The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1394 - The Fight Against Child Mutilation Makes It To The Supreme Court

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Supreme Court will officially hear a challenge to Tennessee's

00:00:03.480 ban on so-called, quote unquote, gender affirming care for minors. This will be a huge case that

00:00:07.500 could deliver a devastating blow to the transgender. Also, CNN kicks a Trump spokesperson off the air

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00:01:59.360 Maybe you've heard the saying, the purpose of a system is what it does. It's a phrase that was

00:02:04.080 coined by a professor named Stafford Beard as a way of helping people understand complex systems.

00:02:09.680 It was originally about cybernetics, but it's increasingly being used in the context of American

00:02:13.760 politics. And that's because you'll often hear very convoluted explanations to justify various policies,

00:02:19.100 when all you really have to do is look at the end result that those policies are producing.

00:02:24.600 The benefit of Beard's approach is that at the risk of maybe oversimplifying some things,

00:02:28.680 it short circuits all of the rationalization and BS that we're all so used to hearing all the time.

00:02:34.240 And if there's one skill that politicians and academics have, the one that they've perfected

00:02:38.280 over the decades, whether they're talking about immigration or criminal justice reform or anything

00:02:42.120 else, it's drowning us in obfuscation and doublespeak and lingo so that we don't look at

00:02:49.860 the obviously evil and destructive results of their policies. Sometimes things just really aren't

00:02:55.880 that complicated. Sometimes you don't need experts and studies to decide on a course of action. It's

00:03:00.100 just obvious it's in front of your face. That's especially true in the case of so-called transgender 1.00

00:03:04.620 medical care for children, which really means injecting children with sterilizing cross-sex hormones 0.88

00:03:10.140 and puberty blockers. It can cause early onset osteoporosis, among many other terrible effects.

00:03:16.300 In some cases, it also means amputating body parts from children. So-called top surgery,

00:03:20.700 quote unquote, for minors is legal in many states, used to be legal in many more.

00:03:25.240 No other civilization throughout human history has done anything like this for good reason.

00:03:29.680 There's no need to analyze the intent of people who promote a practice like this.

00:03:33.520 The purpose of a system is what it does. The end result of their policy is that children are being

00:03:38.860 mutilated. No further discussion is really necessary. Of course, that's not how our courts

00:03:43.700 work. They generally take their time when it comes to ruling on major policy issues, if they ever decide

00:03:49.020 to weigh in at all. But eventually, on the most important issues, things come to a head. The various

00:03:54.260 appellate courts disagree, creating a circuit split. And ultimately, the Supreme Court feels compelled to

00:03:59.860 step in. And that's happening now in the area of so-called trans medicine. And it brings us to what could

00:04:05.720 very well be the most significant Supreme Court case since Dobbs. This could be a long overdue

00:04:11.660 decision. And it's worth a close look, especially since the ruling could come down in a matter of months.

00:04:17.060 So we learned that this decision was coming just yesterday when the Supreme Court agreed to hear

00:04:21.580 the Biden administration's appeal of a Sixth Circuit's ruling from late last year. That Sixth Circuit ruling,

00:04:27.760 which I covered at the time, upheld Tennessee's ban on the mutilation of minors in the name of

00:04:32.900 so-called gender-affirming care. It was a devastating ruling for the trans agenda. And now

00:04:38.920 Biden's DOJ has appealed it. And that appeal is going all the way to the Supreme Court. Watch.

00:04:46.340 Well, this is a case from Tennessee which banned those kind of sex transition treatments for minors

00:04:52.340 and young people under 18, whether it's surgeries, puberty blockers, hormone treatments. And the Biden

00:04:58.200 administration stepped in and challenged those bans. A federal appeals court based on the Sixth Circuit

00:05:05.280 said that the bans were OK. And that is going to be the issue now that's under review by the Supreme

00:05:10.120 Court, whether states can ban those kind of transition care treatments for transgender youth.

00:05:16.660 I mean, it's obviously a highly contentious issue. More than or about two dozen states now have similar

00:05:23.020 bans. Another 14 or so have laws specifically protecting those treatments. So the Supreme

00:05:28.820 Court now is walking into this issue that's really deeply divided this country and divided the

00:05:34.060 international community as well. So it's not overstating things to say that when this case is

00:05:39.160 decided, it'll be one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions of all time. It will have

00:05:43.180 ramifications for children all over the country. The question in the case is whether voters have the

00:05:48.700 legal ability to prevent the sterilization and chemical castration of children or whether bans

00:05:53.480 on so-called gender affirming care, quote unquote, violate the U.S. Constitution. The Biden DOJ's

00:05:59.860 argument, which is outlined in their appeal to the Supreme Court, comes down to a few main points. 0.93

00:06:05.020 And they're all completely ridiculous, as you would expect. The first claim from the Biden administration

00:06:09.540 is that trans-identifying individuals constitute a protected class of people. And this means that any law

00:06:16.020 affecting trans-identified individuals must be subjected to, quote, heightened scrutiny by the

00:06:20.940 courts, essentially meaning that the courts won't defer to the voters' judgment because these are

00:06:25.140 protected people. Now, if the Supreme Court buys this argument, it would mean creating a new protected

00:06:30.200 class for the first time in more than four decades. Laws regulating so-called trans-healthcare would face

00:06:36.900 similar scrutiny to laws that affect, you know, people based on immutable characteristics like their skin

00:06:41.380 color. Obviously, this would reshape the law to create a vast new layer of protection for trans-identifying

00:06:47.220 individuals. And it would make it really, really, in effect, actually, the protections are for the

00:06:53.760 doctors and medical industry that want to do these things and profit off of them. Because, in fact, the

00:06:59.120 laws that ban these procedures, those are the laws that are actually protecting trans-identifying 0.92

00:07:04.660 individuals. But in any case, the end result is that it would make future bans on child mutilation much more

00:07:11.640 difficult, if not impossible, to pass. So that's what's at stake. In order to make this argument, the Biden DOJ

00:07:17.340 has to demonstrate that, quote, transgender persons share obvious, immutable, or distinguishing

00:07:22.360 characteristics that define them as a discrete group. This is a necessary bar to clear before a court will make

00:07:28.720 transgenderism a protected characteristic, as the Biden administration admits in their appeal to the Supreme

00:07:33.080 Court. And in their petition to the Supreme Court, the Biden administration acts like it's obvious that

00:07:38.060 transgender persons share, quote, obvious, immutable, and distinguishing characteristics. But right away, 0.98

00:07:45.760 this is laughable. I mean, their case falls apart immediately. It's already in shambles. Because there is

00:07:53.180 perhaps no single characteristic that is less immutable and more mutable than trans identity. 0.97

00:08:03.080 Trans activists claim, as a core plank of their ideology, that people can change their gender

00:08:07.900 at will. They can become men or women, non-binary, nothing, anything in between at any time. 0.68

00:08:14.500 That's the whole idea that underlies the ideology. And that's the exact opposite of an immutable

00:08:21.140 characteristic. I mean, they are the ones who say that gender is fluid. That is their argument.

00:08:27.960 How in the hell can a thing be fluid and immutable at the same time? I mean, it's like saying that a man

00:08:36.460 being a bachelor does not preclude him from also being married. It's a self-contradiction.

00:08:41.620 It's the definition of nonsense. Now, along the same lines, trans activists claim that someone 0.90

00:08:46.920 can be transgender without changing their appearance in any way. Basically, if you think you're a woman,

00:08:52.100 then you're a woman. So there's no argument to be made that transgender status is inherently an

00:08:56.040 immutable or obvious or distinguishing characteristic. It's none of those things. It needs to be all of

00:09:02.500 those things in order for trans people to qualify as a protected class, even though there should 1.00

00:09:08.380 really be no protected classes at all. That's a whole other topic. But it needs to be all of those

00:09:13.960 things, right? And it's none of them. In fact, it's the opposite of all of those. And the trans activists 0.97

00:09:20.440 themselves will say that, except when they're petitioning the Supreme Court. At the Sixth Circuit,

00:09:26.060 this argument was rejected by the majority. The Sixth Circuit found that, quote,

00:09:29.820 the stories of detransitioners indicate that trans identity is not immutable. And that seems like a 1.00

00:09:38.180 pretty obvious conclusion to make. But, I mean, we have lots of evidence of people who identified as

00:09:45.700 trans and now they don't. So that means it's not immutable, period. But the Biden administration is

00:09:51.400 now disputing that. In general, I think this is a general statement we can make. Because it goes

00:09:57.420 beyond even trans self-identity. Self-perception, in general, is not immutable. It is, in fact,

00:10:09.120 the most mutable thing in the world. Immutable means unchanging over time or unable to be changed.

00:10:17.780 Well, a person's self-perception, whether or not it corresponds with reality, whether or not they're

00:10:22.860 trans identified or not. But your self-perception can change constantly. Self-perception changes in

00:10:30.100 small ways every day. I mean, it can change from moment to moment, the way that you perceive yourself,

00:10:35.580 the way you perceive your own characteristics and your own everything. There is no person who has

00:10:42.220 one single sort of perception of themselves, and then it just remains that way forever and doesn't

00:10:49.400 change. Now, hopefully, your perception of your biological sex does not change. Hopefully,

00:10:56.460 that corresponds with reality and doesn't change at all. But everything else that makes up self-perception,

00:11:04.520 all of that, it can change. And transgenderism is a matter of self-perception. The phrase I identify as

00:11:13.760 is a phrase that indicates self-perception. So the Biden administration is claiming that

00:11:20.000 self-perception is immutable. And that makes no sense. It's part of the same argument that Biden

00:11:26.600 DOJ is also claiming that trans-identifying individuals are a protected class because they

00:11:30.840 lack political power. The DOJ writes that, quote, the recent wave of legislation targeting transgender

00:11:36.280 individuals decisively refutes any suggestion that they have no need for the protection of the courts.

00:11:42.300 In other words, because people all over the country are voting overwhelmingly to ban these life-altering

00:11:46.900 procedures from being performed on children, we're supposed to conclude that transgender 0.52

00:11:51.720 individuals, quote, unquote, lack political power in this country. But that's a hard case to make,

00:11:56.040 as the Sixth Circuit pointed out, because pretty much every single power center in the United States,

00:12:00.700 from the media to the government and everything in between, is aligned with trans ideology.

00:12:06.480 Quoting from the Sixth Circuit's opinion, the President of the United States and the Department

00:12:09.360 of Justice support the plaintiffs. A national anti-discrimination law, Title VII, protects

00:12:14.360 transgender individuals in the employment setting. 14 states have passed laws specifically allowing some

00:12:19.680 of the treatments sought here. 20 states have joined an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs.

00:12:25.640 The major medical organizations support the plaintiffs. And the only large law firms to make an

00:12:29.780 appearance in the case all entered the controversy in support of the plaintiffs. These are not the

00:12:33.980 hallmarks of a skewed or unfair political process. And we should just emphasize again that it's the

00:12:40.220 President of the United States, the presidential administration, like they're taking the side

00:12:48.100 of the trans activists, and then also claiming that the trans activists don't have political power.

00:12:54.460 How can that be the case?

00:12:58.700 If there's like one person in the country who cannot claim that someone else doesn't have political

00:13:04.040 power, it's the President. Because the moment you take their side, they obviously have political power.

00:13:11.640 So in that one paragraph, the Sixth Circuit rejected an argument that we hear constantly from

00:13:16.260 trans activists, which is that everyone's out to get them. Sure, they have about a million days on

00:13:20.800 the calendar to celebrate themselves. The entire federal government and Fortune 500 goes out of

00:13:25.520 its way to promote their agenda at every opportunity, along with big pharma and the education system.

00:13:30.040 But they always claim to be oppressed. And now the Biden administration is trying to make that claim

00:13:34.100 at the Supreme Court. And with this case, the Supreme Court has a chance to end this line of argument

00:13:39.960 once and for all. Now, maybe just as importantly, the court could also reject the argument that bans on

00:13:46.000 so-called gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, violate the 14th Amendment. The basic idea which

00:13:50.760 the Biden DOJ is advancing in its appeal is that Tennessee's ban discriminates against people on the

00:13:56.700 basis of their sex within the meaning of the 14th Amendment. But that's also not true, as the Sixth

00:14:00.760 Circuit pointed out. The Tennessee ban doesn't prevent people from receiving sterilizing hormones or

00:14:05.840 castration on the basis of their sex. Instead, the ban prohibits people from receiving that stuff

00:14:09.800 on the basis of their age. And also because the long-term effects of these procedures is unknown.

00:14:17.220 Puberty blockers, the court pointed out, are administered in much the same way for both boys

00:14:20.700 and girls. So the sex discrimination claim makes even less sense. But it's the point about the unknown

00:14:27.860 long-term effects of these procedures that's maybe the most important. And since this litigation began,

00:14:33.580 that last point has only been further underscored. Of course, there was the release of the internal

00:14:39.060 WPATH files, which demonstrated that the so-called experts in this field are unethical and incompetent

00:14:44.240 at best, even by their own admission. They openly talked about how children can't possibly consent to

00:14:51.040 these procedures, even as they acknowledged that, in some cases, children were apparently being harmed

00:14:55.580 by the procedures. Then there was the Comprehensive CAST Review in the UK, which found that there's no

00:15:00.680 good evidence, that's a quote, justifying any common interventions concerning gender identity.

00:15:06.240 And then there was this declaration from the American College of Pediatricians. If you didn't

00:15:11.700 see this at the time, here it is. Watch.

00:15:14.420 And we have serious concerns about the physical and mental health effects of the current protocols

00:15:19.740 promoted for the care of children and adolescents in the United States who expressed discomfort with

00:15:25.380 their biological sex. This declaration was authored by the American College of Pediatricians,

00:15:31.160 but really it was developed from the expertise of hundreds of doctors, researchers, and other

00:15:36.620 healthcare workers and leaders who, for years, have been sounding the alarm on the harmful protocols

00:15:42.660 that continue to be promoted by the medical organizations in the United States. Despite recent revelations

00:15:49.540 from the leaked WPATH files and the recent release of the final report from the CAST Review,

00:15:55.020 these medical organizations have not changed course. So we are calling on these medical organizations

00:16:01.260 of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society,

00:16:07.140 the Pediatric Endocrine Society, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological

00:16:12.200 Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their

00:16:17.920 European colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers,

00:16:25.040 cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their

00:16:30.440 biological sex. In our declaration, we affirm that sex is a dimorphic, innate trait defined in relation

00:16:38.800 to an organism's biological role in reproduction, male and female.

00:16:43.000 So when the Biden administration told the Supreme Court that, quote, all of the major national medical and mental

00:16:49.600 health organizations recognize the WPATH guidelines as reflecting the consensus of the medical communities

00:16:53.940 on the appropriate treatment for gender dysphoria, they were lying. That's just simply not true.

00:16:59.200 Major medical associations here and abroad, people who have looked at the data and are experts in the field,

00:17:05.420 disagree that it's a good idea to affirm children by permanently sterilizing them and cutting up their bodies. 0.92

00:17:11.480 Of course, again, it really doesn't matter what medical organizations say on this point. 0.71

00:17:16.760 Medical organizations can be wrong. And if every medical organization in the country and in the

00:17:22.580 world really did say that it's a good idea to treat kids this way, it still would not be a good idea.

00:17:29.260 But just as a factual matter, the Biden DOJ is lying to the Supreme Court. So they're just,

00:17:33.980 everything that they say in their argument is false and deceptive on its face.

00:17:40.120 And then when you look under, you start going deeper, you look at the different layers,

00:17:45.520 you find that it's false, you know, in all of those layers as well.

00:17:50.100 The truth is that these supposedly sacrosanct WPATH standards aren't just fraudulent as the WPATH files

00:17:56.300 revealed. They're also the result of political pressure.

00:17:59.120 Late last night, the journalist Jesse Singel reported on his substack that, quote,

00:18:02.440 when the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care Version 8

00:18:06.700 was released in September 2022, a very strange thing happened. WPATH removed references to

00:18:11.920 minimum age requirements for various medical interventions. Thanks to a rather remarkable

00:18:16.080 document just unsealed as part of Beau versus Marshall, one of the many American lawsuits over

00:18:20.660 youth transgender medicine, we now have a potential explanation for why the age guidelines were

00:18:25.340 removed. Direct pressure from Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human

00:18:30.180 Services, Admiral Rachel Levine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Now, Singel reports that

00:18:36.180 a Canadian researcher wrote that, quote, Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Rachel Levine,

00:18:40.900 strongly pressured WPATH leadership to rush the development and issuance of Standards of Care 8

00:18:46.880 in order to assist the administration's political strategy. Now, of course, Rachel Levine,

00:18:53.040 identifies as a transgender woman. So if this reporting is accurate, as it appears to be,

00:19:00.420 it's yet more evidence that the alleged standards of care are really political documents written by

00:19:06.080 activists. Now, of course, despite all this, it's true that many major medical organizations are still

00:19:13.440 promoting this. They're completely ignoring the findings of the Cass report, the revelations in the

00:19:17.960 WPATH files, the statements from the American College of Pediatricians, their own common sense,

00:19:23.640 the testimony of their own souls, which should tell them what is good and what is evil.

00:19:29.040 But in this country, we are not slaves to what a handful of medical organizations tell us to think,

00:19:33.820 especially when they have a vested interest in medicalizing every social problem.

00:19:39.140 Like, these are the people profiting off of this stuff.

00:19:41.300 So the rest of us are allowed to come to our own conclusions about the wisdom of disfiguring the

00:19:47.520 bodies of children. And doing so is not sex discrimination by any definition. It's a moral

00:19:52.960 obligation. So by agreeing to hear the Biden administration's appeal, the Supreme Court

00:19:57.400 now has the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to those who wish to mutilate and indoctrinate even 0.99

00:20:02.980 more minors. In fact, the Supreme Court should find that not only are the bans on these procedures 0.98

00:20:09.200 clearly constitutional, but in fact, the laws allowing these procedures are the ones that are

00:20:16.580 unconstitutional. Because it is a violation of a child's basic human rights to inflict these

00:20:22.740 treatments on him. The Supreme Court could and should come to a decision that actually results

00:20:30.940 in a nationwide ban on gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, for minors. I don't expect that to

00:20:38.240 happen as much as I'd like it to. But even if they come back with a much more limited decision,

00:20:43.080 this is still a decisive moment in the fight to protect children. It's also yet another reminder

00:20:48.260 that elections matter. Joe Biden publicly claimed that eight-year-olds can change their gender

00:20:52.600 a little under four years ago, just prior to taking office. And once he took office,

00:20:56.940 his administration made the same argument in court, as well as through the HHS.

00:21:00.520 So this has been a very long battle. And now, several years later, thanks to the state of

00:21:06.740 Tennessee and everyone else who's fought on the side of sanity and the side of children,

00:21:11.740 there's a very real chance of a final and total victory. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:22:24.580 That's helixsleep.com slash Walsh. Mentioned this right off the top, big news that was first reported

00:22:31.840 last night. NBC News reports Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S. allowing him to

00:22:38.680 go free. The article says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to plead guilty to a conspiracy

00:22:44.360 charge this week as part of a plea deal with the U.S., with the Justice Department specifically,

00:22:49.140 that will allow him to go free after having spent five years in a British prison. According to court

00:22:53.120 documents, Assange was charged by criminal information, which typically signifies a plea deal,

00:22:58.440 with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information. A letter from Justice Department

00:23:03.440 official Matthew McKenzie to U.S. District Judge Ramona Megalona of the Northern Mariana Islands

00:23:10.420 District said that Assange would appear in court at 9 a.m. local time on Wednesday to plead guilty,

00:23:16.700 and that the Justice Department expects Assange will return to Australia, his country of citizenship,

00:23:20.620 after the proceedings. So, huge news, obviously. I don't trust Biden's motives for doing this.

00:23:28.340 I'll say that. I mean, it's partly a campaign stunt. Partly. And then partly, I don't know what else exactly.

00:23:37.580 But motives aside, it's the right decision. I wish that he didn't have to take a plea deal.

00:23:43.300 He should be pardoned. He should have been pardoned already. But if he can go free, then it's worth cheering.

00:23:51.580 You know, I don't personally think that Julian Assange did anything wrong. I think he engaged in journalism,

00:23:57.620 real journalism. He didn't deserve 15 years in jail for that, 15 seconds even.

00:24:04.560 But another point worth making is that whether you agree with his methods or not,

00:24:11.340 one thing that I think can't be denied is that the man acted heroically. The fact that he was willing to

00:24:16.820 put his life and freedom on the line to expose corruption and shed light in places where he

00:24:21.800 thought it needed to be shed, you know, that's a level of commitment and courage that very few people

00:24:27.980 possess. And that's what I always think when his name comes up.

00:24:35.660 Okay, we're now two days away from the first presidential debate of 2024. Maybe the only one.

00:24:40.940 My money is on it being the only one. Trump has now officially called on Biden to take a drug test

00:24:47.540 before the debate saying that he'll take one also. And it's smart to call for that. It's also kind of

00:24:53.640 funny to call for it. And it's smart. It's not going to happen because Biden is going to be jacked up on

00:24:59.980 all kinds of performance enhancing drugs for this thing. You know, I don't know. I don't know what

00:25:05.020 exactly. I don't know if he'll be hitting up his son for some coke before he goes on stage. But if not

00:25:10.000 that, then whatever stimulants they need to inject in him to get him through a two hour debate,

00:25:14.800 they will do that. They really don't have any choice. Biden is going to come out on stage looking

00:25:21.460 like, you know, Justin Timberlake's mugshot. I mean, it's it's it'll be hilarious in a very

00:25:25.660 depressing kind of way. But Biden, though, even in spite of all this has a major advantage, which is

00:25:31.980 that the debate is being moderated by essentially his own campaign staff because it's being moderated

00:25:37.780 and hosted by CNN. And this is a point that a Trump spokeswoman tried to raise on CNN yesterday.

00:25:45.140 But the anchor on CNN shut it down pretty quickly. Let's watch this.

00:25:51.280 It's to take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper, Donald Trump, to see that Jake Tapper has

00:25:55.960 consistently stopped this interview.

00:25:57.520 I don't know if you're going to keep attacking my colleagues. Ma'am, I'm going to stop this interview if you continue to attack my colleagues.

00:26:03.880 I would like to talk about Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who you work for. Yes.

00:26:07.920 If you are here to speak on his behalf, I will have this conversation.

00:26:12.320 I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past.

00:26:15.460 Now, I'm sorry, guys, we're going to come back to the panel. Caroline, thank you very much for your time.

00:26:19.560 You are welcome to come back at any point. She is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump.

00:26:25.380 And Donald Trump will have equal time to Joe Biden when they both join us now at next early later this week in Atlanta for this debate.

00:26:36.160 Well, I will certainly allay any fears that the debate will be biased against Trump.

00:26:39.920 If you want to prove that your news organization is objective, then the best way to do that is if someone comes on your air and questions your objectivity.

00:26:47.480 You cut their mic and kick them off the show. That's the best way to prove that you're objective.

00:26:54.940 And the anchor there, Casey Hunt, tweeted later the same day, you come on my show, you respect my colleagues, period.

00:27:01.700 I don't care what side of the aisle you stand on, as my track record clearly shows.

00:27:06.660 So she's trying to position herself as the protective mama bear here, I guess, when really she just panicked because she doesn't she didn't know how to respond when these questions were raised.

00:27:17.480 And that's why she was stuttering and babbling at the end. She panicked. She was like afraid and she didn't know what to do.

00:27:24.300 All of that said.

00:27:25.260 I do have to confess that. I am pretty tired of this whole routine, this outrage cycle on the right that we jump into every four years.

00:27:39.760 Right. It's the same thing every four years.

00:27:43.260 But the debate moderators are biased. They're biased. It's rigged.

00:27:47.200 It's unfair. They're so biased against us.

00:27:52.020 Let's go and dig up their old tweets and like clips of them on there in the past.

00:27:57.100 Them saying things that clearly reveal that they are liberals who favor Democrats.

00:28:02.260 And then all those clips get shared all over the place and people act surprised by it.

00:28:07.960 Oh, can you believe? Can you believe this? Look, look what they said three years ago.

00:28:13.160 Yeah, of course, it's unfair. OK, of course, it's rigged.

00:28:16.900 Of course, they're biased.

00:28:18.780 We get we all know that this is not it's not even it's not an interesting thing to talk about anymore.

00:28:23.560 The fact that corporate news media. It is staffed entirely and run entirely by Democrats and that they're that they are biased against Republicans, especially Donald Trump.

00:28:37.420 Yes, yes, we we all know that that is 100 percent the case.

00:28:41.460 There's no denying it. Of course, they'll still deny it.

00:28:44.220 But we all know that it's true.

00:28:47.380 And it's not even like there's nothing even interesting to say about it anymore.

00:28:51.160 I mean, how many times are we going to say the same thing?

00:28:53.480 They're so biased. They're so biased. They don't like us.

00:28:55.620 Like, yes. OK, we of course. Yes. Agreed. Agreed.

00:28:59.580 We all agree. We're on the same page.

00:29:02.280 So now what? OK, what now?

00:29:05.280 What are we going to do about that is my question.

00:29:08.560 There's really only one solution to that problem.

00:29:12.260 And complaining about it incessantly is not a solution.

00:29:16.020 And doing the same routine every four years where we sign up for the debate on the corporate media channel and then we complain about how biased they are.

00:29:25.900 And the debate happens and we complain about how biased the moderators were.

00:29:29.280 What do you know? Like, that's not a solution.

00:29:33.420 There's only one solution.

00:29:34.920 There is only one.

00:29:35.940 And that is to refuse to participate in debates that are hosted by apparatchiks of the Democrat Party.

00:29:45.440 That is the one single solution.

00:29:48.040 There is no other solution that exists in this universe or any other hypothetical universe.

00:29:54.540 This is the only one.

00:29:55.720 So you could, you know, you could just refuse to do it.

00:30:00.660 You could say, I am not going to participate in any debate hosted by someone who's obviously liberal and hates Republicans.

00:30:09.700 And if you're Donald and hates me in particular, if you're Donald Trump, you would say that.

00:30:14.300 So, you know, that's the solution.

00:30:17.020 If you don't like that solution for whatever reason, then, okay, well, then you are signing up for a rigged thing.

00:30:27.860 You are willingly signing.

00:30:29.640 They are inviting you.

00:30:30.620 They're saying, hey, come to this rigged thing over here where it's going to be totally rigged against you.

00:30:34.480 What do you say?

00:30:36.960 If you sign up for it and say, sure, I'll jump right in.

00:30:40.480 Sounds good.

00:30:41.760 It doesn't make any sense to spend the whole time whining about it.

00:30:45.120 And then just repeating that same strategy over and over and over again, election after election after election.

00:30:54.700 I'm exhausted by it.

00:30:55.760 I'm bored by it.

00:30:57.140 Either take action to change the situation or stop about it.

00:31:01.440 Those are the workable options.

00:31:03.040 They're both workable.

00:31:05.100 You could refuse to participate or you could participate and just say, all right, well, okay, I'm going to just deal with the fact that I'm walking into an environment where it's all stacked against me.

00:31:16.120 And listen, I'm not saying that there isn't a plausible argument for doing these rigged debates.

00:31:22.640 Maybe it's worth it.

00:31:24.200 Maybe the good outweighs the bad.

00:31:25.800 I could buy that.

00:31:26.880 And especially in this circumstance when you've got Biden who is a vegetable.

00:31:31.180 And so, you know, there's a plausible strategic argument you could make for if you say to yourself, well, look, I want to have a shot at him.

00:31:42.040 And he's not going to come in.

00:31:44.280 He's definitely not going to walk into any forum where it's not rigged in his favor.

00:31:49.320 And so, the only way that I can get the shot at him is if I walk into the rigged place.

00:31:53.880 So, then I'll do it.

00:31:55.180 Like, it's worth the risk.

00:31:56.660 You could say that.

00:31:57.460 But then if that's what you do, then you know what you're doing.

00:32:04.660 And complaining about it the whole time is exhausting.

00:32:10.100 So, and either way, if you really want to do something about it, if you want to change it, you take action.

00:32:19.180 And taking action is to refuse to take part.

00:32:21.580 And this is really, like, of course, this routine has been going on forever.

00:32:30.660 This is the only time in recent history where I can say, strategically, you could make an argument for walking into that rigged setting.

00:32:41.400 Because you happen to be running against a guy who is completely senile.

00:32:46.020 And so, any chance you have, even if they're going to give you only a minute, they're going to cut the mics off.

00:32:50.660 They're stacking the deck against you in every way they possibly can.

00:32:54.060 He is still a vegetable.

00:32:55.200 He's still senile.

00:32:55.900 And so, for that reason, maybe, you know, again, strategically, you could make an argument for it.

00:33:01.360 But in pretty much every case, in every election I can think of before this, when these Republicans have just agreed to go and do debates on CNN and NBC and all the rest of it,

00:33:14.720 it's just, it doesn't, there's not even any strategic argument for it.

00:33:22.160 You don't have to do it.

00:33:23.660 They don't have a gun to your head.

00:33:24.880 You can say no.

00:33:26.660 And you can give your reason for saying no.

00:33:29.640 And most people will, of course, the Democrats will claim that you're ducking or whatever.

00:33:33.500 But you can say no and give your reason.

00:33:36.380 And most people in America will understand because most normal people in America know that obviously these networks are biased in favor of Democrats.

00:33:47.760 You know, the other thing is that, let's just be real here.

00:33:51.260 Jake Tapper is clearly a Democrat and a liberal.

00:33:53.960 Yes, he's also probably the most objective on-air guy that they have on that network.

00:34:02.880 It's a very low bar, right?

00:34:04.540 He's not objective.

00:34:05.340 He's not reliable.

00:34:06.120 Don't get me wrong.

00:34:08.520 But if you're agreeing to do a debate on CNN, is there anyone at CNN who you think would be better?

00:34:14.620 Like, who would be better?

00:34:16.860 Who's the better person?

00:34:18.020 Because if you agree to do the CNN debate and then you say, well, not Jake Tapper, well, who, I mean, why not suggest someone else?

00:34:24.640 I don't want him.

00:34:25.440 He's biased.

00:34:26.300 Give me this person.

00:34:28.100 Who's the other person?

00:34:29.040 There's no one else there.

00:34:30.240 They're all biased hacks.

00:34:34.260 So if you agree to do CNN, like, why are you talking about Jake Tapper?

00:34:37.500 Who do you think was going to moderate it?

00:34:39.660 Sean Hannity?

00:34:40.660 You think they're going to maybe call Bill O'Reilly up to see if he wants to do it?

00:34:44.120 No, it was always going to be some CNN hack.

00:34:50.440 And that's Jake Tapper.

00:34:52.460 They get hackier than Jake Tapper over at CNN, right?

00:34:56.380 I can tell you that.

00:34:57.300 We all know that.

00:34:59.080 But the whole thing just doesn't make any sense.

00:35:02.700 And it's futile.

00:35:04.460 Like, the futile whining is so frustrating at this point.

00:35:10.700 Especially when there are things that can be done.

00:35:12.700 There are things that we can do to solve this problem, to make a change, right?

00:35:18.860 And if you're not going to do it, then just don't complain.

00:35:24.240 All right.

00:35:28.360 Here's Breitbart.

00:35:29.740 Senate Democrats have added a provision to a yearly defense bill that would require women to sign up for the draft, prompting opposition from Republicans.

00:35:36.480 The yearly bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, authorizes the fiscal year budget for the Pentagon, but it also authorizes policies and programs in the Pentagon.

00:35:46.260 The House and Senate each pass a version that gets meshed together.

00:35:48.560 This year, Democrats include a provision in their version that would require women to register for the draft, according to The Hill. 0.73

00:35:55.340 Top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, Senator Roger Wicker, said that he will try to strip it out of the bill.

00:36:02.540 But committee chairman Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat, told CNN that he could not understand why the issue was a sore point.

00:36:10.720 He told CNN, we have had amendments that would have required women to register, and we can't get any real traction on the other side.

00:36:16.860 We're going to try to do it.

00:36:17.760 It makes sense.

00:36:18.420 The military now is a mixed force.

00:36:20.060 This is always kind of an interesting conversation because, you know, you have some on the right who say, well, sure, yeah, make women sign up for the draft.

00:36:30.620 I mean, if you want gender equality, then this is what that means.

00:36:34.420 Take that, feminists. 1.00

00:36:36.240 And I understand that mentality.

00:36:37.800 It makes sense, logically speaking, from a strictly logical perspective.

00:36:41.460 Yes, women should be required to sign up for the draft. 1.00

00:36:43.840 We live in a culture that has totally rejected chivalry, rejected masculinity, rejected the idea that men and women are different.

00:36:50.060 All we ever hear about is female empowerment, how women are just as badass and kick-ass as men, and so on and so forth. 1.00

00:36:56.820 And we already have, as was pointed out, a co-ed military that goes out of its way to recruit and promote women. 1.00

00:37:04.060 So, again, because of that, from a logical perspective, if men have to sign up for the draft, why the hell should women be exempt? 0.81

00:37:11.800 I get that.

00:37:12.540 But not everything in life is a logical calculation.

00:37:17.840 And more importantly, while I believe that we should hold the left to their own standards and force them to take their own medicine whenever possible, we also can't be purely reactive.

00:37:26.480 We can't allow the left to determine our positions for us.

00:37:29.460 And the human soul is a real thing.

00:37:34.780 Human beings have a soul, in a more metaphorical sense, cultures, societies have souls.

00:37:41.120 And you forfeit your soul when you send your daughters off to die on the battlefield.

00:37:47.740 It really is that simple.

00:37:48.720 There are some things we cannot ever accept or acquiesce to, and this is one of those things.

00:37:53.060 You know, so some of the people on the right that say, oh, yeah, just sign the women up. 1.00

00:38:01.520 And it reminds me of the people on the right who also say things like, well, why should we object to abortion?

00:38:07.760 It's mostly Democrats aborting their own kids anyway. 0.89

00:38:11.440 You know, they want to wipe themselves out in that way, then we should just let them do it.

00:38:15.340 Well, I give the same answer to that.

00:38:16.780 You know, from a purely cold and calculating, ends justify the means, amoral perspective, sure, I understand the argument.

00:38:26.880 But that's not the perspective that we should actually adopt because then, again, we have forfeited our souls.

00:38:31.840 We can't do that.

00:38:33.420 And if you acquiesce to, if you agree to the murder of children, then you have forfeited your soul.

00:38:39.140 Well, if you agree to have girls shipped off forcibly to fight in war, then you've also forfeited your soul.

00:38:48.300 Now, granted, there is no draft right now.

00:38:49.880 It seems kind of far-fetched that we'll have one anytime soon.

00:38:54.520 But it only seems that way.

00:38:56.100 And we are a country led by globalist stooges who profit greatly from war, which is why they're always looking to start a new one.

00:39:03.660 And so who knows what could happen?

00:39:05.220 But whether it happens or not, we cannot be willing to send our daughters off to die for us, even in theory, even as a hypothetical.

00:39:13.840 We can't be willing to do that.

00:39:16.220 I'm not willing to do that.

00:39:18.600 I mean, if they did force women to sign up, and if there was a draft, you know, these are all ifs.

00:39:24.200 And if either or both of my daughters were military age at that time, we would leave the country.

00:39:30.100 I mean, I would give up America before I would give up my daughters.

00:39:32.720 We say America first, but it's worth keeping in mind that it's really God first, then family, then country, in that order.

00:39:39.560 Family before country.

00:39:41.300 My children before country.

00:39:44.920 Now, I also have four sons, and I will say that if the psychopaths running the country got us involved in some unnecessary war that has nothing to do with defending our homeland,

00:39:52.980 I would also leave the country before I allowed any of my sons to be drafted into that.

00:39:58.620 I'm not sending them off to die for a globalist agenda.

00:40:01.660 You know, I'm not sending them off to die for some sake of, you know, some dispute that's got nothing to do with us and nothing to do with them or their families.

00:40:09.340 But they are boys, and they will be men.

00:40:14.560 So if the cause was right and just, if it was a war that we were actually defending America,

00:40:20.960 then I would be very worried and very wracked with anxiety about it, but I would let them go off and fight.

00:40:25.920 It's the honorable thing for a man, and I would never try to deprive my sons of their honor.

00:40:31.160 But men and women are not the same.

00:40:34.420 We always come back to that, and they're just simply not.

00:40:39.200 And that is a truth that we have to stand by, I think, at all times.

00:40:45.400 All right, let's briefly stay with the gender wars for this next one. 1.00

00:40:49.400 Daily Mail reports,

00:40:51.020 It forms a lyric to one of her best-known songs, but Taylor Swift still managed to divide a largely partisan crowd

00:40:56.480 while issuing the rallying cry to a sold-out Wembley Stadium on Sunday evening.

00:41:02.780 The pop superstar was performing the last of three consecutive shows in London

00:41:06.180 when she started singing a song that includes a line about the patriarchy,

00:41:12.940 and she encouraged the audience to sing along.

00:41:16.840 Let's watch that moment.

00:41:18.600 Okay, so there it is.

00:41:31.980 She had the crowd sing, F the patriarchy.

00:41:35.560 So brave, so brave of her.

00:41:38.120 While Taylor Swift, who, by the way, has a net worth of $1.3 billion.

00:41:45.880 That's how you know there's a patriarchy in this country.

00:41:48.340 You know there's a patriarchy when a woman can become a billionaire while singing F the patriarchy. 1.00

00:41:57.180 You know, it's like a general rule.

00:41:58.680 If there is a patriarchy, like, there would probably be consequences for running around and saying F the patriarchy,

00:42:06.640 and the consequence would not be a billion dollars.

00:42:12.360 No, there is no patriarchy in this country anymore.

00:42:14.660 Was there?

00:42:15.340 Did we have a patriarchy in the past?

00:42:18.180 Well, if by patriarchy you mean a society where men hold most of the leadership positions in most of the major institutions,

00:42:28.220 if that's what you mean by patriarchy, then yes, we did.

00:42:32.840 Which brings me back to a question that I've asked before, and I always get in trouble for asking,

00:42:38.320 which is why I just continue to ask it.

00:42:42.840 But none of the people who get upset by the question can answer it.

00:42:46.860 Okay, and this is an opportunity just to ask it.

00:42:49.060 I'm going to throw it out there.

00:42:50.760 It's a challenge.

00:42:51.640 Okay, maybe I'm sort of known for asking questions that one side doesn't love to answer.

00:42:59.600 So this is another one.

00:43:00.960 If you're one of these smash the patriarchy types, even though there is no patriarchy to smash anymore,

00:43:06.320 but if that's you, answer me this.

00:43:10.000 Just this.

00:43:11.860 Can you name an institution in American life that functions better now that it is no longer led mostly by men?

00:43:21.160 Can you name an institution in American life that is better, that is improved, that is more competent, that is more effective,

00:43:30.600 now that we've added a lot of female leadership to it? 1.00

00:43:36.460 Can you?

00:43:37.880 Just give me one example.

00:43:39.240 I just want one.

00:43:41.740 Because I'm agreeing with the starting point.

00:43:44.960 I think we all agree on the starting point, which is that not all that long ago,

00:43:51.260 pretty much every major societal institution was led almost exclusively by men.

00:43:58.140 That was the case up until modern times.

00:44:02.360 And then there was an effort, very deliberate effort, to get more and more women involved in leadership positions. 1.00

00:44:07.380 And now we're at a point where, you know, a lot of, it's not just that women are involved in these institutions, 0.95

00:44:16.260 but a lot of the institutions that used to be male-led are, it's been completely flipped,

00:44:20.640 and now they're entirely female-dominated. 0.99

00:44:23.760 So that process has happened.

00:44:26.500 I think we all agree.

00:44:29.240 The only question is, has it improved anything?

00:44:34.440 Okay, is there any, can you point to any success?

00:44:39.860 Can you point to any institution and say, well, thank God, thank God we've got more women leading this one here, 0.99

00:44:44.620 because it's working a lot better now.

00:44:48.000 That's the question.

00:44:49.800 I'd love an answer.

00:44:50.780 Just give me one.

00:44:53.620 It's not going to change my overall opinion on anything, but still,

00:44:57.040 it would be nice to see if anyone can meet that challenge.

00:44:58.860 My dear sweet babies, I know you're all eager to show your undying loyalty to the gang,

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00:46:21.300 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:24.020 Now, as you're probably aware, milk has been a lightning rod for controversy over the last several years.

00:46:35.060 It wasn't always like this.

00:46:36.060 You know, back in my day, milk was a much simpler thing.

00:46:38.980 When I was a kid, we drank milk by the gallon.

00:46:41.880 Your mom would give you warm milk at night to help you sleep, even though I don't think there's any science behind that.

00:46:46.780 Maybe there is.

00:46:47.240 I don't know.

00:46:48.140 Celebrities did advertisements for milk.

00:46:51.220 Not any particular milk brand, but just like milk in general.

00:46:54.500 It's like seeing an advertisement for bread, not for any brand, but just bread.

00:46:58.720 But we didn't question it.

00:46:59.580 We liked it.

00:47:00.080 We liked our milk and it was fine.

00:47:01.940 Then things got complicated.

00:47:02.900 First, the marketplace became flooded with other substances called milk, even though they're not milk.

00:47:08.740 We were lied to, betrayed, coconut milk, almond milk, soy milk, oat milk, on and on.

00:47:13.700 There's no milk in any of it.

00:47:14.880 These are not dairy products.

00:47:15.680 It's a scam.

00:47:17.040 I recently saw an advertisement for, this is a direct quote, milked cashews.

00:47:25.160 Milked cashews.

00:47:26.140 They're claiming that they milked cashews.

00:47:29.720 I don't even want to know what they're doing to those poor cashews that they call milking. 0.99

00:47:35.760 All I know is that cashews do not have nipples or mammary glands, so you can't milk them, you pervert.

00:47:42.100 But this is the complicated world that milk finds itself in now.

00:47:45.100 Then it got worse.

00:47:46.420 There was an active effort to problematize milk, to make it seem like something scandalous and evil.

00:47:51.140 It started, of course, with the vegans, who hate all that is good and beautiful in the world, including and especially dairy products.

00:47:57.380 And then outlets like the New York Times started running headlines like this.

00:48:00.720 Why white supremacists are chugging milk and why geneticists are alarmed.

00:48:05.980 PETA put out a PSA claiming that milk is a white supremacist symbol. 0.88

00:48:09.920 They point to a scene in Inglourious Bastards where a Nazi character drinks milk.

00:48:14.520 That's one of their reasons why it's a white supremacist symbol.

00:48:16.920 So now it's milk's fault if a guy who's pretending to be a Nazi drinks it.

00:48:21.300 I mean, milk just can't catch a break, which is why the headline this week from the Daily Mail should come as no surprise.

00:48:26.340 Quote, now experts are asking whether milk is racist as part of a taxpayer-funded research project into connections between milk and colonialism.

00:48:35.700 Now, you probably aren't wondering what kind of connections there could possibly be between colonialism and milk, but I'm going to read this to you anyway.

00:48:42.740 Here's the Daily Mail.

00:48:43.460 Quote, a taxpayer-funded project is set to research connections between milk and colonialism.

00:48:48.240 It was revealed yesterday.

00:48:49.480 Academics at an Oxford museum will research the political nature of milk and its colonial legacies.

00:48:55.400 One of the experts involved has previously argued that milk is a northern European obsession that has been imposed on other parts of the world.

00:49:02.040 Dr. Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp said the assumption that milk was a key part of the human diet may be understood as a white supremacist one,

00:49:08.760 as many populations outside Europe and North America have high levels of lactose intolerance in adulthood.

00:49:14.920 The new project, Milking It, Colonialism, Heritage, and Everyday Engagement with Dairy, has won funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

00:49:23.780 Well, they are certainly milking it.

00:49:25.200 That's true.

00:49:25.700 We have to concede that much, I suppose.

00:49:27.220 The article, though, continues.

00:49:28.280 The milk project will be based at the History of Science Museum in Oxford, which announced it had received funding.

00:49:33.280 The museum said,

00:49:34.340 By focusing on communities intersecting industry, aid, and government regulation,

00:49:38.220 the project aims to center on heritage as a vital framework for understanding how colonial legacies influence contemporary issues and affect people's lives.

00:49:46.680 Through milk diaries, archival research, and participatory podcasting,

00:49:51.280 it will investigate historical engagement with milk, building networks with consumers and producers in Britain and Kenya.

00:49:57.000 The project will question both the imagined and real aspects of milk, revealing the intimate and political nature of this everyday substance.

00:50:07.700 Participatory podcasting.

00:50:10.540 Okay.

00:50:12.260 But another important stipulation that we just heard there, we have to separate the real from the imagined aspects of milk.

00:50:20.420 We must distinguish between literal milk and metaphorical milk.

00:50:23.560 Physical milk and metaphysical milk.

00:50:26.500 Metaphysical milk would be a great name for an experimental indie rock band, by the way.

00:50:30.300 One other important detail from this article, quote,

00:50:32.020 Dr. Zettestrom-Sharp took part in a talk titled Milk and Whiteness during a Welcome Trust exhibition on milk in 2022.

00:50:39.300 In the panel discussion, she said a Northern European obsession with milk has led to the assumption that it is a vital part of human diet.

00:50:44.340 And we already read that part.

00:50:45.000 Now, of course, the idea that milk has a colonial legacy is almost certainly nonsense.

00:50:52.680 But it doesn't matter because there's nothing wrong with colonialism.

00:50:57.420 If dairy spread through the world by way of colonialism, that would just be one more reason among many to be grateful for colonialism.

00:51:04.100 When responding to nonsense like this, we shouldn't make the mistake of implicitly affirming the left's use of colonial as a pejorative.

00:51:13.520 This is one of the great strategic mistakes that conservatives have made.

00:51:16.700 And we make a lot of strategic mistakes.

00:51:18.820 This is one of them.

00:51:19.520 One of them is that we're willing to defend something against the charge of being colonialist when we should be defending colonialism itself.

00:51:28.120 We should be saying, oh, you think that's colonialist?

00:51:30.500 Well, great.

00:51:31.640 Thank you.

00:51:32.280 Thank you for the compliment.

00:51:34.120 European colonialism has been one of the greatest forces for good that the world has ever seen.

00:51:38.900 Billions of people today are living better lives than they would have lived had Europeans not colonized the globe. 0.99

00:51:46.460 The colonizers spread civilization.

00:51:48.380 They spread the gospel.

00:51:49.400 They spread innovation.

00:51:50.260 They spread important ideas, such as the idea that you shouldn't murder your children to appease the sun god.

00:51:57.460 That you shouldn't eat your enemies to absorb their life force.

00:52:01.040 Did the colonizers also spread dairy products? 0.93

00:52:03.580 I don't know.

00:52:04.820 But I'm happy to add that to the list of triumphs.

00:52:08.160 But this is all mostly beside the point.

00:52:09.920 Because the main takeaway from stories like this is that academia has been an aggressively useless institution for a long time.

00:52:22.440 Now, it wasn't always this way.

00:52:23.400 There was a time when academics worked on important societal problems.

00:52:27.020 They pondered the deepest and most important questions of life.

00:52:29.980 Seems hard to believe now, but there used to be actual insight and wisdom and useful revelations coming out of academia.

00:52:38.640 But those days are long in the past now. 0.98

00:52:41.540 Today, academics sit around with their heads up their own in each other's asses, inhaling their own fumes, trying to conjure up new examples of oppression and racism. 0.98

00:52:49.300 They say stuff like this. 0.95

00:52:52.120 By focusing on communities intersecting industry, aid, and government regulation, the project aims to center on heritage as a vital framework for understanding how colonial legacies influence contemporary issues and affect people's lives.

00:53:05.460 I mean, that one sentence is academia in a nutshell. 0.93

00:53:08.420 They find the most complicated way to say the dumbest things. 0.94

00:53:13.400 They no longer ponder the deepest mysteries of life. 0.99

00:53:15.900 Instead, they ponder why milk is racist.

00:53:20.300 And so many other things that are just as pointless, if not more.

00:53:24.780 And that is why they, but not milk, are today canceled.

00:53:30.280 That'll do it for the show today.

00:53:31.220 Thanks for watching.

00:53:31.740 Thanks for listening.

00:53:32.400 Have a great day.

00:53:33.080 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:53:34.500 Godspeed.

00:53:45.900 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 25, 2024

Ep. 1394 - The Fight Against Child Mutilation Makes It To The Supreme Court

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