The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1415 - ‘Gentle Parenting’ Is A Great Way To Turn Your Child Into An Obnoxious, Insufferable Brat

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh show, a new parenting trend has become very popular, especially among millennial parents.

00:00:04.460 It's called gentle parenting.

00:00:05.940 And like so many other new age parenting techniques, it is guaranteed to turn your child into a terrible human being.

00:00:10.860 We'll talk about that.

00:00:11.580 Also, the media and the Harris campaign claim that Trump backed out of a debate with her.

00:00:15.640 They are lying, of course.

00:00:17.540 When a judge in Arizona rules that unborn human beings cannot be called human beings because the term human being is apparently partisan.

00:00:24.240 Plus, the female boxer assaulted by a male boxer at the Olympics has now come out and issued an apology to the man.

00:00:29.900 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh show.

00:00:32.340 We'll be right back.

00:01:02.320 This is why it's so easy to fail.

00:01:32.320 At parenting these days, but also why it's so crucial that we don't. 1.00

00:01:35.800 For that reason, I'm always troubled when some confused, fatally stupid, and inept parenting method arises. 0.99

00:01:42.660 Every few years, a fancy new parenting trend seems to crop up. 0.99

00:01:46.260 They always have different names and present themselves as different strategies, but they're basically the same bad ideas, repackaged and resold over and over and over again.

00:01:53.760 You'll notice that up until the latter half of the last century, there were no parenting trends or parenting methods.

00:02:00.440 You didn't have different types of parenting.

00:02:02.180 There was only parenting.

00:02:03.620 If you'd asked your great-grandfather what parenting strategy he preferred, if you asked him if he was a conscious parent or a helicopter parent or a positive parent or whatever, he would have looked at you confused, not understanding the question.

00:02:16.000 Or else he would have shown you his belt.

00:02:18.520 In recent decades, thanks in large part to the psychiatric industry, parenting has become much more complicated than it needs to be.

00:02:25.900 With too many competing strategies, all of them seemingly designed to make your child into a dysfunctional, needy, entitled little hellion.

00:02:33.440 And in that way, they've been extremely successful, which brings us to a parenting trend that has gotten a lot of attention lately.

00:02:39.360 It's called gentle parenting.

00:02:41.480 Now, if you've ever ventured into the world of TikTok and Instagram parents, you are familiar with this term.

00:02:48.220 It's a style of parenting gaining popularity, especially in my generation.

00:02:52.180 In fact, it's very, very popular.

00:02:53.340 A recent survey of millennial parents conducted by Lori Children's Hospital in Chicago found that a staggering 75% of millennial parents identify with the gentle parenting technique.

00:03:05.860 So, what is gentle parenting?

00:03:08.140 The website parents.com has an explainer on the subject.

00:03:11.140 Quote, gentle parenting is a peaceful, positive style of parenting that is very different from that of previous generations of parents.

00:03:17.620 It is but one of many styles of parenting out there, from authoritative and permissive to free-range and conscious parenting.

00:03:24.800 There are seemingly more variations than a burnt-out parent can count.

00:03:28.580 But if you're looking to add a new approach to your arsenal, you may want to consider gentle parenting.

00:03:34.240 Now, before parents.com tells us exactly what this approach consists of, we shouldn't make note of one thing.

00:03:40.560 We're told that gentle parenting is very different from that of previous generations of parents.

00:03:46.260 And that's true.

00:03:47.620 It's also the whole problem.

00:03:49.900 Now, I'm not saying that we should parent exactly as our own parents and grandparents did.

00:03:53.760 I'm not saying that previous generations of parents didn't make mistakes.

00:03:57.380 I'm not saying they were perfect.

00:03:58.980 But previous generations of parents did parent the people who built human civilization.

00:04:04.640 They parented the pioneers and poets and philosophers and artists and inventors and warriors and leaders who accomplished incomprehensible feats of heroism and genius.

00:04:13.760 And who gave us every good and wonderful and beautiful thing we have in our lives.

00:04:18.500 So, old-fashioned parenting, we might call it, has a track record.

00:04:24.160 It's the parenting that took us from mud huts to the moon.

00:04:28.160 What has modern parenting produced?

00:04:30.500 Does it have a similar record of success?

00:04:32.840 Or has it instead produced multiple generations of depressed, lazy, overgrown brats stuck in a perpetual state of emotional and mental adolescence? 1.00

00:04:41.320 I'll let you answer that question for yourself.

00:04:43.940 The point is, we should be immediately suspicious of a very different style of parenting.

00:04:50.560 Why is it very different?

00:04:52.340 Was the old-fashioned parenting style broken?

00:04:55.660 In what way was it broken?

00:04:56.940 And if it wasn't broken, why are we fixing it?

00:05:01.300 Continuing, quote, gentle parenting is a means of parenting without shame, blame, or punishment.

00:05:06.240 It's centered on partnership, as both parents and children have a say in this collaborative style.

00:05:12.720 Quote, gentle parenting, also known as collaborative parenting, is a style of parenting where parents do not compel children to behave by means of punishment or control,

00:05:19.000 but rather use connection, communication, and other democratic methods to make decisions together as a family, says Danielle Sullivan, a parenting coach.

00:05:27.540 Gentle parenting teaches children that they can be active in the world, set their own boundaries, trust their own needs, and make their voices heard.

00:05:35.580 Now, there's a lot wrong with what I just read.

00:05:38.600 Using democratic methods in your home is a recipe for dysfunction and chaos.

00:05:44.040 As the father and head of my household, I am not presiding over a democracy.

00:05:49.800 I was not elected to my position.

00:05:52.060 Even if my children voted to throw me out of office, I would remain in power.

00:05:57.940 Our system of government in the United States, in theory anyway, depends on the consent of the governed.

00:06:03.820 My home does not.

00:06:06.580 If your home does, that certainly means, without exception, that you have failed as a parent and your children are the kinds of horrible, out-of-control, miniature terrorists who nobody wants to be around 0.99

00:06:17.680 and who, without miraculous intervention, will grow into maladapted, miserable adults.

00:06:22.980 To explain why, it may be helpful to take a look at some examples of gentle parenting in action.

00:06:28.220 In fact, this article provides one, quote,

00:06:31.680 If you're looking for a way to incorporate gentle parenting into your life, your best bet is to start small.

00:06:36.420 Model what you want to see on a regular basis.

00:06:38.360 Practice kindness, compassion, and empathy at all times, and try to be less demanding and commanding.

00:06:42.820 Instead of saying, tie your shoes, make it a suggestion.

00:06:46.200 Something like, do you think you should tie your shoes so you don't trip?

00:06:50.620 Now, the first few sentences of this paragraph start out fine.

00:06:53.600 But then we're told that you should be less demanding and commanding.

00:06:58.220 Now, that's only half right.

00:07:00.140 Less demanding, sure.

00:07:01.840 But you should be commanding.

00:07:04.520 Now, the problem with demands, it's not that making demands is going to traumatize your poor child.

00:07:08.960 It's actually that they're weak.

00:07:10.840 Demands are made by people who are not in control but want to be.

00:07:15.020 Kidnappers and bank robbers make demands.

00:07:18.560 Demands are desperate.

00:07:20.400 It means that you're not in control of yourself or your surroundings. 0.95

00:07:24.140 To demand respect is to pathetically and impotently request it.

00:07:27.980 It is to shout, respect me, because nobody does. 0.51

00:07:31.940 If you have to tell someone to respect you, it's a clear sign that they don't.

00:07:36.420 And the fact that they don't already is a problem.

00:07:39.840 But to command respect is to be regarded with esteem, admiration, and obedience without asking for it.

00:07:47.420 So you should command respect in your home.

00:07:50.660 If you have to demand respect from your children, it means that you are not commanding respect.

00:07:56.460 So you should be less demanding because you're more commanding.

00:08:01.660 But to be neither demanding nor commanding is to be a figure with no authority or respect at all.

00:08:07.660 So, instead of telling your child, tie your shoes, you're encouraged to say, do you think you should tie your shoes so you don't trip?

00:08:15.740 Which is all wrong.

00:08:17.360 A strong leader knows what things must be done and gives clear, concise, and confident instructions accordingly.

00:08:25.340 Tying shoes is a thing that must be done.

00:08:27.920 It doesn't matter if your child thinks he should tie his shoes or not.

00:08:31.040 You don't need to build a consensus on the matter.

00:08:33.840 You don't need to put a referendum up for a vote to democratically establish the necessity of tying shoes.

00:08:39.540 And what if he says that, no, he doesn't think he should?

00:08:42.440 What then?

00:08:43.360 Will you respect him as an equal and let him fall down the steps and break his neck?

00:08:47.700 Or will you tell him to tie them anyway?

00:08:50.200 And if the latter, and I hope it's the latter, what was the point of asking the question in the first place?

00:08:55.200 Your child is a child.

00:08:57.960 He has no idea what he's doing, what he should be doing, what's going on.

00:09:01.420 He needs to know that you know.

00:09:03.220 He needs to know that you are confident and secure in your position as the leader.

00:09:08.060 Here's a parenting secret for you that is apparently not common knowledge but should be.

00:09:16.020 A child wants to be told what to do.

00:09:19.600 He doesn't want open-ended questions and limitless options.

00:09:23.420 He wants direction.

00:09:24.640 Now, he may not know that he wants that.

00:09:27.500 He may say that he doesn't want that.

00:09:30.300 But that's because he doesn't understand his own wants, much less his needs.

00:09:34.020 If you give instructions, not request instructions, and you do it clearly and firmly, he'll be a happier kid.

00:09:40.260 He'll feel safer, more loved, and will end up being a better person in the long run.

00:09:44.620 So this is the major problem with the gentle parenting method.

00:09:47.600 It relies heavily on partnering with children who don't know what's best for them and are relying on you to know that.

00:09:55.320 You should not be looking to make your child a partner in his own parenting any more than you'd want the captain of your plane to invite you to partner with him and be a co-pilot in the cockpit.

00:10:06.400 Now, your captain's commitment to democratic equality may flatter you for a moment, but it also makes it much more likely that you'll die a fiery death.

00:10:14.460 Now, if you go over to TikTok, as mentioned, you'll find many examples of influencers promoting gentle parenting, and they all run into the same problem.

00:10:23.380 So here's one popular gentle parenting video from a guy with 12 million followers on the platform.

00:10:30.140 Just to show you how popular this stuff is.

00:10:34.080 And let's watch it.

00:10:35.060 Hey, the school called me today and told me about you skipping school.

00:10:39.860 You lied to me about that.

00:10:41.220 I know.

00:10:41.760 I'm sorry.

00:10:42.300 I should have told you the truth.

00:10:43.820 Look, here's the deal for that.

00:10:45.180 I think we go two weeks grounded.

00:10:47.060 Is that fair?

00:10:47.860 Yes.

00:10:48.240 Everything makes sense?

00:10:49.020 Yeah.

00:10:49.240 All right.

00:10:50.140 All right, look, so that's the way we do it in our house.

00:10:51.880 Different scenarios, come up with different things, we don't have a set grounding or anything like that.

00:10:55.580 But the kids know if they get grounded and they come and hang out with the family and they do things, help around the house, things that they're not asked to do, that grounding doesn't have to stay two weeks.

00:11:05.760 And also, look, Drew's a senior.

00:11:08.060 If her last Friday night football game fell within that two-week thing, I'm not going to hold her back from that either.

00:11:14.840 That is something I'm not going to take memories away from her.

00:11:17.740 Same with, you know, her younger sister, Ken, if she got in trouble when a friend had a birthday party, now maybe she doesn't get to spend the night.

00:11:23.920 But I'm not going to let her miss that birthday party.

00:11:25.840 We don't take things like that away.

00:11:27.100 But that's kind of how we do some of the punishments here in our house.

00:11:30.600 We try to do better.

00:11:32.980 Now, it will not surprise you to learn that the comments, and there are hundreds of them, are all from people applauding this strategy and saying that they wish this guy was their own dad.

00:11:42.020 And that's because most of the comments are likely from teenagers who, for obvious reasons, would love to have a dad who only grounds them if they agree that it's fair and who will still let them go to parties even when they're grounded.

00:11:53.880 Which is like the court sentencing you to house arrest, but then telling you that your house, for these purposes, includes anywhere on the earth.

00:12:01.280 Of course, in real life, if you tell your teenage daughter that she's grounded and then ask her if it's fair, in a million cases out of a million, she will say no.

00:12:11.500 She's not going to say, oh, yeah, that's fair, and then just walk out of the room perfectly fine with it. 1.00

00:12:17.360 No, she's going to very stridently inform you that it is not only unfair, but it's the most unfair thing that has ever happened to anyone ever in the world.

00:12:26.740 So what then?

00:12:28.080 Will you respect her opinion and validate her perspective by throwing out the punishment?

00:12:32.220 If so, what was the point of the whole exercise other than making you look emasculated and weak?

00:12:39.340 And if you'll stick with the punishment, even though she says it's unfair, what was the point of asking her whether it's fair or not?

00:12:45.820 This is what gentle parenting is all about. 0.97

00:12:47.480 It's designed to make parents look indecisive and pathetic in the eyes of their children. 0.94

00:12:50.840 Here's maybe the most egregious example that I found just from a quick skim of these kinds of videos. 0.91

00:12:58.060 I can only stomach so much, but just watch this and try to follow this story that this mom relates.

00:13:04.820 Watch.

00:13:05.960 My daughter just asked for dessert, and I calmly say, I don't think we have anything for dessert.

00:13:09.780 Only she quickly disagrees, and since we do, we have ice cream in the freezer.

00:13:12.660 As the blood is draining from my face, I say, oh, that ice cream.

00:13:17.940 Honey, Daddy and I ate that last.

00:13:20.380 Y'all, she had a reaction.

00:13:21.840 She slammed the freezer door, hands on hips, and said, 1.00

00:13:24.000 Mommy, we really need to talk about this.

00:13:26.240 Uh, excuse me?

00:13:26.940 This happened with the Oreos.

00:13:28.580 It happened with the cookies that you made, and you said that Daddy ate the last one, and that you ate one, too.

00:13:33.220 It happened with the other ice cream.

00:13:34.640 It's starting to occur to me that she's on to us.

00:13:36.800 It happened with Uncle Aaron's birthday cake.

00:13:38.820 You and Daddy always sneak the good snacks at night, don't you?

00:13:42.440 Why are you and Daddy sneaking all the good snacks at night?

00:13:44.800 Uh.

00:13:46.580 And how come every time we wake up, all of the snacks are gone?

00:13:50.380 I, uh, there is no getting out of this.

00:13:53.800 And as I'm getting stared down by my four-year-old, I have nothing to say, because I am just caught.

00:13:59.240 Only I didn't spend my childhood pulling Hey Misters and Hide the Snacks to deal with this.

00:14:03.240 I don't have to justify myself now, and my midnight Oreo snacking, and whatever else I do.

00:14:08.000 I am an adult, so I can do whatever I want at night, and I can eat all the snacks I want, is what I want to say.

00:14:13.200 But I know that she's not going to buy that.

00:14:15.060 I also know that I've taught them about this thing called fairness and sharing, and so she just wants me to share the snacks, but I don't want to.

00:14:20.620 Which is where she gets me when she says, from now on, you need to just save us a little bit, please.

00:14:25.820 Fair enough.

00:14:26.860 But in 10 to 15 years, this is going to click, and I'm screwed, so wish me luck.

00:14:29.220 Dear God.

00:14:32.980 God help the next generation.

00:14:34.980 That video has 360,000 likes, by the way.

00:14:40.740 So let me see if I have this right.

00:14:42.340 Your daughter slammed the freezer door, lectured you, and instructed you not to eat food without her permission. 0.90

00:14:50.720 And you stood there, tail between your legs like a scolded puppy, and just took it.

00:14:55.980 You allowed yourself to be chastised and reprimanded by your own daughter.

00:15:00.380 You permitted her to rebuke you for eating your food that you purchased.

00:15:05.200 This is disordered in the extreme.

00:15:08.620 What you and your husband should be communicating is that the ice cream is your ice cream.

00:15:13.900 It is your fridge.

00:15:15.600 It's your kitchen.

00:15:16.480 It's your house.

00:15:16.940 You're not sneaking any snacks.

00:15:18.480 They're your snacks.

00:15:20.160 You should pull out a snack and eat it right in front of her. 1.00

00:15:23.840 Okay?

00:15:24.260 It's yours.

00:15:24.940 You don't have to ask her permission.

00:15:27.820 She should be grateful that she has a roof over her head, a room to sleep in, and any food to eat at all.

00:15:33.240 You're so generous that you even buy her ice cream sometimes.

00:15:36.780 The fact that she's ever had ice cream in her life is an act of generosity on your part.

00:15:41.260 The only attitude you should accept from your child is gratitude for the things you give her and the life you provide for her.

00:15:47.380 And if she speaks to you that way, you should not respond by promising to give her more snacks in the future.

00:15:52.720 No, you should take away snacks, take away privileges, take away freedom until she learns how to speak to you and afford you the respect that she owes you. 1.00

00:16:01.100 The only thing you have to give your child are the basic necessities to keep them alive.

00:16:06.440 Everything else is a privilege, and privileges can and should be revoked if they are not deserved.

00:16:13.980 Now, I had to give my own daughter a lecture like this recently. 0.79

00:16:17.620 She was not scolding me for eating my own food out of my own fridge and would not dare talk to me like that.

00:16:22.360 But she did tell me after I reprimanded her for not keeping her room clean that it's her room, and she doesn't know why I care so much whether it's clean or not.

00:16:32.160 Now, I did not validate her feelings or get down to her level to make sure that she felt seen and heard.

00:16:38.900 I didn't get on my knees and look her in the eyes and say, I'm sorry you feel that way, sweetie.

00:16:42.920 That must be so hard.

00:16:44.800 I just, I really like it if your room was clean.

00:16:47.280 Is that fair?

00:16:48.740 Is that okay with you?

00:16:49.860 Can we agree together as a team?

00:16:52.780 Here, I'll help you clean it.

00:16:55.400 No, instead, I stood there and simply said, no, it's not your room.

00:17:00.260 It's my room.

00:17:01.440 It's my house.

00:17:02.740 I let you stay in this room under certain conditions.

00:17:06.020 One of those conditions is that you keep it clean.

00:17:08.400 That's a requirement.

00:17:09.440 It's not a request.

00:17:10.700 I'm going to go downstairs, and when I come back up in an hour, it will be clean.

00:17:14.920 That's it.

00:17:15.560 I wasn't negotiating or asking for permission or trying to come to a consensus.

00:17:20.280 Simply asserted my authority, gave the instruction, made sure that I was clear.

00:17:23.840 It's not any kind of revolutionary parenting technique.

00:17:26.240 It's just parenting.

00:17:27.600 That's what a parent is supposed to do. 0.67

00:17:29.960 I want to play one more gentle parenting video for you. 0.90

00:17:32.640 Another thing that you hear from the gentle parents is that you shouldn't punish your children.

00:17:38.960 You should instead rely on natural consequences, they like to say.

00:17:42.640 What does that mean?

00:17:43.460 Well, here's another popular parenting TikTok influencer named Dr. Chelsea. 0.99

00:17:48.220 She has a doctorate in education, but still uses the doctor prefix.

00:17:53.340 But here she is explaining how consequences should work, and she starts by going through

00:17:57.460 some consequences that she says are bad.

00:17:59.120 You shouldn't use them.

00:18:00.420 And then she gives other consequences that she thinks are much better.

00:18:03.500 This is the parenting expert.

00:18:04.480 She's a doctor, everybody.

00:18:06.220 Let's listen to her.

00:18:06.880 You ran away from me at the park.

00:18:09.840 There will be no screens tonight.

00:18:11.500 You didn't eat your dinner, so there's no ice cream.

00:18:13.720 You failed your math test.

00:18:15.200 You're grounded.

00:18:16.220 You didn't clean up your room when I told you to.

00:18:18.540 Now we're not going to the party.

00:18:20.120 You didn't complete your chores.

00:18:21.440 You can't stay home alone with your big sister.

00:18:23.840 What do all these things have in common?

00:18:25.160 They're unnatural and illogical consequences.

00:18:27.980 And while they might work to scare your child into compliance for a minute, in the long term,

00:18:33.800 they're likely to make things worse.

00:18:36.220 Which is why so many of you tell me, I've been parenting and trying to do consequences

00:18:40.240 and hold boundaries, and it's not working here.

00:18:42.780 She doesn't care about anything.

00:18:44.920 I think your ratio's off.

00:18:46.540 The ratio at which a natural consequence, not those, will work is 97 to 3.

00:18:52.860 When you're doing 97% positive supports, then a natural consequence, natural,

00:18:59.160 not like the ones in the beginning, may well be effective.

00:19:02.420 But you have to get the positive supports dialed in first.

00:19:06.520 Here's some examples of natural and logical consequences.

00:19:09.840 Kid throws truck.

00:19:11.820 Oh, looks like trucks are too tricky for today.

00:19:15.240 Trucks are all done.

00:19:16.200 We can try again tomorrow.

00:19:17.620 Kid is splashing in baths.

00:19:19.340 Up, water stays in the tub.

00:19:20.920 Kid splashes.

00:19:21.560 Water stays in tub. 0.99

00:19:24.020 Kid splashes.

00:19:25.000 Oh, looks like bath is too tricky for today.

00:19:28.780 Pull the plug or remove the child.

00:19:31.460 Kids are fighting in the car.

00:19:33.220 Slowly pull over.

00:19:34.920 Be silent.

00:19:36.460 Say, I drive when everybody is calm and quiet.

00:19:40.600 Then don't say anything else.

00:19:42.700 You can start driving again when they're calm and quiet.

00:19:45.960 Kids are fighting over what show to watch.

00:19:48.420 Oh, looks like shows are too tricky for today.

00:19:53.060 I'll take the remote.

00:19:53.960 Let's try again after dinner.

00:19:56.680 Okay.

00:19:57.540 Well, you should know from the start not to pay attention to a parenting guru who can't

00:20:02.080 even get her own kids to be quiet for two minutes so she can record a video. 0.97

00:20:06.360 More to the point, there's a major problem with the consequences that she suggests.

00:20:10.700 She calls them natural.

00:20:11.920 I don't even know what the hell that's supposed to mean in this context, but they would more

00:20:16.320 aptly be called flimsy and toothless.

00:20:19.120 The problem with a consequence like pulling the car over momentarily before you start driving

00:20:23.380 again or taking TV away only until dinner is that those consequences cause no discomfort

00:20:29.740 or pain or even inconvenience to your children.

00:20:32.340 They aren't going to care about the consequences because there's no reason to care.

00:20:35.780 A consequence should be something that causes them enough grief that they want to avoid

00:20:40.220 it in the future.

00:20:41.560 No other consequence has any meaning or will have any impact.

00:20:45.200 So think of the consequences that she says don't work.

00:20:48.220 Taking away screen time, grounding, taking away a party that they were supposed to go to.

00:20:54.320 But no, those are all good consequences.

00:20:56.860 Those are effective consequences.

00:20:59.140 Why?

00:21:00.380 This is real simple.

00:21:01.760 Because it's stuff that the kid will not like.

00:21:05.000 Okay, a child will be upset about losing screen time and losing a party, etc.

00:21:08.700 And that's the whole point of the consequence.

00:21:11.800 They have to be upset with it.

00:21:13.300 If they're not upset with it, there's no point.

00:21:16.320 Okay, this is one of the reasons why timeouts often don't work when they're overused and

00:21:19.560 not used in the right way.

00:21:21.020 Because the kid doesn't care.

00:21:22.860 You sit for five minutes and they don't care.

00:21:24.760 It doesn't matter.

00:21:25.960 It doesn't do anything.

00:21:27.120 It doesn't make an impact.

00:21:30.000 The problem is that many parents today are terrified of making their children upset.

00:21:33.820 They'd rather be friends than authority figures.

00:21:35.600 They're so focused on validating their kids that they've lost all sight of the much more

00:21:39.520 important job, which is guiding, instructing, and civilizing their kids.

00:21:45.400 That's the primary role of a parent.

00:21:48.380 That is parenting.

00:21:51.220 Gentle parenting, like so many modern methods to come before it and so many others that will

00:21:55.120 come after, may more accurately be called non-parenting.

00:21:58.740 It is not a new way of fulfilling your parenting duties, but a way of abdicating them entirely.

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00:22:56.820 All right, let's start with this because it's kind of a funny moment.

00:22:59.560 CNN went to a black barbershop in Pennsylvania to talk to them about the election, and obviously

00:23:05.760 was counting on and hoping for certain reactions, certain feedback, but they were shocked and

00:23:11.920 scandalized by what they discovered.

00:23:14.020 Let's watch this.

00:23:15.240 CBS network anchor went to a central Pennsylvania barbershop seeking some candid conversation.

00:23:21.160 Among the revelations that some of the black men that he interviewed did not regard Harris

00:23:27.140 as black.

00:23:29.360 Is Kamala going to make you a little more likely or less likely to vote Democrat?

00:23:36.180 Hold on, is Kamala black, yes or no?

00:23:40.500 I'm going to let her speak on that.

00:23:42.900 But to me, no.

00:23:44.200 Oh.

00:23:45.100 Is Kamala black, yes or no?

00:23:47.060 I share that same view.

00:23:48.440 Wow.

00:23:48.980 Is Kamala black, yes or no?

00:23:49.940 I heard she was, I heard she's half black and half Asian. 1.00

00:23:56.420 When I played that audio on my Sirius XM radio program on Thursday, many callers who self-identified

00:24:01.780 as African-American were quick to tell me that those men were the exception, not the rule.

00:24:07.180 Some described them as low information voters, no different than you'd find among whites.

00:24:11.320 Okay, so that wasn't CNN that went, that was, what did they say, CBS.

00:24:16.020 Anyway, it's all the same.

00:24:18.400 Pretty hilarious.

00:24:19.380 They, of course, went there hoping for the opposite.

00:24:21.220 They were hoping that the black guys at the barbershop would talk about how offended they

00:24:24.260 were by Trump's comments.

00:24:26.080 Instead, they agreed with his comments, basically, questioning the blackness of Kamala Harris,

00:24:32.720 which is great.

00:24:33.840 Now, I still don't think that this question about Kamala's race is a question that the Trump

00:24:37.300 campaign needs to focus on, and they don't seem to be focusing on it, but it is, it is

00:24:44.120 funny and perhaps kind of telling that they got that answer.

00:24:48.940 And at any rate, it's not, Trump, the Trump campaign may not be focused on the question

00:24:53.720 of Kamala's race, even if Trump did bring it up at the, during that interview, but the

00:24:59.180 media, the media's focused on it.

00:25:00.720 So here was George Snuffleupagus on ABC, also on Sunday, berating Byron Donalds, of

00:25:08.760 course, a black Republican congressman, about this issue.

00:25:12.960 And it's, you know, and this is an exchange that goes on for like three or four minutes.

00:25:16.620 We won't play the whole thing.

00:25:17.660 We'll play, you know, a minute and a half, two minutes of it.

00:25:19.940 But he, he is, I want you to watch as he is simultaneously berating Byron Donalds for

00:25:30.540 talking about this while also insisting that he keep talking about it.

00:25:35.560 So it's a very interesting dynamic here.

00:25:37.840 Let's watch.

00:25:39.300 And you just repeated the slur again.

00:25:41.280 If it doesn't matter, why do you all keep questioning her identity?

00:25:44.000 She's always identified as a black woman.

00:25:45.860 She is biracial.

00:25:46.960 She has a Jamaican father, an Indian mother.

00:25:48.920 She's always identified as both.

00:25:50.880 Why are you questioning that?

00:25:53.840 Well, George, first of all, this is something that's actually a conversation

00:25:56.960 throughout social media right now.

00:25:59.240 There are a lot of people who are trying to figure this out.

00:26:01.460 But again, that's a side issue, not the main issue.

00:26:04.180 The main issue.

00:26:04.760 Sir, one second.

00:26:05.900 You just did it.

00:26:07.020 You just did it again of the United States.

00:26:09.640 Why, why do you, why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?

00:26:13.740 You want me to talk?

00:26:14.840 I want you to answer my question.

00:26:17.160 George.

00:26:17.600 George, now that you're done yelling at me, let me answer.

00:26:21.280 He talked about it on the stage yesterday in Atlanta for, what, two minutes?

00:26:24.500 He spent more than 35, 40 minutes going after her record, talking about how radical of a

00:26:29.840 senator that she was.

00:26:30.900 She was the most liberal senator in the United States, in the United States Senate. 0.97

00:26:35.220 That is a fact.

00:26:36.160 He talked about the job that she did as vice president of the United States, a job, I will

00:26:41.220 add, which has been a failure for the American people.

00:26:44.060 I know you guys like to glom on to this that he talks about in jest or, or in a serious

00:26:49.380 manner for about a minute or so.

00:26:51.380 But what you do not cover is the litany of failures of Kamala Harris.

00:26:56.040 That's what you're not covering, George.

00:26:57.860 So questioning somebody's racial identity for a couple of minutes is okay?

00:27:01.120 George, I'm going to tell you again, he brought it up.

00:27:06.400 AP is the one that wrote the headline when she first came in to the United States Senate. 0.96

00:27:10.980 Didn't talk about her being black.

00:27:12.520 Talked about her being the first Indian American senator.

00:27:15.460 AP brought that up.

00:27:16.540 If it doesn't matter, I don't understand why you keep on repeating it, why the president

00:27:19.660 keeps on repeating it, why those introducing the president yesterday keep on repeating it.

00:27:22.760 George, actually, I'm not the one who keeps repeating it.

00:27:25.060 George, you're the one that's bringing it up now.

00:27:26.760 Okay, well, here's a good thing about these corporate media hacks, and this is why I appreciate

00:27:33.660 guys like Snuffleupagus, that they aren't subtle.

00:27:36.700 They telegraph their strategies.

00:27:38.280 They generally, they take a very bull in the china shop approach to trying to steer the

00:27:42.340 conversation one way or another.

00:27:45.860 And that's what's going on here.

00:27:47.420 So it's both, hey, let's talk about this thing.

00:27:50.740 And then the answer is, what?

00:27:52.520 Why are you talking about it?

00:27:53.660 I mean, that's literally what happened in this exchange over and over, like three times

00:27:57.040 in a row, just in the two minutes that we played.

00:28:02.160 Which means that if you're a Republican, it's very clear what the media wants to talk about

00:28:06.920 and what they don't want to talk about.

00:28:11.460 So that as a Republican, your response is pretty simple.

00:28:16.800 You know, your counter strategy should be pretty simple.

00:28:18.940 Talk about the stuff they don't want to talk about and don't talk about the stuff that

00:28:21.960 they do.

00:28:22.260 Now, that doesn't mean that you cower or hide from the stuff that they want to talk about.

00:28:26.800 It just means that you steer the conversation to the places that they don't want to go,

00:28:30.640 which is what Donald's tried to do in that interview.

00:28:33.360 He did a good job.

00:28:34.960 There's only so much you can do when you're being harangued and berated in that way.

00:28:38.600 But the media wants to stay focused on this thing about Kamala's race.

00:28:43.900 Trump brought it up, half joking, in a 90-second clip as part of a longer 30-minute interview.

00:28:49.160 It was only talked about for a minute, two minutes.

00:28:54.140 And everybody knows this is Trump's style, that he just kind of like, he tends to wander a bit

00:28:59.140 rhetorically.

00:29:00.120 And he goes down various, you know, he doesn't stay on the main river, let's say.

00:29:05.720 He goes down various like little streams and tributaries.

00:29:08.420 And, you know, he comes back to the main river.

00:29:11.100 And so, you know, so that you can always, you can find him wandering over here for a second

00:29:17.180 and then you decide you want to focus on that.

00:29:20.500 And they're doing that here because that's what they want to discuss.

00:29:23.140 So for Republicans, it's easy.

00:29:28.340 Okay, they want you to attack on the race thing, so attack somewhere else.

00:29:33.740 Where don't they want you to attack?

00:29:35.900 Let's find those weak points and focus your energy there.

00:29:39.560 And this, again, is the point that Donald's was making in the interview.

00:29:42.480 I thought he did well.

00:29:44.000 All right, staying with politics here.

00:29:45.320 Let me read this from NBC News.

00:29:47.580 It's nonsense, of course, but I'll read it.

00:29:51.720 Headline, Trump ditches upcoming ABC debate, proposes Fox News debate instead.

00:29:58.080 Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he would no longer participate in a September

00:30:01.160 debate on ABC, opting instead to propose a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris

00:30:05.580 on Fox News on September 4th.

00:30:08.140 The former president said the ABC debate was agreed to when President Joe Biden was the presumptive

00:30:11.600 Democratic nominee, but has been terminated and that Biden will no longer be the nominee.

00:30:15.400 Trump also cited his active defamation lawsuit against ABC and the network's anchor, George

00:30:21.340 Snuffleupagus, but that lawsuit was filed in March and the Biden-Trump debate on ABC

00:30:26.520 was announced in May.

00:30:29.520 So he's saying, let's do Fox.

00:30:32.440 The Harris campaign has said that he's running scared.

00:30:35.360 He's backing out of the debates.

00:30:37.940 Kamala just tweeted that Trump is hiding in his, quote, safe space.

00:30:41.140 And so she'll be there on September 10th on ABC.

00:30:45.640 Trump saying he's going to be there on September 4th on Fox.

00:30:48.680 So they'll be in two different places on two different days debating each other, I guess.

00:30:53.180 Now, this, as I said, is all nonsense.

00:30:56.460 Trump never agreed.

00:30:58.180 I mean, so this, it's just the media, no surprise, straight up lying, saying Trump is backing out

00:31:03.440 of a debate.

00:31:04.160 There was no debate scheduled.

00:31:06.120 Trump never agreed to debate Kamala Harris on September 10th.

00:31:09.120 He agreed to debate Joe Biden on September 10th.

00:31:12.040 And you can't just swap out the person like it's a technicality.

00:31:16.680 It's not, it's, you debate, you're agreeing with a person to a certain thing.

00:31:20.580 When that person is gone and a new person comes in, well, now we have to make a new agreement.

00:31:24.740 This is pretty obvious.

00:31:28.760 This is like if you, it's like if you ordered Chinese food on Uber Eats and the Uber Eats

00:31:34.100 driver came and delivered you pizza instead.

00:31:37.980 And you tried to reject it.

00:31:39.980 And he said, well, no, you can't reject it.

00:31:41.980 You ordered food.

00:31:43.580 Well, you're backing away from your order.

00:31:45.220 You're can't, you agreed to this.

00:31:47.520 You can't cancel your order.

00:31:48.520 No, I'm not canceling my order.

00:31:49.460 That's not what I ordered.

00:31:50.480 That's a whole different food thing.

00:31:52.240 That's a whole different type of food.

00:31:54.440 That's not what I ordered.

00:31:55.700 You can't just, you can't just do that.

00:31:57.780 Now you could talk to me ahead of time and say, oh, I can't get that.

00:32:02.100 Would you like this instead?

00:32:03.240 I guess you could do that, but you didn't do that.

00:32:06.300 So a little bit of an odd analogy, but you know, you get the point.

00:32:11.140 Like you can't just swap out a whole other person and, and then assume that the debate

00:32:17.200 is still on exactly as it was originally proposed.

00:32:22.240 Um, and I personally think that Trump should stay firm on the Fox debate proposal.

00:32:26.220 He's not ducking a debate.

00:32:27.520 He's not refusing to debate.

00:32:28.620 He's, he's, he's set a time and place where he'll debate.

00:32:31.920 Um, I think walking into a debate with Kamala on a hostile network would probably be a mistake.

00:32:39.340 And yeah, he agreed to it with Joe Biden.

00:32:41.640 We could argue about whether he should have agreed to it with Biden.

00:32:44.100 Well, obviously, I mean, the, the first debate, clearly he was right to agree to that

00:32:47.920 because it ended Joe Biden's career.

00:32:49.980 Um, but, uh, agreeing ahead of time to two debates or whatever, but it doesn't matter

00:32:55.580 because Joe Biden's gone.

00:32:56.600 So, and he agreed to that debate because it's, that's a specific, a particular set of circumstances.

00:33:02.420 And I think in that case, the reasoning was, which again, turned out to be very good reasoning

00:33:06.660 that, yeah, okay, we're going to go to a place where it's hostile territory and that deck is

00:33:12.580 stacked against us, but that's the only way we can get Biden to debate.

00:33:16.100 And, and, um, and it's worth the risk here because Biden is senile.

00:33:20.620 And so like, we just have to get in the same room as him and it'll be obvious that it's

00:33:25.420 like, you know, the Trump campaign was thinking to us, we don't, Trump doesn't need to say

00:33:28.680 anything.

00:33:29.600 Just the simple fact of getting Biden into a room where he has to speak off, off, off

00:33:34.620 the cuff and off script for two hours is guaranteed to precipitate a meltdown.

00:33:39.020 And that's exactly what happened.

00:33:41.420 Well, now it's a new person.

00:33:42.900 The situation has changed and, and strategy changes.

00:33:45.880 Kamala is not senile.

00:33:47.060 She's not very smart, but she's not senile and she's a, you know, she's a relatively 0.97

00:33:51.460 conscious and sentient, uh, creature.

00:33:54.740 And so she, she could benefit greatly from a debate where the moderators are on her side

00:33:59.660 and the whole thing is a three on one or four on one tag team against Trump.

00:34:04.760 You know, that's an advantage that you're willing to give to Biden because he's senile.

00:34:11.000 But it would be foolish to give that advantage to anybody else.

00:34:13.580 It's not because Kamala is so gifted.

00:34:15.080 It's just like, if someone is at least vaguely competent at being able to communicate, uh, 0.99

00:34:22.440 it's, it's foolish. 0.58

00:34:23.220 You don't give them that advantage. 0.97

00:34:24.400 You don't, you're not going to walk into that.

00:34:27.300 And we all know that a debate on Fox would actually be fair, uh, to both of them.

00:34:33.600 You know, Fox anchors are not going to gang up on Kamala and target her and all of that. 0.98

00:34:43.160 We, we've seen Fox debate, like, they're not going to do that.

00:34:46.080 Martha McCallum and Brett Baird, they're, they're not, we all know they're not going to,

00:34:49.600 even the left knows they're not going to do that.

00:34:51.040 If anything, if anything, they would be tougher on Trump just to prove how unbiased they are.

00:34:57.400 And we all know that.

00:35:00.700 So, you know, there hasn't been a Fox debate where the moderators went out of their way to embarrass the Democrat.

00:35:06.060 That's just, it just doesn't happen.

00:35:07.120 Um, and so he is actually proposing, he's not, he's not proposing a, a play, a playing field that's stacked in his favor.

00:35:17.080 It actually is as close to a neutral playing field as you're going to get.

00:35:21.940 All right.

00:35:23.700 What else do we have here?

00:35:24.700 I wanted to mention this.

00:35:26.380 ABC news reports a judge on Friday rejected an effort by GOP lawmakers to use the term unborn human being to refer to a fetus in the pamphlet that Arizona voters would use to weigh a ballot.

00:35:37.120 Measure that would expand abortion access in the state.

00:35:41.080 Maricopa County, uh, Superior Court Judge Christopher Witten said the wording that the state legislative council suggested is packed with emotion and partisan meaning.

00:35:50.220 And as for what he called more neutral language, the measure aims to expand abortion access from 15 weeks to 24 weeks, the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb.

00:36:00.980 Arizona for abortion access, the organization leading the ballot measure, sued the council earlier this month over the suggested language.

00:36:07.000 And advocated for the term fetus, which the legislative council rejected.

00:36:12.560 This is why I'll never agree that abortion is a losing issue for us.

00:36:17.880 I know that's the conventional wisdom, even on the right, that it's a losing issue.

00:36:22.300 I'll never agree with that.

00:36:23.660 And this, this, this, this is a perfect example.

00:36:27.220 Why?

00:36:27.480 On the other side, they stridently object to you simply calling a human being, a human being.

00:36:34.120 It is partisan and packed with emotion, they say, to acknowledge a human being as a human being.

00:36:42.600 And instead they insist on fetus.

00:36:43.920 But the insistence on fetus is very telling.

00:36:45.900 Why?

00:36:46.220 Well, because fetus, um, means, you know, it, it, it's not that fetus means something different from unborn child.

00:36:56.780 Okay.

00:36:56.920 So it's not like they're, they're advocating for a term that means something different.

00:36:59.500 No, it means the same thing.

00:37:02.600 And that's the point.

00:37:03.740 Fetus is a Latin word.

00:37:05.160 And in Latin, it means the young while in the womb or offspring.

00:37:09.240 Okay.

00:37:09.960 That's like, it could mean either of those things.

00:37:11.960 So if we can call the unborn human an offspring or young in the womb, why can't you say unborn human or unborn child?

00:37:22.100 It means the same thing.

00:37:23.860 It's the same thing. 0.69

00:37:25.180 This is no different than if I punched you in the face and you said, hey, you broke my nose.

00:37:31.100 And I said, no, I didn't stop using partisan language. 0.76

00:37:34.040 Actually, I broke your nasus.

00:37:38.180 N-A-S-U-S is the Latin word for nose.

00:37:42.620 I'm just like arbitrarily demanding that in this case, you refer to your nose in Latin.

00:37:47.760 Okay.

00:37:48.240 Why would I be insisting on that language correction?

00:37:51.780 It's not even a correction.

00:37:52.780 I'm just, it's the same thing.

00:37:54.740 I'm just demanding that you refer to it in Latin.

00:37:58.680 Well, why would I be demanding that?

00:38:00.760 It's because, is it because the Latin term is more accurate?

00:38:03.380 No.

00:38:04.660 It means the same thing.

00:38:05.620 The only difference is that the Latin term is more obscure.

00:38:09.240 It's less clear to most people who hear it.

00:38:13.980 That's the only possible reason a person could have for insisting on the Latin term when there is an English term that means the same thing and is understood by everybody.

00:38:24.380 So, that means that they want to make this issue as obscure as possible.

00:38:31.980 I've been, I've been preaching this now for weeks.

00:38:35.960 It is a misnomer to say that the left wants to talk about abortion, that they want to campaign on abortion, that they see abortion as a strong issue for them.

00:38:48.280 That's not true.

00:38:50.340 They are, in fact, terrified of this issue.

00:38:54.600 Okay?

00:38:54.860 No one else is going to tell you that.

00:38:56.380 But they are terrified of it.

00:38:58.700 What did we talk about a few minutes ago?

00:39:00.460 Find the things that your enemy doesn't want to talk about and talk about those things.

00:39:05.600 It's like a real simple political strategy.

00:39:09.500 Whatever they want to talk about, talk.

00:39:10.980 Whatever they don't want to talk about, talk about that.

00:39:12.900 Whatever they do want to talk about, don't talk about that.

00:39:16.520 Or at least don't talk about it in the same way that they want you to talk about it.

00:39:21.880 So, when it comes to this issue, they want to talk about abortion in a very narrow, specific way using euphemistic language.

00:39:33.080 And you can win the argument by talking about it in ways and using the language that they are afraid of.

00:39:44.140 That's a real quick way to get them to retreat.

00:39:48.060 I mean, they might come charging in super confident.

00:39:50.360 Let's talk about abortion. 0.95

00:39:51.280 We're going to get you on this one.

00:39:52.940 It is not hard to send them running for the hills and changing the subject. 1.00

00:39:57.760 If a liberal beats you in an abortion debate, it's because you are tragically stupid, either intellectually or strategically or both. 1.00

00:40:12.820 Which is why I'm begging. 1.00

00:40:14.440 I am begging Trump.

00:40:19.140 And I know there are people in Trump world who follow me.

00:40:21.100 So, I'm begging you guys.

00:40:25.260 I don't often beg, but I'm begging on this one.

00:40:28.320 Assuming there is a debate with Kamala, which I think that there probably will be.

00:40:32.320 When abortion comes up, which it will, early and often, presumably. 0.99

00:40:38.780 Just, if you disregard everything I ever say, just take my word on this.

00:40:43.700 Trump needs to turn to Kamala and just say this.

00:40:49.720 I'd love to talk about this very important issue.

00:40:52.680 But we cannot talk about it unless we're sure that we're all talking about the same thing.

00:40:58.300 So, Kamala, do you agree that the unborn child in the womb is a human being?

00:41:05.800 That's it.

00:41:08.320 That's it.

00:41:09.000 That's all you have to ask.

00:41:11.140 She can't.

00:41:11.640 For all the talk about how they love to talk about this issue, they want to talk.

00:41:16.800 That is the issue, and they don't want to talk about that.

00:41:19.440 They don't want to talk about that thing, which is the whole entire issue.

00:41:23.560 It comes down to that.

00:41:25.520 That is the question of the whole.

00:41:27.900 That's the question.

00:41:29.200 Are we dealing with a human being or not?

00:41:31.460 That is the question.

00:41:33.500 And it is the question that they don't want to answer.

00:41:36.660 They don't want to be anywhere near it.

00:41:38.180 Do you think that Kamala's campaign staff, that they want to see Kamala Harris up on a nationally televised primetime debate stage talking about the personhood question, talking about whether unborn children count as human beings?

00:41:57.640 Do you actually think they want to see her explain, they want to hear her explaining why fetus is preferable to an unborn child?

00:42:06.720 No, of course not. 0.99

00:42:08.860 That's a loser for them. 0.87

00:42:10.680 They lose that argument. 0.99

00:42:12.120 Because they're so totally, completely, obviously wrong.

00:42:18.800 Yes, it's a human being.

00:42:19.800 It cannot be anything else but a human being.

00:42:21.780 It's the only thing it can be.

00:42:22.820 This is a biological fact.

00:42:24.880 There's nothing to debate here.

00:42:28.680 So they don't want to talk about that.

00:42:30.060 But they also, they can't deny it.

00:42:32.700 But they also can't admit it.

00:42:36.700 Because then if they admit it, now they are openly and explicitly saying, yes, it's a human being, a living human being.

00:42:44.920 But I think sometimes it's okay to kill an innocent human being.

00:42:50.440 Yes, it's an unborn child. 0.99

00:42:52.540 But yeah, I think it's okay to kill it. 0.99

00:42:55.160 They don't want to say that.

00:42:56.280 But, look, that might be the kind of thing that Bill Maher will say, as he said recently, it doesn't play well.

00:43:04.420 And a Democrat politician is not ever going to say that.

00:43:08.460 Ever.

00:43:11.460 And the only reason that the left seems to win on this issue in the court of public opinion is that we allow them to.

00:43:20.880 There are so many winning places to steer this discussion, but Republicans rarely even try to steer it there.

00:43:34.600 And I think as we all saw with other issues, as we saw with, you know, the trans issue, gender ideology.

00:43:45.500 And it's something that we are full, you know, I'm not going to say that the battle is won.

00:43:53.500 It's still ongoing.

00:43:54.500 But we are winning.

00:43:56.480 They are running away scared to the, you know, I mean, to the point that Kamala Harris has not talked.

00:44:03.760 She's not going to, she doesn't want to talk about it.

00:44:05.220 She definitely doesn't want to talk about that.

00:44:06.400 She's not talking about trans rights.

00:44:07.880 She's not talking about that.

00:44:09.200 She does not want to talk about it.

00:44:11.180 You know, all these things happening in the Olympics right now, maybe she's addressed it.

00:44:14.500 You know, Pat, in passing or very briefly, I'm not even sure if she has, but she doesn't want to have that.

00:44:21.520 She doesn't want to talk about that.

00:44:24.120 And how did we get to a point where we were winning so thoroughly on that issue?

00:44:28.600 It was many different factors all working together, but a lot of it was just simplifying the issue

00:44:37.240 and figuring out what is the fundamental question that we're arguing over.

00:44:43.420 And as we know, when it comes to trans, the fundamental question was, what is a woman?

00:44:51.520 What is a man?

00:44:52.800 Like, what does this word mean?

00:44:54.420 You're saying that a quote unquote trans woman is a woman.

00:44:58.660 What do you mean by that, right?

00:44:59.900 And the moment that we simplify it down to those basics, you win.

00:45:07.260 It's an unanswerable question for the other side.

00:45:09.480 It's a question that they certainly cannot, if they answer it honestly, they automatically lose.

00:45:14.180 And the thing that frustrates me to no end with the abortion debate is that there is a very similar, very basic question.

00:45:27.980 And this is one that at least pro-lifers have been asking and pointing to for long before I even existed.

00:45:37.760 They've been talking about this.

00:45:39.060 So it's right there.

00:45:40.900 It's very obvious.

00:45:43.740 What is the unborn child?

00:45:46.000 Is it a person or not?

00:45:49.300 We can't talk about it.

00:45:50.460 This conversation cannot go forward until we answer that.

00:45:53.020 Sorry, it can't.

00:45:54.920 Trump can say that.

00:45:56.200 Say, look, we could talk about this.

00:45:59.160 We could spend the whole debate talking about it if you want to.

00:46:01.600 Fine.

00:46:03.020 Your moderator gets your prerogative.

00:46:05.000 Go ahead.

00:46:05.320 But we cannot move forward until we answer first this question.

00:46:10.440 We just can't.

00:46:11.420 And so I'm saying the unborn child is a human being and a person.

00:46:14.560 That's what I say.

00:46:15.760 We got to get an answer from her or this conversation cannot continue.

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00:47:18.960 Now since I last spoke about the two males who are competing in women's Olympic boxing events.

00:47:29.900 Both of them have now clinched in at least a bronze medal.

00:47:33.520 That's the bare minimum that they'll walk away with.

00:47:35.480 And of course they'll likely win more.

00:47:37.520 Iman Khalif of Algeria is predictably dominating the welterweight class.

00:47:41.060 And Lin Yuting of Taiwan has done the same in the featherweight class.

00:47:46.080 Now Lin advanced to the semis by defeating a woman named Svetlana Staniva of Bulgaria in the quarterfinal yesterday by unanimous decision. 0.96

00:47:54.720 As the fight ended, Svetlana protested by making a double X hand gesture. 1.00

00:47:59.340 Apparently referencing her 2X chromosomes. 0.97

00:48:01.900 Watch.

00:48:03.820 Wait now.

00:48:05.860 The final decision as...

00:48:08.080 Now Svetlana didn't answer questions from reporters after the fight probably to avoid being dogpiled for saying the truth. 0.98

00:48:16.280 This is the extent of the protest that's allowed at the Olympics.

00:48:18.640 Men are pummeling women and in response the women are flashing hand gestures. 0.97

00:48:22.800 There are also reportedly letters of protest being sent around.

00:48:25.040 Meanwhile, the insanity though is allowed to continue unabated.

00:48:28.860 The semifinals are coming up later this week.

00:48:30.600 Iman's next fight is on Tuesday.

00:48:32.080 Lin's is on Wednesday.

00:48:33.060 In all likelihood, it's only because Lin and Iman are in separate divisions that we won't see two men competing for the gold in the women's boxing this year.

00:48:41.140 Now I've outlined...

00:48:41.980 But I'm sure that will happen next Olympics.

00:48:45.860 I've outlined the specifics of this farce before.

00:48:48.020 But because there's a lot of confusion about what exactly is happening at the Olympics, I'll restate some of the basics very quickly.

00:48:53.480 Last year at the World Boxing Championships, both Lin and Iman were disqualified from competing against women.

00:48:58.260 The International Boxing Association says that it determined by DNA tests that both Lin and Iman have XY chromosomes, meaning they're men.

00:49:05.500 That's the designation you get when you have a Y chromosome, by definition.

00:49:10.920 And for good measure, the International Boxing Association determined that in addition to having male chromosomes, both have high testosterone levels.

00:49:17.500 Now, Lin did not appeal the decision.

00:49:19.160 Iman initially appealed and dropped it.

00:49:21.660 So the decisions were binding.

00:49:22.700 But over a year later, the International Olympic Committee now says that Lin and Khalif are indeed women.

00:49:28.260 Now, it's not clear why they think that.

00:49:29.580 Actually, it's not clear what they think at all or if they have any idea what's happening in their own competition at the moment.

00:49:35.020 They appear to be in a state of total confusion and chaos.

00:49:38.140 The IOC just tweeted this out, for example.

00:49:40.080 Quote, in today's IOC, Paris 2024 press briefing, IOC President Bach said, but I repeat here, this is not a DSD, Disorder of Sex Development case.

00:49:49.620 This is about a woman taking part in a women's competition, and I think I have explained this many times.

00:49:55.220 What was intended was, quote, but I repeat here, this is not a transgender case.

00:49:58.740 This is about a woman taking part in a women's competition, and I think I've explained this many times.

00:50:04.000 So that's them correcting what the president said.

00:50:07.100 He said that this isn't a case of sex development disorder, and then they corrected that line.

00:50:11.820 So the implication is that it is indeed potentially a case of a sex development disorder.

00:50:15.780 However, these two male athletes could very well be men who have some differences in normal sex development, whether that means they're intersex or have some other chromosomal issue.

00:50:24.600 But we really have no clue because they have not come out and justified any of this.

00:50:30.260 And as Collette reported in a very comprehensive piece on this topic, the IOC isn't interested in bringing any clarity to that question.

00:50:36.420 Quoting from Collette, in June, the IOC issued a language guide that disallows the use of sex-based language to describe athletes at the games and that requires the treatment of gender-diverse XY athletes who identify as women to be unequivocal.

00:50:48.300 They are women. 1.00

00:50:49.820 In other words, the IOC decided that men should be called women if they identify as women, period.

00:50:55.640 And that's what we're seeing now.

00:50:56.860 If a male boxer says that he's a strong, independent Arabic woman, then who are we to disagree? 0.96

00:51:02.120 Let him beat up the women. 1.00

00:51:03.000 That's the idea. 0.98

00:51:04.800 And anyone who disagrees, the IOC has determined, is guilty of committing hate speech.

00:51:09.400 An IOC spokesman has attacked the International Boxing Association, claiming that their DNA test was, quote, arbitrary and flawed.

00:51:17.640 The IOC spokesman never said exactly how the DNA test was arbitrary or flawed.

00:51:22.020 The entire point of a DNA test is that it's not arbitrary.

00:51:25.280 Arbitrary is when anyone can pick their gender at will and change it at a moment's notice. 0.99

00:51:29.220 That's arbitrary by definition.

00:51:30.520 But a DNA test is objective.

00:51:33.580 I mean, it's like the least arbitrary thing you can do.

00:51:35.620 You either have the Y chromosome or you don't.

00:51:37.840 And if you have it, you're a man.

00:51:38.780 If you don't, you're a woman.

00:51:40.380 Then the IOC spokesman rejected the idea of conducting any kind of gender test whatsoever.

00:51:45.280 He warned that it would be a catastrophic, slippery slope if gender tests were implemented. 1.00

00:51:49.240 Quote, needless to say, if we start acting on the basis of suspicions against every athlete for any reason,

00:51:54.480 then we're going down a very bad road.

00:51:55.920 First of all, anyone who looks at Lynn or Iman knows immediately that they're male.

00:52:02.980 I mean, that's the real argument against gender tests is that they aren't necessary. 0.86

00:52:06.140 Anybody with a working set of eyes knows that these athletes are male.

00:52:10.300 This is the part of the farce that we're all expected to participate in.

00:52:15.060 This idea that we all can't naturally identify men from a mile away.

00:52:19.900 We're supposed to pretend that thousands of years of human biology is null and void,

00:52:24.520 and it's just impossible to have any reasonable suspicion that the huge, hulking athlete might possibly be a male.

00:52:31.300 If you think that, then you'll have to gender test a whole bunch of people 1.00

00:52:35.100 because there are so many athletes in the Women's Olympics events who look like men.

00:52:38.500 I mean, that's what the argument is anyway.

00:52:40.660 Of course, even if we do end up with that outcome, if the Olympics do gender test a few more athletes,

00:52:46.160 it's not really clear what bad road we'd be going down exactly,

00:52:49.600 nor is it clear how that road could possibly be any worse than the road we're on now,

00:52:53.720 which involves men beating women in a boxing ring so badly they have to quit the fight after 46 seconds,

00:52:59.500 crying and saying they've never been hit that hard in their life.

00:53:01.480 That's what Iman Khalif just said to, just did to Angela Carini.

00:53:06.440 And how is letting women get violently assaulted in any way preferable to DNA testing 0.75

00:53:10.700 and, you know, actually determining these things for sure?

00:53:16.560 Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee,

00:53:19.260 doesn't have an answer to that question.

00:53:20.860 This weekend he came out in defense of the males who are pummeling female athletes.

00:53:24.200 He's the one who misspoke in that press conference I mentioned earlier,

00:53:27.020 but it's worth looking at some of his comments in full.

00:53:29.640 So here we have a man coming out to bravely tell women to shut up and take their beatings.

00:53:36.360 Here it is.

00:53:38.200 See now is that some want to own the definition of who is a woman. 0.99

00:53:48.000 And there I can only invite them to come up with a scientific-based,

00:53:56.000 a new definition of who is a woman.

00:53:59.640 And how can somebody, being born, raised, competed, and having a passport as a woman, 0.98

00:54:06.200 cannot be considered a woman? 0.97

00:54:09.420 If they are coming up with something, we are ready to listen.

00:54:15.580 We are ready to look into it.

00:54:19.200 But we will not take part in a politically motivated, sometimes politically motivated, cultural war.

00:54:32.160 And allow me to say that what is going on in this context, in the social media,

00:54:38.720 with all this hate speech, with this aggression and abuse, and fueled by this agenda, is totally unacceptable.

00:54:52.100 So it's always the people who have no idea what they're talking about who turn around and tell everyone else to shut up.

00:54:58.660 But with total sincerity, he's saying that there's no scientific way to define what a woman is,

00:55:02.780 so the best we could do is check their passport.

00:55:04.700 Really, whatever's printed on the passport determines whether you can get pregnant or not, I guess.

00:55:11.080 You thought the passport office was about, you know, as significant as the DMV, but no, it has supernatural powers, as it turns out.

00:55:16.600 The passport office determines whether you're male or female.

00:55:19.860 They get to decide whether you can bear children.

00:55:21.660 Now, to be fair, he does say that if anyone can think of a better idea, he says that he's all ears.

00:55:27.400 But actually, he's not all ears because he attacks his critics in the same breath.

00:55:31.020 He says they're politically motivated, and he asserts that anyone who says that it's wrong for a dude to beat up a woman in the boxing ring is guilty of hate speech.

00:55:38.300 Quote, some want to own the definition of who is a woman. 1.00

00:55:40.980 I can only invite them to come up with a scientific new definition of who is a woman. 0.99

00:55:44.500 How can someone who was born, raised, competed, and has a passport as a woman not be considered a woman?

00:55:50.240 The answer to this question is that a woman is an adult human female. 0.87

00:55:53.940 You can use a DNA test to figure that out if you need to, so we've already solved that problem for you.

00:55:59.560 That's the simple and scientific definition of the word woman that is always held true. 0.91

00:56:03.620 It's the only workable definition that exists.

00:56:05.800 Females have no Y chromosome. 0.96

00:56:07.740 People with XX chromosomes are female. 0.58

00:56:09.380 People with XY chromosomes, by contrast, are males. 0.70

00:56:13.240 Females are the only sex that can bear offspring. 0.94

00:56:15.300 Being a woman does not mean the passport clerk thinks you're a woman.

00:56:20.000 It doesn't mean that you were raised as if you were a woman. 0.88

00:56:23.660 That's like saying someone's a monkey if they were raised as a monkey. 0.98

00:56:26.620 It's completely nonsense. 0.60

00:56:29.920 Now, everyone knows this.

00:56:32.340 None of the people participating in this sham really think differently, but in many cases, people are cowed into saying what they're told to say.

00:56:38.700 They're worried about being accused of hate speech, so they stay quiet.

00:56:41.300 And that includes Angela Carini, finally, who was just beaten in the ring the other day by Iman Khalif.

00:56:46.760 Carini said that it was the hardest she'd ever been hit.

00:56:48.720 As we mentioned, she had to end the fight in just 46 seconds. 1.00

00:56:51.560 Well, this weekend, Angela Carini issued an apology to the man who assaulted her.

00:56:57.260 Like many victims of violent abuse, she blamed herself.

00:57:01.520 Quote, all this controversy makes me sad.

00:57:03.820 I'm so sorry.

00:57:04.620 I'm sorry for my opponent, too.

00:57:06.140 If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision.

00:57:08.880 When she was asked why she didn't shake her male opponent's hand, Carini said,

00:57:13.760 It wasn't something I intended to do.

00:57:14.960 Actually, I want to apologize to her and everyone else.

00:57:17.300 I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke.

00:57:19.620 I don't have anything against Khalif.

00:57:21.520 Actually, if I were to meet her again, I would embrace her.

00:57:26.380 All right.

00:57:26.860 This is exactly why the issue has not gone away.

00:57:29.920 It's why men are still invading women's sports, even though public opinion is widely, wildly against that at this point. 1.00

00:57:36.780 The problem is that many of the female athletes themselves just don't have the courage and fortitude to stand firmly against it. 0.99

00:57:45.440 The women themselves need to stand up firmly against it, but the vast majority of them won't. 1.00

00:57:50.820 And if they won't, it will continue.

00:57:53.780 Nobody can put a final end to this madness but the women in these sports. 1.00

00:57:58.180 And as long as they put up with it, it will continue.

00:58:00.500 It's just that simple.

00:58:01.180 Now, when I made that point on Twitter the other day, people responded very angrily at me.

00:58:06.880 And they said that I was being harsh and unsympathetic.

00:58:10.040 You know, because I also, I took Angela Carini to task for apologizing.

00:58:15.460 And people were very mad at me for that.

00:58:18.700 Even people that are, you know, ostensibly on my side when it comes to this issue.

00:58:22.680 They said I need to sympathize more with the woman. 0.99

00:58:26.420 And I can't understand, I don't understand what it's like to be in her spot and to be getting all this pressure and everything else.

00:58:32.460 No, I do understand and I do sympathize with the women in these positions. 1.00

00:58:39.060 And in fact, I have been the target of the LGBT lobby's ire many times in recent years.

00:58:45.140 They have dragged me through the mud.

00:58:46.720 They have tried to ruin my reputation.

00:58:49.380 I have been the target of many different efforts at character assassinations.

00:58:53.920 I've been slandered and defamed.

00:58:55.640 I've been doxed.

00:58:56.880 I've been threatened.

00:58:58.060 You know, all of that.

00:58:59.900 I get it.

00:59:01.720 I understand why people are hesitant to provoke this crowd.

00:59:07.800 And why they're tempted to fold so quickly in the face of this kind of pressure.

00:59:11.320 I do sympathize.

00:59:12.620 I do understand.

00:59:14.860 I understand better than most when it comes to this issue.

00:59:19.380 But the fact remains that ultimately only women can protect women's sports. 1.00

00:59:25.640 This became a problem in the first place because the women failed to stand up. 1.00

00:59:29.900 It continues to be a problem because they are still failing to do so.

00:59:34.840 We can have all the sympathy we want, but that's still what it comes down to.

00:59:39.420 Either the women athletes will put up with this or they won't. 1.00

00:59:43.920 And if they'll put up with it, it will continue.

00:59:47.440 There's only so much that we on the outside can do.

00:59:50.760 And some of us on the outside have done everything we possibly can think to do to help you on this thing.

00:59:57.860 But there's only so much we can do.

01:00:01.080 We're not there.

01:00:01.960 We're not the ones in the boxing ring.

01:00:05.900 We're not the ones on the court, in the pool, right?

01:00:09.160 We're not there for that.

01:00:10.960 We can't be.

01:00:12.020 So when push comes to shove, it's like the people in the arena, you know, the man in the arena.

01:00:17.460 Well, you got the woman in the arena. 1.00

01:00:20.020 But there are some arenas where, you know, you can't blame other people for not being down in the arena with you.

01:00:24.660 We're not invited.

01:00:25.320 I can't be in that arena.

01:00:26.460 I can't.

01:00:26.800 If I tried to get into the boxing ring and make a point, you know, I'd be dragged out and arrested.

01:00:32.400 I'm not invited there.

01:00:33.660 So not enough women are speaking up. 1.00

01:00:37.560 Now, notable exceptions, obviously, Riley Gaines, for example, notable exceptions apply here.

01:00:42.620 But those women are the exceptions. 1.00

01:00:46.620 And they shouldn't be the exception.

01:00:49.160 There's no reason for any woman to fight these men in the semifinals. 1.00

01:00:54.000 Participating in the farce only legitimizes it.

01:00:57.400 They should demand a female opponent because they're in the women's league. 1.00

01:01:00.380 The moment that women find the courage is the moment men will no longer be allowed to assault them during sporting events and rob them of the victories that they worked their whole lives to attain.

01:01:12.400 But the more that women apologize and grovel and backtrack, the more of this we'll see. 1.00

01:01:21.880 So it does come back to the women.

01:01:23.560 There is no way around it.

01:01:24.560 It takes courage to be a female athlete standing against this madness.

01:01:28.240 I get that.

01:01:28.860 It takes sacrifice to refuse, you know, for all the female competitors to band together and protest. 1.00

01:01:34.960 That takes a lot.

01:01:35.580 You have to be willing to sacrifice a lot.

01:01:40.240 Okay.

01:01:41.380 Sometimes courage and sacrifice is necessary in life.

01:01:44.340 I don't know what to tell you.

01:01:48.620 And you get to a certain point where if you're not going to do that, then I guess you just got to stop complaining about it.

01:01:53.380 And that's why I'm afraid to say Angela Carini and any other female athlete who apologizes to the mob is today canceled.

01:02:04.480 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:05.440 Thanks for watching.

01:02:05.960 Thanks for listening.

01:02:06.480 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:07.700 Have a great day.

01:02:08.600 Godspeed. 0.99

01:02:08.920 Republicans are Nazis. 1.00

01:02:16.900 You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people. 1.00

01:02:20.920 Growing up, I never thought much about race. 0.96

01:02:22.840 It never really seemed to matter that much.

01:02:24.700 At least not to me.

01:02:25.500 Am I racist?

01:02:26.700 I would really appreciate it if you love.

01:02:28.060 I'm trying to learn.

01:02:28.740 I'm on this journey.

01:02:30.080 I'm going to sort this out.

01:02:31.340 I need to go deeper undercover.

01:02:34.540 They don't say I'm racist.

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01:02:39.320 Here's my certification.

01:02:40.440 And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.

01:02:43.160 This is more for you than less for you.

01:02:44.160 Is America inherently racist?

01:02:45.720 The word inherent is challenging there.

01:02:47.660 I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.

01:02:50.820 America is racist to its bones.

01:02:52.600 So inherently. 0.98

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01:02:59.580 White boy.

01:03:00.140 Is there a black person around here?

01:03:01.460 There's a black person right here.

01:03:02.780 Does he not exist?

01:03:05.380 Hi, Robin.

01:03:06.120 Hi.

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