The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1388 - How The Left Is Using Lawfare To Get Revenge On Elon Musk

00:00:00.160 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Elon Musk has been public enemy number one ever since he committed the sin of allowing people to speak freely on the internet.

00:00:06.540 Now the left is using lawfare to get revenge on him.

00:00:09.080 The latest attempt is a major toxic work environment lawsuit from former employees of SpaceX.

00:00:14.000 The word frivolous does not even begin to describe this thing. We'll discuss.

00:00:17.180 Also, a political candidate in Texas is caught sending racist messages to himself.

00:00:21.240 Chuck Schumer tries to prove that he's a normal, red-blooded American, and it goes horribly wrong.

00:00:24.860 And LGBT activists in California are tearing down no U-turn signs because the signs are homophobic.

00:00:30.740 What's that all about? We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:45.020 Thanks to the flood of so-called workers' rights legislation and case law over the past generation,

00:01:50.220 there are three words that are now music to the ears of every useless employee in the country.

00:01:55.320 Hostile work environment.

00:01:57.000 A claim for a hostile work environment isn't hard to put together, but it can result in millions of dollars in damages, often enough to destroy an entire company.

00:02:05.740 And for that reason, hostile work environment claims have become the weapon of choice for both workers who are really bad at their jobs,

00:02:11.920 as well as workers who actively want to sabotage their employers.

00:02:16.220 The underlying idea behind a hostile work environment claim is that instead of having to show any single concrete injury,

00:02:22.940 plaintiffs can simply point to a series of minor incidents that occurred over time.

00:02:27.340 And each of these incidents in isolation may mean absolutely nothing.

00:02:30.440 It could be a harmless joke that causes no mental distress whatsoever.

00:02:33.840 But in a hostile work environment claim, plaintiffs are allowed to add up all of those little incidents together

00:02:39.360 and then make the case that offensive conduct in general was so pervasive in their workplace that they couldn't be expected to perform their jobs.

00:02:46.980 The exploring popularity of these claims has become a major tool of left-wing lawfare.

00:02:52.340 And now it's having a noticeable effect on pretty much every major corporation in the country.

00:02:56.960 It's slowing productivity. It's making everything more dull and uninteresting.

00:03:01.420 Companies that actually try to innovate and excel are especially vulnerable.

00:03:05.740 So you may have seen that eight former SpaceX employees are now suing Elon Musk in Los Angeles,

00:03:11.080 alleging, among other things, that he operates a hostile work environment in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act.

00:03:17.180 These are the same former SpaceX employees who, back in 2022, helped distribute an open letter

00:03:21.460 that publicly called Elon Musk's behavior embarrassing.

00:03:23.900 And they were fired, unsurprisingly, because attacking your boss in public generally doesn't go over well.

00:03:29.440 But the employees, predictably, are back with a lawsuit against Elon Musk and SpaceX

00:03:33.960 that every major mainstream outlet from the Wall Street Journal to Axios is hyping as a really serious piece of litigation.

00:03:40.800 Here's CNN, for example, interviewing one of the eight plaintiffs in the case.

00:03:45.820 Watch.

00:03:45.980 Paige Holland Thielen is one of the plaintiffs in this case, and she joins me now.

00:03:51.940 Paige, thank you so much for joining me this evening.

00:03:54.640 I do want to go through each of these allegations one by one because they are, frankly, extraordinary.

00:04:01.140 One is that people are evaluated on bra size.

00:04:04.940 What's happening?

00:04:05.940 Can you elaborate?

00:04:06.460 There was a very popular tweet from a little while ago where Elon claimed that he was starting a university

00:04:18.320 with what he considered humorous acronym.

00:04:23.920 And I won't go into what that is, but that got very popular and got repeated all over the workplace.

00:04:32.540 And one of the follow-up tweets was that D's get degrees, which was a joke about breast size due to the acronym of the fake college.

00:04:43.700 So things like that were widely shared on all internal chat channels and talked about in meetings.

00:04:49.800 So it turns out that, according to this plaintiff, Elon Musk evaluates employees based on their bra size.

00:04:58.560 Pretty serious claim.

00:04:59.680 I mean, you know, it sounds pretty outlandish, actually.

00:05:02.960 So you'd hope she'd have some proof to back it up.

00:05:06.820 But instead of providing any real evidence for this claim, the employee points to a tweet that Musk sent out to his 180 million followers.

00:05:13.660 And instead of just not reading the tweet or unfollowing Musk on Twitter, she apparently couldn't avoid seeing this horrible tweet.

00:05:21.540 And conveniently, she says that she simply can't repeat the tweet on air.

00:05:24.660 It's just too shocking, apparently.

00:05:26.340 Too upsetting.

00:05:27.460 Now, if you read the complaint, though, you'll find the tweet she's talking about.

00:05:31.140 So here it is.

00:05:33.220 I'm going to read it to you.

00:05:35.260 It's very traumatizing.

00:05:36.600 But this is what he tweeted.

00:05:38.200 Quote, should I make the Texas Institute of Technology and Science real?

00:05:42.060 No, it would, of course, have advanced social studies, too.

00:05:45.760 Close quote.

00:05:47.740 That's it.

00:05:48.620 That's the tweet.

00:05:49.520 So this is what's known as a joke.

00:05:52.800 And millions of people who saw the tweet immediately understood that it's a joke.

00:05:56.420 The acronyms for Texas Institute of Technology and Science and advanced social studies would be TITS and ASS, respectively.

00:06:05.180 So that's the punchline.

00:06:07.180 And in a follow-up tweet, the complaint says that Musk wrote,

00:06:11.140 D's would get degrees at his fictional university.

00:06:15.620 Now, from those two tweets, we're supposed to conclude that Musk and SpaceX evaluate employees based on their bra size.

00:06:23.720 It's a joke about D's getting degrees at a fictional university that he posted on Twitter.

00:06:28.500 Now, what we learned from the tweet, if anything, is that Musk maybe needs to hone his material a bit if he wants to pursue a career in stand-up comedy.

00:06:37.560 But we don't learn that he runs a hostile work environment.

00:06:40.020 And we certainly don't learn that Musk conducts performance reviews that involve ranking employees by their bra size.

00:06:47.260 That's just a thing that is not happening at all.

00:06:50.280 This is the kind of frivolous complaint that now confronts SpaceX, a $200 billion company that is objectively doing more to make humanity a space-faring civilization than any other organization on the planet, including NASA.

00:07:03.280 A woman and her colleagues didn't like a joke that Musk made on the Internet about a fake university.

00:07:08.780 And the corporate press is promoting this aggressively as a major scandal.

00:07:13.920 Forget about how SpaceX landed a 400-foot-tall reusable rocket for the first time in human history.

00:07:19.060 Never mind the fact that SpaceX could use that technology to land on Mars in the near future.

00:07:24.500 Like, they are very probably going to do something that has never been done.

00:07:30.980 They are on their way to achieving potentially the greatest accomplishment in the history of mankind.

00:07:39.960 Don't focus on that.

00:07:41.060 Focus instead on this particular joke.

00:07:43.700 A joke which, again, has nothing to do with Elon Musk evaluating employees by their bra size,

00:07:47.920 which was the original accusation.

00:07:50.520 So I pulled up the full complaint to see if I was missing anything here.

00:07:54.060 There's a whole section devoted to the grievous injuries that fired SpaceX employee Rebecca Clark allegedly suffered.

00:08:00.220 Here's the part about evaluating women based on their bra size. 0.99

00:08:02.880 Quote, Clark attended the Falcon meeting with Vice President John Edwards and HR Representative Janet Fernandez.

00:08:09.060 She observed that Mr. Edwards acted in an angry and aggressive manner in response to employees' concerns about the hostile work environment.

00:08:16.120 Clark pushed Mr. Edwards to clarify whether Elon's tweet, indicating that a woman is valued based upon the size of her breasts, was the view of SpaceX.

00:08:25.400 Edwards ultimately repeated words to the effect of SpaceX is Elon and Elon is SpaceX.

00:08:31.220 Simmons nodded his head in agreement with Edwards and repeated some of the things Edwards said, such as,

00:08:37.660 the mission to Mars is the most important thing and there's no time to focus on these issues at work.

00:08:43.200 Can you imagine?

00:08:44.040 He said going to Mars is more important than like a boob pun that Elon Musk tweeted.

00:08:51.180 Where are this guy's priorities?

00:08:52.680 I mean, come on.

00:08:53.980 In other words, this woman was so offended by Elon's joke that she concluded that a woman is valued based on the size of her breasts at SpaceX.

00:09:00.540 That's the leap that she made in her own words.

00:09:05.140 And when the higher-ups told her to knock it off because they want to focus on important things like launching rockets to Mars,

00:09:11.180 she, of course, became even more offended and added that to the lawsuit as well. 0.99

00:09:15.360 The rest of this complaint from these former employees is full of allegations like this.

00:09:19.440 Actually, it only gets worse, actually.

00:09:21.080 It reads like a parody of a lawsuit.

00:09:22.940 It's almost as if they intended to catalog Musk's greatest hits on Twitter and then some lawyer got a hold of the document and pretended to be outraged by it.

00:09:30.500 So here's one of the allegations that's supposed to convince us that this workplace is extremely hostile.

00:09:35.520 So hostile that these women couldn't get any work done.

00:09:37.920 They were so traumatized by all of it.

00:09:39.860 The complaint states that Elon Musk is guilty of, quote,

00:09:44.280 mocking Bill Gates by creating a meme of him with a pregnant-looking belly,

00:09:48.840 accompanied by the text, in case you need to lose a b**** fast. 0.63

00:09:53.040 So that's right.

00:09:54.260 Elon Musk, on his public Twitter account, made fun of Bill Gates, a billionaire who does not work at SpaceX.

00:09:58.340 It's a joke that millions of people thought was funny based on their documented reactions on the Internet.

00:10:04.580 And it is pretty funny.

00:10:06.560 And this is supposedly evidence that Musk created a hostile work environment at SpaceX

00:10:10.680 and presumably every other workplace on the planet where this tweet was ever viewed.

00:10:14.600 In case you missed Musk's tweet, it's from April 2022.

00:10:17.400 Here it is.

00:10:18.540 So you can see it there.

00:10:19.700 So that's Bill Gates on the left.

00:10:22.020 If you need to know who's the emoji and who's Bill Gates, he's on the left.

00:10:26.540 And on the right, it's an emoji that Apple rolled out to depict a pregnant man.

00:10:31.460 So I'll explain the joke here just in case any former SpaceX employees are watching,

00:10:37.160 looking slack jaw to your screens, wondering what could possibly be amusing about this meme.

00:10:41.560 You see, back in 2022, both Bill Gates and the Apple emoji were being widely mocked.

00:10:45.820 Bill Gates wanted to tell the whole world how to live their lives in order to be healthy,

00:10:49.220 but he's substantially overweight.

00:10:51.480 Meanwhile, Apple styles itself as a tech brand for intelligent, science-conscious consumers,

00:10:55.660 but they're pushing the idea that men can get pregnant. 1.00

00:10:57.960 Elon Musk posted a meme combining these two absurd situations in order to maximize the humor.

00:11:02.680 It's supposed to be funny.

00:11:04.800 This is how jokes work on this planet that we call Earth.

00:11:09.580 Now, it's a minor aside, but also note that contrary to what the complaint says,

00:11:13.180 nowhere in his tweet did Musk suggest that he personally created that meme as opposed to simply sharing it.

00:11:17.820 Nor is it clear why they're saying in the complaint that Gates' belly is pregnant-looking.

00:11:21.440 I mean, isn't that offensive to pregnant-looking women employed by SpaceX?

00:11:27.280 They're being compared to an overweight, unkempt photo of Bill Gates.

00:11:31.660 That's an outrage.

00:11:33.180 Maybe someone should sue these employees. 0.56

00:11:35.200 By complaining about Bill Gates and the pregnant man emoji,

00:11:37.540 they're clearly creating a hostile work environment for birthing folks. 1.00

00:11:43.040 But that lawsuit won't happen, and it's not a great mystery as to why it won't happen.

00:11:46.500 Musk committed the sin of permitting freedom of speech on the Internet,

00:11:49.620 so he's the target.

00:11:51.560 It seems that everybody from the DOJ to disgruntled SpaceX employees now

00:11:55.480 want to bring him down by any means necessary.

00:11:58.060 What's more interesting about this case, though,

00:12:00.080 is that it highlights the increased use of lawfare to enforce woke left-wing gender ideology. 0.95

00:12:05.840 Gender ideology is so unscientific and so arbitrary that it can't withstand any form of scrutiny whatsoever. 0.98

00:12:10.960 It certainly can't withstand mockery.

00:12:12.580 Proponents of gender ideology understand that very well.

00:12:14.920 So in order to ensure that this incoherent ideology survives,

00:12:18.240 they know that it's vital to enact blasphemy laws, essentially.

00:12:22.580 Parody and criticism aren't allowed.

00:12:24.800 That's pretty much what they're doing here.

00:12:26.780 Read further in the complaint, and that becomes very obvious.

00:12:28.840 For instance, here's another allegation in the complaint.

00:12:31.440 According to the complaint, he, quote,

00:12:32.620 quote, tweeted,

00:12:34.320 pronouns suck. 0.75

00:12:36.900 Now, the tweet could be more specific.

00:12:40.080 In fact, pronouns don't suck.

00:12:41.900 Pronouns didn't do anything wrong.

00:12:44.140 Like, let's not blame this on the pronouns.

00:12:45.900 What sucks is the idea that people get to choose their own pronouns.

00:12:50.060 It's like the pronouns themselves are,

00:12:51.720 there's nothing wrong with them.

00:12:53.040 It's how they're being used.

00:12:54.660 And that's obviously what Elon Musk was referring to.

00:12:57.140 Now, if a pronoun wants to sue him for slander, 0.88

00:13:00.940 maybe it would have a case.

00:13:02.180 But an employee citing it in a lawsuit is a joke.

00:13:04.760 It's an unintentional joke,

00:13:05.960 unlike the jokes that they're suing over.

00:13:08.240 In fact, not only does this complaint

00:13:09.580 seem to seek to ban criticism or mockery of gender ideology,

00:13:13.400 it also seeks to outlaw criticism or mockery of the tactics

00:13:16.100 that these zealots are using to enforce their ideology.

00:13:19.120 Quoting again from the complaint against Musk,

00:13:21.460 quote,

00:13:22.080 in response to news about a sexual harassment charge against him,

00:13:24.720 Musk posted,

00:13:25.200 finally we get to use Elongate as a scandal name.

00:13:29.000 It's kind of perfect.

00:13:31.380 Now, you can practically see these former SpaceX employees

00:13:33.700 with their arms crossed in their lawyer's office,

00:13:36.800 explaining how offended they were by all this.

00:13:39.400 Not only was Musk making jokes that they didn't like,

00:13:41.260 he was also mocking their attempts to slander him.

00:13:43.760 How dare he?

00:13:45.640 Indeed, Musk was even mocking some of their favorite buzzwords,

00:13:48.580 and they can't stand that.

00:13:50.420 That's why the lawsuit also faults Musk for posting this meme.

00:13:53.360 This is another meme cited in a lawsuit.

00:13:58.900 It reads,

00:14:00.700 ladies, mansplaining is short for man explaining. 1.00

00:14:05.120 You see, the joke is that he's mansplaining the definition of mansplaining.

00:14:08.680 And this apparently contributes to a hostile work environment somehow,

00:14:12.600 which forces me to mansplain to the people filing the lawsuit that making fun of mansplaining

00:14:18.180 does not make your work environment hostile.

00:14:21.860 But the lawsuit doesn't stop there.

00:14:23.320 It also faults Musk for thinking that Monty Python is funny.

00:14:26.140 Quoting again, Musk posted a photo from Monty Python with the subtitle, Biggest Dickous.

00:14:32.900 Yes, he posted a photo from a Monty Python movie.

00:14:35.100 That's not allowed anymore.

00:14:36.120 Quoting the life of Brian creates a hostile work environment.

00:14:39.280 So this is obviously a demented lawsuit.

00:14:41.240 It's a complete waste of time.

00:14:42.300 And I'm not cherry picking here.

00:14:43.300 The whole thing is this bad.

00:14:44.400 For example, here are some allegations by former employee Claire Mallon.

00:14:48.480 See if you can spot the problem here.

00:14:49.940 Quote,

00:14:50.080 So, Mallon also faced gender discrimination at work.

00:14:54.240 In her 2018 performance evaluation, her manager criticized her for being too coarse-slash-straightforward.

00:15:00.440 In her 2019 evaluation, Mallon was told to absorb feedback cheerfully.

00:15:05.560 This was a double standard applied to Mallon because of her gender,

00:15:08.880 as Ms. Mallon never observed men criticize for being straightforward

00:15:12.060 or for not taking feedback cheerfully enough.

00:15:14.960 In other words, this woman received negative feedback 1.00

00:15:20.240 and she didn't personally see men being criticized in the same way.

00:15:25.240 Therefore, it must never have happened.

00:15:26.920 Because obviously, nothing ever happens at SpaceX unless Claire Mallon sees it herself.

00:15:32.600 Now, you might point out that performance reviews are conducted privately,

00:15:35.960 so Mallon couldn't possibly have any idea what anyone else has ever been told in their review.

00:15:42.340 But if you say that, you're mansplaining,

00:15:46.020 and now you have victimized poor Ms. Mellon a second time. 0.95

00:15:49.440 Another ex-employee, Paige Holland-Thielen, who we heard from earlier,

00:15:52.640 makes the same non-argument.

00:15:53.960 According to the complaint, Holland-Thielen, quote,

00:15:56.120 expressed frustration about being routinely assigned rotations on a support or operations team

00:16:00.240 within ground software instead of development roles.

00:16:02.960 Lead Kyle Hussford gave her the feedback that she was too aggressive.

00:16:06.400 This was a double standard because of Holland-Thielen's gender. 0.99

00:16:09.900 She never observed men being criticized for being too aggressive.

00:16:15.020 Again, if she didn't see it, it didn't happen.

00:16:17.660 That's the idea.

00:16:18.920 No man has ever been criticized for aggressiveness.

00:16:21.640 Did you know that?

00:16:22.160 Doesn't happen.

00:16:22.680 Never happens.

00:16:24.100 Because this woman didn't see it.

00:16:26.460 If a tree falls in the forest and Paige Holland-Thielen isn't there to hear it,

00:16:30.280 did it make a sound?

00:16:31.040 No, of course not.

00:16:31.800 In fact, the tree doesn't even exist if Paige didn't see it.

00:16:34.560 Now, I'll admit that I'm not a lawyer, nor am I up-to-date on the finer points of California labor laws,

00:16:39.940 but after reading this complaint, I can make a few determinations with a fair degree of confidence.

00:16:43.800 First of all, hostile work environment claims are completely out of control.

00:16:47.620 The law that permits these kinds of claims obviously needs to be reworked or abolished.

00:16:51.920 It's simply too easy to collect a bunch of jokes together and claim to be offended by them

00:16:55.380 and then file a multi-million dollar lawsuit, especially in a left-wing jurisdiction like Los Angeles.

00:17:00.440 Humor is not illegal in this country.

00:17:02.100 Criticizing pronouns and trans ideology is not illegal either.

00:17:05.380 But through lawsuits like this, humor and other normal workplace interactions are effectively being outlawed.

00:17:10.500 On its website, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission explicitly states that

00:17:13.920 offensive jokes can indeed constitute violations of the law.

00:17:17.580 So whenever Biden's administration is out of office, some changes need to be made there

00:17:21.160 because this has obviously gone too far.

00:17:23.020 However, that's why we've seen this form of lawfare repeatedly in recent years.

00:17:27.040 Just a few years ago, or rather just a year ago, there was that lawsuit filed by a Fox producer,

00:17:32.440 Abby Grossberg, against Tucker Carlson in Fox News.

00:17:35.040 Grossberg's complaint was full of jokes that she heard in the office, which she claimed that she found offensive.

00:17:40.900 From Grossberg's interviews on left-wing cable news channels,

00:17:43.780 it's apparent that one gag in particular that really bothered her was the pictures of Nancy Pelosi

00:17:50.340 that she says were plastered around the office.

00:17:53.020 Watch.

00:17:55.440 I show up first day of work, and I know that this is a popular one.

00:17:59.980 It's been widely publicized.

00:18:01.340 There are literally pictures like this big of Nancy Pelosi in a bathing suit in Europe,

00:18:07.960 plastered all over.

00:18:09.820 There was even one on my computer screen for the temporary computer I had to use,

00:18:13.660 and I had to take it down.

00:18:15.660 Now, the picture of Pelosi that she's mortally offended by happens to be all over the Internet.

00:18:19.320 In fact, it was broadcast on Tucker's show.

00:18:22.040 Watch.

00:18:24.280 America, over this last Fourth of July weekend, went up on a private beach in Italy,

00:18:28.080 and we're going to go out tonight by singeing your retinas with a photograph of that event.

00:18:33.880 This is third in line from the presidency on a private beach in Italy.

00:18:39.600 Soak it in, ladies and gentlemen.

00:18:41.700 Close your eyes as you go to sleep tonight and try to get that image out of your head, if you can.

00:18:46.920 We'll be back tomorrow night, 8 p.m.

00:18:48.940 The best night with the ones you love.

00:18:50.400 See you then.

00:18:53.120 Oh, Jason Chaffetz is in.

00:18:54.700 For Sean, is that correct?

00:18:56.020 I'm sorry, I'm hearing that.

00:18:57.260 Tucker, what are you doing?

00:18:58.600 You put up that.

00:19:00.240 Would you get every person in the country to turn off their televisions?

00:19:04.320 You throw that up on the screen?

00:19:06.480 I didn't mean it.

00:19:07.760 Someday I'm going to have a show before you, and I'm going to do that to you.

00:19:12.340 So if I had to explain this to the offended women, this is what's known as banter. 1.00

00:19:20.860 They're joking around about a picture that millions of people already were joking about.

00:19:25.120 But none of that matters because Grossberg says she was bothered by it.

00:19:28.160 And add that to a zillion other similar complaints,

00:19:30.120 and you get a hostile work environment and a settlement worth millions of dollars.

00:19:34.520 And as a side note, you may have noticed that it seems so often to be women who are behind these complaints.

00:19:41.020 SpaceX is trying to go to Mars, and Elon has to deal with a bunch of women crying 0.99

00:19:44.660 because their feelings were hurt by a tweet.

00:19:47.360 A bunch of women saying, I didn't find that funny. 1.00

00:19:49.740 That's not funny.

00:19:52.000 And the funny thing is that these women are ostensibly doing this 0.99

00:19:54.900 in order to defend the rights of women in the workplace. 1.00

00:19:57.100 But all they've really succeeded in doing is reinforcing every negative stereotype of women in the workplace.

00:20:02.680 Like, if you want to make it so that nobody wants to hire women or work with them, 1.00

00:20:06.340 this is how you do it with stuff like this.

00:20:08.180 Your every single negative stereotype is reinforced by a woman who's everyone else is trying to get their job done. 1.00

00:20:14.740 You have a woman sitting there, this isn't funny. 1.00

00:20:16.560 I'm offended by this.

00:20:19.900 The best thing you can do if you want to help the rights of women in the workplace

00:20:22.400 is just like move on with your life and stop being offended by everything.

00:20:26.520 Anyway, these kinds of complaints are becoming more common in part because the media always pretends to take them seriously,

00:20:31.300 even when they make no sense.

00:20:32.740 Take, for example, the complaint about a toxic work environment at Jimmy Fallon's show.

00:20:36.040 So this complaint hasn't materialized into a lawsuit, at least not yet,

00:20:39.080 but it was still present, presented by media outlets as evidence that Jimmy Fallon's workplace is hostile and oppressive.

00:20:44.760 Watch.

00:20:47.440 I'm very lucky I have The Tonight Show.

00:20:49.600 They were kind of walking around on eggshells.

00:20:51.580 It's a great show.

00:20:52.400 It's super fun.

00:20:53.180 It's loose.

00:20:54.380 Jimmy Fallon and the new Rolling Stone expose.

00:20:56.780 The bombshell report includes claims of erratic behavior, a toxic workplace, and nine showrunners in just the last nine years.

00:21:05.080 This morning, I spoke with journalist Christy Lee Andoli.

00:21:07.840 She also reported on the toxic workplace claims at Ellen and The Kelly Clarkson Show.

00:21:12.780 In your estimation, in your opinion, what did you take away from your reporting?

00:21:15.920 The biggest takeaway from my reporting after speaking to two current and 14 former employees on the record is that they said that there were what they call good Jimmy days and what they call bad Jimmy days,

00:21:31.140 where his behavior was allegedly erratic and inconsistent.

00:21:34.680 Now, not that this really needs to be said, but a boss having good days and bad days does not make the workplace hostile or toxic.

00:21:42.980 That's what, you know, well, that's because they're human beings, and that's the way it's going to be until bosses are replaced by robots.

00:21:49.920 And I don't think that that kind of workplace, when it happens, is going to be any less hostile, I can tell you.

00:21:55.140 So this shouldn't even be a news story at all, but here the media is trying to sell these claims as proof that Fallon's show is dysfunctional or toxic.

00:22:00.960 So Fallon had to grovel and apologize, and as you heard in that clip, there are many similar claims about many other shows.

00:22:07.300 This is one of the main reasons that corporations are all producing homogenous, uninteresting products now.

00:22:11.260 It's why comedy is dead.

00:22:12.220 It's why film, television, and video game companies are shoving diversity casting down our throats, along with social justice plot lines. 0.98

00:22:18.600 Any corporation that so much as makes a joke that a woman finds offensive could end up facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit.

00:22:26.000 The clear incentive is to be dull, unoriginal, and uninteresting.

00:22:29.440 Listen, this is how destructive lawfare can be.

00:22:32.100 It's not just about jailing your preferred presidential candidate.

00:22:35.100 It's also a cancer on every other aspect of society.

00:22:37.480 That's why this is happening all over the place, not just Fox or SpaceX.

00:22:41.440 Ask Activision, Blizzard, or Amazon, or Tesla, or McDonald's, or Blue Origin, or Google, or any number of other companies that have allegedly hosted a toxic or hostile workplace.

00:22:51.260 If you have a large enough company or organization, you're going to eventually hire left-wing activists and useless people, and then you're going to get these claims.

00:22:57.440 That's why even Jimmy Fallon is getting them.

00:23:00.000 Nobody is immune, because none of the factual details really matter when there's a hostile work environment claimed to be made.

00:23:05.460 The only thing that's important is for one person to say that she's offended by things that no sane person would actually be offended by, and the lawyers will just sort of take it from there.

00:23:14.500 If you own a business, you should be doing everything you can to ensure you're not hiring employees who will end up trying this dishonest tactic against you.

00:23:21.040 You have no other option, really.

00:23:24.120 In the meantime, if we want more companies like SpaceX, companies that take risks, actually accomplish things, then the law needs to change.

00:23:32.540 And this lawsuit, and every lawsuit like it, cannot be allowed to continue.

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00:24:46.460 Let's get to our five headlines.

00:24:49.960 Let's begin with a great story out of Fort Bend County, Texas, where a candidate for public office has been the victim of racism online.

00:25:03.820 He's been the victim of racist harassment.

00:25:06.820 This poor guy has been targeted by absolutely vicious and bigoted comments.

00:25:14.220 Now, of course, the only very minor stipulation that you've already guessed is that, of course, he wrote the comments himself.

00:25:20.540 So, here's a local news report about it.

00:25:23.020 Within the last hour about the charges against the challenger running for Fort Bend County, Precinct 3 Commissioner.

00:25:29.040 Yeah, he is accused of creating a fake social media account to post racist comments directed at himself.

00:25:36.280 ABC 13's Rosie Wynne joins us live from the Fort Bend County Jail with new information, Rosie.

00:25:43.640 Eric and Gina, the Fort Bend County District Clerk just made those charging documents for Thoreau Patel available to the public.

00:25:51.100 More than 20 pages that we have spent the last hour sifting through, and the allegations are alarming.

00:25:56.800 Here's what we know so far.

00:25:58.820 Back in October, the DA's office received a request from Precinct 3 Commissioner Andy Meyer to look into who was behind several social media posts directed at his opponent, which is Patel.

00:26:10.800 This came after Patel sent out a press release with a collage of supposed racist social media posts that he claimed were directed at him.

00:26:20.160 Meyer told investigators he recognized one of the accounts behind the comments as Antonio Scallywag.

00:26:25.720 The documents then further detailed how they linked that account back to Patel, including getting a subpoena from Facebook and Google.

00:26:34.880 From there, they were able to obtain account and payment information matching Patel's credit card number, address, phone number, and other personal data.

00:26:44.480 Patel now faces a third-degree felony of online impersonation and Class A misdemeanor for misrepresentation of identity.

00:26:52.560 The DA's office tells us this is the first time that they've charged someone with that specific election-related misdemeanor.

00:27:00.180 Now, we have made efforts all day to try to reach Patel, whether it was through phone, social media, or even the address listed on his candidate filing.

00:27:09.100 We also reached out to his opponent, Precinct 3 Commissioner Andy Meyer, but a spokesperson tells us at this time they have no comment.

00:27:16.260 We were told that Patel did bond out of the jail here early this morning.

00:27:19.560 His next court appearance is on July 22nd.

00:27:22.720 Okay, so he wrote the racist comments to himself, which, by the way, doesn't mean that he isn't still a victim.

00:27:31.040 I mean, he still had to read the comments.

00:27:33.460 In fact, he had to read them.

00:27:34.880 If you think it's traumatic to read racist comments, imagine how traumatic it is to write them.

00:27:40.700 Because he's reading them while he's writing them, and then he reads them again.

00:27:46.280 And so, you know, arguably, he's more traumatized than he would be if he didn't write them.

00:27:52.180 He's even more of a victim.

00:27:54.800 That would be, at least, that's the defense I would try.

00:27:56.980 You might as well.

00:27:57.740 Like, give that a shot.

00:27:59.860 Let's take a look at the actual posts.

00:28:01.520 There's a collage of racist messages that he wrote, and he made a little collage, put it up on the, this is what he posted online.

00:28:09.800 So you can see there.

00:28:13.100 Commissioner Andy Myers is a red-blooded Christian against crime and against taxes.

00:28:17.780 Foreigners like you are trying to take away my freedom and guns. 1.00

00:28:21.280 How do we let you, how do we let you, King Pong, K.P. George, brainless, not Brian Middleton, who loves criminals and sorrows, demoncrats, take over Fort Bend.

00:28:33.680 You will not turn us into India or China.

00:28:36.940 Remember the Alamo.

00:28:39.520 Remember, he's just throwing it all in.

00:28:43.520 Are we sure this is, did he write this, or was it, did he run this through, like, some sort of AI generator?

00:28:49.640 What else have we got?

00:28:52.080 I'm against false gods and their worshippers winning office in Christian Nation. 1.00

00:28:56.240 I'm with Myers all the way because he serves Jesus, unlike Patel and his followers who worship monkey and elephant. 0.98

00:29:04.320 Keep in mind, he's writing this about himself.

00:29:08.040 Was he even born here?

00:29:09.480 Probably communist.

00:29:14.920 We don't need more, can I say that?

00:29:17.340 We don't need more sand and negroid subhumans who smell like curry and filth in our country. 1.00

00:29:23.000 Go back to Bombay. 0.98

00:29:24.800 You are, you are not and will never be a true American.

00:29:27.580 This guy really doesn't like himself.

00:29:30.700 Like, he's got some serious self-esteem issues.

00:29:32.920 That's what I'm worried about with this guy.

00:29:36.540 Trust me, Andy Myers is a true Christian.

00:29:38.520 Our first commandment orders us to denounce all false gods like the monkey and elephant. 0.72

00:29:42.720 Like, he really hates his own religion.

00:29:43.900 I think he's getting something out about himself and about his, he's working through some things, this guy is.

00:29:50.200 I don't know.

00:29:51.980 We don't need to pronounce your name.

00:29:53.460 Learn English.

00:29:54.300 And if I see you wearing that dot on your head, I'll wipe off myself.

00:29:59.000 Fort Bend is red.

00:30:00.220 He's a dirty Pakistani big who supports terrorists and turning God's USA into a ****. 1.00

00:30:07.120 Vote Myers.

00:30:08.520 Anyway, but then there's a positive comment.

00:30:11.020 Tural is like a breath of fresh air.

00:30:13.980 He needs to win.

00:30:15.680 That's a positive one.

00:30:17.240 So he threw in a couple positives too.

00:30:18.740 So he was saying all these terrible things about himself.

00:30:21.160 And I think it was really hurting his self-esteem.

00:30:22.660 So he also threw in some positive comments.

00:30:23.980 For years, Indians have come to this country and have done their best to stay away from every other American. 1.00

00:30:30.200 I'm sure you're a good person.

00:30:31.500 I wish you all the luck.

00:30:32.540 Sadly, I will never support an Indian or an Asian. 1.00

00:30:36.700 What?

00:30:38.600 First of all, they've done their best to stay away from every other American? 0.78

00:30:41.700 No, they haven't.

00:30:42.220 I mean, they run like, you know, they run like convenience stores and stuff that regular Americans go into all the time.

00:30:48.060 I got no issue with that.

00:30:50.720 So those are all, but those are the comments.

00:30:52.140 Those are things he wrote.

00:30:52.900 So I'm allowed to read all that because this person has written about himself.

00:30:59.200 So what can I say?

00:31:00.860 The funny thing is that, you know, this guy could have easily gotten away with this if he had just claimed that these were emails that people sent him.

00:31:11.320 Now, it would have been obvious.

00:31:12.320 It would have been obvious that it was fake still, but nobody could have proven it.

00:31:17.300 You'd have plausible deniability if you just post a collage of, look at these emails that I got.

00:31:23.820 Or you could even do the snail mail hoax if you wanted to, which is a popular one.

00:31:28.780 Or do the thing with probably maybe the most popular genre of this sort of, the most popular subgenre in the overall genre of fake racist messages is the note left on a car windshield.

00:31:42.100 And he could have done that because there's no way for anyone to ever prove that you left it there, unless there was like a security camera or something.

00:31:49.320 But he did it in a way where it could be proven.

00:31:55.860 Like this moron set up dummy social media accounts that can easily be proven to be dummy social media accounts.

00:32:02.380 And apparently these accounts linked back to his own phone number.

00:32:06.220 So he made up fake accounts with his phone number and then posted all these messages.

00:32:12.440 And on top of that, evidently, he had previously used some of these dummy accounts to attack his opponent.

00:32:20.880 And then he got this idea to do the fake racist messages, and he didn't want to bother to make new accounts.

00:32:25.520 So instead, he just used the ones that he'd already used and said, ah, you know, who's going to notice?

00:32:32.840 It will never cease to amaze me.

00:32:34.580 It never ceased to amaze me that not only that these people keep faking hate crimes, but that they're so bad at it.

00:32:45.660 That's the amazing thing.

00:32:47.100 How could you be this bad at it?

00:32:49.080 How is it that the hoaxers have not evolved at all?

00:32:53.620 That's what I don't get.

00:32:55.460 People are more skeptical about this sort of thing than they've ever been, right?

00:32:59.920 You have people like me, many of us, who instinctively we just dismiss and don't believe pretty much all hate crime and hate incidents stories unless you provide evidence, like real evidence.

00:33:13.440 So we're at a point where, you know, of course, I never heard about this story before this revelation, but if I had seen it, I would have said, yeah, it's definitely fake.

00:33:22.100 Like, he made that up.

00:33:23.560 Unless you can prove otherwise.

00:33:24.540 But until you prove otherwise, I'm assuming, I'm just going to assume out of the gate that it's a hoax until you prove otherwise.

00:33:33.340 And that's the way that many people look at it now.

00:33:36.180 And so you would think that the hoaxers who are still hoaxing in this environment would be highly evolved, highly skilled, coming up with extremely sophisticated hoaxes.

00:33:47.800 But no, it's the same hoax over and over again.

00:33:52.400 They haven't even learned how to convincingly mimic the speech patterns and tone of voice and writing styles of the people they're trying to frame for these incidents.

00:34:00.920 Like, he's obviously going for a, you know, kind of conservative boomer vibe with these posts, right?

00:34:09.140 The random punctuation, the capital letters, all this kind of stuff, things like demon crats, you know, that.

00:34:17.340 So he's going for the boomer vibe, which, you know, I get why he's going that direction with the hoax, but it's so exaggerated, so over the top that it just doesn't land.

00:34:29.340 So I would rate this hoax, it's like a two out of 10 on the hoax scale.

00:34:33.040 And they're always twos and threes.

00:34:35.360 When's the last time we saw even a four?

00:34:36.840 When's the last time a hoax got over five on the scale that I just invented right now?

00:34:43.840 Meanwhile, what does it tell you that this guy, this non-white guy named Tural Patel, can run for political office in Texas?

00:34:53.280 And the only way he can get himself targeted by racist comments is if he writes them himself.

00:34:59.640 Like, what does that tell you?

00:35:00.900 I mean, even if one or two actual real human beings posted comments like, hey, you're Hindu, go back to India, you damned foreigner, or whatever.

00:35:12.840 You know, even if like one or two real people really said something like that, it wouldn't mean that the racism is rampant.

00:35:20.700 It wouldn't really mean anything.

00:35:22.360 It would just be, that's the other amazing thing about these kinds of stories is that the internet, there are billions of people on the internet, and people say horrendous things on the internet all the time, right?

00:35:36.160 So you would think that you, if you want to find an example of someone being racist against you, and you go to the internet, you could find one or two genuine examples.

00:35:48.420 Because you can find an example of anyone, just think in your head of the most horrific thing anyone could ever say.

00:35:56.160 You could go to the internet and find people saying that thing.

00:35:58.800 So, and yet, in spite of all that, apparently he could not find one single genuine case of anyone saying anything racist to him, even on the internet.

00:36:18.160 And we can assume that because if that example existed, he would have just used those examples rather than making them up himself.

00:36:25.740 But he couldn't even get that, he couldn't even get one or two.

00:36:28.800 So he resorts to this instead.

00:36:33.940 Which just tells us that, of course, it tells us what we all realize, that this kind of racism is very, very rare.

00:36:42.460 It's just, we live in a society where this kind of, where white racism against non-white people is extremely rare.

00:36:51.100 There's just not a lot of it.

00:36:55.340 That's what it tells us.

00:36:56.340 And especially white racism against people from India.

00:37:02.360 Like that's, I don't think I've ever even heard of that.

00:37:06.480 I've never encountered any, I've never encountered a white person on the internet or otherwise who has that form of racism.

00:37:14.080 So, this is what, and you know, he could just be happy with that.

00:37:23.400 That's always an option.

00:37:25.760 Another option is to say, oh, I'm, you know, I'm an American of Indian descent.

00:37:31.320 I'm in this country.

00:37:32.300 People accept me.

00:37:33.420 It's not an issue.

00:37:34.220 It's not a problem.

00:37:34.960 Um, I can run for political office and like nobody even brings up the, it's fine.

00:37:41.320 He could be happy about that.

00:37:44.700 But no, he has to find a reason to be a victim, of course.

00:37:49.920 All right.

00:37:50.440 Another, uh, well, okay.

00:37:52.640 I guess I'm, I'm, I don't know why I'm doing this again.

00:37:58.580 So, there's another Caitlin Clark related conjurer.

00:38:00.820 I swear to God, I'm going to stop.

00:38:02.300 This will be the last time.

00:38:04.380 There's so much WNBA talk. 1.00

00:38:06.640 This can't continue.

00:38:07.820 It cannot, it just can't.

00:38:10.100 But I feel like I need to bring this one up just to, because, you know, for, for, for the sake of being fair, being, uh, of, uh, being non-biased or whatever.

00:38:17.440 To, to reclaim my journalistic credentials, even though I'm not a journalist.

00:38:21.580 So, there was, um, over the weekend, there was more footage from a WNBA game, uh, on, I believe, Saturday that went viral.

00:38:29.200 And, uh, you know, all the people are talking about it.

00:38:32.880 And here we see Caitlin Clark getting fouled. 1.00

00:38:35.540 Uh, I'll show the clip in a second.

00:38:36.980 But lots of people online are very upset about this.

00:38:40.620 They say it's a, another example of Clark being targeted.

00:38:44.140 Uh, it was assault.

00:38:45.420 It was a vicious attack.

00:38:47.440 Um, this, this, this foul has been headline news on Fox News and New York Post.

00:38:54.600 Conservative media has made a thing out of it.

00:38:57.000 And I'm even, I'm seeing multiple people online say that this is criminal assault.

00:39:01.780 And that the person responsible for it should be arrested.

00:39:05.180 Like, there's that level of outrage over it.

00:39:08.360 So, let's take a look.

00:39:09.060 This is, um, this is Angel Reese fouling Caitlin Clark. 0.99

00:39:13.120 Let's go ahead and play this.

00:39:14.080 Yeah, that's, that's right.

00:39:15.020 This will be a review for a possible upgrade to a play game.

00:39:17.400 All right.

00:39:18.560 There it is.

00:39:19.440 Let's see it again.

00:39:20.920 Slow motion.

00:39:22.740 Yep.

00:39:23.480 Right in the back of the head.

00:39:24.600 Across the head.

00:39:25.100 And they will go to the monitor to review this one.

00:39:29.280 Okay.

00:39:30.440 That was, that was the foul.

00:39:31.640 Um, and I got to call these as I see them.

00:39:35.040 Um, I do think that Caitlin Clark has been a target, talked about it on the show a week

00:39:40.880 or two ago, but not every foul against her is some kind of crime against humanity.

00:39:45.900 Okay.

00:39:46.460 And this one is just a foul.

00:39:52.900 And I, you know, I guess the real reason this jumps out at me is that I, all the people

00:39:57.120 pretending to be super angry about this particular thing that I just played, I have to assume

00:40:02.340 you're all, you're engaging in performance and you know it, you know that it's, that's

00:40:07.040 a foul.

00:40:07.480 It's a basketball foul.

00:40:08.740 It happens all the time in basketball.

00:40:10.480 It really does.

00:40:11.220 It's not without any, look, put it this way with, with no context, you show a basketball

00:40:17.720 fan, that clip, they're not going to say, what was that?

00:40:20.080 Oh my gosh.

00:40:20.960 How could that have happened?

00:40:22.520 Criminal investigation immediately.

00:40:23.840 No, they're like, oh, that was a, that's a hard foul.

00:40:25.980 I think they ruled it a flagrant foul and yeah, yeah, it's that.

00:40:29.260 Okay, fine.

00:40:30.500 But those things happen in basketball.

00:40:31.960 They're pretty routine.

00:40:34.140 Uh, you can even see she's making a play on the ball.

00:40:36.860 She's looking up.

00:40:37.580 She's not in, and she smacks in the back of the head. 1.00

00:40:39.660 Um, it's not anything unprecedented.

00:40:43.260 It's not a criminal, it's not assault.

00:40:45.660 Oh my gosh.

00:40:47.160 And yet this foul, this pretty standard basketball foul has been the subject of analysis and outrage

00:40:53.700 and claims of assault and everything else.

00:40:56.520 Again, I do think that Kaylin Clark has been the target of anti-white racism. 0.63

00:40:59.500 We've talked about that.

00:41:00.800 I do think some of the other players don't like her because she's white. 1.00

00:41:03.880 Uh, that's obvious enough.

00:41:06.080 Not every foul against her is now suddenly a scandal.

00:41:10.440 And I, I, we can't, I will, I cannot endure.

00:41:13.660 I mean, I have to be on social media for my job.

00:41:15.780 So I have to see this stuff.

00:41:18.060 I can't endure a whole W.

00:41:21.180 How long is the WNBA season?

00:41:22.500 I don't even know.

00:41:24.260 I thought it was like two weeks, but it's been two weeks since it started.

00:41:28.860 I think it started recently.

00:41:29.780 And is it months?

00:41:31.120 Dear God, is it months long?

00:41:33.140 Does this go on for months?

00:41:34.180 We have to deal with this.

00:41:35.020 Is this going to be a weekly thing for months?

00:41:37.840 There's a new Kaylin Clark.

00:41:39.580 Look, she got, we can't do it.

00:41:41.920 It's, we just can't.

00:41:42.560 We can't do that.

00:41:46.880 And there has to be, it's possible to call out the anti-white racism, which is important

00:41:54.960 to call things, double standards, all, you call all that out as I have.

00:41:59.000 And, um, but at the same time, we don't have to become dorks crying and, and calling a foul

00:42:08.060 in basketball assault.

00:42:10.940 Now it's possible that you could commit it.

00:42:12.920 I mean, if somebody walked up to her and punched her in the face, yeah, that's assault. 0.63

00:42:16.460 That's actually assault.

00:42:17.780 It's, it's not as though, uh, the field of play in sports is the purge, you know, and all

00:42:24.100 criminal laws don't apply.

00:42:27.100 We're not saying that.

00:42:29.280 But, um, someone, you know, a hard foul in the course of playing the game is just that

00:42:34.840 it's just a foul.

00:42:36.240 And I think everybody understands that, but, um, but this is a thing now it's a, it's a

00:42:45.000 thing on the internet.

00:42:45.800 And so, um, and it's content.

00:42:49.280 So I think this is, this is, it's going to be every week.

00:42:51.440 It's like once a week, we're going to get the Kaylin Clark thing on Twitter and we're

00:42:57.300 going to hear so much about the WNBA in the coming weeks.

00:43:02.180 I'm terrified by the prospect.

00:43:04.760 All right.

00:43:06.280 One other quick thing, uh, much more important.

00:43:10.640 Chuck Schumer has been in the Senate for 672 years about.

00:43:15.360 And, uh, but he's, he's still just a normal guy.

00:43:18.260 You know, he's a normal guy.

00:43:19.140 He hasn't lost touch with the average man.

00:43:21.440 He's a, he's an, he is an average man.

00:43:23.100 He's an everyday American as the politicians would say.

00:43:25.520 To prove that he did what many politicians have done before him, he posed for a picture

00:43:31.200 in front of a grill.

00:43:32.520 And this photo op went about as well for him as it has for every other politician.

00:43:38.840 So many politicians have tried this exact photo op and somehow they fail at it.

00:43:44.660 It's the simplest thing to do.

00:43:47.820 You would think we also don't need to do it.

00:43:50.900 You don't really gain anything by posing in front of a grill.

00:43:53.160 Well, we're not actually impressed that you know how to grill.

00:43:57.480 Like we know you probably don't know how to grill, but even if you did know how to grill,

00:44:00.220 it wouldn't change our perception of you at all.

00:44:03.500 Um, but if you're going to do it, you would think,

00:44:08.220 have someone on your team who knows something about grilling.

00:44:14.000 It's not a difficult subject and have them look it over real quick before you post it.

00:44:20.460 But they don't.

00:44:21.340 So they always fail at this.

00:44:22.760 Um, so yesterday he tweeted our, we have the tweet, don't we?

00:44:28.520 Okay, here's a tweet.

00:44:30.600 Our family has lived in an apartment building for all our years, but my daughter and her wife,

00:44:34.940 but, oh, yeah, of course, just bought a house with a backyard.

00:44:39.060 And for the first time, we're having a barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill.

00:44:43.280 Father's Day heaven.

00:44:44.380 First of all, before we even look at the picture, we've already got so many problems.

00:44:51.720 No man, Father's Day heaven.

00:44:55.360 What kind of man would ever say that?

00:44:58.160 What kind of man is standing at the grill, grilling up some, uh, some burgers and dogs?

00:45:03.280 This is Father's Day heaven.

00:45:04.620 Can I tell you what?

00:45:06.460 All right.

00:45:07.040 Um, so how many problems do we have in this picture?

00:45:09.300 Let's, you know, we kind of have to narrow it down because the whole thing, leaving the

00:45:14.660 creepy expression out, you know, he looks like a, uh, he looks villainous somehow.

00:45:20.900 He looks like, like, what are those hamburgers made of?

00:45:22.920 Is that human flesh?

00:45:23.800 I mean, he looks like he's doing something evil with that grin, but we'll leave all that

00:45:27.240 stuff out.

00:45:29.100 And even the burgers themselves, I don't know what color, like, those look like they've

00:45:32.560 been sitting in the fridge for three and a half weeks.

00:45:34.960 Those, don't eat those burgers. 1.00

00:45:36.100 That, that is not what, that is not what ground beef is supposed to look like.

00:45:39.160 It's not supposed to be gray.

00:45:40.800 What is it, like brownish gray?

00:45:43.400 It should have, like, a reddish tint to it.

00:45:45.700 So don't eat those.

00:45:46.720 Those things, those have been sitting in his fridge since he first got into the Senate 672

00:45:53.520 years ago.

00:45:54.740 Um, anyway, but we won't even talk about that.

00:45:56.980 So there's, like, four big problems here.

00:45:59.320 The first problem is that only one burner is on.

00:46:03.140 So you got to, you know, what you kind of want to do is you want to turn all the burners

00:46:05.880 on.

00:46:06.180 You can actually use, so you don't have to, I don't know if he doesn't know this, but

00:46:08.880 you don't have to use one burner at a time.

00:46:10.980 That's not how it works.

00:46:11.660 You can actually use all of them at once.

00:46:14.060 Uh, and it's a lot more convenient that way.

00:46:17.440 He, he also, what else do we have?

00:46:19.840 So he's, the, the hot dogs are done.

00:46:21.640 And the burgers are raw.

00:46:25.200 The burgers are very raw and the hot dogs are already done.

00:46:27.880 So he's, he's timed this terribly.

00:46:29.980 What you want to do is you want to put the burgers on first because the hot dogs cook a

00:46:33.100 lot quicker.

00:46:33.780 Uh, it doesn't take long for the hot dogs.

00:46:35.400 You're, you're not even, they're already cooked.

00:46:37.060 So what you're doing is you're really just singeing them, right?

00:46:39.740 Um, so you want to put the hot, the burgers on for a couple of minutes and then you throw

00:46:43.820 the dogs on and then you could do, and if you're only doing six of each, you should be able

00:46:47.060 to get it all done.

00:46:47.740 Time it perfectly.

00:46:48.380 This is some people who really grill.

00:46:50.520 We pride ourselves on the time.

00:46:51.820 It's all about timing with grilling.

00:46:53.640 So that's a problem.

00:46:56.400 The burger's raw.

00:46:57.300 He's already flipping it.

00:46:59.020 Like, what are you flipping it for?

00:47:00.300 It's not cooked at all.

00:47:01.760 So he looked down at that and said, well, that's that, that one's done on that side, flipped

00:47:04.720 it over.

00:47:05.220 But then the biggest problem of all is the burgers are raw and he's got cheese on it already.

00:47:10.900 He put cheese on a raw hamburger patty.

00:47:16.660 Even if, look, I know he said he's lived in an apartment all his life, really explains

00:47:21.080 a lot.

00:47:22.360 He's never had a backyard.

00:47:23.760 Again, really explains a lot.

00:47:25.800 I actually think to, to, to be a man at his age and to have never had a yard at all, like

00:47:34.580 that, that does, it warps your mind.

00:47:36.700 It does something to your brain.

00:47:37.820 You know, I really believe that to live in a city apartments your whole life, it has

00:47:43.000 this warping effect on the human soul, I believe.

00:47:46.880 So, and you could say, well, he's admitting that.

00:47:49.720 So let's not be too hard on him.

00:47:51.280 He's kind of admits in the thing that this is the first time he's grilled.

00:47:54.460 So fine.

00:47:55.320 But even if it's the first time you've ever done it, maybe you don't know how to turn

00:47:58.620 the burners on.

00:47:59.740 Maybe you don't have the timing down perfectly.

00:48:02.200 We can understand all that.

00:48:03.820 But even then, wouldn't you know not to put the cheese on a raw hamburger patty?

00:48:11.540 What's the plan here?

00:48:13.580 When you flip that burger over, the cheese is going to land on the grate and just going

00:48:17.640 to get stuck to the grate?

00:48:18.940 Like, what do you think's going to happen?

00:48:20.340 You think you grill the cheese too?

00:48:23.420 Have you ever had a cheeseburger?

00:48:25.280 Even if you've had one, you should know this is not how it's done.

00:48:27.600 But it's infuriating.

00:48:31.080 It really is.

00:48:32.660 Anyway.

00:48:34.040 So that's four strikes against him.

00:48:36.460 And he will now be, according to the law, deported for this.

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00:49:45.880 If you haven't heard, Jeremy Boring announced an exciting partnership with Angel Studios and

00:49:51.440 Daily Wire Plus to bring you a brand new film called Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot.

00:49:56.040 It's coming to theaters this July 4th.

00:49:57.820 Last year, Angel Studios' movie, Sound of Freedom, made a profound impact by shining a

00:50:01.620 powerful light on the child trafficking crisis.

00:50:03.740 Now, Angel Studios is back continuing their fight for kids, and Daily Wire is joining with

00:50:07.140 them.

00:50:07.700 Sound of Hope is the true story of 22 families from a rural church who adopted 77 kids from

00:50:12.820 the foster system, sparking a movement to save vulnerable children everywhere.

00:50:17.000 We have a trailer for you guys so you can get a feel for what this movie is all about.

00:50:20.000 Take a look.

00:50:20.340 Are you sure these people want us?

00:50:23.700 I know they do.

00:50:25.000 You can call me mama.

00:50:30.720 It's hard to feel like I'm the only one who sees these things.

00:50:36.380 70% of the kids in the system are there because of neglect.

00:50:41.480 The other 30% are put through hell.

00:50:44.840 We need your help.

00:50:50.340 Can you imagine our kids on their own?

00:50:56.160 We can't just look away.

00:50:59.900 The state ain't no family.

00:51:02.740 Are you sure these people want us?

00:51:04.980 I know they do.

00:51:06.280 You can call me mama.

00:51:11.300 Oh, Lord.

00:51:13.400 No!

00:51:13.800 No, no, no, no!

00:51:15.740 If we wrap our arms around the most vulnerable, then what do we have?

00:51:21.300 Noise!

00:51:21.560 And the children can't take the noise anymore.

00:51:24.480 This is something that we must do.

00:51:29.160 Yay! 0.99

00:51:30.300 22 families want to adopt.

00:51:35.260 The whole town wants kids now. 0.71

00:51:36.380 That's about right.

00:51:39.540 What's happening with Possum Trot could mean a huge change for the system.

00:51:43.540 We want the ones that nobody else won't.

00:51:48.780 Who hurt you, baby? 1.00

00:51:50.860 I'm not giving up on you.

00:51:52.500 You can't give up on me either.

00:51:56.060 What are we gonna do?

00:51:58.340 Everybody's falling apart.

00:51:59.500 I'm doing the best I can.

00:52:00.560 A real world hits heart.

00:52:05.420 I don't want to be here!

00:52:10.060 I can't give him back.

00:52:12.080 We gotta work on this together.

00:52:18.500 We your people now.

00:52:20.740 And love never gives up.

00:52:30.560 I watched this film myself.

00:52:40.620 I have to say it's incredibly moving.

00:52:41.980 And it places strong family values at its core.

00:52:44.860 It's more than just a movie.

00:52:45.960 It's a call to action.

00:52:47.200 Right now, there are over 100,000 children in foster care that need homes.

00:52:51.040 They need our help.

00:52:51.900 Raising awareness is how you can help today.

00:52:53.640 The best way to do that is by seeing Sound of Hope in theaters.

00:52:56.240 It's exactly how we start a movement to change culture.

00:52:58.220 Sound of Hope is coming to theaters July 4th.

00:53:01.160 And tickets are on sale right now.

00:53:03.060 So you gotta get them.

00:53:04.300 And you can get showtimes at angel.com slash Matt.

00:53:07.760 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:15.620 We have a real crisis on the right.

00:53:17.840 A serious problem that keeps me up at night.

00:53:20.280 We talk about it all the time casually.

00:53:21.780 But I don't think we've really stopped to consider what it means.

00:53:24.260 We don't take it as seriously as we should.

00:53:26.120 We haven't thought about the implications of this crisis.

00:53:29.020 And the crisis is this.

00:53:30.300 The left has transcended satire.

00:53:32.440 We cannot satirize these people anymore.

00:53:34.480 We cannot make a parody out of them.

00:53:36.620 They've descended so far and so fast into madness that there's simply no way for the satirist to stay in front of them.

00:53:43.720 Inevitably, any satire of the left will be satire for maybe like three days before it becomes reality.

00:53:48.320 And that's in the best case scenario.

00:53:49.320 But more often, satire of the left isn't even satire at all, even at the moment that it's created, because it's actually tamer than reality.

00:53:56.460 The right's satirized version of a leftist is very often more normal, more sensible, more coherent than an actual leftist.

00:54:04.320 This is a problem.

00:54:05.240 It's a problem we face.

00:54:06.020 And there may be a way around it.

00:54:07.660 But we're going to have to start getting very innovative if we want to keep satire alive.

00:54:12.100 The old methods just don't cut it anymore.

00:54:14.020 We have to go farther.

00:54:15.060 We have to be more creative, more daring.

00:54:17.140 That's what it will take because of things like this.

00:54:20.380 So here's a very real news report out of Los Angeles.

00:54:23.460 This just happened last week.

00:54:24.940 Again, not a joke, not a skit.

00:54:26.860 Real thing.

00:54:28.320 Happened in real life.

00:54:30.520 Watch.

00:54:30.920 L.A. City Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Rahman were on hand today to help remove the signs.

00:54:43.180 They say the no cruising and no U-turn signs were put up in the 1990s to prevent people in the gay community from meeting up with other gay people.

00:54:53.240 I was also surprised that these U-turn signs were still up.

00:54:59.180 And at first, you know, they seem a little, oh, okay, it's just a no U-turn sign.

00:55:03.460 But when you learn the history of it and you realize that these were used to profile gay people, it's so important that we have these removed.

00:55:11.940 The L.A. City Councilmembers say the signs were put up after the gay community began to grow and because there was a gay bar in that area.

00:55:19.860 So there you have it.

00:55:20.800 A crowd of people came together to remove no U-turn signs because no U-turn signs are homophobic.

00:55:27.900 That's where we are now.

00:55:30.120 No U-turn signs are bigoted against the gay community.

00:55:33.000 And topping it all off, the city council member who led this rally goes by the name, again, not making it up, goes by the name Maybe A Girl.

00:55:41.100 Council member Maybe A Girl is leading the charge and finally sparking the long-needed conversation about the homophobic legacy of traffic enforcement.

00:55:49.800 But why are no U-turn signs homophobic?

00:55:53.360 And if we're looking for anti-gay implications and traffic signs, why start with U-turns?

00:55:58.080 Some people have speculated there might be some homophobia in, for instance, exit-only signs.

00:56:04.080 Now, that's not a gay joke on my part, to be clear to the YouTube censors.

00:56:09.320 I would never engage in such things.

00:56:12.040 And in fact, I find it, frankly, objectionable.

00:56:14.600 I read those comments saying exit-only is a gay.

00:56:17.860 And I said, that's objectionable.

00:56:19.300 I object to it.

00:56:20.000 In fact, I said that out loud to myself.

00:56:22.200 I really did.

00:56:23.040 I'm only telling you what other people have said.

00:56:26.300 But, you know, and maybe they have a point.

00:56:29.540 Like, why wouldn't you start with that?

00:56:30.460 But they haven't started with those signs.

00:56:31.620 Instead, it's the U-turn signs.

00:56:33.060 Why?

00:56:34.220 Well, council member, maybe a girl, explained in a very long video, which we will, you know, try to cut around and get to the point of.

00:56:41.920 Here's the history lesson.

00:56:42.880 Here it is.

00:56:45.120 No U-turn signs are homophobic in Silver Lake.

00:56:48.260 And here's why.

00:56:49.100 So, in 1997, let's fast forward a little bit.

00:56:52.920 Almost 10 years later, LA Times puts out another article detailing how neighbors on Griffith Park Boulevard

00:56:59.300 are fed up with gay men cruising in the area for gay sex. 0.99

00:57:04.340 And so, signs were installed.

00:57:07.000 No cruising signs and no U-turn signs between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m.

00:57:12.660 Okay, never mind.

00:57:13.520 I actually don't care that much.

00:57:15.020 I had the same question everyone did.

00:57:17.980 Like, where is this even coming from?

00:57:19.500 And then this person posted, it's like a five-minute video.

00:57:21.580 So, and I, you get two minutes in.

00:57:24.340 It's like, I don't care that much anymore.

00:57:26.100 Never mind.

00:57:26.580 It doesn't matter.

00:57:27.320 It really doesn't.

00:57:29.800 Maybe a girl apparently went to school and majored in the study of homophobic street signs. 1.00

00:57:34.700 We're getting an explanation that stretches back like 900 years.

00:57:37.560 I felt like I was watching a Putin interview.

00:57:39.500 Except with a lot more cross-dressing, of course. 0.89

00:57:41.700 This is one of the many problems with the LGBT left. 1.00

00:57:43.740 On top of the fact that they're wrong about everything, you know, everything.

00:57:46.520 And their fundamental worldview is hopelessly confused and incoherent.

00:57:49.820 On top of all that, they also spend their time learning the most useless possible information.

00:57:54.920 I guarantee that maybe a girl or any of the other people involved in this decision

00:57:59.420 could not pass a second grade level American history test.

00:58:02.800 And yet they could deliver a 10,000 word dissertation on the history of gay cruising in Los Angeles County.

00:58:08.700 Like, they couldn't tell you who wrote the Declaration of Independence,

00:58:10.620 but they can point to any random inanimate object

00:58:12.940 and explain why it's actually a monument to homophobia.

00:58:15.480 And in spite of their extensive knowledge of these utterly pointless subjects,

00:58:20.340 they're still wrong even about those subjects.

00:58:23.140 According to the explanation we just heard, if you didn't fall asleep in the middle of it,

00:58:27.220 what you take from that is that they put the signs up in order to stop gay cruising in the 90s.

00:58:32.060 Gay cruising, as we saw in the newspaper clip that was briefly flashed on the screen,

00:58:36.480 means that gay men were going out and looking for other men to have sex with in public.

00:58:41.380 The news article mentioned two men caught having sex in a stairwell.

00:58:44.000 So, if the no U-turn signs were connected to the effort to stop this kind of public lewdness,

00:58:50.860 it must be because it was somehow effective in preventing gay men from cruising around on the street looking for sex. 0.86

00:58:57.360 So, if these signs had anything to do with the gay community, quote-unquote,

00:59:00.420 quote, and that's a big if, it's because they were behaving inappropriately in public,

00:59:06.040 and the sign somehow helped to get that problem under control.

00:59:10.320 Again, I'm not exactly sure how the U-turn, like, I don't know,

00:59:12.900 you had a gay man that was driving down the street,

00:59:14.580 and then he saw on the other side of the street another gay man who thought,

00:59:17.800 oh, maybe I could have sex with that guy, and then he just cuts a U-ey real quick to go, 0.99

00:59:23.320 is that what was happening?

00:59:24.480 And that was why they had, I don't know.

00:59:25.880 I'm not sure.

00:59:28.320 There's only so much I want to know here.

00:59:29.880 I already know a lot more than I want to.

00:59:32.080 But this is how self-absorbed and oblivious these activists are.

00:59:35.860 If the no U-turn signs are connected to them in any way,

00:59:38.660 that should be a source of embarrassment. 0.63

00:59:41.580 It's only because they kept having sex in public,

00:59:44.440 and other people in the community didn't want to be forced to witness it,

00:59:47.820 rather reasonably, I would say.

00:59:50.300 So the true history of these signs, if that is the true history,

00:59:53.480 should be something that these people don't want discussed.

00:59:56.580 They should be ashamed of it.

00:59:57.640 They should just treat the signs like normal signs and go on with their lives.

01:00:03.000 Instead, they go out of their way to remind everyone

01:00:05.080 that the county had to put up new traffic signs

01:00:07.540 to stop them from treating public roads like gay brothels. 0.96

01:00:12.280 This, again, is a subject they have brought up.

01:00:16.220 You know, conservatives have generally responded to this story by saying,

01:00:20.140 well, that's ridiculous.

01:00:21.240 U-turn signs have nothing to do with gay people.

01:00:24.040 Which is an understandable reaction,

01:00:25.740 but the truth is something even more absurd.

01:00:28.240 Actually, these signs really might have something to do

01:00:30.520 with the behavior of some gay people in that community.

01:00:33.660 Behavior that is objectionable

01:00:35.280 and that the city was right to crack down on.

01:00:38.280 But rather than LGBT activists having any shame

01:00:40.500 that they had to come up with new traffic rules

01:00:42.780 just to stop all the public sex that was happening, 0.59

01:00:46.160 instead the activists are calling attention to it themselves.

01:00:49.840 That's what happens when you have no capacity for shame.

01:00:53.740 And that is ultimately why these activists are today canceled.

01:00:58.640 That'll do it for the show today.

01:00:59.620 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:01:01.400 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:01:02.040 Godspeed.

01:01:07.540 Godspeed.

01:01:09.160 Godspeed.

01:01:09.580 Godspeed.

01:01:10.460 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 17, 2024

Ep. 1388 - How The Left Is Using Lawfare To Get Revenge On Elon Musk

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