The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1395 - A Flock Of Drag Queens Descend On Capitol Hill

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00:00:21.360 again. And the first annual FatCon, a convention for fat people, just happened. I'll have the

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00:01:42.840 It's normally not an especially big deal when various groups are invited to Washington to mark

00:01:47.720 some special or ceremonial occasion. When an NFL team wins the Super Bowl, for instance,

00:01:52.300 they get to go to the White House, shake hands with the president. Everyone goes about their day.

00:01:57.100 The same is true when scientists are invited to celebrate their Nobel Prizes, or soldiers are

00:02:01.060 honored for winning the Medal of Honor, or families are invited to participate in the annual

00:02:04.960 Easter egg hunt. In cases like these, usually, there's no big scandal that erupts after the fact.

00:02:09.780 People show up, they participate, whatever the event is, they leave, everything's fine. But over the

00:02:14.760 past year, one very notable exception to this rule has emerged, which is this. It's become increasingly

00:02:20.440 risky to invite LGBT influencers to descend on Washington. Last summer, for example, a transgender 1.00

00:02:26.640 social media personality went topless at a White House Pride Month event with children present.

00:02:31.860 And then earlier this year, a drag queen was invited to the White House by Joe Biden. Kamala Harris

00:02:36.300 was accused of multiple sexual assaults. These are the kinds of episodes that, if you're the cynical

00:02:41.300 type, you might suggest that inviting prominent members of the LGBT community, quote unquote,

00:02:46.880 to Washington could carry some potential pitfalls. It's the kind of thing that can backfire in a way

00:02:52.100 that other events with other guests are maybe less prone to. And yet, despite this sordid recent

00:02:57.780 history, Democrats on Capitol Hill don't seem discouraged in any way. In the spirit of inclusion,

00:03:03.700 they're continuing to encourage members of the, quote unquote, LGBT community to come to Washington

00:03:08.840 and make their voices heard. So just yesterday, in fact, so-called drag stars arrived in the

00:03:14.000 nation's capital to meet with lawmakers in the House of Representatives. They called it the Drag Lobby Day. 0.98

00:03:20.940 The drag queens were there alongside the group Move On Political Action to lobby on behalf of a couple

00:03:25.960 pieces of legislation. Move On, you might remember, began as an effort to move on from the George W.

00:03:31.200 Bush administration, but the group never moved on, ironically enough. And now they're just another

00:03:35.800 left-wing organization collecting donations. In any event, the first bill that Move On and their drag

00:03:40.980 queens want to see passed is called the Equality Act, which would make sexual orientation and gender 0.99

00:03:46.120 identity into a protected class. The second agenda item is a resolution called the Transgender Bill of

00:03:52.520 Rights, which according to the Hill would, quote, strengthen civil rights protections for trans and

00:03:56.920 non-binary Americans. So apparently this special class of people, which no one can even define

00:04:02.840 really, needs its own Bill of Rights. The one we have already just isn't enough for them. Like, they want

00:04:10.720 that one, the actual Bill of Rights, but then they want another one on top of it. The rest of us plebs

00:04:16.320 only get one Bill of Rights. They get to have two. Now, I'll get into the specifics of these proposals in a

00:04:21.560 second. Nothing they're requesting makes any sense, as you'll see shortly and as you can already

00:04:26.740 predict. But first, even before we look at what these people are asking for, this whole drag lobby 1.00

00:04:32.940 day turned into a complete farce before it even began. No one could possibly have predicted that

00:04:38.260 sending men in dresses to Capitol Hill to lobby for legislation would turn into a farce, but that's 1.00

00:04:43.640 what happened. Somehow, for the third time in a row, LGBT activists have managed to arrive in Washington

00:04:48.840 and completely beclown themselves. Behold this early morning interview yesterday on CNN with

00:04:53.780 one of the drag stars turned lobbyists who uses the name Bridget Bandits. Keep in mind, as you watch 0.71

00:04:59.780 this, that CNN will cut off interviews with representatives of the Trump campaign. They'll

00:05:03.960 cut away from speeches from Donald Trump, but they'll allow interviews like this on the air before 9 a.m.

00:05:10.340 no less, when some people are still eating their breakfast because they're far more important than

00:05:14.000 anything the leading presidential candidate could possibly say. Watch. I'm curious for you, first of

00:05:21.500 all, what this day means to you, and second of all, have both Democrats and Republicans agreed to meet

00:05:25.840 with you? Yes, we will be meeting with both Democrats and Republicans, and I'm really excited to go speak

00:05:34.540 with all of our lawmakers about the attacks that we're seeing on our LGBTQ community. It's so important to

00:05:40.500 talk about and to discuss protections for our queer community.

00:05:48.000 Can I let you listen to the current sentiment that's being shared by former President Donald

00:05:52.740 Trump, who, of course, is running for re-election? Here it is.

00:05:57.000 I'm going to take care of our Capitol. On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal

00:06:02.700 funding of any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, 0.65

00:06:09.500 sexual, or political content onto the lives of our children.

00:06:16.000 In those three things, he mentions what he calls transgender insanity. If he's voted in as an 0.99

00:06:21.000 next president, what will that mean to you?

00:06:25.300 We already see so many attacks on our queer community. I already don't feel safe in my own

00:06:30.700 hometown just dressed in drag like this, and it's very scary for queer people. 0.92

00:06:37.580 Not exactly sure what's up with the costume there, as always. Looks a bit like, I don't know,

00:06:45.000 maybe what a flight attendant would look like if you were on a plane in 1965 and you were tripping on

00:06:52.960 acid. Anyway, it's very scary to dress like that, we're told, he tells us. To which a normal person

00:07:00.360 responds, okay, so then just don't dress like that? If you're saying, oh, I'm afraid to go out in public

00:07:08.080 dressed like this, so then don't? You could just not do that. It takes a lot of effort to look like

00:07:15.260 that. You could just not look like that. That's an option. But Bridget Bandit just can't resist, 1.00

00:07:21.500 and that's real bravery. This is Bridget Bandit's sacrifice. That's why we need a trans bill of rights, 1.00

00:07:26.720 supposedly. Now, in any other decade, we'd be asking why somebody like Bridget Bandit would even 1.00

00:07:31.520 think of dressing like this for a national television news interview. But it's 2024,

00:07:35.980 and we all know that dressing like this is how we get jobs in the White House Communications

00:07:39.320 Department. Maybe that's the play here. This was a job interview. Now, as for the substance of what

00:07:45.780 Bridget Bandit said, a few points need to be made. First of all, feeling safe is a luxury at this point

00:07:53.320 in cities all over the country. For just normal people going about their days, they don't get to

00:07:58.820 feel safe. The thing is that no one has a constitutional right to feel safe, regardless

00:08:04.280 of where they go or how they dress. And if you're going to walk around like that, trying to attract as

00:08:09.460 much attention as possible, that's not something we need a new bill of rights to solve. You can solve

00:08:14.360 it yourself by just wearing normal clothes. That's an option. Additionally, it's actually not clear which

00:08:23.200 specific lawmakers were involved in this lobbying effort. There's the claim from Bridget Bandit that

00:08:28.040 both Republicans and Democrats gave an audience to these drag queen lobbyists. But it's hard to find

00:08:32.540 the names of these politicians, at least for now. There haven't been a lot of videos coming out of

00:08:36.580 this event, probably by design. That's too bad, because any lawmaker who had any part in inviting 0.99

00:08:41.660 Bridget Bandit to the nation's capital should be immediately impeached and removed from office. 1.00

00:08:46.560 That's especially true if any Republicans were involved. But it doesn't appear that very many people

00:08:51.180 were involved at all, which may tell you something. As of now, one of the only members of Congress that

00:08:55.600 was apparently in some way involved in this insanity was Jasmine Crockett of Texas. Now,

00:09:02.040 Move On claimed on their website that Crockett would meet with these drag queens or at least 1.00

00:09:06.020 participate in some kind of rally they were organizing after the fact. All we know is that on Twitter,

00:09:10.040 Crockett responded to this picture of the three drag queens outside her office. Crockett added this

00:09:15.700 caption to the photo, quote, you're always welcome, queens. In a separate post praising the outfit of

00:09:21.540 Bridget Bandit, Crockett added, thank you for bringing some big Texas glamour to the hill, sis. 1.00

00:09:27.740 Now, if you've been following Jasmine Crockett's contributions in Congress over the past few months,

00:09:32.500 you might actually be impressed by those tweets. They're easily the most coherent,

00:09:36.100 grammatically correct sentences that she's ever managed to produce. Yet despite Move On's claims,

00:09:42.080 it doesn't appear that Crockett did meet with them at all. In fact, she tweeted later in the day,

00:09:47.660 so sad I missed you. Come back anytime. So even Crockett didn't want to be seen with these people.

00:09:54.620 Instead, she let them take a picture in front of her door and that was it. Later that day,

00:09:59.520 the drag queens held a rally on the lawn of the Capitol building. I can't find a single video of this

00:10:04.800 event. I mean, they were rallying in the Capitol. They had media promoting it.

00:10:11.360 Can't find a single video. I'm not saying the videos don't exist, but I couldn't find a single

00:10:15.560 one. But the spectator was on the ground and they report that around 30 people showed up for the

00:10:20.640 rally. So it seems pretty clear that even the Democrats are starting to feel embarrassed by

00:10:25.060 all of this. They recognize that the American people do not want drag queens setting the agenda 1.00

00:10:30.400 in Washington. The American people want normalcy. And drag queens quite explicitly and deliberately 1.00

00:10:37.820 stand for the opposite of that. But not everyone in the party has gotten the memo. In fact, this

00:10:42.920 Bridget Bandit character recently spoke at the Texas Democratic Convention. And as part of that

00:10:47.600 whole process, some of Bridget Bandit's social media posts attracted a lot of attention, particularly

00:10:52.720 this one. As you can see, it reads, I hate America, but I love this bikini. Now, a lot of people saw this

00:10:59.980 post and had some questions for the Texas Democratic Convention. Why would we want this person to

00:11:05.520 deliver any kind of lecture about American policy at a political convention? This is somebody who

00:11:10.380 admits to hating America. And that's not even the most troubling thing about him. But they went ahead

00:11:15.920 and invited Bridget Bandit to speak at this convention in Texas. Anyway, here's part of the speech that

00:11:21.120 resulted. And my heart especially aches for our trans children. While the drag ban bill may have been

00:11:30.240 blocked, the trans youth health care ban has gone into effect here in Texas, preventing access to

00:11:35.500 hormone blockers that are medically necessary for more than just trans youth. Gender affirming care

00:11:42.460 is life saving. Access to health care is a basic human right. These policies disproportionately affect

00:11:51.100 LGBTQIA plus youth and people of color. We have a duty to protect our most marginalized communities.

00:11:59.340 Trans kids deserve to grow into healthy adults.

00:12:03.740 So there we have another interesting outfit. It's like, this is like if a lounge singer in the 1970s went to

00:12:16.140 a caricature artist and then the caricature came to life. And this would be the result of that. The speech

00:12:24.300 goes on, but you get the idea. It's the same stock speech you hear all the time from trans activists. 0.80

00:12:30.700 It's inaccurate, nonsensical, dishonest, not remotely original. Boils down to inject children 1.00

00:12:35.420 with sterilizing hormones to affirm them or you're killing them. This is the kind of insight that the

00:12:39.340 Texas Democratic Convention apparently desperately wanted to hear. This is the caliber of lobbyists

00:12:44.060 that now walks the halls of the Capitol building. Now, it only gets worse when you look closely at the

00:12:49.660 proposals that these drag performers, quote unquote, want to pass. So let's take the Transgender Bill of Rights 0.97

00:12:55.340 first. Apparently, this resolution would, quote, ensure that transgender and non-binary people have access to

00:13:00.620 services and public accommodations by amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include gender identity.

00:13:07.660 So, supposedly, there's a lot of trans-identifying individuals who are being refused public accommodations

00:13:11.660 in this country. You may have never heard of that happening because it has literally never happened.

00:13:18.780 It's just not a thing that's happening. But that's the claim the drag queen lobbyists are making. 0.98

00:13:24.780 That's not the only reason to pass this new Bill of Rights, according to these lobbyists. It's also

00:13:28.220 important, they say, because too few men are competing in women's sports. And therefore,

00:13:32.140 the new Bill of Rights will, quote, amend Title IX to clarify that it protects students from discrimination

00:13:36.860 based on gender identity and sex characteristics. In other words, women's sports would be, you know, 1.00

00:13:41.900 effectively completely abolished. Now, for good measure, the new Bill of Rights would also, quote,

00:13:48.060 codify the right to abortion and contraception, as well as invest in mental health services designed

00:13:53.100 for transgender and non-binary people. It would also require the Attorney General to designate a

00:13:57.660 liaison within the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice dedicated to advising and

00:14:01.900 overseeing enforcement of the civil rights of transgender people. So we get more bureaucracy and

00:14:07.020 more abortion, which are the two things that Democrats think we can never have enough of.

00:14:10.460 The other piece of legislation these activists want, the Equality Act, would rewrite even more

00:14:15.980 of our existing laws. According to the activist group HRC, quote, the Equality Act would amend

00:14:20.780 existing civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act,

00:14:24.460 the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Jury Selection and Services Act, and several laws regarding employment

00:14:29.820 with the federal government to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected

00:14:33.820 characteristics. Legislation also amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination in

00:14:39.500 public spaces and services and federally funded programs on the basis of sex. Additionally,

00:14:43.020 the Equality Act would update the public spaces and services covered in current law to include retail

00:14:48.380 stores, services such as banks and legal services, and transportation services. So again, we're meant to conclude

00:14:56.380 that Citibank and Walmart are turning away customers who claim to be transgender, which again has never

00:15:03.900 happened. The point of legislation like this, in case it's not obvious, is not to prevent the

00:15:09.420 these things that never happened from happening. It's to create a wave of new lawsuits that badger

00:15:14.220 people into giving special treatment to quote unquote LGBTQ customers and employees. So if you

00:15:19.820 have an LGBTQ employee who starts acting out of line, someone that you would want to fire in other 0.98

00:15:26.380 circumstances, you would have every reason to fire, laws like this would make it virtually impossible

00:15:30.860 to fire them. That's the point. The goal is to empower activists. It's to allow some of the least

00:15:37.660 productive members of society, these activists, to go after people who are actually contributing.

00:15:44.700 In every way, this is contrary to the stated goal of the so-called LGBTQ movement from 20 years ago,

00:15:50.940 which back then was supposedly to ensure that everyone had equal rights.

00:15:54.140 And as any sane person could have predicted, and as many of us did say at the time,

00:15:59.820 that was never what it was about. It was never about equality. If you want equality,

00:16:06.060 all you would say is, we want to be covered under the same Bill of Rights that everybody else,

00:16:11.180 under the Bill of Rights. We want to have the same legal protections.

00:16:14.860 And if that's what you want, then good news, you already have that.

00:16:17.900 So you've already got that. You're good to go on that one.

00:16:20.700 But that's not good enough. They want their own Bill of Rights. They want their own laws. They want

00:16:26.460 something more than equality. Everyone is equal. Some people are more equal than others. It's animal

00:16:32.540 farm. And this is what we're seeing play out again and again. For what it's worth, none of this makes

00:16:37.580 any sense under the law either. As I discussed yesterday in this context of the Supreme Court case

00:16:41.340 involving Tennessee's ban on child castration, the idea that gender identity is a protected characteristic

00:16:46.700 doesn't work. Protected characteristics under civil rights law are things that are obvious,

00:16:51.020 immutable, or distinguishing. And there is nothing about transgender identity that is immutable. 0.99

00:16:57.020 And even by the activists' own testimony, by what they say, there's also nothing about it that's

00:17:02.060 distinguishing. Because they'll be the first ones to say that just because you identify as a certain

00:17:07.580 gender doesn't mean you have to present yourself any particular way. And these are also people who claim

00:17:13.340 that gender can change overnight, that it's fluid, so it's not immutable by definition.

00:17:17.980 All of that's especially true for the identities of drag queens. I mean, they just put on a new 1.00

00:17:22.780 costume and change their identity. That's why it's actually kind of incredible that drag queens, 1.00

00:17:26.780 of all people, are the ones lobbying for this legislation. Drag queens don't even claim to actually 1.00

00:17:31.500 identify as the female characters they play, which means that, in this case, they're effectively

00:17:36.060 calling for special legal protections for fictional characters. You know, it's no different than

00:17:41.100 the furry community lobbying Congress for legal recognition, which I'm sure is where we're headed.

00:17:46.220 This is what happens when you start haphazardly amending laws that were already imperfect to

00:17:50.540 begin with. At the very least, the words immutable used to mean something. It theoretically created some

00:17:55.980 kind of limit on the number of special protected categories the government could create. But now

00:18:01.820 Bridget Bandit and some other drag queens want to get rid of that. They want the government to 1.00

00:18:05.180 continue creating preferred groups and showering them with benefits that other people don't get.

00:18:09.500 People who admit that they hate America are showing up in costumes to make this argument,

00:18:14.540 and elected members of Congress and the media are supposedly listening to them and taking them

00:18:20.140 seriously. That's the drag lobby day summarized. No one exposed himself to children or got accused of

00:18:27.660 sexual assault. So in that sense, it was an improvement from previous excursions to Washington. But if this

00:18:32.940 lobbying effort was remotely successful, even if the Democrats were clearly embarrassed by it,

00:18:37.820 there's a very good chance we'll all have to deal with the consequences of this insanity

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00:19:38.780 You may have heard by now about the new communications director just promoted by the White House. His name is

00:19:45.660 Tyler Cherry. So we could see him in one picture wearing some kind of see-through halter top thing,

00:19:51.900 and then another one he's wearing, of course, a dress. We know that this administration from the very

00:19:56.560 beginning has had one top priority, one thing on its mind, and that is its mission to hire and promote

00:20:02.160 as many cross-dressers as possible. Biden may be senile. He may have the mental capacity of an 1.00

00:20:09.600 asparagus. He may be totally incompetent, and he may have failed to achieve anything of note. But 1.00

00:20:15.280 even I have to admit that he did succeed in hiring a lot of cross-dressers. 0.91

00:20:19.840 I think that this White House is hired more than any other White House has. This appears to be the

00:20:29.360 main qualification that the Biden White House looks for in a job applicant. The first question they ask

00:20:35.260 is, does this person cross-dress? Second question, if not, are they willing to start? And Tyler Cherry

00:20:43.760 passed the test. He answered that first. He passed it. He didn't even ask him the second question. He passed

00:20:48.780 that one with flying colors. And the problem is that, wouldn't you know it, this guy has a history

00:20:56.120 of saying crazy left-wing things on social media. The New York Post reports, quote, a newly promoted

00:21:02.340 Biden administration official has come under fire over old social media posts that compare police to

00:21:07.180 slave patrols and celebrated the anti-Israel movement. Department of Interior worker Tyler Cherry's

00:21:14.260 incendiary tweets began to reemerge shortly after he was promoted last week to join the White House

00:21:18.460 communications team. And then he said a bunch of left-wing stuff. I don't even know why. Like,

00:21:29.360 of course, he said this kind of thing. The White House defended hiring Cherry in a statement to Fox

00:21:34.660 News with White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates telling them, we're very proud to have

00:21:40.260 Tyler on the team. Of course, they're proud. He's highly qualified. He's a gay man who wears a dress

00:21:46.580 sometimes. What more could you ask for? Now, it's also worth noting, as The Daily Wire has in a report

00:21:52.700 this morning, that Tyler Cherry was promoted from his post in the Department of the Interior.

00:21:59.020 And that department happens to be the wokest in the whole federal government. This is the same

00:22:05.880 department, you may remember, that had an ally awards recently where they had a diversity poem reading

00:22:11.600 as part of the awards ceremony. We played that on the show at the time. I'm sure you're hoping that

00:22:17.940 I won't play it again, because there's no reason to. But you also know that it's going to happen.

00:22:24.100 You can't stop it. So here's that diversity poem again. Listen.

00:22:27.440 I am diversity. Please include me. I'm present in every place you go. Depending on your lens,

00:22:34.280 I'm friend or foe. I'm forced to be caught with. Like the winds of change, I move. I'm swift. I'm

00:22:42.160 present when two or more are together. If embraced, I can make the good even better. I'm not limited to

00:22:48.680 age, gender, or race. I'm invisible at times, and yet all over the place. Don't exclude me

00:22:57.540 due to a lack of knowledge. Welcome me like the recruit fresh out of college. Let me take my

00:23:03.080 faith. So that was the Department of Interior. And they're the ones who gave us Tyler Cherry.

00:23:10.100 The Daily Wire has more about this department. The Department of Interior published a guide to

00:23:13.580 inclusive language exclusively obtained by the Daily Wire that tells bureaucrats to avoid gendered

00:23:18.660 terms like husband, son, and daughter. He even instructs them to use they, them pronouns for

00:23:23.640 individuals rather than assume someone's gender. The guide includes a list of 104 different terms

00:23:31.940 that the Interior recommends bureaucrats replace with alternate approved words. Husband and wife,

00:23:37.200 for example, should be replaced with spouse, partner, significant other, the federal agency says.

00:23:43.240 Daughter and son should also be replaced with child or kid, according to the guide.

00:23:48.660 Which even asks bureaucrats to replace cockpit with flight deck. And by the way, this is not the worst

00:23:54.700 example of PC language here, but I will say that anyone who uses the word partner to refer to their

00:24:01.620 spouse should be deported. Like, I don't believe in divorce, but if I did, I would say that you could

00:24:09.040 make an argument that your spouse has every right to divorce you if you refer to them as a partner,

00:24:13.620 even once. That's how egregious it is. If you're a woman married to a man, that's your husband, 0.55

00:24:19.600 not your partner. If you're a man married to a woman, that woman is your wife, not your partner. 0.79

00:24:25.700 She's not a business partner. You might as well call her like your associate, your colleague, co-worker.

00:24:31.820 Um, no, that's, that's your wife. Now, if you want to mix it up on occasion, you could say, uh, you know,

00:24:39.060 you could call her your old lady, the old ball and chain. Women love that. Uh, here's a, but it's also 1.00

00:24:47.040 keep in mind that this inclusive language guide, right? They're not just saying that you shouldn't

00:24:56.100 refer to other people. Like if you're talking to someone who's married, a man who's married,

00:25:02.260 you shouldn't say, Oh, your wife, you should say your partner. Like, right. They're saying you 0.94

00:25:07.860 shouldn't say that, but they're also trying to tell you that you, you can't even identify your

00:25:13.060 own wife as your wife. They're trying to control how you refer to your own family members. 0.99

00:25:19.360 Um, here's a little more from the daily wire. Another section of the guide asks bureaucrats to

00:25:27.020 use identity first language, substituting blind person and amputee with a person who is blind

00:25:33.280 and a child with an amputation. The interior guide even tells bureaucrats to refrain from assuming

00:25:38.900 anyone's gender and to instead refer to everyone with pronouns, they, them to avoid making assumptions.

00:25:44.540 Um, so that's how they justify many of these arbitrary PC rules for language.

00:25:49.360 They say that language should be person first, which means that if you're referring to some

00:25:54.180 other trait, you need to say person before the trait, person of color, person of blindness,

00:26:01.300 whatever. But there's no reason given as to why this is the better way of speaking.

00:26:06.800 And the rule also is not applied consistently. Like the most ridiculous example is that they say, 0.57

00:26:12.980 well, you can't say colored person, right? Because that that's incredibly racist because it's not 0.98

00:26:19.060 person first. So instead just say person of color. Well, but then you can say black person. 0.60

00:26:25.920 And if you said person of black, everybody would look at you like you're crazy. 0.77

00:26:30.960 So you can't say colored person, but if you identify the color, which isn't even really the color,

00:26:37.120 like most people we call black are not actually black. They're brown. Just like we call people 0.99

00:26:40.180 white and they're not, it's like not literally white. So you can use, so you can't say color,

00:26:46.320 but you can use a, uh, say an actual color that isn't even quite accurate, but then you can refer

00:26:55.920 to them as being colored as long as color comes after person. It just, there's no reason for any of

00:27:02.500 it's completely arbitrary. And the whole point of it is to be arbitrary. That is the entire point.

00:27:10.000 All right. Here's, um, let's check in for a moment in, uh, on Los Angeles. Okay. Highland

00:27:16.600 Boulevard in Hollywood, like so many other places in the city has been taken over by, or I should say

00:27:21.900 had been taken over by homeless encampments. The sidewalk had become unusable. Like so many other

00:27:29.400 sidewalks in the city, uh, you know, it was not safe for people to walk by. There was homeless,

00:27:33.680 there are homeless drug addicts all over the place, setting up their tents and their camps and 0.82

00:27:37.760 everything else, human waste all over the place. Very disgusting. As you can imagine, 1.00

00:27:43.700 businesses were suffering, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy because the businesses around this,

00:27:48.100 this, uh, this block, uh, you know, people didn't want to go there because of all the homeless people.

00:27:53.620 So residents and business owners got together and they said, this is a problem.

00:27:59.400 Like this is making our, our lives hell. What are we going to do about it? And they, they just,

00:28:04.340 they came up with a plan and the plan, they didn't do anything aggressive. Okay. They didn't show up

00:28:09.620 to the homeless encampment with paintball guns or a fire hose. No, all they did was they set up

00:28:15.220 planters on the sidewalk. So just big pots with plants. They, they, they put those on the sidewalk

00:28:22.140 and, and the effect is that it took up enough space that the homeless druggies couldn't pitch

00:28:27.620 their tents. And also in the same time, it also made the place look nice. And so it was a win-win

00:28:32.560 you've made the sidewalk look nicer. You've also made it so that practically speaking,

00:28:37.740 uh, the, the homeless can't set up their encampments anymore. And it worked. The homeless

00:28:43.100 encampment was dispersed. The sidewalk was walkable again. Businesses started getting business again.

00:28:48.520 Uh, the, the, the community had been improved. It was safer. It was cleaner. Everything was great.

00:28:54.540 A community came together, solved the problem, solved it efficiently, cheaply, and nobody got hurt.

00:29:03.500 Fantastic. So what do you think the city of Los Angeles did in response to this? Well, let's find out.

00:29:11.880 And just like that, the planters are gone. The city signing businesses need permits and these

00:29:18.180 planters are an obstruction. But business owners say no more than the tents that used to line Sunset

00:29:23.300 Boulevard for years, encampments encroaching over the entire sidewalk. This is like bare minimum of

00:29:29.900 where we should be right now. Uh, we should never have a thoroughfare blocked with bodies and waste,

00:29:36.200 uh, because the city neglects the area. And this is not a war on homelessness. Andrew Monhaime owns

00:29:42.500 Monhaime microphones nearby and says it's unbelievable. It's totally disrespectful to

00:29:47.640 small businesses and the people that have been the lifeblood around here. And I'm not just talking

00:29:51.200 about myself, but like businesses that thrive around here and they keep the pulse. There is no

00:29:56.060 reason that they should have to stand around and watch like this go to the worst possible, uh,

00:30:01.520 scenario. And it's not just the business owners. This is the first time I've been able to walk down

00:30:06.080 the street in years because it's been filled with drug dealers, homeless people. Um, it's

00:30:12.700 been unsaved. I almost got ambushed once just trying to walk home. I live right around the

00:30:17.140 corner. Back in April, 35 people were living in front of the legendary Sunset Sound that nearly

00:30:22.300 had to shut its doors because of the growing encampment. The city says it's worked to get

00:30:26.680 those people housed and says it was a success, but many fear the shady block will once again

00:30:32.300 be overrun with the same issue. What do you do? Like you can't walk through here at night with

00:30:38.000 people and not be concerned about your, the people you're with your own safety. Um, not to mention

00:30:43.640 how just disgusting it is. Yep. Can't have that. Can't, you can't have people going out and solving

00:30:49.920 their own problems all willy nilly. Like, you know, you just can't allow it. No way. No, sir. That's

00:30:56.360 not going to work. Oh, you guys, you had an issue and you solved it and everything worked out fine.

00:31:02.640 Nope, not happening. Not on our watch. Problems are not getting solved on our watch. Sorry.

00:31:10.300 No, no solutions while we're in charge. That's basically the Democrat mantra. That's what Democrats

00:31:17.000 running every, every major city say to their residents. And what makes this just so incredibly

00:31:23.380 infuriating is that the city took down the planters because you need to get a permit to put an

00:31:32.060 obstruction on the sidewalk. But the homeless encampment was also an obstruction, a much, much

00:31:39.320 larger, more invasive obstruction. And the city never made them file for permits.

00:31:46.480 So just to review, if you want to put a potted plant on the sidewalk, you got to get a permit.

00:31:54.120 But if you want to pitch a tent and shoot heroin and defecate on the sidewalk all at the same time,

00:32:01.440 if you want, you don't need any kind of approval at all. Why would the city respond this way?

00:32:08.120 Like, why would you do that? I mean, why would you just take the win? I mean, if you're a politician

00:32:14.020 running Los Angeles and there's a portion of your city that has actually become livable,

00:32:22.580 why not just, if anything, take credit for it? Like, wouldn't that be the political strategy?

00:32:26.720 Show up and, you know, do a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new homeless-free sidewalk.

00:32:36.320 Why not do that? Well, it's because they don't want communities solving their own problems.

00:32:43.380 The more that you solve your own problems, the less dependent you are on them,

00:32:46.700 the less helpless you are, the less you can be controlled and manipulated. This is the hallmark

00:32:55.300 of bad leadership. You know, bad leaders actually don't want the people under them to exhibit

00:33:01.780 competence or effectiveness. They see that as a threat to their power. And you find this everywhere.

00:33:10.440 You find this attitude in poorly run businesses. You find it all over the place in government.

00:33:18.680 You find it everywhere. And that's part of it. The other part is that Democrat political leaders

00:33:22.980 value homeless drug addicts over business owners and law-abiding, productive members of the community.

00:33:29.820 Their priorities are exactly backwards, completely flipped upside down. It just can't be overstated

00:33:35.460 the extent to which these people's minds have been warped and twisted by their ideology. They're

00:33:42.220 totally beholden to the victim hierarchy. Homeless drug addicts are victims in their way of thinking.

00:33:50.580 Normal functioning people are not, which means that normal functioning contributing members of society

00:33:54.760 will always be last on their priority list when they should be first.

00:34:00.060 Also, I want to say this. I think that part of what we're seeing in our country clearly is that

00:34:09.000 compassion for the homeless has gone way overboard. We are so compassionate towards them

00:34:17.660 that it's turned into a kind of psychosis at this point, which is how you end up with stories like this.

00:34:24.560 For years, we've been told, oh, don't judge the homeless. Don't assume that they're bad people.

00:34:31.880 Don't dehumanize them. And it's true that we should have compassion for all people.

00:34:37.440 We shouldn't dehumanize anyone. That's true. But we should also recognize that these are,

00:34:43.020 for the most part, okay, for the most part, not in every case, but in most cases, these are

00:34:47.940 mostly people who have given their whole lives to drugs. Their only priority in life, the only thing

00:34:55.800 they care about, the only thing they want to do is drugs. And that's why they're homeless,

00:35:02.800 because they would rather just do drugs than have a home. And now they are inflicting that lifestyle

00:35:10.040 on everyone else. They are actively making everyone else's life worse, a lot worse. They are

00:35:17.020 destroying other people's lives for the sake of destroying their own. And it's like, we have

00:35:26.260 this idea that you can't be angry about that, right? Even the guy in that video is a business

00:35:31.260 owner. He's obviously mad about the way this has all worked out, but he made sure that this is not

00:35:35.240 a war on homeless people, nothing against the homeless, because he thinks he can't be mad at them.

00:35:41.420 But no, you can be mad at them. You're allowed to be angry. These are people who are actively,

00:35:46.580 they are destroying your community. They are ruining it. They are making it dirty, disgusting.

00:35:53.740 They are making you less safe. They're making your family less safe. They are robbing you, 0.60

00:35:58.620 sometimes literally, and sometimes by setting up their freaking tents outside of your business, 0.97

00:36:03.460 they are taking from you. They are destroying your life. You're allowed to be angry about that, 0.96

00:36:09.500 angry at the political leaders who have allowed this to happen, but also angry at those people for

00:36:14.060 doing that to you. They are doing that to you. And I would argue that assigning no agency to these

00:36:22.740 people whatsoever. Now, I'll be the first to say, homeless people, again, most of them are drug

00:36:28.180 addicts. Many of them are also mentally ill. But assigning no agency to these people whatsoever, 0.99

00:36:37.700 like we can't blame them for anything at all, that's dehumanizing. Because now you're treating

00:36:44.220 them like animals. You're treating them like, what are they, rabid dogs? That's how you're treating

00:36:50.040 them. So to treat somebody like a person is to recognize that they have some element of agency

00:36:56.460 and are responsible to some extent for their own behavior. That is what it means to humanize someone,

00:37:05.260 to treat them like a human being. If you want to argue that back in the bad old days, you know,

00:37:12.080 back in the old days, people went too far on the other end of the spectrum. When dealing with people

00:37:19.960 with, you know, homeless people and you just called them bums and that was it. If you want to argue

00:37:27.060 there was not enough compassion, okay, maybe. But at this point, and I'm not even sure that I would

00:37:34.000 agree with that. But what is undeniable is that we have gone way too far in the other direction at

00:37:42.260 this point. And we see this now with the way these cities are run. Where the homeless are like the,

00:37:49.840 they are, they're perfect angels. They can't be held responsible for anything. They are like superhuman

00:37:56.760 now, actually. They can do whatever they want. The basic rules of conduct and laws that apply to

00:38:02.820 everyone else do not apply to them. Like if you, if any person who is not homeless just tried to go

00:38:11.660 set up a tent, like if I just tried to set up a campsite anywhere I felt like, I wouldn't be allowed

00:38:18.000 to do it. You can't do that. You cannot do that here. It's not allowed. You cannot turn a piece of a

00:38:23.980 sidewalk and you can't just like take ownership of it like that. But if you have decided to give

00:38:32.540 your entire life over to drugs, then that's a law that just doesn't apply to you. Do whatever you

00:38:39.060 want. Laws against public indecency don't apply to you. Laws against public intoxication don't apply

00:38:44.700 to you. All right, let's check out one more thing here. Apparently they have fat conventions now,

00:38:53.540 fat con they call it. And this is a, this is a new, a new innovation. So just recently,

00:39:00.620 so sorry to tell you, you already, you already missed it, but just recently somewhere they had

00:39:05.620 the first annual fat con. Uh, let's, let's see what that was like. Come with me to the first ever

00:39:13.000 fat con. Yes, that's right. Haters. There is a convention just for us fats. Now there was so

00:39:18.240 much fat entertainment to be had. Look at this crafts, cute little wall we put together. We got 0.54

00:39:24.320 a few grief cat performances that were very funny. Here's a little fit check. I brought a look every day

00:39:30.160 to the con. New friend. We had fat pool parties. Here's a little look I will be releasing, uh, for

00:39:36.280 Valentine's day. We did get up to shenanigans. I cannot wait for next year's fat con.

00:39:43.580 Okay. Yeah. I didn't watch that video ahead of time at all. And, um, so I was not prepared.

00:39:51.020 I wasn't prepared. I wasn't prepared for the end of that video. It took a turn. I think it's pretty

00:39:56.160 bad the whole time, but then it took a turn at the end that I just wasn't, it wasn't that side.

00:40:00.160 That, you know, yeah. Anyway, so many jokes that I could make about this. Um, but, but I can't make

00:40:11.100 at least not if I want to keep the show on YouTube. So I'm not going to make any of those jokes that I

00:40:16.420 could make about the fat con. Uh, I'm sure it was a fine conference, you know, even if the topics were

00:40:22.680 a little heavy, um, some very weighty, very weighty themes, very meaty, uh, weighty themes, I think.

00:40:28.580 Um, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't all serious. They also had a chance to get together, make small

00:40:34.020 talk or large talk in their case, uh, really chew the fat, you might say, but that's why I'm not

00:40:40.480 going to make, uh, jokes about it. I will say that instead that, um, here we see the, the, the, the problem

00:40:50.600 that we find on the left all the time. And it's so many iterations of it, but, you know, so many words

00:40:59.740 and ideas that they have taken and destroyed or, uh, expanded in, into, uh, nothingness. Um,

00:41:10.700 and there's a lot of things expanding, you know, in, uh, that we just saw in that video there.

00:41:16.020 Um, and I don't mean that as a, as a joke. I just mean, you know, uh, so just a comment,

00:41:21.880 but one of the words that they, one of the many terms that they have destroyed is the, is community.

00:41:28.340 Okay. The idea of community that used to have some meaning to it. Not only did community have

00:41:36.340 meaning, but it, it was an important concept. You need community, which in the previous video,

00:41:43.080 we saw a positive example of community, even if it was then sabotaged by the government.

00:41:48.620 But there you saw an actual community coming together to do something positive.

00:41:52.700 And what do we mean community in that case? Well, we mean that these are people who live

00:41:56.720 together in the same place and work together and try to support each other, right? That's,

00:42:02.660 that's what a community is supposed to be. And it's important for us to have community and to find

00:42:10.300 community. Um, it's, you cannot be a person living, you know, no man has an island. You can't live on

00:42:16.820 entirely on your own, uh, without any, without any sense of community. At least most people can't.

00:42:21.880 It's very difficult to live that way. But now we just, you take any aspect of a person,

00:42:28.340 you know, any, any, um, proclivity, any habit, any desire, even any character flaw, any sin.

00:42:41.360 And now we say, well, that is a community. We, we build a community around it. Um,

00:42:48.980 so this is how you end up with things like FatCon, where it's about, where it's a place for the fat

00:42:55.860 community to come together, but that's not a community. Okay. The fact that you also eat too

00:43:06.920 much and don't exercise enough, which is how you end up being obese. I know every time I point this

00:43:12.220 out, it's treated as, I said this a month ago that if you want to lose weight, exercise more and eat

00:43:18.440 less, I, a month later, I still have, uh, people on, on Twitter complaining about it. Like rant

00:43:25.000 people, there are people, especially make it even worse. These are people that pretend to be like

00:43:30.820 fitness influencers or whatever that have been crying for a month that I said that that's how

00:43:36.880 upsetting it is to them, but it is true, which means that the reverse of that, you know, it's the way you

00:43:43.020 lose weight is by exercising more, eating less. The way you gain weight is by not exercising enough

00:43:49.000 or not at all and eating too much. Right. And so if you are a fat person, if you're an obese person,

00:43:54.800 uh, the thing you have in common with other obese people is that you don't exercise enough and eat

00:44:01.220 too much. That's not community. There's no community there, but that's not a commonality

00:44:07.400 that you can take and form a community around. It's a flaw. It's a, it is a character flaw.

00:44:16.040 We all have character flaws. Okay. But, and, but those of us who have character flaws that aren't

00:44:22.640 trendy, you know, it was like, we don't pretend to, to, to find community in it. Uh, what's one of my

00:44:29.180 character flaws? I'll admit I can sometimes have a bit of a temper. Maybe you've noticed I can be a

00:44:34.320 little bit impatient sometimes a little bit, but I don't get together with the impatient,

00:44:41.680 hot tempered community. I don't have a conference. Okay. Well, we all come together and scream at each

00:44:46.440 other. I mean, if that conference existed, I'd probably go to it. It'd be kind of fun, but,

00:44:51.980 uh, I don't pretend to have a, I don't pretend to find community there because that's not a trendy,

00:44:56.440 you know, that's not an acceptable sort of character flaw to have, but sloth gluttony. I mean,

00:45:02.220 this, these are trendy. These are acceptable now. And so, uh, we build communities around it and,

00:45:09.760 um, but it's just not, that's not how community works. That's not what a community is.

00:45:14.180 Tomorrow night, we're doing something that might actually make a presidential debate watchable.

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00:46:13.920 Well, you know, I'm not completely out of the loop on the slang used by our youth today,

00:46:24.160 but I am usually about five or six years behind, which I guess means I'm completely out of the

00:46:28.800 loop. Anyway, the point is that I had something else in mind entirely when I heard about the new

00:46:33.280 viral TikTok trend that involves people, quote, raw dogging on airplanes. GQ had this headline

00:46:41.980 yesterday. Why men are raw dogging flights. The New York Post reported on the same day,

00:46:47.420 men are raw dogging it on flights. Here's what the weird travel trend means. Now, like you,

00:46:53.160 I assume that this meant some major FAA violations were happening on board. I thought that the friendly

00:46:58.220 skies were getting way, way too friendly, but that's not what this trend refers to. Here's the

00:47:03.940 post article, quote, raw dogging has become the buzziest travel trend of the summer. Seeing stealth

00:47:09.940 plane passengers forego the modern comforts of flying to stare at either the in-flight map or

00:47:15.520 nothing at all during lengthy trips. No music, no streaming, no snacking, no sleep. Quote,

00:47:21.000 I have never seen so many people raw dogging a flight in my life, wrote Michelle, a stunned New

00:47:24.860 York based beauty influencer in the closed caption of a TikTok clip, literally just staring straight ahead

00:47:30.520 the entire time. She added in the video featuring an aircraft full of jet setters enjoying a journey

00:47:35.680 sans distractions. This was a five hour flight from New York City to San Francisco.

00:47:41.800 So that is raw dogging a flight. That is the trend that's sweeping the nation. A trend that has

00:47:47.220 attracted multiple headlines in major media publications, not to mention hundreds of TikTok

00:47:51.480 videos with millions of views between them. And the videos all consist of people filming themselves

00:47:56.080 not doing anything on a flight. Usually the video is set to music that is way too fast paced and

00:48:02.120 intense given the theme of the video like this. Watch. So that's the trend. Sitting in a place and not

00:48:19.960 doing anything. Sitting and simply existing, being a person, being present in the space you're physically

00:48:27.580 occupying. Even that we now call a trend. And worse, the trend is given an unnecessarily sexual

00:48:34.340 name. So now anyone who sits on a plane and waits for it to land is, whether they like it or not,

00:48:41.020 participating in something that sounds like a sex act. Now, if you're sitting on a plane,

00:48:44.960 minding your own business, literally doing nothing, you might have somebody come up to you and ask if

00:48:48.980 you enjoy raw dogging. Like that's a thing that might happen. And then you might say yes, because you

00:48:53.880 thought they were referring to this would really, they might've meant the other thing. And now you're

00:48:58.080 accidentally in the middle of an inappropriate conversation you didn't mean to have. This is

00:49:02.260 why I have complained so many times about the modern habit of taking normal human activities and

00:49:06.900 trendifying them. We've made it so that there are no more normal human activities. Everything is a

00:49:12.180 trend. Everything's a TikTok race. Everything you do has some QC label attached to it. Every activity,

00:49:17.820 every habit, every tendency, every personality trait, they all have labels. We have carved our

00:49:23.480 ourselves up, carved our lives up and put each piece into a little box and a little drawer with

00:49:28.760 its own little label. It's the hyper classification of human existence. And this is a problem that

00:49:34.440 started with the medical field and the psychologist, but has bled its way down into social media.

00:49:38.640 I hate it. Everybody needs to stop. Now, as for this trend, it will not surprise you to learn that

00:49:47.200 this is often what I do on flights. Unless I have work to do, I will just sit on the plane.

00:49:51.840 I don't call it raw dogging. I don't use that term. I've already used that term in this monologue

00:49:57.180 like five times more than I ever thought I'd use it in my life, especially in a monologue. But

00:50:01.020 whatever you want to call it, I am an avid proponent of finding opportunities to do nothing.

00:50:07.660 And I mean really nothing, real nothing. Not something that amounts to nothing,

00:50:11.920 like mindlessly scrolling your phone. We all do that kind of nothing all the time. That's worse than

00:50:16.300 nothing. It's nothing with none of the benefits of nothing. But actually doing nothing means sitting

00:50:23.220 in one place and not actively looking for distraction or stimulation. In modern society,

00:50:29.940 we spend pretty much every waking second of our days actively seeking distraction and stimulation.

00:50:36.020 We desperately try to distract ourselves all the time. And then we wonder why we're distracted.

00:50:41.420 It must be a disease. We must have ADHD. Quick, take a pill. That'll solve it. 0.71

00:50:46.880 And we take this for granted because it's the way that everybody operates.

00:50:51.840 When's the last time you were sitting in a waiting room or standing in a line at the grocery store

00:50:55.240 and everybody else in the line was just waiting there without staring at their phones?

00:51:01.340 When's the last time you yourself waited anywhere without staring at your phone?

00:51:05.820 Most of us are so desperate to be distracted that we even look for other things to distract

00:51:11.340 us while we're piloting a 3,000-pound hunk of metal down the road at 70 miles an hour.

00:51:15.800 It's how we're wired. Or rather, I should say, it's how we have been rewired. Because it may come

00:51:21.200 as a shock, but prior to the advent of cell phones and computers, people would spend significant

00:51:27.520 portions of their day with nothing in particular to distract them. They would wait in lines and just

00:51:36.560 wait. They would sit in waiting rooms and just sit there. Here's the thing that will really blow you

00:51:43.880 away, especially if you're a younger person who's only ever known the cell phone age. You're not

00:51:49.720 going to believe this, but this is real. Sometimes, back in the old days, a person would even sit on the

00:51:58.600 couch in their living room and just sit there. Like, they would partake merely in the activity of

00:52:08.100 existence. Here's another mind-bending fact. Back in the old days, when a person woke up in the morning,

00:52:14.100 they would not immediately reach for something to distract them. They would just wake up.

00:52:21.540 They would just wake up. Now you're awake now. They would situate themselves into the waking world

00:52:27.480 again. They would be where they are. They would not try to dive headfirst immediately into a million

00:52:33.920 places where they aren't. This is how it used to be. And sure, back in those days, you might read a

00:52:39.760 book. You might look at a newspaper. You might watch TV or something. You might, God forbid, actually

00:52:45.000 engage with another human being who's physically in the room with you. But nobody was carrying a book

00:52:49.140 or a newspaper or a TV around with them everywhere they went 24-7 and filling every single available

00:52:55.440 second by looking at it. This is the kind of thing people only do with smartphones. So before

00:53:01.760 smartphones, nobody did anything like that. And there's really a lot to recommend that way of

00:53:08.680 life. There are so many benefits of doing nothing. And the greatest benefit of all is that nothing

00:53:15.820 isn't nothing. You know, you can do so much while you do nothing. A moment of nothing can be filled with

00:53:22.540 countless somethings. Because these moments are an opportunity to use your brain, to let your mind

00:53:29.000 wander, to daydream, to think, to reflect. Not to have your thoughts guided and steered and pointed

00:53:35.800 this direction and that by algorithms. No, when you do nothing, your mind directs itself.

00:53:42.980 And, you know, thinking is, it turns out, a lot of fun. You should try it every once in a while. And

00:53:48.940 you should be able to entertain yourself with your own thoughts. In fact, that's why I relish being

00:53:54.560 on a plane when I have nothing to do. Because it gives me that chance to do so much while I'm doing

00:53:59.180 nothing. There's so much thinking I get to do. And hopefully nobody there to interrupt it.

00:54:05.460 Now, if you look at somebody sitting in a chair, thinking, not doing anything, and you're shocked and

00:54:12.880 confused, right? If you can't even believe that a person could possibly sit in one place for more

00:54:22.080 than 30 seconds and not do anything, then that says something about you. If you cannot even conceive 0.98

00:54:30.220 of entertaining yourself with your own thoughts, if you do not find the act of thinking, of reflection,

00:54:37.340 to be absorbing, even exhilarating, then you are deficient as a human being. You have lost one

00:54:44.540 of the essential traits that makes you human. You have allowed this digital age of distraction to

00:54:50.160 eat that part of you, consume it, so that there's nothing left. You know, the internet has made it so

00:54:57.000 that people are incapable of doing things. But even worse, it's made it so that people are incapable of

00:55:02.640 not doing things. They can't even do nothing successfully. And those people are really

00:55:09.860 missing out, I have to say. And that is why those who never raw dog in life, and also those who use

00:55:16.360 the phrase raw dog, except for me just now, are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today.

00:55:24.520 Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - June 26, 2024

Ep. 1395 - A Flock Of Drag Queens Descend On Capitol Hill

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