The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1414 - Wokeness Turns The Olympics Into A Farce

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, major controversy at the Olympics as a biological male boxer

00:00:04.260 easily defeats a woman in the women's competition. Also, Kamala Harris speaks to reporters off

00:00:08.420 script for the first time since stealing the nomination from Joe Biden, and it doesn't go

00:00:12.200 well. A reporter who was suspended for wishing death on Trump after the assassination attempt

00:00:16.380 has now been reinstated, and a number of schools across the country are just now beginning to ban

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00:01:04.220 One of the most common arguments you'll hear in defense of gender ideology is that

00:01:08.300 some people are intersex, and therefore the gender binary is a myth. Now, that's what we're told. It's

00:01:14.820 a non-sequitur, as I've explained many times, and it's usually accompanied by a series of additional

00:01:19.880 lies. You'll often hear wildly inflated numbers from gender activists about how many intersex

00:01:25.320 people there are in the world. You also hear various definitions for what it means to be

00:01:29.260 intersex. Those definitions are often tailored to that so that they can inflate the number of people

00:01:35.360 who qualify as intersex. But here's the only definition that has any meaning, as Leonard

00:01:40.500 Sachs framed it. Being intersex means that your phenotypic sex, meaning your primary sex

00:01:46.700 characteristics is inconsistent with your chromosomal sex. For example, someone with Y chromosomes is

00:01:53.240 biologically male and normally has male genitalia. But if that person develops female genitalia or

00:01:59.880 genitalia that appear female, then that person will be a biological male who suffers from intersexuality.

00:02:07.180 On the other hand, if someone is born with Y chromosomes and then chooses to remove his male

00:02:12.500 genitalia through surgery, that individual would not suddenly become intersex. There's no comparison 0.83

00:02:19.080 whatsoever between being intersex and identifying as transgender. These are two different things.

00:02:23.880 Being intersex is a condition. It's a medical condition. It's not a choice. And it's a condition 1.00

00:02:29.880 that a vanishingly small percentage of the population suffers from, something like 0.018% of the population.

00:02:37.220 And this is all just basic biology, or at least that's what it used to be considered. But because

00:02:43.600 people still take gender activists seriously, at least some people do, there's a lot of confusion

00:02:47.860 in this area. And at the Olympics the other day, that confusion led to a male, somebody with XY

00:02:53.960 chromosomes, pummeling a woman in the face at a women's boxing event on live television. This male,

00:03:00.700 an Algerian named Iman Khalif, was reportedly DNA tested at the Women's World Boxing Championships

00:03:06.380 in New Delhi last year by an organization called IBA. And officials at the time disqualified Khalif

00:03:12.640 from the competition because testing confirmed a Y chromosome, which means, again, that Khalif is a

00:03:19.320 male. There are reports of some sort of a disorder affecting the primary sex characteristics. I can't

00:03:25.620 verify those. Either way, the fact remains that whatever condition this person may or may not suffer

00:03:32.380 from, whether it's an intersex condition or something else, Khalif is a male by definition.

00:03:40.200 Intersex is just a word we've come up with to describe people who suffer from certain conditions

00:03:45.180 and deformities. Intersex is not a third sex. It's not an exception to the rule of the sex binary.

00:03:51.820 There are no exceptions. Okay? Everybody is either male or female. Everyone. A male that we call

00:03:58.360 intersex may, because of his condition, appear female, potentially, but he's still a male.

00:04:07.960 However, the International Olympic Committee, which is overseeing the boxing competition at the

00:04:11.980 Paris Olympics, apparently doesn't care about chromosomes. According to the Washington Post,

00:04:16.140 the IOC does not test for gender. Now, it's not really clear what that means. I mean, does that mean

00:04:21.720 that they let LeBron James compete in the women's basketball tournament? What it appears to mean,

00:04:27.780 based on reporting that I found, is that the IOC allows different events to implement some

00:04:33.200 testosterone guidelines. Not rules, but just guidelines, which can vary event by event. And if

00:04:40.780 that's the case, it obviously would be completely useless for a few reasons. One of them is that even

00:04:46.380 if you have low levels of testosterone now, you might have had very high levels in the past,

00:04:51.240 which would contribute to increased muscle strength, bone growth, etc. The other reason is that

00:04:55.420 having high levels of testosterone doesn't make you a man in and of itself. Having a Y chromosome

00:05:02.520 makes you a man. And a man with low testosterone, even a man with very low testosterone,

00:05:09.780 is just a man with very low testosterone. That's still not a woman. But sporting competitions like 1.00

00:05:17.660 the rest of society have, many of them have caved to gender activists on this point. And that's why 0.91

00:05:24.400 the Algerian males fight with Italy's female boxer, Angela Carini, ended in just 46 seconds. Watch.

00:05:31.860 Solid, straight right hand.

00:05:40.000 Now, one of the things about all these gender tests and DNA tests is that, I mean, really, 0.87

00:05:48.000 for the most part, they're not even necessary. Like, looking at that footage, anyone can instantly tell

00:05:54.640 that Angela Carini was fighting a male. I mean, we said at the top that there are intersex conditions

00:06:01.780 where someone is a male biologically, but because of things that have gone wrong may appear female

00:06:08.440 from the outside. That can happen in very vanishingly rare cases. But this isn't even one of those cases.

00:06:15.680 I mean, you can look and you can see the absurdity of the situation. Her opponent is obviously much

00:06:21.840 stronger than she is. This is obviously an unfair fight. There's just, there aren't any females on the 1.00

00:06:28.440 planet who look like this boxer from Algeria. And of course, it took just one hit to the face for 0.66

00:06:33.840 Angela Carini to figure out that she was in danger after working her whole life, her whole life to get

00:06:38.900 to the Olympics and competing in them. Something that obviously meant a lot to her based on her

00:06:44.640 interviews after the fact, and based on the fact that it's the Olympics, she had to quit because

00:06:49.340 the IOC put a male in the boxing ring with her. She didn't want to quit, but reality quite

00:06:55.560 literally hit her in the face. So she had no choice. Now, trans activists have claimed that

00:07:01.380 the fact that this male boxer apparently isn't trans, that's the claim anyway. Again, I don't know

00:07:08.760 for sure. The fact that Khalif is allegedly intersex, that that somehow proves their point about the 0.98

00:07:17.020 women's sports issue. But of course it does the opposite. Because those of us on the side of common

00:07:23.100 sense have always said that segregating sports based on sex has nothing to do with transgenderism.

00:07:30.340 We are not trying to keep males out of women's sports because we're engaged in some kind of 0.99

00:07:36.120 discriminatory plot against trans people. We don't care if the male competing against women

00:07:42.680 is trans or not. His self-identification is totally irrelevant. That is our point. 0.99

00:07:48.700 It's what we've been saying the whole time. Trans, intersex, or something else, it doesn't matter.

00:07:56.220 If somebody is male, if they have a Y chromosome, they should not compete against women. 0.99

00:08:01.460 When you ban males from women's sports, you are not banning trans-identified people from women's

00:08:09.620 sports. This is not a trans ban, as it's so often called.

00:08:14.320 No, you can write these laws and these policies and never make any mention of trans because it's 0.99

00:08:21.540 beside the point. You are banning males, no matter how they identify or what genetic condition they

00:08:29.080 may or may not have. All that matters is that they're male. That's it. For these purposes,

00:08:36.500 all that matters is that they're male. But if you think that violent episodes like this are

00:08:44.800 going to make the trans activists admit that they're wrong and so wrong that now actual women 0.99

00:08:52.620 are being endangered, and this, of course, actual women have been endangered by this for a long time 0.86

00:08:57.560 now, you should know that there's precisely zero chance of that. They're not going to admit anything.

00:09:02.300 I mean, these people have assumed such a degree of power that even their victims don't want to

00:09:06.620 criticize them for fear of losing their livelihoods, and that's true in this case as well. In a post-fight

00:09:10.920 statement, Angela Carini stated, quote, I felt a severe pain in my nose, and with the maturity of

00:09:15.460 a boxer, I said enough because I didn't want to. I didn't want to. I couldn't finish the match.

00:09:20.520 I'm not here to judge or pass judgment. If an athlete is this way, and in that sense,

00:09:24.820 it's not right or it is right, it's not up to me to decide. I just did my job as a boxer.

00:09:29.680 I got into the ring and fought. I did it with my head held high and with a broken heart for not

00:09:34.580 having finished the last kilometer. Now, what's interesting about that statement is, you know,

00:09:40.280 how common this sort of thing is. She says, it's not up to me to decide whether a male can compete

00:09:44.820 in a women's event, and that, you know, that's true technically, but it doesn't mean she can't have 1.00

00:09:48.280 an opinion on it, and if enough female athletes started sharing their opinion and stopped 1.00

00:09:54.500 participating in this charade, it would end very quickly. Now, of course, some brave female 0.99

00:09:59.860 athletes have been quite vocal about this. Riley Gaines, for example, she's not the only one.

00:10:04.860 But still, most, most, even now, remain silent for fear of the consequences of speaking out.

00:10:13.720 And it's worth mentioning something else, too.

00:10:15.440 Some of the women who are our vocal opponents of gender ideology still feel the need to frame 0.99

00:10:25.600 this conversation in the terms of left-wing victimology. So yesterday, in response to this

00:10:31.400 story, the children's author J.K. Rowling wrote, quote,

00:10:34.340 Now, I agree with her on the points, right, about what the policies should be in place and the fact

00:10:56.600 that men should be competing against women. So we agree on that fundamental point. But the problem 1.00

00:11:02.580 with Rowling's attempt to blame this on the men's rights movement, whatever that is, is that, first

00:11:10.880 of all, there is no men's right movement, at least not one with any degree of power right now.

00:11:16.940 Okay, it's like anyone who identifies themselves as a men's rights activist, these are people who

00:11:20.980 have no power whatsoever in society. And there certainly isn't a men's rights movement that's 0.92

00:11:27.940 pushing trans ideology. Okay, in fact, if you find anyone who would identify themselves as a men's 0.88

00:11:35.520 rights, you can pretty much guarantee that that is not someone who supports trans ideology.

00:11:42.440 Instead, what we saw in Paris this week is a natural consequence, not of men's rights or the 0.95

00:11:49.520 patriarchy. It's a natural consequence of the ideology that feminists have been pushing for decades. 1.00

00:11:55.640 It was feminists who argued that sex differences are mostly social constructs that are exploited by 1.00

00:12:02.260 patriarchal oppressors. Feminists are the ones who laid the groundwork for the idea that there's no job 1.00

00:12:07.840 a man can do that a woman can't do better. Okay, they came up with that. Men and women are equal. They 0.93

00:12:14.440 could do the same things. Gender is a social construct. That came from feminism. And once you believe that 1.00

00:12:20.960 lie, then you get this. You get women in a boxing ring with men getting violently assaulted.

00:12:30.240 And it's precisely because of feminists that this insanity will continue. 1.00

00:12:34.620 By refusing to identify the problem and how we got here, they're making it impossible to solve it.

00:12:41.360 J.K. Rowling has said a lot of things on this issue that I agree with. She's done a lot of good on this

00:12:46.440 issue. But she can't help but pivot it every time back to patriarchy and, you know, this is all a plot

00:12:54.780 by men. Even though, by the way, it's mostly women actually who support gender ideology. And the polls

00:13:01.760 will show you that every time in this country especially. And so even the feminists who oppose 1.00

00:13:11.160 it now, they are not willing to look at their own ideology, which is feminism, to see that that's

00:13:18.360 where this stuff is grounded in. In fact, they share the same. If it didn't come from feminism, 1.00

00:13:24.460 they're on the same tree. Okay, they share the same roots. Now, this Algerian male is scheduled to fight 0.85

00:13:33.520 Hungary's first Olympic women's boxer, Anna Luka Hamori on Saturday. And what's her reaction? Well, she said,

00:13:42.400 quote, I don't care about the press story and social media. If she or he is a man, it'll be a bigger victory

00:13:47.560 for me if I win. Now, again, this is stock feminist rhetoric. Sounds great on posters. Sounds great, you know, 1.00

00:13:57.700 in the classroom. But when you're getting punched in the face, suddenly none of that rhetoric matters.

00:14:03.480 All that matters is reality. And right now, a lot of people are choosing to ignore reality. They're

00:14:09.580 choosing to ignore what we all just saw. Even after what happened at the fight on Thursday,

00:14:14.340 BBC's boxing commentator, Steve Bunce, suggested that Karini wasn't actually hit all that severely.

00:14:21.020 Listen. BBC Radio 5 Live's boxing commentator, Steve Bunce, was there. And Steve,

00:14:27.140 this seems extraordinary. Can you talk us through what happened?

00:14:31.060 I'd like to. I have no idea what happened. I was watching a fight for 46 seconds,

00:14:35.080 a fight that people had been talking about and writing about and pontificating about for about

00:14:40.420 10 days. And 46 seconds after it started, it finished. There was a half a blow and there was

00:14:45.860 a right hand. And Angela Karina turned around, said something to a cornerman. They got up on the apron.

00:14:53.260 Khalif stood in the middle of the ring. There was confusion. And then the referee waved it off.

00:14:57.340 She'd quit after being hit with one solid right hand punch. 0.99

00:15:01.800 Right. And there was there were some reports that Angela Karina's nose might have been broken.

00:15:07.200 Can we substantiate that?

00:15:09.540 Well, I'm not a doctor, but I have been at ringside for nearly 40 years and I've seen damaged

00:15:14.360 her injured boxers. I've seen boxers, mad and female, in tears on their knees, absolutely bamboozled.

00:15:20.020 But I've seen them up close. And I saw I saw that this fighter Karina up close. I was five feet from

00:15:26.580 her six minutes after the fight. Her nose wasn't broken. Her nose wasn't bleeding.

00:15:30.520 Well, she didn't have a mark on her, he says. Everyone's just pontificating. That's the BBC's

00:15:37.180 boxing expert. Of course, you know, these are not people who care about the safety of women. They're

00:15:43.020 mocking women even after they take the worst hit of their lives to the, you know, to the face from

00:15:48.600 an opponent who's clearly a male in a women's competition. And this appears to be the prevailing 0.86

00:15:54.560 attitude. Right now, there are no indications that the IOC is going to take any additional steps

00:15:59.880 to protect the women in these competitions. There's another male boxer, Lin Yu of Taiwan,

00:16:06.540 who's set to go up against a woman at another event. And I think that happened today.

00:16:13.260 We seem to be at the point that it's going to take, what, a woman to die in one of these events

00:16:18.540 for the powers that be to wake up to the fact that concepts like sex and chromosomes are real.

00:16:25.460 And in fact, if something as horrible as that did happen, it's quite possible at this point that

00:16:31.480 the expert class will pretend to be shocked by it. Who could have seen this coming? It's a tragedy,

00:16:36.300 they'll say. But the thing about reality is that it's not political. It asserts itself whether we

00:16:42.340 like it or not. And based on what's happening right now in Paris, we appear to be rapidly approaching

00:16:47.660 the moment when reality asserts itself with tragic consequences. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:17.740 Fox News reports, American reporter Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whalen were among four

00:18:24.120 former prisoners released from Russia yesterday who finally stepped foot on American soil again

00:18:29.660 on Thursday night. A plane carrying the Americans freed by Russia during the large prisoner swap

00:18:35.840 landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, greeted by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. And yes, Evan Gershkovich,

00:18:44.760 Paul Whalen, also Karmashiva were the three freed Americans as well as American green card holder,

00:18:53.140 Vladimir Karamirza. Those were the people freed. And it's great that Americans are coming home, 0.98

00:18:58.780 something to celebrate. Will I give Biden credit for it? Not really, no. He could have brought Paul

00:19:07.520 Whalen home a year and a half ago, but chose Brittany Griner instead. So hard to give him a

00:19:13.660 lot of credit for that. And they're doing it now, timing it for the election. Obviously not a coincidence.

00:19:18.920 So it's a good outcome, but I don't give you credit for leaving the guy in jail for an additional 18

00:19:23.600 months and then timing it for the election. Hard to give you credit for that. But yesterday was a

00:19:29.360 significant moment for another reason. Aside from these Americans finally being released,

00:19:32.620 it's also a moment when Kamala Harris, for the first time since executing her coup and stealing

00:19:39.280 the nomination from Joe Biden, for the first time she spoke off script to reporters and it wasn't very

00:19:45.900 long. She didn't say much, but even in the little snippets that she gave us, she demonstrated why they

00:19:53.600 don't let her speak off script right now. Watch. This is just an extraordinary testament to the

00:20:01.580 importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength

00:20:09.420 that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances. This is an

00:20:17.440 incredible day. This is an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who

00:20:23.220 understands the power of diplomacy and understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength

00:20:26.160 that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy. She just can't speak like a normal

00:20:32.680 person. And in fact, the way she speaks, you might say, is really an extraordinary testament to

00:20:40.600 the importance of not babbling incoherently. And it demonstrates the strength that rests in the

00:20:45.420 significance of not babbling incoherently. I think her problem is, first of all, she speaks in

00:20:52.580 cliches, which, by the way, is one of the most reliable hallmarks of middling intelligence.

00:21:00.280 This is really kind of the definition of a midwit is someone who speaks in cliches. 1.00

00:21:06.580 You can listen to someone speak and you don't even need an IQ test. If it's just a, if it's a parade of

00:21:13.200 cliches, then you already know that this is someone whose IQ is certainly not on the, the, the,

00:21:19.940 is not in the upper range, let's say. And she also, and this is another midwit thing. She also feels

00:21:25.860 this compulsive need to make her sentences longer than they need to be because she could have just 0.59

00:21:31.060 said, this is an extraordinary testament to the power of diplomacy. That's all you needed to say.

00:21:38.460 That's like 10 words, 10 words in and out. But she said that in 30 words. So she uses about three

00:21:46.420 words for every one word that she needs to use. There's a three to one babbling ratio here that 0.93

00:21:52.760 she's using. I've noticed something else about Kamala and, and pay attention. And the next time

00:21:58.540 she speaks off script, which probably won't be until after the election at this point, most likely, but

00:22:02.380 there's this very interesting thing where, and you can, you can see it where she will, she'll kind of

00:22:08.080 give her thought about something. She'll say what she wants and she'll say it in a sentence,

00:22:14.380 a wordy sentence, but still a, still a relatively clear like sentence. And then, and then she's done

00:22:21.880 saying her thought. She's conveyed what she wants to convey, but she, she keeps going. So she always

00:22:28.860 adds a second sentence, even though she said everything with the first one. And then she'll realize

00:22:34.920 about halfway through the second sentence that it's actually just a, she's repeating what she

00:22:40.640 said the first time. And you can see in her face as she realizes that she's repeating herself

00:22:46.020 and she starts searching frantically in her mind while she's talking for other words to use. So it

00:22:53.320 doesn't sound so redundant, but she can't, her vocabulary is pretty limited. So she can't think of

00:22:57.380 any of the words. So she just ends up saying the same words again. It's, it's pretty funny. And this

00:23:02.400 again is why they keep her on prompter as much as possible. And it does matter. You know, it might

00:23:09.780 seem like it, like it doesn't matter that much. This is the kind of thing that doesn't really matter,

00:23:14.400 but it does matter because it's so clumsy and cringy that it destroys the branding that they're

00:23:24.120 trying to do with her. Kamala's whole campaign right now is just vibes. It is a vibes based campaign. 1.00

00:23:30.480 But the problem is that if you live by the vibes, you die by the vibes, right? To paraphrase the

00:23:37.540 gospels, live by the vibes and die by them. So when, when it's all vibes, but then when she speaks off

00:23:45.380 script, the vibes are terrible. It's just terrible, awful vibes. The only way to maintain the vibes is

00:23:51.080 to keep her away from cameras as much as possible, have her only on script and let the media

00:23:57.000 generate the Kamala vibes that have almost nothing to do with Kamala herself.

00:24:04.580 Now I will say, um, not every attempt to generate vibes on her behalf has been successful either

00:24:12.200 in recent days. So for example, let me show you a, I just have to show you that this is a very real,

00:24:19.360 a real tweet sent out by the Democrat Twitter account. It's the Twitter account for the, uh, or sorry,

00:24:25.540 the X account for the Democrat party. And, um, let's, let's put that up on the screen. Can we?

00:24:31.780 All right. It says Republican praise for Kamala Harris.

00:24:38.780 We obviously disagreed, but she's personable. That's from Senator James Lankford.

00:24:45.880 Lindsey Graham said, I always found her pleasant to deal with. Mitt Romney, very personable and

00:24:51.420 knowledgeable. Mike Rounds says, we work together. Well, we still say hello to each other.

00:24:57.080 And Marco Rubio, I don't remember any problems with her on the committee.

00:25:02.560 That's the, those are the quotes that they give us now. So think about this for a moment.

00:25:07.900 They, they scoured through like years of commentary on Kamala Harris to find the absolute highest praise

00:25:15.080 ever offered to her by the opposition. And I don't remember any problems with her made the cut.

00:25:23.460 Okay. We say hello to each other made the top five list of nicest things she's ever of top five praise

00:25:33.600 for Kamala Harris is we say hello to each other. Critics are raving about Kamala Harris. She's fine,

00:25:42.040 I guess. Man, I don't hate her that much. Yeah. She's a, you know, she's, she's a person

00:25:52.700 who exists. One thing about that Kamala is she really, she, she, she, uh, she exists. She's a

00:26:00.000 person. There's no doubt about it. Of all the people who've existed, she's in the, she's in the

00:26:04.580 top. She's, she's as good at, at existing as anyone else who's ever existed. If not better. 0.82

00:26:11.880 Um, that's, uh, not, not a lot of great vibes on that one either. So they'll, I mean, Kamala Harris

00:26:21.720 has a lot going for her and none of it has anything to do with her personally, but just with the, with,

00:26:26.760 with the corporate media and, and, uh, Hollywood and entertainment industry, uh, invested in propping

00:26:34.360 her up and all of that, but they can still screw it up. They can screw this thing up. So don't,

00:26:40.640 so take, take heart in that at least. Here's one more thing on, uh, Harris that, that it actually

00:26:47.680 is quite a bit more important than all this other stuff. This is a report from the Daily Wire.

00:26:53.080 Never before seen footage showing a Planned Parenthood employee appearing to discuss the

00:26:56.640 sale of aborted babies' body parts was released Tuesday, years after now Vice President Kamala Harris

00:27:02.500 seized the footage as Attorney General of California. The five-minute video shows a conversation

00:27:06.100 between a person identified as Dr. Stacey Dillon, Planned Parenthood New York City Medical Director

00:27:11.820 for Abortion Services and an undercover reporter with the Center for Medical Progress. During their

00:27:16.640 conversation, Dillon seems to acknowledge that Planned Parenthood would sell the livers of aborted

00:27:20.480 babies. In one clip, Dillon is told by a CMP investigator that she could pay you a thousand up to

00:27:27.100 $1,500 for a liver. Yeah, that's great, Dillon responds. I think a financial incentive from you guys,

00:27:33.420 like, to the people we have to get this approved from, they'll be very happy about it.

00:27:39.120 Harris's office confiscated footage in a 2016 raid on CMP President David Daleiden's California home

00:27:44.620 two weeks after meeting with Planned Parenthood officials and after the organization had

00:27:48.480 specifically requested the computers used for the undercover videos to be seized.

00:27:54.040 And now we're just now seeing this. So the Democrats obviously considered the abortion issue to be a

00:27:59.020 major vulnerability for Republicans and for Trump specifically. But it's only a vulnerability if they

00:28:04.900 aren't smart enough to play it right and steer the conversation in the right direction. Because the truth

00:28:09.120 is that abortion should be the last thing that Kamala Harris, of all people, wants to talk about. She has a 1.00

00:28:15.460 history of absolutely radical extremism on this issue. She has abused her power in blatantly 1.00

00:28:21.720 corrupt ways in order to protect the abortion industry. You think she wants to talk about 1.00

00:28:31.120 this? You think she wants to talk about Planned Parenthood selling the livers and internal organs 1.00

00:28:38.380 of aborted babies? She doesn't want to talk about that, I can tell you that. Because the fact is that

00:28:44.980 she used her position as attorney general to cover up this crime. She prosecuted the journalists who

00:28:52.220 exposed the crimes and then not only refused to prosecute anyone at Planned Parenthood, but in fact at

00:29:00.200 their behest took the evidence of their crimes and concealed it. So this is major corruption. And it's all in the

00:29:10.240 name of protecting butchers who are selling the body parts of dead babies. That is a thing that happened.

00:29:17.880 It's a real thing. It's so horrifying and brutal that it sounds made up. And in fact, Planned Parenthood

00:29:25.320 for years, ever since this all came to light, and really even before that, in a weird way they have

00:29:34.280 almost, from a PR perspective, they've almost benefited from just how barbarically evil they are. Because it's so evil

00:29:45.300 that it sounds made up. Like they're so over the top villainous that it doesn't even sound real. And so when you

00:29:54.880 hear that, you think, oh, it's selling the body, they didn't do, come on. They didn't do that. But they did.

00:30:02.880 There are hours of footage proving it beyond any reasonable doubt. We have the Planned Parenthood officials

00:30:09.600 on camera working out monetary deals for body parts in explicit terms. So that's it. Like there's,

00:30:19.640 there's no denying it. And Kamala Harris was very involved in covering that up. And I think that,

00:30:26.400 so this brings up two sort of issues that she doesn't really want to talk about. And one of them

00:30:29.900 is the reality of what Planned Parenthood is and what they do. And the other is her attacks on

00:30:36.840 journalists. I mean, now she pretends to be some defender of free speech, a defender of journalism. 0.84

00:30:41.400 She, she, she legally pursued journalists and tried to put them in prison for doing journalism. 0.98

00:30:49.700 That's the fact. All right. The Post Millennial has this. A reporter for far left Seattle outlet,

00:30:56.680 The Stranger, has been reinstated after a suspension for lamenting that the Butler,

00:31:01.540 Pennsylvania, would-be assassin failed at killing former President Donald Trump.

00:31:04.580 She has a byline on the website that was on July 30th. Staff writer at The Stranger, Ashley

00:31:12.680 Nurbevig, who covers policing, incarceration and courts for the far left outlet, posted on X following

00:31:20.240 the news that, that the president had survived the shooting. She posted, make America aim again.

00:31:28.560 And that was back the afternoon when all this happened and she was suspended and now she's back. So

00:31:33.960 that's, that's basically a story. Wish death on the president, President Trump. Minutes after he was

00:31:41.120 shot, her very, her very first reaction, she gets suspended by the media outlet that she works for.

00:31:47.200 Then a couple of weeks later, she's back on the job. Now, yes, The Stranger is a far left outlet.

00:31:51.640 You know, it's, it's not an outlet that any thinking person takes seriously, but even so,

00:31:56.160 what does it tell us? What does it say that a person can keep their job in media after lamenting

00:32:01.820 publicly that a former president was not fatally wounded after being shot in the head?

00:32:07.860 Now, there was a brief moment in time. We can maybe vaguely recall when leftists who made these

00:32:14.220 comments about Trump after the assassination attempt were actually seeming to face consequences,

00:32:20.100 normal consequences that anyone else would face. And that's what seemed to be happening.

00:32:24.620 This woman was suspended from her job. Jack Black's friend, whatever the guy's name is,

00:32:29.620 I forget, made a similar joke on stage, as we recall, and both Jack Black and Kyle Gass is his

00:32:35.540 friend. They both apologized. The band basically broke up. So there was a brief moment when it seemed

00:32:42.420 like leftists were actually being held to some basic standard of decency and decorum,

00:32:46.380 but that didn't last. You know, it's, it lasted, it's over now. And it kind of goes to show, I think,

00:32:53.740 just how thoroughly the media has been able to memory hole the Trump assassination attempt. It's

00:32:58.860 only been three weeks, only three weeks. And it's like, it never happened. For, for maybe two or three

00:33:07.500 days, this was a major topic of conversation. As I said, leftists were actually seeming to get in

00:33:12.360 trouble for making light of it. Democrats were like a little shy about attacking Trump. And most of

00:33:22.100 them, not all, most of them backed away from like the really vicious anti-Trump rhetoric. But that

00:33:28.640 lasted for half a week, maybe a full week at most, probably not even a full week. It was really half a

00:33:35.780 week, three or four days. And now we're back to normal, back like it didn't happen.

00:33:42.360 This shocking historic moment, something the likes of which most of us have never witnessed before.

00:33:48.800 And in fact, I mean, the full thing, no one in history has ever, no one in American, nothing like,

00:33:53.780 exactly like that has ever happened in, in American history, even though of course there have been other

00:34:00.700 assassination attempts and successful assassinations. But either way, historic moment. And now it's like,

00:34:06.920 it may as well have not even happened. That's the power that the media still has to drive the

00:34:12.200 conversation. We like to pretend that they're irrelevant. We like to say that corporate media

00:34:17.680 is dying and all of that, but, but they may not be as powerful as they once were, but they're still

00:34:24.100 very powerful. Corporate media is still extremely powerful and has a profound ability to set the

00:34:31.440 narrative. And that's what they're doing here. Now, granted in this case, they're assisted by the

00:34:36.560 general sort of ADHD nature of American society. It's very difficult for Americans to pay attention

00:34:44.060 to anything for more than 45 seconds. And it's very easy to forget about stuff that happened a week ago

00:34:49.620 and that the media exploits that, but also helps to cause it. And it, but it cuts both ways. And

00:34:58.020 that's the other thing. So it means that yes, incredibly insanely Trump surviving an assassination

00:35:05.400 attempt will probably not help him at all on election day. I think a lot, myself included,

00:35:11.320 a lot of people, myself included when it first happened, because it was such a historic moment

00:35:17.460 and you have that iconic image of Trump acting with just real physical bravery.

00:35:27.140 And a lot of us saw that. And then we thought, well, I mean, the election's over. This is such,

00:35:31.760 you can't, for something like this to happen during a campaign, I mean, this is going to

00:35:37.440 sway people in a way that nothing else possibly could. I think a lot of us thought that

00:35:43.920 because that's the way that it should be. That's the way that it would have been at any point in

00:35:50.040 American history until very recently. But then, you know, of course, Biden drops out of the race. So

00:35:56.300 that, that helps to change the narrative a little bit. But even before that, this was already fading

00:36:02.340 into distant memory. And, um, it's again, because like we, we just live in a, in a society now where

00:36:07.720 nothing matters for more than a couple of days. It's really crazy. But as I was saying, it cuts

00:36:14.300 both ways. So it also means that all this hype around Kamala right now could by election day be 0.78

00:36:21.860 a distant faint memory of the ancient past. Also, you know, the public could get bored of the Kamala

00:36:28.240 hype just as quickly as it got bored of the fact that a former president was shot in the head.

00:36:32.640 Um, and what that means is that it makes political predictions very tenuous, if not meaningless,

00:36:44.300 because all that really matters by the time people are voting,

00:36:48.860 all that matters is whatever happened within 24 hours or maybe 48 hours or at most of them casting

00:36:58.800 the vote. That's all that matters. All right. Well, another thing I want to mention briefly,

00:37:04.280 this is a, um, a woman who's gone viral on TikTok with a message for her fellow white women. Watch. 0.98

00:37:12.420 This is a message for every single person who looks like me, specifically white women. It's time. 0.64

00:37:20.900 This is no longer about politics and you get to right your wrongs of 2016 when you didn't put a

00:37:27.260 woman in the white house who was overly qualified. Now's your chance. You did not stand behind black 1.00

00:37:35.280 women, people of color, immigrant families, differently abled people, none of them. You said 1.00

00:37:42.140 I matter more than you in 2016. Not anymore. You have the chance to again, put an overly qualified

00:37:52.440 person in a seat that they absolutely deserve because they are willing to go to bat for you

00:37:59.420 and everyone around you. This is no longer about red versus blue. This is our lives that we are playing

00:38:09.340 with. And the piece that you have control over is who you vote for in November. You need to find a

00:38:17.920 spine. Shut up. That's good. You know, she says that this is a message for anyone who looks like

00:38:23.240 her. And, uh, so, you know, I watched that and at first I thought that's kind of weird because if

00:38:28.980 you have a message for Chris Farley, it's a little late. Um, but then I realized she was talking about

00:38:35.600 her skin color and it's not a joke or insult by the way against her. Uh, I, I, by no means I just,

00:38:41.440 I was truly confused at first. I didn't, I didn't understand what she meant. I was a little confused.

00:38:45.560 Uh, no offense to her or Chris Farley. Uh, may he rest in peace. Anyway, here's, here's all I want

00:38:52.520 to say. Uh, I know that white women, uh, specifically single white women are overwhelmingly 1.00

00:39:01.920 Democrat, um, overwhelmingly liberal, but I just have to ask as a woman, don't you ever get tired

00:39:09.700 of this crap? Like, don't you get sick of it? This never ending guilt trip. It's relentless.

00:39:19.820 And I know I, we we've established that white men lowest on the totem pole, right? We are the

00:39:27.180 most villainized group in, in the country, in the Western world by far. We know that. Um,

00:39:34.900 but it's not much better for, for white women. And, uh, you could even make an argument that like 0.99

00:39:45.220 in some ways it's worse that what white women, even though white men, it's almost like as white 0.90

00:39:49.500 men, we are, we're hated so much that we're just kind of written off. We're a lost cause.

00:39:54.840 So we don't get lectured nearly as much. That's, that's at least the advantage is that there's not,

00:39:59.300 there aren't as many lectures to white men because it's just assumed that we're all a bunch of, uh,

00:40:05.080 you know, cavemen bigots. And so they just leave us alone in our caves, which I'm, I'm, I'm fine with

00:40:11.100 like, fine. Just give up on me. Perfect. Please do. I am a, I am a lost cause for you people.

00:40:16.720 There's nothing you can do. White women though, I think are, are, are not spared the lectures and, 1.00

00:40:25.560 uh, and, uh, and often, oftentimes, so it's, they're getting lectured constantly by, uh, by

00:40:31.160 non-white liberals. But then there's also a lot of this where you have one of your own,

00:40:37.340 like talking down to you and it's just, it never stops. It's a little bit, the, the, the dynamic,

00:40:45.340 it's like, I'm trying to think of a comparison. It's almost like, um, think of a full metal jacket,

00:40:51.940 you know, the, the, uh, the bootcamp scenes and the way that the new recruits were treated,

00:40:59.060 you know, old school Marine Corps bootcamp, Paris Island, uh, you know, just being cut down

00:41:05.720 constantly, you maggots, everything just being cut down, abused. And, uh, and so it's, that's like

00:41:13.000 what white women are in the left wing world. Whereas white men were the enemy. So in a way we're,

00:41:20.080 we're, we are ranked lower cause we're the enemy. We're the ones that you're, you know,

00:41:23.880 training to go out and kill. Um, but a lot of the negative energy on a day-to-day basis is focused

00:41:32.000 on those white women, the new recruits who are just sitting there standing at attention in bootcamp,

00:41:37.040 the drill instructors walking down the barracks, just cutting you down one by one. Hey, you over

00:41:43.060 there, just, just insulting you. But the thing is, at least if you're a full metal jacket recruit,

00:41:50.160 like you, you can, you can get through bootcamp and you can move up the ranks. But as a white woman, 0.78

00:41:55.500 you never get through it. This is what you are forever. You're the new recruit maggot, you know,

00:41:59.980 and it's, it just will never stop. You're always at that level. And I also had another, I don't think

00:42:07.260 we have the clip, but, uh, you know, you kind of compare this to the way that women are talked 1.00

00:42:14.300 about of other races, like black women. So there's a clip of, uh, Brandon Johnson, the mayor of,

00:42:21.440 of Chicago now, no better than Lori Lightfoot. Even in fact, he's, he is more woke than Lori Lightfoot

00:42:29.300 was. And anyway, he's talking, he's, he's, he's talking about the, the, the Trump thing with the

00:42:34.680 National Association of Black Journalists. And he starts talking about like the, the majesty. He

00:42:40.880 starts to say, well, you know, Trump, he ran into those, the black women, the majesty, I forget what

00:42:46.940 the exact term was that he used, but he was talking about like the majesty, the mystical majesty and

00:42:52.920 beauty of black women talking about black women as though they are deities. And that's the way black 1.00

00:43:00.080 women are talked about. Um, but white, and then you compare that to how white women, even white 1.00

00:43:08.160 women who are on their side, who are on the left, how are they talked about? Yeah, these are not 1.00

00:43:16.180 deities. You're just like scum. Everything is your fault. Everything. So black women are beautiful 1.00

00:43:24.280 goddesses, queens, right? What, what are white women? Karens. 1.00

00:43:32.060 It's actually the one group that has a slur like that. That's common parlance. And you can say

00:43:38.940 whenever you want. Even white men don't, don't quite have that. Yeah. I mean, there are slurs you

00:43:45.300 can use about white people and men that, you know, no, that you can say that and you're not going to get

00:43:50.100 in trouble, but there's nothing. Karen is the one. It's like the one kind of race and gender-based 1.00

00:43:56.380 slur that's, uh, you know, household usage. It's like everyone says it and, and it's not an issue.

00:44:06.040 So black women are queens, goddesses on high. How dare you disrespect them? Yeah. When you, 1.00

00:44:12.740 when you're in the presence of a black woman, you better show your respect, damn it. And then white 0.68

00:44:19.340 women, oh, these Karens, there's another Karen again. God forbid a white woman like is upset 1.00

00:44:25.100 about anything ever, or, you know, is in a, is in a position where someone's actually being rude to

00:44:31.580 her. So she stands up for herself automatically. Oh, you Karen, shut up, Karen. And you know, 0.69

00:44:38.040 all of that is coming from the left. It's all coming from them. So if you're, they, they hate you.

00:44:46.160 They absolutely hate you. And if you're on the left and you're a woman, you hate yourself too.

00:44:54.980 They hate you. They want you to hate yourself. It's just gross. Like free yourself of that stuff.

00:45:01.220 Uh, so that's my little pep talk for a white women. 1.00

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00:45:50.060 daily cancellation. Our daily cancellation today begins with a positive story for a change. Here's

00:46:00.960 the news out of Michigan, reading from an outlet called The Midwesterner. At East Jackson High

00:46:05.500 School, engagement is up and drama is down exponentially after school officials last year

00:46:09.920 banned cell phones in class, according to Principal Joel Cook. Quote, when you take away the compulsion

00:46:15.480 to address Snapchat and TikTok, kids find themselves having to concentrate, participate in some of these

00:46:20.300 debates in the classroom, he told MLive. Students, staff, and parents have appreciated it. The district's

00:46:25.840 power school data center shows that since school officials required students to stash their phones in

00:46:30.580 their locker during class, beginning last school year, behavioral referrals have declined by 40%.

00:46:35.520 I don't think people fully understand the amount of behavioral issues that began with a Snapchat,

00:46:40.140 Cook said. If you take that out of the classroom, a lot of the drama goes away. Cook told WSYM

00:46:45.360 he initially expected the phone ban to result in a battle, but found that that wasn't the case.

00:46:51.940 Honestly, kids were relieved, he said. Most parents were relieved. Well, this is very good.

00:46:56.940 They banned cell phones in school and immediately started reaping the benefits because of course

00:47:02.160 they did. There is only upside to banning cell phones in school. It can only have a positive

00:47:08.460 impact on the learning environment and the well-being of the kids. So this is not a case of

00:47:13.300 weighing the pros and cons, making a trade-off. It's not like, oh yeah, you can ban school, ban

00:47:19.100 phones in school, but then this is going to happen. There's no trade-off. Having phones in school is

00:47:24.180 only bad. Therefore, getting rid of them can only be good. Which is why when I read a story like this,

00:47:32.100 even though I'm quite happy that this improvement was made, I can't help but wonder, why are you just

00:47:38.000 doing this now? The iPhone was first released 17 years ago. Smartphones have been ubiquitous for well

00:47:46.560 over a decade. Many of the kids entering their senior year of high school right now have had phones

00:47:52.840 since elementary school. Phones have already ruined the educational experience of an entire

00:47:58.440 generation of kids and we're just getting around to banning them now? Well, better late than never, 1.00

00:48:05.900 you might say. But as you read on, you discover that this school with its cell phone ban 17 years

00:48:12.760 late is still ahead of the curve somehow. Reading on, quote, the move to ban phones at the high school

00:48:20.260 followed a two-year trial at East Jackson Middle School that served as a litmus test.

00:48:24.760 Jackson officials are now encouraging other schools and districts to consider the same.

00:48:28.860 Michigan's Tomlinson Middle School, Melvindale High School, McDonald Middle School, and others

00:48:33.260 have had similar successes with improving student behavior and academics by banning phones,

00:48:38.300 echoing research from Central Michigan University, the New York Institute of Technology, and California

00:48:42.180 State University that correlated increased learning, better comprehension, lower anxiety,

00:48:45.920 and more mindfulness with a decline in smartphone use. Those studies, along with trial runs in schools

00:48:51.980 across the country, have convinced lawmakers in some states to consider or implement statewide cell

00:48:56.340 phone bans as a means to improve student learning and reduce behavioral problems that have increased in

00:49:02.100 many places since the pandemic. Through mid-June, only Indiana, Florida, and Ohio have banned cell phones

00:49:07.780 statewide in schools, while lawmakers in New York, Oklahoma, and Missouri are considering the same.

00:49:13.160 And, but in Michigan, legislators remain hostile to the idea.

00:49:20.220 So there are 50 states in this country. Smartphones have existed for 17 years.

00:49:25.620 In 17 years, across 50 states, only three of them have gotten around to banning these devices from

00:49:31.740 the classroom. And these bans are new. In fact, if you Google it right now, you'll find a whole slate of

00:49:36.940 articles, just like this one from Midwestern, reporting on schools in various states who will be trying

00:49:42.180 trying something new this coming school year by actually forbidding students from using their

00:49:48.100 phones during school hours. Meanwhile, CNN reported back in late June, quote, adding to a growing list

00:49:53.860 of school districts banning cell phones. The nation's largest district could be moving to do the same as

00:49:59.260 early as January. Phone usage during the school day has not only become a distraction, but an addiction.

00:50:04.580 David Banks, the chancellor of New York City public schools, said during an on-camera interview with

00:50:09.280 WNYW, quote, we recognize the problem and that it's a major issue, Banks said. The chancellor said

00:50:14.660 he expects a formal announcement to be made as soon as he fine-tunes how to implement a plan that would

00:50:19.120 impact more than a million students across nearly 2,000 public schools in the city. Wednesday's the

00:50:23.820 last day of the school year before the summer break. New York's decision comes on the heels of Los

00:50:28.680 Angeles Unified School District moving to ban cell phones in schools just last week. Okay, so New York

00:50:34.480 City public schools might ban smartphones from the classroom starting in January. Los Angeles just

00:50:41.640 started to implement a ban this past June. Other school districts across the country have just gotten

00:50:47.840 around to it. Three states just passed bans. But smartphones are still permitted in schools during school

00:50:56.420 hours in 47 states and countless schools across the country. Now, I know you might say that any progress

00:51:04.360 is good and I should be happy with these steps forward, even if they're very small steps and very slow

00:51:10.660 and a decade and a half late. But we should really expect more from the people in charge of educating

00:51:17.140 50 million American children. Like, it's crazy that this is, it's, the fact that cell phones are not

00:51:25.380 banned in every school in the country with no exception is insane. Do you understand how insane that is? 0.96

00:51:34.460 These, these, again, these little distraction boxes hit the market 17 years ago. The sole function

00:51:42.040 of the distraction box, especially when used by children, is to distract them. Kids are given the

00:51:50.660 distraction boxes and they proceed to spend most of their day staring into them distracted. For kids,

00:51:57.280 the distraction boxes have literally no other point. They have no utility except to distract.

00:52:04.260 Any legitimate use outside of that, say, making a phone call, can be achieved by regular phones. All of

00:52:10.240 the additional stuff, all of the stuff that, you know, makes a smartphone a smartphone, serves for

00:52:17.220 children, the single sole solitary purpose of distracting them. And yet, the people who run our

00:52:25.420 schools have spent 17 years pondering over these distraction boxes. They've argued amongst themselves,

00:52:32.280 should we allow kids to use the distraction boxes in school? Say, have you noticed that kids are

00:52:36.840 extremely distracted all the time? Do you think it could be because of the distraction boxes that

00:52:40.940 they all carry around in their pockets and stare at for 18 hours a day? Could I, could I, maybe that

00:52:45.420 has something to do with the fact that, you know, they're very distracted all the time. Could I have

00:52:48.500 something to do with that? And they ponder over this and they still can't figure it out somehow.

00:52:55.820 The geniuses in charge of our schools have spent all this time deliberating on the question for

00:53:02.080 nearly two decades. And only now have some of them concluded that, yes, perhaps the distraction boxes

00:53:06.860 are causing distractions. And still somehow many districts in 47 states have yet to arrive at that

00:53:11.760 conclusion. They need to think about it more. But, you know, this is not all the fault of the schools,

00:53:17.200 of course. The primary culprits, as always, are the parents who have paid exorbitant sums to purchase

00:53:22.620 distraction boxes for their children. The parents who pay a monthly fee to Verizon or T-Mobile to make sure

00:53:29.380 that their kids can be continue to be distracted. I mean, think about that for a second. You're paying

00:53:35.940 a monthly bill. It's not even just like a one-time dumb purchase. Every month you're paying another

00:53:41.700 bill. Hey, honey, did you pay the distraction bill for our kids to make sure they're always

00:53:45.900 distracted all the time? Did you pay that? Make sure, make sure to pay it. We got to make sure

00:53:49.280 they're always distracted. Don't let that, don't let that, yeah, make sure it's paid. We don't want to get

00:53:53.040 the service shut off. We don't want to, our kid might go a day without being distracted. We don't want

00:53:58.480 that. We can't have that. These parents who go out of their way to furnish their children with

00:54:04.480 distractions, and then when their kids end up being distracted, what do they do? They immediately put

00:54:09.620 their kids on medication rather than simply taking away the distraction box. And this is all very

00:54:16.260 unfortunate because the key to giving your child not just a better education, but a better and healthier

00:54:20.380 and more joyful childhood, a better life in general, is so simple. Okay? This is not the only

00:54:28.460 thing that will make it happen, but it starts with take away the distraction box. Take away the

00:54:34.400 phone. Let me just close with this thought. We just spent the last month at a lake house up in

00:54:41.220 the mountains. And now, as you know, our kids don't have phones at all. We don't do phones with our

00:54:47.500 kids. But for the last month, they also haven't had TV because the house that we were staying in,

00:54:54.040 the house actually had TVs. It had like a lot of TVs, but none of them worked reliably. So our

00:55:00.540 kids spent the better part of a month with no phones, because they never have phones, no tablets,

00:55:06.500 and no TVs. No screen-based entertainment of any kind. They complained about the lack of a working TV

00:55:14.640 for the first few days. They did. But then they stopped complaining, and they found other ways to

00:55:21.480 entertain themselves. They played out in the woods. They swam in the lake. They played card games.

00:55:25.040 They built forts. They, you know, played dodgeball, and so on and so on. They were lively and active

00:55:31.140 and engaged. They didn't miss the screens. The screens would not have improved their experience

00:55:38.100 at all. There was never a moment, not one moment, when either we as the parents or they as the children

00:55:44.820 thought, you know what would make this even better for them? A screen that they can stare at silently.

00:55:50.060 Now, I'm not suggesting that we should get rid of all of our screens. I'm not saying that a kid

00:55:57.060 should never watch TV. At our house, we do have TV. Our kids do watch it. And I realize that it's

00:56:03.900 easier to keep kids entertained when you're on vacation. It's the summertime. You're at a lake.

00:56:07.780 Like, I get all that. I'm a realist. My point is simply that the screens really do not enhance a

00:56:14.780 child's life. And the benefits of limiting the screen time, the benefits of removing the screens

00:56:21.400 to whatever extent possible, are immense. Because no parent is going to look back on a child's life

00:56:29.900 once they reach adulthood and lament that he didn't spend more time staring at a screen.

00:56:35.980 No parent will think that. But many, many, many parents will deeply mourn and are already deeply

00:56:44.180 mourning childhoods squandered and sometimes destroyed by the obsessive, oppressive reliance

00:56:51.600 on and presence of screens. And this is doubly true in schools. Some schools are finally starting to

00:57:01.420 realize that, however, belatedly. But the ones that still somehow haven't gotten with the program

00:57:07.520 are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:57:13.240 Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.

00:57:16.660 Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 0.82

00:57:28.900 Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much. At least

00:57:32.860 not to me. Am I racist? I would really appreciate it if you left. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this

00:57:37.080 journey. If I'm going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.

00:57:40.680 Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert. Here's my certification. And what you're doing

00:57:48.860 is you're stretching out of your whiteness. This is more for you than less for you. Is 0.89

00:57:52.240 America inherently racist? The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the

00:57:56.340 George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones.

00:58:00.580 So inherently. Yeah. This country is a piece of shit.

00:58:04.640 White folks. White trash. White supremacy. White woman. White boy. Is there a black person 1.00

00:58:09.120 around here? There's a black person right here. Does he not exist?

00:58:13.380 Hi, Robin. Hi. What's your name? I'm Matt. I just had to ask who you are because you have

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 02, 2024

Ep. 1414 - Wokeness Turns The Olympics Into A Farce

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