620 And in these documents, the shooter makes it very clear that she suffered severely

00:09:50.200 from gender dysphoria.

00:09:52.760 Now, I can't read all of this passage.

00:09:56.040 It's too graphic.

00:09:56.980 But on most platforms, you can see the document on your screen right now.

00:10:01.720 So there it is for you to see.

00:10:02.960 For podcast listeners, it suffices to say that the shooter says that she swears to God that

00:10:08.200 she's really a male. 0.93

00:10:09.160 She goes into great detail about her sexual fantasies, including having sexual relations 0.99

00:10:13.220 with a woman. 0.98

00:10:13.700 This is a long and distressing description of her gender dysphoria.

00:10:20.880 It's all right there, plain as day.

00:10:23.180 And then she says something extremely revealing, quote, having a brain like mine has its godliness, 0.99

00:10:28.960 but also prone to making poor ass decisions. 0.98

00:10:32.160 Now, in that one quote, you can see the direct contrast between the teachings of Christianity 0.99

00:10:35.480 and the teachings of gender ideology. 0.96

00:10:37.960 Christians believe that people are made in the image and likeness of God.

00:10:41.320 They also believe that God, not man, has divine power.

00:10:44.680 But gender ideology proclaims the opposite. 0.90

00:10:47.380 It teaches that man is capable of changing his nature at the snap of a finger, that people

00:10:51.900 can be born in the wrong bodies, and that gender clinics and prescription drugs can fix 1.00

00:10:55.500 what would be then, I guess, God's mistakes.

00:10:59.440 This is an ideology that is, at its core, antithetical to Christianity.

00:11:03.720 Was it one of the reasons this shooter was motivated to kill Christians?

00:11:07.940 And by the same token, why the White House and the FBI tried to cover up the shooters

00:11:11.280 writings?

00:11:12.740 These are questions people have been asking since the shooting first happened.

00:11:16.120 They were always perfectly rational questions.

00:11:18.840 People asking these questions, though, were condemned by the media and the government, and

00:11:21.980 now we have the documents, and now there's all the more reason to be asking those questions.

00:11:27.560 Remember, in the wake of the shooting, corporate media outlets and the White House press secretary

00:11:30.520 both told you that the so-called trans community was the real victim here, even as Christian 0.99

00:11:36.240 men, women, and children lay dead.

00:11:38.240 That was all incidental, we were told.

00:11:40.780 They didn't want you to realize that, in her own words, the shooter described her disdain

00:11:44.320 for religion very clearly just before the shooting.

00:11:48.220 There are other grievances in these documents along these lines.

00:11:50.580 For example, in the document, that shooter writes that she's upset that her new masculine identity 0.92

00:11:56.380 apparently wasn't accepted on a job form at Instacart.

00:11:59.700 She also says that she resents that she was never given puberty blockers.

00:12:03.140 Quote,

00:12:03.260 But this answer, as the shooter refers to it, apparently wasn't much of a solution.

00:12:15.480 If anything, it apparently emboldened this lifelong psychiatric patient into committing

00:12:20.180 an act of horrific violence.

00:12:22.480 As the answer continues, the shooter also lashes out at her mother, saying, quote, 0.50

00:12:26.020 What she believes, how she grew up conservatively, and that LGBTQ, especially transgender in her

00:12:31.300 era, was an enigma, nearly non-existent.

00:12:34.520 Then she elaborates on this grievance, quote,

00:12:37.380 Pain of losing a daughter.

00:12:38.880 That's not pain, that's selfishness.

00:12:40.880 Just like any rest of the parents with that mindset, how could they not ever think of their

00:12:44.920 own child's suffering? 0.88

00:12:46.220 That they hate their gender so bad they cut and want to kill themselves. 0.97

00:12:50.060 F parents like them who think of themselves first, and their preference of conservative religion, 0.99

00:12:54.820 Gay S make them believe that the child they're given should stay that way. 1.00

00:13:00.020 Even if transgender treatment was discovered and tested during my time,

00:13:03.460 I know how the situation would have turned out.

00:13:05.520 My mother would not have paid a cent. 0.95

00:13:07.800 Children who were able to successfully take puberty blockers and never enter a tortured puberty,

00:13:12.340 those little Fs don't know how good they effing have it. 1.00

00:13:15.200 I'd kill to have parents who would let their child be happy, 0.99

00:13:18.340 no matter how different it is to their viewpoint, or don't agree or are scared of it.

00:13:22.100 They're willing to listen to their children, not the other way around.

00:13:24.820 I'd kill to have those resources.

00:13:26.740 2007 was the birth of puberty blockers and a newfound discovery for treatment of non-conforming

00:13:31.460 transgender children.

00:13:33.160 2007 was when I was in the sixth grade.

00:13:35.260 Puberty already hit me.

00:13:37.840 Close quote.

00:13:39.120 The shooter then goes on to graphically describe how she made a stuffed male doll have simulated

00:13:43.980 intercourse with a stuffed girl doll who represented the dream girl, quote unquote,

00:13:47.840 that she wished to have in real life.

00:13:49.200 Again, I can't read this out loud.

00:13:51.220 It's very graphic, but the image is on the screen for those watching on a platform where

00:13:55.140 they can see it.

00:13:56.960 Now, this very disturbing entry ends with the shooter saying that she was sexually aroused 0.98

00:14:00.740 by what she did with the dolls, concluding that she's a, quote unquote, pervert who wastes 1.00

00:14:04.460 too much time on her fantasies.

00:14:07.080 And just a few days ago, the Tennessee Star reported on what those fantasies may have entailed,

00:14:10.560 quote.

00:14:10.780 Quote, retired Metro Nashville Police Department Lieutenant Garrett Davidson told Michael Patrick

00:14:16.260 Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Tennessee Star, that the Covenant School killer received

00:14:20.840 treatment from the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, where professionals failed to report her violent

00:14:25.260 fantasies to law enforcement.

00:14:27.760 Now, Davidson wasn't involved in the shooting investigation in his official capacity, but

00:14:30.720 he's seen more documents as part of the probe due to a leak than we have.

00:14:34.820 According to Davidson, quote,

00:14:35.720 quote,

00:15:05.720 of hindsight, that maybe these firearms could have been seized.

00:15:10.340 Now, we reached out to Vanderbilt University Medical Center about this report.

00:15:14.260 We wanted to know if there was any truth to the claim that they failed to notify law enforcement

00:15:18.040 of the shooter's violent fantasies.

00:15:20.380 We also wanted to know whether the shooter, who had been in their care for a very long time,

00:15:25.200 since she was the only child, was receiving any kind of talk therapy or hormone therapy

00:15:29.600 related to her gender dysphoria.

00:15:31.040 The exact drug she was taking when she lashed out violently would seem to be a detail that is

00:15:37.580 very important to the public, especially to any parents who may have their kids on the same drugs.

00:15:42.640 So wherever you stand on the issue of trans ideology,

00:15:45.720 these are critical questions.

00:15:47.840 But Vanderbilt hasn't responded to us.

00:15:50.480 They've also refused to respond to the Tennessee Star.

00:15:52.780 And that tells you a lot.

00:15:54.880 Think of it this way.

00:15:55.540 Even if Vanderbilt had to respect HIPAA laws here, even if they were barred by law from disclosing any details

00:16:00.300 about their treatment of the shooter, even if those regulations still remain in place after a patient dies,

00:16:05.260 even if we accept that for the sake of argument, you'd think they at least would say as much.

00:16:10.840 They could put out a statement explaining that a law passed by Congress prevents them from sharing

00:16:14.160 this obviously relevant information, information that other medical providers and the public

00:16:17.860 could use to help prevent future attacks like this.

00:16:21.940 This woman was reportedly a patient of Vanderbilt's for many years.

00:16:24.960 What treatment did they give her?

00:16:27.340 What treatments did, if any, did they fail to give her?

00:16:30.280 The answers to those questions could save lives, but Vanderbilt remains quiet.

00:16:36.080 For whatever reason, they're refusing to say anything at all.

00:16:39.340 All we know is that, as the Tennessee Star reported based on the police search warrant,

00:16:43.340 that the shooter had been described SSRIs.

00:16:45.940 That's all we have.

00:16:47.600 Now, you'd hate to think that there might be ideological reasons for this response or lack thereof,

00:16:51.760 but at this point, it's hard not to wonder.

00:16:54.880 You might remember that it was just a couple of years ago that I exposed a Vanderbilt physician on camera

00:16:59.140 saying that she was proud of her new gender clinic at Vanderbilt because it made the hospital a lot of money.

00:17:04.420 And that revelation led to the closure of Vanderbilt's gender clinic for kids,

00:17:07.460 as well as legislation in Tennessee and all over the country.

00:17:09.880 But Vanderbilt, as far as I can tell, never fired the physician who made those remarks.

00:17:14.500 And now they're ignoring the media completely after a trans-identifying individual, 0.97

00:17:17.980 someone who had been in their care for more than two decades, committed mass murder.

00:17:21.160 Now, in response to this story, a lot of people will probably say,

00:17:26.560 well, so what if this person identified as transgender? 0.96

00:17:29.440 She was clearly mentally ill, and mentally ill people come in all shapes and sizes. 0.98

00:17:33.080 Some are transgender and some aren't. 0.99

00:17:36.060 And you know what? That's true.

00:17:38.020 Nobody would deny that.

00:17:39.880 But it still raises the question of whether this shooter's transgender status

00:17:45.980 affected her treatment in any way.

00:17:48.700 We all know that institutions like Vanderbilt generally affirm patients' quote-unquote gender identities.

00:17:56.000 And so this brings what is, to my mind, perhaps the biggest question of the most urgent importance.

00:18:04.160 And it's this.

00:18:06.080 Did Vanderbilt's commitment to quote-unquote affirmation

00:18:09.620 in any way interfere with their ability to give this person the treatment that she needed?

00:18:15.880 Is that why she apparently wasn't referred for involuntary commitment?

00:18:21.800 Is that why she wasn't barred from buying and possessing firearms?

00:18:27.040 We don't know.

00:18:28.460 But we need to know.

00:18:30.060 I mean, it's truly a matter of life and death.

00:18:33.940 Unfortunately, we might have more answers soon.

00:18:37.620 This cannot be the end of this story, and we have reason to believe that it won't be.

00:18:41.340 There's a very real possibility that within a matter of days,

00:18:43.940 we could receive more excerpts of the shooters' writings.

00:18:47.900 And the court fight to release the entire manifesto in the meantime continues.

00:18:52.120 Whatever that manifesto contains, there's no chance at this point that any mainstream institution,

00:18:57.400 not Vanderbilt, not the FBI, certainly not the White House, will tell the truth about it.

00:19:02.180 And that's why the only solution, the only way forward, is transparency.

00:19:09.060 It's well past time that we stopped treating these writings as a state secret

00:19:12.960 to prevent more loss of life based on everything we've seen,

00:19:17.320 and more importantly, what we haven't seen.

00:19:19.300 We have no other choice.

00:19:22.480 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:19:23.860 The Post Millennial reports, on Tuesday, a federal judge struck down a law from Florida

00:19:33.960 that bars minors from getting puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones 0.68

00:19:37.640 for sex treatment interventions if a parent consents to treatment.

00:19:40.400 Again, he compared the law to discrimination against minorities and women.

00:19:49.300 Senior Judge Robert Hinkle stated in his opinion that Florida went too far

00:19:52.760 by barring trans-identified minors from being prescribed puberty blockers

00:19:56.280 and cross-sex hormones if they have parental consent.

00:19:58.920 Hinkle, who was nominated by Democratic President Bill Clinton,

00:20:01.200 quoted Martin Luther King Jr.

00:20:03.520 and compared getting the treatment as a minor to women and minorities fighting for civil rights.

00:20:07.440 Hinkle said in the over 100-page decision,

00:20:12.560 some transgender opponents invoke religion to support their position,

00:20:15.560 just as some once invoked religion to support their racism or misogyny.

00:20:19.720 Transgender opponents are, of course, free to hold their beliefs,

00:20:22.420 but they're not free to discriminate against transgender individuals just for being transgender.

00:20:26.900 In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish

00:20:29.420 just as racism and misogyny have diminished.

00:20:31.940 To paraphrase a civil rights advocate from an earlier time,

00:20:34.220 the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

00:20:37.440 Governor Ron DeSantis blasted the ruling saying,

00:20:43.820 through their elected representatives, the people of Florida acted to protect children in the state.

00:20:47.100 The court was wrong to override their wishes, as we've seen here in Florida,

00:20:49.340 the United Kingdom, and across Europe.

00:20:50.940 There's no quality evidence to support the chemical and physical mutilation of children.

00:20:54.540 These procedures do permanent life-altering damage to children,

00:20:57.040 and history will look back on this fad in horror.

00:21:02.280 And, of course, he's right about that.

00:21:03.380 I have to tell you that I sort of appreciate this ruling.

00:21:05.880 I disagree with it, obviously.

00:21:07.900 By disagree, I think it's totally deranged, both morally and intellectually,

00:21:12.560 not to mention legally.

00:21:14.920 But I appreciate it because, for one thing,

00:21:18.040 it just brings us closer to the Supreme Court ruling on this issue.

00:21:21.880 And I feel very confident that—and maybe I don't want to jinx it—

00:21:25.760 but I feel very confident that the current makeup of the Supreme Court will come to the right conclusion on this.

00:21:31.400 I don't see the Supreme Court, when the time comes, and it will eventually—

00:21:36.820 I don't see the Supreme Court ruling that parents have a constitutional right to have their children sterilized.

00:21:42.440 I don't see that.

00:21:43.280 But I appreciate the ruling also because it's so flimsy, so weak, so clearly ideologically motivated

00:21:56.780 that it will not only be easily overturned, but it just continues to expose the gender ideologues for who they are. 0.97

00:22:04.480 I mean, it's that ludicrous. 0.50

00:22:05.900 It's hard to even know where to begin, and this article only gives a brief snippet of the judge's ruling.

00:22:11.620 The New York Times article on this ruling has other snippets just as absurd like this.

00:22:15.940 Reading now from the decision,

00:22:18.440 The state of Florida can regulate as needed, but cannot flatly deny transgender individuals safe and effective medical treatment,

00:22:24.380 treatment with medications routinely provided to others with the state's full approval,

00:22:28.280 so long as the purpose is not to support the patient's transgender identity.

00:22:35.060 Safe and effective.

00:22:35.900 Says who? 0.65

00:22:39.360 You know, there's a reason, as Governor DeSantis alluded to,

00:22:42.800 there's a reason these treatments are being banned across the world,

00:22:46.160 often by governments that are otherwise very sympathetic to the leftist cause and the LGBT cause more broadly.

00:22:54.420 That's because there is no reliable evidence that these drugs, when given to minors for this purpose,

00:23:01.480 are safe or effective, and lots of evidence to the contrary.

00:23:04.620 Not to mention just basic common sense that would, should already, you know, reveal the truth of this.

00:23:13.020 And besides, effective at what exactly?

00:23:15.920 What are the drugs supposed to be effectively doing?

00:23:18.820 Can you explain that?

00:23:21.720 They're not effective at changing anyone's biology.

00:23:24.820 They're not effective at changing males into females.

00:23:27.240 So, this is totally wrong, but let's go back to that bit from the, from the, that the post-millennial quoted.

00:23:33.740 Some transgender opponents invoke religion to support their position, just as some once invoked religion to support their racism and misogyny.

00:23:44.440 Transgender opponents are, of course, free to hold their beliefs.

00:23:46.800 To paraphrase a civil rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

00:23:51.060 So, this is just full-on, undisguised, left-wing activism.

00:23:57.200 It's not a legal decision at all.

00:23:59.880 Like, what you read there is indistinguishable from what you might read in an editorial on Pink News or something.

00:24:05.820 Let's start with the fact that the transgender opponents, quote-unquote, meaning in this case, people who are, who are opposed to transitioning minors.

00:24:13.140 Those people, us, we actually don't invoke religion as our primary argument.

00:24:20.420 I, I, I very rarely hear that.

00:24:24.020 I rarely hear anyone on our side of this debate do that.

00:24:29.880 Um, when two people are arguing about whether it's a good idea to give, quote-unquote, puberty blockers to minors,

00:24:35.320 or whether it's a good idea to perform cosmetic double mastectomies of minors, 0.88

00:24:38.180 I rarely hear the person on the right side of that debate.

00:24:42.080 I rarely hear them, hear them say, well, you shouldn't do that because God says it's bad.

00:24:47.600 Now, it's true that God does say that it's bad.

00:24:50.580 It's a true statement.

00:24:52.580 But, I don't, we don't need to invoke religion at that point of the discussion

00:24:57.840 for the same reason that we don't need to invoke religion to explain that three times three equals nine.

00:25:04.380 Um, now, I mean, you could, but it's, it's, it's, that doesn't need to be your first argument.

00:25:13.080 In fact, it's usually the other side that brings religion into the conversation.

00:25:20.400 Uh, this judge is, this judge does it right here.

00:25:24.060 He, he has no evidence-based argument, no scientific argument.

00:25:28.880 He has only a moral argument, and it's, it's a completely unhinged moral argument, but that's, that's all he has.

00:25:37.380 Um, and so, and he is the one, which we find so often with the left, that, uh, when they are,

00:25:47.240 when they're arguing against the so-called social conservatives on, on one of the so-called social issues,

00:25:53.460 uh, they will always accuse us of, you know, bringing the Bible into it.

00:26:00.240 Not that, not that it's wrong to bring the Bible into a conversation, but the point is that

00:26:05.060 they will do it much quicker, actually, generally, than we will in these conversations.

00:26:10.580 Um, and, and in this case, we also get the, the quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

00:26:21.180 Um, by the way, how do you think that any of the civil rights leaders of the mid-20th century,

00:26:30.740 or before, how do you think any of them would feel about puberty blockers for children?

00:26:38.360 Like, what, what, is there any indication that, that any of them believed that gender was fluid?

00:26:45.500 If Martin Luther King Jr. was around today, and you asked him, is gender fluid?

00:26:50.300 Like, what do you think he would say to that?

00:26:53.520 And if there was that belief among the civil rights leaders of the, of the, of, of, of history,

00:26:59.420 uh, then why didn't, why didn't they ever say it?

00:27:03.660 Like, it never came up one time.

00:27:05.440 They never mentioned it.

00:27:09.160 All right, Biden, uh, gave a gun control speech yesterday,

00:27:11.940 and as Greg Price on Twitter documents, he told three lies,

00:27:15.420 and then babbled incoherently, all in the span of one minute.

00:27:18.360 The speech was longer than one minute, but it took only one minute to include all of that.

00:27:22.280 Let's, uh, watch this.

00:27:23.700 They're so damn important.

00:27:25.740 We need you.

00:27:26.460 We need you to overcome the unrelenting opposition of the gun lobby, gun manufacturers,

00:27:31.560 so many politicians, when they oppose common-sense gun legislation.

00:27:35.840 I used to be a law, when I was no longer the vice president,

00:27:39.080 I became a professor at the University of, of, um, Pennsylvania.

00:27:43.200 Before that, I taught a constitutional law class, and so I taught the Second Amendment.

00:27:48.080 There's never been a time that says you can own anything you want.

00:27:52.340 And never, you couldn't own a cannon during the Civil War.

00:27:55.360 You want me to think about it.

00:27:58.240 How many of you have heard this phrase?

00:28:00.120 The blood of liberty.

00:28:02.580 Wash your dough.

00:28:03.860 Give me a break.

00:28:06.860 No, I mean it.

00:28:07.780 Seriously.

00:28:10.600 And by the way, if they want to think to take on government if we get out of line,

00:28:15.440 which they're talking again about, well, guess what?

00:28:18.300 They need F-15s. 0.94

00:28:19.380 So I just want to give you the transcript of that last piece.

00:28:22.800 He said, I think he said, how much have you heard this phrase?

00:28:28.860 The blood of liberty washed of those.

00:28:31.080 Give me a break.

00:28:31.980 No, I mean it.

00:28:32.620 Seriously.

00:28:33.200 And by the way, if they want to think they, this, to take on government if we get out of line,

00:28:38.160 which there's talking again about, guess what?

00:28:40.220 They need F-15s. 0.94

00:28:41.300 That's what he said.

00:28:44.420 The only way that we even know what this vegetable is trying to say there is that we've heard him say something similar

00:28:53.400 when he was slightly more coherent.

00:28:55.880 So we can sort of piece it together. 1.00

00:28:57.300 So what he's trying to say, as far as we can decipher, is that the Second Amendment supporters are idiots 1.00

00:29:02.740 who think that they can overthrow the government, but they can't because they don't have F-15s. 1.00

00:29:11.900 And, you know, there are a lot of reasons why that argument is both false and irrelevant.

00:29:18.580 But let's just, if that's true, if all these Second Amendment supporters are just like wannabe revolutionaries

00:29:32.800 who talk a big game, but like they're just silly, you can laugh at them, they don't have F-15s.

00:29:39.080 Well, then what's with all the panicking over January 6th?

00:29:42.720 I mean, I thought you said that democracy, our very way of life, our system of government

00:29:49.880 was hanging in the balance when a group of unarmed, largely out of shape, middle-aged Trump supporters

00:29:59.980 trespassed in the Capitol.

00:30:04.480 So they almost overthrew the government with no weapons at all.

00:30:09.860 And yet, we would also need F-15s to do that?

00:30:15.740 So which is it?

00:30:18.420 But you can't ask this guy for coherence, of course.

00:30:21.520 And before he descended into unintelligible gibberish, he, of course, lied.

00:30:27.780 Everything before that was a lie.

00:30:29.140 He lied about being a UPenn professor.

00:30:31.420 He lied about teaching a constitutional law class.

00:30:34.400 He lied and said that you couldn't own canons when the Second Amendment was written.

00:30:40.260 Well, actually, you could.

00:30:42.640 And not only that, but you can actually, I believe you can own canons now.

00:30:47.460 You could buy one now.

00:30:52.380 It's not a very practical method of self-defense.

00:30:55.680 Like, I wouldn't use it if it was a home intruder or something.

00:30:58.580 I wouldn't use it for that.

00:31:01.240 But I really wouldn't use it for it.

00:31:02.360 I wouldn't use it for any, like, practical application.

00:31:04.720 But I think it would be really cool to have one anyway.

00:31:06.580 Not saying you shouldn't get one.

00:31:08.720 So none of that was true.

00:31:09.960 He just said a bunch of stuff that isn't true.

00:31:12.120 And then he swerved from there.

00:31:15.280 It's like the only thing you could understand that he was saying was a lie.

00:31:17.900 And then the rest of it was totally incoherent.

00:31:22.100 All right.

00:31:22.560 Daily Wire has this report.

00:31:23.780 As Pride Month continues, several people have been charged with allegedly defacing Pride flags painted on streets with tire marks.

00:31:34.180 And some critics have even accused them of a hate crime.

00:31:36.440 In early February, a Florida man was accused of deliberately doing multiple burnouts with his pickup truck in a Delray Beach intersection that was painted in rainbow colors.

00:31:46.760 The incident was caught on surveillance video, which police released.

00:31:50.160 It was a pickup truck with LED underbody lights and an American flag attached to the back, leaving tire marks on the intersection's Pride paint while making a hard left after dark.

00:31:57.700 In that case, a 19-year-old named Dylan Brewer surrendered to authorities after they searched for him for a week.

00:32:07.040 There was a manhunt for a week to track down the kid who took too sudden of a left turn on a Pride flag.

00:32:22.920 Which maybe, look, there's a certain symbolism there.

00:32:26.240 Maybe he was trying to make some kind of a point about, you know, hard left turn, Pride flag.

00:32:30.700 I think there's, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but you might have been making, and I made the point before, too, that you could argue.

00:32:39.100 And I think that some of these people that are being arrested for leaving creative designs on Pride flags, I think they should argue.

00:32:49.680 Only if it's true, I would never encourage anyone to, you know, make false arguments.

00:32:54.300 But they could argue that they, in fact, are just trying to add designs to the Pride flag.

00:33:02.160 That, in fact, you know, the Pride flag, it's a democratic process.

00:33:06.500 And every single year, there are more designs added to the Pride flag.

00:33:11.200 It looks busier and busier and more chaotic every single year.

00:33:14.880 And so, these might be people that are just trying to add their own designs.

00:33:19.440 And they don't mean any harm by it.

00:33:24.020 It's creative expression.

00:33:26.640 You could say.

00:33:29.820 But that wasn't the only case.

00:33:31.000 The Palm Beach County Human Rights Council declared Brewer's Action should be considered a hate crime.

00:33:34.560 Then earlier this month, three teenagers were arrested and charged with a felony

00:33:37.580 for leaving scooter marks on the Pride flag painted on a street in Washington

00:33:43.620 in Washington.

00:33:44.880 Prosecutors demanded a $15,000 bond for the teens.

00:33:48.840 Police used surveillance footage from the intersection to find the suspects.

00:33:52.640 The 19-year-old suspect was charged with malicious mischief with a hate crime bias. 0.78

00:33:56.800 He was accused of shouting, F you, and then a gay slur at a passerby. 0.88

00:34:02.660 One witness said, 0.99

00:34:03.380 We see that you have done this thing.

00:34:05.460 People don't just go out and do that without intention.

00:34:08.020 You don't destroy symbols without intention behind it.

00:34:11.240 Lime scooters, which rents the scooters the teens were using,

00:34:13.800 said it would be taking immediate action against the perpetrators.

00:34:17.140 Now they've got Lime scooters coming after them. 1.00

00:34:18.840 All of us at Lime condemn these vile acts in no uncertain terms.

00:34:24.220 A new Washington state law makes it a hate crime to deface public installations

00:34:31.160 with the intent of intimidating a protected group.

00:34:33.480 Okay, so that's the important stipulation there.

00:34:37.400 Because there's a lot of defacing and vandalizing of public installations

00:34:43.220 and monuments and statues and that sort of thing.

00:34:47.560 A lot of that has happened, as we know.

00:34:50.260 Does any of that qualify as a hate crime?

00:34:53.980 No, because the goal in those cases is not to intimidate a protected group.

00:35:02.280 Now, I think it's obvious to most intelligent people what's happening here.

00:35:05.620 They keep making these pride flag crosswalks and the crosswalks keep ending up with tire marks on them

00:35:13.680 because they are crosswalks.

00:35:16.820 They're on the street.

00:35:20.040 Where cars go, they're in that exact spot.

00:35:25.220 But that's where they put them.

00:35:26.900 And then they hunt down the perpetrators and charge them with hate crimes.

00:35:30.200 And it's kind of rinse and repeat over and over again.

00:35:32.660 And so it's obvious that the point of the crosswalk is exactly this.

00:35:39.580 Like, this is the point.

00:35:41.740 It's like an LGBT version of a Venus flytrap. 1.00

00:35:44.820 It's bait.

00:35:45.620 And they put it down there and they wait for someone to drive across it aggressively, whether they're intentionally or not.

00:35:55.320 And then they get to, you know, root out some more hate.

00:35:59.200 Punish more backwards bigoted people, even teenagers, especially teenagers. 0.95

00:36:03.580 Teenagers on scooters.

00:36:04.560 So, you know, as always, I think some people on the right kind of miss the point with these things.

00:36:12.140 And you hear some people on the right say, well, how could you be so sensitive or offended by tire marks on a crosswalk?

00:36:20.560 Come on, don't you know that when you put something on the street, it's going to end up with tire marks on it?

00:36:26.200 Yeah, of course they know that.

00:36:27.180 But that's the point.

00:36:29.040 That's why they're doing it.

00:36:30.200 It's why it's there.

00:36:33.060 And also keep in mind that these are the same people who otherwise want to have the police less involved in things.

00:36:42.580 We just had a story about a town, I think it was in Massachusetts, if I remember correctly, where they are replacing cops with social workers for some 911 calls.

00:36:51.240 And we know the left has been talking about that for years now, threatening to do that.

00:36:56.400 And in some jurisdictions, they are actually doing that now.

00:37:01.000 They're implementing that.

00:37:03.360 Because they want to de-emphasize the police.

00:37:05.760 They want to defund the police.

00:37:06.980 They want, you know, they want to get the police less involved.

00:37:10.020 Except for here.

00:37:12.260 You know, in a case where they are here deliberately setting up situations for the cops to get involved.

00:37:18.520 Get involved with, by the way, nonviolent offenders who have committed a victimless crime.

00:37:26.660 And it's easy for it to be a victimless crime because it's not a crime at all.

00:37:32.280 So in this case, they want to send the cops out.

00:37:35.080 And, you know, once again, if we're missing the point, it's easy to call that, to make the mistake of calling that a double standard.

00:37:43.900 But it's not a double standard, as I'm always reminding you.

00:37:48.240 It's, this is, this is, the standard is very clear.

00:37:52.520 The standard is clear, actually.

00:37:53.820 It's a very clear standard that they do apply very consistently.

00:37:58.500 And the standard is that they matter and you don't.

00:38:02.300 That's the standard.

00:38:03.500 Now, we could disagree with the standard.

00:38:04.840 I certainly do.

00:38:05.480 But that's the standard.

00:38:09.280 I mean, we heard it in that, that law in, uh, in Washington.

00:38:11.820 The, the, you know, you can't deface public installations if you're doing it in a way that is going to be offensive to protected groups.

00:38:22.600 The very idea of having protected groups.

00:38:25.880 Because you hear that and you think, what, are there groups that aren't protected?

00:38:30.920 Are you saying that there are, what do you mean protected?

00:38:33.160 Aren't all groups of humans who are citizens of the country?

00:38:36.800 Shouldn't they all be protected by the law?

00:38:38.320 What do you mean protected?

00:38:42.080 Well, the answer is that no.

00:38:43.440 Actually, all groups are not, certainly not protected equally.

00:38:46.760 Not protected in the same way.

00:38:48.220 Not protected to the same extent.

00:38:49.320 Um, and so they, they, they could not be more clear about what the actual standard is.

00:38:58.580 They're, they're making it plain as day.

00:39:00.580 Let's get to the daily cancellation.

00:39:08.660 In November of last year, I covered the ongoing years-long crusade by the birdwatching community to decolonize their hobby and renounce slavery and racism.

00:39:17.500 This is very important because until the birdwatcher community embarked on this quest, the general public wasn't sure where birdwatchers stood on the issue of slavery and racism.

00:39:27.560 Are they for it?

00:39:28.620 Are they against it?

00:39:30.100 These are the questions people had.

00:39:32.320 In fact, many people assume that they must be for those things.

00:39:34.760 If you saw someone staring through binoculars at a sparrow or whatever, you, you would think to yourself, I bet that person supports slavery.

00:39:41.740 In fact, I bet he actually owns slaves.

00:39:44.240 That's what you would think.

00:39:45.060 Or maybe that was just me.

00:39:45.880 But inside the world of ornithology, everything changed on May 25th, 2020.

00:39:50.620 That was infamously the date of George Floyd's overdose.

00:39:53.560 More importantly for the birdwatching community, though, May 25th, 2020 was also the date of Amy Cooper's mildly unpleasant interaction with a black birdwatcher named Christian in New York Central Park. 0.64

00:40:04.540 As you may remember, Christian demanded that Amy Cooper leash her dog.

00:40:07.760 She refused.

00:40:08.860 Then he tried to coax her dog away with treats, freaked her out.

00:40:12.400 She called the police.

00:40:13.180 One thing led to another, and birdwatching had its very own ready-made George Floyd moment.

00:40:17.780 The need for equity and unlearning in the name of racial justice was instantly clear to everybody in the hobby.

00:40:24.460 To that end, as I covered last year, the birdwatching community began doing the work, as they say.

00:40:29.000 They changed the names of dozens of birds, including, for example, the Scots Oriole and the McCown's Longspur.

00:40:34.620 Apparently, no one could even look at a Scots Oriole or McCown's Longspur and think of anything other than white supremacy and, you know, the Trail of Tears. 0.57

00:40:43.700 As one birdwatcher commented unironically at the time, quote,

00:40:46.500 the tendrils of all social justice have reached to the point of bird names.

00:40:50.800 I know that when I heard that they were changing the name of the McCown's Longspur,

00:40:54.560 I thought to myself, thank God, now I can rest at night.

00:41:01.140 I can finally sleep.

00:41:03.060 But it turns out that this was just the beginning of the hobby's quest for inclusion.

00:41:07.380 That brings us to the latest update in this story that the whole world is closely following.

00:41:12.920 And by the whole world, I mean really just me for some reason.

00:41:16.020 Now various chapters of the National Autobahn Society all over the country

00:41:19.220 have embarked on a new frontier of social justice and anti-racism.

00:41:23.460 They're not just changing the names of birds anymore.

00:41:25.080 Instead, they're also changing the names of their own organizations.

00:41:27.860 That's because although John James Audubon contributed more to the study of birds than anyone who's ever lived,

00:41:33.400 he apparently owned slaves at some point or something.

00:41:37.280 So his name is now verboten.

00:41:39.300 To be clear, the National Autobahn Society itself isn't changing the name,

00:41:42.620 but the local chapters are doing so while still taking the National Autobahn Society's money and resources,

00:41:47.260 which is a convenient trick, not a particularly original one as it turns out.

00:41:51.220 But in virtually every case, each of these local chapters is currently rebranding from the Autobahn Society to a bird alliance.

00:41:59.020 In the name of diversity and anti-racism, they're going from Autobahn Societies to bird alliances,

00:42:05.380 which of course sounds like the lamest imaginable version of the Justice League in some alternate universe

00:42:10.520 populated exclusively by nerds, but that's what they're going with, bird alliances.

00:42:15.420 And they're playing it completely straight.

00:42:17.560 The leaders of these ex-Autobahn Society chapters have spent the last few months

00:42:20.760 appearing on local news channels, making the case for the name change.

00:42:24.120 For example, here's the leader of the now defunct Tahoma Audubon Society

00:42:27.900 explaining why their new name is the Tahoma Bird Alliance.

00:42:32.280 Watch.

00:42:33.360 Stuart, you are the executive director of Tahoma Bird Alliance.

00:42:39.480 Yes, let's say it one more time.

00:42:41.540 Say it with me.

00:42:42.660 Tahoma Bird Alliance.

00:42:44.440 No longer is it the name that shall not be mentioned.

00:42:48.900 Yes, this is a great thing to do because the old name created barriers.

00:42:53.740 Well, see, and that's just, I remember when you were sitting on the couch when we just started talking about this

00:42:58.860 and the forbearance of people of color and what the person who founded that organization, the activities and the thoughts and the philosophies and the language was really, in its infancy, hate and racism.

00:43:48.880 Audubon will be completely airbrushed out of history books and scientific journals in short order as well.

00:43:53.420 And somehow that hard-hitting interview still left a basic question unanswered, which is, why exactly can't you use the guy's name?

00:43:58.960 Even if he was a horrible, bad, racist person, which I don't think he was, what exactly does changing the name of a birdwatching society accomplish in practical terms?

00:44:06.400 Well, in another interview, the leader of Portland Audubon, now known as the Bird Alliance of Oregon, attempted to provide an explanation.

00:44:12.780 These people are, you know, at least they're capable of saying Audubon's name out loud.

00:44:16.480 So there's that.

00:44:17.780 Watch.

00:44:18.080 And one of the things we noticed is, as a barrier to some of the inviting folks in, was right in our name, Audubon.

00:44:27.020 What is wrong with the Audubon name?

00:44:28.820 Well, there's nothing wrong with the Audubon name in particular.

00:44:32.580 But it's named after a person.

00:44:33.960 John James Audubon was actually a slaveholder.

00:44:36.640 He bought and sold slaves.

00:44:38.460 Other people did.

00:44:39.340 And you say, because of the name, because of what it represented to so many people of color, you weren't getting them to be interested or excited in what you did.

00:44:48.840 Well, yes, it's a good point, because sometimes a barrier is only visible to the folks that it impacts.

00:44:54.280 Right, sure.

00:44:54.840 And in that regard, when we know that that name was presenting a barrier, when we want to have more people involved in the environmental movement, the more voices that are there, it's much more effective.

00:45:07.220 It was actually a really important thing you just said, unintentionally, but a barrier is only, sometimes a barrier is only visible to those it impacts.

00:45:17.760 Well, no, actually, you can, that's, you can come to the opposite conclusion.

00:45:21.560 Like, if you want to do something, and you're complaining that there's a barrier preventing you from doing it, but that barrier is not visible to anyone else.

00:45:33.300 So your point, you're saying, I want to do this, but look, I can't because of this barrier.

00:45:37.500 And everybody else is just, like, walking through and saying, what do you mean there's no barrier?

00:45:41.360 I don't know.

00:45:42.400 That means the problem is you.

00:45:44.180 That means that there is no barrier.

00:45:45.400 That's a really good indication that, in fact, it's all in your imagination.

00:45:49.460 But anyway, he's basically suggesting that there were a lot of people out there in Portland who really wanted to join their local birdwatching group.

00:45:54.540 But then they saw that it was named after the single most important birdwatcher to ever live.

00:45:58.780 Some would say probably the only important one.

00:46:01.020 And then they decided that they just couldn't be a part of that. 0.96

00:46:03.060 And instead of celebrating the fact that complete lunatics like this had decided to self-select out of the organization,

00:46:07.780 the Portland Audubon Society decided to change their name to accommodate these people

00:46:11.160 while retaining all the other benefits of their association with the National Audubon Society, of course.

00:46:15.320 But there are other reasons for changing the name of these chapters.

00:46:17.700 In my extensive research, I came across the John Wesley Palaces chapter of the Audubon Society,

00:46:23.240 which has also just changed its name.

00:46:25.120 And they're now the Grand Prairie Bird Alliance.

00:46:28.160 Here's their justification for the switch.

00:46:30.620 How much of a barrier was the John James Audubon name to inclusion?

00:46:36.140 Yes, he was a slave trader. 0.86

00:46:39.220 Yes, he was a racist. 0.98

00:46:40.200 Yes, he killed birds that he then arranged and painted. 0.78

00:46:45.120 So that's not a terribly great message for today's audiences.

00:46:50.100 But he did popularize the love of birds.

00:46:54.460 It's interesting because I think thanks to the information age, you can do some deep research on origins.

00:47:02.480 Where did things come from?

00:47:03.760 How did they come about?

00:47:04.760 How did they become mainstream?

00:47:06.080 I think for us, in a more pragmatic, and maybe this is sort of a Midwestern perspective,

00:47:12.260 we were already struggling with Audubon, with a D, with Autobon, T, and the Speedway in Germany.

00:47:18.360 So I think the way in which natural history, conservation history, biology, a lot of facts,

00:47:27.260 that I'm a 47-year-old woman walking around with a college degree and a master's,

00:47:31.860 I probably couldn't tell you that much about Audubon or his origins.

00:47:34.880 And so we were already struggling with, and this is what's happening at the national level, relevance.

00:47:40.260 Now, first of all, I hope you appreciate the sacrifice I made here.

00:47:42.900 I had to sit and listen to multiple interviews with birdwatchers in order to do this monologue.

00:47:46.340 Now, you might say that I didn't have to do that.

00:47:48.040 In fact, I don't have to be talking about this at all.

00:47:50.240 That's true enough, but stop changing the subject.

00:47:53.420 Anyway, this woman isn't really upset about racism or slavery.

00:47:56.240 She's bothered by the fact that Audubon's name sounds like the highway system in Germany called the Autobahn.

00:48:02.040 This is a big problem in the community.

00:48:03.200 They kept confusing their local Audubon society with a German highway.

00:48:06.880 Therefore, we now have the Grand Prairie Bird Alliance.

00:48:10.900 Racism may not be solved, but at least no more Illinois residents will fly to Germany and drive on the highway when they really just wanted to see some birds.

00:48:18.100 These are small victories, but victories nonetheless.

00:48:20.580 Yet these victories have not come without a cost.

00:48:22.540 All of these sudden name changes are also causing quite a bit of discord within the birdwatching community.

00:48:27.560 It's tearing them apart, really.

00:48:29.500 And that's especially evident in the state of Wisconsin, where recently there was major drama between two birdwatching groups.

00:48:35.520 On one side of the dispute, you have a group called Badgerland Birding, which, as you know, has operated for several years.

00:48:42.060 On the other hand, you have the Madison Audubon Society.

00:48:44.640 The problem started with the Madison Audubon Society in the name of anti-racism changed its name abruptly to the Badgerland Bird Alliance.

00:48:50.740 Now you have the Badgerland Birding Group and the Badgerland Bird Alliance Group each competing for the same turf.

00:48:57.960 Here's one more clip.

00:48:59.480 I promise it's the last one.

00:49:00.600 Watch.

00:49:00.860 Hey, everybody.

00:49:02.240 This is Derek and Ryan from Badgerland Birding.

00:49:04.500 We want to start off by saying we really did not want to make this video.

00:49:08.600 We've been holding off for a while in hopes that we could come to some kind of agreement based on some things that have happened.

00:49:15.560 But basically, another organization, formerly Madison Audubon, we feel that they're trying to steal our name or at least step on our toes with our name.

00:49:24.880 They have changed from Madison Audubon to the Badgerland Bird Alliance, which, if you've been following us, sounds super similar to our name and what we've done.

00:49:36.020 So anyway, you get the idea.

00:49:37.320 I mean, but what a catastrophe.

00:49:38.600 Apparently, now there are people signing up for the Badgerland Bird Alliance who thought they were signing up for the Badgerland Birding Group and vice versa.

00:49:45.800 And so lawyers are getting called and feelings are getting hurt.

00:49:49.040 The worst part is no one's watching the birds.

00:49:50.780 It's total mayhem in the Wisconsin birding community.

00:49:52.960 And this is the state of anti-racist efforts in the birdwatching world just about seven months after I last checked in on them.

00:49:59.260 At this rate, it won't be long until the various birdwatching groups have descended into gang violence.

00:50:05.020 Now, I know a lot of you think that this story doesn't matter.

00:50:07.840 You're saying, Matt, why are you still talking about this?

00:50:09.680 Why did you ever talk about it?

00:50:11.520 Well, how will you feel when birdwatchers are at war?

00:50:15.120 Think of all the birds that might get caught in the crossfire.

00:50:17.220 And that's why I'll continue to monitor the ongoing crusade to decolonize ornithology.

00:50:22.980 Maybe we'll have an update in another seven months.

00:50:25.380 Every seven months, we'll do.

00:50:26.400 It'll be a tradition.

00:50:27.560 Until then, because of its increasingly neurotic and doomed quest to engage in some of the weirdest virtue signaling we've ever seen,

00:50:34.080 the entire birdwatching community is today, once again, canceled.

00:50:40.020 That'll do it for the show today.

00:50:40.820 Thanks for watching.

00:50:41.360 Thanks for listening.

00:50:41.960 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:50:43.060 Have a great day.

00:50:44.320 Godspeed.

00:50:44.680 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 12, 2024

Ep. 1385 - We Have Some Of The Covenant Shooter's Writings. Here's What They Say.

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